Illustrated & Plate Books
The Silver Birch Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Stork's-Bill Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Sycamore Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Tulip Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
The Lonely Rhinoceros.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small quarto (24 x 26cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by Manhes to almost every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £3.95. Light rubbing and bumping. Near fine. More
[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Centenary Edition.
London: Pavilion, 1999. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST FOREMAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.160. With colour illustrations by Foreman throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by..... More
Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery Rhymes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Illustrated Nursery Rhymes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Bayley to every page. Publisher's blue illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, priced at £1.95. A water stain to top edge, with some minor marks to endpapers. Spine head pulled, with bumping to corners..... More
An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq.; and of his Foundation in Charter-House.
London: Printed by E. Owen, and sold by F. Gyles in Holborn; W. Hinchliffe in Cornhill; Mess. J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-Street. 1737. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 276. With an engraving by George Vertue between pages 160-161. Errata to page 276. Missing the folding plate..... More
The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.248. Profusely illustrated with mainly black and white photographs by Beaton. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, orange endpapers, dust-jacket. Edges toned with the occasional mark, cloth lightly handled. Jacket price-clipped, with extensive amateur repairs to..... More
Chinese Album.
London: B.T. Batsford, Winter 1945-46. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.[10] 78. About 100 black and white photographs reproduced on double-sided plates, as well as a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. With the pink illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Moderate spotting..... More
The Green Lacquer Pavilion.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. With nine in-text wood-cuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Dulac. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to green label on spine, and a gilt and green device stamped 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
Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red..... More
Rossetti and his Circle.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Caricature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (27 x 20cm), ix; [1]; [44]. With 23 colour halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Beerbohm, pasted on one edge to captioned tissue-guarded leaves. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles to upper and spine. Publisher's insignia in blind to lower. Leaves..... More
Mrs. Beeton's Household Management. Comprising Information for the Mistress; Housekeeper; Cook; Kitchen Maid; Butler; Footman; Coachman; Valet; Parlour-Maid; Housemaid; Lady's-Maid; General Servant; Laundry-Maid; Nurse and Nurse-Maid; Monthly, Wet and Sick-Nurse; Governess. Also Sanitary, Medical and Legal Memoranda. With a History of the Origin, Properties and Uses of all Things connected with Home Life and Comfort. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged, Containing New Coloured Plates and Numerous Full-Page and other Engravings. Several Hundreds of New Recipes for English, French, German, Italian, American, Australian and Indian Cookery. New Menus for Breakfasts, Luncheons, Dinners, Teas and Suppers. With Valuable Information upon Household and Domestic Matters.
London; Ward, Lock & Co., no date [circa 1890]. [Cookery and Domestic Economy] LEATHER-BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm), pp.[4] xlviii; 1644 [14]. With 13 colour-illustrated plates including a folding frontispiece, 68 full-page black and white plates, and hundreds of in-text woodcuts. Recently rebound in red..... More
The Boy's Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1863. [Anthology] FINE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 552 [4]. With 24 engraved plates including a frontispiece, and numerous other in-text illustrations. Green publisher's cloth, lavishly stamped in both gilt and blind. Titles to upper and spine. Yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior lightly..... More
Stalingrad.
London: Viking, 1998. [Second World War] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 494. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With..... More
Dark Destroyer. My Story.
London: Blake Publishing Ltd, 1999. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To "Father Derek" | Enjoy the "read" | Nigel Benn'. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine..... More
Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
The Tired Train, and other stories.
London: Max Parrish, No date [circa 1952]. [Children's Illustrated] COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.36. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper. Light spotting and toning to preliminaries. Sunning to spine and board top edges, tearing to spine head. Very..... More