London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1926. First edition, seventh printing. 12mo. [iv, ads], 68p., [iv, ads] Original parchment wrappers with design in black, green, and yellow by Jessie M. King. Gowans's Nature Books. No. 46. Paul Harris and Sotheby's. Jessie M. King and E. A. Taylor Illustrator and Designer. p...... More
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London: The Punch Office, n.d. [c. 1864]. Three volumes bound as two. Large 8vo. xviii, 320p, 304p; xii, 308p. Profusely illustrated by John Leech with many wood engravings and 30 hand-colored steel engravings. Uniformly bound by Riviere in full blue polished calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with red..... More
New York: R. H. Russell and Son, 1895. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaged. (ii), 6 pp text, the painting displayed in black and white on 7 pages. In publisher's binding of white cloth spine over paper-covered boards printed in red and black. Laid in is a 45" folded supplement to..... More
Paris: Le Boucher, 1773-74. First edition. [vi], iv, 280p; xvi,104p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 25 head- and tail-pieces by Massard after Eisen. Includes Hero et Leandre with separate title-page and engraved frontispiece by Duclos after Eisen. Bound by Hayday in full pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. xliii, 1329. Illustrated by Anne Anderson with six color plates, each text page with a decorative border in gilt. Small 4to. Bound with gilt-titled morocco spine and marbled boards. More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, n.d. 189p. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere on every verso with text on the facing rectos, each page with large illustrated borders in various colors. Bound in publisher's gray boards with titles on spine and upper cover in brown. A scarce de Bosschere title with the..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., n.d. (c. 1915). "Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sportiong Magazine" Quarto, xxvi, 234p. Illustrated by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins with 20 plates (hand-colored, if a bit hastily) with with printed tissue guard. Bound in gilt-titled green ribbed cloth..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1914]. Quarto. viii, 235p. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, including twenty inserted tipped-in color plates. Bound in full golden tan crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and double ruled panel borders with dotted rules on the bands, the covers with two..... More
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1913]. First Trade edition. Quarto. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 22 tipped-in color plates with titled tissue guards. In publisher's mauve cloth with pictorial cover designs densely gilt with illustrated endpapers. We think this one of Thomson's best. More
London and New York: Edward Arnold, Publisher to the India Office, 1897. "New Edition" Quarto. xix, (iii), 344p. Illustrated by John Leech and G. H. Jalland with 14 engraved plates, frontispiece in color by Leech, 5 other in color by Jalland. Beautifully rebound in quarter tan crushed morocco with cloth..... More
Paris (?): Printed by Didot (?), 1775 (?). 8vo. (iv) 170p. Engraved title after Baquoy and 7 engraved plates: 4 after Eisen by Baquoy and Ponce and 3 after Martini by Gaucher, Baquoy and Patas. Binding signed Bonle (with "S. D. " at spine foot). Full tan crushed morocco with..... More
Paris: Boivin & Cie. Printed by Firmin-Didot, 1931. First edition in French. Quarto. 160p. Illustrated by Bilibin, including 8 tipped-in color plates. Black and white text illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Every page with decorative border in red. Tan cloth with pictorial design on upper cover in several colors and..... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1967. Reprint of the 1926 edition. Quarto. xiv, 140p. +82 plates, some in color. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover. More
London: Trianon Press, 1973. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards. More
London: The Trianon Press, 1971. First edition. No. 197 of 616 copies. Two volumes. Folio and octavo. The plates reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process. Bound in gilt-titled quarter morocco with marbled sides. Both volumes housed in matching divided slipcase. More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1949. Limited to 1500 copies Signed by Kent. Two volumes. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Large 8vo. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. More
Versailles: A. Bourdier, [c. 1921]. Oblong quarto. 20 lovely color plates (8 1/4" X 11 3/4") with accompanying text in English and French. Preface by Fernand Sabatte. Bound in black-printed red wraps. More
Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, (1983). First edition. Special Edition Limited to 250 copies signed by the author, with an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Harry Clarke's original drawings for illustrations to The Ancient Mariner. This no. 152 of the copies published by H. Keith Burns, Los Angeles..... More
Paris and London: XXe Siecle and Zwemmer, (1959). No. 441 of 900 copies. Small oblong quarto. 57p. Illustrated by Georges Braque with eight full-page water colors printed by Daniel Jacomet. Bound in white cloth, the upper cover with titles and a Braque design in three colors. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Quarto. (x), 174p. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue with 16 tipped-in color plates. Each plate with a decorative frame and facing tissue page with legend. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and overall repeating pattern of gilt hearts and crowns, the upper cover with..... More
London: Constable & Co, (1920). First separate edition. The stories and illustrations originally appeared in the Grimm of 1909. x, 160p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 20 tipped-in color plates and 28 text drawings. Bound in blue cloth with pictorial gilt spine, the upper cover with a large device of..... More
London: George G.Harrap, (1934). Edition limited to 410 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, this no. 198. 45p. Illustrated with four color plates and 14 text drawings by Arthur Rackham. In the original limp vellum binding with illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., the upper cover with stylized gilt titles. Riall p. 186. More
[London]: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Quarto. [x], 254p. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale with ten mounted color plates. Bound by Root in half red crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and gilt ornaments in the panels. More
London: The Bunyan Anniversary Society, 1928. xii, 379p. With 14 illustrations after William Strang (not original etchings as in the original edition). Bound by Bayntun in half red crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and gilt panel ornaments. More
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861. "A New Edition" Tall 8vo. xxii, [ii], 408p. Edited by George Offor. Illustrated with 110 designs by John Dawson Watson (1832-1892), engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel. Bound by Hayday in full brown pebbled morocco over beveled boards with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the..... More