"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Illustrated & Plate Books
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names: or, an attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations. By an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs.
London: Printed for the author, 1868 and 1869. [Anthroponymy] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 789 [3]; pp.l; 1028. With a total of 14 plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and more than 180 in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spines..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges blue;..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, December 1910. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, fifth impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Elegantly rebound in half dark green oasis morocco, tooled in gilt to..... More
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Paris de Reves [Paris of Dreams]. 75 Photographies D'Izis Bidermanas.
Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 158. b/w photographic plates to every other page. In publisher's grey card with b/w photographic covers pasted to spine. Errata slip loose to p. 46. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper; light wear to edges; some creasing to spine. Very..... More
The Hand-Book of Swindling. By the late Captain Barabbas Whitefeather, late of the Body-Guard of His Majesty, King Carlos; Treasurer of the British Wine and Vinegar Company; Trustee for the Protection of the River Thames from Incendiaries; Principal Inventor of Poyais Stock; Ranger of St George's Fields; Original Patentee of the Parachute Conveyance Association; Knight of every Order of the Fleece; Scamp and Cur.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Crime and Con-Artistry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With four engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece. Publisher's green limp cloth covers, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. A highly attractive armorial bookplate..... More
Light Freights.
London: Methuen & Co., 1901. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to..... More
A Flora of Tunbridge Wells. Being a List of Indigenous Plants Within A Radius of Fifteen Miles Around that Place.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Colbran, [1845]. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xx; [4]; 134; [two of sunscriber]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles and blind stamped decoration to spine and upper board. Two hand-coloured plates. Yellow endpapers. Small embossed label for the 'Colbran Library Tun. Wells' to pastedown. A very..... More
The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage.
London: Continuum, 2009. [Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 282 [2]. With a series of glossy photographic plates in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. A fine as-new copy. More
Men of Character.
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. [Moral Sketches] EARLY EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 310 [2]; pp.[8] 323 [1]; pp.[8] 342 [2]. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary navy half calf with gilt titles to red labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and..... More
The Early Challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937).
London: Columbus Books, 1986. [Yacht Racing] SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION. Oblong Quarto (24 x 34cm), pp.160. With fine colour illustrations by Anthony John, and SIGNED by him in black ink to title page. Half-title includes a label stating 'Special Edition in Commemoration of Sir Thomas Sopwith (1887-1989).' Publisher's cream cloth with..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.182 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Internally clean. Minor bump to upper board. Moderate rubbing to..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, price obscured. Very light spotting to edges. Bruising and very..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. A child's blue ink ownership to..... More
Chrysal; or, the Adventures of a Guinea: Wherein are exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes; with Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Personsin Every Rank of Life, through whose hands it has passed. By an Adept.
London: Printed for Samuel Richards and Co., 1822. [Object Narrative] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] 319 [1]; pp.[2] 326; pp.viii; 326. With 12 aquatint engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Heavily trimmed for a recent binding in period style..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
Nicobobinus.
London: Pavilion Books, in association with Michael Joseph, 1985. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.175 [1]. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations as well as nine full-page colour illustrations by Foreman. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More
An Air Fighter's Scrapbook.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 332. With 16 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. In publisher's black cloth blocked in red in pictorial dust jacket. Edges lightly spotted; bookplate of Robert Bradford Reid to paste-down. Minor crease to crown of jacket, slightly sunned at spine. A near fine..... More
The Cat and the Devil.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST ERDOES-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), unpaginated. With in-text colour illustrations by Erdoes to every page. Publisher's tan cloth with black titles to spine, purple vignette to upper board, and colour-illustrated endpapers. With the Publisher's colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Cloth a...... More
Peeps at Many Lands: Holland.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. [Netherlands] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 82 [10]. With 12 colour-illustrated plates by Nico Jungman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine, green titles to upper, and a colour illustration laid over upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not..... More
Music & Light: Ceol and Solas. Irish Traditional Music Photography.
Enniskerry: Silver Spear Press, 2008. [Irish Music Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 25cm), pp.[12], with 130 black and white photographs, each captioned at rear [16]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To Susan | Forward in all | directions! | much love | Tony..... More
British Birds' Nests. How, Where, and When to Find and Identify Them.
London: Cassell and Company, no date [circa 1900s]. [Ornithology] LEATHER-BOUND, a later edition. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 520. With six colour photographic plates including a frontispiece, six black and white plates showing birds, and 15 black and white egg plates. Contemporary black half morocco with gilt titles to..... More
History of the French Revolution, and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event; From the commencement of Hostilities in 1792, to the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII. and the Deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Island of St. Helena, including a complete account of the War between Great Britain and America; and the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, to which are appended Biographical Sketches of the Heroes of Waterloo, and other distinguished public characters. The whole compiled from official state-papers and other authentic sources; and embellished with a series of Equestrian Portraits, Historical Engravings, and coloured Maps.
London: printed for Thomas Kelly, 1817. [European History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] 732; pp.[2] 733-1441 [1]. With 61 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume I and eight coloured maps, some folding. Bound in highly attractive contemporary marbled calf, with gilt..... More
Salamina.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. [Greenland] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.352 [2]. With 22 full page illustrated plates, a folding illustrated map, and numerous woodcut headpieces, all by the author. Publisher's tan cloth, with black titles and decoration to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s..... More