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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, A child’s ABC with delicate woodcut illustrations throughout. (Item #4168)

n.p. n.p., 1818. Oblong octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches [Chester,1818]. Original or contemporary blue-gray “sugar’ paper wrappers, with original light pink label on cover. This is a very scarce collection of eleven hand-numbered aquatint and soft ground etched views, with only one copy located (in an institution, see below). Hand-numbered..... (Item #6560)

A silver and enamel cloak clasp by Bertha Lillian Goff, two silver flowerhead panels with turquoise blue enamel details, with chain link, in Tadema Gallery silk-lined fitted box, unsigned. The work of Bertha Lillian Goff epitomizes the aims of the Arts & Crafts Movement. She was a talented artist in..... (Item #6453)

A Rhoda Wager hanging pendant silver brooch, silver frame with simple leaf and berry decoration, set with abalone stone, a pair of matched earrings and a small ring, unsigned. Four pieces. Rhoda Wager (1875ñ1953) was a British jewelry designer who later trained in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School..... (Item #6452)

Offered here is a nice octavo size gouache 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)

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)

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: Stead's Publishing House; arl Aug. Seyfried & Comp. [1910]. First Edition. 8vo, 7 x 5 inches, 374pp. Finely bound, most probably by Ramage (unsigned) in full brown crushed morocco with all-over gilt tooled design of repeating panels of three blossoms in arche, and outside floral vine patterning, on both..... (Item #6605)

10 x 12 1/2 inches. Stunning original lithograph poster by Will Bradley for the March issue of “The Inland Printer,” Bradley’s primary influence for many years, depicting a design of a woman with a windblown hat in the narrow right border, a wide border of stylized leaves to the left..... (Item #5135)

Chicago: P. C. Darrow, 1899. Original color printed and mounted calendar for 1899 in superb Japanesque style, mounted onto thick card stock. In the original printed pictorial envelope. Fine. Superb period piece. (Item #3361)

Amsterdam: Schalekamp en van de Grampel, [1825]. 12mo. Original yellow printed paper over card boards, 123pp. Superb hand-colored vignette on title-page and two exquisite hand-colored engravings. (Item #3301)

A Copeland plate, "The Princess Belle-Etoile," after a design by Walter Crane. Printed and painted in many colors. Scarce. 24cm. diam. (Item #4752)

Boston: March 5, 1902. Autographed letter signed, H. W. Dudley, on Dudley & Hodge Art Bookbinders letterhead, 299 Washington Street, Boston, dated March 5, 1902, addressed to Messrs. Briggs Bros. A two-page manuscript letter on separate letterhead sheets mounted on to gray card. Dudley discusses the suitability of an article..... (Item #6960)