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Cleverdon (Douglas) The Engravings of David Jones, Clover Hill Editions, 1981, large quarto, numbered limited edition of 260 copies, original clot...

Sculpture The Gallery of British Sculpture, Being a Collection of Sixty-One Steel Engravings after Statues by Eminent Sculptors, J.S. Virtue, no d...

Furnival (William James) Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience and Mosaic, comprising Notes and Excerpts on the History, Materials, Manufacture & Use...

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry ...1851 Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, Volumes I-III, Spicer Brothers, 1851, three volu...

Bainbridge (Henry Charles) Peter Carl Faberge, Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court .., Batsford, 1949, edition de luxe, limited t...

Morris Singer Company Architectural Metalwork, no date, folio, 51 pages, original cloth [Morris Singer was a branch of William Morris & Co.]; Copp...

John Bold Bold (Edna) How and Why, Etcetera, no date, inserted are three photographs (two of John Bold, one of a painting), a press cutting and a ...

Raeburn (Michael) et al (edits.) The Green Frog Service, Cacklegoose Press/State Hermitage, 1995, numbered limited edition of 1000, this one of 35...

[Gillray (James)] 'A View of the Pier of Scarborough', H. Humphrey, June 18th 1807, hand-coloured etching, plate mark 208mm x 257mm, mounted, fram...

Hardie (Martin) edit. Pageant of Empire, Souvenir Volume, Fleetway Press, 1924, folio, colour illustrations (including fold out Pageant plate) by ...

Birmingham (Christian) [b.1970] Cathy on Horseback, 2015, pastel, 47cm x 33cm, signed, Catherine & Linton, 2014, pastel, 51cm x 35cm, signed, orig...

Thomson (David Croal) The Water-Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick, Barbizon, 1930, numbered limited edition of 525, quarto, forty mounted colour pl...

Ransome (Arthur) A signed autograph note, from Arthur Ransome explaining that 'Titty is short for Tittymouse which is what she was called when ......

Shepard (Ernest Howard) - Original Artwork Christopher Robin, a small pen and ink sketch of Christopher Robin, signed by the artist, on card 105mm...

Carroll (Lewis) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Macmillian, 1872, first edition, 'Wade' misprint on p 21, ownership inscrip...

Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons' film poster, Bradford: W. E. Berry, no date [1974], 755mm x 1010mm colour poster prom...

Gascogne (David) Poems, 1937-42, Nicholson and Watson, 1943, first edition, title and five colour plates by Graham Sutherland, dust wrapper; Stewa...

Early Doll Book Phoebe, The Cottage Maid, Exemplified in A Series of Rural Figures, S. and J. Fuller, 1812, twenty pages, six (of seven) hand-colo...

Palmer (Samuel) An English Version of The Eclogues of Virgil, with Illustrations by the Author, Seeley, 1883, folio in fours, fourteen plates incl...

Nash (Paul) Leigh-Bennett (E.P.), Match Making, Being Some Glances at the British Match Making Industry in the Factories of Bryant and May Limited...

Pope-Hennessy (James) London Fabric, Batsford, 1939, first edition, dust wrapper (designed by Eric Ravilious); Bawden (Edward), Life in an English...

Bewick (Thomas) The Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works, Bernard Quaritch, 1885-87, numbered limited edition of 750, signed by the publisher...

Kendall (Edward Augustus) The Crested Wren, E. Newberry, 1799, frontis, title vignette, recent quarter calf; Anon., The Stories of Daniel, for the...

Anon. A Visit to Uncle William in Town; or A Description of the Most Remarkable Buildings and Curiosities in the British Metropolis, J. Harris, 18...

Taylor (Isaac) Advice to the Teens; or, Practical Helps towards the Formation of One's Own Character, Rest Fenner, 1818, second edition, frontis, ...

Anon. [Fenn (Eleanor), pseud. Mrs Lovechild] The Rational Dame; or, Hints Towards Supplying Prattle for Children, John Marshall and Co. at No 4 Al...

Anon. The Preceptor: Containing A General Course of Education. Wherein the First Principles of Polite Learning are Laid Down in a Way most suitabl...

Magic Despiau (M.L.), Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics Proper for Agreeably exercising the Minds of Youth. Translated from the Fren...

The Hon, Mrs W. [Ward (Mary)] A World of Wonders revealed by The Microscope, A Book for Young Students, Groombridge, 1858, fourteen coloured plat...

Crompton (Richmal), Richards (Frank) et al A large quantity of children's books, predominantly from the 'William' series and the 'Billy Bunter' se...

Chums Annual Chums, An Illustrated Paper for Boys, 1905-1938, a broken run of twenty-one volumes, original pictorial cloth, 1938 volume in worn du...

Wodehouse (P.G.) et al, edited by 'The Old Fag' The Captain: A Magazine for Boys and 'Old Boys', Volumes I - XII, George Newnes, 1899 - 1905, twel...

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) The School for Scandal, Hodder & Stoughton, no date, numbered limited edition de luxe of 350, signed by the artist, 25...

Wilde (Oscar) The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Duckworth, 1913, numbered limited edition of 260, signed by the illustrator, Charles Robinson, t...

Carroll (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Philip Lee Warner for The Medici Society, 1914, numbered limited edition of 1000, printed at the...

Golden Cockerel Press Bannet (Ivor), The Amazons, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, numbered limited edition of 500 copies, illustrated with engravings...

Golden Cockerel Press Swinburne (Algernon Charles), Hymn to Proserpine, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944, numbered limited edition of 350 copies, illus...

The Vorticists Lewis (Wyndham), Blast, Review of the Great English Vortex, No 1, June 20th 1914 and No 2, July 1915, two volumes, all published, o...

Matisse (Henri), Gide (Andre), Braque (Georges), Joyce (James), Brandt (Bill), Picasso (Pablo) et al Verve, An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, Vo...

Picasso (Pablo) Verve, Volume VIII No. 29/30 - Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso, 28 Nov. 1953 to 3 Feb. 1954, Paris, 1954, folio, a special double ...

Laforgue (Jules) Moralites Legendaires, [by Eragny Press] for Hacon & Ricketts, 1897-8, limited edition of 220 copies (200 for sale), two volumes,...

Vanity Fair Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares, Volumes II, III and IV, Vanity Fair, 1869-70, three folio volumes, s...

Vanity Fair - Proofs Junior (Jehu), The Vanity Fair Album, A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day; with Biographical and Crit...

The Graphic The Graphic, An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, Volume 2 and 3, July 1870 - June 1871, two folio volumes, original cloth gilt (wear to b...

Lodge (Edmund) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Engraved from Authentic Pictures ..., Harding and Lepard, 1835, twelve volume...

Wright (G.N.) Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels: from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, Balber, Bentley ...., Comic ...

Ashbee (C.R.) edit. Transactions of the Guild & School of Handicraft, Vol I, Mile End: The Guild & School of Handicraft, 1890, manuscript inscript...

Milne (A.A.) Winnie-The-Pooh, Methuen, 1926, first edition, top edge gilt, dust wrapper, (priced 7/6, 117th thousand to rear flap), some wear, spi...

Wilton Priestner Walton (Isaac) and Cotton (Charles), Extracts from the Complete Angler, Oxford, Hanborough Parrot Pieces, 1988, numbered limited ...

Johns (W. E. Capt.) Biggles in the Terai, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper; Dahl (Roald), The Witches, Cape, 1983...

Praeger (S. Rosamund) How They Went To The Seaside, Blackie, no date, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (covers detache...

Rowling (J. K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury, 1997, first edition, second impression, label of Christopher Little Literary...

Rowling (J. K.) The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector's Edition, [2008], quarto, issued exclusively by Amazon, an unopened copy, sealed in publi...

Lewis (C.S.) The Chronicles of Narnia, Folio Society, 2000, seven volumes, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, original cloth, slipcase; Ardizzone (Edw...

Kubasta (V.) Tim & Top at the Zoo, Bancroft, 1961, pop up book, original pictorial boards; Awdry (Rev. W.) & Edwards (Peter), Railway Series Surpr...

[Ackermann, Rudolph] The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature, Methuen, 1904, three volumes, partially unopened, 104 colour plates after Pug...

Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, Macmillan, 1894, first edition, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (rear hinge split, cloth split at rear join...

Gide (Andre) La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1921, numbered limited edition of 412 (400 for sa...

Byron (May) & Preston (Chloe) The Peek-A-Boos in Town, Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, no date, oblong folio, sixteen colour plates, original clo...

Mansfield (Katherine) The Garden Party and Oher Stories. The Vernona Press, 1939, numbered limited edition of 1200, sixteen colour litho illustrat...