ALBUM FROM THE 1880’s -- CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS
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.
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.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve.
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.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. Three Quarters Leather. First Edition. Essays in Honor of John Dewey, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Portrait frontispiece. Penned price on the front flyleaf. Wear to the joints and slight loss.....
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.....
London; Edinburgh; New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1856. Oversized. Hard Cover. With title leaf, and four two-page spreads, verso and recto. Each page chromolithographed with eight numbered vignettes accompanied by short children’s verses; the vignettes and text are printed.....
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.....
Nestor, 2002. Hard Cover. A Czech miniature book on friendship. From Nestor’s ‘Wisdom of the World’ series. Text in check, with simple borders to the text, and a few illustrations. Faux red leather, with decorations and lettering in gold and.....
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.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 32mo. (4 1/2” x 2/ 7/8”}; in the publihser’s brown cloth binding with titling in gilt; with a foldout diagram of a balloon bomb in a separate wrapper.....
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.
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, [1904]. In the publisher’s pictorial glazed paper boards, backed in blue cloth. With a chromolithographic frontispiece. All other illustrations in black and white. Bound with “The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog”.....
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.....
Paris: Chez Desenne, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1796. Hard Cover. First Edition. Five volume set. 1 new spine label on volume V. Volume 1: Dans Le Nord De L'Europe. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards scratched, scuffed; corners bumped with leather.....
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.....
Cleveland, [Ohio]: The Clerk’s Press, 1913. Original Wrappers. Limited. 12mo.; in sewn gray wrappers with a printed label to the upper board; 15 pages; in an edition limited as follows: “Three copies on Imperical Japanese Vellum, and | One hundred.....
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......
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Three Quarters Leather. First two volumes only, of four. Covering Marshall’s life from 1755-1801. Color portrait frontispiece, and additional plates: facsimiles, portraits, and illustrations. Text is reasonably bright. Front joint of Volume.....
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.....
Owl House Press, 2010. Full Leather. Numbered 52 of 150 copies. A history of the famous revolutionary and Founding Father. With a few reproduction illustrations of portraits. Blue leather with gilt lettering. 4.8 x 4.0 cm.
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.....
Paris: P.-A. Chavanne & Cie, 1948. Full Leather. Limited Edition. A beautiful production of symbolist writer Alfred Jarry’s Le Surmale [”The Supermale”]. Printed in green and black, with 19 drypoint etchings by Roger De Valerio. De Valerio is perhaps best.....
[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.....
[Mt. Vernon, N.Y.]: At the Sign of the Blue-Behinded Ape, 1933. Quarto; in patterned-paper boards backed in linen with a paper label; 130 pages, with illustrations; there is a small chip to the label, and a light stain to the.....
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].....