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
Pp. [viii]+124(last colophon), 11 mounted coloured plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous text illustrations and maps (several printed in red & black), folding coloured map of London contained in pocket on upper pastedown, the title page printed in red & black; roy. 4to; blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered..... 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
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. 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...... More
Chosen and introduced by Judy Taylor. Pp. 128(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; oblong 8vo; pictorial papered boards, faintly soiled; David R. Godine, Boston, 2002. First U.S. edition. 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
Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 48, illustrated throughout (all but one in colour); oblong 4to; pictorial papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly foxed, with [later but not recent] UK price sticker on front flap; edges of leaves very faintly foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1974. First edition thus. Alderson 166..... 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
From the French of L'Abbe Prevost. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. With decorations by John Austen. Pp. [vi]+x+144(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette and pictorial head and tailpieces, the title, all text and colophon within decorative blue border; roy..... More
A novel. 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..... More
Illustrated by S. B. Pp. [ii]+vi+40, printed in blue, coloured half-title page vignette and numerous text illustrations; small cr. 4to; green papered boards, lettered in black, coloured pictorial onlay at centre of upper board, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed..... 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
With a Prefatory Note by H. C. Marillier. Pp. [viii]+18(last blank)+[6](advertisements, last blank), coloured frontispiece, plus 158 plates (1 coloured), decorative title page; narrow demy 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers printed on both sides, a trifle sprung, edges slightly rubbed; Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1967. *Originally published in 1899..... 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
Victoria & Albert Museum. Pp. [iv]+18, pictorial title page, plus 50 plates; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, faintly soiled; edges of leaves very slightly soiled; Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1966. First edition. Large Picture Book series No. 32. *Published in conjunction with the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition held..... 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
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]. 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
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. [6](bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes)+[2](colophon, blank), plus coloured frontispiece, pictorial title page, and 9 plates, text printed in brown; super roy. 4to; qr. tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards; matching marbled papered slipcase, edges a trifle rubbed; t.e.g.; occasional faint soiling; TheTrianon Press (Paris)..... 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
Faithfully translated by J. M. Rigg. With an illustrated introduction and fifteen photogravures from original drawings by Louis Chalon. In two volumes. Pp. xxii+332+xvi+404, 13 plates with tissue guards (including frontispiece to Volume I), 3 black & white text illustrations (2 full page), the half-titles printed in red and title..... More
Trente-sept lithographies de Berthold Mahn. [Text in French]. Pp. [viii]+304+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus 10 plates, title page vignette, 14 text illustrations, 10 pictorial headpieces and a tailpiece, the title and several small decorative initials printed in red; bound in half orange calf, with gilt lettered and decorated red calf..... More
Illustrated & decorated by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. Pp. [140], 15 coloured plates hand-tipped onto brown art paper, pictorial title page and large decorative borders to all quatrains printed in dull gilt/brown, vocabulary; narrow demy 4to; t.e.g., others uncut; full vellum, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards lightly soiled..... More