London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. “Credit is a System Whereby a Person who can't Pay, gets Another Person who can't Pay, to Guarantee that he can Pay” (Charles Dickens) A Superb Complete Set in the Original Parts with all the Advertisements DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by..... More
London: D. Bogue [&] George Routledge and Sons, 1854. Cinderella and Jack & The Bean-Stalk Illustrated by George Cruikshank Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. London..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." (Macbeth's Ambition) A Remarkable Survival HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel. SHAKESPEARE, William. Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. A...... More
London: The Queen, 1870. Paris Fashions 1870-1890 One hundred and twenty-two hand colored engraved plates [FASHION]. The Queen. The Lady's Newspaper and Court Chronicle. Latest Paris Fashions Presented to the subscribers to the Queen… The Queen: London, January 1st, 1870 - February 1st, 1890. Large folio (15 9/16 x 10..... More
Paris: Chez Aubert, 1835. Frédéric Bouchot Comically Illustrates the French National Guard BOUCHOT, Frédéric. Tribulations de la Garde Nationale. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1835]. First Edition. Folio (14 1/8 x 11 inches; 359 x 280 mm.). Twenty-five (of twenty-seven) highly amusing hand colored lithographs mounted on stubs. All plates heightened with..... More
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. Large folio (14 1/4..... More
![Item #05527 [Collection of Forty Caricature Portraits of Public Characters - 1801-1812]. Robert...](https://davidbrassrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/05527_1016copy.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684454575)
London: Published by Dighton, Charing Cross, 1801. Robert Dighton (1752-1814) Actor, Artist and Printseller A Superb Collection of Forty Hand Colored Etched Plates Depicting some famous and some not so famous late eighteenth century characters DIGHTON, Robert. [A Collection of Forty Caricature Portraits of Public Characters]. London: Published by Dighton..... More
London: [Printed by W. Kohler for Messrs. Fores, 1842. The Christening Procession for the Prince of Wales [DOYLE, Richard]. The Christening Procession of Prince Taffy [later King Edward VII]. [Printed by W. Kohler for Messrs. Fores, Published 1, March, 1842]. Oblong twelvemo (4 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 126 x...... More
London: Published by I. B. Brooks, 1835. My Lord Mayor's Album by Henry Heath Twenty-Four Highly Amusing Hand Colored Lithograph Plates [HEATH, Henry, illustrator]. My Lord Mayor's Album or Cockney Sports. London: Published by I. B. Brooks, 1st January 1835. First edition. Small folio (10 x 7 1/8 inches; 255..... More
London: Day and Son, 1855. The First Quarto Edition in the Deluxe Binding The Most Ambitious Work Ever Published In England With 250 Lithographed Plates ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia after Lithographs by Louis Haghe from Drawings made on the spot by David Roberts..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, 1929. "The Largest Format of Any of Jessie M. King’s Illustrated Books" KING, Jessie M., illustrator. [GEMMELL, Mrs. Alexander]. Mummy's Bedtime Story Book. By "Marion". Illustrated by Jessie M. King. London: Cecil Palmer, [1929]. First edition. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225..... More
![Item #05520 [Memoirs of Count Grammont.]. Anthony HAMILTON, Count GRAMMONT](https://davidbrassrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/05520_1150copy.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684452429)
London: John White, 1808. A Rare Series of Plates depicting the Characters of Seventeenth Century England and France [HAMILTON, Anthony]. [Memoirs of Count Grammont.] A series of thirty-nine stipple plates printed in colors. [London: John White, 1808]. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 299 x 216 mm.). A rare..... More
Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, 1847. Grandville's Favorite Work "Poetic and Gracious Originality, Dexterity of Mind and Observation" [GRANDVILLE, J.J., illustrator]. DELORD, Taxile. Les Fleurs Animées. Introductions Par Alph. Karr, Texte Par Taxile Delord Première Partie [&] Deuxième Partie. Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, [no date but 1847]. First edition..... More
London: Albert Jackson, 1894. Lost for Forty-Seven Years Thomas Onwhyn's Additional Illustrations to Pickwick ONWHYN, Thomas, illustrator. DICKENS, Charles. 12 Illustrations to the Pickwick Papers. London: Albert Jackson, [1894]. First edition. Large octavo (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 270 x 184 mm.). Facsimile green wrapper "12 Illustrations to the..... More
Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge et Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. The True First Edition of Kircher's China Monumentis KIRCHER, Athanasius. China Monumentis, qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonium á Waesberge & Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. First edition. Large folio..... More
Philadelphia: Manufactured by Altemus & Co., 1864. A Fine Altemus Photographic Album [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM] The Photographic Album. Hinged-Back Patented July 21st 1863. Philadelphia: Manufactured by Altemus & Co., ca. 1864. Small square quarto (5 3/4 x 5 inches; 146 x 127 mm.). Calligraphic title-page printed in gold and purple, Index..... More
London: Raphael Tuck, 1903. "Would you like to hear a secret which you must'nt breathe again… Well the Cats and Dogs for miles around have bothered Mr.Wain" WAIN, Louis, illustrator. Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens. London: Raphael Tuck, [1903]. First edition. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches;..... More
London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1814. The Key Companion To Malory's Morte d'Arthur With Twenty-Five Hand-Colored Engravings In Fine Contemporary Straight-Grain Morocco [ARTHURIANA]. BOURCHIER, John Lord Berners (trans.). The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated From the French by..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. “To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!” DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, with first state of "Oliver Twist" advertisement. Foolscap octavo (6 3/8..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. "But Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated" HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing with "A" on the verso of title-page. Octavo ( 7 7/8..... More
Paris: Aubert & Cie,, 1851. 'Pastorales' or The Romance of Country Life Fifty highly amusing hand-colored Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Depicting the trials and tribulations of Country Life Exceptionally Rare with no other Examples Located DAUMIER, Honoré. Pastorales. [Romance of Country Life]. Paris: Aubert & Cie, [1851]. First Collected Edition..... More
London: Pubd. by Thos McLean, 1826. Excessively Rare Series of Caricatures of the London Theater LANE, T[heodore]. Theatrical Pleasures. London: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, [n.d., ca. 1826]. First edition, complete. Large quarto (12 5/8 x inches; 321 x mm.). Six numbered hand-colored engraved plates each tipped-onto hinged stiff card mounts..... More
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1822. William Pyne's The Social Club The Pyne Family Copy in the Original Parts Most Likely the Finest Copy Extant PYNE, William Henry. The Social Club: Consisting of a Series of Stories; and Accompanied by Humourous Prints of each Subject, Engraved and Coloured in Imitation..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1920. Harry Clarke Illustrates from Hilaire Belloc to William Butler Yeats Twelve superb color plates, Twelve tinted plates and twenty-two black and white Vignettes [CLARKE, Harry, illustrator]. [WALTERS, Lettice d’Oyly, compiler]. The Year’s at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by..... More
Jerusalem [and] Tel-Aviv:: Published by “Massadah” and “Alumoth” , 1957. "Worthy to be Placed Among the Most Beautiful of Books that the Hand of Man has Produced" One of a very few copies of the trade edition bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [SZYK, Arthur, illustrator]. The Haggadah. Executed by Arthur..... More
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