Monet.
New York: Abrams, [1983]. With 365 illustrations, including 125 plates in full color. A little browning at bottom edge of boards. Very good in fine d.j. Quarto.
New York: Abrams, [1983]. With 365 illustrations, including 125 plates in full color. A little browning at bottom edge of boards. Very good in fine d.j. Quarto.
London: Field & Tuer, 1885. Front cover label states: “Thirty-third Thousand.”. Hand-colored frontispiece, text illustrations. Loose in binding. A decent copy of a fragile book. Speckled boards with cloth ties, paper label on front cover. Sixteenmo. [4], 137, [7, ads] pp.
Geneve: Chez Henri-Albert Gosse & Compagnie, 1743. First French edition of Reid’s Abstract of Sir Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, which first appeared in 1732. Another French abridgement of this Newton work was published in 1725, appearing at the end of Volume VII or Prideaux’s Histoire des Juifs (1725).....
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press. 1886/7. Number 234 of 250 large paper copies, signed “Field & Tuer.” The large paper copies included the earliest impressions of the plates, with the costumes “extra carefully tinted” and heightened with gold and silver. Some wear along back joint, endpapers lightly foxed.....
London: Published by the Leadenhall Press, 1897. First trade edition (preceded by a special edition in two volumes, published the previous year in an edition of 1,000 copies, which contained seven reproductions of horn-books and battledores). Engraved frontispiece, forty-six full-page illustrations, plus numerous partial-page illustrations throughout. Three facsimile horn-books in.....
London: Leadenhall Press, 1898-9. First edition. Text illustrations. With one tipped in sample of decorative paper. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, front hinge cracking but sound. A very good, bright copy. With tipped in publisher's card stating, amongst other things that "Mr. Tuer will be glad to have his attention drawn.....
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse…New York: Scribner & Welford…, [n.d., 1883]. Regular paper copy, priced at one guinea. There was also a Large Paper copy with Signed proofs (250 copies printed) and a Large Paper copy with signed proofs on satin (50 copies printed). Plates, text illustrations (some.....
London: Field & Tuer, 1880. Copper-engraved illustration on title, and seven other full-page engravings. Title printed in red and black. Bookplate of Yeats (1831-1894), novelist and founder of the weekly society paper, The World. A few pages show minor chipping at fore-edge. A very good copy. Publisher’s vellum with title.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First edition. With 370 reproductions, of which 315 had never been reproduced before. A little fading at bottom edge. Else fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Oblong folio.