[Alken, Henry- Bound by Morrell] Memoirs of the late John Mytton, Esq
Second Edition. 8vo. Green crushed morocco, with triple-gilt fillet bordering, five raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments, by Morrell. With the uncommon original pictorial cloth gilt cover and spine bound in at end. Additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, and 18 hand-colored aquatint plates by Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins, tissue guards, without 8 pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Spine slightly rubbed and faded, a couple of marks to lower cover. The second edition, with added illustrations, is rather scarce, containing six more plates than the first edition, and with three others replaced.
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[Blake, William- One of the Rarest of All Blake Plates] Remember Me! A New Years Gift or Christmas Present, 1826
Second Issue. 12mo, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Bound in the scarce original printed yellow boards, with border design, florets, and wonderful lettering in many different styles on front cover; back cover has same rectangular device and some flourishing, but no lettering. The fragile paper backstrip is no longer present. The second issue, containing one of the rarest of all Blake's plates, 'The Hiding of Moses,' which was the last plate designed and engraved by Blake himself for a commercial publication. Originally published in 1824 this is the second issue of the book with no variance in the plate, the contents omitting blank Kalendar leaves and the mis-numbered leaves at the end. Engraved plates, including one by Blake, engraved frontispiece, title, Kalendar with title and 12 months incorporating vignettes, and Raphael's 'Virgin & Child' on four leaves printed on both sides. Contains eight pagers of engraved music, 11 engraved plates, the one by Blake at p.32, as well as eight hand-colored botanical plates. There is some foxing and marginal water-staining (worse towards end, and particularly to plate 'The Storm' at p.275). This rare book is preserved in modern cloth drop-back box. Most scarce. [Lamb, Charles and Mary- Scarce First Edition, First Issue, With Mulready’s Illustrations Likely Engraved by Blake] Tales from Shakespeare Designed for the Use of Young Persons
First Edition, First Issue. Two Volumes. 12mo. Bound in contemporary half calf, both volumes with double morocco spine labels. The rare first issue, with printer's imprint to the foot of vol. 1 p. 236 (T. Davison,Printer,/ Whiterfriars, and containing the address "Hanway Street" in vol. 2 advertisements. Engraved frontispieces and 18 plates after William Mulready, 3pp. advertisements at end of vol. 2. Seldom seen, this is the first issue of the Lambs most recognizable work, considered the first attempt to make Shakespeare accessible to a young audience. The book was commissioned by William Godwin's children's publishing house. Mary Lamb (1764-1847), whose name was omitted from the earliest editions, contributed the majority of the stories, while Charles worked on the six tragedies. The plates were designed by William Mulready, and are often said to have been engraved by William Blake. There is light and occasional spotting, some light browning; binding somewhat rubbed, joints worn. Preserved in modern custom chemises and modern half calf drop-back box. Provenance: "Charlotte Allen" (ink signatures to titles, dated 1809). [Cruikshank, Robert- In Original Cloth] Lessons of Thrift
First Edition. 8vo. 10 x 6 1/2 inches. Bound in the original cloth, paper spine label, uncut. Hand-coloured engraved title and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Cruikshank, advertisement leaf at end (often lacking), some light soiling and browning, plates a little offset, spine faded, corners bumped. Scarce in original cloth. [Locke, John] An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
Fourth Edition. Folio. Bound in attractive contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked. Engraved portrait, 18th century ownership inscription to front free endpaper, very occasional correction or annotation in a contemporary hand. First published in 1690, and in this fourth edition in 1700, the last published in his lifetime, Locke makes important alterations in his use of the terms "determinate" & "determined" ideas. While other philosophers had focused human knowledge as a way to reveal and point toward right human action, Locke was the first philosopher to devote his inquiry into the complex web of human understanding, its scope and its inherent limitation; and he occupies a prominent place in shaping modern philosophy by his development of the theory of knowledge. This edition also adds two new chapters. c2-3 little dust-soiled at fore-edge, 3C1 & 3C4 lower margin foreshortened, 2Z1 small paper-flaw hole affecting few words, occasional spotting, minor worm trace to blank lower corner towards end, wear to corners, covers rubbed. [Macmurdo, A. H.- Among Earliest Art Nouveau Illustration Printed- William Fredeman’s Copy, with Extra Bookplates] Wren’s City Churches
First Edition. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Original publishers half-parchment with exquisite and historical cover image (also appearing as full-size title page) considered to be one of the earliest appearances of a distinctly Art Nouveau design in a printed book. Half-title, decorative "Art Nouveau" title-page, and striking mezzotint frontispiece by G. Allen (after Mackmurdo). In 1882 Mackmurdo founded the Century Guild "to render all branches of Art the sphere no longer of the tradesman but of the Artist," and in the following year designed the striking title and cover design to his Wren's City Churches, which, "with its swirling pattern, is one of the precursors of English art nouveau." (ODNB). Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851 ñ 1942) began as a progressive English architect and designer, who influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement, notably through the Century Guild of Artists, which he set up in partnership with Herbert Horne in 1882. He was the pioneer of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) and in turn global Art Nouveau movement. His earliest artistic influence was John Ruskin, who had been a major source of inspiration for both first- and second-generation Pre-Raphaelites. Mackmurdo learned the tenets of Pre-Raphaelite design from William Morris, who convinced him to establish the Century Guild, which he founded in 1882 with Selwyn Image. "The illustration ó nearly identical to Mackmurdo's design carved on the back of a dining room chair produced about 1882 and to Thorns and Butterflies, a wallpaper conceived around 1886, depicts serpentine stalks of flowers that separate at the top of the page and coalesce into one large stalk at the bottom." (Timothy R. Rogers, for Victorian Web). This was originally William E. Fredeman's Copy (foremost Pre-Raphaelite scholar), with his circular monogram bookplate, and a packet of four other unused "WEF" bookplates loosely inserted. As well, with prospectus for Sparrow Simpson's "St. Paul's Cathedral and Old City Life" loosely inserted. An amazing copy, in fine condition, with only minor bumping to corners. The parchment spine, almost always seen discolored and/or worn, is nearly as new. Most scarce thus. [Rowlandson, Thomas- Magnum Opus] The Microcosm of London
Three large quarto volumes, measuring binding size: 14 1/8 x 11 1/2 inches, (353 x 295mm); and paper size: 13 1/2 x 11 1/4 inch (340 x 285mm). Contemporary half morocco, spines titled in gilt. According to Abbey, one of the greatest color-plate books ever produced, with wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves (with vignettes), and 104 stunning hand-colored aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin (some watermarked as early as 1805, others varying dates, including "J. Whatman 1831"). Joints rubbed, light off-setting onto text, a clean and bright copy with superb quality impressions. [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to (345 x 285mm.),âR. Ackermann, [1808-1810]. Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), includes his Paley Park bookplate in each volume. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868. [Stone & Kimball- One of 50 Copies] The Building of the City Beautiful
First Edition. Original publisher's drab boards, with paper label on spine. The scarce limited large paper edition, 50 copies only, signed by publishers, Stone & Kimball. Rubricated title page, 196pp, printed on thick paper, side and bottom edges uncut, top edges trimmed. Some wear to spine, a very good copy of a scarce and important Stone & Kimball imprint. [Hugo, Victor- First English in Original Cloth, Near Fine] The Last Days of a Condemned; With Observations on Capital Punishment by M. P. Fleetwood (as preface). Smith, Elder and Co
First English Edition. 8vo. Original publisher's blue fine ribbed cloth with superb blindstamped central design depicting the inside of a cathedral, gilt lettering to spine. Scarce first edition, with variant blue cloth; superb stamped design of the interior of the church of the Carmelite Friary on both covers. A penetrating and important psychological study written in the first person, strongly attacking capital punishment and calling, in prophetic terms, for reform: "We shall look on crime as a disease, physician shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the galleys' etc." This is a very scarce Hugo title, and almost never seen in presentable condition. Our copy is near fine. One of the earliest titles by Victor Hugo to appear in English, translated by Fleetwood, M.P., a vigorous abolitionist who here strongly argues the case in a 40pp preface and concludes that the "criminality of individuals is more frequently traceable to the evils incidental to an imperfect social system." A near fine copy, with slight loss to top 0.3 cm of spine, slight fading to cloth. [Herkomer, Hubert von- Original Charcoal Portrait of the Artist’s Wife]
Offered here is a charcoal drawing on art paper by Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914), noted British painter, of his wife (initialed, "HH"), made in 1886, including a sketch on the verso with the same subject. An interesting piece, where the artist shows the process of making a portrait; these were later made into the well-known lithos, with a specific method the artist had developed. Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer who developed into a very successful portrait artist. Scarce thus. [Ritchie, Ward- One of Only 37 Copies] Interrogate the Stones
5Î x 7Î in. [4] pp. (one sheet, folded). Buff paper sheet. Minor foxing. Very good. One of thirty-seven copies. Numbered in ink by Ritchie. This is a rare early piece printed by Ward Ritchie when he was a student at Frank Wiggins Trade School. [Rowlandson, Thomas- A Great Rarity] Etchings of Landscapes from Scenes in Cornwall.
In original stitched glazed pale pink wrappers, with gilt-stamped black paper label to upper wrapper. Set of 16 superb hand-coloured etchings, [c.1812] by Thomas Rowlandson, some signed in the plate, some without caption or imprint, watercolor wash sometimes extending beyond plate. Some light marginal soiling, bookplate removed, upper wrapper slightly rubbed and soiled, spine worn with slight loss, lower wrapper frayed at upper edge, preserved in later green cloth portfolio. Extremely scarce, and rarer so, in the hand-colored state. No copies found on internet. [Binding, Fine- Bound by CapÈ, y and Superbly Tooled by Marius Michel] Poesis Tacins, Pictura Loquens
12mo. 5 x 3 inches. Magnificently bound in 19th century crushed red morocco, by CapÈ, and finely tooled in gilt by Marius-Michel, featuring an all-over fanfare binding with strapwork, leafy sprays and other small ornaments; spine with title and compartments tooled in gilt with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, signed by CapÈ to head of front free endpaper. Engraved architectural title, coat-of-arms and 11 exquisite full-page illustrations, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. A fabulous and scarce early work examining and presenting the association of poetry to painting, a concept often misunderstood by later followers, who wrongly interpreted Horace's original famous phrase, "ut pictura poeses" ("as is painting, so is poetry") to completely conflate poetry and painting, but not in its original intention which was to try to use aspects of painting as a metaphor to illustrate ways to express beautiful poetry. Among the more prominent of these followers was Daniel Manasser, whose scarce title herewith can be translated, "Silent Poetry and Speaking Pictures," indicating the idea that the "picture" and the "poem" should be seamlessly united together. The Solar-Huth-Abbey Copy (FÈlix Solar, sale, Paris, 1860, lot 2297 as noted in pencil on front free endpaper); Henry Huth (small morocco book-label); J.R. Abbey, (small morocco book-label). Preserved in later blue cloth drop-back box with red morocco label and Abbey book-label mounted on lid. Most scarce thus. [Vienna Secession- Scarce Publication in Fine Condition] Das Interieur
First Edition. 4to, 8 x 12 inches. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers with superb cover illustration, and the entire work loaded with photographs of exhibition pieces by Kolomon Moser and Joseph Hoffmann, Issue June 6, 1903, pp. 81-106, as issued. In fine condition. Rarely seen thus. [Daniel Press- With Handwritten Receipt from C. H. Daniel Laid-in] Hymns
First Edition. Original printed light green wrappers, untrimmed as issued with title, author and date on front cover and woodcut publisher's device on rear cover. With original handwritten receipt from Ch. H. Daniel to Mrs. F. P. Morrell of Black Hall, Oxford (dated June 27, 1899), denoting two copies purchased, and the price, as well as citing that these were copies 9 and 10. Of only 150 copies printed, this is number "x." There were only five publications printed by Henry Daniel in Oxford, while he was bursar of Worcester College. The words of the first fourteen hymns were first printed in a small pamphlet in 1897 by the Clarendon Press, and the last fifteen first published here. Near fine. [Bell, Robert Anning- Original Art] Pen and Ink Drawing
Bell, Robert Anning An original and early pen and ink drawing measuring 6 x 4 1/2 inches (image size) by Robert Anning Bell, English Arts & Crafts artist and designer, depicting four fairy figures and a baby, from Act II. Scene I of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare, in pen and ink, with a few daubs heightened in white, undated, but 1895. A very expressive and representative illustration by this master of book illustration at the Turn of the Century in England. House in its "original" Arts & Crafts wood frame, with the framer's original label, "City Frame Company, etc" and a note opposite in a modern hand: "In its original frame with this label." Fine.- $1,850
- $1,850
[Garden] Alphabet of Botany, for the Use of Beginners
Rennie, James 12mo, xx, 122pp., preliminary advert leaf. In the publisher's original dark green glazed linen boards (very early cloth binding!) with printed paper label on the cover, a vignette woodcut on title page, and woodcut text illustrations. A very good copy of the scarce first edition. James Rennie (1787-1867) graduated from Glasgow University where he initially studied natural sciences, moved to London in 1821, and between 1830 to 1834, was professor of natural history and zoology at King's College. He emigrated to Australian 1840, headed up the College High School in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, with an emphasis on the arts and natural history. The second series of ëAlphabetí books of which Rennie proposed to publish a volume or part every two or three months.î They were designed to improve on the ëLibrary of Useful Knowledgeí which he thought too abstruse, and ill-adapted for beginners. Very good with slight nick, wear to spine. Most scarce.- $250
- $250
[Binding, Fine- Kelly & Sons, 60 Copies Only] Trivia, and Other Poems
Gay, John Attractively bound in Art Nouveau brown morocco, gilt, by Kelly & Sons, Limited to Only 60 copies (of which this is #50), printed on Japan Vellum and signed by the publishers. Both covers feature a panel of intertwining gilt flowers and leaves within single gilt fillet border, spine titled in gilt and with floral tendril weaving up spine across compartments, five raised bands, turn-ins with gilt rules and small leaves to corners. The gilt binder's signature appears at the foot of the front turn-in. Gilt edges. Very slight rubbing to edges. Fine.- $1,250
- $1,250
[Rowlandson, Thomas- Bound by Riviere & Son] The History of Johnny Quae Genus
Rowlandson (Thomas).- Combe (William) First Edition. Bound in crushed and polished olive green morocco, gilt, by RiviËre & Son with a triple gilt fillet border ruling, spine with intricate gilt tooling in all six compartments. Superb gilt-tooled dentelles, and fine maroon pastedowns and free endpapers. All edges gilt The work features 24 hand-coloured aquatints after Thomas Rowlandson, errata slip re pagination bound in, Some very occasional marginal soiling or staining to plates and light offsetting but generally an excellent clean copy.- $850
- $850
[Rowlandson, Thomas- Rarity] Petticoat Loose: A Fragmentary “Tale of the Castle”
Wolcot, John [Peter Pindar] First Edition. 4to. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Contemporary smooth call with three gilt fillet border lines, five raised bands with intricate gilt-tooled panels, all edges gilt. This rather rare Rowlandson title features four hand-coloured etched plates by Rowlandson/ The book is a a poem on the fall of an "under-petticoat" at a ball at Dublin Castle. The Albert M. Cohn copy with bookplate. This prose work by Wolcot, aka Peter Pinder, lavishes on the theme of gaining interest by placing characters in comic situations. It has been said (Chen) i".polished epigram, [Pindar] loves to slip one of two sly colloquialisms into verses written in the formal Eighteenth Century style, and, thus bring out the broad fun of his conceptions." Pindar satirized Dr. Johnson and Boswell, as well as George III. Not in TOOLEY. A remarkable copy internally, all edges gilt, printed on fine, thin paper. Near fine, with some wear to covers. Very scarce.- $2,850
- $2,850
starburst binding [Binding, Fine- Fabulous Early 19th Century Starburst Binding] Vorschule der Soldaten-Reiterei oder wahres Reiter-Exercitium zu Fuss, Berlin
Klatte [(Carl)] 8 x 5 inches. Beautifully and artfully bound in early 19th Century straight-grain black morocco featuring an elaborately gilt-stamped cover design with decorative borders around a central crown with laurel wreath and 'starburst' design; spine gilt, and all edges gilt. Pale yellow embossed floral silk endpapers. Side edges of boards with a gilt-ruled fillet wavy line, and there is a fascinating small gauffered design on the top and bottom of the gilt edges, near the spine. Featuring 17 superb hand-colored lithograph plates showing horseman poses in regal garb, some with horses, in various dressage positions (at end of text). This is a beautiful copy of a rare work on instructions for cavalry before mounting the horse, with a stunning cover.- $3,250
- $3,250
[Rowlandson, Thomas] Geoffrey Gambado. An Academy for Grown Horsemen
[Bunbury (Henry William)] First Edition. 8vo edition. In original drab boards, uncut, rebacked preserving original paper spine label. With 29 hand-coloured etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson, some foxing, browning and offsetting, uncut in original drab boards, rebacked preserving original paper spine label, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box.- $650
- $650
[Binding, Fine- Bayntun Riviere of Bath] A KEMPIS [Works]
Kempis, (Thomas A.) First Edition. Large 8vo, 8 1/2 x 7 inches. 266pp. Sumptuously bound by Bayntun-Riviere (signed in gilt lower front dentelle: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) Bath, England," in full red crushed morocco with concentric gilt-ruled bordering and central gilt detailed with "IHS" on both covers, ornate gilt decorated spine in seven compartments, wide dentelles with ornate gilt design work, superb marbled endsheets. All edges finely gilt. Printed on handmade laid paper. This is the scarce Humphrey's edition, finely printed. Fine condition in every way. Provenance: Robin de Beaumont Library, with his bookplate. Inscription by a former recent order on prelim page in pen.- $1,750
- $1,750
[Binding, Fine- Bound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, Her Tour de Force, 1 of 20 Copies] Aspects du Vieux Paris
HÈnard, Robert; Descaves, Lucien (preface) Large folio size (13 x 10 1/2 inches. Exceedingly scarce Special Edition, Limited to 20 Copies Only (from a total edition of 330) on Imperial Japan paper, illustrated with 50 original etchings by Pierre Desbois, in three states: 1) a suite of the first state of the etchings, 2) a suite of the final state before letter and signature, and 3) a suite within the text. Superbly bound by the master bookbinder Marguerite Duprez Lahey in wonderfully impressed half tan quarter morocco over beveled oak boards (one continuous flowing design element). The binding is stamp-signed on front dentellle: "Duprez Lahey | Meligavit," and presents a and elaborately embossed (in blind) design featuring both vignettes and crests, in the style of the 15th/16th century. Braided leather straps and catches (lower catch replaced). Spine with twelve raised bands, title stamped in blind to second compartment, with remaining compartments similarly embossed in blind. Cream-colored endpapers, all edges trimmed. Matching brown morocco chemise with wood veneer and cutouts for leather braids. Gift inscription dated 1926 from Louis Roberts Taylor and his wife, Else Suetterle Taylor, a prominent Milwaukee businessman, to their son John on his third birthday. Lower catch sympathetically replaced in oak. Minor offsetting to endpapers and minor offsetting from etchings, some scattered foxing and staining.â Marguerite Duprez Lahey had an illustrious career, obtaining pivotal instruction and apprenticeship in bookbinding, early on, under many well-known bookbinders such as Alfred Schleuning in New York (Adams Bindery). Lahey laterâmoved to Paris and ".studied tooling with Marius Michel, Jules Domont, Emile Mercier, and Antoine Joly; learned edge gilding from Chapiers and Koch; and studied design with Coulomb and Henri Noulhac" (Haqqi). She began rebinding books for J. Pierpont Morgan in 1908 andâcontinued to work for the Morgan Library until her deathâin 1958. Morgan's personal librarian, and later the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle da Costa Greene, described Lahey's work as "the very best bookbinding in America." This package Includes a catalogue ofâThe Fine Bindings of Marguerite Duprez Laheyâfrom the Morgan Library exhibition of 1951/1952. While this volume was not included within the exhibition, several volumes bear similar descriptions to this one. A truly wonderful production, near the pinnacle of rarity with respect to early 20th Century printing of fine etchings, together with an exemplary binding by an illustrious bookbinder.- $4,500
- $4,500
[Rowlandson, Thomas] Advice to Sportsmen, Rural or Metropolitan
Markwell, Marmaduke First Edition. 12mo. 4 3/4 x 7 inches. Original boards, half-title, 16 etched plates by Rowlandson, rather browned, text foxed, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers. An attractive book with humorous plates by the ìforemost caricaturist of this date". (Schwerdt).- $825
- $825
