Browse by Attribute—Illustrated
A Dyer's Manual
1985, a classic text on the making and using of dyes
Jill Goodwin
Pelham Books, London, 1985
£40.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations
H R Dickinson, illustrated by A S Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, F C Dickinson, Charles Dixon, W Hatherell, H M Paget, Balliol Salmon, and the author.
Printed for the Author(s), 1906
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Old City of Warsaw, 10 wood-engravings (Signed limited edition)
Each wood-engraving signed by Eugeniusz Pichell, housed in a leather portfolio
Eugeniusz Pichell, also as Eugeniusza Pichella in Polish
Intrografia, Warsaw, 1969
£150.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Illustrated
The Ismailis, An Illustrated History (2008, first edition)
2008, a very good copy of this important study
Farhad Daftary, and Zulfikar Hirji
Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Binko's Blues, A Tale for Children of All Growths
1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding
Herman Charles Merivale, illustrated by Edgar Giberne
Chapman & Hall, London, 1884
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Wales (Signed first edition)
Signed by Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Malby
Kaffe Fassett
The Taunton Press, Newtown, CT, 2022
£30.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Adventure (1930, first edition, with important Great War inscription)
J E B Seely's wartime memoirs, this copy signed by Sir Lionel Fletcher to Général Vicomte de la Panouse
J E B Seely, illustrations by Sir William Orpen and A J Munnings, introduction by Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead
William Heinemann, London, 1930
Sold
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy | Illustrated
J M W Turner (1902, signed limited edition)
This copy owned by artist and collector Charles Fairfax Murray, signed to him from the publisher and one of 350 copies on Japanese paper
Sir Walter Armstrong
Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1902
£250.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Association Copy | Illustrated
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, first BC edition)
Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition
Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Lewis Galatiere, decorated by John O'H Cosgrave, II
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
One Hundred Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (1947)
In an attractive Barnett Freedman binding
John Rothenstein, binding design by Barnett Freedman
Tate Gallery, London, 1947
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Family of Tufnell (1924, first edition)
A privately printed family history from Elizabethan times, and including the family's Great War service
E Bertha Tufnell
Privately printed, 1924
£40.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866, first edition)
A reading copy only, with nine engraved plates
James Ballantine
Adam and Charles Black, London, 1866
£70.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Ars Chirurgica, A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Chirurgery
1699, the second edition of William Salmon's book of surgery containing the first three sections and 12 plates
William Salmon
J Dawks, London, 1699
£275.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Studio International Art, six bound copies January-June 1963
including Sean Kenny, L S Lowry, Keith Vauughan, Abram Games and many more
G S Whittet, editor
Longacre Press, London, 1963
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, first edition, in a unique leather binding)
With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
The Jungle Book (1924) & The Second Jungle Book (1923)
Two very decent reprinted editions of Kipling's classic tales
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J Lockwood Kipling & W H Drake
Macmillan, London, 1924
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1920)
A very good copy with Christ's Hospital crest in gilt
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1920
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Armand Rassenfosse, 30 colour plates for Les Fleurs du Mal
1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire
Armand Rassenfosse
Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930
£180.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Littlehampton Bequest (Signed limited edition, 1973)
No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'
Osbert Lancaster, with a foreword by Roy Strong
John Murray, London, 1973
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern (1893)
The second enlarged edition of Egerton Castle's history of bookplates
Egerton Castle
George Bell & Sons, London, 1893
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Memoires de Casanova (1955, unique leather binding & signed bookplates)
With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker
Casanova, edited by Rene Groos. Illustrated by Brunelleschi
Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Les Amores (1954, the artist's proof copy, and with signed bookplate)
Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat
Ovid, as Ovide, translated by George Vertut. Illustrated by Paul-Emile Becat
Editions Athena, Paris, 1954
£100.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Thais (1948, in a unique leather binding)
With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Anatole France, illustrated by Suzanne Ballivet
Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Daphnis and Chloe (1937, signed by Aristide Maillol)
Limited edition 54/250, additionally inscribed by Anton Zwemmer to E L T Mesens
Longus, translated by George Thornley, illustrated by Aristide Maillol
A Zwemmer, London, 1937
£700.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Association Copy | Illustrated | Slipcase
