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.
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...
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...
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.....
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.
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...
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.
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”.....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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[LE MORTE DARTHUR] THE BIRTH LIFE AND ACTS OF KING ARTHUR OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE THEIR MARVELLOUS ENQUESTS AND ADVENTURES THE ACHIEVING OF THE SAN GREAL AND IN THE END LE MORTE DARTHUR WITH THE DOLOUROUS DEATH AND DEPARTING OUT OF THIS WORLD OF THEM ALL.
Westminster: J. M. Dent, 1909. Hard Cover. Second Edition. Second Edition of Le Morte Darthur with designs by Aubrey Beardsley; first issue complete in one volume; limited to 1500 copies. Collates complete with twenty engraved plates, of which five are...
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...
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.
OLD INNS
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”...
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.....
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...
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...
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.
A HISTORY OF NEW YORK. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.
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.....