Pictorial Bookbindings
[London]: British Museum, [1986]. 8vo, pp. 64; illustrated throughout, much in color; original stiff pictorial wrappers; custom red cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine; fine. More
[London]: British Museum, [1986]. 8vo, pp. 64; illustrated throughout, much in color; original stiff pictorial wrappers; custom red cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine; fine. More
[London]: British Museum, [1986]. 8vo, pp. 64; illustrated throughout, much in color; original stiff pictorial wrappers; fine. More
[London]: The British Library, [1983]. 4to, pp. 446; grayscale text illustrations throughout; full tan cloth; red label on spine; fine. Preceeded by vol. 1, an introduction, and later followed by vol. 3. This volume covers bindings from the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria, and Denmark. More
New York: Charles Scribeners Sons, and Paris: Goupil, 1900. Edition de bibliophile, limited to 50 copies, large 8vo, 2 vols.; color portrait frontispieces and 22 plates, engraved tailpieces, original half vellum over green boards, gilt presidential seal on covers, gilt title on spine; t.e.g.; light spotting to endpapers, vellum slightly..... More
Franklin Center, Pa: The Franklin Library, 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. [8], 265, [1]; original full brown gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. More
London: Longman, Hurst [et al.], 1806. 12 volumes, 8vo, contemporary full calf a little scuffed and rubbed, but nicely rebacked in brown morocco, red and brown morocco labels on gilt spines; very good and sound. Contains an engraved frontispiece folding map, plus a series of 56 charming engraved plates, 2..... More
London: printed by J. D. and are to be sold by Jonathan Robinson ... and by Obed Smith, 1685. 8vo, pp. [16], 131; title within double-ruled border; a fine copy in full original black goatskin, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a central panel with triple gilt rules and fleurons..... More
London: Heinemann, 1929. First collected edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 1088; folding Forsyth family tree; contemporary brown goatskin, the title and author stamped in red and black on upper cover and spine in an arts and crafts style, t.e.g.; spine a little rubbed, else good and sound, or better. The..... More
New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1895. 8vo, xx & 252pp., graphs, tables, & illus. throughout; orig. pictorial blue cloth gilt, the front cover a lovely rendering of the Statue of Liberty at night; slight rubbing, else fine; ex-MHS. More
London: Walter Scott, 1886. 16mo, pp. l, 286; pages ruled in red; contemporary half brown calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; contemporary gift inscription on half title; about fine. More
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1909. Cheap edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 142; full pictorial blindstamped brown cloth showing the armored St. George slaying a dragon, with castle in the background, all within a decorative border of stags, hounds, lions, and gryphons; front hinge starting, minor rubbing, else very good. More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 4 vols., lg. 8vo, xxvi, 468; [6], xxvii-liv, [469]-[932]; [6], [lv]-lxxxii, [933]-[1410]; [6], lxxxiii-cvi, [411]-1906, [4]; color plates, text illustrations; half maroon morocco over red cloth, spine gilt in six compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, bookplates on front pastedowns; a bit of scuffing..... More
London: William Pickering, 1850. First edition, 12mo, pp. iv, 180; printed by Charles Whittingham; in a 1/2 green morocco binding over marbled boards, t.e.g. by Riviere for Basil Montague Pickering; minor rubbing; very good and sound copy. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875. 3 volumes; together with: Greville, The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852, London, 1885, 3 volumes; together with: Greville, The Greville Memoirs (Third Part) A Journal of the reign of Queen Victoria from 1852..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 66; 11 plates on 8 leaves, 33 diagrams in text; original yellow cloth, title printed in red and orange on cover and spine, very good in a rubbed and price-clipped dust jacket. More
New York: Grolier Club, 1894. 12mo, pp. [2], 23, [1]; Publisher's printed wraps; some minor edgewear; near fine. More
New York: Grolier Club / Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. xii, 212; photographs throughout by Tom Grill; fine in publisher's cloth with photograph of a miniature binding pasted to front cover; publisher's slipcase. Includes essays by Priscilla Juvelis and Neale M. Albert. More
Washington [D.C.]: Library Resources and Technical Services, 1962. Staplebound pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 143-160; Reprinted from Library Resources & Technical Services, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 1962; creme printed paper wrappers, little toned, near fine. A general outline and layout of concerns regarding the new method of binding without sewing. More
Washington, D. C. Guild of Bookworkers, 1986. First edition, 4to, pp. [9]-183, [1]; 72 photographic illustrations, several in full color; fine in the original stiff black and white wrappers; in a custom black cloth clamshell box with spine lettered in gilt. A catalogue of striking contemporary examples of the book..... More
Springfield, MA: H. R. Huntting Co., Inc., 1933. 8vo, pp. 12, [4]; 9 illustrations; very good in original printed wrappers, in a custom black cloth clamshell box, printed paper label on spine. More
[London]: Bertram Rota, 1979. Edition limited to 300 (this, no. 100), 8vo, pp. 125, [1]; frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 facsimiles in text; vignette frontispiece, original red cloth, blindstamped cover, gilt title direct on spine, fine. More
London: How & Parsons, 1842. 8vo, pp. viii, 384; engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved title-p., 4 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; full contemporary green morocco, double gilt ruled borders on covers enclosing a blindstamped cross-hatched central panel with double gilt border and foliated border, smooth gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; library accession stamp on..... More
London: Ward, Lock, & Co., ca. 1890. Thick 8vo, pp. xxix, 856; tissue-guarded frontispiece, 23 additional engraved plates; contemporary full green morocco prize binding, gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments, lettering on red morocco spine label, raised bands, marble endpapers, a.e.g.; extremities bumped and rubbed, hinges have been expertly reinforced, boards..... More
London: John Murray, 1847. 3 volumes, 8vo, later full polished tan calf, gilt-decorated spines, 2 black morocco labels on each; slightest rubbing of the spines, but generally a fine, bright set. More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 322, [2] ads; 9 plates; half brown calf over marbled boards, spines decorated in gilt in six compartments with maroon and green leather labels, t.e.g.; light general wear to binding, otherwise a very good set. More