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[Millais, etc.] Passages from Modern English Poets London: William Tegg, 1876. First edition. Quarto. Original publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt designs on cover and spine. Illustrated with 47 lithograph etchings (on 45 pages) by artists from the Junior Etching Club including John Everett Millais, J. Whistler, John Tenniel, Walter Severn, Viscount Bury, M.J. Lawless, Henry Moore, C.... (Item #990) Price: $1,250.00
[Millais] The Parables of Our Lord London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street, 1864. First edition. Quarto. Original publishers red cloth with elaborately blindstamped and gilt-stamped lettering and designs on both covers and spine, bevelled boards. 19 exquisite full-page wood-engraved illustrations by John Everett Millais (engraved by Dalziel). Printed on thick card paper, A.E.G, headpiece desgins... (Item #989) Price: $1,250.00
Osterbuch [Hasenbuch] Berlin: B. Cassirer, [1908]. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards, color decorated endpapers, 16 superb full-page pochoir colored illustrations by K. F. E. von Freyhold. Celebrated for its depth of feeling and delicate coloration and composition, these series of illustrations by Freyhold are among the finest to... (Item #1244) Price: $2,500.00
The Parables of Our Lord London: Longman & Company, 1847. First edition. 12mo. Superbly bound in full black impressed binding by Hayday. 31 chromolithographed full-page illustrations, chromo title page, text, borders and initials all by Noel Humphreys. A monumental production of this most notable and sought-after early Victorian landmark in book binding and color production... (Item #1267) Price: $2,250.00
[Paton , J. Noel] Coleridge's Ancient Mariner Boston: J. H. Buffords Sons, n.d. (ca 1890). First edition thus. Huge folio (17.5 x 13.5 inches). Original blue bevelled cloth with gilt embossed cover design. Twenty remarkable full-page drawings by J. Noel Paton, a sculptor, illustrator and painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Percy Bate, in his English" Pre-Raphaelite... (Item #394) Price: $1,250.00
[Pre-Raphaelite Fore-Edge Painting by Martin Frost] Complete Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson London: Macmillan and Company, 1911. Full red morocco gilt-tooled binding (unsigned). Gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of six women sitting in a garden with a minstrel (holding a mandolin). Fine. Housed in a superb custom-made folding box by Carolina Veenstra. (Item #25) Price: $1,250.00
[Pre-Raphaelite Fore-Edge Painting after Burne-Jones] By Martin Frost after a Burne-Jones Painting; Works of Tennyson London: Macmillan, 1901. 8vo. Magnificent fore-edge painting executed by Martin Frost after famous Edward Burne-Jones painting, "Songs of Praise." Bound in full red extra-gilt morocco binding with superb and intricate gilt-stampled design on both covers and between five raised bands on spine. Fine copy of an alluring Pre-Raphaelite fore-edge painting... (Item #355) Price: $1,500.00
[Rackham, Arthur] With Original Copper Plate: A Midsummer-night's Dream London: William Heinemann, 1908. First Trade Edition. Large 8vo. Original beige cloth with gilt design on cover. 40 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. WITH ORIGINAL COPPER PLATE FOR THE ILLUSTRATION APPEARING ON P. 102, "ARE YOU SURE THAT WE ARE AWAKE?" Cloth split along outer spine... (Item #58) Price: $2,500.00
[Radcliffe] The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, A. Grueber... A. Porter, 1792. First Dublin Edition. 12mo. Two Volumes. Original or contemporary tan cloth with morocco labels on spines. The scarce first Dublin issue, printed just one year after the first English edition in 1791. A superb copy, extremely clean... (Item #225) Price: $1,250.00
[Rossetti, Christina in Original Dust Wrapper] Speaking Likenesses London: Macmillan, 1874. First Edition, Second Issue. Original publisher's royal blue linen with blindstamped borders, gilt lettering on spine. IN ORIGINAL PRINTED LIGHT BLUE DUST WRAPPER WITH COVER VIGNETTE ILLUSTRATION BY ARTHUR HUGES, PRINTED TITLE, AUTHOR, ETC. ON COVER AND SPINE. Twelve exquisite full-page woodcut illustrations plus a vignette on... (Item #986) Price: $2,250.00
[Rossetti, D.G., Hughes, etc.] The Music Master, A Love Story. FIRST EDITION London: G. Routledge & Co., Farrringdon Street, 1855. First edition. Original blue cloth with elaborate blindstamped design on both covers, gilt design and lettering on spine. Nine woodcut illustrations, one by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one by John E. Millais and seven by Arthur Hughes (plus an additional vignette). The Rossetti... (Item #985) Price: $1,250.00
[Sample Book: Silk Braids] Latest Designs Braid Novelties London and Paris: D. & Company, n.d. (ca. 1920). Huge braid sample book (17 x 11 inches) comprising an accordion style page format with dozens of examples of finely braided silk and other fabrics, some pages having over 200 separate examples. A total of 25 separate leaves, each cloth backed... (Item #1016) Price: $1,250.00
The Shipwreck London: Printed for William Miller by T. Bensley, 1804. Full polished calf with ornate and deeply tooled blindstamped floral, leaf and bloom motif on front cover, rear cover with similar motif, but only five devices. An unsigned Guild binding, but unarguably Guild of Women Binders and coming together from collection... (Item #1256) Price: $1,750.00
[Smith, Jessie Willcox] American Art by American Artists. One Hundred Masterpieces representing the best work in pen-and-ink and in color of Twenty-seven Celebrated American Artists New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1914. First edition. Oblong, immense folio (30 x 35 cm). Original dark blue cloth over boards with cover label, bound with two 'metal posts' at spine (as issued) in order to hold in the 100 leaves printed on thick, glossy paper. This exceedingly scarce... (Item #80) Price: $2,250.00
Stammbuch: Meerane and Saxon area near Leipzig, by Emilie Delling 1831. A superb Stammbuch elegantly presented in elaborate folding dark green half leather case with contemporary if not original spine and parts, giving owner (Delling) and titled, "Reminiscenz." Contemporary marbled sipcase. Approximately 80pp. individual leaves with entries, about 15 illustrations with six superb watercolors and watercolor vignettes, 3 embroidered pictures... (Item #1252) Price: $1,850.00
Trending into Maine [Ltd., Signed N. C. WYeth in glassine and slipcase] Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1938. First edition. Limited to 1075 Numbered and Signed Copies (#837), Signed by both Roberts and Wyeth. Original light blue slipcase with printed label, original glassine dust wrapper. Color illustrated endpapers and 15 gorgeous color plates by N. C. Wyeth. This copy lacks extra suite... (Item #1143) Price: $1,250.00
Two Original Photographs of Violet Oakley's Studio With Autograph Inscriptions on Back by Violet Oakley Philadelphia: not published, ca. 1900. Offered here are two original photographs, most likely taken by either herself, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green or Edith Emerson. One, of her close friend and fellow painter Ellen Wetherald Ahrens, and the other of both Violet Oakley and the other of both Violet... (Item #1197) Price: $2,500.00
The Works of Lord Byron [With Three Contemporary Fore-Edge Paintings] London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Three volumes. Contemporary full green straight-grained morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and blind on both covers, spine with four raised bands and heavily gilt compartments. A.E.G. With three superb contemporary fore-edge paintings on each volume: Vol. 1 of Sheffield Park, Sussex, the grand mansion... (Item #1066) Price: $1,500.00
The Year of the World; a philosophical poem on "Redemption from the Fall." [Presentation Copy] Scarce issue with five superb plates by W.B. Scott Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846. First edition. Contemporary boards with light brown leather spine, paper label with hand-written lettering on spine. PRESENTATION COPY: "Albany Hancock Esquire with the author's compliments," written by Scott on the half-title. This is the scarce first issue with five superb illustrations by William Bell Scott (Colbeck... (Item #1232) Price: $2,250.00
The Yearling [N. C. Wyeth original box] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition thus. Original two-part decorated box with large color cover insert on cover (not reproduced in book). Original black cloth with color insert on cover (distinct from box and also not in book). twelve full-page captioned color plates by Wyeth in unique matte... (Item #1171) Price: $1,250.00
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