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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(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. [1862-]1873
£85,000
First edition. A fine copy of the work of which Gould was most proud, here with a first issue of the Snowy Owl plate. This work is "the most sumptuous and costly of British bird...
5 volumes, folio (580 × 350 mm). Finely bound by Tuckett (binder to the Queen) in contemporary full green morocco, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, raised... Read more
GOULD, John.
The Mammals of Australia. 1863
£150,000
First edition, together with the Monograph on Kangaroos. Gould's interest in Australia was piqued by specimens sent back by his wife's brothers who had settled there. He soon...
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
£9,750
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
GRAY, Henry.
Anatomy descriptive and surgical. 1858
£5,000
First edition of the medical text which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Not only an important book of reference,...
Royal octavo. Original bead-grain brown cloth blocked in blind, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, brick-red endpapers. Profusely illustrated with... Read more
GROSE, Francis.
Grose's Antiquities. 1791
£1,250
Two bookplates on pastedown endpaper of each volume.
10 volumes, quarto. Bound in full tan calf. Brown label, gilt titles, decoration, and raised bands to spine. Gilt rules and blank stamped design to boards, marbled... 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
HARDY, Thomas.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 1926
£2,500
Large paper edition. One of 325 copies printed on fine paper and signed by the author. The text is taken from that of the Wessex Edition and incorporates the author's revisions. A...
Large octavo. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered gilt, marbled boards, edges uncut and partly unopened. In the grey paper dust jacket printed in dark blue. 41... 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
HARRIS, W. Cornwallis.
The Highlands of Aethiopia. 1844.
£1,500
First edition. A soldier of the Bombay Army, Harris has first travelled out to Africa in 1836 for his health. Meeting Richard Williamson, a like-minded Bombay civil servant, on the...
3 volumes octavo. Original terracotta finely-diapered cloth, title gilt to spines, blind stamped compartments to the spine and panels to the boards, cream... 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
HOLBEIN, Hans, the younger.
Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, 1792-1800
£15,000
First edition, "surely the finest early example of English colour printing" (Ray). These plates by various engravers after Bartolozzi's copies of Holbein's originals were issued in...
Folio (540 × 403 mm). Contemporary calf, title gilt directly to the spine, flat bands with gilt roundel and Greek key rolls, compartments gilt with floral and... Read more
