CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ANTIQUE FANS, TOYS AND CERAMICS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Bogue (David, publisher). The Bachelor’s Own Book, being The Progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and also i...

Cock Robin. The Death and Burial of Cock Robin. With the Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, printed for, and sold by, C. ...

Darton (William, publisher). Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, c.1818, sixteen engraved illustrations each with verse ab...

Dean and Munday, publishers. The Surprising History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, [1815”], hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 1.25” split in edge o...

* Fores (S.W., publisher). Five unused printed envelopes, comprising Courting (No.1), Musical (No.2), Dancing (No.3), Civic (No.6), Christmas (No....

Guild of Women Binders. Hawthorn and Lavender: Songs and Madrigals, by W.E. Henley, [1899], 13pp., one ink manuscript correction and author’s init...

[Johnson, Richard, ed.]. The Lilliputian Letter-Writer, being Vol. V of The Lilliputian Library; or, Gulliver’s Museum... the whole forming a comp...

Langley (E. publisher). Cries of London; History of Cinderella and Her Glass Slipper; Robinson Crusoe; Four Seasons, c.1820s, together four volume...

Marshall (John, publisher). The Frisking, Barking, Lady’s Lap-Dog. A New Game of Questions and Commands. Embellished with Fourteen Coloured Engrav...

Newman and Co., publishers. The Water Cure Illustrated. Twelve Subjects, c.1870, twelve humorous etched plates, each with caption below, some ligh...

* Panorama. Robins’s Panoramic Representation of the Queen’s Coronation Procession in Westminster Abbey, on the 28th June 1838, Delineating every ...

[Perrault, Charles]. Cinderella; or the Little Glass Slipper. A Tale for the Nursery. From the French of C. Perrault, Sixth Edition, With Three Co...

Phillips (Watts). [The Model Republic, or Cato Potts in Paris, D. Bogue, c.1848], twenty-four hand-coloured etchings with text beneath, on twenty ...

Richardson (Thomas, pub.). Punch and Judy, c.1838, eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations, each with verse below, printed on facing pages only...

Roberts (George). A Catechism of Drawing; in which the Rules for Attaining a Knowledge of that Accomplished Art are given in language adapted to t...

Stokes (Whitley). Gwreans an Bys. The Creation of the World, a Cornish Mystery, Edited, with a Translation and Notes, London and Edinburgh, 1864, ...

Tabart (Benjamin). Popular Fairy Tales; or, A Liliputian Library; containing twenty-six choice pieces of Fancy and Fiction, by those renowned pers...

Wallis (J., publisher). The Interesting Story of the Canary Bird, and the History of the Negro Girl, c.1810, 24pp., three wood engraved illusts. a...

Webb’s Juvenile Drama. The Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman, A Military Spectacle. Written expressly for and adapted only to Webb’s Characters an...

* Valentines. A pair of rare handmade leaf Valentines, c.1790, the first featuring two gentlemen in cavalier costumes wooing a lady in a garden wi...

* Valentines. A selection of nine “Vindictive” Valentines, c.1840/60, including examples by Robert Canton, Kershaw and A. Park, mostly embossed wi...

Ainslie (Kathleen). “What I did”, [1905]; “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”, [1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar for 1910, [1909]; Catherine Su...

Aldin (Cecil). Cecil Aldin’s Letter Book series, 6 parts (complete), [1921], a complete set, all with colour illustrations, original pictorial wra...

Alphabet book. Baby’s Linen Alphabet Book with Large Full Page Pictures in Colours, Frederick Warne, [1903], duotone title-page, twenty-four full-...

Barrie (J.M.). Peter Pan Picture Cards, by Flora White, n.p., c.1914, twenty cards (complete), each with a colour illustration by Flora White on t...

Blyton (Enid). Mary Mouse and the Dolls” House; More Adventures of Mary Mouse; Little Mary Mouse Again; Hallo, Little Mary Mouse; Mary Mouse and H...

Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, 1st edition, 1st issue, Paris, 1931, 1st issue without list of titles and without elephan...

Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, “Lewis Carroll”). Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, Oxford: Emberlin, 1890 [but later], comprising 40...

Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, 1907, fifty tipped-in colour plates, a few faint spots to ti...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, 1931, half-title (with 1.5” closed tear in fore-margin neatly repair...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, Methuen, 1931, b and w illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, occasional light spotting to ...

Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Violet Fairy Book, New Impression, Longmans, Green and Co., 1933, colour frontispiece, further illustrations throughout, p...

Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 2nd edition, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House At Pooh Corner, 1928, 1st edition...

Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, Methuen, 1926, numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers lightly foxed and brow...

Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, Methuen, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, half-title with contemporary ink inscription at...

Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 7th edition [1st deluxe edition], Methuen, 1925, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, title-page with circular in...

Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 colour woodblock plates, some offset to text leaves facing, s...

Peake (Mervyn, illust.). Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, 1st issue, Chatto and Windus, 1940, first issue (without the ded...

Perpetua Press. Fifteen Old Nursery Rhymes with New Linocuts by Biddy Darlow, Bristol, 1935, sixteen full-page hand-coloured linocuts, untrimmed, ...

Piper (John, illust.). English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c.1860, chosen by John Betjamen and Geoffrey Taylor, F. Muller, 1944, twelve full...

Potter (Beatrix, illust.). Comical Customers, At the New Stores of Comical Rhymes and Stories, Ernest Nister, [1896], nine initialled line drawing...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st deluxe edition, Warne, [1902], “wept” for ‘shed” on p.51, thirty-one full-page colour illustration...

Puffin Picture Books. A collection of forty-three Puffin Picture Books, c.1940s, including Waterways of the World, Country Holiday, Animals of Aus...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ring of the Niblung: The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, and Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner,...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissu...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, Heinemann, 1905, fifty tipped-in colour plates (including one double page), with ...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissu...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, Dent, 1907, twenty-four colour plates mounted on dark...

Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, 1st trade edition, Heinemann, 1905, half-title with original pen and ink sketch...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Constable and Company, 1909, forty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue...

Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, contemporary...

Robinson (Gordon, illustrator). Pat-a-Cake, Dean and Son, c.1911, six full-page colour illustrations, letterpress vignettes, lightly toned, origin...

Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, 1st edition, Daily Express Publications, [1936], illustrations printed in red and black, full-page illu...

Steadman (Ralph, illust.). Steam Press Portfolio No. 2, 1974, six broadside poems by Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Lawrence Durrell, Ruth Fainlig...

Wain (Louis, illust.). To Nursery Land, edited by Edric Vredenburg... with Verses by Clifton Bingham, S.K. Cowan, etc., etc., Raphael Tuck, c.1909...

Angel (Marie, c.1923). Puss in Boots, 1950, pp.[ii]+12+[1], original manuscript written throughout in a neat calligraphic hand, illustrated title-...

* Benatar (Molly, fl.1919-1929). “Hanging Lanterns” (original illustration for inside colour plate for Pamela’s Pet, published by Birn Bros in 193...

* Biro (Balint Stephen, “Val”, b.1921). Seven original illustrations for Worzel Gummidge, King of the Scarecrows, published by Purnell Books, 1983...

* Brunhoff (Jean de). A collection of mounted colour illustrations of Babar, 1933-48, thirty-one colour illustrations taken from the original Baba...

* Cobb (Ruth, fl. 1902-1953). A complete set of original pen and ink and watercolour drawings for the book “Three Little Adventurers” by Madeleine...