Illustrated & Plate Books
Insect Life, With 74 Full-Page Illustrations, 24 Being from Photographs by the Author and 50 in Colour from Nature.
London: A. and C. Black, 1921. [Entomology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xii; 340. With all 74 halftone plates, including the frontispiece. Publisher's beige cloth, elaborate pictorial designs blocked to upper and spine. Gilt titles to spine. Lightly foxed throughout. Small booksellers label to rear pastedown. Spotting to edges..... 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
Growltiger's Last Stand, with The Pekes and the Pollicles, and The Song of the Jellicles.
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Oblong octavo (19 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated throughout in colour by Le Cain, with grey endpapers. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at £5.95. A fine, as-new copy. Three poems from Eliot's classic collection 'Old..... More
Mr Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.
London: faber and faber, 1990. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Oblong octavo (19 x 27cm), pp.[28]. Illustrated throughout in colour by Le Cain. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at £7.99. A fine, as-new copy. Two poems from Eliot's classic collection 'Old Possum's Book of..... More
Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts. Illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1954. [Sci-fi] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 202. With six full-page illustrations by Cornwell and a colour halftone frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motifs blocked in navy to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout interior and to..... More
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904. A Catalogue Raisonné.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2001. [Catalogue Raisonné] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.366 [2]. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Brian & Paula | with..... More
Gozo: Island of Oblivion. A Graphic Literary Itinerary.
Melfi: Edizioni Libria, 1997. [Maltese Sketches and Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 28cm), pp.133 [7]. A collection of sketches of buildings on Gozo, accompanied by various appropriate quotations, and by eclogues by John Cremona. Publisher's cream soft covers with flaps, priced at 50,000 lire. Spine and part of rear..... More
Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume, pictorial dust-wrappers..... More
Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919. [Children's classic] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Large octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Mounted colour plate as frontispiece, with numerous silhouette illustrations. Publisher's linen-backed paper covered board with illustration to upper, pictorial green endpapers, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. Internally very..... More
The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Children's illustrated classic] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Tipped-in colour plate to first chapter; illustrated throughout with Rackham's silhouettes. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine; titles and decoration in black and pink, illustrated green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket..... 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
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. 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
Perkin the Pedlar.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Educational] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 206. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Clare Leighton. Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Light toning throughout leaves, with minor foxing to preliminaries and edges. Spotting to cloth boards, mostly lower. Rubbing to..... More
The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock.
London: Sampson Low, 1916. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 600. With 21 colour halftone illustrations with captioned tissue-guards, including a frontispiece. Also with a title-page vignette. Red publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper board and spine, small onlay illustration to upper. Top edge gilt..... 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 Dwindleberry Zoo.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1909. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 208 [16]. With 62 illustrations by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt, with grey endpapers. School prize bookplate to front..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... 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
Donald Maxwell 1877-1936.
Kendal: The Maxwell Estate, 1995. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.xvi; 245 [3]. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper board. Decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A small gum mark to..... More
American Belles.
New York: Dodd Mead and Company. 1911. Large Quarto, unpaginated, sixteen full page plates. Light pink cloth covers with a darker cloth spine, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Housed in original card box with reproduction of cover image to front. Box show considerable wear with some loss and..... 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