1418. Vanity Fair: March 14, 1874, and February 1, 1879. Four leaves 10 1/4 x 15”, two color lithograph portraits, and three pages of text. Plates are bright with some creases and minor chips to edges, pages with text are chipped and stained with old pieces of tape still affixed;..... More
1890. Richmond: c.1890. Oblong 8vo. 3 chromolithographic albums in 1, with a total of 18 bright, colorful pages of cigarette cards but without four full-page prints mentioned in other sets. § A wonderful collection of colorful cigarette cards produced for the Duke Co. The images are too good to be..... More
1804. Birmingham: by the Author, 1804. 12mo, xi, [i] 184 pp. Engraved portrait, with the half-title. Occasional spotting; expertly rebacked; still an attractive, untrimmed copy in the original drab boards. § First edition of this collection of provincial verse by John Collins (1742-1808), the actor, poet and sometime bookseller who..... More
1763. Paris (1763). 3 pages of descriptive text & 37 loose plates with their accompanying 3 text sheets from the volume of plates. Slight browning to margins, a little spotting otherwise very good. § The 33 plates and descriptive text for the entry of Lutherie from volume V of plates..... More
1931. Luxembourg: Privately Printed, n.d. [but Paris: Guibal? c.1931]. 4to, 214 pp. With 53 color pochoir illustrations. Original printed wrappers, binding cracked and shaken but just holding, wrappers unevenly sunned, internally fine. § Privately published in an unknown edition. Worldcat lists copies only at Yale and the Bibliothèque nationale de..... More
1825. Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, [c. 1825 or earlier]. 64mo, (3 x 2 ins, 7 x 5 cms). With an engraved frontispiece and facing engraved title-page, [2] letterpress title verso blank, [3]-254pp. text. Original pink wrappers, printed label, worn, gently restored and enclosed in a box. § A...... More
1980. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1980. 8vo, xii , 114 pp.Very good in original blue cloth and Illustrated dust-jacket. § Bentley, BBS, p 469. In another study, Fairchild made a connection between George Lucas, Blake, and the films THX and American Graffiti. Bentley seems skeptical. More
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1798. London: Printed at the Philanthropic Reform, 1798 [and] 1813. 2 works in one, 8vo, [4], viii, [5]–115, [1] pp., with an engraved frontispiece by William Staden Blake (cut down and mounted); vii, [1], 64; a little spotting in the second work, with inkspots to p. 13; some light foxing..... More
1861. Paris: Choudens, [1861]. 4to. [iv], 248 pp., lithographed piano-vocal score. Contemporary rebacked quarter black morocco, black cloth boards paneled in blind, backstrip lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Corners bumped and frayed, some discoloration to boards, otherwise very good. § Third edition, first issue, title page inscribed by..... More
1805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp, with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Mild offsetting/spotting from plates as usual,but overall a clean and very pleasing copy in calf with neatly repaired gilt spine. § First Edition, with plates 1-3 in first state..... More
1802. London: Strahan for the author, 1802. Large 4to, [3], (iv-xx), [1], 2-112 pp, (pages 61-112 printed music). With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece, drawn by Ibbetson and J. Smith and engraved by Rowlandson, and an uncolored tailpiece. Original leather-backed boards, printed label, all somewhat worn but sound. § First edition..... More
1725. London: Printed for the Autor [sic], 1725. 8vo, [8], lxxxiii, 180, [6] pp. Early quarter calf, marbled boards, title-page mounted and partially cut away with no loss of text, first leaf soiled, spine splitting but cords holding. Large armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Throckmorton. § First and only edition..... More
1654. Venetiis: Apud Guerilios, M.DC.LIV. [Printed in Venice by Guerilios, 1654]. Folio, frontis, [38], 487, lxxxix, [3] pp. Frontispiece after Van Dyck, engraved title vignette and five full page engraved plates by De Loisy. Printed in red and black throughout with numerous ornamented initials. Music notation on 4-line staves in..... More
1601. London: Wm. Hawes, 1601 [1814]. Folio, engraved title page, 14, [ii, subscriber list], [i, index], and 243 pp. of engraved sheet music. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, and red morocco labels to backstrip stamped with date and title in gilt. Boards are rubbed and faded, joints are cracked, poor..... More
1919. London: Constable, [1919]. 4to, color frontis. and 15 color plates mounted on stiff gray paper with tissue guards; additional text illustrations & pictorial endpapers by Arthur Rackham. Original quarter vellum and beige boards lettered in gilt, very lightly worn and toned, slipcase, a very good copy. § Signed limited..... More
1802. Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver & Co., 1802. 16mo, 131 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 6 plates hand colored. Printed music throughout. Contemporary straight-grained morocco, paneled in gilt, backstrip gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked. Light scuffs to the lower board, small smudge on title page, a very good..... More
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1922. [Munich: Bremer Press, 1922]. Slim 4to, [16]pp. plus blanks at front and back. Text in Greek. Original blue boards, printed label on upper cover, a very good copy. § Edition limited to 500 copies in all, printed entirely in Greek in a gorgeous Greek typeface on handmade paper. A...... More
1880. London, New York etc.: various publishers, n.d. 6 items, disbound, each with lithographic title page/cover sheet, in color. Occasional foxing and browning. Several items are cropped, apparently at the time of binding, affecting title page but not music. § A collection six of 19th century songs, including marches, polkas..... More
1865. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Square 8vo, xxxiv, 240 pp. Original brown cloth, backstrip lettered & ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind. Frontispiece & title-page vignette engraved on wood by C. H. Jeens after sketches by Joseph James Jacques Tissot; eight additional wood-engraved plates. Rubbed along..... More
1885. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., (and NY, Ditson; Phila., Ditson; and Chicago, Lyon and Healy), 1885. Slim roy. 8vo, x, 102 pp. Printed music in the text throughout. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover, a very good copy neatly restored. Interesting association (see below). §..... More
