Tres Parisien Le Mode Le Chic L'Elegance May 1922 by Joumard, G. P. Editor - 1922

Aventinum, 1927, Prague. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good some rubbing and nick to head and heal of spine. Limitation page indicates 50 copies were signed by the Illustrator. This copy is numbered in pen number 11 and is NOT signed by the illustrator. Scarce edition illustrated by one of the most famous Czech painters of the 20th Century. Rare. * rm

[Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1903].. Folio sheet (33.7 x 26.5 cm), with image size 17 x 12.5 cm. Somewhat crudely matted, otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME, translated by Hedwig Lachmann, and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here, it is referred to as "The Page of Herodias" in the secondary literature, and kneeling figure in black before a burning censer, with a barren tree and a full moon dominating the foreground and background.

The Queen Of Hearts, 1859 Harper & Brothers, NY. First Edition. By Wilkie Collins. Complete in one volume. RARE. QUEENS QUORUM TITLE. Exlib. Marbled boards, beige cloth spine. Paper library tag on spine. 4 5/8 X 7 1/2. Moss green end-papers are intact at the hinge. 472 pages. Pages tanned. Some pages show some degree of water damage. Please see our photos. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

1823 Portraits of Illustrious Personages Great Britain Bacon Cromwell Raleigh 3v
Edmund Lodge was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a compiler of short biographies. However, he was most remembered for his work 'Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain'. This work describes some of the most renowned persons in Great Britain. Notable names include:
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Thomas Cromwell
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Sir Francis Drake
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Francis Bacon
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Queen Catharine Parr
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Queen Jane Seymour

This stunning 1823 three-volume set features 60 steel engravings in exquisite condition.
Item number: #8811
Price: $499
LODGE, Edmund
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from authentic pictures, with biographical & historical memoirs of their lives.
London: Printed for Harding, Mavor and Lepard. [1823-1825]

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1927 William Blake Songs of Experience British Museum Poetry Color Illustrated

Originally published in 1794, "Songs of Experience" built upon the work that Blake had done in "Songs of Innocence", in which he engraved copperplates in relief and then painted the plates by hand. This book is of one of Blake's most beautiful and popular works of a collection of poems, printed from a copy housed at the British Museum.
This rare undated edition includes 27 color plates!
Item number: #10677
Price: $499
BLAKE, William
Songs of Experience
New York: Minton, Balch & Co., [1927]
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Language: English
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Size: ~10in X 7.5in (25cm x 19cm)
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Woodblock reprint of two famous Japanese picture scrolls which recorded the unsuccessful Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century.The scrolls were originally drawn between 1275 and 1293 for the samurai Suenaga Takezaki to record his battlefield valor and deeds during Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan. The scrolls depict the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 and the Battle of Koan in 1281.
Complete in 3 volumes, with 66 pages with 56 color plates in vol. 1, 54 pages with 33 color plates in vol. 2, and 100 pages with 54 color plates in vol. 3. Edited by Beisai Kubota.Condition: paper covers slightly worn, a few pages browned (mostly Japanese text pages) but plates bright and vivid.

1927 William Blake Songs of Experience British Museum Poetry Color Illustrated

Originally published in 1794, "Songs of Experience" built upon the work that Blake had done in "Songs of Innocence", in which he engraved copperplates in relief and then painted the plates by hand. This book is of one of Blake's most beautiful and popular works of a collection of poems, printed from a copy housed at the British Museum.
This rare undated edition includes 27 color plates!
Item number: #10677
Price: $499
BLAKE, William
Songs of Experience
New York: Minton, Balch & Co., [1927]
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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Illustrations on each page
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~10in X 7.5in (25cm x 19cm)
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Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1998 One of two hundred copies designed, printed by letterpress, and hand-bound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press. Signed on the colophon by Baskin, Blinn, and Perry Smith, and initialed by Harold McGrath.. Red silk over boards with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. Red endpapers. . 5 in. x 7 in. . With eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, printed from the original blocks on Basingwerk paper, and an original Smith Glass & Mirror Co. framing label printed by Harold McGrath, Baskin's printer at the Gehenna Press. Letterpress printed in Monotype Spectrum on Biblio paper. A fine copy with the prospectus and a Warwick Press business card laid in. From the preface: "Smitty's Cock showcases eight unique and rare wood engravings by artist Leonard Baskin cut for Smith Glass & Mirror in Northampton, Massachusetts. The blocks were made over a nineteen-year span (1955 – 1974) to the delight of Louis & Sarah Smith for use on printed materials for… Read More

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The covers and spine label are age-toned. The extremities are lightly rubbed, and there are a couple of short splits in the cloth at the head of the backstrip. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Dance 002. The first of Ward's six wordless novels that is told exclusively through 144 striking woodcut illustrations. Lynd Ward was not only a talented printmaker, but he was a socially-conscious storyteller as well. "Gods' Man," a modern morality play, was the work that built his reputation. It depicts the deadly bargaining of the soul that a struggling young artist is willing to make. This copy is signed by Lynd Ward on the half title.

Hart Davis, MacGibbon. London. 1975. REPRINT STEADMAN EDITION. Paperback issue. 4to. (12.2 x 8.5 inches). Inscribed by Steadman on the dedication page in the year of publication, with characteristic flourishes; "Eleanor. Its only paper. Ralph (Steadman that is). 10. 12. 75". Mono illustrations throughout by Steadman. Original black stiff card binding with a mono illustration to the front panel and purple and white lettering. A little bumping to the corners but overall a very good copy.