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.

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.

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Society, 1994. Elephant Folio. Hard Cover. Elephant Folio, in the publisher’s rust cloth over ochre cloth boards with a leather label to the spine, and housed in a matching slipcase; a beautiful facsimile copy, with.....

Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs - libraires, 1853. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. A juvenile work about fishermen, illustrated by Victor Adam, a 19c Parisian painter and lithographer. With seven unnumbered, hand colored, lithographic plates, of the original eight. A......

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy of Harrison Fisher’s lovely book. The 16 mounted plates are beautiful -- several plates had slight creases at the edge, which have uncreased and show very.....