1896 My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle - Illustrated

CA. 1896

MY FRIEND THE MURDERER BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

ILLUSTRATED

New York: H. M. Caldwell, no date, circa 1896.

• measures about 6.5'' x 4.5''
• lovely publisher's decorative cloth fine binding
• embossed silver gilt and red stamping
• frontispiece
• illustrated with full-page plates
• 187 pages

1896 PTLA: "Small duodecimo, with illustrations in water-color tints. The new shaped handy volume. All of volumes in this New Series of Handy Volume Classics are printed on extra fine laid paper, with text illustrations or full-page half-tone illustrations in water-color tints. Each volume has in addition a handsome illuminated title page and silk ribbon bookmark. Uniformly bound in Bancroft linen, stamped in silver and various colored inks, from a new and original design."

1929 Odyssey Of Homer - Art Deco Binding - Color Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - Palmer Translation

1929

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
TRANSLATED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER

ILLUSTRATED BY N. C. WYETH

*** RARE FIRST EDITION ~ FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ CLASSIC ***

New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1929.

• First Wyeth-illustrated Edition - copyright and title page dates match - no additional printings noted
• measures about 10.5'' x 7.75''
• beautiful original publisher's cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt stamping
• pictorial endpapers
• illustrated with 16 full-page color plates by N. C. Wyeth, including frontispiece
• 314 pages

1895 Adventures of Don Quixote - Pictorial Victorian Binding - Chromolithographs

1895

THE ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE
DE LA MANCHA
BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

ADAPTED FOR THE YOUNG BY M. JONES
WITH 206 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN GILBERT AND OTHERS
AND SIX FULL-PAGE LITHOGRAPH COLOR PLATES

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1895.

Features:
• measures about 8.25'' x 6.25''
• Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gilt and color pictorial stamping
• coated yellow endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• vignette title page
• illustrated with six full-page chromolithograph color plates
• 206 full-page and part-page monochrome pictures
• 503 pages

Ca. 1890 Story of Robinson Crusoe - Mcloughlin Chromolithographs - Antique Art Nouveau Dust Jacket

CA. 1890

THE STORY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE BY MARK GODOLPHIN

WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS

Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., n.d., circa 1890.

• hardcover and original paper dust jacket
• measures about 9.5'' x 8''
• beautiful mustard-yellow cloth Victorian fine binding
• embossed gilt and brown stamping
• illustrated with seven full-page lithograph color plates, including frontispiece
• also illustrated with numerous full-page engravings
• 93 pages

1903 Little Rivers by Henry Van Dyke - Binding Design by Margaret Armstrong - D. Nutt

1903

LITTLE RIVERS
A BOOK OF ESSAYS IN PROFITABLE IDLENESS

BY HENRY VAN DYKE

ILLUSTRATED
London: David Nutt, 1903.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful decorative publisher's red cloth fine binding designed by Margaret Armstrong and signed with her monogram
• ornate embossed gold gilt, white, and black stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• illustrated with eight full-page tinted plates by F. V. DuMond including frontispiece with tissue-guard
• 348 pages, indexed

1902 Fisherman's Luck by Henry Van Dyke - with Author's Binding Design

1902

FISHERMAN'S LUCK

AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS
BY HENRY VAN DYKE

ILLUSTRATED

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.

• beautiful pale green decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding designed by the author - HVD cipher lower right
• embossed gold gilt and green stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page plates by various artists
• 247 pages, indexed

Margaret Armstrong Leather Binding - John Keats Sonnets - The Eve Of St. Agnes

The Eve of St. Agnes

by John Keats

Original publisher's decorative limp leather binding designed by Margaret Armstrong.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, no date, circa 1905.

Incunabula and Near-incunabula - Various Leaves - Engravings

Various Turn-of-the-Century Decorative-Cloth Publisher Bindings Part 2