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