Twenty-Four Chromolithographic Books

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1 Twenty-Four Chromolithographic Books Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB 8242 W. 3 rd Street, Suite 230 Los Angeles, CA (323) info@mrtbooksla.com Rare Catalogue of American Military Uniforms with Fourteen Chromolithographic Plates 1. [BOYLAN M F G COMPANY, LIMITED]. Catalogue of Military Uniforms as Worn by Prominent Military Organizations of the United States. Made by the Boylan M F G. Co Limited. New York: [1895]. Octavo. [17] pp. Fourteen chromolithographic plates. Plain paper wrappers with cloth spine. Wrappers slightly soiled with a few minor chips and tears. Large tear to original rear wrapper. Light offsetting from plates. With a printed advertisement from the Boylan M F G Company, Military Clothiers, stating that they had been in business from 1861 to 1895 at 34 Howard Street in New York. In a maroon cloth clamshell case. A very good copy of a fragile work. First edition. $2,000 At the beginning of the catalogue, the following is stated: In presenting this book to our patrons, our object is to show some of the Uniforms that we have made for the various organizations throughout the country, and at the same time to give buyers an idea of what is being worn, so that they can select from the designs shown a Uniform suitable to their needs. The types of uniforms illustrated in the catalogue include those worn by police officers, army officers, governor s foot guards, regiment band members, firemen, and more. Not in Bennett U.S. Color Plate Books or in the Reese catalogue Ninteenth Century Color Plate Books.

2 OCLC lists only one copy (at the Smithsonian Institution in DC). Item #1 With Fine Chromolithographic Titles and Borders, Designed by Owen Jones 2. CALABRELLA, E.C. de Baroness. The Prism of Imagination. London: Longman, Brown, Greens, and Longmans, Octavo. [136] pp. With tinted lithographed plates by Henry Warren. Title printed in red, black and black with decorative border in gold by Owen Jones, chromolithographed half-titles heightened with gold by Jones and decorative borders printed in gold or colors. Original full tan morocco by Remnant & Edmonds. Front cover elaborately stamped in gilt with title in central panel, surrounded by floral borders, spine elaborately stamped with gilt lettering in a floral decoration, back cover stamped in blind, all edges gilt. Spine lightly toned, inner hinges neatly reinforced with cloth tape. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy of a rather fragile book, often found restored or rebound, This is one of the more uncommon Owen Jones titles. $1,500 First edition of this handsome illuminated gift book, with the Owen Jones titles reflecting his Alhambra style. The author, who was born Catherine Bell ( ), was an English socialite, journalist, and writer. Her life was plagued by scandals. She married Rev. Francis Lee ( ), a chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and bore him two children. However, Catherine and her husband eventually became estranged, and she took a lover, Captain George de Blaquiere, son of the soldier and politician John Blaquiere. Lee successfully sued Blaqueire for criminal conversation, but was unable to obtain a divorce by means of a bill in Parliament, and ultimately committed suicide.

3 She may have married Thomas Jenkins, the first patron of the Countess of Blessington, whose name she used. Ultimately, she acquired property in Southern Italy and started using the title Baroness de Calabrella. By the 1840s, she purchased a newspaper, the Court Journal, that covered societal matters. She wrote novels, short stories, and edited the collection of historical tales, Evening at Haddon Hall (1846), which was very popular. She also wrote The Ladies Science of Etiquette (1844), which went through a number of editions in both England and America, and an American gift book, The American Book of Beauty (1845). McLean, p. 88. Item #2 Cundall's First Illuminated Book 3. [CUNDALL, Joseph]. A Booke of Christmas Carols, Illuminated From Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Henry Bohn, [1846]. Small octavo. Sixteen ff. Frontispiece and three full-page illustrations; each page features an illuminated border. Color-printed by M. and N. Hanhart with borders by Brandard. Type of Charles Whittingham on thick cards. Publisher's gold cloth decorated in green with central, blue octagonal title panel. All edges gilt. Minor soiling and wear to boards. Light wear to crown and tail of spine. Small hole in gutter of preliminary blank. Slight toning and foxing. Contemporary ink signature on verso of front flyleaf. Binder's ticket on lower rear pastedown. A very good, bright copy of a fragile book. $650 Cundall's first illuminated edition. This book was later issued by Bohn with the original sheets when he took over the business after Cundall's financial failure. According to McLean's Victorian Book Design, "In 1845, a notable example of illuminated printing was published by Joseph Cundall. This was A Booke of Christmas Carols [...] the text was overprinted, in Old Face, Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.

4 It was issued in a variety of decorative bindings [...] including embossed and colourprinted white paper on boards [...] Cundall published several more small illuminated books, including The Creed, The Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments (1848), and Words of Truth or Wisdom (1848)..." (p ). Item #3 One of the Few Works Printed in Color by the Chiswick Press, One of 2,000 Copies 4. [CUNDALL, Joseph, compiler]. Songs, Madrigals and Sonnets. A Gathering of Some of the Most Pleasant Flowers of Old English Poetry. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Co., Twelvemo. 66 pp. Title-page and prefatory matter printed in black and double-ruled in red. Additional color-printed title-page and fifty-seven pages illustrated and printed in full color from wood blocks designed by Absolon and engraved by Collins & Co. (Gregory, Collins & Reynolds) on thick card paper. Each page double-ruled and with a floral border decoration in an Italian character of design (Cundall, Preface, p. 5). Publisher s red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, gilt spine. All edges gilt. Binding extremities slightly rubbed. Spine lightly toned, minor wear to crown and tail of spine. Very minor foxing. A few leaves slightly loose or loose. Rear joint slightly cracked, but sound. Overall, a very bright copy of a rare work. $300 First edition, one of 2,000 copies. In Victorian Book Design, McLean notes that Songs, Madrigals, and Sonnets is one of the few works printed in color by the Chiswick Press and one of its most important besides the monumental Byrne s Euclid (1847), which McLean describes as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century.

5 In the preface, Cundall writes, In selecting the Songs, Madrigals, and Sonnets in this little volume, I have merely endeavoured to choose those which are the most familiar and the most pleasant. The only arrangement that has been attempted is like that of a garden; flowers of all ages and all hues are set side by side, each adding to the general beauty. It contains writings from Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe, Coleridge, Spenser, Herbert, and others. OCLC lists seven copies, only one of which is in the United States (American Philosophical Society Library). Item #4 With Numerous Chromolithographic Illustrations, Each with a Bible Verse 5. EVANS, Edmund. The Illuminated Scripture Text Book with Interleaved Diary for Memoranda and a Coloured Illustration for Every Day. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1875]. Twelvemo. 108 pp. Chromolithographic frontispiece and every page with four chromolithographic illustrations, each accompanied by a Bible verse. Every illustrated leaf is followed by a blank leaf, ruled in red and meant to be filled in by hand. Publisher s brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt, gilt spine. All edges gilt. Binding extremities a bit worn, spine slightly toned. Front hinge cracked, but sound. Light foxing, contemporary ink inscriptions on the blank leaves, with most of the writing space empty. A very good, tight copy. $300 Fourth edition. The Preface refers to it as a Pictorial Edition that is in every respect equal to its predecessors, and in some points superior. Though pagination differs between the 1872 edition (108 pp.) and the 1873 and 1874 editions (76 pp.), what textual differences there are between those editions and the fourth edition is

6 something we cannot determine without being able to compare them. All editions are scarce, with OCLC recording a combined total of seven copies of the 1872, 1873, and 1874 editions, the majority of them in the U.K. Edmund Evans ( ) was a wood-engraver and printer. He was apprenticed to Ebenezer Landells at the age of fourteen. Evans set up his own printing and engraving office at Racquet Court off of Fleet Street and developed a reputation for his color work. He remained at Racquet Court for fifty years and became the most successful engraver and printer from wood of his generation (McLean, pp ). OCLC records nine copies, only two in the United States, at the Huntington and University of North Carolina. 6. Heures choisies de Dames Chrétiennes. Approuvées par M.S. l Evèque de Dijon. 2d edition. Tiré des manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle provenant du Cabinet de Mr. H. Baudot Dijon: [Lithographie à la plume par A. Leroy], Chromolithographed throughout in colors and gold, in the style of medieval illuminated manuscripts, with full borders. Includes full-page illustrations, decorative titles. Contemporary full brown morocco over boards, gilt-ruled covers and spine, gilt design with cross in the center of both covers, title Heures in gilt on spine. Gilt inner dentelles, brown silk doublures with the words A.D. 15. Novembre 1871 in gilt on the front free endpaper, all edges gilt. Bottom corners lightly bumped, minor toning to first and last leaf. A very good copy of a charming book. $1,500 First published in OCLC cites only three of the first edition in America and no copies of this second edition. Item #6

7 The First English Translation of the Rosetta Stone and a Major Work of American Chromolithography Signed by all Three Translators 7. HALE, Charles R., [Samuel] Huntington Jones, and Henry Morton. Report of the Committee Appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to Translate the Inscription on the Rosetta Stone. [Philadelphia]: Quarto. [4], 152, [8], +24 (Catalogue of Members of the Philomathean Society) pp, with frequent mispagination. Every page has chromolithographic illustrations in various colors. Titlepage printed in full color. Frontispiece; four chromolithographic plates. Publisher s red cloth ruled in blind and stamped decoratively in blind, black, and gilt. Binding extremities rubbed with some slight fraying to crown and tail of spine. Cloth lightly faded. Light browning and offsetting from illustrations. First gathering is loose. One of a small number of copies with original (rather than printed) signatures on page six. A very good copy of a scarce book. $2,500 First complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone expanded from the first edition of The translation of the Rosetta Stone, the text that provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics, was completed by three undergraduates from the University of Pennsylvania. They first produced a single illustrated manuscript copy of their work, which received instant acclaim. They then published it in book form via lithography, which, at the time, was the only was to reproduce the hieroglyphic and demotic texts and the colored illustrations. All 400 copies of the first edition sold out and work was begun on a second edition one month later. (Randolph G. Adams, The Rosetta Stone in Bibliographical Essays, A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames). See also Bennett's A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, p. 93. Item #7

8 With Illuminations from the "Hours" of Anne of Brittany, An Attractive Copy in the Original Binding 8. [HUMPHREYS, Noel]. The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for London: Longman & Co., [n.d., likely the end of 1844]. Small folio. [2] introductory leaves printed in "black" letter in red and black on both sides in the style of the Chiswick Press, [24] leaves illustrated with chromolithograph borders (by Owen Jones) of flowers, insects, and hand-colored lithographed reproductions of the pages from the "Hours" of Anne of Brittany printed on one side only, [+2, publisher's ads printed in red]. All leaves, including title page, printed on heavy cardstock in gilt and colors. Publisher's white glazed paper covered boards with elaborate gilt, red, blue, and green blocked front cover; back board ruled in blue with a central decorative gilt design. All edges gilt. Blue and white floral patterned endpapers. Binding extremities rubbed with some moderate wear and soiling to boards. Light intermittent offsetting from illustrations. A few leaves loose, but present. A very good copy of a fragile book that is often found rebound. $1,500 First edition. Noel Humphreys ( ), master of Victorian illumination, produced several of these calendars in the 1840s, reproducing portions of various French manuscripts. All are scarce. According to McLean, the "reproductions are charming and colorful, but, when compared with the original, a certain amount of 'Victorianization' in the drawing is evident" (McLean's Victorian Book Design, p. 88). Item #8

9 With 32 Leaves of Chromolithographs by Noel Humphreys, Inspired by Medieval Manuscript Illumination 9. [HUMPRHEYS, Henry Noel, illuminator. The Miracles of Our Lord. London: Longman, Octavo. [32] chromolithographed leaves by Noel Humphreys + [4] pp. Remarks by the Illuminator and Descriptive Index of Miracles. Full contemporary black leather, elaborately decorated in blind, central vellum label on each cover. Front label bears the title of the book, rear cover bears the names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Spine stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Front label lettering worn, hinges neatly repaired. Light marginal dampstain in last two (nonilluminated leaves). A very good copy. $950 First edition. A beautiful example of Humphreys ( ) work, which was strongly influenced by the illuminations in medieval manuscripts. McLean, p Item #9 A High Spot of English Color Printing 10. JONES, Owen and Henry Warren. The History of Joseph and his Brethren. Genesis Chaprs. XXXVII. XXXVIII. XL. [London: Day & Son, 1865]. Twenty-six leaves, printed on heavy cardstock, containing five chromolithographic decorations on both sides. On one side of each card is a Bible verse, printed in black and red on a gold background; on the other side if a full-color illustration on a gold background. Both illustrations and text are within elaborate illuminated borders. Publisher s red cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and aqua on both covers, gilt spine. Binding lightly soiled, hinges neatly reinforced with matching cloth tape. A little very light foxing. A very good copy.

10 First edition. $750 A fine example of Victorian chromolithography by one of the masters of the art form. Owen Jones ( ), a Welsh architect and ornamental designer, is wellknown for his chromolithographic books. His other works include Ancient Spanish Ballads (1841), The Sermon on the Mount (1844), Gray s Elegy Illuminated (1846), Scenes from The Winter s Tale (1866), and the monumental Grammar of Ornament (1866). See Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from , p With 112 Fine Chromolithographic Plates 11. JONES, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Bernard Quaritch, Folio. [2], 157 pp. Chromolithographic title and 111 chromolithographic plates. Burgundy cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, expertly recased. Top edges lightly bumped. A very good, bright copy. $850 First published in 1856, this is one of the great monuments in Victorian color printing. Quaritch published subsequent editions in 1868, 1910, and To us today, inundated with photographic references for almost every work of art or kind of decoration in the world, The Grammar of Ornament is still a superb picture-book: but in the 1850s it was the first time in England that anything like so many illustrations or ornament had ever been assembled in colour in one work, and certainly the first time in England that any systematic and serious reproductions in colour of historical ornament had ever been printed, apart from Owen Jones Alhambra, and works by Digby Wyatt and Noel Humphreys (McLean, pp ). Item #11

11 Classic Study of German and Austrian Folk Costume, With Ninety Fine Chromolithographic Plates 12. KRETSCHMER, Albert. Deutsche Volkstrachten: Original Zeichnunben Mit Erklarendem Text. Berlin: J.G. Bach s Verlag, [n.d., 1880s]. Small folio. 166 pp. With ninety fine chromolithographic plates of German and Austrian folk dress. Chromolithographic title-page in red, black, and gold. Publisher s burgundy cloth, rebacked in modern burgundy morocco, new endpapers. Spine a bit cocked, but a very good copy, with the plates in fine condition, very bright and clean. $1,500 Second enlarged edition. The first edition appeared in Albert Kretschmer ( ) was a German professor, painter, costume researcher, and chairman of the German theatre, Schauspielhaus Berlin (currently the site of Konzerthaus Berlin). He is known for his detailed drawings, watercolor paintings, and lithographs. Kretschmer was also a costume designer. Item #12 Early Work on Ceramic Painting, With Sixteen Mounted Chromolithographic Plates 13. LEWIS, Florence. China Painting. With Sixteen Original Coloured Plates. London, Paris, and New York: Cassell, Oblong quarto. 52, [+4, ads] pp. Sixteen mounted chromolithographs of designs, four wood-engraved illustrations in text. Publisher s brown cloth, covers ruled in blind and title gilt on front cover. Spine lightly worn. A near fine copy. $400 First edition of one of the earliest books on the subject.

12 Florence Lewis studied at the Lambeth School of Art in the 1870s and was employed by Doulton from the 1870s to With Fine Chromolithographic Decoration Throughout, Reflecting Various Medieval Styles 14. Livre de prières. Paris: B. Charles Matheu, Octavo. [12], 149, [13] pp. Chromolithographed throughout in colors and gold, with full-page illustrations and elaborate decorative borders. The borders display varied motifs: some are Byzantine, some are Carolingian, some are reminiscent of fifteenth-century Books of Hours, and others seem very nineteenth-century. Dedicated to Cardinal François-Nicholas- Madeleine Morlot, Archbishop of Paris ( ). [with:] Livre de priéres illustré a l aide des ornements des manuscrits classes dan l ordre chronologie et selon les styles divers qui sont succédé depuis huitème siècle jusqu au seizieme. Tome II: Notice historique et texte explicative par Fernand Denis et B. Ch. Mathieu. Paris: Chez l auteur, Octavo. 250 pp. Text within typographic border. Otherwise unillustrated. Uniformly bound in quarter green morocco over green cloth boards. Spines a bit faded and a bit scuffed. Spines gilt, covers stamped in blind with large cross in the middle of each cover. Very good condition. $600 Item #14 In a Remarkably Fine Publisher s Decorative Cloth Binding 15. MARTIN, William, editor. Pete Parley s Annual: A Christmas & New Year s Present for Young People. London: Darton and Hodge, Square octavo. viii, 312, [+32, ads]

13 pp. Eight chromolithographic plates, with tissue guards, numerous woodcuts in text, some full-page. Original red cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription on preliminary blank. A remarkably fine, bright copy. $300 First edition. Item #15 One of the Finest Chromolithograph Folios of the Sixties (Ruari McLean) 16. RUSSELL, William Howard. A Memorial of HRH Albert Prince of Wales and HRH Alexandra Princess of Denmark. The Various Events and the Bridal Gifts. Illustrated by Robert Dudley. London: Day and Son, [1863]. Folio. [8], 122, xviii pp. Chromolithographic title-page and forty-two chromolithographic plates, woodengraved dedication and illustrations in the text. Publisher s red cloth over beveled boards. Elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, with the initials R.D. (Robert Dudley) below the title on the front cover. All edges gilt. Top corners worn. A little light foxing, mostly marginal. A very good, bright copy of this scarce work, celebrating the wedding of Queen Victoria s son and introducing his bride to the British public. $3,000 First edition. The author is British-Irish journalist W.H. Russell ( ), who reported for The Times and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. Here, he describes Alexandra s upbringing, education, interests, and trousseau. Robert Dudley (fl ) illustrated the proceedings of the wedding, including the arrival of the Princess at Gravesend and the fabulous wedding gifts. Dudley and Russell also collaborated on The Atlantic Telegraph, an eye-witness account of the laying of the first Atlantic cable by the Great Eastern, published by Day and Son (1866).

14 OCLC records o nly three copies in North America, at the Huntington Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Defense University Library. King, Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 40. Item #16 Stanesby s Chromolithographic Collection of Shakespearean Quotes 17. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare s Household Words. A selection from the wise saws of the Immortal Bard, Illuminated by Sam[uel] Stanesby. [Printed in colors by Ashbee and Dangerfield]. London: Griffith & Farran, [1859]. Small quarto. 15 ff. Mounted photographic frontisportrait in the middle of chromolithographic decoration of a sculpture of Shakespeare. Each leaf has calligraphic text and ornamental borders printed chromolithographically by Ashbee and Dangerfield, tissue guards. Publisher s brown cloth ruled in blind and elaborately stamped in gilt, blue, and white by John Leighton ( ) and signed with his initials beneath the title, gilt spine. All edges gilt. Green coated endpapers. Hinges cracking, but sound. Minor offsetting to tissue guards. Light foxing to terminal blanks. Small binder s ticket on lower corner of rear pastedown. Very small clipping, likely from a newspaper, pasted onto verso of terminal blank. A near fine, bright copy. $450 First edition. The present work contains a plethora of quotes from Shakespeare s various plays on an electric array of themes such as sorrow ( Grief makes one hour ten. Richard II, i.3.), jealousy ( It is the green-eyed monster, which doth make the meat it feeds on Othello iii.3.), adversity ( Best men are moulded out of faults. Measure

15 for Measure, v.1), and many others. OCLC lists four copies, three in the U.K. and one in the U.S. (University of Pennsylvania). McLean, p Item #17 With Fine Chromolithographic Illustrations by Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson 18. SHAKESPEARE. The Song and Ballads of Shakespeare. Illuminated by T[homas] W. Gwilt Mapleson, Esq. New York: Lockwood & Co., [1849]. Quarto. 23 ff. Fourteen leaves illustrated with chromolithographed borders of floral patterns, various designs, initial letters, and text in gilt and colors. Nine leaves of text printed in black and ruled in red with small red initial letters. Chromolithographed half-title and titlepage. Printed in color by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia. Black cloth stamped decoratively in gilt. All edges gilt. Binding extremities lightly worn with a few small chips to boards. Light foxing to endpapers and leaves. A few leaves slightly loose, but sound. Contemporary ink inscription to front flyleaf. A very good copy, clean and bright. $1,500 Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson (1814/ ) was one of the best American illuminated book designers. His other remarkable works of color printing include Lays of the Western World (1849?), A Handbook of Heraldry (1851), and Pearls of American Poetry (1853). The Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare includes lines from As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Love's Labor Lost.

16 Thomas S. Sinclair ( ) was a Scottish-American lithographer. In approximately 1833, he relocated to America. He was among the first Philadelphia lithographers to experiment with color lithography. He won a silver medal for it at the Franklin Institutes Exhibition of Item #18 With 120 Chromolithographic Illustrations 19. Souvenir of Scotland: Its Cities, Lakes, and Mountains. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views. London: T. Nelson and Sons, Small quarto. Frontispiece and 60 pp. of chromolithographed plates, two per page, of views of Scotland. Publisher s turquoise cloth with front cover and spine elaborately decorated in gilt, black and red, back cover stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Binding extremities lightly worn, fly-leaves browned. Former owner s ink signature, with the annotation: Purchased on the Steamer Loch Lommond, July 16, A very good, bright copy. $600 This work was apparently first printed in Several other editions appeared between that date and Stanesby s Chromolithographic Masterpiece, Created Using the Most Advanced Contemporary Technology to Commemorate the Wedding of Victoria, Prince Royal to Frederick III 20. STANESBY, Samuel. The Bridal Souvenir. London: Griffith & Farran, [1857]. Small quarto. [40] pp. + illuminated presentation leaf, dated 1867, tipped in. Mounted photographic frontisportrait in the middle of chromolitho decoration of Victoria,

17 Princess Royal of England ( ) with tissue guard. The text is printed chromolithographically with ornamental borders and calligraphic text printed by Ashbee and Dangerfield. Original beveled-edged cream-colored cloth elaborately tooled in gilt and green by John Leighton ( ) and signed with his initials beneath the title. All edges gilt. White silk endpapers. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and worn at corners, boards slightly soiled. A few minor stains to endleaves. Slight wear to crown and tail of spine. Light foxing. Overall, a very good, tight copy. $500 First edition, Stanesby s masterpiece, created using the most advanced contemporary technology (including the then-burgeoning art of photography); the present work was printed to commemorate the wedding of Princess Victoria to Frederick III of Prussia in 1858 ( ). The marriage was meant to strengthen the political alliance between Germany and England, and because of it, Queen Victoria was successful in convincing her ministers and the Prussians to remain neutral and avoid war during the French and Austrian conflict over Venetia and Lombardy. The Bridal Souvenir is a compilation of twenty-two aphorisms and poems about love and marriage by a variety of authors, including Shakespeare, Longfellow, Irving, Frederica Bremer, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and others. According to the preface, the flowers that illustrate the work were selected in accordance with their signification in the Language of Flowers (For example, acacia represents Chaste Love, heath represents Solitude, etc.). Item #20 Rare Chromolithographic Work by Samuel Stanesby 21. STANESBY, Samuel, illuminator. The Floral Gift. An Illuminated Souvenir. London: Griffith & Farran, [1863]. Small quarto. [16] ff. Each page of text has

18 ornamental borders, most with calligraphic text printed chromolithographically by Thomas Bessent with tissue guards. Red morocco ruled in blind and tooled decoratively in gilt, gilt spine. All edges gilt. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and worn. Spine slightly toned. Minor soiling and scuffing to boards. Very minor offsetting to tissue guards. A very good copy with the covers very bright. $600 First edition. The present work contains poetry and prose about love by Shakespeare, Wordsworth ( ), Longfellow ( ), John Brainard ( ), Eliza Cook ( ), and other authors. OCLC lists five copies, only one of which is in the United States. (BYU). Not in McLean s Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing. Item # STANESBY, Samuel, illuminator. The Wisdom of Solomon. London: Griffith & Farran, [1861]. Octavo. [6], 26 pp. on heavy card. Title-page and frontispiece chromolithographed in gold and several other colors by Ashbee and Dangerfield. One mounted photographic illustration in the middle of chromolithographic decoration and all leaves with elaborate chromolithographic borders and initial letters heightened in gold. Original blue-gray cloth with beveled edges and inlaid chromolithographic panels on both covers, gilt spine. All edges gilt. Binding slightly worn with minor soiling. Corners lightly rubbed. Light wear to spine with a few small tears and minor chipping to crown and tail. Spine lightly toned. First few gatherings loose. Very minor foxing, mostly to tissue guards. A very good copy.

19 First edition. $350 According to McLean s Victorian Book Design, A series of illuminated books with a character of their own, and almost the only series not printed and published by Day & Son, were those illuminated by Samuel Stanesby [ ] They were small books with every page chromolithographed, and highly decorated bindings (p. 134). Item #22 Richly Illumintated in Chromolithography by Albert Sangorski 23. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Prayers Written at Vailima. London: Chatto & Windus, Quarto. [24] pp. of illustration on double-folded leaves. Designed, written out, and richly illuminated in chromolithography by Alberto Sangorski, with decorative borders and initial letters, heightened in gold. Original cream-colored boards with gilt front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Corners rubbed. Near fine. $450 First edition, thus. Twenty household prayers written by Stevenson during his residence in Samoa. McKay 685. With Six Vibrant Chromolithographic Plates by Prang 24. VON FALKE, Dr. Jacob. Art in the House. Historical, Critical, and Aesthetical Studies on the Decoration and Furnishing of the Dwelling. Authorized American Edition,

20 Translated from the German by Charles C. Perkins, M.A. Boston: L. Prang and Company, Thick quarto. xxx, 356 pp. Chromolithographic frontispiece with tissue guard and 60 plates, five of which are chromolithographs and the rest are albertotypes and typographic etchings; 166 black and white textual illustrations in addition to numerous vignettes; historiated and initial letters. Blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Binding extremities rubbed. Head and crown of spine frayed with a few small chips and some fraying. Hinges starting or tender but sound. Offsetting from plates to tissue guards. Contemporary pencil signature on front fly leaf. A good copy. $450 First Prang edition. Von Falke's Art in the House provides the history of interior decoration from Greek and Roman times up to the Aesthetic Movement. A decorative arts classic. Item #24