"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Illustrated & Plate Books
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. A Story of New York by Stephen Crane.
Mount Vernon, NY: printed for The Limited Editions Club by A. Colish, 1974. [American Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] 105 [5]. With six photogravures from etchings by Abeles, including a frontispiece. Number 1642 of 2000 copies thus, SIGNED in black ink by the illustrator to..... More
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The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
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
Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers.
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
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. [Book Illustration] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; 341 [1]. With numerous engraved illustrations, including frequent head and tail pieces, as well as 11 facsimile plates on glossy paper at rear. Publisher's green cloth with white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Robin Hood.
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
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
Excursions in the County of Sussex: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist.
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
Excusions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist.
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
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
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
American Prince: My Autobiography.
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
James And The Giant Peach. A Children's Story.
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
Two Fables.
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to..... More
Dali by Dali.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. [Art and Philosophy] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 156 [4]. Heavily illustrated in colour. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced with a sticker at £2.50. A touch of toning to extremities..... More
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The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
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
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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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
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America. Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus..... More
The Promise.
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
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
Babar the King.
London: Methuen & Co., 1936. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.48. Printed with fine colour illustrations throughout, including the charming blue endpapers. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with illustrated yellow paper-covered boards. Somewhat shaken, with hinges starting. Internally clean, with perhaps a hint of toning. Quite heavy..... More
The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.
London: Gibbings and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] FIRST BRANGWYN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 304; pp.xii; 344; pp.xiv; 351 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 291 [1]. Each volume with five black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Brangwyn. One of 1500 copies printed for..... More
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. [Spanish Literature] LEATHER BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[18] 625 [3]. With numerous wood-engraved illustrations by Dore, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and heavy gilt decoration to boards. All..... More
The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. [Classic Literature] FINE EDITION. Complete in four volumes. Large octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xii; xlii; 445 [1]; pp.xii; 484; pp.xii; 512; pp.xii; 508. With 37 etched plates by Lalauze, including a frontispiece to each volume. Large print on fine handmade paper. Publisher's red quarter buckram, with..... More
William Tell, or the Patriot of Switzerland. And Hofer, the Tyrolese.
London: J. Harris, no date [circa 1824]. [Swiss Legend] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a New Edition. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] 252. With 10 engraved plates, and a decorated title page from the 1823 edition. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to brown label, and further decoration in gilt..... More