London: G. Bell & Sons, 1983. Cloth/dust jackets and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. green cloth, title on red background in gilt on spine, gilt device on cover, top edge green, in illustrated dust jackets, bell, 11 vol set. More about Diary of Samuel Pepys__11 volume set
London: Methuen & Co., 1905. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. brown suede boards, gilt lettering to red label at spine, lightly raised bands, deckled edges 877+100 pp, ; as stated on colophonprinted in Plymouth by William Brendon and Son, Limited, Printers; library "withdrawn" stamp to lower colophon page, small scuffs... More about Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies__Faithfully Reproduced in Facsimile...
London: Oxford University Press/BCA, 1994. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. blue cloth, gilt lettering, 2386 pp, black box containing user's guide and magnifying glass, in slipcase. More about The Compact Oxford English Dictionary (New, Second Edition, Complete Text Reproduced...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. red cloth, gilt lettering, 923 pp, in red slipcase, based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. More about The First Folio of Shakespeare__The Norton Facsimile (Second Edition
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Cloth/no dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. pale green cloth, gilt lettering to black label at spine and cover no dust jacket, 1000 pp corners bumped. More about The Canterbury Tales_ A Facsimile Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the...
Paris: Club du Livre/Collection Musée du Livre, 1984. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. volume 1, facsimile text: full green suede with impressed leather-tooled designs, green leather label with gilt lettering to spine, 120 pp, 2450/ 2900 for the Collection Musée du Livre; volume 2, commentary: green suede to spine, green... More about Bestiarium (Two Volumes: Facsimile of Ashmole Beastiary 1511 and Commentary
London: Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. volume 1: red leather spine with gilt lettering, gray decorated boards, 313 pp, # 1411/1480 numbered copies, contains "Bookmark" index to the color-coded text corresponding to the dates of the novel's events as well as the commentary entries; volume 2: gray... More about The Sound and the Fury (Two Volumes: Corrected Text and Glossary & Commentary
London: Folio Society, 1987. van Niekerk, Sarah. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. six volumes in a red slipcase with black lettering, black cloth to spine, gilt lettering, red illustrated papered boards. More about The Complete Novels of Mrs Ann Radcliffe (A Sicilian Romance, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne,...
New York: Editions Abbeville, 1993. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. grey cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 176pp, text in French. More about Chiparus__Un sculteur art déco
Paris: Phot'oeil/l'ivre d'images, 1979. Cloth/no dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. pink boards, purple lettering, no dust jacket, unpaginated (~35pp), text in French, spine faded and worn at ends. More about je vous aime
New York: Disney Enterprises, 2012. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. illustrated boards, dust jacket, 158 pp. More about The Art of John Carter__A Visual Journey
Hong Kong: Urban Council of Hong Kong/Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1997. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 378pp. More about From Beijing to Versailles__Artistic Relations between China and France
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. Cloth/no dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, deckled edges, 288 pp, first edition, inscribed by author to half title page, foxing to first and last few end papers. More about Early Woodcut Initials, Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of...
Seattle: University of Washington Chapbooks, 1929. Cloth/dust jacket Duodecimo. Paperback. duodecimo chapbook, pink dust jacket over brown cardstock, black lettering to front cover, 30pp, deckled edges, inscribed by author at front title page thus: "To Jules de Gautier--a superhuman--from Benjamin DeCasseres, New York, 1929" (de Gautier being a preeminent French... More about The Superman in America
Paris: Nouvelles editions françaises, 1965. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. faux-wood grained papered quarto in a similarly papered slipcase, 36pp + 48 plates. More about P. Cézanne
Tokyo: Meisei University Press, 1985. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. brown boards, gilt lettering, 903 pp, text in English and Japanese original cardboard packing box. More about Compact Edition, First Folio, 1623,: Mr. William Shakepeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
London: Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. two volumes in a black clamshell slipcase with gilt lettering to spine; volume 1: red silk velvet, detailed metal corner guards, two matching silk bands with leather foreedge clasps with metal catches, 355 pp, number 316 of 980 numbered copies; volume... More about King Henry's Prayer Book, BL Royal MS 2A XVI (Two Volumes, Facsimile Text and Commentary
London: Folio Society/Fitzwilliam Museum, 2009. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. two volumes in a blue clamshell slipcase with gilt lettering to spine; volume 1: blue cloth and gilt decorations, all edges gilt, unpaginated, number 85 of 1180 numbered copies; volume 2: blue cloth to spine, blue papered boards, gilt lettering... More about The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, MS 1058-1975 (Two Volumes, Facsimile Text and Commentary
London: Folio Society, 2000. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. six volumes in two slipcases, blue slipcases with gilt lettering and author photograph illustrations, two shades of blue cloth to alternate volumes, gilt lettering and blue numbering to spine. More about In Search of Lost Time (Six Volumes
London: Folio Society, 2010. Cloth octavo/Slipcase. Hardcover. black cloth spines, green marbled boards, gilt lettering, in black slipcase with gilt lettering 3 volumes 548,325,586 pp. More about The Anatomy of Melancholy (3 Volumes
London: Folio Society, 2015. Martin, John. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. black spines, blue cloth and red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, illustrated slipcase, two loose copies of mezzotint contained within text, 312 pp + unpaginated, small black smudge to fore edge of volume of poetry. More about Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost, A Commentary (Two Volumes
London: Folio Society, 2002. Cloth octavo/Slipcase. Hardcover. illustrated cloth, gilt lettering, brown slipcase with label, 386,436,431 pp. More about The Campaigns of Napoleon (3 Volumes
London: Folio Society, 2004. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. large octavo; volume 1: white full goatskin leather, gilt designs to spine and front board, red labels with black lettering to spine and front board, raised bands, gilt edges, 350 pp; volume 2: green cloth, silver lettering to spine and front... More about The Life of St. Edmund King and Martyr__The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund in MS Harley 2278...
London: Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. Hardcover. eight volumes, tan clothed boards with blue and red labels to spine with gilt lettering and designs, no dust jackets, two red paper covered slipcases with four volumes each, volume 1: 320pp, volume 2: 348pp, volume 3: 367pp, volume 4: 394pp... More about The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (Volume I-VIII
Paris: Editions des Muses Françaises/ La Maison Frazier-Soye, 1919. Paperback Quarto. Paperback. squared quarto on "papier du Japon ancien à la forme", illustrated beige dust jacket over white cardstock wraps, unpaginated (~50pp), deckled edges, text in French, punctuation in the form of gilt foil squares throughout, signed "à l'ami retrouvé..... More about Isadora Duncan, Fille de Prométhée__Proses de Fernand Divoire décorées par E. A. Bourdelle