Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. New vellum-paper spine, blue boards, with original spine laid-on. A fine, largely unopened copy. 'Tristam' occupies fully one half of the volume. More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Three stiff cards 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. These cards date from about 1930 and were distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various..... More
London: Strahan & Co., 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Two Idylls: Gareth and Lynette and The Last Tournament. Full contemporary dark blue niger morocco binding by Mansell. Raised bands; spine in six compartments, gilt. Gilt rules and corner ornaments on upper and lower boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. 41pp. Illustrated with nine full page steel engravings by Doré. Later binding of blue buckram, gilt spine title. Occasional very faint trace of foxing, mainly on the tissue guards, the first tissue guard with an..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood. & Co., 1870. First US edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles, boards embossed in blind Light rubbing else a fine copy. The other Arthurian poems are: The Coming of Arthur, Pelleas and Ettarre, the Passing of Arthur, followed by seven additional Poems. These four Arthurian..... More
Norwalk. CT: The Easton Press, (2002). Illustrated by Gistave Doré. Hardcover. Folio. Facsimile of the first Doré-illustrated edition of Tennyson's Idylls. Full leather blocked in gilt on the spine and on the boards. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Moiré endpapers. Bookplate, else a fine copy. More
London: Edward Moxon, 1857. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. First illustrated edition. 4to. (1-vi), vi-xiii, (xiv-xvi), (1), 2-375, (376) cardstock pages. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W. J. Linton, etc., after D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. Holman Hunt, etc. A lovely and pleasant binding by Zaehnsdorf..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. First Brickdale edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),216pp. Brown cloth blocked on the spine and upper boards with titles in gilt and designs in dark brown. Illustrated endpapers. Twelve full color full page plates by Brickdale. A fine..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. Full vellum tooled in gilt and blue on the spine and upper board; top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with twenty full color tipped-in plates by Eleanor Brickdale. Ribbon ties have been replaced, else this is a...... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type..... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type..... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Publisher's original cloth in a small diaper design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type 'H' (Tomlinson). Krupp (p.23) ascribes an appearance date of 1836..... More
Montrose: James Watt, 1814. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 434pp. Contemporary faded and stained plain green cloth rebacked in a deeper green cloth with gilt spine titles and rules. A few stains and marginal notes; three bookplates; notes on rear endpapers; repaired tear on C3; else a very good copy. The..... More
London: Scolar Press, 1980. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 4to. Facsimile of the 1532 (1533) Paris printing from the copy held in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. The 13th century Romance celebrates the deeds of Meliadus, father of Tristan, Lac, the father of Erec..... More
NY: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Second state, without the erroneous 's' on page 59. Pictorial green cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in gilt, black and blue on the upper board. Floral endpapers. Light wear to the corners and edges, inner hinges neatly..... More
London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. Half leather, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spines with gilt titles. Top edges gilt. Contains: Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. (1873?). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 12mo. 48 pages of full color illustrations incorporated into the letterpress stories of Red Riding-Hood, Puss-in-Boots, Mother Hubbard, Cock Robin's Death, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, and Tom Thumb. Red cloth spine, Printed boards in black and red on..... More
Glastonbury: n.p., (1955). Unpublished manuscript. Unpublished manuscript. 200pp. written in ink on one side only, bound with cord into a light board cover. 7-1/2 x 9'. The manuscript, entirely in Webb's legible hand, contains a preface 'To the Critic'; a foreword by Albert C. R. Carter, King Arthur's Champion, Knights..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1914). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix,(3),396pp. Bibliography, Indexes. Green ribbed cloth, gilt spine title, blind embossing on the upper board. Ink ownership name of Ethel Wood. Ink underlining and notes in the same hand, else this is a very good copy. More
London: David Nutt, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 96pp. Original cloth blocked in blue, green, black and gilt on the upper board. 1898 inscription on the frent free endpaper else a near fine copy. No. 1 in the Nutt series of "Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur'"... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939-1940. First US editions. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edges stained red, fore-edges untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers of the first volume illustrated by Robert Lawson. Near fine copies with..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Second impression. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some paperclip marks on the half-title, else a fine..... More
London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4,(2),388; xxvii,(2, 389-)815pp. Full contemporary calf, spines in six compartments intricately gilt; brown leather lettering labels, with red onlays for the volume numbers. The leather has been rubbed in a few places, notably on the upper board of colume two, else..... More
