Limited edition of Andersen's tales, illustrated throughout by Rex Whistler. Limited to 200 copies and signed by Whistler to half-title. Cream cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorative end-papers with matching pattern. All edges gilt. With 10 full [more...]
Charming selection of Japanese folk tales, retold by Grace James. Includes 38 stories featuring Green Willow, The Singing Bird of Heaven. The Flute, The Tea kettle amongst others. With 40 marvellous colour illustrations by Warwick Goble, each tissue guarded a [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of the first edition of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, a collection of essays and short stories written by his Geoffrey Crayon persona - responsible for the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. Less well received than his previous w [more...]
Scarce edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, featuring the expanded set of colour illustrations by Joyce Mercer, complete with 8 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. No date but c. 1920. Paper covered cloth. 4to. Light rubbing to [more...]
Scarce edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, featuring the expanded set of colour illustrations by Joyce Mercer, complete with 8 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. No date but c. 1920. Paper covered cloth. 4to. Chipping and loss [more...]
'Illustrated with 217 Pictures in oil colours by the First Artists'. Collection of classic nursery tales, including The Three Bears, Bold Robin Hood, Jack the Giant killer and others. With numerous images arranged in panels. 4to. Pictorial covers. Rubbin [more...]
Fetching blue US variant of Morris' translation from the Flemish of classic tales from Flanders and Brabant, many appearing here in English for the first time. Adorned with numerous illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, including 12 full colour plates. 4to. So [more...]
Glorious limited edition of Balzac's humourous short stories in the style of the Decameron, appearing in 1832, 1833 & 1837. Bound in half cloth with decorative paper to boards. Fore-edge rough cut. With two tone illustrations by Barton. Limited to 2050 cop [more...]
Green cloth US variant of Morris' translation from the Flemish of classic tales from Flanders, including The King of the Birds and Reynard the Fox. With numerous illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, including 12 full colour tissue guarded plates. 4to. Rubbing [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
Charming volume of short writings and aphorisms by the author of Friends in Council. Subjects vary from perennial issue to specifics of the time, such as the French Claque and the need to rehabilitate the reputation of st. George. Fine leather binding. Full [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
Collection of Children's stories with Peto's iconic, stylish illustrations, with some colour plates plus b/w images within the text. No date but c. 1900. 4to. Rubbing and wear to edges. Mild spotting and mark to fore-edge. Binding sound and contents clean [more...]
Limited edition, selection of stories from the Decameron, taken from the anonymous translation of 1741 and revised by Orson in 1896. Illustrated in b/w with linocuts by Edmondo Lucchesi. Limited to c. 1000 copies, of which this is number 749. quarter cloth w [more...]
'Giving an account of every town and village in the western division of the county, a description of every Church (whether in use now or in ruins, and a short account of the old castles, monasteries, halls and other buildings, also containing allusions to all [more...]
Comprising Sunny Days, Home for the Holidays, Right and Wrong & Picture Rhymes of Happy Times. With 32 colour illustrations, chromolithographs of oil paintings. With accompanying verse or short prose pieces. Large 8vo. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning [more...]
The Mackenzie edition, featuring colour reproductions of the paintings of T. Blakeley Mackenzie, from the earlier Arthur Ransome verse edition. Complete with 8 colour plates plus one b/w plate and further decoration. Prose renderings of these stories from th [more...]
'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to e [more...]
Collection of fairy-tales and nursery rhymes, retold though a framing device. Complete with 8 stylish colour plates by Gladys Peto. Fore-edge rough cut. no date but c. 1920. 4to. Splitting to front and rear joints. Sunning to spine. Rubbing and bumping t [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of Stevenson's collection of six short stories, most on the theme of morality and greed. Gilt decoration and raised bands to spine. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Slight sunning to spine. Rubbing to [more...]