[San Francisco]: Designed and printed by Lemoncheese Press, [2019]. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 16 of 50 copies, folio size. Printed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth in 1819 in edition of 50 copies, this no. 16. The Lemoncheese Press is owned and operated by Li..... More
New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Michael, A.C. Hardcover. Quarto size, 116 pp. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is, for many of us, a favourite to be enjoyed year after year as the perfect embodiment of the Christmas spirit. This publication by Hodder and Stoughton (originally published in..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Hardcover. Sixmo size, 193 pp., in a custom binding by The Monastery Hill Bindery. Edited by A.G. de Liancourt, this work presents sayings of (we presume Emperor) Napoleon, showing the original French on the left-hand side and the translated, English on the (facing) right-hand side..... More
[East Aurora, New York]: [The Roycrofters], (1905). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 90 of 100 printed on Imperial Japan Vellum, octavo size, 101 pp, in a custom binding, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) originally published "Nature" in 1836; it contains his thoughts on Man's relationship with Nature, and..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press [Designed by Ward Ritchie], (1984). Hardcover. Ten volumes (complete), octavo size, 4365 pp. While some of us came to know the great Anglican cleric John Donne (1572-1631) through his love poetry, it is his sermons that most influenced the world of his day. "There are..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1991-1994. Reddick, Peter. Hardcover. Eighteen volumes (a complete Folio Society set, see titles below), octavo size, approximately 6100 pages total. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of Britain's most influential Victorian novelists and poets; he often wrote of tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances..... More