1885 Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

CA. 1885

THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER INCLUDING 'THE CANTERBURY TALES'

ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS

*** RARE EDITION ~ STUNNING VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., n.d., circa 1885.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful muted red decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• detailed embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full page plates of engravings
• red-line border to all pages of text
• 631 pages, with glossary

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Various Turn-of-the-Century Decorative-Cloth Publisher Bindings

Ca. 1910 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

CA. 1910

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
BY LEWIS CARROLL

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN TENNIEL

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ LARGE FORMAT ~ BEAUTIFUL PICTORIAL BINDING ~ CLASSIC ~ ILLUSTRATIONS ON MOST PAGES ***

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, no date, circa 1910.

• measures about 11'' by 8.5''
• beautiful decorative green cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed color stamping and mounted color vignette
• tipped-in color frontispiece
• many illustrations throughout the text
• 45 pages

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Ca. 1890 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

CA. 1890

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
(INTO SEVERAL REMOTE REGIONS OF THE WORLD)
BY JONATHAN SWIFT

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL PICTORIAL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC ***

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, no date, circa 1890.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful decorative yellow cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt, color, and black stamping
• coated yellow endpapers
• frontispiece (color chromolithograph)
• 361 pages + book ads

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Ca. 1880 Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Victorian Engravings

CA. 1880

THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL ORNATE VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, no date, circa 1880.

• measures about 7'' x 5''

• beautiful decorative green pebbled cloth Victorian fine binding

• beveled edges to boards

• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping

• textblock all edges gilt

• coated brown endpapers

• frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard and extra vignette title page

• illustrated with many full-page engraved plates

• 673 pages + book ads

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