Illustrated & Plate Books
Riding to the Tigris.
London: John Murray, 1959. [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 114 [2]. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge aqua. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 21s. Typographic..... More
The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan.
London: John Murray, 1970. [Middle East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[16] 99 [1]. With 24 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a blue sketch map of the location, and numerous drawings, by the author and her two travelling companions. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Baghdad Sketches.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Iraqi Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 269 [3]. With 25 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a photographic frontispiece, and the green folding sketch map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature stamped to upper. Typographic bookplate..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. Presented in a black quarter morocco clamshell box, with..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997. [Travel] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, the complete 1922 text. Three volumes and a portfolio of illustrations. Quartos (30 x 22 x 16cm), pp.[4] xxii, 434 [4]; pp.[4] x, 435-880 [4]; pp.[8] 82. Main volumes in navy full goatskin, with gilt titles and raised bands to spines..... More
The Will of an Eccentric.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. [Adventure] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 408. With 59 wood engraved plates by Roux, and the folding plate of 'The Noble Game of the United States of America' on india paper to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles..... More
Five Weeks In a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. [Science Fiction] SECOND US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 345 [5]. With 48 heliotype illustrations on 12 plates, reproducing the originals from the French edition by Riou, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's apricot cloth, titled and illustrated in black and..... More
Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED deluxe issue. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.288. SIGNED by Rackham to the limitation page. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co., 1891. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313; [1], imprint; [2], list of works; [32], ads. With eighty wood-engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper..... More
Swallows and Amazons.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, the 34th impression thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.351. With 24 wood engraving by the author, including a frontispiece, and two maps illustrated by Steven Spurrier. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper. With the green illustrated..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents. Contemporary tan half calf, with..... More
[Complete Novels] The Great Gatsby and the Last Tycoon; Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and the Damned.
London: The Folio Society, 2005. [Novels Set] COMPLETE NOVELS, FIRST THUS. Four Volumes. Octavo (24 x 18 x 14cm). Each illustrated by Brown. Publisher's blue cloth decorated in silver and black, each with a matching blue paper-covered slipcase. Some light general wear to cloth and slipcases. Near fine. More
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624 [4]. Typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6, 'elgble'; p.209, line 23, 'chair' instead of 'hair; and p.275, line 22, 'counsinship' instead of 'cousinship'. Lacks the half-title. With 40 engraved..... More
A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 254 [2]. With 16 engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Lacking the signature 'b' on the list of plates, and the pagination of p.213 is corrected, but 'affectionately'..... More
Our Rambles in Old London.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, No date [circa 1895]. [Topography] NEW AND CHEAPER ISSUE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8]; 170; [2]. With 19 illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine and upper. Pictorial decoration in red and black to upper. Black endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Minor rubbing..... More
English Seamen In The Sixteenth Century.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1925. [Naval history] PRIZE COPY. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.255; [1]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Red full morocco to boards. Chillon College gilt armorial device and ruling to upper. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. All edges gilt..... More
The Magic Mirror. A Round of Tales for Old and Young.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Illustrated Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. [vi]; 290. 84 small in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to front board, gilt edges of textblock, embossed illustration to back board. Spotting to pages, darkening of..... More
Elvis & the Birth of Rock.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Music Biography] SIGNED COLLECTOR EDITION. Quarto (36 x 26cm), pp.156. Number 658 of 1400 copies thus, SIGNED by the photographer, Lew Allen, and guest editor Mike McCartney. Lew Allen's photographs are reproduced throughout in duotone inks with image varnishing on to heavyweight, 200 gsm matt art..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1888. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 386; [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to board edges and turn..... More
A Rationale Upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England.
London: Are to be sold by T. Garthwait, 1655. [Religion] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Duodecimo (15 x 9cm), pp.[12]; 168; [12]. With the engraved frontispiece. Errata to rear. Brown full calf. Boards double ruled, seven rulings in blind to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior clean though toned with very minimal spotting..... More
By the Old Walls of Kyoto. A Year's Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries.
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxv; [1]; 463; [3]. With 24 colour reproductions of nihonga by various artists. Pictorial endpapers inspired by a wall at Daitoku-ji. Publisher's red cloth, with design in black to upper and black titles to spine. With the..... More
The Thames.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. [Topography] PROOF COPY. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.239; [18]. With two maps and numerous leaves of photographic illustrations tipped in to rear. Publisher's orange pictorial softcovers. Leaves bright and clean, some rubbing to rear cover interior. Faint toning and marking to edges. Some marking and..... More
In Pursuit of Spring.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.301; [3]. With six halftone illustrations, including a frontispiece, adhered on one edge to tipped-in grey leaves with letter-pressed tissue guards. Cartographic endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles, device, and rulings to upper..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1902]. [Illustrated American Literature] DELUXE ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. Small quarto (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] 208. With 35 illustrated plates by Copping, including a frontispiece, vignette title page, and a total of 24 in colour. An ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR illustration signed by Copping..... More