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London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. leather_bound. Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good. 132 pages. 17 x 10.5 cm. Half title, frontispiece and 15 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. Early, scarce work of Rowlandson. TOOLEY 407. Armorial bookplate, inner dentelles, chipping front endpaper fore-edge, plates clean, text generally bright, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, triple gilt border fillets, front cover hinge repaired, moderate surface wear.

New York: C.B. Darrow, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good. 83 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. The author was a social worker, and Clark a notable American philanthropist and patron of the arts. This work is more a chapter in philanthropy, the half title reading "Receipts for Very Economical Cookery." Its recipes, documentation of food for the underprivilaged rather than for the public. They are practical with costs noted to prepare simple, wholesome meals with no gastronomic context. The work is as much a social document than a culinary one. Light rubbing to extremities.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. wine cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 492 pages. 298 black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. KARPEL I41. "One of the better introductory studies of American art,this attractive book emphasizes the relationship between major social forces and the arts in the United States.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red publisher's cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. Alken, Henry. 326 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. First issue, six hand-colored plates by Alken, all with tissue guards, additional pictorial vignette title, and forty-three illustrations on wood engraved by Cook. GORDON RAY p.36, said of Alken, "He worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." TOOLEY calls the red cloth a later binding, but notes copies in red do conform to the first issue text. Bookplates front and back cover pastedowns, minor spotting and toning to margins, backstrip extremities rubbed.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth with pictorial front cover in gilt, sharp and bright. Front cover design replicated on back cover in blind. Aeg. Near fine in custom cloth slipcase. Alken, Henry. 326 pages. Six hand-colored plates by Alken, with additional pictorial vignette title, and forty-three illustrations on wood engraved by Cook. GORDON RAY p.36, said of Alken, "He worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." Moderate foxing to first few text leaves, light to moderate toning beyond, plates clean, four pages of adverts at rear.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1974. First edition. Publications: OccasionalPapers. Nos. 7. Extensive Bibliography. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First edition. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco. Teg. Fine. 10 Vols. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 17 of 245 with a 57 line manuscript page from the author's McTeague inserted in Vol. I with hand corrections and notations. Original ink smears and fingerprints of Norris. Introductions by H.L. Mencken, Theordore Drieser and Charles Norris. Written in the naturalist genre akin to Stephen Crane and Theodore Drieser his work initially was highly praised. Contemporary critics have condemned his anti-Semitic portraits and his contempt for the working poor and immigrants. Photogravure portrait frontispiece in first volume by Arnold Genthe. Full crimson morocco, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs and covers similarly decorated with gilt arabesques at corners. Gilt dentelles, crushed green levant doublures with gilt borders and silk moire front endpapers further enhance the set. A few tiny spots of joint rubbing. BAL 15049, 15048.

North Sydney: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1972. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 118 pages. 25 x 24.5 cm. Illustrated mostly with color plates. Chronological Table. Maps. General Bibliography. Index.

New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 256 pages. 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate.

New York: Avant Garde Media, 1971. First edition. Wraps. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good/Near fine. 28.5 x 28 cm. 15 issues, a complete set with 2 copies of issue No. 2 with cover illustration of Marilyn Monroe. A colorful potpourri on life during this period: drugs, sexual mores, politics, cultural turmoil, illustrated with photographs, serigraphs and colorful graphics. Two issues feature Piccaso's erotic gravures and John Lennon's erotic lithographs, plus contributions by Richard Lindner and Tom Wesselmann. Following is OCLC description: Quarterly ; Former: Bimonthly, Four no. a year, 1969- Five no. a year, 1968. Description: No. 1 ([Jan. 1968])-; Ceased in 1971.; 4 volumes. Spines chipped chipped to issues 10 and 14, balance of covers clean, tight and square.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 426 pages. 8vo, illustrated. Index. In the 1920's the du Pont's were the richest family in America.

London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher's crimson russia, sides elaborately gilt with armorial and floral ornaments, front cover center piece inlaid with blue morocco. Aeg. Near fine. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate 4 (The Summons) lacks one meter at lower corner, affecting neither text or image. ABBEY LIFE 297. TOOLEY 242.

London: Macdonald, 1952. First edition. 4to, unpaginated,approx. 64 pages in text. Plethora of color and black and white plates. Backstrip slightly darkened. Orig. red cloth. Very good.

London: Collins, 1948. First edition. Boards. Four color plates and twenty four ills. inblack and white. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. 49 pp.

London: Tho. Tegg, 1815. Wraps. Thick laid paper. Near fine. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 34 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. Mark at head of border appears to be remnant of a stamp.

London: Printed by Samuel Leigh, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Later full red crushed morocco. Aeg. Fine. Rowlandson, Thomas. 14 1/2 x 8.5 cm. iv pages including title and advertisement. Fifty-four hand-colored plates by Rowlandson: a panoply of city life, the costumes of street vendors through Rowlandson's colorful, often affectionate delineation's of human character. The plates are related to Rowlandson's "Cries of London series of 1799. TOOLEY 424. Clean, fresh copy bound by Riviere & Son, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, triple gilt border panels, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers.

New York: McClure Phillips, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth spine and thick gray boards. Very good. 133 pages. Eight hand-colored etchings by Alex M. McLellan, and with a host of black and white vignettes by the latter. Introduction by William Aspinwall Bradley. Orig. published in BLACKWOOD for September, 1828. An exquisite idyll of natural boyhood in Scotland. Limited edition, one of 2000. The hand-colored etchings capture the mood of the story.

New York: O.L. Schwencke, 1900. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf in Cambridge style binding. All edges red. Fine. 98 leaves. 27 x 19.5 cm. 100 labels, 81 full page and 19 multiple pages mounted chromolithograph plates. An elegant printer's sample book incorporating embossed printing as well as full color gold and silver examples. The labels present the spirit of the 19th century with a cross section of the advertiser and printer art of the period. Trade catalogues at WINTERTHUR No. 1618 describes a copy with 89 color plates. One plate has a woman smoking a cigar. The last few leaves have multiple images. Raised bands, covers decorated in blind.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. delft blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index.