New Arrivals

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1904. Bound by Riviere in full reddish brown morocco, gilt lettering to spine, elaborately gilt dentelles. Approx. 6 x 9 inches. [The Caxton Club Scrap-Book] contained fragments of English verse from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries that were chosen and collocated by Caxtonian John Vance Cheney..... (Item #4774)

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1896. Attractively bound The Club Bindery for James William Ellsworth, prominent industrialist and president of the Caxton Club. One of only 3 copies, printed on Japan vellum. Superbly bound in full tan morocco by the Club Bindery in 1898, with gilt binder's pallet on front dentelle: ìFor..... (Item #4772)

London: SPCK, [1906]. First edition. Original light green paper covered boards with red stamped border design and lettering on cover. Hand-colored and artfully illustrated on nearly every page by Edwards with interpretive scenes and activities of children at play in a style reminiscent of Walter Crane illustrations on nearly every..... (Item #4770)

London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca 1925. Square octavo. Color pictorial paper covered boards. Super illustrations in color throughout by Walton Corbould. Good only, with wear to spine, corners and loosened in the casing, but complete, and priced accordingly. (Item #4766)

London: Longmans, 1892. Third edition. Bound in early three-quarter royal blue calf, gilt spine with bands, later marbled boards and endpapers, all edges in 23ct gold. Excellent fore edge painting by Martin Frost of a Victorian golfing group picnicking, monogrammed by Martin Frost with his authenticity ticket tipped in. xiv..... (Item #4764)

London: Frowde, 1904. Original art nouveau vellum spine and corners, recent cloth boards and gilt page edges, 667pp, 190x130mm. Portrait frontispiece. Composite fore-edge painting featuring a portrait of the poet EBB, flanked by views of Florence. Monogrammed by Frost with his authenticity ticket tipped in. Slight browning to vellum otherwise..... (Item #4762)

London: Chapman & Hall, 1903. Bound in modern fine green goatskin, gilt spine with bands, 23ct gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Fully illustrated by George Cruikshank, 705pp. A very fine Very good composite vanishing fore edge painting after the illustrations by Cruikshank by Martin Frost. Monogrammed by Frost, with his authenticity..... (Item #4759)

London: Stodart and Steuart, 1820. First edition. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt borders on both covers and spine, gilt dentelles. An attractive binding, some foxing to prelims, very good and tight copy. (Item #4757)

London: J. Murray, 1808. First edition. 2 volumes. Original or contemporary gray paper boards, brown paper spines with contemporary paper labels bearing early handwritten lettering on both volumes. 525pp. 591pp. An early work in the publishing oeuvre of Hazlitt (1778-1830), considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the..... (Item #4755)

A Copeland plate, "The Princess Belle-Etoile," after a design by Walter Crane. Printed and painted in many colors. Scarce. 24cm. diam. (Item #4752)

[1861]. First edition. In two volumes, large quartos. In two volumes, (616 & 598pp), AEG. Bound in publisher's full brown morocco heavy blind-stamped and stamped designs in darker brown, gilt designs and lettering on both covers, spine gilt. Central additional engraved titles, packed with with portraits from original full length..... (Item #4750)

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1851-1860; 1874. Mixed Editions. Eight quarto volumes. Superbly bound by J. B. Hawes (stamped pallet, "Bound by Hawes. Oxford" on verso of front fly) in full rich dark blue crushed morocco with three concentric rectangular gilt fillet borders and florets at corners, on both covers..... (Item #4748)