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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)

London: E. Newbery, 1780. First Newbery Editioin. Very finely bound miniature Bible (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches; 3/4 inches thick). Bound in fine red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt flourishes, vine and cornucopia motif with central green morocco onlay in with initials JHS (i.e. Christogram) etc. in gitl on..... (Item #2327)

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)

1843. Original color patterned handmade paper wrappers, blue paper (applied) spine. A superb mid-19th Century sketchbook with mock title page and full of nice sketches, some quite handsome and some rather crude, by the same artist. Ink, pencil, watercolor. Binding shaken, internally very good. (Item #3784)

A wonderful period linen textile illustrated with scenes of the fire in the Prince of Wales' Tower, 1853, and produced probably dating to the 1860's. "Fire! Fire! At Windsor Castle. Destruction of the Private Apartments of the Queen and Prince Albert," a fine linen scarf illustration measuring 15 x 20..... (Item #4426)

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)

Berlin: Wertheim, 1904. Large folio size. This is an original large album designed by a contemporary artist, likely Vienese, and possible Heinrich Vogeler, with full cover pictorial design featuring luxurious red leather covers, produced by Wertheim department stores and given as a gift to only longtime employees of the famous..... (Item #4513)

Belfast & London: Printed by Simms and McIntyre; Published for W. S. Orr and Co. Amen Corner, 1846. Original publisher's plum cloth with covers blocked in blind, spine blocked in blind and with gilt lettering. With a woodcut title for "The Parlour Novelist. A Series of Works of Fiction. By..... (Item #4518)

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: L. Booth, 1856. Stated "Second Edition Enlarged" 12mo. Three-quarter calf. Exceedingly scarce and oddball, if not scathing, poem intended (as per title) to address Tennyson directly by way of his allegorical poem, which must have met with some public acceptance as the "Second Enlarged Edition" was published in the..... (Item #1958)

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First printing. Superb full crushed burnt orange morocco binding by Leonard Mouteney (signed in front turn-down: "Designed and Finished by L. Mounteney." A famous finisher binder for Riviere & Sons of London, Mouteney later migrated over to the Lakeside Press (along with De Sauty) and..... (Item #1980)