Antique Bookplates

He took many commissions for commercial purposes like bookplates, frontispieces, invitations, tradesmen's cards, and programs, but also illustrated books such as the Decameron by Boc...

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, a VERY GOOD set. ADDIT...

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, front hinges slightly rubbed but firm, bookplate to front pastedown, overall VERY GOOD.

Interior clean, re-backed, with original title label. Armorial bookplate of John Arthur Panter pasted inside front cover, along with a small bookseller ticket pasted in top left corn...

Provenance Major Edward Uvedale Augustus Price (born 1854), late 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, whose armorial bookplate with forty-two quarterings was present in the album fro...

Externally, excellent. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound.

Buffon's works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, THE BELLES LETTRES SOCIETY The printed bookplates state that this set belonged to the Belles Lettres Society of Di...

He is known for his bookplates, prints, and interpretations of works by other artists, as evidenced by his works held in museums throughout France.

CONDITION: Back corners still square, head and foot of spine rubbed with some very minor loss, external hinges fine, spine and edges of cloth slightly sunned, front inner hinge start...

Bound in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels and covers tooled with sporting devices, covers tooled with multi-interlaced designs, multi color morocco onlay d...

Audsley, George Ashdown and James, Lord Bowes ‘The Keramic Art of Japan’, Liverpool and London, Henry Sotheran, 1875. 2 volumes, first edition hardback folio including 41 coloured an...

An original rare bookplate drawing by Charles Burchfield featuring his most famous motifs of sunflowers.

CONDITION: Spine neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, engraved bookplate of Edward Huth to front pastedown, internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD copy.

CONDITION: Back corners still square, Spine expertly relined, internally clean and bright, small bookplate to front pastedown, overall a GOOD+ copy.

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, a VERY GOOD set.

CONDITION: Back corners still square, head and foot of spine rubbed, hinges fine, rear upper hinge just starting, internally clean and bright, "Marley's Ghost" plate slightly askew, ...

CONDITION: Head and foot of spine and back corners lightly rubbed without loss, inner and outer hinges fine, some spotting to the spine and rear cover, some foxing/offsetting to fron...

Different engraved bookplates of John L. Nevinson pasted on first flyleaf of vols.. 1 and 2.

. + penciled inscription on the flyleaf; bookplate adhered inside front board. Volume II: black and white engravings, 304 pages, Early edition in English, translated by William Hazl...

Condition: wear to spine and boards, edges, corners, bookplates adhered to inside front boards, one small page repair on p. 16, sporadic foxing.

., 8-11/16" x 5-3/4", bound in full tree calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered red and green morocco spine labels, covers ruled in a Greek key design, blind tooled dentel...

Front joint of volume III starting, with board a touch tender. Bookplates to front pastedowns and front free endpapers.

Front joints somewhat rubbed, binding tight; some foxing and light offset but overall a clean and bright copy. Engraved bookplate of John L. Nevinson pasted on first flyleaf of vol. 1.

., 10-1/4" x 7-1/8", illustrated, uniformly bound in full tan calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered red and green morocco spine labels, covers double ruled in gilt, blind...

The volumes contain the bookplate of former owner, Charles Robert Bignold, with additional old inscriptions.

'; 'Legend of Jubal etc'; 'The Spanish Gypsy'. Bookplate of Andrew Pears of Spring Grove, Isleworth, to the front paste downs.

CONDITION: General handling, minor rubbing to head and foot of spines and back corners, bookplate to front endpaper of the Second Jungle Book, overall GOOD+ copies.

Boards lightly age toned. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound.

This work was sold for 1300 gold francs by Rollin & Feuardent in 1860. Bookplate with the arms of Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, no previous ownership inscriptions, markings, or bookplate, FINE/NEAR FINE.

Copy XXII, as stated on limitation page: one of fifty numbered copies on Japon; special edition with 3 states of each plate. Armorial bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey pasted insid...

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, bookplate to front pastedown otherwise FINE/NEAR FINE.

No dust jacket. Pictorial bookplate of Joan Elisabeth Ehrman pasted inside front cover; bookseller label from Whyckoff and Gelber, San Francisco on inside back cover.

Marbelized end papers. All with bookplates inside boards from Viscount Astor from Hever Castle in the county of Kent.

[Praz p.349] Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label); The Lamberts (bookplate, inscribed), gifted by them to John Barrymore (bookplate).

Retaining the original endpapers. Bookplate and inscription to front pastedown, with further inscription to a front blank.

Light rubbing to back strips, otherwise externally excellent. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound.

., 7-1/4" x 5-1/16", original publisher’s green cloth, with his Symond"s bookplate and a 68-word penciled comment by him about the book on the rear end-paper: "Heavy, dull, elaborate...

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, A FINE SET.

Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, A VERY GOOD COPY.

Bound in contemporary speckled calf over cords, neatly rebacked, back corners renewed, gilt lettered black morocco spine label, small engraved bookplate to upper corner of front past...

With error in printing publication date 1905 as MCCCCMV. Pictorial bookplate of R. T. Gibbon pasted inside front cover.

A few light marks to boards. Bookplate to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound.

Externally, very smart, with really only the odd mark to the boards and spines and a touch of shelf wear. Decorative bookplate of one Hugh Montgomery to the front pastedowns.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, spine slightly darkened...

Bound in the publisher's original blind stamped straight grained brown/maroon cloth, engraved bookplate of Arnold Henry Robson to front pastedown.

A few very light marks to the boards and spines. Spines are faded. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, A VERY GOOD COPY.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Engraved bookplate of "Edward Huth Wykehurst Park" (descendant of the great bibliophile Henry Huth).

One of 350 paper copies (plus 8 on vellum). Armorial bookplate of Thomas Bartlett pasted inside front cover.

CONDITION: Occasional minor foxing throughout, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, lacking rear blank endleaf, bookplate to front pastedo...

Light rubbing to the head and tail of spines. Bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes, Robert Hyde Greg.

Rubbing is heavier to 'Fringilla'. Bookplate to the front paste downs and recto of the front endpapers.

With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown.

CONDITION: No previous ownership markings, bookplates, or inscriptions, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, internally clean and bright, overall VERY GOOD.

CONDITION: Some foxing to the tile-page, otherwise internally clean and bright, spine expertly relined, Bookplates of H. R. Merewether and C. F. Crokat to front pastedown, housed in ...

Extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines and on back board; Internally the book is bright but has some faint foxing principally to the first and last few pages a...

Half-bound in vellum with brown marbled boards, with some rubbing and small surface losses to the boards, vellum somewhat soiled, gilt decorations on spine, edges trimmed. Armorial b...

Vivid color on plates, scattered foxing and offset. Illustrated etched bookplate of William E. Bauer pasted inside front cover and armorial bookplate of Loren Griswold Du Bois tipped...