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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. FINE COPPER ENGRAVED MAPS. Quarto, unpaginated. Containing 22 large coats of arms, facsimile letters and folding maps, being a supplement to the Octavo edition of the 'Memoirs'. Some maps with coloured battle positions. In original pink leather-effect cloth boards, recently re-backed in..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978-1985. FOUR VOLUMES, volume one a reprint. Quarto, pp.[10], 722; pp.[8], 695; pp.[8], 913 [2]; pp.[10], 960. With a wealth of colour illustrations. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines. With original colour illustrated dust-jackets. Jackets lightly sunned to spines. Very good indeed. The..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]. [Nursery Rhymes] FINE COLOUR PRINTING, early printings. Two volumes. Small quarto (19 x 19cm), pp.56; pp.56. Both volumes with fine colour illustrations designed by Crane and printed by Evans, accompanying printed music and words..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.40 [10]. With fine colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1889. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth to spine and endpapers patterned in orange. Light repair to split upper..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1887. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[4] 40 [2]. High quality colour illustrations by the author printed to one side of each leaf only. Fore-edge untrimmed. Publisher's brown quarter cloth with grey paper over boards, illustrated and titled in black and brown..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1917. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.362. With eight colour plates and a colour-illustrated title page, all by N.C. Wyeth. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as a handsome coloured plate also to..... More
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
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1822. [Topography] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, first edition. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.iv; 201 [3]. With 46 engraved plates, including folding maps of the county, and of Chichester. Some plates hand-coloured. Contemporary or lightly later tan half calf with gilt titles..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1821. [Topography] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, first edition. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.iv; 214. With 45 engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page, most hand-coloured, as well as a folding map of the county. Contemporary or lightly later tan..... More
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
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
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More
London: Puffin, 2016. [Children's Classic] FIRST THUS, Blake's original illustrations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x, 197 [1]. With line drawings by Blake throughout, and a new foreword. One of 5000 copies thus. Publisher's blue and white illustrated paper-covered boards, and similarly decorated endpapers. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, [circa 1972]. [Children's Classic] VINTAGE COPY, a later issue showing ISBN, and mentioning 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.' Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 119 [1]. Illustrated with plain and coloured lithographs by Burkert. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind..... More
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More
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
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
London: John Murray, 1904. [Science and Nature] POPULAR EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 397 [3]. With 21 engravings, and seven black and white photographic plates. Including the preface to the second edition of 1889. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and titles and decoration in black to..... More
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
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
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.40. With colour illustrations to every page by Carlin. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and pavement illustrated endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
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
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, no date [1867]. [Classic Literature] DORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp. xxviii, 737. With 118 full-page engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound in half brown oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, green..... More
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
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