Fine Books & Manuscripts

[ILLUSTRATED]. A group of 7 titles with 19th century illustrations, including: BAYLEY, F. W. N. The New Tale of a Tub. London: Colnaghi and Puckle, 1841. Original olive cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. –– IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Kaatskill Mountains. New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1870. Original brown cloth gilt (covers unevenly sunned, tears to spine panel ends). Jefferson Edition. –– DORÉ, Gustav. The Legend of the Wandering Jew. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, n.d. [ca. 1880s]. 12 full–page plates by Doré. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black. –– SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d. [ca. 1892]. Publisher’s pebbled green cloth over beveled boards gilt, mounted chromolithograph medallion portraits of the cast to upper cover, central blind portrait device of Sheridan to lower cover. –– GATTY, Horatia K. F. (1846–1945). Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. Half leather over marbled boards gilt (spine and corners rubbed), original pictorial printed boards designed by Caldecott bound in (spotting to covers, contemporary ownership signature to upper board, both ffep toned). FIRST EDITION. –– A Sketch–Book of R. Caldecott’s. London and New York: George Rutledge, [1883]. Original publisher’s quarter green buckram, with oatmeal sides stamped (a bit dust soiled). –– TRUSLER, John. The Works of William Hogarth. London: E.T. Brain & Co., n.d. [ca. 1840]. 2 volumes in one. Original full morocco gilt, all edges gilt (extremities a bit worn). –– Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, 8vo and 4to, all illustrated, condition generally good to near fine.