HUMPHREYS, David.—An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major General Israel Putnam. Addressed to the State Society of the Cincinnati in Connecticut, And first published by their order. By Col. David Humphreys. With notes and additions. With an appendix, containing an historical and topographical sketch of Bunker Hill Battle. By S. Swett. Boston: published by Samuel Avery, . . . 1818. 12mo, blue levant morocco, gilt fillets, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Portrait by T. Gimbrede from a drawing by Miss A. Hall after the original by Trumbull. The dedication to the Hon. Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth is dated Mount-Vernon, June 4, 1788.
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel.—The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages; an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the IVth. to the XVIIth. centuries. By Henry Noel Humphreys. Illustrated by a series of examples, of the size of the originals, selected from the most beautiful MSS. of the various periods, executed on stone and printed in colours by Owen Jones. London: Longman, Brown, . . . M DCCC XL IX. Royal folio, red levant morocco, gilt back, side borders, gilt edges, by F. Bedford.
Thirty-nine plates in gold, silver, and colours, and the letter-press title of 1844.
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel.—A History of the Art of Printing, from its Invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century. Preceded by a short account of the Origin of the Alphabet, and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying MS. Books before the Invention of Printing. By H. Noel Humphreys . . . With one hundred illustrations . . . London: Bernard Quaritch, . . . 1867. Imperial 4to, original ornamental cloth, uncut edges.
No. 209 of three hundred copies of the first issue printed.
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel.—Masterpieces of the Early Printers & Engravers. A series of facsimiles from rare and curious books, remarkable for illustrative devices, beautiful borders, decorative initials, printers' marks, elaborate title-pages, &c. By H. Noel Humphreys, . . . London: Henry Sotheran & Co. . . . 1870. Folio, figured green and yellow silk.
Seventy plates containing eighty-one illustrations.
HUNNEWELL, James Frothingham.—Triumphs of Early Printing A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of The Club of Odd Volumes, at the University Club, Dec. 26, 1901, by the President James Frothingham Hunnewell Boston The Club of Odd Volumes 1902. 4to, half brown morocco, uncut edges.
No. 36 of sixty-eight copies printed.