New York: Fred De Fau & Co., n.d., [ca. 1900]. Florentine Edition, limited to 1000 sets (this, no. 61), 12 volumes, 8vo, each volume with engraved color frontispiece and a handful of engraved plates; original three-quarter brown morocco over marbled sides and endpapers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in..... More
London: Oxford University Press, [1940]. 1949 printing, small 8vo, pp. xiv, 698, [2]; text in double column; full later dark navy gilt-ruled morocco, gilt spine in 6 compartments, a.e.g.; recent owner's ballpoint pen inscription on front free endpaper, else fine. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., n.d. 8vo, pp. [4], li, [1], 3-384; inserted portrait frontispiece and title page printed in red and black; original puffy faux reptile skin lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; publisher's wood-grained cardboard box with lid; box a little rubbed, else fine..... More
Philadelphia: Nicholas L. Brown, 1918. First edition, square 12mo, pp. 126, [2]; frontispiece, 7 plates, text illustrations; original black cloth, paper label on spine, fine. Designed "especially for the bibliophile who enjoys 'fussing' over his books and who receives, in seeing them in good condition and repair through his own..... More
Providence, R.I. 1935. Edition limited to 500 copies designed and printed by the Ackerman-Standard Company, Providence; 8vo, pp. 68, [4]; line illustrations throughout, initials printed in red; fine in original decorative paper-covered boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine. This copy out-of-series and unsigned. More
London: Bell and Daldy, ca. 1893. 3 volumes, 8vo; full contemporary blue gilt-ruled calf, tan gilt-lettered spine labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spines a touch faded, else a fine, very attractive set. Forms part of the publisher's Aldine Edition of the British Poets. More
London: John Bumpus...and Galignani, Paris, 1822. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xxx, 268; xii, 262; engraved portrait frontispiece in first volume; contemporary full black morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt, spine in five compartments with alternating gilt decorative stamping and lettering, a.e.g., brown endpapers; extremities rubbed, small 1/4-inch loss to volume 2..... More
Kilmarnock: James M'Kie, 1869, 1886. Facsimile editions limited to 600 copies signed by the publisher, 4 volumes, 8vo; contemporary full green gilt-tooled morocco by F. Bedford, heavily-gilt spines in 6 compartments, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; upper cover of one volume unevenly faded, else a fine, beautifully bound set. Three volumes with..... More
London: Oxford University Press, [1904]. 1960 printing, 8vo, pp. xx, 635, [1]; rebound in full red gilt-ruled calf, maroon morocco spine label, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; textblock shows some dampstaining, else a very good, nicely bound copy. More
London: T. Cadell, W. Davies, and W. Creech, 1803. 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait, engraved vignette title pages; with a glossary at the back of vols. III and IV, and all half-titles present (but bound following the title page in vols. II-IV); a nice set in full contemporary speckled calf..... More
London: Jones & Co., 1824. 32mo (page height approx. 3½" ); pp. viii, 261; inserted engraved frontispiece portrait and title-p.; contemporary full red straight-grain morocco, gilt borders on covers, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. With a double fore-edge painting, one showing Cheapside in London..... More
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, [1957]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 162; text illustrations; a conversational instruction manual for basic book repair; original plaid cloth, fine. More
London: printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Fleet-Street; William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1812. 8vo, pp. xvi (i.e. xiv), 300; comprising Cantos I and II, and Poems, Appendix, and Translations (pp. 203-300); this fourth edition contains for the first time an..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. One volume extended to 3, thick 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title pages in each volume, extra-illustrated with 425 plates, text in double column; late 19th-century three-quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in 6 compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spines a touch faded, front..... More
Minneapolis: Campbell-Logan Bindery, 1985. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [26]; 6 wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec printed in sepia; quarter goat over boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine. Printed by Gerald Lange at the Bieler Press in Centaur and italic Arrighi type composed by Mackenzie-Harris, San Francisco, and printed on..... More
London: John Murray, 1819. First separate edition and according to Lowndes, one of only three copies printed; imperial octavo (28cm.), pp. [4], 271, [1]; contemporary and probably original burgundy full straight-grain morocco by Charles Murton, floriated blind-tooled borders on both covers enclosing a single gilt rule with fleurons in the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1858. 12mo, pp. lxvii, [1], 465, [1]; engraved frontis portrait, woodcuts in the text; later full blue straight-grain morocco by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge, double gilt rule on covers enclosing the crest of King's College, Cambridge University, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, a.e.g., generally fine. More
Minneapolis: [Campbell-Logan Bindery], 1985. First trade edition, preceded by the limited edition of 250; 8vo, pp. [26]; 6 wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec printed in blue (in the limited edition they are printed in sepia); original gray printed wrappers with the Campbell-Logan device on cover printed in black and red;..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor. 1987. Edition ltd. to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. 130, [4]; title printed in red and black and within ornamental border; fine in original red cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. Whence gauffered edges. The first edition was published in 1763..... More
London and New York: Constable & Co. Ltd... 1932. First edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. xviii, 172; collotype plates throughout, text printed on blue paper; marbled paper boards backed in art vellum; spine toned, very good. Part of the Bibliographia studies in book history and book structure series..... More
Franklin Center, Pa. The Franklin Library, 1978. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. [12], xvii-xix, [1], 280; original full green gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. More
Glasgow & London: William Collins, 1846. First British edition, 12mo, pp. 326; engraved frontispiece portrait of Bunyan; full red pebble-grain morocco, gilt foliate border on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, a.e.g.; slightly rubbed, else very good. First published in New York in 1844. More
London: published for the Society by G. Bell & Sons, 1925. 8vo, pp. [24]; 20 illustrations and drawings in the text; original blue printed wrappers; wrappers a little wrinkled; very good. This copy inscribed to "Mr. Frank Barnard with Cedric Chivers compliments." This issue of the Journal contains Chivers' article..... More
Cambridge: printed by John Baskerville, printer to the university, 1762. First duodecimo Baskerville edition, 12mo, 198 leaves, collating as in Gaskell; the title a cancellans as described by Gaskell (with the price of "five shillings, unbound"); bound with: Sternhold, Thomas, & John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into..... More
Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, 1811. 4to, unpaginated (portions, except for the title-p. lacking all before I4, 2D1-4F4, and 2H1-3G4), 2B and 2B2 with tears mended; bound in a dated binding of full black straight-grain morocco, elaborately decorated in blind, the central panel with..... More
