London: George G. Harrap, 1936. Rackham, Arthur. leather_bound. 256 pages, 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 92 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham. Twelve full-page plates with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by R. Farquharson Sharp, the translator who made a concerted effort to keep as closely to the original's... More about Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem By Henrik Ibsen
London: Henry Hooper, 1840. Cruikshank, George. leather_bound. 60 pages in text. 31.5 x 24 cm. Extra-illustrated copy with 180 engraved plates, 6 are colored. The illustrations are wood-cuts, etchings and lithographs, culled from various sources, many inlaid to size. This work appears here, as often, without printed title page. This... More about An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank; (From The Westmister Review, NO. LXVI.) With...
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. Alexeieff, Alexandre. Hardcover. 68 pages. 26 x 20. Ten aquatints by Alexandre Alexeieff, each with tissue guard. Limited edition, copy 207 of 325 (of which 301-325 are not for sale) on Dutch paper printed by Joh. Enschede with the Roman type, cut by J.M. Fleischman in... More about The Fall Of The House Of Usher
London & Philadelphia: William Heinemann & J.P. Lippincott, 1915. Rackham, Charles. leather_bound. 147 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 457 of 550 signed by Rackham. 12 tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards, and 18 illustrations by Rackham. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph with original... More about A Christmas Carol
London: Macmillan And Co., 1908. Hardcover. 314 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Sixteen Illustrations with tissue guards of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book." The preeminent illustrated edition of Kipling's classic tale for children, that established the Detmold brothers as exceptional illustrators of zoological and botanical subjects. Bound by Sangroski and... More about The Jungle Book
London: Charles Tilt / Tilt & Bogue / David Bogue, 1835-1853. Cruikshank, George. First edition. Hardcover. In the original parts. 17 x 11 cm., and 14 x 9 cm (1848-1849). 195 etched plates by Cruikshank, plus five fold-out plates, four in color. Thackeray contributed to the 1839-1840 issues. Contains practically... More about The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris In Jest And Earnest Containing "All Things Fitting For Such...
London: Longman Green & Company, 1875. Doyle, Richard A. Second edition. leather_bound. 31 pages. Folio, 37 x 26.8 cm. 16 pages of color wood engraved plates, containing 36 images printed by Edmund Evans. This is "Dicky" Doyle's most ambitious and successful work, the brother of James Doyle and uncle of... More about In Fairy Land A series of Pictures from the Elf World by William Allingham
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1976. Hardcover. 35 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Annie Thiriout. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 14 color plates. As new copy. More about Mademoiselle Moppette; (The Story of Miss Moppet
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1976. Hardcover. 59 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Annie Thiriot. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 26 color plates. As new copy. More about L'Histoire De Petit-Jean Des Villes; (The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1978. Hardcover. 59 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Annie Thiriout. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 26 color plates. As new copy. More about L'Histoire De Tonton-Le-Voltigeur; (The Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. 59 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Veronique Canal. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 26 color plates. As new copy. More about L'Histoire De Deux Vilaines Souris; (The Tale Of Two Bad Mice
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. 59 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Deborah Chattaway. Colour frontispiece, and 26 color plates, decorated endpapers. As new copy. More about Le Tailleur De Gloucester
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1977. Hardcover. 35 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Veronique Canal. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 14 color plates. As new copy. More about L'Histoire D'Un Mechant Lapin Mal Eleve; (The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1930. First American edition. leather_bound. 141 pages. 21 x 16 cm. Color frontispiece, 5 colour illustrations, and 34 full-page black and white illustrations. Curiously, the first American edition preceded the English edition resulting in an additional 12 drawings plus 13 head and tailpieces not included in the... More about The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
New York: Frederick Warne And Co., (1909). First American edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. 15.5 x 14 cm. Colour frontispiece, plain title vignette, 9 colour plates, colour pictorial endpapers. Originally a manuscript presented to Harold Warne's daughter as a Christmas present, but with one of the illustrations it contained cut-out for... More about Ginger & Pickles
London: Frederick Warne And Co., [1917]. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages. 12.5 x 11 cm. First or second printing (with correct endpapers -- advertising The Tale of Mr. Tod and The Tale of Pigling Bland), colour frontispiece, plain title, 14 chromolithograph illustrations facing accompanying text. Potter had originally conceived of... More about Apply Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931. Gill, Eric. Hardcover. Folio, 32 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 137 of 485 (15 copies on vellum) Printed by Moira and Robert Gibbings in Caslon Old Face on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. Printed in red, black and blue. The text... More about The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1893-1894. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 19 cm. In the original 12 parts. Full page plates, illustrations, decorated letter initials, wrappers and head and tail pieces after Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley's "Le Morte D'Arthur" in the rare parts issue, published when he was only... More about Le Morte D'Arthur; Illustrated By Aubrey Beardsley
London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, (1923). First edition. leather_bound. 48 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 2000, most were remaindered, and then destroyed in London in 1941. 48 calligraphic text sheets, and 48 illustrated color plates, all mounted to gray cardstock. Plates retipped to new... More about The Ship That Sailed To Mars, A Fantasy
London: Macmillan And Co, 1910. leather_bound. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. One hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Sixteen Coloured plates from Drawings by Alfred Rawlings. Sixteen mounted color plates, including frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guards and 100 black and white text text illustrations (12 full page). In an... More about Our Village; With An Introduction By Anne Thackeray Ritchie
London: E.P. Dutton, 1927. Third edition. Hardcover. 538 pages. 29.5 x 26 cm. Limited edition one of 1600 copies. 21 full-page woodcut plates and a plethora of in-text wood engravings. GORDON N. RAY 314. "Seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John Dent in 1892 offered Beardsley 200... More about The Birth Life And Acts Of King Arthur Of His Noble Knights Of The Round Table Their Marvellous...
London: Macmillan & Co Limited, 1903. Hardcover. 477 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. In a "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, stamp-signed on the back turn-in, of transparent vellum over paper. Front cover with a multi-color painted architecturally frame with three mother of pearl inlays enclosing an original painting... More about Evelina Or The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World; With an Introduction by Austin...
London: Leonard Smithers And Co., 1899. First edition. leather_bound. 213 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. One of 1000 copies (excluding the limited edition of 400 signed large paper copies). The play opened in January 1895 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, to a standing ovation from the Prince of Wales and... More about An Ideal Husband By The Author Of Lady Wildermere's Fan
London: Elkin Mathews And John Lane, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. Bound by Asprey. MASON 357. Slight toning to blank head of text area, covers and spine framed in gilt. More about Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About A Good Woman
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Nash, Paul. Hardcover. 109 pages in text. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 this copy unnumbered, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper which was bound in vellum or oasis morocco (this copy in the latter). Signed by Paul Nash, Harley Granville-Barker, and Albert... More about The Tragedie Of King Lear Newly Printed from the Folio of 1623