A Little Book of Western Verse (With Autograph Poem)
by Field, Eugene
Chicago: [self published], 1889. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies printed for subscribers, this number 139. Signed by the printer, John Wilson & Son before the list of subscribers. Exquisitely bound by Ringer Bindery (Chicago) in full crushed blue morocco, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Ruled in gilt with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and decorations in the spine compartments. The author has written out the final stanza of "Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-Me-Not" on the front... Read More
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Fielding, Henry
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First edition. Very Good +. First edition of one of the great novels of the eighteenth century, which "established the tradition of the comic novel in English" (ODNB). Six volumes in three, twelvemo. lxii, [2, errata], 214; [ii], 324; [ii], 370; [ii], 312; [ii], 294; [ii], 304 pp. Complete, but for final blanks. Marginal chip to leaf C12 in volume six, not touching text. Bound in an unrestored, contemporary binding. Front joint... Read More
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The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq (in 10 vols)
by Fielding, Henry
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1882. Limited to 1000 sets, this being set number 164. Ten large octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 225 x 165 mm.). Contemporary full paneled speckled calf for Hopkins of Glasgow (stamped to verso of front free endpaper). Floral corner devices in gilt. Double ruled gilt borders. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six compartments, two of which have morocco labels, the remaining four gilt ornamented and decorated. Dentelles. All edges gilt. Frontispieces.... Read More
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Amelia
by Fielding, Henry
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. First impression with dropped pagination to page 22 of volume one, but with second impression correction to page 191 line four ("at the Folly") of volume three. With the often lacking Universal-Register-Office advertisement at end of volume two (M12r). Four twelvemo volumes ( 6 9/16 x 3 7/8 in; 167 x 99 mm). Collating xii, 285, [1, blank]; viii, 262, [1, adv.], [1, blank]; ix, [1, blank], 323, [1, blank]; vii, [1, blank],... Read More
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Fairies and Chimneys
by [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Rose Fyleman
London: Methuen & Co, 1919. Fourth edition. Fine. A fine copy. Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four groups of twelve leaves inlaid in green morocco with a central inlaid red morocco flower. Front cover decoratively lettered in... Read More
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Marius the Epicurean (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Walter Pater
London: Macmillan, 1885. Second edition. Fine. Two octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 200 x 124 mm.). [1-11], 12-239, [1, blank]; [1-9], 10-218, pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson in 1904 stamp-signed in gilt "19 AP 04" on rear turn-ins. Crushed navy blue morocco, covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a symmetrical chevron-like design enclosed within an inlaid green morocco border at the edges of the covers richly decorated with gilt leaves, dots, and... Read More
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After Worcester Fight
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Fea, Allan
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 136 mm.). [i]-liv, 1-[268] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Fifty-one illustrations including many photogravure plates. Text leaves a little foxed. Bound by Bayntun (Rivière) Bath ca. 1948 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark purple crushed levant morocco over beveled boards. Front cover double-ruled in gilt enclosing a highly elaborate floral design with gilt leaves... Read More
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The Story of Marie-Antoinette
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Bicknell, Anna L.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 212 x 146 mm.). [i]-xiv, [2], 334, [2, blank] pp, twenty-seven photogravure plates. Bound ca 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a central gilt design surrounding a fine oval hand-painted portrait miniature of Marie-Antoinette (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm.), set under glass. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled... Read More
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (Extra Illustrated)
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun] Dickens, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. First issue, with no border around final plate and correct page listing in list of "Embellishments." Two octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 191 x 117 mm.). [i]-xix, [xx, blank], 288 pp; [i-ix, [x, blank], 263, [264, printers imprint]. Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I, and twelve engraved plates by George Cruikshank. The frontispiece to each volume hand-colored (volume I. "Joseph Grimaldi" & Volume II. "Grimaldi's kindness to the Giant"). Extra... Read More
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Little Dorrit
by [Fine Binding] Dickens, Charles; Helen R. Haywood (artist)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with all twenty-one internal text flaws as noted by Smith. Octavo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in; 216 x 138 mm). xii, 625, [1, blank] pp. Forty engraved plates by "Phiz" (H.K. Brown), including frontispiece and engraved vignette title page. With an inserted preliminary leaf printed "With Water Colour Drawing on Calf Doublure by" [signed] Helen R. Haywood. Bound ca. 1930 by Rivière and Son (stamp signed... Read More
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The Essays of Elia [and] The Last Essays of Elia
by [Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Lamb, Charles; Charles E. Brock (illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1904. Fifth edition. Near Fine. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (180 x 105 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1905 by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in). Bound in handsome green morocco with decorative gilt floral... Read More
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Sketches by Boz
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Dickens, Charles; George Cruikshank (illustrator)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Fine. First book form edition of the first and second series complete in one volume with Chapman and Hall revised texts and re-engraved plates used in their Parts issue. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). [iii-vii]viii, [1-3]4-526. Forty inserted steel engravings. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a duplicate suite of the original engravings expertly hand-colored. Bound by Bayntun (Rivière) Bath ca. 1955 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in)... Read More
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Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine [with:] Elia. Second Series
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Lamb, Charles
London: Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition [and] second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia, finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes, octavo. [vi], 341; xiii, 295 pp., complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt rule to boards and gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Teal coated endpapers. Small twentieth-century bookseller's ticket to lower... Read More
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Les Étoiles
by [Fine Binding - Meunier, Charles] Grandville, J.J., (illustrator); Joseph Mery
Paris & Leipzig: G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume (11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm.). [4], xvi, 252; [4], 186, [2] pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part, hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy, and twelve hand-colored engraved plates (eleven in the first part, one in the second part) by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville, all with original tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by... Read More
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The Essays of Elia [and] The Last Essays of Elia
by [Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Lamb, Charles; Charles E. Brock (illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1900. Second edition. Fine. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (6 15/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 177 x 103 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1906 in a fine pastel "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear... Read More
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India. A Birds-Eye View by the Earl of Ronaldshay
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Ronaldshay, Earl of
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1931. Later printing. Fine. (First published in 1924). Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 208 x 127 mm.). [ii], xiii, [xiv, blank], 322 pp. Twenty-four photographic plates and large folding map at end. Beautifully bound ca. 1931 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full brown crushed levant morocco, covers elaborately paneled in gilt, decoratively gilt-ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered... Read More
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1928. Special edition. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 137 mm.). [ii, blank], [iii-viii], 75, [1, imprint] pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold, and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Caslon Old Face type on Studio hand-made paper, some light marginal foxing to plates, otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full blue crushed levant morocco. Front cover... Read More
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La Création
by [Fine Binding - Gonin] Schmied, Francois-Louis (illustrator); Joseph Charles Mardrus (translator)
Paris: F.K. Schmied, 1928. Number 8 of 175 copies signed by the artist, from a total edition of 195. This unique copy with two original watercolor drawings and an original color wood-engraved pochoir variant of plate XI "Le Glaive Flamboyant" which was not used. Folio (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 340 x 245 mm.). Printed on Velor Paper. Twelve color-printed wood-engraved pochoir plates by Schmied, (numbers I -VIII & X signed by Schmied in pencil), twenty-eight color-printed text... Read More
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The Golden Treasury (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] Palgrave, Francis T.
London: Macmillan, 1902. Later printings. Fine. A beautiful set with the rather uncommon Second Series which was first published in 1897. Two small octavo volumes (6 x 3 7/8 inches; 152 x 98 mm.). [xii], 381, [1, imprint]; xii, 275, [1. blank] pp. title-page to first series with engraved vignette, title-page to second series with tinted engraved vignette. Small neat tape repair to front blank leaf in volume one. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1902 (stamp-signed in gilt... Read More
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The Day of the Jackal (Inscribed first edition)
by [Fine Binding] Forsyth, Frederick
London: Hutchinson, 1971. First edition. Fine. A Fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title "To/Sir Dudley/with warmest regards/Freddie Forsyth/15.11.71." Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 213 x 132 mm.). [vi], 358 pp. Pictorially bound likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (unsigned), ca. 1980 in full red, blue, black and white oasis morocco, front cover with black morocco onlays and silver rule depicting a marksman and crosshairs, smooth spine lettered in silver, all... Read More
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The Life of George Cruikshank
by [Fine Binding - Kelliegram] [Cruikshank, George]; Blanchard Jerrold
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. New edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in; 180 x 116 mm). xvi, 392 pp. Nineteen black and white plates with tissue guards, sixty-five black and white text illustrations. Bound by Kelly & Sons ca. 1900 in an unusual Kelliegram (thus signed) binding of full crimson crushed morocco with gilt-decorated frame to covers, and multi-colored morocco inlaid portrait to spine. One raised band. Turn-ins with gilt corner pieces. All edges gilt. Green silk... Read More
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Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun of Bath] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); Miss [Julia] Pardoe
London: Kerby and Son, 1856. First edition. Fine. Small octavo (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 168 x 126 mm.). Half-title, Title Page, 88 pp. With four hand colored etchings by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full forest green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled and decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a fine scene inlaid in blind and various colored morocco, taken from the color plate facing page... Read More
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
by [Fine Binding - Kelliegram] White, Gilbert
London: Chiswick Press, 1837. New edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 134 mm.). xxiv, 640 pp. Forty-five engraved vignette illustrations, with numerous engravings of flora, fauna, and landscapes in the text. Verso of front free endpaper with rectangular bookplate of Thos. D. Murphy. Bound ca. 1910 in a stunning Art Nouveau binding of dark green crushed morocco, handsomely gilt and inlaid, by Kelliegram (stamp-signed in gilt on rear watered silk... Read More
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The Wits and Beaux of Society (Extra-illustrated in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Wharton, Grace and Philip [Katherine Thomson]
London: J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1890. New Edition. Fine. A very fine pair of Cosway-Style bindings, two large octavo volumes (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches; 243 x 182 mm.). xxxii, 262, (2, blank); vi, 246 pp, with two frontispieces and 14 plates by H.K. Browne and James Godwin. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of sixty-eight fine engraved portraits including one hand-colored. Bound ca. 1920 in full black crushed levant morocco, richly gilt, spines with five raised bands, decoratively... Read More
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Queen Margot Wife of Henry of Navarre (Extra-illustrated)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Williams, H. Noel
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Fine. Quarto (9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 238 x 188 mm.), xviii, 409, [1, blank] pp. Colored frontispiece and nineteen photogravure plates with tissues printed in red & brown, extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty-five engraved plates of which six are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun, stamp-signed in gilt "Bayntun. Binder. Bath. Eng." on front turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers with elaborate... Read More
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