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.

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.

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.

[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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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;.....

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. Hard Cover. First Edition. Folio; in paper-covered pictorial boards backed in olive cloth; with 3 preliminary leaves, and 16 color plates including the frontispieces, and a black and white photographic portrait of Mr. Fisher;.....