Illustrated from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB

London / New York: The Blackamore Press / Random House, 1930. The first English edition consists of 400 copies, this being #148. Pp. [128], with 8 plates (includes frontispiece portrait), all drawn by Baudelaire. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Rear cover very lightly soiled, spine slightly sunned, a couple of light pencil notes to rear… Read more

Toronto: The Cheshire Cat Press, (Printed at the Poole Hall Press in Grimsby) 1988, 1991 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Unbound boxed copy, #41 in an edition of 177 copies, inscribed on the half-title to "Hugh Anson-Cartwright with best wishes from Joe Brabant 19.xii.88." includes the 4-page illustrated prospectus. 95 wood engravings cut by George Walker, including tipped-on hand-painted frontispiece on… Read more

Boston: Munroe & Francis, 128 Washington-Street; and David Francis, 364 Washington Street, n.d. [ca. 1835], 1835. 14.5 cm x 9 cm. Pp. 69, [1] - publ. advert., 32 uncredited wood engravings printed on the verso opposite each poem, possibly by Abel Bowen. Rebound in new plain paper-covered boards, title in black to the spine. Housed in a custom, plain paper… Read more

Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1974. Limited to 125 numbered copies, this being "h/c". 15 cm x 9.2 cm, 12 leaves, line cuts of 5 drawings by Paulette Dennis (nee Riches), bound in brown Swedish Ingres Tumba paper wrappers with illustration and lettering duplicating title-page. Designed and printed by William Rueter. Small blemish to paper of rear cover, else near fine.… Read more

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926. Pp. 254. Teal, ribbed cloth with illustration stamped in green, and red stamped lettering to cover and spine, plus six drawings (the cover makes seven) and one map. In a beige dust jacket duplicating the cover. Cover and jacket design by Thoreau MacDonald. Foxing to the text-block edges, though interior clean and crisp. Spine very… Read more

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. No. 617 of 1,500 copies. Pp. [xxi], 198. Title-page vignette plus 6 copper-plate illustrations engraved by C. Sigrist, the the prints were water-coloured through stencils by The Curwen Press. Marbled cloth, gilt-stamped leather spine label, top edge rough trimmed, others uncut. Bookplate of Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies, to front pastedown, bit of offsetting to… Read more

London: Printed for James Wallis, Paternoster Row by Thomas Davison, 1805. Simultaneously published by the entrepreneurial Wallis in three different formats (demy octavo, royal octavo, and foolscap), at three different price points to increase potential customers. This being the small foolscap edition, 158 mm x 98 mm. Pp. xxiii, [286], [6] -index and glossary, 9 engraved plates + title-page vignette,… Read more

London: Printed for the Proprietor by John Johnson: and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, et al, 1817. Originally published in 1711. (24.6 cm x 15.5 cm.) Pp. [xii], 95. Frontispiece portrait engraved by T. Bragg after an original by Vertue with tissue guard, comical engraved vignette with text framed and bordered with vines to the 1817 title-page,… Read more

Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co; The Riverside Press, 1894. Pp. [ix], 114, printed in a French fold (or double fold) binding. Each poem printed in a Gothic text and bordered and decorated in colour by Walter Crane. Colour illustrated cloth boards, white cloth spine strip, cover and spine lettered in red and black, flower illustrated endpapers. Covers slightly… Read more

London: Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street, 1854. Original red grained cloth, bevelled edges, gilt title within an elaborate gilt wreath design to upper board, ornate gilt spine design, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy bond paper. Pp. [vi], [54], + 12 circular chromolithograph plates (with tissue guards) surrounded by an ornate gilt wreath frame and followed by poetry featuring that… Read more

London: James S. Virtue, City Road and Ivy Lane, n.d. [1842] 2 volumes, 117 plates + engraved map, 2 vignettes on extra engraved title-pages, all with tissue guards. Original green cloth stamped in blind, with gilt stamped cover vignette and ornate gilt spines, all edges gilt. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed at the tips, head of spine started with a… Read more

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910. 33 cm x 23 cm. Pp. 157 + 112 chromolithographs interleaved with tissue (collated and complete), plus numerous black & white drawings, title-page in red & black. Original gilt-stamped decorated maroon cloth, bevelled edges, all edges gilt. Very lightly rubbed to spine ends and tips. Interior very clean, bright and tight. Includes chapters on the Ornament… Read more

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. Pp. xv, 143, complete with colour frontispiece and 109 plates in colour and black & white, all with captioned tissue guards, head & tail pieces, many text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, bright gilt-stamped cover decoration, gilt spine lettering. Covers very slightly soiled and scuffed, else a very good, clean, fresh copy. . First Edition.… Read more

Toronto: The Canada Games Co., 1920. Pp. 12 total (includes covers), 8 pages contain illustrations with a stanza of the song beneath, last 2 pages contain the musical score, illustrated card covers, stapled binding, Very good, rare copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Quarto.

London: Mandrake Press, Printed at the Westminster Press, 1930. One of 1,000 numbered copies (500 for sale in England, 500 overseas), this one unnumbered. Pp. xi, 299. 37 black & white illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour. Blue cloth, gilt title down length of spine. Very, very light spotting to the endpapers only, else a very good plus copy in the… Read more

London: The Cresset Press, 1929. #295 of 500 copies on mould made paper (plus an additional 30 on hand-made paper). Pp. Unpaginated. Narrow green leather backstrip over marbled boards. 62 reproductions of copper engravings printed on the rectos with the text printed on adjoining verso. Text printed in a clean, calligraphic font. Very good, tight, clean copy. The original Hortus… Read more

[London]: The Egoist Press, [1921] Volume 1 only (of 2), 37.5 cm x 25 cm, pp. 12 (including covers). Illustrated paper covers, design by Lewis extending length of page at right of typepage, stapled binding. Slight uneven browning to front cover, upper outer corners very slightly grazed, else very good copy. Includes works by: Wyndham Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Gus Krutzsch;… Read more

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [ca. 1933] Pp. [viii], 208, 8 colour plates, 7 black & whites plates, text illustrations and vignettes throughout, light green cloth with large illustrated plate mounted to front cover, in white, orange, black, and blue. Cover title reads 'The Wizard of Oz' without the 'New'. Printer's imprint on Copyright page: "Printed and bound by Braunworth & Co., Inc.… Read more

London: Cresset Press, 1930. An edition of 380 copies, of which this is #141 of 350 copies on mould-made paper and Signed by Warner. Vellum parchment spinestrip over marbled boards, deckled edges, housed in a very good but faded marbled paper-covered slipcase. 5 dry point engravings, plus engraved title-page with vignette. Overall, a fine, tight, probably unread copy in a… Read more

London / New York: J.M. Dent & Co / E.P. Dutton & Co., 1906. Green cloth illustrated with trees in black and gold, gilt cover title, tree decorated spine with gilt spine title, top edge gilt. Pp. 264, 16 colour plates. Handsome, unfaded copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. Stout Octavo.