Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1839. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth wrappers pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this unusual collaboration between Thackeray, Dickens and Cruikshank. The volume consists of 31 quatrains of amusing verse, illustrated with Cruikshank's eleven full-page etchings (as...
Pictures in Color Reproduced from Paintings by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Duffield & Co., 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with applied color illustration on the front cover. First Maxfield Parrish Edition of one of the most famous and oft-reprinted anthologies in the English language. A minor poet, Palgrave published...
An Agony, in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew...
