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.....

Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1902. Original Wrappers. First Edition. Quarto; in the original card stock wrappers, with dustjacket; there are some old tape stains to the endpapers; with a gift inscription “To Chum, April 4th, 1903”, and with the bookplate of.....

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.....

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].....

Paris: Librairie Renouard; H. Laurens, Successeur, 1888. Three Quarters Leather. The first systematic listing of Daumier’s lithograph illustrations, by Arsene Alexandre. Honore Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter and sculptor, who focused on social and political aspects of 19c.....