1907. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Large 4to, xix, 549 pp. with 24 color plates, 12 other plates and 66 illustrations, the plate at 254 is badly offset from the text as always (in every copy we’ve seen or read about). Full crushed blue morocco extra, covers gilt..... More
1968. London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as..... More
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1958. London: Trianon Press, 1958. 4to, 27 plates, 5pp text, plus the extra materials. Full red morocco, slipcase, very good. § Limited to 526 copies of which this is copy X of XX with a suite of progressive states of one plate, an original guide-sheet and stencil etc. The..... More
1936. London: George Harrap, 1936. Small 4to, 313, [i] pp. 12 full page engravings with numerous smaller engravings decorating the first letter of each fable. Original stiff vellum, gilt titles to backstrip, gilt rule to covers, with small pictorial decorations to corners and center, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others..... More
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1835. London: Ackermann, Weale, and Dolman, 1835-1851. 7 vols. in 2, large 4to, bound in full green and full red morocco, very richly stamped in gold and with onlays in green on the red volume, and the green volume with the Order of the Garter device on both covers; boards..... More
1869. 1869. Small folio (12.75 x 7 inches), 1 p., written in ink on blue paper. In fine condition. § This manuscript was written to accompany the four paintings by Burne-Jones entitled “The Seasons” (1869), as illustrated in Christopher Wood’s Burne-Jones, 1998, pp. 70-71; that was the title under which..... More
1935. London: George C. Harrap, [1935]. 4to, 318 pp. With 12 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham and text illustrations in black and white. Original publisher's gilt pictorial vellum, gilt top. A fine copy. § Edition de luxe, limited to 460 copies, signed by Rackham. Surely the best illustrated edition..... More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
1900. New York: Russell, 1900. 4to, x, 190 pp. Color frontispiece and 15 two-color plates within the pagination. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a really good copy of a book rarely found in even adequate condition. In a new box. § First edition, in the first state binding with..... More
[New York]: New Directions [1948]., 8vo, 220pp. Original 1/4 red cloth over blue and white paper boards, spine stamped gilt, top edge stained red. Very good. Dark blue publisher's slipcase, repaired with tape. § First edition, limited issue (50 signed copies, and 1500 as this copy). Contains 11 short stories..... More
[New York] New Directions [1954]., 8vo, 220pp. Original 1/2 yellow cloth over green/white striped boards, spine stamped gilt and dark blue, top edge stained dark blue. Very good. Dark blue publisher's slipcase, backstrip repaired with tape. § First edition, limited issue. Contains 9 short stories (including the earlier version of..... More
1830. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. Sm. 8vo, (4), 154, (36, ads.)pp. Original drab gray boards, dark green backstrip with label (partly perished and joints split but holding, front blank missing. A bit worn but a respectable copy in a green morocco pull-off box, backstrip faded to brown. Lucius Wilmerding bookplate..... More
1913. New York: Brentano's, 1913. Sm. thick 8vo, xxxiv, 353 pp. Full brown crushed morocco extra, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top. A fine copy nicely bound. § A good edition of Wilde's poems, complete with 'Ravenna' at the end. More
1822. London: William Pickering, 1822. 2 vols., 24mo., pp. [iv], 199, [i]; [iii], 204-405, [iii], + portrait frontispiece and additional engraved frontispiece, including single-leaf publisher's catalogue at rear. Some toning to frontis, additional title-page and title-page but otherwise clean.Contemporary dark green morocco with gilt spine, borders and dentelles, a.e.g., marbled..... More
1975. London and New York: Oxford University Press, c. 1975. 6 vols. sm. 8vo, each volume issued in facsimile of the first edition with additional material including the illustrations, commentary, etc. Original blue cloth, dsut-jackets, as new. § An excellent six volume set of the works of Jane Austen. The..... More
1647-1652. London: Humphrey Robinson... and for Humphrey Moseley, 1647-1652. Large thick folio, portrait frontispiece (second state), title-page, [25ff], pp. 1-75, 1-143, 1-165, [166-168 v. blank], 1-71, 1-172, 1092, 1-"50" [i.e. 52], 1-48, [8], 1-56 (Wild-Goose Chase). Full dark brown pebbled morocco extra, covers panelled in gilt, backstrip gilt and gilt-lettered..... More
1894. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894. Small 4to, [xiv], 154, [1] pp. Original salmon buckram, covers with gilt-stamped decorations, gilt top, backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt, some browning throughout as usual, binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition (though there were 15 copies printed..... More
1899. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8vo, 213, (1, imprint)pp. Original salmon cloth stamped in gold, backstrip dull, internally very good. Wilmerding bookpate upside down in back. § First edition, one of 1000 copies. “Although Wilde's third play opened in 1895, it was not published until four years later and after..... More
San Francisco: N.A. Wolcott, 1894. Sm. 8vo, 148pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. § A scarce City directory of which 7500 copies were printed according to a notice in the back. More
1844. London: William Strange, 21 Paternoster Row, 1844. 8vo, (iv), 174 pp., frontispiece, engraved title and 11 engraved plates all colored at the time. Full polished calf, gilt-panelled backstrip, red label, rebacked. § First edition, a good copy of a book usually found uncolored and with the plates heavily foxed..... More
1805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp, with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Overall a clean and very pleasing copy in contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip and red label. Bookplate of Benjamin Dickinson, ink signature of J.W. Dickinson dated..... More
1769. London: Printed for F. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard, MDCCLXIX. [1769]. 2 vols. in 1, 12mo: [2, t-p], 214; [2, t-p], 224 pp. with 4 leaves supplied in facsimile. Recent half calf with marbled boards, gilt ruled backstrip with red morocco label. Occasional browning and spotting..... More
1880. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated..... More
1882. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1882. Sm. 8vo, viii, 453, [3] pp. Last leaf a 2 page publisher advert, dated 1882. With a frontispiece and 10 plates. Original dark brown cloth, backstrip faded. § First edition. Author's signature pasted to front pastedown. Original Bank of California..... More
1681. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, and to be sold by Peter Parker at the Leg and Star, over against the exchange in Cornhil, London, 1681. Large folio, [404] p. A *a-*d A-3A 3B-3C . Printed in two columns, roman. Title-page ruled in red. Decorative printed initials throughout. Original red..... More
