Birmingham: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1988. Privately printed for the members of the Legal Classics Library by Arcata Graphics/Kingsport. Copy #3293. Full blue leather stamped in 22-karat gold. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Cover stampings and design of the edition by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. Decorative marbled endpapers. More
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, n.d. ca. 1860s. 302 pp.32 mo. Decorative gold and red stamped green cloth binding. Back board blind stamped. All edges stained red. Brown endpapers. Copper engraved frontispiece and title page. Such a lovely little gift book of poetry by this 19th century Scottish author. He is..... More
New York and London: Hafner Publishing Company, (1963). 8vo. Blue cloth binding. 307 pp. including appendices and extensive index. 11 black and white plates illustrating vintage antique bindings. Explanatory illustrations throughout the text. Full color frontispiece showing popular decorated papers used in England during the seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1985. Signed by Stephen Spender on recto of front fly leaf. Limited first edition, privately printed and personally signed by Stephen Spender exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. 8vo. 509 pp. including extensive index. Red leather stamped in gold. Raised bands..... More