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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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GODS’ MAN A Novel in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward.
London and Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, with paper title label to spine. Second impression, February 1930. Corners of boards knocked and worn; else a very good copy.
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HEY NONNY YES. Passions and Conceits from Shakespeare assembled by Hallam Fordham illustrates by Edward Ardizzone.
The Saturn Press, 1947. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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Histoire d’Albert par Simon de Nantua [Töpffer].
Paris: Imp. E. Duffrenoy, No date [late nineteenth century]. 42 leaves, each printed one side only. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial red cloth gilt. Oblong: 185 x 282 mm. Title and first leaf spotted; else a very good copy.
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HISTOIRE DE LA RAMEE Soldat Francais racontee par lui-meme et fidelement transcrite sous sa dictee par un invalide de ses amis. Illustrations par Guy Arnoux.
Paris: Edite par Devambez, 1918. 37, [1] pages. With vignette on title, and 14 illustrations, plus a tailpiece, all coloured by the pochoir process. Number 287 of an edition of 325. Spine restored at head, else an excellent copy.
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HISTOIRE DE MR. CRÉPIN.
Paris: Chez Aubert. Galerie Vero-Dodat, No date [inscribed 1840, but possibly as early as 1837]. Original decorative front wrapper; [2] page booklist; preface; and 86 pages, each printed on rectos only. The entire book bound in half morocco over cloth, with a leather gilt title label to the upper panel. Oblong: 150 x 250 mm. Bookplate of George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum. Signature of ‘Anne Lady Cullum 1840’ to front endpaper. Spine rubbed; some light marking; else a very good copy of an early edition – possibly a first.
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HISTOIRE DE MR. CRÉPIN.
Paris: Chez Aubert. Galerie Vero-Dodat, No date, but possibly as early as 1837]. Preface; and 86 pages, each printed on rectos only. Original printed wrappers. Oblong: 150 x 250 mm. Lacks the two-page booklist; the front wrapper and the preface have loss to the fore-edges; the last two leaves and the rear wrapper are chipped to the fore-edges; spine has some small loss of paper; else a good clean copy of an early edition – possibly a first.
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HISTOIRE DE MR. LA JAUNISSE.
Paris: Chez Aubert Gal. Vero-Dodat, No date [inscribed 1840, but possibly 1837]. Original decorative front wrapper, the lettering coloured by hand; [2] page list of publications; Title, 35 plates all with some hand-colouring as issued. The entire book bound in half morocco over cloth, with a leather gilt title label to the upper panel. Oblong: 150 x 250 mm. Bookplate of George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum. Signature of ‘Anne Lady Cullum 1840’ to front endpaper. Spine rubbed; some light marking; else a very good copy of an early edition – possibly a first.
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HUON OF BORDEAUX. Done into English By Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners: and now retold by Robert Steele.
London: George Allen, 1895. xii, [2]. 303, [2], pages. Illustrated in black & white in the style of the Birmingham School. Original decorative cloth. 228 x 183 mm. First edition. A few gathers carelessly opened; cloth a little darkened; else a very good copy. Prize plate of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to the front pastedown, awarded to Emily Hubert for an essay on “Man’s Duty towards Animals,” and presented at the Crystal Palace on May 9th, 1903.
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IMPRESSIONS. A set of etchings. Printed and compiled by The Graddio Press. 1984.
ST. Albans: The Graddio Press, 1984. Volume 4. 12 etchings depicting scenes from the Hertfordshire countryside. Original green cloth gilt. 306 x 260 mm. Number 10 from an edition of 100 copies signed by the artist. A fine copy.
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IN A GLASS DARKLY. With numerous Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Peter Davies, 1929. vii, [1], 382 pages. Original black cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Newspaper cutting referencing Le Fanu to rear flyleaf; binding slightly cocked; else a very good copy of Ardizzone’s first book.
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IN A GLASS DARKLY. With numerous Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Peter Davies, 1929. vii, [1], 382 pages. Original plum-coloured cloth. Octavo. First edition; second or remainder issue. The first issue was in black cloth gilt, and was slightly taller. A very good copy of Ardizzone’s first book.
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IN SEARCH OF ELSIE PIDDOCK. An Echo of Eleanor Farjeon. With a drawing by Edward Ardizone.
London: The Favil Press, 1967. 23 pages. Original blue paper-covered boards, yellow label. 155 x 115 mm. Presentation copy from author, inscribed in front free endpaper: ‘Terry With love always Denys at Christmas 1967.’ Head of spine just a touch worn; else a near fine copy.
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INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
London: Edward Arnold, 1903. Printed on vellum by the Essex House Press in a limited edition of 150 numbered copies, of which this is number 97. The ninth in the 'Great Poem' series. Frontispiece by Walter Crane, hand coloured by Florence Kingsford. Hand coloured colophon with rubricated initials throughout in gold, blue and red by Annie Power. Full vellum binding with blind-stamped rose and motif, 'Soul is Form' to the front panel. 194 X 129mm. Vellum binding a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading of An Old Tale. By Homunculus. With six illustrations designed by the author.
London: John Petheram, 1849. vi, [2], 59 pages. Illustrated with six tinted lithographic plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. 226 x 180 mm. First edition. Recase, and spine repaired at head & heel; some light spotting to margins of plates and to title; many leaves unopened at top edge; some light wear to edges and corners of the binding; else a very good copy of a scarce political satire attributed to Thackeray. .
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L’ILE ROSE. Cette histoire est raconte. Et decoree par Edy Legrand.
Paris: Tolmer, 1924. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial wrappers. Trade edition. Covers a little dust-soiled; little worn at head & heel of spine; else very good.
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La Vita Nuova (The New Life). Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Picture by Evelyn Paul. With music by Alfred Mercer.
London: George G. Harrap & Co, No date [1916]. 168 pages. Illustrated colour with mounted plates and in grisaille throughout. Original decorative cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition thus. Spine a little rubbed at head & heel; inscription on endpaper; else very good.
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LEMSFORD. A set of etchings. Printed and compiled by The Graddio Press. ST. Albans. 1982.
St. Albans: Graddio Press, 1982. 12 etchings depicting scenes from the village of Lemsford. Original green cloth gilt. 306 x 260 mm. Number 11 from an edition of 100 copies signed by the artist. A fine copy.
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LES MOIS DE L’ANNEE [The Months of the Year].
Strasbourg: Fasoli & Ohlman, No date [circa 1840/50]. A suite of 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates of the months of the year. Bound in contemporary paper-covered boards. Each plates oblong: 286 x 350 mm. A fine and clean example of this rare suite of prints.
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