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Sainte-Étienne: Les Cahiers de l’Atelier, 1955. 8vo. 240 x 190 mm. (9 ½ x 7 ¼ inches). Original stiff wrappers decorated with the design of woodcut artist at work; with protective glassine wrapper. Illustrated with a pochoir-printed frontispiece in red, blue, yellow and green; linocuts in black ink throughout the..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Co, 1787. 12mo. 165 x 100 mm., [ 6 ½ x 4 inches]. viii, 123 pp. Contemporary brown calf, joints cracked and reinforced with expert tissue repair; paper stock brown with age, three leaves with expert repair to tears, edges a bit fragile, yet a sound and..... More
(New York): ca. 1845. Folio. 300 x 215 mm., [12 x 8 ½ inches]; image size 140 x 108 mm., [5 ½ x 4 ¼ inches]. Wood engraving by Lossing & Barritt after a design by Samuel Wallin. Paper stock foxed, image clean and well executed. Jesse Read was a...... More
New York: Published at Fulton Street, (for the Author?), 1842. 12mo. 180 x 110 mm., [7 x 4 ¼ inches]. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcut images of the planets. Disbound, trimmed to outer margin. First edition. “No. 1.—To be Continued Annually.” This appears to be the only edition printed. ..... More
New London, Ct. Printed at the Office of the Daily Star, 1871. Broadside, matted and framed. Folio. Visible image size 340 x 258 mm., [13 ½ x 10 inches.]; frame size 420 x 370 mm., [16 ½ x 14 ½ inches]. Illustrated with woodcut image very well executed and printed..... More
