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Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1929. Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Near fine. 48 pages. Illustrated. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. October, 1928. Sixty seven entries. Small portion lower back cover lacking.

Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth, spine and front cover decorated in gilt and blind with front cover center capsule in three colors. Near fine. 137 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Signed by Earhart and laid-in a pre publication announcement initialed by the author in red ink asking recipient for an opinion of this book. Ninety color plates in two to twenty colors. The work contains 166 colors, hues, tints and shades produced by a mixture of two colors each. Herbert, Yale Lib. Gazette, July 1974, p. 16.[Earhart s] book, over which he laboured for more than four years, was intended as a practical guide to all printers who desire to obtain the most artistic results in ornamental Colour Printing by the least amount of labour and expense ...... The greater part of the colour plates (which required 625 formes and 1,625,000 impressions for their production in a small edition) are used to demonstrate tints of varying strength and their combination with other tints...… Read More

New York: A.S.Barnes, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. kelly green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 171 pages. 26 x 19 cm. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Index. The author notes he is not an advocate of 19th century architecture, rather his emphasis is on the thought and feeling which fostered its development. KARPEL B75. "The wealth of literary material gathered with such care...should serve as the basis for much work in the field." ROOS 476.

New York: C.M. Saxton, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's embossed in blind, dark olive cloth. Very good. 120 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Ten black and white lithographic plates including title page. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. Interior contents clean and bright, bookplate, modest extremity wear.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth.Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 375 pp. Forward by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 128 pages of photographs, and four full-color plates. Discusses the work of hundreds of different crafts people. Index. KARPELE280. "....this book is a fascinating in-depth survey of New England crafts from needlework, metalwork, and pottery to puppets.

Boston: Boston Book & Art, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper lacking portion at back cover. 220 pp. 4to, 138 black and white plates, fourteen text illustrations. Index of Artists. Composed in five traditional scripts --regular, official, seal, cursive, and running script -- calligraphy varies according to the personality of the artist. Owner inscription.

Wurzburg: Christian Weiss, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's black morocco backed pictorial printed boards. Very good. Folio, 37.5 x 28 cm. Lithographed title page and 47 exquisite hand-colored lithograph plates that literally shimmer, Austrian military costume and regimental flags that include a host of nationalities under the authority of the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- German, Hungarian, Austrian Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery Regiments. These fine plates are from Eckert's larger series of German federal armies. The sheet count and price of this separate volume written in ink on the publisher's portfolio cover: 498 Blatt (i.e.leaves, including the title and 47 plates.) COLAS 935. Boards rubbed, light toning and finger soiling, but with bright colors and gum arabic; each plate with artist's blindstamp at lower margin.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1935. Reprint. Paperback. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Fine. 17 pages. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. October, 1928.

Edinburgh: Np, 1728. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. (vi) 54 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Small ownership stamp of Karl Baumgarten front free endpaper. ESTCT 79924. KRESS 3753. Interior generally clean. Slight nicks to joints and backstrip extremities, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques.

Washington, DC: New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Index. Bookplate. Orig. green cloth decorated in blind. Fine. 369 pages.

New York: Calaway Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 144 pages. 35 x 27.5 cm. Located outside Atlanta,Georgia and noted as the largest public garden in the world,also contains the largest azalea garden in existence. The gardens span fourteen thousand acres housing a butterfly center and a horticultural center and vegetable garden. Signed presentation copy by Bo and Beth Callaway.

Philadelphia: Edward Stern, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half green cloth and light brown boards lettered in red. Fine. 53 pages. 28 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated and Arranged by Henry Loomis Curtis With Quotations Culled From Various Sources. Title page printed in red and black. Presents the use of molded brick and terra-cotta with numerous illustrated examples of their forms and designs.

London: Leigh And Sotheby, 1808. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. 327 pages. 4to, 29 x 23 cm. Two lithographs by Gainsborough, one in color, and a host of engravings. Index of the Names of the Painters. The author, an historical painter was employed by Boydell to make drawings from the old masters for his publications, and the Society of Antiquaries for the same purpose. "He published in 1808 (this title), intended as a supplement to Walpole; but in his facts he was too accurate to please his contemporaries, and consequently the work and its author were much decried." [see: BRYAN Vol.II, p.120]. Some age-toning, mostly in the margins, bookplate, boards slightly crinkled, modest rubbing to extremities.

New York: Reynal, 1960. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than forty line drawings. Index.

New York: Reynal, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Near fine in worn, repaired dust wrapper. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than fifty line drawings. Index.

Los Angeles: Westerners Los Angeles Corral, 1966. First printing. Paperback. Orig. printed tan wrappers. Very good. 46 pages. Subject Guide. Westerners Keepsake, Publication #80, 1966.

London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1842. New Series. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth. Very good. 10 vols. 26 x 17 cm. Total of 688 hand-colored engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, lacking 26 plates. The young Edwards made some drawings from the plates in the "Flora londinensis" which eventually caught the eye of Curtis who was sufficiently impressed with the work to arrange for Edwards to come to London for further training and instruction. Eventually he made many hundreds of drawings for "The Botanical Magazine," and severed his connection to Curtis only when he started his rival periodical in 1815 described here [see: HENREY, Vol. II, p.306]. NISSEN 2739. Plates very fresh and clean, descriptive data rear of each volume partly unopened, covers decorated in blind, backstrips lettered and decorated in gilt. minimal shelf wear. Glasgow booksellers' label. Vol I lacks [5,22,29,32-33,38,49,58,65]. Vol.2 [13]. Vol. 3 [2,46,50,56]. Vol.5 [37]. Vol.6 [1,42,53,58]. Vol.7 [37.52.67]. Vol.9… Read More

London: Fortune Press, 1929. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. brown niger, gilt lettered front cover and spine. Near fine. Egan, Beresford. Seven leaves of text, "In Defence Of Sadism" by Drian De Shane. 30 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 38 of 100 signed by Beresford and De Shane, and includes the suppressed plate "The Moralist." Beresford's art was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, and his erotic images reflect that. Although London born he spent time in South Africa. and served as a cartoonist for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg. He was one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco. With Barry Moser bookplate, and additional one front cover paste down. Spine slightly darkened.

London & Glasgow: Sherwood, Neely, And Jones, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco, marbled boards with matching endpapers. Aeg. Near fine. 208 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Color etched frontispiece by I.R. Cruikshank after Smart. A memoir and warning to society not to be duped by "fashionable young men into the bosom of their families, as if nothing else was necessary than an outward appearance." All in all a cunning tale.

London: Pickering and Chatto, 1892. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial gilt red cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 257 pages. Large 8vo, 24 x 16 cm. Twenty-seven colored etchings by Theodore Lane, and with several original designs on wood executed by Mr.Thompson. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Originally issued in wrappers in nine parts in 1825. With a dedication to Edmund Kean, Esq. TOOLEY195. Backstrip extremities worn, spine dull, interior contents clean.