Chessplayer Other Essays, Whittington Press Illustrated Edition

Edited by R. Steele Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1905. Limited Edition. 8vo; 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches 208 x 133 mm) 60, (2) pp., printed on Arches hand-made paper in red and black; front...

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...

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 ...

RARE, LIMITED TO 5 COPIES, SIGNED BY ROGERS, EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY. New Southgate: John Bale and Sons for H.A. Rogers, 1887. Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes. AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith...

A beautifully bound full calf example of Charles Knight's scarce illustrated edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. A scarce set, complete in seven volumes. Illustra...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: The Chimes: A Goblin Story Of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out And A New Year In. PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. DESCRIPTION: FIRST...

A fine limited edition work which presents the songs found in the plays of William Shakespeare, including verses found in all of his major works. An uncommon, limited edition work. ...

This is an antique first edition copy of The Five Nations by Rudyard Kipling, a superb example of a bound and illustrated poetry collection dating to 1896. Retaining its intact, orig...