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London: Richard Bentley, 1856. 19th Century polished calf with marbled paer, spine intricately decorated in gilt morocco label, marbled endsheets. With the original printed 1833 vignette title-page and engraved frontispiece, and with the new title for this 1856 edition. 340pp. Marbled side edge. A very good copy, clean and bright..... (Item #6389)

Hand-crafted by Johanna Birkenruth, Morocco Leather Lined Revolving Book Case. Completely Covered in Morocco Hand-Tooled Leather by Birkenruth (signed in two places with her gilt signature pallet laid into one of the leather compartments. This is a fabulous, one-of-a-kind, Arts & Crafts style revolving bookcase, by Johanna Birkenruth, master British..... (Item #5004)

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927-1928. First Edition. Two volumes. Folio (17 x 12 inches). Extremely scarce in the Ashendene full pigskin binding in which Hornby commissioned W. H. Smith to expertly bind (signed on rear lower dentelle of volume two in gilt pallet: “Bound by W. H. Smith and Son.” Though..... (Item #6220)

London: Printed by J. Okes, 1641. First Edition. Small 4to, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 376 pages Scarce first edition of Heywood’s accounts of political prophesies and predictions attributed to King Arthur’s celebrated seer, featuring a fabulous wood-engraved frontispiece of Merlin sitting with lions and lambs, decorated chapter head-..... (Item #6587)

London: Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition. Original superbly illustrated green cloth with bold gilt blocking, as well as black borders, background and lettering on cover and spine. First issue with half-title, and superb woodcut illustrations by Arthur Hughes throughout. 13 pp. of advertisements at end. AEG. In nice collector’s..... (Item #4323)

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. First Edition. 2 volumes, 12mo, uncut. Hand-colored borders and initials. Printed in Chaucer type in red and black, title-page and facing page with full woodcut page border, 7ñline and small woodcut initial capitals. Contemporary dark green morocco elaborately gilt by ALFRED DE SAUTY designed with a...... (Item #6841)

London: Privately printed at G. Polidori's (i.e Gaetano Polidori, Christina’s grandfather on her mother’s side), 1847. First Edition. Christina Rossetti’s own copy of her first book which must have been returned to her by Frank Burgess whom she had formerly gifted the book, as evidenced by an ALS by Christina..... (Item #6283)

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Pres, [1894]-1895. 3 volumes, 4to, 8 1/4 x 6 inches, uncut. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spines gilt-lettered, (issued without ties); slipcase. A fabulous and scarce PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, ELIZABETH BURDEN (1841-1924), a fascinating individual who was active at Morris, Marshall, Faulkner..... (Item #6853)

New York: 1865. 7 1 4 x 4 1 2 inches. 72pp. Original publisher’s brown sand-grain cloth with blind-stamped triple-rule frame, front cover with bold gilt-blocked circular background in horizontal weave, surrounded by single circular gilt frame; the back cover with exact same motif, but in blind. A FINE COPY..... (Item #5030)

London: Published by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, 1797. First Edition. Folio size, 11 x 13 inches. Half red morocco, by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments with six raised bands. Young’s masterpiece of this ambitious work, with both the rare explanation leaf and the exceedingly rare 1874 prospectus by James..... (Item #6651)