Redouté, Pierre Joseph. Choix des plus belles fleurs: prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits: groupées quelquefois, et souvent animées par des insectes et des papillons; gravées, imprimées en couleur et retouchées au pinceau avec un soin qui doit répondre de leur perfection. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1827, [1833].
Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, MDCCCLXXXIII [1883].
Produced in a larger than usual format – crown octavo – and bound in full leather with elaborate blind-stamped cover (fig. 1), Pyle’s lavish and handsome volume urgently proclaimed to its earliest admirers, this is no ordinary children’s book.
Ptolemy (100-170 A.D.)
Geographia Vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1545.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
The Iliad of Homer, translated by Mr. Pope. 6 volumes. London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, 1715-20.
Phaedrus (15 BC-50 AD)
Phaedri, Aug. Liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Rittershusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno. Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans and Son, 1745.
The Wonderful Leaps of Sam Patch. N[ew] Y[ork] : McLoughlin Brothers, [187-?]. (The Mary Faulk Markiewicz Collection of Children’s Books)
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1845).
Select Views of London; With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting
of Its Public Buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1816.
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures. An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis. By G. S. Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Traitté de la Peintvre de Leonard de Vinci donné av pvblic et tradvit d'Italien en François par R. F. S. D. C. Paris: Jacques Langlois, 1651.
(This volume is part of the Anthony J. and Frances A. Guzzetta Collection of Leonardo da Vinci, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation, University of Rochester).
Batty Langley (bap. 1696-1751).
New Principles of Gardening, or, the laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, & c. London: A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, 1728.
