Catalog 21: Children's & Illustrated, Literature, Fine Bindings, 1890's & Press Books, Pre-Raphaelites, Original Art (31

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: Printed [by Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1640. First edition. Folio. Bound in contemporary 17th Century calf, expertly and tastefully rebacked with matching style, five raised bands with detail cross-hatching, red morocco label. The scarce first edition of..... (Item #4673)

Paris: Le Goupy, 1924. First edition. Large thick quarto. Sumptuously and expertly bound by Eleanor van Sweringen, noted bookbinder who worked in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. She also schooled other noted bookbinders such as Christine Hamilton and was a member of the prestigious..... (Item #4378)

Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First edition. Original printed wrappers. This it the first separate edition of Einstein's general theory of relativity, distinguished from nearly identical later editions of the same year by the presence of the printer's imprint, "Druck von Metzger and Wittig in Leipzig" on the..... (Item #4311)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1906. First edition thus. Fabulous full green levant by Louis Herman Kinder and pictured in Wolfe & McKenna ("Louis Herman Kinder," Bird & Bull Press, 1985) bound in rich green crushed morocco with elaborate concentric rectilinear gilt-ruled borders interlaced with leaf and dot patterning and inlaid..... (Item #4727)

London: C. Whittingham and Co. at the Chiswick Press for Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890. First printing. Gorgeous Arts and Crafts full reddish-brown morocco by Anastasia Power with her initials signed in monogram on rear turn in, "AP" (interlocking). Covers magnificently gilt-tooled with elaborate double-ruled square boxes (eighteen..... (Item #2573)

Boston: The Craftsman's Guild, 1901. First edition thus. 4to Original vellum backed, gray pictorial paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 150 copies bound in half vellum and printed on Japan vellum, of which this is #20. Printed without typeñeach letter, initial, and border was drawn by Herbert..... (Item #4712)

London: Constable & Co., 1909. First Thus. Large, thick quarto. Exquisitely bound by Joseph Zuffant, the most dedicated employee in Monastery Hill Binderyís history, a prodigy of Jane Addams Hull-House who placed him as a book binder at Monastery Hill in 1925. Zuffant, termed a "world class bookbinder," by Monastery..... (Item #4439)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1902. First edition thus. Superbly bound by Peter Verburg in full reddish-orange crushed morocco with elaborate flowing gilt Nouveau-style stem and leaf pattern with 70 onlaid hearts, central clover design, similar design on spine, signed in rear dentelle: "P.V. 1905." Illustrations by Walter Crane including..... (Item #2925)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. First edition thus. Full brown levant with elegant blindstamped cover designs and lavish gilt decorated inner dentelles by Louis Kinder, master binder of the Roycroft Press. A simply stunning, understated yet skillfully crafted cover design consisting of wrap-around stylized bands (five of them) impressed in..... (Item #2099)

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1887. Two Volumes: Expanded into Extra-Illustrated volumes (see below). Superbly bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery (unsigned, but documented, per below, and through descent provenance) in full maroon crushed morocco with rectilinear design motif, shields, stylized bird, etc on both covers, wide inner dentelles..... (Item #4511)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. First edition. Bound in exquisite Roycroft full calf modeled binding, one of only 50 copies so bound, in the Roycroft Bindery shop. Front cover with wonderful deep modeled textured bed with stylized vine and leaf design left in relief. There is a central panel with..... (Item #4633)

London: Essex House Press, 1900. First edition thus. Original vellum with embossed design and lettering on cover. Printed on real vellum, every page. Hand-colored frontispiece (Reginald Savage), initial letters and flourishes throughout, as well as colophon. #23 of only 125 copies. Very scarce. Three-line modern inscription on prelim in pen..... (Item #4703)