Illustrated & Plate Books
Perkin the Pedlar.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Educational] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 206. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Clare Leighton. Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Light toning throughout leaves, with minor foxing to preliminaries and edges. Spotting to cloth boards, mostly lower. Rubbing to..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper..... More
Walton's Lives. The lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotten; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson.
York: Wilson and Sons, 1817. [Biographies] Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[14] 488 [2]; pp.[10] 470 [4]. Full brown calf with gilt titles and gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt and blind ruling to boards, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelle to turn ins. Eight plates across..... More
Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
London: Constable and Co., 1912. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xivi; 256. Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in dark blue half morocco over marbled sides, with gilt decoration to spine..... More
Transformer.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003. [Rock and Pop] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies SIGNED by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2,000, but Reed died before he could sign the 1,650 non-deluxe copies, which consequently only bear his facsimile..... More
When We Was Fab.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003. [Rock and Pop] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio. Number 102 of 750 copies, SIGNED by photographer Astrid Kirchherr, with a foreword by Olivia Harrison. Bound in full blind-stamped black morocco, in a presentation solander box, with a silver gelatin print of George Harrison, signed by Kichherr on..... More
Six-String Stories. Eric Clapton. The Crossroads Guitars.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2012. [Rock photo-documentary] SIGNED COLLECTOR EDITION. Folio, pp.376. Number 1472 of 1650 copies thus, SIGNED by the author. Comprehensively illustrated with images taken by over eighty of the world's best photographers, including David Bailey, Terry O'Neill, Dominique Tarlé and Lord Snowdon. Printed on heavyweight GardaMatt and GardaPat..... More
The Floral World Garden Guide and Country Companion 1878. Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. [Gardening] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.vi; 378 [2]. With 14 fine colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. Truro bookseller's label to..... More
Live In Japan.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1993. [Rock and Pop] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (35 x 27cm), pp.274. Number 1205 of 3500 copies thus, SIGNED by George Harrison in brown ink to a label on the front pastedown. With a foreword by Eric Clapton and text by George Harrison plus members of the..... More
Wood On Canvas. Every Picture Tells A Story Forewords by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1998. [Music and Art] LIMITED COLLECTOR EDITION. Folio (40 x 32cm), pp.144. Number 369 of 2500 copies, SIGNED by the author. Four-colour printed leaves, some folding-plates. Quarter-bound in rich black cloth over blue art paper boards with colour title label, spine blocked in silver, accompanying CD in..... More
Heroes and Villains.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2005. [Hollywood / Rock Music] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 221 of 350 copies thus, SIGNED by photographer David Steen and contributor Sir Roger Moore. Supplied with an additional signed print exclusive to the deluxe copies. Handsomely bound in metallic-effect covers with all edges silver, housed in..... More
F.G. Tait. A Record Being his Life, Letters, and Golfing Diary.
London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1901. [Golf] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.304. With eighteen illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, gilt decoration to upper. Loose ownership letter, newspaper article on the Tait Memorial Medal taped to rear endpaper. Ex-libris Bernard..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished With Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Measures of Poison.
Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. [Noir Anthology] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an inscribed out-of-series copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 710. SIGNED in various inks by most (over 20 of 26) the contributors and the editor to limitation leaf tipped onto the half-title, INSCRIBED 'For Thalia—lover of books & wild..... More
No-Nose at the Show.
London: Methuen and co., 1931. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.[4] 43 [1]. With twelve pen and ink illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Persis Kirmse. Publisher's softcovers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, also featuring illustrations by Kirmse, unpriced. Internally bright and clean, only minor toning throughout. Bookplate of L...... More
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: W. and R. Chambers, No date [circa 1911]. [Romantic Fiction] Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; viii; 634; [2]. Full navy calf, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, pastel marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt 'Church Schools Company Limited' armorial device to upper. Bound by Bumpus. Forty-seven pen and ink..... More
To the Farthest Ends of the Earth. 150 Years of World Exploration. Forewords by David Attenborough and John Hunt.
London: Macdonald, 1980. [Geographical History] FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY ATTENBOROUGH. Octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, illustrations throughout including frontispiece and endpapers. In a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anne Davison, price-clipped. INSCRIBED by David Attenborough in blue ink to title page, reading 'To Sarah..... More
Guerilla Warfare. Restricted.
London: Ministry of Defence, 1957. [Warfare] WRITTEN WITH ACCESS TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 201. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles on red label to spine, 'Restricted' in gilt to boards, with sixteen folding maps and diagrams, erratum slip for p.91. Internally clean. Wearing to boards, more so..... More
A Six Foot Three Nightingale. Norman Gale 1862-1942. A Biographical Essay and Check-List.
Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. [Bibliography] ONE OF 75 COPIES. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 41; [5]. Publisher's green paper wraps, black titles on white label to upper. Copy number thirty-eight of seventy five. Occasional series number seven. Four illustrated plates. Internally clean and bright, minor creasing..... More
Earl Lavender. A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, Which Lasted One Night and One Day: With a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs Scamler and Maud Emblem.
London: Ward and Downey, 1895. [Satire fiction] BEARDSLEY FRONTISPIECE. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [2]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, dark purple endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Frontispiece by Beardsley. Red and black ink to title page. Internally clean, toning to top edge. Toning to..... More
Spook Crooks! Profusely illustrated by James and Howard Savage.
London: Selwyn and Blount, No date [c.1932]. [Magic and Folklore] FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 287; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Some spotting to textblock edges, fading spine, minor bumping to lower spine edge, slight watermark to front..... More
The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats
London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. [Collected Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[vi]; 382. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, top edge of textblock tinted blue, dust-jacket designed by Clodagh Paddock with printed price £5.25 to flap. Slight wear to edges of hardcover, jacket a little frawrappeyed..... More
A Pictorial Autobiography.
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. [Sculptor Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.128. Heavily illustrated with in-text black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'For Bruce with love | January 10th | Barbara.' Publisher's orange cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More