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Printed by A. C. Curtis at The Astolat Press, Guildford. 1903, 1903. Private press edition. Issued as a volume in the Astolat Oakleaf series. Small 4to.(7.2 x 4.5 inches). vi, 23pp, blank. Decorative initial letters printed in red. Three black and one red acorns design. Printed on Arnold unbleached paper..... More
Grant and Co. London. 1872, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Folio.(16.5 x 13.2 inches). Illustrated with 54 fine full page wood engravings by Dore, including half title and extra title page, each with a printed tissue guard. 124 smaller vignettes among the text and several illustrated initials. Some light spotting to a...... More
Lami Denozan. Paris. 1826, 1826. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. (13.8 x 9.8 inches). Illustrated with 12 fine hand coloured lithographs, engraved by de Villain. A complete copy with the 12 plates and printed brown paper front wrapper and plain rear one mounted onto tabs and bound in a late 20th..... More
Macmillan and Co. London. 1900, 1900. Seventh edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Foxing to the blank endpapers and the first and last couple of leaves, otherwise a clean copy in a beautiful fine leather binding, by Bumpus, of full dark blue crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each..... More
George Newnes, Limited. London. 1905, 1905. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). viii, 404, 4pp of publishers adverts at rear. Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Some light spotting to a few pages but overall a very good copy in recent leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe..... More
Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall; and T Cadell, successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand. London. 1775, 1775. Small 8vo. (6.4 x 4.1 inches). xv, 221pp, Publishers advert leaf. A neat previous owner name and date, 'Miss Barwell, Oct. 1779', on the front free endpaper. Small crease to the..... More
Macmillan and Co. New York. 1894, 1894. FIRST AMERICAN HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Beautifully illustrated throughout with 160 fine line engravings by Thomson. Neat previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. A slight lean to the spine and some very light offsetting from the tissue..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). Some minor fading and creasing to the covers, rusting to the staples and very small amount of spotting to the inner margins of a couple of pages otherwise this is a bright, clean copy throughout..... More
Heinemann. London. 1977, 1977. FIRST EDITION. 3 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Fine bright copies in original dustwrappers which have sun fading to the lettering on the spines, as often found with these volumes, making the lettering barely readable, and..... More
Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1936, 1936. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.4 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated with 73 wood engravings by Miller Parker. Some foxing to the blank endpapers and to the first and last few pages otherwise a very good clean copy in a fine leather binding by Leighton - Straker..... More
1941: Cassell and Company. Ltd. London. 1941. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.8 inches). Portrait frontis. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A fine, crisp and unread copy. Neat previous owner armorial bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. In a very near fine dustwrapper with just one..... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1900. Reprint of the 1896 edition. 8vo. 40 Full page engravings by Hugh Thomson. A very good copy bound in recent full tan morocco, raised bands, red title label, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. All edges gilt. Some very light foxing to the..... More
The Mandrake Press. London. 1929, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Some very mild foxing to fore edges and some light offsetting to the endpapers from the dustwrapper but overall a bright, clean and fresh copy in publishers dark green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt..... More
Hart Davis, MacGibbon. London.1975, 1975. REPRINT STEADMAN EDITION. Paperback issue. 4to. (12.2 x 8.5 inches). Inscribed by Steadman on the dedication page in the year of publication, with characteristic flourishes; "Eleanor. Its only paper. Ralph (Steadman that is). 10. 12. 75". Mono illustrations throughout by Steadman. Original black stiff card..... More
NP. France. Circa 1920. Large volume (19.8 x 13.1 inches, and 3.1 inches thick), containing 1,144 hand painted wall paper designs of different shapes and sizes, painted in gouache and watercolours, mounted onto 91 leaves. A handful are pen and ink drawings. Black buckram spine and corners and morocco grained..... More
En viente a la Librairie J. Terquem, Paris. Aux depens de L'Artiste. 1928. LIMITED EDITION. Folio. (16.6 x 13.7 inches). One of 20 copies on Japon Imperial paper, this is copy number 5, from a total edition of 121 copies, and this with an original (preparatory?) pen, ink and watercolour..... More
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1954/55. FIRST EDITION, first printings of Volumes 2 and 3, 1st volume is 1963 13th impression. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (9 x 5.9 inches). Top edge of the fellowship dyed red, the others plain. Fold out maps at the end of each volume are all in..... More
Hodder and Stoughton. London. No date. 1913. FIST EDITION. 4to. (10 x 7.7 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 18 tipped in colour plates, each mounted on the page within a printed decorative border and title. Tissue guard on the frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers. Neat gift inscription, dated Xmas 1913, on the front..... More
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1896. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Sixty seven fine illustrations by H. J. Ford, many full page. Tissue guard to the frontis is foxed but overall this is a clean and bright copy throughout. Publishers highly decorative dark blue cloth binding with gilt..... More
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1898. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches. Sixty six fine illustrations by H. J. Ford, many full page. Tissue guard to the frontis is just a little tanned and a few little light spots to a handful of pages but overall this is a...... More
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). 5 full colour plates, plus 13 full page & 30 smaller mono illustrations in the text, all by H. J. Ford. A small colour transfer of a bird on the top margin of the list of illustration..... More
Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1889 to 1910. FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. 12 volumes. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). All volumes are fully illustrated with a total in the whole set of 46 full page colour plates (all appear in the last six volumes), and hundreds of mono illustrations, both..... More
G. Nicholson. Manchester. 1796 - 1797, 1796. SIX WORKS BOUND IN ONE. Small 8vo. (5.4 x 3.4 inches). Each work with an engraved title page. Neat repair to tears in the title page of On Clothing and a few minor marks here and there, otherwise very good copies in early..... More
R. and J. Dodsley, London. - No date. 1760, 1760. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (6.2 x 4 inches). Portrait frontis in volume one. Previous owner name neatly written on blank free endpapers and a name clipped from the top of the title pages, otherwise very good, bright and clean..... More
