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ANGUS. W.(illiam).

THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND WALES. In a collection of views, engraved by W. Angus. From pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.

Published by W. Angus. Gwynne's Buildings, Islington. Dated 1787, but actually 1815. Oblong 4to. (12 x 9.4 inches). A nice wide margined copy with all edges untrimmed. Illustrated with engraved title & 63 engraved views, each with a descriptive leaf of letterpress opposite. Originally issued in 1787 with just 48... More

Price: £550.00

ASSISI. ST. FRANCIS. --- Arnold. T. W. Translates.

THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. Translated from the italian by T. W. Arnold. With notes by Dr. Guido Biagi.

Chatto and Windus, London. 1908. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 6.4 inches). Complete with thirteen colour plates, each with a tissue guard, and 24 half tone plates, reproducing early illuminated manuscript illustrations and paintings. The front pastedown endpaper has an attractive previous owner's bookplate. Front blank free... More

Price: £475.00

BAILEY. DAVID. & EVANS. PETER.

GOODBYE BABY AND AMEN. A Saraband for the Sixties.

The Condé Nast Publications Ltd in association with Collins. London. 1969. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (14.3 x 11.2 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with mono photos. Ex Vogue Library copy, elaborately inscribed by David Bailey, with doodles and drawings to three pages. On the (purple paper) front free endpaper is a small... More

Price: £975.00

BAYNES. PAULINE. Born 1922 - died 2008. GRIMM. BROTHERS.

WATER COLOUR PAINTING OF SNOWDROP (SNOW WHITE) AND THE SEVEN DWARVES. Original watercolour Illustration published in Grimm's Fairy Tales.

NP. (Book published by Blackie & Son). Circa 1949. ORIGINAL FULL COLOUR ARTWORK. The watercolour image shows Snowdrop (Snow White) lying asleep at the edge of a forest. Stood over her is a handsome Prince dressed in elaborate multi coloured outfit with a large hat in his hand, complete with... More

Price: £2,750.00

BEARDSLEY. AUBREY.

THE PAY OF THE PIED PIPER. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Reprinted from the 1888 Xmas Entertainment Programme of the Brighton Grammar School.

NP. ND. c. 1898. Set of 11 full page illustrations by Beardsley Sewn in pale blue/grey card wrapper. No text apart from the front wrapper.(8.4 x 5.4 inches). Mark Samuels Lasner, in his checklist of Beardsley's work, describes a set of these illustrations as being issued as loose plates in... More

Price: £800.00

BETJEMAN. JOHN. -- Boyd Harte. Glynn, Illustrates.

METROLAND.

Warren Editions. London. 1977. FIRST EDITION, Limited to 220 copies, numbered and signed by both author and illustrator. 4to. (11.4 x 9.1 inches). 23 leaves, illustrated with 16 original coloured lithographs. Verses are taken from Betjeman's commentary for Edward Mirzoeff's BBC documentary, Metro-land, shown in 1973 and are printed in... More

Price: £3,750.00

BIRO. VAL.

ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR ARTWORK FOR TALES FROM WIND IN THE WILLOWS. By Kenneth Grahame.

1983. Watercolour painting of Mole walking towards the Wild Wood, painted for the Purnell 1983, abridged for younger readers, edition of Grahame's classic tale. This image was not used in the published book. Image size 3.8 x 3.5 inches. Professionally mounted, framed and glazed, with hardboard backing and strung, ready... More

Price: £250.00

BISHOP PERCY. ; CARADOC PRESS.

THE OLD BALLAD OF THE BOY AND THE MANTLE.

H. D. & H. G. Webb. Caradoc Press, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London. 1900. LIMITED EDITION. One of 300 copies on paper. 8vo. (6 x 4.7 inches). (2),18pp (2). The second book from the Caradoc Press. Ornamental designs and letters engraved by the Webbs. Printed in red and black but this... More

Price: £350.00

BRANGWYN. FRANK. Illustrates.

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Introduction by Joseph Jacobs. Designs by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.

Gibbings and Company. London. 1906. Large 8vo. (10.3 x 6.8 inches). Illustrated with decorative title page, full colour frontis, each page of the verse text within decorative borders printed in green and and 4 fine full colour plates by Brangwyn. A clean and tight copy with lovely wide margins, in... More

Price: £375.00

BROOMBERG. ADAM. AND CHANARIN. OLIVER.

HOLY BIBLE.

MACK & AMC. London. 2013. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. (8.7 x 6.5 inches). Illustrated with 512 images from the Archive of Modern Conflict, London, imposed over the text of the King James Bible. 4 page booklet, printed in black on red paper, and featuring Adi Opher's essay Divine violence, mounted into... More

Price: £200.00

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.

PAINTING AS A PASTIME.

Odhams Press/Ernest Benn. London. 1948. FIRST BOOK EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.7 inches). This work was originally published in two separate essays entitled "Hobbies" & "Painting as a pastime" in Churchill's 1932 book "Thoughts and adventures". Here published on its own for the first time and with 18 colour plates... More

Price: £350.00

COSTUME OF THE VATICAN. ; Artist unknown.

Including. Sommo Pont ce Nella Notte del S. Natale. S. Padre in Sedia Gestatoria, Cardinale in Cappa Stesa, Cantore Pontificio, Guardia Nobile, and Capitano Svizzero, among others.

No place, No Date. circa 1850. CONCERTINA BOOK. (4.5 x 3.2 inches). Thirty fine hand coloured engraved plates,some heightened with gold. The plates fold out to full length of 89 inches. No text. The whole work is cased in a red, decorative paper covered folder with marbled paper inside. This... More

Price: £450.00

De MOLEVILLE, BERTRAND.

THE COSTUME OF THE HEREDITARY STATES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA. Displayed in fifty coloured engravings; with descriptions and an introduction.

William Miller. London. 1804. FOLIO. Later issue with paper watermarked 1819. Fifty fine hand coloured plates showing people of Alpine, Bohemian, Moravian and Hungarian cultures. Some creasing to endpapers, final & preliminary blanks otherwise fine in early binding of dark green straight grain morocco, blind stamped and gilt with foliate... More

Price: £950.00

DISNEY. WALT.

ORIGINAL HAND PAINTED FILM ANIMATION CELL OF 'BASHFUL' FROM SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.

Walt Disney Enterprises. USA. 1937. ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED IMAGE ON CELLULOID. Image is 6.6 x 4.5 inches. Mounted glazed and framed to give a full size of 13.1 x 10.8 inches. A rare original hand-painted sheet of Celluloid from Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs... More

Price: £3,750.00

DURET. THEODORE.

MANET and the French Impressionists. Pisarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch.

Grant Richards; 1910. First UK edition. 4to. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 31 reproductions in half-tone, 2 etchings by Renoir and one each by Morisot and Manet, 2 wood engravings after Manet and one each after Degas and... More

Price: £2,500.00

GARTON. ROBIN.

THE CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE PRINTS OF PAUL DRURY. 1903 - 1987.

Garton & Co. London. 1992. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (11 X 8.5 inches). LIMITED EDITION. One of only 50 copies. Original wood engraving (again one of just 50, numbered and initialled by the printer) in a pocket inside the rear board. Illustrated with a mono photo portrait of Drury for... More

Price: £300.00

GATOR. SIR GEORGE. -- GODFREY. WALTER H. Edit.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. (The Parish of St. Martin in the fields, Part III). Survey of London. Volume 18.

London County Council. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.7 x 9.3 inches). One of only 700 copies printed, this being number 461. Illustrated with 1 colour plate before the text, over 200 photos and drawings on 110 mono plates, plus 44 illustrations in the text and 21 heraldic illustrations. xxii... More

Price: £110.00

GILL. ERIC.

ART & LOVE.

Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerell Press, for Douglas Cleverdon. Bristol. 1927 (1928). LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. (7.9 x 4.7 inches). One of 35 copies, numbered and signed by Gill and with an extra set of the six Copper engravings loose in a folder inside the rear cover. Illustrated... More

Price: £1,750.00

GILL. ERIC.

CATALOGUE OF DRAWINGS & ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC GILL. Alpine Club Gallery. 5th to 14th May A. D. 1918.

Printed by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling, Sussex. 1918. 16 pp Catalogue plus invite to private view. (6.3 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with 6 wood engravings. Contains a foreword by Pepler plus a list of the items in the exhibition, three with hand written notes, including prices for the items. Printed on... More

Price: £275.00

GILL. ERIC. Illustrates. POWYS. T. F.

UNCLE DOTTERY. A Christmas Story. With two wood engravings by Eric Gill.

Printed by Henry Hill Limited, for Douglas Cleverdon. Bristol. 1930. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. (8.2 x 5.2 inches). One of 350 copies, numbered and signed by Powys. Publishers green and white decorative paper covered boards with black buckram spine, lettered in gilt. A fine copy with the original prospectus loosely inserted... More

Price: £175.00

GOODALL. JOHN STRICKLAND.

MANUSCRIPT MAQUETTE FOR THE BOOK, CREEPY CASTLE. Together with a smaller manuscript book proposal and the US first edition.

Macmillan. London. 1975. The original manuscript maquette of Goodall's wordless picture book, Creepy Castle, which would be published in 1975 by Macmillan in London and Atheneum in New York. 2 pen and watercolour manuscripts, 1 oblong octavo (190 x 140 mm) and 1 square octavo (135 x 126 mm). Volume... More

Price: £9,750.00

HOLME. C. EditS.

MODERN DESIGN IN JEWELLERY AND FANS. Special Winter Number of The Studio. 1901-1902.

Offices of The Studio. London. 1902. 4to. ( 11.8 x 8.6 inches). Fully illustrated with 204 designs, some in colour and some full page. The sections are based on the home country of the designers; French, British, Austrian, German, Belgain and Danish. Contains design by F. H. Werner, Jessie M.... More

Price: £175.00

HUNT. LYNN BOGUE.

AN ARTIST'S GAME BAG. With Original watercolour.

The Derrydale Press. New York. 1936. LIMITED, FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.1 inches). One of just 25 copies, numbered and signed, and Illustrated with an original watercolour, signed by Lynn Bogue Hunt, showing a pair of Mallard on a riverbank, in the front of the book. Four colour printed... More

Price: £5,950.00

KIPLING. RUDYARD.

IF. Calligraphic manuscript.

No place, no date. Circa 1930's. Hand written calligraphic manuscript on off-white card, in red and black ink with blue, yellow, brown and gold painted border and initial title. The sheet measures 11.6 x 8.9 inches. Marks on the rear where this was probably mounted previously but the front panel... More

Price: £375.00

LANGLEY. BATTY. ; LANGLEY. THOMAS.

THE BUILDER'S JEWEL. Or the Youth's instructor, and Workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working.....etc.

R. Ware. London. 1741. FIRST EDITION. 16mo, in 4s.(5.7 x 4.7 inches). Engraved frontispiece, dated using the Masonic Calendar-AL(Anno Lucis)5741. 24pp. 99 engraved plates, each numbered. Complete. -- 1 plate with small amount of loss to the bottom corner, not affecting the printed part of the page. The text and... More

Price: £1,850.00

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