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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(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
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£1,950
First edition, first impression. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed on the limitation leaf by Rackham.
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, brown endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1939
£1,450
Limited to 1,950 numbered copies. Rackham never signed this edition.
Small folio. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in recent full blue morocco, gilt titles and two raised bands to spine, gilt rule to boards, gilt motif to front... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£1,250
First Rackham trade edition.
Octavo (245 × 175 mm). Contemporary exhibition binding of orange morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine and boards elaborately gilt with black morocco onlays, silk... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£875
First US trade edition.
Octavo. Contempoary black half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, black cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With forty... Read more
[ROBINSON, W. Heath] SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1914
£350
First US edition, originally published in the UK in the same year.
Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in red and green. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates, 32 engraved... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer-Night's Dream. 1908
£2,500
Signed Limited Edition. One of 1000 copies of which this is number 532 signed by Rackham.
Quarto. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in brown morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, pictorial title block to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled... Read more
KELLY, Christopher.
A new and complete system of Universal Geography; 1815–17
£1,800
First Edition. The firm of Thomas Kelly, famous for Kelly's Directory, was founded in 1799 and carried on the Paternoster Row tradition of publishing this and similar compendia of...
2 volumes, quarto (261 × 213 mm). Handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, wide raised bands gilt on stained black grounds,... Read more
KEITH, Thomas.
A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, 1832
£350
Contemporary full tree calf, tan label, decoration to spine gilt, library plate to front pastedown. With six engraved plates at the back, five of which are folding, and illustrations...
Contemporary full tree calf, tan label, decoration to spine gilt, library plate to front pastedown. With six engraved plates at the back, five of which are folding,... Read more
(COOK, James) ANDERSON, George William.
A New, Authentic, and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, [1784–6]
£6,750
First edition of this "omnibus" compilation of Cook together with Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Printed in double column in "large new Types, constructed on...
2 volumes, folio (395 × 260 mm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corners, somewhat worn and with some stripping of the marble from the boards,... Read more
STANHOPE, George.
A Paraphrase and Comment Upon the Epistles and Gospels, 1706–9
£325
Second edition.
4 volumes, octavo. Bound in 18th century full brown morocco, spines faded to antique brown, red labels to spines, decoration gilt, raised bands, panel design and... Read more
GERNING, Johann Isaac von.
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: 1820
£3,750
First edition, with plates watermarked 1816–1820. In this copy the Mentz plate is dated October 1819 and the Biebrich plate is dated Septr. 1819. With the list of subscribers.
Quarto (360 × 300 mm). Finely bound in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, raised bands, spine gilt, buckram boards. 24 hand-coloured aquatint... Read more
DANIELL, Thomas & William.
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China. 1810
£10,000
First edition. Originally issued in ten parts, "the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their publication between 1795 and 1810...
Folio (348 × 250 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled boards, flat spine elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, neatly rebacked... Read more
OGILVY, James S.
A Pilgrimage in Surrey. 1914
£150
First edition, first impression. A charmingly illustrated travelogue exploring the history, landscape, and architecture of Surrey.
2 volumes, quarto. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spines and upper boards gilt. 2 colour frontispieces and 90 colour plates with printed... Read more
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(BIBLE; English.) JAMIESON, Robert.
A Practical and Explanatory Commentary on The Old Testament [and] The New Testament.
£350
A handsome library set.
2 volumes, folio (360 × 260 mm). Contemporary brown calf, spines gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, ruling and floral roll to boards in blind,... Read more
KAY, John.
A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings 1877
£875
New edition. First published in 1837.
2 volumes, quarto (275 ×211 mm). Original burgundy quarter morocco, titles to spine gilt within gilt border, burgundy pebble-grained cloth boards, marbled... Read more
MORRIS, Rev. F. O.
A Series of Picturesque Seats c.1890
£975
First published in parts under the title The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland.
Quarto, 6 volumes. Bound in the publishers full red morocco, extra gilt on spine and boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, roll to turn-ins, gilt edges. Complete... Read more
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A Series, containing Forty-four Engravings in Colours, of Fashionable Furniture; 1823
£2,000
First and only edition, V & A copy only on COPAC, 6 copies on OCLC. A series of unusual and attractive designs "calculated for the use of upholsterers and of all who are concerned...
Quarto (234 × 179 mm). Original drab boards, with letter-press label to the upper, carefully rebacked, recornered to style. 43 hand-coloured lithographic plates... Read more
FORSYTH, William.
A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described. 1802
£850
First edition. Forsyth (1737–1804), for whom the forsythia was named, was superintendent of the royal gardens at St. James and Kensington. The Observations on the Diseases,...
Quarto. Original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper backstrip, printed spine label, all edges uncut. 13 folding engraved plates; with final advert leaf. Front... Read more
(NEWTON, Isaac) PEMBERTON, Henry.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. 1728
£1,500
First Edition. Pemberton was a friend and collaborator of Richard Mead, Newton's physician. Although then only about 30 years old, he was invited to superintend the editing of the...
Quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt spine and red morocco label, corners restored. With engraved title-vignette, 12 folding engraved plates and other... Read more
NICHOLS, Beverley.
A Village in a Valley. 1934
£75
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in blue and pink, decorated endpapers, top edge stained blue. With the Rex Whistler dust... Read more
ANSON, George.
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. ... 1748
£3,750
First edition. Anson was in command of a squadron sent to plunder Spanish trading territories on the Pacific coast of South America during the War of Jenkins' Ear. His expedition...
Quarto (249 × 202 mm), pp. [xxxiv], 417, [1] blank, [2] directions to binder. Superbly bound to style in mottled calf, red morocco label, spine gilt in... Read more
ANSON, George.
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. ... 1749
£2,200
Large paper copy, first published the previous year. Anson was in command of a squadron sent to plunder Spanish trading territories on the Pacific coast of South America during the...
Quarto (292 × 225 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, double gilt rules, raised bands, red sprinkled edges. 42 engraved plates, plans, charts and... Read more
BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de, comte.
A Voyage round the World. 1772
£3,750
First edition in English of the account of the first official French circumnavigation. In 1766 Bougainville had been ordered to return to the Falkland Islands to formally deliver the...
Quarto (262 × 210 mm). Contemporary half calf, skilfully rebacked to style with red morocco spine label laid down, marbled boards. Folding plate, 5 folding... Read more
