28. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Studio Cover Design. Rare proof before "Contents" printed in, of the rejected design, with a seated Pair, never used. Also a rare proof, on white paper, of same design as altered for use and finally issued in green.

(2)

29. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Rare (American) reproduction in Yellow and Black of the "Children's Books" Poster; issued here in purple and black.

30. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Joan of Arc Procession. The long plate, 30"x 7," issued with No. 2 of the Studio, May, 1893. A proof copy, not folded, as all issued with the journal were.

Fine copy, rare in this state.

31. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Poster for the Avenue Theatre; a girl looking thro' a curtain, printed in green and blue on white. Used when Bernard Shaw's early masterpiece, "Arms and the Man,' was first produced, April, 1894. Condition as new, perhaps unique in this state.

32. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Poster in black and white made for Wm. Heinemann's publication "The Spinster's Scrip." Very Scarce.

32A. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Another copy.

n. d.

Drawings to illustrate the

33. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. 4 plates, Japan vellum, with portrait, titles, etc. In a portfolio. 2 copies. Nos. 26 and 244 of 250 copies issued. Chicago, 1901 Keystone Series of Novels and Short Stories. 21 designs by Beardsley. Sewed. Lane, 1896. (3)

34. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Pierrot of the Minute: a Dream Phantasy. Written by Ernest Dawson. With Frontispiece, Cul-de-lampe. Vignette, etc., by Beardsley. First Edition. 1897. Pierrot: a Story by H. de Vere Stacpoole. With title-page, double end-papers (in green) and cover design on art linen in red, by Beardsley. First Edition. 1896. (2)

34A. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Mdlle. de Maupin. Watercolour Portrait Study for painter's novel. Photograxure printed in colour, by Boussod, Valadon & Co. No. 6 of 10 copies on white satin, issued by Leonard Smithers. Rare.

This copy has been in a frame under a cut-out mount since its issue, and the exposure to daylight has discolored the satin.

34B. BEERBOHM (MAX). 3 Original pen-and-ink Drawings for "The Parade" vol.

Unfortunately drawn on inferior boards and so are much spotted.

1897

35. BEERBOHM (MAX). Lithographic Portrait of Max Beerbohm by Charles H. Shannon. 21 x 15. În cut-out Chiswick mount. Signed, in initials, in pencil and in ink. (Given to me by C. H. S.)

35A. BEETHOVEN. A Critical edition of his letters, with explanatory Notes by Dr. A. C. Kalischer. Translated with a Preface by J. S. Shedlock. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. Portrait Frontispiece in Colour and many fac-similes, etc. First Edition. 1909 36. BELLOC (HILAIRE). Lambkin's Remains, by H. B., Author of The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. 16mo.

Published by the Proprietor of the J. C. R., Oxford, 1900 Clean as new and extremely scarce.

37. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT of the Musical and Poetical Works published in England during the 16th and 17th Centuries under the Titles of Madrigals, Ballads, Ayres, Couzonets, etc. By Dr. E. F. Rimbault. Very Scarce. 4to. 1848

38. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Illustrations to the Book of Job in 21 plates Invented and Engraved by Wm. Blake. Published by the Author, 3 Fountain Court, and Mr. J. Linnell. March, 1826. Proofs on India paper. Unbound, with title label separate, as issued. Superb impressions. Rare.

39. BLAKE (WILLIAM). The Gates of Paradise. Facsimiled at Edmonton by Mary Hughes and William Muir. Title and 18 plates. Original blue wrappers. Half morocco, uncut.

1888

41. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Songs of Innocence and Experience. Edited and Prefaced by R. H. Shepherd. Original cloth. 16mo. Pickering, 1868

Now for the first time printed in their integrity; a verbatim reproduction of the original text.

Poetical Sketches. Uniform with above.

Pickering, 1868 (2)

Now for the first time reprinted from the original of 1783.

41A. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Illustrations to Thornton's Portraits of Virgil (2 vols., 1821) in 17 woodcuts designed and cut on the wood by Wm. Blake. Now Enlarged from their 3 in. x 13⁄4 in. to a length of 6 inches, and printed in Platinotype, by Frederick H. Evans. Each picture in a cut-out mount, with the text from Thornton's volume printed opposite. Issued unbound. Buckram, uncut. 4to.

1912

Privately Printed and issued in 25 copies only: No. 1. I have added to this as Frontispiece copy, which is one of three only on buff paper, a Platinotype Enlargement by myself of the engraved portrait of Blake by Linnell, which forms the Frantispiece to Gilchrist's Life, etc., 1880. 41B. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Catalogue of Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Blake's Works. 4to, buckram covers preserved. 1876

42. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Original Stories from Real Life by Mary Wollstonecraft. With 6 Plates designed and engraved by Blake. First Edition. Full crimson morocco, g. e. 1791

Fine impression of each plate. Rare.

43. BROWNING (ELIZ. B.). Sonnets from the Portuguese. Hand-made paper. Fine copy, as new. Copeland & Day, 1896 One of 50 copies with rubicated initials.

Blunt (Wilfred Scawen). Esther; and Love Sonnets of Proteus. Hand-made paper. Fine copy. Copeland & Day, 1895 (2)

44. BOCCACCIO. The Decameron or Ten Days' Entertainment. Translated from the Italian. With Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccaccio and an Advertizement. Finely engraved Portrait after Titian. Half yellow calf, uncut. London, 1820

45. BOCCACCIO. The Decameron. Faithfully translated by J. M. Rigg. With Illustrations by Louis Chalon. 2 vols. 1903

46. BOCCACCIO. The Decameron. Now First Completely Done into English. The Stories which it has hitherto been the custom to censure, emasculate, or omit altogether and which are now presented in their entirety. Sq. 8vo. Half polished calf gilt. 1887 Printed for Private Circulation Only.

47. BURGESS (GELETT). The Purple Cow. 8vo. San Francisco, n. d. Also 2 numbers of Phyllida or the Milkmaid, 1897, and Enfant Terrible, No. 1. New York, 1898

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Junior, by Wallace Irwin, with 8 Illustrations and Cover design by Gelett Burgess.

San Francisco, 1902 Bella's Poster Catalogues of his Exhibitions in Soho Square, 1894-6. Many illustrations, some in colour.

A mine of information on Posters of all countries.

Le Caricature et L'Humour Francais au XIXth Siècle. Par Raoul Deberdt. Profusely illustrated.

Edition limited to 100 copies.

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48. BOSWELL (JAMES). Letters addressed to Rev. W. J. Temple. Now First published from the Original MSS. With an Introduction and Notes. Very Scarce. Bentley, 1857

49. BONE (MUIRHEAD). Glasgow: Fifty Drawings. With Notes on Glasgow by A. H. Charteris. With 3 duplicate plates in colour. Portfolio, with ties. Large 4to.

1911

Perfectly reproduced and fully characteristic of this great artist's best qualities. Edition limited to 200 copies.

50. BONE MUIRHEAD). Children's Children, by Gertrude Bone. With many drawings by MUIRHEAD BONE. No. 83 of 200 L. P. copies on Japan vellum. 4to.

Signed by the Artist.

1908

51. BRANGWYN (FRANK). Historical Panels in the Hall of the Skinner's Company. 12 Photogravures and Text. No. 10 of 300 copies on hand-made paper. 4to.

1899

52. BRADLEY (WILL H.). A Collection of 40 of his designs for Book Covers, Title-pages, etc Also, 12 cover designs from The Inland Printer, etc. Mounted on gray paper and bound in art linen. 4to.

v. d.

53. BRADLEY (WILL H.). Fringilla: Tales in Verse by R. D. Blackmore. With Sundry Decorative Picturings by Will H. Bradely. Cleveland, 1895

54. BRADLEY (WILL H.). His Book. First Series. MayAug. 1896. Narrow 8vo, art linen.

Inserted is "The Cap-Book," Dec., 1894, with article on Bradley and the Catalogue of the Poster Exhibition, 1896.

55. BRADLEY (WILL H.). His Book. Vol. 2, N. S. I. Xmas No., No 3, and a Portfolio of Printing being a Collection of Proofs of some Commercial Work done at the Wayside Press 4to, art linen.

With A. L. S. from Bradley inserted.

1896-7

56. BRONTE (CHARLOTTE). Jane Eyre: an Autobiography. By Currer Bell. Second Edition, with the First issue of the Dedicatory Preface to Thackeray. 3 vols. Rare.

Fine copy in original cloth.

1848

57. BRONTË (CHARLOTTE). Shirley: a Tale by Currer Bell. First Edition. 3 vols. half calf, not cut down.

1849

Good copy, but title-page has had a news cutting pasted on it and removed.

58. BRONTË (CHARLOTTE).

Villette. By Currer Bell.

First Edition. 3 vols. Buckram, not cut down.

1853

59. BRONTË (CHARLOTTE). The Last Sketch-Emma, a Fragment of a Story by the late C. Brontë. From "Cornhill," 1860. The Quarterly Review, Dec. 1848. Article on "Vanity Fair. Jane Eyre," etc. The celebrated review onslaught on "Mr. Currer Bell.... . . combines that repulsive vulgarity in the choice of its vice which carries its own antidote." 1 vol., uncut.

59A. BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts. With an Introduction by S. C. C[ockerell]. 162 Plates. Buckram, Large Folio. Printed for the B. F. A. Club, 1908

1887

59B. BULLEN (A. H.). Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age; Edited with Preface by A. H. Bullen. Limited to 500 copies on hand-made paper. 8vo, Buckram. More Lyrics from the Song Books, etc., 750 copies on hand-made paper. 1888 (2)

The most sumptious work on the subject for its fullness of illustration and now much sought after and very scarce, as it was only produced for subscribers.

59c. BULLEN (A. H.). Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. 520 copies on hand-made paper.

1889

Poems Chiefly Lyrical from Romances and Prose-tracts of the Elizabethan Age, with Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton. 750 hand-made paper copies. 1891 (2)

60. BURNAND (F. C.). The New History of Sandford and Merton, being a True Account of the Adventures of "Masters Harry and Tommy" with their Tutor "Mr. Barlow." With 76 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. First Edition. Fine copy. 1872

61. BURTON (ROBERT). The Anatomy of Melancholy. Edited by A. R. Shilleto, with an Introduction by A. H. Bullen. 3 vols. Portraits. Demy 8vo. 1893

62. [BURNE-JONES.] The Fairy Family: a Series of Ballads and Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe. By Archibald Maclaren. First Edition. Extremely scarce. Macmillan, 1874 Frontispiece and engraved title were 'designed and etched by E. Burne-Jones" (vide Macmillan's Catalogue). Printed title also has a wood engraving after E. B.-J.

62A. BURNE-JONES. The Beginning of the World. 25 Pictures, on 4to hand-made paper. With Prefatory Note by Lady Burne-Jones. Chiswick Press, 1902

62B. BURNE-JONES (E. B.). Proof impression on India Paper of "Sidonia the Sorceress." Signed by the artist.

63. BUTTERFLY (THE). Set of this art periodical, in white cloth cases as issued. Scarce. 2 vols. 1899

Profusely and most cleverly illustrated.

64. CALDECOTT (RANDOLPH). Catalogue of a Loan Collection of his Works Exhibited at the Brasenose Club, Manchester, March, 1888. Illustrated. Printed for Private Circulation.

A scarce Caldecott item.

Lightning Sketches for "The House that Jack Built." A Facsimile New First Printed. Small 4to.

n. d. (2) 65. CALDECOTT (RANDOLPH). PICTURE BOOK. Containing John Gilpin; House that Jack Built; Babes in the Wood; Elegy on a Mad Dog. First Edition. Clean picture boards.

n. d.

PICTURE BOOK No. 2. Containing: Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a Song for Sixpence; Queen of Hearts; Farmer's Boy. First Edition. n. d.

THE PANJANDRUM PICTURE BOOKS Contains, Come, Lasses and Lads; Ride a Cock Horse; A Farmer went trotting; Mrs. Mary Blaize; The Great Panjandrum Himself. Clean picture boards. First Edition.

n. d.

These 3 volumes were bought on their day of issue. Rare guaranteed

First Editions.