[ London: Susan Allix, 2001]. One of twenty-five copies. 22 color and two black and white photographs laser printed onto Zerkell. Text in18 pt Bembo. A fine copy in tan cloth chemise. Full tan cloth with printed paper decorative labels on covers. Large octavo. 28 x 22cm. (11 1/8" x......
[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.....
Cambridge: Printed by Tho: and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, [1629]. The first King James Bible printed at Cambridge, a model of fine editing, introducing nearly 500 changes that have become standard. Elaborate wood-engraved architectural title-page, woodcut headbands, initial letters and tail-pieces. Text in double columns. Separate.....
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.....
Salem, Mass. The Salem Press Co., 1908. First edition of a biographical tribute to women’s rights advocates and abolitionist siblings Mehitable and Thomas Haskell, with an emphasis on the former’s life. Frontisportrait. Slight toning and minor creasing to covers. Two small closed tears to wrappers, rubber ink stamp (“Apr 9.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition of a scarce book of verse, with perhaps the only book cover design by the American impressionist painter, John Twachtman (1853-1902). Two full-page illustrations by C.E. Brock. Covers lightly soiled and a little worn. A very good copy. Publisher's color pictorial paper.....
Wellington, New Zealand: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Title page printed in red and black. Text printed on 160 gsm Rives Offset, vellum finish, 100 percent rag. Frontisportrait of Darwin tipped-in; twenty-seven color plates tipped-in; 152 additional illustrations in black and white. Plates printed by Panmure Printers Limited of Auckland. Very minor.....
London: Dean & Son, [1855]. With 22 hand-colored engravings of children at play. First and last leaves pasted down to insides of wrappers, as issued. Some toning to wrappers. Small piece missing from rear wrapper, just slightly touching the text of the ad. Some toning and dust-soiling throughout, as well.....
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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.....
Phoenix: D'Ambrosio, 1995. One of fifty copies. Decorative borders and initial letters, flag vignettes in blue and red. Designed and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio using computer typesetting and a combination of laser and letterpress printing. A fine copy. Quarter dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spine leather cut-out to.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. First edition. Rubbing to corners and cracking to joints. Publisher’s stamp on front free endpaper and title-page. Pencil signature dated 1891 on front free endpaper and a bit of light pencil marginalia on a few pages. A bit of foxing and toning but.....
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.....
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.....
[ 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.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [n.d., 1874]. First edition. Spine reinforced with archival tape. A bit of creasing to wrappers and throughout and a bit of light toning, but overall a very good copy of a fragile item. Original stiff paper wrappers printed in color with title and illustration. 10.75 inches.....
[Seattle:]: Holburne Press, [2004]. One of fifty copies designed and letterpress printed by Margery S. Hellman at the Holburne Press. Bonnie Thompson Norman, proprietor of Windowpane Press, assisted. The colophon also credits the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design for guidance on embroidery styles. Double-page title and colophon printed in.....
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.....
London: F. Fayram, 1730. First edition. A very good copy. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, Twelvemo. [2], 202 pp. Charles Lamotte (1681?-1741) is known almost solely for the present work; he receives no mention in the D.N.B. There is, however, a substantial entry on him in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century.....
[ Chicago: Powers, Fowler & Lewis, 1896.]. Includes the explanatory books Pen Pictures from Genesis to Revelations (64 pp.) and Bible Study in Topical Form (63 pp.), plus color maps (4 pp.) of Palestine. [With:]. The Royal Scroll. [Chicago: Powers, Higley & Co., 1902.] Folio case, 17 x 16 x......
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. One of 200 copies bound in cloth and with the Eric Carle decorative endpapers. Also signed on the colophon by Chris Loker. A special edition of 50 was also produced. With half-title, title-page, and page headings throughout printed in in.....
