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In three volumes, illustrated by John Leech. Pp. xx+432+xvi+416+xviii+418, 30 hand coloured plates (10 each volume), black & white title page vignette, text illustrations and decorative initials, the title pages printed in red & black, indices; roy. 8vo; dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, light brown cloth boards, the..... More
Printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum. Epilogue [in English] by Giovanni Mardersteig]. Volume I: Pp. 278+[2](blank, colophon), 68 pochoir woodcuts attributed to Liberale da Verona..... More
Illustrated and decorated by Alastair. Pp. 36, frontispiece and 10 plates with lettered tissue guards, plus 2 extra folding plates functioning as free endpapers, 13 large decorative initials, all printed in teal & black, as is the title page; med. 4to; white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board..... More
With 8 coloured plates, 7 half-tone plates, and 95 black-and-white drawings. Pp. 194(last blank), frontispiece, plus 14 plates (8 coloured), title page vignette and numerous text illustrations (some full page); cr. 4to; pink cloth with printed orange paper title labels on spine and upper board, the spine faintly faded, edges..... More
Pp. [viii]+110, printed in black & dull gilt, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 11 plates with lettered guards, tinted pictorial title page, text illustrations (a couple full page) and decorations; med. 4to; qr. vellum over cream papered boards, the spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, boards faintly discoloured;..... More
With a new Introduction by the author, and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. In three volumes. Title page vignettes, 9 lithographic plates, numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; full rust coloured linen, stamped in colours and gilt; top edges green; within slipcase, edges lightly worn, printed title label on spine; Limited..... More
Poems for Children. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 64, illustrated in two colours throughout (alternating black & peach or green & black); f'cap. 4to; printed brown paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed and creased; Cassell, London, 1960. Proof copy. See Alderson 81. More
Poems for Children. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 64, illustrated in two colours throughout (alternating black & peach or green & black); f'cap. 4to; fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with surface graze to back panel near top fore-corner; bookseller's sticker at..... More
Retold by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 48, illustrated throughout in colour and sepia; small roy. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, lightly foxed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, the backstrip and adjacent portion of front panel lightly browned; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and..... More
1. A TIME TO REMEMBER TOYS. A collection of anecdotes - printed for my friends at Christmastime, 1968. Illustrations by Charles Attebery. Pp. [16], French-folded, printed in brown & black, text illustrations; pictorial textured paper wrappers, slightly split at foot of backstrip; 2. ON THE MEANING OF LIFE AND THE..... More
Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. With an Introduction by William Lyon Phelps. With coloured illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock. Complete in twelve volumes, totalling approximately 4,000 pages. All volumes with coloured frontispiece, each of the major novels also with 5 coloured plates, Volume XI [juvenilia] with 3..... More
Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. With illustrations by William Cubit Cooke and ornaments by F. C. Tilney. In ten volumes, totalling nearly 2,500 pages; frontispiece to each volume, plus another 21 plates in total (3 in Volume I and 2 in all other volumes, all plates with tissue guards), decorative..... More
Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, and 10 full page illustrations by Clifford Webb, plus 3 full page maps by Mina Greenhill; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full dark brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt within raised bands, boards decorated in..... More
Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, 7 full page illustrations, pictorial tailpiece, 3 full page maps; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, the top fore-corners slightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; binder's..... More
Pp. 58, illustrated throughout; narrow super roy. 4to; beige papered boards, lettered and decorated in grey; uncut; within tan cloth portfolio; occasional light foxing; Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Gwent, Wales, 1998. Edition limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. *The Affectionate Shepheard was originally published anonymously in..... More
A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature. Volume 1, Numbers 1 to 4 (October 1922 to July 1923). Number 1: Pp. [iv](advertisements)+48, erratum slip tipped-in before title page; October 1922. *Contributors include Ford Madox Hueffer, Havelock Ellis, and E. L. Grant Watson; with illustrations by John Austen, Robert Gibbings, John..... More
Contained in Encounter, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, October 1966. Edited by Frank Kermode and Melvin J. Lasky. Pp. 96(printed double column)+[2](coloured central advertisement sheet), the Beardsley article comprising pages 3-16 and including 2 illustrations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers printed on both sides, slightly worn; several leaves faintly creased;..... More
Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of the original drawings, letters, manuscripts, paintings; and of books, posters, photographs, documents etc. Pp. [284]; narrow octavo; printed green stiff paper wrappers, the edges and backstrip a trifle faded and rubbed; Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1966. *With the Corrigenda sheet..... More
Introduced and with editorial notes by Iain Bain. In two volumes. Pp. 234+230, frontispiece to both volumes, plus numerous coloured and black & white text illustrations (some full page), appendices, further reading, index; oblong 4to; grey cloth, spines and upper boards lettered in gilt, the spines blocked in navy; contained..... More
Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Pp. 56, frontispiece, plus numerous text illustrations (3 double page); small square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the top fore-corner of lower wrapper slightly creased; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges worn and split; lacking the upper free endpaper, a little light..... More
[Facsimile edition]. Comprising 10 tinted plates, plus 8 pages of editorial matter printed in green, including Description and Bibliographical Statement by Geoffrey Keynes; narrow med. 4to; qr. green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the boards a trifle sprung, spine faded to brown; uncut; within matching marbled slipcase..... More
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. [22](last colophon), comprising coloured frontispiece and facsimile title page, 4 tinted facsimile text pages (the last of which includes a coloured tailpiece illustration), one black & white plate and 8 pages of editorial matter, including Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes; wide demy 4to; qr. navy..... More
[Facsimile edition] Pp. [8](commentary by Geoffrey Keynes, last colophon), preceded by coloured frontispiece, pictorial title page, and 3 plates; med. 4to; qr. tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the leather a trifle marked; matching marbled papered slipcase with leather fore-corner tips; book label of David Levine, Sydney..... More
[Facsimile edition]. In two different sized volumes, comprising: [Series a]: coloured frontispiece, black & white pictorial title page, and 7 coloured plates, plus 25 collotype states of all the plates, 7 colour progressive states of the frontispiece, plus a mounted guide sheet, and stencil at the end, no text; [Series..... More
from Coupang to Batavia, together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet "Vlydt" and his remarks on Morrison's Journal. All printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter..... More
