Limited edition of Andersen's tales, illustrated throughout by Rex Whistler. Limited to 200 copies and signed by Whistler to half-title. Cream cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorative end-papers with matching pattern. All edges gilt. With 10 full [more...]
Charming selection of Japanese folk tales, retold by Grace James. Includes 38 stories featuring Green Willow, The Singing Bird of Heaven. The Flute, The Tea kettle amongst others. With 40 marvellous colour illustrations by Warwick Goble, each tissue guarded a [more...]
Scarce edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, featuring the expanded set of colour illustrations by Joyce Mercer, complete with 8 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. No date but c. 1920. Paper covered cloth. 4to. Light rubbing to [more...]
Sumptuously produced compendium of Children's stories, including classic fairy stories by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Victor Hugo and others plus new pieces by E. V. Lucas, Evelyn Sharp and more. With numerous full page colour illustrations b [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of Dickens' short story, with colour plates plus smaller b/w illustrations within the text done by J. C. Beard. 4to. Pictorial covers. Backstrip missing. Heavy rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to half-title. Occasiona [more...]
No date but c. 1875. Collection of children's stories including Henny-Penny, The Peacock at Home, Baby and The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. Complete with 24 chromolithographic plates done by Kronheim & co. 4to. Some bumping and wear to edges. Hinges weaken [more...]
'Illustrated with 217 Pictures in oil colours by the First Artists'. Collection of classic nursery tales, including The Three Bears, Bold Robin Hood, Jack the Giant killer and others. With numerous images arranged in panels. 4to. Pictorial covers. Rubbin [more...]
Fetching blue US variant of Morris' translation from the Flemish of classic tales from Flanders and Brabant, many appearing here in English for the first time. Adorned with numerous illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, including 12 full colour plates. 4to. So [more...]
Collection of Children's stories: Goody two Shoes, Aladdin and The Yellow Dwarf. With 18 full page colour illustrations by Crane. 4to. Bumping to edges of spine, small nick to spine. Mild toning to covers. Mild toning within, else sound. Good. [more...]
Glorious limited edition of Balzac's humourous short stories in the style of the Decameron, appearing in 1832, 1833 & 1837. Bound in half cloth with decorative paper to boards. Fore-edge rough cut. With two tone illustrations by Barton. Limited to 2050 cop [more...]
Collection of verse and story, with colour illustrations throughout by May Smith. 4to. Wear to edges and toning to spine. Cracking to front hinge but binding holding, occasional toning/spotting within, Fair+ [more...]
Collection of Children's stories with Peto's iconic, stylish illustrations, with some colour plates plus b/w images within the text. No date but c. 1900. 4to. Rubbing and wear to edges. Mild spotting and mark to fore-edge. Binding sound and contents clean [more...]
Limited edition, selection of stories from the Decameron, taken from the anonymous translation of 1741 and revised by Orson in 1896. Illustrated in b/w with linocuts by Edmondo Lucchesi. Limited to c. 1000 copies, of which this is number 749. quarter cloth w [more...]
Obscure edition of the Arabian Nights, published 'weekly or monthly in five parts.' Contains the introduction and numerous well known tales including the Fisherman and the Genie, Sinbad etc. With engravings throughout. 4to. 336pp. No date but c. 1870. No t [more...]
Comprising Sunny Days, Home for the Holidays, Right and Wrong & Picture Rhymes of Happy Times. With 32 colour illustrations, chromolithographs of oil paintings. With accompanying verse or short prose pieces. Large 8vo. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning [more...]
The Mackenzie edition, featuring colour reproductions of the paintings of T. Blakeley Mackenzie, from the earlier Arthur Ransome verse edition. Complete with 8 colour plates plus one b/w plate and further decoration. Prose renderings of these stories from th [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries that draw on, a frequently send up, existing legends. With reproductions of the original illustratio [more...]
'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to e [more...]
Collection of short stories by Miller and other authors on edifying, often rural theme. With b/w illustrations and titles. Decorative cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to joints. Tanning within, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
