"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
Illustrated & Plate Books
The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.142 [2]. With colour plates by Gilbert and in-text drawings by Campbell. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To R.W. Smith | Yours with best wishes | Richard..... More
Watership Down.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books / Kestrel Books, 1976. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.550, plus folding map. With full colour plates by John Lawrence, and numerous marginal sketches in black and white. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with black and gilt titles to spine, cream paper..... More
The Temple Church.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. [Mediaeval Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 127 [5]. With five fine lithographic plates by Brandard, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Engravings also to chapter headings. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind and in gilt to spine and upper, yellow-coated..... More
Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
An Idler in the Near East.
London: John Milne, 1910. [Ottoman travel] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 279 [1]. With 40 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Spine sunned with some light rubbing to..... More
Previously.
London: Walker Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 28cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Ingman to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator, with a doodle, in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued)..... More
Previously.
London: Walker Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 28cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Ingman to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket as issued). A fine, as-new copy. A fresh look at some classic fairy tales, told..... More
The Whispering Mountain
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED CARD tucked in. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. With title-page illustration and jacket design by Pat Marriott. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, map endpapers printed in colour, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 21s. A few light marks to..... More
Past Eight O'Clock: Goodnight Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.128. With frequent in-text silhouette illustrations by Pienkowski, some in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to upper, and illustrated endpapers. With the brown illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. A...... More
Elvis & the Birth of Rock.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Music Biography] SIGNED COLLECTOR EDITION. Quarto (36 x 26cm), pp.156. Number 658 of 1400 copies thus, SIGNED by the photographer, Lew Allen, and guest editor Mike McCartney. Lew Allen's photographs are reproduced throughout in duotone inks with image varnishing on to heavyweight, 200 gsm matt art..... More
Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland, Illustrated. From Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering etc., with Descriptions by T. Rose.
London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1832-1834. [Northern Topography] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes bound as two. Folio (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 116; pp.[6] 117-220. With 111 engraved plates, including a vignette title page to volume I and a frontispiece to volume II. Contemporary maroon half calf with raised..... More
The Savage.
London: Walker Books, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.79 [1]. Generously illustrated by McKean throughout. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £5.99. Light handling with some rubbing and marks to rear cover. Near..... More
Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Pictures that Spring to Life. Bookano Series.
London: Strand Publications, no date [circa 1938]. [Pop-Up Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[62]. With four colour-illustrated pop-up scenes, a colour frontispiece and vignette title page, and several line-drawn illustrations, all by Wickham, and design and arrangement by Giraud. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, with endpapers illustrated..... 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
The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 364. With 17 wood engravings by Zwecker and Pearson, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a navy label on spine, further gilt decoration to spine..... More
Cowboy and his Friend.
London: Collins, 1961. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.[32], unpaginated. In-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to spine with black illustration of Cowboy blocked to upper. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Toning and light spotting to flyleaves, dark spot on edge of pages..... More
Family Secrets. or hints to those who would make home happy.
London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... More
The Dolly Dressmaker. Original Book of Cutting and Dressing with Original Artwork of 10 Paintings on board.
Printed in England, B.B. (Birn Brothers) Ltd., 1950's. The Book: Folio. No. 509. Soft pictorial covers with 16 pages, 8 of which are printed in colour. The Artwork: 10 hand painted hard board leaves, same size as the book, being the original artwork for the front and back covers as..... More
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
The Song of Songs.
London: Collins, 1973. [Erotica] FIRST THUS. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[6] 16 [34]. With frequent line drawings by Erni. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £2.95. A fine copy with just a hint of light handling..... More
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Heraldic Album [Arms, Crests, and Monograms].
no date [circa 1890's]. [Crest and Monogram Album] CREST AND MONOGRAM COLLECTION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), title page and 35 unpaginated leaves, all completed with crests and monograms in various colours cut from envelopes and headed paper. Blue leather-grain-effect cloth over boards with blind decoration. All edges gilt. Clean..... 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