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)
![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)
![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)
Millais's Illustrations. A Collection of Drawings on Wood
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First edition. Folio size. Dark green sand-grain gilt cloth, beveled boards. 80 exquisite wood engraved illustrations by Millais. All edges gilt. Covers somewhat rubbed, some wear to covers, rear hinge loosening, else very good copy, clean and bright internally. (Item #140)
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)
![Rossetti, Dante Gabriel] Pictures and Poems. Dante Gabriel Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/398_1.jpg?v=1647295357)
[Rossetti, Dante Gabriel] Pictures and Poems
New York: R. H. Russell, 1902. First edition thus. Folio. Original red-brown buckram with elaborate gilt-embossed cover design consisting of strapwork floral pattern, 'RR' stamped in gold on back cover. This is the second appearance of this format (1899(, but the first with this more elaborate cover design. 14 exquisite..... (Item #398)
![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)
![Scott, William Bell ] A Poet's Harvest Home: Being One Hundred Short Poems. With and Aftermath...](/pictures/thumb/244.jpg?v=1647295357)
[Scott, William Bell ] A Poet's Harvest Home: Being One Hundred Short Poems. With and Aftermath of Twenty Short Poems
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. First edition. 8vo. Original polished (light brown) buckram, gilt lettering on spine. Woodcut illustration on title page and two additional full-page woodcut illustrations, all by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT. Printed on handmade paper, thick and brilliant white. Covers sl. sunned, else near fine internally..... (Item #244)
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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