![[PRIZE BINDING] MASTERMAN READY: OR, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC. Captain Marryat.](/pictures/thumb/266735.JPG?v=1500737251)
London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. Full Leather. An attractive full leather Prize Binding awarded in 1872 by the Governors of The Horncastle Grammar School to one Frederick Gordon Tweed who passed the Christmas Examinations of 1872 with a First Class... More
London: Addey and Co., 1854. Full Leather. Early Edition. Early edition of Caroline Hyde Butler’s The Ice King and the Sweet South Wind. First published three years prior. Illustrations by Henry Marsh, a nineteenth century American wood engraver. Additional title..... More
London: Henry Frowde, 1904. Full Leather. A true miniature in flexible brown suede with yapp edges.. Title and vignette bust of Dickens stamped in gilt. A rather faded previous owner name on the endpaper, and a couple of small stains... More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1903. A most attractive copy of this Roycroft Edition, in gray suede with yapp edges, and silk moire pastedowns. There is a previous owner gift inscription from the year of publication. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Full Leather. Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies. With in text engraved illustrations throughout. Prize binding for Giggleswick School, with a prize plate on the front pastedown, and school arms stamped in gilt on the front board..... More
Lausanne: Librairie Ancienne Rodolphe, 1932. Quarto. Soft Cover. Virtually disbound, with front wrapper detached and chipping to spine. Text block itself holding together well, however, and there are no markings or missing pages. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Three Quarters Leather. Charles Reade’s historical romance, The Cloister and the Hearth, complete with sixteen color plates by Evelyn Paul. Bright, with no marks of any kind. Bookplate. Three quarters red morocco over..... More
Paris: Boivin et Cie, Editeurs, 1923. Hard Cover. Reprint Edition. A pretty copy in a rose-pink binding, with elaborate pictorial stamping to the front board; some minor flaking to the white bits. With 9 mounted color plates by Maurice Lalau... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894-1902. Folio. Hard Cover. Charles Sprague Sargent’s The Silva of North America, complete in fourteen volumes. With 740 engraved plates, illustrated by Charles Edward Faxon, who worked closely with Sargent in the..... More
Richmond: The Dale Press, 1929. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Published while he was an art teacher at VCU, Charles W. Smith’s Old Virginia in Block Prints, by the Dale Press. Limited Edition, signed by the author, numbered 732 of 1000... More
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997. Hard Cover. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library, 1940. A presentable copy, one of 250 printed by Daniel Updike at The Merrymount Press. Quarter buckram over paste-paper boards; titling to the spine, which has darkened a bit. There... More
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1978. One of 200 copies printed for Dawson’s Book Shop at the Bird & Bull Press, this being copy #49, signed by master marbler Christopher Weimann and founder of the Bird and Bull Press Henry..... More
Editions Borderie, 1980. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 123pp. Hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering. Text in French; no markings in text. #394 of 1000 copies. For members of the “Club du Livre Secret”. More
![[BOOKPLATES] BOOKPLATES OF PRINCETON AND PRINCETONIANS. Clifford N. Carver.](/pictures/thumb/279037.JPG?v=1500740942)
Princeton, New Jersey: [Princeton University Press], 1912. Limited Edition. With twenty-six facsimiles of the bookplates of Princeton clubs and librarians, as well as of “Princetonians”. In brown paper-covered boards, with titling in gold. Edition limited to 500 copies; this is... More
London: W. Lewis, 1742. Full Leather. Second Edition. The Second Edition of Colley Cibber’s response to Alexander Pope, which would earn him the label of ‘King of Dunces’ in Pope’s Dunciad. The literary squabble began after Cibber, a comic actor..... More
London: Printed for J. Harding by R. and A. Taylor, 1818. Half Leather. Two volumes bound together. The first volume being the bibliographical and textual history and criticism by the editor, Joseph Haslewood. Second volume is the “fac-simile edition of... More
Boston: G. W. Cottrell, 1855. Miniature. Hard Cover. Cousin Lill’s The Firefly and Other Stories. Juvenile short stories. Blue staining to the top corner of the first 30 pages. Blindstamp on the front endpaper. Brown pebbled cloth, with gilt lettering... More
Paris: Aux Editions du Val de Loire, 1948. Original Wrappers. In sheets, with wrappers housed in publishers chemise, with a floral patterned slipcase. #217 of 875, one of 650 printed on Marais vellum. Engravings by Pierre Gandon. Light creasing to... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895. Illustrated by: Mrs. S. M. Clark and the Author. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Decorated cloth binding. Gilt lettering on front board, silver lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear with... More
The Lantern Publishing Company, 1913. 12mo. Original Sewn Wrappers. Binding sound; no markings of any kind; illustrated. Digital images available upon request. More
Devon: The Chevington Press, 1981. Tall folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 50 copies. Signed by Wakefield below the colophon. 6 full page signed etchings along with 8 smaller etched head and tail pieces; exquisite work backed in... More
Aralia Press, 1990. Number Four in the Aralia Chapbook Series. Stitched binding in brown paper wrappers with paper title label. Daniel Corrie’s poem originally appeared in The Southern Poetry Review. Here printed with a limitation of 125 copies. More
![THE VISION; OR, HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. (THE ALBION EDITION) [DIVINE COMEDY]. Dante Alighieri | Henry Francis Cary.](/pictures/thumb/285320.JPG?v=1540495368)
London: Henry Frowde, [c. 1908]. Half Leather. Dante’s Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Francis Cary. Part of the “Albion” series. Personal inscription on the front flyleaf. Sunning to the spine, and edgewear to the binding; very scattered foxing. Half blue..... More
