![[Color Plate] The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments in Two Volumes [First Issue]. Rudolph ACKERMANN, , William Combe.](/pictures/thumb/BB0903.jpg?v=1499796703)
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 373, Strand, M.DCCC.XII. [1812]. First Edition. Half-Morocco. Large 4to's: xviii,330,[6]; [2],275,[5]pp, with 80 hand-colored aquatint plates of stained glass, mosaics, tombs, monuments and architectural details; one hand-colored line engraving; a plan of the church, and an... 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. J.; fl. Anonymous; CLARK, engraver.](/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
![[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: 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
![[Gulliver's Travels] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Charles E. BROCK, Jonathan illustrates SWIFT.](/images/noimage.png)
London: Macmillan, 1894. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First Brock illustrated edition, from Macmillan's Cranford series, with preface by Henry Craik. Crown 8vo: xxx,[2],381,[3]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and 99 line-block illustrations by Charles E. Brock and five maps. Unsigned dark-green cloth publisher's binding by Brock, spine and upper cover richly... more
![[Hand-Colored] A Practical Treatise on Painting. In Three Parts. Consisting of Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colouring. The Whole Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. John BURNET.](/pictures/thumb/BB1476.jpg?v=1503677684)
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
![The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax" [i.e. William Combe]; illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson. William COMBE, William Thomas Rowlandson Combe, Thomas Rowlandson.](/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 Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland isles ; illustrated by twenty humorous plates. William COMBE, imitator, imitator; Thomas Rowlandson.](/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
![[Photography] 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 Picturesque Tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne with illustrations of the scenes of remarkable events, and of popular traditions [Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln]. Johann Isaac GERNING, Baron von, 1767/.](/pictures/thumb/BB1511.JPG?v=1499796841)
London: R. Ackermann, 1820 [i.e. c. 1840]. First Edition. Morocco. Translated from the German by John Black, from the Wiesbaden edition of 1819, Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln. First English Edition, later issue, with all plates numbered, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper watermarked 1839. (Catalog descriptions of this title... more
London: printed for J. Osborn, and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. 8vo: [16],109,[1]; [2],260pp (second part with separate title page and pagination, but register continuous from that of first part), with folding copper-engraved frontispiece showing parts of the horse's anatomy and seven... more
London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, M.DCC.XCII [1792]. Second Edition. Full Calf. Complete in two octavo volumes. viii,xii,221,[1]; [2],xvi,195,[1]pp, with 40 plates, of which 35 are hand-colored aquatints (including five plans) and five are soft-ground etchings. (In vol. II, "An Account of the Prints" and "Translation of Latin Passages," sometimes... more
![Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figured of the Species and Principal Varieties [unrecorded binding variant]. Philip Henry GOSSE.](/pictures/thumb/BB1412.jpg?v=1503764765)
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
![Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray [Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard]. Thomas GRAY.](/pictures/thumb/BB1395_2.JPG?v=1503506135)
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. First Edition. Vellum. Third State (or edition) of this "landmark in the history of English book-illustration." (Hazen) Imperial quarto ( cut to resemble a folio, for which it is often mistaken): [8]pp,35,[1]ff, with six full-page copper-engraved plates, 13 half-page head-... more
![[Color Plate] Tour of The Grand Junction, illustrated in a series of engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of those parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northhamptonshire, through which the canal passes. John HASSELL, d. 1825.](/pictures/thumb/BB1036.jpg?v=1499796722)
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), "one... more
![[Color Plate] Chrysal : or the adventures of a guinea : by an adept : a new edition, to which is now prefixed a sketch of the author's life : embellished with plates. Charles JOHNSTON, Johnson, 1719?-1800?; Johnstone.](/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 striking scenes : with interesting anecdotes of the most noted persons in every rank of life through whose hands it has passed, by an Adept [3 vols.]. Charles JOHNSTON, Johnson, 1719?-1800?; Johnstone.](/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
![[Ornithology] Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties, The. Alexander W. M. Clark KENNEDY.](/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
Paris: chez Defer de Maisonneuve, rue du Foin S. Jacques, no. 11, 1792. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Edition, Second Issue (preferred) by Maisonneuve, one of the earliest examples of coloring printing (preceded in France only by Sergent's Portraits des grands hommes), in magnificent French eighteenth-century calf. Parallel texts... more
![[Color Plate] The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A poem, in four cantos, with notes. John MITFORD.](/pictures/thumb/BB1352.JPG?v=1499796764)
London: Published for the author, and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row et al, 1823. Early Reprint. Morocco. Royal 8vo: [vii],[1],284]pp, with tissue-guarded, hand-colored frontispiece and 19 hand-colored full-page plates by Charles Williams. Elegantly bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco, covers with interlocking gilt scrollwork borders and anchor-device... more
![[Color Plate] Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c. : accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. John. Buonarotti PAPWORTH.](/pictures/thumb/BB1172.jpg?v=1499796734)
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, 14, St. Ann's Lane, 1823. First Edition. First edition. 4to: 110,[2, Index]pp, with the half-title and 27 hand-colored plates (watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1823'), "elegantly colored, typical of the high degree of finish usually found in Rudolph Ackermann's work"... more
![[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings. John. Buonarotti PAPWORTH.](/pictures/thumb/BB1151.jpg?v=1499796733)
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, St. Ann's Lane, 1816. Half-Morocco. Imperial 8vo: [8],159,[1]pp, with 76 delicately hand-colored aquatints (five folding), by J. Hamble and Joseph Constantine Stadler after Papworth and Augustus Pugin, "of past London, with representations of City churches and other topographical features now... more