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1910: Macmillan and Co, Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(8.1 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Publishers original burgundy cloth boards. Gilt lettering to the spine. Front board with raised circular Ganesha device in gilt. Top edge gilt. In the rare original dustwrapper..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). A minor crease mark to the bottom outer corner of the pages and a strip of fading to the left hand side of the front cover, otherwise a bright, clean copy throughout. Overall a better than..... More
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. 1943. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. First state, with the five line colophon on last text page. (9 x 7.2 inches). Illustrated throughout in mono and full colour by the author. A few pages with some light markings but overall a very good clean copy, finely..... More
1899: Leonard Smithers and Co. London. 1899. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to.(8.4 X 6.3 inches). xvi, 213pp. Original light purple cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and decorative designs by Charles Shannon in gilt to both boards and spine. All edges untrimmed. A small amount of light offsetting to the..... More
1893: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head. London. 1893. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to.(8.5 X 6.3 inches). xvi, 132pp. 16pp publishers catalogue at the rear of the book, dated September 1893. Original light purple/pink cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and..... More
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. London. 1938. Reprint of the Wiese illustrated edition. 8vo. (8 x 5.8 inches). Three full page colour plates and scores of smaller line drawings in the text. A few of these line drawings have been neatly coloured using watercolour on 8 pages, but it is..... More
Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited. London. 1923. Large 8vo. (9.6 x 6.6 inches). Colour frontis and fifteen mono plates by Worth Brehm. A few spots of foxing to the fore edge otherwise a very good clean copy throughout, finely bound in recent half dark green morocco, raised bands, the compartments..... More
The Temple Press. London. 1937. First printing of this Temple Press Rackham Edition, reprinted from the 1909 edition, itself an enlargement of an earlier edition with different plates. Large 8vo.(9.3 x 6.6 inches). Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates, and several line drawings throughout the text. The text pages..... More
Hodder and Stoughton, London, for Boots pure drug company. circa 1923. Early reprint edition. 4to.(10 x 7.9 inches). Twenty full colour tipped in plates by Dulac. Finely bound recent half dark brown morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and gilt, plus gilt lettering and..... More
Methuen & Co ltd. London. 1931. FIRST SHEPARD EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). The 38th edition overall, this is the first time the story was published with Shepard`s beautiful line drawings. A little light foxing to just a few pages but overall a very good copy, finely bound, by..... More
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1909. FIRST DULAC EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.6 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Finely bound by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath, in full red Levant Morocco. Spine with five raised..... More
Ernest Nister, London. E. P. Dutton, New York. No Date. 1907. FIRST THOMAS HEATH ROBINSON EDITION. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). Illustrated with five full page colour plates, decorative title page and 32 smaller colour illustrations within the text. All text pages decorated with fine floral line design borders. A...... More
S. O. Beeton. London. 1862. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 inches). 8 full page colour chromolithograph plates, by W. Dickes, which are not called for in the list of illustrations, plus 8 full page mono engravings and six smaller woodcuts throughout the text by Charles William..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with maps and plans. Very good, bright set of books with some spotting to the page edges of three volumes. Publishers black cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. Top edges dyed..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1882. Tauchnitz edition. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.7 inches). A neat three word inscription to the blank front free endpaper otherwise a bright clean copy throughout, finely bound in late nineteenth century full vellum binding by Giulio Giannini of Florence, with their printed label to a front..... More
Christopher Skelton. Wellingborough. 1987. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo. (10.4 x 6.6 inches). One of 500 numbered copies, from a total edition of 550. This copy also has the extra suite of plates, printed on Nonesuch Press water-marked paper, that was issued with the 50 delux copies, although they are loose..... More
The Haworth Press. Yorkshire. 1933. REPRINT OF 1931 EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). xvi, 87pp. Finely bound, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, in full mid brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled, lettered and dotted in gilt. Single ruled border to boards with three dots to each corner and..... More
Enitharmon Editions. London. 2006. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. (10.9 x 9 inches). One of 90 numbered copies, this number 12, signed by both the Author and Artist. This copy is unfortunately lacking the signed etching that was loosely inserted into this edition but the book itself is complete. Illustrated with reproductions..... More
Michael Joseph. London. 1958. Reprint of the 1946 illustrated edition. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 7.2 inches). Four full page colour plates plus several mono illustrations throughout, some printed in black and some in blue, by Peter Scott. A fine and clean copy in a contemporary fine leather binding by Bayntun,of..... More
Jean Leonard Pellet. Geneva. 1780. THIRD, AND DEFINITIVE EDITION. Ten 8vo text volumes (8 x 5.3 inches) and one 4to atlas volume (10.4 x 8.1 inches). Engraved portrait of Raynal in volume one, nine frontispieces, and the atlas volume with 50 engraved maps by Rigobert Bonne, many with multiple folds..... More
Chatto & Windus. London. 1962. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. A near fine copy of the book, with just a few small spots to the top edge, in a near fine dustwrapper which has the scarce publishers original Book Society Choice wrap around band. More
G. G. and J. Robinson. London. 1794. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo. (9 x 5.8 inches). Volume 1: viii, 423, Volume 2: iv, 416p. A very good copy in the original publishers grey paper covered boards with blue paper spines. Hand written paper labels. Professionally repaired with archive paper to..... More
T. Nelson and Sons. London 1858. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. (5.8 x 3.8 inches). 48pp of text, with 14 vignette engravings among the text, and 12 colour tinted plates. Original publishers paper wraps, printed in gold, both front - which is illustrated, and rear, are bound in. Attractive early leather binding..... More
Osgood McIlvane and Co. London. 1891. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (7.1 x 4.8 inches). 1st issue points in all three volumes. Complete with half titles. Finely bound, by Bayntun-Riviere, in full dark green crushed Morocco bindings. Spines with raised bands, dotted in gilt. Compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in..... More
