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19053802New York: McLoughlin Brothers 1905. First edition. New Chimney Corner series No. 37 1/2. Full color glazed pictorial wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout including ten full-page by Louis Wain of which two are signed and a title-page vignette by Palmer Cox. Transparent tape repairs to spine and the fore-edge to a few leaves. Pale gift inscription to upper wrapper. A scarce and attractive survivor to children's enthusiastic hands. Unrecorded by Dale.<br/><br/>At the end of the last century Louis Wain 1860-1939 the Edwardian cat artist who went mad became a household name as an illustrator of cats whom he depicted in all sorts of activities from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars attending dances and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style a cat society a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" H.G. Wells. Here alongside illustrations from Palmer Cox who also specialized in Scottish fairytales and rhymes. McLoughlin Brothers unknown books
1764001R83Various publishers including . Paris &/or Geneva: -1769. 1764 Fourteen 14 Rare French Literary Pamphlets in two volumes. All 8vo. 205 mm. Leather backed marbled boards very slightly worn. Hardbound. Text in fine condition; some offsetting from the engravings. Contents include: Vol. I - 1. LETTRE AMOUREUSE D'HELOISE A ABAILARD. Translation of: Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. New Edition corrected by the autor. Chez la veuve Duchesne Paris: 1766. 30 p. large engraving by Eisen; Engraved headpiece by Colardeau. 2. LETTRE DE DON CARLOS A ELISABETH SUIVIE DUN PASSAGE DE L'AMINTE DU TASSE TRADUIT EN VERS & Du Poeme De La Nuit imite de Gesner. Panckoucke Paris & Duchesne Lille: 1768. pp. VIII 29 Gravelot engraved plate. 3. LETTRE DE JULIE FILLE D'AUGUSTE A OVIDE. By Claude Dorat. A Geneve Et se trouve a Paris: Chez Bauche: 1766. 23p. With Engraved head and tail pieces by Eisen and Massard. 4. LETTRE D'OVIDE A JULIE PRECEDEE DUNE LETTRE EN PROSE A M. DIDEROT. By the Marquis de Pezay. Geneva: 1767. 32p. Full page engraved plate and vignettes after Eisen. 5. LETTRE DE SAPHO A PHAON Precedee d'une Epitre a Rosine D'une vie de Sapho & suivie d'une Traduction en Vers des Ouvrages de ce Poete. By Blin de Sainmore. Sebastien Jorry Paris: 1766. 32 p. Engraved plate by Aliamet after Gravelot; Vignettes by Ghendt after Eisen another by Choffard. 6. LETTRE DE CATON D'UTIQUE A CESAR. By Abbe Parmentier. Lambert Paris: 1766. 34 p. Engraved plate after Gravelot. 7. LETTRE D'ALCIBIADE A GLICERE: Bouquetiere d'Athenes suivie d'une Lettre de Venus a Paris et d'une Epitre a la Maitresse que J'Aurai. By Marquis de Pezay. S. Jorry Geneva & Paris: 1764. 36 p. Large engraved plate and vignettes by Eisen. Vol. II - 1. LETTRE DU COMTE DE COMMINGES A SA MERE: Suivie d'une Lettre de Philomele a Progne. By Claude-Joseph Dorat. S. Jorry Paris: 1764. 68 p. Two full page engravings vignettes by Eisen & Massard. 2. L'HEUREUX JOUR EPITRE A MON AMI. By le Parquis de Pezay. Duchene Paris: 1768. pp. 29 1. Engraved title full page engraving & vignettes by Eisen & Massard. Cohen p. 797. 3. LISLE MERVEILLEUSE. Poeme en Trois Chants Traduit du Grec Suivi d'Alphonse ou de l'Alcide Espagnol Conte tres Moral. By C. J. Dorat. Geneva: 1768. 85 p. Engraved plate after Eisen. 4. L'HOPITAL DES FOUS Aesculapius - or The Hospital of Fools by William Walsh. A Play translated by De La Flotte. Jorry Paris: 1765. Large plate head-piece and tail-piece engraved by Delafosse after Eisen. Two lines of French manuscript about Fools. 5. EXTRAIT DE QUELQUES PIECES PRESENTEES A L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE Pour concourir au Prix de poesie de L'Annee 1766. Regnard Paris: 1766. 27 p. 6. EPITRE AUX MALHEUREUX Piece qui a Eu L'Accessit du Prix de l'Academie Francois 1766. par M G.-H. Gaillard. Paris Regnard: 1766. 10p. 7. EPITRE A UN AMI SUR LA RECHERCHE DU BONHEUR. Cette Piece a concouru au Price de l'Academie Francois 1766. par M.D. Avocat au Parlement Cuissart & Regnard Paris: 1766. 19p. Small circular stain on first 10 pages. This collection is sometimes found with the texts in a different order and with different pagings and signatures and/or with one or more pieces omitted. There are often different printers and publishers where identified. The artists and engravers were among the best of this great era in illustration: Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen 1720-1778; Charles-Pierre Colardeau 1732-1776; Hubert Francois Gravelot 1699-1773; Jacques Aliamet 1726-1788; Jean Francois Rousseau; Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt 1738-1815; Joseph de Longueil 1730-1792; Jean Massard 1740-1822; Pierre-Philippe Choffard 1730-1809. A classic of 18th century French book illustration. CHEST 2/1. Hardcover. Very Good. Various publishers, including . Paris &/or Geneva: -1769. hardcover
19321338441New York: Garden City Publishing Co 1932. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with green print; Boards in blue cloth with green print illustrated pastedown on front tattering to spine caps and corners mild shelfwear stains on rear; Text block has green tinted top edge name in pencil on front pastedown tanning to endpapers tear to bottom edge of p. 3 else clean and tight; ix 323 pages frontispiece illustrated color plates. 1338441. FP New Rockville Stock. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover books
np. Illustrated, some in color. Includes examples of printing from different fine presses. 4to. Original decorated paper boards binding. Spine taped. Limited to 3000 copies. Great articles and wonderf ul illustrations that will delight any bibliophile. Includes a great article on the Golden Cockerel Press, illustrated by Eric Gill, Robert Gibbngs, et. al. Also a fine article on Dard Hunter, with a wonderful photogravure of his Mill. Also a wood engraving on fine paper, "Sunday in Marblehead" by Thomas Nason. REF10
np. Illustrated, some in color. Includes examples of printing from different fine presses. NOTE: Also includes an original signed lithograph by Victoria Hutson. 4to. Original decorated paper boards binding, spine chipped. Limited to 3000 copies. Great articles and wonderful illustrations that will delight any bibliophile. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF10
np. Illustrated, some in color. Includes examples of printing from different fine presses. 4to. Original decorated paper boards binding, slightly soiled. Limited to 3000 copies. Great articles and won derful illustrations that will delight any bibliophile. Articles include: Talking Stones, by Althea Bass with a facsimile of the Cherokee Alphabet; Mr. Whitman Reconsiders, by Thomas Mabbott and Roll o Silver; How Pleasant to Know Mr.Lear, by Bertha Coolidge; A Sketch of The Origin of Species, by Paul Victorius; and much more. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF10
np. Illustrated, some in color. Includes examples of printing from different fine presses. 4to. Original decorated paper boards binding, slightly soiled. Limited to 3000 copies. Great articles and won derful illustrations that will delight any bibliophile. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF10
np. Illustrated, some in color. Includes examples of printing from different fine presses. 4to. Original decorated paper boards binding, slightly soiled. Limited to 3000 copies. Great articles and wonderful illustrations that will delight any bibliophile. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF10
160 p. Illustrated. Original decorated paper covered boards binding. 8vo. Includes articles that will delight booklovers, collectors, and bibliophiles. Especially important is the article on the earliest bibles in America. REF 3
pp. 323-480. Illustrated. Original decorated paper covered boards binding. 8vo. Includes articles that will delight booklovers, collectors, and bibliophiles. REF 3
pp. 483-632. Illustrated. Original decorated cloth binding. 8vo. Includes articles that will delight booklovers, collectors, and bibliophiles. Especially important is the article on the early Cambridge Massachusetts Press. REF 3
1888469689Boston Mass: L. Prang & Co 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harriet D. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. Quarto. 9 leaves printed on rectos only: title page and 8 color lithographic plates designed by Andrews and Talcott six of which are printed in multiple colors including gold and silver. Publisher’s brown padded silk over boards with color pictorial design on front cover floral gold-illuminated endpapers. The silk boards have a few patches of modest staining on the outer margins of the front cover and fore-edge of back cover rubbing and some fraying at the edges of the boards spine ends and corners else a very good copy with the interior plates fine and bright. A beautiful edition of Cooke’s poem with six plates of floral and botanical themes printed in vibrant color by L. Prang. L. Prang & Co hardcover
188843842Boston: L. Prang & Co 1888. 1st Edition. Tan linen cloth binding with color printed spine & boards. Marbled edges. Modest shelfwear. Small label removal abrasions to fixed endpapers; light gutter break. 5 signed mss recipes entered herein. A VG - VG copy. Unpaginated though ~ 250. Tinted frontispiece. 16 chromolithographed divisional title leaves followed by a lithographed leaf of text poetry. Oblong format: 6-7/8" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/>A mostly blank recipe book adorned with Prang's exquisite chromolithographs. Each recipe signed by a different author; most in a contemporary hand and/or dated 1891 save the final recipe dated 1920. Recipes include: Sausages Tutti Frutti Oil Pickle Snow Pudding and Dandelion Wine. Somewhat scarce with OCLC listing but 5 institutional holdings. L. Prang & Co hardcover books
68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
196417492New York: Harcourt Brace and World 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn with a handful of short closed tears. Touches of shelf-soil. Price-clipped. Interior bright and lcean. Very good. 128pp. <br/><br/>Collection of twenty-six tales gathered by folklorist Harold Courlander. Harcourt Brace and World hardcover books
LITT3341MAux éditions du livre, Monte-Carlo 1951. Broché 23 x 17, couverture illustrée couleur rempliée. L'un des 5'000 exemplaires numérotés sur grand vélin crèvecoeur. Lithographies couleur, tirées sur les presses de Mourlot, et de dessins en noir de Dubout.
193767597Cambridge, Massachusetts, The John Barnard Associates, 1937. 32 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. 4to (ca. 30 x 21,5 cm). Illustr. OHLn.
197128575AB1971. New York Hastings House Publishers Inc. 1971. Folio. c. 400 unnumbered pages with 504 graphical contributions from various artists in colour as well as in black-and-white. Including an Index. Original Hardcover with original unclipped illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Cover Art dustjacket and pastedwon art by Bernie Fuchs. Absolutely excellent FINE condition. hardcover
149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover
18289027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. <br/><br/> Jones hardcover
149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover books
18289027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. <br /> <br/><br/> Jones hardcover books
194056275NY:: Doubleday Doran & Company. Good. 1940. Hardcover. A later printing. Light crayon scribble on rear board edge worn else good in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, hardcover books
Folio, First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations and reproductions throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's laminated pictorial board slip-case. Scarce.
