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

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)

Park Ridge: The Village Press, 1903. First edition thus. Original light brown paper covered boards with lettering in orange on cover. Printed in red and black on handmade paper, designed, printed and bound by Frederick Goudy and Will H. Ransom, #37 of 200 copies for sale. Reprinted from "Arts and..... (Item #4700)

Wien: Klinger, Beethoven, April-Juni, 1902. First edition. Original mustard wrappers with blind debossed lettering blocked on cover. An astoundingly stunning presentation of early Secessionist art, with an introduction by Ernest Stohf. Printed in woodcut in bright mustard/orange and black, including 16 full-page plates (9 printed in black and orange) by..... (Item #3645)

London: William Heinemann, 1902. Exquisitely bound in full dark brown modeled calf by Mary G. Gibson (Mary Gwenllian Gibson, 1888-1966), an accomplished and innovative British bookbinder in the early 1900's who exhibited at fine art shows such as the Royal Academy and the Royal Birmingham Society. 4to. Bound in full..... (Item #4696)

Prague: Politika, [1919]. First edition. 4to. Original decorated paper covered boards, glassine wrapper. Famed book by Podhajska featuring 18 woodcuts, including 12 in colors, tipped to textured paper; publisher's woodcut device on title-page. Contents loose as issued in original printed boards; contemporary Czech bookplate on pastedown. Number 112 of 200..... (Item #2880)

London: Ballantyne Press and Sold by Elkin Mathews, 1894. Original exquisite full vellum boards with famous gilt stamped design by Charles Ricketts on both covers and spine. 220 Copies. Pictorial title and six illustrations designed and cut on wood by Ricketts and Shannon. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. One of..... (Item #2849)

London: SPCK, 1904. Original dark blue cloth, gilt stamped lettering, beveled edges. Superbly hand-illumined by an accomplished artist in the medieval style, in green, red, blue and gold, featuring twenty-one initials, five borders, and two tailpieces. A truly impressive example of turn of the century illumination. Inscription on the ffep..... (Item #4771)

London: Wm. Clowes and Sons, 1883. First edition. Original light green printed paper wrappers. 80pp. Very scarce exhibition featuring 100 descriptions of painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, most with detailed descriptions of the paintings. This exhibition the largest to appear of the paintings of Rossetti since his death only a...... (Item #4779)

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)

Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. First edition thus. Superbly bound in full limp vellum with large gilt stamped leaf and geometric design at each corner, repeated on both covers, spine with hearts and gilt lettering. One of only 50 copies, superbly hand-illumined throughout. Ornamental designs throughout by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue..... (Item #4654)

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)