Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900, Second Edition, "ordinary issue" octavo, publisher's marbled boards and half green morocco with decorative gilt stamping within the spine panels. T.e.g. Houghton Mifflin, Matching marbled endpapers. A few minor revisions were made in the text of the second edition. The preface is new and the note..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1884, First American Edition. octavo, brown cloth. James R. Osgood, One of 1,500 copies printed from the Macmillan (English) plates. E & L A21 b. BAL 10563. Issued in five different color cloths; no precedence. Cloth slightly dust soiled and cloth with minor scuffing at edges..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, Second Edition, American issue. small octavo, blue cloth with decorative gilt stamp along top of spine and front cover. Macmillan and Co., Back coated endpapers. Edel and Laurence A31b. Water spot on back cover, else a fine, bright copy. The corner of the front endpaper..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, Second Edition, American issue. small octavo, blue cloth with decorative gilt stamp along top of spine and front cover. Macmillan and Co., Back coated endpapers. Edel and Laurence A31b. Light silverfishing to front cover and spine, one inch of front cover faded. Two names inked..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., (1917), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles. (362)pp. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., Portrait photograph by A. L. Coburn. Edited by Percy Lubbock. Edel & Laurence A178a; BAL 10695. Two small water spots on front cover, several short tears to..... More
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1885, Second Edition. octavo, dark blue fine-bead-grain cloth, decorative embossed bands in gilt and black across front cover and spine and in blind across back cover. Macmillan and Co., Brown coated endpapers. Edel & Laurence A27b. This two volume second edition had a 1,000 copy press..... More
London: Macmillan, 1890, Colonial Issue. small octavo, dark green smooth cloth. Macmillan, Edel and Laurence F53. With a letterpress book label, signature, place and date on front endpaper of Mary C. F. Stuart, East London, July 25th '99." 4 pp. of ads at end. Hinge weak at title page. Light..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903, First American Edition. octavo, dark green cloth. T.e.g. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Edel and Laurence A59b; BAL 10655. A very fine, clean, bright copy. Gilt stamping on spines and gilt rule along top edges of covers very bright with just a small crinkle to..... More
London: George Allen, 1891 (1890?), First Combined Edition. small octavo, light blue cloth. George Allen, With printed Erratum slip tipped to front free endpaper. "Cory's poetry, popularized by the two printings at the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century and by A. C. Benson's further edition in..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1959), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 316 pp. Faber and Faber, Foreword by Sydney Cockerell. As well as being considered the classic biography of an extraordinary man, this book is also a marvelously informative introduction to the history of calligraphy in this century..... More
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, May, 1917, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. (64)pp., sewn. Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Edited by Harriet Monroe. Poems on pages 72-75. The poems were later included in Poems Penyeach, (1927). The foot of the front wrapper is rubber-stamped "T. Oliver Jenkins." Jenkins edited the poetry magazine..... More
Worcester [Mass]: Achille J. St. Onge, [1961], Unnumbered "Limited Edition" 6.7 x 4.7 cm, full navy blue calf stamped in gilt. A.e.g. (32) pp. Achille J. St. Onge, Photographic portrait of Kennedy tipped-in as frontispiece. Printed from Lutetia type on 'Old Kentucky Linen' paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem..... More
London: Douglas Cleverdon, 1977, First Edition, one of 45 copies signed by Geoffrey Keynes and printed on Arches paper of a total printing of 345. octavo, green cloth and black morocco, top edge stained green. xxiv, 117 pp. Douglas Cleverdon, Very fine and clean. More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, 1902, 1911 and 1903, First Edition. large octavo, original printed paper wrappers. (vii), xxxviii. 510pp., 1 leaf; (xxiv), (88)pp; (iv), (92)pp. Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, Volume 1 contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of Delisle. Delisle was curator of manuscripts and later..... More
(London): The British Museum Press, (2004), First Edition. large quarto, blue boards in dust jacket. 100 pp., followed by 100 plates. The British Museum Press, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan in the British Museum preserves one of the most extensive collections outside Egypt of funerary papyri, among which..... More
Bruxelles: de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, 1809, First Edition, Large Paper copy printed on laid paper. octavo, rebound in red marbled boards and red leather spine. [ii], iv, 216 pp. de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, About ten leaves with water stain along edges, including..... More
Rochester, NY: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1955, First Edition, Liited to 100 copies. quarto, mauve boards and grey cloth over metal spiral binding. 46 leaves. The Press of the Good Mountain, A compilation of quotes by various printers and designers using different fonts and papers. Covers bumped at..... More
(London): Sheila Markham Rare Books, (2014), First Edition Limited to 500 copies. octavo, boards in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Sheila Markham Rare Books, The antiquarian book trade-- the last resort of the English eccentric--is rich in colorful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its..... More
New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1986, "Preliminary Edition" quarto, printed wrappers. xvi, 395 pp. The Myriade Press, A history of approximately 300 typefaces which are shown in upper and lower cases with numerals and punctuation. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along..... More
New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1986, "Preliminary Edition" quarto, printed wrappers. xvi, 395 pp. The Myriade Press, A history of approximately 300 typefaces which are shown in upper and lower cases with numerals and punctuation. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along..... More
London: Printed for The Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1932, First Edition. large quarto, tan boards with linen spine. (xlviii), 234 pp. Printed for The Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society, No. XXI. "The present volume is intended to include..... More
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1913, First Edition. large quarto, tan boards and linen. T.e.g. liv, 216 pp., (i). The Bibliographical Society, "The introduction to this definitive work classifies the devices as signs indicating where the printer worked, puns upon the owner's name, monograms, portraits, heraldic devices or emblems. There are..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1992), First Edition. large 8vo, cloth. 136 pp. D. S. Brewer, No fewer than twenty-three of Pepys's thirty-eight medieval manuscripts contain Middle English texts, and date from the 14th and 15th centuries. Devotional tracts and religious poetry predominate, though there is also a corpus of..... More
(Raleigh, North Carolina): Charles Millard, 1999, First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies. large octavo, printed handmade paper dust jacket wrapped around plain purple paper. (ii), (12) pp. Charles Millard, A reflection on Oscar Wilde's visit and lecture in Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of his 1882 tour of..... More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 534 pp. Legacy Press, Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship..... More