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Place of Origin: English
The Wood Engravings of Gwenda Morgan – WHITTINGTON Press – DELUXE ED., signed
Located in Middletown, NY
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1985.
First Edition.
Imperial Octavo, 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (265 x 190 mm); xvi + 44 + 4; Limited edition of 335, of which 35 bound in leather; this copy is Number XXVIII and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST below the colophon. Quarter-bound by Smith Settle in tan goatskin, gilt spine titling, dark and light brown and orange on mid-brown Whittington marbled paper-covered boards by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Headbands, top edge brown, rest uncut; Colorplan Bagdad Brown endpapers. Printed in black, the title-page in black and red, and the captions in grey, hand-set in 12-point Bell; Zerkall smooth white wove and Zerkall Silurian papers; 52 wood-engravings and a line-block reproduction of an engraving by Gwenda Morgan...
Category
20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Two Sotheby's London Auction Catalogues on Musical Instruments
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Two Sotheby's London auction catalogues on musical instruments. 1.) Sotheby's London Musical Instruments Thursday 14th November 1985. Hardcover with...
Category
Late 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Works of Art from Houghton - Christie's Catalogue 1994
Located in Bradenton, FL
Works of Art from collections of The Cholmondeley Family and The Late Sir Phillip Sassoon from Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Christie's catalogue from the auction in London on Thu...
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1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
The Complete Newgate Calendar. Stories of sin, crime, criminals - 5 vol. illustr
Located in Middletown, NY
Rayner, J.L. and G.T. Crook, editors
The Complete Newgate Calendar; Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murdere...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Poems of William Shakespeare, Essex House Press
Located in Middletown, NY
The Poems of William Shakespeare according to the text of the original copies, including the lyrics, songs, and snatches found in his dramas; according to the text of the original co...
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Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Paper
Set of 6 Leather Bound Faux Dummy/Faux English Library Book Fronts, 20th C
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of 6 Leather Bound Faux Dummy/Faux English Library Book Fronts, England, Later 20th Century
This set of six leather-bound faux dummy English library book fronts from the late 20...
Category
Late 20th Century Neoclassical English Books
Materials
Brass
Christie's London: a Private European Collection 'J M Frank'
By (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in New York, NY
Catalog of a Christie’s London sale held on Wednesday, May 10, 2000 dispersing an important collection of French 20th century decorative arts, featuring al...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco English Books
Materials
Paper
Works of Shakespere Imperial Edition by Charles Knight Vol i with Golden Edges
Located in Doha, QA
This unique book is very rare and terrific edition which goes back to late 19th century, approximately 1870-1875. This is one of two volumes of Complete Works of W. Shakespeare. This...
Category
Late 19th Century High Victorian Antique English Books
Materials
Gold
The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown. Published London: Richard Nagy Ltd, 2012. 176 pgs w/ 25 color plates and many other color & b&w illustrations. A beautiful collection of Ger...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Christie's London; The Badminton Cabinet, The Property of Mrs. Barbara Johnson
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's London; The Badminton Cabinet, The Property of Mrs. Barbara Piasecka Johnson. London: Christie's, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. 95 pp....
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Paper
Christie's The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A. London
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A. London 9/18/13 Sale #1186. 1st Ed. softcover auction catalog. 401 pages with 635 lots illustrated in color and al...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time by Frances Morris, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time by Frances Morris. Published by AugustProjects; Et Al, Dublin, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as issued. Published in conjunction with a tra...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Mr. Knife Miss Fork by R. Crevel - Surrealist illustrations by MAX ERNST
Located in Middletown, NY
A striking and important Surrealist collaboration. A rare SINGED COPY.
Ernst, Max / René Crevel
Mr. Knife Miss Fork; Translated by Kay Boyle
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931.
FIRS...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Christie's Millden: a Scottish Lodge
Located in valatie, NY
Millden: A Scottish Lodge Including Property From Endsleigh, Devon; Harewood House, Yorkshire; & Glamis Castle, Angus, by Christie's Auction House, Lond...
Category
Early 2000s English Books
Materials
Paper
Treasures of Catherine the Great, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Treasures of Catherine the Great. Published by Hermitage Development Trust and Christie's, 2000. 1st Ed softcover. Catherine the Great, famed 18th-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - 2 Volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915.
2 volumes, 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (195 x 133 mm); pp xvi + 748; vol. 2 vii + 786; frontispiece engraving (vol. 1) and photo (vol. 2). Bound in 3/4 ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Norman Adams Auction Catalogue from Sotheby's London
Located in valatie, NY
The Norman Adams Legacy 1923-2009 auction catalogue from Sotheby's London of Classic English Furniture London held 21 April 2009. London: Sotheby's, 2009....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming, in Original Dust Jacket, 1966
By Ian Fleming
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Presented in the publisher's original dust jacket and black cl...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Finden's Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron
Located in Middletown, NY
Brockedon, William, William Finden, and George Gordon, Lord Byron
Finden's Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron; With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings Roman & Neapolitan Schools 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Roman and Neapolitan Schools by Michael Jaffe. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The Collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, ranks with the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle as the finest privately owned group of such drawings in Britain and as one of the great princely collections of Europe. It contains outstanding drawings by the great masters from every artistic school. The book is devoted to the Italian drawings have detailed entries for nearly 1,000 works from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, among them numerous reattributions and discoveries. This volume includes the works of Pietro da Cortona, Giulio Romano...
Category
1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
Christie's, Important European Furniture Sculpture and Carpets, Beit Collection
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's, important European Furniture, sculpture and carpets including the Beit collection of early European bronzes, December 2006. 163 pp. Soft cover. Color and B&W plates throu...
Category
Early 2000s English Books
Materials
Paper
Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings; Vol III: Bolognese & Emilian Schools
Located in valatie, NY
The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings; Volume III: Bolognese and Emilian Schools by Michael Jaffé. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. 1st...
Category
1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
Abrégé de L'Art Poétique François par Pierre Ronsard – ERAGNY PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Eragny Press / Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Lucien Pissarro. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (215 x143 mm); 44 pp. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arches han...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Mr. Chambers and Persephone by Christopher Whittled – Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Illustrations by Dorothea Braby. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION
8vo.; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (226 x 160 mm); 63 pp.; 14 pt. Perpetual type; four wood-engravings ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Some Poems by Robert Browning - ERAGNY PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1903.
First, Limited Edition.
Octavo, 8 x 5.25 in (203 x 133 mm), pp.64 [2] + contents + colophon + blank + press-mark, Limited Edition. One of 215 copie...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Gainsborough by Michael Rosenthal, Exhibition Catalogue, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Tate’s Gainsborough show (24 October-19 January 2003). 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog was the most comprehensive ever held on the artist. Loans came from far and wide, inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
The Poems of Master François Villon of Paris, 1892
Located in Middletown, NY
Villon, François, John Payne [translator/editor].
The Poems of Master François Villon of Paris; now first done into English verse, in the original forms, with a biographical and cri...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Hansom Cab & the Pigeons – Eric Ravilious engravings / Golden Cokerell Press
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Eric Ravilious ill. / Strong, L.A.G.
The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons; Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Christie's, The Wildenstein Collection, December 2005" Book
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's, The Wildenstein Collection, December 2005. New York: Christie's, 2005. Softcover. 180 pp. The majority of the works were undisturbed since their acquisition up to one hun...
Category
Late 20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley with Harrison & Son Binding
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Located in valatie, NY
The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Four Volumes, 1882. London: Reeves and Turner, 1882. Revised edition with important, exceptionally bound gilt decorated Moroccan hardcov...
Category
19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Paper
Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's 1981-1982, 1st Ed
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Art at Auction : The Year at Sotheby's 1981-1982. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1982. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of the year's...
Category
1980s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History Of England, 5 Vols., 1849
Located in Bridgeport, CT
London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Vols 1-V, Third Ed. Brown leather with gilt spines, leather and marbled boards. Marbled end papers, yellow edges. Includes:
Vol. 1, Third...
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19th Century Victorian Antique English Books
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Paper
Sotheby's Art at Auction 1999 - 2000, Edited by Emma Lawson, 1st Ed
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art At Auction 1999 - 2000, Edited by Emma Lawson. 'sPublished by Sotheby's Parke Bernet Publications, London, 2000. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual referenc...
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1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
Poems of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE, Third Edition, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Third Edition.
12mo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches (160 x 114 mm); pp. xii + 202. Half-bound in tan calf with raised bands and gilt decorations, black l...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, or What You Will; engravings by Eric Ravilious
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932.
Limited Edition.
Small folio, 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in (330 x 235 mm); pp. v +76 + colophon. This in no. 94 of 275 copies printed on B...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sixty Years A Queen The Story Of Her Majesty's Reign, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sixty Years A Queen: The Story Of Her Majesty's Reign by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Published in London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. 1st Ed hardcover, wit...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
45 wood-engravers – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Lawernce, Simon WHITTINGTON PRESS
45 wood-engravers (Forty-five Wood-engravers); With an Introduction by John Lawrence.
Yorkshire, UK: Simon Lawrence printed by The Whittington Pre...
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20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
James Paine – Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine FIRST EDITION ELEPHANT FOLIO of Jame's Paine monumental work:
Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, and also of Stabling, Bridges, Public and Priv...
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Mid-18th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Life in Paris – ILLUSTRATED by George Cruikshank, text by David Carey - 1822
Located in Middletown, NY
Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O Shuttleton....
London: ...
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Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France – Rowlandson
Located in Middletown, NY
Combe, William (uncredited). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson
Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France Shortly Before the Revolution; Embellished with Seve...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
The Sportsman in Ireland; P. Cheverix Trench, illustrator
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely illustrated book relating the story of a fishing tour around Ireland in the early 1800s
The Sportsman in Ireland; by a cosmopolite (pseud. of A. Allen ?) illustrated by P. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Sotheby's Art at Auction: the Year in Review 1995-1996, 1st Ed
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art at Auction: The Year in Review 1995-96. Published by Conrad Octopus Ltd., 1996. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference w...
Category
1990s English Books
Materials
Paper
Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court, First Edition
By Dillian Gordon, Luke Syson
Located in valatie, NY
Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court by Luke Syson and Dillian Gordon. London: National Gallery Company, 2001. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 264 pp. A book on the works of Pisanello by London's National Gallery to accompany the exhibition. Pisanello (1395-1455) was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance. He is known for his amazing large murals, elegant portraits, small easel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Works of Robert Burns 1834
Located in San Francisco, CA
The works of Robert Burns in 8 volumes bound in full blue calf and printed in Waterloo, 1834. One volume as is. Spines sun faded to green
Category
1830s Antique English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
How to Buy Rare Books by William Rees-Mogg, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
How to Buy Rare Books, A Practical Guide to the Antiquarian Book Market by William Rees-Mogg. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacke...
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20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Lucian Freud Illustrated Book the Equilibriad by Wm. Samson / Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
THE EQUILIBRIAD by William Samsons with illustrations by Lucian Freud.
London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited Edition.
8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
1996 Christie's London Catalog - Works of Art from the Bute Collection
Located in Bradenton, FL
Works of Art from the Bute Collection. Volumes one and two from the sales in London on July 3rd and July 8th 1996. Two softcover catalogs are presented in a green fabric covered slip...
Category
1990s English Books
Materials
Fabric, Paper
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS' GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Collection of Faux Antique Books
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A spectacular 6m total run of late 20th century faux antique books, reclaimed from a museum exhibition. Arranged in runs of various sizes as picture...
Category
Late 20th Century Georgian English Books
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Composition
Veronese's Drawings, A Catalogue Raisonné by Richard Cocke, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Veronese's Drawings. A Catalogue Raisonné by Richard Cocke. Published in London: Sotheby's Publications, 1984. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Paolo Spezapreda, known as 'Veronese...
Category
1980s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Miracle in the Wilderness by Paul Gallico - WHITTINGTON PRESS - deluxe signed ed
Located in Middletown, NY
Illustrated by Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone
Copy 48 of 250 copies, number and signed in pen by the author on the limitation page and one of 85 specially bound in hard grain morocco...
Category
1970s Vintage English Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Wood Engravings of Gwenda Morgan – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1985.
First Edition.
Imperial Octavo, 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (265 x 190 mm); xvi + 44 + 4; Number 91 of 335 copies signed by the artist. Bound by Smith Settle in natural canvas, engraving within a rectangular blind panel on the front; white spine label; headbands, top edge brown, rest uncut; Colorplan Bagdad Brown endpapers. Printed in black, the title-page in black and red, and the captions in grey, hand-set in 12-point Bell; Zerkall smooth white wove and Zerkall Silurian papers; 52 wood-engravings and a line-block reproduction of an engraving by Gwenda Morgan...
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20th Century English Books
Materials
Paper
Britwell House: The David Hicks Residence. Sotheby's (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The sale catalogue for the contents of Britwell House, sold by direction of Mr David and Lady Pamela Hicks. A collection put together between 1960 and 1979, while they owned and live...
Category
1970s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
Christie's - Wateringbury Place Parts I & II, Pair of Auction Catalogs, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
A copy of the auction catalogs for Christie's on-site sale at Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent. This is both of the catalogs of the sale, the Principle Rooms, which was held on Ma...
Category
1970s Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming, First Edition, in Original DJ, 1965
By Ian Fleming
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, second state printing. Octavo printing. In the original publisher’s black cloth boards with gil...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage English Books
Materials
Paper
John Ruskin, OF KING'S TREASURIES
Located in Middletown, NY
Of Kings' Treasuries
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902. 8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 99, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Christies: a Tribute to John Fowler: Furniture and Decorations, September 2006
Located in valatie, NY
Christies: A Tribute to John Fowler: Furniture and Decorations, September 2006. John Fowler was a partner in Colefax and Fowler and was the master of the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
Materials
Paper
Steve McQueen: A Life in Pictures by Yann-Brice Dherbier, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Steve McQueen: A Life in Pictures by Yann-Brice Dherbier. Published by Anna Books Co. London. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Steve McQueen, the self confessed ‘King of Cool’ is a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Paper
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