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London: Transatlantic Arts, 1945. Chiang Yee. Transatlantic Arts Ltd, London, 1945. Second edition. This is the story of a Chinese boy and his beloved water-buffalo, an idyll of Chinese peasant life which gives an intimate picture of the national character and customs. The illustrations include four delicately drawn plates in colour and many drawings by the artist in… Read more about this item

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 1989. Limited edition of 150 (of which 120 were for sale), this is no 143 and is one of the standard bindings (there were 15 specially bound copies). Hardback. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Original binding: tan coloured boards with textured cream cloth to spine. Monotype Bodoni printed on Velin d'Arches mould-made paper. 44 wood engravings by… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Revised second edition, 1969. Hardback. 459pp. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with gilt to upper board and to spine over a printed black panel. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This revised edition updates the history of book illustration. The earlier part of the book has been thoroughly revised and new sections added… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd , c1926. Undated but circa 1926. Hardback. 245pp. Original dark green cloth binding, blind stamped upper board and with gilt to spine. No dust jacket. 29 tipped-in full colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Some of the best loved stories form The Arabian Nights, including 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'The Fisherman and the… Read more about this item

Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1978. Hardback. 520pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt to upper board and spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Drawing & engravings were the only means of book or magazine illustration until the camera took over at the end of the nineteenth century. The impact of the illustrated magazine on the Victorian household must… Read more about this item

Llandogo, Monmouth: The Old Stile Press, 1987. Limited edition of 225 numbered copies, of which, this is no. 202. Signed by the illustrator to the Colophon. Hardback. Unpaginated. Decorated boards with cloth binding and gilt to spine. Original decorated slipcase. Hand-set in Garamond and printed on damped, mould-made paper from St Cuthbert's Mill. Binding by Woolnough Fine Binding. Beautifully… Read more about this item

Leicester: Orpheus Press, 1960. Limited edition of 1,000 copies of which the first fifty are numbered and signed. This copy is signed by John Best but has not been numbered. Hardback. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards with design by Rigby Graham. Illustrated throughout by Rigby Graham. No jacket (as issued). Near fine condition with little evidence of use. … Read more about this item

Nacogdoches, Texas & London, England: LaNana Creek Press/Scolar Press, 1999. Limited edition of 210 copies, of which 200 were for sale. This is copy number 176. Signed by Omar Pound and Charles Jones. Hardback. Unpaginated. Quarter bound in Harmatan's tan leather with Japanese bookcloth over boards and presented in a matching slipcase with a printed label to its spine.… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2022. Hardback book. 100pp plus unpaginated Afterword. Dust jacket. Facsimile reproduction of the original book published in 1938 by Country Life Ltd. Only 2,000 copies of the original were published before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London Blitz (hence their scarcity and huge price today). This classic work brought together the timeless… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, c1920s. Edmund Dulac. Undated but c 1920s. Hardback. 165pp. Red cloth boards with gilt to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. No jacket. The stories included are: The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty & the Beast. Fifteen tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece) all with captioned guards. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Book… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920's. Edmund Dulac. Hodder & Stoughton, London. Undated but believed to be 1920's. 12 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, each with a captioned tissue guard. Hardback. [i - iv], v - viii, [1 - 2], 3 -189pp. Approx. 8" x 6". Red cloth binding with gilt decoration to upper board and spine. Plain… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Arthur Rackham. First US edition, 1906. Hardback. 275pp. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt titles to upper board and spine. Upper board also has stamped design of a Viking style ship picked out in black. Top edge gilt. No jacket. Four full page colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece which has… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 2022. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on a Picador bookplate affixed to the title page. Hardback. 135mm x 125mm. Unpaginated. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on "Advent Street". In each one is a gift. You may find… Read more about this item

London: George Newnes, January 1947. Soft cover. 112pp. Cover artwork by Ardizzone. Story "Mr Quill on Good Resolutions" with further illustrations by Ardizzone. Other contributors include Edmund Blunden, Osbert lancaster, Tom Dreiberg, E. C. Hornsby, Mark Hambourg, John Langdon-Davies and others together with the usual array of amazing advertisements from the time. Good condition. Covers a litle rubbed… Read more about this item

London: George Bell & Sons, 1896. First edition, 1896. One of the Ex Libris series, edited by Gleeson White. According to the prospectus, the book was to be published in imperial 16mo. (In fours), [i - iv], v - xii, 335pp. Original prospectus sheets bound in at rear. Rebound in modern half calf over marbled paper boards. Same marbled… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition, 1904. Hardback. 8vo. [i - vii], viii - xiii, [1], 2 - 350pp. Brown boards with gilt design to upper board and gilt to spine. All edge gilt. Decorated end papers. No jacket. Thirty-two tales in this collection edited by Andrew lang. Illustrated b y H. J. Ford (Henry Justice Ford).… Read more about this item

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1911. First edition, 1911. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Publisher's pale green cloth binding. Colour and gilt decoration to upper board and to spine, single colour design to lower board. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 16 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed.… Read more about this item

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1913. First edition. Undated but published 1913. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Full leather binding. Blind stamped design to front. Ornate gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 8 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed. No jacket.… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Ten wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Hardback. 84pp. Blue cloth binding with black titles to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The original dust jacket has the following blurb: "The writer is a pioneer. Her work as a writer for the 'Theatre Arts Monthly', as a former director of… Read more about this item

Liverpool: Wood Lea Press, 1997. One of 490 copies of the 'standard edition'. Hardback. Folio. 141pp. Quarter grey cloth binding over paper covered boards with a facsimile of Curwen pattern paper no. 24.. No jacket (as issued). Housed in original grey cloth covered slipcase. Fully illustrated throughout in black & white with several tipped-in illustrations and in colour. Simon… Read more about this item