Fine Books and Art
The Life and Death of Jason
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. First American edition. 8vo. Original red-brown cloth, gilt spine, red-brown endpapers. 4pp. Robert Brothers ads at front. Near fine. (Item #299)
Pre-Raphaelite Circle
All first and early editions of authors and artists associated with the Pre-Rephaelites including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, J.E. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and much more.
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The Ballad Book
London: Macmillan and Co., 1864. 12mo. Red calf. Engraved title page illustration by J.H. Paton. 393pp. AEG. Some wear to binding, else very good. Scarce. (Item #258)
Day and Night Songs
London: G. Philip & Sons, 1884. First edition thus. Blue cloth with superb sunrise design and lettering in gold on cover, gilt spine and rear design emblem. Head and tailpieces, initials throughout. Covers sl. wear, else very good. Scarce. (Item #255)
English Female Artists
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition. Two volumes. Original light blue blindstamped cloth. Woodcut devices throughout as head and tailpieces, chapter initials, by Walter Crane. Rare treatise on contemporary women artists such as Helen Allingham, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lucy Rossetti (Macox Brown), E.V.B. and many more. Spine on volume two..... (Item #939)
![Scott, Weir, Tenniel] Parables from Nature. Mrs. Alfred Gatty](/pictures/thumb/199.jpg?v=1557340466)
[Scott, Weir, Tenniel] Parables from Nature
London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. 8vo. Third and Fourth Series. Elaborate gilt cloth (violet) with inset gilt cover design, beveled boards. Illustrations by W.B. Scott, Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and much more. AEG. Covers worn, rear spine discolored. Good only. (Item #199)
![Millais, J.E] The Parables of our Lord. Thomas Guthrie](/pictures/thumb/454.jpg?v=1557340557)
[Millais, J.E] The Parables of our Lord
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. Original publisher's brown gilt cloth with designs on cover and spine. Full page frontispiece woodcut illustration by J.E. Millais. Covers show wear, esp on edges ad extr. of boards and spine. Both hinges are intact, one stain latter page. (Item #454)
![6 [Hughes, Arthur, Illus. etc.] The Shepherd Lady. Jean Ingelow](/pictures/thumb/217.jpg?v=1557340475)
6 [Hughes, Arthur, Illus. etc.] The Shepherd Lady
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First edition. 8vo. Original olive green cloth with black embossed design and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Four wood-engraved illustrations by ARTHUR HUGHES, 15 other illustrations, whole and half-page by Darley, Shepherd, Hallock, etc. AEG. Corners very slightly worn, a fine copy of a beautiful..... (Item #217)
![Millais, Hunt, Tenniel, Walker, etc.] Good Words for 1862. Norman MacLeod](/pictures/thumb/308.jpg?v=1629299344)
[Millais, Hunt, Tenniel, Walker, etc.] Good Words for 1862
London: Alexander Strahan and Co., 1862. First edition. 4to. Original publishers cloth, heavily blind-stamped with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Seminal periodical with prose and poetry by all the major authors of the period, as well as hundreds of plates by such luminary artists as: J.E. Millais, William Holman..... (Item #308)
![Millais, Tenniel and others] Good Words for 1864. Norman MacLeod](/pictures/thumb/360.jpg?v=1629299344)
[Millais, Tenniel and others] Good Words for 1864
London: Publishing Office, 1864. First edition. Thick 4to. 974 pages. Contemporary quarter blue cloth, marroon label on spine. Full-page woodcut illustrations by J.E. Millais, Arthur Hughes, John Tenniel, Frederick Walker and many others. Seminal early periodical featuring pre-raphaeilite and victorian illustrators, authors, poets. Spine sl. split at top, corners rubbed..... (Item #360)
Parables from Nature
London: Bell and Daldy, 1861. First edition. 8vo. Original plum publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt blocked design cover and spine. AEG. Two woodcut engravings by Hunt, one by J.E. Millais, and 11 other by contemporary artists. AEG. Covers sl. faded, bottom of spine frayed, corners bumped. Internally very clean and..... (Item #200)
Lilliput Levee: Poems of Childhood, Child-Fancy and Child-Like Moods
New York/London: Anson D.F. Randolph/Alexander Strahan, 1868. First thus. 12mo. Maroon gilt cloth. Scarce early book of poems with pre-raphaelite-style woodcut illustrations by J.E. Millais, G.F. Pinwell and others. Covers scuffed, some soiling, sl. loose in binding. (Item #362)
Orley Farm
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. 8vo. Two Volumes. Original red-brown patterned cloth, gilt spines. 40 superb wood engravings by J.E. MILLAIS. Both volumes show heavy wear to covers and spine, with chipping, discoloration esp. to spines. Foxing throughout. Otherwise, a tight copy of a book seldom seen in..... (Item #205)
![Walter Crane Illus] Little Miss Peggy. Molesworth Mrs](/pictures/thumb/803.jpg?v=1557340615)
[Walter Crane Illus] Little Miss Peggy
London: Macmillan, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Blue illustratd cloth with gilt lettering. 13 superb woodcut illustrations by Walter Crane. Covers slightly soiled, spine sunned. Very good. (Item #803)
True and False Society
London: Socialist League Office, 1888. First edition. Printed wrappers with Social League woodcut drawing on cover. 22pp. No. 6 in the series. Browing, soiled and slightly disbound. (Item #533)
![Morris, Rossetti, etc.] Living English Poets. Christina etc Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/415_1.jpg?v=1629299345)
[Morris, Rossetti, etc.] Living English Poets
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner, 1893. First thus. Gilt beveled red-brown cloth. New edition with added poems. Contains poetry by William Morris, Crhirstina Rossetti, Swinburne and many other contemporary poets. 285pp. Printed on fine laid paper. Some wear to covers, near fine internally. (Item #415)
![Mosher Press] The House of Life, A Sonnet-Sequence. Dante Gabriel Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/253.jpg?v=1557340493)
[Mosher Press] The House of Life, A Sonnet-Sequence
Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. First edition thus. Small 8vo. Original card wrappers with cover design. #55 of 100 Copies on Japan Vellum. A fine copy. (Item #253)
![Burne-Jones, D.G. Rossetti, etc.] The Art of England. John Ruskin](/pictures/thumb/545.jpg?v=1629299346)
[Burne-Jones, D.G. Rossetti, etc.] The Art of England
Sunnyside, Orpington and Kent: George Allen, 1887. Second edition. Three-quarter calf, blue cloth. 292pp, AEG. Lectures on Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Hunt, etc. Binding cracked and worn, internally very good. (Item #545)
(In Original FIrst Issue Cloth) Ballads and Songs of Brittany
London: Macmillan, 1865. First edtion; first issue. Original fine wove tan cloth with cover stamped design of knight on horse, concentric gilt ruled borders on cover, spine stamped in gold. Original dark green endpapers. Woodcut illustrationsb y J.E. Millais, John Tenniel, H.K. Browne and others. Top edges gilt. Exceedingly scarce..... (Item #801)
The Last Tournament
Boston: J. E. Titon and Company, 1872. First thus. 12mo. Publisher's fine ribbed green cloth with gilt and black-stamped design on cover. Finely illustrated with superb wood-engravings by Hammatt Billings. Fine copy. Hamilton p.77, Item 431a. (Item #901)
The Art of Illuminating. As Practiced in Europe from the Earliest Times
London: Day and Son, 1869. First edition. Thick quarto. Original lavishly gilt and interwoven brown cloth both covers and spine, bevelled boards. Chromolithographed title and half-title, 100 chromolithographed plates printed on thick card paper each with tissue guard providing a thorough overview of the art of illumination from the 6th-16th..... (Item #955)
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