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Illustrated & Plate Books
Playtime and Company: A Book for Little Children.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.95; [1]. With wood engravings by Shepard to every page. Publisher's pink quarter cloth with titles printed to paper label laid over spine. Glossy paper-covered boards with colour illustrations by Shepard. Yellow endpapers. Tiny ownership to flyleaf..... More
A Cat Book. The Dumpy Books for Children No. 6.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Vigesimo (13 x 8cm), pp.[8]; 121; [3]. With twenty nine lithographic illustrations by Smith. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Textblock a little shaken with some gathers standing proud..... More
Little Britain: The Complete Scripts and Stuff, Series One.
London: HarperEntertainment, 2004. [Comedy Scripts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.256. Illustrated in colour throughout. SIGNED by both Lucas and Walliams in black marker to half-title. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards, with matching dust-jacket priced at £14.99. Union flag endpapers. Some light handling. Near fine. More
Frink: A Portrait.
London: Bloomsbury, 1994. [Sculpture] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.vi; 138. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Photographic endpapers. Slight creasing and toning to wrapper. Near fine. More
Practical Drawing. A Book for the Student and the General Reader.
New York, NY: Charles S. Pratt [Scribners Sons], 1920. [Drawing] EARLY DUST-JACKET, Sixth Impression, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 250. With frequent in-text illustrations and diagrams by the author. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and grey paper over boards, titled in brown to..... More
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. [Topography] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.[2]; 296; xxii; [2]. With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book..... More
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. FINELY BOUND, Fourth Edition. Large Octavo, pp.[4]; xxiv; 627; [5]. With 11 full-page plates, some colour, including a frontispiece. Also with 63 in-text woodcuts. In contemporary brown full morocco by SPOTTISWOODE, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black..... More
Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of Ruins.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. [Photography]. FIRST THUS. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.286. With 160 photogravure images, 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, and 29 maps and plans. Publisher's black and white illustrated leatherette boards with silver titles to spine and upper board. Silver illustrated endpapers. Light browning to..... More
In Memoriam James Joyce from a Vision of World Language.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1955. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and..... More
Jack B. Yeats, An Appreciation and Interpretation.
Dublin: Victor Waddington, 1945. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 39. Followed by 19 b/w plates of the artist's work. Limited to 250 copies. In publisher's quarter red cloth with tan paper-covered boards, red titles and red 'JB' monogram. Grey end-papers. With original light tan dust jacket featuring red title..... More
All Round the Clock.
London: Griffith, Farran and Company, no date [1887]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.64. Chromolithographed by Ernest Rister of Nuremberg. Publisher's quarter green cloth with glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards. Patterned endpapers. Browning to endpapers and preliminaries. Tiny damp mark to foot of upper board, rubbing..... More
Early English Figure Pottery. A Collection of Ralph Wood and Contemporary Pottery.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. [English Pottery] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xviii; 122 [2]. With five fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, and eleven further black and white photographic plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Number 15 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED and dated by the..... More
A History and Description of the Isle of Man Railway.
London: Greenlake Publications, January 1945. [Railways] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.100. With 10 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and one double-sided colour plate. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the grey dust-jacket decorated in red, priced at 7/6. Some..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
Nail Soup.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 29cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by Hess to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator in gold with some doodle to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced..... More
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Maurice Baring. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.viii; 168. With nine wood engraved plates by Hardy, including a frontispiece, as well as in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt and illustrations in black to spine and..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
Poor Jack.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. [Novel] Finely bound. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 384; [2], blank. Red half calf binding over red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands with blind panelling. Black and white pictorial frontispiece, illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield. Some spotting, damp marks to..... More
A Guide to Taxila.
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1921. [Pakistan Archaeology] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 132. With 30 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and several folding maps and plans. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Red endpapers. A nice clean copy, with some rubbing to..... More
The Haunted Major. Author of 'His Excellency the Governor' etc.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1951. First Illustrated Edition, small 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in pale green pictorial dust jacket. Including 10 comical illustrations throughout the text by John McKay. Slightly bumped to head of spine, some foxing to top edge. In bright dust jacket..... More
The Children of Africa. Written for all English-Speaking Children.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
An Introduction to Study of Birds; or, the Elements of Ornithology, on Scientific Principles, with a Particular Notice of the Birds Mentioned in Scripture.
London: The Religious Tract Society, no date [circa 1860]. [Ornithology] ILLUSTRATED PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xii; 524; [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf prize binding for Westbourne Collegiate School, with raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, and..... More
Gallipoli.
London: William Heinemann, 1916. First Edition. Small Octavo. pp.viii, 183. With 18 plates, frontispiece map and folding map. The printed dedication is to Sir Ian Hamilton. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. Pictorial bookplate to pastedown, covers rather sunned. A very good copy overall. This is..... More
The Arctic Forests.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. [Arctic Travel and Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 320. With 53 half-tone plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt illustration stamped to upper..... More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Illustrated in colour and black and white, also with maps.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Two volumes. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.xxx; 349 [3]; pp.xiv; 338 [2]. With numerous half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces and a number of colour plates. With the three folding maps in a pouch at the rear of volume II. Publisher's navy..... More