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The Wood Engravings of Gwenda Morgan – WHITTINGTON Press – DELUXE ED., signed
Located in Middletown, NY
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1985.
First Edition.
Imperial Octavo, 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (265 x 190 mm); xvi + 44 + 4; Limited edition of 335, of which 35 bound in leather; this copy is Number XXVIII and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST below the colophon. Quarter-bound by Smith Settle in tan goatskin, gilt spine titling, dark and light brown and orange on mid-brown Whittington marbled paper-covered boards by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Headbands, top edge brown, rest uncut; Colorplan Bagdad Brown endpapers. Printed in black, the title-page in black and red, and the captions in grey, hand-set in 12-point Bell; Zerkall smooth white wove and Zerkall Silurian papers; 52 wood-engravings and a line-block reproduction of an engraving by Gwenda Morgan...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Poems of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE, Third Edition, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Third Edition.
12mo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches (160 x 114 mm); pp. xii + 202. Half-bound in tan calf with raised bands and gilt decorations, black l...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Cours de danse fin de siècle, Illustrated by Louis Legrand
Located in Middletown, NY
The illustrations show Can-Can dancers rehearsing classic high kick positions.
Legrand, Louis, illustrations & Erastène Ramiro, text
Paris: E. Dentu, 1892
Large 8vo; 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mr. Knife Miss Fork by R. Crevel - Surrealist illustrations by MAX ERNST
Located in Middletown, NY
A striking and important Surrealist collaboration. A rare SINGED COPY.
Ernst, Max / René Crevel
Mr. Knife Miss Fork; Translated by Kay Boyle
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931.
FIRS...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mr. Chambers and Persephone by Christopher Whittled – Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Illustrations by Dorothea Braby. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION
8vo.; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (226 x 160 mm); 63 pp.; 14 pt. Perpetual type; four wood-engravings ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Journey From This World to the Next by H. Fielding – Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930.
Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeister (1895 – 1987).
8vo, 9 x 6 in (229 x 153 mm); 175 pp., 6 copper engravings by Denis Tege...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mambu et son Amour; Décors nègres de Jean Vergély – By Louis Charbonneau
Located in Middletown, NY
This attractive and beautifully-bound volume fits in the period's vogue for exploration of African exoticism, with decorative borders on each page inspired by native African designs....
Category
Early 20th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Abrégé de L
Art Poétique François par Pierre Ronsard – ERAGNY PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Eragny Press / Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Lucien Pissarro. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (215 x143 mm); 44 pp. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arches han...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Der Freischütz Travestie. With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
Cruikshank, George (illus.), Apel (auth.)
Der Freischütz Travestie. By Septimus Globus.; With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
L
Annonciateur by Auguste Villiers de L
Isle-Adam – in special Art-Deco binding
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and stunning binding sculpted in the Art-Nouveau style by Louis Déze, and illustrating the themes of the work. From the library of the eminent French bibliophile Guy Bigorie.
...
Category
Early 20th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques
Plays at Court; A Descriptive Catalogue
Located in Middletown, NY
Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques & Plays at Court; A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. ...
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Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ / elogiis illustratæ, by C. Giarda
Located in Middletown, NY
DISTINGUISHED PEDIGREE: from the libraries of Robert Hoe and John Barrymore.
Elegantly illustrated and bound copy with a famed pedigree that spans from Robert Hoe—the businessman, collector, and founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884— to "The Lamberts" (probably purchased in the epic Hoe library auction of 1911-1912), who gifted it to the colorful and famous actor John Barrymore. Their bookplates adorn the inside covers, will your bookplate be next?
Giarda, Cristoforo
Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ
Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628.
4to, 9 5/8 x 7 inches (244 x 178 mm); (xii) + 140 pp, not including plates and inscriptions. Engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Francesco Bassano, 16 copperplates of female figures; woodcut dropcaps and tailpieces throughout.
Later (circa 1890) red levant morocco binding by R. Petit (signed in gilt on front turn-in) with triple gilt frames on boards, raised bands, gilt title and decorative motifs in compartments; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, professionally rebacked preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments; title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling and a few small light ink stains to covers.
[Praz p.349]
Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem by John Skelton
Located in Middletown, NY
Skelton, John
The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem
London: Printed for Isaac Dalton, and sold by W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row, 1718. Second Edition. Octavo, 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (194 x 117 mm). pp. [8], 31, [1]. From the title page: by Skelton Laureat. Original unbound, rebound in modern pink paper over boards, leather spine label with gilt title. Some toning to last few leaves.boards All text is legible, some spot tanning throughout. In near fine condition. Rare.
[ESTC N46064 ]
ESTC shows two U.S. copies only: Henry E. Huntington Library and Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; and two British Isles copies only: Oxford University Bodleian Library (both copies). This poem was printed multiple times in the 16th century, including by William Caxton's successor, Wynken de Worde. Rare as a separate volume. John Skelton (c.1463 - 1529) was a remarkable, unusual poet and priest, who had been the tutor of the Tudors, Prince Arthur...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
La femme demasquée ou l
amour peint selon l
usage nouveau – Quesnot de La Chênée
Located in Middletown, NY
Quesnot de La Chênée, Jean-Jacques
La femme démasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau
la Haye (The Hague): Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1698.
First Edition.
12mo, 5 x 2 3/4 inc...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Further Interiors by Howard Phipps – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Lower Marston: Whittington Press, 1992
Limited Edition.
4to, (10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (265 x 190 mm); pp. 38 frenchfold, 15 wood engravings by Phipps printed in black, four with colori...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
The Forest of Hermits /
t Bosh der Ermyten by Abraham Bloemaert
Located in Middletown, NY
Bloemaert, Abraham and Rosweyde, Héribert
't Bosch der Eremyten ende Eremytinnen van Aegypten ende Palestinen (...) [The Forest of Hermits of Egypt and Palestine...
Hantvverpen (Antwerp): Hieronymus Verdussen, 1619.
Illustrated by Abraham Bloemart.
First Edition in book form.
4to, 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (251 x 171 mm). ix pp, 51 sheets on cream laid paper, text in Dutch (gothic letters). 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian hermit saints (25 male, 25 female), printed recto with text pages on verso. Full-page frontispiece for the work and with an additional full-page frontispiece for each of the two sections. Full contemporary vellum, untitled, with some handling discoloration but the vellum remains supple and the binding is tight. Pages clean and bright with a couple of foxing spots and a small brown stain on the 2nd frontis titled "Sacra Eremus ascetarum"; toned page edges. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front flyleaf and small pencil and ink notations inside back cover; bookplate of Buijnsters Smets pasted inside front cover.
[De Backer...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
45 wood-engravers – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Lawernce, Simon WHITTINGTON PRESS
45 wood-engravers (Forty-five Wood-engravers); With an Introduction by John Lawrence.
Yorkshire, UK: Simon Lawrence printed by The Whittington Pre...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Shelley at Oxford – Early correspondence of P.B.Shelley – GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Shelley, Percy Bysche
Shelley at Oxford; The early correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and hitherto unpub...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A New System of Modern Geography by William Guthrie - 1782
Located in Middletown, NY
A New System of Modern Geography; or, a Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Kingdoms of the World. Maps engraved by Mr. Kitchin, C. Dilly and G...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sporting Novels (5) by Robert Smith Surtees
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of the Sporting Novels; Handley Cross; or Mr. Jerrocks's Hunt; Hawbuck Grange or The Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq.; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Ask Mamma or ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso – Elegant French 18th C "pocket" edition
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Prault, 1768
2 vols, 12mo, 5 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (136 x 80 mm). Vol. 1: front. title, 2nd frontispiece, iii, 326; Vol. 2: title, 333 pp. Text in Italian. Frontispiece by Godefr...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Le moyen de parvenir by François Béroalde de Verville, (1556-1626)
Located in Middletown, NY
Le moyen de parvenir; oeuvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est & sera : avec démonstrations certaines et nécessaires, selon la rencontre des effects de vertu .
n.d. (ci...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
La Mouche by Alfred de Musset – Illustrations by Adolphe Lalauze
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, 1892.
Illustrations: Adolphe Lalauze (1838 – 1906)
Preface: Philippe Gille
Limited Edition
8vo, 9 1/8 x 6 inches (231 x 153 mm); xvi, 84, (3) pp.; pri...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac / Les Bibliophiles du Palais
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1924.
Illustrations: André Dignimont (1891 – 1965).
8vo, 10 1/4 x 7 inches (260 x 178 mm); 96, (8) pp., printed in black and red on Arches paper;...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Les Plaideurs by Jean Racine / Les Bibliophiles du Palais
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1932
Illustrations: Jean Bruller (1902 – 1991).
Limited Edition.
8vo, 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches 9260 x 180 mm); (10), 128, (18) pp., printed in black...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
La Puce de Madame Des Roches; ou Jeux poétiques
Located in Middletown, NY
Des Roches, Catherine & Etienne Pasquier, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin
La Puce de Madame Des Roches; ou Jeux poétiques composés aux grands jours de Poitiers , l'an MDLXXIX , par Cathe...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy, by T. S. Eliot – FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934.
First Edition.
8vo, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (22...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot, with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1927.
First Edition.
12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched yello...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
Poems by T. S. Eliot - First American Edition, 1920
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920
First American Edition, 1st Printing.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (190 x 127 mm); 63 pp. Ribbed tan paper boards stamped in brown on front cover. Top edges...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
Ash Wednesday: Six Poems by T. S. Eliot - First Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Faber & Faber, 1930
First Edition.
8vo, 7 5/8 x 5 inches (192 x127 mm); 21 pp. Brown cloth boards stamped in gold on front cover and on spine; t.e.g., others untrimmed. Dust...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
Marina by T. S. Eliot, with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Faber & Faber, 1930.
First Edition
8vo, 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (187 x 122 mm); Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched blue p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
A Tillyloss Scandal by J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
\New York: Lovell, Coryell and Company, 1893.
First Edition, Second Issue.
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 270. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in red calf with go...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches – J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
Philadelphia: New York Publishing Company, 1892.
First Edition
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 180, printed on heavy laid paper and illustrated with a frontispiece ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sentimental Tommy, The Story of His Boyhood – J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Cassell and Co., 1896.
First Edition.
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. viii + 452 + 4 of publisher's advertising. Red calf binding by Root & Son (stamp on f...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke. With a Memoir
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1920. seventh impression.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (191 x 127 mm); pp. clix (memoir) + 160 (poems); frontispiece portraits of the author at the beginn...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh; The plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée.
Located in Middletown, NY
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1927-1928
4 volumes, 4to; 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (258 x 190 mm); pp. vol. 1, [4] xliv, 239 [1]; vol. 2, [10] 257 [5]; vol. 3, [10] 290 [4]; vol. 4, [4]...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - 2 Volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915.
2 volumes, 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (195 x 133 mm); pp xvi + 748; vol. 2 vii + 786; frontispiece engraving (vol. 1) and photo (vol. 2). Bound in 3/4 ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin – First American Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
"One of the most engaging and ingenious mysteries of its age" (P.D. James)
Philadelphia - New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946.
First American Edition, 1st Printing.
8vo, 7 3/...
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Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
Not to be Taken by Anthony Berkeley – First Edition with DUST JACKET.
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1938.
First Edition.
8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (182 x 121mm); pp. 356 + iii. Grey cloth binding with black lettering, dampstain to the tail of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
The Lord
s Song: A Sermon by Eric Gill – GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934.
Limited Edition.
Slim 8vo; 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (224 x 112 mm); (vi),16 pp., (vi); printed on Arnold paper, in black ink using Eri...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1796
Located in Middletown, NY
London, 1796.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Very beautiful publisher's Venetian style mosaic style inlaid morocco in green, red, and blue, with gilt decorations, centr...
Category
Antique 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1782.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Original cream morocco elaborately gilt and with decorative morocco inlays in red, w...
Category
Antique 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rider
s British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
Located in Middletown, NY
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
London: R. and M. Brown / Company of Stationers & J. Jolliffe, G. Woodfall, an...
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Antique 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Goldsmith
s Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
Located in Middletown, NY
Goldsmith, John
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
London: Company of Stationers, 1783, first edition
48mo, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (113 x 53 mm); pp. 48 + blank page...
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Antique 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rider
s British Merlin 1726; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful.
Located in Middletown, NY
A precursor of Benjamin Franklin's famous and popular POOR RICHARD's ALMANAC
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's (1726) British Merlin; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful Veritie...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Boccaccio – Douze nouvelles de Messire Jean Boccace Seigneur Florentin
Located in Middletown, NY
Boccaccio, Giovanni [Jean Boccace]
Douze nouvelles de Messire Jean Boccace Seigneur Florentin; Avec les illustrations en couleurs d'Alfred Le Petit
Paris: René Kieffer, 1925.
Limit...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (Laurence Stern)
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Limited Edition, numbered
8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches (230 x 145 mm); iv + 152 + ii pages, printed on English hand-made paper in 14 pt....
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, or What You Will; engravings by Eric Ravilious
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932.
Limited Edition.
Small folio, 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in (330 x 235 mm); pp. v +76 + colophon. This in no. 94 of 275 copies printed on B...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
John Keats – Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agners
Other Poems
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Keats, John
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agners & Other Poems; with Engravings by Robert Gibbins
Waltham St.Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Limited Edition.
Quarto, 12 x 7 1/2 inches (305 x 190mm); pp. 104; with nineteen wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958); copy 178 of 345 copies printed Batchelor hand-made paper, special Cockerel watermark; red ink on title page, red and blue ink for incidental initials by Eric Gill and David Jones's colophon device; 1/4 brown sharkskin and green cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London; gilt titling; top edge gilt, others uncut; slight staining to head of spine, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out.
[Chanticleer 62; Ransom p. 298, no. 60].
An elegant and beautifully proportioned and illustrated version of John Keat's (1795-1825) famous poems, which constitute the final volume Keats lived to see, published in July 1820. From the Oxford text edited by H. Buxton Forman.
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was and Irish wood...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by F. Gribble – COSWAY STYLE BINDING
Located in Middletown, NY
A sumptuous extra-illustrated copy with Cosway-style binding by Bayntun of Bath.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910.
Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 (210 x 137 mm),pp. i-xii, 382. Illustrated with ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
The Christopher Robin Birthday Book – A. A. Milne (owned by Tolkien
s daughter)
Located in Middletown, NY
A unique and charming piece of Tolkieniana.
The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, Priscilla Tolkien’s copy with names of family members and friends f...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae, by Theophilus Johnson
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the rarest English works on moths.
Johnson, Theophilus (1836-1919)
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae (including the Sesidae); with thirty-six original draw...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer
Located in Middletown, NY
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
London: Adam Islip, 1602.
Second Edition.
Folio, 13 x 8 3/4 inches (328 x 223 ...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Nibbles and Me, written and illustrated by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Located in Middletown, NY
INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY with a SIGNED PUBLICITY PHOTO
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1946. Elizabeth Taylor. First Edition. Square 8vo, 7.25 x 8 inches (203 x 184 mm), 77 pp....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Harvill Press, 1996
First English language edition, First Impression.
Octavo, 9.5 x 6.25 in (241 x 159 mm); 362 pp. Hardcover, dust jacket protected with mylar cover, illust...
Category
Late 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Bowles
s New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies by Benjamin WILKES
Located in Middletown, NY
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies; In Twelve Prints, All Drawn from Life Representing near 300 different Species of those Beautiful Insects. Elegantly and accurately Engraved and disposed in an Ornamental Order To each Print is added:-A Description of their Names, Food, and times of Change, By Benjamin Wilkes.
London: Carington Bowles, 1764.
Second Edition.
Folio, (15 1/2 x 11 3/4 in, 394 x 300mm) Second edition, 1 title page and 12 plates engraved and hand-colored, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later 3/4 red morocco with title and fillets in gilt, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn.
The plates were engraved by Henry Roberts as evidenced in the markings of each plate the first edition, but omitted in the second edition.
[Nissen 4411; Linsey 183].
EXTREMELY RARE, COMPLETE BOUND SET of...
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Antique Mid-18th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Poems of John Keats – KELMSCOTT PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894.
Limited Edition
Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5.5 in (206 x 140 mm) 392 pp. Edited by F.S. Ellis. One of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black i...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lettres à une amie vénitienne, by Rainer Maria Rilke – OFFICINA BODONI
Located in Middletown, NY
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1941. Limited Edition. Vellum. Octavo, 9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (250 x 170 mm); title page vignette etched by Mario Vellani-Marchi with a couple of small spots,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Some Poems by Robert Browning - ERAGNY PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1903.
First, Limited Edition.
Octavo, 8 x 5.25 in (203 x 133 mm), pp.64 [2] + contents + colophon + blank + press-mark, Limited Edition. One of 215 copie...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Located in Middletown, NY
KELMSCOTT PRESS
Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba. Translated by Oliver Wardrop.
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
