Chicago: Laird & See, 1906. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches]. 186 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone photo reproductions. Original decorated printed wrappers; edges and spine of wrappers chipped, but sound and not an unattractive copy. Profusely illustrated with characteristic pictures of the horrible..... More
Naples: Stamperia Real, 1794. 2 volumes in one. Large 4to. 30 x 220 mm., (11 ¾ x 8 ½ inches). [8], 238pp; [4], 258pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of the author and 18 engraved plates, some bound out of order, and plate ix is incorrectly number xi. Contemporary vellum, title..... More
New York: Samuel Wood & Sons. 12mo. 140 x 90 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches). [5] - 108 pp. Five pages of hand-colored , six to a page, and ornamental woodcuts in the Bewick style at the end of some sections. Contemporary red leather spine over marbled paper..... More
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1848. 8vo. 220 x 150 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Frontispiece, 383 pp., followed by 16 pp of advertisements. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, blindstamped with title in gilt on spine. Corners and edges rubbed, 2 cm chip at head of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. Second Edition. 12mo. 195 x 120 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). iv, 214 pp. Illustrated with 12 plates. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped with gilt title on spine. Corners rubbed with some fraying to head and foot of spine. Spine..... More
New York: William Wood & Company, 1865. 4to. 290 x 225 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [ix]-xvii, [19]-139 pp. (collates per the copy at Princeton). 11 full-page lithographic plates, 9 of which are printed in colored. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on upper board and in blind on lower..... More
Northampton: Published by J. H. Butler, 1842. 4to. 280 x 220 mm., (11 x 8 3/4 inches). 75 pp. Illustrated with 14 full-page lithographic plates (one folding) and 37 wood engravings in the text, one highlighted in color. Original brown ribbed cloth, title gilt on upper board; some fading to..... More
London and New York: John Tallis, [1851-]. Three volumes. 4to. 275 x 201 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 inches). [2] blanks, iv, 5-268 pp.; [1] blank, [iv], 5-262 pp.; [2], 110 pp. Illustrated with a folding chromolithographic plate, 3 engraved frontispieces, and 138 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary black pebble..... More
West Grove, PA: Dingee & Conard, 1905. 8vo. 235 x 160 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches). 144 pp. Chromolithographic paper cover and fontispiece and three chomolithographs in the text, plus illustrations of rose varieties through out. Paper wrappers, spine a bit chipped but sound. Fifty-fifth anniversary catalogue... More
London: Bell and Dalby, 1866. Shaw, Henry. Handbook of the Art of Illumination, as Practiced During the Middle Ages. With a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods. London: Bell and Dalby, 1866. $ 135.00 Tall 8vo. 270 x 180 mm. (10 3/4 x...... More
(Rochester, N., Y.): Collins and Pratt, 1866. Printed broadside with manuscript inserts and addition. 4to. 305 x 186 mm. (12 x 7 1/4 inches). Illustrated with a 4 1/2 x 1 3/4-inch woodcut of the design of the patented Hop-Yard trellis. Broadside was folded, with a few minor tears at..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. 4to. 325 x 250 mm. (13 x 9 3/4 inches). 17 (table of contents and list of illustrations bound out of order), 119 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, 6 full-page lithographs, 7 full-page engravings, and 99 woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound..... More
