![BINDING, VICTORIAN] The Course of Time, A Poem. Victorian Binding, Robert Pollok](/pictures/thumb/910.jpg?v=1557340654)
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. First Illustrated Edition. Publisher's salmon fine-pebbled cloth with elaborate gilt stamped design on both covers and spine. A.E.G., beveled boards, 359pp. Profusely illustrated with 55 exquisite wood-engravings by Birket Foster, John Tenniel and J. R. Clayton and engraved by Edmund Evans, Dalziel Brothers, H...... (Item #910)
![BINDING, VICTORIAN] Quarles' Emblems. Victorian Binding, Frank Quarles](/pictures/thumb/918.jpg?v=1557340661)
London: James Nisbet and Company, 1861. First edition. Publisher's bright violet cloth with bold gilt designs and blind-stamped floral motif on both covers and spine. A.E.G., 321pp, beveled boards. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings throughout by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers. Spine evenly sunned, else a very fine copy of..... (Item #918)
![Dalziel, Foster, Tenniel, etc.] The Grave, A Poem. Robert Blair](/pictures/thumb/212_1.jpg?v=1557340473)
Edinburgh: A.C. Black, 1858. First edition thus. 8vo. Original plum cloth with blind-sped and gilt front cover and spine by JOHN LEIGHTON. Woodcut illustrations throughout engraved by Edmund Evans and Dalziel Brothers by Birket Foster, John Tenniel, T. Dalziel and others. Near fine. (Item #212)
London: John Murray, 1819. First thus. Three volumes. Very attractive bound in contemporary black pebble grain morocco with swirling gilt foliage and ruling on both covers, spine elaborately gilt; both covers with ornate blindstamped central medallion and border design. Glazed endpapers with gilt leaf pattern, inner dentelles with gilt impressed..... (Item #1064)
![Leighton, John ] Binding: Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages and Proverbs. Jacob Cats, Robert...](/pictures/thumb/400.jpg?v=1557340545)
London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1865. Third edition. Quarto. Original brown cloth with bold gilt and black stamped/embossed cover design by John Leighton. Fully illustrated with woodcut illustrations, vignettes, borders and embellishments by Leighton. T.E.G. Brilliant copy, near fine. (Item #400)
![Binding, Fine] John Leighton: Poems By Eliza Cook. Eliza Cook](/pictures/thumb/450_1.jpg?v=1557340557)
London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1861. First edition. 4to. Publisher's gilt blue cloth with bold embossed design both covers and spine by John Leighton. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Gilbert, Watson, Weir and others. Corners considerably worn, extr. spine and edges show wear. Rear endpaper starting to crack. Occasional foxing..... (Item #450)
London: Macmillan, 1859. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth with exquisite cover illustration stamped in bright gold consisting of figures wrapped around and climbing up vines, spine gilt lettering. Exquisite double spread wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Richard Doyle. A fine copy of a thoroughly enchanting Victorian book... (Item #921)
![Leighton, John] The Book of German Songs: from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. H. W....](/pictures/thumb/192.jpg?v=1557340461)
London: Ward and Lock, 1856. First edition. 12m. Red gilt cloth. Illustrated throughout with copious engravings. Binding design by John Leighton. Lacks front free endpaper, rebacked with some wear to spine. Internally very nice. (Item #192)
![Leighton, John; Birket Foster Illus] The Shipwreck. William Falconer](/pictures/thumb/151.jpg?v=1557340443)
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First edition thus. 8vo. Blue cloth with striking gilt design stamped on front covers and spine by John Leighton. Illustrated throughout by Birket Foster. A.E.G. Corners bumped, some wear to top of spine. More brilliant gold presence than usually seen for this book. About..... (Item #151)
London: David Bogue, 1850. First edition thus. Sumptuously bound in full dark blue crushed morocco by Wood with attractive gilt-stamped floral devices on all four corners of both covers, concentric lines, five raised bands on spine with same gilt design motif in between four of them. Copiously illustrated with whole..... (Item #562)
![Edmund Evans' First Book] Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets. Birket Foster](/pictures/thumb/541.jpg?v=1557340579)
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856. First thus. Blue wove cloth, gilt lettering. Illustrated in color by Birket Foster throughout, colored initials throughout are hand-painted. A superlative work, the first book engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans. A near fine copy in what appears to be the..... (Item #541)
![Foster, Birket] The Traveller: A Poem. Birket Goldsmith Foster, Oliver](/pictures/thumb/912.jpg?v=1557340657)
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1868. First edition thus. Publishers blue cloth with heavily ornate gilt stamped design on cover and spine. Illustrated throughout by Birket Foster. A.E.G, beveled boards. A fine copy, binding is nearly untarnished, strikingly bold as if new. Scarce thus. (Item #912)
London: E. Moxon, 1872. First Thus. Large quarto. Original publisher's heavily gilt and stamped brown cloth with border designs over blue reilef panels, beveled boards. AEG. Tissue guarded woodcut illustrations throughout by Birket Foster. Expertly recased. About fine. A beautiful book. (Item #557)
London: Sampson, Low, Son and Marston Company, 1867. First edition. Publisher's green fine pebbled cloth with superb gilt design on cover, gilt spine, blind-stamped design on rear cover. A.E.G., beveled boards, 92pp printed on rectos only. Wood-engraved illustrations throughout by artists of the day. A truly fine, unused copy... (Item #919)
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1864. First edition. 4to. Original ornate gilt cloth with superb and intricate patterns, on both covers and spine by John Leighton. Vignettes, devices, and full-page woodcut illustrations throughout by Noel Humphreys, G. Du Maurier, J.W. North, John Tenniel and others. Covers show usual wear, overall..... (Item #305)
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1848. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered boards with exquisite and intricate designs on both covers and spine, originally decorated endpapers. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Fragile covers show wear predominantly at outer edges and at spine leaving most, if not all of the pictorial..... (Item #802)
![Victorian Illustrators] Songs of Seven. Jean Ingelow](/pictures/thumb/402.jpg?v=1557340545)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. First American edition. Original brown cloth with bold gilt titling and designs front and back covers, spine. Bevelled edges. Illustrated throughout with whole and half page woodcut illustrations by artists of the period. Spine shows some wear, internally the book is in fine condition... (Item #402)
![Leighton, John] Old England: A Pictorial Museum. Charles Knight](/pictures/thumb/767.jpg?v=1557340612)
London: James Sangster and Co., 1864. First edition. Two Volumes (392, 404pp) Folios (27 x 36 cm, 4 cm thick). Original textured red-brown cloth with heavily ornate gilt seal motif and lettering, blind-stamped intricate designs, both covers and spines by JOHN LEIGHTON, beveled boards, marbled endpapers. 40 wood-engraved woodcuts engraved..... (Item #767)
London: James Clarke & James Nisbet Company, [ca. 1860]. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with superb gilt design on cover, black-stamped decorative borders by John Leighton. Color title page, photographic frontispiece and woodcut illustrations throughout by Leighton, Harrison Weir and others. Some cover wear and a little foxing internally, else..... (Item #149)
London: David Bogue, 1854. First edition thus. Original publisher's blue cloth with deep inset on cover, heavily gilt stamped design on both covers and spine by John Leighton (signed "JL") AEG. 224pp. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts by Birket Foster and Jane E. Hay. Corners, edges sl. worn, else a glowing..... (Item #420)
London: David Bogue, 1853. First edition thus. Original blue publisher's cloth with deep inset on cover, complex gilt ruled design on both covers and spine by John Leighton. First illustrated edition, with nearly one hundred wood engravings by Birket Foster. Contains 18pp. illustrated catalogue of "Birket Foster's Beautifully Illustrated Editions"..... (Item #392)
London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, ca 1860. First edition. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth with elaborate and enchanting gilt illustrated cloth, gilt spine, blind-stamped design on rear cover. Illustrated throughout with super wood-engravings by J.E. Millais. Corners worn, gilt on cover somewhat worn as is seen for this title, a very..... (Item #922)
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, n.d. (ca. 1850). New Edition. Quarto. Bound in full green mottled morocco, the covers beveled and padded, with six compartments on spine, both covers with strapwork and petal design stamped in gold. A.E.G. 280pp. Lavishily illustrated throughout by D. Maclise. Covers show slight..... (Item #405)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Original fine ribbed white cloth with gilt decorative design of palette and xylophone, gilt ruled borders on front cover, gilt spine. Beveled boards, violet endpapers. In the Pre-Raphaelite circle, Paton only produced two volumes of verse and this one is..... (Item #940)
London: Methuen, 1893. First edition. Light green cloth with attractive leaf and vine motif stamped in dark green. Parodies on artists and poets of the day including Algernon Swinburne (A.C.S.), Tennyson (Lort T__n), and perhaps the PRB painter William Waterhouse (W.W). Very good. (Item #941)
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