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A CAROL GOOD KING WENCESLAS. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.
London: Leopold B. Hill, September 1920. 14 coloured, tipped in plates. Original wrappers with pictorial pastedown to the front panel, and another, smaller, to the lower. 266 x 222 mm. The imprint on this copy has been overlaid with a printed label reading: ‘MACBETHS’ of King Street wish all their little friends a Merry Christmas.’ An inscription in ink at the top of the front wrapper reads: ‘With love & best wishes from all at Offed [?] House 25 xii 25.’ Small area of wear at head of spine; else a very good copy. First published in ‘The Studio’ in 1919. .
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A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN Set forth in Verses & coloured Designs by Walter Crane.
London: At the House of Harper and Brothers, 1899. [46] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial cloth. 272 x 196 mm. First edition. Owner ship name neatly added to the front board; slight wear at heel of spine; else a very good clean copy with no loosening of the gutter-percha binding.
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A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN Set forth in Verses & coloured Designs by Walter Crane.
London: At the House of Harper and Brothers, 1899. [46] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial cloth. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 272 x 196 mm. First edition. Lower outer corner slightly bumped; some faint browning to the binding; some loss to the wrapper [see images]; else an excellent copy with no loosening of the gutter-percha binding.
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A FLOWER WEDDING Described by Two Wallflowers Decorated by Walter Crane.
London: Cassell & Company, 1905. 40 leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing text and coloured illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto. 261 x 190 mm. First edition. The book was issued with the pages bifolded (joined at the fore-edge); however, the first four pages in this copy have been carefully opened. Free endpapers lightly browned; else a near fine copy.
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A FLOWER WEDDING Described by Two Wallflowers Decorated by Walter Crane.
London: Cassell & Company, 1905. 40 leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing text and coloured illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto. 261 x 190 mm. First edition. Endpapers lightly browned; else a near fine copy.
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A SPRING SONG. Now again published with sundry pictures by L. Leslie Brooke.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1898. 16 leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing text and a coloured illustration. The book has been rebound rather handsomely in full red sheep with what would appear to be the front panel of the original binding cut down and mounted on the front board. Top edge gilt. First edition thus. Scarce. Thomas Nashe was an Elizabethan poet.
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A STICKFUL OF NONPAREIL. Written by George Scurfield. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Cambridge: Privately printed at the University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Original green cloth, gilt. No wrapper, as issued. One of only 500 copies printed for presentation. A fine copy.
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(AESOP.) FABLES OF AESOP According to Sir Roger L’Estrange. With fifty drawings by Alexander Calder.
Harrison of Paris. Minton, Balch and Company, New York, 1931. One of 615 copies on Auvergne hand-made paper, of which twenty copies are not for sale; this copy being one of the twenty. A very good copy, complete with the scarce paper knife, in the original inner slipcase liner, and a later cloth slipcase case.
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ALPHABET pour les grands enfants. Album inédit par Hermann Paul. Preface de Henry Bauer.
Paris: H. Simonis Empis, Editeur, No date [1898]. Half-title, title, 2 pages of text, followed by twenty-six leaves of full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Folio. 365 x 280 mm. Spine worn and paper splitting; short closed tear in blank margin of front wrapper; also a small chip from one corner; spine splitting; else a very good copy.
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Arcadian Ballads By James Reeves with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
The Whittington Press, 1977. Number 87 of 200 copies signed by both Reeves and Ardizzone and bound in cloth from a total edition of 250. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone in monochrome lithography on Arches paper. Bound by Weatherby Woolnough in patterned cloth with oval paper title label on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in a slipcase that is a little faded in places.
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ARTHUR RACKHAM’S BOOK OF PICTURES. With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. 44 mounted colour plates. Original cloth gilt. First edition. Lacks dust-wrapper, else a fine copy of the trade edition.
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CANALS, BARGES AND PEOPLE written and engraved by John O’Connor,
London: Art and Technics, 1950. 96 pages. All illustrations and decorations are printed from john O’Connor’s original engravings on wood, with additional colours printed from lino-cuts. Original cloth backed paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. First edition. Wrapper; has a short tear and head of spine and a small chip, and another at the top outer corner; else very good.
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Collection des Histoires en Estampes de R. Toepffer. 5 me Volume. HISTOIRE D’ ALBERT.
Genève: Librairie allemande de J. Kessmann, 1846. 2me Edition. 44 pages. Original pictorial green wrappers Later cloth gilt. Oblong: 190 x 287 mm. The front wrapper has been strengthened at the inner blank margin; else a very good, clean copy of a very early edition. This work was first published in 1845.
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Collection des Histoires en Estampes de R. Toepffer. 5 me Volume. Mr. Pencil.
Genève: Librairie allemande de J. Kessmann, 1846. 3 me edition. 74 pages. Original pictorial wrappers Later cloth gilt. Oblong: 183 x 287 mm. Page 3 has the publisher’s name overlaid with a pastedown label: ‘Librairie J. C. Müller-Darier. A similar label was once on the title-page but this has been partly removed. A very good, clean copy of an early edition.
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CONCERNING DRAGONS. A Rhyme by H.D.C.P. Engravings by A.E.R.G. [Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler and Eric Gill.]
Ditchling: Printed and published by Douglas Pepler, at S. Dominic’s Press, Ditchling, Sussex, 1920. [8] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with 6 engravings by Gill. A fine copy.
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Das Hohe Lied Salomo / The Song of Solomon; Facsimile of the Cranach Presse edition, published by Graf Harry Kessler.
New York: Abner Schram, 1972. Two volume. The facsimile bound in vellum-backed boards, titled in gilt; the accompanying Postscript bound in wrappers. Both contained in a cardboard slipcase. The facsimile reproduces Gill’s illustrations and decorative initials were by Eric Gill. Slipcase lightly marked; else a very good set.
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DESERT A Legend. Woodcuts by E. Ravilious.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. Original red cloth gilt. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Light browning to endpapers; Neat gift inscription on front endpaper; else a very good, clean copy. .
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FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN. A Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane.
London: Cassell & Co, 1909. First Edition. Small name stamp on title; else a near fine copy in a chipped and worn wrapper. Very scarce in wrapper.
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FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN: a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane.
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1906. [1], 40 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 254 x 192 mm. First edition. Neat inscription on the Dedication page; else a very good, clean copy.
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GOBLIN MARKET By Christina Rossetti. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1893. [iv], 63, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original elaborately decorated cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 186 x 110 mm. First edition. Spine worn at head & heel; else a very good copy.
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