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

London: Strahan & Co., 1872. First edition. Original blue cloth with bold gilt design on cover and spine, stamped in gilt and black with pictorial design on cover. First edition, first issue with publisher's name at foot of spine and with crescent moon and flaming torch in glt outside of..... (Item #4325)

Munchen: Braun & Schneider, [1885]. First edition. Large folio size (13 x 9 1/4 inches). Original color pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine. The scarce and magnificent first edition of this Lothar Meggendorfer designed and illustrated masterpiece, featuring eight super full-page pulling tab movable scenes of Meggendorfer, with superb transforming..... (Item #4663)

London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. A truly stunning binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in full rich crushed dark green levant morocco with onlaid tan borders and leaves, onlaid red blossoms and fruit, bold gilt repeating vine pattern, numerous flying birds all over on covers, and varying motifs on both covers..... (Item #4360)

New Rochelle: Elston Press, 1902. First edition thus. Large quarto. Original publisher's holland backed gray paper boards printed label on spine. Only 180 copies printed on handmade paper, fully designed and illustrated by Helen M. O'Kane, including a superb two-color double-spread title page with large Kelmscott-style border designs, initials, etc...... (Item #4648)

London: Reeves & Turner, 1887. First one-volume edition. Original fine wove dark green cloth, printed label on spine. A nice association, presented by Morris to John Barnes , Oct. 1888, on half-title. John Barnes was an assistant to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and had written to Morris on at least one..... (Item #4689)

Leipzig: Drugulin for Insel-Verlag, 1908. First edition thus. Folio. Original stiff vellum with yapp edges with old gilt vignette on front cover, spine gilt with lettering surround by thick gilt-blocked design, after designs by Henry van der Velde. Limited to 430 Copies, to which this is number 265, printed the..... (Item #3636)

A wonderful, large opaque watercolor by Louis Rhead depicting a woman carrying laundry in, with another woman putting laundry on a line, brick wall and streets in background in distinctively poster-like style, reminiscent of Edward Penfield, in bright colors. Matted and framed in simple wood frame. Slight wear to signature..... (Item #3767)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Oblong 12mo. Original full smooth buckram cloth with elastic bands and holder for pencil. A stunning sketch with original Art Nouveau designs for decorative motifs and wallpapers or textiles, 30 leaves in all, in colored inks and watercolors, some with gold wash, on both sides of Whatman's drawing paper, with..... (Item #4685)