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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)

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)

East Aurora: The Roycroft Printing Shop [Roycroft Press], 1897. First Edition Thus. Attractively bound by the Roycroft Bindery (with the "Roycroft" seal stamped on the bottom right of the front pastedown. Full burgundy crushed morocco with two long-stemmed roses arranged in a crossing pattern and accented with leaves and thorns..... (Item #6128)

12mo. Original publisher's limp vellum with superb Secessionist style gilt stamped covers comprising stylized flame motif, and designs surrounding lettering, illustrated endpapers with similar design motif. Leipzig., Poeschel & Trepte, ca. 1910. Exquisite Secessionist and Art Nouveau illustrations, one full-page illustration at end, vignettes and border designs in text. 32pp..... (Item #3791)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition. Presentation Copy: "To Mrs. Ferguson from W. Alllingham," on front free endpaper. Mrs. Ferguson was the wife of Samuel Ferguson, noted Irish poet and most important Ulster poet of the 19th Century. Letters from Allingham to Samuel Ferguson are well documented. Bound in..... (Item #2501)

Lyon: N. Scheuring, 1859. Superbly bound by Zaehnsdorf(signed in gilt pallet front dentelle) in Grolieresque light brown morocco, with both covers creatively sectioned in wide onlaid black strap-work and tooled in gilt, similar pattering in gilt. AEG. Near fine. (Item #4677)

A stunning and large framed embroidery dated 1900 bearing the inscription, "Vesta/MS/1900," and paper label on verso, "M.E.F.S." 63 cm x 21.5 cm. The composition depicts the virgin goddess of hearth, home and family, Vesta, in long flowing gown, holding the 'sacred fire' that burned at her hearth and temples..... (Item #2581)

London, Edinburgh, Dublin: Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw for] Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Bell & Bradfute; Cumming and Ferguson. Green smooth buckram with dark green goatskin label on spine, gilt lettering, bound by Birdsall & Son. of Northampton. An early reprint of the edition of 1833 (Gilson D3). Bentley..... (Item #4519)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. First edition thus. Bound by Roycroft in three-quarter crimson morocco with gilt ruling bordering marbled boards, ornate gilt decorated spine, marbled endpapers. 50 Copies Only, in original brown box with printed paper label. Printed on Imperial Japan Vellum (Copy #14), and hand-illumined by Lily Ess..... (Item #4729)

London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1830. First edition. Bound in full contemporary wavy grain calf with bold gilt vine and blossom pattern on both covers and spine, beautiful crimson wavy silk endsheets. Inscribed by the author to his son, William Badnall. A fascinating and vanishingly scarce book of poetry by..... (Item #1332)

4 1/2 x 7 inches. Famous lithograph image of "La Dame aux Camelias," by Aubrey Beardsley. A framed and matted original printer's proof with remnants of Heritage Gallery on verso verifying as Printer's Proof from a representative of the British Museum. As well, stated at lower right of image, "there..... (Item #3548)

London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. First edition. Thick folio. Original smooth wove beige cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Florence Camm's Copy, the noted artist and stained glass window designer, co-owner of Camm and Associates, one of the most prominent stained glass window companies early to mid..... (Item #3668)

London: Eliot Stock, 1892. Eighth Edition. Superb full brown morocco with an attractive floral design in gilt and blind. Engraved frontispiece, headbands, vignettes and engraved illustrations throughout. PRESENTATION COPY: "TO MRS. KINGSLEY, FROM EVB, HUNTERCOMBE MANOR, JUNE 22, 1895." With special preface where Boyle gives an homage to to her..... (Item #4925)