Britannic Majesty a Set of Woodengravings by Peter Forster

Libanus Press, 1983. Soft cover. One of 60 special copies signed by Forster and printed on Japanese paper, from an overall edition of 360. Royals rendered satirically and mostly as sea creatures. In fine internal order.Just a hint of fading to extremities of purple card covers. Landscape 16mo. Unpaginated. Ill.: Peter Forster. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008801

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Peter Forster Private Press

Fourteen Illustrators a Series of Short Essays

Manchester, Manchester Polytechnic, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Attractively produced and illustrated study of 14 illustrators, created as a limited edition of 100 copies by the printing students of Manchester Polytechnic. Illustrators featured include Ravilious, Stone, Whistler, Piper, Ardizzone, Gibbings, McKnight Kauffer and others. Toning to half title and final blank, but otherwise all in VG, clean and bright internal order. Smart teal cloth showing light shelfwear only, with bright silver titling to spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 41pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 101818

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Printing & The Graphic Arts

The Holiday Drink Book

Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Attractively illustrated "toast to tippling and old time cheer, with Yuletide spirit throughout the year", from Peter and Edna Beilenson's Peter Pauper Press. NB. no d/j, rather presentation box, which has kept the book bright and clean. Thus, bar very light toning and a couple of minor spots all is in VG+ internal order. Decorated paper-covered boards also very smart. Box, with label repeating front cover design tipped on, lightly worn and a little dulled. 12mo. 62pp . Ill.: Vee Guthrie. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 106613

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Vee Guthrie Food and Drink Private Press

The Lay of the Little Bird

Bristol, Perpetua Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Attractively decorated poem from the short-lived Perpetua Press of noted typographer and printer Vivian Ridler. All in VG condition throughout, crisp, clan and bright. Brown paper wraps with printed title to front, only very lightly marked to rear. Scarce. 12mo. 10pp. Ill.: Thea Brown. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008607

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Thea Brown Poetry Private Press

Storytime in Storyland

Springfield, McLoughlin Bros, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Exceptionally scarce volume of illustrated children's stories and rhymes, even more so in d/j. Toning to stock, but illustrations bright. Very slight loss to bottom corner of two pages. Front hinge split. Pictorial boards bright, with a little bumping and edgewear. D/j worn to edges and spine, with a number of small closed tears. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Good/Good.

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Book number: 003272

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Children's

The Waverley Album: Containing Fifty-One Line Engravings to Illustrate the Novels and Tales of Sir Walter Scott

London, Charles Heath, 1838. Hardcover. ND. c.1838 (WorldCat). Attractive collection of 50 engraved plates by various hands, illustrating Scott's novels, with the addition of a portrait frontispiece. Well presented with each tissue guarded plate facing a quotation from the relevant Scott text. Plate 49 is misnumbered as 51 but in correct position according to list. Foxing throughout but only heavy occasionally. Former owner's name neatly and faintly to preface page. Marbling to all block edges. Bound in contemporary blue watermarked silk, this well worn, with leather titlepiece to spine. 12mo. [3] iii 51pp + plates. Ill.: Charles Heath; Finden; C Rolls; Portbury; etc. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 105449

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Charles Heath; Finden; C Rolls; Portbury; etc Antiquarian

Mme d'Aulnoy; Mme Leprince de Beaumont

Contes de Fã©Es

Paris, Librarie Renouard / Henri Laurens, 1911. Hardcover. ND. 1911 - WorldCat. French children's stories, attractively illustrated, some in colour, by Henry Morin. Very light toning to stock but otherwise all in VG clean and bright internal order. Smartly bound with original paper covers in quarter green leather with marbled paper boards, and gilt-on-burgundy titlepiece to spine. Boards only lightly worn but a little bumped. French language. 4to. [4] iii, 116pp . Ill.: Henry Morin. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 107289

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Henry Morin Children's

Iftikhar Azmi

The Garden of the Night Twenty-Six Sufi Poems

Andoversford, The Whittington Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Large format collection of well-illustrated poems translated by Azmi from Persian, Urdu and Arabic. Copy no.1 from the edition of 240, signed by both author/translator and illustrator to limitation page. All in near-fine, clean, crisp and bright internal order. Blue paper-covered boards rather marked and faded, less so the quarter blue buckram spine, with bright gilt tilting. Folio. Unpaginated . Ill.: Richard Kennedy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 102576

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Richard Kennedy Poetry Private Press

Vernon E Barrett

Clown Land

London, Dean & Son, 1897. Soft cover. ND. 1897 - WorldCat. No.35 in Dean's Gold Medal Series, completed in 85 parts and printed in Holland between 1888 and 1919. Exceptionally scarce and rather splendid, with top edge of boards and pages trimmed to shape of clown's ruff. Much entertainment internally, with short verses and illustrations by Barrett titled The Three Handed Boxer, The Musical Clowns, The Clown Jockey, Aerobatic Clown, The Merry Skaters, Aerobatic Cycling Clown, Rival Clowns, The Barbarous Clown, and The Great Hat Feat. General wear and some light marking. Binding strengthened externally with green cloth strip and internally with white. Thus definitely not a pristine copy, however exceptionally scarce and still appealing. Folio. Unpaginated [10pp]. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 105315

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Children's

H E Bates

Through the Woods the English Woodland - April to April

London, Victor Gollancz, 1936. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (November 1936) of first edition (October). Bates' text is admirably enhanced by Parker's magnificent wood engravings. Light toning to stock and a couple of small ink blots to one text page, but otherwise all is in VG internal order. Former owner's name neatly to fep. Brick red cloth a little worn, dulled to extremities and faded to spine. 4to. 142pp . Ill.: Agnes Miller Parker. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 107257

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Agnes Miller Parker Farming & The Countryside

Edmund Blunden

A Summer's Fancy

London, The Beaumont Press, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. No.315 from the edition of 325 copies on hand-made paper, in VG order throughout, with Schwabe's attractive engravings showing well. Some of the roughcut edges are a little toned, likewise endpapers, but otherwise all is clean and bright. No inscriptions. Floral patterned paper-covered boards a little dulled to edges. Cream cloth to spine also dulled and with small mark. 8vo. 56pp . Ill.: Randolph Schwabe. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 102668

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Randolph Schwabe Poetry Private Press

Giovanni Boccaccio; Richard Aldington (tr)

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio [Two Vols]

London, The Folio Society, 1969. Hardcover. This s the 1969 second (and reset) edition of the Folio Society's excellent two volume 1954 Decameron with all in VG+ clean and bright order throughout, bar light toning to block edges. Buckland-Wright's illustrations showing well. Brown cloth with red and green decoration and bright gilt titling, very lightly rubbed. No d/j, rather publisher's slipcase. This a little battered (but has done its protective job well!), with some internal repairs to panel split at top. 4to. Vol.1: The First Five Days, 393pp; Vol.2: The Last Five Days, 324pp . Ill.: Buckland-Wright. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 106290

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Buckland-Wright

Odd Brochmann

Mariannes Brev

Oslo, H Aschehoug & Co (W.Nygaard), 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Charmingly illustrated Norwegian language children's story. One 4pp section is loose, another refixed with tape, nevertheless still a nice copy. Pictorial boards marked and a little dulled. 4to. 47pp. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). Poor/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002373

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: Children's

Robert Browning

The Pied Piper of Hamelin a Child's Story Set Forth in a Series of Designs and Decorative Borders by Harry Quilter a Barrister at Law and Written in Ornamental Text by Mary His Wife

London, Harry Quilter, 1898. Hardcover. Large format edition of Quilter's remarkable illustrated rendering of Browning's poem. Scarce thus, c.250x315mm, in heavily gilt decorated red cloth. 53pp with tissue guards interleaved between all pages. Heavy stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Smart red boards clean and bright, with just a little fading to spine and one patch of heavier wear/bumping to bottom corners. Folio. Unpaginated. [53pp] . Ill.: Harry Quilter. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 104826

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: IOBA25 Harry Quilter

William John Burchill

Woodcut Vignettes from 'Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa'

Cape Town, C Struik, 1968. Hardcover. All in VG order, clean and bright internally. Boards a little toned and lightly marked. Oblong 8vo. 54pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003481

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: World Travel & Culture Africa