Boston: Printed at the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1918. Small quarto. Full dark blue-green crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. by Riviere & Son. Portrait frontis. Gilt initials 'E.O.A." in center of upper board, spine a shade sunned, upper joint cracking slightly at.....
London: Longman, [et al], 1854. Octavo. Full dark brown straight-grained calf, elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g., by Bayntun for Dutton. Edited, with notes, by W. Henry Wills, with engravings by Thompson after designs by Tayler. Second edition of this configuration. Tips very slightly rubbed, otherwise about fine.
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1986. Octavo. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, paper spine label. Fine in slipcase. An interview reprinted from THE STUDIO (1893), with an Afterword by the printer, William Reuter. Copy #9 of ten deluxe copies, specially bound, from an edition of 100 copies printed in Gill's Joanna.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. xxi,[3],230pp. plus frontis, pictorial extra- title, and eleven chromolithographed plates. Three quarter red morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, t.e.g., by Morrell. First edition. Illustrations chromolithographed by Hanhart after designs by Henry Alken. In spite of tissue guards, the plates have offset to facing leaves.....
Paris: Chez Claude-Jacques-Charles & Pierre-Francois Durand, 1774. [108]pp. plus two folding maps. 32mo. Contemporary red French morocco, heavily decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Trivial foxing to endleaves, light tanning and minimal fraying to extended edges of folding maps, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of this almanac, beautifully bound, from the.....
Paris: Le Veuve Bordelet ... [et al], 1759. 24mo. Dark reddish brown morocco, a.e.g., spine gilt extra, side panels with double rule borders topped with dot-filled looped ornate crescents with small birds alternating with poppy pods, pale red endsheets with gilt floral decorations. Lower fore-tips heavily worn, internal joints cracked.....
Paris: Mercure de France, 1933. Octavo. Full forest-green morocco, with borders of repeating gilt ruled lozenges with blindstamped-dicing, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, all edges gilt on the rough. Trace of slight rubbing to joints, lower fore- corner of free endsheet creased, otherwise fine. half-morocco chemise and morocco faced slipcase.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1875. xvi,[2],401,[1]pp. Small quarto (21 x 16cm). Contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco, gilt extra, a.e.g. A bit of rubbing to fore-tips and edges, else very good or better. A somewhat curious large-paper rendering of this anthology, with a pictorial title and sectional vignettes drawn by.....
Paris: A. Durel, Libraire, 1908. 44pp. plus supplement of [8],32,[24] plates. Quarto (30 x 20cm). Gathered, loose signatures, laid into plain folded outer wrappers. A few margins dusty, with shallow nicks are chips to fore-edges of a few leaves, priced throughout, very good. An elegantly gotten up catalogue for this.....
Lyon & Paris: H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot, 1870. Two volumes. Handsome half calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. New edition (first published, posthumously, in 1836). Spines a trace darkened, else very good or better.
Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1869-1876. Twenty-four volumes. Large octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards, ribbon markers. Binder's blanks tanned, a few spines have small nicks or rubs, occasional minor foxing, but a very good set. The important "Edition Definitive," concluding with the volume of correspondence, 1819-1850.
New York: Knopf, 1956. Large octavo. Publisher's three-quarter morocco, spine gilt extra, t.e.g. First edition. About fine in lightly scuffed slipcase. To all appearances, a presentation binding.
Chicago & London: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1986]. Octavo. Competently bound in half black calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. A new edition of Sophie Wilkins's translation into English. About fine.
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill ... 1770. Not paginated. A8-3C5, †A8 -†M4, 3D8-3S6. Thick octavo. Contemporary unlettered red morocco, spine gilt extra, covers with gilt roll of vines at edges, with oval black morocco central inlay with the sacred monogram and cross within a gilt sunburst, a.e.g......
Lipsiæ [Leipzig]: Sumptibus Filii J. Fridericii Gleditschii, 1723. [22],168,[2],632pp., including special presentation prelim. Folio (signed in 4s). Full 18th century gilt paneled vellum, gilt extra, with Amsterdam College arms in central panel, and variations on Amsterdam city arms as corner pieces and as central devices in 5 of 7 spine.....
Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1889. 64pp. Large octavo. Full brown pebbled morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, a.e.g., stamped with city seal, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets. Front free endsheet cracked at gutter at crown, light rubbing, otherwise a very nice, bright copy. First edition. The.....
![Item #WRCLIT74727 [Extract:] PRIVATE DEVOTIONS FOR SEVERAL OCCASIONS, ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT74727.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712543)
London: Printed [by W. Norton] for Edw. Pawlett, 1701. [2],267-338,[8]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary black morocco, elaborately decorated in blind with a variety of devices within ruled frames, colorful pastepaper endleaves. Text framed in red. Extremities a bit rubbed, some browning; a good copy, the binding attractive and sound. An extract.....
Paris: L'Edition d'Art, [1924]. Octavo. Full stiff vellum, the upper board hand painted with an elaborate frame of intertwined devices in red and black separating small circular vignettes of birds and heart devices, repeated in a modified fashion on the spine devices, with highlights in gold, and a central vignette.....
![Item #WRCLIT69790 HEIMARBEIT-AUSSTELLUNG FRANKFURT A/M FRÜHLING 1908 [binding caption title],...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT69790.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712447)
Frankfurt. 1908. Two leaves in manuscript, on stiff card. Folio. Laid into, and formerly sewn into, handcrafted full soft calf presentation album, stamped and decorated in blind, with pictorial vignette, with silk moiré endsheets. Spine quite rubbed, with short crack, but sound, lower edge of one endsheet frayed, binding very.....
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [et al], 1972. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Photographs. Some soiling to wrappers, a bit of damp/humidity rumpling (but no staining), about good. First edition of this exhibition catalog. Introduction by Hannah French. A presentation copy (signed "Mike") to another bookseller.
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1959. Small quarto. Gray and orange decorated wrappers. Forty-two black and white plates. Lightly rubbed at spine extremities, but very good. First edition. The catalogue of an exhibition of book bindings, both early and modern (Adler, Bonet, et al), including a selection of over 100 bindings made.....
![Item #WRCLIT75194 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF ARTISTIC BOOKBINDING [wrapper title] EXHIBITION...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT75194.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712549)
New York: Bonaventure's Galleries, Nov 28 to December 5 1904. [12]pp. Sewn pictorial wrappers. Plates and photographs. Pencil checks and annotations in the list of 18th century illustrated books, a few spots on verso of terminal leaf, otherwise very good. First edition. With a long prefatory letter by Henri Pène.....
Paris: Éditions Technorama, 1991. Oblong octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Illustrated (including color). About fine. First edition of this exhibition catalogue featuring 86 modern bindings, with annotations, organized by the "Amis de la Reliure Originale."
![Item #WRCLIT69510 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS ... [with:] THE...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT69510.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712440)
Oxford: Printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1836. Small, thick octavo. Contemporary calf. Somewhat edgeworn, but sound, remnants of fore-clasps, front endsheet and title reinserted and a bit ragged; various ownership inscriptions (see below) and use; a sound copy. Editions of no particular consequence, but in.....
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1830. [10],294,N4-2G6. 12mo. Full straight-grain dark plum morocco, raised bands, a.e.g. (unsigned). 1836 ownership inscription on verso of front free endsheet, a few corners creased, small rubs to raised bands; a good copy.
