[London]: 1858-1859. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. [140] pp. This volume contains fourteen issues of a leading women's fashions magazine, beginning with November 1858 (No. 335, Volume 31) and running through December 1859 (No. 348, Volume 32). Most issues have three colour plates and two black-and-white plates, and a few issues..... More
![La Maison Qui Pleure ["The House that Weeps"]. Adrien-Pierre Bagarry, C. Jacquemot, Artist, arles](/pictures/thumb/20091201_1.JPG?v=1619561191)
Paris: Société du Livre d'Art, 1923. Jacquemot, Charles. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. XI of XXV copies on Japon imperial (Japan vellum), octavo size, 112 pp., with an extra suite of plates, all illustrations signed in pencil by the artist. Adrien Pierre Bagarry was a French Impressionist and Modern artist (1898-1949);..... More
Saint Petersburg: [Dmitry Sayenko], 2015-2016. Sayenko, Dmitry. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number XI of XVIII copies, folio size, 40 pp., numbered and signed by Dmitry Sayenko. Mary Bartlett, bookbinding tutor at Dartington Hall (which is credited on the title page), has a passion for unicorns. Her short story text..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. Goble, Warwick. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 150 copies, the Edition de Luxe, quarto size, 316 pp. The text of this book is based on John Edward Taylor's translation from 1847. Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. The..... More
![Demons, Imps & Fiends [WITH ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCH BY BASKIN]. Leonard Baskin](/pictures/thumb/CNJL617_1.JPG?v=1496113249)
[Northampton, Mass.]: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 107 of 450 copies, quarto size, 42 pp., inscribed by Leonard Baskin. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an artistic genius whose works almost defy categorization. Eminent in sculpting, illustration, printmaking and also as a typographer and printer, he pursued..... More
![Der Ausgestossene [L'expulse]. Artist, Book Designer, Samuel Beckett, Elmar Tophoven, Roswtha...](/pictures/thumb/CNJL505_1.JPG?v=1496113112)
Hamburg: Raamin-Presse, 1976. Quadflieg, Roswtha. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 91 of 170 copies, quarto size, 37 pp., signed by Roswtha Quadflieg. Roswtha Quadfleig (b. 1949) founded the Raamin-press in 1973, publishing works of literature printed with original graphics in limited editions; she was both the designer of this volume and..... More
![Godot: An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett [with] En...](/pictures/thumb/18052111_1.JPG?v=1530840466)
San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press, 2006. Wiley, William T. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Artist book: Number 68 of 300, elephant folio size, [67] pp., signed by William T. Wiley, with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size, 365 pp. Samuel Beckett..... More
London: Duckworth, 1932. Bentley, Nicolas. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 53 pp. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), a prolific writer and poet as well as an avid sailor; he composed many poems of both comic and serious nature, and he would often collaborate with the noted writer G. K. Chesterton..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, (1930). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, folio size, [26] pp. Bertram Richard Brooker (1888-1955) was multi-talented: although he is perhaps best remembered today for his artwork, he was also a writer, awarded with the very first Governor General's Award for fiction in 1936;..... More
(New Brunswick): (Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking), (1993). Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. No. 7 of 18, folio size, seven unbound folio sheets, signed by Walter Feldman. Walter Sidney Feldman (1925-2017) received numerous awards and critical praise spanning a lifetime achievement over seven decades; his paintings were..... More
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 642 of 875 copies of the Ordinary Edition, quarto size, 66 pp. The famous story of the headhunting heroine whose bold act has inspired painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. This version was finely printed by The..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1976. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 113 of 480, quarto size, unpaginated [5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary]. "The Book of Los" published in 1795, is one of Blake's prophetic books, a sort of..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1970. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 381 of 600, folio size, unpaginated [28] pp. "William Blake's early tractate, 'All Religions are One', consists of ten small etched plates averaging in size only about 5.5 x...... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1972. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, number 522 of 540, folio and octavo sizes, unpaginated [21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary]. "There is No Natural Religion" is a series of gnomic aphorisms written..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1973. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 340 of 750, quarto size, unpaginated. "The Book of Ahania" is one of Blake's lesser-known works, and is generally agreed to be a continuation of "The Book of Urizen"..... More
![Les Embarras de Paris [The Embarrassment of Paris]; (Satire VI). Boileau-Despreaux, Dubout,...](/pictures/thumb/18041739_1.JPG?v=1535158234)
Paris: Editions Kra [printed by M. Massol], 1929. Dubout, Albert. 2nd Printing. Wraps. Second printing with illustrations by Dubout, no. 960 of 1000, octavo size, 21 pp., in French. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and satirist whose work had a great influence on French..... More
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Morgan, Gwenda. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 35 of 75 copies bound in morocco, octavo size, 160 pp., signed by Gwenda Morgan, with prospectus. Per the book's prospectus: "Among treasures sent out of Berlin for safety during the war were the notebooks of Jacob and..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press [2008], 2008. Onken, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. II of 10 of the Special Edition, folio size, 50 pp., signed by Artist. There are many stories and legends of selkies - the seals that surround the shores of Orkney - their deep brown eyes that..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press (1906), 1906. Coburn, Frederick Simpson (illustrations); Armstrong, Margaret (binding, endpapers, and title page). Hardcover. Duodecimo size, [48] pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created..... More
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1971. Van Vliet, Claire. Limited Edition. Folio. No. 48 of 100 copies, folio size, 24 pp., signed by Claire Van Vliet. Presented as unbound sheets, with the lithographs printed on the same paper as the text. Claire Van Vliet (b. 1933), the artist for..... More
London: Hatchard & Co., 1939. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 198 pp. Written, as the author sets forth in the Foreword, to address the issue that, "Readers of fairy tales and other romantic fiction will have noticed before this that the Mothers of the heroines..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1820. Cruikshank, Isaac Robert. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 212 pp. (not matching pagination, see below), with 12 aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. A humorous collection of sketches exalting through parody the merits of the thrifty. The..... More
London: Field & Tuer et al, 1883. Crawhall, Joseph. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. 290 pp. Joseph Crawhall II (1821-1896) was born at Newcastle, a city famous for its wood engravers (including Thomas Bewick). He became a wood engraver himself and this production is a bit unique, being "part..... More
Mill Valley, California: Sunflower Press, 1993. Collin, Marcie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 19 of 55 copies, miniature book, [36] pp., signed by Carol Cunningham, in the original gift box. A charmingly illustrated tale, "[b]ased on a Middle Eastern proverb 'The Boots of Hunain' which refers to something that is not..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2009. Lemaire, Angela. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 3 of 25 copies for sale, folio size, 52 pp. The story begins: "I was present during the Great Plague of 1665, It took away my life," he said. Per the artist, this work, originally produced by..... More