Authors starting with Q from Antiquarian Bookseller

Paris: Hachette, [1913]. 4to, 39pp. With 44 color plates. Original vellum stamped in gilt, silk ties, a fine copy. Limited to 240 copies signed by Rackham. The very uncommon French edition of ÒThe Work of Arthur RackhamÓ of the same year. ... more information

New York: Hodder & Stoughton [1911] Thick 8vo, 336 pp. Blue cloth with elaborate gilt peacock design to front cover and spine. Minor soiling to edges. Full-color frontispiece and 19 full-page, full-color illustrations throughout. Pages with deckled edges. Very good. First edition of this collection, with fine tipped-in color plates. Gray gets a brief mention in Houfe; this book predates titles listed there and might be her first book. The Frick has a reference file on her work. ... more information

London: Bernard Lintott, 1710. Small 8vo, [xvi], 72, [5], [3] pp. With a frontispiece portrait of Katharine Phillips titled "Orinda". Disbound, inserted into a new cloth folding case. First Edition in English. The poem by the French abbe Claude Quillett (1602-1661) was first published in Leiden in 1655 and in Paris in 1656. A Latin version was issued in London in 1708. Two English versions appeared in 1710 and another in 1712. The plates by Elisha Kirkall (1682-1742) were not ready when the book ... more information