Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 6 George Street / London : Houlston & Wright. No Date [between 1857 and 1869]. First Printing. 12 mo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, decorated and lettered in blind on rear panel, spine panel decorated and..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros., 30 Beekman Street, No Date [c.1863-1866]. Pamphlet. Small 12mo, [8] pp printed on 4 leaves, plus coloured paper wrapper covers; sewn at spine. Chromoxylographed illustrations. Issued as a volume in the publisher's "FAIRY MOONBEAM'S SERIES". Ink name "Edna Merchant" to upper edge of front cover. Publisher's..... More
No Place [New York?]: No Publisher [McLoughlin Bros.?], No Date [1894?]. Small octavo, 180 x 120 mm, original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & with 4 full-page plates in full colour chromolithography. A shape book, the book is..... More
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Quarto, original grey boards with blue titles, pictorial paper label on front panel, blue cloth spine. Circa 50 pp (unpaginated). Collects 12 poems with music by Linnell, each with an accompanying tipped-in colour plate. The plates..... More
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 3 Paternoster Buildings, E.C., N.D. [circa 1925]. Octavo, original grey boards lettered in gilt on spine panel, front panel titled in blind. 192 pp., frontispiece and three additional inserted plates with artwork by Groome. Issued as a volume in Wells Gardner's Florin Series..... More
Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, No Date [1910]. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition. Octavo, original purple cloth stamped in gold on front panel. [21] pp. Contemporary ink name and date in ink on front free endpaper, minor wear to the cloth at spine tips and corners, some..... More
[London]: The Children's Press, No Date [1950's?]. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized hardcover; original pictorial paper-covered boards (image of Alice and the white rabbit with pocket watch on front panel), red cloth spine lettered and decorated in black. 135 pp., full colour frontispiece plus seven additional full colour plates inserted throughout the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co.[i.e., Macmillan's Children's Books], 1890 [i.e., 2015]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated in full colours with lettering in red and gold, red cloth spine panel lettered in gold, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. 56 pp + [5] pp +..... More
London: Denis Archer, 6 Old Gloucester Street, W.C.1, [1932. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original red cloth stamped in gilt, bordered in blind on front cover. xix + 76 pp., portrait frontispiece & several illustrations. Very nice copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, ½-inch chip at spine head..... More
London: George Newnes Limited. No Date [1920's]. Quarto, original blue cloth stamped in black and gold. [22] pp, tipped-in colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 65 additional black & white plates tipped onto heavy paper stock with tissue guards. With a biographical introduction by Sir J.G. Linton, R.I. A near fine..... More
London: Constable and Co. Ltd., [1930]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue-green cloth titled and decorated in gilt. 264 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Collects poems SONGS OF CHILDHOOD, PEACOCK PIE and others, with twenty poems here first published. More
![Item #302321 THE OLD MEN. [Broadside Poem]. Walter. LOVAT FRASER DE LA MARE, Claude](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/302321.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539363746)
London: Printed by A.T. Stevens of 55 St. Martins Lane, in the City of Westminster, for Flying FAME, 45 Roland Gardens. No Date [1913]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Broadside. Broadside, a single leaf, 295 x 153 mm, folded once. Illustrated with two woodcuts by Claude Lovat Fraser. Very good..... More
London: London: Constable & Company, [1924]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo, original navy blue cloth titled in gilt on spine panel & decorated in gilt on upper cover. [128] pp. Colour frontispiece and 15 additional full-page colour plates by Fraser. University of..... More
Paris, London and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons. No Date [1893]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Quarto, original colour pictorial paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine, patterned endpapers. 104 pp., pictorial title page, black & white drawings and decorative titles throughout, twelve full-page colour chromolithograph plates inserted throughout the text..... More
London: Printed for John Rivington, Bookseller to The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, at the Bible and Crown (No 62.) in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1771. The Thirteenth Edition. 12mo, disbound without covers but likely originally issued unbound or bound in plain wrappers. Pp [1-3], 4-48. Small prayer book, including a...... More
Vancouver, BC: Simply Read Books, 2002. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. First Printing of this new illustrated edition. Quarto, original red boards with black cloth spine, pictorial endpapers. 149 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates and black & white drawings in the text by Ghiuselev. The book is..... More
London: The Notary Binders, 5 Church Street, Kensington, W.8. [1930]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small Quarto, original marbled paper wrappers, preserved in glassine dust-jacket. Printed in black and red. 17 + [1] pp. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is copy number 90.A very good bright..... More
London & New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original yellow buckram lettered and decorated with a design by Charles Robinson to spine and upper cover. 275 pp, + 14 pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated 1898). Inscribed on the front..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., No Date [circa 1920]. Reprint. Quarto, pictorial paper-covered boards, cream cloth spine lettered and decorated in green. [56] pp., illustrated in full colour throughout. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; a lovely work by Greenaway. Minor scuffs to the binding, light wear to the..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., No Date [circa 1920]. Reprint. Quarto, original pictorial paper-covered boards, green cloth spine lettered in black. 56 pp., illustrated in full colour throughout. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; a lovely and sweet work by Greenaway. A few old pen marks on the front..... More
![Item #313302 HOUSEHOLD TALES. [Illustrated by R. Anning Bell]. Jakob, Wilhelm Grimm](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/313302.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701655447)
London & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1953. Small octavo, original blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, small blindstamp on front panel, patterned endpapers. 372 pp. Illustrated throughout with beautiful and delicate pen-and-ink drawings by R. Anning Bell. Two old ink..... More
Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1985. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Quarter Leather. Royal octavo, Quarter black morocco, grey cloth boards. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. No. 47 of 110 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by Joan Hassall. pp lxiii, 161, [7] plates,numerous reproductions of Hassall's wood-engravings throughout with an additional..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1948. Illustrated Edition. Quarter morocco. Second Printing, 1948. Octavo. Finely bound in quarter brown morocco over cloth boards, the spine with raised bands and with blind ruling and gilt lettering. Decorative floral endpapers.Top edge gilt. 255 pp, decorated title page, 12 illustrations, 11..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled and with a small decoration in gilt on spine and front panel. 38 pp + [82] pp plates. Small booksellers label on front paste-down, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Contains a long essay..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1868. A New Edition. Small octavo, original brownish-red cloth stamped in gold on spine and front panel, front & rear panels bordered in blindcoated yellow endpapers. pp. [i] - vi, 1-213 [214 printer's imprint]. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional full-page..... More