(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.
![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)
![Reynard the Fox- Partially Uncut, Unopened] The Most Delightful History of Reynard the Fox In...](/pictures/thumb/4672_1.jpg?v=1570231392)
London: Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles, and Charles Passinger at the Seven-Stars on London-Bridge, 1681. Bound in 19th Century blindstamped v, gilt lettering on spine, by Birdsall. Additional etched title with superb full-size woodcut, exquisite illustrations in woodcut to text throughout. An unusually bright copy, exceedingly scarce..... (Item #4672)
![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- Club Bindery Stunning in Every Way] Idylls of the King. Alfred Tennyson](/pictures/thumb/4649_1.jpg?v=1570231262)
London: Edward Moxon, 1859. First edition. Magnificently bound by the Club Bindery, signed and dated, "Club Bindery 1900," on inner dentelle. Full rich brown crushed morocco with elaborate fleur de lis design motif consisting of multiple repeats and dimensions, in many gilt geometric compartments, with corner and central bold blindstamped..... (Item #4649)
![Binding, Fine- Stunning Monastery Hill] The French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century. Octave...](/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, likely the work of Edward Hertzberg. This is a superlative binding by Monastery Hill, and doubtless the work of Edward Hertzberg (who often did not sign his bindings, though it is..... (Item #4348)
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)
![Wordsworth, William Wadsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Lyrical Ballads, with other poems....](/pictures/thumb/3658_1.jpg?v=1557341078)
London: T.N. Longman and O.Rees, 1800. 2 volumes. 12mo. Expertly bound in attractive contemporary-style (modern), half straight-grain morocco, spines gilt in compartments. The excessively rare first edition, first issue for volume 2, with lines omitted from poem 'Michael' on p.210 and 3 errata on final leaf; and the second edition..... (Item #3658)
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