Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (Dutch: Christoffel Plantijn), 1580. First Canter Edition. 32mo; 4 1/4 x 3 in. (152 x 80 mm); pp. 355 + vii; texts in Greek, introduction and notes in Latin. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed at head and foot, touching..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. First Edition, third impression. 8vo, 8 x 5 1/3 inches (203 x 133 mm); 180 pp, printed on laid paper; pink cloth with black title on spine. Dust jacket with price (2s. 6d. net) intact on front flap, sunned on edges and spine, with a...... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First Edition. Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. vi + 207. Beautiful red calf binding Red calf binding by Root & Son, with gold fillets and rosettes on boards, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and titles in compartments, turn-ins..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Hugh Thompson. First, Limited Edition. 4to, Deluxe Edition, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (312 x 242 mm); pp. viii + 198 + 2. Twenty-two (22) color illustrations by Hugh Thompson tipped into pages within grey ruled decorative borders, and numerous in-text illustrations. Printed tissue..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x140 mm); pp. xii, 1272. Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamped in gold at the bottom of front turn-in) in blue crushed morocco with gilt fillets on covers and turn-ins, title in gilt, five raised bands with..... More
London: C. Baldwyn, 1824. Cruikshank and Crowkill. First Edition. Tall 8vo, 9 x 5 5/8 in. (230 x 143 mm); pp. [4], 68. 12 hand-colored etchings by George Cruikshank on Whatman paper from drawings by Crowkill. Binding by Bayntun, Bath (Bayntun Binder Bath Eng. stamped on verso of ffep), 3/4..... More
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Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1915. Limited Edition. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (235 x 166 mm); xii + 76 + colophon + errata + xiv pp.; printed in black and red ink; pages clean and bright, with no foxing or staining. Colophon and list of corrections to..... More
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1909. Large 8vo, 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches (235 x 162 mm); 158, (2), 23 Appendix, (1) pp. Printed in black and red with a calligraphed initial in green ink by Edward Johnston. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery with gilt lettering. One of..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First, Limited Edition. 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (244 x 160 mm); 359 pp. Half title, limitation page, frontispiece portrait photograph by Arnold Genthe, title page printed in black and blue with decorative border; 23 photographic plates. Polished black cloth with beveled..... More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First Edition. 12mo. 7 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (192 x 113 mm); 64 pp; most pages uncut. Illustrated with 12 hand-colored plates including frontispiece, unattributed, in the style of George Cruikshank, that were printed separately and stitched in. Includes the full-page advertisement for "William Sutherland..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American Edition. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (219 x 147 mm); 190 pp., + 1 leaf of music, and verso with cast of first Edinburgh Festival production. Black cloth boards lettered in gold on spine; binding tight and pages clean..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. First, Limited Edition. Small 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 127 mm), 59 pp.; 11 pt Caslon Old Face type, on mould-made paper. 1/4 bound in linen with tan boards, title in black on label. Toning on endpaper but otherwise..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Eric Ravilious. 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 Batchelor paper with Golden Cockerell watermark and set in Golden Cockerel type. Wood-engraved..... More
Tours: Giametto Metaieri, 1592. 12mo5 1/2 x 3 inches (140 x 76 mm); 146 pp. including a sonnet in French by R. Brisset and a page of errata. Title page with decorative border and several dropcaps, decorative head and tail pieces Hansome René Kieffer binding in pebbled red morocco, raised..... More
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1895. L. Leloir / Champollion. Limited Edition. 16mo., 7 x4 5/8 (175 x 116 mm). pp. (4), XV, (1), 48. One of only 20 copies on Japon with three states of the frontispiece engraving by Champollion after L. Leloir; tissue guards; title printed in red and..... More
Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1932. Jean Bruller (1902 – 1991). Limited Edition. 8vo, 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (260 x 180 mm); (10), 128, (18) pp., printed in black and red on Rives wove paper; 4 original etchings by Jean Bruller printed in brown-black ink, tissue guards, and..... More
London: William Miller, 1804. First Edition. 2 vol, small 8vo.; 9 x 5 3/8 (226 x 140 mm); vol. 1: xii, [2], 171 [1 blank]; vol. 2: iv, 164, [1 blank] pp.; large paper copy. Ten hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Stadler after Repton's drawings. Stipple-engraved title vignettes by H.R...... More
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898. First Edition. 12mo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.(192 x 133 mm), 225 pp. 1898 Riviere and Son binding in red crushed morocco, Art Nouveau leaf-spray devices gilt to spine and covers, gilt fillets on turn-ins and binder's mark which reads "R. Riviere &..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1949. 8vo, 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches (182 x 133 mm) viii, 1164, [2] pp. Handsome half blue-green morocco binding with marbled boards; raised bands, gilt titles and small decorations in compartments. Very light foxing on the first and last two pages, lightly toning on..... More
Paris: Éditions du Scarabée, 1929. First Edition. Large 8vo, 11 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (302 x 250 mm); 45 pp. with 4 etchings by Gio Colucci. Edition limited to 115 numbered copies on white Arches paper with Jenson type, of which this is copy no. 50 as printed on..... More
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] xli [1] 284 [2], without the plates of houses, but with a...... More
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1898. Georges Bellenger. Limited Edition. Quarto, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in (300 x 248 mm), 196 pp., red crushed morocco, boards framed with an embossed black fillet between gold fillets, same motif between the five raised bands on the spine, and gilt title; triple gold fillet..... More