"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Illustrated & Plate Books
A Pageant of the Spice Islands.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower, and Other Stories.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.86; [2]. With eight letterpress line block illustrations by Minton, including a frontispiece, and numerous further in-text. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to a black background on the spine, and Minton illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated..... More
Mistura Curiosa.
Edinburgh. Maclachlan and Stewart. 1896. First edition. 4to. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth covered bevelled boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Light edgewear, some slight frayiong to head of spine; bright, clean and handsome. All edges gilt. Internally clean. A bizarre and unusual collection..... More
The history of the town of Gravesend in the county of Kent and of the Port of London.
London: William Pickering, and Gravesend: James Johnston, 1843. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.v; [3]; 569; [1]. Bound in contemporary brown half pebbled morocco over marbled boards, edges speckled red. Numerous in text illustrations plus nine plate and plans, some folding. Top edge slightly dusty, some spotting to the plates with offsetting..... More
Blake: General-at-Sea.
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press, 1934. [Naval History] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 200. With 20 lithographic maps, plans and illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original light blue dust-jacket featuring an engraving..... More
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety.
London: British Railways Board, 1991. [Ephemera]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by Blake to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated card wrapper, stapled. Child's ownership mark to verso of front cover. A little thumbed, otherwise good. 'British Railways Board asked Roald Dahl to write the text of..... More
The Twits.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.80. Illustrated in-text throughout by Blake. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Blake, priced at £3.50. Final gathering more heavily browned than the rest of the book. A little spotting..... More
Rural Sports.
London: Bunny and Gold, no date [1801-1813]. [Hunting] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, including the supplement. Quarto (27 x 22 x 17cm), pp.[10] 383 [5]; pp.[4] 520 [4]; pp.[16] 507 [25]. With 19 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece to volume I; 44 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece and decorated..... More
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Dante: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. [Divine Comedy] The Vision of Hell; The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise.
London: Cassell and Company, 1903. [Illustrated Literature] COMPLETE PARTS with fine engravings, a later edition. Quarto (34 x 27 x 12cm), pp.[2] 183 [1]; pp.337 [3]; pp.xxiv [2] xii. All 36 parts with 136 full page engravings by Dore, each stapled. With the preliminary matter and title page for volume..... More
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The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two.
London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1925 and 1927]. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST EDITIONS. In two volumes. Oblong (19 x 26cm), unpaginated. With bright colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin facing every page of text. In publisher's original paper-covered card covers, with red decoration to volume I and blue to volume II. Some..... More
Tee Shots and Others.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1911. First Edition. Octavo. pp. ix, 271. With many illustrations by E.W. Mitchell. Re-bound using original publisher's tan cloth with brown titles and black silhouettes of golfers to upper board and spine. Some general edge wear, but internally clean and crisp; a...... More
Mr. Tootleoo One and Two.
London, The Nonesuch Press 1932. FIRST THUS: Quarto. Unpaginated. Publisher's pale blue boards with red fish device. Original scarlet end papers. Contains 40 delightfully comic monochrome illustrations. Exterior is still remarably bright. Some scattered foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise a very good copy indeed. This is a cheaper..... More
The Botanic Garden, A Poem. In Two Parts. Part I containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II The Loves of Plants. With Philosophical Notes.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799. [Botany]. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourth edition. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; xvii-xx; 492 [2]; pp.[4] xii; xv-xvi; 282 [6]. With 21 etchings and copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary navy full diced calf with gilt..... More
Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
This Year: Next Year.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto, unpaginated. SIGNED by both artist and author in black ink to verso of front free endpaper; hand-numbered 100 of 100 copies. Brightly illustrated throughout with lithographs by Jones. In publisher's colour-illustrated cloth boards, with matching jacket and illustrated endpapers. Some..... More
Paul and Virginia. With an original Memoir of the Author; and Three Hundred and Thirty Illustrations.
London: W.S. Orr & Co. 1839. First English Edition with India proofs of the plates. Quarto. pp. xxix, 306. With 30 large engravings on India paper, and hundreds of other smaller engravings throughout. In publisher's deluxe brown morocco binding, with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine. All..... More
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Thomas Stothard.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo, pp.[4] xcii, 429 [1]; pp.[2] vi, 415 [1]. Illustrated with 22 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume one. In publisher's original brown paper-covered boards, recently re-backed with the original brown cloth and paper title..... More
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With a Biographical Sketch of DeFoe.
London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. 2 volumes; 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and illustrated with sixteen engravings on india paper. Finely bound in full vellum over bevelled boards, with two gilt entitled black labels to spine; top edges gilt. The original cloth spines from 'Roscoe's Novelist's Library' are..... More
Mountaineering. With contruibutions by W.M. Conway, D.W. Freshfield, etc., and an Introduction by Mr. Justice Wills. With Illustrations by H.G. Willink and orthers.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1892. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.439; [2], advertisements. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's original pictorial brown cloth blocked in gilt and colours, 'swan' pattern endpapers. internally clean, some minor rubbing to cloth; very good indeed. More
Le Ballon Fantome.
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame, n.d. [1909]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.142; [2]. French language. With frequent in-text wood engravings and full-page lithographic plates by Robida. In publisher's colour-illustrated grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, with further gilt decoration. All edges gilt and light blue endpapers. Light..... More
Vol. CXV, No. 3, November 20 1937. 'Death Rides the Wires', and other stories.
New York: The Red Star News Company, 1937. DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY. Magazine format, stapled. A truly exceptional copy of this illustrated detective fiction magazine, with contributions from Sapper (a Bulldog Drummond short story), John K. Butler, Roger Torrey, and many others. A remarkable survival of this 1930s magazine. Paper covers..... More
Vol. IX, No. 5, May 1954. 'Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum'.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., 1954. STREET AND SMITH'S DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE. Magazine format, stapled. A truly exceptional copy of this illustrated detective fiction magazine, with contributions from William R. Cox, Day Keene, Don James, and others. Spotlessly clean, with paper covers in glorious, vivid colour. Small chip..... More
Vol. III, No. 10, August 1955. 'A Slight Case of Murder'.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., 1955. DETECTIVE TALES. Magazine format, stapled. A truly exceptional copy of this illustrated detective fiction magazine, with contributions from William Vance, Arthur J. Burks, Joe Graham, and more. Spotlessly clean, with paper covers in glorious, vivid colour. Appears as new. This gripping collection of..... More
Vol. III, No. 6, April 1955. 'Home Sweet Homicide'.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., 1955. DETECTIVE TALES. Magazine format, stapled. A truly exceptional copy of this illustrated detective fiction magazine, with contributions from William Campbell Gault, Charles Beckman Jr., Margaret Manners, Frank Gruber, and others. Spotlessly clean, with paper covers in glorious, vivid colour. Appears as new..... More