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By: N/A
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, 1890's: 1890
Book number: 60003
Condition: Good
Album with fold out illustrations of local views in Ipswich. In original brown cloth with gilt decoration. Some wear and marks on the front and rear boards. Internally water stain at top hinge. A good only copy. View more info
By: A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott and revised and extended by Arthur William A'Beckett
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co. 1887: 1887
Edition: New and Revised Edition
Book number: 51703
Condition: Near Fine
xxviii, 324 pp. Original elaborately gilt-decorated blue cloth. Slight wear to spine ends. Early neat ink inscription to top of title page. Scattered light foxing. With ten full-page coloured illustrations by Harry Furniss. In-text illustrations also by Harry Furniss. Gilt boards especially bright. A Near Fine copy. View more info
![Image for The History of St. Paul's School [History of the Public Schools]](/assets/images/product/53576.jpg)
Price: £450.00
Publisher: London, [Printed for and published by R. Ackermann] N.d. [1816]: 1816
Book number: 53576
Condition: Very Good
34 pp. Contemporary full blue morocco with blind and gilt-ruled borders to front & back covers. Initial leather onlays to front board. Maroon leather title label to spine. Top edge gilt and gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities and minor marks to boards. Minor spotting, not affecting plates. With two full-page hand-coloured aquatints, as called for. Binding firm. This is one part in the 'History of the Public Schools', originally issued by Ackermann in twelve monthly parts in 1816-1817. View more info
By: Adams, Frank
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Blackie & Son N.d. [c. 1920]: 1920
Book number: 56184
Condition: Very Good
Unpaginated. Publisher's cloth spine over boards with colour pictorial onlay. Small tear to spine cloth. Slightly shaken. Boards clean. Internally clean. With twelve colour plates and additional b&w illustrations by Frank Adams. View more info
By: Aesop
Price: £350.00
Publisher: San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press 1930: 1930
Book number: 59773
Condition: Very Good
This is copy no. 54 of an edition limited to 200 copies. 167 pp. Full reddish brown morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. Front hinge rubbed. Uneven colouring to boards. Small bookplate to front endpaper. Colour illustrated title-page. Title-page year uncorrected. Initials and decorations by Valenti Angelo. View more info
By: Aesop and translated by Roger L'Estrange
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton 1909: 1909
Edition: Signed Limited Edition
Book number: 60945
Condition: Good
This is copy no. 537 of an edition limited to 750 copies signed by the illustrator Edward J. Detmold. Publisher's original maroon blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Series of spots to cloth of front board. Slight fraying to spine ends. Early ink name to front endpaper. Internally clean. With twenty-five tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. The binding is unusual. One often sees the white buckram version, but the plainness of this, and the lack of gilt edges or decoration to the covers suggest it was a volume intended to forwarded to your binder to place some fancy dan... View more info
Price: £48.00
Publisher: London, Castell Brothers Ltd. N.d. [1906]: 1906
Book number: 58164
Condition: Good
Unpaginated. Original colour pictorial wrappers with cord binding at spine. Spotting to covers & endpapers. With sixteen full-page colour illustrations by the author. Printed in Bavaria. View more info
By: Alexandre, Arsene and Jean Cocteau
Price: £1,500.00
Publisher: London, The Fine Art Society 1913: 1913
Book number: 60956
Condition: Very Good
51, + plates, pp. Recent half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & leather title label. Top edge gilt. Internally clean. Notes on the ballets by Jean Cocteau. Frontis portrait. With 65 of 77 tipped-in plates (38 of 50 colour plates and 27 black & white plates). With twelve of the colour plates removed so they could be framed and sent to Nairobi in the 1970s. Paperwork accompanying the plates to be framed loosely laid in. The book was then rebound. The first major work on Bakst. View more info
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co, Ltd 1901: 1901
Book number: 46174
Condition: Very Good
xxxii, 286 pp. Dark green full morocco. Spine gilt with five raised bands. Attractive gilt floral design to front board. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded but gilt bright. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. View more info
By: ANDERSEN, Hans
Price: £2,800.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton 1924: 1924
Edition: Signed Limited Edition
Book number: 5349
Condition: Very Good
N.d. [1924]. 197 pp. No. 419 of a Limited De Luxe Edition of 500 copies signed by the artist, Kay Nielsen. Publisher's dark blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt on front board and spine. In original dust wrapper, with repeated desgin from front cover. Dw chipped at head & tail of spine and along edges. Twelve tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Kay Nielsen. Head and tail-pieces, decorative borders and full-page b&w illustrations by Nielsen. No markings or inscriptions. Clean and fresh copy, gilt bright. A handsome copy in original dw. View more info
By: ANDERSEN, Hans
Price: £2,500.00
Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd 1913: 1913
Edition: Limited Edition
Book number: 30657
Condition: Near Fine
290 pp. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 12. Signed by W. Heath Robinson. Recently handsomely rebound in a richly gilt-illustrated red morocco at the Chelsea Bindery, with ornamental gilt stamping on front, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt line along edges and dentelling on the endpapers. Wonderful illustrations: 94 in black and white, and 16 in full colour. Gorgeous. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans
Price: £950.00
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton N.d. [1924]: 1924
Book number: 54875
Condition: Near Fine
197 pp. Publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth. In original dust wrapper, with repeated design from front cover. Dw spine darkened and chipped at head & tail and along edges. Slight fading to head & tail of spine. Ink inscription to recto of frontis. A few spots of foxing. Twelve tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Kay Nielsen. Head and tail-pieces, decorative borders and full-page b&w illustrations by Nielsen. Gilt cover bright and fresh. A handsome copy in original dw. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton N.d. [1924]: 1924
Book number: 59163
Condition: Near Fine
197 pp. Publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated blue cloth. Slight wear to spine ends & extremities. Ink owner's inscription to front endpaper. Twelve tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Kay Nielsen. Head and tail-pieces, decorative borders and full-page b&w illustrations by Nielsen. Gilt cover bright. Contains the insert for the ehibition of the original watercolours at The Leicester Galleries in November and December 1923. View more info
Price: £350.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company N.d. [c. 1912]: 1912
Book number: 57591
Condition: Good
Unpaginated. Original quarter cloth over boards and in pictorial dust wrapper. Dj chipped & torn with some loss but jacket now protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Spotting to boards. Slight spotting to prelims but internally clean with no spotting to plates. Decorative borders to each page. With twelve full-colour illustrations by Heinrich Lofter and Joseph Urban, Viennese Jugenstil artists. View more info
Price: £280.00
Publisher: London, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1932: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 59481
Condition: Near Fine
288 pp. First Rackham illustrated edition. Recent half red morocco over original gilt-decorated cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt decorations and blue leather title labels. New endpapers. Original endpapers bound in at rear. Twelve full-page colour plates and numerous b&w illustrations by Arthur Rackham. In Near Fine to Fine condition. View more info
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Cobden-Sanderson 1935: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 61056
Condition: Very Good
viii., 470 pp. Red cloth with cream rococco decoration, green decorated endpapers and gilt lettering. Whistler line illustrations throughout. Some wear to the cloth, but a good solid copy without inscriptions. Edges burnished red. View more info
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, Cobden-Sanderson 1935: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 61063
Condition: Good
viii., 470 pp. Red cloth with cream rococco decoration, green decorated endpapers and gilt lettering. Whistler line illustrations throughout. Some wear to the cloth, but a good solid copy with a previous owner's name in the Ex Libris space on the front pastedown. Edges burnished red. Binding a bit skewed. View more info
Price: £550.00
Publisher: Bristol, University of the West of England / Impact Press 1995: 1995
Edition: Limited Edition
Book number: 42337
ISBN: 1860430236
Condition: Near Fine
54 pp, Limited edition 94 of 126 copies on good quality paper. Illustrated in b/w with 44 full page screen print plates, some marks to book cloth and page edges. 40 cm. tall, 57.5 cm wide 1860430236 View more info
By: Anon
Price: £60.00
Publisher: 1940: 1940
Book number: 38203
Condition: Good
[unpaginated] Hand illustrated manuscript in a sketchbook of a children's story detailing the exploits of one 'Lottie The Hen' The illustrations are very proficient and have been executed in pen pencil and watercolours. The work is unfinished, the text continues to a conclusion , but the illustrations do not. Contents loose in binding, but complete. Boards a little rubbed and warped, but the contents are very bright and clean. View more info
By: Anon
Price: £95.00
Publisher: N.p., N.d. [c. 1900]: 1900
Book number: 53516
Condition: Very Good
Original brown paper-covered boards with title label tipped-on to board. Boards slightly edgeworn. Accordian-fold leaves with dual English & Chinese text. With ten hand-coloured plates illustrating the stories. Later owner's inscription to the title page. View more info
