London: Printed by Bensley for Harding, 1796. First edn. 8vo, pp. (viii), 112. Illustrated with fine head and tail pieces by [Thomas] Stothard. AEG, Bound in 19th century 3/4 morocco, little worn with some minor soiling to the leaves. A very good copy. Not in CBEL. Stothard (1755-1834) attended the... More about POEMS; by ... of Gray's Inn
Paris: April-July, 1940. Folio. Orig. white boards dec. in gilt & blue ink (34 pp.). With 12 full-page tipped-in color plates.Housed in the well worn orignal box (cover separate) Fine. More about LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DU BERRY; Being Verve, the French Review of art: Vol. 7, no. 2
Paris: Editions Rombaldi, 1961. Edition illustrated with 50 original watercolors by Victor Jean Nicolle hand colored and printed with 1000 numbered copies. Bound in full faux maroquin burgundy, smooth back richly ornamented with decorative motifs and heraldic gilded guards and contreplats of green moire silk, golden slices in a little... More about MONUMENTS DE PARIS 1810; Hommage de l'empereur Napoléon à l'impératrice Marie-Louise
(np: 1929). First edn? 4to. [pp. 36], untrimmed and uncut. Bound in silk backed boards, a very good clean copy in original slipcase. Inscribed by the illustrator. Charming poetry and drawings. More about OF A FEATHER,; unimproving ornithological rhymes, with improving illustrations drawn by James...
Boston: E. Whitefield, 1889. First Edition. 8vo, pp. [5],3-5,9-[139]pp. including sixty-three chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece) and one heliochrome plate. Large quarto. Bound in original green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Hitchcock 1396. McGrath, p.163. Bennett, p.112. Reese, Stamped witha National Character, 109. Bettina Norton, Edwin Whitefield (1977), pp.143-44. A.... More about HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS IN BOSTON, OLD ENGLAND, AND BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND; from original drawings by
NY: James Miller, (ca 1850). Harrison Weir. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 22 + (second part of the book unpaginated). Richly hand-colored engravings. Bound in some faded red/brown cloth stamped in gilt. The OCLC lists just four copies. Very good copy. Stories include: Little Goody Two-Shoes, or Life of Margery Meanwell... More about THE CHILDREN'S PICTURE PLAY BOOK;; With 50 illustrations by ... and others
NY: Harcourt, 2000. First edition. Tall 8vo, not paginated. With magnificent colored illustratuons on each page. A fine copy in dj. Inscribed by Wilbur to neighbor and fellow poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "For Bill and Sonja | With love | from Dick Wilbur" on the endpaper. More about THE PIG IN THE SPIGOT; poems by ... illustrated by J. Otto Seibold
NY: Harcourt, 2001. First Edition. Large 8vo, a fine copy in dj. With many full page colorful illustrations and recipes in the back. Inscribed on the endpaper with a drawing of a sun and a moon to poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "For Bill and Sonja | with... More about THE MOON & RIDDLES DINER; and the sunnyside cafe, illustrated by Chris Butler
