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"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." -Thomas Carlyle
Welcome to my virtual book collection. Since collecting actual books is somewhat cost-prohibitive, I've begun to amass all of the books I would love to have if I had the means. Some are new, lots are old, all are unique or beautiful or unusual or in some other way have captured my fancy. Enjoy browsing!
Special Collections: Fine Bindings ~ Fairies and Fairy Tales ~ Terror and Madness ~ Poetry ~ Food, Drink and Apothecary ~ Science Fiction ~ Illuminations, Lettering and Hand-Coloring ~ Magic ~ Supernatural and Occult ~ Alchemy ~ Science and Technical ~ Maritime ~ Costumes ~ Humor ~ Children's books ~ Legend of King Arthur ~ Americana ~ 18th Century ~ 19th Century Authors and illustrators: Edgar Allan Poe ~ Jules Verne ~ Edmund Dulac ~ Kay Nielsen ~ Arthur Rackham ~ Edward Gorey ~ Charles Dickens ~ H.P. Lovecraft ~ William Hope Hodgson ~ Mark Twain ~ Lewis Carroll ~ Salvador Dali ~ George Cruikshank ~ Emily Dickinson ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~ H.G. Wells
The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter.. London: Privately printed for the author, December, 1902.
12mo, original pictorial pink boards. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. True first edition, one of only 500 privately printed copies, of Potter’s second book, which she called “my own favorite amongst my little books,” with frontispiece and 15 illustrations in color, three of which do not appear in the first trade edition of October, 1903. A lovely and desirable inscribed presentation-association copy of one of the rarest Beatrix Potter titles, in near-fine condition.
“But it is in the old story that all the beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).”
5 months ago on December 13, 2011 at 03:59pm
![A Happy Pair
Frederick E. Weatherly, Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
First and Only edition. 6 chromolithograph illustrations, each signed H.B.P., and upper wrapper designed by Beatrix Potter, original pictorial wrappers, g.e., tied with white silk cord finished with two tassles, spine split and crease to lower left corner of upper cover, internally fine, preserved in modern green morocco box, 16mo, London, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, and New York, Geo. C.Whitney, [1890]
*** The first book illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Rejected by the first publishers she sent the six Christmas card designs to, the second publisher Hildesheimer & Faulkner accepted the designs and sent her a cheque in payment.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lccw56dAqx1qabm59o1_500.jpg)
A Happy Pair
Frederick E. Weatherly, Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
First and Only edition. 6 chromolithograph illustrations, each signed H.B.P., and upper wrapper designed by Beatrix Potter, original pictorial wrappers, g.e., tied with white silk cord finished with two tassles, spine split and crease to lower left corner of upper cover, internally fine, preserved in modern green morocco box, 16mo, London, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, and New York, Geo. C.Whitney, [1890]
*** The first book illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Rejected by the first publishers she sent the six Christmas card designs to, the second publisher Hildesheimer & Faulkner accepted the designs and sent her a cheque in payment.
1 year ago on November 23, 2010 at 04:13pm
The Tale of Two Bad Mice Potter, Beatrix. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1904.
First Edition of “The Tale of Two Bad Mice,” in the Original Deluxe Cloth Binding and Plain Glassine Dust Jacket. Original deluxe binding in maroon cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a rectangular blind panel outlined in gilt and blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate II). All edges gilt.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Little Jackie/February 21st. 1906./Johannesburg.”
2 years ago on May 18, 2010 at 12:28pm
