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A London Nuisance. Richard DIGHTON.
DIGHTON, Richard

A London Nuisance

London: Thos. McLean, 1821. The Satirical Art of Richard Dighton - A London Nuisance DIGHTON, Richard. A London Nuisance. London: Thos. McLean, [1821]. First edition. Folio (16 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches; 422 x 282 mm.). Six fine hand colored etched plates published October 1821. Each plate with the series.....

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Just So Stories For Little Children. Rudyard KIPLING, Niroot PUTTAPIPAT.
KIPLING, Rudyard; PUTTAPIPAT, Niroot, illustrator;...

Just So Stories For Little...

London: The Folio Society, 2012. “The Leopard and the Imagination - Kipling Recast in Gold and Light” One of 1,000 Copies with Original Signed Etching KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. Introduced by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. London: The Folio Society, 2012. Limited Edition. One of.....

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Christmas Books, The. Charles DICKENS, BROCK, harles, dmund.
DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C[harles] E[dmund]...

[Christmas Books, The]

London: J .M. Dent & Co., 1905. Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock DICKENS, Charles. BROCK, C.E., illustrator. Christmas Books. With Illustrations by C.E. Brock. London: J.M. Dent, 1905-1909. Five small octavo volumes (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 178 x 114 mm.). With a total of forty.....

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Princesse Badourah, La. Edmund DULAC, Franz SCHAUWERS.
DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; SCHAUWERS, Franz...

Princesse Badourah, La

Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1914. Limited to 500 Signed Copies This Copy in a Beautiful Contemporary Binding by Franz Schauwers With Decorations Not Found in the English Language Edition DULAC, Edmund. La Princesse Badourah. Conte des Mille et une Nuits. Illustré par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza.....

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Modes et Ridicules & Exploitation generale des modes et ridicules de Paris et Londres. Henry MONNIER.
MONNIER, Henry

Modes et Ridicules & Exploitation...

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1825. Two of Henry Monnier’s Exceptionally Rare Earliest Suites of Caricatures [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. [Modes et Ridicules]. Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, [1825]. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 10 inches; 339 x 255 mm.). Ten fine hand colored lithograph plates, complete. Plates lithographed by Villain. Henry.....

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Actualites. CHAM, Amédée de.
CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de...

Actualites

Paris: Arnauld de Vresse & Martinet, 1864. Cham's Most Ambitious Sustained Effort… Actualités - 116 Hand Colored Lithographs CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Actualités. A fine collection of one hundred and sixteen hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse & Martinet [1864-1870]. A......

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Habits of New French Legislators. James GILLRAY.
GILLRAY, James

Habits of New French Legislators

London: H. Humphrey, 1798. One of the Great Rarities of Gillray's Political Caricature The Complete Twelve-Plate Habits of New French Legislators in Contemporary Hand-Color [GILLRAY, James.] Habits of New French Legislators and other Public Functionaries. London: H. Humphrey, 1798. First edition. Complete, comprising both published series. Folio (plate marks approximately.....

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La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit. Édouard WATTIER, Émile WATTIER.
WATTIER, Édouard; WATTIER, Émile

La Journée d'une actrice, ou...

Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Day of an Actress, or Twelve Scenes of Day and Night Twelve Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates WATTIER, Édouard. [La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit, Lithographiées par Ed. Wattier. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition.....

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Tailor of Gloucester, The. Beatrix POTTER.
POTTER, Beatrix

Tailor of Gloucester, The

London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons, 1902. The First Privately Printed Edition of Beatrix Potter’s Scarce Second Book POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons], December 1902. First (privately printed) edition of Beatrix Potter’s scarce second book. One of 500 copies printed. Twelvemo.....

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Hungarian & Highland Broad Sword [together with] the original pen, ink and watercolor for the. Thomas ROWLANDSON, Henry ANGELO.
ROWLANDSON, Thomas; ANGELO, Henry

Hungarian & Highland Broad Sword...

London: H. Angelo, 1799. A Superb Example in A Contemporary Binding With the Extra Plate "The Guards…" and the Original Pen, Ink & Watercolor for the Nineteenth Plate [ROWLANDSON, T[homas], illustrator. [ANGELO, Henry]. Hungarian & Highland Broad Sword. Twenty Four Plates, designed and etched by T. Rowlandson, under the Direction.....

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Humourist, The:. George CRUIKSHANK.
CRUIKSHANK, George

Humourist, The:

London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co., 1819. Rare in the Original Pictorial Boards Forty Hand Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d’esprits, &c. Carefully selected. London: Printed and Published by.....

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Symptoms of the Shop. George Moutard WOODWARD, Francis SANSON.
WOODWARD, George Moutard; SANSON, Francis...

Symptoms of the Shop

London: S.W. Fores, 1801. Three of George Moutard Woodward's Hand-Colored Prints from "Symptoms of the Shop" WOODWARD, George Moutard, artist, SANSON, Francis, printmaker. Symptoms of the Shop. London: S.W. Fores, 1801. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches; 257 x 265 mm.). Three (of twelve) hand colored 'Satirical'.....

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Unpublished Poem to his Sister Fanny. John KEATS.
KEATS, John

Unpublished Poem to his Sister...

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1909. A Keats Poem—From Publisher to the Great Editor A Presentation Copy to H. Buxton Forman, Retaining His Bookplate. KEATS, John. Unpublished Poem to his Sister Fanny. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1909. Limited to 489 copies. Small quarto (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 216 x......

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Italien und seine Bewohner. Geralamo FRANCESCINI, August GERASCH.
FRANCESCINI, Geralamo; GERASCH, August

Italien und seine Bewohner

Vienna: , 1840. Fourteen Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Depicting the Various Costumes of the Different Regions of Italy FRANCESCHINI, Gerolamo. GERASCH, August. Italien und seine Bewohner (Italy and its Inhabitants). Vienna, [1840]. First edition. Oblong quarto (12 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches; 318 x 511 mm.). 30 pp. Fourteen.....

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Poetical Works and other Writings, The. John KEATS.
KEATS, John

Poetical Works and other Writings...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. The Finest Collected Edition of John Keats's Works KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats. Edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with additions by Maurice Buxton Forman. With an introduction by John Masefield. New York: Charles.....

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Galerie Théâtrale. Henry MONNIER.
MONNIER, Henry

Galerie Théâtrale

Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie…et chez E. Ardit, 1828. Monnier’s “Theatrical Gallery” A Very Unusual Example with the Plates in Two States - Colored and Plain [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie.…et chez E. Ardit, [n.d., 1828]. Oblong folio. (10 3/8 x......

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Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, The. Oliver Wendell HOLMES, John MORSE.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell; MORSE, John...

Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes...

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Oliver Wendell Holmes in a Finely Bound “Artists’ Edition” Fifteen Volumes Illustrated by Howard Pyle and Others, Limited to 750 Copies   HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Illustrated with steel portraits and photogravures. In thirteen volumes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and.....

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Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. Charles WILLIAMS, John MITFORD.
WILLIAMS, Charles; MITFORD, John

Adventures of Johnny Newcome in...

London: Published for the Author, 1823. Written While the Insane Author Was Living in a Gravel Pit [WILLIAMS, Charles, illustrator]. MITFORD, John. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A Poem, In Four Cantos, With Notes. The Third Edition. London: Published for the Author and sold by Sherwood, Neely.....

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Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, An. William MUDFORD, George CRUIKSHANK.
MUDFORD, William; CRUIKSHANK, George

Historical Account of the Campaign...

London: Henry Colburn, 1817. The Fall of Emperor Napoleon I and the Victory of the English Armies Illustrated with Twenty-Eight Superb Hand Colored Aquatint Plates MUDFORD, William. CRUIKSHANK, George. An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, Under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshall Prince.....

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Eccentric Tales. George CRUIKSHANK, W. F KOSEWITZ.
CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; KOSEWITZ, W.F....

Eccentric Tales

London: James Robins and Co., 1827. Eccentric Cruikshank [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. KOSEWITZ, W.F. von. Eccentric Tales. From the German of W.F. Von Kosewitz, with Illustrations by George Cruikshank, From Sketches by Alfred Crowquill. London: James Robins and Co., 1827. First edition in book form, originally issued in four parts with.....

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An unused/unpublished original pen, ink and monotone drawing from "Christmas 1993 or. Errol LE CAIN, Leslie BRICUSSE.
LE CAIN, Errol; BRICUSSE, Leslie

An unused/unpublished original pen, ink...

London: , 1987. An Unused/Unpublished Original Pen, Ink and Monotone Drawing From "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride." LE CAIN, Errol, illustrator. BRICUSSE, Leslie. An unused/unpublished original pen, ink and monotone drawing from "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride." Image size: 5 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. Santa on his.....

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La Caricature, Journal. Dondé et Dirigé par Ch. Philipon. LA CARICATURE, Charles PHILIPON, founder.
LA CARICATURE; [PHILIPON, Charles, founder...

La Caricature, Journal. Dondé et...

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1830-1832. The Journal That Initiated the Golden Age of French Caricature [LA CARICATURE]. [PHILIPON, Charles, founder, publisher, editor]. La Caricature. Morale, Religieuse, Littéraire et Scénique. Nos. 1 - 86 [first three volumes of ten]. Paris: Chez Aubert, Nov 4, 1830 - April 18, 1833. Three large quarto.....

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My Sketch Book. George CRUIKSHANK.
CRUIKSHANK, George

My Sketch Book

London: Published for the Artist, by Charles Tilt, 1833. George Cruikshank's Masterpiece in Color The Exceptionally Rare Hand-Colored Parts Issue in the Original Nine Wrappers CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. My Sketch Book. London: Published for the Artist by Charles Tilt, 1833–1834. First edition in the original nine parts. Oblong quarto (7.....

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Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites. Henri MONNIER, Achille DEVÈRIA, BÉRANGER.
MONNIER, Henri; DEVÈRIA, Achille; BÉRANGER...

Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes...

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Thirty Three (of Forty) Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria.....

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Moby-Dick or The Whale. Herman MELVILLE, Rockwell KENT.
MELVILLE, Herman; KENT, Rockwell, illustrator;...

Moby-Dick or The Whale

London: The Folio Society, 2009. “The Great White Whale - Rockwell Kent’s Vision in a Monumental Folio Society Edition” Limited to 1,750 Copies - A Striking Modern Classic in Silver and Black MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. London: The Folio Society, 2009. Limited Edition. One.....

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