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: R. Ackermann, 1822. The English Gil Blas Illustrated By Rowlandson [COMBE, William]. [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, artist]. The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem, by the Author of The Three Tours. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. First edition. Octavo (9 11/16 x 6 1/4 inches;..... More
New-York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845. "The Growing Corruption of Civilization" James Fenimore Cooper's The Chainbearer in the Original Printed Wrappers A Remarkable Survival COOPER, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts. Edited by the Author of "Satanstoe," "Spy," "Pathfinder," "Two Admirals, " etc. In Two Volumes. New-York: Burgess, Stringer and Company..... More
Paris & Bruxelles: Au bureau du Journal, 1869. Twenty-Eight Fine Hand Colored Costume Plates Including Ten Double Page [COSTUME]. Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis. Modes de Paris. Littérature, Beaux-Arts, Théatres, Économie Domestique. Paris & Bruxelles: Au bureau du Journal, [16th January - 16th December, 1869]. First edition. Large..... More
Paris: Chaussures de Jacobs, 1846. A fine collection of fifty-four full-page hand colored fashion plates and seventeen hand colored plates of fashion apparels [COSTUME]. Journal des Dames et des Modes. Le Caprice. Paris: Chaussures de Jacobs, [1846]. First edition. Large octavo (10 3/16 x 7 inches; 259 x 178 mm.)..... 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
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., 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
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. A Superb Mid-Twenties Cosway-Style Binding by Bayntun of Bath with Two Fine Oval Miniatures Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Fifty-Five Engraved Plates of which Ten are Hand-Colored COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. BAYNTUN, binder. WALTON, Isaac. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, and Fishing..... More
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. A Superb Mid-Twenties Cosway-Style Binding by Bayntun of Bath with Two Fine Oval Miniatures Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Twenty-Five Engraved Plates of which Six are Hand-Colored COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. BAYNTUN, binder. WILLIAMS, H. Noel. Queen Margot Wife of Henry of Navarre. With sixteen illustrations..... 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: Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ld., 1902. A Spectacular Cosway-Style Binding with Ten Oval and Round Miniatures [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. RIVIÈRE & SON, Binders. MANSON, James A. Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. Illustrated with Twenty-one Plates, and a Photogravure Frontispiece. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. "Music is a Higher Revelation than all Wisdom and Philosophy" Ludwig van Beethoven First Edition in English of Rolland's Notable Biography In a Superb Cosway-Style Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. ROLLAND, Romain. Beethoven the Creator… The Great Creative Epochs..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans / Chapman & Hall, 1848. With Three Watercolor Portrait Miniatures Under Glass Sumptuously Extra-Illustrated [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. FORSTER, John. The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A Biography in Four Books. London: Bradbury and Evans/Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition, sumptuously extra-illustrated. Three octavo volumes..... More
London: J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1890. The Wits and Beaux of Society A Spectacular Pair of Late-NineteenthCentury Cosway-Style Bindings Extra-Illustrated with Sixty-Eight Fine Engraved Portraits [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. WHARTON, Grace and Philip, pseudonym. The Wits and Beaux of Society… New edition with a Preface by Justin Huntly McCarthy,… And the original illustrations by H.K...... 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
Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787. "Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind Should old acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne" First Edinburgh Edition, First Issue of Robert Burns "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" A Stunning Cosway-Style Jeweled Binding by Sangorski..... More
Cambridge: The University Printing House, 1966. The Making of The Cranach Press 'Italic' [CRANACH PRESS]. DREYFUS, John. Italic Quartet. A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Italic. Cambridge: The University Printing House, 1966. One of 500 copies. Octavo..... More
New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. "A Monument of American Poetry" CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. A Poem… With an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley and Photographs by Richard Benson. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited to 2,000 copies signed..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1899. Walter Crane's "Triplets" Deluxe Edition One of Twenty Special Copies Printed on Japanese Vellum CRANE, Walter, [illustrator]. Triplets: Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own Æsop. With the Original Designs in Colour by Walter Crane; Printed by Edmund Evans. London: George..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. Poetry In Original Manuscript [CROFT, Peter John, editor]. Autograph Poetry in the English Language. Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. Compiled and Edited with an Introduction, Commentary and Transcripts by P. J. Croft. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1973]. First American..... More
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London: , 1864. Cruikshank's Publisher's Own Copy of The Fairy Library With Eight Original Pencil and Watercolor Drawings for 'Jack and the Beanstalk' & 'Puss in Boots' And All of the Etchings in Proof Inscribed by Cruikshank to his Friend and Publisher Frederick Arnold CRUIKSHANK, George. [The Fairy Library]. Eight Original Pencil and..... More
London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co., 1819. With the Very Rare First Issue of Volume I [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdoes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d’esprits, &c. Carefully selected. London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co...... More
London: Published by the Artist…and sold by James Robins and Co., 1827. Rare in the Original Pink Printed Wrappers "Tempus Edax Rerum" CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. Illustrations of Time, by George Cruikshank. London: Published by the Artist… sold by Js. Robins and Co., 1827. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio (11 1/8 x...... More
Paris: chez Jules Didot [and] Baudouin Frères, 1823. Tom, Jerry, and Bob Logic en Français Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatint Engravings [CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert, illustrators]. EGAN, Pierce. Diorama Anglais, ou Promenades Pittoresques a Londres, Renfermant les Notes les plus Exactes sur les Caracteres, les Moeurs et usages de la Nation Anglaise, Prises dans..... More
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