Hardcover. We wish we could decipher the artist's name. Caingh? Canigh? Cenigh? Presumably a male, with inscription on last page with 7-line poem to his "dear one, little love." 10 x 9.5 inches, boards with "dust jacket" sewn from pieces of black velvet, blocked cotton, Dutch paisley brocade, satin, linen.....
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1852. Hardcover. 3 volumes, 8vo (9.25 x 5.75 inches), dark red leather gilt spines over red paper covered boards, very good with some wear, rubbing, darkening and stains to bindings, contents very good, largely free of foxing, some of the plates are fold-out. First volume covers.....
New York: The University Society, ND. Judging from some of the contents, we're guessing this was issued concurrently with the 1917 or the 1919 edition of the Young Folks Treasury set, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie and others, usually 12 volumes, and we're making the assumption that these are the.....
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1845. Tall 8vo, bound in full polished light brown calf, raised bands, gilt exta, gilt inner dentelles, bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker, about fine with just a touch of rubbing, contents, 284 pp, with 12 full page.....
London: Bradbury and Evans, ND - Ca. 1850. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1850, large 8vo, bound in half red morocco and red cloth boards by Bayntun and Riviere, raised bands, gilt extra, 320 / 304 pp, illustrated throughout, with 20 plates colored. Very good copy, contents clean, very small bit.....
Munich: Rosl & Cie. 1920. First printing. Hardcover. No. 25 of 40 copies printed on the "best" paper, quarto, bound in full leather, with all 6 etchings signed in pencil by Heubner. Light rubbing and wear to leather, mild straining to inner hinges, contents otherwise very good and bright.12 x......
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Abrams, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, boards in dust jacket, about fine copy, handsome book. 60 pp, illustrated.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, ND (1914). Hardcover. (1914), no. 138 of 500 signed by Thomson, quarto, vellum decorated in gilt, good plus copy, some abrasions and soil to binding, especially lower right of front board, lower spine, minor soil to rear board, lacking tie, contents good to very good, some.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, ND, ca. 1913. Hardcover. Ca. 1913, one of 1000 copies, this one not numbered, signed by Hugh Thomson, quarto, full vellum elaborately gilt decorated, very good, lacking ties, faint darkening to spine, lightest bowing of boards, contents very good, but tanned or toned throughout. Flyer for.....
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1825-1826, 2 volumes, tall 8vo, bound in full dark aubergine morocco gilt with raised bands, handsome gilt decorated spine compartments, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Very good set, with 71 handcolored plates mainly by Robert Cruikshank, 1 uncolored woodcut plate.....
Springfield, MA: P. P. Kellogg & Co., 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear and soil to boards. With terrific assemblage of sample printing including by major printers illustrating interesting short texts. Inscription on flyleaf from 1932. See pics.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1858, very good in full crushed morocco with gilt rules and panels, dark red spine label, xx, 196 (2) pp, half title, frontispiece, illustrations collated complete: 20 etched plates, one woodcut illustration, with original cloth bound in.....
London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas M'Lean, 1819. Hardcover. Published 1819, 2 volumes, 8vo, finely bound by Bayntun in half red morocco gilt with red cloth boards, fine condition, spine color just a touch mellowed, with 12 hand colored aquatint plates. 444 - 494 pp.
Bassani (Bassano) & Venice: Remondini, 1775. Hardcover. 2 volumes, published 1775, large 8vo, vellum, the first volume has 31 pp. text, 127 plates, the second volume has 30 pp. text, 123 plates, for a total of 250 engraved portraits of all the popes up to Pius VI, who was made.....
Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., C. 1881. First printing. Paperback. 7.5 x 6 inches, gray pictorial wraps, good with light wear along spine, inch loss of spine paper at bottom, and 1x2" triangular chip to lower inner corner of rear wrap. Contents very good, 154 pp. Rare both in.....
Evreux, France: H. Dévé, Ca. 1955. First printing. Paperback. No. 450 of 500 copies. 8vo, 8.75 x 7 inches, wraps, good to very good with some tanning to covers, lightest wear. 22 pp of caricatures by various French luminaries, including Cocteau (cover drawing), also Dominique Aubier, Jacues Audiberti, Marcel Aymé.....
New York: George H. Doran, Ca. 1915. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, 10 x 7.5 inches, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear, some foxing to front endpapers, rear inner hinge slightly weak, contents very good, 18 mounted color plates and numerous other in-text or full page illustrations, often tinted.
Barcelona: Agra, 1986. First printing. No. 478 of 500 signed by both and additionally inscribed on inside front cover by Amat. 8.5 x 7 inches, stiff card covers with snap, housing nine folded sheets of texts and woodcuts. Light soil and rubbing to covers, loose sheets fine. Collazos was an.....
London: Printed for B. Blake, ND - 1828? Hardcover. Probably printed 1828 or shortly thereafter, some of the plates were printed by Jaques and Wright, who published this work in 1828. 8vo, full crushed calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, color frontispiece and pictorial colored title page as well as letterpress title.....
London: Jaques & Wright, 1828. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1828, very good, in full calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, colored frontispiece and colored illustrated title page as well as letter press title page, and an additional 13 hand colored plates, 269 pp, light rubbing to edges and joints, but very.....
London: Nattali and Bond, (1855). Hardcover. Ninth edition, no date on title page, but 1855 seems the accepted date. 3 volumes, tall 8vo, finely bond in dark plum morocco, raised bands, gilt titled on spine, leather and gilt turn-ins, all 80 plates present, illustrated and colored title page for vol.....
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1821. Tall 8vo, very good, collated complete with colored frontispiece and 17 plates, in very unusual binding, ca. 1850, of full maroon calf gilt with heavily gilt decorated spine, and large insets of marbled paper on both covers, with double gilt.....
Glasgow: David Bryce. Paperback. No date on title page, 1880s. 8vo, cloth backed stiff card covers, pictorial, with ad for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence on rear cover, 47 pp. Good copy, darkening and soil to front cover, triangular chip to top outer corner of front wrap, contents nice.
London: Published by C.Baldwyn, 1823-1824. Hardcover. Published 1823-1824, tall 8vo, two parts bound together, in somewhat later half leather and marbled boards, good copy with some scuffing and wear to leather, contents shows foxing and the plates are printed on a paper that has turned a deep tan (less so.....
Glasgow: David Bryce, Ca. 1870s. Paperback. 12mo, printed wraps, good with some wear to wraps, front wrap with small area affixed to next page. Funny illustrations.