"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Illustrated & Plate Books
Germany.
London: A. & C. Black, 1930. [German Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 195 [5]. With 32 colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in silver to spine, blind to upper, and blind decoration all over. With the colour-illustrated..... More
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, or, the Losing and Taking again of the Town of Mansoul.
London: The Religious Tract Society, no date [circa 1852]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xii; 347 [3]. With 18 engraved plates by Thompson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
A Practical Trestise on Painting. In Three Parts. Consisting of Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colouring.
London: James Carpenter and Son, 1830. [Painting] LEATHER BOUND, a New Edition. Three parts bound in one volume. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[6]; 31; [1]; pp.viii; 45 [1]; pp.iii-xii; 64; [4]. With 25 engraved plates, eight being hand-coloured. Contemporary brown half calf, later rebacked with the original spine label laid..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. With numerous portraits, illustrations, and maps.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. [Travel Biography] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 606; pp.x; 664. With 36 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to each volume and five maps. Publisher's dark green cloth, recently re-backed with the original cloth laid over spines. Gilt titles to spines; yellow..... More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
The Redstart. The New Naturalist Monograph 2.
London: Collins 1950. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 180. With one colour photograph as a frontispiece, 19 black and white photographs, 20 maps and diagrams, and two text figures. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary..... More
The Discovery of Australia.
London: Dean and Son, 1902. [Australian History] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 184 [8]. With 60 illustrated plates, largely maps, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Lancaster, Massachusetts Town Library to front pastedown, with..... More
Rough Husbandry.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.142; [2]. With a double page title illustration, occasional in-text illustrations and dust-jacket design by Blake. In publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and red illustration to upper board. With original bright red pictorial dust-jacket. Slight reading lean. Jacket price-clipped, with very..... More
The Curious Adventures of a Field Cricket.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 272. With frequent engravings by Renard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Grey patterned endpapers; all edges gilt. Black ink ownership to flyleaf..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. A fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by the much-loved and award-winning creator of the Moomins. More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: John F. Shaw and Co., no date [circa 1933]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SEXTON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. With eight chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, 23 full page wood engravings, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Some spotting to preliminaries..... More
The Nursery Alice.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. [Children's illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[viii]; 56; [1], blank; [3], An Easter Greeting; [1], Christmas Greetings; [2], ads; [1], Specimen Page. Priced at Four Shillings. With twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice in Wonderland. Handsomely bound in deep red..... More
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Abermarle Street, London, Janurary to February 1947.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiii, 50. With 16 b/w photographic plates detailing some of the highlights of the exhibition. With Foreword and Introduction by Carter and Sadleir. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pink pictorial dust jacket. Chipping and closed tears..... More
Our Sentimental Garden.
London: William Heinemann, 1914. First Robinson Illustrated Edition. Quarto. Bound in recent half brown morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers, front board and spine of publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt titles bound in at rear. 8 full page colour illustrations..... More
Moral Emblems. with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of all Ages and Nations. With Illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A., the whole Translated and Edited, with Additions, by Richard Pigot, Member of the Leyden Society of Netherlands Literature.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Illustrated Aphorisms] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] xvi; 242 [2]. Heavily illustrated with engravings by Leighton, and other artists, including a frontispiece. Fine contemporary red full morocco by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Spanish Ladie, and two other stories from Cervantes translated from the original by James Mabbe, 1640, and newly illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928. [Illustrated Spanish Literature] FIRST BLISS-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[8] 197 [3]. With occasional wood engraved illustrations by Bliss, some printed in colour. Publisher's salmon quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey paper-covered boards, illustrated in brown to upper..... More
The Garter Town.
London: The Fortune Press, no date [1953]. [Topographical Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eight illustrations by Gurney. INSCRIBED in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the Rt Hon. C.R. attlee | with the author's compliments. | 2/1/54.' With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate..... More
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BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie.
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). FINELY BOUND. Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown..... More
I will not ever Never eat a tomato.
London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 126 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original..... More
The NEW Small Person.
London: Puffin, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, with a small doodle. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and red cross-hatched endpapers, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Seven Lost Trails of Africa. Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... More