Illustrated (all items)
First editions and rare illustrated books where the primary appeal is the illustrations, including early printed books with woodcut engravings, colour plate and aquatint, photographically illustrated books, and deluxe illustrated gift books by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke, and others.
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ATKINSON, George Francklin.
"Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates; c.1860
£500
The third edition, believed to be two years after the first. Classic images of the Raj by an officer of the Bengal Engineers. "This famous and often reprinted work provides an...
Quarto (282 × 199 mm) Contemporary half burgundy pebble-grained morocco on dun pebbled-grained cloth, title direct to the spine which is gilt in compartments with... Read more
WAUGH, Alec.
"Most Women…" 1931
£150
First Edition, First Impression. A gentle saunter across the globe in which the author contemplates the place of women as seen by their own societies. Illustrated in Ward's typical...
Octavo. Original textured blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Contents just a touch browned but an... Read more
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[DISNEY, Walt]
"Sketch Book" ["Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"]. 1938
£1,875
First edition, first impression, of the first book in the Disney Sketchbook series, somewhat incongruously published in Great Britain: there was no contemporary American edition of...
Large quarto. Original oatmeal cloth, front cover with titles in facsimile manuscript, pictorial endpapers. With the colour pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11... Read more
BOSSCHERE, Jean De. [Ezra POUND]
12 Occupations. 1916
£2,250
First Edition, First Impression, Limited Issue. One of only 50 numbered copies signed by the author who has also hand coloured the illustrations. The text appears in both the...
Octavo. Original decorated orange paper boards. With twelve designs by the author. A fine copy in the original tissue dust jacket - slightly frayed. Read more
GRANGER, Rev. J.
A Biographical History of England 1804
£475
Granger's Biographical History 4 vols. with Noble's continuation 3 vols. from Miss Currer's Library.
7 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in contemporary full brown calf with twin dark blue labels, gilt title and decoration to spine. Gilt boarding to boards. Marbled edges... Read more
KENT, Rockwell.
A Birthday Book. 1931
£250
First edition, first printing. One of a limited edition of 1850 numbered copies signed by Rockwell Kent on the limitation leaf.
Octavo. Original cream cloth decorated in blue and red, cream silk endpapers. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent throughout. A little rubbed at extremities, contents... Read more
LEAR, Edward.
A Book of Nonsense. 1856?]
£3,750
Second edition, extremely rare complete, indeed "virtually unfindable" according to Ray. Privately printed in a very small edition of between 250 and 500 copies, the second edition...
Oblong format (135 × 212 mm), plates mounted on linen stubs. Contemporary calf, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules, spine gilt, marbled endpapers.... Read more
MILLAIS, John Guille.
A Breath from the Veldt. 1895
£875
First edition.
Folio (385 × 305 mm). Later red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout.... Read more
SMITH, Jessie Wilcox.
A Child's Book of Country Stories. 1925
£175
First edition, first printing.
Tall quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, full colour illustration mounted on upper board. Colour frontispiece and 3 plates. Bookseller's... Read more
SMITH, Jessie Wilcox.
A Child's Book of Modern Stories. 1920
£500
First edition, first printing. A lovely copy.
Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, full colour illustration mounted on upper board. Colour frontispiece and 7 plates. Contemporary... Read more
SMITH, Jessie Wilcox.
A Child's Book of Old Verses. 1910
£375
First edition, first printing. A lovely copy.
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, full-colour illustration mounted on upper board, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour... Read more
SMITH, Jessie Wilcox.
A Child's Book of Stories. 1911
£375
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, full colour illustration mounted on upper board, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 9... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) DICKENS, Charles.
A Christmas Carol. [1915]
£450
First Rackham edition.
Octavo. Recent purple morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with... Read more
DOYLE, James E.
A Chronicle of England B.C. 55–A.D. 1485. 1864
£750
First edition of one of the earliest and finest examples of Victorian colour printing. The illustrator and antiquary James Doyle was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator...
Large quarto. Contemporary deluxe binding by Riviere of green straight-grained morocco, covers with double floral borders in gilt, English royal motifs (a crowned... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur), PHILLPOTTS, Eden.
A Dish of Apples. [1921]
£275
First trade edition.
Large octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in brown, pictorial title block to front board in brown, pictorial endpapers. With 3 mounted colour plates, tissues,... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur), PHILLPOTTS, Eden.
A Dish of Apples. [1921]
£275
First trade edition.
Large octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in brown, pictorial title block to front board in brown, pictorial endpapers. With 3 mounted colour plates, tissues,... Read more
VENNING, Mary Anne.
A Geographical Present; 1817
£575
Uncommon first edition of this highly attractive juvenile geography. "Like her early-nineteenth-century contemporary Priscilla Wakefield, Venning seems to have been a woman who...
Duodecimo (147 × 88 mm). Modern red morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, floral devices within single fillet panels to the compartments, gilt panels with... Read more
MACQUOID, Percy.
A History of English Furniture. 1904–8
£975
First Editions.
4 volumes, folio. Contemporary blue half morocco, titles and twin rules to spines gilt, blue cloth boards. 60 colour plates. Foxing to endpapers, a little fading to... Read more
(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
A History of The University of Oxford, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. 1814
£4,500
First Edition of Ackermann's lavish history of Oxford, complete with the Founders plate. The text is by William Combe, of Doctor Syntax fame.
2 volumes, quarto (342 × 282 mm). Publisher's blue straight-grained morocco, spines lettered in gilt, gilt wide bands, compartments decorated in gilt and in... Read more
(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings; [together with:] A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. 1814 & 1815
£12,500
'These two books are among the finest ever executed. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid...
[Oxford] 2 volumes, large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches; 336 x 275 mm.), pp. xiv + [4] + xxv + [1] blank + 275 + [1] blank + [6] index; [4] + 262 + [6] index.... Read more
VAN GRUISEN, Jun., N. L.
A Holiday in Iceland. 1879
£375
First Edition. Uncommon, six copies only on COPAC. Attractively and innovatively produced private publication recording a pleasure trip to Iceland undetaken on board the Danish mail...
Octavo. Mounted original albumen print frontispiece and four other similar plates. Later attractive Yacht Library bookplate of M. Botterill's "Molly", to the front... Read more
WILDE, Oscar.
A House of Pomegranates. 1891
£2,250
First edition, first impression of the book that Wilde said was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."
Quarto. Original green cloth backed tan boards, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and orange, pictorial endpapers. 4 plates, engravings... Read more
GARNETT, David.
A Man in the Zoo. 1924
£350
First Edition, First Impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Arthur Waley from David Garnett". In an Author's Note printed in this...
Octavo. Original pink and black mottled cloth, pink paper title label to spine printed in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with wood engravings by R. A.... Read more
(NASH, Paul) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsommer Nights Dreame. 1924
£2,750
The Players' Shakespeare, limited to 106 copies. Signed by the art editor Albert Rotherston, the illustrator Paul Nash, and the introduction writer Harley Granville-Barker.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, motif to front board, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£2,750
Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed by Rackham.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, pictorial title block to front board, single rule to board, inner... Read more
