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Billets-doux, Valentines, and the Queen of Hearts

Sir W. Gurney Benham
Playing Cards: History of the Pack and Explanation of Its Many Secrets
(London: Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., 1931).

Bruce Bradley
A Valentine Legend
(San Francisco: Bird in Hand Press, 1972).

The First Valentine
(San Francisco: Bird in Hand Press, 1963).

James Roberts Brown
Loves Garland: Or, Posies for Rings, Hand-Kerchers, & Gloves; and Such
Pretty Tokens That Lovers Send Their Loves
(London: Bro. C.W.H. Wyman, 1883).

Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Illustrations by Barry Moser
(West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982).

Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway
The Quiver of Love: A Collection of Valentines, Ancient and Modern, with
Illustrations in Colors from Drawings by Walter Crane and K. Greenaway
(London: Marcus Ward, 1876).

Richard Garnett
De Flagello Myrteo: CCCLX Thoughts and Fancies on Love
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1906).

Henry VIII, King of England
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn: The Love Letters
(Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1937).

Lettres de Henri VIII à Anne Boleyn
(Paris: Impr. de Crapelet, 1835).

Arthur L. Humphreys
Loves Garland: A Book of Posy Gift Mottoes
(London: A.L. Humphreys, 1894).

Una Jeffers
Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers
(Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press, 1987).

Thomas Samuel Jones, Jr.
The Rose-Jar
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1917).

Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Lettres Recueillies Dans une Société, et
Publiées Pour L'instruction de Quelques Autres
(Paris: 1815).

Richard Le Gallienne
In Praise of Bishop Valentine
(London: Chiswick Press, 1893).

Mabel Dodge Luhan
Una and Robin
(Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1976).

Coriander Reisbord and Asa Peavy
Billets-Doux: Being an Exquisite Nosegay, or Posy…
(New Haven: Prickly Pair Editions, 1998).

James McNeill Whistler
Eden Versus Whistler: The Baronet & the Butterfly, a Valentine with a Verdict
(Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899).

Love’s Rhapsodies: Lyrics, Sonnets, and Other Verse

Nellie Barnes
American Indian Love Lyrics and Other Verse*
(New York: Macmillan, 1925).

Robert Seymour Bridges
The Growth of Love
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1894).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
(London: G. Bell, 1898).

Sonnets from the Portuguese
(London: A.L. Humphreys, 1913).

Sonnets from the Portuguese
(New York: P.C. Duschnes, 1950).

Robert Browning
Lyric Love
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1910).

Charles Bukowski
Bring Me Your Love*
Illustrations by Robert Crumb
(Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995).

John Donne
The Love Poems of John Donne
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905).

Lynn Emanuel
The Technology of Love: Fourteen Poems
Illustrations by Bonnie P. O'Connell
(Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1988).

Michael Field
Whym Chow, Flame of Love
(London: Eragny Press, 1914).

Thom Gunn
Unsought Intimacies: Poems of 1991
Etchings by Theophilus Brown
(Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1993).

John Hadfield
Georgian Love Songs
Decorations by Rex Whistler
(Preston, Hertfordshire: Cupid Press, 1949).

A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
(Philadelphia: H. Altemus Company, 1902).

Langston Hughes
"Misery," in Selected Poems*
Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
(New York: Knopf, 1959).

Lenore Kandel
The Love Book*
(San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966).

Edward Kleinschmidt
Bodysong: Love Poems
(Woodside: Heyeck Press, 1999).

Joanne Kyger and Michael Rothenberg
Man/Women*
Illustrations by Nancy Davis
(Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1987).

Man/Women*
Illustrations by Nancy Davis
(Pacifica: Big Bridge Press, 1988).

Michael McClure
Love Lion Book
(San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966).

George Meredith
Modern Love
(New York: M. Kennerly, 1909).

Charles Edmund Newton-Robinson
The Viol of Love: Poems
(London: John Lane, 1895).

Francesco Petrarch
"Could Laura But Share My Passion," in For Laurie: A Collection
of Love Poems from Various Ages and Cultures
(New York: Kelly/Winterton Press, 1985).

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel
Decorations by W. B. Macdougall
(London: Duckworth, 1898).

Sappho
Sappho
(Manaton, Devon: Boar's Head Press, 1932).

Sappho: A Translation by William Carlos Williams
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1957).

William Shakespeare
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
(London: Cassell, 1933).

Shakespeare's Sonnets
(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997).

Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol*
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1904).

The Song of Songs

Bible. Old Testament
The Song of Songs: Called by Many the Canticle of Canticles
(Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925).

Canticum Canticorum Salomonis: Quod Hebraice Dicitur Sir Hasirim
(Weimar: Cranach-Presse, 1931).

The Song of Songs
Woodcuts by James Reid
(New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931).

The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's
Illustrations and illuminations by Valenti Angelo
(New York: The Heritage Press, 1935).

The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's
(New York: Hammer Creek Press, 1959).

The Song of Songs: As Translated out of the Original Tongue
in the King James Version of the Holy Bible
Illustrations by Don Herron
(Austin: Herron, 1972).

The Song of Songs
Text and commentary by Robert Graves; illustrations by Hans Erni
(London: Collins, 1973).

The Work of Eric Gill

Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida: A Love Poem in Five Books
(New York: Literary Guild, 1932).

"Girl and Cupid," wood block for Troilus and Cressida, 1926.

"Man and Girl on Way to Church," wood engraving for Troilus and Cressida, 1927.

"Man and Girl on Way from Church," wood engraving for Troilus and Cressida, 1927.

"Title-page to Troilus and Cressida," wood engraving, 1927.

Eric Gill
Art & Love
(Bristol: D. Cleverdon, 1927).

"Clothes: for Dignity and Adornment," engraving on copper for Art & Love, 1927.

William Shakespeare
All the Love Poems of Shakespeare
(New York: Sylvan Press, 1947).

The Splendors and Miseries of Love

Apuleius
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Illustrations by Edmund Dulac
(New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951).

Honoré de Balzac
The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans
Etchings by Frédric-Emil Jeannin and Ricardo de los Rios, after
paintings by Gaston Bussière
(London: L. Smithers, 1897).

Clayton C. Barbeau
Dante & Gentucca: A Love Story
(Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974).

Joseph Bédier
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Illustrations by Robert Engles
(London: George Allen, 1903).

Robert Seymour Bridges
Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures
Woodcuts from designs by Edward Burne-Jones
(Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1935).

John Dryden
All For Love: Antony, Cleopatra: a Romantic Tragedy
(Kentfield: Allen Press, 1976).

Guillaume de Lorris
The Romaunt of the Rose
Illustrations by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson
(London: Florence Press, 1908).

Dorothea Hoaglin Hayden
The Love of Abraham and Sarah
(Pasadena: Ward Ritchie, 1935).

Charles Hobson
Andromeda Imagined
(San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1998).

Laurence Housman
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
Drawings by Paul Woodroffe and wood engravings by Clemence Housman
(London: J. Murray 1902).

Andrew Lang
Aucassin and Nicolette
(Praha: Státní Tiskárna, 1931).

Raoul Lefèvre
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892).

Richard Le Gallienne
English poems: "Paolo and Francesca"
(London: John Lane, 1895).

Longus
Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé
Illustrations by Gwen Raverat
(Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1933).

William Morris
Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894).

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Engravings by Eric Gill
(London: J.M. Dent, 1934-1936).

Romeo and Juliet
Pen and ink drawings by Michèle Forgeois; calligraphy by Mark Livingston
(Greenbrae: Allen Press, 1988).

Venus and Adonis*
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
(Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1931).

Venus & Adonis
(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1975).

Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1905).

Salome

Oscar Wilde
Salomé
(Paris: Librairie de L'art Indépendant, 1893).

Salome
Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley
(London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894).

Salome
Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley
(London: John Lane, 1920).

Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
Inventions by John Vassos
(New York: Dutton, 1927).

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act
Illustrations by Valenti Angelo
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927).

Salomé: Drama en un Acte
Illustrations par André Derain
(Paris: The Limited Editions Club, 1938).

Stories Romantic and Mysterious

J. Barbey d'Aurevilly
What Never Dies: A Romance
Translated into English by Sebastian Melmoth (Oscar Wilde)
(Privately printed: 1928).

Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Illustrations by Valenti Angelo
(New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934).

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
Photographs by Lou Stoumen
(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986).

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night: A Romance
Decorations by Edward Shenton
(New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1934).

David Garnett
Aspects of Love*
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1955).

Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
(New York: Viking Press, 1951).

Herbert Gold
Love and Like
(London: A. Deutsch, 1961).

Richard Le Gallienne
Old Love Stories Retold
(London: John Lane, 1924).

Anaïs Nin
A Child Born Out of the Fog
(New York: Gemor Press, 1947).

The Four-Chambered Heart
(New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950).

Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Illustrations by Harry Clarke
(New York: Brentano's, 1923).

Abbé Prévost
Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
Illustrations dessinées et imprimées par T.M. Cleland
(Stamford: Overbrook Press, 1958).

Sir Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
(London: William Du-Gard, 1655).

G. Soulié de Morant
Chinese Love Tales*
Illustrations by Valenti Angelo
(New York: Illustrated Editions, 1935).

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Silverado Squatters
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1883).

Love is Where You Find It

L. Frank Baum
The Tin Woodman of Oz
Illustrations by John R. Neill
(Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1918).

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Illustrations by W. W. Denslow
(Chicago: George M. Reilly, 1900).

W.E. Brown
Jack and Jill: A Love Story
Illustrations by Elisabeth Curtis
(San Francisco: W. Doxey, 1891).

The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Feast of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
(New York: Holiday House, 1935).

The Marriage of Cock Robin & Jenny Wren
(Lexington: High Noon Press, 1956).

The Knell of Cock Robin
(Oakland: Patterson Press, 1986).

Winifred Rich
Tony's White Room: And How the White Rose of Love
Bloomed and Flourished There
(San Francisco: P. Elder & Co., 1911).

Wolfram von Eschenbach
The Romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail
Wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski
(Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1990).

The Word is the Thing: Love, Heart, Romance

Gelett Burgess
Laughing, Must I Love Thee!: A Romance of San Francisco
(manuscript; 1898).

Richard Coburn
The Romance of Dirt: Being an Exposition on the Adventures
of a Knight of the Soil
(San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1924).

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Far Rockaway of the Heart
(New York: New Directions, 1997).

Robert Graves
Love Respelt
(Garden City: Doubleday, 1966).

Dick Higgins
A Book About Love & War & Death
(San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969).

D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's Unpublished Foreword to "Women in Love"
(San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1936).

Jack London
With a Heart Full of Love: Jack London's Presentation Inscriptions
to the Women in His Life
(Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1986).

E. Powys Mathers
Love Night: A Laotian Gallantry
Engravings by Buckland Wright
(London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936).

Guy de Maupassant,
Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book
(San Anselmo: Emily Woodward, 1979).

Sir Thomas More
The Heart of Thomas More: Readings for Every Day of the Year
Wood engraving by Richard Shirley Smith
(London: Burns & Oates, 1966).

Ralph Moreno
The Berkeley Love and War Songs
(Oakland: Hartmus Handpress, 1957).

William Prynne
The Unlovelinesse of Love-lockes, or, A Summarie Discourse
Prooving the Wearing and Nourishing of a Locke or Love-locke
to be Altogether Unseemely and Unlawfull unto Christians
(London: 1628).

William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost
Engravings by Eric Gill
(London: J.M. Dent, 1934-1936).

William Butler Yeats
The Land of Heart's Desire
(Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1909).

Heart's Delight and the Nature of Love

Bible. Old Testament.
The Book of Ruth
Illustrations by Valenti Angelo
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1926).

William Everson
The Mate-Flight of Eagles: Two Poems on the Love-Death of the Cross
Illustrations by Richard Hotchkiss; photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann
(Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977).

Rudoph Koch
Christian Symbols
Illustrations by Rudolph Koch and Fritz Kredel
(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996).

Louis de La Rivière
Traicté des Quatre Sacrez Amours: Divisé en Quatre Livres
(Lyon: Claude Rigaud & Claude Obert, 1630).

Plato
Phaedrus: A Dialogue
(San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1976).

Symposium
Engravings by Peter Forster
(Marlborough, England: Libanus Press, 1986).

Saint Francis de Sales
A Treatise of the Love of God
(Doway: Gerard Pinchon, 1630).

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
The Archbishop of Cambray's Dissertation on Pure Love,
with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Lady,
for Whose Sake the Archbishop Was Banish'd from Court
(London: Christophor Sowr, 1750).


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Valentines courtesy of J. Goldsmith Antiques, San Francisco