The Essays of Elia by Elia - 1844

New York: The Lamb Publishing Co. Book. Good +. Hardcover. Edition De Luxe. Two volume set. Books are moderately worn with scuffs, bowing, rub marks, spine fading, etc. An adequate readable set..

London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, : Cassell and Company Limited, 1901. Yellow cloth spine with black lettering over colour illustrated papered boards. Unpaginated, Half title page, double paged title, followed by 40 full page illustrations printed on French-fold uncut pages(Only printed on one side of each double page). each illustration with a panel containig the narrative. 8.4 X11.25 inches.Some spotting to page edges, endpapers and adjacent pages,overall a very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter Crane.

London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1901. Book. Illus. by Walter Crane. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Goldenrod 1/4 cloth, color illus. paper covered boards. Respectably preserved copy shows modest soiling along joints and pastedown edges along joints, with mild surface rubbing, corners a bit rubbed with very slight exposure. Mild foxing to text block fore-edge. Firm binding, a few minor internal soil marks but generally clean interior, with light toning/foxing to flyleaf versos and adjacent pages. 44 pp., bound Japanese-style, with two-color first title and final page, color double second title, 40 color plates. One leaf shows a professional repair to a closed tear..

London: Cassell and Co, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. CRANE (Walter). Folio, original cream cloth spine, pictorial boards, richly illustrated by Walter Crane fore-edge of upper board quite worn

Cassell And Company Limited, 1901. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Walter Crane. First edition hardback, 1901, with the original unclipped dust jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed to edges with chips and repair to spine (now protected); illustrated paper-covered boards, with yellow cloth spine, slightly rubbed to edges and a touch darkened to spine where the dust jacket is chipped. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean - no foxing; no annotation - Christmas gift inscription to half-title page dated 1907; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations particularly bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

ONE OF WALTER CRANE'S BEST WORKS - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL RICH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. The Text by ELIA (Charles Lamb) has been Written by Crane in his Calligraphic Style and Placed Within a Box Alongside Each Illustration. The New Year Gives a Party for All the Special Days of the New Year to Come. Each of the 40 chosen days are personified -It's a Display of Women & Men Wearing Styles of Dress from Many Earlier Eras. Walter Crane's Illustrations are Elaborate and Colorful.Printed on good paper stock in the French fold manner, 40 pgs plus color double-spread title page and a half- title page in red. Decorated endpapers. The book's edges & corners are rubbed, wear at spine's tips and edge, front inner hinge has some breaks to the paper (halfway down hinge to bottom - but it is tight, and at the very bottom of the back's fep is a neatly repaired 1/4" closed tear. Internally this copy is VG+ (clean, bright, tight with no marks.