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Boston & London: The Medici Society, 1925. Nursery Rhymes Are Ever Green - The More Familiar, The More Beloved" TARRANT, Margaret. Rhymes of Old Times. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant. Boston & London: The Medici Society, [1925]. First American edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: 216 x 140 mm.). [xii], 108 pp. Sixteen mounted color plates and 136 silhouette and black and white drawings throughout. Publishers blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in yellow, spine lettered in yellow, pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy in the original color pictorial dust jacket. This charming little book contains 132 of the most memorable Nursery Rhymes ever written. "Nursery Rhymes are ever green - the more familiar, the more beloved. In this volume will be found the old favorites with a few less well known that deserve more friends. Margaret Tarrant's genius for touching a child's imagination has hung her pictures on many a nursery wall, and on the wall of many a kindergarten and church school, and… Read More

The Hague: Bij de Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1823. A superb copy of the finest Dutch color plate work on military costume TEUPKEN, J.F. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn... Gevolgd van 51 platen met eene titelplaat, voorstellende officieren en manschappen van alle wapenen, in hunne volle kleeding en wapenrusting. The Hague & Amsterdam: Bij de Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1823-1826. First edition, A complete subscriber's copy with all seventy-one plates. Two large large folio volumes (14 x 9 3/8 inches; 356 x 238 mm.). [2], 10, 110, 20, [1, "Register"], [1, blank] pp. Engraved title by D. Sluyter after B. van Hove, "Aanwijzing der Platen" (2 pp.), and forty-eight hand-colored engraved plates of military costumes and three uncolored lithographed plates of decorations; [4], [2], [1]-54, [8], Engraved title by D. Sluyter after B. van Hove, "Aanwijzing der Platen" (2 pp.), and fifteen hand-colored… Read More

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition of "The Newcomes" in the Original Parts [THACKERAY, William Makepeace]. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle. Vol. I[-II]. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-1855 [i.e., October 1853-August 1855]. First edition. In the original twenty-four monthly parts in twenty-three (October 1853-August 1855). Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 225 x 143 mm.). Illustrations by Richard Doyle. Collates nearly complete, with the plates, advertisements, and slips as called for in Van Duzer, except for the following variations or omissions: Part IX with a two-page rather than a four-page advertisement for "Waterlow's Patent Improved" without the "Opening of the Crystal Palace, The Illustrated Crystal Palace Gazette" leaf; Part X without the inserted slip "Price One Shilling; Itinerary of the Great Northern Railway" at the beginning, as often. A few of the advertising slips… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. A School for Genteel Children In The Publishers Box [THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Quality Street. A Comedy in Four Acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1913]. First trade edition. Large quarto (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 263 x 200 mm.). [2], vii, [1], 197, [2], [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece and twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous black and white text illustrations. Publishers violet cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and green. Pictorial endpapers. Light foxing on half-title, ink signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in the original cardboard box with a duplicate of the color plate facing page 3, pasted on top. Box strengthened at corners. Hugh Thomson was born in County Coleraine near Londonderry, on 1 June 1860. He gained praise and influenced many young artists through his book illustrations. He notably illustrated editions of… Read More

Seville: Imprenta y Libreria de José G. Fernández, 1860. A Rare Spanish Album of Bullfighting with Twenty-Two Fine Wood-Engraved Plates [TOVAR, Bartolomé]. La Fiesta Espanola. [Seville: Imprenta y Libreria de José G. Fernández], 1860. First edition. Oblong quarto (7 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches; 197 x 289 mm.). Twenty-two hand-colored wood-engraved plates (some misnumbered). All plates and wrappers mounted on stubs. First plate slightly browned from front wrapper, the last few plates with very slight chipping to fore-edges. Late 19th century full red calf, front cover with gilt coat of arms (House of Bourbon?), spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. Original printed front wrapper and plain rear wrapper bound in. Spine very slightly sunned. An excellent copy of a very rare book. A scarce collection of bullfighting scenes and events attributed to the Seville based lithographer, Bartholomé Tovar. The plates show a bullfighter… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie..., 1855. Thirty-Two Fine Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Depicting Children in Various Adult Situations TRONSENS, Charles (pseudonyms of "Sathaniel" & "Carlo Gripp") French caricaturist and illustrator. Les enfans d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie... du Journal pour rire, [1855]. First edition. Oblong quarto (6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches; 157 x 238 mm.). Decorative title-page printed in gold and blue and mounted on pale green paper. Thirty-two fine hand colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic depicting children in various adult social situations. Occasional light marginal soiling otherwise near fine. Contemporary quarter green morocco over purple bead-grain cloth, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, original pink endpapers (inner front hinge strengthened). Scarce with OCLC locating just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Lyon-BIU-LSH and Lyon-INRP (France). Pierre-Charles Tronsens - pseudonyms "Sathaniel" & "Carlo Gripp"… Read More

London: T. Gosden, 1833. The Famous Sporting Poem of Billesdon Coplow Depicted in Eleven Fine Hand Colored Etchings TURNER, F.C. A Set of Fox-Huntings, descriptive of the Poem of Billesdon Coplow, drawn and engraved by Mr. F. C. Turner. London: T. Gosden, 1833. First edition. Large octavo ( 11 x 7 1/2 inches; 280 x 190 mm.). Title with large mounted hand colored vignette (over uncolored version), hand colored engraved title and eleven hand colored etched plates. Publisher's pictorial engraved wrappers, additional engraved title (8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 225 x 143 mm.) for the second edition tipped-in at front. Title slightly browned and stained. Rebacked with front wrapper extensively repaired and laid down not affecting text, plain rear wrapper repaired and laid down. Housed in a custom half red morocco over marbled boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Overall a good copy of this scarce book. Quite scarce with OCLC/KVK… Read More

Metuchen, New Jersey: Printed for the Editor, 1931. [TWAIN, Mark]. UNDERHILL, Irving. Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale. Printed for the Editor of The American Book Collector, 1931. First edition, limited to seventy-one numbered copies, this being copy 32. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in; 206 x 130 mm). 19, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's original printed string bound wrappers. A fine copy. BAL Sec. II, p. 253, col. 1.