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RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM; THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA

By: FITZGERALD, EDWARD; VEDDER, ELIHU (binding design, endpaper design and illustrations)

Price: $780.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1894

Seller ID: 2546

Binding: Cloth

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...
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A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE OLD FRENCH FAIENCE and A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH EARTHENWARE AND STONE WARE IN LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDINGS.

By: [LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDERY]; SOLON, M. L. [MARC-LOUIS] (French Faience); BURTON, WILLIAM (English Earthenware and Preface to French Faience).

Price: $1,125.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company: 1904 and 1903

Seller ID: 3036

Binding: Full levant

Condition: Very good

London: Cassell & Company, 1904 and 1903. First Edition. Small 4to (9 7/8” x 6 5/8”). 2 volume set. The Connoisseur Edition, limited to 250 sets from distributed type.

Both volumes bound identically by La Belle Sauvage Bindery in full deep rose levant morocco decorated in gold with an elaborate lattice and floral festooned frame; spine with four raised bands, two compartments with titles, one compartment with an urn and others with floral festoons. Doublures of green crushed levant with an ornate gold framework border that includes a vase in each corner inlaid in brown levant, and a...
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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE AND OTHER POEMS OF THE XVIII CENTURY WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON

By: [THE FRENCH BINDERS (binder); THOMSON, HUGH (illustrator)]; DOBSON, AUSTIN

Price: $625.00

Publisher: London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 2619

Binding: crushed morocco

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...
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EVELINA TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL HUGH THOMSON PEN AND INK DRAWING USED FOR ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrations)]; BURNEY, FANNY(MADAME D'ARBLAY); DOBSON, AUSTIN (introduction)

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1904 (1903)

Seller ID: 2652

Binding: Cloth

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-...
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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD WITH A PREFACE BY AUSTIN DOBSON AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON

By: [Thomson, Hugh. (Illustrator)]; Goldsmith, Oliver; Dobson, Austin (preface)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 203

Binding: Half calf

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...
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Category: Fine Binding

RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM; THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA

A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE OLD FRENCH FAIENCE and A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH EARTHENWARE AND STONE WARE IN LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDINGS.

THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE AND OTHER POEMS OF THE XVIII CENTURY WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON

EVELINA TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL HUGH THOMSON PEN AND INK DRAWING USED FOR ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD WITH A PREFACE BY AUSTIN DOBSON AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON