London: Printed by HP for Charles Rivington, 1726. Third edition, largely unchanged from the first, of a cookbook containing followable recipes for “amulets,” “bullock’s cheek,” “ragoo,” “soop,” “pear-pye,” “biskets,” and many more savory dishes and pastries. It also includes recipes for candy, jellies, beer, mead, and ciders. Engraved frontispiece. Title-page.....
London: 1731. First edition. Woodcut folding frontispiece of Anne Oldfield after portraits by Godfrey Kneller and J. Richardson; woodcut headpieces, vignettes, and initial letters. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight wear to corners. Very minor spotting to boards. Front joint starting to crack, but sound. Intermittent slight foxing. A near.....
[Alhambra, California:]: Ophelia Press, 2017. The decorations, which include slithering serpents and a blood-stained river, are handcut from Tengucho and Yatsuo kozo papers made in Kochi and Toyama Prefectures, Japan. The Fuschia and plum-colored papers, which are interspersed throughout, were handmade in Nepal from the lotka plant. The poems are.....
[Flansham, Bognor Regis: The Pear Tree Press, 1937]. Number 17 of a purported 100 copies. OCLC notes seven copies only worldwide: Columbia, Stanford, Boston Atheneum, Trinithy College Dublin, Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. 8 bifoliate leaves, printed on recotos only, comprising the half-title, frontispiece, title.....
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1914-1930. First edition. With 190 portraits and other plates, several in color. Five folding genealogical tables in a pocket at the back of Volume I. Two charts in rear pocket of Volume IIIA. Spine of Volume I lightly faded. Bottom corners bumped in Volume I......
[Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at Laguna Verde Imprenta by the author, 1989]. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by Paul Landacre, fifteen of them in black & white, one printed in red, and one in green. Miniature printed bookplate on front pastedown. A fine.....
[Los Angeles: Printed for the Author by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1934]. One of 150 copies. This copy is signed by Anna Cox Brinton, Estelle Doheny, and Ward Ritchie. Woodcut title-page border, two full-page facsimile illustrations, and one facsimile vignette. Printed on Dard Hunter handmade paper. Slipcase has slight browning.....
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2003. One of ninety copies. Signed by Kitty Maryatt and the seven students who contributed to the project. Color-illustrated on almost every page using a combination of linoleum block printing, ink, pochoir, and colored pencil, along with mounted fabric. Printed on Zerkall Book Laid paper.....
London: Wiliam Pickering, 1843. First edition in book form. Originally published in monthly parts in 1840. With ninety-four chromolithograph plates, decorated in gilt and “hand-colored in the most sumptuous way” (McLean). Also, with wood block-printed text illustrations in color. The plates illustrate paintings, stained glass, jewelry, furniture, vestments, gold cups.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1883. First edition. Frontisportrait in Volume I. Binding extremities rubbed, spines faded, as is usually the case. Front hinge of Volume II and back hinge of Volume I cracking, but sound. Front hinge of Volume I starting to crack, Volume I with two small stab marks to.....
New York: Charles L. Webster. 1889. First American edition, published four days after the London (Chatto & Windus) edition. The Chatto & Windus edition was published as A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. Without the fly-title that is sometimes printed on p. [i]; both forms of the book.....
London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759. First edition in English of the first history of California, which “gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America,” (Hill). The original Spanish edition was published in 1757. With four.....
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998. One of seventy numbered copies, signed by Wagener. Designed and printed on Zerkall paper by Peter Koch and Richard Wagnener. Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red. Fine in.....
London: Printed for Darton and Harvey, 1805. First edition. OCLC records just one copy at the British Library. Domestic Recreation was composed in the then-burgeoning style of “progressive pedagogy based in domestic conversations; mothers often teach their own children, and girls receive as much attention as boys,” (Oxford DNB). It.....
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1860. Spines a bit cocked and darkened, binding extremities lightly rubbed, top edge of the last text leaf of Volume II closely cropped, later endpapers, a little light foxing. Overall a good, clean copy, scarce in original cloth. Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth, gilt spine.....
