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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(BROCK, C. E.) GASKELL, Elizabeth.
Cranford. 1904
£375
Second Brock edition, with additional plates. A lovely copy.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, vignette title, and... Read more
(BROCK, C. E.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield. 1904
£185
Second Brock edition, with additional plates. A lovely copy.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, vignette title, and... Read more
(BROCK, C. E.) IRVING, Washington.
The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall. 1906
£300
First Brock edition. A lovely copy.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, vignette title, and... Read more
[BRONTË, Charlotte]
Jane Eyre. 1927
£750
Second Orr edition, originally published in 1921, and a very attractively bound copy.
Octavo (213 × 135 mm). Contemporary red calf by Bayntun Riviere, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, light and dark brown morocco labels, patterned endpapers,... Read more
BROOKE, Jocelyn.
The Crisis in Bulgaria 1956
£125
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by the author. An excellent copy in the lightly worn dust... 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
BROOKSHAW, George.
Pomona Britannica, or a collection of the most esteemed fruits at present cultivated in Great Britain; 1817
£17,500
Second edition, in smaller format than the first, of the finest English work on fruit; "one of the finest colour-plate books in existence" (Prideaux); this copy with an additional...
Large quarto. Late 19th-century green half morocco, spine with raised bands decoratively gilt, gilt lettered in two compartments, double gilt rules, gilt border at... Read more
BROWN, Peter.
New Illustrations of Zoology, 1776
£6,000
Descriptive text on the plates in French and English most of which is by Pennant. This is a very well coloured copy of a book which often suffers from indifferent colouring.
Quarto. Bound in half blue morocco, gilt lettered spine, marbled boards and edges. With 50 hand coloured plates. Internally very good and clean with only minor foxing,... Read more
BRYANT, William Cullen (ed.)
Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. 1872–4
£1,500
"It is the design of [this] publication... to present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our country....
2 volumes, quarto (330 × 250 mm). Bound for the publishers by Matthews in red full morocco, Greek key panel gilt to the boards with laurel wreath corner pieces,... Read more
BRYANT, William Cullen (ed.)
Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. [1872–4]
£475
"It is the design of [this] publication … to present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our...
2 volumes, quarto (330 × 250 mm). Publisher's brown hard-grain morocco, sides blocked in blind and black, lettered gilt in centre, spines lettered in gilt,... Read more
(BULL, René) MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.
Carmen. 1915
£1,375
First René Bull Edition.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles and box design to spine gilt, raised bands, title to front boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt,... 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
CAESAR, Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta. 1712
£12,500
First edition, deluxe issue on large and thick paper, of Samuel Clarke's Caesar, justly regarded as one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century English publishing: "The most...
Royal folio (488 × 326 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked and recornered. Double-page engraved title dated 1712 (ESTC notes the existence of copies... Read more
CATLIN, George.
North American Indians. 1913
£1,750
A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight...
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles and elaborate pictorial decoration to spines and upper boards in gold and black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. 1731
£1,000
Seventh edition of Shelton's translation. He was the first to translate Don Quixote into English, a feat that he claims to have accomplished in forty days. Despite his haste, the...
4 volumes, octavo (155 × 90 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked with spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, double gilt rule, blind roll. 15 folding... Read more
[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
The Life and Exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. 1801
£950
This large paper edition is the most elaborate and handsome of the many reprints of Jervas's translation of Don Quixote, first published posthumously in 1742. "[L]a major de las...
4 volumes, octavo (235 × 145 mm). Late 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spines gilt-lettered direct, raised bands, gilt rules, marbled endpapers, gilt... Read more
CHARDIN, Sir John.
The Travels ... into Persia and the East-Indies. 1686
£3,500
First edition in English. Chardin was a dealer in jewels who first travelled to the East in 1665; his most important voyage was made in 1671 and he travelled by a different route...
Folio (313 × 195 mm). Contemporary dark calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, red morocco label, further repairs to top edge of front board and corners.... Read more
(CHARLES II) AIRY, Osmund.
Charles II. 1901
£375
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1250 numbered copies, this an out-of-series presentation copy. Very handsomely bound.
Large quarto (322 × 245 mm). Contemporary turquoise morocco, spine gilt in compartments with custom tools related to Charles II, boards gilt panelled with floral... Read more
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CHIKANOBU, Toyohara.
[Album of Historic Pictures] 1898
£850
Twelve scenes selected from Chikanobu's treatment of the heike monogatari [Tales of Heike], retelling the events of the Genpei War between the ruling Taira clan and their...
Octavo. (230 × 180mm) Original tan decoratively printed cotton-covered boards, paper label to the upper panel, title translates as above. Contains 12 oban... Read more
(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY)
The Chromolithograph. A journal of Art, Decoration and the Accomplishments. 1867-9
£1,275
Uncommon, COPAC locates sets at Oxford, Cambridge, the Universities of London and Nottingham, and the V & A; OCLC adds the Getty, the Huntington, Yale and McGill. No complete set at...
2 volumes quarto (276 × 191 mm). Contemporary black calf on bevelled boards, title gilt to spines, raised bands, gilt devices in the compartments, attractive gilt... Read more
(CLARKE, Harry) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Faust. [1927]
£950
Signed limited edition. One of 1000 copies for the UK and 1000 for the USA of which this is number 120 of the American issue. Signed by the artist.
Quarto. Recent full black morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spine, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original endpapers bound in at front. 21... Read more
(CLARKE, Harry) POE, Edgar Allan.
Tales of Mystery & Imagination. 1919
£4,850
Signed limited edition. One of 170 numbered copies signed and numbered by Harry Clarke.
Quarto. Original vellum boards, pictorially stamped to front cover and titles to spine gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 23 plates in black and... Read more
[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.
The American Claimant. 1892
£275
First Edition.
Octavo. Recent full green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and front board... Read more
[COOK, Charles Henry; as] BICKERDYKE, John (pseud.)
The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: [1886]
£1,650
First Edition. A splendidly and wilfully eccentric collection of beer lore and literature, a typical Leadenhall Press production, motivated by a sprightly and slightly anachronistic...
Large octavo. (252 × 158 mm). Frontispiece, title-page vignette and numerous illustrations to the text which is further enlivened by historiated initials, various... 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
