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Continental Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. L. Maynard Dixon. Continental Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Tragic, romantic and weird tales of southwestern and Mexican life. Hard Cover. Gold cloth, pictorial boards with black and silver stamping. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut (deckle) fore and bottom edges. Cover has moderate shelfwear/soiling, darkened spine, slightly frayed spine ends. Frontispiece and 19 additional full-page illustrations by L. Maynard Dixon. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. Scarce.

Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. Arthur Rackham. Limited Editions Club,1940. Limited to 2020 copies, this is copy number 35. Signed by designer, Bruce Rogers, on limitation page at end of book. Hard Cover in slipcase. Top edge gilt, rough cut pages. Grey slipcase is sound, with numerous tiny chips around open edge, tiny chip at bottom of spine edge, gilt title remains bright. Marbled boards with cloth spine. Cover has a tiny rub at top of darkened spine, otherwise pristine. 16 tipped-in delightful color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A beautiful edition of a classic tale. Letter from publisher 'To the Members' and Limited Editions Club newsletter from September, 1940 included. Beautiful condition.

London: International Art Pulbishing Company, 1900. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. International Art Pulbishing Company, circa 1900, no date stated. One of the first hundred copies. Hard Cover. Brown leather spine, grey parchment boards. Extremely scarce, Book measures 15 by 11, weighs over 6 lbs. .Original decorative tissues are intact. Cover has considerable shelfwear/ scuffing and moderate soiling. Spine is chipped at both ends. Pages are clean and unmarked, toned, Binding is a bit shaken, hinges are perfect. A stain from a pressed flower is on the back pastedown and flyleaf. This book is in 4 parts: The Great English Masters, by Fritz Stahl; William Hogarth by Edward Hutton; Dante Gabriel Rosetti by Arthur Symons; Japanese Art (The Kano School) by Lawrence Binyon. The Great English Masters: Two cuts in four colours, 43 drawings on superfine unglazed art paper, 5 tinted illustrations and 2 engravings. William Hogarth: Two cuts in four colours, 42 drawings on superfine unglazed art paper, 19… Read More