1885 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetical Works - Illustrated Victorian Publisher's Decorative Cloth Fine Binding

CA. 1885

THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

WITH MEMOIR, NOTES, ETC.

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ STUNNING VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***


Publisher:
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., no date, circa 1885.

Features:
measures about 7'' x 5''
beautiful original publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
embossed gold gilt and black stamping
textblock all edges gilt
frontispiece with tissue-guard
illustrated with full-page engraved plates
red line border to all text pages
667 pages + book ads

Ca. 1885 Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales - Illustrated Decorative Publisher's Cloth Victorian Fine Binding

CA. 1885

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MRS. H. B. PAULL

WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

*** RARE EDITION ~ HANDSOME FINE BINDING ~ CHROMOLITHOGRAPH COLOR PLATES ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***

London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d., circa 1885.

measures about 7.75'' x 5.25''
beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
beveled edges to boards
detailed embossed gilt and black stamping
patterned endpapers
color lithograph frontispiece
illustrated with more color litho plates and numerous engravings in the text
383 pages

1895 Edgar Allan Poe - Complete Poems - Illustrated

1895

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

TOGETHER WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS STORIES

VIGNETTE EDITION WITH ONE HUNDRED NEW ILLUSTRATIONS
BY HARRY C. EDWARDS

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895.

measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
original publisher's half decorative white cloth Victorian fine binding
with floral patterned paper over boards,
ornate embossed gold gilt stamping to spine and boards, and cloth corners
frontispiece
vignette title page
illustrated throughout - 100 pictures by Harry Edwards

Ca. 1885 Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder, and Piracy

CA. 1885

THRILLING NARRATIVES

OF MUTINY, MURDER, AND PIRACY

ILLUSTRATED

A WEIRD SERIES OF TALES OF SHIPWRECK AND DISASTER

WITH ACCOUNTS OF PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES AND HEART-RENDING FATALITIES

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

SHIP WRECKS ~ SUNKEN SHIPS ~ SEA DISASTERS ~ PIRATES ~ MUTINEERS ~ US NAVAL BATTLES

DANGERS OF THE WHALE FISHERY ~ FISHING ~ ANGLING ~ WHALING ~ SAILING ~ SHIPS ~ BOATS ~ SCHOONER ~ FRIGATE ~ CASTAWAYS

EAST INDIAMAN ~ WRECK OF FEMALE CONVICT SHIP ~ WRECK OF SLAVE SHIP ~ LOSS OF WAR SLOOP ~ OCEAN ADVENTURE ~ A MAN OVERBOARD ~ EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN ROSS ~ FINGAL'S CAVE ~ SAILORS ABANDONED ON ISLAND ~ CLASSIC SAILING SHIP HISTORY ***

New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, no date, circa 1885.

measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''

beautiful original publisher's decorative lavender cloth Victorian fine binding

embossed gold gilt and black stamping

non-coated pale pink endpapers

frontispiece engraving

illustrated with part-page and full-page engravings

336 pages + ads to rear endpapers