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
£1,800
Large paper "Edition De Luxe", one of only 260 copies.
Quarto. Bound in publisher's full vellum, gilt titles to spine, gilt pictorial motif to front board, complete with ties, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With thirty... Read more
[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
GOEREE, Willem.
Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke. 1700
£2,500
First edition of this grand publication. Goeree (1635–1711) was born in Middelburg, and was a printer and bookseller, first in his home town (1666–77), later in Amsterdam....
4 volumes, folio. Contemporary vellum, sides panelled in blind enclosing a central arabesque stamped in blind, red morocco lettering-pieces, speckled edges.... Read more
GOODEN, Stephen (illustrates)
The Poet's Cat. 1946
£150
First Edition, First Impression, Limited Issue. One of 110 numbered copies printed on fine paper and signed by the compiler and illustrator.
Octavo. Original quarter black calf, white boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Boards a little dusty but an excellent copy. Read more
(GOODEN, Steven) AESOP.
Aesop's Fables. 1936
£950
Signed Limited Edition. One of 525 copies. Signed by the illustrator.
Small quarto. Original vellum, gilt titles to spine, gilt rule to boards, with small pictorial decorations to corners and centre, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,... Read more
GOULD, John.
The Birds of Great Britain. 1873
£75,000
First edition, first issue. With the Snowy Owl plate in first state (with uncracked image). A fine copy of the work of which Gould was most proud. This work is "the most sumptuous...
25 original parts, large folio ( 573 x 394 mm). Original cloth-backed green printed boards with vignette. Boxed in five green quarter morocco solander boxes 367... Read more
GOULD, John.
The Mammals of Australia. 1863
£165,000
A superb copy of the first edition of Gould's work on the Mammals of Australia. Gould's interest in Australia was piqued by specimens sent back by his wife's brothers who had settled...
3 volumes folio (555 × 365 mm). Contemporary green half morocco on matching pebble-grained boards by Blunson & Co., spines divided into in seven compartments with... Read more
(GOYA) YRIATE, Charles.
Goya. 1867
£350
First edition.
Tall quarto (300 × 210 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, titles and ruling to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, edges stained red... Read more
GRANGER, Rev. J.
A Biographical History of England 1804
£475
Granger's Biographical History 4 vols. with Noble's continuation 3 vols. from Miss Currer's Library.
7 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in contemporary full brown calf with twin dark blue labels, gilt title and decoration to spine. Gilt boarding to boards. Marbled edges... Read more
GRAY, Henry.
Anatomy descriptive and surgical. 1858
£12,500
First edition of the medical text which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Publisher's presentation copy to Frederick...
Royal octavo. Original bead-grain brown cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, brick-red endpapers. Oatmeal cloth folding case. Paper book label "GOM"... Read more
GSELL-FELS, [Theodor].
Switzerland: [1881]
£750
First edition thus, an English adaptation of Dr. Gsell-Fels's German original with copious illustrations, many of them printed in colours, scarce in the publisher's deluxe binding....
Folio (338 × 247). Publisher's deluxe binding of tan crushed morocco over bevelled boards, covers with wide borders in gilt and in blind, central oval Swiss flag... Read more
GUILLAUMIN, Emile.
The Life of a Simple Man. 1923
£675
Second edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies with hand-coloured woodcuts. Originally published in 1919. This copy with an extra set of hand-coloured plates loosely inserted.
Octavo. Original white cloth backed grey boards, printed paper label to spine. With the dust jacket. Hand-coloured frontispiece and 6 plates. Gift inscription of Alan... Read more
(HAMILTON, Lady Emma) REHBERG, Frederick.
Drawings faithfully copied from Nature at Naples [c.1850]
£1,500
A later impression collecting together Rehberg's record of Emma's famous "attitudes". Perhaps based on her experiences as the "living illustration" of Hygæa at Dr. Graham's...
Quarto. Engraved frontispiece, title page and two series of 12 engraved plates, the latter series with titles. Very good indeed in the publisher's navy blue... Read more
(HARRIS, John, publisher)
The Monkey's Frolic. 1823
£2,000
First edition. John Harris was Elizabeth Newbery's successor, one of the most successful publishers of children's books of the era, especially picture books. The Monkey's Frolic was...
Small octavo (176 × 108 mm). 18 leaves, printed on one side of the leaf only + final inserted advert leaf with list of titles in series. Original printed... Read more
(HARRISON, Florence) ROSSETTI, Christina.
Poems. [1910]
£600
First Florence Harrison edition.
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt. With 36 colour and 34 monochrome illustrations by Florence... Read more
(HARRISON, Florence) ROSSETTI, Christina.
Poems. With Illustrations by Florence Harrison. [c.1910]
£550
First Harrison edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 35 plates... Read more
HAY, Roy, & Patrick M. Synge.
The Dictionary of Garden Plants 1969
£250
A fine Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding for this lavishly illustrated gardening dictionary.
Large quarto (298 × 227 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in tan half morocco, spine lettered gilt, raised bands, pale brown buckram sides, marbled... Read more
[HEATH’S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL] RITCHIE, Leitch.
Ireland Picturesque and Romantic. 1837
£175
First edition.
Octavo (235 × 162 mm). Contemporary red pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, decorative tooling to boards in blind, twin rule to... Read more
HELIODORUS.
Les Amours de Theagene et Chariclee. 1623
£6,500
A fine volume with the suite of engravings only from the first Thiboust edition of the popular ancient Greek romance, the Aethiopica of Heliodorus of Emesa. Jacques Amyot's...
Octavo (179 × 132 mm). Eighteenth-century dark green morocco, smooth spine, double gilt rules, gilt lettered direct, gilt floral tool at head and tail, sides with... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea. 1955
£475
First edition illustrated by Tunnicliffe and Sheppard. Originally published in 1952.
Octavo. Original black cloth backed white boards, titles to spine in white, illustration to upper board in black, pictorial endpapers, black top-stain. Illustrated... Read more
HERFORD, Oliver.
Sea Legs. 1931
£200
First edition of this satirical alphabet by Oliver Herford, who was born in Sheffield in 1863 and moved to the US as a child, later becoming a prolific writer and illustrator. He...
Oblong duodecimo. Original blue cloth backed pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Huosed in a custom cloth folding case that reproduces the illustration 22 colour... Read more
(HERSHOLT, Jean ed.)
The Evergreen Tales. 1949–52
£1,500
Complete set of the Evergreen Tales, each volume #342 of 2000 or 2500 numbered copies of which 6 are signed only by the editor, Jean Hersholt, 6 are signed by the editor and the...
15 volumes, tall octavo. Original coloured cloth, titles and decoration to spines and upper boards in various colours, various coloured and pictorial endpapers. Housed... Read more
HEYLYN, Peter.
Cosmography, in Four Books, containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: 1682
£3,500
Sixth edition, complete with the imprimatur leaf at the front. Heylyn's Cosmographie first appeared in 1652, and was sufficiently well regarded that the council of state saw fit to...
4 volumes in one, folio (360 × 235mm). Engraved title and 4 large folding maps, Imprimatur leaf repaired at inner margin with slight loss of text on 5 lines.... Read more
HOFLAND, Mrs [Barbara].
The Blind Farmer and His Children. 1816
£180
First edition of a children's book from the prolific Mrs Barbara Hofland (1770-1844, née Wreaks, widow of Thomas Bradshawe Hoole), author of some 66 titles. She was friends with...
12mo. With [8]pp catalogue at rear. Contemporary unlettered sheep, smooth spine with single gilt rules. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (imprint: Published Dec.... Read more
[HOGG, Alexander (publ.)]
The New British Traveller; 1784
£1,500
First Edition. The title-page attributes the work to George Augustus Walpoole, with assistance from David Wynne Evans (Wales), Alexander Burnet (Scotland) and Robert Conway...
Large folio (385 × 248 mm). Contemporary reversed calf, red morocco label, raised bands, covers with border in blind, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece... Read more
