Illustrated & Plate Books
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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
The Debt We Owe: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1919-1989.
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... 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 Pilgrims of the Rhine.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. [Romantic Novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxxvi; 341 [5]. With 27 steel engraved illustrations by various artists, including a frontispiece and illustrated title page. Contemporary maroon full morocco, with gilt titles and heavy gilt decoration to spine, and equally heavy panelled..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: George G. Harrop and Co., C. 1940 [no date]. [Poetry] FINE COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; LXXV with 16 illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in black to upper board and spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 10/6 to front flap. 16 plates and numerous..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
Edward Plantaganet (Edward I.), the English Justinian, or, the Making of the Common Law.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. [English history] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxiv [2] 360 [4]. With 32 halftone illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, along with 9 maps, plans, and pedigrees, some of them folding. Dark green half morocco, green cloth over boards. Boards gilt-ruled, gilt..... More
A Flora of Tunbridge Wells. Being a List of Indigenous Plants Within A Radius of Fifteen Miles Around that Place.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Colbran, [1845]. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xx; [4]; 134; [two of sunscriber]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles and blind stamped decoration to spine and upper board. Two hand-coloured plates. Yellow endpapers. Small embossed label for the 'Colbran Library Tun. Wells' to pastedown. A very..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: George C. Harrap and Co., 1934. [Fairy tales] FIRST THUS, fourth rendering in English by Fitzgerald. Octavo (21 x 15cm), unpaginated. With eight colour plates by Pogany, including a frontispiece, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth with gilt motif to upper board and gilt lettering..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings In English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, a Presentation Copy, one of 750 copies SIGNED in pencil to the frontispiece by Willy Pogany, numbered 'Artist'. Small Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.175 [1]. With twelve mounted colour plates including a frontispiece, an original etching signed in pencil..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997. [Travel] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, the complete 1922 text. Three volumes and a portfolio of illustrations. Quartos (30 x 22 x 16cm), pp.[4] xxii, 434 [4]; pp.[4] x, 435-880 [4]; pp.[8] 82. Main volumes in navy full goatskin, with gilt titles and raised bands to spines..... More
The History of Little England Beyond Wales, the Non-Kymric Colony Settled in Pembrokeshire.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. [Welsh History] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.xvi; iv; 458 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings, and occasional full page plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed; brown endpapers. Armorial..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
Bertie and the Big Red Ball.
London: John Murray and Gallery Five Ltd., 1982. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Cook to every other page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers, priced at £4.95. Light spotting to endpapers, and a small tear to the lower edge of the first..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
A Canvas to Cover.
London: Collins, 1947. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[2] 134 [2]. With four colour and sixty-four monotone reproductions of Seago's oil paintings. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, brown titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Interior bright and clean, minimal marking/spotting throughout. Price clipped to front flap. Cloth extremities..... More
Peace in War.
London: Collins, 1943. [Art / English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.80. With 25 photogravure illustrations of paintings depicting the English countryside by Seago, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net..... More
In Pursuit of Spring.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.301; [3]. With six halftone illustrations, including a frontispiece, adhered on one edge to tipped-in grey leaves with letter-pressed tissue guards. Cartographic endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles, device, and rulings to upper..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More
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