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 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
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
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 cover. More
OUR GUEST BOOK. A RECORD OF THE VISITS OF OUR FRIENDS, WITH THEIR AUTOGRAPHS AND REMINISCENCES.
London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, 1850. Hard Cover. A blank Ernest Nister Guest Book, printed in Bavaria, 1850. With engraved quotations on friendship and chromolithographic illustrations throughout. Blank spaces for guests to sign their names... 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
MERRY MAPLE LEAVES OR A SUMMER IN THE COUNTRY
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1872. Hard Cover. Summer in Upstate, with rather charming vignette illustrations in the shape of maple leaves; printed on the rectos of each leaf (please, no puns!). An attractive bright copy, with a.... 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
WELLES' ILLUSTRATED FABLES
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
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
ALOYS ZOTL (1803-1887). TESTO DI JULIO CORTAZAR, INTRODUZIONE DI VINCENT BOUNOURE PRESENTAZIONE DI ANDRE BRETON.
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
THE SECOND ADVENT, OR COMING OF THE MESSIAH IN GLORY, SHOWN TO BE A SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE, AND TAUGHT BY DIVINE REVELATION, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.
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
THE LYSISTRATA OF ARISTOPHANES.
New York: Odyssey Publications, [1967]. Quarto. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. A copy of a limited edition of 515 facsimiles of the original 1896 edition. This copy is numbered 504 of 515. Bound in turquoise paper covered boards, with handmade paper... More
SOME BRITISH BALLADS
London: Constable & Co. Ltd. Illustrated by: Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Three Quarters Leather. With 16 illustrations mounted on gray paper. Rebound in fine binding. As the endpapers are lost, it is not possible to be certain of the edition. (Latimore... 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
A BOOK OF MODERN BALLADS
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Hard Cover. A bright copy of a handsome book, illustrated with full page chromolithographic illustrations throughout. More
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
London: William Heinemann, 1915. Illustrated by: Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Hard Cover. Early British Trade Edition. An early printing of the London edition; all plates present with captioned tissue guards; the frontispiece is not mounted. There is light and scattered foxing... 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
OLD FRENCH FAIRY TALES.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, [1920]. Hard Cover. Presumed First Edition illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterret; a collection of French fairy tales by Sophie, Countess of Segur, a Nineteenth Century children’s author. Complete with frontispiece and 16 additional color plates... More
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. FROM THE FRENCH OF THE COUNT DE BUFFON. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS; AND A PREFACE, NOTES, AND ADDITIONS, BY THE TRANSLATOR. IN NINE VOLUMES. VOL. III. (VOLUME THREE ONLY)
London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand; and J. Murray, 1793. Full Leather. Volume III only of Count de Buffon’s Natural History of Birds, translated by William Smellie. With numerous engraved plates throughout. Lacking the final..... More