Ditchling: c. 1910. Pen-and-ink overpainted in white gouache on stiff card, measuring 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. Original artwork by Eric Gill for Roger Fry's 1910 Christmas card. An artist and influential art critic, Fry reviewed Gill's first sculpture exhibition at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, and was one..... More
London: Henry Frowde, (c. 1905). 584pp. With a portrait of Oliver Goldsmith as frontispiece. "A handsome edition on thin paper." Hidden beneath the fore-edge gilding on this copy is a fine fore-edge painting by Martin Frost, the subject of which is a couple in period clothing strolling down a country..... More
Dundee, London and Montreal: Valentine & Sons, Ltd, c. 1915. 12mo. 12ff. Upper edges die-cut to form the shape of an open touring car and the outlines of the heads of its passengers—all members of the May family. The text follows their July vacation in the country, in which they..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1822. 2 vols. 374pp, paginated continuously. Engraved double-page title in first volume, including frontis portrait of Dante, whose masterwork is here dutifully printed entirely in Italian. As he was wont to do, Pickering also prints the parerga in the text's original language. Both volumes bound in brown..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1824. 220pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Terence, facing an engraved title page. Ornamental head- and tail-pieces. A miniature printing of Terence's plays in Latin, faithful to the language even in headers, the title page, and dedicatory statements. Bound in brown calf over boards with gilt double rule..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1824. 93pp. A miniature printing of the Classical poetry of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius in Latin, faithful to the language even in headers, the title page, and dedicatory statements. Bound in brown calf over boards with gilt double rule as frame to upper and lower covers, spine..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1822. 237, (10)pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Petrarch, facing an engraved title page. An exacting miniature printing of the Rime in Italian, faithful to the language even in headers, the title page, and dedicatory statements. Bound in brown calf over boards with gilt double rule as frame..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1828. 512pp. Engraved frontispiece reproducing da Vinci's "The Last Supper." A sharp miniature printing of the New Testament in Greek, faithful to the language even in headers and frontis caption, and rendering in Latin the title page and dedicatory statements. Bound in brown calf over boards with..... More
London: G. Pickering, 1822. 2 vols. (vii), 405pp, paginated continuously. Engraved double-page title in first volume, including frontis portrait of Tasso. Head- and tail-pieces divide the cantos of Tasso's imaginative poetic retelling of the Seige of Jerusalem, here dutifully printed entirely in Italian. As he was wont to do, Pickering..... More
(Netherlands: c. 1835). Thirty-six fortune-telling cards, each one copper-engraved and showing at its upper half a playing card and at its lower half a portentious scene. The cards numbered, but their numbers do not necesarrily correpsond to the playing cards they feature. The playing-card images themselves vary from the familiar..... More
Philadelphia: Fisher & Bro. (c. 1865). 192pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and five engravings. A miscellany of tales historical, moral, and informative. Slight wear to extremities and fading to spine; else fine in embossed, red cloth-covered boards. (2 3/16 by 2; 56x50mm). More
Philadelphia: Fisher & Bro. (c. 1865). 192pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven engravings. Addressed to parents and Sunday School teachers, this instructive miniature was meant to “teach children important lessons of religious, historical, and political truth,” describing the establishment of the Hebrew people as a nation with an essentially Republican..... More
Philadelphia, New York: Fisher & Brother, (c. 1850). 192 pp. The Bible as told for children, illustrated throughout with full-page plates, including a full-page frontispiece. Authored by "a Lady of Cincinnati." Bound in variant red cloth listed in Adomeit, blind-stamped to front and rear covers, gilt-stamped on spine with "The..... More
New York: S. Wood, 1811. 254pp. Contains sixteen captioned, paginated, wood or type-metal engravings. In original brown leather, with five double fillets and "Bible" stamped in gilt on spine, rather rubbed. Loss to p. 237/8, lacking free endpapers, typical edgewear. A very good copy. (Adomeit A26; Welch 856.3). (1 13/16..... More
Paris: Marcilly, (ca. 1850). 92pp. Illustrated with five wood-engravings. This tiny prayer book for children was very popular and issued over a long period of time in a variety of printings and bindings. This one has covers of red pebbled coth over boards with giltwork to panels and spine. Light..... More
Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson, 1854. Square 24mo. leporello featuring twenty-four panels printed on recto only. The book presents a series of hand-colored wood engraved illustrations showing the native dress of the indigenous people of North and South America, with captions identifying each. The illustrations cover a significant amount of ground: from..... More
London: Cassell and Francis Walterson, 1929. Octavo. x, 325 pp. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by Eric Gill. A collection of the artist's writings, with a wood engraving by him on the title page. The colophon notes that this publication marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua type..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2011. Folio. (16)ff. One of 70 copies, signed by the poet, Anthony Hecht, and the artist, Michael Kuch.For each of Hecht's ten poems, Kuch has contributed two intaglios, and has arranged the printing such that the trifold sheets unfurl to show the poem at the..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2011. Square 24mo. Unpaginated, accordionfold. One of 60 copies. A charming alphabetical bestiary of twenty-six-plus-one (colophon) double-page spreads made from color-printed copperplates employing stencils, viscosity, and monotype techniques. Among the collected wildlife are "lackadaisical lobsters left little to lose" and "jaunty jaguars jousting in 'jamas."..... More
London: (c. 1908). Small quarto. 18ff + 5 blank leaves and 1 colophon leaf. Francis Sangorki's unique illuminated manuscript takes as its text Rossetti's highly influential short story, "Hand and Soul," which was first published in 1850 in the pre-Raphaelite periodical, The Germ, and which addressed directly the pre-Raphaelite concern..... More
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870. 16mo. iii, (1), 199pp. Engraved portrait of Napoleon at title page, along with head and tail pieces throughout the text. Third edition. A Cosway binding by Rivière & Son in full blue morocco with a matching design to both covers: gilt rule frame..... More
Philadelphia: 1895. 2 vols. Unpaginated. An handmade album of portraits of various literary and historical figures and landmarks, each one clipped from a different source and adhered to its own page. Among those represented are Demosthenes, Ulysses Grant, and Washington Irving. A miniature record of the maker's aspirations and admirations..... More
Philadelphia: 1895. Unpaginated. An handmade album of portraits of various literary and historical figures, each one clipped from a different source and adhered to its own page. Among those represented are Shakespeare (whose name appears, somewhat deceptively, on the spine title), Ben Jonson, Balzac, Twain, and Ulysses Grant. A miniature..... More
Philadelphia: 1890. Unpaginated. An handmade album of portraits of Abraham Lincoln, each one clipped from a different source and adhered to its own page. The result is a rather robust survey of the late President as he was perceived by the press and by photographers. Handwritten title page. In a...... More
NY: Putnam; Putnam; Congdon & Weed, 1972-1983. First edition. The first three Amphigorey anthologies—Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, and Amphigorey Also—presenting a selection of Gorey's prolific output. Amphigory Also is signed by Gorey. All bound in boards with original dust wrappers. All fine with dust wrappers fine, save for intermittent creasing at..... More
