Fine Art Sale

Aesop. The Fables: The First Three Books of Caxton`s Aesop, 2 volumes, number 140 of 160 copies on Magnani paper, 68 full page woodcuts by Anna B...

Aesop. The Fables, 2 volumes, 2 engraved titles and 110 plates, some spotting and offsetting, later half green calf, slightly rubbed, top edge gi...

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Dream of Little Tuk, and Other Tales, first edition, frontispiece and 3 plates by Count Pocci, frontispiece with ti...

Anon. Marmaduke Multiply`s Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians, 69 hand-colured engraved plates, some occasional spotting and soiling, la...

Anon. My Airship Book, 10 chromo-lithographed plates of airships and early aircraft, original chromo-lithographed boards, spine repaired, oblong ...

Aspin, Jehoshaphat. [Cosmorama: A View of the Costumes and Peculiarities of all Nations,] 46 engravings on 23 [of 24] leaves, loose, lacking tit...

Beerbohm, Max. Observations, first edition, coloured frontispiece and 51 plates, original cloth, upper hinge cracked, 4to, London: William Heinem...

Beucler, Andre. Mon Chat, first edition, [one of 800 copies], 9 loose leaves with designs by Nathalie Parain, coloured printed one-side only by p...

Bull, Rene, illustrator. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, first edition, 29 coloured plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, London: Hodder and Stoughton,...

Burnside, Helen Marion and Jessie Watkins, illustrator. Fairy Fine-Ears`s Fancies, 1st series, half-title, chromo-lithographed plates and illustr...

Burnside, H.M. The Children`s Wonderland, 7 chromo-lithographed revolving plates, defective, original cloth-backed chromo-lithographed boards, ru...

Burritt, Elijah H. Atlas, designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, new edition, 8 engraved charts, including 7 hand coloured and 2 do...

Carove, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Story Without an End, from the German [...] by Sarah Austin, first edition, frontispiece, 15 chromo-lithographed p...

Chapbooks. A group of four early nineteenth century chapbooks, comprising; Fun Upon Fun; or the Humours of a Fair, 15 engraved sepia scenes on 7 ...

Chapbooks. A group of 25 chapbooks, c.1830, comprising; The Child`s Picture Book, Barlow, 1830; A Short Account fo the Death of Elizabeth Smith, ...

Chapbooks. Grandpapa`s Nursery Tales for all Good Boys and Girls. The History of Dick Whittington and his Cat, 12pp., 8 hand-coloured wood-engrav...

Clarkson, L. Indian Summer. Autumn Poems and Sketches, chromo-lithographed title and 14 chromo-lithographed plates, some spotting, original cloth...

Combe, William. The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, 8th edition, hand-coloured engraved title, frontispiece and 29 engraved plate...

Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club... illustrated by Cecil Aldin, 2 volumes, number 107 of 250 copies signed by Cecil A...

Disney, Walt. Mountaineering Mickey, first edition, illustrations, some browning, original pictorial boards, slightly soiled, 4to, London: Collin...

Dougall, John. The Cabinet of the Arts; being a New and Universal Drawing Book, engraved title and 93 engraved plates, including 53 hand-coloured...

Durer, Albrecht. The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, poutrayed by Albert Durer. Edited by Henry Cole, half-title, illustrations, some light spo...

Euripides. The Plays, 2 volumes, number 158 of 500 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, untrimmed...

Fielding-Hall, H. Margaret`s Book... illustrated by Charles Robinson, coloured playes, original cloth gilt, a.e.g., 4to, London: Hutchinson & Co....

Fitzgerald, Edward, translator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... illustrated by Rene Bull, 40 tipped-in coloured plates, 10 full-page, illustrations, ...

Gibson, Charles Dana. Pictures of People, first edition, original buckram-backed pictorial boards, London: John Lane, 1896; Sketches and Cartoons...

Gill, Eric, illustrator. The New Temple Shakespeare, 40 volumes, first edition, illustrations in text, original limp black full morocco gilt, top...

Gill, Eric. Das Hohe Lied Salomo, first edition, number 92 of 100 copies on Maillol-Kessler hand-made paper, 7 full-page designs, 4 half-page and...

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield... illustrated by E.J. Sullivan, number 255 of 500 copies signed by the artist, coloured plates, some s...

Greenaway, Kate. A Day in a Child`s Life, first edition, coloured illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, soiled, extremities rubb...

Hall, S.C. editor. The Gallery of Modern Sculpture, engraved plates, some spotting, London: G. Virtue, 1854; The Vernon Gallery, 3 volumes, engra...

Harris, John, publisher. The Little Library Series, 15 volumes, engraved plates, some spotting, publisher`s morocco-backed boards, a few volumes ...

Hewlett, Esther. Scripture Natural History for Youth, 2 volumes, first edition, engraved title and frontispiece, 80 engraved plates, some brownin...

High House Press. Hero and Leander, The Divine Poem of Musaeus, number 64 of 75 copies only, original cloth-backed boards, 4to, Shaftsbury: High ...

High House Press. Rymes of Minstrels, Selected from a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, number 15 of 30 copies on hand-made paper from and edi...

High House Press. Shaftsbury: the Shaston of Thomas Hardy, [with] Twelve Wood-Engravings by John R. Biggs and James E. Masters, number 27 of 60 c...

Jigsaw Puzzle. A hand-coloured mid-nineteenth century jigsaw puzzle depicting a zoo, divided into 18 frames, each with animals and enclosures, wi...

Jones & Co., publishers. The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth..., 3 volumes, etched additional titles, slightly spotted, frontispiece and ...

Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, later issue, joints cracked, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan & Co., ...

Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, half-title, some light browning, original cloth, rubbed and cocked, joints cracked, spine chipp...

Low, Francis H. Queen Victoria`s Dolls... illustrated by Alan Wright, first edition, chromo-lithographed illustrations, original decorated cloth,...

McLean, Ruari, editor. MOTIF, a Journal of the Visual Arts, Nos. 1-12 [of 13], numerous illustrations and coloured plates, nos. 1-9 in boards, no...

Millon-Journel, Emile. Les Enfans du Vieux Chateau, 40 volumes bound in 20, second edition, half-titles, some spotting, contemporary half calf, r...

Milne, A.A. Winnie the Pooh, first edition, original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Methuen & Co., 1926; The House at Pooh Corner,...

Milne, A.A. Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, both first editions; When We Were Very Young, sixth edition, 1925; Winnie the P...

Miniature Book. A Concise History of the Holy Bible, wood-engraved plate titled `FIAT`, irregularly cropped with loss of fore-edge and occasional...

Miniature Books. The Royal Miniature Almanack for 1853, wood-engraved profile portrait of Queen Victoria, original wrappers, creased, 31mm x 46mm...

Morris, William. Poems by the Way, first edition, one of 300 copies only, woodcut initials, contemporary polished green morocco by the Doves Pres...

A.N. Myers & Co. Natural History Dominoes, 30 double-sided chromo-lithographed cards and instructions, in associated box, each 9 x 5.2 cm approx,...

Nicholson, William, illustrator. London Types, coloured plates, some slight offsetting, joints cracked, a little shaken, 4to, London: William Hei...

Papworth, John Bounarotti. Poetical Sketches of Scarborough... illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, hand-coloured frontispiece and 20 hand-coloured ...

Perrault, Ch. Les Contes des Fees... ornes de dessins par Lucien Laforge, 8 hand-coloured circular designs, illustrations in text, publisher`s wr...

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first commercial edition, half-title, coloured frontispiece, loose and with upper margin slightly soil...

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, second privately printed edition, [limited to 200 copies only], coloured frontispiece and 41 plain ill...

Ricketts, Charles. A Defence of the Revival of Printing, [one of 250 un-numbered copies], original blue paper-covered boards, label, 4to, The Bal...

Royal Entertainment. A rare group of four theatre programmes for plays staged at Windsor Castle, each titled, `By Command, Her Majesty`s Servants...

Shepard, Ernest. Betsy and Joe, first edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title `To Betty Hardiman, Nov 1966, Ernest H. ...

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volumes 19-27, original cloth, volume 21 lacking spine, 4to, New York: The Century Co., 18...

Stratton, Helen, illustrator. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, first edition, illustrations, original red cloth decorated gilt, a.e.g....

Stevenson, Robert Louis and Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator. A Child`s Garden of Verses, first edition, later issue, coloured title and 12 colo...