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By: FITZGERALD, EDWARD; VEDDER, ELIHU (binding design, endpaper design and illustrations)
Price: $800.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1894
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2546
Condition: Very good +
First Thus. 8vo (6 1/2” x 8 1/2”). Holiday Edition; Third printing. 58 unpaginated French fold illustrated leaves + 61 pp. text. IN EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Signed binding by Elihu Vedder; t.e.g. Includes black and brown illustrated endpapers and 59 full page illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The original paper dust jacket repeats the cover and spine designs in black on brown paper. Vedder's masterwork and the first fully illustrated version of the Rubaiyat incorporating both Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist sensibilities. A very good + copy w... View more info
By: [AUSTIN, F. C. (binding design and execution)]; WALPOLE, HUGH
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Limited: 1920
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2282
Condition: Near fine
12mo (4 ” x 7 ”). pp. 470 + 2 pp. publisher's advts. A signed binding by F. C. Austin (signed in gilt at the foot of the rear lower turn-in).Decorated in gold on black morocco with a narrow rectangular inlay of red morocco and a wide inlay of green morocco on both the front and rear boards, with a large central lozenge in light brown on both boards; the central lozenge on the front board has a skillfully rendered London scene on the front board, and a pastoral country scene in the lozenge on the rear board. The spine decorated in gold with four raised bands and 5 compartments. Grey... View more info
By: [GARRETT, EDMUND H. (illustrations)]; AUSTEN, JANE
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: (1892)
Seller ID: 2995
Condition: Very good
12mo (7 ” x 5"). 6 volumes; The Handy Library Edition.The first illustrated edition of Austen by an American illustrator of note; the the first attempt by an American illustrator to create uniform illustrations for all of Austen's novels, and the first attempt by an American illustrator to illustrate Austen's characters in the dress of the regency period.Publisher's unsigned blue half crushed navy blue morocco over gilt, blue and white marbled boards; Spines with three raised bands with titles and Art Nouveau wild rose (Rosa acicularis) motifs in gold. Blue, gold and white ma... View more info
Price: $875.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2002
Edition: First
Seller ID: 1200
Condition: fine
Folio (12" x 16¾"). pp. iv; 552; [3] pp. No. 532 of 1010 copies. Full cream Nigerian goatskin blocked in gold with the original design by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, redrawn by David Eccles. Blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Two blue ribbon markers; t.e.g. An extraordinary facsimile of the Kelmscott Press' masterpiece, and what many consider the most beautiful of all printed books. As noted in the colophon: "The facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer has been printed for the Folio Society, London by Cambridge University Press and completed on the 20th day of February... View more info
By: [THE FRENCH BINDERS (binder); THOMSON, HUGH (illustrator)]; DOBSON, AUSTIN
Price: $625.00
Publisher: London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: 1892
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2619
Condition: Good+
Royal 8vo (6¾” x 9 ”). pp. 89. RARE HAND-PAINTED COPY OF THE LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION.Signed binding by the French Binders (previously the Club Bindery 1895-1908) decorated in gold with a central floral filigree design on red crushed levant. Spine with five bands and the titles in gold. Full red crushed levant doublures with a single rule and a hatched border; cream watered silk eps; original hand-painted vellum wraps bound in; a.e.g.Includes with 26 hand-colored plates on Japan vellum and 24 additional hand-painted vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson on hand-mounted... View more info
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1904 (1903)
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2652
Condition: Very good +
Second Printing. C8vo (7¼“x 5¼”). pp. 477 + 2pp.Publisher's advts. Unsigned elaborate Arts and Crafts publisher’s binding by Hugh Thomson in gold on green cloth of a woman beneath a tree penning a letter on the top of an urn bearing the titles.Includes frontis. with tissue guard and over 70 b/w line block illustrations by Hugh Thomson, including headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials and textual vignettes. a.e.g.WITH Single sheet (12¾” x 10½”) original drawing for the illustration on p.113 in ink over pencil, and signed by Thomson in the lower right-... View more info
By: [Thomson, Hugh. (Illustrator)]; Goldsmith, Oliver; Dobson, Austin (preface)
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1890
Edition: First thus
Seller ID: 203
Condition: Very good
C8 (5 ¼ x 7 ¼). p. xxxv; 305. +6pp.advts. Green half-calf ruled in gold over black, tan and white marbled boards in the feather pattern.Spine has filigree rules in gold with two red morocco labels with titles in gold. t.e.g; marbled eps. Frontispiece and 181 vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and includes a suppressed plate seen only in this edition on p. 95 that features a maid reading a hand-bill while seated on the back of man bending over. Original binding mounted and bound in rear. VG. Light shelf wear to edges and light rubbing to front joint; bookplate of Georgiana Erdmann and p... View more info
