Illustrated Books from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, no date (ca. 1930). Octavo (9" x 6.5"), 172 pages plus 12 tipped in color plates including frontis by Willy Pogany. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated terra-cotta cloth, in gold pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Spine slightly cocked, brief shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns with modest foxing, otherwise very good in dust jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines. Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book & Art Shop, (1966). First American Edition. Tall quarto (12.5" x 10.25"), 192 pages plus numerous plates providing 750 illustrations of which 135 are in color. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt within black blocking on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket & original plain, thick card box. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in near fine… Read more about this item

Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1905 (copyright 1904), Two volumes, sextodecimos (7" x 4.75"), viii & 283 pages including 39 plates & a folding map; viii & 304 pages including 48 pates. Publisher's green cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt, the others uncut, Spines & margins sunned, gilt dull, bindings cracked here & there (still secure), signature… Read more about this item

London: Piper, Brothers, & Co., 1853. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), vii, [1], & 214 pages with frontis & 6 plates (3 color tinted) plus [2] pages of advertisements for the author's "Elegant Personal Requisites." Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind on the covers. Moderately rubbed & sunned, brief wear at corners &… Read more about this item

Hartford, [Connecticut]: H.E. Robins and Co., 1853. Later printing. Octavo (8" x 5"), x & [11] - 402 pages, with engraved half title & full page illustrations from woodcuts. Publisher's red cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Spine gilt dull, edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, corners bruised, internally toned & foxed, light stain… Read more about this item

London: Burroughs Wellcome, 1912. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), 262 & [2] pages followed by several unused leaves for memoranda & 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout (some in color), & two maps of Atlantic City. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover & decorated with the Burroughs Wellcome Unicorn trade mark. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers. Covers spotted, soiled… Read more about this item

New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. Complete in two volumes. Small quartos (10" x 7"), xii, [6], & 1136 pages (continuously paginated), volume I with extra engraved title page, the set "Embellished with 24 Portraits on Steel and hundreds of wood engravings." Publisher's one-half black pebbled morocco & marbled paper over bevel edged boards, the spines in… Read more about this item

Montreal: no publisher (the author ?), 1915. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 111 & [1] pages, illustrated. Original reddish brown cloth. Text in French. Small split in the upper joint, slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, spine faded, hinges cracked (still secure), text toned, a good or better copy. Blanchard (1883 - 1952, was a Canadian priest and the author… Read more about this item

Johnstown, N.Y.: Charles B. Knox Co., Inc., (1915). Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.75"), 41 pages, illustrated in color. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps. Lightly soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good or better. The cover illustration features a white girl & an African American girl, each presenting a cake. Presents recipes for jellies, cold desserts, frozen desserts, salads and savories, candies, and Invalid… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 (title page), with copyright date of 1920. Later printing circa 1930's. Octavo (9.5" x 7.25"), x, 199, & [1] pages plus 8 color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a large Parrish-illustrated pictorial label applied to the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket which replicates the… Read more about this item

Paris: J. Mallet et Cie, 1841. "Edition Illustree." Quarto (10.5" x 7.25"), xx & 525 pages including numerous illustrations in text plus 18 plates only (of 20 per list) printed on China paper & mounted to light card stock. Contemporary half black morocco & pebbled green cloth, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or ruled in… Read more about this item

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, (1996). Second printing. 4to (11.5" x 8.75"), xx & 948 pages, illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Couple of minute bruises at the top edge of the rear cover, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear. An exhaustive, well-illustrated account.… Read more about this item

Venezi: Marsilio Editori, (2016). First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 447 pages, profusely illustrated (often in color). Publishers pictorial paper over boards lettered pale gray on the spine & covers. Text in Italian & English. Lightly rubbed, brief edge wear, small shadow on the rear cover from now removed label, otherwise very good. "A century of Italian interior design seen through the… Read more about this item

Montreal, Toronto, Winnepeg, Vancouver: Valentine & Sons United Publishing Coy., Limited, no date (ca. 1910's). Oblong octavo (8" x 5.25"), 32 unnumbered pages providing title page with brief text & 31 captioned illustrations in color from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps. Modest edge wear, slight foxing, otherwise very good. "The world famous Rocky Mountains, for grandeur and varied scenery, are unsurpassed,… Read more about this item

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per British Library). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued). Wraps mostly split at the fold & now repaired with archival tissue on the verso, soiled, edge wear, previous owner's name… Read more about this item

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Views of the Isle of Wight as described by the Rev. Legh Richmond (16 pages, sewn) & 10 lithographs in color plus a folding panorama laid in (as issued). Wraps soiled, edge wear including a loss at… Read more about this item

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1859 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued). Wraps moderately soiled, brief edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on the upper wrap (C.R. Buchinger ?), text browned, light foxing/… Read more about this item

Modena, Italy: Franco Cosimo Panini, (1998). Two volumes, first editions. Small folios (12.5" x 9.75"), 512 pages (text & architectural elevations & plans); 699 pages (plates "Atlas"). Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated black linen in thick plain plastic dust jackets housed in a gilt-lettered & color illustrated slipcase. Text in Italian & English. Text block on the plate volume beginning to slip… Read more about this item

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1964. First edition, limited to 1500 copies, with "All royalties for the benefit of the Quebec-Labrador Mission Foundation." Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), [8], 111, & [1] pages, illustrated. Publisher's yellow/ tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with pictorial device of a fishing net in gilt on the upper cover, in slipcase with an applied,… Read more about this item