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Original ILLUMINATED Vellum LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. Gloria in Ritissimi deo Terra di Glory to God in the land of the gods expert.

By: N/A

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: 1515:

Seller ID: 83261

WONDERFUL ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A EARLY 16TH-CENTURY FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS, FEATURING A BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED IMAGE OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS. Double sided vellum leaf (3.75 by 6 inches), illuminated in gold, black, white, gray, red, pink, green, blue, yellow, and brown inks, with verso features 25 lines of script. Held in hogarth Black wooden frame with gilt borders, glass front, ivory mount. In very good condition. Mount a little rubbed on edges, small chip lower edge. The leaf is unusually busy and animated, features three shepherds, a woman holding a sheep and a dog, with sheep...
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Original ILLUMINATED Antiphon Music Sheet 1560 Parchment Leaf

By: N/A

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Ca 1560:

Seller ID: 83506

ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A EARLY 16TH-CENTURY ITALIAN BOOK OF HOURS, Double sided Parchment leaf (26cm x 40cm), illuminated in black, white, red, blue, inks. In good condition. Lightly tanned, with a few light staining on edges.
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Wives. Wives by Washington Irving and The Henpecked Man by Sir Richard Steele. Pictures by Cecil Aldin.

By: (ALDIN, CECIL) / IRVING, WASHINGTON / STEELE, RICHARD:

Price: £75.00

Publisher: William Heinemann. 1909.:

Seller ID: 73129

Size 5.0 x 6.75 inches. In brown hard card covers with colour plate pasted to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed with small piece missing from bottom end. Slightly rubbed around edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1912. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 30pp. With 3 colour plates tipped in and b/w illustrations in text. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Scarce.
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Silas Marner, The Weaver of Ravelow With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. The Series of English Idylls.

By: (BROCK, C.E.); ELIOT, George:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London / New York J. M. Dent & Co. / E. P. Dutton & Co. 1905:

Seller ID: 80088

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In light green cloth with gilt lettering and extensive gilt decorations to spine and front. With decorative endpapers. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Small nicks to corners of spine. Endpapers slightly darkened. Side and bottom page edges rough cut. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. A very nice copy. 262pp. 24 colour plates & decorative title page by C. M. Brock.
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The Twelve Months. with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

By: (GIBBINGS, ROBERT) POWYS, LEWELLYN:

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Redcliffe. Bristol. 1986 repr.:

Seller ID: 84662

Size 6.0 x 9.25 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 88pp. With b/w engravings by Robert Gibbings. The first reprint since the original. The author describes each month in turn with some history as well as a description of the natural history typical of the month.
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Stories from The Pentamerone. Selected & edited by E. F. Strange. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. In Stunning Leather Fine Binding.

By: (GOBLE, WARWICK) BASILE, Giambattista;

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. 1911 First edition,:

Seller ID: 85120

Hardback, 4to. approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Quarter bound fine leather binding by “Bayntun-Riviere, Bath.” Polished dark red morocco leather to spine and corners, and red cloth to boards. Raised banding, gilt lettering, and decorations to spine. Top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In excellent near fine condition. Stunning fine leather binding by “Bayntun-Riviere, Bath.” Lovely clean smart cover. No penned inscriptions or marks. Binders stamp to blank corner of endpaper. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 304pp. Illustrated...
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The Fairy Book. The Best and Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman". With 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble.

By: (GOBLE, WARWICK) MRS. CRAIK:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. 1913 (1st illustrated edition.):

Seller ID: 84044

Tall hardback, 10 x 7 inches. Blue cloth binding, extensive gilt decoration and vignette to front board, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Spine darkened, rubbed with small chips to cloth at ends. Corners bumped. Scratch to rear board. Some minor darkening to endpapers with neat inscription to front “To my Darling Helen, with love from Auntie Bee & Uncle Harry.” Some minor light foxing to prelims, some faint minor staining to edge of frontis plate, and to top edges of some inside plates. Some mild to moderate f...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With 35 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

By: (GREENAWAY, KATE) BROWNING, ROBERT:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 84121

Hardback, 4to. Approx 10 x 8.5 inches. Brown cloth spine, illustrated paper covered boards. Grey-blue endpapers. Blue page edging. In very good condition. corners bumped and chipped, rubbed around edges. Endpapers clean. No penned inscriptions. Title pages clean, but some dark foxing to inner pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 64pp. Many colour illustrations in text by Kate Greenaway. First edition of a beautifully illustrated version of Browning’s poem. The poem is printed twice. The second time with the illustrations.
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Image for Seven Short Stories. Chosen from: The Connoisseur and Other Stories. Broomsticks and Other Tales. The Riddle and Other Stories. SIGNED Limited Edition.

Seven Short Stories. Chosen from: The Connoisseur and Other Stories. Broomsticks and Other Tales. The Riddle and Other Stories. SIGNED Limited Edition.

By: (NASH, JOHN) DE LA MARE, WALTER:

Price: £220.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber, 1931 1st Ltd Numbered Edition 83/170.:

Seller ID: 83294

Hardback, 9 x 6.5 inches. Full vellum binding with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor darkening to spine, a couple of minor handling marks to cover, some light foxing to endpapers, signed page (by author and artist) and inside pages all clean and bright. Colour plates clean and bright. Bookplate to front “Mina Bowater,” (the Bowater bookplate is by renowned gun engraver Malcolm Appleby, see note.) Else a very clean and tight copy. Malcolm Appleby turned his Silver Trust commission towards a more peaceful end: the pieces a...
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The Love Books of Ovid. A Completely Unexpurgated and Newly Translated Edition by Charles D. Young. Together with the Elegie Translated by Christopher Marlowe. Illustrated by Alexander King.

By: (OVID): YOUNG, Charles D.:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Privately Published, Art Studio Books, 1930 1st Ltd. Numbered Ed. 174/2000.:

Seller ID: 85157

Hardback, approx 9.5 x 6 inches. Quarter bound black cloth with patterned paper to boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine. In very good near fine condition. Lovely clean smart cover with clear protective jacket. No penned inscriptions. Numbered on prelim before frontis plate. Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 302pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates and decorations by Alexander King.
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A Midsummer-Night's Dream.

By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM:

Price: £300.00

Publisher: William Heinemann, London. 1908 1st edition:

Seller ID: 77156

Tall 8vo. (10 x 7.5 inches.) Beige pictorial cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With gilt vignette to front. In very good condition. Spine darkened and bumped at ends, two small nicks to front edge. Small marks and darkening to edges of boards. Mild foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Colour plates all present and clean and bright. Occasional foxing spots. Else a very clean and tight copy. A beautifully illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s play. 134pp. With 40 mounted colour plates with titled tissue guards. Plus b&w head and tail pieces.
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The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax: A Poem, by the Author of The Three Tours.

By: (ROWLANDSON, T.)

Price: £200.00

Publisher: London, R. Ackermann, 1822 1st:

Seller ID: 84733

Hardback, 9.5 x 6 inches. Quarter bound brown calf leather to spine and corners, and marbled paper to boards. With gilt decorative edging to boards, gilt decorations and lettering to spine. Speckled page edges and marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Lovely fine leather binding. Minor bumps to corners, some minor rubbing to boards. Neat previous owners stamp to endpaper “A.M. Robertson.” Lovely clean and bright plates, with neat colouring. Some minor darkening/offsetting to adjacent pages else inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clea...
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Hillingdon Hall. Or The Cockney Squire. A Tale Of Country Life. With Twelve Illustrations by Wildrake, Heath, and Jellicoe, Coloured By Hand.

By: (SURTEES)

Price: £58.00

Publisher: London, John C. Nimmo, 1899:

Seller ID: 82820

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches approx. In red cloth covers with gilt lettering and pictorial decoration to spine, pictorial gilt vignette to front. Decorative blind paneled boards. In very good condition. Overall al very clean and bright copy. Spine faded and slight fading to edges of boards, corners slightly rubbed. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Christopher Heseltine 1898.” Small seller-stamp to verso “George’s, Bristol.” Some light foxing to prelims and half-title. Some slight darkening to outer edges of pages, inside pages all very clean and bright throughout, co...
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Image for The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrations by Warwick Goble. The Modern Readers Chaucer. Now first put into Modern English by John S.P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. In Stunning Leather Fine Binding.

The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrations by Warwick Goble. The Modern Readers Chaucer. Now first put into Modern English by John S.P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. In Stunning Leather Fine Binding.

By: (WARWICK GOBLE): CHAUCER: TATLOCK, J.: MACKAYE. P.:

Price: £1,500.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1940 NEVER Published:

Seller ID: 85122

Hardback, 4to. approx 9.5 x 7 inches. Bound in polished full morocco fine leather binding by “Bayntun-Riviere, Bath.” Raised banding, gilt lettering, and decorations to spine. Gilt design to front. Full gilt page edges, marbled endpapers. In excellent near fine condition. Stunning fine leather binding by “Bayntun-Riviere, Bath.” Lovely clean smart cover. Gilt binders stamp to bottom edge of front board. No penned inscriptions or marks. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 607pp. Illustrated with 32 colour plates by Warwick Goble.
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The Story of Mr. Korah Illustrated by Rex Whistler.

By: ABERCONWAY, Christabel;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph, 1954 1st edition:

Seller ID: 77464

Hardback, 10 x 7.5 ins. Half bound in red and grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front corner. In original dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW some marks, corners torn, some minor tears to edges.) corners slightly bumped, edges of boards faded. Felt pen inscription to rear endpaper “H.E.S.” Some minor foxing along top edge of frontis and title page, small crease to bottom corner of frontis plate. A couple of minor spots else pages clean and tight. 38pp. 3 colour tipped in plates, and b&w illustrations by Rex Whistler.
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A Necklace of Raindrops. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.

By: AIKEN, Joan;

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape. 1968 1st:

Seller ID: 75670

10 x 7 ins. In blue cloth with black lettering and design to fornt and spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrap. (DW in plastic sleeve, edges/corners rubbed, spine a little faded, ink mark nr top of spine.) Inside pages clean and tight throughout with no marks or isncriptions. Cloth clean and unmarked. 107pp. B&W and full-page colour illustrations.
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

By: ALDIN, CECIL / DICKENS, C.:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Chapman & Hall 1910 (1st.ed., thus):

Seller ID: 82132

2 vols; Tall 8vo; Bound in original Cloth spines, gt; Lighter shade of cloth on covers. In good condition. Ends of spines slightly rubbed with a few small nicks. Corners slightly bruised. Volume I rear board a little marked. Inside mostly clean with usually just the top edge of pages a little bit browned, some slight foxing. A few pages outer margin a fraction trimmed. 24 lovely col. plts. by Aldin. Many b/w illustrations. 450pp; 457pp; uncut.
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The Romance of the Road. Written & illustrated by C. Aldin. ‘Cheap Edition’

By: ALDIN, CECIL:

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. 1933 1st thus:

Seller ID: 74491

Large volume approx 13 x 10 inches. In blue cloth with yellow/cream lettering to front and spine. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth and minor bumps to corners. Inside some very minor foxing to endpapers else inside pages in fine condition. 17 colour plates & many b/w ills. 123 pp. Folding colour map at rear.
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The Romance of the Road. Written & illustrated by Cecil Aldin. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.

By: ALDIN, CECIL:

Price: £700.00

Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. 1928 1st Ltd Ed. 26/200.:

Seller ID: 83335

Large hardback, 15 x 11 inches. Full vellum bound covers, beveled edge boards, with gilt lettering to spine and front. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening around edges of boards, some light scratches and marks to rear side. Folding map in front pocket with small tear to top edge. Foxing to endpapers, some small spots to frontis tissue guard and title pg. Signed in pencil by Cecil Aldin on verso of title page. Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good limited edition copy. 17 colour plates & many b/w ills. ...
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Ratcatcher to Scarlet.

By: ALDIN, CECIL:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1927 2nd edition.:

Seller ID: 84194

Hardback, approx 10 x 8 inches. Black cloth lettered in red to spine and front with red and white fox face design to front. In very good condition. Corners and ends of spine rubbed and bumped, small nick to top corner and top end of spine. Some surface rubbing and handling marks to boards. Free endpapers darkened. Neat inscription to front endpaper, “Hyacinth M. Tuckett, 1931.” Some mild foxing spots to pages throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 123pp. With 15 full-page colour illustrations, and many in b/w. Guidance for the novice foxhunter. A series of letters writt...
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