London: Susan Allix, 1999. One of twenty-two copies, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon. With nineteen intaglio prints (including one two-page print), which are the result of four years of sketch book observation and drawing, platemaking, and reworking the plates. Many have extra hand-coloring on the.....
[London:]: 2015. One of seventeen numbered copies. Illustrated with prints and photographic reproductions; there is frequent use of lino cut with etching in the prints, and they painted with watercolor, gouache, acrylic or colored ink. The paper is mould-made Velin Arches. Other papers are colored Bugra Butten, blue and green.....
[Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1903]. One of 150 copies on paper, 125 of which were for sale, printed by Hornby at the Ashendene Press with type set by Hornby and Meysey Turton. 25 morocco-bound copies on vellum, 20 of which were for sale, were also printed. With a woodcut of an.....
Newspaper clippings, posters, and other campaign promotional items laid in or pasted down on the first [90] pp., except for on a few blank pages. The remaining pages of the scrapbook are blank. Some of the items are in color and many of the newspaper clippings include photographs. Also with.....
London: R. Bowyer, 1795. This Bible is remembered by many as the “Killer Bible” for its typographical error in Mark VII, verse 27: “Let the children be killed” rather than “filled.” However, it is more exemplary for its artistic design by some of England’s most skilled book artists of the.....
[ Valencia:]: Fundacion Biblia Espanola, 1876 ]. A fine facsimile of the Complutensian Polyglot, named after the place of its publication, Alcalá de Henares (“Complutum” in Latin). It was the first polyglot Bible and one of the finest monuments of printing. The original was printed from 1514-17, though overall publication.....
n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1880], Text in gothic style letters, with elaborate borders, initials, and miniatures in watercolor and gold, in a style reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. A fine and very interesting manuscript, featuring very delicate work of a rather varied nature. Pencil presentation inscription in French to.....
Simi Valley, California: Pie in the Sky Press, 2014. One of seven deluxe copies, with an additional suite of six color plates, housed in a separate folder with wrap-around label on which is printed “The Tree of Corriganville Regional Park,” out of a total edition of sixty-seven copies. The deluxe.....
Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, [n.d., 1895-1900]. Neither an edition statement nor a publication date is specified in the present item. Most dates for the present item provided on OCLC and COPAC range between 1895 and 1900, and we cannot specify the edition of the present item with confidence based on.....
Rome: Apud Jo: Mariam Salvioni, 1722. First edition of this lovely memorial volume, consisting of ninety-four orations by Clement XI (1649-1721) to his council. Copper-engraved title page printed in black and red. Engraved preliminary illustration; engraved portrait of Clement XI; large engraved historiated initials; engraved coat of arms; illustrated with.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpeg?v=1605218970)
These are unique items, most likely based on the maps of contemporary English cartographers. A possible source is James Wyld the Elder (1790 – 1836), who was known for his prompt publications of newly updated maps. Also note that, while the polar projection of the Southern Hemisphere is signed with.....
Southampton: Printed and Sold by T. Baker... 1794. First edition. A second edition was published by Rivington in 1801. The present work appears to be the author’s only publication. Some splitting to hinges at head and tail. Blue speckled edges. Some minor toning to leaves but overall a near-fine copy.....
New York: Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, [n.d., ca. 1941]. Broadside printed with four diagrams of the female reproductive organs in black with red accents. Creasing where the broadside has been folded for storage. The paper on which the broadside is printed was cut imprecisely, leaving the top and bottom edges.....
York: Printed for W. Alexander; Sold also by Harvey and Darton…[et al.], 1820. First edition of posthumous account. The anonymous editor says: "It may be proper to inform the reader, that the following Memoir is chiefly composed of Extracts from the Diary of the valued Individual whose experiences it records.....
Parmae: In Aedibus Palatinis, Typis Bodonianis, 1793. First Bodoni edition. It was reprinted in 1796. Faerno’s Centum Fabulae was first published by Vicenzo Luchino in 1564 with illustrations by Pirro Ligorio. A list of twenty other editions of Centum Fabulae is included at the end of the present work (pp.....
London: Printed by Darton, Harvey & Co., [n.d., ca. 1813-1819.]. First edition of the rare hand-colored issue of Mary and Her Cat, with the colophon “Printed by C. Squire.” The 1808 reprint does not have a colophon. The Dartons also published eleven reprints of Mary and Her Cat between 1814.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Third edition, enlarged with a new plate of a species of grass (Plate 5) and its corresponding description, which were not included in the first or second editions. The first edition was published in 1817. Early editions are uncommon in.....
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud—F. Ferroud, 1913. One of ninety-five copies on Japon vellum, with the plates in two states, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies. Twenty-two full- and partial-page etchings, in two states in this copy. Hand-colored title-page vignette and historiated initials. Spine a bit fadedformer.....
[ Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ]. Text in double columns, rubricated throughout in red and blue. The decorative two-line title is from a woodcut. Contemporary ink manuscript notes on front pastedown, occasional contemporary ink marginalia. Remains of a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, used as binder's waste, in front and back.....
[ Norwich: ]: Printed by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson; For John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill, and London, 1819. First edition. Calf rubbed at corners and extremities. Rebacked with twentieth century calf spine with red morocco label. Marbled edges. Some light foxing but pages are very clean throughout. With a late.....
Lyon: Jacobo Hugetan, 15`2. Title-page in black and red, with a 2 x 3" woodcut of Saint Jerome in his study. Numerous decorative woodcuts of varying sizes throughout. Text in double columns. Foot of spine lightly chipped, back joint starting to crack, but sound, remnants of off-white paint on spine.....
New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition. With more than 400 reproductions in color and black and white. Fine in fine d.j. Clothbacked boards. Quarto.
London: Trübner & Co., 1856. First edition in English, a translation of the German Güldenes A.B.C. [26] leaves, each with a mounted decorative initial with an accompanying scriptural verse. Each letter of the alphabet is represented except J and X. Designed by Gustav Koenig and engraved by Julius Caesar Thater.....
London: Printed for William Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's, 1729. First edition. Some light foxing, mostly marginal. A very good copy. Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked. Gilt-ruled spine with red morocco label. Octavo. [2], vi, 499, [5, advertisements] pp. It is the Serious Call, a plea for.....
London: Cassell, 1883. First edition of one of the earliest books on the subject. Sixteen mounted chromolithographs of designs, four wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Spine extremities rubbed. A near fine copy. Publisher's brown cloth with covers ruled in blind and title in gilt on front cover. Oblong quarto. 52.....
