[Cramer, Rie] Liedjes Aan Het Raam
Utrecht: W. de Haan, ca. 1920. Early editiion. Original color card wrappers, spiral bound. Delightfully illustrated by Rie Cramer with full-page color plates and tinted illustrations throughout. Fine. (Item #4182)
Utrecht: W. de Haan, ca. 1920. Early editiion. Original color card wrappers, spiral bound. Delightfully illustrated by Rie Cramer with full-page color plates and tinted illustrations throughout. Fine. (Item #4182)
1927. Large folio sheet printed on coated paper (10 x 15.5 inches). Color Proof for calendar, dated 1927 in the image. With guidemarks for printer. Scarce. (Item #3279)
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. Original beige paper coverd boards with famous orchid design on both covers, lettering on cover and spine in black, stamped on front pastedown "Dudley and Hodge," as issued. Landmark in 1890's printing, "The Black Riders" was Crane's first book of poetry and second..... (Item #3199)
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. First printing. 57 sheets unbound sheets (and one limitation sheet), numbered I to LVI, each with magnificent drawing by Crane comprising illustrated panels with decorative borders. Signed by Walter Crane in pencil on limitation page (No. 20 of 300 Copies Only. Has original publication..... (Item #2019)
Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan & Morgan, 1888. First edition. Original buckram backed gray paper coverd baords with cover vignette in color, printed rear illustrated cover, lettering in black on spine. Wooduct illustrations throughout by Joseph Crawhall.131pp. A near fine copy. Scarce title. (Item #3369)
Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan & Morgan, 1887. First edition. Contemporary or later black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Over 80 superb woodcut illustrations by Crawhall. Some small repairs to fragile leaves. Tight within the signatures. Browning to paper, which was issued in a highly acidic preparation, thus causing brittle sections..... (Item #4637)
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press & Co., 1883. First edition. Large thick quarto. Hand-colored pictorial paper covered boards. A superb production, fully designed and illustrated by Joseph Crawhall with superb woodcuts throughout in his inimitable style, ALL HAND-COLORED. In the prospectus bound-in, "As the many hundreds of illustrations..... (Item #3090)
Edinburgh & Boston: T. N. Fouilis, 1917, 1917. Second editions. Offered here are two Foulis second printings of Jessie M. King's classic illustrated books, each with superb color pictorial paper covered boards with bolk King illustrations both covers and spine. Each with full-page color plates tipped onto card paper. "Corners"..... (Item #2956)
London: Thomas Hurst, 1827. First edition. x, [2], 132 pp. 13 hand-colored plates. (8vo) 19.5x12.5 cm (7æx5") later full polished tan calf, gilt bordered, spine gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. An early collection of humorous stories and ballads, including "Tim Trott and Biddy Lowe," "The Cotter's Daughter," "The Dwarf,"..... (Item #2530)
3pp letter by Frederick Cruickshank, miniature painter, in elegant script. "Businnes is flat enough with me. I have been painting a few little figures, but find it easier to paint them than to sell them- I only know of Houghton and Hogarth and each of these has bought two or..... (Item #3832)
London: William Tegg & Co., [1870]. First edition thus. Original publisher's red cloth, blindstamped design, and lettered within frame in gilt on the front cover. Fully illustrated by George Cruikshank with ten steel engravings by Davenport after Cruikshank and 2 lithographs, and with illustrations throughout by Cruikshank. Covers slightly worn..... (Item #5827)
London: George Cruikshank, Sold by J. Robins and Co., 1826. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio. Original printed boards with cover illustration, thin calf spine. PRESENTATION COPY: "W. Blackwood Esq. with the Complm. Geo. Cruikshank" signed boldly along the top of the front cover (across 15 inches). 16pp, six full..... (Item #486)
3 1/2 x 4 inches, on single sheet, mounted to card backing. Offered here are two small watercolor and pen and ink drawings by Robert Cruikshank, ca. 1810-20, executed on the same piece of watercolor paper, signed Robert Cruikshank at lower right. The drawings may represent figures in an illustrated..... (Item #5086)
Philadelphia: Edgell Press, ca. 1911. 4to. Stiff card wrappers illustrated with Nouveau design impressed (positively) in gray and gilt on cover. Nouveau design on title page. 32pp of photographs of the Mauretania and Lusitania steam ships on the Cunard line. Together with: Cunard Line, Royal and United States Mail Steamers..... (Item #2115)
[ca. 1900] 7 1/2 x 9" art sheet. Drawings approximately 3" x 5" in in fine pen or brush with portions painted-in with green watercolor. With two famous Wiener Werkstatte ink stamps (general and personal) lower right. Carl Otto Czeschka (1887-1960) was one of the most prominent members of the..... (Item #2877)
London: John Murray, 1803. First edition. Quarto. Original light green boards with printed title on cover. Title-page with large woodcut illustration of angel statue in garden. Uncut. Boards soiled, corners rubbed, spine lacking. A nice copy, quite tight with both hinges intact. Scarce. (Item #945)
London: Printed for Private Distribution, 1873. Inscribed on the half-title page by writer and famed engraver George Dalziel to English translator and children's author Henry William Dulcken: "To Dr H W Dulcken/ With the Authors/ very best regards/ July 2/73." First edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Green cloth with gilt rules..... (Item #2617)
Three quarter parchment boards, marbled boards. Original programme entitled, "Specimens From A Cycle of English Songs and Lyrics. The Music of Edward Dannreuther. Exceedingly scarce programme containing poems (i.e. songs adapted by Dannreuther) by Rossetti, William Morris, Swinburne and others and the FIRST APPEARANCE OF D. G. ROSSETTI'S POEM, "Autumn..... (Item #3991)
New York: Charles Scribner, 1861. First edition. Quarto. Publisher's full brown morocco leather, heavilyblind-stamped design on both covers, spine with five raised bands. A.E.G., beveled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. A beautiful book with over sixty wood-engraved illustrations by artists of the day, including four illustrations by Nast, others..... (Item #893)
Oxford: Printed at the Sign of The Corybantes under the Aegis of Doctor Johnson at the Oxford University Press, 1933. 4to. 12pp. Original blue card wrappers, overlapping to inside, with printed square label on front cover. Limited to only 51 Copies. This is an exceedingly scarce Bruce Rogers item, with..... (Item #4936)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First edition. Blue cloth with atractive cover design stamped in light yellow and green by Margaret Armstrong. Spine somewhat worn, corners bumped. (Item #5844)
London: S. Keimer for Hammond Banks, 1714. Second edition. 12mo. Bound in nineteenth century red goatskin, gilt-tooled covers in with a double fillet border and ornate rectilinear motif, six panels with gilt compartments. An attractive binding on this second edition of a book that was widely acclaimed dealing with the..... (Item #1989)
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1906. First edition. Original dark gay paper covered boards, pachment spine, gilt lettering.Inscribed #377 below copyright imprint. Inscribed by one of the editors, Edward Hatton Davis to his wife: "To Edith Appleby Davis from her husband, 1911." As well, book is inscribed by ALL SIX EDITORS on..... (Item #2088)
London: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1899. First edition. Large 4to. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on cover. 32pp, Lacks pictorial wrappers. 12 pages of ads split into section in front and section at back. Four gorgeous full-page tissue-guarded color plates, illustrations throughout in black and white. Slight cover wear, very..... (Item #2420)
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First Edition. Original beige paper covered boards, gilt lettering on cover. Large Paper Copy, #280 of 500 Copies, Signed by De La Mare. Wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. This is No. 11 of the Ariel Poems series. Near fine. (Item #2305)