Illustrated & Plate Books
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1909. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND BY BICKERS. Two volumes in one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 786. With two tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrations of Browning. Blue full morocco to boards, gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Gilt roll-tooled dentelle to turn-ins. Blue endpapers. All edges gilt..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies. Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools. Ornamented with Thirty-Four Engravings, Beautifully Cut on Wood.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood in the Poultry; and sold by E. Newbery, 1798. [Historical Female Biography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 226 [6]. Including a leaf of advertisements at rear. With an engraved frontispiece and many head and tail pieces in the style of Bewick..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
The Juvenile Reader; Consisting of Religious, Moral and Intellectual Instruction; Exercises in Spelling, Explanation, and Derivation; and an Appendix, Containing Select Pieces for Recitation. By Preceptor, Member of the College of Preceptors. And Under the Auspices of the Council of Education.
London: Published by Bartholomew Harris, c.1852. [Education] SCARCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.216. With numerous in-text woodcuts, a few of which are hand-coloured. Red full calf, with gilt titles and blind-stamped decoration to both boards. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, with a few annotations in black ink..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
BECK01.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2016. [Rock Autobiography] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (43 x 38cm), pp.352. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies, SIGNED by Jeff Beck. Bound by hand in full Italian leather, with silver page edging and hand tooling. A stamped metal front cover reproduces a Californian number plate from the..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 284. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
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