Illustrated & Plate Books
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Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
Les Soirées du Père de Famille, ou, Conversations Familières d'un Pere avec ses Enfans, sur Plusieurs Sujets de Morale et d'Instruction. Ouvrage destiné aux Enfans, et dont le principal objet est de les corriger de leurs défauts; dans lequel on trouve les leçons sur plusieurs points importans d'etude, tels que l'Astronomie, l'Histoire, etc. etc., et un grand nombre d'anecdotes et de traits historiques.
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Espagne, depuis L'Expulsion des Maures jusqu'a L'Annee 1847 [Spain, from the expulsion of the Moors until the year 1847]; Iles Baleares et Pithyuses; Sardaigne; Corse: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1850. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.413; 27; 49; 144. With 55 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from..... More
Marvin and Molly.
London: Sheepsy, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 24cm), pp.[34]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black in, with some doodles, to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Marvin Gets MAD!
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32] With fully intact sticker sheet at rear, and colour illustrations to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with a doodle to copyright page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
The Works of Virgil. In English Verse. The Aeneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Aeneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Iapis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And Three Essays on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. [Classics in Translation] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] xxiv; 335 [3]; pp.[8] 246 [4]; pp.[8] 352 [4]; pp.[8] 306 [32]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, a folding engraved plate showing..... More
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