Modern Illustrated Books

AMERICANA. Plain Language from Truthful James, n.p : Western News Co., 1870. Verses by Bret Harte. Suite of 9 lithographs signed in the stone by G. Bull. Slipcase.

BAUMANN, Gustave. All the Year Round, verses by James Whitcomb Riley. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, [1912]. With 12 color woodcuts by G. Baumann. Square folio, [29] ff.; cloth-backed gilt lettered blue cloth (spine somewhat soiled). A lovely copy of a little-known collection by the popular Hoosier poet. Apparently the only American picture book illustrated by the great modern German printmaker.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Rape of the Lock, poem by Alexander Pope. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Illustrated with 9 drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. 4 to, xiii + 47 pp. (partially uncut); gilt decorated blue cloth designed by the artist (gilt somewhat rubbed), some foxing. Houghton, The Turn of a Century 29; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 316.

BRADLEY, Will H. The Leather Bottel [sic]. Concord, Mass.: privately printed at the Sign of the Vine, c.1902. Designed with frontispiece by W. H. Bradley. Small 4to, 9 pp. (uncut); white boards with paste-down label. Finlay 64.

BRITISH SCRAPBOOK. 55 pp. of hand-colored lithographs, steel engravings, wood engravings, etchings, plus several watercolors and pencil studies by the young compiler. Gilt decorated leather, early 19th century. Includes many landscapes and illustrations of Lord Byron, Pilgrim's Progress, Don Quixote, Sir Walter Scott and other Romantic Literature, both French and English.

BURGESS, Gelett. Are You a Bromide? New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1907. Fifth printing. With decorations by the author. 8vo, 63 pp; gray boards with two-color decorated paste-down label. AUTOGRAPHED COPY, dated 1907 with a drawing of a Goop in pencil. Includes the publisher's postcard issued as an advertisement of this title.

COPY BOOK. 60 pen-and-ink and/or pencil drawings after J. Grandville and after Punch cartoons by John Leech, John Tenniel, and others, with a watercolored coat-of-arms, many signed "H.E.W", watermarked 1858. Decorated gilt-edged leather, stamped "H.E.W".

CRAWHALL, Joseph. Chorographia, Or a Survey of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1649. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1883. With woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall. Square folio, [124] pp.; three-quarter gilt vellum (some wear). One of 300 copies, PRESENTATION COPY: "Rev. F.W Bindlay from his friend Joseph Crawhall Nov 5/84." McClean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 228-229; Felver p.57

CRAWHALL, Joseph. Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted (sic). London: Leadenhall Press for Joseph Tuer, 1883. With woodcuts by J. Crawhall. Large 4to, (338) pp; color pictorial green cloth (spine ends rubbed). First collected edition of such Crawhall chapbooks as The Berkshire Lady's Garland, The Babes in the Wood, Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth, and The Taming of the Shrew. Felver p.

CUNDALL, Joseph. The Babes in the Wood. London: Joseph Cundall, 1849. With 10 hand-colored copper etchings (including title page) after the Marchioness of Waterford. Folio, [12] ff; gilt-lettered red boards (rebacked). First edition, LARGE PAPER ISSUE, one of the scarcest and most ambitious of Cundall's books. An unusually fine example of Victorian hand-coloring, capturing the beauty of an Illuminated medieval manuscript rather than the usual unrefined commercial stenciling of the period. McLean, Joseph Cundall, p. 67.

DU MAURIER, George. Peter Ibbetson, Edited and illustrated by George du Maurier. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., Vol. I and Vol. II, 8vo. uncut, 1892. With embossed cloth covers by Du Maurier, within slipcase. Du Maurier's romantic tale of a handsome, well-bred man, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, only to die instead in an insane asylum. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, p. 126

DU MAURIER, George. Society Pictures, Drawn by George du Maurier. Volumes 1-4. Bradbury , Agnew & Co, London. Quarter Leather (Maroon hardcovers). Good condition. No Jacket. George Du Maurier (illustrator). Undated Circa 1880's. Folio - over 12" - 15".

GAVARNI. Paris Le Matin. Paris: d'Aubert & Cie., c. 1840. 12 hand-colored lithographs by Gavarni, all cartoons from Charivari. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards.

GILL, E. Saint Dominic. Ditchling, Sussex, England: St. Dominic's Press, 1929. With wood engraved vignette on title-page by E. Gill. Small square 8 vo, ix + 62 pp; cloth-backed pictorial silver-papered boards designed by the artist, with original dust wrapper.

HOUSMAN, Laurence. Jump to Glory Jane, by George Meredith. Edited and arranged by Harry Quilter. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Illustrated by L. Housman. 8 vo, 28 + 36 pp; pictorial boards designed by the artist (soiled). With BOOKPLATE OF EDMUND GOSSE, designed by EDWIN A. ABBEY. Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, pp. 104-106; Ray, The Ilustrator and the Book of England, p. 171.

HOUSMAN, Laurence. The field of Clover. London: Kegan Paul, 1898. With 12 plates by the author, engraved on wood by his brother Clemcence Housman/ 8vo, 148 pp + [4] adverts; gilt pictorial green cloth designed by the author, frontispiece and pictorial title-page loose. First edition. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 282.

HOUSMAN, Laurence. The House of Joy. London: Kegan Paul, 1895. With 10 plates by the author. 8vo, 181 pp (partially uncut); gilt pictorial green cloth designed by the author (spine a bit faded)

HOUSMAN, Laurence. The Sensitive Plant, by Peter Bysshe Shelley. London: Aldine House, 1898. With a preface by Ernest Rhys, and a note on the illustrations by the artist. With 12 black and white plates and a pictorial title-page by L. Housman. Small 4 to, 60 pp; gilt pictorial blue cloth, some foxing and soiling

HOUSMAN, Laurence. The Were Wolf, by Clemence Housman. London: John Lane; Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. With 6 plates and title-page by L. Housman. Square 8 vo, 123 pp + 16 advert; gilt stamped pink cloth (some wear). First edition.

HUMPREYS, Henry Noel. The Miracles of Our Lord. London: Longman & Co., 1848. With 32 gilt chromolithographs (some in "grisaille" in black, gray and gold and combinations of pink, blue and silver); papier mache designed by the artist (one corner repaired). McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 104-105. (2 copies).

JONES, Owen. Gray's Elegy. London: Longman, 1846. With 35 chromolithographed pages in gold and color. The first secular book illuminated in its entirety by O. Jones and the first to be issued in this special type of binding which has been chiefly used for illuminated books. Bound in deeply embossed brown leather made to imitate carved wood, executed by Remnant and Edmonds. Mild scuffing, light foxing on some pages, otherwise in fine condition. McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.91.

JONES, Owen. The Preacher. London: Longman & C0., 1849. With 34 gilt chromolithographs by O. Jones. 4 to, [34] pp; "CARVED" WOODEN COVERS (actually heat-stamped) with leather spine intact designed by the artist (some wear), foxed. Only known example of this process. McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 93-95; McLean, Victorian Publisher's Book Bindings p.31

LARK. California. Burgess, Gelett & Bruce Porter- Editors. William Doxey, 1895-1897, SF:, 1895. Binding is Original printed w. 4to. 8" x 5-1/2". 1st edition, Vol I and II. Two plates + numerous intratextual illustrations (by Burgess, Peixotto, et al). Dubbed the American counterpart to the English 'Yellow Book'. Included is a set of the rare parts issue. The paper being very brittle and fragile, some covers detached.

NICHOLSON, W. London Types. New York: R.H Russell, 1898. With quatorzains by W.E Henley. With 12 color lithographs after W. Nicholson. Folio, [15] ff.; color pictorial cloth designed by the artist (a bit soiled, re-backed). First edition, being the American issue of the LIBRARY EDITION, printed on Japan vellum. With bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. (The Library Edition on Japan Vellum).

ONE OF A KIND DEDICATION ART NOUVEAU WOODEN BINDING BOOK

La Lecia /a Son Director Sylvain Dupuis 1895. Vintage Art Nouveau Presentation Copy. .

Unique one of a kind special Wooden Art Nouveau Binding - Director Sylvain Dupuis- Societaires- Signed by the members of the Society

With original watercolors by Auguste Donnay.

Auguste Donnay was a Belgian painter who was born in 1862. Le Grand Curtius du Liège featured Auguste Donnay's work. Donnay was a Symbolist painter and designer of figures, landscapes, etc. He was also a writer and illustrator. He settled in Mery-sur-Ourthe in 1905. The artist died in 1921.

Sylvain Dupuis worked actively as a composer during the early part of his career, but later became more heavily involved in his work as an opera conductor and music teacher. As a result, the majority of his works date from before 1900. In 1879 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Chant de la Création. In the 1880s he composed two operas, Moîna and Coûr d'ognon. His other compositions include several secular cantatas, the symphonic poem Macbeth, a concertino for oboe and orchestra, a number of choral works, and music for solo organ, piano, violin and cello.

PERIODICAL. The Dome. 2 vols. London: The Sign of the Unicorn. Four volumes: Number 3, 1897 and Number 4, 1898. Bound in paper-covered boards, one with lettering, the latter with paper label. October-December, 1898 bound in one with blue cloth and gilt lettering (faded), and April-July, 1899 bound together in blue cloth and gilt lettering. An influential illustrated magazine and review of literature, music, architecture and the graphic arts. Including works by L. HOUSMAN, W.B. YEATS, A. SYMONS, and illustrations by E. BURNE-JONES, D.G ROSETTi, and FORD MADDOX-BROWN. Two volumes bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Two with paper over boards and decorative endpapers. Some foxing throughout.

PERIODICAL. The Pageant, edited by C. Hazelwood Shannon and J.W Gleeson White. London: Henry and Co., 1897 and 1898. 2 vols., 4 to. With contributions by W.B. YEATS, PAUL VERLAINE, MAURICE MAETERLINCK, MAX BEERBOHM and others including an original lithohraph by JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER and a color woodcut by LUCIEN PISSARO. 8vo, 243 pp. + (ix) advert and 266 pp. + (vii) advert (partially unut); gilt decorated cloth, designed by RICKETTS. Endpapers by Pissaro. Rare.

PERIODICAL. The Quartier Latin, edited by Trist Wood. 1 vol. London: Iliffe & Son; Vol. II, June 1897. Beautifully illustrated chap-book devoted to the pictorial and literary arts, compiled monthly in Paris and published in London. Decorated paper wrappers bound with cord. Slight loss and wear to wrapper margins, otherwise in nice condition.

PERIODICAL. The Quarto. An Artistic, Literary & Musical Quarterly. Published for the Slade by J.S Virtue. London. 1896-1898. 4 vols. 4 to. Ilustrated throughout with plates and text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. The complete set of The Quarto in fine condition. The contributors include Legros, G.K. Chesterton, George Clausen, Joseph Pennell, Fredrick Sandys, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman, A.J. Gaskin, Paul Woodroffe, Michael Rothenstein and others. Good condition.

WHISTLER, J.M. Eden Versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. Paris: Louis-Henry May, [1899]. With decorations by the author. Square 8 vo, [81] pp (uncut); gilt decorated cloth-backed boards (some wear).

WHISTLER, J.M. Homes of the Passing Show. London: Savoy Press, 1900. Contributions by Beatty Kingston, Robert Hitchens, and others. Illutstrations by J.M Whistler, Joseph Pennell, Dudley Hardy and others. 4 to, 128 pp; clothbacked chromolithographed boards (inner hinges cracked).

WHISTLER, J.M. Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888. Square 4 to, 29 pp; rebound in contemporary gilt full leather with the original wrappers bound in, worn.