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

Paris: L'Edition D'Art, H. Piazza, 1918. First edition thus. Thick folio size. Exquisitely bound by Durvand, master French binder in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, known for his elaborate and technically excellent gilt application, tooling and design. An impressive and finely gilt-tooled work, bound in sumptuous full dark..... (Item #4508)

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)

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883-1895 & 1897. First editions. Offered here is a wonderful, complete collection of Kate Greenaway's famed Almanacks, all fourteen, in a contemporary felt-lined, red morocco case (over boards), with superb gilt floral designs and lettering on front cover and brass fastening device, and with thick..... (Item #4635)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. First edition. Bound in the publisher's scarce full modeled calf binding with striking design motifs on both covers, the front with bold stylized leaf patterns and ruling, and the rear with stippled and battered design, highly stylized petal devices, etc. Spine with modeled lettering. Probably..... (Item #4632)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1906. First edition. Original Roycroft three-quarter tan levant, superb gilt spine, marbled boards and endpapers. #63 of 106 Copies, Signed by Hubbard, Printed on Japan Vellum, in two colors, black and orange, and with the celebrated designs of Dard Hunter throughout, including title page, running heads..... (Item #4723)

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)

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)

Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: 1762. Two volumes. 8vo. Exquisitely bound in late 18th or early 19th Century full rich maroon morocco with striking all-over gilt stamped petal, leaf and stipple design, featuring a central wheel pattern of gilt and blind-stamped florets, dots and petal/leaf designs. Spines also elaborately gilt, with lettering..... (Item #4233)

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1858. First edition. 8vo. 323pp. Original blindstamped olive green cloth. The first edition of George MacDonald's first sotry to be published in book form. A fine copy in its original state, finely blindstamped olive cloth with diamond shaped central blossome and petal motif, elaborate borders..... (Item #4321)

London: Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition. Original superbly illustrated tan cloth with bold gilt blocking, as well as black borders, and lettering on cover and spine. First issue with half-title, and superb woodcut illustrations by Arthur Hughes throghout.13 pp. of advertisements at end. In nice collector's folding box. A...... (Item #4324)