Hardcover. London, Harrison and Sons, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, dark green cloth with maroon and gilt labels on spine. Originally published in blue wrappers, here bound in hardcovers. Vol. 1: 307 pages, Vol. 2 309-642 pages. Profusely illustrated including 2 color chromolithographs, several color folding reproductions, at least one b&w engraved lithograph and hundreds of wood engravings. Compiled by a committee of the Council of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Inscription on wrapper cover in Vol. 1, light pencil marking in margins to about 20 pages, otherwise clean, tight set.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. There is a tear on the bottom left corner of the back cover as well as rubbing. Light soil along the spine of the book. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. AN important study of early gravestone carvers in Georgia and South Carolina and the influences of their likes from New England. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Gray pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.
Hardcover. Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 498 pages. Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900 presents the whole range of early Texas history as portrayed in published engravings: from the first printed representation of a buffalo in 1554 to a 1900 view of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. Entries include information on more than 2000 engravings, 470 of which are illustrated in this volume. Presented chronologically by century and decade of publication, each chapter features a brief introduction to the historical background of the era, highlighting key illustrations and placing the art within the context of major events of the period. Several topical discussions address subjects that span decades or recur as pervasive themes in illustration.
Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, j.M. Stoddart & Co., 1st Edition, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page,--second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Hardcover. London , Bell & Daldy, reprint, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in 3/4 polished leather with marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, raised bands. Engraved title and twelve full-page engraved plates and 116 engravings on wood by Cruikshank. 277 pages, humorous essays and commentary throughout by various writers. Reprint of the 1845 Edition.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson Ltd, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages illustrated in color and b&w. first published in 1970, this is the new enlarged edition. The miniaturist art of gem engraving is the least familiar of the major arts of ancient Greece, yet we know it to have been practiced by the greatest artists. This book presents a comprehensive account of the art in Greek lands from the early Bronze Age down to the Hellenistic period. The gems are related to history and to the artistic achievements in other media of their day, and the subject matter of the scenes engraved upon them is examined and found to hold much that will be new to students of Greek myth and iconography. The development of the Bronze Age studios in the Minoan and Mycenaean world is discussed, and the works of the great period of Classical gem engraving are resolved into their styles and schools, with a special chapter devoted to Greek works within the Persian Empire. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, At the Shakspeare Press, By W Nicol, for John Major, 1st, 1831, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 0riginal red pebbled morocco, with gilt rules, 5 raised bands to spine, with title ''Hogarth's Works''. All edges gilt, 293 pages. Portrait frontis. & 56 plates. Mild foxing, images generally unaffected. Cover corners worn, edgewear to spine edges otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, United Book Guild, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pasted-on illustrated title. A handsome volume of 21 full-page black and white plates of Blake's illustrations, accompanied by 'The Doctrine of Job' by S. Foster Damon on facing pages. Mild musty smell. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow, stapled wrapper w/ black printing & illustration. 24 unpaginated pages with introduction & b&w illustrations. A very nice, amusing catalogue of the Scottish engraver and caricaturist's work. Limited to 2,000 copies. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 297 pages + 26 b&w plates. English language edition. Translated from the German and with an introduction by Innes and and Gustav Herdan. Contains very clever and funny remarks on Hogarth's engravings by an 18th century German professor of physics. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth boards stamped on front and spine with a black and gilt design. 288 pages with b&w engraved illustrations. Artists include Frank Merrill, Henry Fenn, A.R. Waud, A.B. Shute, E.H. Garrett. others. All edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Jaffrey, N.H., David R. Godine, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages, color illustrations. While cameo and intaglio portraits, other forms of deluxe jewelry, medals, and miniatures featuring famous personalities have been surveyed, a historian and curator of jewelry and engraved gems, notes that their settings have surprisingly not attracted as much attention. Covering periods from 16th to early 17th centuries Renaissance Europe to the Napoleonic to World War I eras, the author describes the pieces and names their designers in historical and personal contexts. A chapter is devoted to the portrait diamond from the Medici dynasty to the fall of the Romanovs. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. US, The Mainstone Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning example of how a digital process, overseen by a keen and aesthetic team, can rejuvenate an artist's work. This as new first edition thus reveals the wonderful craft of Ravilious as if he had just completed the blocks. A great tribute to a fine engraver.
Hardcover. NY, Freshet Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardback in slipcase; 1970 reprint of 1828 edition. Three engraved plates of flies, vignette engravings of fish. Cream linen, spine titled in gilt, green angler motif and titles to front of yellow paper-covered slipcase. The first three editions were published anonymously. Cornerstone fly fishing book because of insights into techniques and biology; one of first books to show both natural mayflies and caddis along with artificials. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, 2nd Ed., 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with a gilt-stamped title on the spine and bright gilt illustration of the author riding a donkey on the front cover. Second Edition (first: 1868) of the American illustrator's trip to England and the Continent undertaken in 1867-68. 192 pages, 88 plates & text illus. (incl. frontis.) engraved on wood by J. Augustus Bogert & James L.Langridge after drawings by the author. Darley's volume is composed of excerpts from letters written home concerning his travels around the states and Europe. His sketches illuminate the scenes described in his letters. The final page is a charming self-portrait in miniature, of Darley tipping his cap to the reader for their time. A whimsical collection of brief travel vignettes. Inscribed on the first blank page. Bright copy in exceptional condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st thus, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated with b&w engraved plates by various artists. Cloth covers with color illustration on front and back. Previous owner's inscription on first blank page. All edges gilt. Includes
 "A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861...(2 Vols.) by: N/A")
 "A. B. Durand : 1796-1886 by: N/A")
 "A. B. Durand : 1796-1886 by: N/A")
 "Deep Water Days by: Swan, Oliver G. (ed.)")
 "Early Gravestone Art in Georgia and South Carolina by: Combs , Diana Williams")
 "Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900 by: Mavis P. Kelsey and Robin Brandt Hutchison")
 "Eskimo Art by: Burland, Cottie")
 "Gallery of Famous Poets (A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets with an Introductory Essay by Henry Copp")
 "George Cruikshank's Table Book by: Cruikshank, George/Gilbert Albert A'Beckett (Ed.)")
 "Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical by: Boardman, John")
 "Hogarth Moralized; A Complete Edition of All the Most Capital and Admired Works of William Hogarth Accompanied with Concise and Comprehensive Explanations of Their Moral Tendency by:")
 "Illustrations of the Book of Job, Invented & Engraved by William Blake/The Doctrine of Job, by S. Foster Damon by: Damon, S. Foster/ Blake, William")
 "John Kay: Original Portraits by: Dwight, Edward H. / Introduction")
 "Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings by: Herdan, Innes & Gustav (translated by)")
 "Marmion by: Scott, Sir Walter")
 "New World, The: The First Pictures of America... With Contemporary Narratives of the French Settlements in Florida 1562 1565 and the English Colonies in Virginia 1585 1590 by:")
 "One Hundred Portraits : Artists, Architects, Writers, Composers, and Friends by: Moser, Barry")
 "Picturesque Europe: a Delineation By Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historcal Places of Great Britain and the Continent (3 Volume Set) by:")
 "Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs by: Scarisbrick, Diana")
 "Ravilious: Wood Engravings (British Wood Engravers) by: Russell, James")
 "Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations with Some Account of Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo by: Davy, Sir Humphrey")
 "Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil by: Darley, Felix O C")
 "Song of the River by: Kingsley, Charles")
 "The American Woman's Home Or, Principles of Domestic Science, Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful and Christian Homes by:")
