Edwardian & Inter-War Illustrated
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Square 8vo (210 x 155 mm.); pictorial title printed in red & black, 24 colour plates by John Elliott, a little minor spotting, gift inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth blocked in dark brown, an attractive copy.
£150 -
First edition; 4to (263 x 195 mm.); 20 mounted colour plates by M. Etheldreda Gray, pictorial title, neat ink name to head of front free endpaper, internally fine; publisher's white cloth with elaborate decorative gilt decoration to upper cover and spine, upper cover with further decoration in green, top edge gilt, a fine example, preserved in publisher's plain glassine wrapper and original printed box (worn and lacking top section).
£375 -
First edition, first printing; large 4to (360 x 300 mm.); colour plates and vignettes by Maxfield Parrish; publisher's cloth with onlaid colour pictorial title, a few minor scratches, slight rubbing, but overall a very good copy.
£1,800 -
First trade edition; 4to; frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissues guards and 126 black and white illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, light spotting to endpapers and extreme edges, else very good; publisher's blue cloth gilt, the upper cover mounted with a pictorial plate, age-toned, bumped on spine ends and a little rubbed, otherwise a decent copy.
£475 -
First editions; 2 vols, oblong 4t; pictorial titles and colour lithographed plates by Elinor Darwin, the first with some very light marginal staining; publisher's paper-covered boards, the first with red imitation wax medallioin, the second pictorial, some minor rubbing and bumping, light dust-soiling and toning but overall very good copies.
£275 -
Limited edition, number 476 of 600 copies signed by Rackham, 4to. (29,5 x 24cm), 206pp., 24 full-page colour illustrations, 16 of which tipped-in, captioned tissue-guards, 20 black and white drawings, pictorial end-papers, publisher's cream cloth gilt, pictorial vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a few marks, spine darkened with two small stains, otherwise good and internally fine.
£1,500 -
8vo. (25 x 18cm), 4 full-page colour illustrations, 16 black-and-white drawings in the text, original light blue cloth, light wear, original blue dust jacket, a very good copy.
£300