ILLUSTRATED BOOKS from Forest Books

Paris: L'Edition D'Art, H. Piazza, 1912. 4to, 124, [4]pp., limited to 400 copies, 20 colour tipped-in plates by Brunelleschi, orig. printed wrappers, wrappers offset onto endpapers, slightly browned, uncut.

Published by Insel-Verlag/Bauersche Giesserei/S. Fischer Verlag, Leipzig/Frankfurt/Berlin, 1925. Folio, 106pp., one of 450 numbered copies, approximately 180 plates, orig. vellum-backed boards, spine ends worn.

Paris: G. Cres & Cie, 1922. 4to, 812pp., limited to 400 copies, this being out of series, numerous illustrs., orig. rd half morocco, a little rubbed, spine gilt.

London: W. Kent & Co., 1858. 4to, 30 leaves of plates with text printed in red, orig. brown publishers embossed cloth, a.e.g.

London: Vizetelly & Co., 1889. First edition, small 4to, number 110 of a limited edition, 124, [2]pp., numerous illustrs., some light spotting, orig. patterned cloth.

Victoria and Albert Museum. 1969. 4to, 23pp., 125 illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers.

Adams & Dart. 1971. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, illustrs., orig. cloth. Includes a detailed description of all the illustration processes.

Gordon Fraser. 1981. First Edition, oblong 4to, frontis., illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly faded. Painter, illustrator, and caricaturist: in all these roles Arthur Boyd Houghton was known during his short life (1836-75).

B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1985. Large 8vo, xvi, 287pp., 5 coloured and 91 other illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. An over-all chronicle of Victorian illustrated books.