![Hand-Colored] The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and...](/images/noimage.png)
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 373, Strand, M.DCCC.XII. [1812]. First Edition. Full Calf. Large 4to (332 x 265mm): xviii,330,[6]; [4],275,[5]pp, with 80 hand-colored aquatint plates of stained glass, mosaics, tombs, monuments, and architectural details; hand-colored line engraving; plan of the church... more
London: printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, 1779. Half-Calf. Small 8vo: [4],107,[3]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 further full-page copper-engraved plates, each showing the cock, hen, and (often) egg of a different songbird. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Recently rebound to period... more
![Hand-Colored] Glances at Character. Anonymous, J. CLARK, engraver, fl](/pictures/thumb/BB1524.JPG?v=1499796846)
London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with 8 delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound... more
Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle: sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, & C. Dilly, London, 1791. Second Edition. Full Calf. A superlative example of the second (and best) edition: "no mere reprint: it was a largely... more
![Ornithology] A history of British birds. by Thomas Bewick. Thomas BEWICK](/pictures/thumb/BB0913.jpg?v=1499796704)
Newcastle: printed by Charles Henry Cook, for R. E. Bewick: sold by him, Longman and Co., London; and all booksellers. 1832. Full Calf. 8vo: xl,386; xviii,424pp. Collated and complete in two volumes: I. containing the history and description of land birds; II. containing the history and description of water birds... more
London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. "A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Small 8vo: [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 superb wood cuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Beautifully bound by Orrock & son in half-burgundy morocco... more
Paris: The Olympia Press, 8, Rue de Nesle, 1958. Second Edition. Printed Wrappers. Second Edition of this short novel, celebrating love, art, and the Bohemian life, with 29 full-page photogravures (recto and verso, of which one verso only and one double-page photomontage) of Paris after dark by Brassai (pseudonym of... more
![Hand-Colored] A Practical Treatise on Painting. In Three Parts. Consisting of Hints on...](/pictures/thumb/BB1476.jpg?v=1547505359)
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1827. First Edition. Full Calf. First Collected Edition of this standard early nineteenth century art text in three parts. 4to: [4],31,[1]; vi,[2],45,[1]; ix,[3],64pp, with 9 and 8 leaves of etched plates to parts I and... more
London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are... more
![Photobook] London: with Ten Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn [Inscribed]. G. K. CHESTERTON,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1964.jpg?v=1551966577)
Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . . . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the Minneapolis bibliophile who financed this book) and 10... more
London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, 1915. First Edition. One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography to Moor Park's owner, Lady Emilie Ebury. With an introduction by Lady Ebury... more
![The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax" [i.e. William Combe]; illustrated...](/pictures/thumb/BB1424.JPG?v=1499796803)
London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. (Hardie has shown that the four leaves of advertisements found in some... more
![Color Plate] The tour of Doctor Prosody : in search of the antique and picturesque, through...](/pictures/thumb/BB1341.jpg?v=1503661516)
London / Edinburgh / Glasgow: Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often asserted). Text in verse... more
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row, M.DCCC.XXXIII. [1833]. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this "admixture of curious and non-sensical theory with sound scientific observation.” (Becker) 8vo: [8],222, [6]pp, with hand-colored stipple frontispiece engraved by J. Neele after H. Stalker, half-title (bearing imprint on..... more
New York: George Wittenborn, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this typographic analog of one of the "most complex as well as one of the most rewarding artistic experiences of modern times" (from the appendices). Tall 8vo (229 x 150mm): unpaginated (including one leaf folding and another printed on... more
![Photobook] Practical Lawn-Tennis. James DWIGHT](/pictures/thumb/BB1534.jpg?v=1504750133)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Printing. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Edition of one of the first tennis books to show action photographs illustrating various racket strokes. Small 8vo: xvi,168,[6 adverisements]pp, with 25 full-page photographic plates, 6 tables and 4 text figures. Publisher's navy blue decorative cloth, upper cover... more
![Hand-Colored] A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817: with Notes Taken on a Tour Through...](/pictures/thumb/BB1866.jpg?v=1534201206)
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1820. Early Reprint. Morocco. 8vo: xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colored etching (which in previous editions was uncolored). Early full straight-grain green morocco, covers with wide decorative border in gilt and blind, spine very richly gilt in five compartments between raised... more
New York: Eakins Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 2000 unnumbered copies, of this "encylopaedic lesson in how to put a picture together." (Parr and Badger) Oblong 8vo (293 x 418mm): unpaginated; [2]ff (title page and Walt Whitman quote), [77]ff (photographs), [6]ff (afterword), with 213 meticulous gravure... more
London: Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plates (11 of which are chromolithographs) by William Dickes, woodcuts in text, erratum slip tipped in at p. 1. Publisher's original unrecorded textured green cloth binding (similar to but distinct from... more
![Color Plate] Tour of The Grand Junction, illustrated in a series of engravings; with an...](/pictures/thumb/BB1036.jpg?v=1551560687)
London: Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. First Edition. Full Leather. First Edition. 8vo: viii,147,[5] pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 23 full-page hand-colored plates "of great topographical interest" (Hardie; according to Abbey, some copies were issued uncolored). Full period black straight-grain... more
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, MD-CCCLII [1852, but 1851]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece... more
London: Printed for Henry Washbourne & Co. 25, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLIII [1853]. Early Reprint. Morocco. Handsomely bound edition of Milton's great epic poem, with John Martin's evocative, atmospheric mezzotints, "without doubt one of the most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced" (Campbell) and... more
![Color Plate] Chrysal : or the adventures of a guinea : by an adept : a new edition, to which is...](/pictures/thumb/BB1591.jpg?v=1503884125)
London: Printed for Hector M'Lean, 113, Strand, by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho Square, 1821. First Edition thus. Morocco. First and finest (according to Tooley) Illustrated Edition of this popular eighteenth-century roman à clef, complete in three octavo volumes, with 15 exquisitely hand-colored engravings by Burney, Read, and others... more
![Color Plate] Chrysal, or, The adventures of a guinea: wherein are exhibited views of several...](/pictures/thumb/BB0354.JPG?v=1499796653)
London: Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3, Grocers'-Hall Court, Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury, 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. Complete in three volumes. 12mo; viii, 319; 321; 326pp, plus 12 hand-colored plates engraved variously by Maddocks, E. F. Burney, and W. Read. Uniformly rebound to... more
![Photobook] Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the...](/pictures/thumb/BB0846.jpg?v=1499796696)
Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpson, Marshall, 1868. First Edition. Original Cloth. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored albumen prints, mounted on cards, of stuffed birds. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that... more