Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London: Blackie and Son, 1845. With Two Exquisite Watercolors on Ivory by the Renowned Artist Miss C.B. Currie [COSWAY BINDING]. WHITELAW, Alex. The Book of Scottish Ballads; Collected and Illustrated with Historical and Critical Notices, by Alex Whitelaw. Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London: Blackie and Son, 1845. First edition..... More
London: [various publishers], 1748. A Fine Collection of Smollett First Editions [SMOLLETT, Tobias]. The Adventures of Roderick Random. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1748. [Together with:] The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. A New Translation, by the Author of Roderick Random. Adorned with Thirty-Three Cuts, Neatly..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1927. Everybody's Pepys A Fine Inlaid Binding by Rivière & Son Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard RIVIÈRE & SON, binder. PEPYS, Samuel. SHEPARD, Ernest H., illustrator. Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged from the Complete Copyright Text and Edited by O.F. Morshead. With 60..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Limited Edition of Arthur Rackham’s “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” In an Early Inlaid Binding by Bayntun Rivière BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binder. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (From “The Little White Bird”). With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Edition DeLuxe. Limited..... More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. A Superb Early Twentieth Century 'Cosway' Binding by Rivière & Son [COSWAY BINDING]. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. WALTON, Izaac. COTTON, Charles. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, and Fishing. In two parts. London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. Second Bagster Edition. Octavo (8 13/16..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. Alice in Wonderland in a Cosway Binding with a Fine Miniature Watercolor by Miss C.B. Currie The March Hare and the Mad Hatter dipping the Dormouse into the Teapot… COSWAY BINDING. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. CURRIE, Miss C.B., artist. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two..... More
Edinburgh and London: Constable and Co.,and Hurst, Chace and Co., 1828. A Fine Cosway-Style Binding Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Twenty-One Plates [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. BAYNTUN RIVIÈRE, binders. BURNS, Robert. LOCKHART, J.G. Life of Robert Burns. Edinburgh: Constable and Co., and London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. A Very Fine Cosway-Style Binding Sidney Colvin's Life and Poetry of John Keats [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. BAYNTUN RIVIÈRE, binders. KEATS, John. COLVIN, Sidney. John Keats, His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and After-Fame. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5..... More
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924-28. A Fine First Edition Set of the Pooh Books Bound ca. 1960 by Bayntun of Bath MILNE, A.A. SHEPARD, Ernest H. illustrator. [A Complete Set of the Pooh Books]. Winnie the Pooh. Now We Are Six. When We Were Very Young. The House at Pooh Corner..... More
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London: Pub.…at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1812. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax Finely Bound by Rivière & Son [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. London: Pub.…at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1812. First edition, first issue, with p. 1 reading..... More
London: Medici Society Ltd., 1929. Le Morte D'Arthur Illustrated by William Russell Flint In a Fine Full Green Calf Binding by Rivière & Son FLINT, William Russell, illustrator. MALORY, Sir Thomas. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. Le Morte D'Arthur. The History of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. The Poems of Christina Rossetti Bound by Rivière & Son in the Art-Deco Style RIVIÈRE & SON, binder. ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems of… chosen and edited by William M. Rossetti. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. Golden Treasury Series. Small octavo (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches;..... More
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London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1869 / 1872. A Masterful Pair of Inlaid Bindings by Bayntun-Riviere [BAYNTUN-RIVIÉRE, binders]. GILBERT, W.S. The "Bab" Ballads. [together with:] More "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense. London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1869 [and] 1872. First editions. Two..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1927. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Handsomely Bound by Rivière & Son PEPYS, Samuel. SHEPARD, Ernest H., illustrator. RIVIÈRE & Son, binders. Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged from the Complete Copyright Text end Edited by O.F. Morshead. With 60 Illustrations by E.H. Shepard..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. Considered to be One of the Finest Works of the Nineteenth Century A Superb Binding by Rivière & Son [RIVIÈRE & SON, binders]. CARLYLE, Thomas. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. Sixteenmo (6 3/16 x...... More
London: Robt. Rivière & Son, 1910. Percy Byshhe Shelley's The Sensitive Plant Handsomely Bound by Rivière & Son [RIVIÈRE & SON, binders]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Sensitive Plant… London: Robt. Rivière & Son, 1910. Square sixteenmo (5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm.). 46, [2, blank] pp. Title-page and..... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791-93. First Edition, First Issue of Boswell's Life Of Johnson Together With The Excessively Rare 'The Principal Corrections and Additions' Bound in at the End of Volume Two BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works..... More
London: F. Harvey, 1872. With a Frontispiece by Thackeray and Five Etchings by Cruikshank An Early Twentieth Century Geometric Binding by Rivière & Son FRASER, William, Sir. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. Coila's Whispers. London: F. Harvey, 1872. Second Edition. No. 6 of fifty copies printed. Small quarto (8 1/4..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1935. In a Fine 'Textured' Inlaid Binding by Bayntun (Rivière) [BAYNTUN (RIVIÈRE), binders]. THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator. GASKELL, Mrs. [Elizabeth]. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1935. Later Hugh Thomson illustrated edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x...... More
Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1917. One of 1000 Numbered Copies on Papier Vélin, Signed by the Artist/Author With Designs Not Found in the First English Edition In A Spectacular Pictorial Binding ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. DULAC, Edmund, author and illustrator. Contes et Légendes des Nations Alliées..... More
London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1920. A Rather Unusual Rivière Art-Deco Binding [RIVIÈRE and Son, Binders]. TENNYSON, Lord Alfred. Works of… London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. Complete edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 13/16; 182 x 122 mm.). viii, 900, [1, index], [1 imprint] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Finely bound by Rivière..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1864. With an Original Tenniel Pencil Drawing and Tracing In An Elegant Binding By Rivière TENNIEL, John, et al, illustrators. WHITE, Rev. L.B. English Sacred Poetry of the Olden Time. Collected and Arranged by the Rev. L.B. White, M.A. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1864. First edition..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1843. Goldsmith Goes Cosway-Style The Vicar Bound By Rivière & Son [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. With thirty-two illustrations, by William Mulready, R.A. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. First Mulready-illustrated edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/2 in; 208 x 140 mm). xv, [1], 306..... More
London: Printed for B. Blake, 1815. The First Dr. Syntax Imitation In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Rivière & Son [COMBE, William, after]. [RIVIÈRE & Son, Binders]. The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or The Frolicks of Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & The Queer. In Twelve Cantos, by a...... More
London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821. Scarce Copy With Earliest Watermarks Complete With Half-Title CARELESS, John [pseudonym]. [CHATTO, William Andrew]. The Old English 'Squire. "A Jovial Gay Fox-Hunter, Bold, Frank, and Free." A Poem in Ten Cantos. Illustrated with Plates, by One of the Family. London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821. First edition..... More
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