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One of a one hundred copies specially bound by Zeahnsdorfs 1898. 1st Edition, Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee England Britain Binding, beautifully illustrated account of the life and reign of Queen Victoria of England. Written by Richard Holmes, Queen Victoria is a stunning book designed to praise the Queen focusing heavily on English military campaigns such as the Opium Wars and the Crimean War. This 1897 exquisite leather-bound work was collected and edited by Richard Holmes, the librarian of the Queen herself, published as part of the Queen s Diamond Jubilee. Bound in full Morocco. With Tudor rose on-lays on the front and rear four corners and four spine compartments. Good Condition. Item #464

QUEEN MARY
Tennyson, Alfred
London, Henry S King & Son.
1875 1st ed
[BINDING] GRABAU Tennyson, Alfred., QUEEN MARY., London, Henry S King & Son. 8vo viii, 278pp [9] Full blue morocco, front cover with elegant on-laid and gilt interlacing floral designs of green leaves and cherries accenting with a Jade cabochon as a center piece, spine gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt titles and date, gilt turn-ins. TEG. Signed [John F] Grabau. in fine condition.
John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul's bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau, Harry Avery, and Charles Youngers. The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted books, furniture, lamps and metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Grabau left Roycroft in… Read More

QUIET STREET
Ossorgin, Michael
Published by Dial, New York (1930)
Very Good condition very fine dust Jacket. First American edition. First printing. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1930. Samuel B. Schaeffer dustjacket design. Novel of the Russian Revolution. Critically well-received in its time.