1890's, Press Books

Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897. First edition. Green cloth with superb gilt and black stamped design of stylized trees on both covers. Presentation Copy: "To Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Barnes with the writer's lov. December, 1897." Cover and title-page signed with the mark of Frank Hazenplug. TEG. Top/bottom of... (Item #457)

London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1893. First edition. Original fine wove beige cloth with printed labels on cover (pink) and label on spine with title and author. Contains 28 black and white and tinted facsimiles of early lotteries, broadsides and ephemera from the early days of printing and... (Item #797)

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Original drab boards, printed paper labels on cover and spine. Rubricated title page. Near fine. Quite scarce. (Item #251)

Springfield, Massachusetts: The Wayside Press, 1896. First edition. Thin quarto, color pictorial wrappers by Will Bradley on thick card paper, both covers. Volume 1, No. 1. Enormously important and graphically printed in full colors comprising various advertisement illustrations designed exclusively by Will Bradley. The first number in a sequence of... (Item #1219)

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. First edition. Salmon embossed cloth with gilt lettering designed by Gelett Burgess. Endpapers illustrated comprising map of the town of Millamours designed by author. Very good, tight copy. Kraus 74. (Item #540)

Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1901. First edition. 12mo. Original gray paper covered boards with cover design in blue, red lettering cover and spine. #216 out of 250 copies printed and initialed "L" for Langworthy, the designer on Ruisdael hand-made paper. Ends of boards sl. discolored, overall a presentable copy... (Item #256)

London and Chicago: Elkin Mathews; Copeland and Day, 1894. Second edition. 8vo. Original gray paper covered boards with circular gilt motif on cover and spine. Illustrated title page (orange) and woodcut frontispiece by LAURENCE HOUSMAN. Elkin Mathews catalog for January, 1894 appears at end of book. Some light cover wear, very good. (Item #263)

London: The Mandrake Press, [1929]. First edition. 12mo. Black cloth spine, gold patterned paper covered boards. In original printed dust wrapper with pictorial cover. Signed by Author. Frontispiece illustration by Lionel Ellis. Printed on Japan Vellum. Fine in fine wrapper. (Item #872)

Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1905. First edition. 4to. Brown paper covered boards, bold white lettering on cover, red cloth spine. Designs by Thomas Wood Stevens and illustrations by Sarah K. Smith. Fine. (Item #300)

London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1894. First edition. Beige paper covered boards, gilt lettering. Presentation Copy: "A.W. Benson, with the authoress's kind regards in deep appreciation o fhis music, New Year, 1894" Covers rubbed anc corners bumped, internally very good. (Item #366)

London: Elkin Mathews, 1893. First edition. 12mo. Original publisher's full vellum over boards, gilt design on both covers. 150 Copies on Handmade Paper. Superb woodcut half-title and title page by J. Illingworth Kay. Uncut, unopened and fine. Scarce thus. (Item #467)

Offered here is a "Chapbook" poster by Frank Hazenplug, issued as a promo for the Chapbook Journal, Stone and Kimball, ca. 1900. This is a marvelous image with brightly patterned blocks of color. The poster has been applied to canvass and has various unobtrusive paint overlays as repairs. Quite pleasing... (Item #444)