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Bailey's Democracy.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. [Nude Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs of assorted male and female nudes on clay paper. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, and blank white glossy paper laid over upper. Light wear and rubbing. Very good... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Groundsel and Necklaces.
London and Glasgow: Black and Son Limited, (n.d.). Small octavo, pp. 48. Bound in paper-covered boards with central illustration, titles in black, in an illustrated dustjacket designed by the author. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with colour plates accompanying a whimsical story about a girl named Jenny. Boards in excellent condition..... More
![The Alder Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58252.jpg?v=1603516612)
The Alder Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Black Medick Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58248.jpg?v=1603516612)
The Black Medick Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Cat's-Ear Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58254.jpg?v=1603516612)
The Cat's-Ear Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Goose-Grass Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58251.jpg?v=1603516612)
The Goose-Grass Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Hazel-Catkin Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58253.jpg?v=1603516612)
The Hazel-Catkin Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Lime Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58260.jpg?v=1603516613)
The Lime Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Pine Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58258.jpg?v=1603516613)
The Pine Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Silver Birch Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58256.jpg?v=1603516613)
The Silver Birch Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Stork's-Bill Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58261.jpg?v=1603516613)
The Stork's-Bill Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Sycamore Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58257.jpg?v=1603516613)
The Sycamore Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
![The Tulip Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate]. Cicely Mary BARKER](/pictures/thumb/58030.jpg?v=1603993263)
The Tulip Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1871. [Fine Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES, a new edition. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[8] 286 [2]. With 26 fine colour-printed plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard, as well as 69 in-text woodcuts. Publisher's green cloth with elaborate gilt titles and decoration..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From the Little White Bird. A New Edition.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [1912]. [Children's illustrated] REVISED 'BEST' EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[8]; 126 [2]. With 50 chromolithographic plates by Rackham, as well as further occasional wood engravings. Exquisitely bound in full native red oasis morocco, gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with gilt character tools..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: Containing a General View of the Valuable Productions and the Political Importance of this Flourishing Kingdom; and also of such European Settlements as were Visited on the Voyage: with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants. To which is Annexed and Account of a Journey, made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the Remotest Point in the Interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto Penetrated. The Facts and Descritions taken from a Manuscript Journal with a Chart of the Route. Illustrated and Embellished with several Engravings by Medland, Coloured after the Original Drawings by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Daniell.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[2] xx; 447 [3]. With 21 coloured engraved plates, some folding. Bound without the half-title. Contemporary brown mottled calf boards with panelled decoration in gilt, carefully re-spined in the later nineteenth century in matching..... More
The Lonely Rhinoceros.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small quarto (24 x 26cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by Manhes to almost every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £3.95. Light rubbing and bumping. Near fine. More
Stories from the Pentamerone.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1911. First Goble Illustrated Edition. Quarto. Bound in recent half red morocco over red cloth boards, blind ruling to boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; all edges stained red. Publisher's original decorative upper board, showing woman draped in oriental-style textiles in gilt, with..... More
Mechanical Brides of The Uncanny.
Published by Mr. Bateman, somewhere in the vasty expanses of the New World. 2009. First edition stated. Limited edition (no. 97) of 100 copies. Signed by the creator to verso of limitation card. 21 photgraphic carte de visites, limitation card and a further card offering some historical context and further..... More
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[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Centenary Edition.
London: Pavilion, 1999. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST FOREMAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.160. With colour illustrations by Foreman throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by..... More
The Savoy. An Illustrated Quarterly [complete in 8 issues].
London: Leonard Smithers, 1895 and 1896. Complete 8 issues, with the suppressed prospectus, Christmas card, inserts, etc. Eight vols. Quarto. First two vols bound in pink paper boards, front boards with Beardsley illustrations in black ink, titles in black to spine. Vols three to eight bound in soft blue paper..... More