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NABIS BOOK ILLUSTRATION
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Pre 1900 item# 387703
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The Condon Kay Collection
(631) 907-4294
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PAUL RANSON (illustrator). A.-Ferdinand Herold. "Le Livre de la Naissance, de la Vie et de la Mort de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie." Paris: Mercure de France, 1895. Pp.(ii),114,(5), illustrated by Paul Ranson with large (7-12 lines apiece) historiated initials, one to each of the 55 brief chapters of this "légende," narrating the Virgin Mary's life in pictures, and paralleling the text. None of the initials is repeated, telling as they do a story; notwithstanding their em ...click for details
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SAINT PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, 1878: "JOURNAL OF THE FAIR"
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Pre 1900 item# 569440
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The Condon Kay Collection
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"JOURNAL OF THE FAIR FOR THE NEW ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL." Vol.l, No.1 (Oct. 23, 1878) - Vol.1, No.31 (Dec. 5, 1878), the complete run of 31 issues. Edited by John Mullaly. 15 1/4" x 10 3/4", the number of pages per issue either 8 (27 issues), 12 (3 issues) or 16 (1 issue), to total 268 pages; published daily except Sundays for the first 28 issues, the final 3 issues published at intervals of, respectively, 3 days, 1 day and 5 days; original brown cloth, a gilt design of ...click for details
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MATTHEW ARNOLD BOUND IN SOTHERAN AND CO. FULL BINDINGS
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Pre 1900 item# 569384
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The Condon Kay Collection
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ARNOLD, MATTHEW. "Poems." Two volumes: "Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets"; "Lyric, Dramatic and Elegiac Poems." London: Macmillan, 1881. "New and Complete Edition." Pp.viii,278;viii,320. Uniformly bound by Sotheran and Co. in full crushed brown morocco, both covers of both volumes with a central strapwork gilt cruciform device, the roughly triangular cornerpieces with a finely worked gilt pattern, multiple gilt rules, the outermost rule beaded, the ...click for details
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FRANCES ANN KEMBLE SIX-VOLUME SET IN BINDINGS
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Pre 1900 item# 569424
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Kemble, Frances Ann. "Record of a Girlhood." London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878. Three volumes. [With:] Kemble, Frances Ann. "Records of Later Life." London. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. Three volumes. Pp.(vi),299; (iv),336; (iv),321; (iv),288; (iv),295; (iv),422; uniformly bound in brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, titles on red morocco lettering pieces, the author's name and the volume numbers on black morocco lettering pieces, green marbled paper s ...click for details
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WILLIAM THACKERAY'S CHRISTMAS BOOKS, STIKEMAN BINDING
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Pre 1900 item# 569480
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Thackeray, W.M. "The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring." London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Pp.(iv),viii,328,(146), double-page frontispiece and 76 full-page reproductions of the author's illustrations, numerous in-text reproductions as well. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco, marbled paper sides and endpapers (green with bronze highlights), spine gilt in six compartments, &q ...click for details
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BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, 1818
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Pre 1910 item# 569431
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Watkins, John. "Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan, with a Particular Account of His Family and Connexions." London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. Third edition. Two volumes. Pp.(iv),viii,485,(3); (ii),xvi,543, 3 engraved portraits (as called for) in the pair; half calf and marbled paper sides, spines gilt and blind-stamped in compartments; some rubbing to the outer hinges which, except for a half-inch split to the front outer hinge of Vol. O ...click for details
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