New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Brown cloth with famed cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of stylized butterflies/bow-ties, gold lamps and vines stamped in bright gold and white. Superb copy without the usual foxing almost always found with this title. Cover gilt is bold and bright..... (Item #167)
![Item #412 [Armstrong, Margaret] Songs of Childhood. Eugene Field](/pictures/thumb/412_1.jpg?v=1557340548)
New York: Charles Scribner, 1914. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards by Margaret Armstrong. Later edition. Illustrated throughout with border designs by Armstrong, famed American book designer. Cover wear and chipping to corners, internally fine. (Item #412)
![Item #467 [Elkin Mathews- Large Paper] Orchard Songs. 1893. Norman Gale](/pictures/thumb/467.jpg?v=1557340560)
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)
![Item #191 [Elkin Mathews Imprint, Limited to 100 Copies] Prose Fancies. Richard Le Gallienne](/pictures/thumb/191.jpg?v=1557340460)
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First edition. 4to. Original drab paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. Limited to 100 Copies on Handmade Paper. Corners bumped, spine a little worn, flies foxed, else near fine internally, clean and bright. Very scarce Elkin Mathews imprint. (Item #191)
![Item #448 [Lefler, Heinrich and Joseph Urban] Deutsche Gedenkhalle Bilder aus der vaterlandischen...](/pictures/thumb/448.jpg?v=1557340557)
Berlin: Max Herzig, 1904. First edition. Huge thick folio size weighing 25 lbs, 418pp, (18 x15 x 4 inches) In original publisher's full mottled green cloth with central imbedded panel which has a bold gilt stamped design of a cathedral. This immense volume of German history and remembrances is illustrated..... (Item #448)
![Item #821 4 [Stone & Kimball Rarity in Original Printed Wrappers] The Picture Book of Becky...](/pictures/thumb/821.jpg?v=1557340616)
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899. First edition. Folio. Original publishers gray card wrappers with design and cover stamped in red. Photographic frontispiece (also pictured in smaller format on half-title), rubricated title page, and photographic illustrations throughout. Scarce Stone imprint, this curiosity has the complete text of a rather..... (Item #821)
![Item #264 [Elkin Mathews Imprint] Books and Plays. Allan Monkhouse](/pictures/thumb/264_1.jpg?v=1557340497)
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First edition. 8vo. Ochre cloth with striking cover design, gilt lettering. Scarce Elkin Mathews title. Some wear to covers, clean and tight. (Item #264)
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)
![Item #394 [Paton , J. Noel] Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. J. Noel Paton](/pictures/thumb/394.jpg?v=1629299345)
Boston: J. H. Buffords Sons, n.d. (ca 1890). First edition thus. Huge folio (17.5 x 13.5 inches). Original blue bevelled cloth with gilt embossed cover design. Twenty remarkable full-page drawings by J. Noel Paton, a sculptor, illustrator and painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Percy Bate, in his English" Pre-Raphaelite..... (Item #394)
![Item #148 4 [Stone & Kimball] Sonnets and other Verses. George Santayana](/pictures/thumb/148.jpg?v=1557340443)
New York: Stone and Kimball, 1896. First edition thus. 12mo. Dark green cloth. Superb Nouveau-style title-page design reminiscent of Beardsley by Santayana (per Kraus). Very good copy of a scarce Stone and Kimball title. In gray slipcase. Kramer 79. (Item #148)
![Item #245 [Copeland and Day] First Poems & Fragments. Philip Henry Savage](/pictures/thumb/245.jpg?v=1557340489)
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. 8vo.. Original drab paper covered boards, paper label on spine. Rather heavily foxed, else tight copy, very good. (Item #245)
![Item #466 [Stone and Co.] A Slave To Duty. Stone, Author](/pictures/thumb/466.jpg?v=1557340559)
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898. First Edition. White cloth with ornate design on both covers. Presentation Copy with a small original drawing by the author: "To an Unknown Friend- The generous Buyer of Books. This little Book [calligraphy] is dedicated with the enduring admiration and esteem of The Author, Octave..... (Item #466)
![Item #471 [Swinburne, Charles Algernon] Charles Dickens. Charles Algernon Swinburne](/pictures/thumb/471.jpg?v=1647295358)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt ruling. In original glassine wrapper. TEG. 84pp. About fine. (Item #471)
![Item #568 [Way and Williams] The Story of Ab; A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. Stanley Waterloo](/pictures/thumb/568.jpg?v=1557340590)
Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897. First edition. Original black cloth with renown red and light yellow design motif on both covers and spine by Will Bradley. Front cover is neatly split all along outer edge, but book is clean and tight and a superb example of American 1890's book design..... (Item #568)
![Item #876 [Elkin Mathews Imprint] English Episodes. Frederick Wedmore](/pictures/thumb/876.jpg?v=1557340640)
London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. First edition. Light maroon fine wove cloth, gilt lettering on cover. 16pp Elkin Mathews List at end. Spine sunned, very good. (Item #876)
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