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Constable and Company: London, 1919. RACKHAM, Arthur. First edition of this finely-produced work illustrated by the famous Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original gilt decorated blue cloth, 16 tipped colour plates (including frontispiece) and numerous line drawings throughout, a great copy, a few small spots on the covers otherwise fine.
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Some British Ballads
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Undine... Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney
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London: William Heinemann, 1909. Very good. Rackham, Arthur. One of the less common of Rackham's works and a beautiful example from the Golden Age of Illustration. It tells of a water-sprite, Undine, who can gain an immortal soul only through marriage to a mortal. The tale is ideally suited to Rackham's art nouveau style, capturing, as he does, both the tale's medieval chivalry and its roots in northern folklore. "It would seem unlikely that one of the most ethereal creatures to capture the imagination of translators and illustrators in the nineteenth-century should have been created by a Prussian officer and inspired by the writings of Paracelsus, the founder of the science of toxicology. Nevertheless, this was the pedigree of Undine, the heroine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's romance of the same name, who would inspire operas, ballets and numerous adaptations. Her elusive form can be glimpsed behind Hans Christian Andersen's ‘The Little Mermaid' and Dvo ák's Rusalka, a symbol of all that…
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Black & White; Xmas Number 1901
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London: W.J.P. Monckton, 1901. First Edition. Delightful journal for children with short stories, comic strips and illustrations. Titled 'Father Christmas's Book Tea', Arthur Rackham's double-page illustration presents as many characters from children's literature as you can imagine. There is Little Red RIding Hood, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Straw Peter, Mother Goose, The Three Bears, Uncle Tom, Gulliver, Mogli from the Jungle Book, Hansel and Gretel, Little Bo Peep, four and twenty black birds flying from a pie... everyone you can imagine has come to meet Father Christmas. Also includes 'The Road to Rome, or the Silly Stowaway' by Edith Nesbit, 'The Christmas of the Poor Players' illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and 'The Hare that Doubled', again drawn by Rackham. Folio, bound in illustrated wrappers, 40 pages +advertisements, spotting throughout.
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The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
by RACKHAM, Arthur
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London: George G Harrop and Co. Ltd, 1933. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. A limited edition of 460 signed by Rackham. An inspired anthology drawn from "old favourites of the nursery...Most of them had a long and eventful life of oral tradition before somebody who could write caught them as they flew and consigned them to cold print" [Illustrator's Preface]. Classics by Hans Anderson such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" and Charles Perrault's "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots" appear with tales from 'The Arabian Nights' and the traditional English folk tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Washington Irving's American classic "Rip van Winkle". Published near the end of his remarkable career, Rackham with characteristic rich earth-tones illustrates a mythical fairy world in this beautifully published edition. He is mindful of belonging to an ancient tradition of story-telling and notes "in our own day, inspired story-tellers go on adding original characters to the stock-an Alice, a…
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All Aboard for Sunrise Lands. A Trip Through California Across the Pacific to Japan, China and Australia
by RAND, Edward A.
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Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1891. The tale of a remarkable journey from California to Australia with hundreds of extraordinary wood block illustrations. Remarkable nineteenth century work linking the two continents, in very good original condition. Quarto, original decorated boards with striking silver lettering, the spine ends and external hinges are rubbed, endpapers replaced, a nice copy.
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Chilitoes
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Sydney: Jons Productions, 1945. First Edition. Jacqueline Reading. Scarce and charming Australian children's story about Peter the Penguin who protects the ice-floe. [Muir, 6254]. Oblong octavo, 28pp., 12 full-page colour plates and other black & white drawings; early gift inscription on inside cover, else a very good copy in cloth-backed pictorial boards.
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Feathered Favourites.; A Booklet of Bird Verses for the Children, with illustrations and brief descriptions
by REDGRAVE, Leslie Alfred
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Sydney: Printed by D. Smith, 1932. Lovely book of Australian bushland poems with bird themes, signed by the author. Second edition. Large octavo in blue wrappers and outer dust-jacket; hand-coloured illustrations, foxing, a very good copy.
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Scratch Cocky". A Booklet of the Bright Birds of Our Bushland Pictured in Colour and Rhyme for the Children
by REDGRAVE, Leslie Alfred
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Printed by Pepperday and Company: Sydney, 1933. Quaint book of Australian bushland poems, signed by the author and dated 1936. Large octavo, original boards within green dust-jacket, colour illustrations of Australian parrots throughout; some foxing and a little wear affecting the paper label, this is a very good copy.
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The Small Treasures of a Lifetime. Some early memories of Australian art and artists
by REES, Lloyd
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Sydney: Ure Smith, 1969. Throughout Rees' detailed account of Australian art, he tells the story of his personal life in Brisbane, Sydney and overseas. Small quarto, original red papered boards, nine colour plates, fine copy in a near-fine dust-jacket.
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Lloyd Rees Drawings
by [REES, Lloyd] KLEPAC, Lou (editor)
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Sydney: Published by John Brackenreg at the Australian Artist Editions, Artarmon Galleries, 1978. Edited with an introduction by Lou Klepac, foreword by Professor Joseph Burke. Magnificent full page plates celebrate Rees' contribution to Australian draftsmanship: covers the full span of his diverse career. Oblong quarto, plates in colour and black & white, 128 pages, original brown cloth, small patch of flecking affects the front board, otherwise a fine fresh copy in a moderately sunned dust-jacket.
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Mary had a Little Lamb and other Nursery Songs
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Puffin Picture Books, Penguin Books, 1951. First Edition. Songbook of ten popular nursery rhymes illustrated by Hans Augusto Rey (1898 -1977). A German Jew who escaped the Nazis in 1940 on a home-made bicycle with his wife and collaborator, Margret Rey, Hans Rey is renowned for his best-selling children's book, "Curious George", the original manuscript for which was one of the very few things they took with them when they fled. (Puffin picture book lithographed in England by Balding and Mansell Ltd., Wisbech.). Oblong octavo, bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 18 x 23 cms, 23 pages, a very good copy.
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Poems by Thomas Gray
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London: Riccardi Press, 1920. First Edition. Beautiful collection of poems by the tender English scholar, Thomas Gray (1716 1771). Includes 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College', 'The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode', 'Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard', 'Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment', and 'Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude', among others. Perhaps the most charming thing about this book is how many of the poems by this famous writer lie unfinished. Quarto, bound in vellum boards decorated with the Eton college coat of arms in gilt, privately printed fot Eton College by C.T Jacobi, enbrowning to boards, unblemished within, a very good copy.
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Portrait of Percy Neville Barnett
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Sydney: RICHARD McKINNEY STUDIO, no date. Black & white photographic portrait by J.R.T. Richardson of Percy Neville Barnett at work in his studio tipping in book-plates. Black & white silver gelatine print, 162 mm x 210 mm, officially stamped by artist and sitter, in near fine condition.
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An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England From the Conquest to the Reformation
by RICKMAN, Thomas
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London, 1835. Contains a wealth of information regarding practical and decorative details in the Roman, Norman and Medieval architecture of England. Fourth edition. Octavo, original half black calf, marbled boards, edges and endpapers, 340 pages + appendix and errata leaves, frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations and diagrams throughout.
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Early Artists of Australia
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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963. Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821. First edition. Quarto, beige cloth, plates in black & white and colour; fine copy in a near-fine dust-jacket.
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Early Artists of Australia
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963. Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821. First edition. Quarto, colour frontispiece and black & white plates; original brown cloth, a few marks affect the half-title page, otherwise a very fine copy in similar dust-jacket.
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The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare
by [ROBINSON, Charles] SHAKESPEARE, William
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London: Duckworth and Company, 1915. Charles Robinson. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Robinson's plates are gentle and humorous, executed in warm watercolour tones admirably suited to Shakespeare's poetry. Quarto, frontispiece and eleven tipped colour plates with printed tissue-guards, decorations and vignettes by Robinson throughout; original blind-blocked red cloth, slightly marked, four of the plates are mildly creased at one corner, a very good copy otherwise.
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The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes
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London: Blackie and Son, 1903. ROBINSON, Charles. Edited by Walter Jerrold, this edition is distinctive for the vibrant and energetic drawings; each nursery rhyme in this large collection is illustrated, and the full-page colour plates feature some joyfully rendered eccentric characters. A 'must-have' last century accesory for the picture perfect grandparent. Delightful. Quarto, six colour plates (including the fronstispiece) and 12 plates in Robinson's distinctive three colour style; publisher's cloth, gilt spine ornament, blind blocked front board. A child has coloured one of the thousands of line drawn ornaments in crayon, previous owner's Chistmas gift insciption on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and bright throughout, an excellent copy.
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Home Candy Making
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Melbourne: E.W. Cole, 1908. Scarce Melbourne printing of this thorough work on sweet-making by the prominent American cookery author, Sarah T. Rorer. CREAM WALNUTS. Crack English Walnuts very carefully, removing the shells and leaving the kernels as perfect as possible. Put a half-pound of fondant in a small saucepan, stand it in a basin of boiling water, add a teaspoon of vanilla extract or a half-teaspoonful of the powder, stir until creamy, take from the fire, put a walnut on a greased candy dipper, dip down into the fondant, lift it carefully, place it on oiled paper to harden, and so continue until all are finished. All kinds of fondant flavourings and colourings may be used for walnuts. Chocolate is especially nice. Bound in original green wrappers, 124 mm x 181 mm, 64 pages; a little sunned else in fine condition.
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Kankie Kangaroo...Who Couldn't Hop
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New York: Maxton Inc, 1945. First Edition. Charles F. Bracker. Wonderful kangaroo-shaped book about a young kangaroo learning to hop, complete with an extra stand-up joey which fits into the mother kangaroo's pouch on the front card. This remarkable children's book, published as part of a series of "Mother and Baby Animal Books", is not recorded by Muir. Kangaroo-shape colour pictorial stiff boards, with original printed wrapper, and cut-out joey that slides into the pouch at front, 230mm x 300mm, 16 pages, illustrations on each page by Charles E. Bracker; a near fine copy.
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