Illustrated & Plate Books
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
Bertie and the Big Red Ball.
London: John Murray and Gallery Five Ltd., 1982. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Cook to every other page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers, priced at £4.95. Light spotting to endpapers, and a small tear to the lower edge of the first..... 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
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
Our Rambles in Old London.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, No date [circa 1895]. [Topography] NEW AND CHEAPER ISSUE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8]; 170; [2]. With 19 illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine and upper. Pictorial decoration in red and black to upper. Black endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Minor rubbing..... 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
Drawings by Peregrine Calvary.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1942. [War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.91; [6]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. 29 illustrations by Peregrine. Top edge red. A copy in a dust-jacket is scarce. Internally..... 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
The English Roses.
London: Puffin, 2003. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 21cm), pp.46; [2]. With colour illustrations by Fulvimari to each page. Pictorial endpapers. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards. With the dust-jacket of the same design priced at £12.99 to front flap. Fine, as-new. A moral tale about learning not to judge..... More
Marilyn. A Biography.
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth..... 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
Death in Venice.
New York, NY: printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1972. [German Literature] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.107 [3]. With numerous in-text wood engravings by Hoffmann, and a frontispiece. Number 1076 of 1500 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in pencil to limitation page, 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
Anatomy for Artists.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. [Art and Anatomy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (29 x 20cm), pp.[2] xiv; 436 [4]. Illustrated with 200 original in-text drawings by Cuthbert, engraved by J. and G. Nicholls. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and black horizontal ruling to boards. Top edge..... 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
Uncle.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 160; [2]. With in-text line drawings by Blake throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth over boards..... 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