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. More
Illustrated Books
THE CENTURY GALLERY: SELECTED PROOFS FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZINE AND ST. NICHOLAS
New York: The Century Co. // The De Vinne Press, 1893. Folio. Pictorial Boards. 61 of 64 prints (lacking plates: XIX, Negro Slave Dance; XXVI, A Negro of Morocco; and LXIII, Two Boys of Holland) in publisher’s portfolio with printed..... More
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..... More
![ILLUSTRATED] [AMERICANA] THE CALENDAR OF PROVERBS FOR 1910](/pictures/thumb/294161.JPG?v=1629234177)
[ILLUSTRATED] [AMERICANA] THE CALENDAR OF PROVERBS FOR 1910
London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, 1910. Hard Cover. A charming item, with colored illustrations for each month, and the calendars and proverbs printed in red and black. Bound in patterned cloth, with a colored pictorial..... More
JESUS LIVES. CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIETH NO MORE.
London: Marcus, Ward & Co. Limited, c. 1890. Original Sewn Wrappers. Pretty little Victorian illustrated book. 12 pages, with every other page a chromolithographic illustration. There is a previous owner name and address stick on the verso of the front..... More
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. More
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”..... More
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..... More
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..... More
ATLANTIC SALMON
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Illustrated by: Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered “III” of 5 copies. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia Cohen with..... More
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1950. Illustrated by: Edmund Dulac. Full Leather. Adapted, Introduced and Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Bound in full leather with gilt decorations on the panels and gilt on the top and bottom edges which have some spotting and..... More
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..... More
THE STORY OF ROSINA: AND OTHER VERSES
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Illustrated by: Hugh Thompson. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Limited Edition # 83 of 250 copies (large paper edition); large Octavo; foxing to endpapers; small closed tears to top of spine, but binding still..... More
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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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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. More
THE CHILDREN’S SHAKESPEARE
London: Raphael Tuck & Son Ltd, n.d. Illustrated by: Frances Brundage, M. Bowley, J. Willis Grey, etc. Hard Cover. A charming book bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. Stain on the back cover. Previous..... More
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;..... More
![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..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE.
Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Hard Cover. Complete with twelve tipped in color plates, and captioned tissue guards. Toning to the endpapers, else no marks. Sunning to the spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1919. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition thus of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Complete with fifteen tipped in color reproductions of oil paintings by Frank Brangwyn. Bookplate. Faint bookseller’s..... More
![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..... More
![ILLUSTRATED] SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Herbert Cole](/pictures/thumb/294952.JPG?v=1643580138)
[ILLUSTRATED] SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. Hard Cover. 12mo.; in the publisher’s green cloth with elaborate decorations in gilt; with four illustrations in color, including the frontispiece; there is a previous owner name on endpaper, dated Christmas, 1914. More