1744. London: Richard Ware, 1744. Sm. slim 8vo, (8), 146, (2, ads)pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original calf worn but sound. § "30th edition" but a very rare book in all the early printings; this edition not in ESTC or anywhere else. The dedication is dated 1709; ESTC records about a dozen..... More
1929. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. 12mo, xxii , 54, 4pp. With a colored frontispiece and a hand colored initial by Valenti Angelo. Full russet morocco, backstrip slightly faded. § Limited to 425 copies, this one of a very few in the leather binding. In pencil in the colophon it..... More
1736. London: Printed by Ed Cook, 1736. Sm. 8vo, 144pp. With an enagraved frontispiece. Original calf, red morocco label, joints rubbed, chipped at head and foot of backstrip. § DNB notes: John Pomfret was the son of Thomas Pomfret, vicar of Luton, and was educated at Bedford School. His..... More
1903. London: Ballantyne Press [for The Vale Press], 1903. Slim 8vo, li, [1] pp. Full crushed green morocco by G.P. Putnam's Sons at the Knickerbocker Press; gilt-tooled turn-ins, green linen pastedowns, ribbon marker, backstrip with raised bands and title in gilt. Binding worn, joints cracking, internally fine. § One of..... More
1846. New York: Herald Book and Job Office, 97 Nassau Street, 1846. Single sheet, folio, 492 x 628 mm. Printed on recto only, title and three columns of verse surrounded by a highly elaborate border composed of printer's ornaments. Very good with old folds, slightly toned, two 30 mm closed..... More
2019. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), 329 pp. over 200 full-color illustrations. Hand-numbered and signed by the author and by the book designer and typographer Jerry Kelly. Quarter red morocco, decorative paper boards photo-reproduced from hand-painted paper by Eric Carle, titled in..... More
1851. London: Parker, [1851]. Sm. 8vo, (8), 159, [160]pp. Errata slip tipped in at the end. Original green cloth, backstrip faded to brown, ephemera tipped in at front with bookplate and pencil notes; neatly restored with cloth repair to backstrip and joints. Enclosed in a green moiré silk box. §..... More
1764. London: R. Richardson, 1764 [vols. 1 and 2] and G. Robinson, 1773 [vol. 3] and 1781 [vol. 4]. 4 vols. 4to, xxiii, 269, [6], 301, [20]; [iv], 195, [36], 120, 160, 32; [iv], 507, [26], 37; [6], 304, 218, [7] pp. With copper-engraved frontispiece portrait & 25 copper-engraved plates..... More
1763. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. Royal folio, 573 unnumbered leaves. A2, 1, B-13D2, *a-*e2, *f1. English binding of contemporary full blue-green morocco, covers with elaborate gilt border, backstrip richly gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped in gilt "HOLY BIBLE" and at the foot..... More
1670. London: printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. G[riffin]. for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Turks head in Fleetstreet over against Fetter Lane, anno Domini 1671. Thick folio, [12], 17, [1], 192, 187-255, [3], 99, [19], 8, [2], 16, [2]..... More
1648. London: Printed by B. Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman, 1648. Sm slim 4to, (6 of 8, lacks first blank), 103pp. Modern half mottled calf, gitl-lettered label vertical on backstrip. A good copy. § First edition. Gibson 218. Wing B-318. ESTC R17427: "Includes "The characters of a believing Christian in paradoxes..... More
1852. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 vols, 8vo, [iii], vi-x, [1], 13-312; [i-iii], iv, [1], 6-322 pp. With six engraved plates by Hammett Billings (three in each volume).Original publisher’s brown cloth over boards. BAL B binding with vignette on top cover..... More
1915. Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1915. 8vo, (8), 135, [136]pp. Printed in red and black. Original grey cloth-backed boards with printed title on upper cover. Also with the separate portfolio of plates including a picture "Memory Harbour" by Jack Yeats bound to match. § Copy #136 of an edition..... More
1922. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1922. 8vo, frontispiece, (2), vii, (1 blank), 247, (1) pp. Original white and blue boards with paper-label on backstrip (slightly toned), matching blue endpapers and roughtrimmed edges. A very good copy as issued. § First edition, number 213 of 1000 copies signed by the..... More
1879. Truckee, CA: Crowley & McGlashan, 1879. 8vo, 193pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, gilt backstrip, a very fine copy almost as new. Enclosed in a quarter red calf slipcase. § First edition. "McGlashan was born in Wisconsin and was only two years old when his family came to..... More
1625. London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, and Richard Whitaker, 1625. Sm. 4to, [12], 340 p. First leaf is blank. A (a) B-2V 2X . Original vellum, overlapping foredges, signs where the thongs were removed; backstrip lettered in ink. Title page with signature of Thomas Rode dated 1656..... More
1929. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. 8vo, 26, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, red morocco labels to spine, spine lettered in gilt, floral roll to boards gilt, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Very good copy seldom found better. § Copy #178 of 642 copies signed by Yeats..... More
1622. London: Printed by w. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622. Folio, (6, of 8), 1-248pp. Fine engraved portrait of Henry VII by John Payne, title within elaborate woodcut border of columns, strapwork, and scrolling vines, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, text within ruled borders. Contemporary calf, sides..... More
1816. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. 3 vols., sm. 8vo in 12s, (173 x 105 mm), [4], 322, [1, blank]; [4], 351, [352, printer's imprint]; [4], 363, [364, ads.] pp. Very early half calf, rebacked to style, blue/grey boards, tips scuffed. Ink signature in each volume of "Mr. Murray..... More
1737. London: October 19, 1737. Single folio leaf (14.5 x 9.5"), recto, 20 lines in neat, legible secretarial hand, witnessing signatures and statements in various hands in the margins, vertical official strike through the main text, not affecting legibility; verso with signed statement by Godophin "Rec'd the full contents within..... More
1936. [French], 1936-37. Oblong folio, unpaginated, screen-printed wallpaper samples with numbers stamped to verso. Original bolted quarter blue cloth, blue paper boards with title and date stamped in white to upper board and backstrip, leather handle. Edges slightly worn, upper board detached; very good. § A thick wallpaper sample book..... More
Oxford: Scrivener Press, 1950. Large 4to, xvii, 369 pp. Original paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, fine. § The essential work on Bacon. More
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1893. Oxford: Emberlin & Son, n.d. (after 1893). Card stamp case (74 x 97 mm), outer faces color-illustrated, inner faces with with stitched pockets printed with stamp denominations, inserted in an illustrated cloth-lined sleeve [with] 16mo, 38 pp. stitched booklet with a printed upper wrapper. Light edgewear to sleeve, upper..... More
1799. Canada: 1799. 200 x 200 mm, turquoise, tan, rose, and brown thread sewn on An lovely early Canatan cloth. Newly framed. § A lovely early Canadian sampler dated 1799 and signed in the thread by Ann Carrington, noting that she was 10 years old at the time. Her work..... More
1820. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons [between 1818 and ?1824]. 12mo (82 x 140 mm), 16 pp. Original publisher’s wrappers, illustrated with a horse beneath a grove of trees on the front, a ruin on the rear. Upper wrapper lightly soiled with light dime-sized stain and worm hole both..... More
