Paris: [Chez Gruel et Engelmann], 1882. First edition, printed by Engelmann, who is credited with bringing lithography to France and, later, commercializing chromolithography. Eight chromolithographic plates of text heightened in gold, including frontispiece. Each page contains historiated initials and text within engraved borders, many inhabited with fantastical creatures, insects, flowers.....
[London: ]: Susan Allix, [2001]. One of fifteen regular copies out of a total edition of twenty-five copies. Of the twenty-five copies, Copy Number 1 had paintings, copies 2-15 had original etchings based on the paintings, and copies xvi to xxv had reproductions made from the etchings or paintings. This.....
[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.....
[Washington, D.C. January 1872. First edition. Some chipping to edges of leaves. Document tape at fore-edge of one leaf. A very good copy of a scarce women’s suffrage item. Modern blue paper wrappers with added modern endpapers. 5 in. by 9in. With caption title as issued. The present report, written.....
[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.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. This book has two issues, determined by the ads at the end of the book. Since the ads for this copy were removed in rebinding, the issue is indeterminate. Binding extremities rubbed, bookplate. A very good, clean copy. Full early twentieth century.....
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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.....
Sancasciano Val di Pesa: Tipografico Fratelli Stianti, 1930. One of 300 copies. Wrappers slightly toned and soiled. Unopened with untrimmed edges. Light intermittent foxing throughout and a bit of foxing to edges but bright overall. Includes the pamphlet La Prima Stampa del Codice Caetani Della ‘Divina Commedia’ a Cura di.....
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.....
London: Richard Griffin and Company, Publishers to the University of Glasgow, [1855]. First edition. A very good copy. Later marbled boards with printed paper spine label. Quarto. [12], vii, [1], 34, [2], 152, [2], 44, iii, [1], [2] , ix, [1], [2], [140] pp. George Edmonds (1788-1868) was an English.....
London: J. Nourse, 1769. First edition. With sixteen folding engraved plates (plate 11 misbound). Complete with the errata leaf and publisher’s advertisements. Joints, cornerslightly worn. A very good copy. Contemporary English diced Russia, gilt leaf border, gilt flat spine, tooled in compartments, all edges gilt. English Royal Arms of the.....
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.....
[n.p.:]: The compiler, 1922. First edition, limited to 265 copies. Minor soiling to spine. Near fine in very good slipcase.Slipcase has some staining. Clothbacked boards, printed paper spine label. Quarto. [192] pp.
London: John Murray, 1849. First Milman/Jones edition. Eight chromolithographed pages by Owen Jones, each with a tissue guard; hundreds of woodcuts (statues, bas-reliefs, coins, gems, people, etc.) by George Scharf, Jun.; initial letters. Title page printed in black and red. A bit of wear to joints, but sound. Small stains.....
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.....
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Springfield, Mass: The King-Richardson Co., 1901. With a frontispiece of Martha Washington and 40 full-page illustrations of some of the notable women described in the work. Also with color borders around most illustrations and accent color backgrounds on front matter. Rubbing to leather and some chipping to head and tail.....
Oxford: Printed at the Theatre; for James Fletcher and Joseph Potte, 1745-4. The greatly revised second edition of the works of John Leland first published in 1710. With a large, folding copper-engraved plate in Volume VIII. Engrqaved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on title-page of Volume I. Spines a bit.....
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.....
