1899 Tales From Shakespeare Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

1899 FIRST EDITION

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

London: J. M. Dent & Company, 1899.

• measures about 6'' x 4''
• beautiful blue cloth fine binding
• detailed embossed gold gilt stamping
• blind-stamped device to front
• textblock top edge gilt, other edges uncut
• pictorial front pastedown
• color frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and color vignette title page by Rackham
• 11 other full-page b&w plates by Rackham
• original bound-in silk page-marker
• 362 pages

1899 Stories from Shakespeare by M. Surtees Townesend - Art Nouveau Moire Cloth Binding

1899

STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY M. SURTEES TOWNESEND

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC ***

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1899.
Morrison and Gibb Limited, printers, Edinburgh

measures about 8" x 5.75"
original publisher's decorative Art Nouveau fine binding
green silk moire cloth and grained brown cloth with embossed gold gilt and color stamping
textblock all edges gilt
patterned endpapers
frontispiece with tissue guard
three full-page color plates including frontispiece
further illustrated with black and white plates and vignettes

Ca. 1899 Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle - Publisher's Decorative Leather Binding

Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle

Art Nouveau suede leather binding