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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[GOBLE, Warwick] KINGSLEY, Charles.
The Water-Babies. A fairy tale for a land-baby. 1909
£1,500
Edition de Luxe, one of 260 copies.
Quarto. Contemporary green crushed half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine gilt, three raised bands, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge... Read more
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Waverley Novels. 1904–17
£1,200
The Border Edition.
24 volumes, octavo. Green calf, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout. Bookplates. A good... Read more
(CHESTERTON, G. K.) BRANGWYN, Frank.
The Way of the Cross. [1935]
£325
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board in white. With the dust jacket. 14 plates by Frank Brangwyn. A little wear at the corners and spine ends,... Read more
BROOKE, Jocelyn.
The Wild Orchids of Britain. 1950
£2,500
First edition, first impression. One of 40 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator out of a total limited edition of 1,140 copies. With an album of 40 corrected proof...
Tall octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and upper board gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. 40 colour plates, 40 extra unbound proof pulls. Very lightly... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows. 1951
£2,250
100th edition. Limited to 500 copies, printed on handmade paper.
Tall octavo. Original full white calf, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With the slipcase with printed label on board. With 12 mounted... Read more
BAUM, L. Frank.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 1900
£4,950
First edition, second issue with the title page correctly dated 1900.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, title decoration and raised bands to spine gilt, rules to boards gilt, pictorial decoration to front... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works of Shakspere. [1877?]
£750
This magnificent illustrated edition is the chief legacy of the author and publisher Charles Knight (1791–1873), first issued in fifty-six parts (in eight volumes) in...
2 volumes, folio. Publisher's red hard-grain morocco, elaborate decoration and lettering to spines gilt, raised bands, lettering, decoration and Shakespeare portrait... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works of Shakspere. [1877?]
£375
This magnificent illustrated edition is the chief legacy of the author and publisher Charles Knight (1791-1873), first issued in fifty-six parts (in eight volumes) in 1838-43. "He...
2 volumes, folio. Contemporary green hard-grain morocco, decoration and lettering to spines and boards gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Engraved titles, engraved... Read more
(KELMSCOTT PRESS) CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
The Works. 1974
£2,500
First edition thus, first impression, the superb Basilisk Press facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer. One of a limited edition of 500 copies.
2 volumes, folio. Original red and white floral patterned cloth, printed paper labels to spines. In the publisher's blue slipcase. 87 woodcut illustrations after Sir... Read more
BYRON, Lord.
The Works. [c. 1850]
£475
A handsomely bound copy of Byron's works.
2 volumes, octavo (250 × 161 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, matching pebble-grained boards, marbled endpapers,... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works. [1880]
£375
This magnificent illustrated edition is the chief legacy of the author and publisher Charles Knight (1791–1873), first issued in fifty-six parts (in eight volumes) in...
2 volumes, folio (353 × 267 mm). Contemporary full burgundy morocco, decoration and lettering to spines and boards gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Engraved... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) FITZGERALD, Shafto Justin Adair.
The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch. An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza. 1896
£1,500
First and only edition of the earliest book in which Arthur Rackham is named as illustrator on the title page. Inscribed on the half title by the author "To John Mayo, With best...
Small quarto. Original green cloth, illustration and titles to front cover and spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut as issued. Illustrated throughout with 41... Read more
(BASKIN, Leonard) AIKEN, Conrad.
Thee. 1967
£125
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "Marrin, with the admiration & affection of Lisa & Leonard, 1967".
Tall octavo. Original gray-green boards, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Leonard Baskin. An excellent copy in... Read more
SEUSS, Dr.
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! 1974
£450
First edition, first printing. With 1-0 number line on copyright page.
Octavo. Original pictorial laminated covered boards, titles to spine and front board in blue and black, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Dr Seuss. A near... Read more
BARKER, Matthew Henry.
Tough Yarns; 1835
£350
First edition. Uncommon naval fiction dedicated to Captain Marryat. COPAC has just BL, NMM, Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and St. Andrews, OCLC adds 4 copies only in the US, and one in...
Octavo (167 × 100 mm) contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rebacked, title gilt direct to the spine which is gilt in compartments. Engraved frontispiece and... Read more
PORTER, Robert Ker.
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 1813
£2,000
Second edition, first published 1809. An artistic prodigy, admitted to the Academy at the age of fifteen, Porter made his reputation as a painter of spectacular battle scenes and...
2 volumes quarto (287 × 229 mm). Contemporary half diced russia, drab boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rules forming compartments which are blind-tooled.... Read more
ALEXANDER, James Edward.
Travels from India to England; 1827
£2,000
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank "with the Author's respectful compliments", the recipient's name effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Recent calf to style, green morocco label, flat bands with gilt foliate roll, lozenge devices gilt to the compartments, double gilt fillet... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£650
New and definitive edition, first impression of this edition. "Lawrence's wish to make Travels in Arabia Deserta available to a wider public at affordable prices was realized through...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to spines gilt, chestnut top-stain, other edges uncut. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I and 8 other plates, 2 of... Read more
PALLAS, Peter Simon.
Travels Through the Southern Provinces of The Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. 1812
£3,750
Second edition of one of the chief travel narratives describing Russia in the late eighteenth century. Pallas, an eminent German naturalist, describes what he saw "with Teutonic...
2 volumes, quarto. Recent antique-style sprinkled calf, red morocco labels. 52 plates (44 hand-coloured, 21 of these folding), 28 vignettes (23 hand-coloured), and 3... Read more
(DULAC, Edmund) Stevenson Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1927
£7,500
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 50 numbered copies on handmade paper signed by the illustrator on the limitation leaf.
Quarto. Original vellum, black calf label in gilt to spine. In a quarter aluminium and tan cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 plates, engravings throughout. An... Read more
(DULAC, Edmund) Stevenson Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1927
£475
First Dulac edition.
Octavo. Recent tan morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 colour plates and 21 black and white... Read more
(DULAC, Edmund) Stevenson Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1927
£475
First Dulac edition.
Octavo. Recent red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 colour plates and 21 black and white... Read more
(STEADMAN, Ralph) STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1985
£225
First Steadman edition, first impression. Inscribed by the illustrator in gold ink on the front endpapers "For Gustav Delbanco from Ralph Steadman 2 Jan, '91". Delbanco...
Large octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. A fine... Read more
SALT, Henry.
Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. 1809
£50,000
First edition, with plates watermarked 1824. Having failed in his original ambition to be a portrait painter, Salt set out on an eastern tour in June 1802 as secretary and...
Large folio (751 × 534 mm). Original marbled boards, with red morocco patch title label to the upper, rebacked and recornered in red morocco to style, title gilt... Read more
POWYS, T. F.
Uncle Dottery. A Christmas Story. With two wood-engravings by Eric Gill. 1930
£350
Limited edition of 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. This copy is one of 50, bound in quarter vellum with an envelope pasted at back containing two extra plates.
Slim octavo (205 mm × 130 mm). Original quarter vellum, green boards, titles to spine gilt. Light partial toning to endpapers and half-title, spine slightly... Read more
