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An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1900. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.22. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men in Georgian attire holding a portrait of a lady in side profile. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. Publisher's advertisement to rear. A...... More
Come Lasses and Lads.
London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [1884]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY EDITION. Square octavo booklet (21 x 24cm), pp.24. Illustrated by Caldecott to every page, including several colour plates. Publisher's yellow illustrated paper covers, sewn. Rear adverts suggest the first year of publication 1884, but perhaps not the first issue..... More
Randolph Caldecott's "Graphic" pictures.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST THUS. Oblong quarto (28 x 38cm), pp.96. With colour illustrations to every page, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Each leaf printed to one side only, largely by Edmund Evans using his superior six-colour process, but with pp.81-96 printed in..... More
Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office. Being Tales Weird and Tales Ghostly, Tales Humorous and Tales Pathetic, Tales Exciting and Tales Curious.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth to bevelled boards with gilt titles to upper and spine. 'Routledge's Hearth and Home Library' blocked in blind to upper. Ruling in blind to upper, spine, and lower. Top edge gilt. Toning..... More
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Pictured by R. Caldecott.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1890. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.30. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men carrying a dead dog upon a stretcher, flanked by mournful black hounds. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. A lovely copy of a...... More
The History and Antiquities of Dartford. With Topographical Notices of the Neighbourhood.
London: John Russell Smith, 1844. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, SUBSCRIBER'S COPY WITH MLS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; [1]; 478; [2]. Modern russet cloth, gilt titles to a red calf label to spine, the binding done by Canterbury Bookbinders. Portrait frontispiece and hand-coloured engraved title page plus fourteen further plates (some..... More
The Circular Study.
New York: McLure Phillips. 1900. First US Edition. Publisher's decorated bottle green ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board and decorated with a swirling art deco device surrounding an embossed key. Slight scuffing to extremities and spine ends, essentially a clean, tight copy. Page edges untrimmed, internally..... More
The House of the Whispering Pines.
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910. 8vo. Uncommon British First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and to upper with colour illustration within a gilt frame. Slight rubbing to extremities. Edges dusty. A sound, attractive copy. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of Detective Fiction..... More
The Filigree Ball.
America, The Bobbs Merrill Co. 1903. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative title in red with the subject of the title, the Filigree Ball, stamped in gilt to upper board. One illustration as frontispiece by C.M. Relyea. 21 pages advertisements to rear of text. Gentle..... More
Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION with fine colour illustrations. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.52. With fine coloured illustrations by the author, printed by Evans at Rose Place, London. Publisher's green cloth to spine, titled in brown, with glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards..... More
Almanack for 1895.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1895. ORIGINAL ALMANACK. (8 x 10cm), with frontispiece, pictorial title, twelve illustrations with inset text, and four further illustrations depicting the seasons. Includes two pages on the subject of postage in the UK towards rear of text. Neatly bound in publisher's cream cloth with illustrations..... More
The April Baby's Book of Tunes. With the Story of How They Came to be Written.
London: Macmillan and Company, Limited. 1900. FIRST EDITION, CLEAN COPY of Greenaway's final book. Octavo, pp.35. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth blocked in colour, all edges coloured deep red, large title to spine and matching red title to front board, with caption 'By the Author of 'Elizabeth and her..... More
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with black titles to grey cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with green titles to cream cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
An Adventure. With Appendix and Maps.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Paranormal Activity] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 205 [3]. With a number of in-text maps and plans, and four black and white map plates at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt fleur-de-lis device to upper. All edges..... More
Belgium.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.x; 250; [2]. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, blue top edge, dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership..... More
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