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

Paris: Piazza & Cie, 1899. First edition. Small Folio. Original blue-grey pictorial wrappers. Number 130 of 330 Copies on 'Velin de Vosges a la cuve.' 26 exquisite and delicately rendered text color plates and 24 illustrations by Gaston de Latenay. With the original scarce folio-sized prospectus in printed wrappers containg..... (Item #2270)

NOTE: Billets, fine handcrafted, delicate gift card assembled using luxury papers, often additionally hand-colored and featuring movable parts, were popularized in Europe, especially in France and Italy, around 1800. Circa 1820-1830's, Vienna became the most important city on the Continent for art, decoration and extravagant production of billets. Handcrafted with..... (Item #4740)

"Do not discover me, it is not necessary; otherwise, your new gaze will make me blush." Partially hand-colored movable etching in stippling style. 10.3 x 7.1 cm. Vienna, around 1820. A young lady in a green dress with a laced hood holds out a white cloth with the inscription "My..... (Item #4746)

London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First Thus. Three uniform volumes of similar size, similarly bound by the Doves Bindery, designed by Cobden-Sanderson and bound at his bindery, all signed in rear dentelles, "The Doves Bindery, 18 C-S 97." Exquisite, finely wrought in the most classic Doves Bindery style in wonderful..... (Item #4438)

Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Chapbook, 1894. This famous poster was printed in 1894 by Stone and Kimball, famed Chicago publisher. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962), born in Boston, is widely considered one of the greatest American graphic artist and illustrator, known for his..... (Item #4395)

Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Echo, 1895, depicting a woman walking a yellow landscape. Printed at the Ralph Meriman Co. Press, 1895. Sight size: 21" x 14.' Frame 25" x 19 1/4" Signed "Will H. Bradley" lower left. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962), born..... (Item #4397)

Hingham, MA: Village Press, 1904. First edition thus. Original gray paper-covered boards with japan vellum spine. Limited to 173 numbered copies on Arches, of which this is #121. Frontispiece, title, and tailpiece illustrations in black; title page decoration and 9-line initial ìGî, all by W.A. Dwiggins. Pickford Waller's Copy, possibly..... (Item #4692)

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1904. Bound by Riviere in full reddish brown morocco, gilt lettering to spine, elaborately gilt dentelles. Approx. 6 x 9 inches. [The Caxton Club Scrap-Book] contained fragments of English verse from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries that were chosen and collocated by Caxtonian John Vance Cheney..... (Item #4774)

Large 4to. Original illustrated paper covered boards, superb decorated endpapers. ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL JUGENDSTIL BOOKS. Printed on thick paper. Full-page, half-page, quarter-page full color illustrations throughout by Konrad F.E. von Freyhold, Karl Hofer, Ernst Kreidolf, Emil Rudolf Weiss and others. The book has been heralded as "one..... (Item #2980)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full crimson morocco with highly decorative gilt designs and green morocco onlays on cover and spine, gilt designs on back cover by Sangorski & Sutcliffe including alternating gilt busts of Samuel Pickwick and Sam Weller which recur in the spine..... (Item #2938)

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)

London: SPCK, [1906]. First edition. Original light green paper covered boards with red stamped border design and lettering on cover. Hand-colored and artfully illustrated on nearly every page by Edwards with interpretive scenes and activities of children at play in a style reminiscent of Walter Crane illustrations on nearly every..... (Item #4770)

ca. 1915. Thick, large quarto. 9 9 x 2.5 inches. Black pebbled cloth covers with cover lettering printing in bold gilt, "Paper Cutting." An extremely scarce and desirable portfolio of paper cutting designs and examples based on the Froebel system for kindergarten education. 41 leaves of thick paper boards bound..... (Item #4650)