A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath
by [Fine Binding - Kelliegram] Thomson, Hugh (illustrator); James Lane Allen
London: Macmillan, 1901. First edition, second impression. A nearly Fine second impression with Hugh Thomson illustrations (published one month after the first impression). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 178 x 117 mm.). xxxii, 286 pp. Forty-eight full-page illustrations and numerous drawings within the text. Some occasional light foxing, otherwise fine. Bound by Kelliegram ca. 1901 (stamp-signed 'Kelliegram Binding London' in gilt on rear turn-in). Full dark green morocco... with a double gilt border enclosing a varicolored morocco pictorial... Read More
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The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Walton, Isaac; Charles Cotton
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. First Bagster edition. Octavo (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm.). [iv], vi, vii-512, pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and nineteen engraved plates and two sheets of music. Ten of the plates are engraved by Audinet, eight after Wale, two after Samuel; two music plate; two plates of fishing tackle and flies. There are seventeen fine engravings of fish and two large woodcuts in the text. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of fifty-five engraved plates of... Read More
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Green Branches
by [Fine Binding]; Stephens, James
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First American edition. Fine. Limited to 500 copies. A Fine copy. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 11/16 inches; 208 x 145 mm.). 32 unnumbered leaves printed on one side only. Bound in 1922, stamp-signed "A - S 1922" in gilt on rear turn-in. Full dark green levant morocco, covers decoratively tooled in gilt with a framework of flowers and stems surrounding a gilt ruled border which in turn surrounds another gilt border with similar... Read More
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Tales and Novels in Verse of J. De La Fontaine (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun] La Fontaine, [Jean de.]
Paris: J. Lemonnyer, 1884. Later edition. Two octavo volumes. xi, 252; x, 334, [1] pp. Eighty-five hand-colored stipple and line engravings. Bound by Bayntun of Bath for Brentano's of New York in early twentieth century full midnight blue crushed morocco with gilt-ruled border and four-fillet geometric frame with open dots at corners. Gilt tooled raised bands, gilt ruled compartments. All edges gilt. Blue silk endleaves. A fine copy. A fine reprint of the first edition in English of... Read More
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Sir Walter Scott (Extra-illustrated)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Buchan, John
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1932. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 5/8 x 6 inches; 219 x 152 mm.). 388 pp. Extra illustrated by the insertion of twelve plates, three of which are hand colored. A fine Cosway-Style binding by Bayntun (Rivière) ca. 1940, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full sangria red morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt in a fine thistle design. Front cover with a fine hand-painted oval portrait miniature (3 1/4 x 2... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith (Extra-illustrated in 3 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Forster, John
London: Bradbury and Evans/Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition. Near Fine. Three octavo volumes (8 x 4 7/8 in; 204 x 123 mm.) collating: xvii, [4], 232; 233-448; [2], 451-704 pp. A fine set with etched half-title, three additional title-pages printed in red and black, and fifty black and white text illustrations as issued, with over seventy-five extra engraved portraits and views. Bound c. 1930 by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Brentano's (stamp-signed) in full crushed teal blue morocco... Read More
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John Keats, His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and After-Fame
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Keats, John; Sidney Colvin
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. First edition. Fine. A very fine copy, octavo (8 3/8 x 5 7/16 inches; 213 x 138 mm.). xviii, errata slip, 598p. Tipped-in color portrait frontispiece and twelve full page illustrations including a facsimile letter. A fine Cosway-Style binding ca. 1940 by Bayntun Rivière (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full red crushed levant morocco, both covers with a geometrical design in gilt. The upper cover with a fine oval portrait miniature... Read More
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An Outcast of the Islands
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Conrad, Joseph
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition. Fine. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm.). [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pp. First issue, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, line 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, line 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, line 26. Title-page in red and black. Bound ca, 1940 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in. A Fine copy,... Read More
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Yorick's Sentimental Journey though France and Italy
by [Fine Binding - Salvatore David] Sterne, Laurence
London, 1791. Later edition. Fine. Four parts in one twelvemo volume (6 11/16 x 4 inches; 170 x 101 mm.). [ii], 279, [1, blank] pp. Six plates including frontispiece engraved by Stothard. Two stipple portraits 'Maria' and 'The Monk' engraved by Taylor after S. Shelley. Bound ca. 1900 by Salvatore David (stamped signed "S. David" on front turn-in). Full dark green crushed levant morocco, covers richly bordered in gilt with an inlaid red morocco strip surrounding an elaborate... Read More
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James Francis Edward - The Old Chevalier
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Haile, Martin
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1907. First edition. Fine. Octavo (9 5/8 x 6 inches; 218 x 152 mm.). [i]-xii, [xiii, list of illustrations], [xiv, blank], 1-479, [1, printers imprint] pp. Title-page printed in black and red. Eleven (on ten) photogravure plates, extra-illustrated by the insertion of twelve engraved plates, three of which are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1940 by Bayntun-Rivière, stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full brown crushed levant morocco, both covers with single gilt fillet around... Read More
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Cranford
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] Gaskell, Mrs. [Elizabeth]; Hugh Thomson (illustrator)
London: Macmillan, 1895. Later printing. Near Fine. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. A Near Fine copy. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). Frontispiece, xxx, 297, [1] pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Occasional foxing or staining especially on pp. 16/17; 104/105; 144/145, and 270/271. Bound in an 'Exhibition' binding by Zaehnsdorf, executed in 1897 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full crimson crushed levant morocco, covers... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Goldsmith, Oliver; Rev. John Mitford (editor)
London: William Pickering, 1831. The Aldine Edition. Near Fine. Small octavo (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 166 x 101 mm.). [i]-clxxxii [Life and Anecdotes of Goldsmith], [1]-156 pp, with engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound c. 1930 by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in, with the S&S monogram stamped in gilt on rear doublure. Full dark red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards with elaborate gilt-rolled borders and gilt-tooled frame. Front cover... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Goldsmith, Oliver
London: John Van Voorst, 1843. First Mulready illustrated edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/2 in; 208 x 140 mm). xv, [1], 306 pp, with thirty-two black and white drawings as headpieces. Beautifully bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son, (stamp-signed) in full dark red crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments. Upper board with wide gilt-tooled frame enclosing a central gilt-decorated oval with an original miniature portrait of Goldsmith in watercolor under glass. Rear board with gilt rolled borders... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Shelley, Percy Bysshe
London: Reeves & Turner, 1886. Second edition. Fine. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches; 184 x 119 mm.), 572; 580 pp. A spectacular ca. 1920 Cosway-Style binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J.L. Hudson Company (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in). Full red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers lavishly gilt in the Art Nouveau style, with inlaid green and light brown morocco inlays. The first volume with a central green morocco medallion... Read More
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The Seasons
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] James Thomson, Percival Stockdale (Notes)
London: Printed for A. Hamilton, 1793. First thus. Near Fine. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in a modernist style, likely for exhibition (with their circlular stamp on the rear silk paste-down). Bound in full dark green crushed morocco. Concentric rules build to a central panel on the front and rear boards, similar, but smaller patterns in the spine panels. All edges gilt, ruled inner dentelles, dark green silk end papers. Spine a bit toned and bookplates of Charles Hervery... Read More
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Poems of Shelley
by [Fine Binding - Ramage] Shelley, Percy Bysshe
London: Macmillan, 1926. Golden Treasury series. Fine. A Fine copy. Sixteenmo (5 13/16 x 3 7/8 inches; 148 x 97 mm.). lxvi, [2], 340 pp. Title-page with vignette of Field Place - Shelley's birth place. Neat early ink presentation (dated 1927) on front blank. Beautifully bound ca. 1926 by Ramage of London (stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in). Full green crushed levant morocco, covers paneled in gilt surrounding a very intricate design in gilt, spine with five raised... Read More
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Life of Robert Burns
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Burns, Robert; J.G. Lockhart
Edinburgh and London: Constable and Co. and Hurst, Chance, and Co, 1828. First edition. Fine. A very fine copy, octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 133 mm.), viii, 446p. Illustrated with vignette engraving as head piece on first text page, extra illustrated with twenty-one plates of portraits and views, of which five are hand colored. A fine 'Extra-Illustrated' Cosway-Style binding ca. 1940 by Bayntun Rivière (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full brown crushed levant... Read More
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Russian Icons (Presentation from the binder)
by [Fine Binding - Philip Smith] Talbot Rice, Tamara
London: Spring Books, 1963. First edition. Fine. Quarto (10 7/16 x 9 1/16 inches; 265 x 230 mm.). [iv], 40 pp. Monotone frontispiece, full-color title and 48 full-color plates on 24 leaves. The verso of the color title is inscribed in ink "To Joan/with many thanks/for your continuing/kindness.../Philip". Bound by Philip Smith in 1964 (stamped in blind on rear turn-in) in full rose (front) and medium blue (rear) crushed levant morocco. Both covers elaborately decorated with Russian Icons... Read More
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The Ingoldsby Legends (in 3 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun of Bath] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Tenth edition. Fine. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 in; 193 x 121 mm). xii, 338, [2]; iv, 288; vi, [2], 364 pp. Twenty engraved plates by George Cruikshank and John Leech, including frontispieces. Uniformly bound c. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in full crushed blue morocco with a multi-colored pictorial onlay vignette to each upper cover, the vignette within an enchanting arabesque-bordered frame with extensive gilt dots... Read More
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The Sketch Book (Signed ltd. edition)
by [Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Irving, Washington; Edmund J. Sullivan (illustrator)
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1902. First thus. Two volumes bound in one. Each volume one of just 30 copies printed on Japanese Vellum (both number 25), signed by the illustrator, Edmund Sullivan. Bound for Brentanos by the famous English bookbinder, Cedric Chivers, in full red morocco with his signature vellucent painted illustration to the font panel. Spine with inlaid morocco details. Spine very subtly toned, otherwise a fine copy overall. A lovely example of book arts for both this... Read More
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Lays of The Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems
by [Fine Binding - Ramage] Aytoun, William Edmonstoune; Joseph Noel Paton (illustrator) and Waller H. Paton (illustrator)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1865. Later printing. Fine. Bound in a 20th-century full straight grain red morocco with gilt crest on front panel, gilt fluer-de-lis, and decorative gilt foliate and blue inlaid borders on front and back boards, with raised six-compartment spine with gilt fleur-de-lis and title. Red marble endpapers with decorative gilt inner dentelles with a floral and vine pattern. Binding by J. Ramage & co. with binding stamp on version of free endpaper.... Read More
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Vanity Fair
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm.). xvi, 624 pp, with thirty-eight black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards and one hundred and fifty woodcuts in the text by Thackeray. Expert paper repair... Read More
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The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale Of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
by [Fine Binding - Alfred De Sauty] Adlington, William (translator)
London: David Nutt, 1887. Limited edition. Fine. Limited to five hundred and fifty copies. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 125 mm.).[ii], [lxxxvi], [1,], [1, blank], 65, [1, blank]. With a Pre-Raphaelite engraved frontispiece, a wonderful etched engraving of Venus and the Sea-Gull by Scottish Artist Vereker Monteith Hamilton (1856-1931), and a small engraved vignette on the last leaf. Original front wrapper bound in at end. Bound ca. 1910 by Alfred De Sauty (stamp-signed "De Sauty"... Read More
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Fifty "Bab" Ballads [together with:] More "Bab" Ballads
by [Fine Binding] Gilbert, W.S.
London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Third? edition. Near Fine. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 mm x 133 mm.). 255, [1, imprint] pp. Engraved frontispiece (included in pagination) with original tissue-guard and numerous illustrations in the text. Light foxing throughout, otherwise near fine. Bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt enclosing an elaborate oval floral design with eight inlaid flowers in cream morocco and leaves of... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward; Illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
London: Siegle, Hill & Co, 1910. First trade edition. Near Fine. Bound in tan cloth with a lovely full gilt peacock design to the front board. A lovely, Near Fine example of the first trade edition. This edition reprints the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe, illuminated edition, with both Sangorski and Sutcliffe signing on the limitation page. Complete with all 12 color plates. This edition is slightly smaller than the signed, limited edition and uses a thinner paper-stock. Some... Read More
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