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New York: D. Appleton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 654 and 613 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Index. Backstrip Vol. I sunned.

New York: Braziller, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 2 vols. in one. More than100 illustrations. Subject Index. Index of Names. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I527. "Exceptional for illustrations. Focuses on a branch of art in each period asrepresentative of the aesthetic achievement of the period." LUCAS p. 25.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. 2 vols.. 104 pages in text : Vol. II, and approx 100 pages in plate Vol.I. 31 x 23 cm. Voluminously illustrated with full-color and black and white illustrations. Foreword by Thomas Hoving. Commentary on the Pages of the Facsimile by Jeffrey M. Hoffeld. Bibliography.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. Hardcover. Small gauge backcover of Vol. II. Ex-library. Navy buckram. 2 vols. Very good. 445 & 442 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Frontispieces, text clean, extensive index, map of Abbotsford (repaired).

London: Robert Triphook, 1813. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf, blue cloth decorated in blind in raised floral motif, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 2 vols. Very good. 492, 700 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm, First modern edition, and first reprint since 1580, and the best edition of this important source book for Shakespeare (amongst others), printed from the early editions. These early tragedies herein adumbrate a large portion of the Elizabethan drama. Haslewood has added some biographical notes, including collations of all the early editions, and notes on the variations of the text. Painter, clerk of Queen Elizabeth's Ordinance compiled the collection of stories, and like others amassed a personal fortune through embezzlement, endemic in the Elizabethan civil service. An austerely, wide margined but finely printed work. Book labels, very clean and fresh internally, slight toning first few endpapers Vol.I, modest extremity rubbing, tight binding, raised bands gilt decorated.

New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. leather_bound. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. 2 vols. Fine. 100 & 96 pages. 8vo, 26 x 18 cm. Ninety-six chromolithograph plates [with tissue guards] by Boston's William Sharp & Son, plus a plethora of woodcuts of fruit, flowers and trees. "He published also two complete volumes and part of a third entitled FRUITS OF AMERICA, purposing to give `richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States.' This work was issued in parts from 1847 to 1856, though the title page of the first complete volumes bears the date 1852. The volumes are handsomely printed printed and contain plates.......sketched from nature by Hovey himself." [see: DNB, Vol. 9, p.272]. Hovey also made the greatest single contribution to horticulture in the origination of the Hovey strawberry -- the first North American variety produced by a definite plan of breeding. NISSEN 941. REESE #20. Ex-library, no exterior… Read More

New York: Reinhold, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good in worn dust wrappers. 2 vols. 442 pages. This was to be a series of six volumes. These first two which are here for sale -- Volume I (Machine Composition Serif Faces) and Volume II (Machine Composition Sans Serifs & Miscellany) -- are a result of growing awareness on the publisher and author to provide a truly comprehensive approach to typographic specimens.

London: Henry Washbourne, 1847. New Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Near Fine. 2 vols.. 259 & 305 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Sixty-seven steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Index of Names and Subjects. Plates and text clean, bookplates, raised bands, leather spine labels in black and red lettered in gilt, fresh and bright set.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. delft cloth. Near fine. 3 vols. Voluminously illustrated in black and white with 178 figures in the text and 168 full-page plates. Vol.I: Notes on the Sculptors and on the Plates. Index of Sculptors. Index of Places to Parts I-III. Vol.II: Text, and Vol.III: Plates. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K164. "The best introduction to Italian sculpture for the student and art lover. The scholarly notes are most valuable to the specialist." Karl Lunde's copy with his signature.

London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth in custom half brown morocco and cloth fall-down box, each volume in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 3 vols. 19 x 13 cm. First book form edition. First published serially in "Good Words" magazine the same year, 1891. Considered Barrie's best work, one of several of his novels based in the fictional town of Thrums, modeled after Barrie's home village of Kirriemuir. Sixteen pages of adverts in volume I. Spines lettered in gilt, modest edge wear. Very attractive presentation in a custom box.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in sunned, chipped dust wrappers. In good slipcase. 2 vols. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in cracked, good slipcase. 2 vols. More than 400 illustrations. Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Introduction by Henry T. Rossiter. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L79. "Contains useful information for the study of 19th century American draughtsmen and watercolorists. Both volumes contain appendixes listing known artists represented, known sitters, places represented, and subjectsre presented. KARPEL I106. "These two handsome, faultlessly researched volumes complete the cataloguing of the three impressive Karolik collections....corresponds roughly in time period to the paintings catalog, but while including many of the same artists is even more diverse and comprehensive. Of the 3000 items in the collection, 1465 are represented in the catalog at hand.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover gilt emblem bright, backstrip sunned. Very good. 396 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Clean, bright copy.

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather, covers decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard's lasting fame, however, lies in his book illustrations - always with a distinctly French character, usually comic, and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France.

London: A. Millar, 1743. First edition. leather_bound. Full modern dark brown calf in period style. Fine. 3 vols. 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp.. 26-27. "The first volume contains a preface. largely autobiographical, followed by some poems.....early compositions of the heart rather than the head.........The second volume contains more interesting matter: the long Lucianic fragment, "A Journey from this World to the Next." which begins with some of Fielding's happiest satire in the coach-driver of the spirits from earth......In the third volume, he printed the most brilliant piece of work that he had yet achieved, "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." Generally clean, lower corner of G1 in Vol.1 torn away not affecting text, tiny ink stain, title of Vol. II, overall; fresh, firm set, raised bands, red leather… Read More

Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrappers. 2 vols. More than 750 plates, most in black and white. Bibliographical Index. Concordance. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M286. "A 2v Catalogue of a major exhibition of a great private collection of English paintings, drawings, and prints...

Paris & London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Both copies fine in worn publisher slipcase. 71 & 106 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Five full-page pochoir plates illustrated by Derain on black paper (gouache drawings). Type designed by A.M. Cassandre, a new face, called Peignot and set by hand. Limited edition, copies 691 of 1500 signed by Derain. The second volume by Beardsley, with illustrations reproduced under the direction of Ernest Ingham at The Fanfare Press. With a New Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Limited edition, copy 691 of 1500. The Derain volume is in illustrated black wrappers with tissue guards. The Beardsley is bound in maroon cloth with gilt front cover illustration. Laid-in the Salome volume the Circle In the Square Theatre playbill, listing the cast -- Al Pacino as Herod, and Frances McDormand, wife of later. Molly Ringwald plays Salome.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue cloth. Fine in original glassine wrappers in near fine slipcase. 2 vols.. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and color. Foreword by Perry T.Rathbone. This set is not only a catalogue of the holdings of the Boston Museum of Art, but also a comprehensive survey of the art of the tapestry,illustrated with examples. List of Exhibitions. Short Title Index. Index.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. 3 vols. Very good. 514, 492 and 544 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. First published 1841. Warren's literary vanity was prodigious, though most of his novels were published anonymously. This work was one of the most sensationally popular novels ever published, though now forgotten. SADLIER 3304. The novel chronicles events in the life of its iconic protagonist and offers in-depth detail of English common law of the time. Extensive notes. Raised bands, floral backstrip motifs with gilt lettering, backstrip faded evenly to brown. Modest rubbing to extremities.