Bindings from Rulon-Miller Books

Newburyport: William B. Allen & Co, 1817. First edition, 12mo, pp. 143, [1]; original printed orange paper-covered boards; near fine. In nine instances in the text where a name has been given in asterisks, an early owner has filled in the name in full. Knapp was a lawyer who practiced in New York and Boston, and whose chief literary… Read more about this item

London: C. Dilly, Poultry, 1797. 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], [6], 440, xxviii; uncut; double-page table of prisoners; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; some fading and wear, but on the whole very good. Ownership signature of "William Thos. Salvin 1797" on title page. Colquhoun's influential treatise on crime and policing in London, including… Read more about this item

London: printed by R. Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xl, 400; x, 431, [1]; viii, 438; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript labels on spine; upper cover of volume II lightly dampstained, rear free endpaper of volume II torn, nevertheless, a very good,… Read more about this item

[London]: The British Library, 1983. 4to, pp. 446; grayscale text illustrations throughout; full tan cloth; red label on spine; fine. Preceeded by vol. 1, an introduction, and later followed by vol. 3. This volume covers bindings from the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria, and Denmark.

London: Charles J. Skeet, publisher, 10, King William Street, Charing Cross, 1860. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. x, 342; vi, 363, [1]; lithograph frontispiece portrait by Day & Son after J. A. Vinter; original black pebble-grain cloth with an all-over dot design, gilt-stamped spines; bookplates of Samuel Allen; both volumes slightly skewed, very light wear at extremities; a… Read more about this item

Paris: G. Jeener, 1895. Large 8vo, pp. 62, [1]; later marbled boards backed in green cloth, gilt title on spine, marbled edges, original printed paper wrappers bound in; label residue on upper pastedown, from the library of Sarah T. Prideaux, with her bookplate on upper wrapper; boards a touch rubbed, leaves a bit toned and tender at the gutters,… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International, 2006. First edition, large 4to, pp. 275, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout, most in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Edition ltd. to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. 130, [4]; title printed in red and black and within ornamental border; fine in original red cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. Whence gauffered edges. The first edition was published in 1763.

Tokyo: Kyoiku Shoseki Co. Ltd, 1990. Folio, pp. 198, [2]; text in Japanese with titles in English; full-color illustrations, including images of 169 fine bindings; gold endpapers, full green cloth gilt; exhibition flyer laid in; fine in fine glassine dust jacket, slip case, and original cardboard box.

New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., n.d., 1920. Copy no. 1 of the Edition de Luxe limited to 10 copies, folio, pp. [10], 268; 164 plates, including 64 color armorial plates; hand-colored title page, initials and tailpieces, text printed on Japan vellum; full brown morocco with the arms of the Sayles family in gilt and painted in green… Read more about this item

Iowa City: The Qara Press, 1961. Edition limited to 190 copies (this, no. 115); 4to, pp. 33, [3]; 2 mounted portraits; fine copy in original gray paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. "Hand set & printed by Gerald McMonies Stevenson, Jr. as a part of Special Projects in Typography in the School of… Read more about this item

New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1986. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 127, [1]; illustrated throughout, some in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.

[Iowa City]: Windhover Press at the University of Iowa, 1981. Edition limited to 220 copies, square 12mo, pp. [46]; English and Italian text on facing pages; title page printed in black with yellow hand-coloring; contemporary full niger morocco, tear-drop onlay of marbled paper bisected with thin strip of dark morocco, terracotta endpapers, paper chemise with niger edges, the whole… Read more about this item

London: printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Fleet-Street; William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1812. 8vo, pp. xvi (i.e. xiv), 300; comprising Cantos I and II, and Poems, Appendix, and Translations (pp. 203-300); this fourth edition contains for the first time an Addition to the Preface (pp. ix-xiv). Wise, Byron, p.… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1835. 52 (of 53) volumes (lacking 53rd volume); small 8vo, 23 engraved portrait frontispieces, one for each author excepting William Falconer, as issued; Pickering device on title pages, mixed editions, but uniformly bound in half red polished calf over marbled boards by Webb & Hunt, Liverpool, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, black leather labels in 1,… Read more about this item

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2011. Small 4to, pp. 192; over 100 color photographs of bindings of the highlights of the British Library's collection, accompanied by short descriptions; purple cloth, gilt title on spine, previous owner's small signature at top corner of half title, else fine in fine pictorial dust jacket.

Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1819. 12mo, pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; contemporary home-made calf binding with blind geometric details, naively executed and with a few holes in the skin; nibbling to textblock corner resulting in loss of last word on 3 leaves, and again on bottom edge with loss of type on 7 leaves, tidestain on top… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, n.d., 1870. 8vo, pp. [iii], viii, 979, [1]; text in double column; later half red morocco over marbled boards by Macdonald, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; fine, bright copy. Originally published in London in 1870, this American issue is from sheets printed in London. Brewer (1810-1897) was a… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, n.d., 1900. 16 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; engraved portrait of Ainsworth in the first volume, and with 292 engraved illustrations throughout by George Cruikshank, H. K. Browne (Phiz), John Gilbert, Tony Johannot, John Franklin, plus wood engravings in the… Read more about this item

London: Maggs Bros, 1933. 8vo, pp. [2], 216; very good in original pictorial wrappers. 1500 items.