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. Chipping and loss [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...]
'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...]
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...]
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...]
Compact, Illustrated edition of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries that draw on, a frequently send up, existing legends. With 12 full colour plates by Rackham plus b/w [more...]
Charming collection of classic fairytales from variety of authors, including Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Three Bears, Jack the Giant Killer etc. With 16 colour plates and numerous b/w image within the tex. Some rubbing to edges. P [more...]
Nicely produced edition of Housman's lively retelling of Tales from the Arabian Nights. Featuring 20 tipped in colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac plus b/w decoration to text. Gilt decoration to covers. 4to. No date but c. 1920. Foxing to page edges and [more...]
Collected editions of Sunday Chimes, a christian magazine intended for Sunday School pupils. With News articles, poems and short stories. With b/w images and artwork. No date but c.1908. Some interesting pieces on the Boer War and the famine in India. Spi [more...]
Red leather india paper edition of Dickens' later Christmas themed short stories written in collaboration with writers such as Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. Includes Mugby Junction, The Holly Tree, The Haunted House and others. With b/w illustrations [more...]
With the christmas issue of 1887 bound in a rear. With pull out fronispiece in colour. Plus other colour pull outs of flags and historical scenes. With numerous b/w illustrations within the text. Half leather. 4to. With hospital library stamp to front pas [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of the Tales from the Arabian Nights, seemingly adapted from Gilbert's translation. With 48 colour illustrations by A. E. Jackson with illustrated end-papers. No date but c. 1920. Light marking and toning to decorative covers. [more...]
Stanhope Press for John Sharpe, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, Taylor, Hessey 1812
Printed at the Stanhope Press. Neat edition featuring both volumes of Gay's fables, the second only appearing 1738, six years after his death. Featuring 68 fables told in rhyming verse, these satirical pieces take aim at the politics and society of Gay's tim [more...]
