Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated regularly.
Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1968. Limited Edition. One of 100 copies printed on Nideggen paper and signed by the artist, Gillian Tyler, this being #10. Bound in paper-vellum over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Lacking the slipcase.
Andoversford, Gloucester, England: Whittington Press, 1990. In tan quarter-Nigerian goatskin over patterned paper boards, accompanied by matching portfolio containting 12 groups of items associated with the Whittington Press. One of 55 copies of the deluxe edition, from a total edition...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. 16mo. Half Leather. The full set of Tales from Blackwood in 12 volumes, bound in 6; accompanied by the New Series, in 12 separate volumes. The 18 volumes are uniformly bound in...
London: [1821]. Half Leather. Third Edition. A satire, by William Combe, of William Gilpin’s notion of the ‘Picturesque,’ who famously said that Tintern Abbey might be improved with “a mallet judiciously used.” Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, the famous English caricaturist.....
London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Combe’s sequel and the final original installment of the Doctor Syntax series A handsome “tall” copy, illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates. Full polished tan calf, a.e.g., the spine with morocco titles, and.....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Full Leather. A clean copy. Filled with numerous aquatint plates of the ruins, abbeys, and countryside of Gilpin’s Two Tours. Bound in speckled calf with decorations and rules, and a black morocco.....
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1985. Folio. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, numbered H of 15 lettered copies from a larger limitation of 100 copies. Signed by Gass on the colophon; signed by Morley on the frontispiece. Full bound in limp...
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Full Leather. Second Edition. Second Edition of William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, complete in three volumes. Three portrait frontispieces, one at the start of each volume; two folding maps of Mexico; one.....
New York: R. H. Russell, 1898. Quarto. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition of William Nicholson’s An Almanac of Twelve Sports, with verse by Rudyard Kipling. An early example of ‘Poster Style’ artwork, with full page engraved illustrations.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, [1935]. Hard Cover. Second Printing. Signed. This copy has been signed with a personal inscription to one “William B. Arnold In memory of the delightful afternoon we spent together in my studio. W. R. Leigh”.....
Kyoto [?]: Nakamura Tasuke [?], 1800. Album of genre scenes by the artist Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818) who was a pupil of the great Maruyama Okyo. Splendidly colored woodcuts, with a surprisingly contemporary graphic impact, on double leaves in the oriental...
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