[ALASTAIR (HANS HENNING VOIGHT)]. Herode [Salome: drame en un acte]. Paris, c. 1922.

Original illustration in red and black ink and pencil on paper. This drawing first appeared in Fifty Drawings by Alastair, published by Knopf in 1925, and a similar version was used in the Paris edition of Wilde's text published the same year....[Details]

[ASHENDENE PRESS]. Berners, Juliana. Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Together with original woodblocks for the illustrations. (Chelsea), (1903).

One of 150 copies. Inscribed by St. John Hornby to "WMH," indicating his brother William Maysey Hornby. The text is taken from the Boke of St. Albans, printed at Westmestre by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496. Illustrated with woodcuts reproduced from same. Together with the complete set of eleven woodblocks used to print the illustrations in this edition....[Details]

[ASHENDENE PRESS]. Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe. Chelsea, 1933.

From a projected edition of 290 copies, this is one of only ten copies that were preserved when the remainder of the edition was destroyed. Printed in red and black with initial letters and paragraph marks done by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants. Illustrated throughout with wonderful original woodcuts by Gwen Raverat....[Details]

[ASHENDENE PRESS]. The Song of Songs which Is Solomon's. (Chelsea, 1902).

One of forty copies, all of which are on vellum. If the Opera of Dante can be considered Hornby's love letter to Renaissance Italian book design, then his Song of Songs is his most fully realized English book, as well as being an Ashendene book with the greatest Arts and Crafts aesthetic. All copies were hand-illuminated by Florence Kingsford, and all show variations in the number of the small designs that appear throughout, and in overall treatment....[Details]

[BEARDSLEY, AUBREY]. Jonson, Ben. Volpone: or, The Foxe. With a Critical Essay on the Author by Vincent O'Sullivan, and a Frontispiece, Five Initial Letters, and a Cover Design Illustrative and Decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. Together with an Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross. London, Leonard Smithers, 1898.

From a first edition limited to 1000 copies, this is one of 100 deluxe copies bound in full vellum, with an extra, enlarged set of the illustrations tipped-in....[Details]

BIERCE, AMBROSE. Fantastic Fables. NY, G.P. Putnam's, 1899.

First edition, first issue. A collection of 243 "updates" of many classic fables, including a section titled "Aesopus Emendatus." Inscribed in pencil by Bierce to Dr. J. W. Robertson in the year of publication....[Details]

[BUCKLAND WRIGHT, JOHN]. Bonaparte, Marie. Flyda of the Seas. London, Imago, (1950).

One of thirty copies printed on handmade paper, not for sale. Illustrated with twelve color lithographs by John Buckland Wright, all but one of them full-page. Bound in lime-green vellum with an image of a mermaid in gilt on the front cover...[Details]

[CLAES, EDGAR]. Vlaminck, Maurice de. Communications: Poèmes & Bois Gravès. Paris, Editions de la Galerie Simon, (1921).

One of 100 copies. Signed by the author-artist and the binder. Ten poems by the French painter Vlaminck, illustrated with wood engravings by him printed in black. The artwork contrasts wonderfully with the book's ultra-modern kinetic binding, executed in 2007 by Brother Edgar Claes of Belgium....[Details]

[CRANACH PRESS]. Canticum Canticorum Salomonis Quod Hebraice Dicitur Sir Hasirim. (Weimar), 1931.

From an edition of 268 copies, this is one of 60 copies on Japon. Printed in red and black and illustrated throughout with wood-engravings and decorated initials by Eric Gill. Bound in full red morroco with original dust wrapper and slipcase....[Details]

DE RICCI, SEYMOUR Manuscript of the Introduction to the Catalogue of Estelle Doheny's Loan Exhibit at University of Southern California Library. 1932.

Two drafts of de Ricci's typed manuscript, with his handwritten corrections inserted extensively in the first draft and to a lesser extent in the second draft....[Details]

DICKENS, CHARLES. Great Expectations. London, Chapman and Hall, 1861.

First edition, first impression. One of 1000 copies. Great Expectations is the rarest of Dickens' larger books in that most of the first edition was purchased by libraries; those copies that survive are usually not in good condition. This copy conforms to nearly all points established in the Clarendon edition; the exceptions all occurring in Vol. III,...[Details]

[FALCONER, REBECCA]. Noah's Ark Game. Evanston, 1945.

Fully developed mock-up for a game concept based on the Ark story, done by commercial artist Rebecca Falconer in 1945. Consists of a painted handmade cardboard box, containing 17 paired animal playing cards with folding stands, a double-sided ark, all painted in tempera....[Details]

[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Authorized Version of the King James I, with Decorations by Eric Gill. (Waltham St. Lawrence), 1931

One of 500 copies. Printed in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor hand-made paper. With sixty-five illustrations from wood engravings by Eric Gill. This work stands as the crowning achievement of the Golden Cockerel Press, as well as Gill's finest work as a book artist....[Details]

[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer. Berkshire, 1927.

One of 225 copies printed on Kelmscott paper in black, red, and blue. This handsome volume is Eric Gill's tour-de-force, his wood engravings appearing in the outer margin of every page of text. The decorations show leafy vines that frame and interlace the characters, who seem to be taking part in and commenting on the stories themselves....[Details]