A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typ...

Signed in ink by the author on the title-page 'W.Heath Robinson' under his printed name. Loosely inserted is a 4 page pamphlet for the Sunday Time...

A great gift-book for children, compiled from the works of Eugene Field by Kenneth Grahame (of The Wind in the Willows fame). The edition went thr...

The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions, including replies to his critics.'The central ...

Rare signed proof of author's last novel. A seemingly uncommon signed proof of the last novel by Iris Murdoch, which saw a altered, in some ways si...

Three retrospectives on the life and works of Charles Ricketts, famous as an artist, publisher and typographer, and founder of the Vale Press.Firs...

An attractive first trade edition of this collection of Venice-inspired poetry by Gordon Bottomley, whose romantic verse dramas are ranked among t...

John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835-95), English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates (notably reflected ...

a beautiful example from the school of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical artist of his day; Redoute's patrons included two E...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...

A near fine example. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is impli...

The first appearance of the famous doctor syntax. Containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images. Abbey states that the magazine was prob...

A collection of 16 children's stories of the exploits of the King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill, exquisitely illustrated. The titles are: Bil...

First edition, bound from the parts with stab-holes visible. The first tour of Doctor Syntax, republished as Doctor Syntax in Search of the Pictur...

First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to est...

An important work which provides 'a guide to [Repton's] approach to landscape design, with explanations of his aims and his methods of achieving t...

On original watercolour - given by King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most c...

Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt and Nubia. Some spotting...

Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt and Nubia. light foxing ...

Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt and Nubia. Some light sp...