Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Lloyd (Charles) Poetical Essays on the Character of Pope, as a Poet and Moralist..., first edition, presentation copy from the author to Miss Wats...

[Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, half-title, engraved vignette title (browned), original cloth-backed board...

Execution Broadside.- Trial and Execution of Richard Gillam (The), for the Wilful Murder of Maria Bagnall, at Bath, c.505 x 355mm, 3 woodcuts depi...

Binding.- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Auswahl von Goethes Lyrischen Gedichten, signed presentation copy from Robert S.Turner to Mrs. [Elizabeth J...

Bindings.- Phillips (Stephen) Poems, seventh edition, bound in dark green morocco, gilt, covers with double gilt ruled border with small red dots ...

Miniature Book.- Embroidered Binding.- Taylor (John, "the water poet") Verbum sempiternum [&] Salvator mundi, 2 parts in 1 bound back to back, the...

Miniature Books.- Bible, English. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments, engraved general title (second state w...

Miniature Book.- Etrennes aux Graces, ou les Proverbes de Cythère, engraved throughout including 8 full-page illustrations, very slightly cropped ...

Miniature Books.- Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1839 Poetically Illustrated by L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 6 engraved portraits (Duchess...

Miniature Books.- Silver Filigree Binding, ornate hinged filigree case ?for an almanac, lined with ivory watered silk, with 2 later pieces of felt...

Aikin (John) The Calendar of Nature; designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young Persons, first edition, ink notes in contemporary han...

NO RESERVE American.- Picture Book for Little Children (A), 24pp., woodcut title-vignette and 44 others, lightly browned, original stiff yellow wr...

[Bisset (James)] The Geographical Guide; a Poetical Nautical Trip round the Island of Great-Britain, first edition, engraved frontispiece, wood-en...

Botany.- Atkinson (Sarah) The Botanical Multiplication Table, engraved throughout with title and hand-coloured illustrations of flowers, lightly b...

Chapbook.- Death and Burial of Cock Robin (The), 8pp., single folded sheet, 15 woodcut illustrations, light spotting, uncut and unbound, [Gumuchia...

Chapbooks.- Bishop & Co., publishers. A collection of 6 titles [The Death of Cock Robin; History of Little Jane; History of Lucy Gray; The Little ...

Crawhall (Joseph) Old Aunt Elspa's ABC, first edition, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by the author throughout, 3pp. advertisements at end, o...

[Cunningham (John)] Day, a Pastoral...to which is added The Stubborn Dame, original pictorial wrappers, contemporary ink signature to head of uppe...

Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her Seven Wonderful Cats, hand-coloured frontispiece, title vignette and 13 plates, printed on one side only, 4pp. advert...

Darton, publishers.- English (Clara) The Children in the Wood. An Instructive Tale, second edition, engraved title-vignette and 13 illustrations, ...

Darton, publishers.- Bloomfield (Robert) The Fakenham Ghost a true Tale, first edition, engraved throughout on 16 leaves, rectos only, each with i...

Darton, publishers.- R. (R.) The Good Boy's Soliloquy; containing his Parents' Instructions relative to his Disposition and Manners, first edition...

Darton, publishers.- Elliott (Mary, née Belson) The Baby's Holiday; to which is added The White Lily, 8 hand-coloured etched plates, small tear t...

Darton, publishers.- Papa's Present; or Pictures of Animals, with descriptions in verse, 11 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 12, lacking Cow...

[?Darton (William)] Little Jack of All Trades, Parts I & II [all published], first editions, first issue of Part I without "J.Harris" in imprint, ...

Day (Isaac) Scenes for the Young, or, Pleasing Tales..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, 4pp. publishers' catalogue at end, slight wormtrack...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, first edition, first issue with 'wade' for 'w...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll".] The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford. A Monograph by D.C.L., first edition, first issue without ...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Game of Logic, first trade edition, with envelope containing board and 7 of the 9 counters (4 r...

[?Elliott (Mary, née Belson)] London Melodies; or, the Cries of the Seasons, 2 parts in 1, Part II lacking pp.9-10, woodcut title vignettes, 36 la...

[Franklin (Benjamin)] The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket, engraved throughout with vignette title and rebus, printed on 8 leaves...

[Godwin (William)], "Theophilus Marcliffe". The Looking-Glass. A True History of the Early Years of an Artist..., first edition, stipple-engraved ...

Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) German Popular Stories, translated from the Kinder und Haus-Marchen..., 2 vol., first English edition, first...

Harris (John, publisher) Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians; or the Multiplication Table, early edition, 69 stipple-...

Harris (John, publisher) Cock Robin. A Pretty Painted Toy..., hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 illustrations, printed on rectos onl...

[Kilner (Mary Ann)] The Adventures of a Pincushion, designed chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies, viii, 9-107, [1] p., woodcut frontispiece and 36...

Milne (A. A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, illustrations by E.H.Shepard, map endpapers (very slightly browned), original pictorial green cloth,...

Newbery (F., publisher) Cries of London (The), as they are daily exhibited in the Streets with an Epigram in Verse adapted to each, to which is ad...

Newbery (E., publisher).- [Fenn (Lady Ellenor)] Parsing Lessons for Elder Pupils...by Mrs.Lovechild, 4pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink ...

[Perrault (Charles)] Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, lacking A1 & 6 (frontispiece and pp.11/12), 7 woodcut ...

Sports & Games.- Book of Games (The); or, a History of the Juvenile Sports, practised at the Kingston Academy, first edition, lacking O1, 5 & 6 (p...

Wallis (John, publisher) The Good Childs Cabinet of Natural History, vol.3 only (of 5: Fishes), engraved frontispiece, title and illustrations, be...

Watts (Isaac) Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language, for the Use of Children, woodcut portrait, title with decorative wavy border, 36 woodcut il...

Game.- Fox (George) New Moral & Entertaining Game of the Mansion of Happiness, folding hand-coloured engraved game of two rows of panels with virt...

Game.- Harris (John, publisher) Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third,...

Game.- Newton (T.) The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished, for the Amusement of Youth of both Sexes, folding hand-coloured engraved she...

Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) The New Game of Human Life, folding hand-coloured engraved game of two rows of 84 panels in anticlockwise spiral a...

Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) An Arithmetical Pastime; intended to Infuse the Rules of Arithmetic, under the idea of Amusement, folding hand-col...

Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) Science in Sport or the Pleasures of Natural Philosophy; A New & Instructive Game, folding engraved sheet with 30 ...

Game.- Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise...

Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) Wallis's New Game of Genius, or Compendium of Inventions connected with the Arts, Sciences and Manufactures...fo...

Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) Wallis's New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of South America ...

Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) European Travellers, an Instructive Game, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of Europe, dissected and ...

[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial ti...

[Combe (William)] The Dance of Life, a Poem, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional vignette title and 24 plates by Thomas...

[Gaspey (Thomas)] Takings; or the Life of a Collegian. A Poem, first edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dagley, light spotting or ...

Thames Tunnel.- Azulay (Bondy, publisher) Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, board with small mounted circular engraving and two holes for viewing thr...

Anglo-American satire.- Seminole Indians in Florida.- Cruikshank (George, 1792-1878) American Justice!! or the ferocious yankee genl Jack's reward...

Gillray (James, 1756-1815) The Cockney-Sportsmen, the set of four, etchings with original bright hand-colouring on wove paper, each approx. 255 x ...

Gillray (James, 1756-1815) A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fishing in the stream,...