Illustrated & Plate Books
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew; The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Last Battle. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950-1956. [Children's fantasy series] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 19cm). With illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Finely bound in recent navy full morocco, with gilt titles to spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt..... More
A Family Without a Name.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890]. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 172; 134 [34]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet, including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black, white 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
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
A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, (signature 'b' noted on list of plates; page 213 numbered 113; 'affectionately' misspelled on page 134; the name of 'Stryver' misspelt 'Striver' on plate at page 94). Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.254, engravings by H.K. Browne. Contemporary full polished..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... 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 History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
The Clipper of the Clouds. [Robur the Conquerer].
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887 [1886]. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 234 [32]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 42 wood engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and black, brown and white decoration to..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Being: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1961. [Fantasy Classic] FIRST EDITION, the eleventh, eighth, and eighth impressions respectively. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.423 [1]; pp.352; pp.416. With a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... 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
Songs by George Harrison, Volume 1.
Guildford: Genesis Press, 1987. [Music] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim Quarto (26 x 18cm), pp.175; [5]. SIGNED by George Harrison in gold ink to the limitation page. With numerous colour plates and watercolour illustrations by artist Keith West. Original black half-morocco boards, black cloth with guitar and keyboard design blocked to..... 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
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
Yoko Ono at Lisson. Half-A-Wind Show. Oct 11 -Nov. 14, 1967.
London: Lisson Gallery, 1967. [Exhibition programme/synopsis] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Slim booklet comprising four text sheets (26 x 21cm), staples twice to left hand side. Illustrated cover/first sheet "Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?". Includes the two-page article 'Some Notes on the Lisson Gallery Show' penned by Yoko Ono. Lightly..... More
The Writings of Anthony Trollope. Collector's Edition.
Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed..... More
The Works and Life of Laurence Sterne. [Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey, etc.]
New York, NY: J.F. Taylor and Co., 1904. [Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS, the Stonegate Edition. 12 volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 40cm). With 60 engraved plates, each duplicated on different paper, each with a tissue guard. Number 18 of just 150 sets in this edition. Very fine contemporary..... More
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FINELY BOUND. Twenty volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 61cm). The Walden Edition. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornate tooling to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. [Children's illustrated] EARLY PRINTING, the seventh thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. No ads at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards. All edges gilt; dark navy endpapers. Bound..... 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
Billiards Without a Master; Illustrated by Fifty Fine Copperplate Diagrams, each plate containing from one to twenty-four shots, making a grand total of over one hundred and fifty shots; from which a sufficient knowledge can be acquired to enable the player to accomplish any possible stroke on the billiard table: all of which are fully explained on the page opposite their respective plates. The work contains, also, a full and complete set of rules for the government of the game of billiards, and the various games of pool, and c., hints to players, advice to amateurs, keepers of saloons, and c.; with a variety of explanations, interesting to all connected with billiards, or billiard playing, by Michael Phelan, now acknowledged, by all, to be one of the First Players in this country, and of long experience, both as a Keeper of a Saloon, and a Practical Player. To which is prefixed, a fine steel plate frontispiece, Showing a Billiard Table, and Players in Position. Accompanying the work, is a treatise on the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Game of Billiards.
New York: D.D. Winant, 1850. [Games] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 127 [1]. With fifty copperplate diagrams and a steel plate frontispiece. Re-backed, though retaining original spine and boards. Brown full calf with gilt ruling, gilt title, and red title label to spine. Edges speckled. Heavy toning..... More
Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More