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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(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 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
(DULAC) HOUSMAN, Laurence.
Stories from the Arabian Nights. [1907]
£475
Second edition, printed one month after the first.
Quarto. Recent terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 50 mounted colour plates,... Read more
ELIOT, George.
Romola. 1890
£150
First Edition thus. A handsome "Gift" edition, retaining the extremely unusual dust jackets.
2 volumes, octavo. Tinted collotype frontispiece to each and 58 other similar plates in all, from photographic images of Florence. Some very light scattered foxing,... Read more
ELIOT, T. S. (BENTLEY, Nicolas.)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. 1939
£1,250
First Illustrated Edition.
Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine in red, pictorial block of two dancing cats to front board. With the dust jacket. With numerous colour and monochrome... Read more
(EMERSON, Ralph Waldo) BURNS, Robert.
Poems and Songs. 1858
£4,500
Presentation from Ralph Waldo Emerson to his nephew J. Haven Emerson, inscribed in RWE's autograph on the half-title, "J. Haven Emerson from his Uncle Waldo, 1859", perhaps as a...
Quarto (214 × 156 mm). Contemporary purple hard-grain morocco, spine gilt in compartments, sides bordered in gilt with a thick and thin rule and flower-head tools... Read more
ERNST, Max.
Dreams that Money Can Buy. 1947
£675
First Edition, First Printing of the brochure for the film of the same name.
Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black after a design by Ernst. Wrappers a little tanned at the edges. Excellent. Read more
ERSKINE, John Elphinstone.
Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, 1853
£650
First edition. "Captain Erskine sailed from Russell, New Zealand, in 1849, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He visited Manua,Tutuila and Upolu of the Samoan Islands. Next Vava'u,...
Octavo. Publisher's violet cloth, title gilt to the spine, gilt and blind decoration to the boards, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down. all edges gilt.... Read more
(FELIX, Franz) LOUYS, Pierre.
The Songs of Bilitis. [1928]
£375
Limited edition of 933 copies printed on pure rag Unicorn laid paper.
Quarto. Recent green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 24 colour plates... Read more
FIELDING, Henry.
The History of Tom Jones. n.d. [c. 1900s]
£125
Limited edition to 1000 copies for England and 1000 for the United States, of which this is no. 47 of the American issue. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page.
Large octavo, pp. 728. Finely bound in early 20th century full green crushed morocco, spine faded to antique brown, lettering to spine gilt, raised bands, inner... Read more
FLINT, William Russell.
Drawings. 1950
£2,650
First Edition, First Impression. Limited to 125 copies signed by Flint. The drawing "Sketch for a Portrait" is in five pastel colours of a lady leaning her elbows on a table, titled...
Folio. Original cream boards with brick morocco spine, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. Complete with original drawing, window mounted in a separate envelope.... Read more
(FLINT, William Russell) HOMER.
The Odyssey of Homer 1924
£1,200
Limited Edition of 530 copies.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full brick morocco, titles to spine gilt, rule to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 20 tipped-in colour... Read more
(FLINT, William Russell) MALORY, Thomas.
Le Morte D'Arthur. 1910–11
£2,000
Limited Edition of 500 copies on Riccardi paper of which this is number 464.
4 volumes, quarto. Original limp vellum, spines and front boards lettered gilt, top edges gilt, green silk ties. 48 tipped in colour illustrations by William Russell... Read more
FORBES, James D.
Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; 1853
£700
First edition. "Forbes spans the era from de Saussere to Alfred Wills and his books are the first English accounts of systematic Alpine exploration and description of various...
Large octavo ( 253 × 167 mm). Original tan embossed cloth, title gilt to spine. Coloured lithographic frontispiece and 9 other similar plates, attractive... Read more
FORREST, [Thomas].
A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan; 1779
£3,500
First edition. For some time before entering the service of the East India Company Forrest had served in the Royal Navy, seeing action in 1757 under George Pocock against the French...
Quarto, (300 × 233mm). Later half calf on marbled boards, red morocco label, spine gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, upper joint repaired. With engraved... 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
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
GARNETT, David.
The Sailor's Return. 1925
£350
First Edition, First Impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Arthur Waley from David Garnett 8th September 1925".
Octavo. Original pink and black mottled cloth, pink paper title label to spine printed in black. With the dust jacket. With a frontispiece by Ray Garnett. An excellent... Read more
GARNETT, Richard.
The Universal Anthology. 1899.
£2,750
Limited Edition Royale to 250 registed and numbered sets, of which this copy is number 77.
33 volumes, octavo. Bound in half blue morocco with gilt title and decoration to spine. Raised bands. Marbled boards with gilt single rules. Top-edge gilt, others... Read more
GERARD, John.
The Herball or generall Historie of Plantes … 1633
£3,750
Second edition, first Johnson edition, enlarged and improved by the apothecary and soldier Thomas Johnson (1595x1600–1644), who sensibly marked his additions and major...
Folio (342 × 228 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked with old spine label laid down. Engraved allegorical title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text,... 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
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GILBERT. W. S
Savoy Operas [together with] Iolanthe and the Operas. 1909 & 10
£475
First editions, first impressions.
Quarto. Original cloth, titles to spines and upper boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 31 plates with printed tissue guards in each... Read more
(GILL, Eric.)
Quia Amore Langueo. 1937
£250
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 400 copies.
Duodecimo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 4 engravings by Eric Gill. Binding rubbed and mottled, spine faded, light partial tanning... Read more
(GILL, Eric) JOHNSTON, Edward.
Manuscript & Inscription Letters 1909
£975
First edition, first impression. Laid-in is a two-page autograph letter signed (on the back of printed galleys) from Mervyn Horder, prominent composer and, at the time, chairman and...
Folio. 16 plates laid into the linen-backed portfolio, blue boards, titles to upper board in black, linen ties. One plate a little dusty, spine with some minor wear.... Read more
GILROY, John.
The Guinness Legends 1934
£75
First edition. The second of the 24 promotional booklets published annually at Christmas by Guinness between 1933-39 and 1950-66.
Octavo. Original yapp wrappers. Illustrated by John Gilroy. Light creasing to edges, staples rusty, browning to centre pages. Read more
