![Wise Printing] The Ballad of Jan Van Hunks. Dante Gabriel 093_Rossetti](/pictures/thumb/2829.jpg?v=1557340830)
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only [T. J. Wise], 1912. Original printed wrappers, as follows: The Ballad/ of/ Jan Van Hunks/ by/ Dante Gabriel Rossetti/ London:/ Printed for Private Circulation Only/ 1912. And t 19pp. A fine copy of a scarce Wise printing. 19pp. And then on verso of p.19... (Item #2829)
Bolger's Cacao. Promotional publication Bolger's Cacao, Bolsward, ca. 1910. Stapled, 10 pp. 8vo. Near fine. (Item #2686)
![Latenay, Gaston de] Nausikaa. Art Nouveau Classic, Homer](/pictures/thumb/2270.jpg?v=1557340784)
Paris: Piazza & Cie, 1899. First edition. Small Folio. Original blue-grey pictorial wrappers. Number 130 of 330 Copies on 'Velin de Vosges a la cuve.' 26 exquisite and delicately rendered text color plates and 24 illustrations by Gaston de Latenay. With the original scarce folio-sized prospectus in printed wrappers containing... (Item #2270)
![Austen, Jane] Mansfield Park. Jane Austen](/pictures/thumb/1948.jpg?v=1557340756)
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. Two Volumes. Original publisher's cloth-backed, drab boards, lettering labels on spine (trace remnants, small contemporary institutional labels perished or remnant only). The exceedingly scarce first American edition, virtually non-existent in the original binding. One of 1250 printed. Very few copies of Austen... (Item #1948)
![Binding, Fine- Zaehnsdorf] A Heifer of the Dawn. F. W. Bain](/pictures/thumb/2000.jpg?v=1557340758)
London: James Parker and Co., 1904. First edition. Sumptuously bound by Zahensdorf in 1904, signed with gilt bookbinder's pallete on lower front dentelle: "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1904," and further with the Zaehnsdorf "Exhibition" seal stamped into the lower portion of the rear silk pastedown. A magnificent period binding by Zaehnsdorf... (Item #2000)
London: William Heinemann, 1926. Early edition. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt. ASSOCIATION COPY WITH SIGNED LETTERS. Personal copy of Margot Sieveking, wife of literary editor Allan Wade, including Typed Letter Signed by Max Beerbohm tipped onto front pastedown to "Mrs. Allan Wade," Typed Letter Signed by publisher and... (Item #2872)
![Bewick, Thomas] A History of British Birds (Land and Water Birds, Two Volumes, Uniformly Bound...](/pictures/thumb/2835.jpg?v=1557340831)
Newcastle: Longman & Co., 1832. First edition. Two volumes, plus one volume. Bound in attractive contemporary full gilt and blindstamped bordered polished calf, two with marbled edges. British Birds with superb Bewick engravings throughout, armorial bookplate, slightly scuffed, very good. Quadruped, 8th edition, Newcastle, 1824, rebacked; Bewick cuts throughout. The... (Item #2835)
London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. First edition. Original beige paper covered boards with attractive repeating design on cover in black designed by Binyon. Contributors include: Selwyn Image, Laurence Binyon Reginald Balfour and others. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A near fine copy of a scarce book. (Item #2772)
London: Addey and Co., 1853. First edition. Oblong folio. Original fine-grained blue cloth with bold gilt lettering on cover, maroon cloth spine. Original yellow endsheets with inscription dated 1853. Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. 'illustrated in prose and rhyme by M.L.B. and W.M.C. Full-page impressed plates, EVB's..... (Item #2281)
London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First edition. Octavo. xx, 459 pages. Heavily illustrated. Title page in red and black. Publisher's cream cloth boards with decorations in gilt, red, green, and blue, designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw (1870-1957), architect and calligrapher who also worked in plasterwork... (Item #2599)
![Browning, Elizabeth Barrett] An Essay on Mind, with other Poems [The Doheny Copy]. Elizabeth...](/pictures/thumb/2142.jpg?v=1557340773)
London: James Duncan, 1826. First edition, mixed first and second impressions. Original drab gray boards, original printed label on spine with title and price. FIRST EDITION with mixed first impression/second impression points. There are two impressions known to exist. The first impression has page numbers 12, 24 and 148 perfectly... (Item #2142)
![Vale Press] Sonnets by E. B. B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning](/pictures/thumb/2810.jpg?v=1557340830)
London: Hacon & Ricketts, 1897. First American edition. 12mo. Original gray paper covered boards, paper labels on cover and spine. Printed in red and black initials and ruling designed by Charles Ricketts. A scarce Vale Press title. Inscribed by contemporary owner, "A Happy Xmas, 1897, E.H." Exceptional copy with minor... (Item #2810)
![Roycroft Press] Christmas Eve. Robert Browning](/pictures/thumb/2094.jpg?v=1557340763)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1899. First edition thus. Three-quarter light brown levant, marbled boards, ornately gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. #30 of 50 Copies Only, printed on Japan Vellum. Hand-illumined by Annie McMillan. In original folding clamshell box. Superb color illumined title page and initials throughout. A gorgeous... (Item #2094)
![Roycroft Press] The Last Ride. Robert Browning](/pictures/thumb/2096.jpg?v=1557340764)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. First edition thus. Three-quarterolive green levant, marbled boards, ornately gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. #19 of 50 Copies Only, printed on Japan Vellum. Hand-illumined by Della Place. Strikingly beautiful illustrations throughout by Lily Ess and embellishments by Samuel Warner, hand-touched gilt ruling, colored... (Item #2096)
London: Strahan & Co., 1872. Publisher's cloth binding.. Boards rubbed, edges and joints worn, corners bumped, hinges cracked. Bookplate of W. MacDonald MacKay. Good overall. (Item #2615)
London: W. Kent & Co., [1860]. First edition. . 8vo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco, top edges gilt, spine gilt, joints rubbed with front cover partly loose; original wrappers bound in (bookplate on verso of front wrapper). Very scarce Cruikshank title with woodcut illustrations throughout. Small partially abraded book label on... (Item #2859)
![Binding, Fine- Garret] Delia Bathing and Celia's Doves. Marquis De Pezay, Claude Joseph Dorat](/pictures/thumb/2572.jpg?v=1557340818)
London: Vizetelly & Co., [1890]. Exquisite full morocco inlaid binding signed in rear turn-in, "The Garret." A striking binding in the manner of the Guild of Women Binders or the closely allied Hampstead Bindery, featuring Nouveau-style wandering stems with onlay green leaves and terminating in red onlay flower designs, orange... (Item #2572)
![Roycroft Press] A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Yule-Tide. Charles Dickens](/pictures/thumb/2856.jpg?v=1557340832)
East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop, 1902. First edition thus. Superb three-quarter burgundy crushed morocco with attractive spine design by Louis Kinder (signed, "Roycroft" inner front dentelle). One of 100 Copies on Japan Vellum. Title-page and tailpieces by Samuel Warner. Fine. (Item #2856)
London: The Unicorn Press, 1897-1898. Five volumes in one edition. Duodecimo, 104; 118; 94; 101; 91. Illustrated throughout. With information on art, architecture, literature, and music. Pencil notations on the front pastedown. Modern half bound in green cloth and leather using the original spine covering with gilt titles. Gilt page... (Item #2643)
![The Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative, of A. Mary F. Robinson [Madame Duclaux]. Duclaux,...](/pictures/thumb/2851.jpg?v=1557340832)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. 303pp. Beautifully bound in three-quarter olive green morocco over green marbled boards (handmade paper), raised bands on spine with superb interlocking stem and blossom patter, marbled endsheets. Extra-illustrated with two holograph poems in Robinson's hand and both bearing the author's name at the... (Item #2851)
London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1865. First edition. Octavo. vii, 270 pages. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped ruled borders on boards, and gilt title on spine. Bookplate of "John Roxburgh, Jun." on front pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, small tears to head of spine, front joint starting; hinges cracked, holograph... (Item #2618)
Paris: J. Povolozky et Cie, 1923. First edition. Small 4to. Original printed card wrappers with superb cover design on front in black, with red lettering, another on rear wrapper in black. ASSOCIATION COPY: PRESENTED BY FABRI TO FELLOW POET D. J. d' Orbaix with a four line note on front... (Item #2676)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. xiii, 253 pages. Rebound in parchment over boards with ornamental square gilt devices on the boards, five raised spine bands with gilt decorations and leather title labels in compartments, marbled endpapers. Boards soiled and lightly rubbed; dampstains, small paper chips, occasional soiling;... (Item #2602)
![ALS- Field, Michael] Autograph Letter to famed editor Gleeson White. Michael Field](/pictures/thumb/2889.jpg?v=1557340834)
One side of folded octavo sheet. To Gleeson White (appears at bottom). "Dear Sir, I fear none of my poems will be suitable for the Pageant. If you find the enclosed too grave, kindly return them to me without delay. I am very sorry I have nothing among my papers... (Item #2889)
London: George Bell and Sons, [1887]. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pink patterned endpapers. Very good. (Item #2739)
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