1886 CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME, A POEM BY SIR WALTER SCOTT - ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND H. GARRETT, HENRY SANDHAM, HARRY FENN, CHILDE HASSAM, ET AL. - VICTORIAN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

1886

CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME,
A POEM
BY SIR WALTER SCOTT

ILLUSTRATED
BY EDMUND H. GARRETT, HENRY SANDHAM, HARRY FENN, CHILDE HASSAM,
J. STEEPLE DAVIS, H. P. BARNES, & GEORGE A. TEEL
ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION
OF GEORGE T. ANDREW

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ MANY ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS ~ CLASSIC CHRISTMAS POEM ***

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1886.
Printed by the Mershon Company Press, Rahway NJ.

• likely first American edition - no edition/printing stated on copyright page
• measures about 10.25'' x 7.5''
• publisher's beautiful original decorative yellow cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gold gilt, black, and red stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• floral patterned endpapers
• frontispiece portrait of Scott
• Scott's poem is printed in full in a standard font at the beginning
• the poem is then presented in 25 pages of calligraphy, each facing a full-page engraving with vignette background
• several more engraved decorations

CA. 1885 SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON BY JOHANN DAVID WYSS - EDITED BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON - ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1885

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
BY JOHANN DAVID WYSS

EDITED BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON

95 WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ MANY ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS ~ CLASSIC TALE ~ SHIPWRECK ~ EAST INDIES ~ ADVENTURE ~ SURVIVAL ~ HUNTING ***

London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, no date, circa 1885.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• publisher's beautiful original decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• illustrated with 95 wood engravings, both full-page and part-page

1867 REINEKE FUCHS VON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE - ILLUSTRATED BY WILHELM VON KAULBACH - DELUXE VICTORIAN LEATHER FINE BINDING

1867

REINEKE FUCHS
VON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

LARGE DELUXE LEATHER
STEEL ENGRAVINGS BY AUGUST SCHLEICH AND HANS RUDOLF RAHN
FROM WILHELM VON KAULBACH'S DESIGNS

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ ORIGINAL 147 YEAR-OLD FULL GILT LEATHER BINDING IN ORIGINAL BOX ~ EXQUISITE ILLUSTRATIONS ~ CLASSIC ALLEGORY IN GERMAN ~ REYNARD THE FOX ***

Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1867.

• measures about 14.25'' x 11.5''
• publisher's beautiful red decorative full leather binding
• beveled edges to boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt stamping to all sides with blind-stamped design to rear board
• textblock all edges gilt
• thick white silk moire endpapers
• illustrated with 36 full-page engraved plates including frontispiece, each with tissue-guard
• many engraved decorations, head-pieces, and tail-pieces

CA. 1896 FAIRY TALES AND STORIES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ~ COLOR ILLUSTRATED ~ VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1896

FAIRY TALES AND STORIES
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

TRANSLATED BY DR. H. W. DULCKEN

FIFTEEN PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
AND FIVE ORIGINAL COLORED PLATES

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ CHROMOLITHOGRAPH COLOR PLATES ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***

New York: A. L. Burt, no date, circa 1896.

• measures about 7.75'' x 5.25''
• beautiful decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• detailed embossed gold gilt lettering, and black, green, and red pictorial stamping
• floral patterned endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue guard
• all five lithograph color plates and all fifteen full-page monochrome plates present

1888 HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (NOTRE DAME DE PARIS) BY VICTOR HUGO ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ EMBOSSED GILT FINE BINDING

1888

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
(UNDER ITS ORIGINAL TITLE, NOTRE DAME DE PARIS)
BY VICTOR HUGO

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

COMPLETE
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC GOTHIC LITERATURE ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1888.

• measures about 8.25'' x 6''
• exquisite blue-black cloth Victorian fine binding
• detailed embossed gold gilt stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• vignette title page printed in red and black
• illustrated with 17 full-page plates

1884 FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS BY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY - VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

1884

FRANKENSTEIN
OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
BY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

TOGETHER WITH

THE SPANISH NUN
(A GOTHIC REVENGE/MURDER/MYSTERY) BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC GOTHIC LITERATURE ***


Publisher:
New York: R. Worthington, 1884.

Features:
• likely first Worthington edition
• measures about 7.5" x 5.25"
• original publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• frontispiece engraving (portrait of De Quincey) with tissue guard

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