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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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”.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....