New Arrivals

A wonderful beaded petit point of Victoria and Albert attending an infant's baptism, ca. 1840. 30.25 x 25.75 inches (76.8 x 65.4 cm), framed to 33 x 25.5 inches (83.8 x 64.8 cm). Toned with scattered areas of thread and bead loss. In simple black wooden frame. Very scarce. From the William E. Fredeman Collection. (Item #4428)

A wonderful period linen textile illustrated with scenes of the fine 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: Printed for [C. Whittingham] for Thomas Tegg; R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow; and Tegg, Wise and Co. Dublin, 1835. Fourth edition. 12mo. A wonderful Arts & Crafts binding by Sylvia Stebbing, noted British bookbinder and early student of Douglas Cockerell. Bound in full brown pigskin with gilt fillet borders... (Item #4423)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Later printing. Brown cltoh with attractive decorative cover. Inscribed by the author, "Sincerely Yours, Chas. F. Lummis, Aug 27, 1921." Fine. (Item #4419)

Circa 1895. Two beautiful period Arts and Crafts silk embroidered panels, in the manner of Selwyn Image, both similarly wrought and identical size (78 x 34.5 cm), one entitled, "Song" and the other "Poetry," and each in brown, over light tan silk, and depicting Grecian style women in long flowing... (Item #4417)

2pp. on folded sheet on her "Cogshill, Allen Lane, Philadelphia," letterhead, dated 1925. "My dear Marion Deane- I shall be very proud & happy to be among your distinguished Company of Autographs . I am not awfully intimate with Kings & Queens, Princes, Dukes, Presidents Statesmen & the like--- though... (Item #4415)

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. 12mo. Superbly bound in fulll crushed aquamarine with five striking rectilinear gilt ruled patterning, becoming smaller and smaller as moving toward the center, where the initials MB are placed, on both covers, gilt spine. Printed on japan vellum paper. 3.5" x 5.25". Marbled endpapers... (Item #4412)

Offered here is a striking collection of nearly 250 books with covers by Margaret Armstrong, with a small quantity with just spines, or written/illustrated by Armstrong. Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) was probably the most-acclaimed American book cover designer of the late 19th and early 20th Century, her work virtually universally... (Item #4409)

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. Original decorative vellum spine, cloth boards. With a superb vertical fore-edge painting by Martin Frost after Edward Burne-Jones famous painting, "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid." Monogrammed by Frost, premier fore-edge painter, with his authenticity ticket tipped in. (Item #4406)

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1884; 1883, 1882; 1881; 1879; 1873. First edition thus. 8vo. 25 volumes. Extremely scarce publisher's edition of Ruskin's works, all superbly bound in full green smooth cloth with gilt ruled and gilt decorated front cover and spine, stamped in red and gold, illustrated green... (Item #4404)

[Rossetti, Dante Gabriel- ALS] Important Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Cowper (Mrs. William Cowper-Temple), Relating to the painting, ìBeata Beatrix,î which William Cowper-Temple eventually Purchased. A fabulous, unpublished three-page DGR letter, undated, but between circa 1864-1869, in the early stages of negotiation between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Mr. and Mrs... (Item #4402)

Original Printed Color Lithographed Poster for Narocoti-Cure, 1895. Striking and highly interpretive original printed color lithographed poster for Narcoti-Cure, 1895, by Will Bradley, depicting a jousting knight on horseback with a devilish foliate figure in the foreground. Printed by Narcoti Chemical Co., Springfield, Mass, 1895. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962), born... (Item #4398)