London: George Newnes Limited. No Date [1905]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original brown boards with white cloth spine, gilt titles and decorations on spine, front panel titled and decorated in dark brown. 20 pp (text) + 56 full-page black & white plates. Finely printed on glossy... More about THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
New York and London: Yale University Press. [1997]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto, original dark blue cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 87 pp. bibliography, references. Fine in dust wrapper. Stunning. Full-colour collection of Blake's artwork from the Mellon collection at Yale. More about THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE. William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1910. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued in 1892. Octavo, original green cloth decorated in black on spine & front cover, gilt titles on spine. 151 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white plates of Burne-Jones' artwork. Finely printed on glossy art paper. One tiny... More about SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES. A Record and Review. By Malcolm Bell
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 about CONSTABLE'S SKETCHES
London: Jonathan Cape and The Medici Society Ltd., 1928. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Crown quarto, bound in the publisher's brick red cloth heavily decorated in gilt on the front panel, the spine decoratively titled in gilt, top edges gilt. 637 pp, Illustrated Title page & with 24 inserted colour plates... More about THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. Illustrated After Drawings by W. Russell Flint
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1925. Fourth Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of this New Edition, originally issued in 1896. Octavo, original pictorial blue clothstamped in black and gold. 279 pp + [19] pp illustrated catalogue of Children's Books bound in at rear. Ink name on... More about SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. And UNDINE. By De La Motte Fouque, With Introduction by Charlotte M....
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 about PEACOCK PIE. A Book of Rhymes. With Embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser
Vancouver, BC: Simply Read Books, 2002. First Edition, First 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 the... More about THE ADVENTURES OF PIOCCHIO. The Story of a Puppet. By Carlo Collodi. Illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev
Stroud, UK: Catalpa Press. 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. 163 pp. Large octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. [163] pp. With 146 b/w illustrations and 8 page designs from Goblin Market with vintage coloring by Gloria Cardew. A fine copy in a fine... More about LAURENCE HOUSMAN. By Rodney Engen. The Artist and the Critic Series, Volume One
London: Duckworth & Co., No Date [1907]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo, original green buckram titled and with Celtic designs in gilt on spine and front panel. 174 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions of artwork by the Pre-Raphaelites. Ink name on front endpaper, dated... More about THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD. A Critical Monograph. By Ford Madox Hueffer
Chicago: H.S. Stone & Company. 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial light green cloth stamped in gold and dark green, top edges gilt. 141 pp. The first edition of the author's first book. Minor bruising to spine tips; a fine, bright copy. ¶ A beautiful... More about EUPHROSYNE And Her "Golden Book"
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1906. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, colour pictorial paper label on front panel. 89 pp + [8] pp ads at rear. Cover illustration, frontispiece, 3 inserted full-page plates, decorated preliminary leaves and head-... More about THE FALSE GODS
No Place [Olympia, WA]: Pegana Press, 2015. First Printing of This Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition, the first edition to bear illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk. Octavo. Hand-printed with hand-set Goudy and Civilite types on a Vandercook SP 15 press on Hanhnemuhle and Canson papers; handbound in... More about THE GOLDEN KEY. Written by George MacDonald, with illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk
London: H.R. Allenson, Limited. No Date [1929]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black. 76 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. With 5 full-page clour plates. Spine panel and a small portion of the front & rear boards tanned; ink inscription dated... More about ABOUT FAIRIES And Other Important People
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. Early Edition. Octavo, bound in full brown morocco ruled in brown and gilt, the spine with raised bands, ruled and titled gilt within compartments, decorated endpapers, inner dentilles; all edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard and engraved title leaf, plus eleven additional... More about LALLA ROOKH, An Oriental Romance. Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by Eminent Artists
New York: Atheneum, [1982]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition. Large octavo, original purple cloth titled in gilt. 199 pp. Colour pictorial title page and eight additional full-page colour plates printed on glossy paper and inserted within the text, all by Parrish. A fine copy in... More about POEMS OF CHILDHOOD. By Eugene Field. With Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish
London: Frederick Warne. [1999]. Deluxe Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Deluxe Edition. 12mo, original pictorial green cloth titled and decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt, slipcased. 58 pp. Illustrated throughout in full colour by Potter. This edition has new reproductions of Potter's artwork made from entirely new transparencies of Beatrix... More about THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE. By Beatrix Potter. Deluxe Centenary Edition
Portland, Oregon: Collector's Press. 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio, original blue paper-covered boards titled & decorated in white. Pictorial endpapers. 256 pp. Illustrated throughout with large, full-colour plates, mostly reproductions of cover artwork from Robinson's extensive pulp magazine collection, but also with paperback cover art, hardcover... More about SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY. An Illustrated History. By Frank M. Robinson. With Technical...
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Leather. Rackham's second (and best) trade edition, revised and largely redrawn from the original 1898 edition. Quarto, bound in full green morocco, the spine with raised bands with titles and decorations in gilt, gilt decorative boards on front &... More about THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OF MIRTH AND MARVELS. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1936 edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 98 pp, Frontispiece and black & white plates, Index. A very good plus copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ Primary bibliography for collecting Arthur Rackham first editions. More about ARTHUR RACKHAM. A Bibliography. By Sarah Briggs Latimore and Grace Clark Haskell
New York: Weathervane Books, [1976]. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued in 1931. Octavo, original maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine, small pictorial device in gilt on front panel. Decorated endpapers. Unpaginated [28 pp]. Nearly fine, quite a nice copy, in like dust jacket. ¶ A wonderfully illustrated version of... More about THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS By Clement C. Moore, LL.D. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
london: Duckworth. 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Large quarto, original brown boards, gilt titles on spine. 147 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white depictions of bizarre inventions by Heath Robinson. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket which shows some fading to the spine... More about INVENTIONS
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 dname and date in ink on front free endpaper, minor wear to the cloth at spine tips and corners, some... More about THE DEAD KING
West Yorkshire: E.P. Publishing Limited. 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1947 edition. Octavo, original red boards, gilt titles to spine. 270 pp., Illustrated. Small spots to fore-edges, a very good clean copy in a very good dust wrapper, slight wear at edges. A nice copy. Scarce. More about THE LIFE AND ART OF W. HEATH ROBINSON. By Langston Day
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel, front panel inlaid with a colour pictorial paper label reproducing a painting by Schoonover. 316 pp, colour frontispiece and five additional full-page black & white... More about PRIVATEERS OF '76. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover