Illustrated
The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque
London: R. Ackermann, 1815. Hardcover. 8vo. 276pp. Fifth edition with new plates. 31 engraved plates in colour including the frontispiece and engraved title page. Original textured calf boards with rebacked spine lettered in gilt. Spine with light rubbing to the edges, boards with heavy wear and scuffing, worn and rounded..... More
The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque; Illustrated with Original Designs By Alfred Crowquill
London: Ackermann and Co., and Thomas Tegg, 1844. Original Cloth. Octavo. Pp. xii, 360, richly illustrated throughout with engraved frontispiece, title-page, 27 initial letters, 45 text illustrations (some used as tail-pieces), and 6 plates with captions. Goldenrod textured cloth with elaborate gilt-frames to both upper and lower covers surrounding a...... More
Natalis Comitis Mythologiae Sive Explicationum Fabularum Libri Decem. In Quibus Omnia Prope Naturalis et Moralis Philosophiae Dogmata in Veterum Fabulis Contenta Fuisse Perspicue Demonstratur. Opus Cuiusuis Facultatis Studiosis Perutile Ac Propre Necessarium. Accessit G. Linocerii Musarum Mytholgia, & anonymi observationum in tota de diis gentium narrationem libellus. Adiectae sunt insuper novissimae huic, post Germanica & Gallicam, editioni elegantissimae Deorum imagines, & eruditissimae mythologie M. Antonio Tritonii Utinensis. Omnia summo studio, & exquisito labore emendata.
Padua: Petrumpaulum Tozzium [Pierpaolo Tozzi]: Patavii, apud Petrumpaulum Tozzium, 1616. Hardcover. 4to. [xliv], 614pp, [ii], 60p. Early patterned boards, later calf spine. Large woodcut arms on title page, folding woodcut plate of the heavens before p. 1, and two full-page and over 100 half-page woodcut illustrations in the text. Title-page..... More
The Spy. A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1922. Hardcover. No date, c. 1922. 8vo. 437 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with a mounted colour illustration and gilt decorations to the front board, with titling in gilt to the front board and spine. Spine a little darkened and rear board a bit scuffed..... More
The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. Warwick Goble. First Edtion. Hardcover. 4to. xiii, 379p. Original teal cloth, gilt stamped front cover and spine, top edge gilt. The gilt slightly rubbed on the circular medallion fairy illustration to the front board, the spine ends a little bumped and rubbed and the..... More
The Claims of Decorative Art
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. vi, [1], 191. Green cloth with front board and spine decorations and lettering in burgundy. Pages a little age-toned, ink name to front endpaper, spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, and one corner with a slightly harder bump..... More
Old Aunt Elspa's ABC.
London: Scolar Press, 1978. Softcover. Oblong small 8vo. Facsimile edition by Scolar Press. Cover edges a touch age-toned, else a fine and unworn copy. More
Tales of Magic and Meaning. With an Original Pen and Ink Illustration
London: Grant and Griffith, 1856. Hardcover. Small Octavo, pp. x, 175, 32 - publisher's [Griffith and Farran] adverts., 4 plates. Bookplate of collector, Aubrey Heywood Jones, (1892), designed and etched, and with original verse by Herbert Jones, for a collection of folk-lore books. Half dark brown calf over pebbled cloth..... More
Seymour's Humorous Sketches, Comprising Eighty-six Caricature Etchings. Illustrated in Prose and Verse By Alfred Crowquill. New Edition with a Descriptive List of the Plates and a Biographical Notice of Robert Seymour By Henry G. Bohn
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. Full Leather. Octavo. Unpaginated. Full calf, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Minor spotting to a few pages, otherwise interior very clean and bright. Rebacked with original maroon leather spine label laiddown. Overall, very good. More
The John Hassell Lifestyle
Witham: Dilke Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Red endpages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Review slip taped to front endpage. Tiny bump to lower outside corner, with matching creasing to dustjacket. More
In The White Hotel. The White Hotel Poems and Introduction by D.M. Thomas. (Inscribed by Both, with Original Drawings by Wilks)
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1991. Soft cover. Signed. Poems and Introduction by D.M. Thomas. Illustrated by Claire Wiseman Wilks. Inscribed by D.M. Thomas on the front cover. Also inscribed by Claire Wiseman Wilks, with an original drawing in black ink of a nude. Inscribed to Canadian writer Greg Gatenby, from his..... More
Les Saints Evangiles Traduits de la Vulgate par M. L' abbe Dassange.
Paris: L Curmer, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Tall 8vo. lxxx, 263pp.; iv, 440pp. (irregular pagination) Engraved and hand coloured title, head piece, and initial. Two volumes with 22 engraved plates and 2 engraved and hand coloured maps of the Holy Land. Text within engraved borders, in..... More
Contes du Lundi
Paris: Editions D'art Les Heures Claires, 1980. Henry Lemarie. From a total edition of 3650 copies. Exemplaires sur Grand Velin de Rives comportant les illustrations dans leur etat definitif. Numerotes de 699 a 3650. Exemplaire 1774. This edition with the illustrations in their final state. Loose gatherings, as issued, in..... More
Tartarin de Tarascon
Paris: Editions D'art Les Heures Claires, 1980. Henry Lemarie. From a total edition of 3650 copies. Exemplaires sur Grand Velin de Rives comportant les illustrations dans leur etat definitif. Numerotes de 699 a 3650. Exemplaire 2150. This edition with the illustrations in their final state. Loose gatherings, as issued, in..... More
The Stars, the World and the Woman
London, United Kingdom: William Jackson (Books), 1930. Frank C. Pape. Hardcover. Signed. 8vo (160x255mm). 53pp. Black buckram lettered in gilt. Number 186 of a print run of 550 signed copies. Faint tape mark to each endpaper, board tips lightly rubbed, the buckram lightly worn at the spine ends and with..... More
Self to Self
London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1930. Soft cover. [190 x 120mm]. No date, c. 1930. 4 unnumbered pages. Spine bound by white string. Yellow paper with black lettering and illustration. Wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. This is No. 11 of The Ariel Poems. Wear to spine, splitting at base of spine..... More
Paperjack
New Castle, Virginia: Cheap Street, 1991. Judy J. King. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed. Printed in an edition of 133 copies, including 12 lettered copies. Printed on Mohawk text with Oxford endsheets and a Japanese yuzen paper dust wrapper. Laid in a traycase made by Judi Conant. Each copy signed..... More
Vagabondage en Rouge
Mainz: Edition GD, 2001. Hardcover. Signed. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering to the spine. Dust jacket. Fine copy. One of 4 special lettered copies, this is C, each containing a drypoint etching from an impression of 25, cloth-bound and in a red cloth slipcase. This copy further inscribed by..... More
Our Mutual Friend
London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. Marcus Stone. Hardcover. Octavo. The first two volume edition with the blue wrappers of the 1864/65 serialized front covers, adverts and back covers bound in at the end. Vol. 1: pp. [xii], 320, includes half-title, frontispiece plus 19 plates by Marcus Stone, with..... More
The Leaguer of Ladysmith. November 2nd, 1899, to February 28th, 1900
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, oblong. [235 x 300 mm]. Pictorial paper boards, beveled edges, with green cloth spine strip. Floral patterned endpapers, with previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. The boards a little darkened and scuffed, with a few very faint and small..... More
La Princesse Badourah. Conte Des Mille et Une Nuits.
Paris: L'Edition D'Art, 1914. First Edition. Leather. First edition thus. 4to. [300 x 240mm] 114pp., [2], [1], 3 blanks at end. Original wrappers bound-in. Edition of 500, this copy not numbered or signed. Bound in three-quarter maroon morocco over red marbled boards, with gilt decorated and lettered spine. Top edge..... More
Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied By Bob Logic, the Oxonian in Their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. Embellished with Thirty-six Scenes from Real Life
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. The Brothers Cruikshank. First Edition, First Issue. Full Leather. Octavo. The Genuine First Edition, without the footnote on p. 9. The first sheet of music is unnumbered. 36 fine, vibrantly coloured aquatint plates, designed and etched by I.R. and George Cruikshank, woodcuts..... More
The Romance of Parzival and The Holy Grail, Retold by Carl Lofmark. With wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski.
Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1990. Stefam Mrozewski. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. [470 x 350mm]. Pp. x, 32, plus family tree and colophon on verso, plus 12 full-page engravings. Quarter red morocco leather over lozenge patterned cloth and gilt lettered spine. Bookplate of Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies to front pastedown..... More
Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions: ... Delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th Day of October 1662, ... Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves
York: Printed By A. Ward for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Robson, T. Durham, W. Creech, J. Balfour, 1776. Full Leather. 4to, [liv] - includes Life of John Evelyn, and Subscriber's List, 649, [x] - Index. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Francesco Bartolozzi, plus 41 plates mostly by John Miller (1715..... More