Illustrated & Plate Books
Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.
London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1817-1819. [Ancient History and Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Parts one and two complete, bound as one volume. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xxxii; 273 [3]. Including a leaf with emendations and instructions to the binder. Complete with 77 engraved plates, some folding, each with a tissue..... More
Lewis Carroll: Photographer.
London: Max Parrish and Co., 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 121; [5]. With 64 photogravure plates, featuring portraits of several notable authors, artists and their family contemporary with Lewis Carroll. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Gilt partially oxidised; wear to jacket head..... More
The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1959. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] xliv; 355 [3]. A large collection of over 1000 wood engravings by Gibbings. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Top edge green, and green endpapers. With the..... More
The Magic Mirror. A Round of Tales for Old and Young.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Illustrated Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. [vi]; 290. 84 small in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to front board, gilt edges of textblock, embossed illustration to back board. Spotting to pages, darkening of..... More
Giles Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons [Giles Annual]. Twelfth Series.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1957-8. [Cartoon Annual] FIRST THUS. Oblong octavo (20 x 26cm), unpaginated. Captioned cartoons to every page. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers. Some chipping to starting joints. A little rubbing to edges. Very good. More
Letters of Eric Gill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.480. With twelve illustrations by various artists. Publisher's red cloth over boards, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15/- to front flap. Top edge red. Toning to leaves, light spotting to fore-edge. Bumping to cloth..... More
Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views. By the Late William Gilpin, A.M. Edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.
Edinburgh: Fraser and Co. North Bridge, 1834. [Nature] ATTRACTIVE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Two volumes. Octavos (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 368; pp.[2]; 344. With numerous tissue-guarded engraved plates and a non tissue-guarded frontispiece to either volume. Recently re-bound in brown half-calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Gilt titles, blind decoration, and raised..... More
Creeper's Jeep.
Tadworth: World's Work, the Windmill Press, 1973. [Children's Illustrated] REISSUE. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), unpaginated, with colour illustrations printed by offset to every page. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with black cloth to spine. With the matching dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to verso of flyleaf. Price-clipped jacket..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
'twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [1911]. [North African History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 504. With 58 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine, blue cloth over boards, and the gilt crest of King..... 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
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
Traction Man Meets Turbodog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 23cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy... More
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THEAKER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.344. With 48 colour plates by Theaker, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper, and a colour illustration laid onto upper board..... More
Jack Among the Indians, or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains.
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1900. [Children's Old West Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 301 [1]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Deming. Publisher's green cloth, with red titles and coloured decoration to spine and upper. Some toning to edges..... More
The Myths of Greece and Rome. Their Stories, Signification, and Origin.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1909. [Greek and Roman Mythology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 395 [3]. With 64 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf by BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, further..... More
Memoirs of a Cheat: Sacha Guitry's Tale.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. [Gambling Novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the First UK Edition. Octavo (22 x 12cm), pp.128. With numerous illustrations by the author. Publisher's plain cream soft covers with titles to spine and upper. Light wear to covers, with a little creasing to spine. Near fine. The humorous life-story..... More
Ayesha. The Return of She.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1905. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.384. With 32 full-page illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a gilt medallion to upper. Armorial bookplate of Herbert Hanbury Smith-Carington to front pastedown. One plate shows repairs, and a...... More