Illustrated & Plate Books
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
The Octocentenary of Reading Abbey, A.D.1121—A.D.1921.
London: Elliot Stock, 1921. [Monastic History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.x; 92 [2]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates, including a large folding frontispiece impression of the Abbey at its peak. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'E. Board Esq. | with the..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1797. [Town Guide] SIXTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[8] xii, 336 [4]. With 13 engraved plates including a frontispiece and calligraphic dedication, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Recently re-backed in plain brown card, with remains of original brown card laid over..... More
A Spliced Yarn. Some Strands From the Life Cable of Bill Bullen.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1899. [Maritime fiction] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 300. With five tissue-guarded halftone plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Red pictorial decoration to upper and spine. Top edge gilt. Toning to margins, foxing..... More
Lyra's Oxford.
London: David Fickling Books, 2003. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.55. Publisher's red cloth boards, titles in black to spine, paper title label to upper board. Grey endpapers, with fold-out map. A touch of light wear to cloth. A crisp, near fine copy. 'Lyra's Oxford' is..... More
Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the General Reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. [South American Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.cxxiv; 707 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 782 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, being Zea and Bolivar respectively, and a large folding engraved map to volume I. Recently re-bound..... More
Harris of Japan. The Story of Townsend Harris and his Amazing Adventures in Establishing Relations with the Far East.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 310; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front and rear boards, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. Frontispiece of Townsend Harris. Illustration plates in black and white throughout..... More
Time Was Away. A notebook in Corsica.
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1948. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.189; [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, with usual state of dust-jacket designed by John Minton, printed price 21s to flap. Internally a clean and crisp copy. Slight bumping to upper, central and lower..... More
Soldier Tales.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1896. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 172. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles and illustration to spine, gilt motif to front board, all edges gilt, black endpapers. With twenty-one illustrated plates including frontispiece. Light spotting to preliminaries, more so frontispiece tissue guard, rubbing..... More
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero.
London: Seeley and Company, 1884. [Roman History] FINELY BOUND, the fourth printing thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; xii; 291; [3]. Twelve illustrations including frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative panelling to boards, gilt dentelle..... More
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. With a Foreword by Florence Milner.
London: Cassell and Company, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink..... More
Fred.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at $9.95. Lightly handled with one small closed tear to jacket. Fine. Two..... More
Lulu and the Flying Babies.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £5.95. Just a little bumping to corners, otherwise a fine copy. More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Nation.
London: Doubleday, 2008. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 409; [8]. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, blue 'starry sky' endpapers from John Sanford/Science Photo Library, illustrations internally. Pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Jonny Duddle, printed price of £16.99. Written by the Carnegie-medal winning author... More
Piccadilly. A Fragment of Contemporary Biography.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Satirical novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[13] 328 [5]. With eight engravings, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, by Richard Doyle. Gold vein marbled endpapers. Red half calf with gold vein marbled paper over boards and gilt rulings to red..... More
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Film Tie-In] ORIGINAL STUDIO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, plus First Thus of the film tie-in book. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 84. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's tan paper over boards, with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
All About Bond.
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.185 [7]. SIGNED by O'NEILL in black ink to title page. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs by Terry O'Neill. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, gold endpapers, and photographic..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Blue Moon.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Children's fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 14cm), pp.210. Nine full-page plates. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in red and gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. Some trivial dustiness, jacket very lightly worn. An unquestionably fine copy. Scarce thus. More
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889. [Humour] FIRST EDITION, later printing with '11 Quay Street' on title page. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 315 [1]. Arrowsmith's listings to endpapers. With frequent illustrations by Fredericks. In publisher's aqua cloth, with gilt titles to spine and black titles to upper, including a small rowing..... More
Anatomy for Artists.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. [Art and Anatomy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (29 x 20cm), pp.[2] xiv; 436 [4]. Illustrated with 200 original in-text drawings by Cuthbert, engraved by J. and G. Nicholls. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and black horizontal ruling to boards. Top edge..... More
Through the Eyes of Gilbert & George: The Line of Beauty. Shared Vision volume II.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2004. [First Chapter Book] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.41 [3]. Number 40 of 85 copies thus, from a total limitation of 100, SIGNED by the author, and with an original print SIGNED by Gilbert & George. A colour illustration to preliminaries..... More
Rough Riders of the Pampas. A Tale of Ranch Life in South America.
London: Blackie and Son, 1909. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green..... More
Rupert Little Bear More Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1939. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrative front and back boards with red and black lettering picturing the characters from the Rupert stories. Coloured illustrative frontispiece, two colour title page, two coloured text used throughout, illustrations throughout. Shaken in case, toning..... More