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The Complete Works of William Hogarth with a series of 150 steel engravings, descriptions and a comment on their moral tenancy by the Rev. John Trusler to which are added anecdotes of the author and his works by J. Hogarth and J. Nichols. <ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>William Hogarth (English).</li><li>London and New York:&nbsp;The London Printing and Publishing Company,&nbsp;1850.</li><li>Bound in full brown morocco with the covers displaying ruled borders, floral bordering, and a central depiction of a painter, all gilt-tooled, spines display raised bands, panel bordering, and label lettering, all gilt-tooled, all of the edges are gilded with gilt-tooled turn-ins.</li></ul>

Hogarth's Works

Finely bound and illustrated limited-edition copy of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.<ul><li>Geoffrey Chaucer (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Eric Gill (English).</li><li>London: Folio Society, 2011.</li><li>328 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 1,250 copies, this being number 275.&nbsp;</li><li>Accompanying 48-page commentary volume.</li><li>Bound in full black goatskin with illustrated design, top edge gilt, satin bookmark.</li><li>Housed in a buckram clamshell solander box.</li></ul>

Troilus and Criseyde

Fine prize bindings of Jameson's third edition of the historical art text Sacred and Legendary Art.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Anna Jameson (Anglo-Irish).</li><li>London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905.</li><li>818 pages.</li><li>19 full-page steel plate etchings with tissue guards.</li><li>In-text woodcut illustrations.</li><li>Full leather binding with burl flame boards, gilt embossed title, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with gold prize stamp to the front board of each.</li></ul>

Sacred and Legendary Art

Limited-edition folio of Vertes' erotic etched prints, Le Pays a Mon Gout with printed title with contents and limitation statement on verso.<ul><li>Marcel Vertes (Hungarian-French).</li><li>Paris: [n.p.], 1921.</li><li>12 plates.</li><li>Limited to 550 copies.</li><li>Loose as issued in original boards.</li></ul>

Le Pays A Mon Gout

Finely bound copy of Once Upon a Time with works by Rackham.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>Edited by Margery Darrell.</li><li>Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham.</li><li>New York: The Viking Press, 1972.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Bound in half red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine with top edge gilt.</li></ul>

Once Upon a Time

Finely bound abridged and illustrated copy of&nbsp;The Romance of King Arthur.<ul><li>Thomas Malory (British).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>Abridged by Alfred W. Pollard.</li><li>The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.</li><li>London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.</li><li>Illustrated with full-page color plates and several black-and-white illustrations in text.</li><li>First Rackham Trade Edition.</li><li>Bound by Atkinson in full blue morocco, with gilt corner pieces, top edge gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers and original cloth cover and spine bound in rear.</li></ul>

The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

First English language edition of the Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso.<ul><li>Ludovico Ariosto (Italian).</li><li>Translated by John Harington (English).</li><li>Orlando Furioso In English Heroical Verse. By Sir John Harington of Bathe, Knight. Now thirdly revised and amended, with the Addition of the Authors Epigrams. Principb[us], placuisse viris non ultima laus est. Horace.</li><li>London: Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634.</li><li>(ix), 423 pages, (xxvii).</li><li>Engraved title-page with vignette portraits of Ariosto and Harington, and 46 full-page engraved illustrations.</li><li>Third edition, first English language edition.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full calf over cords.</li></ul> The plates were first used in the 1591 edition and are derived from Girolamo Porro's illustrations of the 1584 Venetian edition.

Orlando Furioso

Finely bound limited signed edition of Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>&nbsp;London: William Heinemann, 1913.</li><li>Illustrated with 44 mounted color plates.</li><li>Limited edition of 1030, this is number 996.</li><li>Bound in full tan morocco with gilt silhouette of Cinderella on the front cover, top edge gilt with marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures

Limited-edition illustrated copy of the book of erotic poetry, Douze Sonnets Lascifs.<ul><li>Alexandre de Verineau (French).</li><li>Illustrated by Gerda Wegener (French).</li><li>Douze Sonnets Lascifs: pour accompagner la suite d'aquarelles intitulee Les Delassements d'Eros.</li><li>Paris: Erotopolis : A l'enseigne du faune, 1925.</li><li>Illustrated with 12 hand-colored pochoir plates.</li><li>Limited to 350 copies.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full vellum.</li></ul>

Douze Sonnets Lascifs

First edition of Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in original parts with advertisements.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Robert Smith Surtees (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Leech (British) and Hablot K. Browne (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-65.</li><li>24 hand-colored etched plates and wood-engraved illustrations.</li><li>With all advertisements and slips as called for by Schwerdt except for notice of Lever's Martins of Cro' Martin in part 6.</li><li>Bound in original pictorial wrappers.</li><li>Housed in red morocco-backed clam shell slipcase.</li></ul>

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds

First illustrated edition of Handley Cross with advertisements.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 17.</li><li>Robert Smith Surtees (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Leech (British).</li><li>Handley Cross, or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt.</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-54.</li><li>17 hand-colored etchings and wood-engraved illustrations.</li><li>Parts 7 and 15 with advertisements and all inserts as called for by Schwerdt.</li><li>Bound in original pictorial wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a full red straight-grained morocco slipcase with a folding cloth chemise, spine with gilt hunting motif, by Root &amp; Son.</li></ul>

Handley Cross

Limited edition of Eloise at Christmastime signed by the illustrator.<ul><li>Kay Thompson (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Hilary Knight (American).</li><li>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999.</li><li>Limited to 250 numbered copies, this is number 214.</li><li>Hardbound with the original slipcase.</li></ul>

Eloise at Christmastime

Magnificently illustrated and hand-colored nouvelle édition of Grandville's splendid work re-imagining flowers as stylish Parisian women.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>J.J. Grandville (French).</li><li>Paris: Garnier frères, 1867.</li><li>Bound in teal morocco with raised bands and burgundy spine labels, and all edges gilt.</li></ul>

Les Fleurs Animées

Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.<ul><li>New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1899. </li><li>Bound in original pictorial wrappers.</li></ul>

Starry Flag ABC Book

First US edition of this children's gift book.<ul><li>Chromolithograph plates by Kronheim and Co.</li><li>New York: G.P. Putnam &amp; Sons; London: The Religious Tract Society, 1872.</li><li>Bound in full green cloth with ornately gilt-stamped boards.</li></ul>

The Toy Book Present

Sammelband reader featuring two different alphabets, followed by short-verse vignettes with wood-engraved illustrations to every page.<ul><li>Primarily from publisher Edward Lacey (English).</li><li>N.p.: n.p. [circa 1830s].</li><li>Bound in full green cloth.</li></ul>

Alphabet and Verses

First-edition finely bound Royal Edition set of Foster's French Art.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>J.J. Foster (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Dickinsons,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Printed on vellum and illustrated with 45 hand-colored plates, 35 of which are printed only for this edition.</li><li>Limited to 35 copies, this is number 3.</li><li>Copy belonging to Alexandra Federovna, Tsarina of Russia, with her bookplate in volumes II and III.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco by Zahnsdorf with an elaborate geometrical bordering gilt-tooled design, top edges gilt and silk endpapers.</li></ul>

French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon

This&nbsp;reproduction of the Esther Scroll, is a&nbsp;richly illustrated continuous text, depicting the story of Esther in contemporary German, the only one of its kind.<ul><li>Commentary volume by Falk Wiesemann (German).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2012.</li><li>Edition of 1,746.</li><li>Manuscript in wooden display with commentary volume.</li></ul>

The Esther Scroll

Signed limited edition of the classic children's book.<ul><li>Kay Thompson (American).</li><li>Illustrations by Hilary Knight (American).</li><li>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999.</li><li>Limited to 250 numbered copies, this is number 118, signed by the illustrator Hilary Knight.</li><li>Hardbound with the original slipcase, gilt-lettered spine and slipcase cover.</li></ul>

Eloise in Paris

Finely bound second edition of Kitton's Dickens and His Illustrators.<ul><li>Frederick George Kitton (English).</li><li>London: George Redway, 1899.</li><li>Small folio.</li><li>Includes numerous illustrations throughout.</li><li>Bound in half maroon morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered green morocco spine label, top edge gilt, others uncut as issued.</li></ul>

Dickens and His Illustrators

Signed and illustrated first edition first printing of The Cunning Little Vixen.<ul><li>Rudolf Tesnohlidek (Czech).</li><li>Illustrated by Maurice Sendak (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus and Giroux,&nbsp;1985.</li><li>185 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Full color and black-and-white illustrations.</li><li>Cloth-bound with gilt title on spine and illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Cunning Little Vixen

Signed limited-edition illustrated print of Miniature Painters in two volumes.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>J.J. Foster (English).</li><li>Miniature Painters British and Foreign with Some Account of Those Who Practiced in America in the Eighteenth Century.</li><li>New York: E. P. Dutton &amp; Co., 1903.</li><li>Heavily illustrated including frontispieces.</li><li>Limited Edition Royale of 10 copies; this is number 3.</li><li>Bound by Stikeman &amp; Co. in full blue morocco, ribbed floral gilt decorated spines, covers elaborately ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, red morocco doublures, light blue silk morie endpapers, top edges gilt with others uncut.</li><li>Each volume housed in a blue morocco edged open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

Miniature Painters in Britain

Finely bound and illustrated set of Fischel and Boehn's Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Dr. Oskar Fischel (English).</li><li>Max Boehn (German).</li><li>Translated by M. Edwards (English).</li><li>Introduction by Grace Rhys (Irish).</li><li>London &amp; New York:&nbsp;J.M. Dent and E.P. Dutton &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Bound in full wine calf with covers displaying gilt-tooled double borders and floral cover details, raised bands gilt with panels displaying ornate floral gilt tooling and labels in tan morocco with gilt bordering and lettering, all edges gilt with marbled endpapers and ornate floral gilt-tooled turn-ins.</li></ul>

Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century

First edition finely bound and illustrated Under the Window.<ul><li>Kate Greenaway (English).</li><li>London: George Rutledge &amp; Sons, 1878.</li><li>64 pages.</li><li>Bound in full leather by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe Bindery with the front cover featuring multi-colored onlays of a little girl sitting on a fence within a blind tooled panel composed of gold gilted leafwork within double gilt rules with gold and silver marbled endpapers and all page edges gilt.</li></ul>

Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children

Signed Peter Pan portfolio featuring colored plates.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912].</li><li>Contains 12 colored plates by Arthur Rackham mounted in mats.</li><li>Original half vellum over green cloth, lettered in gilt.</li><li>Watercolor on paper bound in half vellum</li><li>Number 178 out of 500 copies signed by the publisher, engraver and printer.</li></ul> This edition, the deluxe printing of 12 selected works from Rackham's earlier, much smaller, 1906 edition, is numbered from 101 to 600, and signed by the publisher, engraver and printer. Approximately 100 were bound in full vellum, and 400 in half vellum.

Peter Pan

Signed copy of the illustrated book Thurber's Dogs.<ul><li>James Thurber (American).</li><li>Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1955.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Inscribed "Happy Days / James Thurber."</li><li>Bound with cloth-backed boards in an illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

Thurber's Dogs

Beautiful copy of Bemelmans's famous children's story with the twelve girls on the illustration to "They went home and broke their bread," but with title page undated below the Simon &amp; Schuster imprint.<ul><li>Ludwig Bemelmans (Austrian-American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon &amp; Schuster&nbsp;[1939].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Bound with illustrated boards and dust jacket.</li></ul>

Madeline

First American edition of the fourth book of the Barbar series.<ul><li>Jean de Brunhoff (French).</li><li>Introduction by A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Translated by Merle Haas (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;(1937).</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>Bound with printed boards and cloth spine.</li></ul>

Zephir's Holidays

Finely bound copy of the&nbsp;Letterpress Edition of&nbsp;Pictorial Webster's&nbsp;in artist binding with pop-out illustrations.<ul><li>John M. Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Karen Hanmer (American).</li><li>London: Quercus Press, 2006.</li><li>Illustrations from Pictorial Webster’s wall cards and laser printed onto goatskin onlays and outlined with inlaid goatskin lines with 33 additional illustrations on Mohawk.</li><li>Limited to 16 unbound copies.</li><li>Bound in full leather with leather hinges, marbled endsheets, and doublures hand-printed with hand-sewn silk headbands and the page edges sprinkled with red acrylic ink.</li><li>A copy of the brochure and book included with a signed artist statement from Karen Hanmer.</li></ul> Selected for the "Hand Bookbinders of California Fortieth Annual Member’s Exhibition" at Stamford University (July 19–December 12, 2012).

Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Finely bound copy of&nbsp;Picturesque America showing photographs of travel and landscapes by multiple eminent artists.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Edited by William C. Bryant (American).</li><li>Picturesque America, or, The Land We Live In. The Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests et al.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;D. Appleton &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1872.</li><li>Illustrated on steel and wood.</li><li>Bound in full brown morocco, all edges gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Picturesque America

First U.S. edition of the five-part highly illustrated Series of Anatomical Plates bound as one.<ul><li>Jones Quain (Irish).</li><li>W.J.E. Wilson (English).</li><li>Joseph Pancoast (American).</li><li>A Series Of Anatomical Plates; With References And Physiological Comments, Illustrating The Structure Of The Different Parts Of The Human Body.</li><li>﻿Philadelphia:&nbsp;Carey and Hart,&nbsp;1842.&nbsp;</li><li>[6], 92 pages, 30 plates; 103 pages, 50 plates (plate 48 bound as volume frontispiece); [3], 99 pages, 50 plates; [3], 87 pages, 38 plates; [1], 64 pages, 32 plates; 4 pages, 2 plates [advertisement for another work].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Bound in modern quarter brown calf with cream linen boards.</li></ul>

A Series of Anatomical Plates

Rebound and illustrated collection of Cross's Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris.<ul><li>John Cross (English).</li><li>Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris. Including remarks on the hospital practice, lectures, anatomical schools and museums, and exhibiting the actual state of medical instruction in the French metropolis.</li><li>London:&nbsp;J. Callow,&nbsp;1815.</li><li>xv, [1], 208 pages, 2 plates, 1 of which is folding, and several in-text illustrations.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Rebound in modern half black leather with printed paper boards and original front board preserved in pocket at rear of volume.</li></ul>

Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris

Signed with an original drawing of an early edition copy of Sendak's best-known work.<ul><li>Maurice Sendak (American).</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1963.</li><li>Inscribed with original drawing of a wild thing on endpaper.</li><li>Bound in original pictorial boards, cloth spine, with pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Medal on jacket front.</li></ul>

Where the Wild Things Are

Deluxe signed limited first edition of Bailly's Automata: The Golden Age 1848-1914, an important study of the history of automation devices with detailed chapters on the Paris automata industry and the master automation artists of the time: Theroude, Bontems, Vichy, Roullet &amp; Descamps, Phalibois, Lambert and Renou.<ul><li>Christian Bailly (French).</li><li>Hand-painted drawing by&nbsp;Madame Andree Kiefer (French Canadian).</li><li>London: Published for Sotheby's Publications by P. Wilson Publishers; New York, NY: Distributed in the USA by Sotheby's Publications, Harper and Row, 1987.</li><li>360 pages.</li><li>Includes over 120 pages containing facsimile reproductions of the master automation artists' catalogs, and with a chapter on the technical aspects of automata including mechanisms, musical movements and restoration.</li><li>Limited to 25 copies, this is number 2.</li><li>Inscribed by Philip and Sharon Bailly on the limitation page.</li><li>Included with the book is an original pen, ink and watercolor drawing by Madame Andree Kiefer as stated on the limitation page.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco leather with raised bands on spine with gold gilt titling and decorations, blind-tooled and gilt covers with a rose vine motif surrounding an inlay of an original hand-painted miniature by Madame Andree Kiefer, the back cover features a center gold stamped illustration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.</li><li>Housed in the original matching morocco leather edged open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

Automata: The Golden Age 1848-1914

Finely bound set of the Imperial Edition of the illustrated Works of Shakespeare.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Virtue &amp; Yorston,&nbsp;circa 19th Century.</li><li>Includes illustrations on steel.</li><li>Bound in full brown morocco, decorative blind tooling on covers, decorative gilt emblem of Shakespeare on covers, raised bands, decorative blind tooling on spines, all edges gilt, silk endpapers.</li></ul>

The Illustrated Works of Shakespeare

<ul><li>Signed limited-edition copy of Carrera's illustrated Webster's pictorial dictionary.</li><li>John Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Constance Wozny (American).</li><li>Waltham: Quercus Press, 2009.</li><li>Limited edition of 265, this is number 48.</li><li>Singed by the publisher on title page.</li><li>Bound in full goat leather over boards with stamped circles of yellow, red and green with the title stamped horizontally and vertically on the front cover, top edge is colored to match the handmade flyleaf paper.</li><li>Housed in a black cloth clamshell box with the motif of the binding appearing on the spine, inside box has matching handmade paper as the flyleaf with additional imagery stamped on the paper.</li></ul> Webster’s pictorial dictionary is a meticulously printed study of the art of 19th century scientific and black-line wood engravings.&nbsp;From the publisher, “The Pictorial Webster's is, in simplest terms, an artistic visual reference of what was important to 19th Century America. The 400-plus page volume is printed with the original wood engravings and copper electrotypes of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries of the 19th Century; namely the 1859 American Dictionary of the English Language (the 1st illustrated dictionary in America), the 1864 edition of that same Dictionary, and the 1890 International Dictionary. The engravings are arranged alphabetically, a system of organization long shunned by lexicographers because alphabetical order grants no intrinsic meaning to any given grouping of words, but it is perfect for a book that creates its own immersive experience in imagery of a time gone by.”A total of 265 signed and numbered unbound copies were produced so that unique bindings could be created by members of the Guild of Bookworkers, who were selected to participate in the 2002 exhibition featuring this work. This is copy 48, which is signed by the publisher John Carrera. Constance Wozny has been a bookbinder for over 18 years and her creations are widely exhibited in various exhibitions and juried shows in the United States, France, England, Australia and Tokyo. Her bindings are included in the permanent collections of numerous institutions ranging from the Special Collections Department of the Chicago Main Library to the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor. She holds a degree in marketing from Eastern Kentucky University and has studied with many notable book artists and fine binders including Tini Miura, Monique Lallier, Dominic Riley and Don Ethington. Her artistic works have been featured in book art exhibition venues locally, nationally and internationally, as well as in several book art publications. Her studio is located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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William Hogarth

Geoffrey Chaucer, Eric Gill

Anna Jameson

Marcel Vertes

Arthur Rackham

Sir Thomas Malory

Ludovico Ariosto

Arthur Rackham

Alexandre de Verineau

Robert Smith Surtees

Robert Smith Surtees

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J.J. Grandville

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Kate Greenaway

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