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“Splendidly Illustrated & Wonderfully Amusing”
A “Remarkable Achievement of His Boyish Days”
Doyle, Richard. Jack the giant killer. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1888]. 4to (25.1 cm, 9.88"). 48 pp.; col. illus.
$550.00
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Doyle (1824–83), a popular and prolific artist known for his work for Punch as well as his illustrations of Dickens, Thackeray, and an assortment of children's books, drew and hand-lettered this version of the classic fairy tale when he was just 18 years old. The present copy includes
the uncommon tipped-in publisher's leaf, noting that “neither trouble nor expense have been spared to reproduce the original in exact fac-simile . . . the mistakes [in the handwritten text] have been purposely left uncorrected — and the many splendidly drawn illustrations, alive with humour and glowing with colour, reappear with undiminished glory.” This is
the first manuscript facsimile edition.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 29. Publisher's cadet blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in red and orange; without dust jacket (as is almost always the case), spine slightly sunned, extremities rubbed, sides with minor dust-soiling. Front hinge tender. Pages mildly age-toned with margins thumbed, overall clean.
A pleasing copy of this charming Doyle production, with the uncommon publisher's note. (41167)

20th-Century Renaissance Man — Medievally Inspired MANUSCRIPT Memorial
Erie Railroad Company (Follansbee, Mitchell Davis). Manuscript on paper, in English. “In memoriam Mitchell D. Follansbee 1870 – 1941.” [Chicago: 1941]. 8vo (27.4 cm, 10.75"). [8 (1 blank)] ff.
$950.00
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Gorgeously rendered manuscript tribute to a prominent lawyer, financial advisor, and railroad executive remembered fondly for “his public spirit, his high personal character, his urbanity and his loyalty as a friend.” Follansbee was a Harvard graduate (and notably active alumnus, serving as president of the Associated Clubs of Harvard) who studied law at
Northwestern University prior to becoming a board member and director of the Erie Railroad Company.
This admiring hand-accomplished homage to Follansbee's life and career was commissioned by his fellow directors and
beautifully calligraphed and illuminated on vellum by the Harris Engrossing Studio of Chicago. The capitals are accomplished in whitework, gilt, purple, and green, and the text in an even, handsome modern Gothic hand, with a gilt border surrounding the text on each page. Each leaf is protected by a moiré-patterned tissue guard. The final page was signed by the chairman and the secretary of the board, and pressure-stamped with the Erie Railroad Company's seal.
Binding: Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.
Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled.
Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact. (38417)

A Quick Introduction to Early Bookhands — The Enlarged Edition
Fairbank, Alfred. A book of scripts. [London]: Penguin Books, (1968). 12mo (19 cm, 8"). 48 pp., 80 pp. of illus.
[SOLD]
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A revised and enlarged edition of this classic first published in 1949, incorporating both fresh text and additional illustrations; the latter, which are labelled as “plates” and printed on both sides of a leaf, identify the illustrated manuscript examples as to place and date of inditement and give the current location of the manuscript.
A lovely, informative guide to a considerable variety of handwritings both useful and ornamental.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Original illustrated paper over boards, with the dust jacket (a little worn with interior repair at top of spine). Clean.
A very nice copy. (41368)
A Series of Medieval LEAVES
(Medieval Manuscript Leaves). A selection
eminently suitable for use in the teaching and practicing of paleography.
ALL INDIVIDUALLY PRICED
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Some examples are recovered from bindings; some show significant damage while some are pristine and
simply lovely. Most represent scribal work of the 13th to early 16th century and most are from books of devotion.
For an illustrated list of the full gathering, with prices, click here.

Moore's St. Nicholas: The Night Before Christmas
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Moore, Clement Clarke; Mary C. Ogden, illus. A visit from St. Nicholas. [New York: Time, Inc., 1951]. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). [16] pp.; col. illus.
[SOLD]
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Calligraphed and illustrated in 1855 by Mary Clarke Moore Ogden, daughter of the author, as a gift for her husband John Doughty Ogden, this charming rendition of the classic Christmas poem appears here in an attractive photographic facsimile published by Life in December of 1951.
Ribbon-tied in original color-printed wrappers. Age-toned with some minor creasing and light edgewear; first two leaves with short tear from outer margin. (41058)

A Micro-Carved Ivory Love Gift: Remember Me
Shen Zhong-Xing, artist. “Love Seeds”: Ivory micro-engraving. China: [ca. 1990?]. Small case (14.5 cm, 5.6").
$750.00
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Classical Chinese poetry in calligraphed format: This tiny rectangle of ivory (only about 4mm tall) is impossibly delicately etched with both the Chinese original and Fletcher's English translation of Wang Wei's Tang Dynasty-era poem “Xiang Si” (given here as “Love Seeds”). The xiang si bean (Abrus precatorius) is a Chinese symbol of love and longing; its small, shiny, red seeds were used as tokens of love, hence the reference in this poem: “The red bean grows in southern lands / With spring its slender tendrils twine / Gather for me some more, I pray / Of fond remembrance 'tis the sign.”
Additionally, both the Chinese and English texts are presented on a folded slip of paper, with additional commentary in Chinese characters only.
The ivory is mounted within a black frame affixed to a small square of gold paper, on red velvet, and contained in a beautiful, eminently displayable case covered in olive-green silk with a woven Asian-inspired knotwork pattern in bronze and blue, decorated with a Chinese-printed label on the front cover. The case closes with a fabric loop and white-painted wooden toggle.
Box as above, showing the faintest hint of rubbing to one corner, overall in excellent condition. Small compartment beneath presentation window seems to indicate a long slender item was at one point laid in, but it is difficult to say what that might have been. (30544)

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)
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