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Firmin Didot, Paris: ., 1806 ff. (6) [May lack a half-title], 263. 12 mo. 180 mm. Signatures irregularly signed, but pagination is apparently complete. Simple leather backed boards binding. Hardbound. Very Good. Firmin Didot (1764-1836) was a French printer, engraver, type founder, and scholar. Born in Paris into a family of printers and paper makers founded by Franois Didot. Firmin… Read more about this item

The Philobiblon Club, Philadelphia: ., 1904 pp. 18 [Introduction by Samuel W. Pennypacker] + 15 Color plates reproducing the original book with its manuscript notes. Printed on fine hand made paper. Original printed paper boards, with a chip or two at the top edge and spine. Hardbound. Very Good+. Limited to 150 copies. An important and influential "Colonial Satire" of… Read more about this item

Holiday House, New York: Ca. 1930's., 1930 np. Color woodcuts by Ilse Bischoff. Color decorated title page. Large print. Design by Helen Gentry. Printing by William E. Rudge's Sons for Holiday House. Inner hinge cracked. 12mo. Unusual split hinge binding, without spine label. Original thick paper boards. Paper boards decorated in color with Christmas stockings. Very nice little copy. Fine… Read more about this item

Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, New York: 1981., 1981 386 p. Folio. Bound by A. Horowitz and Son in full Dutch half-linen, stamped in bronze and blind. Slipcase. The typography was designed by Antonie Eichenberg; printed in black and red by the Heritage Printers; set in Linotype Janson, with titles hand lettered by Mrs. Eichenberg; the Wood… Read more about this item

Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles: 1949., 1949 Two Volumes. Illustrated with copper engravings by Carl Schultheiss; pulled by Anderson-Lamb, New York; designed by Saul Marks and printed at The Plantin Press, set in monotype Garamond on Collins special paper. Title pages printed in red and black. Wide margins. 4to. 7… Read more about this item

e typographeo Clarendoniano, sumptibus academiae, Oxonii. (Clarendon Press, Oxford): ., 1763 pp. [4], 415, [1]. Small age and damp stains to the first and last 40 leaves or so. Wide margined. Large 4to. 300mm. All edges gold gilt. Early plain full vellum binding. Marbled endpapers. Hand lettered ownership of: J.M Hicks, Winton, September 1910. Sole quarto printing of the Greek… Read more about this item

Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles: 1949., 1949 Two Volumes. Illustrated with copper engravings by Carl Schultheiss; pulled by Anderson-Lamb, New York; designed by Saul Marks and printed at The Plantin Press, set in monotype Garamond on Collins special paper. Title pages printed in red and black. Wide margins. 4to. 7… Read more about this item

The Roycroft Printing Shop (Elbert Hubbard), East Aurora, NY: ., 1896 pp. (4), 40 (1). Small 8vo. 190 mm. Title with the Roycroft device printed in red; colophon in light red. Foxed throughout. Endpapers browned. Gilt lettered brown boards, backed in coarse white cloth. Edition probably limited to only 420 copies. McKenna. Roycroft Bib. 6. One of Shaw's earliest appearances… Read more about this item

[John C. Nimmo, London: ]., 1890 56 leaves. Paper browned and very brittle. Top edge gilt. Though once ribon tied into boards, this is now disbound and fragile. This is likely part of the edition of only five hundred and twenty copies printed for England and America combined. This example apparently lacks the preliminaries, including the introduction. Still, it is… Read more about this item

Privately Printed [Arranged and Printed at the Cheltenham Press], New York: ., 1904 79 p. Mold made paper with deckle edges. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Full flexible vellum binding, with linen ties. Central tie broken. Yapp edges. Limited edition. "This edition is limited to two hundred and fifty copies." Includes a few poems on natural history and evolution. Very scarce.… Read more about this item

Printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. Chiswick Press, London For Scott-Thaw Co., New York: ., 1903 pp. xii, 95. Title printed in red and black. 8vo. Velum backed cloth boards binding; lettered in gilt. Edition Limited to 400 copies printed on handmade paper. Top edge gilt; deckle edged; partially uncut. Some soiling, but generally a very good example of this… Read more about this item

[Self Published, Rome: ., 1908 19 leaves + One plate. Title page and chapter heads, and some vignettes and devices printed in red. Thick mold made paper with deckle edges. 8vo. 205 mm. Full flexible vellum binding, with leather ties. Ties now almost gone. Front cover with a wonderful rosebush design in gilt. The binding is typical of those issued… Read more about this item

(Printed at the Westminster Press for) Daniel O'Connor, London: 1921, 1921 60 p. + Colored frontis; color illustrated title page; and one plate. Colored text illustrations throughout. Toned paper. 8vo. 270 mm. With the separate poem "To the Princess." Unusual cloth backed illustrated paper boards binding; decorated with a pattern of diamonds in five colors. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) was… Read more about this item

Longman and Co., London: ., 1846 'The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1846. From the 'Hours' of the Duke of Anjou, King of Sicily and Jerusalem. Now in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris. / Date concerning the Houses of Anjou, with some remarks on their patronage of Illuminators." Printed throughout on thin card. Introductory text by H.N. Humphreys is in… Read more about this item

Richard Ellis : The Georgian Press, Westport, CT: ., 1929 pp. (iv), 24, (2). Thin 4to. 300 mm. Original paper boards binding. Number 317 of an edition limited to 435 numbered copies. Printed by Richard W. Ellis at his Georgian Press, on hand-made deckle edged paper, unopened. Ransom p. 292. Doctor [Oliver] Goldsmith (1728-1774) wrote Retaliation in 1774, responding to… Read more about this item

Impressum Edinburgh, (Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes), Edinburgh: 1839., 1839 pp. xciv [Introduction in English], (1), 162 [Latin Text of De Arte Logistica] + Engraved frontispiece portrait of Napier; and a full page mezzotint style engraving of the old Castle Merchiston. Large 4to. 300 mm. Original cloth backed boards binding; joints cracked. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. John Napier, 8th… Read more about this item

(Printed at The Stinehour Press for) the Members of The Limited Editions Club, Lunenburg, VT: ., 1968 pp. xiii, 383 + Full page color drawings by David Gentleman. Numerous black and white text drawings. Title decorated in green. Typographic plan of John Dreyfus. Lacks first fly leaf. 4to. 265mm. Original olive cloth spine over decorated paper covered boards. Spine decorated… Read more about this item

J.M. Dent and Sons, London & Toronto; E.P. Dutton and Co., New York: ()., 1930 pp. [iii], 100, (1) [Colophon]. Boldly illustrated with 72 woodcuts by Thomas Derrick. Large quarto. 290 mm. Original full light blue cloth binding, lettered in red. Binding slightly faded and soiled. The setting of text was arranged, and the pictures drawn and cut on wood,… Read more about this item

David R. Godine, Boston: ., 1981 142 p. 8vo. 240 mm. Original binding of beige linen, front board decorated with a berried branch, printed in two colors upon silky green cloth Spine lettered in gilt. Limited Edition, No. 146 of 150 copies signed by the author. Designed by Richard Bartlett. Printed and Bound by Hadden Craftsmen. The initials opening each… Read more about this item

Printed for the Book Club of California at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco: November ., 1947 n.p. Illustrated with 13 full page plates of various towns in California. The original pencil sketches are in the possession of the Bancroft Library, University of California. Though the originals were not signed nor dated, they were probably from the 1850's. Oblong folio. 440… Read more about this item