Beautifully illustrated children's stories including the Lost Lamb and an alphabet. With colour plates. Decorative cloth covers. 4to. Lacks title page. Tears and loss to spine. Marking to covers. Binding sound. Fair. [more...]
With stylish colour illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Collection of verse and short stories. Mild staining to covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Half-title loosening. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Nice early illustrated Italian edition of Collodi's popular 1883 novel. With b/w illustrations and 4 colour plates by Luigi Augusta Cavalieri. Red cloth with gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. Rubbing to spine. Front hinge splitting, frontispiece loos [more...]
Charming story, told in verse, of two newfoundland twins, with colour and two tone lithographic plates. Tall 4to. Card covers. Rubbing to edges with small tears. Cracking to spine. Mild toning. Good overall. [more...]
Illustrated collection of verse describing the adventures of a family of Kangeroos. With chromolithographic plates and b/w illustrations. to. No date but c. 1910. Rubbing to edges with backstrip missing. Cracking to hinges. Toning and light spotting with [more...]
First Uk edition of Evan's retelling of Aesop's fable, relocated to Persia and illustrated throughout by the author. Some mild bumping and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Charming illustrated edition of Grahame's clasic children's story, with colour versions of Shepard's illustrations. Colour maps to end-papers. DJ has some tanning to edges. Volume is clean and prim. Very good. A nice example. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Scarce pamphlet of this childrens' story, told in verse with chromolithographic illustrations throughout. Some rubbing and tears to edges of cover, with loss. Toning within, else sound. Good. [more...]
With chromolithographic illustrations done in Prussia. Bound with cord with tassel. Bumping and rubbing to edges, with small tears to edges. Previous owner's name in pencil to front pastedown. Good. [more...]
Colourful, innovate pop up book of Red Riding Hood by the artist and architect. German edition, Some mild shelf-wear to covers. All pop ups complete and working. Good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Kinglsey's great children's novel with 8 colour illustrations by Katherine Cameron. Spine is slightly toned, mild foxing to page edges with very infrequent spotting within. Binding tight and square, generally clean. A nice tidy copy of a [more...]
Charming volume describing the lives of children all over the world, with b/w and colour images. 4to. One instance of pencilling to b/w image. General wear and bumping to covers. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Neat illustrated adventure novel. With six b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1890. Pictorial covers. Tanning to edges. General wear to covers but contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1950. The second volume of stories featuring the mischievous cat. Illustrated throughout in Colour by Mary Kendal Lee. DJ has tears and creasing to edges with loss to top of spine. Small tear to top of spine. Price struck through with pen t [more...]
Collection of long and short stories and verse. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour illustrations. 4to. Rubbing to edges, with toning and fraying to spine. Marking to rear cover. One small b/w illustration coloured in. Previous owner's inscription [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Collection of classic nursery rhymes with colour illustrations and further sepia toned drawing. No 1. in the Farquhrson's Royal Standard Series. 4to. Splitting to joints. Bumping to edges. Toning within. Fair/good. [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Collection of episodes based on various child characters from Dickens' novels, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist etc., usually filling in details from their background, retold and imagined by L. L. Weedon. With 6 colour plates a [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Chunky, sharply illustrated children's book of verse. With chromolithographic images by Caspari over sepia colour thick paper. Previous owner's name to cover, Marking and toning to covers. Some foxing to edges. Front hinge cracked and [more...]
Nicely illustrated history of Britain over the nineteenth century, with key events and dates, each with colour illustrations by Mrs. Ernest Ames. Oblong 4to. Cracking to hinges, text-block coming loose. Heavy tanning to page edges, small tears and creasing [more...]
