"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
Illustrated & Plate Books
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Pictured by R. Caldecott.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1980. 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 Martian, A Novel.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Quarto, pp.[4] x, 471 [5]. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and six facsimiles of original sketches by the author reproduced by P. Dujardin. Number 138 of just 250 copies printed on large paper. In publisher's quarter..... More
The Venus Touch.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.63; [1]. Illustrated with drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Number 15 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's peach cloth with gilt titles and illustration to..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Circa 1915. Quarto. Pp.224. Illustrated with 23 stunning colour plates, mounted, with captioned tissues, text pages printed in two colours with geometric arabeque borders. Elegantly hand bound in blue half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally clean, binding unmarked..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1914]. DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.223; [1]. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated, with a gilt scene of Sinbad sailing a ship against a palace replete with minarets, gilt titles in faux-Arabic script to front board and spine; blue floral endpapers..... More
Lyrics Pathetic And Humorous From A To Z.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1908. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated grey paper boards, with beveled edges, and cream cloth spine. A lavishly illustrated alphabet book, it includes twenty four plates, as XYZ are represented by a single plate. Edges of boards are rubbed, worn at corners, with some fading, and..... More
Worthies of the World, A Series of Historical and Critical Sketches of the Lives, Actions, and Characters of Great and Eminent Men of all Countries and Times.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. [c.1880]. [Historical Biographies]. FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]; pp.417-832 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engraved portraits of notable characters. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spines and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers; all..... More
The Whispering Land.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. [South American Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.235; [1]. With frequent illustrations by Thompson, including a frontispiece and a title page vignette. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Thompson priced at 18s net. Some spotting to edges. Very slight..... More
The Economic Cottage Builder: or, Cottages for Men of Small Means. Adapted to every locality, with instructions for choosing the most economical materials afforded by the neighborhood. To which are added many valuable hints and most useful observations.
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim and Co., 1856. 8vo. Publisher's original embossed brown cloth with gilt titles and devices to spine and upper. Illustrated with tinted designs on stone. Head of spine and corners frayed; light marking to edges; some light foxing. A very good copy. More
Queer Creatures.
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1913. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST EDITION, the only edition. Small quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.3-80. With wood engraved illustrations to every page. Publisher's illustrated grey paper-covered boards with grey cloth spine. Titles to spine and upper board. Upper hinge split along the gutter, textblock still attached with..... More
Flower and Still Life Painting.
London: The Studio, 1928. [Fine Colour Plates] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.viii; 24. With 52 plates, including 12 fine colour prints tipped-in with tissue guards. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the decorated green dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Light rubbing and bruising..... More
Old Indian Days.
New York, NY: The McClure Company, 1907. [Native American Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 279 [1]. With four chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board; also with a chromolithographic illustration laid over upper board. Fore and lower..... More
The New Naturalist: Trees, Woods and Man.
London: Collins, 1970. [Natural History] REVISED EDITION, third overall. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With 12 double-sided plates, both colour and black and white. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at £2.25. Light spotting and browning to..... More
Huntsmen Past and Present. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the Author.
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Quarto, with 21 plates in colour and black and white, pp. [14], 91. Publisher's vellum spine with buckram boards, t.e.g. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Edition of only 150 copies of which this is no.45. More
Narrative Of A Tour Through Hawaii or Owhyhee; with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants.
London: H Fisher, Son, and P Jackson, 1828. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Bound in calf, with extensive gilt and blind panelling to boards, and decorative gilt to spine with red label and gilt titles. Includes frontispiece portrait of Ellis, two maps and eight plates, and bookplate. Maps in fine condition, bright..... More
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Moderne Illustratoren VIII: Aubrey Beardsley [Modern Illustrators VIII: Aubrey Beardsley]
Munich and Leipzig: Piper and Co. [1906]. Slim quarto, pp.52. With 18 full-page plates by Aubrey Beardsley, several taken from Oscar Wilde's Salome. Photographic frontispiece. Text in German. Printed paper over boards, with plain cloth spine. Covers with some edgewear, light browning/soiling to extremities. Used but nonetheless very good. More
Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919. [Children's classic] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Mounted colour plate as frontispiece, with numerous silhouette and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth spine and pictorial boards, pictorial green endpapers. Internally very clean, top corner bumped else binding is sound..... More
Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico In 1869-70. Adventure and Sight-Seeing in the Land of the Aztecs, with Picturesque Descriptions of the Country and the People, and Reminiscences of the Empire and its Downfall.
London: Trubner and Co., 1871. [Central American Travel] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.518. With 64 wood engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. A couple of small pen marks to pastedown, edges a little toned..... More
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation.
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards with light blue endpapers and matching dust-jacket. Some minor creasing to the top and..... More
Some Common Birds of West Africa. With Coloured lllustrations.
Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, no date [1933]. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.xii; 112. With a fine colour illustration of each bird. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Light spotting to endpapers. Very light rubbing to cloth with a few marks to lower..... More
Tobacco: its History and Associations. Including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1876 [1884]. [Smoking] SECOND EDITION, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 332 [32]. Advertisements dated October 1884. With 100 mainly in-text engravings by the author. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Grey coated endpapers. Light spotting to preliminaries..... More
The History of the First Seven Battalions, The Royal Irish Rifles (Now the Royal Ulster Rifles) In the Great War. Vol. II.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1925. BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. xiv, 188 [1]. With 3 illustrations including frontispiece and 19 folding maps. In contemporary half brown morocco with brown cloth boards. Gilt titles to spine and gilt regimental badge to upper board. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Central..... More
Seal Morning.
London: Hutchinson, June 1957. [Nature / Scotland] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, fifth impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.178 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by Sheppard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Grey illustrated endpapers. With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a fresh bookplate..... More
The Art of H. Davis Richter.
Benfleet: F. Lewis. 1935; 1944. SIGNED FIRST EDITION subscribers' copy, number 94 of 200 copies, with associated signed first edition of 'Paintings and Poems'. Text by Fell; poems by Lady Sackville. pp. xx, 55, (44 plates in colour and monochrome); 35, (colour plates to each facing page). 'The Art' in..... More
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics. With the use of the Globes, the Art of Dealing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses.
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1773. 4to. Illustrated with 36 folding engraved plates with partial, light offsetting. Full calf binding with red title label to spine. Levenside bookplate. Upper joint repaired. A superb copy. Ferguson's book was one of the first in English to deal extensively with mechanics and hydraulics..... More