1885. Paris: Gruel et Engelmann, n.d. [c.1885]. Small square 8vo, (2), 176, (13) pp. mounted on guards. Chromolithographed text and richly decorative borders heightened with gold, plus three full-page plates. Finely bound by Fonteney in full crushed green morocco, backstrip with five raised bands and blind-stamped title ("Heures"), gilt dentelles..... More
1877. [San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets; this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in..... More
1820. London: Taylor, 1820 (but later?). Folio, 16 x 12 1/2 inches (32 x 41 cm.). (2) pp., 16 text leaves, plus 26 colored aquatints. Later green limp wrappers, internally in good condition. Plates without discernible watermarks. Bookplate of William Ingraham Kip. § First edition (reprinted in 1844). Copy owned..... More
1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Single offset color print, 4 x 6 inches, tipped to original page with printed border, tipping glue beginning to fail, else fine. § A single illustration by Edmund Dulac from My Days with the Fairies (1913). Dulac was born in Toulouse, France in 1882..... More
1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Single offset color print, 4 x 6 inches, tipped to original page with printed border, tipping glue beginning to fail and discolor, else fine. § A single illustration by Edmund Dulac from My Days with the Fairies (1913). Dulac was born in Toulouse, France..... More
1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Single offset color print, 4 x 6 inches, tipped to original page with printed border, tipping glue beginning to fail, else fine. § A single illustration by Edmund Dulac from My Days with the Fairies (1913). Dulac was born in Toulouse, France in 1882..... More
1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Single offset color print, 4 x 6 inches, tipped to original page with printed border, tipping glue beginning to fail, else fine. § A single illustration by Edmund Dulac from My Days with the Fairies (1913). Dulac was born in Toulouse, France in 1882..... More
1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Single offset color print, 4 x 6 inches, tipped to original page with printed border, tipping glue beginning to fail, else fine. § A single illustration by Edmund Dulac from My Days with the Fairies (1913). Dulac was born in Toulouse, France in 1882..... More
1920. London: William Heineman, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920. 4to, 110 pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Color silhouette vignette title page, color frontispiece plate mounted within a black-and-white pictorial border, 3 double page and 2 single-page silhouette drawings with color, and 6 double-page and..... More
1924. 1924. Five offset color prints, 7 x 9.5 inches, nicely matted in different, complementary colors. Small abrasion to the mat only of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, else a fine set, perfect for framing. § Five plates from Mother Goose (1924) illustrated by Charles Buckles Falls. The five rhymes illustrated..... More
1940. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Sm. folio, 245, [246, colophon] pp. Sixteen color plates mounted within dark green borders, with captions, on heavy paper. Original patterned boards backed in gilt lettered beige buckram, top edge gilt others uncut; one corner bumped otherwise a fine, clean, unopened copy in..... More
1817. Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817. Sm. 8vo, xii, 166 pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt, backstrip richly gilt, marbled edges, signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text, perhaps by Cotes..... More
1907. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, 1907. Small 4to., 30 leaves printed to recto only, printed in red, blue and black, 13 hand-colored plates with captioned tissue guards, including illustrated half-title. Full vellum, stamped in gilt and black, deckled edges. A very good copy with only..... More
1776. Nuremberg: Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1776. 4to, civ, 152 pp. With an allegorical engraved title page, a folding plate showing the gardens at Wurzbourg, 8 plates of apricots, 8 plates of almonds, and 17 plates of prunes, all beautifully hand-colored as issued. Old diaper calf, backstrip with two red lettering..... More
1878. Stuttgart: W. Nitzschke, [1878]. 4to, pictorial chromolithographed thick leaves comprising 26 plates of images. Original boards, modern cloth backstrip. Boards lightly soiled and edges worn, ink marks on the plain lower board, hinges reinforced, pages with a few marks and two old tape repairs. A very good copy of..... More
2003. London: Folio Society, 2003. Folio, xxiv, 304 pp. 12 full color illustrations by Blake, including frontispiece. Quarter green goatskin, gilt lettered backstrip, orange moire silk boards, full color illustrated slipcase. Faint scuffing to slipcase else fine, new as issued. § A very handsome presentation of Milton's great epic with..... More
1932. London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. 8vo, 48 pp. With 4 color plates and 15 black and white illustrations. Original full limp vellum, titles and decoration to upper board gilt, top edge gilt. Half title and title page lightly foxed, slight discoloration to vellum as usual, small repaired..... More
1928. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, MCMXXVIII (1928). Folio, 16 pp., 16 leaves of color plates, some fold-out, with caption printed paper guards, and colophon. Full black cloth with title printed in gilt to backstrip, edges untrimmed. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, some scattered fingerprints..... More
