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
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AMERICANA. RARE ITEMS RELATING TO THE COLONIES, REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ETC. PIONEER DAYS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND OTHER WESTERN STATES, MANY OF WHICH ARE THE PROPETY OF MR. H.C.HOLMES OF SAN FRANCISCO
New York: American Art Association Inc., 1924. Soft Cover. Pencilled prices noted against most items -- we presume these are prices realized [and, oh, wouldn't we like to buy them now!]; Pictorial Wrappers. More
BERTHA S. GOUDY | FIRST LADY OF PRINTING | REMEMBRANCES OF THE DISTAFF SIDE OF THE VILLAGE PRESS
The Distaff Side, 1958. A limited edition of 200 numbered copies, this being #138. Separate signatures written by different colleagues and printed at different presses: the Thistle Press;Peter Pauper Press; Jane Grabhorn; Spiral Press; Marchbanks Press; Pickering Press. Marbled boards... More
BIBLIOTHEQUES LITTERAIRES du romantisme a nos jours
Paris: Pierre Beres. Soft Cover. Catalogue 75. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text in French. Silver colored paper binding with light edgewear to extremities; Not Ex-Libary. More
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER | HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN (2 VOLUMES)
London: Samuel Bagster, c. 1890. 64mo. Full Leather. The Book of Common Prayer and Hymns Ancient and Modern, each in full burgundy morocco lettered in gilt to the spines and upper boards; inner dentelles; all edges gilt. Housed in a.... More
A BOOK OF FAVOURITE MODERN BALLADS.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. Full Leather. A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads. With floral borders to the text, numerous engraved illustrations, frontispiece, and additional title page, illustrated with black, gray, and gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary inscription on... More
THE BOOK OF LETTERS, IN VERSE.
Sold By Dorr & Howland. Miniature. Soft Cover. Facsimile. Facsimile miniature book (6.5 x 5.5 cm.) . An alphabet chapbook. In sewn stiff printed wrappers. More
BRINGYNG IN THE BORESHEED: CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT ROWFANT HALL MCMLVIII A. D. [BRINGING IN THE BORES HEAD]
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1958. Original Sewn Wrappers. Limited Edition, numbered 8 of 250 copies. 12 pages sewn into heavy printed wrappers; a stunning print job in red and black in a gothic type designed by Goudy; among the most... More
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
CAXTON AND THE ART OF PRINTING.
Philadelphia | London: American Sunday-School Union | Religious Tract Society, n.d. Quarter Leather. The American Sunday-School Union’s Caxton and the Art of Printing. Lacking front endpaper and flyleaf, and spot of loss to the rear endpaper. Foxing. Quarter black leather..... 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
COURAGE. THOUGHTS OF GREAT MINDS CONCERNING TRUE COURAGE.
London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, [c. 1906]. 64mo. Hard Cover. Text in red and black, with initials and borders to each page of text; color illustrations throughout. Personal inscription in pencil and date in ink... More
DECORATIVE LETTERING | COVER DESIGNING | NEWPAPER ILLUSTRATING | CARICATURING AND CARTOONING | MAGAZINE AND BOOK ILLUSTRATING | WHERE AND HOW TO OBTAIN A POSITION [INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF TECHNOLOGY; 150]
Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Illustrated throughout. Sturdy copy in red buckram over green buckram; marbled endpapers. Many illustrations, some in color; some folding. More
DESERT AS DWELLED ON BY L.C.P.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve. More
DRAWING FOR LINE ENGRAVING | RETOUCHING FOR HALFTONES | DRAWING FOR COLOR REPRODUCTION [INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF TECHNOLOGY; 149]
Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Much on book illustration process. Illustrated throughout. Sturdy copy in red buckram over green buckram; marbled endpapers. Many illustrations, some in color. More
![EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE...](/pictures/thumb/264786.JPG?v=1500737095)
[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW’S POETICAL WORKS
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled..... More
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN DEWEY, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 20, 1929.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. Three Quarters Leather. First Edition. Essays in Honor of John Dewey, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Portrait frontispiece. Penned price on the front flyleaf. Wear to the joints and slight loss... More
GIFT OF PIETY: OR, DIVINE BREATHINGS IN ONE HUNDRED MEDITATIONS.
Boston: J. Buffum, n.d. Miniature. Hard Cover. Stereotyped Edition. A miniature book of one hundred Christian adages. Some toning to the endpapers only, and very slight foxing. Sunning and some wear to the spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering. All..... More
THE GROLIER CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. | OFFICERS; COMMITTEES; CONSTITUTION BY-LAWS; HOUSE RULES; MEMBERS; ANNUAL REPORTS; ALSO LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO BOOKBINDING TO BE FOUND IN THE LIBRARY.
New York: The Gilliss Press, 1907. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. A clean copy of a Limited Edition of 500 copies. Quarter bound in paper vellum over paper covered boards. Rough trimmed edges. Leaves are unopened at the top edge. Front... 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
HUNTING BIG GAME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE AND THRILLING ADVENTURES (TWO VOLUME SET): VOL. I AFRICA AND ASIA; VOL. II THE AMERICAS
Prescott AZ: Wolfe Publishing Co., 1989. Octavo. Hard Cover. Half leather with cloth covered boards; gilt edge to text block; limited edition # 274 of 1500 copies. Very light spotting to cloth covered boards, no markings in text; illustrated throughout. 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
![Keepsake] UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR THE BOOK: BHC HEMP & COTTON BOOKPAPER](/pictures/thumb/255601.jpg?v=1500736701)
Keepsake] UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR THE BOOK: BHC HEMP & COTTON BOOKPAPER
University of Iowa Center for the Book. Hemp and Cotton fiber laced through handmade paper and laid into printed bifolium; “Thank you” letter from Center for the Book included. More
LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE ET Cie - Education Et Enseignement
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie, 1891. Soft Cover. Book catalog 19th c. French. No pencil or ink markings in text. Paper binding. Address written at top of rear cover. Heavy edgewear to rear cover with several chips and tears. Chips... More