Search Results: Titles starting with F from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

London: Printed for J. Sharpe, 1824. 'The Entrance to Hyde Park' An Early-to-Mid Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting FORE-EDGE PAINTING. GAY, John. Fables. London: Printed for J. Sharpe, 1812 [i.e., 1824]. With an early to mid twentieth century fore-edge painting of the "Entrance to Hyde Park" by an unidentified artist. Volumes I & II (of three) bound in one. Sixteenmo (4 3/4 x 3 inches; 121 x 76 mm.). Engraved frontispiece , engraved general title-page, [iv], [1]-155, [1, blank], engraved frontispiece, [1]-142 pp. Bound ca. 1824 in full red straight grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges, blind tooled turn-ins, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. Contents: Volume I The Fables of John Gay; Volume II The Poetical Works of John Gay (volume I only).

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. The Fables of La Fontaine - One of 250 Numbered Copies Illustrated by Auguste Delierre Finely Bound and Extra Illustrated With Over Two Hundred Additional Engravings LA FONTAINE, Jean de. The Fables of La Fontaine. Translated from the French. With twenty-five original etchings by A. Delierre. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. Edition De Luxe. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 206). Extra-illustrated and extended from one volume into two. Two large octavo volumes (10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x184 mm.). viii, 160; 161-304 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With twenty-five full page etchings by Auguste Delierre (1829-1890). Complete with the small printed slip preceding the half-title, signed and numbered in black ink by Roberts Bros. Extra-illustrated with 202 additional engravings related to the fables being presented (a few in color) including many by J.B. Oudry and other artists. Full listing of the additional engravings list supplied upon… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. One of 750 Copies Signed by the Artist Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold with Twenty-Five Magnificent Color Plates [DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator]. AESOP. The Fables of Æsop. Illustrated with 25 Drawings in Color by Edward J. Detmold. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. One of 750 copies signed by Edward J. Detmold, of which this is no. 467. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 308 x 250 mm.). 80 Un-numbered leaves. Twenty-five magnificent mounted color plates, some with slightly irregular shapes. Publisher's white buckram, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, publishers gilt emblem on back cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, plain end-papers except for small publishers' emblem printed in gray. Neat ink name on front free end-paper, spine slightly darkened and 'mottled' otherwise a very fine copy. Housed in the publishers white cardboard slip-case (repaired). An interesting feature of this book is the sometime… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919. There are Fairies at the bottom of our garden! It's not so very, very far away; You pass the gardener's shed and you just keep straight ahead -- I do so hope they've really come to stay" PATTINSON, Alice binder. FYLEMAN, Rose. Fairies and Chimneys. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919. Fourth edition (first published in May, 1918). Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four groups of twelve leaves inlaid in green morocco with a central inlaid red morocco flower. Front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spines in with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt dots, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pinkish cream liners and end-leaves, all edges gilt. Fine. A very nice example of Alice Pattinson's fine work, one of Douglas Cockerell's… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Edition Deluxe 1/500 Copies Signed by Kay Nielsen Nielsen, Kay, illustrator. Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist, this being copy no. 209. Large quarto (12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 310 x 250 mm.). [x], 11-197, [3, blank] pp. Text with decorative borders and initials. Twelve mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text illustrations including seventeen full-page. Publisher's vellum, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Some very minor soiling to spine and covers otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) "was drawn early on to fairy tales and illustrated many volumes for Hodder & Stoughton: In Powder and Crinoline (1913), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1914), Hans… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Edition Deluxe 1/500 Copies Signed by Kay Nielsen Nielsen, Kay, illustrator. Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist, this being copy no. 242. Large quarto (12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 310 x 250 mm.). [x], 11-197, [3, blank] pp. Text with decorative borders and initials. Twelve mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text illustrations including seventeen full-page. Publisher's vellum, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. On the lower edge of the front cover there is a small 1/4 inch abrasion to the vellum, otherwise this is a fine copy complete with the publisher's blue cloth dust jacket, spine pictorially stamped in gilt, and the original plain cream paper dust jacket (slightly worn at extremities). Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen… Read More

London: Printed for H. Rhodes, 1695. Rare First Edition of 'The Family-Dictionary; or, Houshold Companion' by William Salmon, Derided by Physicians as "The King of the Quacks" [SALMON, William]. The Family-Dictionary; or, Houshold Companion: Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical Receipts for The Preservation of Health, Prevention of Sickness, and Curing the several Diseases, Distempers, and Grievances, incident to Men, Women, and Children. Also, Directions for Making Oils, Ointments, Salves, Cordial-Waters, Powders, Pills, Bolus's, Lozenges, Chymical Preparations, Physical-Wines, Ales, and other Liquors, &c. and Descriptions of the Virtues of Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Seeds, Roots, Barks, Minerals, and Parts of Living Creatures, used in Medicinal Potions, &c. Likewise, Directions for Cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fish, Fowl, Seasoning, Garnishing, Sauces, and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner. The whole ART of Pastry, Conserving, Preserving, Candying,… Read More

London: Printed by Englemann, Hullmandel or Lefevre for W. Spooner, 1831. Mansion's Fancy Ball Dress Complete with Thirty Magnificent Hand Colored Lithographs of the Highest Quality Depicting the Costumes of Europe and Russia MANSION, aka André Léon Larue. [Fancy Ball Dress]. [London: W. Spooner, 1831-32]. First edition. Large folio (18 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches; 467 x 314 mm. Image size 10 1/8 x 8 inches; 258 x 203 mm.). Thirty magnificent hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic, depicting the regional costumes of Europe. The plates were variously printed by Engelmann & Co., C. Hullmandel, Lefevre & Co., and Meifred, Lemercier & Co. All plates mounted on heavy gray paper and captioned in manuscript. All plates with tissue guards. First plate with small offset from leather bookplate, some light marginal foxing, generally not touching the images. Bound ca. 1835 in three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Front cover with rectangular maroon morocco label… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. A Collaboration... WALPOLE, Hugh. & PRIESTLEY, J.B. Farthing Hall. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). [viii], [1]-275, [1, blank], [4 advertisements] pp. Publishers green ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in the publisher's gray printed dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, a couple of small closed edge tears, small piece (1/8 inch) missing from top of spine. An excellent copy. The novel is a collaboration between Hugh Walpole and John Boynton Priestley. Walpole, the older novelist, writes as the young artist, while Priestley takes the character of the middle-aged academic. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884-1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was an English… Read More

London: William Sams, 1822. The Adventures of Lubin and his Friend Dashall One of the Rarest of all of Henry Alken's Works ALKEN, Henry, artist. HEATH, William, engraver. Fashion & Folly, or The Buck's Pilgrimage. [London: William Sams, 1822]. First edition. Oblong quarto (7 1/8 x 11 7/8 inches; 181 x 302 mm.). A series of twenty-four hand-colored aquatints including one which is double-folding, each mounted on stiff card. Each scene has four lines of verse printed at foot in double column. Late nineteenth century half dark green morocco over marbled boards, front cover with dark green straight-grain morocco label, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Recased with later endpapers. Some spotting to the mounts, otherwise a near fine example. A highly colorful panorama, here in book form, illustrating the London adventures of Lubin with his friend Dashall. The well-off Lubin is seen leaving his country seat for London and experiencing scenes of high and low life. Their disregard for the… Read More

London: Macdonald, 1949. Hearties and Half-Wits" SEARLE, Ronald. The Female Approach. With masculine sidelights by Ronald Searle. With a letter from Max Beerbohm. London: Macdonald, [1949]. First edition. Octavo (7 13/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 199 x 130 mm.). 96 pp. Illustrated throughout in black & white, mainly full-page. Publisher's cream cloth over boards, front cover with small design in red, spine lettered in red, original pictorial dust jacket with just a few short edge tears. A near fine copy. "An artist with a wickedly witty line... His book of comic drawings, though it gets its title from the hockey-playing subhumans that commit their merry mayhem in the delicious girls' school he has run up, contains also writers, lookers at pictures, policemen and other comic characters. They are all --- as large as life, hearties, and half-wits --- as large as life, or thereabouts, and twice as funny." (Sunday Times review) Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 - 30 December 2011) was a… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. The Belles of St. Trinian's and other Cartoons SEARLE, Ronald. The Female Approach. Cartoons by Ronald Searle with an Introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge, Editor of Punch. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First American Edition. Small quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 184 mm.). [ii, blank], x, 147, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with over 150 black & white drawings. Publisher's red boards, front cover with rectangular pictorial design in black, white and red. Spine decoratively lettered in black, white and red. Some minor rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Original pictorial dust-jacket, also with minor rubbing to spine extremities and corners. An excellent copy. "Some crazy weather is moving in on America, originating in the British Isles. High risibility is forecast, and there will be gales of laughter. The average mean laugh will be well above normal, to be followed by chortles of variable high-pressure chuckles. Clouds of gloom will be dispelled. This… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. A Scarce Little Sucker One of the Rarest of All Leeches Victorian Unisex Costumes - Lady-Like Gentlemen [LEECH, John, illustrator]. [LEIGH, Percival]. [The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book. And Beau Monde à La Française enriched with Numerous Highly Colored Figures of Lady-Like Gentlemen. Edited by The Author of The Comic Latin Grammar.] The Costumes and Other Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Large quarto (11 1/16 x 8 5/8 in; 282 x 219 mm.) 12 pp. Four hand-colored lithograph plates (imprinted 12 November 1840) each with multiple figures for a total of forty-six illustrations, from Leech's 1840 satire with text by Percival Leigh. Original pictorial front and back printed yellow wrappers bound in. Front wrapper with early ink signature at top (slightly cropped). Contemporary half dark blue hard grain morocco ruled in blind over marbled boards. Smooth spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the armorial bookplates of… Read More

London [&] New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. W.S. Gilbert's 'Fifty "Bab Ballads' A Fine Inlaid Binding - Possibly by W.T. Morrell GILBERT, W.S. Fifty "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense by W.S. Gilbert. With illustrations by the author. London [&] New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Third? edition (first published in 1876). Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 mm x 133 mm.). 255, [1, imprint] pp. Engraved frontispiece (included in pagination) with original tissue-guard and numerous illustrations in the text. Some marginal foxing, otherwise near fine. Bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt enclosing an elaborate oval floral design with eight inlaid flowers in cream morocco and leaves of olive, medium and dark green and red morocco surrounded by a decorative border of medium and dark green. The flowers and leaves are decoratively tooled in blind and highly decorated with gilt pointille. Spine with five raised bands, with decorative inlaid dark… Read More

Chicago: W.J. Jefferson Printing & Publishing Co.,, 1897. First Edition Signed by George Siler & Lou M. Houseman One of the Rarest Works Relating to the Sport of Boxing SILER, George. HOUSEMAN, Lou M. The "Fight of the Century", Being a review of the Worlds Championship Contest Between Robert Fitzsimmons and James J. Corbett, Carson City Nev. March 17th 1897. Written by Geo. Siler (Referee) and Lou M. Houseman. Chicago: W.J. Jefferson Printing & Publishing Co., [1897]. First edition signed by George Siler & Lou M. Houseman of one of the rarest works relating to boxing. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches; 248 x 168 mm.). [2], 96 pp. (printed on white paper), profusely illustrated with photomechanical woodcut reproductions, some signed by Blomgren Brothers, Chicago. Many photographic reproductions, some full page. The introduction page has a signature in purple ink "Geo? Ryder". Bound ca. 1950 in full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Publisher's pictorial front wrapper showing the two boxers in the… Read More

: , 1994. A Bright, Sunny Original Watercolor Beautifully Framed and Matted PRICEMAN, Marjorie, artist. [Figures on a Boat]. From How to Make an Apple Pie and see the World. [n.p.], 1994. Original watercolor, signed "MP" on lower right-hand corner. Image size: 9 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 248 x 273 mm. Beautifully matted, framed and glazed. (Frame size: 15 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches; 387 x 412 mm.). A fun and energetic illustration depicting a scene on a boat, from the book, How to Make an Apple Pie and see the World. Beautifully framed with ablue and white striped fabric mat and light pink ribbon border. This illustration has been cropped down from the original two page spread - the cropped area has been attached to the back of the frame. Marjorie A. Priceman is an American writer and illustrator of more than thirty children's picture books including two Caldecott Honor Books (runners-up for the Caldecott Medal). Her first book, Friend or Frog, was published in 1989, soon after her graduation from the… Read More

London: Charles Tilt, 1839; 1840. Two of the Exceptionally Rare Hand-Colored Deluxe Issues for 1839 and 1840" FINDEN, William and Edward. Finden's Tableaux or the Affections; A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. From paintings by W. Perring. Edited by Mary Russell Mitford [With:] Findens' Tableaux: The Iris of Prose, Poetry, and Art, for MDCCCXL. Illustrated with Engravings by W. and E. Finden, from Paintings by J. Browne. Edited by Mary Russell Mitford. London: Charles Tilt, 1839; [1840]. First Deluxe Hand-Colored Editions. Two folio volumes (14 9/16 x 10 7/8 inches; 370 x 276 mm.). [vi], 60; [3]-70 pp. Twenty-four hand-colored engraved plates after Perring or Browne, engraved by Holl, Finden, Egleton, Freeman, Scriven, Hollis, Gibbs and others, all heightened with gum arabic. Publishers red and green morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind. Slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine. Two issues of the exceptionally rare hand-colored deluxe… Read More

London: Charles Tilt, 1830. Handsome and Interesting Ornaments for the Drawing-Room Table" ANDREWS, James. Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre. Twelve Bouquets, drawn and coloured from nature, by James Andrews. With Poetical Illustrations, by Louisa Anne Twamley. London: Charles Tilt, [1830]. First edition. Folio (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches; 369 x 273 mm.). 20 unnumbered pages including half-title, title-page, contents, dedication leaf, and advertisement leaf at end. Hand colored lithographed title and eleven superb hand-colored lithograph plates, all with their original tissue-guards. Publisher's green diaper-grain cloth, covers decoratively bordered and stamped in blind enclosing a large and quite magnificent gilt urn with flowers. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, original yellow coated end-papers, all edges gilt. Lower 3 1/2 inches of front inner hinge slightly cracked - still the finest copy that we have ever seen. "The covers are decorated with stamped and gilt… Read More

Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, [1871]. Irony and Biting Satire on the 4th French Revolution CHAM (pseud. of Amédée de Noé). Les Folies de la Commune. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, n.d. [1871]. First edition, complete. Quarto (13 x 9 3/4 inches; 330 x 247 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title leaf and nineteen hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates 18 & 19 slightly shorter at lower and fore-edge. Modern green cloth, front cover with dark green morocco label lettered in gilt. A near fine copy. Created and published in the immediate wake of high political drama in France - the Paris Commune aka the Fourth French Revolution, when the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to the fall of Emperor Louis Napoleon III's Second French Empire, the establishment of the Third French Republic, and near immediate popular workers' ("communards") insurrection in concert with the citizen's National Guard against the forces of Versailles which, though Republican, held direct rule over… Read More

Queen Victoria's Coronation Procession in Scarce PanoramaOne of the Earliest Examples of Royal MemorabiliaA Near Fine Example[PANORAMA]. [VICTORIA, Queen of England, 1819-1901]. Fores' Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion of the August Ceremony of Her Majesty's Coronation, June 28th, 1838. Sixty Feet Long. Price £1. 11s. 6d Colored, 16s Plain. Also Accurate Views of the Interior of the Abbey During the Ceremony. London: Published by Messrs. Fores, at their Sporting & Fine Print Repository and Frame Manufactory, [August 20, 1838]. First and only edition and issue. Small oblong quarto (cover size: 4 7/8 x 8 inches; 123 x 203 mm.). Thirty-three hand-colored sections in a continuous strip (4 x 675 inches; 103 x 17,145 mm; of full procession scene in aquatint. An exceptional example with just a few of the folding illustrations expertly strengthened on verso (at crease).Publishers pink ribbed cloth, covers bordered in blind, front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt… Read More