London: 1901-1915. CAVE. Hardbound. 42 vols. + index in red publisher's leather. This set includes Volumes 1-42, and a like-bound index to Volumes 1-12. 43 physical volumes in all, that require 4 feet of shelf space. In its introduction, the publication asks: "Who nowadays does not collect something? And The... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. First. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards; Title block at top of spine; 323 pp.; 3 bw illustrations. Subtitle: Describing the Events of the Battles of Brandywine, Warren Tavern, Germantown, and Whitemarsh, and of the Camps at Neshaminy, Wilmington, Pennypacker's Mills, Skippack, Whitemarsh, and... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1888. Hardbound. Brown, design-embossed cloth. "Popular Edition" would be a synonym, in this case, for cheap edition. This set contains 10 (of 12) volumes, lacking Volumes 5 and 6 (The Stones of Venice). More
Petersberg: 2007. Hardcover. @ volumes in red cloth with gilt title on spine. Vol. 1: contains the text. Volume 2 contains the illustrations, and there are over 700 of them. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Universität Wien, 2006./ Includes bibliographical references. Text is in German. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Shimbun, 1995. Hardbound. Color ,pictorial board cover that falls level with rear board upon opening (it is designed not to be glued at the spine). 225 pp., 56 large, crisp color plates (including some folding plates) and over 40 supporting bw and color figures. Japanese and English... More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903, after. Hardcover. Green publishers cloth with orange and green pastedown illustration covering front cover with title of "The Wizard of Oz", spine printed title of The Wizard of Oz with lions head in center, Bobbs Merrill at base, plain paper endpapers, the whole measure 7.125"... More
Paris: Francois Delarue, 1870s. Hardbound. 1/2 leather with cloth covered board (rear board missing). 78 lithographic plates. 12.5 x 19 inches. Weight is 8 pounds. Will require extra postage. Please inquire. As awful as this volume sounds, it is an acceptable reference copy at the least. Only one other copy... More
Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1949. Hardcover. Orange leather. 579 pp. 37 color plates, 320 bw and color figs. Text in Swedish. Exhaustive survey of Zorn's paintings, sculptures, and drawings. More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1896. Hardbound. 8 vols. Olive cloth, gilt letters and decorations on spine and front covers; gilt top edges all around; 1608 total pp., BW and color illus. The complete eight-volume set providing an A-Z encyclopedia of fictional characters found in literature. At first, based only on... More
London: Published by The Author, at The Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Printed by Tosswill And Myers, 1841. Hardbound. Original green cloth covers with new matching spines and period paper printed labels. Vol. 1: viii, colored folding map, pp. 1-264 pp. Vol. 2: viii, map (non-folding), 266 pp. Both volumes copiously illustrated... More
Wobern, Mass. 1900. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 178 pp. 13 bw repros. A scarce book. Champney was very well known with his contemporaries, and mentions many in this memoir. More
Paris: Societe General D'Impression, 1910. 1 of 50 copies on Japon. Hardcover. Portfolio containing plates. This copy unsigned and unnumbered. Date is derived from the plates. Publishing date is January 31, 1910. However, one of the 20 sequential plates is dated 1911. This rare volume consists of 20 black and... More
London: George Virtue, 1846. Hardbound. 3/4 red leather with five raised double-bands on each volume. Vol. 1: 148 pp., with 46 steel engravings with tissue guards. Vol. 2: 116 pp., with 44 steel engravings (+ 6 additional). Most interestingly, at the rear of the Vol. 2 (or Second Series), there... More
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, [1952?]. Hardcover. Darkest siena stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover; 248 pp., many BW illus. The eighth volume of an eventual 72-volume set providing details about the lives and works of Dutch and Flemish artists who produced prints, etchings, engravings and woodcuts... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1910. Hardbound. Original blue sand grained cloth pictorially stamped on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. [4], viii, 280, [1], [1, blank], [2, publisher’s advertisements] pp. 40 mounted color plates on thick brown cardstock. A solid and tight copy of this first edition regular... More
Banaras, India: Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, 1981. Hardcover. Beige cloth with color illustration tipped on; brown lettering in Hindi, clear plastic dj. 323 pp. + 76 mounted color plates and hundreds of bw plates. A collection of 53 essays on Indian/Hindu art of all sorts by various authors... More
London: B. T. Batsford, 1911. Hardbound. Vellum covered boards with Gilt embossed title and design. T.e.g., Color frontispiece, title page, [5], 376 pp., profusely illustrated with 272 text illustrations. A very nice copy, which would look even finer with a little cosmetic attention. Scarce. With index to illustrations, and general index. More
Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1878. First. Hardbound. Beautiful Blue crushed 3/4 leather (has turned green along the length of the exposed spine) with 5 raised bands, exceptional gilt design along the entire spine length. All edges gilt. ix, 192 pp. 48 stunning color chromolithographs. This is a stunning book... More
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1908. Original - not a reprint or e-book. Hardcover. All volumes: Maroon cloth/boards; gilt lettering and (5) bands on spines. Marbled page edges; color frontis. Pagination varies among volumes from 348 to 428 with bw line drawings, photographs, architectural plans throughout. Several tables of data included... More
Paris, France: Les Editions Braun & Cie, 1950. Softcover. Original White wraps bound into red library buckram. 12 pages of double-sided text, followed by 16 single-sided sheets with bw and color reproductions, followed by a list of those reproductions. Text in French. 7 of the works illustrated are attributed to... More
London: B. T. Batsford, 1876. First. Hardbound. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine, unpaginated, 55 BW plates. An extremely informative and well-detailed volume on construction. From the preface: "The purpose of this work is to present, in a clear and simple manner, some of the best methods followed by... More
Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1971. Hardcover. Blue library cloth with applied paper printed label, 288 pp. Black and white illustrations of over 2150 works. Text in German. A beautiful copy. More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. 94 of 1000 copies printed. Hardcover. 3/4 plush red leather with 5 raised bands, tooling on bands and elaborate gilt device at base of spine, marbled endpapers, Top edge gilt. Volume 1: 449 pp., Volume 2: 441 pp. Both volumes with numerous etchings or... More
Geneva, Switzerland: 1924. Hardcover. Gray cloth quarter binding; Original wraps bound in; lxii, 253 pp. 1 color, 316 bw plates. Text in French. More
