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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CORBETT, Julian S. (ed.)
Relation of the Voyage to Cadiz 1596 by Sir William Slyngisbie. 1902
£65
An offprint containing an account of Howard and Essex's descent on Cadiz, written by a member of Sir George Carew's staff, serving as part of Sir Walter Raleigh's squadron....
Octavo. Perfect bound in the original marl light card wraps. 4 coloured plates and one large folding plate. Wraps a little soiled and with minor edge-wear, but overall... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady.
The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe. 1883
£6,000
First edition. The popular historian Lady Jackson was widely read in standard authorities (and even unpublished papers), and her narrative style – bumptious and with "a great...
2 volumes, octavo (190 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun, mid twentieth century, in rich brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
(CRUIKSHANK, George) [COMBE, William]
Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantoes by Dr. Syntax, 1815
£1,250
First edition, with all points as called for in Abbey. A satirical life of Buonaparte, its intentions best summed up by the allegorical title page, which shows the young Corsican as...
Octavo (225 × 147 mm). Later red full crushed morocco, by Larkins, gilt panels with stylized fleur-de-lys cornerpieces to the boards, spine gilt in compartments,... Read more
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CRUIKSHANK, George (illus.); [THACKERAY, William Makepeace.]
The Comic Almanack, For 1839 [1840]: an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work." 1839 & 1840
£850
First editions. These are the only two annual volumes of Cruikshank's Comic Almanack for which William Makepeace Thackeray supplied stories: "Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots"...
2 volumes, small octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, the volume for 1839 printed in dark blue, that for 1840 in sepia. The two volumes protected in a dark olive... Read more
(CRUIKSHANK, George) [SMEDLEY, Francis Edward.]
Frank Fairlegh; [1850]
£125
First edition in book form of the first and best book of Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), based on the author's few months as one of the private pupils of the Revd Charles...
Octavo, pp. xii, 496. Handsome contemporary binding of half vellum, smooth spine with red morocco label and four wide red morocco bands, richly gilt all over, marbled... Read more
(CRUIKSHANK, Robert) EGAN, Pierce.
Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic, 1830
£1,200
First Edition.
Octavo, pp. xvi + 365. Bound in full red morocco, gilt titles, pictorial designs to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative border,to boards, gilt pictorial design to... Read more
CURTIS, William (1746-1799)
The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden displayed. 1790-1799
£395
Octavo, Untrimmed in original boads. 38 original hand coloured engravings (no. 391-405; 407-411; 413-416; 418-422; 424-432). Good condition.
Octavo, Untrimmed in original boads. 38 original hand coloured engravings (no. 391-405; 407-411; 413-416; 418-422; 424-432). Good condition. 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
DARWIN, Bernard.
Golf Courses of the British Isles. 1910
£1,250
First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding with the illustrator's name misspelled "Rowntree" on the upper board.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board and top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 63 plates with printed tissue guards. Binding lightly rubbed,... Read more
DARWIN, Charles, assisted by Francis Darwin.
The Power of Movement in Plants. With illustrations. 1880
£1,000
First edition, first issue, with 32pp. inserted adverts dated May 1878 and with two lines of errata at the foot of page x. "This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to...
Octavo. Uncut in original green cloth, blind-panelled covers, spine gilt with imprint at foot, brown endpapers. Engraved illustrations and diagrams in text. Gift plate... Read more
[DERBY, C.]
Mrs. Wiggens's Trip to the Sea, July, 1842. 1843
£200
First Edition. Scarce, COPAC has BL and Birmingham only, OCLC records a single copy at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. A parody of Cowper's John Gilpin with plates,...
Octavo. (210mm x 143mm). Lithographed frontispiece and 9 other similar plates, each with caption text, 12pp. poem Slightly browned, stitching a little strained, but... Read more
(DETMOLD, Edward)
The Arabian Nights. [1924]
£2,750
Signed Limited Edition, one of only 100 copies signed and numbered by the artist, this copy being number 99.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
(DETMOLD, Edward J.) AESOP.
The Fables of Aesop. 1909
£1,500
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 750 numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation leaf.
Quarto. Original red cloth elaborately blocked in blind, titles to spine gilt. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 25 plates. A fine copy. Read more
(DETMOLD, Edward J.) AESOP.
The Fables of Aesop. n. d.
£425
First Detmold edition.
Quarto. Recent green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With twenty-three mounted colour plates, and... Read more
D’HARNONCOURT, René.
Mexicana. A Book of Pictures. 1931
£750
First edition. This copy signed on the half-title and with a loosely inserted pencil drawing by d'Harnoncourt with inscription to Mrs. Cotton, "I just found this sketch of Panchito...
Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 48 full-page illustrations. Slight damping to the lower board and tail of the spine with some consequent making in... 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
[DISNEY, Walt]
Walt Disney's version of Pinocchio Based on the famous story by Collodi. 1939
£3,000
One of 100 copies only of the original American edition, this copy a presentation to William ("Tex") Henson on the occasion of his 20th birthday in 1944, shortly after he joined...
Large quarto. Original spiral bound cloth boards, label printed in red to front cover. Facsimile typescript and storyboard, printed on one side of the leaf. Despite... Read more
(DISNEY, Walt) FINCH, Christopher.
The Art of Walt Disney from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms 1973.
£125
First edition, first printing.
Folio. Original white cloth, titles to spin gilt, coloured Mickey Mouse in relief to front cover. With the original printed acetate dust jacket. With 763... Read more
DIXON, George.
A Voyage Round the World; 1789
£3,750
First edition of a voyage of which two distinct accounts were published, those of the two Captains Portlock and Dixon. The bulk of Dixon's text was actually written by the supercargo...
Quarto (279 × 210 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with red morocco label, gilt bands. 17 plates (of which 3 are folding) and 5 folding maps. Engraved... Read more
DODWELL, Edward.
Views in Greece, from drawings ... 1821
£37,500
First edition of one of the most spectacular aquatint travel books of its era, with good quality plates and excellent colouring; those engraved and coloured by Havell in particular...
Folio. Six parts, as issued, in original buff wrappers, green roan spines, titles printed to front wrapper, pasted errata slip on rear wrapper of part 5. Housed in a... 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
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Strand Magazine. 1891–1916
£3,750
Contains the first appearance of Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Lost World.
52 volumes, octavo. 20th century crimson half calf, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single black morocco title label, raised bands, crimson morocco-grained... 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
DOYLE, Richard.
In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. 1870
£3,750
First edition of one of the masterpieces of Victorian colour printing. As Percy Muir describes it in his Victorian Illustrated Books (1971), In Fairyland "has 16 colour plates many...
Folio. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles to spine, twin rule to boards, pictorial title block to front board, single rule to turn-ins,... Read more
DRYDEN, John.
The Fables … 1796
£2,250
First editions with these Bartolozzi engravings, the only two works illustrated by Lady Diana Beauclerc, here together in handsome contemporary full morocco. Dryden's adaptations of...
Two works bound in one volume, folio (365 × 255 mm). Fine contemporary binding of green straight-grain morocco, spine attractively gilt in compartments with... Read more
