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Verona: Franco Riva 1963. FolioIllustrated. SPANISH TEXT. 23 pp. Signed limited edition. Cream paper cover with a parchment paper wrapper, in a dusky red cover and slipcase. No.124 from a limited edition of 150 copies, with a signed double page etching by Renato Guttuso. Edges uncut. Slipcase a little faded and edgeworn with a few markings. Blue ink inscription to… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1950. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First Arthur Rackham UK edition. xii, 178 pp. 12 colour plates by Rackham, including frontis. Recently bound in full green morocco with gilt lines to boards; raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering; t.e.g. and marbled endpapers. Internally clean. Also includes in-text black and white illustrations. Introduction by A. A.… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: The John C Winston Company circa 1950s. Large 8vo.Illustrated. xvii, 414, (1) pp., Green cloth binding with tipped on illustration. Gilt lettered spine slightly dulled and minor bumping to the boards, with slight creasing to the rear. Minor shaking to the binding and spotting to the fore edge, otherwise internally clean. Illustrated with 4 colour plated and 4 black… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans, Green & Co 1893. 8vo.Illustrated. xv, 337 pp. Blue cloth gilt-stamped with illustration of a pirate and ship, with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. With plates and in text illustrations by a number of illustrators. Rubbing the the spine and edges, and a lean to the binding. Ink inscription written from a father… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodder & Stoughton [1908]. 4to.Illustrated. First edition illustrated by Dulac. xxiv, 144 pp. 40 tipped-in colour plates. Recently bound in full dark blue morocco, with gilt border to boards; raised bands with gilt ruling, devices and lettering to spine; t.e.g. and marbled endpapers. Light spotting, mostly at prelims or occasionally along fore-edge of leaves. A lovely copy. . Near… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Camberwell Press 1986. Tall 4to.Signed Limited Edition. Signed numbered limited edition. This is copy 54 of 200. Unpaginated. Black cloth with pictorial label to front board and pictorial endpapers. Slight rubbing to rear board and spotting along top-edge, though internally clean. Lord weaves his diary entries from his commonplace journals into his black and white illustrations. . Near… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co. 1840. Large 8vo. xx, 361 pp. 45 engraved plates (including frontis) and numerous other in-text illustrations. Recased in red cloth with bind-stamped decoration to boards and gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Wear to extremities and scattered foxing to text. The plates are on India paper. A series of portraits of members of French society. .… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1916. 8vo.Illustrated. xi, 314, 2 pp. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth, with top edge gilt. Illustrated with sixteen full-page colour plates by the twin Detmold brothers. Rubbing and fading to the spine and some bruising to the corners. Binding split at the front hinge and is coming loose at the spine. Slight lean to the… Ler mais sobre este item

Upper Denby: The Fleece Press 2005. Large 4to.Illustrated. Limited edition. 286, [2] pp. Orange cloth spine over illustrated card boards, with a title label to the spine. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout - including a number of fold-out images - with work from each period of Bawden's life. Limited edition of 750; this copy is one of the 575 standard… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1920s. Large 8vo.Illustrated. 165 pp. 15 tipped-in colour plates, including frontis. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Wear to spine ends and rubbing and light bumping elsewhere. Scattered foxing, though plates clean and colours rich. Brilliant illustrations by Dulac. . Good. Publisher's Cloth. 1920.

Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton 1983. Large 4to.Limited Edition. Number 20 of 85 special editions of two volumes with portfolio of engravings. xxiv, 256; [ii], 257-545, [1] pp.; 8 prints printed from the artist's woodblocks [portfolio]. Main volumes are bound in quarter tan pigskin and brick-coloured cloth, with gilt lettering to spines. These and the folding cloth portfolio are housed in a… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Brentano's [1913]. Large 8vo.Illustrated. [iv] 140 pp. Half brown morocco over cloth boards, with gilt lettering to the spine and ruling to the spine and boards. Top edge gilt, but a little dull. Beautiful colour and silver illustrations throughout by Evelyn Paul, as well as numerous in-text black & red illustrations, all in the style of a medieval… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Libanus Press 2001. 4to.Limited Edition. Limited edition - variant edition. 2 volumes. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spines and front covers, in a slipcase. With illustrations throughout by Meryn Peake No. 92 of 280 copies. This is the standard limited edition, however, it comes with the portfolio suite of plates in a second volume that was… Ler mais sobre este item

Andoversford: The Whittington Press 1989. Folio. One of the 40 'ordinary' copies without samples, out of the first edition of 120 copies. [x], 18, [3] pp. Colour plate tipped-in opposite p. 6. Series of illustrations in black and white and colour bound in at p. 12. Quarter buckram with boards covered in a reproduction of Edward Bawden's Bird's Nest wallpaper… Ler mais sobre este item

London: George Routledge & Sons c.a. 1910. 8vo.Illustrated. 103 pp. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and front board. Translated and illustrated with 8 plates after paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With a bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription dated 1910 to the first free endpaper. First published in 1294, La Vita Nuova… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1913. 4to. First edition. [i], frontis., [iv], 240 pp. 12 full-page colour plates. Publisher's gilt decorated and lettered cloth. Wear to spine ends and fading to the same, though gilt bright. Occasional foxing. Black and white in-text illustrations. This book 'seeks to present a souvenir of the performances with which so many spectators have been… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1908. 8vo. xvi, 475 pp. Original dark green gilt-decorated cloth. Offsetting to endpapers and an ink gift inscription to front pastedown dated to 1908. Boards have a few marks, and are slightly worn to extremities. Very occasional marks to inside but generally internally clean and bright with plates and many illustrations decorating the text block… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Chapman and Hall 1910. Large 8vo. First edition, publisher's gilt decorated cloth in 2 volumes with top-edges gilt, xii, 418; xi, 484 pp. Sunning to spines and slight bumping to spine ends, clean boards. Slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise fresh and clean internally. Numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. First Edition.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd 1915. 4to. First edition thus. vi [ii], 162 pp., with 16 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie King (complete). Original blue cloth with ochre decoration and lettering to spine and boards; t.e.g.; illustrated endpapers. Wear to extremities and some rubbing to boards and faded spine. Foxing scattered throughout. Publisher's catalogue slip insert. A rather splendid edition,… Ler mais sobre este item

Leicester: Brockhampton Press 1956. Small 8vo. First edition, decorative blue hardback in illustrated dust jacket. 120 pp. Endpapers illustrated with characters of S.S. story, with plentiful in-text illustrations by Burgess Sharrock. Dust jacket lightly marked to rear panel, and slightly rubbed to edges. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean internally. The eighth in the children's classic Secret Seven series. . Very… Ler mais sobre este item