1806. undated. Original watercolor with graphite, pen and ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, 10 x 13 1/2 ins. Not titled, signed or dated. Mounted on paper with a painted frame, dealer's notes in pencil on the back; matted. § An attractive watercolor sketch by Rowlandson of skiffs..... More
1806. 1806. Original watercolor with graphite, pen and ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 ins. Titled, signed, and dated 1806 in ink. Mounted on paper with a painted frame, dealer's notes in pencil on the back; matted. § A lively comic street scene by Rowlandson;..... More
1928. London: MacMillan and Co., 1928. 8vo, vi, 110, 2 pp. Original gilt-stamped green cloth, with dust jacket, decorations designed by Sturge Moore. A remarkably fine copy, cloth and gilt bright and beautiful in remnants of the original glassine, pages unmarked, small name in ink at the top of front..... More
1840. London: Richard Bentley, 1840. 8vo, xvi, 439 pp. With A.L.S. laid in. 40 steel engravings and 58 woodcuts by Cruikshank. Full polished calf by Riviere, covers ruled in gilt, backstrip richly gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, navy blue coated endpapers. A very good copy, backstrip a little worn..... More
1822. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. 8vo in 4s, (iv), 267, (1, directions to the binder) pp. With 24 handcolored aquatints by Rowlandson. Pages 257-264 misnumbered 249-256. Crushed red morocco extra by Riviere for Sotheran's. A near fine copy, with occasional toning and some offsetting of the plates. Bookplate of Philander..... More
1813. London: R. Ackermann, 1813. 8vo in 4s, [4], xv, [1, blank], 215, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispiece). Full crushed red morocco by Riviere, covers gilt-ruled, backstrip with five raised bands paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints lightly worn, some..... More
1808. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1808. 12mo, [7], 160 pp., 5 hand-colored plates including a folding frontispiece. Scarlet straight-grain morocco of the period, gilt edges. Frontispiece with a tear in one of the folds with slight loss, plates and text printed on poor paper and thus quite browned throughout..... More
2015. The Grolier Club, 2015. 4to (11 x 8.25 inches), 318 [1] pp. numerous color illustrations. Hightower and Koch Antiquarian types. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Stiff paper wraps, illustrated in full color on upper cover. § Detailed descriptions of one hundred famous children’s books and related items on..... More
1969. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1969. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 648 [649]; xxii, 361 pp. Frontispieces, one double-page, and 10 plates. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. § Lithographic reprint of the 1924 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 309 C: “The fresh transcriptions and bibliographical notes are of value..... More
1725. London: Printed for the Autor [sic], 1725. 8vo, [8], lxxxiii, 180, [6] p. 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
1991. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1991. 8vo, 79, [3]pp. Illustrated, and with 12 original 5 x 8 " marbled paper samples. As new. § First Edition, No. 185 of 250 copies. The first book on the technique of Spanish Marbling which purportedly was invented when a workman in..... More
1814. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear, and Eichbaum, 1814. 8vo, 304pp. Contemporary marbled calf, backstrip plain, upper cover cleanly detached, otherwise very good as issued with the signature in ink at the front of Amos Ellmaker. In a modern quarter brown morocco case. § First edition. Brackenridge left St. Charles, Missouri, in..... More
1738. London: Printed for T. Osborne..., 1738. 8vo, [ii], vii [xii, contents], 402 pp. Contemporary calf, backstrip consolidated and upper hinge with slight splitting but quite firm, a good sound copy. § First edition of the first Library Manual in English and one of the earliest (if not the earliest)..... More
2020. London: Golborne Editions, 2019 [2020]. Large 4to, 13 x 14 1/2 inches, 13 b/w photographs and 13 wood-engravings interleaved with printed text by Schneideman and Shanilec. Grey half morocco with covers by Schneideman and Shanilec, in a yellow cloth slipcase. New. § Limited to 55 copies for sale. This..... More
1789. London: J. Johnson, 1789. Small 8vo, viii, 224 pages. With a frontispiece engraved by Blake after Fuseli. Contemporary calf, red morocco label, a little rubbed along the upper joint, generally a very good copy. Neat ink inscription on a front blank and ink signature of the period on the..... More
1940. [London: Sessler printing, c.1940's]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., an excellent impression, in deep, rich black ink on wove paper, watermarked FRANCE, lower right, watermark partially trimmed; recently cleaned. § Final state, lacking the drypoint inscriptions added in the fourth state. it is worth noting that the..... More
1933. London: William Heinemann, 1933. 8vo, lxxii, 469 pp. With 12 plates after the original engravings by Gooden. Full polished brown calf, ruled in gilt, gilt-panelled backstrip with black label. All edges gilt. A beautiful copy, bound by Bayntun Riviere. § First trade edition, also issued in a limited edition..... More
1853. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1853. 19 parts (20 numbers) in 2 vols. Vol. 1: 8vo, xiv, 624 pp. with the full text, 40 plates etched by "Phiz", including the engraved title, plus the original wrappers and some ads bound in. Full green morocco gilt with pink silk doublures, t.e.g...... More
1778. London: James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. And sold also by S. Leacroft, Charing Cross; T. Mills, Bristol; and E. Score, Exeter, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]. 4to, [2], lvii, [3], 412 pp. Early calf, modern rebacking, red morocco label, old ink signature on title, ink signature on front free endpaper "Susanna..... More
1825. London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves (2, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18) watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards, fleurons at the..... More
1731. Ausburg and Ulm: Gedruckt bey C.U. Wagner, 1731-5. Folio (393 x 245 mm), 5 vols.: [48], 276; [8], 276-672; [8], 572; 573-1140; 1141-1426, [79] pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author facing an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 762 other engraved plates after drawings by Johann Melchior Füssli, rainbow..... More
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1751. Amsterdam: Officina Dommeriana, 1751. 2 vols., [vi], 966, [2]; 896, (list of codices) 1-26 in reverse order, 897-920 pp. (final 1 1/2 pp. are errata). With an engraved vignette on the title-pages, and an engraved alphabet leaf at p.2; a little browned and dusty here and there. Contemporary red..... 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
1625. London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, and Richard Whitaker, 1625. Sm. 4to, [12], 340 pp. 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
