Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Pp. [ii]+198(last blank), hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 24 plates, all within black & white decorative border, pictorial title page and numerous black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; tall post 4to; lavender cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges lightly silverfished, with 2 tiny chips to..... More
Translated from the Latin by Paul Turner. Line-engravings by Mark Severin. Pp. 68, frontispiece plus 3 plates, 1 full page illustration, title page vignette; narrow cr. 4to; qr. orange/tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, maroon canvas boards with gilt vignette at centre of upper board; t.e.g., others uncut; original glassine..... More
Pp. [46], printed on rectos only, illustrated; demy 4to; full natural burlap, with printed paper title labels on spine and upper board; uncut; Grabhorn-Hoyem, San Francisco, 1970. Edition limited to 300 copies. More
Illustrated by Frances Brundage, J. Pauline Sunter, Alick P. Ritchie, etc. Pp. 96, 12 chromolithographic plates, plus black & white title page vignette and numerous text illustrations, floral patterned endpapers; cr. 4to; brown cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly soiled, with a couple of faint damp marks to lower..... More
With three plates from watercolours by Blamire Young. Pp. 104, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 2 plates (within pagination), black & white title page vignette; narrow cr. 4to; cream cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the head of spine and fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges..... More
With a biographical note by Klytie Pate. Pp. [52], printed in red & black, frontispiece, text illustrations (some full page) and decorations, pictorial endpapers; tall demy 4to; rust cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle sprung, cloth flecked (mainly on upper board); Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1977. *Edition..... More
Pp. [260], printed on rectos only; demy 8vo; qr. black cloth, with printed paper title label on spine, black & white patterned papered boards, slightly canted, edges rubbed; top edges black, others uncut; [later?] black endpapers; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, bookseller's sticker at foot..... More
Pp. 70+[2](colophon, blank), title page vignette and 5 full page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford; narrow f'cap. 4to; qr. red/brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, the leather slightly marked, spine faintly faded, beige canvas boards, a trifle foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, plus binder's stamp and..... More
Chosen by Sarah Williams. Illustrated by Ian Beck. Pp. 48, illustrated in colour throughout, rocking horse patterned endpapers; post 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986. First edition. *'Knee-Jogging rhymes, patting songs & lullabies' [wrapper blurb]. More
From original illustrations by H. H. Emmerson. With verses by Marion M. Wingrave. Pp. 64, illustrated in colour throughout (several full page), floral patterned endpapers; post 4to; dark blue cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly soiled, edges worn; hinges cracking, several pages (including the free endpapers) loose or nearly..... More
With coloured illustrations by Miss Gertrude Hamilton and Miss Marie Low, and numerous illustrative diagrams by F. W. Burbridge, George Shayler, and Miss May Iggulden. Three volumes in six divisions, complete, totalling over 1100 pages (the pagination and text continuous within each of the three volumes), 46 chromolithographic plates (most..... More
Pp. xii+408(last blank)+[2](advertisement, verso blank), coloured pictorial title page and 14 plates, black & white pictorial headpieces, coloured pictorial endpapers; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with large coloured pictorial onlay (which is a trifle rubbed) on upper board, edges of boards lightly rubbed, the spine extremities frayed;..... More
