Poetry and Fiction
London: Macmillan and Co. 1866. 8vo (194 x 128 mm). [12], 192 pp., half-title, electrotyped frontispiece protected by tissue guard, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. Original publisher's pictorial red cloth ruled in gilt, covers with gilt vignettes (Alice on front, Cheshire Cat on rear)... More
Brussels: Jan Mommarte, 1662. Bruselas: Jan Mommarte, 1662. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (177 x 110 mm). [28], 611, [5]; [16], 649, [7] pp., including engraved additional title and 8 engraved plates to each part, pp. 528-76 mispaginated 525-72 in part II. Contemporary full calf, spine with 5 raised... More
Brussels: Huberto Antonio, 1625. 8vo (171 x 101 mm). [16], 608 pp. Woodcut initials in text. Contemporary plain vellum with yapp edges (little soiling, spotting and browning to boards, spine with sign of removed shelf-mark labels). Light even browning of text, very little occasional spotting, a few small wormholes to... More
Cologne: Ulrich Zell, 1470. Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c. 1470. 4to (210 x 145 mm). 262 unnumbered and unsigned leaves (complete). Collation: [a-z8 A-I8 K6]. Gothic Type in 27 lines. Red-painted lombards. Contemporary South German calf binding over wooden boards with fine single stamps (flower pot, two-headed eagle, krowned Maria initials)... More
London: [Eliots Court Press] for Edward Blount, 1620. 8vo (163 x 108 mm). [8] 1-222, [4] 223-324, [2] 325-417 [1], [2] 419-503 [1], [2] 505-542 pp. Signatures: A4 (B-X)8 Y4 Z8 (Aa-Kk)8 (Ll-Mm)4 (Nn-Oo)8, P8 a blank, errata on A8v. Includes separate title-pages for the following sections: A discourse upon... More
Venice: J. Tacuinus de Tridino, 1502. 25 February 1502. Folio (303 x 212 mm). 95 (of 96) numbered leaves, lacking leaf K2. Signatures: A8 B-P6 Q4. Roman types with a little Greek, large white-on-black woodcut initials from the printer's famous series of which many show putti playing. 19th century sprinkled... More
Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, 1537. I. Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vitam fidelissime continens, Conrado Heresbachio interprete... Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, March 1537. Title within woodcut architectural border. [8], [8], [6], 3-277, [3] leaves, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end. Signatures... More
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Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1524. [Works in Greek] Ilias and Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII, 2 volumes. Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, April 1524. 8vo (162x100 mm), [1-8] 9, 20-26, [1-40], [1-2] 3-277 [1]; [1], 2-251 [1] leaves; signatures (1-7)8 (A-Z)8 (AA-LL)8 MM6; (a-z)8 (A-H)8 I4; titles in... More
London: William Crook, 1676. Homer's Iliads in English / By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which be added Homer's Odysses Englished by the same author. London: Printed by J. C. for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676. [12], 384 pp. Signatures: A-Z6, Aa-Kk6 (A4-6, advertisements; U1 incorrectly... More
Hannover: Schmidt, 1788. Zwei Teile in einem Band. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). 2 Bl., VIII S., 6 Bl., 270 S.; 8 Bl., 336 S. Gesamttitelblatt mit gestochener Vignette, Titelblatt zu Teil 2, jeweils ohne das weisse Blatt am Ende von Teil 1. Halbledereinband der Zeit (berieben, Rücken mit kleinen... More
Bologna, Rome: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis for B. Hector, 1489. 1. April 1489. 64 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: a4 b-c8 d-i6 k8. 25 lines, type 1:113R. Colophon on A4v ('Romae die. XX octobris M.cccc.lxxxvii') and on K8r. 4to (195 x 136 mm). Bound in 18th-centruy full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered morocco... More
Basel: Apud Episcopium F, 1563. 8vo (158 x 102 mm). [32], 530, [46] pp. Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]8 a-z8 A-N8. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on verso of final leaf, full-page woodcut plan on d3r depicting the island of Utopia, large woodcut initials. Full sheep antique, blind ruled borders, panelled back... More
Exeter: Printed by S. Farley, for Philip Bishop and Edward Score, 1704. 8vo (184 x 110 mm). [16], 183 [i.e. 184] pp. Signatures: A-M? N?. Title within double-line border, pages 182-184 misnumbered 181-183, a few mispaginations elsewhere. Bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and recent gilt lettering piece... More
London: various, 1733. POPE, Alexander. I. An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend, Corrected by the Author, Epistles I-IV. London: printed for J. Wilford, [1733]. [7] 8 5-17 [1]; [7], 6-18; [5] 6-20; [5] 2-18, [2] pp. Half titles for Epistles II & III only as called for... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, chez Didot le jeune/ Néé de la Rochelle/ De Senne, 1792. 1790-1792. 12mo (165 x 98 mm). Fourth edition of vols. I to IV dated 1791 (vol. I-III) and 1790 (vol. IV); first edition of vol. V, dated 1792. Vol. I: [4], xxxvi, 648 pp.... More
London: Isaac Jaggard, Edward Blount and others, 1623. San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935. Folio (370 x 247 mm). [30] pp. With an original leaf from each of the four folios tipped in; and facsimiles of the titles of the four folios. The original leaves... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886. 8vo (172 x 115 mm). [8], 141, [1], [2] pp., including half-title and advert leaf. Red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (binder's stamp to rear doublures), with gilt tooling to covers showing a gilt portrait of Dr. Jekyll on the front board and Mr... More
London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. 8vo (193 x 120 mm). xii, 148, [6], 164; [6], 154, [8], 199 [1] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece by Sheppard after Sturt in volume 1, 5 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate of the automatic writing machine, woodcut head and tail pieces, plus other small decorations... More
St. Petersburg: V. S. Balashev, 1895. 8vo (148x91 mm), [6], 152, [2] pp, with a frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy and 15 text illustrations. Original publisher's wrapper with covers and spine printed in red and black and with illustration to front cover (spine somewhat chipped and cracked, little wear do edges... More
