1931. Newton: Gregynog Press, 1931. Folio, [8], 146, [1, colophon]pp. With woodcuts throughout by Parker. Original tan calf, backstrip lettered in black, slipcase, slight scraping to lower edge from slipcase. Internally as new. § Number 33 of an edition of 250 copies. Agnes Miller Parker was one of the greatest..... More
1972. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1972. Large 4to, unpaginated, with 3 full-page plates. Quarter cloth with wooden boards, cloth slipcase. Fine as issued. § Printed in an edition limited to 130 copies. The three full-page color etchings, one for each of the three acts, are by French artist Michele Forgeois..... More
1858. [Ashby de la Zouch: 1858] 4to, viii, 11pp. With a frontispiece and 54 lithographic plates. Original illustrated boards, red cloth backstrip, a bit worn and dusty but very good. § The object of the Anastatic Society was to delineate remains of antiquities, such as ancient buildings, sepulchral monuments, fonts..... More
1911. New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. 4to, 250 pp., 28 mounted color plates. Publisher's full gray cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Decorated endpapers, slightly toned, a few small spots to the cloth, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1913, a very good copy..... More
1975. San Francisco: Valenti Angelo, 1975. Small thin 4to, [16] pp., with 7 hand-colored decorations by Angelo. Original wrappers, as new. § Limited to 100 copies signed by Angelo. More
1976. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo..... More
1850. [France]: Adrien Maeght, [ca. 1850]. Oblong 8vo, 15 color lithographs. Original blue cloth boards with gilt floral design surrounding title all set inside a gray cloth label affixed to upper board. Slight bowing to upper board. A very good copy. § First edition. La Flotte de Jours translates as..... More
1948. Great Britain, John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo, 122 pages. Fifteen black and white plates by Michael Ayrton. Original blue cloth with black plate and gold lettering on the spine. Slight tearing on upper jacket spine, and pages somewhat loose, fair condition. § First edition. Rigby Graham, Romantic Book Illustration..... More
1867. New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. Folio, (17 x 12 7/8 inches). Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and 15 hand-colored lithographed plates, all colored by Badger. Publisher's full black morocco, upper cover with broad floral gilt borders and gilt lettered title, rear cover with floral border in blind, hinges carefully..... More
1905. New York: John Lane, 1905. Large 4to, 367, xcvipp. With hundreds of illustrations in the text including several in color and on separate leaves. Original olive green cloth lettered in green, backstrip faded to brown. § A scarce and massive compilation of art of the period including crafts. Baldry..... More
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
1898. London: J.M. Dent, 1898. 8vo, xxiv, 638 pp. with 12 tissue-guarded color plates, 90 b/w full-page and text illustrations, and green pictorial endpapers all by Rackham. Original gilt pictorial green cloth, gilt top, dust-jacket, a very good copy in a worn dust-jacket. § First trade edition. More
1972. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Small folio, (60) pp. Illustrated title page and color illustrations throughout. Pictorial boards, slightly worn, ink inscription on front free endpaper “Nina from Channing Xmas 1972”. Signed by Leonard Baskin at the front. § First edition, signed by the artist. Leonard Baskin’s first..... More
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1952. London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More
8518. London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847-8. Two vols, 8vo., xii, [1]-320; xii, [1]-304 pp., title-page printed in black and red, ten hand-colored etchings and 120 woodcuts to each volume, including frontispieces. Contemporary half dark-blue calf ruled in blind, marbled paper boards, backstrip lettered and ruled..... More
1884. London: Published by S. Grosvenor, 324, Upper Street, Islington, MDCCCLXXXIV [1884]. Small 4to, (12), (1)-68, (6) pp. Original half cloth and blue paper wrapped boards, edges uncut, considerable wear to boards and backstrip, endpapers toned, occasional foxing throughout, but pages generally bright and with good impressions of the woodcuts..... More
1796. London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller, 1796. Frontispiece only, 8 x 6.5 in. Trimmed to the image so losing the text below, but retaining the imprint at the foot “Blake inv. Perry sc.” One or two light spots of foxing, generally very good. § Frontispiece only. Blake’s illustrations..... More
1935. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Large 4to, text, illustrations including 63 color facsimile plates, in six fascicles in original wrappers with labels, enclosed in a blue cloth box worn. § A magnificent production, showing for the first time the three colored sets done by Blake and the drawings..... More
1927. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to, xvi, [164] pp., 82 plates. Original half linen, tan boards, bowed and slightly soiled but very good. § Limited to 1550 copies, this being number 608. The essential work on the subject, beautifully produced by the Nonesuch Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 409. More
1956. Northampton, Mass.: Gehenna Press, 1956. Small 4to, [11 inc. the first blank]pp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers, very good. § “Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard..... More
1963. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, without dust jacket, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley, Blake Books..... More
1963. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, dust jacket worn and with tears and nicks, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this..... More
1813. London: Bensley for Ackermann, 1813 [i.e. 1870]. 4to, (2), liv, 42 pp. With a portrait frontispiece, etched title, and 11 plates all with tissue guards. Blind-stamped black cloth, rebacked with black cloth lettered in gilt,. § Third quarto edition, printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but..... More
1808. London: Bensley for Cromek, 1808. 4to, xiv, 36, (4) pp. With a portrait frontispiece after Phillips, etched title page, and 11 plates engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti after Blake’s designs. Original drab gray boards, printed paper label on upper cover, preserved in a red cloth box (worn). The finest copy..... More
