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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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