London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1862. Hardcover. [2],196p. Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper covered boards with a gilt ruled spine. Nicely illustrated. Corners bumped and extremities rubbed. Portions of the boards sunned. Paper flaw to rear cover. Scattered foxing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Amsterdam: Johann Weppling, 1782. Soft cover. 98p. Contemporary marbled wrappers with the spine covered in a different color marbled wrapper. Four folding plates where of one partially separated at the fold. Some light browning to the title page and along the margins throughout. A few leaves dogeared. 12mo - over.....
London: A. Park, 1840. Soft cover. 8 leaves printed on one side with nice hand colored illustrations. A few spots to the rear cover and one small brown spot in the lower front margin, but otherwise clean. Very scarce. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
London: The Punch Office, 1845. Hardcover. viii, 284p. 20th century quarter green morocco over linen boards with a richly gilt tan spine. Small booksellers tag on the inside front board from James Miles, Antiquarian Bookseller, Leeds. Includes 12 full page steel engravings and numerous woodcuts in the text. A fresh.....
London: The Punch Office, 1847. Hardcover. viii, 320p; xii, 304p. Contemporary quarter red calf over marbled boards with richly gilt spines. First edition. Complete with 20 full page hand colored etchings and 240 black and white woodcuts. Some minor offsetting from the plates, otherwise a fresh clean set in an.....
London: Bradbury & Evans. Hardcover. xii, 308p. Polished calf with richly gilt spine with dark blue end papers. Signed binding by Riviere & Sons with their small rubber stamp on the inside front blank. Includes ten original full page hand-colored steel etchings and numerous wood engravings in the text. Original.....
New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967. vi, 61p. Publishers paper covered boards. A facsimile reprint limited to 500 copies of the 1896 edition. The text follows Samuel Smith's translation. Nicely illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Some soiling to the boards and a small chip a the front hinge at the foot of.....
Exeter: Henry Besley, 1861. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo, Modern cloth over boards preserving the original spine and the end papers. Includes 59 steel engravings of the region. Some light foxing to the title page and a few paper guards are loose, otherwise a very nice copy of a rather scarce edition.....
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. Hardcover. 290p. Publishers cloth. Light general wear. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: George Routledge & Son. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Oblong folio. 1883, 1887 and 1888. 96p: 71p: 71p. Printed on one side only and illustrated in color throughout. Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was an English artist and illustrator. Modern bookplate on the inside front board in all three volumes. Some edge wear.....
London: Charles Tilt, 1834. Hardcover. 35p. Contemporary patterned cloth over boards. Oblong octavo. A facsimile of the original first edition. From the Dodington Library penciled on the inside front board and a contemporary ownership signature on the title page. Minor rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a fresh clean copy. 8vo.....
London: Tilt & Bogue, 1842. Hardcover. 300p. Contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards and end papers. Gilt spine with burgundy label. Includes one hundred engravings on steel and wood. From the library of Charles Caldecot with contemporary bookplate. Front hinge a little rubbed, but holding firm. Light wear to.....
London: John C, Nimmo, 1892. Frontispiece, 136p. Publishers gilt decorated blue cloth. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads by the three Cruikshanks colored by hand. Limited to 525 numbered copies, whereof this is #484. Slight wear to the headband and offsetting on the front and rear end papers from the.....
John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xx, 218p, [6]. Original quarter burgundy polished calf with red cloth boards. Gilt ruled spine and marbled end papers. A nicely illustrated edition limited to 3000 numbered copies whereof this is #2728. Very small scratch mark by rear left hinge, otherwise.....
Zurich: Zürich, Egli-Schätti, 1869. Hardcover. 297p. Contemporary leather spine over roan boards.Second edition with 64 chromolithograph plates of heraldic shields of Zurich families. Scattered foxing in the text. Minor rubbing to the spine and extremities otherwise a well preserved copy. From the Library of Carl Leonard with bookplate. 4to -.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1823. iv, 395p: vi, 374p: v, 378p:376p: iv, 319p: 384p: v, 334p: iv, 319p. 19th century quarter red morocco with richly gilt spines over speckled boards and marbleized end papers. Signed bindings by Emile Rousselle with his small rubber stamp on the verso of the front marbled.....
London: Henry Bohn, 1851. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xxviii, 1116p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards and end papers. Includes twenty-two plates by George Cruikshank. Light rubbing to the boards and corners worn. Scattered marginal foxing to some plates. Includes a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe. 8vo - over 7¾.....
London: Jones & Co, 1830. Hardcover. Containing 42 plates with 84 images as well as text. Also includes three loosely inserted steel engravings of landscapes. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards and end papers. Henry Gastineau (1791-1876) was born in London to a family of Huguenot descent. It is interesting.....
chez Gerard Lithographe edition. Soft cover. Oblong quarto. A collection of twelve lithographic views of Waterloo as well as a foldout partially hand colored battle plan with explanatory notes in both English and French. Bound in contemporary wrappers with some chips to the spine and professional paper repairs to the.....
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Hardcover. 50p. Publishers paper covered boards with illustrations. Small tear by the headband otherwise internally a fresh clean copy of this charmingly illustrated work by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). First printed in 1885 by George Routledge and Sons. Neither the first or this.....
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. Hardcover. 232p. Cloth. 324 items listed and described in this exhibition catalog. Nicely illustrated and with an introduction by Philip Hofer. A few chips in the dust jacket otherwise internally a fresh clean copy. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
Paris: Libraire Floury, 1929. Hardcover. 247p, [4]. Half polished calf over marbled boards. A profusely illustrated edition with an original engraved frontispiece, facsimiles and illustration at the rear. A crisp clean copy in excellent condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. 157p. Publishers original brown cloth over boards with a gilt spine. Includes 112 chromolithographic plates. Second edition. First published in 1856. Small marginal stain towards the end affecting roughly seven leaves. From the Library of noted New York architect Albert Gottlieb (1870-1942) with his rubber stamp.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1893. Hardcover. viii, 272p. Publishers gilt decorated red cloth. Headband rubbed. Rear cover slightly faded with vertical lines. Nicely illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Paris: Paris: Helleu et Sergent, 1926, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 362p. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbeld boards. Original wrappers bound-in. Nicely illustrated with lithographs by Charles Guerin. No. 214 of an edition of 320 copies, of which this is one of.....