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No place, no publisher, no date, but ca. turn of the century (1890), and probably distributed by the various businesses advertised at the beginning and the end of the booklet. Original pictorial wrappers, detached. A child's ABC with delicate woodcut illustrations throughout. (Item #4168)

Curtis Publishing, "Saturday Evening Post" decorative borders by T. M Cleland, 1910; "Man From Brodneys," ca. 1908, Fisher color illustration; Mosher Press, "Frontier," by Isabel Fiske Conant, [1924]; Crowell, "Illustrated Poets"; J. H Jansen, "Announcement"; four bookmarker announcements for Knopf, Harper, Macmillan and B. Herder Book Co. (Item #3167)

Offered here is a nice octavo size gouche watercolor of classic woman looking at herself in a tambourine-shaped mirror, measuring 10 x 8 inches and executed on brown card paper, signed lower left, G. Barbier. Attractive composition with Barbier's popular flowing garment designs, delicate line and subtle coloration. Provenance: Drouot..... (Item #3847)

University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1716. Sueprb 18th Century full black wavy grain calf with ornate gilt borders on both covers and spine. AEG. Together with The Whole Book of Psalms (as found) London, Stephen Gilbert, 1716. Printed in red and..... (Item #3928)

Alnwick; Derby: W. Davison; J. and C. Mozley, 1820-1830. First editions. Offered here are four original battledores, an early educational and pastime folding card, predating the more common dispersal of larger, more systematic teaching for children. With woodcut illustrations by Bewick and others. Very good. (Item #4839)

Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson for Benjamin Warner, ca. 1810. Tall 12mo. Original card wrappers with light brown paper pastedowns on covers (as issued), nice woodcut cover vignette. A very scarce battledore with actual free page, totalling 4pp of alphabets, each letter with superb woodcut illustration. A wonderfully preserved example of a...... (Item #4149)

Offered here is a single proof leaf printed on coated paper for "The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. London, Elkin Mathews, April 15, 1894 showing famous woodcut illustration by Aubrey Beardsley of woman rummaging through old book store. Fine. Most scarce. (Item #3362)

Berkeley: Privately Printed, New Algonquin Club (no printer or publisher mentioned), 1906. First edition. Booklet with red ribbon tie at spine (later). This publication was advanced in commemoration of a banquet honoring Bibliophile Society member William K. Bixby, pictured in an etched frontispiece, by W. H. Bicknell (with tissue guard)..... (Item #4997)

Superb hand-colored movable woodcut etching in stippled style. 9.5 x 7.1 cm. Augsburg, T.V. Poll, c. 1812. The image shows a young woman in a white dress with a red apron kneeling before a pillar-like pedestal on which a small fire causes high smoke. When the lever is pulled, pressed..... (Item #4741)

"We must not take offense, if we cannot congratulate ourselves." Wonderful movable billet, hand-colored in stippled style. 9.8 x 6.1 cm. Vienna, around 1830. This intricate billet shows a harp-playing young man and a woman accompanying him with her voice. In front of them stands a basket of roses and..... (Item #4745)

Bruxellus: Joannis de Smedt, 1713. 16mo. 109pp. Bound in 18th Century embroidered binding on blue silk wove cloth with embroidered weaving of border designs, central vignette of goose. Super engraved frontispiece illustration. Edgewear and some loss to embroidered entity, still retaining overall design. All edges gilt. Scarce thus. (Item #4174)

London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1615; 1628. 24mo. Superb contemporary embroidered binding, woven with braids of silver threads patterned on both covers and spine, over embroidered oink, yellow and blue flower petals, over calf boards, with gauffered edges. Binding worn and reapplied to boards, but original and contemporary..... (Item #3913)

London: Carl Hentscel, 1902. Superbly bound in full brown niger with exquisite and classic Guild design in blind and impressed in darker color, by Florence de Rheims. One of the larger bindings to be produced by the Guild. Letterpress by G P Warner, title page designed by Temple Ovenston. There..... (Item #3855)