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...

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

[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...

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...

* Doll’s House. A large American Folk Victorian-style doll’s house, late 20th century, a three-storey wooden doll’s house, painted blue, with whit...

* Armand Marseille. An Edwardian bisque head doll, with articulated eyes and rear of head incised Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390 A5/OXM, com...

Neal (J., publisher). Wheel of Life. Neal’s Penny Games. Shadows, Models, Dissected Puzzles, No. 8, c.1850, large folding sheet with three rows of...

* Puzzle. A set of Victorian talking picture blocks, c.1890, set of six colour lithographed pictorial blocks, each with a string which makes an an...

* Rocking Horse. A child’s rocking horse by Swallow Toys, c.1950s, painted wood with stenciled details, leather bridle with bells, leather stirrup...

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

* Advertising. A three-dimensional advertising model for Ladybird children’s wear, c.1950s, a large resin toadstool house with a yellow door, hear...

* 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 handmade Valentine, c.1800, depicting a colour lithograph of a young lady set within a blue and gold envelope with decorated and s...

* Valentine. A rare handmade ‘sailor’s” Valentine, c.1750, hand-coloured vignette of a woman, ship and birds with printed verse set within a flora...

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

* Valentines. Two “Vindictive” Valentines by McLoughlin Bros of New York, c.1880-90, titled “French Nurse” and “An Awful Bust”, stencilled colours...

* Valentine Fan. A rare colour lithographic Valentine fan by Farr, c.1880, with four leaves illustrating the language of love through flowers, 22....

* Stand-up Valentines. A three-dimensional pull-out and stand-up Valentine by Hallmark, 1923, featuring a cupid in a forget-me-not and rose-decked...

* Cremorne Rose Fan. A pierced and shaped paper fan by Joseph Myers, c.1855, unfolded showing 28 engraved vignettes of the Isle of Wight and 2 col...

* Christmas Stand-Up Cards. A three-dimensional colour lithograph stand-up Christmas card, c.1890, showing the Holy Family stable scene with Bethl...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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, 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...

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

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

* Williams (Pam, 20th century). Four portraits of Louis de Bernieres, Pat Barker, Clive James and Emily Perkins, pencil on paper, each signed by s...

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...

* Birn Brothers. Two original illustrations for Birn Brothers children’s books, c.1950s, including Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, watercolour and go...

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

* Brock (Charles Edmund, 1870-1938). “She looked and spied and searched all about”, 1892, pen and ink, showing a girl kneeling on the grass under ...

* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). “In the Days of our Youth”, c.1980, watercolour with pen and ink, 15.5 x 21.5cm (6 x 8.5ins) aperture size, framed a...

* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). Original cover design for “A Puffin Book of Verse”, compiled by Eleanor Graham, published 1985, fine pen, ink and go...

* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). Original cover design for “Vice Versa”, published by Puffin in 1985, pen, ink and gouache cover design for Vice Vers...

* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). “A World of Imagination”, c.1980, watercolour with pen and ink, 17 x 27cm (6.75 x 10.5ins) aperture size, framed and...