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A Handsome “Facsimile” — A Pleasing Reference Resource
Simon Gribelin II, illus.; Philip Hofer, intro.; & Rudolph Ruzicka. A book of ornaments: engraved by Simon Gribelin II in the year MDCCIV and now partially reprinted in collotype facsimile. Meriden, CT: Timothy Press, 1941. Oblong 8vo (20.6 cm, 8.125"). 13, [3] pp.; 6 ff. of plts., illus.
$75.00
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“. . . Simon Gribelin deserves recognition because of his skill and ingenuity . . . Such quality of workmanship, such calligraphic and intricate, but confidently assured design, is quite wanting in art today. We have no designers trained in this tradition. Nor do we deserve them, because we do not notice, nor will we pay for, such attention to detail. Yet it is only when we look into Gribelin's engravings with a magnifying glass that the real inner content of his work stands revealed: the play of light and shade, the intricate interlacing of foliage, and lines which indicate so cleverly a roundness of form and a perspective. It is almost impossible to believe that this was achieved — mainly free hand — by a young man working on a recalcitrant copper plate.”
This is one of 310 unnumbered copies printed.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Black cloth shelfback, pictorial paper–covered sides, white label printed in black and red on front board; rubbed. Foxing to endpapers. Very good. (37715)

Signed by
Singer & Soyer
Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Raphael Soyer, illus.; Harry T. Moore, intro. The gentleman from Cracow / The mirror. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1979. 8vo (26.6 cm, 10.5"). xi, [1], 59, [5] pp.; 11 col. plts., 23 plts.
$200.00
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“The quintessence of Singer's genius”: two supernatural tales by the Nobel Prize winner, with an introduction by Harry T. Moore.
The stories are illustrated with 11 plates after watercolors by Raphael Soyer, and followed by 23 plates after Soyer's pencil sketches.
The volume was designed by Bruce Campbell and set in Centaur and Arrighi types, with the text printed by Hampshire Typothetae (under Harold McGrath's supervision) and the watercolors by the Princeton Polychrome Press; the binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Company. This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, and it is
signed at the colophon by author and artist. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 514. Publisher's grey-green marbled paper–covered boards with grey natural-finish buckram shelfback, spine with title stamped in silver, in original gray paper–covered slipcase; slipcase faded lightly on one side.
A fresh and attractive copy. (38939)

“A Youth of Folly Breeds an Age of Care”
The sister's gift; or, The bad boy reformed. Published for the advantage of the rising generation. York: Printed by James Kendrew, Colliergate, 1826. 48mo (10 cm, 3.875"). 31, [1] pp.; illus.
$150.00
Illustrated with
nine half-page woodcuts (one in an oval) and two woodcut tailpieces, this chapbook contains the short story “The Sister's Gift” as well as the poem “My Mother.” Be warned that this “bad” boy is
truly a sociopath and that the details of his misdeeds are harrowing.
Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper for “penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
In printed yellow paper wrappers; removed from a nonce volume. Frontispiece and last leaf mounted on inside of covers as issued; a clean, nice copy. (38467)

19th-Century Electro-Metallurgy Techniques of Image Reproduction
Smee, Alfred; Edmond de Valicourt, ed. Nouveau manuel complet de galvanoplastie ou éléments d'électro-métallurgie contenant l'art de réduire les métaux a l'aide du fluide galvanique, pour dorer, argenter, platiner, cuivrer, etc. etc. Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1860. 12mo (15.3 cm, 6"). 2 vols. I: [4], 411, [1] pp.; illus. II: [2], 372 pp.; 2 fold. plts.
$100.00
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Treatise on electrotype (a.k.a. galvanoplasty), written by a surgeon and inventor. First published in French in 1843, following its original London appearance in 1840, this useful work on methods of reproducing illustrations went through a number of printings in English, French, and German; it appears here “entièrement refondue et mise au courant de toutes les découvertes nouvelles,” edited by de Valicourt as part of the Manuels-Roret series. The text, which includes a chapter on
daguerrotypes, is illustrated with in-text examples of wood-engravings copyable via the methods described, and the second volume features
two very long, fold-out plates displaying an array of equipment.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Late 19th/early 20th–century half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped author, title, and date; extremities and spine bands rubbed and refurbished. Upper edges stained red, with staining extending slightly into many upper margins; some pages trimmed closely. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. (40654)

A Noble Book for
Your House in Tuscany?
(Smith's Patron Was the Second Earl of Warwick)
Smith, John. Italian scenery [i.e., Select views in Italy, with topographical and historical descriptions, in English and French]. [London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for J. Smith, W. Byrne, & J. Edwards, 1817]. 4to. [1] f. (engr. dedication), [78] ff. (of letterpress), [72] ff. of plates, illus.
$2500.00
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Smith is remembered in art circles as a very accomplished water color artist and it was that work that attracted the attention of George Greville, second earl of Warwick. The earl became Smith's patron and sent him Italy where he produced such works as “Outside Porta Pia, Rome” (now in the Tate collection) and “Interior of the Coliseum” (now in the British Museum); “his Italian pictures . . . are considered Smith's best” (ODNB).
Toward the end of the 18th century (1792–1799), Smith produced the first edition of this work, laden with
72 engravings (by various artisans) after his original watercolors. This second edition of his Select Views in Italy was not issued with a title-page, although some copies have a copy (reprinting?, remainder sheet?) of the first edition's; it begins instead with a splendidly calligraphic
engraved dedication leaf reading, “Italian scenery. To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty this Collection of Select Views in italy is with Her Majesty's gracious permission Humbly dedicated by Her most obedient and devoted Servant, John Smith.” Dated in text 18 January 1817, the leaf was designed by Tomkins and engraved by Ashby; at its bottom, as on a title-page, is “London[,] J. Smith, W. Byrne, & J. Edwards.”
The text in this edition, bilingual in
English and French, is the same as that of the first edition; but it was entirely reset and the plates are restrikes of those of the first edition, with the original imprints removed and the numeration moved to the top of the plates. This is, therefore, a particularly interesting object to
set beside an example of its first edition!
Provenance: No bookplates or inscriptions, but spine with initials “G.O.B.” tooled at base.
20th-century cordovan-color sheep, covers framed in single gilt fillet with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped fleurons in compartments; spine sunned/lightened with darker streaks and patches evident, one spine compartment with small scuff, joints with excellent repairs and corners likewise well refurbished. Text with only an occasional age-stain or instance of foxing; plates remarkably unblemished. Blue silk placemarker. Overall indeed a
VERY NICE COPY. (33233)

A Military Manual for Troops Serving under a BRITISH OFFICER in the Peninsular Campaign
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
Spain. Army. Reglamento para el exercicio y maniobras de la infantería. De las evoluciones de línea. [colophon: Cadiz: en la Imprenta Tormentaria á cargo de Juan Domingo Villegas, 1813]. 8vo (21.5 cm; 8.125"). [2], 281–385, 15 pp., fold. plts. numbered xxxix –lxviii.
$1800.00
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At the base of the title-page of this infantry manual is printed “Reimpreso por disposicion del . . . señor don Carlos Doyle, teniente general de los reales exercitos.”
That is, Lt. Gen. Charles William Doyle (1770–1842) ordered this work to be printed.
Doyle was an Irish-born British lieutenant-colonel who in 1808 was ordered to Portugal to help fight Napoleon in the Peninsular Campaign. He very successfully aided the Spanish army in instilling discipline and organizing light infantry and was made a lieutenant general in the Spanish army. In 1811 Britain ordered him home, but when he reached Cadiz, Sir Henry Wellesley convinced him to command a camp at which a new army was being organized for action in the south of Spain. Again he was highly successful in his military instruction of new troops, and as a result was promoted to full colonel in the British army; he remained in Spain till the end of the war in 1814.
The present work, extracted from the larger one of the same title printed at Madrid by the Imprenta Real in 1808, was clearly printed for the instruction of Doyle's southern army.
At the rear of the volume are
30 folding plates setting forth various dispositions and movements of infantry troops; clear, careful, verbal explanations of these precede them.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the CCPBE locate
only three copies worldwide (all in Spain).
Provenance: Contemporary signature of “Velez” on title-page.
Not in Palau. On Doyle, see: DNB online. Dark brown speckled calf, black gilt-lettered title-label (a little chipped) to gilt-ruled spine, marbled endpapers; binding lightly rubbed. Age-toning and general light soiling, occasionally a dog-ear or a spot, all plates clean, well-attached, and whole at folds.
A very sound, very good copy. (36362)

Noted Christian Nativist Fans the Flames
Sparry, C. The illustrated Christian martyrology; being an authentic and genuine historical account of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world by pagans and papists. Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.5"). Color frontis., 254 pp., [16] ff. (of publisher's ads), 23 color plts.
$550.00
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Charles Sparry was a virulent anti-Catholic “reverend,” author or compiler of several anti-Catholic books, editor of the short-lived periodical The North American Protestant magazine or the anti Jesuit, and an accused purveyor of obscene literature.
The present martyrology, first printed in 1846, reached seven editions during the 19th century, four of them printed by Leary & Getz, the printing arm of the famous Philadelphia bookstore generally and simply known as “Leary's.” Not unexpectedly, the volume is wildly anti-Cathoic but is also an excellent example of mid-century American bookmaking in its publisher's binding, illustration, and method of printing.
The binding is the publisher's red roan in imitation of morocco. Both covers are gilt-stamped with a triple rule border at the board edges and gilt corner devices; in the center of each board is a gilt vignette of a martyrdom based on one of the plates in the text. All edges are gilt.
The illustrations are wood engravings, mostly unsigned, but a few signed “Lossing.” There are several in-text wood-engraved portraits and there are additionally
24 wood-engraved plates (including the frontispiece) that have been hand colored, probably by a stencil method.
The text is printed in double-column format from stereoplates, in roman type, with an interesting six-line capital at the beginning of each chapter.
Provenance: “Mamie C. Swinton, from 'Aunt Jennie,' August 1870.”
Binding as above, rubbed at board edges and joints (outside); top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of leather. Short tears in foremargins of final blank leaves; scattered foxing and some brown spotting. Over all, a good++ copy; a very good representative of
the genre, “ugly ideas got-up beautifully.” (37226)

One of the First
English Histories IN English
Speed, John. The historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, lives, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Caesar, unto the raigne of King Iames, of famous memorie. London: Pr. by John Dawson [and Thomas Cotes] for George Humble, 1632. Folio (33.5 cm, 13.25"). [10] ff., 1042 pp.; 1043–1086 ff., 1087–1237, [85 (index)] pp. (lacking frontis.); illus.
$3500.00
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Third edition of this archetypal early English history, a variant of the 1631 edition. Printed with all the archaic and “curious” spellings one could hope for in such a work (e.g., “Britaine” and “ye” on the title-page), each page bears both roman and italic types; the text contains a number of intricate initials, headpieces, and tailpieces, and is adorned with detailed woodcuts of kings, their coats of arms, and the seals and coinage of their reigns. The illustrations are as notable as the typography for quaint charm.
Speed (1552–1629), a cartographer and historian, published the Historie as a continuation of his Theatre of Great Britaine, both works being listed in the table of contents of this work, which explains the volume's peculiar pagination and arrangement.
An epitome of the “antiquarian” both in form and content, this is a marvelous compendium of royal history and lore.
ESTC S997; STC (rev. ed.) 23049; Graesse 462–63; Lowndes 2471–72. Period-style calf framed, panelled, and stamped in gilt; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels; signed by Starr Bookworks. Light to moderate waterstaining, with traces of now-arrested mildew in the form of intermittent and usually faint pink staining/spotting. Frontispiece lacking; title-page partially mounted; dedication page and first few leaves of contents with inner margins reinforced. Pp. 41/42 with tear from lower margin extending into text, lower edge of tear repaired; pp. 125/26 with lower outer corner torn away and replaced, without loss of text; pp. 271/72 with lower portion replaced, with loss of several paragraphs and the lower half of one image; pp. 449/50 with lower outer corner replaced, with loss of lower portion of one decorated capital, about three lines of text, and small portion of tailpiece; pp. 597/98 with small portion of outer margin repaired, with loss of one shouldernote; pp. 1005/06 with portion of outer margin torn away, with partial loss of one shouldernote; pp. 1041/42 with lower and outer margins partially cut away along frame of text block, without loss. Pp. 1087/88 with lower portion excised, text replaced in an early inked hand; pp. 1237/38 mounted, with loss of an image and two paragraphs of text. One index leaf with lower outer portion excised, with loss of about 15 lines of text; final index leaf with lower outer corner torn away and repaired, text partially reconstructed in an early inked hand. One coat of arms drawn in by hand where the shield had been left blank. Definitely an imperfect copy; yet, in fact, definitely not a devastated one. (24405)

“It Was a Fascinating Discovery Which Invited Prolonged Exploration”
Stein, Marc Aurel. On ancient Central-Asian tracks: brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and north-western China. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. 8vo (24 cm; 9.5"). xxiv, 342 pp.
$1750.00
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First edition. Based on lectures given at the Lowell Institute, this book reflects on the explorations made by (Marc) Aurel Stein in four expeditions to Central Asia that took him into Eastern Turkestan, westernmost China, and across the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. His greatest triumph involved
discovery of the world's oldest printed text, Diamond Sutra, dating to A.D. 868, plus 40,000 other scrolls. He received a knighthood for his efforts, which extended over 30 years.
Stein's account is accompanied by many illustrations, in both black and white and color. These include a color frontispiece, several fold-out panoramas, and a folding color map at rear, with all color illustrations having intact tissue guards.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. Rust-brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt medallion to front board, in an edgeworn, lightly soiled dust jacket with significant portions torn away at spine, smaller losses at corners/edges and price-clip, and two small stains to rear panel. Binding clean, with extremities bumped. Purple monogram ownership stamp to front free endpaper, p. 83, and a leaf in the index; text otherwise clean with upper corners lightly creased across and a few leaves unopened.
Good, in a good- dust jacket that appears in most instances to be lacking entirely. (37601)

“Pioneer Work in What Was Then Practically
a Virgin Field for Antiquarian Research”
Stein, Marc Aurel, Sir. Ruins of desert Cathay: Personal narrative of explorations in central Asia and westernmost China. London: Macmillan & Co., 1912. 8vo (24.2 cm, 9.52"). 2 vols. I: Col. frontis., xxxviii, 546 pp.; 3 fold. plts., 105 (2 col.) plts. II: Frontis., xxi, [1], 517, [3 (2 adv.)] pp.; 4 fold. plts., 2 fold. maps, 120 (5 col.) plts.
$1000.00
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First edition: “With numerous illustrations, colour plates, panoramas, and maps from original surveys.” Stein conducted four expeditions to Central Asia that took him into Eastern Turkestan, westernmost China, and across the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. His greatest triumph involved
discovery of the world's oldest printed text, the Diamond Sutra, dating to A.D. 868, plus 40,000 other scrolls. He received a knighthood for his efforts, which extended over 30 years. The present account was based on his 1906–08 archaeological and geographical exploration, carried out “under the orders of the Government of India” (p. vii); the volumes are
illustrated with over 200 plates, including color-printed reproductions of artwork, folding maps, and photographic images of Stein's travels.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's dark red cloth, front covers each with gilt-stamped classical vignette; vol. I with edges and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, minor mottling and spots of discoloration; vol. II similar, with area of damage to upper outer fore-edge. Top edges gilt. Vol. I front hinge (inside) starting from foot and sewing loosening; inner margins of frontispiece and printed guard leaf reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape; one leaf with outer margin tattered and resulting short tear (not touching text). Vol. II with back hinge (inside) cracked. Some text pages in both volumes showing pressure lines imprinted from plates. A respectable set of these hefty books, somewhat weakened by their own size and by use, “priced accordingly”; together a record of a significant expedition that offers
both visual and textual interest. (41007)

“A Thought is a Real Thing & Words are Only Its Raiment”
Stephens, James; Thomas Mackenzie, illus. The crock of gold. London: Macmillan & Co, 1926. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). vii, [1], 227, [1] pp.; 12 col. plts.
$650.00
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“They took the Philosopher from his prison . . . and then they returned again, dancing and singing, to the country of the gods . . . “: A fantastical novel of philosophical adventure, liberally infused with mirth and
Irish folklore — as well as a great number of proclamations regarding the essential nature of the sexes and their battle. This is an early edition, following the first of 1912, featuring
twelve color-printed plates as well as large, decorative black and white head- and tailpieces in modern woodcut style by Thomas Mackenzie.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, covers framed in gilt double fillets, front cover with gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt double fillets with
gilt corner shamrocks, shamrock motif repeated on wide, gilt-ruled turn-ins Bright green endpapers. Signed binding, stamped by Donnelley of Chicago on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis John Breck, Jr., dated 10/29/72. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, spine and edges sunned to brown, joints opening from head and foot, edges rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and front free one loosening; pages slightly age-toned. A handsome example of this enduring classic, with Mackenzie's
lovely, lyrical illustration. (39825)

From Calais to the Bourbonnois with
Sterne & Leloir
Sterne, Laurence; Maurice Leloir, illus. A sentimental journey through France and Italy. New York: J.W. Bouton, 1884. Folio (31.1 cm, 12.25"). Add. col. t.-p., xvi, 210, [2] pp.; 12 plts., illus.
$150.00
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First American edition with Leloir's illustrations: beautiful production of a fictionalized travelogue that Sterne (1713–68) finished just weeks before his death, inspired by his real travels through France and Italy. Narrated by Sterne's alter ego, Mr. Yorick, these deeply personal adventures brought new subjective life to a genre that had typically relied on objective writing, and paved the way for a flourishing of the style in the late 18th century.
First published in 1768, the work appears here in a lavish edition with a prefatory life of the author and sporting an additional chromolithographic title-page. The text is decorated with
twelve full-page photogravure illustrations done by Leloir and reproduced “by the Goupil process,” and numerous sketches throughout the text. Ray cites these illustrations as possibly
even better than Leloir's much-acclaimed work for Manon Lescaut.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Ray, French Illustrated Books, 292 (for French first ed.). Contemporary half brown morocco and brown cloth, leather edges ruled in single gilt fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title and author, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-framed compartments, binding done by W. Roach Co. of New York; edges and extremities showing moderate rubbing, middle cloth portion of outer edges of covers with small area of light discoloration. All edges gilt.
A clean, attractive, unfoxed copy. (39857)

LEC Stevenson: “The Suicide Club,” “The Rajah's Diamond,” & More
Stevenson, Robert Louis. New Arabian nights. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club,, 1976. Folio (28.4 cm, 11.18"). xv, [1], 246, [2] pp.; 12 plts., illus.
$65.00
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Limited Editions Club production of this set of acclaimed short stories by the beloved author. Norman H. Strouse supplied the introduction, and
Clarke Hutton illustrated the text with 12 full-page two-color and 16 smaller black and white drawings. Designed by Eugene Ettenberg, the volume was bound by the Tapley-Rutter Company in full maize buckram stamped in green and gold, sides gilt-stamped with an all-over design by Ettenberg.“The Pavilion on the Links” appears in its first version.
This is numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist; the LEC prospectus is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 499. Bound as above, in original matching paper-covered slipcase; slipcase with very slight traces of shelfwear, volume clean and bright.
A nice example of this engaging, attractive edition. (41401)

Dedicated to “Patrons of
Pure,
Perfect, & Unpolluted Liberty”
Stiles,
Ezra. A history of three of the judges
of King Charles I. Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell:
Who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America; and were secreted and concealed,
in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years. With an account of
Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of the
judges. Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794. 12mo. 357, [5 (4 blank)], 357, [4 (3
blank)] pp.; 8 plts. (3 fold.); lacks the frontis. port.
$750.00
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A history of three members of the tribunal which had Charles I beheaded in 1649, by the former president of Yale College, a post which he held from 1778 to his death in 1795. Plates III, VIII and IX were engraved by Amos Doolittle; plate 7 is not present here nor is there any copy known to have it present. (Sabin categorically states: “there is no plate 7 in any of the copies seen, and it is probable none was made.”)
Evans 27743; Howes S-999; Sabin 91742; Trumbull, Connecticut, 1425. Period-style quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and blind-tooled floral decorations in compartments. Previous owner's signature on the title-page. Rubber-stamps of the Mercantile Library, and inked marks and underlining inside, with scattered marginalia. Frontispiece portrait lacking, with eight plates (three of which are fold-out) present; each of the three folding plates with a split along one fold. Occasional marginal tears and small chips to corners; waterstaining and foxing, yet paper strong and reading easy. (3996)

Works of a Master Engraver — With Signed Print
Stone, Reynolds. Reynolds Stone engravings. London: John Murray (pr. at the Curwen Press), [1977]. 8vo (29.1 cm, 11.5"). xli, [3], 151, [3] pp.; col. illus.
$450.00
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First edition, with an introduction by the artist and an appreciation by Kenneth Clark: an extensively illustrated survey of Stone's impressive accomplishments in wood engraving. A signed print of a previously unpublished engraving (of a waterfall in the Prescelly Mountains of south Wales) is laid in at the front; this engraving was printed with an Albion press by the artist, on handmade cream wove paper from Wookey Hole Mill. The colophon — which is also signed by Stone — notes that this is numbered copy 114 of 150 printed, done on Basingwerk parchment paper made by Grosvenor Chater, and bound in full buckram by W. & J. Mackay, with Cockerell endpapers.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in a striking slipcase covered in combed paper in black, grey, and white, matching the endpapers; volume spine sunned, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear. Pages crisp and clean.
A beautiful book for collectors of calligraphic and/or bookplate art as well as connoisseurs of wood engraving. (39551)

485 Stunning Views of
England, Scotland, & Wales
EACH
IMAGE Hand-Captioned
Storer, James Sargant. Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. London: W. Clarke, J. Carpenter, & H.D. Symonds, 1807–11. 8vo. 10 vols. I: [approx. 112] pp.; 56 plts. II: pp.; 49 plts. III: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. IV: [approx. 92] pp.; 46 plts. V: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. VI: [approx. 106] pp.; 53 plts. VII: [approx. 98] pp.; 49 plts. VIII: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. IX: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. X: [approx. 72], [16 (index)] pp.; 36 plts. (15 plts. lacking of 500).
$2250.00
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Deluxe printing of the first edition, here in an impressive large-paper set illustrated with 485 copper-engraved plates. The engraved images designed for the duodecimo regular edition are here, in this octavo printing, mounted within printed borders with
hand-inked calligraphic captions. Those images depict such scenic high spots as Dunstaple Priory in Bedfordshire, Roman remains in Brecknockshire, the “great oak” at Silton, a Crusader monument in Winchester Cathedral, Tintern Abbey (of course), and many, many churches and castles; they were engraved by J. Greig, W. Angus, W. & G. Cooke, and J. Storer after drawings by various hands.
Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress description, generally about two pages long.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, darkened to black; covers framed in gilt with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spines with gilt-stamped title, board edges with gilt-stamped roll. All edges gilt.
NSTC S4069; Brunet, I, 319, Graesse 503. Bound as above with insignificant shelf wear only, now refurbished and a bit of scuffing; 15 plates lacking of 500. Most plates clean, some foxed (a few heavily); some pages with light offsetting from plates. One page with pencilled annotation detailing an 1823 update in a site's ownership.
A luxurious, in fact in its way spectacular, production. (22855)

Stowe on the
WOMEN of the Bible — Extended Version
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Woman in sacred history. A series of sketches. New York: J.B. Ford & Co., [1873]. Large 8vo (29.7 cm, 11.69") 400 pp.; 25 col. plts.
[SOLD]
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HOW MANY CAN YOU NAME???
First appearance of the expanded 25-sketch American edition: An imposing volume dedicated to the prominent women of the Old and New Testaments, as described by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. To accompany each essay, Stowe selected poems from authors including Hemans, Tennyson, Byron, and of course the well-represented “Anonymous.” Each heroine and anti-heroine is also portrayed in art, for
a total of 25 chromolithographed plates done by Jehenne after Charles Brochart, Frederick Goodall, Charles Landelle, and others. The plates depict Leah and Rachel, Hannah, Jezebel, Esther, Mary, the woman of Samaria, Salome, et al., in vivid hues and exotic dress.
The other London and New York editions of 1873/74 have only 19 sketches, and title-pages printed in black; the title-page of this larger edition is printed in red and black.
BAL 19480. Publisher's half roan with pebbled cloth–covered sides, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of reading girl, spine with gilt-stamped title and embossed compartment decorations; moderate overall rubbing, upper board edges sunned, scrape to front cover cloth patched some time ago. Cream moiré silk endpapers; all edges gilt. Signatures with varying degrees of age-toning; area of light staining to outer portions of first few leaves (including first plate), occasional instances of small spots or smudges elsewhere, generally to outer margins. Four plates with small adhesions to edges of images from torn guard leaves (in two cases barely noticeable, others not severe); short tear from outer edge to a sequence of four leaves and one plate towards the back.
This copy visibly both read and cherished, and with high-impact plates still impressive. (41235)

Mountains, Waterways, & Birds of the
ADIRONDACKS
Street, Alfred Billings; John Augustus Hows, illus. Forest pictures in the Adirondacks. New York: James G. Gregory, 1865. 4to (23.1 cm, 9.09). [6], 63, [3] pp.; 16 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$75.00
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First edition, featuring 16 dramatic woodland views from New York–born artist John A. Hows. An original poem by Street accompanies each of the 16 plates, which were wood-engraved by Messrs. Bobbett & Hooper after Hows' designs.
Binding: Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed with embossed vinework border, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and blind-tooled fleurons in compartments. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Inscription on initial blank from ____ P. James to _____ Thomas, “Dec 25/64.”
Sabin 33391. Binding as above, just a little rubbed at edges and corners, with gilt of front cover, still attractive, dimmed affecting three letters. Small spot of offsetting in lower portion of title-page and blank opposite from something once laid in, with a few small spots of foxing to the blank.
A clean, bright, very nice copy of a book more usually seen in compromised condition. (41397)


A SERIES OF SURTEES
An Enduring Figure of
English Comic Literature
Surtees, Robert Smith. Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). xiii, [3], 578 pp.; 17 col. plts., 31 plts.
$100.00
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Largely unopened copy, from a subscription edition: A rollicking entry in a much-loved series, in which the Cockney grocer Mr. Jorrock becomes master of the “hounds” of the Handley Cross hunt, with chaotic results. Surtees, a sporting writer and novelist, is remembered for keen-eyed chronicles of the golden age of foxhunting such as this one; they were thought to carry a whiff of the vulgar in their day, Allibone not deigning even to mention them, though Surtees is fairly appreciated for his “mordant observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases . . .” (DNB).
First published in 1843 and first printed with illustrations in 17 monthly parts 1853–54, the misadventures of the enthusiastic Mr. Jorrocks appear here “printed for subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.” The volume is illustrated with
16 hand-colored, steel-engraved plates and 31 wood-engraved plates by famed caricaturist John Leech. The colored scenes, many involving horses or hounds or both, are carefully and artistically tinted; the social scenes are more delicately shaded than the vivid hunting scenes. In addition to the color and black-and-white plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings decorate the text.
Binding: Publisher's crimson cloth, front cover with horse and hound vignettes stamped in black and gilt, spine with black and gilt portrait of Jorrocks himself.
NCBEL, III, 967. On Surtees, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Binding as above, spine much sunned but covers bright and fresh. Signatures almost entirely unopened; contents pages and a few other early signatures awkwardly opened with resulting edge tears, including to upper margins (only) of five uncolored plates. One colored plate with tiny scuff in image. Despite described faults, still a solid, bright, beautifully illustrated copy with a great deal of charm. (30448)

The Thrill of the Chase
Illustrated by Phiz
Surtees, Robert Smith. Hawbuck Grange. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). [14], 265, [1] pp.; 8 col. plts.; 13 plts.
$125.00
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Unopened copy, from a subscription edition: The entertaining trials and tribulations of dedicated fox-hunter Tom Scott, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, a.k.a. Phiz.
See
the end of the first paragraph in our first “Surtees” entry, for
a general note on him.
First published in 1847, these vividly rendered hunting scenes appear here “printed for subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.” The volume is illustrated with
8 plates by Phiz, hand-colored, and 13 steel-engraved plates by W.T. Maude. While Phiz's caricatures are sharp and witty, the coloring itself is rather elegantly restrained. In addition to the color and black-and-white plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings decorate the text, the whole providing many depictions of the hunt.
Binding: Publisher's crimson cloth, front cover and spine stamped with hunting vignettes and hound decorations in black and gilt.
NCBEL, III, 967. On Surtees, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Binding as above, spine much sunned but covers bright and fresh, minimal wear to extremities. Signatures unopened. Save for the dimmed spine, a beautiful and bright copy. (30434)

Chasing after
Foxes & Fortunes: 13 Hand-Colored Plates
Surtees, Robert Smith. Mr. Sponge's sporting tour. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). [2], x, [2], 450 pp.; 13 col. plts., 30 plts.
$125.00
Unopened copy,
from a subscription edition: Misadventures of “Soapey” Sponge, a
rakish anti-hero constantly on the prowl for both a wealthy wife and a good
hunt (the latter preferably at someone else's expense). “The author .
. . will be glad if [this work] serves to put the rising generation on their
guard against specious, promiscuous acquaintance, and trains them on to the
noble sport of hunting, to the exclusion of its mercenary, illegitimate off-shoots”
(p. iii), says Surtees, a sporting writer and novelist whose keen-eyed
chronicles of the golden age of foxhunting were thought to carry a whiff of
the vulgar in their day (Allibone did not deign to mention any of his fiction)
— but who is now appreciated for his “mordant observations on men,
women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues;
his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took
great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases . . .”
(DNB).
First published in 1853 as a 13-part serial, the Sporting Tour appears
here “printed for subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition
issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.” The volume is illustrated with
13
hand-colored and 30 steel-engraved plates
by famed caricaturist John Leech. The colored scenes, most of which
depict hunting or riding scenes, are carefully and attractively done with
nicely shaded tints. In addition to the color and black-and-white plates,
numerous in-text wood-engravings decorate the text.
Binding: Publisher's crimson
cloth, front cover and spine stamped with horse and hound vignettes in black
and gilt.
NCBEL, III, 967. On Surtees, see: Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography online. Binding as above, spine much sunned
but covers bright and fresh. Signatures unopened. One leaf holed in text with
loss of a few words and with some light discoloration around this, without
loss of sense. Save for the dimmed spine, a beautiful and bright copy. (30426)

Social Satire at Brighton: Illustrated by Leech
Surtees, Robert Smith. Plain or ringlets? London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). x, [4], 398 pp.; 12 col. plts., 8 plts.
$125.00
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Unopened copy, from a subscription edition, its title expressing the critical question before fair Miss Rosa as she considers the effects of her coiffure on her matrimonial options. The novel takes a mocking look at social life in provincial England and, although not as fixated on foxhunting as some of the author's other tales, offers much of interest relating to horses and hounds.
See
the end of the first paragraph in our first “Surtees” entry, for
a general note on him.
First published in 13 monthly parts in 1860, the machinations of Rosa and her mamma appear here “printed for subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.” The volume is illustrated with
12 hand-colored, steel-engraved plates and 8 wood-engraved plates by famed caricaturist John Leech. The colored scenes, some involving young ladies in elegant dress and some horses and hounds, are carefully and artistically tinted; the social scenes are more delicately shaded than the vivid hunting scenes. In addition to the color and black-and-white plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings decorate the text.
Binding: Publisher's crimson cloth, front cover with black- and gilt-stamped hound decorations and a gilt-stamped vignette of two flirting equestrians, spine with black and gilt Cupid vignette.
NCBEL, III, 968. On Surtees, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Binding as above, extremities slightly rubbed, spine much sunned but covers bright and fresh. Signatures unopened. A clean, unread copy, with lovely plates. (30470)



ENGLISH ORGANS:
Written towards
“Preventing their Wanton Destruction in Future”
Sutton, Sir John. A short account of organs built in England from the reign of King Charles the Second to the present time. London: J. Masters, Aldersgate Street [Printed by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick], 1847. 16mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). xxvi, [2], 117, [1] pp., illus.
[SOLD]
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A colorful commentary on the purpose and worth of the sizable musical instrument, with chapters divided by builders — including Schmidt, the Harrises, Green, Snetzler, Avory, and others — complete with in-text vignettes and five full-page illustrations of organ cases.
Binding: 19th-century very green morocco, spine gilt with ruling around raised bands and a dash pattern through the middle of each one, compartments with circular daisy stamps. Covers double-framed in gilt fillets with simple gilt strapwork design in 16th-century style, front cover lettered in gilt; board edges gilt with double fillets, turn-ins gilt with complex roll incorporating fillets, a zig-zag with dots, and foliate designs. Fountain marbled endpapers, red ribbon placemarker.
Provenance: Striking armorial bookplate with the motto “Quis idoneus” of Magdalen College Dean of Divinity James Elwin Millard, D.D. (1823–94) on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
A very nice Whittingham production.
Bound as above; spine evenly sunned, gently rubbed with some loss of leather at edges, boards gently bowed, front free endpaper detached. Light age-toning, two leaves with very short marginal tears, a few faint traces of pencilling, small hole in final leaf repaired. Provenance as above. (38425)

Printing in America
BEFORE the Bay Psalm Book
Szewczyk, David, & Buffington, Cynthia Davis. 39 books and broadsides printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company, 1988. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). ix, [1], 135, [1] pp., [2] ff.
$70.00
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Printing in North America began not in 1640 in Massachusetts, but in 1539, in Mexico, at a point in printing history when technique, typography, and aesthetic norms were widely first-rate. The European printers who came to the New World to produce the “incunables” and other “early printed” works of Mexico and Peru maintained the high standards of their homelands in a degree that astonishes those whose understanding of early American printing has been based purely on familiarity with the works produced a hundred and more years later in what is now the U.S.
Thirty-nine Books and Broadsides describes works that well represent the earliest Mexican printing, the rarities including 14 New World incunabula, 9 the only known surviving copies (3 described for the first time), several second known and several more earliest known copies, and a number of works with woodcut illustrations — all from a major private collection.
All entries are illustrated and provide exact collations; notably, the bibliography provides the very first accurate system of description for 16-century New World broadsides.
Limited to 250 copies. Each item fully described bibliographically and illustrated as well.
Publisher's cloth. New. (36766)
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