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1837réf. GITk114Paris J-J Dubochet et Cie 1837. Petit in-4 4 feuillets non chiffrés (faux-titre, titre-frontispice, titre, sous-titre) 719pp. Basane blonde entièrement et très richement ornée d'une succession de grandes pastilles dorées au petit fer formant une délicate dentelle dans le goût des reliures du XVIe siècle. Dos lisse, pièce de titre grenat, dentelle dorée sur bordure intérieure, contreplats et pages de garde de papier brun flammé de rouge, doré et argent, tranches dorées. Elégant fermoir en bronze doré décoré d'une Croix et d'un Agneau, reliure de l'époque. Luxueusement orné à chaque page dans un style différent pour chaque Evangile. 1 Croix typographique avec 1 cartouche au verso; fleuron sur le titre, titre-frontispice en couleurs et doré. 5 portraits en frontispice (Jésus et les 4 Evangélistes); scènes extraites des Evangiles pour chaque chapitre, encadrements et culs de lampe, le tout par Théophile Fragonard, TRES FINEMENT IMPRIME EN COULEURS ET REHAUSSE DE DORE. 2 feuillets légèrement déboîtés, quelques très rares et pâles rousseurs, collationné complet. Très bel exemplaire dans une précieuse reliure entièrement dorée dans le goût du XVIe siècle, servant d'écrin aux élégants ornements et vignettes de Théophile Fragonard (1806-1876), petit-fils du grand peintre du XVIIIe siècle. Couleurs fraîches et vives rehaussées de doré. CARTERET III 225 ET VICAIRE III 617 NE SIGNALENT AUCUN EXEMPLAIRE EN COULEURS.
1893réf. 210871893 Paris, Calmann Lévy, A. Le Vasseur et Cie, 1894, 5 tomes en 5 volumes, in-8 de (4)-523-(3) pp. ; (4)-549-(3) pp. ; (4)-550-(2) pp. ; (4)-666-(2) pp. ; (4)-674-(2) pp., reliure de l'époque signée V. CHAMPS, demi-maroquin bleu nuit à coins, dos à nerfs, minerves dorées et dates en pieds, , couvertures imprimées et dos conservées, rousseurs au 1er tome, le portrait de l'auteur en trois états (papier d'édition, Chine et Japon) placé en frontispice du 1er volume comprend des rousseurs (tirages sur Chine et Japon), très beau dessin original "portrait de Loti" de 3/4 à l'encre de chine sur bristol placé à la suite, bon exemplaire.
1920réf. GITf435Tours Mame et Fils sans date vers 1920. In folio 2 feuillets non chiffrés V-XII 1-95pp. Demi maroquin acajou à coins signés, dos à 4 nerfs rehaussés d'un filet doré, entrenerfs élégamment ornés d'une couronne dorée sur un semis d'étoiles, pièce de titre ocre, pièce grenat en queue avec le nom de l'illustrateur, tête dorée, non rogné, plats de la belle couverture illustrée en couleurs conservés, reliure de l'éditeur. Abondamment et très joliment illustré par Job en noir et en couleurs. Rare.
1822réf. V71064London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates 16 of 19 after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. Volume I Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 all published Royal octavo red half roan original boards covered in blue sugar paper spine title gilt rebacked with matching red roan corners original spine laid on original free end-papers with new pastedown armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage vi 2pp list of engravings 540pp 16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves pp 217-24 - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned some offsetting from plates to text otherwise clean and crisp throughout. Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting shooting tandem-driving livestock etc. Very rare in original edition Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine". This is the original 1822 edition not the more common reprint published in 1904. Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket hardcover
réf. 71-1327London: George Virtue 1838. 8vo. 216 pp. Hard Cover gilt title on spine and sheet edges in gilt. Black and white engravings with tissue guards throughout. Very Good light rubs and bumps to covers interior sheet edges toned moderate foxing. Heavy book: shipping will cost extra. London: George Virtue, 1838. hardcover
1928réf. 126121928 1 Affiche lithographiée en couleurs signée en bas à droite dans la planche, Paris, imprimerie Chachouin, 1928, 120 x 80 cm.
réf. 3106Madrid: Summa Editorial 2004. A bibliophile edition of selections from Berceo's masterpiece ILLUSTRATED WITH 9 FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE MIXED ETCHINGS BY ASCENSION BIOSCA AFTER SANDRA ESCOHOTADO AND FERNANDO CANO. Each etching is SIGNED AND JUSTIFIED BY BIOSCA IN PENCIL. From a total edition of 89 numbered copies all printed on fine thick wove paper this is ONE OF ONLY 40 COPIES WITH THE ETCHINGS PRINTED IN BLACK. Large folio. Loose as issued in wraps. Housed in publisher's attractive silk folding case. Prospectuses laid in. FINE AND BRIGHT. New. Madrid: Summa Editorial, 2004 paperback
réf. 51-5782London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 1895. 16mo. 12 x 18.4 cm. Original publisher's blue cloth and blue and green endpapers with gilt embossing and edges. Heads of spines reinforced with thin later blue cloth. Ownershiip ink incription on blank white endpaper of one voplume. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894, 1895 hardcover
réf. 75484London: Chapman and Hall Ltd. no date 1894. Literature FINELY BOUND CROWN EDITION. Complete in 17 volumes bound at 16. Octavo 21 x 15 x 60 cm. With illustrations from the original plates by Cruikshank Stone Phiz et al. printed with new type. Contemporary navy half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spines and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt others untrimmed and marbled endpapers. Very gently toned throughout otherwise internally clean. Bindings carefully re-coloured with light general wear. Very good. A popular edition first issued between 1890 and 1891: ". on the whole the more convenient and satisfactory edition of the novels." a contemporary review quoted by Spencer. SPENCER Andrew 'Charles Dickens: A Guide to the Collected Editions' Chesney Wold 2021 p.31. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., no date [1894] unknown
1948réf. 16338Paris, Marcel Lubineau, 1948 ; in-4 en feuilles sous couverture crème rempliée, chemise-étui de l’éditeur en suédine rouge ; 236, (6) pp., 28 gravures de Camille Josso.
1940Paris, L.I. (chez l'illustrateur, Louis Icart), 1940. In/4 en feuilles sous couverture rempliée, chemise et étui cartonnés de l'éditeur, illustrations : 16 gravures à la pointe sèche de Louis Icart, 23 pages. Exemplaire n°53/125 (sur vélin crème). Très bon état. Première édition de ce conte à la Librairie de l'Art Indépendant en 1893. Biblio : Monod 7417
1903réf. 8306New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1903 Boards are worn - see image. 2" closed tear at bottom edge of title page. ; Interior of the book is in excellent condition - exception noted. A truly oversize "lap" book that was meant to entertain a child as depicted on front cover. This copy was admired and enjoyed carefully while being read which remains clean and unmarked. Tight binding. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1780réf. 39396Berne Bern: Chez la Nouvelle Société Typographique 1780-1781. Freudeberg. Three volumes complete. A PRISTINE LARGE-PAPER SET OF FREUDEBERG'S MASTERPIECE THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH LANGUAGE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FAR AND AWAY THE GREATEST WORK OF ITS KIND PRODUCED IN SWITZERLAND AND ILLUSTRATED BY SWISS ARTISTS. Volume I includes the cancellans engraved title the frontispiece by Eichler after Dunker and 21 finely-engraved hors-texte plates after Freudeberg. Volume II includes the frontispiece and 25 plates after Freudeberg. Volume III includes the frontispiece and 27 plates after Freudeberg. THIS SET IS ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE with the identical frontispiece in each volume as issued and 73 hors-texte plates after Freudeberg. Additionally there are 72 etched vignettes and 72 elaborate tailpieces by or after Dunker. SO 220 ETCHINGS IN ALL. This is furthermore a LARGE-PAPER SET ON FINE DUTCH LAID PAPER "HOLLANDE" AN ISSUE UNKNOWN TO COHEN-DE RICCI. Cohen-De Ricci cols. 681-2 describes numerous outstanding sets of this work owned by leading 18th and 19th-century bibliophiles and concludes that "Le papier du troisième volume est toujours inférieur a celui des deux premiers"--which is certainly not the case with this set: the paper is excellent and consistent throughout. Cohen-De Ricci also mentions that the plates in volume III are numbered so close to the bottom of the sheets that the numbers are present only when the sheets are entirely uncut as is the case here. 8vos. ENTIRELY UNCUT 21 x 15.5 cm with large margins. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPS WITH PAPER SPINE LABELS. Tiny traces of wear to extremities else FINE AND BRIGHT. THIS SET IS AS IT WAS WHEN IT LEFT THE PRINTER'S OFFICE ALMOST 250 YEARS AGO DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Chez la Nouvelle Société Typographique paperback
réf. 149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover
réf. 149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover books
1799réf. GITk824(Kyoto 1799). 5 volumes sur 6 (26,5cm sur 18,5cm) imprimés sur beau papier de mûrier selon la technique traditionnelle du fukurotoji (pages doublées et cousues au moyen de ligatures), plats de couverture cartonnée bleue avec le titre imprimé en noir sur fond ocre, appliqué sur le 1er. *TOME I 1re partie: 37 feuillets non chiffrés soit 74pp *TOME I 2e partie: 58 feuillets non chiffrés soit 116pp *TOME II: 38 feuillets non chiffrés soit 76pp *TOME III: 40 feuillets non chiffrés soit 80pp *TOME IV: 54 feuillets non chiffrés soit 108pp. SANS LE TOME V ET DERNIER. Orné de 139 magnifiques gravures sur bois bien nettes et d'une grande fraîcheur (24 à pleine page et 115 sur double page) représentant principalement des vues de jardins de temples, monastères, pavillons de thé. La plupart offrant un foisonnement de personnages de tous âges, sexe et condition sociale. Sutures décousues; petits manques sur les étiquettes de titre; auréole claire ancienne en tête des feuillets des deux parties du Tome I et au bas des fonds des Tomes II, III, IV; petite galerie de vers marginale sans gravité sur 7 feuillets du Tome I 2e partie et 5 feuillets du Tome II, plus importante dans les fonds du Tomme III sans dommage pour le texte et les gravures. BEL EXEMPLAIRE MALGRE LES DEFAUTS SIGNALES l'impression du texte (en japonais et en chinois), ainsi que celle des gravures étant fraîche et bien nette.
réf. 55437Sarajevo: Izdanje glavnog odbora AFŽ-a za Bosne i Hertsegovine Državna štamparija 1945. Quarto 25 × 20 cm. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Mica Todorović; 35 1 pp. One double page reproducing drawings by Ismet Mujezinović. Light soil and foxing to wrappers else very good. An illustrated election brochure from Sarajevo promoting Tito the communist revolutionary and WWII partisan leader to head Yugoslavia. The volume was published by the Women's Antifascist Front AFŽ in anticipation of the first election with the participation of women voters in 1945. In the opening text of the volume Tito addresses Yugoslav women "On November 11th you the women of Yugoslavia who have earned the right to solve all internal political and economic problems on an equal footing with men will have your say. And I do not doubt your word. I have no doubt that it will correspond to the heroic struggle and heroic actions of women during this war." The brochure includes political agitational speeches by female communist and antifascist political leaders such as Mitra Mitrović 1912-2001 who was the founding member of the Women's Antifascist Front in 1942 and later the Minister of Education of communist Yugoslavia as well as by Lepa Perović 1911-2000 a communist activist partisan leader during WWII and later a member of the Yugoslav parliament. Perović's essay is accompanied with photo-illustrations of women taking part in the partisan war effort. Nadžida Hadžić 1906-2001 the president of Women's Antifascist Front contributed a longer article on the post-war activities of the AFŽ members in sheltering the homeless elderly and orphaned children in the aftermath of WWII. A double page spread reproducing drawings of war atrocities by Ismet Mujezinović poems about the victory of the partisans and a satirical article about Tito's opposition close the volume. The wrapper designer Bosnian Expressionist painter Mica Todorović 1900-1981 is often called the "first lady of Yugoslav art" because she was the first woman to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1926 and the first female member of the Bosnian Academy of Science and Arts. Part of the communist-leaning Zagreb Zemlja 1929-1935 artist collective and a member of the communist party since 1932 she was imprisoned at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp during WWII for her political beliefs. After liberation she used a cycle of her drawings of the conditions at the camp to testify for the State Commission of War Crimes in Belgrade becoming the first and only artist whose work was used as evidence by the Commission. The volume seems to have been sent to the AFŽ members by mail in anticipation of this historic election with the front wrapper indicating that postage has been paid. As of November 2025 KVK OCLC show no copies in North America. unknown
1904réf. 3810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown
1904réf. 3810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown books
1850réf. 19081Nantes Charpentier 1850 -in-folio demi-chagrin deux volumes, reliure d'époque demi-chagrin vert sombre in-folio Editeur à coins (binding half shagreen in-folio with corners Editor)(49 x 33,5 cm), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or (gilt decoration) et à froid (blind-stamping decoration), entre-nerfs à fleurons "Rocaille" "or" au fer évidé avec filets or et filets courbe dans un encadrement d'un filet large or + blason de bretagne or et cuivre rouge au centre du dos dans un encadrement de filets or et à froid courbes, titres et tomaisons frappés or (gilt title and volume numbering) avec double filets or, filet large à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, Charpentier editeurs "or" en pied, Plats décorés or, mors et coins décorés or à double filets or (joints and corners with gilt decoration), papier "imitation percale" noir aux plats avec titre or dans encadrement "or" portant les armes de la ville de Nantes (différents entre à première et la 4ème de couverture), toutes tranches lisses (all edges smooth), gardes de papier moiré blanc, Première partie: III + 66 pages (pagination individuelle pour chaque article)+ [1p. table]+ 30 lithographies et 1 carte en couleurs. Deuxième partie: III + 90 pages + [2pp. table]+ 43 lithographies. Soit un total de 74 lithographies, certaines à deux tons, quelques-unes rehaussées; vignettes en-tête, lettrines et culs-de-lampe, fines et trés légères rousseurs, 1850 Nantes: Imprimerie de Charpentier père, Fils et Cie Editeur,
1936réf. 22802Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1936-1937. 15 volumes, petit in-4°, demi-chagrin rouge à coins, titre doré entre deux nerfs pincés, filet doré à épaisseur croissante et décroissante, auteur en pied du dos, tête dorée, couverture en couleur et dos conservés, non rogné (reliure de l'éditeur).Aziyadé (ill. de Auguste Leroux) 18 H.T.Les désenchantées (ill. de A. Calbet) 18 H.T.Madame Chrysanthème (ill. de Sylvain Sauvage) 12 H.T.Le Mariage de Loti (ill. J.G. Domergue) 13 H.T.Matelot (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 13 H.T.Mon frère Yves (ill. Emilien Dufour) 12 H.T.Pêcheur d'Islande (ill. Mathurin Méheut) 19 H.T.Ramuntcho (ill. Pierre Brissaud) 12 H.T.Le Roman d'un spahi (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 12 H.T.La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune (ill. Sylvain Sauvage) 13 H.T.La mort de Philae (ill. Deluermoz) 6 H.T.Un pèlerin d'Angkor (ill. Maurice Lalau) 7 H.T. suivi de : Le livre de la pitié et de la mort (ill. idem) 6 H.T.Prime jeunesse. Suivi de : Un jeune officier pauvre (ill. Marty) 14 H.T.Le roman d'un enfant (ill. Marty) 12 H.T.Vers Ispahan (ill. Deluermoz) 15 H.T.Soit en tout 202 illustrations hors-texte en couleurs plus de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte.
réf. r5809Stuttgart: Manus Press. VG : in very good condition. Slip case rubbed. Contents loose as issued. 1972. First Edition 165/500. Original orange cloth chemise with slipcase. 430mm x 300mm 17" x 12". 50pp. 12 coloured lithographs on Arches Paper. Text in German. Signatures of illustrators on final page of contents with publication details. Signed by Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning on limitation page. . Manus Press hardcover
1949réf. 191021949 Gouache, et encre de Chine, signée en bas à droite, (1949), 36 x 24 cm., encadrée.
réf. 75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
réf. 68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
