Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More

Boston: Lee and Shepard, copyright 1873 but ca. 1920 reprint. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 221,[5](ads)pp.; frontispiece, six leaves of plates. Dust jacket margins rather chipped and worn with long closed tear at top edge of upper panel touching text without loss of meaning, rather extensive..... More

Marburg: Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, 1776-1777. Two volumes in one; 12mo; contemporary gilt-tooled roan, gilt spine in five compartments, papier-peint pastedowns, housed in contemporary paper-covered slipcase; 106,[2]; 291,[5]pp.; music throughout text. General rubbing to margins, spine gilt rather dulled, contemporary ownership notes to front free endpaper verso, old paper repairs to..... More

Paris: Editions Mornay, 1932. First Edition Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 525. Small quarto; mid-century three-quarter burgundy crushed morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in; 327pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout. Montreal bookseller ticket of..... More

Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to..... More

London: William Heinemann, 1909. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22cm); contemporary three-quarter brown gilt-ruled morocco over cloth boards signed with rubberstamp by Morrell, elaborate gilt spine in six compartments with repeating fleur-de-lis motif, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original cloth bound in rear; xx,382pp.; lithograph portrait frontispiece. Occasional foxing to..... More

New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top..... More

Londini [London]: Excudebat Carolus Whittingham / Chiswick, 1845. Quarto. Unpaginated. Bound by Riviere in full brown morocco; front and rear board and spine decorated in gilt; five raised bands; gilt turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; ribbon; each page of text with decorative red border. Preliminary leaf with a printed..... More

London: George Allen, 1899. Limited Edition of 200 Large Paper copies. Large octavo. 298 pp. Line drawings by Thomson throughout. Bound in half morocco over green cloth by Scroll Club of New York; six compartments and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers. Housed in custom-made slipcase... More

London: William Smith, 1844. A New Edition, Corrected. Small octavo (17.5cm); rustic late 19th-century Arts and Crafts-style binding of tan roan over paper-covered boards; [2],iv,[2],562,[18]pp. Binding a bit bowed, rubbed and unevenly mottled, small chip at spine foot, hinges reinforced at a later date; About Very Good overall. "Bound by..... More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. First Thus, translated from the thirteenth edition of the Italian. Two octavo volumes. 273 pp.; 275 pp. 44 black and white photographs and photogravures with lettered tissue guards, complete; color fold-out map to rear of volume II. Flexible cloth dust wrappers with gilt lettering to..... More

London: Caradoc Press, 1906. First Caradoc Edition. Slim 12mo; full contemporary blue gilt-ruled calf by Riviere & Son, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins, housed in cloth slipcase; [52]pp.; woodcut decorations and initials by H.G. Webb. Spine faded, textblock a bit browned, else..... More

New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Later printing with "Fourteenth Edition" to title page. Octavo. 81 pp. + 2 pp. series advertisements. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige publisher's cloth decorated in pink and black and with Margaret Armstrong's monogram to front. A few minor nicks to edges of..... More