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.

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.....

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.....

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”.....

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.....

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: 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”.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....