[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
![Item #20091201 La Maison Qui Pleure ["The House that Weeps"]. Adrien-Pierre Bagarry, C....](/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
[Los Angeles]: Printmaker Press [printed by Marion A. Baker], c. 1988. Baker, Marion A. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 108 of 135 copies, octavo size, 64 pp. Marion Baker made etchings and linocuts since the late 60s and began learning the art of letterpress printing in 1978. She was a founding..... 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
![Item #CNJL617 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
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
(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: 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
[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
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
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
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Browne, Hablot K. ['Phiz"]; Meadows, Kenney. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, mixed state, octavo size, 707 pp. This was writer Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) third novel, widely anticipated and loved. He is often considered the greatest of the Victorian era novelists, blending drama and comedy into..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1930). Pogany, Willy. Limited Edition. Leather bound. No. 534 of 1250 copies, quarto size, 175 pp., signed by Willy Pogany, in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe custom box. Hungarian illustrator Willy Pogany (1882-1955), a contemporary of monumental illustrators such as Edmund Dulac and N...... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 197 of 500, octavo size, 16 pp. "The Lord's Song" is a sermon composed by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); it is a call to reaffirm free will as well as an acknowledgement of sin and spiritual responsibility..... More
Saint Petersburg: (Dmitry Sayenko), 2020. Sayenko, Dmitry. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 7 of 19, folio size, 50 pp., signed by Dmitry Sayenko and James J. Owens. Dmitry Sayenko (b. 1965) learned a love of book illustration from his father, a book illustrator himself, by watching him at work..... More
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1992. Graham, Rigby. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 146 of 150 copies, elephant folio size, 58 pp. Rigby Graham (1931-2015) was a landscape and topographical artist, book illustrator and muralist who worked within the British Romantic tradition. His work is distinguished by bold lines, a...... More
![Item #CNJL1237 Green Blades, from her mound [No. III of X of the special edition]; Poems from...](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1237_1.JPG?v=1501288508)
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2007]. Cazalet, Mark. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. III of X of the special edition, total edition 210, folio size, 46 pp., signed by artist. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of Britain's most influential Victorian novelists and poets; he often wrote of tragic characters struggling against..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Kredel, Fritz. Second Edition. Hardcover. Harper code "L-K", octavo size, 32 pp. A classic German children's tale originally published in 1845 (with corresponding politically-incorrect racial allusions), comprised of ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the..... More
![Item #CNJL1257 Shakespeare's Ovid [DeLuxe edition with separate etching, and with prospectus]....](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1257_1.JPG?v=1504050674)
(London): Enitharmon Press [Printed by the Rampant Lions Press], 1995. Le Brun, Christopher. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 47 of 50 (plus 15 HC) of the deluxe edition, signed by translator and artist, folio size, 43 pp. Published "in aid of the Shakespeare Globe Trust and its appeal to rebuild the..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition with additional Rackham illustrations on enlarged paper, quarto size, 568 pp., in original dust jacket. This book was first published in 1898 with only twelve illustrations, this being the first trade edition of the newly enlarged..... More