Chester River Press, 2011. Illustrated by Avery Lawrence. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. 550pp. Black cloth, gilt spine titles. Homer's Greek is faced with Pope's English. Illustrated with fifty color plates showing scenes inspired by the text and in the style of Greek vases, A fine copy in fine dustwrappers and..... More
Londini: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al. 1783. Hardcover. Editio Decima Quarta. 8vo. (20),631,(125)pp. Contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Title page in red and black. Hinges, corners and edges nicely repaired; leather and lettering label, including gilt, rubbed;some contemporary notes; some..... More
London: John Pine [Iohannes Pine], 1733-37. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Contemporary full crimson leather, intricately tooled in a 'cottage' design on all boards. Sometime rebacked in matching leather. The reback is itself a work of art: The spines are in 6 compartments, separated by raised bands tooled in gilt..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Gray linen spine, printed paper label, pale blue paper boards. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press on handmade paper. One of..... 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: Duckworth & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 315, (1) pp. Bound by Bayntum of Bath in polished green calf, spine in six compartments, intricately gilt, red and black lettering labels, gilt, gilt rules on boards, gilt inner dentellers, all edges gilt, marbles endpapers. Original green cloth boards bound..... More
London: WIlliam Heinemann, 1913. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Hardcover. Thick 4to. 549pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Rackham. Finely bound by Sotheran in half blue Levant morocco, spine in six compartments, intricately gilt; blue cloth boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Trace of sunning to the spine but..... More
Hollywood: Hollycrofters, 1937. Limited edition. Stapled wraps. Folio. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (8pp.) Finely printed on rag paper in an edition of 50 copies. Hand set in 16 point Poliphilus roman with italic Blado. "These to type faces are of great historic interest. The Poliphilus derives its name from the..... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Hardcover. Green cloth printed in black. A near fine copy with only traces of wear. The dustwrapper is sunned to a pleasant tan color on the spine, else it is in near fine condition and not price-clipped. Facsimile of the first..... More
East Aurora: Roycroft, 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. One of 920 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard; this is copy No. 755. Nicely bound in full orange morocco, title in blind on the spine, and the binding signed 'Denny'. In a custom clamshell case of buckram with the embossed..... More
London: Robt. Riviere & SOn, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated. Finely bound in red calf, sumptuously gilt on the spine and both boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Riviere. More
London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Black victorian cloth, paper label. Neatly rebacked in matching cloth (not quite as sunned as the original) with original spine laid-on. Original yellow endpapers retained. Label and original spine soiled and chipped else a very good copy in modern..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, (1956). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 186pp. Black cloth, lavender spine title. Ownership name on the front free endpaper dated September 7, 1956, else a fine bright copy. The dustwrapper has a couple of small chips at the edges and is light darkened at the spine..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Lang, 1790. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First US edition. vii,(6),12-502pp, with p. 529 misnumbered as p. 527. Original full marbled sheep; spine with simple gilt rules and with a red lettering piece, gilt. Some mainly marginal staining at the beginning and the end, signatures F through L...... More
London: Longman, Hurst, 1817. Hardcover. Two large 8vo volumes. (4),lxiii,(3),xxxix,(1)383,(1);(4)495,(1)pp. Printed from Caxton's edition of 1485. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England. First edition with Southey's notes. Each volume with a large woodcut on the title page showing a knight and a dragon..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, 1817. Hardcover. Two large 8vo volumes. (4),lxiii,(3),xxxix,(1)383,(1);(4)495,(1)pp. Printed from Caxton's edition of 1485. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England. First edition with Southey's notes. Each volume with a large woodcut on the title page showing a knight and a...... More
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1879. Hardcover. 12mo. xxxvii,(3),509,(1)pp. Red polished calf, spine intricately gilt, leather lettering label, gilt, boards tooled in gilt and with the seal of Haileybury College on the upper board, marbled endpapers and edges. Award plate (Diligentiae Premium) on the front pastedown awarding E...... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy..... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 268. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed in..... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 56. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed..... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 171. Half brick-red morocco, cream-colored cloth sides. Printed in red and black..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1910-1911. Illustrated by W.Russell Flint. First edition. 4 volumes. 4to. The Text of William Caxton in modernized spelling. 46 colored plates by William Russell Flint. Tissue guards printed in red. Full limp vellum; gilt titles; top edges gilt. Green silk ties; white ribbon..... More
Paris: 1688. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (3 x 5'). Sixth printing of this classic. (iv), 3-108pp. Later binding of stiff boards covered in marbled paper. Full page engraved frontispiece followed by the title, list of actors and the text. A reimpression of the Elzevir first edition of 1671. A very..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Vellum spine, gilt; blue paper boards with a vignette on the upper board of a knight in dark blue, red and gilt. Illustrated and hand-illumined by Valenti Angelo, who signed on the limitation page. One of 1500 copies; this..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. First US edition. Very good. 2 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in original boards: drab cloth spines, paper over boards, remnants of printed lettering labels. Expected wear at edges, some soiling, else a very good set. The first American edition of the third of Morier's..... More
