ABAA Virtual Book Fair:
New York Edition
September 9 - 12, 2021
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ABAA Virtual Book Fair | September 9-12, 2021
Opens Thursday, Sept 9, noon ET - Sunday, Sept 12, 3:00 pm ET.
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(VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION) Two Scrapbooks of Interior Design Collages created by an American Schoolgirl.
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(Virginia?: circa 1915). Two school composition books, measuring 10 x 8 inches, printed wit the state seal of Virginia. repurposed as scrapbooks. First book with 30 double-page panorama collages of domestic interiors; second book with 11 collages, and a group of miscellaneous paper cutouts awaiting placement.
Two scrapbooks created by an unknown American schoolgirl, featuring dozens of aspirational interior design collages. The artist uses wallpaper remnants, pasted across two pages, as canvases, "furnishing" each panorama with objects carefully trimmed from catalogues and magazines. Although many of the resulting rooms are traditional in style, with reproductions of the Old Masters on the walls, the more modern decor featured - candlestick telephones, Kewpie doll prints, a Victrola - dates these albums to the early twentieth century. Blank pages in both books bear penciled notes for collages yet to come: "ball room," "card-room," "butler's pantry," "company room," "sun parlor." The 41 complete collages include bedrooms, a nursery and schoolroom, parlors and studies, living and dining rooms, kitchens and workrooms, and a few outdoor scenes: a triumph of imaginative world-building, and a deep dive into the material history of the era.
In addition to the collages, both books contain some writing. The first includes pages devoted to "nature study," spelling lists, geography questions ("What of Alexandria? Cairo?) and music notes. The second features the first lines of a story about a "rosy-faced girl" of 15 and her mother, an "elderly lady." Bindings worn, wrappers creased and soiled, with one lower corner detached.
$985.00
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CLARKSON, L. VIOLET AMONG THE LILIES.
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New York: Dutton, 1885. 4to. Publisher's pictorial cloth. (16) leaves, 8 of which are chromolithographs. First edition.
Printed by Armstrong & Company, Boston, this book was not mentioned in either Bennett's A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books or Daniel McGrath's American Color Plate Books, 1800-1900. The eight chromolithographs are quite kitchey, the remaining eight leaves are tinted lithographs with handwritten text. The covers are dusty and soiled.
$185.00
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(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY) PHILLIPS, Alfred A. THE BOUQUET FOR 1847: BEAUTIFULLY EMBELLISHED.
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New York: Nafils & Cornish, 1847. 4to. Publisher's stamped gilt cloth, all edges gilt. 104 pages, 10 chromolithographic plates with hand-colored highlights.
A scarce ornamented gift book edited by Alfred Phillips. OCLC only records three editions from 1846 to 1848 ever published under this title. Phillips also published it under another title, Flora's Gem, or the Bouquet for all Seasons, also published at the same time, and our volume includes a colored plate with another title leaf The Fairy Bower. All copies are scarce and uncommon in the trade with no copies of this edition listed in auction records for more than twenty-years. Phillips edited a collection of poems on floral themes. This volume includes poems by Benson J. Lossing, Mrs. Sigourney, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Ten brightly colored plates each highlighted by hand. Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, Jr. Some staining in upper gutter of last half of text not affecting text or print images.
$1,500.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE) LEWIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. LIBERTY HOMES.
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Bay City, Michigan: (1942). 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. (2), 48 (2) pages.
Scarce copy of a World War II builders trade catalogue. Beautiful color kit house catalogue from the Lewis Manufacturing Company of Michigan well illustrated providing a showcase of house designs during World War II, with some retaining Arts & Crafts architectural elements, and others Colonial Revival bungalows. Lewis began selling homes in 1913 and sold over 60,000 over the course of its 60 year history. Features a beautiful color cover. In addition to articles promoting the company's manufacturing plant, designs and the value of their product, it features 32 house designs, most with color exterior views, a name and description, and floor plans with specifications. Names for some of the designs include: The Wellington; The Lafayette; The Rowland; and The Brighton. Some of the smaller house examples include: The Cambridge and The Eden. Bound-in is order form. Cover art of white bungalow home with green shutters on front cover (faint offsetting and tidemark from verso cover and inserted orange factory cover letter), else a good copy.
$175.00
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(EXPOSITION--LONDON--1851) THE ART JOURNAL. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 1851.
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London: The Art Journal, 1851. Folio. Rebacked calf spine and tips with marbled boards. xxvi, 328, xvi, viii, xxii, viii, viii pages. First edition.
Containing hundreds of engravings and articles on science by Robert Hunt, textiles by Lewis D.B. Gordon, the exhibition itself by Ralph Wornum, plants and agriculture by Edward Forbes, and color by Mrs. Merrifield. Rebacked else very good.
$385.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE ‑ WOMEN ARCHITECTS) NORMILE, John, Editor. THE BOOK OF BILDCOST GARDENED HOME PLANS FROM BETTER HOMES & GARDENS.
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Des Moines: Meredith Pub. Co., 1936. 4to. Illustrated wrappers 94, (2) pages.
Revised and expanded edition of this very popular house plan book in the 1930's. A collection of 48 articles by such architects as Richard Neutra, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, and early leader in "Modern" architecture; Los Angeles architect Arthur F. Herberger; a number of Colonial Revival homes by Theodore Whitehead Davis; and several articles by noted women architects such as Verna Cook Salomonsky and Ethel M. Crosby. Their articles include: "A Home to Grow With; the Three Unit House," "A Home of Distinctive Merit," and "At Home Anywhere; and you don't have to build it all at once," by Verna Cook Salomonsky and one article by Ethel M. Crosby "'Come Hither' House." The articles are filled with illustrations, elevations, and floor plans. Color-illustrated wrappers with stucco home on front cover; blueprints on back, minor dusting, still very good.
$250.00
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(EXPOSITION--LONDON--1862) THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.
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London: James S. Virtue, 1862. Small folio. Contemporary quarter calf, all edges gilt. xii, 324 pages, 10 lithographic plates. First edition.
A profusely illustrated catalogue for the London 1862 exhibition (the much enlarged successful follow up to the original inaugural 1851 exhibition) published by The Art Journal featuring articles on the fine and decorative arts such as "The International Exhibition," "The Mediaeval Court," "Notes on the Raw Materials used by Artists as seen in the Exhibition," "Machinery employed in Art-Manufactures," "Art in its Influence on Art-Manufacture," "Modern Sculpture of all nations in the Exhibition," among others. Every aspect of arts and manufactures is included and well illustrated: furniture, jewellery, iron, steel and brass work, porcelain, terra-cotta, etc., carpets, tapestries, glass, silver, stone and wood carving, wall decoration, works in sculpture, etc. Very good.
$585.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ WOMAN'S WORLD TOUR) FISHER, Harriett White. A WOMAN'S WORLD TOUR IN A MOTOR.
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Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1911. 8vo. Decorated cloth. 361 pages. (Bliss, #12).
"In the book which I now offer to the public I have only the plain unvarnished tale to tell of my trip around the world in a motor-car; the trip of a woman who had grown a little weary of the details of a useful but somewhat heavy business, and sought recreation under India's burning sun, in Ceylon, China, Japan, in many places where no motor-car had ever taken man or woman before." With many photographic views of sites on her journey. Decorated blue cloth covers with lettering slightly worn.
$285.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE) INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATIONS. YOUR HOME FOR TOMORROW.
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(Chicago: Industrial Publications, 1945). 4to. Illustrated wrappers. 96 pages. First edition.
An uncommon builders trade catalogue of this well-illustrated companion catalogue touting post-World War II house plans with most homes sizes under 1000 square feet, and encompassing California bungalows, Art Deco stucco designs, Colonial, and prototypical Mid-Century Modern Ranch designs. Among the designers and architects listed include J.E Staubs, H.J. Nitchman, Ralpg Vaugh, R.M. Harmon, Jr., Philip Willard, W.P. Atkinson, Joe Scoggins, and others. Printed throughout in black and blue, with black & white photographs and illustrated elevations drawings with over 100 floor plans. Color-illustrated textured soft covers, color art illustrations of small American Colonial ranch house, hole through head of spine for hanging originally as issued (some toning, dust soiling, edge-wear), still a very good copy.
$225.00
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DODGE, Mary Mapes. RHYMES AND JINGLES.
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New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1875. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. xii, 271, plates. First edition.
This copy has the first issue of the frontispiece and the poem "If Cows Wore Satin Slippers" on page 250. On page xii, the poem is not listed twice--a second issue. Two out of three. A bright, very nice copy.
$175.00
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(EARLY VIRGINIA BOOKBINDER MANUSCRIPT) MAYO, Frederick August. Manuscript Invoice for Blank Books Bound for the Use of the Circuit Superior Court of the Law Chancery of Nicholas County, Virginia. |
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(Virginia: November 25, 1831. Folio broadside (13 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Text in ink.
Rare early 19th century Virginia legal manuscript. Frederick Mayo (ca. 1785-1853) was a Richmond bookbinder and stationer who was Thomas Jefferson's binder from 1818 to just before his death in 1826. He was known for his full calf leather bindings, "in the style of the day, a combination of gold and blind tooling ...Restrained in taste and style, his bindings (would have) thoroughly satiated Mayo's most important patron...." When Jefferson first contacted Mayo in 1818 he lamented the scarcity of good book binders in Virginia and local regions and sent Mayo a trunk of loose pamphlets and assorted other items to be bound as a test for Jefferson of Mayo's talents, most of which show up in the Poor's auction catalogue for Jefferson's last library in 1829. Mayo was successful as a quality bookbinder and according to this document was commissioned to also bind county records and ledgers. Nicolas County was established by the General Assembly in Richmond in 1818 in the western frontier mountainous regions of the state and remained part of Virginia until the separation in 1863 of the western counties into their own state by the Union. The manuscript lists 18 items describing in detail Mayo's work, including ruling and binding various kinds of blank books required for keeping court records. These include: "One chancery Order Book No. 1 (best) faint lined and margin lined and ruled Index in the book..."; "One Com. Law Orders No. 1 Patent back & parchment corners....: "One Chancery Docket No. 1 ruled to a very particular pattern..." etc. All these ledgers are for Chancery Court activities which, apparently, was just established in the county that year by the General Assembly in Richmond.
The invoice lists Mayo's prices for the individual works, a total of $116.87 1/2, with a few faint pencil notations in right margins, each a somewhat higher price than the one given in ink. With the address on the verso to "P. Burne, Esq, Merchant Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Va.," with a circular date stamp and "paid" in manuscript. Burne presumably acted as a broker between Mayo and the Court, advancing payment to Mayo, with reimbursement coming from the Court. Three lines in manuscript on the verso near the margin notes, "had to return the same, and had to [?] our accounts thereof with the certificates, as the accounts are to be [?] at the auditors office, the most of the Clerks have sent the original back."
Old fold lines, neat archival repair along one vertical fold, without loss; small hole at left margin due to loss of wax seal, else very good
$2,500.00
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JERROLD, D. MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
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London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. Small 4to. Publisher's binding, all edges gilt. Color printed frontispiece, xx, 190, (10) pages, 60 illustrations in the text. First illustrated edition.
Illustrated by Charles Keene, this book was referred to by Forrest Reid as "Keene's masterpiece." Gordon Ray included it in his list of the one hundred best English illustrated books printed from 1790 to 1914. This is a bright copy in the publisher's purple binding.
$225.00
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BOND, Anne Lydia, (editor). THREE GEMS IN ONE SETTING.
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London: W. Kent, n.d. (1860). Small 4to. Original decorative purple cloth with geometric patterns blind stamped in gilt cloth. Chromolithograph title-page, and 17 chromolithograph plates. First edition. [McLean, Victorian Publisher's Book Bindings, page 118; Ball, page 55; Wakeman and Bridson, page 17.]
Anne Lydia Bond was a painter and photographic colorist. Her illustrations in Three Gems in One Setting were inspired by the work of Noel Humphreys and Owen Jones, as well as by the style of manuscript prayer books. The book consists of 18 delicate chromolithographic plates by David Brand, illustrating poems by Alfred Tennyson, "The Poet's Song"; Thomas Campbell, "Field Flowers"; and Felicia Dorothea Hemans, "Pilgrim Fathers." The purple cloth binding features deep insets and an arabesque design, noted by Ball to reflect a Moorish influence. An inset, color‑printed only depicts a rural evening scene and is different from the typographic example photographed in McLean's Victorian Publisher's Book‑Bindings in Cloth and Leather. Spine and lower edge of binding faded. Some fading to cloth binding and rubbing to joints, all edges gilt. Expertly recased. Ink gift inscription dated 1862, from a husband to his wife on blank leaf facing title page. Some foxing, otherwise a very good, clean, and bright copy.
$985.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL) GILSON, James W. WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE.
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(Racine, Wisconsin?): Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company, 1911. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 39 pages. First edition.
Rare Southern auto travel item with only two copies recorded on OCLC - State Historical Society of Iowa, Library, and Knox College. "Logging the 1910 Glidden Tour Route with the Mitchell Ranger Automobile piloted by Frank X. Zirbies." A promotional pamphlet published for the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company to promote their new Mitchell Ranger Car. "Starting from Cincinnati in a February blizzard the Mitchell Ranger Car successfully surveyed the route of the 1910 A.A.A. reliability contest traversing Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois and finishing at Chicago a distance of approximately three thousand miles." Illustrated with many half-tone photographs in-text of the trip and the adventures, trials and sites along the way. Stamped on back cover "Hearsey-Willis Co. Indianapolis, Ind." Wrapper rubbed, else very good.
$325.00
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(TRACE CATALOGUE‑PAINTS) PATTON PAINT COMPANY. PATTON PAINT COMPANY, SOLE MAKERS OF PATTON'S SUN‑PROOF PAINTS, with SCHMIDT, J.C. SOME POINTS ON PAINT, and WEST, R.J. TWENTIETH CENTURY PROGRESS. Three pieces.
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Milwaukee/ Newark, NJ: n.d. (1907). Three pieces: Tall 8vo. (8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches) Stiff color printed wrappers with seven foldout sheets (Open 8 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches) with two title pages and contains 54 paint chips on obverse and text on reverse; Color printed wrappers (6 x 3 1/2 inches), 11 pages; Color printed wrappers, (6 x 3 1/2 inches) (10) pages.
Three rare paint trade cards with only one copy of the primary Patton Paint Company fold-out paint brochure on OCLC - Getty Museum. The Patton Paint Company was founded in Milwaukee in 1900 by James Edward Patton (1832-1904). After his death his son Ludington took it over. The company merged with Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1920. Patton house paints were widely used; Roger Moss in his Century of Color devoted eight full page color plates to houses which used these paints. The present color card is unusually extensive and contains 54 paint chips, all in perfect condition. For each body color, recommendations are given for trim colors. It is accompanied by two small Patton pamphlets: "Some Points on Paint" by J.C. Schmidt, and "20th Century Progress" by R. J. West. All in fine condition.
$425.00
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(ARCHITECTURE ‑ CEMENT) PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION. CONCRETE MASONRY ADAPTION TO INDUSTRY‑ENGINEERED HOUSE BASED ON MODULAR DESIGN, and SUGGESTIONS FOR PROMOTING AND CONDITIONING DEMONSTRATIONS OF CONCRETE HOUSE, and REINFORCED CONCRETE HOUSES. Three items.
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.(Chicago: Portland Cement Association, 1947). Three parts. 4to. Self printed wrappers. (4) pages; (4) pages; 43 pages.
Rare trade items not recorded on OCLC. First editions of the first two uncommon off-prints, and second edition of the third filled with architectural details, elevation, photographic elevations, and floor plans executed for the Portland Cement Association in Chicago. These were not only targeted towards pre-fabricated modular homes with pre-cast concrete floors, but also reinforced concrete model homes, as the company encouraged use of concrete homes as a way to rapidly meet burgeoning housing demands after World War II. With text and photographic illustrations throughout with architectural plan elevations, concrete details, floor plans each with name of architect. Architects include H.Z. Zachry, G.A. Pehrson, and Theodore Jacobsm, et al. Self-printed illustrated softcovers for all three, concrete bungalow and floor plan on first, others printed, 3-hole punch at gutter margin as issued (minor shelf wear, light age toning), still Very good copies, from the library of Donald Lowery Houghton (1922-1981), conceret engineer with Uhl, Hall & Rich, or for EBASCO Services dam building projects, including the Niagara, Pelton Dam, and Yale Reservoir Dam.
$140.00
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(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY ‑ AESTHETIC) TALBOT, Eleanor W. MY LADY'S CASKET OF JEWELS AND FLOWERS FOR HER ADORNING.
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Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1885. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's dark taupe cloth, beveled pictorial boards, all edges gilt.
Chromolithographed half-title, (32) leaves of letterpress on verso and 16 chromolithographed illustrated plates. First American edition. [Holzenberg. #93].
A wonderful example of a woman's inspirational book very much in the Aesthetic taste. An unusual nineteenth century survival of the traditional emblem or gift book. Each chromolithographed plate illustrates an item of personal adornment, such as a belt, a rouge pot, a bouquet, a ring, etc., while the accompanying letterpress defines the subject in terms of some virtue or moral quality such as humility, modesty, piety and contentment. The plates are unsigned and two are moveable with small panels that open to reveal hidden treasures. The colorful binding with design of fancy handkerchief and fan stamped to front with gilt accents, olive colored cloth back and endpapers; previous owners signature on front endpaper. Light scuffing to edges, near fine.
$485.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE) COMMON BRICK MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. BRICK FOR THE AVERAGE MAN'S HOME. Book No. 2.
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Cleveland: 1920. 4to. Printed plain wrapper with color paste-down picture. 72 pages. First edition.
Scarce trade catalogue with nine copies recorded on OCLC in American libraries. "New and original designs for small houses with working drawings available." Duo-tones (olive and black) perspective renderings, with black-and-white photographs, floor plans, and lovely black-and-white line drawings of people relaxing within living spaces. A very nicely produced album of brick homes, delightfully illustrated, showing bungalows, two-story homes, duplexes, and some small apartment buildings. Cardboard wrappers in good condition with small tear along spine. Interior very good.
$225.00
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(COLOR PRINTING-PYLE, Howard) TENNYSON. Alfred. THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
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New York: Dodd, Mead, (1881). Square 8vo. Beveled cream cloth, foliated gilt design in spine, all edges gilt. (62) card stock illuminated pages. [Holzenberg, # 109].
Lavishly illustrated with nineteen full-page illustrations combined with text, eleven other full page illustrations, pictorial title page, four pictorial half-titles and ten decorated pages - all in Chromolithography. Designed by Howard Pyle in an Aesthetic style recalling the work of Walter Crane, which he soon repudiated. The illustrations which spread out over the text prefigure the style of Eugene Grasset in "Quatre Fils d'Aymon." Color lithography by Brett Lithographing Company in New York. Covers with black lettering, pictorial design in gilt, red and black illumination the capital "T." According to Whitman Bennett. American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, page 91: "one of the most notable gift books ever produced in this country and the best of the Pyle color work..." Fine copy.
$1,450.00
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HULME, F. Edward. SUGGESTIONS IN FLORAL DESIGN.
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London: Cassell Peter & Galpin, (1878-1879). Folio. Publisher's decorated cloth. 52 pages, 52 plates. First edition. [Holzenberg, For Art's Sake, 38].
Hulme's book, illustrating methods for turning designs in nature into ornamentation, was a cornerstone in the development of English Art Nouveau. His emphasis, as the title suggests, is on botanical form, particularly those of indigenous wild flowers, such as Hedge Cress, Corn Marigold, Meadow Saffron, etc. This was the only edition of the work--surprising given the importance of the work and the many editions of Hulme's other books. The handsome chromolithographic plates were exquisitely printed by Dupuy et fils, Paris. The influence of Hulme's teacher, Christopher Dresser, is apparent in many of Hulme's designs. According to Eric Holzenberg, For Art's Sake, The Aesthetic Movement in Print and Beyond, 1870-1890, this is "one of the most arresting, yet least well-known, color plate books of the Aesthetic era...the plates in his Suggestions are an entertaining riot of vivid purples, greens and yellow, often accented with gold." This work, when met with, is often falling to pieces and damaged through the Victorian use of gutta-percha as a binding medium, which then decays. With this copy, which is in excellent condition, the spine is neatly repaired, a few missing elements replaced with compatible cloth. The copy is free from foxing, which is unusual for this title.
$1,250.00
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WOODWARD, George E. WOODWARD'S ARCHITECTURE AND RURAL ART. NO. 1. 1867.
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New York: Woodward, (1867). 12mo. Publisher's cloth. 144 pages. [Hitchcock, 1421].
Francis W. Woodward's name as joint author was dropped by his brother when he published this reissue. Hitchcock locates only one copy of this issue. Lightly chipped at head of spine, else a very nice copy.
$100.00
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STREETER, N.R. GEMS FROM AN OLD DRUMMER'S GRIP.
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(Groton, New York): The Author, 1889. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece. 72 pages. First edition.
Poems about traveling salesmen, an American phenomenon. Fine.
$65.00
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