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.
Illustrated Books
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We expect that we will be down through March and hope to resume sending our weekly e-catalogues in April. At that time we will be open “by appointment only”. Until then our books will not be for sale. In the meantime, you can contact us by email at nick@blackswanbooks.com.
THE HOME PICTURE-BOOK.
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.....
FLOWERS AND FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED.
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.
THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A APPLE-PIE. CUT IN PIECES AND EAT BY TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM ALL YOUNG PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE VERY WELL ACQUAINTED.
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”.....
ENGLISH LAKE SCENERY.
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.....
A VERY LITTLE CHILD’S BOOK OF STORIES
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.....
LE SURMALE. ROMAN MODERNE.
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.....
OLD INNS
London: Heinemann, 1921. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. A limited edition in quarter vellum over paper covered boards, this being #43 of 380 copies signed by Cecil Aldin, the British artist best known for sporting and rural scenes evoking “Old England”.....
![Item #288574 POEMS [With Prospectus]. Christina Rossetti | Floerence Harrison](/pictures/thumb/288574.jpg?v=1591218808)
POEMS [With Prospectus]
London: Blackie & Son, Ltd., 1910. Full Leather. De Luxe Limited Edition. Number 160 in the De Luxe Edition, limited to 350 copies. Signed by Florence Harrison, the illustrator. With 36 tipped in color plates on grey mounts, and 34.....
![Item #296372 [SIGNED] [ILLUSTRATED] THE FARMER’S YEAR. A CALENDAR OF ENGLISH HUSBANDRY. Clare...](/pictures/thumb/296372.jpg?v=1669661529)
[SIGNED] [ILLUSTRATED] THE FARMER’S YEAR. A CALENDAR OF ENGLISH HUSBANDRY
New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1933. Hard Cover. First American Edition. Signed. Oblong folio; in the publisher’s black cloth with titling in gilt to the spine and the upper board, and with vignette of a farmer in gilt to.....
THE ENCHANTED BUTTERFLIES
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895. Illustrated by: Mrs. S. M. Clark and the Author. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Decorated cloth binding. Gilt lettering on front board, silver lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear with.....
THE DIARY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A TENCH FISHER
Devon: The Chevington Press, 1981. Tall folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 50 copies. Signed by Wakefield below the colophon. 6 full page signed etchings along with 8 smaller etched head and tail pieces; exquisite work backed in.....
LA REINE MERE
Editions Pierre Tremois, 1945. Octavo. Soft Cover. Limited Edition, numbered 337 of 686 copies. With 8 rather charming illustrations in the pochoir style. The binding is still tight and square, with the original, albeit tattered, glassine wrapper.
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS ITINERARY THROUGH WALES
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1989. Illustrated by: Colin Paynton. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 27 of 280. Signed by Paynton on the colophon. Quarter bound in scarlet goat with paper over boards; spine is very slightly sunned else Fine;.....
![Item #293554 [PRINT] ALBUM OF VIRGINIA. VIEW FROM THE PEAK OF OTTER. Edward Beyer](/pictures/thumb/293554.jpg?v=1642547346)
[PRINT] ALBUM OF VIRGINIA. VIEW FROM THE PEAK OF OTTER
[Richmond, Virginia]: Clerk’s Office of the District of Virginia, 1857. Oblong Folio. Print; extracted from Beyer’s Album of Virginia, an oblong folio, 16 /3/4 x 24 1/4”. One of forty tinted lithographic plates, as well as title leaf. The lithography.....
![Item #293406 [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] [HUMOUR AND SATIRE] LES PASSEMENTERIES HORRIBLES. Edward Gorey](/pictures/thumb/293406.jpg?v=1618491639)
[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] [HUMOUR AND SATIRE] LES PASSEMENTERIES HORRIBLES.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1976. Original Sewn Wrappers. Limited Edition. Signed. Oblong 24mo; in the publisher’s sewn blue printed paper wrappers, with titling and illustration in black; 16 unnumbered leaves printed on fine laid paper, signed and numbered by the.....
HOLLY AND MISTLETOE. SONGS ACROSS THE SNOW. COMPANION TO BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES.
Baltimore: D. W. Glass & Co., 1885. Calendar with chromolithographic illustrations. 37 leaves plus illustrated front cover and blank rear cover. The illustrations separate rhyming verse typical of the period: “It is the joyous Christmas time, | When all our.....
FRITHIOFS SAGA AF ESAIAS TEGNER MED TECKNINGAR AF AUGUST MALMSTROM. NY ILLUSTRERAD UPPLAGA.
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soners forlag, 1888. Hard Cover. A nineteenth century edition of Esaias Tegner’s Swedish translation of the Icelandic epic, Frithiofs Saga. Illustrated title page and borders to the text. With plates, tissue guards present; some foxing.....
SUNLIGHT AND SONG
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, c. 1892. Octavo. Hard Cover. Weatherly was both a lawyer and a lyricist, writing the lyrics to “Danny Boy” and the wartime “Roses of Picardy”. He wrote over 3000 lyrics; The Times observed in his obituary.....
FAVORITE FOLK-BALLADS
New York | London: White & Allen, 1889. Hard Cover. In the publisher’s green cloth with slightly faded titling and decorations in green and in gold. Illustrated throughout with quite attractive sepia chromolithographs, and a few in green. There is.....
THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, ILLUSTRATED
Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Society, 1994. Elephant Folio. Hard Cover. Elephant Folio, in the publisher’s rust cloth over ochre cloth boards with a leather label to the spine, and housed in a matching slipcase; a beautiful facsimile copy, with.....
![Item #257809 STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE [Edition de Luxe]. Giambattista Basile |, Warwick Goble](/pictures/thumb/257809.jpg?v=1651611759)
STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE [Edition de Luxe]
London: Macmillan and Co, 1911. Illustrated by: Warwick Goble. Quarto. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, one of 150 copies. Full vellum Limited Edition with a neat vellum reback with original backstrip laid down; boards and backstrip are a scuffed and soiled;.....
SOUVENIRS D’UN VIEUX PECHEUR.
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs - libraires, 1853. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. A juvenile work about fishermen, illustrated by Victor Adam, a 19c Parisian painter and lithographer. With seven unnumbered, hand colored, lithographic plates, of the original eight. A......
HARRISON FISHER GIRLS
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy of Harrison Fisher’s lovely book. The 12 plates are beautiful -- several plates had slight creases at the edge, which have uncreased and show very little.....
BEAUTIES
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy of Harrison Fisher’s lovely book. The 16 mounted plates are beautiful -- several plates had slight creases at the edge, which have uncreased and show very.....