Illustrated & Plate Books
Trial of William Gardiner. (The Peasenhall Case).
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1934. [Trials] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.[14]; 332. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Frontispiece of Mr. Justice Lawrance, by Elliot and Fry. Four further illustrations throughout text. Toning and spotting to textblock edges, lighter spotting within text..... More
A Pictorial Autobiography.
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. [Sculptor Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.128. Heavily illustrated with in-text black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'For Bruce with love | January 10th | Barbara.' Publisher's orange cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
The Thames.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. [Topography] PROOF COPY. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.239; [18]. With two maps and numerous leaves of photographic illustrations tipped in to rear. Publisher's orange pictorial softcovers. Leaves bright and clean, some rubbing to rear cover interior. Faint toning and marking to edges. Some marking and..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
The Floral World Garden Guide and Country Companion 1878. Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. [Gardening] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.vi; 378 [2]. With 14 fine colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. Truro bookseller's label to..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
The Life and Times of James Catnach, (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 [12]. With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and..... More
Ruby, Blue and Blanket.
Brighton: Scribblers, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 27cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Jim's Lion.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.82 [2]. A new edition illustrated partly as a comic strip by Deacon, and SIGNED by him in black ink to the dedication page, dated June 2014. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
Soonchild.
London: Walker Books, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.142 [2]. With in-text sketches by Deacon. SIGNED by the illustrator in purple ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cream paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More
That's the way I see it.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. [Modern Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.248. With 365 illustrations, most in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine and a yellow illustration to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. A little rubbing to cloth; jacket edges bruised. Near..... More
The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
The Glassmaker's Daughter.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32]. With fine colour illustrations by Ray to every page. SIGNED by both author and artist in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green endpapers, priced at £12.99. A...... More
Through the Eyes of Gilbert & George: The Line of Beauty. Shared Vision volume II.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2004. [First Chapter Book] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.41 [3]. Number 40 of 85 copies thus, from a total limitation of 100, SIGNED by the author, and with an original print SIGNED by Gilbert & George. A colour illustration to preliminaries..... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... More
Hone's Facetia; Includes 'The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder,' 'The Queen's Budget Opened,' 'The Political House that Jack Built,' 'Doll Tear-Sheet,' 'John Bull's Constitutional Apple Pie,' 'The Man in the Moon,' 'A Political Christmas Carol,' and more.
London: Various, 1820. [Political Satire] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Small quarto (21 x 13cm). With the original in-text engravings by Cruikshank. Two original magazine leaves from 'A Bill to deprive her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of the title' tipped in to rear. Recent tan half-calf, marbled paper over sides. Matching marbled..... More
Poems by Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated by Birket Foster.
London: E. Moxton, Son, and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.vii; 180 [4]. With 23 tissue-guarded engravings including a frontispiece by Foster. Publisher's purple cloth extravagantly decorated in black, blue and gilt to upper board. Titles in black and gilt to spine, blind-tooling to lower..... More
Shadows in the Picture.
The Starling Brotherhood, 2013. NO. 3 OF THIS PRIVATELY PRINTED LIMITED EDITION, of which there are 13 copies. Bound in yellow publisher's cloth with a white paper title label pasted to front board, in a sunny yellow dustjacket featuring an extremely intricate insect-and-flower design which extends onto the spine and..... More
The Terror of Villadonga. [The Spanish Cave].
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1936]. [Nautical Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.160. With six lithographic illustrations by "Cuneo", including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy external wear; titles..... More
The Were-Wolf.
London: The Bodley Head; Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 123; [1]; 16. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Title page lettered in orange, with 6 full page illustrations. This copy is inscribed: 'Mary B. Housman' to front..... More
Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to..... More
The Blue Moon.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Children's fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 14cm), pp.210. Nine full-page plates. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in red and gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. Some trivial dustiness, jacket very lightly worn. An unquestionably fine copy. Scarce thus. More