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 about ALBUM FROM THE 1880’s -- CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS
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 about THE CALENDAR OF PROVERBS FOR 1910
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 about THE CENTURY GALLERY: SELECTED PROOFS FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZINE AND ST. NICHOLAS
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 about THE HOME PICTURE-BOOK
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 about JESUS LIVES. CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIETH NO MORE
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 about OUR GUEST BOOK. A RECORD OF THE VISITS OF OUR FRIENDS, WITH THEIR AUTOGRAPHS AND REMINISCENCES
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 about FLOWERS AND FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED
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 about THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A APPLE-PIE. CUT IN PIECES AND EAT BY TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM ALL...
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 about ENGLISH LAKE SCENERY
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 about MERRY MAPLE LEAVES OR A SUMMER IN THE COUNTRY
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 about A VERY LITTLE CHILD’S BOOK OF STORIES
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 about ATLANTIC SALMON
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 about WELLES' ILLUSTRATED FABLES
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 about LE SURMALE. ROMAN MODERNE
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 about THE LYSISTRATA OF ARISTOPHANES
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 about SOME BRITISH BALLADS
London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1948. Hard Cover. A biography of Beardsley by Arthur Symons, with sixteen reproduced plates of Beardsley’s work. Some toning to the endpapers. Dustjacket foxed, and front flap priceclipped. Later reinforcement to the edges..... More about AUBREY BEARDSLEY
![LE MORTE DARTHUR] THE BIRTH LIFE AND ACTS OF KING ARTHUR OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE...](/pictures/thumb/285487.JPG?v=1541708522)
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... More about LE MORTE DARTHUR] THE BIRTH LIFE AND ACTS OF KING ARTHUR OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE...
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 about THE STORY OF ROSINA: AND OTHER VERSES
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Hard Cover. A bright copy of a handsome book, illustrated with full page chromolithographic illustrations throughout. More about A BOOK OF MODERN BALLADS
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”... More about OLD INNS
New York: Privately Printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Hard Cover. Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, translated by Egan and Alcock. With color frontispiece, printer’s devices, and full page illustrations. Slight musty odor. Foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Significant..... More about BAUDELAIRE FLOWERS OF EVIL (FLEURS DU MAL) IN PATTERN AND PROSE
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. Hard Cover. Charles Dickens’ The Holly Tree Inn, and A Christmas Tree, with illustrated plates, some color, by George Alfred Williams. Some silverfishing and wear to the spine. Embossed green cloth with... More about THE HOLLY TREE INN AND A CHRISTMAS TREE
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 about THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. FROM THE FRENCH OF THE COUNT DE BUFFON. ILLUSTRATED WITH...
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 about THE ENCHANTED BUTTERFLIES