Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,1980pp. Black cloth, gilt spine title. List of Arthurian Studies titles in the back. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Fron the seventeenth century opera "King Arthur" to stage and screen scores, but mostly opera: Wagner, Birtwistle's Sir..... More
Athens: Benaki Museum, 1954. Plates by Nicolas Sperling. Limited edition. Folio. 86pp. In a printed cloth portfolio with 58 (of 112) finely executed plates of Greek ethnic costumes. The plates are printed on heavy paper approximates 14 by 20 inches. Three of them (60, 61 & 62) have a small..... More
London: Early English Text Society, 1871. Hardcover. 8vo. xix,(1),208pp. Contemporary tan buckram, gilt spine title. Original wraps bound in. A very good copy. Edited form Robert Thornton's Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, This is the Alliterative Morte Darthur, dating from the latter 14th or early 15th centuries. A new..... More
London: T. Dean & Son, n.d. (ca. 1850)Large 8vo. The Alphabet of Flowers is followed by. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Original brown cloth boards, gilt. Printed endpapers advertising other Dean publications. The text contains three parts: Alphabet of Flowers (26pp), Verse and Picture Alphabet (32pp) and Stories Abut the..... More
Barcelona: Sadagcolor, 1973. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 105pp. Printed self-wraps. One of 200 numbered copies of which this is copy No. 50. Finely printed facsimile of Wynkyn de Worde's 1502 printing of the Descrypcyon of Englonde (includes Wales, Scotlonde and Irlonde), which is the latter part of his..... More
New York: Routledge, 1998. First US edition. Softcover. 8vo. xxv, (8), 570pp. Printed wraps. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Ten pages at the very beginning have some ink notes and underlining, else this is a very good copy. A diverse collection of mediaeval Arthurian literature and history, form Latin..... More
Ulm: Daniel Barthomolaei et Filium, 1744. Hardcover. Small 4to. (xxii),226pp. Engraved frontispiece (Druides) and one additional engraved plate (Druides et Druidissae). Bound to style in quarter leather; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Scarce work on Druids edited by the author's..... More
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. [6]pp, followed by 25 full page facsimiles from the Gutenberg Bible at the General Theological Seminary, New York, and published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. One of 2000 copies. Paper over boards, gilt. A...... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxix,(1),132pp. Cloth spine gilt title, drab green paper over boards, top edge gilt. Light wear and a crease to the spine, a few pencil marginalia, else a very good coy. The is the French original of a lost Elizabethan translation..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1839. Hardcover. 8vo. 296pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1839, comprising Volume VII , No. 71, through No. 82. Each issue but December is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for July and August, which each have two, plus there is a frontispiece..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1840. Hardcover. 8vo. 288pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1840, comprising Volume VIII , No. 82, through No. 94. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for April, which has three, for a total of 14 plates. With an engraved title..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1841. Hardcover. 8vo. 296pp. plus 16pp index. Bound issues from January through December, 1841, comprising Volume IX , No. 95, through No. 106. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for March and April, which each have two, for a total of..... More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, 1),275p. Maroon cloth. Silver titles on spine and upper board. Twelve essays. Illustrated. Index. A fine copy. More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, (1902). Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on..... More
London: Constable & Co, 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. xxix,244pp. Original bucktam, gilt. 16 illustrations. One of 500 numbered copies. The diary of Dawtrey Cooper, 1628, kept during the expedition to relieve La Rochelle; the journals of Jeremy Roch, 1666, describing voyages and adventures at sea under Charles II..... More
Lugd. Bat. (Leiden): Franciscum Hackium, 1648. Early Edition. Hardcover. Small, thick 8vo. (xvi),644,xl pp. Engraved title page. Bound to style in quarter maroon morocco; spine ruled in simple gilt lines; brown lettering label, gilt. 'Cum veteris Scholiastae, & Variorum Commentariis Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio'. Nice edition of Juvenal and Flaccus. The..... More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. Wraps. 8vo. 288pp. Index. Index compiled by Samuel N. Rosenberg with Daniel Golembeski. Pictorial wraps. A fine copy. The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation, Vol. 10. More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. Wraps. 8vo. vii, (1), 497pp. Index. Tranblsated by Rupert T. Pickens. Pictorial wraps. A fine copy. The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation, Vol. 2. More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. Wraps. 8vo. xxxviii, 308pp. Translated by Carol J. Chase. Pictorial wraps. A fine copy. The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation, Vol. 1. More
n.p. Syracuse University Press, 2003. Wraps. Tall 8vo. 126pp. In English but for the transcription of the manuscript, which is in Hebrew facing the English translation. Glossy wraps. The first Syracuse University printing, after a hardback published by Ktav in 1969. The Romance is a Hebrew translation of a lost..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 750pp.Deep red color cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Map endpapers of Arthur's Britain. Illustrated. Printed in two colors throughout. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well... More
London: Early English Text Society, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Also: 20952. Large, thick 4to. First edition. Gilt-lettered cloth boards. Facsimile of the 473-leaf manuscript. Cloth lightly rubbed, else this is a fine copy. Except for the introduction by Ker, the book is comprised entirely of photographs of the celebrated manuscript..... More
Philadelphia: Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc., (1946). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xx, 583pp. Maroon textured cloth, gilt. Table of Contents includes The War Years and Post-War Forecasts, Design and Construction with an article by Frank Lloyd Wright, Equipment, Management, Television. Post-War theatre plans include theatres in California and Hawaii (plus designs..... More
New York: Platt 7 Munk, (1941). Eulalie, Victor G. Becker and Arthur O. Scott. Softcover. 4to. 8 by 10 inches. Unpaginated. Red cloth with a full color paste-on to the upper bord showing the pig family. Illustrated throughout in color. Neat ink stamp on the fornt pastedown; the first page..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 254pp. Full brown leather, spine title in gilt, upper board blocked with Remington's signature in gilt and a vignette of a cow skull in blind. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white and with a full color frontispiece/..... More
