First edition of Doyle's popular history, with 81 intricate in-text color wood-engravings by Edmund Evans, "the greatest wood-engraver of the Victorian era," after Doyle's original drawings. This copy expanded to two volumes by the inclusion of more than 450 engravings, many also colored, depicting dramatic historical scenes, royal portraits, and costume of the times. Handsomely bound by Smith. $4800. | More...
The Works of Shakespeare
Edited by Thomas Hanmer
Expanded second edition of Hanmer's famous illustrated set of Shakespeare, with 36 full-page copper-engravings (one for each play) by Hubert Gravelot after Francis Hayman, along with frontispiece portrait after Chandos, and two plates of the Westminster and Stratford monuments. Considered by many to be superior to the 1744 first edition which was issued in a small printing. $15,000. | More...
A History of the
University of Oxford
Published by Rudolph Ackermann
First edition of this illustrated history of Oxford University, with 82 superb hand-colored aquatint plates, in handsome leather-gilt. $7200. | More...
Les Contes de Perrault
Charles Perrault
Very rare mid-19th-century French illustrated edition of "the basis for the modern canon of fairy tales," with engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates by Lefrancq after Desandré, numerous in-text wood-engraved vignettes, and wood-engraved borders on every page. This is copy number 5 of only ten copies on Vergé paper, with two states of the full-page engravings, one of each a mounted proof before letters on Chine. $8800. | More...
Drawings
Signed by Frederic Remington
Signed limited first edition of Remington’s works, number 231 of only 250 copies, signed in pencil by Remington and in ink by R.H. Russell on the mounted limitation label, with 61 splendid full-page halftones of sketches, finished drawings and paintings. $11,800. | More...
Charles I
John Skelton
First trade edition of this biography of Charles I, illustrated with color frontispiece, 23 splendid engraved plates, and beautiful illustrated chapter headings, in contemporary vellum. $850. | More...
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lovely illustrated edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous love poems, with 18 tipped-in color plates by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson and numerous decorative black-and-white textual illustrations throughout, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt with mounted color illustrations inside each cover. $3500. | More...
Rip Van Winkle
Signed by Arthur Rackham
Deluxe signed limited first edition, with 51 full-color mounted plates by Rackham, number 230 of only 250 copies signed by Rackham, one of the smallest limitations for a Rackham title and "the first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition" (Riall). One of the most scarce and desirable Rackham titles. $11,000. | More...
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