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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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Original ILLUMINATED Vellum LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. A 15th century French leaf, from a Manuscript Book of Hours, on vellum.

By: N/A

Price: £300.00

Publisher: 1500:

Seller ID: 83884

WONDERFUL ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A EARLY 15TH-CENTURY FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS. Double sided vellum leaf (18.5cm by 13cm), illuminated in gold, black, white, gray, red, pink, green, blue, yellow, and brown inks, with verso 16 lines of script. See illustration slight browning/a little grubby, in pencil to the bottom right corner VB Nicely held in late card folder with a leather label on the front.
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Political Sketches &c. In Six Volumes. 1829 - 1841. Sketches No.1 to No.707.

By: "H.B.": DOYLE, John:

Price: £1,600.00

Publisher: London, Thomas M’Lean, 1829-1841:

Seller ID: 83567

Six Volumes. Large hardbacks, approx 17 x 12 inches. Quarter bound maroon leather to spines and corners, purple cloth boards (Vol.6 has marbled paper boards and is labeled 1838-1841 instead of “vol.6”.) Gilt lettering and decorative banding to spines, gilt lettered leather panels to front boards. All page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good conditions. Some wear to covers; Some minor rubbing to edges and corners, corners slightly bumped, cloths on boards faded. Vol.6. boards darkened, and spine has been professionally rebacked in cloth. Some minor handling marks, some m...
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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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Pan-Pipes. A Book of old Songs. Newly arranged & with accompaniments by T. Marzials. Set to Pictures by Walter Crane. Engraved and Printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

By: (CRANE, WALTER) MARZIALS, T:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons , 1883 (1st.):

Seller ID: 78636

Hardback, Oblong, 8vo. 12.5 x 9 inches. Maroon cloth binding to spine, bevel edge boards with decorative paper covers. In good condition. Cover is a little worn with rubbing to edges and chips/bumps to corners. Spine rubbed and nicked at ends with a couple of small splits to cloth. Some darkening to endpapers, neat inscription to top of half-title page “H.M.M. Oct 1882.” Some rubbing and a couple of small tears to edges of endpapers. Some minor darkening to edges and handling marks else pages clean and tight. 51 pages of coloured illustrations, with music & text inset.
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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 Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) INGOLDSBY, THOMAS:

Price: £80.00

Publisher: J.M.Dent. 1898 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 83124

Size 20cm x 14.5cm. Bound in original attractive green cloth, binding decorated with gilt to spine and front. Top edges gilt. Pictorial light green endpapers. In very good condition. Spine & corners slightly bumped. Rear board has a few faint marks. Half title page scuffed top edge. Occasional foxing spots to tissue guards, small faint private stamp on front endpaper. Pages are rough cut. Else a clean and tight copy. 638pp. With 12 colour plates with tissue guards, and b/w plates and illustrations in text.
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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 Compleat Angler. Or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) WALTON, IZAAK:

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1931 1st thus edition:

Seller ID: 77354

Hardback. 4to; approx 10 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering and gilt fish design to front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, slight rubbing to corners and front board. Spine faded, boards a little darkened. Endpapers and half-title page slightly darkened, else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 224pp; Pictorial endpapers; 12 colour plates (with tissue guards) & many B&W illustrations.
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Cinderella. Retold by C. S. Evans and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR): EVANS, C. S.:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1919 1st:

Seller ID: 83126

Hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. Half bound with orange cloth spine with black lettering and design, and illustrated paper covered boards. Pictorial green endpapers. In good condition Some rubbing to edges of boards, top corners slightly bumped. Some small foxing spots to pages throughout. Inscription on front endpaper. Else clean and tight copy. Beautiful colour plates. 110pp. Illustrated with many B&W ‘silhoutte’ illustrations, some full page, plus 3 double-page colour illustrated spreads, and a colour ‘tipped-in’ frontis plate. Decorative title and frontis pages.
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Winnie The Pooh Collection. In Four Books; Winnie the Pooh, House at Pooh Corner; When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six.

By: (SHEPARD, E. H.) MILNE, A. A.:

Price: £380.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927 4th; 1928 2nd; 1930 21st; & 1927 1st. (In Title order):

Seller ID: 82240

4 Volumes; hardbacks, green, red, pink and blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to spines, gilt pictorial vignette illustrations to front and rear boards. Gilt line edging to front boards. Top page edges all gilt. Illustrated endpapers. In very good near fine conditions. Cloths very clean and smart, some minor rubbing to edges and corners. tiny bump to front of ‘Now We Are Six.’ Penned inscriptions to endpapers of each volume. Some darkening to endpapers. A couple of minor handling marks to pages else all very clean and tight throughout. An excellent collection of Milne’s 4 Best...
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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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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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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. In Two Volumes. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.

By: ALDIN, CECIL: DICKENS, Charles:

Price: £895.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1910 1st, Limited Numbered & Signed Edition, 177/250.:

Seller ID: 82885

2 vols; Hardback, Tall 8vo; in Limited Edition vellum bindings, gilt lettering and pictorial decorations to spines and fronts. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some darkening to spines and covers, rubbing to rear of vol.1 and front of vol.2, some spotting to rear side of v.2. Endpaper heavily foxed, half-title page clean and bright, signed page ov opposite side with some minor spots from rear of frontis plate. Colour plates with some minor foxing to blank-back sides, else clean and bright. All plates guarded. Else very clean and tight copies of a scarce limited edition. 450 & 4...
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