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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

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

One of 310 copies on paper. With woodcut title-page and facing full-page woodcut border. One of the earlier volumes printed by William Morris' legendary press, published eleven years after Rossetti's death. Set in Golden type in both black and red. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full blue crushed morocco,... more

Price: $22,500.00

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

Price: $8,500.00

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

A nineteenth century French solid gold enamel binding containing five bone leaves. First appearing around 1820, the carnets de bal were used to record the order of an evening's dances, as well as the name of the partner for a particular dance. This opulent example is decorated with a leaf... more

Price: $22,500.00

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

(19)pp. One of twenty copies. The text is a poem in French, translated from Czech by Martina Drinek, who signs the colophon. Illustrated with three engravings of abstract landscapes by Anick Butré. In a stunning ultra-modern signed designer binding executed in 2009 by Brother Edgard Claes. Covers are formed from... more

Price: $7,500.00

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

24mo. (44)ff. In a richly embroidered binding, this almanac is illustrated with thirteen plates of bright hand-colored engravings. In addition to the usual contents of an almanac, such as a calendar and phases of the moon, this near-miniature tome contains tales of love told through rhyming verses. In one, a... more

Price: $2,500.00

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

192pp., + folding map. An elegant embroidered hand-calendar, giving Feast Days, a Court Calendar, phases of the moon, eclipses, lists of kings, bishops, cardinals, and more. Includes the lineage of the Royal Family. Frontispiece is an engraved, hand-colored folding map of Portugal. Extremely fine white satin embroidered binding with gold... more

Price: $3,000.00

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... more

Price: $4,500.00

Large octavo. xv, 136 pp. From an edition of 250 copies, this is one of fifteen in a deluxe binding by George Fisher and signed by him on the rear turn-in. Bound in full blue levant morocco, ornamented with intersecting blind and gilt lines. Spine in six compartments with raised... more

Price: $3,500.00

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