Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bindings, 1830-1910

Illustrated astronomy : a pictorial display of the astronomical phemomena of the universe with sixty-three coloured plates, illustrating a series of familiar discourses on astronomy

Punster's pocket-book, or, The art of punning enlarged

Pippa passes

Cover design by Margaret Armstrong [signed MA]. Bookseller's ticket: Henry R. Johnson

Poetical works and remains of Henry Kirke White

Cover and spine engraving by John Leighton [signed JL]

Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, and other sketches

Main-travelled roads being six stories of the Mississippi Valley

Ptocowa : a strange, sad story of fifteen years in Dixie, as told in a single night

Trent's trust, and other stories

Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman

Youma the story of a West-Indian slave

Bookplate: "Ex libris: John Northern Hilliard." Autograph: John Northern Hilliard

Percy's masque, a drama, in five acts

Rip Van Winkle

Ownership inscription and bookplate: Alice Roff Estey

Inklings of adventure

Bound in blue geometric ribbon-embossed cloth

When God laughs, and other stories

Bookseller's ticket and stamp: W. H. Wheeler & Son, The Old Corner Drug Store, Springfield, VT

Series of discourses addressed to young men : on the principles and duties by which their conduct should be regulated

Songs from Vagabondia

Cover and endpaper design by Thomas Buford Meteyard [signed]. This edition is limited to 750 copies.

Sir Marmaduke Maxwell : a dramatic poem, The mermaid of Galloway, The legend of Richard Faulder, and Twenty Scottish songs

Presentation inscription: "To Thomas Carlyle, esq., with the best respects of Allan Cunningham"

Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people

Autographs: J.F. Streatfield 1862

Fata Morgana : romance of art student life in Paris

Green cloth binding stamped in green, peach and gold

Blue jackets of '76 : a history of the naval battles of the American revolution

Copy 2 of 4 copies, each a binding variant: Off-white diagonal rib cloth pictorially stamped in brown, white, black and gold

Poetical works of Samuel Rogers

Dream days

Olive green diagonal rib cloth binding pictorially stamped in white, green, red, black and gold

Boy's country-book : being the real life of a country boy written by himself, exhibiting all the amusements, pleasures, and pursuits of children in the country

Poor Matt : or, The clouded intellect

Talks on manures : a series of familiar and practical talks between the author and the deacon, the doctor, and other neighbors, on the whole subject of manures and fertilizers

Inquiry into the condition and prospects of the African race in the United States : and the means of bettering its fortunes

Bound in plum diagonal fine rib cloth with overall floral and seaweed ribbon-embossed pattern

Way to do good : or, The Christian character mature

Bound in brown floral ribbon-embossed cloth, stamped in blind and gold

Nautical lays of a landsman

Terracotta linen finish cloth binding stamped in green and yellow

Man on the box

Blue green linen finish cloth binding pictorially stamped in green, black, and peach

In ghostly Japan

Blue linen finish cloth binding stamped in white blue and gold

Ladies' and gentlemen's mirror of fortune : or, The analysis of life : illustrated by gems from the best writers, arranged in a new and original manner, for the entertainment of literary and social circles

Cover and spine engraving by John Feely [signed JF]

Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland

Cover and spine engraving by John Leighton [signed JL]. Binder's ticket: Westleys & Co. London. Presentation inscription: "Catherine Sophia Heathcote, Xmas 1863."

Chronicles of the photographs of spiritual beings and phenomena invisible to the material eye, interblended with personal narrative

Illustrated family gymnasium : containing the most improved methods of applying gymnastic, calisthenic, kinesipathic, and vocal exercises to the development of the bodily organs ... and the cure of disease and deformities

Blue morocco grain cloth binding stamped in blind and gold

Illustrated family gymnasium : containing the most improved methods of applying gymnastic, calisthenic, kinesipathic, and vocal exercises to the development of the bodily organs ... and the cure of disease and deformities

Cover and spine engravings signed: JF [i.e., John Feely]

Beauty in common things

Blue sand grain cloth binding stamped in blind, black and gold

Under the hill and other essays in prose and verse

Bound in blue cloth

Cricket on the hearth : a fairy tale of home

Cape Cod

Cover design signed: MA [i.e.Margaret Armstrong]

Divining rod : a story of the oil regions

Green linen finish cloth binding stamped in orange, pale green and gold

White shield : stories

Binding: Lavender vertical rib cloth, stamped in purple, white and gold

Ore-seeker : a tale of the Hartz

Lavender bubble grain cloth binding stamped in gold

Foote family : or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with genealogical notes of Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., and John Foote and others of the name, who settled more recently in New York

Blue net grain cloth stamped in gold

Vicar of Wakefield

Blue morocco-grain cloth binding stamped in blind and gold

Roderick : the last of the Goths

Walden

Cover and dust jacket design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Autograph: S. [?] Josephine Carleton

King's End

Bound in green ribbed cloth stamped in gold

Sweet home, or, Friendship's golden altar

Red straight-grain morocco cloth binding

Hanging of the crane : and other poems of the home

White linen finish cloth binding stamped in blind and gold

In the garden of dreams : lyrics and sonnets

Quarter bound in apple green glazed cloth with white glazed cloth sides

Untitled album containing sample book covers (front cover only) of cloth or paper, stamped or printed in colors, in varying styles of design and illustration and presumably designed by Thomas Watson Ball. Album of black straight grain morocco grain…

Love's dilemmas

Bound in natural linen weave cloth

Poems

Plum ribbon-embossed fine rib cloth binding

Behind the arras : a book of the unseen

Bound in pale green paper over boards

More songs from Vagabondia

Bound in tan paper over boards

Native of Winby : and other tales

Green linen finish cloth binding stamped in gold

"Posson Jone'" and Pere Raphael : with a new word setting forth how and why the two tales are one

Bound in blue ribbed cloth

Ranson's folly

Maroon cloth binding pictorially stamped in yellow, gray, blue, white and gold

Vera the medium

Purple vertical rib cloth binding stamped in green and gold

Indoor studies

cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman

In Kedar's tents

Terracotta linen finish cloth binding stamped in cream, black and gold

Napoleon Jackson, the gentleman of the plush rocker

Maroon cloth binding stamped in green and gold

Boston book : being specimens of metropolitan literature, occasional and periodical

Bound in blue-green morocco grain cloth stamped in blind and gold

Calaynos : a tragedy

Bound in green and black printed cloth, stamped in blind and gold

Tattle-tales of Cupid

Bound in black linen weave cloth

Story of Aaron (so named), the son of Ben Ali : told by his friends and acquaintances

Bound in pale brown linen weave cloth

Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings

Blue diagonal rib cloth binding stamped in gold and black

House-boat on the Styx : being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades

Green linen finish cloth binding stamped in red, black and gold

Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys : a midsummer ramble in the Dolomites

Terracotta cloth binding stamped in blind, black and gold with full cover pictorial design stamped in varying shades of brown, gray, green, pink, yellow and white