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The Poetical Works
London: Oxford University Press, 1932. Bound in crimson full morocco; all edges gilt; raised bands; title and author in gilt; minor darkening and wear; near fine. More
[Book #25954P]
Age of Chivalry
Philadelphia: McKay, 1900. Bookplate; small name stamp on the front free endpaper; bound in 3/4 morocco for Lauriat’s, Boston. With raised bands; gilt rules; top edge gilt; some rubbing; a very good copy. More
[Book #20719P]
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
London: John Murray, 1855-1856. Six volumes; in handsomely bound 19th century red, pebble-grained, full morocco. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers; the front and back boards are uniformly decorated with three ornate gilt-stamped borders; the spines are decorated with compartments separated by raised bands with gilt-stamped decorations; the set’s title is..... More
[Book #25200P]
Typhoon and Other Stories
London: Heinemann, 1907. Later printing. Bound in 3/4 green morocco by Asprey; all edges gilt; raised bands; gilt rules; fine. More
[Book #30944P]
Poems Relating to the American Revolution
New York: Widdleton, 1865. Attractively bound in full red morocco with gilt decoration; top edge gilt; fine. More
[Book #30899P]
The Vicar of Wakefield...Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
London: Macmillan, 1910. Bound by Riviere in green 3/4 morocco with a gilt decorated spine and a gilt top edge. Owner’s signature on the front paste-down; very minor wear. More
[Book #29279P]
The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1889. Small 8vo.; bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full brownish-red morocco; all edges gilt; boards decorated in blind cross hatching with gilt lettering and rules; spine elaborately decorated in gilt with raised bands. Small name label inside the front cover; very slight wear; excellent. More
[Book #32391P]
The Book of Gems. From the Poets and Artists of Great Britain. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Swift to Burns
London: George Bell & Sons, 1874. [With] The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Wordsworth to Tennyson (published 1877). These two volumes, evidently produced as gift books, are uniformly bound with decorated morocco spines (a little faded and worn) and thick beveled boards of tree calf that is highly polished to mimic..... More
[Book #25556P]
Ilias [The Iliad] and Odyssea [The Odyssey]
Amsteldaedami [Amsterdam]: Officina Wetstentaniana, 1707. Two volumes. Finely bound (likely 19th century) in red full straight-grain morocco; simply decorated in gilt; raised bands; all edges gilt; marbled paper endpapers; bookplates; an exceptionally attractive set with only the slightest wear. Each volume prints the text in both Greek and Latin, and..... More
[Book #35561P]
The English Liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer
London: Rivingtons, 1903. Printed by Constable in red and black; initial letters and designs by Housman; folio; some scattered foxing; trivial edge rubbing; spine very slightly faded. Bound in full brown morocco; all edges gilt; signed “19 L.G.W. 06 [Lucy G. Wrightson]”. An exceptional binding with a complex geometric patterned..... More
[Book #20528P]
Ancient Spanish Ballads
London: John Murray, 1842. “A New Edition, Revised.” An exceptionally fine example of color printing; bound (probably in the late 19th or early 20th century) in full red morocco; decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; minor rubbing at the extremities; very good plus. More
[Book #30919P]
Madame Recamier: With a Sketch of the History of Society in France
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First Edition. Bound by Root in full black morocco; boards decorated in gilt; raised bands and gilt-decorated spine; all edges gilt; library bookplate and blind stamps, else fine. Extra-illustrated with 43 plates, mostly portraits of her contemporaries. More
[Book #22375P]
Les Oraisons Amoureuses de Jeanne-Aurelie Grivolin, Lyonnaise
Lyon: Imprimerie Typographique des Deux-Collines, 1919. First Edition (we find no earlier edition) of this erotic, but relatively tastefully illustrated piece. Bound with both the front and back wrappers in an unusual binding, stamped on the verso of an endpaper, “Vtesse G. De Mentque.” Bound in white polished calf with..... More
[Book #27195P]
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrated by William Strand and J.B. Clark
London: Chelsea Publishing, n.d. [1930s?]. Bound by Riviere in full red polished calf; all edges gilt; spine compartments decorated in gilt with morocco title labels; raised bands; a fine copy in a cloth slipcase. More
[Book #30908P]
Ruskin's Works
New York: John Wiley, 1887. Twelve volumes; bound in 3/4 calf and marbled paper boards; morocco spine labels; very good. More
[Book #29202P]
The Complete Dramatic and Poetical Works: Cambridge Edition
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, n.d. [c.1915]. Bound in full dark blue morocco; spine in compartments; gilt rules; marbled endpapers; silk marker; all edges gilt. Title page a little wrinkled, else about fine. No binder is credited, although it is gilt-stamped inside the back cover as “Bound for the Old Corner Book..... More
[Book #24011P]
The Complete Poetical Works...Edited by Thomas Hutchinson
London: Oxford University Press, 1925. Later edition. While no binder has signed this work, a tiny gilt stamp inside the back cover notes that this is “Genuine French Levant.” All edges gilt; full brown crushed morocco; gilt rules and devices; fine. More
[Book #31995P]
Velazquez and His Works
London: John W. Parker & Son, 1855. Bound in contemporary full red morocco; decorated in gilt and blind; top edge gilt; very good. More
[Book #28274P]
The Family Classical Library
London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, 1830-34. Fifty-two volumes; small octavo; approximately 6” x 4”. Uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon leather and marbled paper-covered boards; gilt spine lettering and decoration; raised bands; each volume number is enclosed in a gilt circle in the center of the spine. The final volume..... More
[Book #26450P]