Illustrated & Plate Books
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306. Number 1604 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert programme from the..... More
Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 360. With a selection of Benett's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and polychrome decoration to spine and upper. Black ink church choir..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock [The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes, quartos (25 x 17 x 9cm), pp.[2] iv; 306, pp.vi; 306, pp.vi; 426 [4]. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, with gilt-blocked clock design to..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings In English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, a Presentation Copy, one of 750 copies SIGNED in pencil to the frontispiece by Willy Pogany, numbered 'Artist'. Small Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.175 [1]. With twelve mounted colour plates including a frontispiece, an original etching signed in pencil..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... 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
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
Liverpool Days [and] Golden Dreams.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1994 and 1996. [Rock photo-documentaries] LIMITED EDITION SET. Two volumes in an exclusive box set. Quarto (29 x 26cm), pp.122; pp.122. Both volumes profusely illustrated on 200gsm matt art paper, and SIGNED by Kirchherr and Scheler, both being number 1026 of 2500 copies of each title. Both..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... 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
The Mysterious Island (part II): Abandoned.
New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1880. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 304; [10]. With a frontispiece and 49 (of 50) engraved plates by Ferat. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spines and uppers, bevelled edges, coated yellow endpapers. No inscriptions..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... 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
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
Peter Lanyon 1918-1964.
Penzance: Andrew Lanyon, with St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company, 1990. [Biography and Catalogue] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.340. Heavily illustrated throughout with tipped-in plates. Number 417 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author, Andrew Lanyon, in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, with..... More
The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
New York, NY: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. (19 x 15cm), pp.52. With 10 chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and many more in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with white titles to spine and upper board, and a small circular chromolithographic illustration..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... 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
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and..... More
[Original Artwork for Biggles]. [Unpublished].
no date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Adventure Artwork] ORIGINAL PAINTING (38 x 57cm). Gouache painted directly onto a Winsor & Newton Fashion-Plate Drawing Board, details printed on reverse. A little rubbed, chipped and bumped to edges, but clean and bright generally. Very good. An original painting produced by Leslie Stead, or..... More