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)
![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)
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)
London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1869. First edition. Original light plum blue cloth with cover illustration stamped in gilt, gilt lettering and decorative spine. Seven full-page woodcut illustrations by Walter Crane. Spine sunned, covers show discoloring, esp. rear, still a nice tight copy of a scarce and early Walter Crane title. (Item #944)
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)
![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)
![Scott, Weir, Tenniel] Parables from Nature. Mrs. Alfred Gatty](/pictures/thumb/199.jpg?v=1557340466)
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)
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)
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)
![Rossetti, D.G.] Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham. George Birbeck Hill](/pictures/thumb/470.jpg?v=1557340560)
New York: Frederick Stokes, 1897. First edition. Blue gilt cloth. Covers sl. worn. Photographs and reproductions from paintings. Bookplate of Mark Samuels Lasner. Very good. (Item #470)
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 book. (Item #217)
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: 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)
London: Strahan and Company, The Camden Press, n.d. [1885]. First Edition. Thick folio. Original publisher's lavish vellum-backed parchment boards elaborately gilt with decorative covers, red morocco label on spine, black gilt decorative endpapers, beveled edges. Uncut. No. 209 for England of 300 copies (300 for America). Title-page printed in red... (Item #422)
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)
London: Macmillan, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt lettering. 13 superb woodcut illustrations by Walter Crane. Covers slightly soiled, spine sunned. Very good. (Item #803)
London: Socialist League Office, 1888. First edition. Printed wrappers with Social League woodcut drawing on cover. 22pp. No. 6 in the series. Browning, soiled and slightly disbound. (Item #533)
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. First edition. Original plum cloth with central gilt design of a figure reclining naked on a beach, beveled boards, gilt spine. Blue-green endpapers. 229pp, ads in back. The author's first book, noted for its mystical and interpretive illustrations by John Nettleship described by Fredeman as... (Item #943)
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)
![Hughes, Arthur] Sing-Song. A Nursery Rhyme Book. Christina Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/63.jpg?v=1557340403)
London: Macmillan and Company, 1893. First thus. 8vo. Light green cloth. Full-page frontispiece and half-page drawings throughout by Arthur Hughes. Very good. (Item #63)
![Mosher Press] The House of Life, A Sonnet-Sequence. Dante Gabriel Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/253.jpg?v=1557340493)
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)
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)
London: Macmillan, 1865. First edition; 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 illustrations by J.E. Millais, John Tenniel, H.K. Browne and others. Top edges gilt. Exceedingly scarce..... (Item #801)
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