Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum..... More
Princeton: Pyne, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight full-page, exquisite color drawings by this imaginative toymaker. Every attempt was made to reproduce the "sketchbook" in exact facsimile. Full play was given by Brown to the brilliant use of color and realistic detail in..... More
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Robinson, W. Heath. First edition. Hardcover. 156 pages. More
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Frontispiece plus two additional full page color lithographs, with additional color lithograph decorations in the text. Bright, very fresh copy. More
London: Duckworth & Co., Nd. Hardcover. 48 pages. 21.5 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated with drawings by B.T.B. (Basil Temple Blackwood). The author, British-French writer, one of the most prolific in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc also collaborated with G. K. Chesterton on a number of works... More
London: Duckworth, Nd. Hardcover. 48 pages. 21. x 16.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with drawings by B.T.B. (Basil Temple Blackwood). The author, British-French writer, one of the most prolific in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc also collaborated with G. K. Chesterton on a number of works. More
London: Macmillan, 1886. First (and apparently only) edition. Hardcover. {XIV] 96 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Edition of 5000 copies. Manuscript facsimile, including 37 line drawings (14 full-page) after Dodgson who illustrated this edition himself, 2 pages of publisher's ads. Triple gilt front cover fillets, back cover design decorated in..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. [XVI] (1) 375 (1) pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. Illustrations mostly after Dodgson's photographs. The first work is the first publication of Dodgson's manuscript notebook of "Alice;" the second is an interesting miscellany of Carroliana. Buxton Forman's copy with his bookplate. Front..... More
New York: Century Company, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages (XII). 26 x 21.5 cm. The fourth book in the series. Test bright, faultless with a plethora of images by Palmer Cox also fresh. Free front endpaper with scant evidence of bookplate removal, Harold Bond owns this book presented by..... More
London & New York & Chicago: John Lane The Bodley Head & Stone & Kimball, Late 19th early 20th century. Hardcover. 26.3 x 22 cm. All are color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing, all original covers bound-in. Titles include many..... More
London & New York: John Lane, 1895. Crane, Walter. Stiff Wraps. 6 pages of text. 27 x 23 cm. Five full-page color wood engraved plates printed by Edmund Evans. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series. SPENCER, p.39, notes, "Walter Crane's reputation as a children's book illustrator is founded on colour..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. 210 pages 22.5 x 16 cm. Sixty designs including nineteen color lithograph plates by Walter Crane. Bound by Leonard Mounteney at The Monastery Hill Bindery. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more specific colour commissions in several publications for..... More
London: Field & Tuer, et al, 1884. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 21 pages. 20.5 x 23 cm. Pictorial hand-colored wood-cuts in primitive style to reflect early Chap-book illustrations. Three pages of adverts at rear. Crawhall and Charles Keene, illustrator of Punch, were friends; working together for over 200 drawings for..... More
London: David Bogue, (1853). Later printing. Stiff Boards. 30 pages in text. 18 x 14 cm. Nine etchings on six plates by George Cruikshank of the premier title in his Fairy Library. With illustrations listed after the title page." COHN 196. Bright, fresh copy with green illustrated boards laid-in. More
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1913). Hardcover. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Printed from the Second Edition. Twenty-one plates mounted on buff-vellum like sheets framed with border designs, all with tissue guards. HUGHEY 21d. "Bands around plates are dull gilt design stamped over green. Printing..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First trade edition. leather_bound. 113 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Ten mounted color plates with descriptive letterpress tissue guards in olive ink. HUGHEY 31a. "The ten water colors in the book were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries from November 15th until Christmas 1913." Elegantly bound..... More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. First Dulac edition. Stiff Wraps. 147 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Twenty-seven color plates, mounted and framed with yellow border design of the title page, tissue guards caption printed in black ink, and with text also enclosed in aforementioned design frame. Limited edition, copy 122 OF..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Second trade edition. Hardcover. 133 pages in text. 25.5 x 20 cm. Fifty mounted color plates with descriptive letterpress tissue guards in olive ink. HUGHEY 16b. "This is Dulac's most important book.....It was an overnight sensation that unequivocally established Dulac's reputation. Scattered light toning to..... More
Boston: Ball Publishing Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Oblong landscape format, 14 x 39 cm. As Fisher noted, "The only excuse for publishing "Book Two" is the fact that "Book One" put several pennies in the strong box." Clean, bright copy. More
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Dulac, Edmund. Hardcover. Approx. 124 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. The American Limited edition, copy 40 of 200 with book label of Paul Elder, San Francisco back cover free endpaper (recto). Printed from the second edition. Twenty mounted color plates within decorative..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1890). First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me..... More
London: Frederick Warne, (1926). leather_bound. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations are from the actual first printing of the 1891 almanack with text for the year 1927. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that..... More
London: George Routledge, (1884). First edition. Hardcover. 80 pages. 15 x 12 cm. Forty-eight colored picture pages printed by Edmund Evans. Charles Baker in his "Bibliography of British Book Illustrators 1860-1900 notes, "It is extremely difficult to identify early issues of some of Kate Greenaway's books;" however, in this instance..... More
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, genealogical Tree of the Taylor Family opposite title pages. Four plates. List of plates. Bibliography. Introduction. Index of Titles. Limited edition, copy 229 of 350. More
Studio: London, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 4to, twelve full-page color lithographs, and a plethora of black and white illustrations. A survey of children's toys from ancient times to the present -- dolls, doll houses, furniture, horses, mechanical toys, vehicles, etc. Brilliant color plates. More