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London: Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, 1809. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine. 140 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-nine hand colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Not in ABBEY LIFE or TOOLEY. Originally published, London, 1788 with Bunbury's illustrations. He was a contemporary of Gillray and Rowlandson, "a designer of humorous subjects and caricatures.....he obtained the praise of Sir Joshua Reynolds." [see: BRYAN, Vol.I, p.209]. Also listed in the MELLON COLLECTION. Bookplate of Woods Price, marbled endpaper, offsetting of plates to text, otherwise generally clean in very solid binding.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper at heqd and foot. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with new Introductory material.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's gilt stamped teal pictorial cloth designed by Beardsley. Very good. Beardsley, Aubrey. 193 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 1000, includes one of the extra photogravure plates that was issued with the one of 100 copies that included a suite of the plates in a larger format, and is noted on p.147. Frontispiece, five large historiated initial capitals and vignettes by Beardsley. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan, cover design by Beardsley. Beardsley lived only long enough to complete the five initials, the frontispiece and the cover design. GALLATIN pp. 69-70. LASNER 129. Uncut and unopened, spine slightly darkened, and head of p.147 roughly opened. Spine rubbed head and foot.

London: Moreland Press, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth, decorated and lettered in brown. Very good. Brangwyn, Frank. 69 pages. 26 x 20. Portfolio of Brangwyn's bookplates, some in color. Forward by Eden Phillpotts and with a Technical Note by E. Hesketh Hubbard. Bibliography. Decorated endpapers, slight rubbing to backstrip extremities, upper corners rubbed.

London: Printed by Samuel Leigh, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Later full red crushed morocco. Aeg. Fine. Rowlandson, Thomas. 14 1/2 x 8.5 cm. iv pages including title and advertisement. Fifty-four hand-colored plates by Rowlandson: a panoply of city life, the costumes of street vendors through Rowlandson's colorful, often affectionate delineation's of human character. The plates are related to Rowlandson's "Cries of London series of 1799. TOOLEY 424. Clean, fresh copy bound by Riviere & Son, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, triple gilt border panels, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1931. First American Trade Edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper with a nick at lower front and head of spine. Rackham, Arthur. 224 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm. Twelve mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and numerous in text woodcuts. Printed in the UK for the American trade with Introduction by Harry Williamson. A very fresh bright copy not usually found with the original dust wrapper in sterling condition.

London: George G. Harrap, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. paneled and lettered vellum. Teg. Near fine. Rackham, Arthur. 224 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition copy 643 of 750, signed by Rackham. Twelve mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, 25 black and white illustrations, and pictorial endpapers in cream and brown. The signed, limited editions were in great demand. Rackham noted, "There is such a fashion for publishing only limited editions that my books are in a rather curious position. The ordinary editions do not sell so large a number as of old, & the limiteds are vastly over-applied for..." [see: Hamilton, "Arthur Rackham"], p142. LATTIMORE & HASKELL p.66. Fresh, crisp copy; plates and text clean and bright, partly unopenend, slight toning to backstrip, small adhesion front cover, slight toning bottom back cover, with prospectus for "The Night Before Christmas," the next book Rackham illustrated for Harrap, laid-in.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter maroon morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt in floral motifs.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Fifty-two comic designs of the the three Cruikshanks [Elder Isaac, Robert and George] colored by hand after the originals. Limited edition, copy 376 of 520 . Crisp, clean signed presentation copy in a florid hand by the editor, Joseph Gregore (?) to Thomas J. Barragg, Esquire with the later's bookplate. Rubbing to backstrip extremities, front cover and spine lettered in gilt with front cover gilt bright.

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with illustrated color paper inset front cover, backstrip lettered in green. Near fine. 204 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's `Popular Tales from the Norse' by P.C. Asbjornsen and J.I. Moe. "Nielsen acknowledged that his work was influenced by the art of the early Italian Renaissance, but most of all by oriental art and the art of the Middle East." [see: JOHNSON p.78]. An unusual combination of full page color plates in offset lithography, and the small and more numberers color lithograph plates within the text. Owner inscription front cover pastedown.

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1867. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher blue morocco, rectangular gilt front cover frame houses center gilt escutcheon, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the King. Nine steel engraved plates: according to the publisher, the engravings on steel from Dore's drawings, were executed at a cost of nearly six thousand pounds; the only publisher to commission Dore for steel engraved work. Backstrip extremity nicks, lower corners rubbed, mauve endpapers, owner inscription half title in small neat hand dated 1868, modest toning to first few leaves. Repair to lower backstrip.

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1868. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher green morocco, rectangular gilt front cover frame houses center gilt escutcheon, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the King. Nine steel engraved plates: according to the publisher, the engravings on steel from Dore's drawings, were executed at a cost of nearly six thousand pounds; the only publisher to commission Dore for steel engraved work. Backstrip extremity nicks, lower corners rubbed, mauve endpapers, owner inscription half title in small neat hand dated 1870, modest toning to first few leaves.

London: William Heinemann, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, beveled edges. Very good. 2 vols. Gooden, Stephen. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 98 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 26 copper engravings with tissue guards set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper. Very bright, fresh set.

London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter navy watered silk lettered in gilt, red morocco corners and spine. Aeg. Very good. Leetch, John. Folio, 22 x 31 cm. Ttwenty-one etched plates by Leetch which were used as frontispieces to "Punch's Pocket Books." The plates and vignette on the title-page are colored by hand. FIELD p.101 [JOHN LEETCH ON MY SHELVES] notes the sketches "show an interesting development in his work." Gordon Ray called Leetch, "a Victorian gentlemen at home in good society." Plates clean, and very bright, slight corner and backstrip extremity rubbing. Two armorial bookplates.

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1983. Hardcover. The book and extra set of prints (burgundy cloth) fine in fine matching burgundy slipcase. Moser, Barry. 282 pages. 35 x 26 cm. Limited Edition, copy 233 of 350 with an extra suite of 52 unsigned engravings by Moser: The first instance of the use of multiple color block prints in a Pennyroyal book. Frontispiece in two colors, with fifty-two wood-engravings by Barry Moser, several printed in colors by Harold P. McGrath. Essays by Ruth Mortimer, Emily Sunstein, Joyce Carol Oates and William St. Clair. The epigraph from "Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein" printed with permission of Margaret Atwood. Bound by Samuel Ellenport at the Harcourt Bindery in half tan morocco over burgundy cloth boards, with a morocco lettering label on spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt.

New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth, title in purple on cover and spine. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Hart, George Overbury "Pop. 144 pages. 23.5 x 31 cm. Hart, a central figure in the artist colony based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a close associate of renowned artists Jules Pascin, Walt Kuhn, Jerome Myers, and George Biddle. 121 black and white illustrations, 17 color plates. Signed by author. Crisp, clean copy.

Paris: Boiste, 1799. First edition. leather_bound. 102, 104 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. With additional engraved titles, and 36 sanguine plates [with tissue guards] by Francois Anne after Charles Monnet, an historical and portrait painter born in Paris about 1730, admitted into the Academy in 1765. Chronological Table of Illustrations from 862-1681 end of both volumes. Interior contents plates and text clean, extra engraved title Vol. II toned, 1 x 4 centimeter at lower margin edge of title lacking with no text affected, marbled endpapers, corners worn.Contemporary calf rebacked, leather spine labels printed in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 20th century three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 4 vols. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in 1819-1820. Light rubbing to extremities. Raised bands, gilt decorated spine panels lettered in gilt. COHN 419 noting first edition...."there are ten coloured etchings to each volume.

London: J.M. Dent, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. full vellum, new ribbon ties. Very good. 549 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 190 of 560 signed by Rackham.Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with lettered tissue guards, plus 12 duotone plates and text illustrations in black and white. Title page printed in red and brown. This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition with added illustrations and in a larger format. For Rackham the early years of the 20th century were fraught with economic insecurity. By 1907 he was well established: Dent after the success of "Alice in Wonderland" reissued this work as HAMILTON p.95 notes, "The new edition of "Ingoldsby Legends" had a new frontispiece and some new plates, with earlier plates reworked and many recoloured. Cover decorations in gilt bold and bright, vellum clean, spine gilt lettering slightly faded, mostly at foot, edges uncut.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Cornell, Joseph. 127 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. 40 full page color plates, 60 full page black and white plates, introduction by Waldman, list of plates, and Bibliography.