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Coral Island, The: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean..
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Coral Island, The: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean..

by BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. Excessively Rare First Edition, First Issue, of "The Coral Island" The Edgar Osborne Copy Exhibited at The Festival of Britain Books in 1951 BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean... With Illustrations by the Author. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition, first issue, with the plate "Terrible Encounter with a Shark" facing p. 76 (in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm.). viii, [9]-438, [2, blank] pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing p. 214 with original tissue-guard. Publisher's first issue binding of royal blue diagonal ripple-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. The binding is worn and the gilt on the front cover is quite dull. The… Read More
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Les Autrichiens en Italie
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Les Autrichiens en Italie

by BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]

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Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [1860]. Eighteen Hand-Colored Lithographs Depicting the Antics of the Austrian Army During the Italian Campaign of 1859. BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Les Autrichiens en Italie. Par Baric. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [n.d., ca. 1860]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title and seventeen un-numbered hand-colored lithographed plates depicting the antics of the Austrian army. The plates are captioned below. All plates heightened with gum arabic. Plates lithographed by Génix. Modern quarter dark brown cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Original pictorial lithographed front wrapper (same image as title) on thin yellow paper bound in. An excellent copy of this very scarce album in which Baric humorously caricatures the antics of the Austrian army during the Italian campaign of 1859. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (ca. 1825 or 1830-1905) illustrated several books of… Read More
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Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il se Nicher
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Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il se Nicher

by BARIC, Jules Jean Antoine

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Paris [&] New York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son , 1878. Silly Questions Depicted in Nineteen Humorous Lithographs BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il Se Nicher? Par Baric. [Where the Devil will the Spirit go?]. Paris [&] New-York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son [1878]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 335 x 257 mm.). Lithographed pictorial title and eighteen numbered lithographed plates depicting the Devil. The plates are captioned below. Plates lithographed by Génix. Publisher's pictorial glazed yellow boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. Extremities a little worn, light staining to endpapers. Some light foxing and marginal soiling. An excellent copy of this scarce work. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (1825-1905) illustrated several books of caricatures or cartoons for Arnauld de Vresse between 1857 and 1878. No copy has sold at auction since 1975. According to OCLC there is just one copy located in… Read More
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Dot and Tot of Merryland
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Dot and Tot of Merryland

by BAUM, L. Frank; DENSLOW, W.W.

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Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co,, 1901. Inscribed by L. Frank Baum to Fellow Author Harold McGrath With a Page of the Original Manuscript BAUM, L. Frank. Dot and Tot of Merryland... Pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1901. First Edition. Small quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 162 mm.). [viii], [13]-225, [226], [2, blank] pp. Inscribed on recto of advertisement leaf "To the coming man if / not already came) / Harold McGrath / with the most obstinate / admiration of his friend / L Frank Baum. / Chicago / September / 6th 1901" Publisher's pictorial tan cloth. Front cover pictorially decorated in red, black and gilt, rear cover pictorially decorated in red and black, spine decorated in red and black. Original pictorial endpapers in red, black and tan, front free endpaper chipped at edge. The front hinge and the spine extremities and corners have been expertly restored. Housed in a felt-lined quarter black morocco over black cloth clamshell case, spine with five raised bands… Read More
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Edward Bawden
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Edward Bawden

by BAWDEN, Edward; Bliss, Douglas Percy; [PENDOMER PRESS]

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Godalming, Surrey: The Pendomer Press, 1979. One of 200 Copies with a Signed Lithograph by Edward Bawden [BAWDEN, Edward]. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. [Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, [n.d., 1979]. First edition, de luxe issue. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40). Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 inches; 287 x 222 mm.). 200 pp. Eleven color plates and numerous black and white text illustrations. Pictorial title-page. "This book has been designed by John and Griselda Lewis. It has been printed and bound by the Scolar Press. The paper is Glastonbury Book Antique Laid...The book has been set in 12/14 Monotype Modern Extended and printed by offset lithography" (Colophon). Bibliography, by Barry McKay (p. 177-197). With a four-color lithograph laid into a terra cotta paper portfolio: "‘Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson. Lithograph drawn in four colours by Edward Bawden and printed in an edition of 200 by… Read More
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Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll
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Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll

by BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders; CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; PARDOE, [Julia], Miss

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London: Kerby and Son, [1856]. A Very Attractive 'Mid-Twenties' Inlaid Binding by Bayntun of Bath [BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders]. PARDOE, [Julia], Miss. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Kerby and Son., [1856]. First edition. 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 62. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board-edges, wide decorative gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, green marbled paper liners and end-leaves. Minimal darkening of spine. A very fine example. Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), was an English… Read More
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Tale of Lohengrin, The
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Tale of Lohengrin, The

by BAYNTUN OF BATH; POGANY, Willy; WAGNER, Richard; ROLLESTON, T.W.

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London: G.G. Harrap, 1913. A Superb Early Bayntun Inlaid Binding On One of Willy Pogany's Masterpieces BAYNTUN, binder. POGANY, Willy (illustrator). WAGNER, Richard. ROLLESTON, T.W. The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany. London: G.G. Harrap, n .d. [1913]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 254 x 184 mm.). 192 unnumbered pages. Eight tipped-in color plates including frontispiece with original tissue guard, numerous full page color illustrations, calligraphic text, head- tailpieces; an image on every page. Printed on heavy gray stock. Some minor discoloration to first three and last three leaves, otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1930 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full black morocco, covers with single gilt rule, front cover with multi color morocco inlays reproducing the illustration on page [53]. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in… Read More
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Real Life in London;
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Real Life in London;

by BAYNTUN, binders; EGAN, Pierce (imitation); ALKEN Henry

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London: Printed for Jones & Co., 1827. Real Life in London with Thirty-Four Hand Colored Plates Two Superb Inlaid Bindings by Bayntun, Bath EGAN, Pierce (imitation of). ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. BAYNTUN, binder. Real Life in London. or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life. By an Amateur. Embellished and Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Prints, Designed and Engraved by Messrs. Heath, Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson, &c. London: Printed for Jones & Co. 1827-29. Later issue (first published 1821-22). Two octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in; 213 x 343 mm.). [ii, title, verso blank], [iii]-x, [1]-656; [2, title, verso blank], [i]-ix, [x, advertisement for British Classic Authors 1827], [3]-668 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and pictorial hand-colored title in each volume. Thirty-four hand-colored aquatint plates,… Read More
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Ingoldsby Legends, The
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Ingoldsby Legends, The

by BAYNTUN OF BATH; [BARHAM, Richard Harris]

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London: Richard Bentley, 1855. In an Elegant, Beautifully Wrought Pictorial Binding [BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth and Marvels. The Three Series. London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Tenth edition. 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 as background. Wide turn-ins with triple fillets. Gilt rolled edges. Gilt ornamented raised bands. Gilt framed and ornamented compartments. All edges gilt. Pink marbled endpapers. A fine set, handsomely bound. The exquisite multi-color leather inlays on the front cover of each volume depict as… Read More
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Cranford

by BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE; THOMSON, Hugh; GASKELL, Mrs. [Elizabeth]

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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1935. In a Fine Inlaid Binding by Bayntun (Rivière) [BAYNTUN (RIVIÈRE), binders]. THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator. GASKELL, Mrs. [Elizabeth]. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1935. Later Hugh Thomson illustrated edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 120 mm.). Frontispiece, xxx, 298 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Bound by Bayntun (Rivière), Bath ca. 1935 in full dark blue crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a beautifull inlaid design in red, tan, green and brown morocco reproduced from the illustration on page 240, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A very fine example. The front cover illustration is taken from the text illustration on page 240 and depicts Mary Smith (the narrator) posting a letter to Miss… Read More
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Bill the Minder
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Bill the Minder

by BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE; ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator; LEWIS, Chris

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London: Constable, 1912. He Doesn't Mind This Outstanding Binding Wonderfully Finished by Christopher Lewis of Bayntun-Rivière ROBINSON, W. Heath. [LEWIS, Christopher, finisher]. [BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binder]. Bill the Minder. London: Constable, 1912. Limited to 380 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 228. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in; 270 x 215 mm). xiv, [2], 254, [2] pp. Sixteen tipped-in color plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards, and 117 black and white illustrations, including full title-pages, vignettes, head- and tailpieces. An exceptional and unique 'inlaid binding', c. 1982, by Bayntun-Rivière (designed and finished by Christopher Lewis) in full red crushed morocco with multi-colored pictorial inlays and black-stamped flowers that reproduce the color plate, "The King of Troy Compelled to Ask His Way," opposite p. 30, within a blind-tooled frame surrounded by gilt double-ruled borders. Raised bands with gilt tools and compartments with gilt ornaments… Read More
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The Queen Cookery Books. Collected and Described by S. Beatty-Pownall, Departmental Editor...
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The "Queen" Cookery Books. Collected and Described by S. Beatty-Pownall, Departmental Editor "Housewife and Cuisine" Queen Newspaper, and Author of "A Book of Sauces.

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London: Horace Cox, 1904. A Wide Range of Culinary Topics The "Queen" Cookery Books Complete in Fourteen Volumes BEATTY-POWNALL, S., compiler & editor. The "Queen" Cookery Books. Collected and Described by S. Beatty-Pownall, Departmental Editor "Housewife and Cuisine" Queen Newspaper, and Author of "A Book of Sauces." London: Horace Cox, 1904-1911. Mixed editions. Complete set of fourteen small octavo volumes (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 102 mm.). Publisher's cream linen over boards, covers decoratively printed in red and blue. Covers of volume VI a little dust soiled otherwise a near fine set. "The 'Queen' Cookery Books" reflect the early 20th-century interest in culinary arts and household management. S. Beatty-Pownall's compilation offers a diverse set of guides covering different aspects of cooking, making it a valuable resource for domestic kitchens during that period. The volumes cover a wide range of culinary topics, including soups, ices, pickles and preserves, entrees, meat and game,… Read More
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Les Vésuviennes
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Les Vésuviennes

by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de

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Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1848. Les Vésuviennes - The Radical feminist Group as Depicted by Charles Édouard de Beaumont Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BEAUMONT, [Charles-]É[douard] de. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [1848]. Folio (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 inches; 328 x 247 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title and twenty superb hand-colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Publishers lithographed pale green wrappers, rear wrapper expertly replaced with near identical paper. Original glassine wrapper. An exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a felt-lined half black morocco over gray cloth boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. The twenty superb hand colored lithographs in Les Vésuviannes depict an imagined state of society in which there is great suffering and injustice, in which women take the functions of national guards and policemen. The title is linked to the resumé of a… Read More
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Au Bal Masqué
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Au Bal Masqué

by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de

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Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, 1848. Charles-Édourd de Beaumont's Au Bal Masqué - At the Masked Ball BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Au Bal Masqué. [At the Masked Ball] Album par Beaumont. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, [1848]. [First Series]. Quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and thirty superb lithograph plates. Some light foxing (mainly marginal) to a few plates, otherwise fine. Later violet cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers bound in. This exceptionally rare album of lithographs echoes that of Gavarni who dedicated works of the same theme at the same time. Mr. Descamps-Scrive who had a colored copy of the same thirty prints prints of this album indicated that the date was "towards 1860" (catalog Descamps-Scrive, second part). OCLC locates just two complete copies in libraries and institutions worldwide, both at The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA), one of which appears… Read More
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Les Vésuviennes [and] Quartier de la Boule Rouge [and] La Guerre des Femmes [and] Fariboles...
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Les Vésuviennes [and] Quartier de la Boule Rouge [and] La Guerre des Femmes [and] Fariboles [and] Au Bal Masqué [and] Les Jolies Femmes de Paris

by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de

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Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1848. Three incredibly rare suites by Charles Beaumont bound together in one album Together with Eighteen Hand Colored Lithographs from Three of his Other Works BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... complete [and] Quartier de la Boule Rouge... complete [and] La Guerre des Femmes [and] Fariboles [and] Au Bal Masqué [and] Les Jolies Femmes de Paris [The Pretty Women of Paris]. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [1846-1849]. Three incredibly rare complete suites by Charles Beaumont, together with eighteen hand colored lithographs from three of his other works, bound together in one album. A total of fifty-seven hand colored lithographs and forty black & white lithographs. Folio (13 1/8 x 10 inches; 334 x 254 mm.). Late nineteenth century quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... Paris: Au Bureau… Read More
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Book of Household Management; The
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Book of Household Management; The

by BEETON, Isabella Mrs

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London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. The First Edition of Mrs. Beeton An interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. The Book of Household Management; ... With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first impression with 18 Bouverie St. stated to the illustrated title page, and the farmyard frontispiece. One volume rebound in two small octavo volumes (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 172 x 108 mm.). xxxix, [1, blank]. [1]-512; [513]-1112 pp. Colored frontispiece, color title-page and twelve color plates. Page 887/888 slightly frayed at outer margin. Mid twentieth-century three-quarter dark red morocco over red cloth boards, decoratively ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands, paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edges stained black. pp. 887 and 888 slightly frayed at outer margin. A very good copy. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to… Read More
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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
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by BEETON, Isabella Mrs

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London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913. An interesting look at life in a Victorian and then Edwardian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. A Guide to Coookery in all Branches... New edition. Revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated. London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913. Thick octavo ( 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x 133 mm.). [viii], [1]-1997, [3, blank], [16, advertisements] pp. Thirty-two color plates, one hundred and forty-two black & white plates and two illustrations in the text. Publisher's quarter red morocco over green cloth boards, spine richly decorated in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers with printed advertisements, all edges speckled brown. A remarkable, almost untouched copy. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organization of kitchens and larders, marketing, and a calendar of food in season. She also gave advice on table decorations, how… Read More
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Book of Household Management; The
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by BEETON, Isabella Mrs

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London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. The First Edition of Mrs. Beeton An interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. The Book of Household Management; ... With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first impression with 18 Bouverie St. stated to the illustrated title page, and the farmyard frontispiece. Two small octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 181 x 114 mm.). [iii]-xxxix, [1, blank]. [1]-512; [ii, title-page, verso imprint], [513]-1112 pp. Colored frontispiece, color title-page and twelve color plates. Frontispiece and colored title browned in blank margins, a few mainly marginal light stains. Contemporary three-quarter dark blue calf over gray marbled boards, decoratively ruled in blind, spines with four raised bands decoratively ruled in gilt and blind, red morocco label lettered in gilt, pale blue/gray endpapers. Contemporary ink signature of… Read More
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Tempest, The
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Tempest, The

by BELL, Robert Anning, illustrator; SHAKESPEARE, William

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London: Freemantle & Co.,, 1901. Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here" (The Tempest, William Shakespeare) Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell One of 174 Numbered Copies Signed by the Artist BELL, Robert Anning, illustrator. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. A Comedy by William Shakespeare. Decorated by Robert Anning Bell. London: Freemantle & Co., 1901. First edition thus. One of 174 copies (this being No 94) signed by the artist. Quarto ( 10 1/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 256 x 184 mm.). [xii], 106, [1], [1, imprint] pp. With a frontispiece, pictorial title-page, twenty-five full-page illustrations, numerous half-page illustrations, head and tailpieces and initial letters all by Robert Anning Bell. Publisher's yap-edged vellum, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers printed in green, top edge gilt, others uncut, three (of four) silk ties missing. A near fine copy housed in a custom made black cloth clamshell case. Robert Anning… Read More
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Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters, The
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London: R. Bowyer, 1795. The 'Killer Bible', Illustrated with Sixty-Two Copper-Engraved Plates from the Old Masters, A Remarkably Fine Copy of the Large-Paper Edition In a Wonderful Georgian Full Morocco Binding [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters. The Letter Press by Thomas Bensley. London: R. Bowyer, 1795. Two large quarto volumes (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages (with a separate title-page for the New Testament) and sixty-two plates (including two frontispieces) from the works of Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, and others. Lower corner of 3H3 (possible paper-fault) torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates, otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double… Read More
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