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

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

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

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

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

The Studio, Limited. London. 1924. FIRST EDITION. 4to. ( 11.7 x 9.3 inches). vii, 31pp Illustrated with 96 plates, 16 of them in colour. Very likely the Author's own copy with his name and address, in Chelsea, London, written on the rear pastedown endpaper. Other previous owner's Armorial bookplate on... More

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

Editions arcade.Brussels.,1967. Large 4to(34.5 cms x 27 cms).Translated from the Dutch by Frances J.Stillman.Foreword by H.Liebaers.Historical account by J.Duverger.Contains 42 colour and 41 mono illustrations,many fold out plates.Very good copy in colour illustrated dustwrapper.Very good in Slightly rubbed card slip case.:. More

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

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

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

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

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