Illustrated Literature & History

numbered 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, and 15, respectively; 455 x 300 mm; printed in black on bright-coloured paper of various colours, all illustrated with clip art images by Gorey; sheets, not rolled as usually found.

First edition, trade issue, signed by Gorey on the last leaf; folio; publisher's stapled wrappers.

First edition, sole impression; 8vo; 24 colour lithograph plates and plain wood-engraved title vignette by Eric Ravilious; publisher's pictorial boards, with the 'transmatic' dust jacket and printed card flaps, a superb copy in the rare cellophane dust-jacket with printed paper flaps, cellophane shrunk as usual with front flap separated, nevertheless a stunning copy of a vulnerable book.

First edition; one of 350 copies signed by the artist, with original ink & wash drawing of a dog below the limitation details; 4to (290 x 225 mm.); 12 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, vignette title and illustrations, all by Cecil Aldin, internally excellent; publisher's vellum-backed white boards lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, slightly marked with some browning to top-edge, rubbed at one corner, but overall very good.

Limited edition, one of 67 copies on Japon, this numbered 37; 8vo (21 x 17.5 cm); 325pp., 36 compositions in colour after Barbier including the printed wrappers, title-page and vignette, printed on wood by Gasperini, with an additional suite of illustrations of the same composition but in a simplified outline design, printed in red, black, grey or purple, pages cut and in various sizes, blue marbled endpapers, minor age toning but otherwise very fresh; bound in contemporary quarter crushed dark blue morocco over marbled boards with the original wrappers bound in, spine in six parts with raised bands and gilt title to second, in excellent condition.

First edition, limited edition, one of 150 copies signed by Barbier, this being number 20; folio (37 x 29 cm); illustrated half-title with colour wood-engraved design, limitation verso, title with colour wood-engraved Harlequin vignette, 12 full wood-engraved colour plates, text in French by Flament, 2 large vignettes, 22 wood-engraved colour four-line initials as well as decorative devices in the text, engraved by Schmied after Barbier, many heightened in silver and gold, final wood-engraved colour vignette, list of plates and colophon, each leaf of text surrounded by decorative frame, marbled endpapers; original pictorial wrapper bound in, contemporary vellum over boards hand-coloured with oriental floral design, signed 'houy pinxit 1929' on the lower cover, marbled chemise with brown morocco label to spine with matching slipcase, slipcase and chemise slightly worn but otherwise an excellent copy.

8vo (20.2 x 16 cm). No. 227 of 1000. 325 pp. with coloured wood-engraved illustrations by Gasperini after Barbier. Original pictorial wrappers.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author to title-page; numerous plates and illustrations within the text, slight age-toning, otherwise near-fine; publisher's quarter purple clot over paper-covered boards, amusingly illustrated dust-jacket, rubbed and creased edges, more so to rear panel, otherwise good.

First edition; large 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, minor smudge to top of spine, Banting designed dust-jacket, lightly marked, small chip at the top of the spine panel and some associated, short tears, a particularly fresh copy.

First edition, trade issue; 4to (280 x 280 mm.); 12 transfer lithographs by Nicholson, usual offsetting onto text leaves; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, usual darkening, some marking to lower cover, but overall a very good, sharp copy.