(Pictured to left: illustration by Heinrich Lefler for Marchen Kalendar,1905) Catalog 21 offers a fine assortment of over 300 items featuring many new acquisitions including original artwork, inscribed books, rare and unusual first editions in the following areas: Children's and Illustrated, 19th and 20th Century Literature, Fine Bindings, Press Books, 1890's, Pre-Raphaelites, autograph letters. Of special interest: two watercolors by Jugendstil artist Heinrich Lefler proposed as sequel to famed Kling Klang Gloria; fine copy of "The Germ" (1850), seminal Pre-Raphaelite journal; Decorative Art of Leon Bakst, first edition; Illuminated manuscript by Henry John Stock, English Pre-Raphaelite artist, full book with watercolor paintings; lengthy ALS from R.L. Stevenson to his mother; original Walter Crane mock-up page to "First of May"; first editions by noted German illustrator Ernst Kreidolf, including many in wrappers and one in original slipcase.
![Rossetti, Dante Gabriel] Sir Hugh the Heron, A Legendary Tale, in Four Parts. Dante Gabriel Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/4385_1.jpg?v=1557341321)
London: G. Polidori's Private Press, For Private Circulation Only, 1843. First edition. Original or contemporaneous mauve laid paper wrappers. 24pp. First and only edition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's vanishingly scarce first book, privately printed by his grandfatther, Gaetano Polidori on the latter's private press. Rossetti wrote most of the manuscript..... (Item #4385)
![Doves Binding, on First Edition PRB Germ]] The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature In Poetry,...](/pictures/thumb/2595.jpg?v=1557340820)
London: Aylott & Jones, 1850. First edition. Magnificent Cobden-Sanderson Doves Binding (with gilt pallet on rear pastedown, "19 C-S 04") bound with exquisite bold gilt tulip and stipple designs at all four corners on both covers and extensive similar design motifs on five panels on the spine, carried over also..... (Item #2595)
![Binding, Fine- R.R. Donnelley, Under the Direction of Alfred De Sauty] Troupers of the Gold Coast...](/pictures/thumb/4704_1.jpg?v=1570231594)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1928. First edition. Bound in attractive and unique "2/3" leather with half crimson morocco spine which extends one inch into each cover, and large panel of metallic hand-stamped paper in green, blue, yellow, black, silver, and brown extending to middle of boards, gilt R.R...... (Item #4704)
![Bindings, Fine- Bound by J. B. Hawes] Modern Painters (5 Volumes); Stones of Venice (3 Volumes)...](/pictures/thumb/4748_1.jpg?v=1570231809)
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)
![Ruskin, John- Fabulous ALS to His Mother] Autograph Letter Signed, ca. 1864. John Ruskin](/pictures/thumb/4737_1.jpg?v=1570231803)
2Ωp., 8vo, Winnington, [Cheshire], 22nd May, [1864, or shortly thereafter] per Van Akin Burd, ("The WInnington Letters," London, George Allen, 1969). Written on black-bordered mourning stationary (see below). A wonderful letter from Ruskin to his mother describing a dance at Winnington School in which he had been involved with his..... (Item #4737)
![Arts & Crafts] A Book of Shakespeare's Songs. William Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/4733_1.jpg?v=1570231710)
New York: G. Schirmer, 1903. First edition. Large quarto. Original gray paper covered boards with vellum spine extending two inches onto covers, vellum corners. Limited to 200 Numbered Copies (#199), printed on Italian handmade paper, at the De Vinne Press. Lavish and highly decorated initials and full-page woodcut illustrations throughout..... (Item #4733)
![Smith, Jessie Willcox- Vanishingly Scarce] "The Child, A Calendar- 1903" Jessie Willcox Smith,...](/pictures/thumb/4157_1.jpg?v=1557341215)
Philadelphia: C. W. Beck, Jr., The Beck Engraving Co., From the Art Press of S. H. Burbank & Co., 1902. First and Only Edition. Elephant folio, 14 x 20 inches. The enormously scarce and arguably the finest children's calendar ever printed with comparable color images in the U.S. in the..... (Item #4157)
![Binding, Fine- Embroidered Binding] The Mind of Tennyson. E. Hershey Sneath](/pictures/thumb/4708_1.jpg?v=1570231596)
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1901. First edition. Attractively Turn of the Century binding over Japan Vellum covered boards, with striking silk-embroidered weaves, long stem lilies with orange stamens, green and ochre colored leaves, brown borders, on cover and spine. AEG. 193pp. A nice example of an embroidered binding, often..... (Item #4708)
London: Printed for Darton and Harvey by W. Darton, and Joseph and James Harvey, 1805, 1809. First edition. 12mo. Two separate titles bound contemperaneously. The excessively rare and important "Rural Scenes," the first book by Jane and Ann Taylor, few if any copies sold of the first edition (i.e. 1805)..... (Item #4195)
![Binding, Fine- Monastery Hill] The French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century. Octave Uzanne](/pictures/thumb/4348_1.jpg?v=1557341316)
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1904. First edition thus. Large quarto. One of the Finest Monastery Hill Bindings we have seen, certainly the work of Edward Hertzberg, foremost early binder for the firm. This is a superlative binding by Monastery Hill, signed in gilt by Monastery Hill Bindery. Edward, son of the..... (Item #4348)
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