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Place of Origin: English
Catalogue of English Furniture and Woodwork, Vol. III
Vol IV, 1st Ed
By Victoria and Albert Museum
Located in valatie, NY
Catalogue of English Furniture and Woodwork, Vol. III and IV. Vol III, Late Stuart to Queen Anne by Oliver Brackett. Pair of 1st Ed hardcovers. Published by Victoria and Albert Museu...
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Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne
Located in Middletown, NY
Milne, A.A. (Alan Alexander: 1882–1956). NOW WE ARE SIX.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition.
Crown 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 in (191 x 125 mm), pp. xi + 103 + colophon. With its...
Category
1920s Vintage 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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Mid-18th Century Antique English Books
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Gold Leaf
James Paine – Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen
s Houses
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine FIRST EDITION ELEPHANT FOLIO of Jame's Paine monumental work:
Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, and also of Stabling, Bridges, Public and Priv...
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Mid-18th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 vol. Anon, The Imperial Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
Located in New York, NY
1 vol. Anon, The Imperial Family Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Most Approved Copies of the Authorized Version, with Many Thousand Critical, Explanato...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather
12 Vol. Richard F. Burton. The Arabian Nights. The Library Ed., Kamashastra Ed.
Located in New York, NY
12 Vol. Richard F. Burton. The Arabian Nights. The Library Edition, Kamashastra Edition. Translated from Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the original edition and ed...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather
1 vol. William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Signed by Arthur Rackham. Limited Ed.
Located in New York, NY
1 vol. William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Limited Edition, limited to 520 copies numbered and signed by artist Rackham, No. 314/ 520. Illustrated in col...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
Italian Master Drawings: Wolfgang Ratjen Collection Property of Herbert Kasper
Located in valatie, NY
Italian Master Drawings: From the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525--1835, Personal Property of Herbert Kasper. Published by Paul Holberton Publis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 by Christopher Wilk
Located in valatie, NY
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 by Christopher Wilk. Victoria & Albert Museum, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Modernism: Designing a New World" is the first book to ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Thomas Bewick Graphic Worlds by Nigel Tattersfield, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Thomas Bewick: Graphic Worlds by Nigel Tattersfield. British Museum Press, 2014. 1st Ed paperback. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was the foremost wood engrav...
Category
2010s English Books
Materials
Paper
History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter
s Westminster by R. Ackermann
W.Combe
Located in Middletown, NY
Ackermann, Rudolph and William Combe (text).
The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster; Its Antiquities and Monuments.
London: R. Ackermann, 1812. First Edition, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
The Making of Medieval Rome by Hendrik Dey, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Making of Medieval Rome by Hendrik Dey. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2021. Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Life in Paris – ILLUSTRATED by George Cruikshank, text by David Carey - 1822
Located in Middletown, NY
Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O Shuttleton....
London: ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
8 Vol.Edward Gibbon Esq, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Located in New York, NY
8 Vol. Edward Gibbon Esq., The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Illustrated by G.F. Sargent. Illustrated throughout. Marbled endpapers. Full brown calf levant lea...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity by James Merigot
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderfully illustrated collection of important Roman views.
Merigot, James
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity ; Recently Executed From Drawings Made ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lucian Freud Illustrated Book the Equilibriad by Wm. Samson / Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
THE EQUILIBRIAD by William Samsons with illustrations by Lucian Freud.
London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited Edition.
8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Italian Sketches and New Italian Sketches by John Addington Symonds
Located in valatie, NY
This set of antique books were published in England by Leipzig Gernhard Tauchnitz in 1883 and 1884. The two volumns contain Italian sketches by a ...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather
Flora Conspicua by Richard Morris
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the most desirable of all nineteenth century color plate books. RARE.
Morris, Richard. Flora Conspicua; A Selection of the most ornamental flowering, hard, exotic and indig...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord M.DCCC.XXXII 1832 – John Goldsmith
Located in Middletown, NY
Goldsmith, John
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord M.DCCC.XXXII 1832
London: Company of Stationers, 1831. 24mo; 4 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (107 x 60 mm); pp. 64 + 12 blank sheets front and...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sotheby
s Art At Auction 1998-1999 Edited by Emma Lawson, 1st Ed
By Sotheby
s
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art At Auction 1998-1999 Edited by Emma Lawson. Sotheby's Publications London, 1998. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of the ye...
Category
1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
Vanity Fair by Wm.Thackeray, Cosway Style Binding, First Edition, First Issue
Located in Middletown, NY
Vanity Fair; A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations On Steel and Wood By the Author.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 / Vanity Fair; A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations On ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
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
Antiquities of Norfolk by John S. Cotman – 1818, with THREE additional etchings
Located in Middletown, NY
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
London: Lon...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
6 Vol.Winston Churchill, The Second World War. First Edition Signed by Churchill
Located in New York, NY
6 Vol. Winston Churchill, The Second World War. First Edition. Signed by Winston Churchill. Inscribed with blue ink to Howard Bayne by Alfred Charles Bossom, English Conservative Par...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
Woman as Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below by Stephen Bayley, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Woman as Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below by Stephen Bayley. Published by Conran Octopus, 2009. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Extract: "This is a complicated, ambit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Post-Impressionism, Royal Academy of Arts 1979-80
Located in Bradenton, FL
Post-Impressionism, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1979-80. Softcover book, printed in England and Italy, illustrated, 303 pages.
Category
1970s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-2016 Signed HB Book
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Hardbound book Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-2016, coffee table book pictorial boards with acetate dust jacket, illustrated throughout, 316 pages.
Bank of America card affixed to b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern English Books
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
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...
Category
18th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Finden
s Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron
Located in Middletown, NY
Brockedon, William, William Finden, and George Gordon, Lord Byron
Finden's Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron; With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
Cartier High Jewelry Coffee Table Book by Hans Nadelhoffer
By Hans Nadelhoffer
Located in New York, NY
A hard-cover Cartier high jewelry coffee table book by Hans Nadelhoffer, 1984. Book showcases royal and high jewelry, timepieces, and precious o...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco English Books
Materials
Paper
Pliny, Gaius Secundus: HISTORIE OF THE WORLD
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and complete first English edition of this seminal work.
Pliny, Gaius Secundus / Plinius, Gaius Secundus (23-79 AD) / Translated by Philemon Holland.
The Historie of the Wor...
Category
Early 17th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Christopher Dresser "Studies in Design"
By Christopher Dresser
Located in Sharon, CT
This is the original and complete edition of the Classic. Contains all 60 plates.
Category
1870s Aesthetic Movement Antique English Books
Materials
Paper
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
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
County Seats of the Noblemen
Gentlemen of Great Britain
Ireland (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A set of seven beautifully bound volumes in morocco red leather with gilt decorations and crest to front and rear. A stunning collection of this pictorial work of British and Irish c...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Paper
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
Charlie Mackesy The Boy, the Mole, the Fox
the Horse SIGNED set - 1st Edition
By Charlie Mackesy
Located in London, GB
A very rare complete collection of signed true First edition / First Print of all five published editions of
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
All hand signed in person by the author, artist and illustrator Charlie Mackesy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald transl. – 1889 – Petrus Ruban binding
Located in Middletown, NY
This is the first McCarthy translation of this popular text by the Persian polymath.
London: David Nutt / Chiswick Press, 1889.
12mo, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in (170 x 105 mm) pp. lxii + clv...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Little White Bird by J. M. Barrie - creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
PETER PAN makes his first appearance in this 1902 novel by J. M. Barrie.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.
FIRST EDITION / FIRST ISSUE
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm)...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Set of 6 Leather Bound Faux Dummy/Faux English Library Book Fronts, 20th C
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of 6 Leather Bound Faux Dummy/Faux English Library Book Fronts, England, Later 20th Century
This set of six leather-bound faux dummy English library book fronts from the late 20...
Category
Late 20th Century Neoclassical English Books
Materials
Brass
$948 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1786 - 2 volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals and Illustrated In Their Different Significant By Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar
London: printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding...
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Late 18th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Complete Newgate Calendar. Stories of sin, crime, criminals - 5 vol. illustr
Located in Middletown, NY
Rayner, J.L. and G.T. Crook, editors
The Complete Newgate Calendar; Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murdere...
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Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Geometrical and Graphical Essays by George Adams (1750-1795)
Located in Middletown, NY
Geometrical and Graphical Essays [and] Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays.; By the late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, & c.
London: W. & S. Jones, 1813. Fourth Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (228 x 145 mm). Text volume: pp. frontispiece, xii, 534, [16] ads; Plates vol.: pp. title page and 34 folding plates. Previous owner's name penned on the first free flyleaf. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards, untrimmed, housed in a felt-lined custom clamshell box, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Occasional browning to the edges of some of the plates in Vol. 2, 1/2 inch tear to fold of Pl. VIII and 1 inch tear to the edge of Pl XIV, none of these minor flaws affecting the images. Frontispiece "The Great Theodolite, by Ramsden, Used by the late Gen.l Roy &c. in the great English Trigonometrical Operations." This is the "Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P. S.
[ESTC T88416, 1791 edition].
The last chapter of these fascinating volumes includes conversion tables to various standard national measure ranging from the Paris foot to the Russian archine, to the Venice braccio, the Egyptian stadium to 'The mathematical foot of China'.
GEORGE ADAMS the younger (1750–1795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. In politics Adams was a Tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III, who made him his official mathematical instrument maker, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. George III was personally interested in instruments and had Adams produce items for him exclusively, many in silver. These instruments now form a collection which is housed in London's Science Museum Royal collection Adams was also known for making globes, and for inventing the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp...
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Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Picasso Minotaurs and Matadors by John Richardson Exhibition Catalog, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors by John Richardson and Gertje R. Utley, Exhibition Catalog. Rizzoli International Publications, 2017. 1st Ed softcover. The exhibition on April 28–Aug...
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2010s English Books
Materials
Paper
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS
GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Christie
s, The Wildenstein Collection, December 2005" Book
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's, The Wildenstein Collection, December 2005. New York: Christie's, 2005. Softcover. 180 pp. The majority of the works were undisturbed since their acquisition up to one hun...
Category
Late 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Art at Auction: the Year at Sotheby
s, 1985-1986, 1st Ed
By Sotheby
s
Located in valatie, NY
Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1985-86, Edit by Georgia Fogg. Printed by Sotheby's, London. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of t...
Category
1980s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Set of 4 Antique Distressed Books for Decoration, C.1800
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderfully distressed books with a lovely color of boards and equally beautiful fore edges.
They are random volumes of The Encyclopedia Britannica...
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Early 1800s Georgian Antique English Books
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Paper
DOVES PRESS: Dramatis Personae by Robert BROWNING
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Doves Press, 1910.
Limited Edition
Small 4to, 9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (230 x 160 mm); 203 + [7] pp.; one of 250 copies, with an additional 15 on vellum...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Christie
s: 2011, Duarte Pinto Coelho Collection, Madrid
Trujillo, Spain
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: 2011, Duarte Pinto Coelho Collection, Madrid & Trujillo, Spain. 1st Ed auction catalog with 753 lots all photographed in color and fully descr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald transl. – 1926 – Zaehnsdorf binding
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely edition of the poetry of Omar Khayyám, whose verses fed the orientalist craze of fin-de-siècle Europe.
Khayyám, Omar / Translated by Edward Fitzgerald / Decorated by Thomas...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
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 ...
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Early 17th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco by Victor Arwas
Located in valatie, NY
Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco by Victor Arwas. Academy Editions, London, 1980. Second Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 256pp 104 color plates and 212 b&w. The most important and c...
Category
1980s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Antique Charles Dickens First Edition Little Dorrit 1857 Chapman
Hall Book
By Charles Dickens
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 1st edition book titled Little Dorrit was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1857 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
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...
Category
18th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
s "Zapolya, a Christmas Tale" in Fine Leather Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale; in Two Parts: The Prelude entitled "The Usurper's Fortune;" and The Sequel, entitled "The Usurper's Fate."
London: Rest Fenner, ...
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Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS
GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers to which is added, Porsoniana;
Located in Middletown, NY
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...
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19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue Complete Edition with Illustrations
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a rare first edition hardback copy of The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue, Complete Edition IN ONE VOLUME with Illustrations by GAVARNI and GIRARDET, published by George Routl...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique English Books
Materials
Paper
"Mark Rothko 1903 - 1970" Book 1987
By Mark Rothko
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare copy of "Mark Rothko 1903 - 1970" book, circa 1996. The book is in very good vintage condition with no torn or missing pages and contains 94 full color plates and 15 black-and-w...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern English Books
Materials
Paper
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