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ILLUSTRATED
BOOKS \ CUTS & ENGRAVINGS
Berhardt Wall's Works:
Weber, Francis J. Following Bernhardt Wall 1872–1956. Austin, TX: The Book Club of Texas, 1994. Folio (29.9 cm, 11.75"). [2], 63, [1] pp.; 5 col. plts., col. illus.
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expanded full-sized presentation designed and typeset by Castle Press and printed by Patrick Reagh Printers, limited to 195 copies (this example unnumbered). Like the first edition, this one is illustrated with mounted intaglio reproductions by Anthony Kroll — but this one additionally features a number of examples of Wall's work printed from the original plates, five colored photogravure reproductions of etchings by Wall, and one
original postcard (with writing on the reverse).
A beautiful tribute to an important American illustrator. (37130)
Fantastical “Rural” ScenesWeissenborn, Hellmuth, illus. A country calendar. Gloucestershire: Pr. for Heal's Books & Prints by the Whittington Press, 1976. 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.92"). 24 pp.; col. illus.
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color-printed vignette from the German-born artist.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector, sans indicia.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers; spine sunned, light shelfwear to lower edges, lower outer corner of back wrapper lightly creased across. Interior clean and fresh; vignettes
bright. (41523)
Romantic Moonlit Cloth BindingWeyman, Stanley J. Sophia: A romance. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.5"). viii, [2], 345, [25 (adv.)] pp.; 12 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.This romance is illustrated with 12 black and white plates (including the frontispiece) by productive English illustrator Christine “Chris” Hammond. Stanley J. Weyman's stories were immensely popular during his day (1855–1928), but they are now often forgotten among other Victorian works. This is a first American edition, published one year after the London first.
Binding: Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. On front board, gilt lettering and a moonlit water scene stamped in light blue, black, and white. Top edge gilt.
Provenance: On the front free endpaper, the name-stamp of Sarah E. Lembeck, with her initials also written in pencil and stamped in ink.
• Binding as above; light rubbing to extremities and small scrape to front board. Provenance as above, some ink transfer to front pastedown. A nice copy in an interesting, moody, Arts & Crafts–style binding. (37561)
From Shipwreck to SuccessWhymper, Elijah, illus. The foundling of the wreck. London: Groombridge & Sons (pr. by Richard Barrett), [ca. 1850]. 12mo (14.2 cm, 5.625"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 47, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargement.wood-engraved illustrations.
Provenance: Inscribed “Mary Agnes Phillott / A Reward,” with partial date, on inside of front wrapper. Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Publisher's printed turquoise wrappers; spine and edges very slightly chipped, wrappers just beginning to separate, some discoloration around edges. Very light age-toning, pages clean. (38455)
Learning about Animals & about Being Cheerfulat the Same TimeWhymper, Elijah, illus. Much ado about nothing; or, a day at the gardens. London: Groombridge & Sons, [ca. 1850]. 12mo (11.8 cm, 4.7"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 24 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Publisher's printed salmon paper wrappers; light wear to extremities, paper just starting to split at foot of spine. A few spots of light foxing, pages otherwise generally clean (and entirely unmauled by childish hands). 
A very attractive copy. (38462)
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Tideline Press: Deluxe Set, Signed & with IlluminationWild, Peter; Elaine Scull, illus. The island hunter trilogy: Pioneers, The Cavalryman, and The Island Hunter. [NY]: Tideline Press, 1976. Oblong 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 3 vols. Each [24] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. lettered copy S of 26 deluxe gold-illuminated, casebound copies, signed at the colophon by the author, printer, and artist.
a landscape image drawn from the double-spread title-page.
• Bound as above, spines slightly sunned and spotted; each volume with small faint trace of now-absent shelf label. Pages clean and fresh. A very nice trio. (41344)
OrthopaedicsWilhelm, Philipp. Uber den Bruch des Schlüsselbeines und über die verschiedenen Methoden denselben zu heilen. Würzburg: Gedruckt bey Carl Wilhelm Becker, 1822. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 87, [3] pp.; 2 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.two large folding lithographic plates illustrates a device for supporting the area of the body connected by muscle and sinew to the clavicle in order to speed recovery.
Provenance: 19th-century stamp of the Medic. Chirug. Bibliothek Altenburg (on front wrapper and title-page, but NOT on plates). Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
• Original blue-green wrappers. Waterstaining to wrappers at spine and onto covers and at rear on portions of the folding plates. Else very nice. (39793)
The Unlucky Man, the Christmas Sing, & the Friend of CatsWilkins, Mary. The people of our neighborhood. Philadelphia: Curtis Pub. Co.; New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., (1898). 32mo (15.2 cm; 6"). viii, 161, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Alice Barber Stephens, an American painter and engraver whose work appeared in Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal, provides the illustrations, being13 plates throughout the text and a frontispiece (with tissue guard) of Wilkins.
Vol. III of the Ladies' Home Journal Library of Fiction.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, the signature of Katherine Phinprose(?).
• Wright, III, 2038. Publisher's textured green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board; lighter green-stamped decoration to front board and spine; fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Extremities rubbed. Small tear of paper on front pastedown; gutter crack at series list and p. 114. A nice little volume combining the work of two prominent women. (37815)
Everything Victorians Knew about Ancient Egypt, COMPILED — Illustrated in ColorWilkinson, John Gardner; Samuel Birch, ed. The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. London: John Murray (pr. by William Clowes & Sons), 1878. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 3 vols. I: xxx, 510 pp.; 12 plts. (of which 5 col. & 6 fold.), illus. II: xii, 515, [1] pp.; 5 plts. (of which 2 col. & 2 fold.), illus. III: xi, [1], 528 pp.; 12 plts. (of which 2 col. fold. & 10 fold.; full-page illus. incl. in pagination), illus.
Click the images for enlargements.the work that helped launch Egyptomania among the 19th-century English masses. A dedicated traveller and independent scholar, Wilkinson (1797–1875) was at the forefront of British Egyptology — as was editor Birch (1813–1885), keeper of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum — and this massive, detail-packed study of ancient Egyptian history and culture, first printed in 1837, brought him both general fame and a knighthood.
extensively illustrated with hundreds of in-text wood engravings as well as the 72 remarkable plates, many based on Wilkinson's own drawings. (Please note that this total follows the publisher's practice, which includes in the count of plates a number of the third volume's full-page illustrations with printed text on the reverse.) Nine of the plates are printed in color, and 19 are oversized folding images. 
Desirable, as an example of this important work. (41532)
Crazy Jane . . . A “Remarkably Fine” BEWICK FrontispieceWilkinson, Sarah Scudgell; Thomas Bewick, illus. The history of Crazy Jane. Alnwick: W. Davison, 1818. 16mo (13.7 cm, 5.39"). 40 pp.; 4 plts. (incl. in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements.In addition to three plates and a title-page vignette, this early printing features afrontispiece by Bewick. Hugo notes that “the frontispiece of Crazy Jane wandering in the wood is remarkably fine.”
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Gumuchian 5841; Hugo 276 (for 1813 ed.); Opie A 1242. Publisher's printed tan paper wrappers; spine and extremities rubbed. Traces of old adhesive residue to reverse of frontispiece and to last text page; pages and plates age-toned with occasional minor spotting only. A nice copy. (41668)
Williams's First Published PoemWilliams, C.K. A day for Anne Frank. Philadelphia: The Falcon Press, 1968. 8vo (29.8 cm, 11.75"). [16] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. one of 1000 copies issued.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers; tiny amount of rubbing to extremities. A nice copy of this uncommon debut from a major contemporary American poet. (32661)
Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding Wills, William Henry, ed. Poets' wit and humour. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). [8], 278, [1] pp.; illus.
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one
hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George
H. Thomas.” The work was edited by a friend and collaborator of Charles
Dickens; from Chaucer to Swift to “Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes,”
Wills's comic selections are delightfully entertaining, and their wood-engraved
illustrations equally amusing.
The
embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: “R.D.”
— Robert Dudley. This is an English publisher's binding,
most likely done using the English sheets with an Appleton title-page.
This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped publisher's cloth is the norm.
• NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762. For binding, see: Morris
& Levin, Art of Publisher's Bookbindings, 44. Binding as above,
showing minor wear to extremities and front cover vignette, original silk
bookmark detached and laid in. Volume slightly shaken with text block starting
to pull away from spine; this is the kind of volume that wants to do that,
and the reader will want to “cradle” it in hand — that done,
no worries. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled gift inscription and with
a Maine druggist's small ticket. Mild to moderate foxing. Both
funny and decorative, in a publisher's binding that may fairly be called “DAZZLING.”
(26748)
ASCARCE Labor of LoveWilson, Douglas. The story of Little Rabbit. [London?: 1973]. Oblong 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). [24] ff.; col. illus.
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numbered copy 11 of just 21 printed, and signed by the creator on the front free endpaper.
• Publisher's plain yellow cloth–covered boards, showing virtually no wear. A very nice copy of a scarce and charming item, interestingly designed and printed. (33365)
Human “Novelties” — IllustratedWilson, Henry. Wonderful characters [comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation]. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1826 & 1821. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). 2 vols. (of 3, ONLY). I: Engr. t.-p., iv, 496 pp.; 16 plts. II: Engr. t.-p., [3]–480 pp.; 14 plts. (printed t.-p. lacking in both).
Click the images for enlargements.The lives are illustrated with a total of30 engraved plates, done by Robert Page and Robert Cooper, including an image of Peter Williamson in the Native American garb he adopted after his self-proclaimed Indian captivity.
• Allibone, III, 2771; NSTC 2W25254. Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped red leather title-labels, raised bands with gilt roll, and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match sides. Two volumes only, of three; printed title-pages lacking in both volumes. Early pencilled ownership inscription to front fly-leaf of vol. I; one page with pencilled inscription in upper margin. Vol. I with upper outer corners of two leaves torn away (not touching text); one plate with old repair at upper inner corner (just touching corner of frame). Two pages in vol. I with what might be splashes of tea; light waterstaining to inner margin of first text page and to outer portions of a number of plates in vol. II; mild to moderate age-toning and scattered light foxing throughout. Incomplete and priced accordingly; stillfascinating for both the anecdotes and the illustrations. (40364)
“They Also Selected a Specimen of Money-Wort”[Wilson, Lucy Sarah Atkins]. A visit to Grove Cottage for the entertainment and instruction of children. London: J. Harris & Son [printed by Cox & Baylis], 1823. 16mo (17 cm, 6.875"). 56 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: 19th-century ownership signature of Ashton Case on front pastedown; opposite on the front free endpaper, “Mama's present to dear Emily, Nov. 27th 1823.” Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 988; Osborne Collection p. 216; Opie A1247. Publisher's quarter red roan with stone pattern marbled paper sides and gilt-stamped spine title; moderately rubbed overall, spine sunned. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. A nice copy. (38926)
Polynesia & Tahiti — 7 Maps & 6 Plates — Absorbing Narratives Wilson, William, ed. & illus. A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps, charts, and views ... London: Pr. by S. Gosnell for T. Chapman, 1799. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.25"). [12], c, 420, [12] pp.; 7 fold. maps, 6 plts.
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Color-Printed Plates — Captivating Text — A Prize Binding Wood, John George. The common objects of the country. London & New York: George Routledge & Co., [1858]. 12mo (16 cm, 6.25"). iv, 182 pp.; 12 color plates.
Click the images for enlargements.beautiful, complex, artistic illustrations are by Coleman and were printed in color by Evans, with multiple images per plate; additionally there are wood-engraved, in-text illustrations in black and white. Despite the author's having been a clergyman, there is no religious overtone to the text or its explanations; his first-person presentation isconversational, anecdotal, and entirely engaging.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Binding as above, lightly rubbed at edges and joints, edges darkened, publication date minutely inked at the foot of the title-page; abraded areas to front pastedown where a printed prize award giving the recipient's name was (long ago) removed. Paper age-toned, with scattered minor foxing mostly confined to outer portions. A very good, “prize” copy of this, and one with the many brightly colored plates in gorgeously bright condition. (41594)
The Envious DOG & the Ermine [Wynne, John Huddlestone]. Tales for youth; in thirty poems: To which are annexed, historical remarks and moral applications in prose. London: Printed by J. Crowder for E. Newbery, 1794. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). x (i.e., viii), 158, [2] pp.; 1 plt., illus.
Click the images for enlargements.the 30 half-page rectangular wood-engraved headpieces are by John Bewick.
Provenance: Early 20th-century bookplate of James Rolt; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• ESTC T3347; Roscoe, John Newberry and His Successors, J391 (1); Hugo, Bewick Collector, 72 & 4072; Osborne Collection, p. 88. Late 19th- or early 20th-century half tan calf with marbled paper sides; binding lightly rubbed. Bookplate and label as above; front fly-leaf with “No. 72 Hugo's Collector” inked in an early hand, accompanied by pencilled annotation re. Bewick. Small inkstain on title-page and one other, light soiling to text and foxing; leaf of advertisements soiled. Overall a good++ copy and well worthwhile. (38917)
Bulls Bow Down & Fiends Are PowerlessXiménez, Mateo. Compendio della vita del beato Sebastiano d'Apparizio, laico professo dell'ordine de' Minori Osservanti del Padre S. Francesco della provincia del Santo Evangelio nel Messico. Roma: Stamperia Salomoni, 1789. 4to (24.2 cm, 9.5"). xvi pp., port., 228 pp., [1] f. [with] Coleccion de estampas que representan los principales pasos, echos, y prodigios del Bto.. Frai Sebastian de Aparizio, relig[ios]o. franciscano de la provincia del S[an]to Evangelio de Mexico. Dispuesta por el R.P. Fr. Mateo Ximenez. Roma: por el incisor Pedro Bombelli, 1789. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.125"). Engr. title, [100] of [129] plts.
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Finding the “life” and the volume of plates together is uncommon. Only by happenstance did the two volumes come to us within months of one another, from two different continents, allowing us to marry them for this offering. For example, in the U.S., only the Lilly and Bancroft Libraries report owning both works. There is some question as to the number of plates in a complete copy of the Colección: Some sources call for an engraved title-page and 128 plates, while others call for 129 plates. There seems not to have been an edition of the Vita in Spanish. 
From Ape to Zebra The young child's A, B, C; or, first book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street; Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market Street, Baltimore, [ca. 1820]. Square 8vo (10.5 cm, 4.13"). 16 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.the first children's book ever published by Samuel Wood, whose work included “many thousands of children's religious, instructive, and nursery books.” (Rosenbach) The alphabet in this later edition is illustrated with variations on the fine wood engravings of birds, animals, and objects included in the first, except for the portrait of Xerxes, which seems to have been a constant throughout the many editions. Alexander Anderson, America's preeminent wood engraver, is thought to have supplied the illustrations to the original edition.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA”) at rear.
• Rosenbach, Children's, 596 ([c. 1820]); Shaw & Shoemaker 46904 ([1818?]); Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 203e. This ed. not in Welch. Publisher's printed paper wrappers with woodcuts, as above; wrappers foxed and leaves age-toned, not distressingly or weakening paper. Very little used, in good shape. (38483)
Illustrations by
Benson Lossing, William Howland, & “HH”The young sailor; or the sea-life of Tom Bowline. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St., [1856–66]. 32mo (11.5 cm, 4.5"). 16 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.grand imaginary voyage in little, appearing here under the header “Third Series – No 8.”
Kiggins & Kellogg was located at 123 & 125 William St. between 1856 and 1866. The wood-engraved illustrations are variously signed “Lossing & Co.” (i.e., Benson John Lossing), “W. Howland sc.” (i.e., William Howland), and “HH sc.”
• Printed green-colored wrappers. Faded gift inscription on title-page. Text and images clean. (39515)
Peruvian
Conquest
Illustrated Zárate, Agustín de. Histoire de la decouverte et de laconquete du Perou. Traduite de l'Espagnol...par S.D.C. Paris: La compagnie des libraires, 1716. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [40], 360 pp.; 13 (2 fold.) plts., 1 fold. map. II: [8], 479, [1 (blank)] pp.
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• Sabin 106261; Palau 379641. Contemporary mottled sheep and calf as above, corners and edges worn, all joints cracking, both volumes with minor worming to front covers and pinholes to spines; vol. I with loss of leather over spine head (half of top compartment). Pencilled check marks scattered throughout; front free endpaper and recto of last text page of vol. II with annotations. (3446)
In
Paper Wrappers, 1774Zárate, Agustin de. Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête du Perou, traduite de l’Espagnol d’Augustin de Zarate, par S.D.C. Paris: Par la compagnie des libraires, 1774. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). I: Frontis., xl, 360
pp.; 1 fold. map, 10 engr. plts., 2 fold. engr. plts. II: viii, 479, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Sabin 106266; Palau 379645. Volumes bound in paper wrappers, back wrapper lacking in both cases; front wrappers reinforced with printed papers taken from other items. Reverse of frontispiece in vol. I and front pastedown in vol. II with small bookplates of private collector. Edges untrimmed. Scattered spots; pages and plates generally in good clean condition. (5257)
“FATHER'S FATHERS” — One of 50 CopiesZundenfel, Dieter. Father's fathers. Six poems with six wood engravings. Lebanon, PA: Red Howler Press, 1989. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). [10] ff., 6 plates; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is copy 22 of 50; the engravings are signed and numbered 22 of 75.
The illustrations are by David Moyer.
Poet and artist look humorously at early 20th-century fathers: baritone, critic, physicist, militarist, machinist, and photographer.
• Binding as above, with title embossed on cover and red-cord sewing. Fine copy. (35481)
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