CA. 1900 FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM - ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM - RARE FIRST US EDITION

CIRCA 1900

FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
TRANSLATED BY MRS. EDGAR LUCAS

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ EARLY RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS ~ HANDSOME GILT FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, no date, circa 1900.
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Selwood Printing Works, Frome, Somerset

Features:
• measures about 7.75'' x 6''
• handsome original publisher's decorative cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt to spine and brown lettering to front
• color frontispiece and title page
• illustrated with about 100 monochrome part-page and full-page pictures
• 464 pages

A very small number (around 150) of this edition were printed for Freemantle in 1900 before production ceased and changed hands to another publisher, which issued a revised version with a different set of color plates and expurgated text in 1907 and 1909.

This Lippincott edition is the scarce American issue of the British Freemantle edition with full text and original Rackham drawings. It appears to be the First American edition though it bears no edition statement.

1879 POETICAL WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON - 24 ILLUSTRATIONS - VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

1879

THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON

COMPLETE EDITION
WITH 24 ILLUSTRATIONS

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879.
Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative cloth fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gold gilt, black, and white stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• yellow endpapers
• illustrated with 24 full-page engraved plates including frontispiece with tissue-guard
• red-line border to all text pages

1911 POEMS OF JOHN KEATS ILLUSTRATED BY AVERIL BURLEIGH

CA. 1911

POEMS OF JOHN KEATS

ILLUSTRATED WITH 24 COLOR PLATES BY AVERIL BURLEIGH
FIRST BURLEIGH ILLUSTRATED EDITION

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ PRE-RAPHAELITE, ART NOUVEAU, AND RENAISSANCE ILLUSTRATIONS ~ FAIRIES ~ MYTHOLOGY ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Publisher:
London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., no date, circa 1911.
The Press Printers, London.

Features:
• First Burleigh-illustrated Edition
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative cloth fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and color stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• illustrated with 24 full-page color plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard which has railroad watermark