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The Sphinx.
Designed and decorated by Charles Ricketts.
In 1967, at the Courtauld Institute, I wrote my masters dissertation on the book designs of Charles Ricketts. I was fascinated by Art Nouveau and by defining manifestations of it in Ricketts's work for…
The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing.
Edition of 105.
Among other superlatives, experts in the rare-book world have described Ristigouche to me as being of almost legendary beauty, rarity, and importance. I agree, and it’s also my view that this is the most beautiful book on salmon…
Among other superlatives, experts in the rare-book world have described Ristigouche to me as being of almost legendary beauty, rarity, and importance. I agree, and it’s also my view that this is the most beautiful book on salmon…
The Preacher: A Discourse, Shewing, What are the Particular Offices and Employments of those of that Character in the Church.
Second edition.
Provenance: Gift from Sir John Davie, Harvard Class of 1681, to the Collegiate School (later renamed Yale College).
This volume, among the first several hundred given to Yale, was donated between 1714 and 1717 and contains…
Provenance: Gift from Sir John Davie, Harvard Class of 1681, to the Collegiate School (later renamed Yale College).
This volume, among the first several hundred given to Yale, was donated between 1714 and 1717 and contains…
The Passing of King Arthur.
Albumen print from glass-plate negative, 13¾ x 10¾ in.
The greatest of Victorian photographers and arguably of all nineteenth-century photo-portraitists, Julia Margaret Cameron is a model to women professionals. Given a camera at age forty-eight, she…
The North Briton, Volume II.
Provenance: Octavia Wilberforce's copy, with the bookplates of Lavington House and the Wilberforce Library, Backsettown.
John Wilkes, an opposition member of Parliament in the 1760s, wrote The North Briton, published periodically in pamphlet form.…
John Wilkes, an opposition member of Parliament in the 1760s, wrote The North Briton, published periodically in pamphlet form.…
The Jewel, or Token of Friendship: A Christmas or New Year’s Present.
Provenance: Signed and dated “Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, Albany 1930.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a great book collector, in his early years collected nineteenth-century holiday annuals. He also published limited edition…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a great book collector, in his early years collected nineteenth-century holiday annuals. He also published limited edition…
The Handmade Papers of Japan.
Three volumes and a portfolio of watermarks. In the original chitsu, and that in its original box. Accompanied by the woodblocks used to print the title pages of the volumes. [With:] Sidney E. Berger. The Handmade Papers of Japan. North Hills, PA:…
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, written in favour of the New Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787, 2 vols.
A thick paper copy, rarely seen.
Provenance: Presented by James Madison to James Maury, a confidant and first consul of the United States.
Madison, Hamilton and Jay agreed amongst themselves to write position papers supporting the proposed…
Provenance: Presented by James Madison to James Maury, a confidant and first consul of the United States.
Madison, Hamilton and Jay agreed amongst themselves to write position papers supporting the proposed…
The English Bible. Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First …., 5 vols.
The Doves Bible is unquestionably the greatest production of what many people believe was the greatest of the English private presses. The result of an emotional and complex partnership between T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, the Doves Press…
The British Log Book; or, Yarns of the Ocean.
One 8-page part from the first edition plus 24 16-page parts from the second edition.
This was an early purchase I made as I started to collect nautical fiction. A few years later I bought some disbound parts and noticed that they were eight-page…
This was an early purchase I made as I started to collect nautical fiction. A few years later I bought some disbound parts and noticed that they were eight-page…