Illustrated & Plate Books
Five on Kirrin Island Again.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1947] 1950. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, fourth impression. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the..... More
Five Run Away Together. The Third Story of the Adventures of the Four Children and their Dog.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With..... More
Ouvres Diverses. Du Sieur D***. Avec le Traité du Sublime ou du Merveilleux dans le Discours, Traduit du Grec de Longin. Nouvelle Edition, Reveuë et Augmentée de Diverses Pieces Nouvelles.
Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1692. [French] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 10cm), pp.390 [18]. With five copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Title and half-title lettered in red and black, vignette engraving to title. Contemporary speckled full calf. Gilt titles, gilt embellishment, and raised bands to spine. All edges..... More
Ian Botham: My Illustrated Life.
London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007. [Cricket]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.256. Illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author 'To Max', in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered illustrated boards with matching dust-jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
The Art of the Illustrator. W. Hatherell; Bernard Partridge; Lawson Wood; Bert Thomas; Cyrus Cuneo; Frank Reynolds; Balliol Salmon; Harry Rountree; W. Heath-Robinson; C.A. Shepperson; E.J. Sullivan; F.H. Townsend; H.M. Bateman; C.E. Brock; Spencer Pryse; Warwick Reynolds.
London: The Press Art School, no date [1918]. [Art Reference] ORIGINAL PORTFOLIOS. Fifteen parts out of twenty. Folio (41 x 28cm), each part having a letter-press text of six leaves, including a half-tone photographic portrait of the illustrator tipped in as a frontispiece, as well as six mounted half-tone illustrated..... More
Hauspostille. Mit Anleitungen, Gesangs-Noten Und Einem Anhange.
Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.XII; 156; [4]. With one black and white plate, illustrated by Caspar Neher. Ten leaves of sheet music and publisher's catalogue to rear. Shell marbled paper over boards, brown label with white titles to upper and spine. Top edge..... More
The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh.
London: John Gifford, 1972. [English History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 266 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With numerous in-text maps and halftone illustrations, folding map to rear. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With..... More
Rough Riders of the Pampas. A Tale of Ranch Life in South America.
London: Blackie and Son, 1909. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green..... More
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age.
London: V and A Publishing, 2012. [Art and Design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.400. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's purple paper-covered boards with white titles to spine. Gold endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £40. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and..... More
The Military Orchid. With Decorations by Stephen Bone.
London: The Bodley Head, 1948. [Botany] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.135 [1]. With in-text line illustrations by Bone, and a coloured frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap. Some light dust damage to top edge. Some..... More
A History of English Costume.
London: Methuen, 1937. [Historical Costume]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 227 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's red cloth with blue titles to spine. With the white illustrated dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout. Slight reading lean. Chipping to jacket edges; light toning to jacket spine. Very..... More
Beasts in Heraldry.
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.96. Containing twenty colour illustrations by Marie Angel (1923-2010). Publisher's cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine, presented in the original blue paper-covered box, with a cream insert and a tri-fold flier for the..... More
Folktales of the Native American.
London: The Folio Society, 2012. [Native Americans] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.176. With six colour illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and an illustration to upper. With the green paper-covered slipcase. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. More
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
Me and You.
London: Doubleday, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[26]. Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine copy. A modern re-telling of..... More
Willy's Stories.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: South America.
London: A. & C. Black, 1928. [South American Travel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 88. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the continent. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, re-priced by the publisher..... More
A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion (A.D. 1265-1502).
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii [4] 586. With twelve halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Red publisher's cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Interior lightly marked/spotted with some foxing to prelims and rear leaves. Some dulling to t.e.g...... More
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With 35 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway, Engraved and Prnted in Colour by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. 4to. Publisher's light brown glazed pictorial boards, dark brown cloth spine, green end papers, all edges tinted green. Corners bumped and frayed, extremities rubbed and slightly scuffed; boards dusty. Inner hinges starting; gathering showing at few places. Very good indeed. As Schuster & Engen..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1909. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND BY BICKERS. Two volumes in one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 786. With two tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrations of Browning. Blue full morocco to boards, gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Gilt roll-tooled dentelle to turn-ins. Blue endpapers. All edges gilt..... More
Miffy at the Zoo.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST THUS, a revised translation. Square octavo (16 x 16cm), 14 leaves, with text facing full colour illustrations by the author. SIGNED by the translator in black ink to copyright page at rear. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. A fine, as-new copy..... More
The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the Family of Buchanan.
Montreal: Printed for Private Circulation, 1911. [Canadian Legal History and Genealogy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] xiv; 475 [3] 5 [1] viii [4]. With 13 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the subject, each with a tissue guard. Number 126 of just 300 copies SIGNED by..... More
The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
George Buday's Eleventh Little Book: The Rules of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, containing a useful record of the most indispensable laws which regulate the manner and behaviour of Polished Society, including maxims, prescriptive of the Correct conduct at Parties, the Dinner Table and on other occasions of Domestic of Social Intercourse, selected from various old handbooks, once much favoured by supporters of Progress and Refinement.
London: Published by the author and printed at the Albion Hand Press, 1954. [Private Press] FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, an advance copy printed for friends and acquaintances of the artist. Pott octavo (14 x 11cm), pp.[28]. With two full page plates and seven vignette wood engravings by Buday. Publisher's plain paper..... More