London: Bibliophile Publishing Co., 1908. 4t. Original light brown printed wrappers. Contributions b yHilaire Belloc, Hayden, Helen Forbes, Horace Wyndham, C. E. Hughes, and others.Illustrated throughout, including color plates from the Olive Fairy Book. (Item #4153)
New York: Charles Scribner, 1861. First edition. Quarto. Publisher's full brown morocco leather, heavily blind-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..... (Item #893)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First edition. 8vo. Original olive green cloth with black embossed design and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Four wood-engraved illustrations by ARTHUR HUGHES, 15 other illustrations, whole and half-page by Darley, Shepherd, Hallock, etc. AEG. Corners very slightly worn, a fine copy of a beautiful book. (Item #217)
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1864. First edition. 4to. Original ornate gilt cloth with superb and intricate patterns, on both covers and spine by John Leighton. Vignettes, devices, and full-page woodcut illustrations throughout by Noel Humphreys, G. Du Maurier, J.W. North, John Tenniel and others. Covers show usual wear, overall... (Item #305)
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Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1917; 1918. First editions. Two separate volumes, cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards (by C. W. Beaumont). "Wheels," a primarily vehicle for Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell's early entry into the modernist literary scene. Most of the poets for Wheels were friends of the Sitwells... (Item #3801)
New York: Cosmpolitan Book Corporation, 1920. Printed wrappers with cover illustration by Harrison Fisher. 26pp. Half-tone illustrations for hundreds of separate prints by Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Bessie Pease Gutman and others. A wealth of bibliographic information, giving sizes, nature of printing, titles, inventory numbers and prices of all... (Item #1227)
Berlin: Fischer und Franke, 1900. First Edition. Original blue cloth with cover design in black relief, light brown, silver and red decorated endpapers. Stunning Jugendstil children's books with superb black and white illustrations through, of stories by Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and more. At end are the five color... (Item #227)
London: James Clarke & James Nisbet Company, [ca. 1860]. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with superb gilt design on cover, black-stamped decorative borders by John Leighton. Color title page, photographic frontispiece and woodcut illustrations throughout by Leighton, Harrison Weir and others. Some cover wear and a little foxing internally, else... (Item #149)
London: George Routledge & Sons, Farringdon Street, 1857. First edition. Superb Art Nouveau binding by T. Hatchard (signed in front turn-in) in full pebbled dark green morocco with elegant gilt-stamped and heavy gilt stippling on both covers and spine consisting of long flowing stems and stylized petals and blossoms. Spine... (Item #1979)
London: Bell and Daldy, 1861. First edition. 8vo. Original plum publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt blocked design cover and spine. AEG. Two woodcut engravings by Hunt, one by J.E. Millais, and 11 other by contemporary artists. AEG. Covers sl. faded, bottom of spine frayed, corners bumped. Internally very clean and... (Item #200)
London: Strahan and Company, The Camden Press, n.d. [1885]. First Edition. Thick folio. Original publisher's lavish vellum-backed parchment boards elaborately gilt with decorative covers, red morocco label on spine, black gilt decorative endpapers, beveled edges. Uncut. No. 209 for England of 300 copies (300 for America). Title-page printed in red... (Item #422)
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Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, [1907]. 4to. Original brilliant white fine cloth covers with bold central design element containing Jugendstil typeface lettering in relief on front cover, ochre laid paper endsheets. Numerous illustrations of Viennese Secession designs by disciples of Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka and others, among them Carl... (Item #3734)
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Wien: Klinger, Beethoven, April-Juni, 1902. First edition. Original mustard wrappers with blind debossed lettering blocked on cover. An astoundingly stunning presentation of early Secessionist art, with an introduction by Ernest Stohf. Printed in woodcut in bright mustard/orange and black, including 16 full-page plates (9 printed in black and orange) by... (Item #3645)
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Wien & Leipzig: Verlag Gerlach & Shenk; Verlag von E. A. Seemann, 1898, 1899. First edition. Two separate large, square quartos. The First Two Years, Essentially Containing Most of the Important Production of the Journal. 24 Issues, Bound similarly in green cloth spine with brown morocco labels, attractive decorative paper... (Item #4410)
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London: C. Cooke, [1797]. 12mo. Ten volumes similarly bound in threequarter calf, marbled boards. Two volumes by Pope, Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, Falconer, Sheffield, Shenstone, Tickell, Glover, CongreveCowper, and others. Dozens of engravings throughout. Corners, spines and cover wear, soiling, some hinge wear. (Item #4256)
London: Aylott & Jones, 1850. First edition. Magnificent Cobden-Sanderson Doves Binding (with gilt pallet on rear pastedown, "19 C-S 04") bound with exquisite bold gilt tulip and stipple designs at all four corners on both covers and extensive similar design motifs on five panels on the spine, carried over also... (Item #2595)
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London: Freemantle & Co., (1902). First edition. Two thick volumes. Sumptously bound in full crushed tan morocco with three filet gilt borders on both covers, spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt tooled design to four compartments, elaborate gilt dentelles. The Large Paper Edition, Limited to 150 Numbered Copies... (Item #4359)
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London & New York: Ernest Nister & E. P. Dutton & Co., [ca. 1895]. First edition. Oblong quarto. Cloth backed (red) color pictorial paper covered boards. Unpaginated. Six wonderful chromolithographic three-tiered pop-up plates, half-tone illustrations in the text). Six cleverly-designed pop-up plates depicting wild animals in captivity. One of Nesterís..... (Item #4272)
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