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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, [1929]. Hard Cover. A most attractive copy in the publisher’s decorated ochre cloth stamped in black, green and bright gilt. With a dustjacket is like condition. With pictorial endpapers. There are no ownership or other marks..... More
New York: James Milller, Publisher, 1880. Quarto. Hard Cover. First Edition. Green boards with black and gold decorations; one plate is bound upside down; an additional copy of that same plate is also present loose (added, we presume, by the..... More
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
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
London: E. Moxon, Son, and Co., n.d. Quarto. Hard Cover. Early 20th century, with the 1. More
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1972. Hard Cover. Reprint Edition. Text in Italian, printed on blue paper. With colored plates tipped in throughout, of the animals as they were described in Zötl’s bestiary. Aloys Zötl was an Austrian painter, known for..... More
Trenton: D. Fenton & S. Hutchinson, 1815. Full Leather. First Edition. One of the few religious works by Elias Boudinot, the Revolutionary statesman, Congressman, and member of the Constitutional Convention. After his resignation in 1805 from his highly significant political..... More
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
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
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
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
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
New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. Quarto. Hard Cover. Washington Irving’s History of New York, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian, Diedrich Knickerbocker, with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. A satire of contemporary politics and dry history books, and Irving’s first..... More
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