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.....
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.....
American Type Founders Company, [c. 1905]. A substantial trade catalog which runs the gamut on turn of the century printers supplies; illustrated with hundreds of cuts of everything from newspaper borders, sectional calendars; index cuts; imposing tables; bookbinders’ wire; and.....
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.....
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1902. Original Wrappers. First Edition. Nice copy in the original card stock wrappers, which have been repaired at the spine. The dustjacket is present, and has been protected with a new mylar cover. There is some old.....
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......
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. Illustrated by: Helen B. Herrick. Miniature. Hard Cover. Decorated By Helen B. Herrick; No pencil or ink markings in text. Hardcover miniature cloth binding. ; Not Ex-Libary.
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.....
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.....
The New York Public Library, 1947. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. This being publication No. 1 of the Arents Tobacco Collection, and one of 500 copies Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by A. Colish. In the publisher’s paper-covered boards with.....
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.....
Cranford, N.J. Alfred Penn Babcock, [1946-1947]. Hard Cover. Eleven issues of the humorous Alf’s Cat, specially crafted and printed by Alfred Penn Babcock and others, on miscellaneous paper with their footpress, “Josephine”. Numbers 50-60, bound together in one volume. Cocked.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Signed. A poem by Allen Ginsberg with three drawings by Robert LaVigne, one of 200 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in 1970. An oblong folio, in striped paper boards backed in linen with.....
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].....
Boston | New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. Hard Cover. A very nearly fine copy, still with the publisher’s glassine wrapper. In pale pink paper-covered boards, with a mauve paper spine label letters in gilt. On the pastedown is residue.....