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Rome: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition thus. Unpaginated. Nine original woodcut illustrations by Paulo Paschetto tipped in... (Folio) 39x33.5 cm (15ºx13º") original full pictorial vellum with image of the Christ carrying a lamb upon his shoulders. No. 5 of 100 copies. Signed by the author at the limitation statement; each..... (Item #2542)

London: John W. Parker, 1860. First edition. Bound in contemporary three quarter vellum, marbled paper covered boards. 38pp. All edges red. Inscribed to Richard Monkton Milnes, English poet and patron of literature who advanced the careers of Tennyson and Emerson in Britain, and was one of the earliest champions of..... (Item #3670)

3 pages. A fascinating and informative letter in the backdrop of the historical dispute between many key players (Moxon & Co; its acting manager and later partner, J. Bertrand Payne; the poet Alfred Tennyson; and the illustrator Gustave Dore). A complicated and intertwined series of events (beginning with Edward Moxon's..... (Item #3023)

London: LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1910 (-1912). 6 ◊ 9 inches. 30 pages, Superbly bound in full stiff vellum with both covers stamped in bold gilt, possessing three concentric, stippled double-ruled rectangular design motif, gilt scissors at each corner, lettering to front cover, including binding signature at..... (Item #6272)

Three pages. 8vo. Oct 1, 1903, A very scarce three-page autograph letter signed by Sarah Prideaux to a "M? Norman,î [sic], and with an appended note from the recipient added on the last page. The letter invites the recipient to visit and see her work. Interestingly, it appears she is..... (Item #5001)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. First edition. Bound by Roycroft in three-quarter green levant, elaborately gilt spine, marbled boards and endpapers. The binding has been attributed to Louis Herman Kinder, Roycroft's greatest artisan bookbinder. Inscribed by Hubbard on front free fly: "The Law of Love should govern the universe- Elbert..... (Item #4725)

Nurnberg: Theo Stroefer's Kunstverlag, 1894. First edition. Quarto. Original color pictorial (chromolithograph) glossy paper covered boards, red cloth spine, original light blue decorative endpapers. With eight exquisite changing view slides with picture puzzles that change into a new color image upon pulling of the tabs. Each scene is accompanied with..... (Item #4523)

Offered here is a rare and unusual collection of designs and drawings, the work of what appears to be a single binder for Riviere & Son, from the late 1920's, with a very few possibly later. There are 8 large designs for spines with some drawings, tool impressions, two of..... (Item #4697)

Offered here is a most scarce grouping of three unbound sheets (without crease marks) of the title and a complete alphabet from the renowned Bruce Rogers Grolier Club "DURER: Of the Just Shaping of Letters,"1917. Printed on fine laid paper with the title page in red and black, ideal for..... (Item #5075)

Two pages on a halved-section of octavo-sized sheet (8" x 5") with original face of the cover envelope. December 31 [no date], but envelope post-marked 1891. To Mrs. Bryant, the wife of William J. Bryant, of which there are several letters from Christina on record to both William and his..... (Item #2830)

Two 4to sheets, two copies (though different forms and each with original signatures, one bearing official seal. Original document signed and executed in fountain pen. May 21, 1898. Copyright for "Maude by Christina Rossetti. 1897. Chicago,. Herbert S. Stone & Co.""Signed by A. R. Spofford on both. One copy with..... (Item #2995)

London: Macmillan, 1866. First edition. FIRST EDITION in ORIGINAL CLOTH, with uncorrected publisher's edits on page 71. After discovering various errors at a late date, Rossetti petitioned Macmillan to make some corrections. They declined to make corrections in the type, however curiously assented to make corrections in pen, and even..... (Item #3965)

London: Macmillan, 1865. Second edition. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt-stamped design by D.G. Rossetti. Wood cut title page and frontispiece by Rossetti. The true second edition (so stated), and actually quite scarce. Spine cloth separated and worn on spine, very good. (Item #5139)