Illustrated & Plate Books
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] LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 717 of 1250 copies thus. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. A little light handling to covers. Near fine. The first in..... 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
The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First printing of a collection of the main results of Chree's works on Terrestrial Magnetism up to 1912, with several charts and diagrams. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and embossed to upper. A superb copy of a rare book..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
Three Greek Children: A Story of Home in Old Time.
London: Seeley and Co., 1908. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 193 [3]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbling to all edges and endpapers..... More
Helmet and Spear: Tales from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans.
London: Seeley and Co., 1900. [Ancient Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 380 [8]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting to first and final leaves..... More
On the Theory and Practice of Midwifery.
London: Henry Renshaw, 1855. [Obstetrics] THIRD EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.ii-xvi; 667 [5]. Lacking the half-title. With 119 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in brown buckram with the original gilt and blind-decorated cloth laid over boards and spine. New endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Occasional moderate spotting; lightly browned..... More
Cambridge.
London: Seeley and Co., 1907. [Topography and University History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With 34 engravings and etchings, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf for Croydon High School, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt school crest..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide, or, an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, with a Particular Description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient and Modern Seats, Founderies etc., within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles, with Accurate Views of the Principal Objects.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1829. [Town Guide] FIFTH EDITION. Small Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6] viii; 188. With 22 engravings, including four folding plates, a vignette title page, and a frontispiece folding map. Not including an engraving of the Royal Kent Hotel, but with two engravings of Mereworth House. Contemporary..... More
Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2016. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 130 [6]. Illustrated by the author throughout. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £5.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Punk. A Life Apart.
London: Cassell and Co., 2001. [Punk Music] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 30cm), pp.400. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, printed on clay paper. SIGNED by both authors, and by numerous relevant characters, including Paul Cook and Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols; their follower Helen..... More
The Medway River and Valley: The Story of the Medway; Aspects of Life on the Medway; Journeyings on the Medway.
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1929. [Kent topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.239 [1]. With 47 half-tone plates, most double-sided, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, with a ship design to upper, dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 10/6..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Chester. Painted by E. Harrison Compton. Described by Francis Duckworth.
London: A. and C. Black, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles and decorated with grey lines to spine and upper, with the coat of arms of the city of Chester to centre of upper; top edge gilt. Illustrated with 20 colour plates from paintings by Compton with..... More
The Leatherstocking Tales. [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900 and 1901. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST BROCK EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 522 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 398 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 463 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 455 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 437 [3]. With 40 illustrations by Brock to..... More
Pink Furniture. A Tale for Lovely Children with Noble Natures.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.251 [5]. With 25 line-drawn illustrations by Gurney. Publisher's variegated pink and cream cloth, with blue titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by O.G. Bourne, priced at 7/6. A little toning to edges..... More
The Beatles Get Back. Photographs by Ethan A. Russell, Text by Jonathan Cott and David Dalton.
London: Apple Publishing, 1969. [Music biography] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.160 (unpaginated). Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's glossy black softcovers with white titles to spine and colour photographs to upper, perfect bound. Blank rear sleeve- it has been stated erroneously on at least one fan..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventures. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011; 2012; 2013. [Children's Adventure Sequels] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, one volume SIGNED by the author. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 216 [2]; pp.[6] 234; pp.[6] 293 [5]. Frequent in-text illustrations by Joe Berger. Volume I SIGNED by the author with a doodle in black..... More
Runaway Robot.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 272 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with robot sketch, to preliminary leaf. With frequent in-text illustrations by Lenton. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and black illustration to upper, and..... More
The Century Book of Gardening. A Comprehensive Work for Every Lover of the Garden.
London: Country Life, n.d. (c.1930). 4to. Publisher's beige cloth beautifully decorated and titled in black, green and red to spine and upper, speckled edges. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photogravures. Binding very little rubbed to extremities. A lovely copy. More
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; and those which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707. [Poetic and Dramatic Works] TENTH EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[2] lxxxvi; 392; pp.[2] 393-894 [2]. Complete with 28 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and one folding. Contemporary full speckled and panelled calf, with gilt titles..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1864. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 483 [1]. With 10 engraved plates by Cameron, including a frontispiece portrait of the author and a decorated title page. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, heavy blind decoration all..... More