Illustrated & Plate Books
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
Poor Jack.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. [Novel] Finely bound. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 384; [2], blank. Red half calf binding over red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands with blind panelling. Black and white pictorial frontispiece, illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield. Some spotting, damp marks to..... More
Anatomy for Artists.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. [Art and Anatomy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (29 x 20cm), pp.[2] xiv; 436 [4]. Illustrated with 200 original in-text drawings by Cuthbert, engraved by J. and G. Nicholls. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and black horizontal ruling to boards. Top edge..... More
A Guide to Taxila.
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1921. [Pakistan Archaeology] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 132. With 30 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and several folding maps and plans. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Red endpapers. A nice clean copy, with some rubbing to..... More
The Haunted Major. Author of 'His Excellency the Governor' etc.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1951. First Illustrated Edition, small 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in pale green pictorial dust jacket. Including 10 comical illustrations throughout the text by John McKay. Slightly bumped to head of spine, some foxing to top edge. In bright dust jacket..... More
The Children of Africa. Written for all English-Speaking Children.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Uncle.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 160; [2]. With in-text line drawings by Blake throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth over boards..... More
The Arctic Forests.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. [Arctic Travel and Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 320. With 53 half-tone plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt illustration stamped to upper..... More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Illustrated in colour and black and white, also with maps.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Two volumes. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.xxx; 349 [3]; pp.xiv; 338 [2]. With numerous half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces and a number of colour plates. With the three folding maps in a pouch at the rear of volume II. Publisher's navy..... More
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
With the "Ophir" Round the Empire, an Account of the Tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1901.
London: Cassell and Company, 1902. [English History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 332. With 23 halftone plates and a frontispiece map of the Ophir. Red full calf, gilt armorial device of the Royal Academy Gosport to upper board. Brown label with gilt lettering, gilt tooling, and..... More
Acting Charades. Deeds Not Words: A Christmas Game to Make a Long Evening Short.
London: D. Bogue, no date [circa 1850]. [Victorian Party Games] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (17 x 14cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Printed by Vizetelly. With a hand-coloured wood engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as numerous further in-text illustrations by Hine. Publisher's red cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid..... More
Guess How Much I Love You.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, first impression thus. Quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Jeram. Light blue endpapers. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards, with the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Sir Ned and the Nasties.
London: Andersen Press, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[28]. With colour illustration by David McKee to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page, with an additional signature and drawing to copyright page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A...... More
Belinda Brown.
London: Andersen Press, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and with an additional signature and a drawing to copyright page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway [and] The Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales Railways, Including the Amalgamated West Midland Line, and the Chester and Holyhead Line, also, the Isle of Man. With descriptions of the most Important Manufactories in the several Towns on the Lines.
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Co., no date [1861]. [Railway Guide] SECOND EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 800; pp.[6]; 280; [2]. Filled with wood engravings by the author, as well as a steel-engraved frontispiece of Chepstow Castle by Bartlett and Cousen. In a mid-twentieth..... More
A history of drugs.
Basle: F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., 1971. [Drugs and Herbal Stimulants] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY, first edition. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket. A publisher's presentation copy, with a bookplate dedicated to Dr. M.J...... More
A Book Of Milliganimals.
London, Dennis Dobson. 1968. First edition, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. 8vo. 88pp. Fine in publisher's gilt titled blue cloth. Clad in a vibrant, elephant adorned purple dustwrapper showing only the slightest hint of wear, it's all very unfaded and lovely. To top it all off, it's inscribed by Mr.Milligan to the..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [4] 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; pictorial map endpapers. A moderately used copy with..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. [Children's classic] SEVENTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; pictorial map endpapers. Blue ink gift note to first blank, and..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiii [3] 554 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of John Milton and facsimile first edition title-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top..... More
Peeps at History: Scotland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1912. [Scotland] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 96. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by J. Jellicoe, and 24 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in blue..... More
Flying and Soldiering.
London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With seven black and white photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in red to spine. With the mottled blue and white dust jacket, priced at..... More
A Century of Kate Greenaway.
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1946. [Children's Books] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.15 [1]. With a half-tone photographic frontispiece portrait of Greenaway, and two colour plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers; sewn. Covers rubbed to spine, with light handling otherwise, as well as some stains and browning to..... More