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

London: Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285..... 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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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: Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. 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 morocco, spine..... more

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

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