An attractive album almost certainly from the 1880’s, and chock full of delightful chromolithographs. Few things more evocative of Victorian charms than albums such as this one.

Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled.....

Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter “A”. [24] pages, each with a border of printer’s flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer’s.....

Miniature Book Studio; Carol Wenk, n.d. Full Leather. A micro reprint of an English primer, measuring 2.5 x 1.9 cm. Loose leaf of paper laid in at the rear, perhaps a separated endpaper. Foxing or binder’s glue-staining to the rear.....

Boston: J. Buffum, [1851]. Miniature. Hard Cover. A miniature devotional book, Sacred Gift of Devout and Useful Sayings. Scribbling in pencil to two pages of text; small spots of black staining to the rear cover. Red cloth, with gilt lettering.....

Denver, CO: Western Lithographing Co., 1897. Hard Cover. A patriotic poem illustrated with several rather attractive chromolithographic plates. Repaired spine. A sturdy and serviceable copy of an uncommon book.

London: John Walker and Company, 1880. Hard Cover. A bright copy in the publisher’s red binding; with a lovely onlay of green cloth stamped in gilt, red and blue in a lozenge-shaped recess. With 24 quite attractive chromolithographic plates of.....

New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1935. Illustrated by: Jessie Willcox Smith. Octavo. Hard Cover. Early Reprint. 232pp. Very bright publishers binding in red cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front board and titled in gold on the front cover.....

London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Full Leather. New Edition, with Additions. Works by the popular 19th century poet, who began her careers writing for Dickens’ Household Words and All the Year Round.~Legends and Lyrics was first published in 1858, a......

New York: J. W. Bounton, 1877. Quarter Leather. Three large 8vo. volumes; in publisher’s red cloth backed in dark green morocco with titling and a vignette of a hawk in gilt; cv, [2], 408 pages, with plates 1-27; vii, 495.....

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. Three Quarters Leather. Alexandre Dumas Fils’ The Lady with the Camellias, translated into English, with illustrations by Albert Lynch. Collates complete, with ten engraved plates. Half title; title page vignette; additional title page, chromolithographic. Bookplate.....

[Boston, Mass.?]: American Type Founders Company, [1904]. Folded leaf, 4” X 28” printed on both sides; [8] pages; with illustrations.~~From the rear panel: “All cuts shown in the Chap-Book Supplement are Post Oldstyle Ornaments, to be had from any of.....

New York: Brentano’s, 1902. Half Leather. First Edition. Three 8vo. volumes; the bindings in matching half-teal morocco over marbles boards with marbled endpapers; with raised bands, decorative flower and lettering in gilt; the top edges are gilt; Composers [x], [1].....