This unusual volume contains a fine set of handcoloured plates on both Parisian and London life. The illustrator Monnier spent two years in London...

An attractive morocco-bound set, containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images.Abbey states that the magazine was probably started by A...

Fifty, often merciless but never malicious, caricature portraits by Beerbohm, including one of George Bernard Shaw who had recommended Beerbohm to...

An at the time of publication significant work relating to the artist Félicien Rops, featuring previously unpublished material. Notable for its at...

The plates for Le Bonheur du Jour wee amongst the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier's designs. So ambitious was this album that it t...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have been most carefully sele...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003), American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.First edition, fir...

The print comprises a head & shoulders caricature portrait of Margaret Thatcher with reproduced inscription beneath: 'For Kenneth Hayes, Maggi...

Original parts. First editions. 8vo., 10 parts in 9 as issued, 10 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, illustrations; some light general toni...

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

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...

Number 313 of only 500 copies.A complete bibliography of all works illustrated by Cruikshank with numerous examples printed on plates. 4to. Half-t...

An exquisite group of interior scenes, exclusively of noblewomen and ladies in waiting, engaging in various genteel activities, such as flower arr...

An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing Chinese deities and processional characters.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the inc...