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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)

Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. First edition thus. 12mo. Superb binding by Marian Lane [signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Marian Lane," inf full blue crushed morocco with central double gilt ruling and lettering surrounded by leaf and blossom design on both covers, gilt ruled raised bands on spine, similar..... (Item #2151)

4to. 4pp. 1935. Printed on handmade paper. Half-page woodcut illustration on cover, another on p.2, both Edward Burne-Jones. Title, two specimen pages and one full-page discussion of the book and its interesting printing history. Fine. Scarce. (Item #3130)

London: Hesperides Press, 1930. Blue card wrappers with lettering in gold on front and small illustration of apple in gold on both covers. 8pp. sewn at spine. Apple design in blue on title page, printed in black with blue letting for titles, etc. With two page introduction on aims of..... (Item #3135)

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)

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)

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)

"I wish you good luck, a good conscience, a sweet and nice friend to kiss, and the flower, that slips through your fingers, turns into a forget-me-not." Larger size hand-colored etching in stippled style. 11.5 x 8.7 cm. Vienna, Johann Joseph Neidl, around 1820. A young man carries numerous baskets..... (Item #4744)

Letchworth: W.H. Smith & Son, Bookbinding Works, ca. 1905. First edition. Extremely scarce "Niger Morocco Guest Book, superbly bound by W.H. Smith & Son from a Douglas Cockerell design in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. In the Original Wooden Shipping Box, lined in felt which bears the W.H. Smith & Son's..... (Item #4978)

Bristol: Richard Edwards, 1802. 12mo. Nicely bound in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt ruling on covers and spine. AEG. Very slightly rubbed at edges, near fine. (Item #4669)

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. First edition. Large, thick quarto, sumptuously bound in full, black crushed morocco, gilt lettering on spine with lavish full red morocco doublures surrounded by black morocco and the two intricately adorned with flowing gilt designs. On the front doublure, in gilt, is..... (Item #3198)

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1898. Four copies of early Little, Brown and Company Autumn List for 1898, Arranged and Printed by Will Bradley, with his designs on cover and throughout, printed at the University Press. Some covers chipped, near fine internally. A most scarce gathering. (Item #4166)