DAY 1 : PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS --- DAY 2 : CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, FILM POSTERS & EARLY PLAYING CARDS

*French playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, circa 1840, fifty-two wood engraved cards after Gatteaux, comprising four suits of thirt...

*Goodall (Charles & Son, publisher). Coronation Playing Cards, 1902, double deck of playing cards, each pack with fifty-three cards, comprising fo...

*Goodall (Charles & Son, publisher). A standard English deck of playing cards, circa 1863, fifty-two cards, comprising four suits of thirteen, eac...

*Grimaud (B.P., publisher). Jue Imperial, Paris, circa 1858, fifty-two playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each wit...

*Jaques (J., & Son, publisher). Hide & Seek with the Kings & Queens of England, Series 1, 2 & 3, [1910], together three decks of playing cards, ea...

*Jaques (J., & Son, publisher). A Royal Game Interesting & Instructive, 1896, fifty-two cards, each printed with information about members of Quee...

Jones (Henry, pseud "Cavendish"). The Laws of Piquet... with a Treatise on the Game..., 1st edition, Thomas De La Rue, 1873, illustrations of play...

*Kimberley (David & Sons,). Royal National Patriotic Cards, Birmingham, circa 1893-1897, fifty-two playing cards, comprising four suits of thirtee...

*Opera. Parisian Opera Singers, Paris: Stanislas-D‚sir‚ Avril et Cie, circa 1865, fifty-two playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen (nat...

*Playing cards. A collection of playing card games, late 19th/early 20th century, twenty-five decks, including The Counties of England (two decks...

*Prisoner of War. A complete deck of manuscript playing cards made by a French Prisoner of War, circa 1796, fifty-two hand-painted playing cards,...

*Proost (Van Mierle, publisher). Union Fait La Force, Brussels, 1945, fifty-three playing cards, comprising Hitler joker and four suits of thirtee...

*Reynolds (Joseph & Sons). Bezique set, circa 1875, double deck of playing cards, each pack comprising four suits of eight, each with ace, pip car...

*Willis (& Co., printer). A deck of standard English playing card, circa 1875, fifty-two cards, comprising four suits of thirteen, each with one-w...

*Worshipful Company. Commemorative playing cards for the Coronation of Edward VII, 1902, fifty-four cards, comprising four suits of thirteen, eac...

*Cat Greeting Cards. A collection of approximately 180 Victorian/Edwardian and later greeting cards, scraps, etc., including various published by...

*Cat Greeting Cards. A collection of approximately 260 Victorian/Edwardian and later greeting cards, postcards, advertising and related ephemera, ...

*Cat Greeting Cards. A collection of approximately 200 greeting cards/scraps and related ephemera, mostly Victorian/Edwardian and later, includin...

*Cat Greeting Cards. A collection of approximately 200 Victorian/Edwardian and later chromolithograph greeting cards, mostly humorous including e...

*Cat Greeting Cards. A collection of approximately 170 novelty greeting/postcards, Edwardian and later, mostly novelty cards from Great Britain,...

*Cat Postcards. A collection of 23 Edwardian and later "Squeaker" postcards, including Nursery Rhyme cards, including Puss in Boots, Man in the Mo...

*Greenaway (Kate). A movable Christmas card, Marcus Ward & Co., circa 1870s, illuminated chromolithograph greetings card, showing a snowy scene wi...

Commonplace Books. Two albums containing numerous copied poems and drawings, circa 1900, written and drawn by various hands, with approximately f...

*Gentil (Jean Philippe Guy le Gentil, Comte de Paroy). A large circular engraving of classical and Egyptian antiquities, 1789, circular engraving ...

Illuminated Manuscript. A Book of Poems, [illuminated] by Annie Mabel Richards, 1910, a collection of poems by various authors, including Tennyso...

*Manuscript. The Fisherman's Daughter, 1836, folding booklet, composed of two strips of paper laid down on linen, joined at top central fold, com...

*Moveable Manuscript. Hand written and illustrated transformation booklet, circa 1824, large single sheet, watermarked 1824, folded and cut to fo...

Manuscript. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated by J.D.; Gray's Elegy Illustrated by J.D., [cover-titles], a pair of albums with calligraphic...

Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul). Elves and Fairies postcards, Series 72-76, Black's Beautiful Colour Postcards, A. & C. Black, circa 1920s/30s, thirty unu...

*Bernard (A.E., early 20th century). Tribulations of Mr. Tumble, For Children: from Ten to Sixty, twenty-eight large pen, ink, and watercolour ill...

*Blake (Quentin, 1932-). There was an Old Man in whose Beard, pen, ink and watercolour on thick paper, showing an elderly man seated in an armchai...

*Brock (Henry Matthew, 1875-1960). Under Temple Bar, pen, ink & watercolour, showing Samuel Johnson and James Boswell standing on the cobbles in f...

*Chesworth (Frank, 1868-1906). An original design for one of the "Clarion" series of Omar Khayyam postcards published in 1904, gouache on paper, m...

*Clarke (Joseph Clayton, 1856-1937). A collection of original illustrations of Dickens characters, together five watercolours on thick card album ...

*Garrow (Jessie Isabel (1899-1993)). Pierrot mourning the young girl, 1921, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, showing Pierrot sitting on ...

*Grahame-Johnstone (Janet, 1928-1979 & Anne, 1928-1998). Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake & "There Was An Old Lady..." (from Dean's New Gift Book of Nursery...

*Mason (James). I Hate Producers!, 1946, original ink drawing on paper, signed in initials, 20 x 26 cm (7.75 x 10.25), together with the Lilliput...

*May (Fred (1891-1976)). A collection of thirty-four original cartoon illustrations, together thirty-three humorous watercolours and one pen & ink...

*Meredith (Norman, 1909-2005). A large watercolour of anthropomorphic animals, watercolour heightened with bodycolour, depicting animals playing o...

*Meredith (Norman, 1909-2005). A large watercolour of anthropomorphic animals, watercolour on paper, heightened with bodycolour, depicting a toad ...

*Rutherston (Albert, 1881-1953). A collection of original illustrations, seven pen & ink drawings on thick cream paper, consisting of two larger d...

*Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). Pay TV Movie Guide, 1984, pen and black ink on paper, signed with initials lower right, 24 x 41.5 cm (9.5 x 16.25 in...

*Steadman (Ralph). Metal printing plate for 'The day somebody said "I'm not a Racialist, but.....!"', circa 1968, with design in relief, includi...

*Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). No more tea left? Give me milk please, pen & ink drawing on paper, mounted on board, of a slightly angry-looking cat, si...

*'Adventures on a Desert Island'. A series of ten original humorous watercolour illustrations, circa 1890-1910, 10 original watercolour illustrat...

Ardizzone (Edward). Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel, 1st edition, [1947], colour illustrations, light partial toning to title and endpapers, o...

Ardizzone (Edward). Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, 1st edition, [1936], colour illustrations, original pictorial boards, light edge wear, f...

Ardizzone (Edward). Lucy Brown and Mr. Grimes, 1st edition, [1937], colour illustrations, original pictorial boards, a few abrasions and light wat...

Ardizzone (Edward). The Mediterranean. An Anthology, compiled by Paul Bloomfield, 1935, additional colour title, black and white illustrations, bo...

Baring (Maurice). The Story of Forget-Me-Not and Lily of the Valley, illustrated by S.B. [Sophie Benckendorff], 1st edition, James Nisbet & Co., [...

Barrie (James Matthew, 1860-1937 ). Autograph letter signed, 'J.M. Barrie', Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, [London], 1 December 1902, to [Henry...

Batten (J.D., illust.). Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, edited and arranged by E. Dixon, 1893, large paper copy, decorative half-title, twent...

Bilibin (Ivan Yakovlevich, illustrator). Skazki [Tales, St. Petersburg, 1901-1903], 4 (of six) parts, each 12pp., Cyrillic script within decorativ...

Bonte (Louise Quarles & George Willard Bonte ). ABC in Dixie: A Plantation Alphabet, published Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton, no date, circa 1900, ...

Detmold (Edward J., illust.). The Fables of Aesop, Hodder and Stoughton, [1909], twenty-three tipped-in colour plates (as listed), some spotting t...

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem, by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans et al, 1870, sixt...

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Bells and Other Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1st edition, Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], half-title, twenty-eight ...

Gill (Eric). Engravings by Eric Gill. A Selection of Engravings on Wood and Metal representative of his work to the end of the year 1927 with a co...

Koehn (Alfred). Royal Favourites, At the Lotus Court, Peiping, China, 1948, seventeen hand-coloured illustrations of dogs, including frontispiece,...

Lang (Andrew, editor). The Blue Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1889, eight plates, including frontispiece, and numerous letterpress illustrations, 16pp....