CA. 1885 STORIES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD (FAIRY TALES) BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ~ BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1885

STORIES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD (FAIRY TALES)
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

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

Publisher:
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, no date, circa 1885.

Features:
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative Victorian cloth fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• brown coated endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page engraved plates

1909 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BY JONATHAN SWIFT ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM - 1ST EDITION THUS

1909

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
BY JONATHAN SWIFT

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ELABORATELY GILT STAMPED FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909.
Printed in Letchworth at the Temple Press.

Features:
• measures about 9.25'' x 6.75''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative blue ribbed cloth fine binding
• bright detailed pictorial embossed gold gilt stamping (signed-binding, "H.C")
• textblock top edge gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• 12 color plates, as well as monochrome plates and part-page illustrations, all by Rackham