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AMERICAN BOOK ARTS]. WALTERS, C., binder . ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA. The Kingdom of Books, Boston 1927, red morocco, covers with double gilt fillet and onlaid green morocco border enclosing mosaic design of repeated stylized leafy plants in variously colored onlaid morocco, similarly decorated, dark green morocco gilt-panelled doublures, red moiré silk liners, t.e.g., very slight scuff-marks to corners and head and tail of spine, morocco-backed chemise, slipcase (rubbed) , First Trade Edition, color halftone frontispiece, halftone plates and numerous line-block text illustrations; LUCIUS APULEIUS. The...Tale of Cupid and Psyche translated...by Walter Pater, San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor for John Howell, [1914], red morocco, covers with large panel of repeated semi-abstract flowering plants in various shades of onlaid green, brown, red and beige morocco, spine similarly decorated and gilt-lettered, dark blue morocco doublures within triple gilt fillet and onlaid brown and salmon morocco border, burgundy moiré silk liners, t.e.g., others uncut, small scratch to upper doublure, chemise and slipcase , one of 250 copies, frontispiece woodcut and facing page within woodcut border, printed in red and black -- CHARLES D. ALLEN. American Book-Plates, London 1895, blue-black morocco, covers with gilt rule border round inner frame of interlocking double gilt rules with leafy sprays and floral tools, spine and turn-ins gilt, original wrappers bound in, by G.P. Putnam's Sons, slipcase , no. 19 of 78 copies printed for England on Japanese vellum, numerous specimens of engraved bookplates, wood-engraved reproductions of bookplates in text -- BRADSTREET'S, binders . DE VINNE PRESS. C. R. HILDEBURN. Sketches of Printers and Printing in Colonial New York, New York 1895, dark green morocco, covers with gilt dentelle and inlaid brown morocco border, spine panelled in gilt with inlays, gold-tooled morocco doublures, green watered silk liners with gold-tooled border, non-matching chemise and slipcase , no. 153 of 375 copies, etched frontispiece portrait and 2 plates, facsimiles in text, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR to John Oliver -- AUSTIN DOBSON. Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Second Series, London 1894, 4to, vellum-backed boards, uncut and unopened, folding case , NUMBER 41 OF 200 LARGE-PAPER COPIES, halftone plates, etched frontispiece reproducing an eighteenth-century etching by D. Chodowiecki, a copy of the original etching pasted down on facing blank ( unglued ), with an AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION VERSE BY DOBSON INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS, 8 lines, signed and dated 21 Nov. [18]94, one page, 4to, integral blank leaf, loosely inserted , the latter's bookplate on front free endleaf, loosely inserted engraved bookplate of Charles B. Foote, signed in pencil by the engraver E. D. French; together 5 vols., all but the last 8vo, the first four with top edges gilt, binders' gilt stamp-signatures on upper or lower turn-ins, slipcases worn , all but the first LIMITED EDITIONS, the last three with titles printed in red and black. (5)