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Octavo. 25 pp. The text of Morris's address is printed here by the Chiswick Press. This copy was bound by the Doves Bindery in 1900 in full green morocco, and features gilt corner designs of rose leaves in groups of threes, double rules, and dots and gouges. This design is... more

Price: $2,250.00

32mo. 56pp. Illustrated with six detailed double-page engravings, several of which are pastoral scenes of shepherds and shepherdesses. In addition to the typical contents of an almanac, such as the months of the year and phases of the moon, this example contains verses taken from theater, poetry, and classical mythology.... more

Price: $2,000.00

Oblong 12mo. (26) pp. Illustrated by Baltazar. From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty signed by the author and by the illustrator, and handcolored. Reproduced entirely by serigraphy, the text is from the author's own manuscript. The abstract black and white illustrations have been colored with... more

Price: $2,750.00

Two oblong octavo volumes comprising seven parts. (118); (120); (122); (122); (120); 120; (ii), 120; (iv), (124)pp. A collection of sheet music and lyrics for pianoforte gathered from a variety of composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. This set features wrap-around fore-edge paintings by modern British artist Clare Brooksbank on... more

Price: $4,500.00

Octavo. 119pp. First issue, on large paper, with the title and headings in red. With copper-engraved title vignette, 22 large headpieces and 20 tailpieces after Charles Eisen and two tailpieces after Pierre-Clement Marillier. A large (8 7/8 by 5 5/8 inches) and clean copy with strong impressions of the engravings.... more

Price: $4,500.00

Folio. (86)ff. One of 250 copies. Signed by the artist and designer, Thierry Despont. Text in French, with an English translation by Louise Varèse, the English set below the French on the page. Contains twenty-eight drawings by Despont, printed using offset lithography by Susan Medlicott. Type and printing by Michael... more

Price: $7,500.00

12mo. 282ff. Bound by Edwards of Halifax in full vellum with a gilt pentaglyph and metope roll border on a blue wash background. Both covers ornamented with gilt wavy broken line and sprig roll borders on a blue wash background, enclosing a gilt roll with the leaf spray initials "MLC"... more

Price: $4,500.00

Two large quarto volumes. 530pp. numbered consecutively. Limited to 924 copies signed by Kent. With twenty-five full-page illustrations by Rockwell Kent, printed in brown and black, and more than fifty smaller decorations. In a unique sculptural binding signed by the Dutch artist Pierre Thielen. Executed in 1992, this breathtaking modernist... more

Price: $5,000.00

Octavo. xiv, 104pp. First edition. One of 250 copies. This dark drama of a besieged daughter's retribution against her tyrannical father was the only one of Shelley's works to reach an authorized second edition in his lifetime. This copy has been bound in full brown morocco by the Club Bindery,... more

Price: $5,500.00

Quarto. 75ff. Woodcut device on title page and last leaf, several geometrical text figures, two ten-line and two five-line initial capitals. A book of commentary by the sixth-century Greek philosopher Philiponus, who also went by the name John the Grammarian for his scholarship on language. This copy of Commentaria features... more

Price: $7,500.00

Folio. 65pp. From an edition of 211 copies, this is one of fifteen copies signed by the artist, Jacques Villon, the poet, Henri Pichette, and by the editor, Pierre de Tartas; and with an extra suite of all thirteen etchings, plus duplicate extra suites of the four double-page etchings, two... more

Price: $25,000.00

Two 12mo. volumes. (vi), (892); (xxxiv), (498)pp. Both volumes feature engraved frontispieces and title pages. The Dante contains a colophon indicating that this edition was published on 24 March 1830, the same day on which a monument to Dante was erected in Florence. Both volumes are bound in nineteenth-century vellum,... more

Price: $4,000.00

Together with The Last Essays of Elia. Being a Sequel to Essays Published under That Name. London, Edward Moxon, 1833. Two octavo volumes. 341 pp. + (vi) pp. of advertisements; xii, 283 pp. First edition, first issue of volume I, with the single address on title-page; and the first English... more

Price: $3,500.00

Octavo. ix, 207pp. First edition with both errata leaves, but lacking the half title and ads, as is typical with rebound copies. Perhaps best-known for its opening lines, which proclaim that "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever," this long Romantic epic was the second of three books... more

Price: $10,000.00

Quarto. (105)pp. One of 130 copies. The text of this opera is rendered in both German and English on facing pages and is printed in red and black. In a unique binding of full black morocco by British artist Denise Lubett. Lubett was born in Paris in 1922 and studied... more

Price: $3,000.00

Octavo. (xvi), 203pp. First edition. A unique copy in an elaborate contemporary painted vellum binding. As befitting the works of a Scottish writer, the paintings take inspiration from Celtic calligraphy and designs. A border of gold leaves and stars against a green background frames the front cover. An intricate center... more

Price: $4,750.00

Folio. x, 191, (1)pp. A facsimile of the fourteenth-century English manuscript and picture book from Holkham Hall, which is now at the British Library. With an introduction by W. O. Hassall. Illustrated with 84 collotypes, some of which have been reproduced in color. Specially bound by Desmond Yardley, signed by... more

Price: $5,500.00

Small folio. (266) pp. One of 1050 copies signed by Francis Russell Flint, the artist's son. This richly illustrated work covers the varied career of this Scots artist, perhaps best known for his work with the Riccardi Press. It was published on what would have been Flint's 90th birthday, in... more

Price: $15,000.00