Illustrated Classics

London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909., 1909. 4to. pp. xv, 325, [1]. title in red & black within decorative border. 40 tipped-in colour plates (incl. frontis.) & numerous text illus. tissue guards with legends. A very good copy in original gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (silk ties present but detached, covers moderately spotted & soiled, a few marginal spots). Deluxe Edition, Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by Rackham.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.

Sixty individual c. 1.95 by 1.95 by 1.95 inch wooden blocks with chromolithographed images to all 360 sides. In wooden box from Grands Magasins du Louvre. Lithographs inspired by (or pirated from) A Peep at Buffalo Bill's Wild West (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1887). Box c.14.75 x 22.25; puzzle c. 11.75 x 20 inch. Wear to block corners and an occasional block (please see and/or request images); nonetheless a remarkably complete set of twelve separate puzzles for young romancers of the American wild west phenomenon. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

London: Methuen, 1926. First Trade Edition. Near fine/Very good. Ernest H. Shepard. Crown 8vo, 7 5/8 x 5 in (194 x 127 mm), pp. 158, full-page and text illustrations, illustrated endpapers with map of "100 Aker Wood... Drawn by me and Mr. Shepar Helpd (sic.)" Green cloth, gilt stamping on the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt; in very good dust jacket (slightly worn, some dust and finger smudging - primarily affecting back panel, spine panel somewhat sunned, some dampstaining to bottom edge of spine panel, 1/4 inch; 6 mm tear to stop of spine panel, slight chipping with no losses to lettering or design elements). Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (with exceptions noted). THIS COPY SIGNED IN INK BY BOTH A.A. MILNE AND ERNEST H. SHEPARD ON THE TITLE PAGE. [Haring-Smith C79; Cutler-Stiles p. 116; Grolier, no. 71]. The second in the classic quartet of Milne's cycle based on the teddy bear which belonged to his son, Christopher Robin… Read more

New York: Viking Press, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Second Printing. Oblong 8vo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - " For Dana Ericson - best wishes Ezra Jack Keats". Stated Second printing February, 1963, with Caldecott Award medal front panel, $3.00 price with Caldecott mention front flap and lovely snowflake decorated end papers. Near Fine, slight bow to front board, in a Near Fine dust jacket, hint of a crease and trace of wear at head of spine. SIGNED copies of this groundbreaking and award winning children's book are RARE in any printing, and particularly so in such lovely condition..

London: Methuern & Co, 1934. Third Edition. Near fine. E. H. Shepard. 12mo, 6 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (158 x 120 mm); pp. vii + 215; original bright red cloth, gilt titling on front and spine, gilt illustration of Christopher Robin fishing, spine faded, endpapers yellowed, no dust jacket; overall the book is bright and clean condition. With an introduction by A.A. Milne and charmingly illustrated by Shepard. The book is designed with two dates per page and space to inscribe names; each page has a quotation chosen by A.A. Milne from 'When We Were Very Young', 'Winnie-The-Pooh', 'Now We Are Six', and 'The House at Pooh Corner', and accompanied by illustrations by E.H. Shepard ** Penned inscription on the FEP reads "P.M.R. Tolkien", Milne's last child and only daughter Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien (born 18 June 1929); Blackwell's book label to pastedown "B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Booksellers, 50 and 51 Broad Street, Oxford." [Haring-Smith C113]. A charming piece of Tolkieniana. The 65 names filled in by… Read more

ILLUSTRATED WITH 66 POCHOIR WOODCUTSThe Fables of Aesop. Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured After a Copy in The British Museum. (With) The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.Epilogue by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with 66 full-page woodcuts by Anna Bramanti. Woodcuts are pochoir colored by Daniel Jacomet to recreate the illuminated miniature effect of the British Library copy of the Veronese Aesop of 1479 (upon which the present edition is based). The fleurons, first adopted in 1479, were engraved by Charles Malin. 8vo. Publisher's ¼-green morocco; decorated boards; top edges gilt; acetate dust wrappers; enclosed in morocco-tipped slipcase.Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1973. Limited to 160 numbered copies set in Centaur types, printed on Magnani mould made paper with goose watermark. 2 volumes. Volume I contains the… Read more

London: Methuen and Co, 1908. First Edition. Near fine/Near fine. Graham Robertson. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (190 x 120 mm). pp. [1] + viii + 302 + i. Laid paper, deckle edges, t.e.g. With a captioned frontispieces, "And a River went out of Eden", on coated paper after a pen-and-ink drawing by Walford Graham Robertson (1866 - 1948); tissue guard. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine (Toad dressed in a driving outfit and goggles) and upper cover ( Pan playing flute to Rat and Mole by the river) and a single gilt rule on the upper cover. In the second issue publisher's pictorial peach-color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-.The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened but in excellent condition with a couple small tears at head expertly repaired on verso; scattered foxing and discoloration to dust jacket and pages, wear to spine edges consistent with age. [Grolier: One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, no.61; Osborne I, p. 349; Hunt… Read more

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928. First Edition, First Issue. Near fine/Near fine. Ernest H. Shepard. Crown 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 in (192 x 127 mm), pp. 178, full-page and text illustrations. Original pink cloth cloth, gilt ruling and stamping on the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, rest uncut; illustrated pink endpapers with panorama and characters in silhouette, with light offset from dust jacket; dust jacket with very slight dust smudging at top edge and spine panel somewhat sunned, else fine. [Haring-Smith C108; Cutler-Stiles p. 116]. The third of A. A. Milne's charming books for children, The House at Pooh Corner begins with "One day with Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing." Some of the chapters had appeared -as early as December 1926- in publications like the Evening News (London), The New York Evening Post and The Charleston (SC).… Read more

Volume I--(Second Edition) The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668. Second edition with new title page, a re-issue of the 1665 edition sheets. This volume contains the frontispiece, engraved vignettes and initials, (missing Ogilby portrait), and has all eighty-one full-paged plates in fabulous condition. Light yellowing/browning of initial few pages as regular. Volume II--(Second Edition) Aesopics, or a Second Collection of Fables, illustrated with sixty-eight full-paged plates in early issue before captions were added. Pages are remarkably clean without any browning. Large folio volumes, both illustrated throughout; Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) engraved eighty-eight of the illustrations for these works, the others were executed by Dirck Stoop (c. 1610-1686) and Francis Barlow (c. 1626-1704). Both volumes are uniformly re-bound with original leather panels inset in full brick morocco bindings with gilt titles.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Book. Good. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Oblong 4to. First Printing, with Library of Congress catalog card number: 63-21253 and 1963 copyright printed on the title page. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -"April '65 For Myra - Maurice Sendak". Good, lacking the dust jacket and the decorative front end paper, boards soiled and worn at edges, rear hinge cracked. Uncommon as an unsophisticated copy of this enduring Sendak classic, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED directly in the book to a child who obviously adored the book and read it countless times, much like a well-worn blanket or stuffed animal. Basis for the 2009 film directed by Spike Jonze, a 1984 TV movie, and several short films..

Paris: [Engelmann], 1833. With Fifteen Charming Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates [WATTIER, Émile-Charles]. Le Progres de Seduction. En Quinze Planches. Á Paris: [Engelmann], 1833. Large quarto (13 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches; 350 x 257 mm.). Wrapper title. Fifteen hand-colored lithographed plates by Villain (the first nine) and G. Engelmann (the last six) after Wattier. All plates mounted on stubs. Plates watermarked "J. Whatman / 1824 & 1825" Late nineteenth century maroon morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. Wrappers a little dust-soiled otherwise a fine copy, the hand-colored plates bright and fresh. The fifteen plates by Émile Wattier depict a young girl meeting and falling in love with a handsome young man, her liaison with him, and subsequent pregnancy, her receiving a letter saying that he has gone away, and finally her arranged marriage to a much older man. Wattier’s lithographs are… Read more

This is the first edition in Russian of "The Silver Chair" (Russian: Серебряное кресло) by C. S. Lewis. Slavic Gospel Press, Chicago, USA, 1988.

Boston: Printed by Thomas Fleet, 1802. The tenth American thumb Bible. Separate title pages to each work. With three wood or metal cuts in N.T. [10],13-160; vi, 107, [2], ii-iv, iv pp. 1 vols. Miniature (2-1/16 x 3-1/4 inches), in 12s. Dappled tan pastepaper over wooden boards. Leaf A1 in OT supplied and remargined. The tenth American thumb Bible. Separate title pages to each work. With three wood or metal cuts in N.T. [10],13-160; vi, 107, [2], ii-iv, iv pp. 1 vols. Miniature (2-1/16 x 3-1/4 inches), in 12s. A splendid copy of the miniature Bible printed by Thomas Fleet in 1801-2, the tenth American thumb Bible. The text is a paraphrase of the Old and New Testaments by John Taylor (1578-1653), known as the Water Poet; the earliest surviving edition of which was printed in London in 1614. In America, five editions were printed in the 1760s, and four more between 1786 and 1799. All are rare and survive in just a few copies. After about 1810, the number of thumb Bibles (and the variousness of their… Read more

Original artwork. [c.1904]. Original watercolour, ink and bodycolour painted on cream silk, depicting Peter and Benjamin in a field with three birds and a scarecrow behind them. With the hand-written caption "They took Peter's clothes off the scarecrow. Benjamin tried on the tam-o-shanter, but it was too big for him" in ink underneath, and with a small pencilled number "8" to the left. Framed. Near fine condition, the painting and silk bright and clean save for a few very faint, tiny marks. The lightly rubbed frame is firm and sound. The illustrations measures 11.2 x 11.2cm and the glazed frame measures 13 x 13 cm. A stunning original Beatrix Potter illustration with excellent provenance. After the complex and intricately illustrated 'The Tale of Squirrell Nutkin' and 'The Tailor of Goucester' (both published in 1903), Beatrix Potter set out to create a simpler story in the style of 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' (1902). The resulting book, 'The Tale… Read more

First edition of one of the most celebrated illustrated books of the 17th century — the foundational visual encyclopedia of classical mythology in Baroque France, with sixty copper engravings principally by Cornelis Bloemaert II after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, pupil of Rubens.
Collation: Engraved title page, full-page engraved portrait of Jacques Favereau, and 58 numbered full-page copper engravings after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (the great majority) and Pierre Brebiette, engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert II (the principal engraver), Theodor Matham, Michael Lasne, and other leading masters of the day. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials throughout. [10] leaves, 477 pp., [4] leaves (table, privilege). Complete with all sixty plates.
Plate 31 note: The plate of "Salmacis et Hermaphrodite" (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV) in this copy is the more chaste replacement engraving by François or Nicolas Poilly, as found in the majority of surviving copies; Bloemaert's original… Read more