Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. Standard Library Edition, 32 volumes, 8vo, orig. green ribbed cloth, brown leather labels on spines, t.e.g.; generally a fine, bright set. Essentially an American reprint of Chapman & Hall's "Illustrated Library Edition," but containing all the original prefaces, addresses, dedications, and..... More

[Paris: Braisson, ca 1750s]. Folio, pp. 17, [1]; 25 plates, comprising the alphabets section of the Encyclopedie, after designs by Goussier and Hautes Rayes; black buckram, gilt title "Alphabets" on spine; light ink spots on page 1, shallow chipping to plate XXV (Chinese) not affecting text, plates clean with minimal..... More

Cambridge: privately printed [at the Riverside Press], 1863. Small 8vo, pp. 15; English and Latin on opposite pages; with the second reading in the first line: "Day of vengeance" instead of the original, "Day of weeping." Bound with: Jacobus de Benedictis, Stabat Mater. Cambridge: privately printed [presumably at the Riverside..... More

London: William Heinemann; New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. First edition, large 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 248; 64 plates, 13 illustrations in the text; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; some tissue guards browned with resulting offset, otherwise a very good copy. More

London [et al.]: Cassell & Company Limited, 1901. First edition, small folio, pp. [44] frenchfold; illustrated in color throughout by Walter Crane; illustrated endpapers, original yellow cloth-backed pictorial boards; very good. More

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1898. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], 12; frontispiece illustration, title-page vignette,and 3 plates, the plates and text all printed on heavy card stock; original green cloth spine and stiff paper boards with illus. by Coburn on front cover; some..... More

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1881. First American edition, 4to, unpaginated, illus. with 63 b & w drawings; extremities slightly rubbed, else fine in contemporary half red morocco, gilt fillets, a.e.g. A tounge-in-cheek portrayal of English Society, heavily dependent on illustration, ironic captions, and snippets of conversation. More

[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, [1999]. Edition limited to 220 copies signed by John Dufresne, and numbered and signed by the printer / illustrator Gaylord Schanilec on the colophon, 168 mm, pp. [6], 64, [5]; blue cloth-backed patterned Curwen paper, printed paper label on upper cover with color wood engraving..... More

London: Grant Richards, 1909. First edition, 4to, pp. xi, [1], 238, [2]; 32 drawings in color by William A. Wildman; about fine in original blue cloth, t.e.g, upper cover and spine gilt. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 469 (continuous pagination); black and white plates and illustrations throughout; a fine set in the rarely seen dust jackets. An influential text; nearly 2500 patterns of lattice from ancient Chinese windows, including the history of development and classification..... More

London: John Stockdale, 1812. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [2], 503 (continuous pagination); 61 hand-colored botanical plates; lacking both half titles, 2 leaves of preliminaries and leaf B4 in vol. I, and all the preliminaries in volume II; contemporary red straight-grain morocco, double gilt borders on covers..... More

Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House, 1979. First edition, small folio, pp. 128; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed on the title-page: "Fritz Eichenberg to Lisabeth with good wishes," and with the previous owner's signature on the front free flyleaf. More

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873. First Tauchnitz edition, Todd & Bowden's third impression, 2 volumes in 1, 16mo, pp. 326, [2]; 319, [1]; contemporary amateur half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, floral ornaments in 2; leather ties, catches perished; very good. This..... More