1932. Leipzig: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. 4to, 237 pp. Quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slight fading to top edge of upper board, lacking slipcase, internally fine. § Copy #757 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Weiss, the German artist, typographer and book designer of the interwar period... More
1961. London: Heinemann, 1961. 8vo, xxx, 144 pp, with a colored frontispiece. An ex-library volume in original black boards, with accession number and small stampt to title, and loan return details slip and card pocket tipped inside rear cover. With a small accession number slip remnant to base of spine..... More
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1952. London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More
V.p., v.d. -Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good. -Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very..... More
1920. [London]: R.A. Walker, 34 Oakley Crescent S.W., 1920. 4to, 7 pp., frontispiece. Original printed wrappers as issued. Unopened. Bookplate of Nina Ranger Herzog. § Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed in purple ink by the author. Derry describes, page by page, the contents of a scrapbook containing sketches..... More
1831. London: William Pickering, 1831. 8vo., lxviii, 239 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled..... More
1833. Plattsburgh [NY]: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to (218 x 135 mm), 280 pp., three wood-engraved figures in text. Original tan paper-covered boards, linen backstrip, printed paper label, quarter brown morocco slipcase, a very good copy of a fragile book. § First edition, first issue, of what has been termed the..... More
1956. London: Faber & Faber, n.d. [1956]. 8vo, 94 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red, price-clipped dust-jacket. A near fine copy with a little toning to the pastedowns. Small Foyles Bookshop label on front pastedown. Publisher's note tipped in. Dust-jacket near fine with light rubbing and a touch of..... More
1913. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1913. Sm. 8vo, 74 pp. Printed on thick paper. Later binding of half polished red calf with red cloth boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Calf lightly rubbed and worn; internally very good. Signed by the author on front pastedown. § Second edition..... More
1941. San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. § Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route..... More
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Kay Easson’s copy, signed and with her annotations and underlinings. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More
1900. Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some..... More
1843. London: Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 vols., 8vo, xxxviii, (1, fly-title), 387, 16 (ads); vi, (1, ills.) 474pp. With two folding maps and a larger world chart in pocket of the binding, as issued; frontispiece in each volume and 17 other engraved plates, and 20 engraved vignettes in the text;..... More
1944. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. 8vo,191 pp. Original green cloth, lettered in brown on backstrip and with publisher’s device on upper cover, cloth faded in places, internally very clean. Original clipped dust-jacket, faded in places and with some wear to the top edge. Very good. § First Edition..... More
1975. New York: Viking Press, [1975]. 8vo, (7), 487pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, tiny stain on backtrip, edges just browned. § Advance reading copy with insert from the publisher. Signed by Bellow, who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The..... More
1557. Venice: Andrea Arrivabene, 1557. 12mo, (60), 259, [260, colophon with woodcut]pp. Original stiff vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, small split along label, very early ink inscriptions on title and verso (faded) and a modern one at the end. § A pretty little edition of this immensely popular book, a...... More
1940. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. 12mo, (iv), 8 pp. One copy in original wraps, near fine with a little toning, signed by Benét on the half title. One copy in original boards, boards toned, backstrip worn and dampstained. § Both formats of the first edition of..... More
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips..... More
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2..... More
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More
1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. 8vo, xix, 393pp, with illustrations. Very good in original dust-jacket, worn at edges. § First edition. The Bible until Bentley’s BB and Essick’s various books came along. Bentley, BB, 686. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. § One of 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the PML; this catalogue was written by G.E. Bentley with an introduction by Charles..... More
1964. New York: The New York Public Library, 1964. 8vo, 63pp, extensively illustrated throughout. Near Fine in original wrappers. § The only significant study of the subject. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. One of 1500 copies, with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp. § Limited to 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the Morgan Library; this..... More
