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GILLMOR Robert
Sketches of Bird Life. Introduction and Commentary by Robert Gillmor. [Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This edition published simultaneously with the Gollancz first edition
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HORSLEY John
The Long Flight. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe.
4to., First Edition, with a wood-engraved frontispiece in cream and black and 18 splendid wood-engraved plates in cream and black, free endpapers lightly spotted, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; sky-blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce in anything like this condition.
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LOCKLEY Ronald
The Island. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped and lightly frayed dustwrapper.
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BRATBY Michael
Through the Air. Adventures with Wild Fowl and Small Boat Sailing.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, 20 photographic plates, numerous illustrations by Scott in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition.
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CUNEO Terence
The Mouse and his Master. The Life and Work of Terence Cuneo. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Oblong folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in the publisher's card slip-case, the latter lightly pulled around thumb-hole.
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ANDERSEN Hans Christian
Danish Fairy Tales and Legends. With a Memoir of the Author and with Sixteen Illustrations by W. H. Robinson. HEATH ROBINSON IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, pictorial gilt from original upper board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
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SHACKLETON Keith
Tidelines. With a Foreword by Peter Scott.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 fine coloured plates and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped but very worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at upper edge of front panel (eliminating most of title) and upper edge of rear panel. Beautifully illustrated studies of seabirds and sailing. Scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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BUFFET Bernard
Le Cirque. e Cirque [the Circus as seen by Bernard Buffet].
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 7 coloured and 21 monochrome plates (2 double-page); original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy. 'Art et Style' 38.
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BOCCACCIO Giovanni
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg. With an Illustrated Introduction and Sixteen Hand-Coloured Illustrations from original Drawings by Louis Chalon.
2 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispieces and 14 fine coloured plates; original red cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, one wrapper with one tiny nick (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. A beautiful copy.
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HOPKINS Justine
Michael Ayrton. A Biography. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HERON Roy
Cecil Aldin. The Story of a Sporting Artist. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with tinted portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page and many tinted) in the text; pictorial green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, green endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The definitive biography with extensive bibliography.
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POOLE Monica
The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh. With a Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Folio, First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece in red and black, and very numerous fine engravings (a number full-page and many in red and black) in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Collects over 100 of Farleigh's finest illustrations, including his notable front cover for Shaw's 'Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God' (1932). Includes a check-list and blbiography. Horne, p.186.
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STONE Reynolds
Engravings. With an Introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous engravings throughout; original navy buckram, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in lightly browned dustwrapper.
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UTTLEY Alison
Secret Places and other Essays. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper
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UTTLEY Alison
Wild Honey. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly marked and with minor loss at head of backstrip.
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DOWDESWELL J.
The Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago. [Foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh].
4to., First Edition, with 36 fine coloured plates; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. First published collection of Seago's paintings of Antarctica, produced during the voyage of RY Britannia in 1956-57. Many appear here in print for the first time.
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BENINGFIELD (illus.) Gordon
Poems of the Countryside. Pictures by Gordon Beningfield. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and tinted illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; grey-green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RATCLIFFE Dorothy Una
Lillilows. Character Sketches in Prose and Verse. Illustrated by Fred Lawson. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 6 tinted plates and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and red, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned and age-marked, lightly rubbed at head and tail of backstrip and with one small tear at tail of backstrip. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Scarce in this condition.
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SCOTT Peter
Wild Chorus. FIRST TRADE EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 64 plates in monochrome and several illustrations in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First Trade Edition, and scarce in this condition
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TUNNICLIFFE C.F.
A Sketchbook of Birds. Introduction by Ian Niall. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured title-vignette and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DAY L.B.
Folk Tales of Bengal. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with 32 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), some light and obtrusive spotting as often; original decorative cloth gilt, boards elaborately blocked and patterned in gilt, back gilt extra, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Lal Behari Day's collection of folklore was first published in 1883. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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SHEPHERD David
An Artist in Africa. Foreword by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Introduction by Nigel Sitwell. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured plates; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel, and with one small tear at lower corner. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON TITLE.
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FARNOL Jeffery
The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION
4to., First Illustrated Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), coloured title-vignette and 20 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), free endpapers mildly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, original blue pictorial cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt with small coloured illustrated (not repeated in text) mounted in oval frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. Farnol's tale was first published (in unillustrated form) in 1913. Uncommon in this condition. Kelly p.162.
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GOODALL (illus.) John S.
An Edwardian Summer. [With a Foreword by Harold Macmillan].
Sm. oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous charming full-page illustrations throughout; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wholly charming evocation of the Edwardian age by the illustrator probably best known for his work in the Miss Read novels.
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FARNOL Jeffery
Another Day. [New Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Brock. Uncommon in this condition.
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OGILVIE W. H.
The Collected Sporting Verse of Will H. Ogilvie. Ogilvie. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and 31 fine coloured plates by Edwards; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first omnibus edition, comprising the seven previous collections Galloping, Shoes, The Call of the Bugle, The Clink of the Bit, Scattered Scarlet, Over the Grass, A Handful of Leather, and Later Verses, together with 16 poems never before collected. A lovely copy.
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BRADLEY Helen
'In the Beginning' said Great-Aunt Jane. In the Beginning' said Great-Aunt Jane. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page coloured illustrations in the text; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, olive endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third book in the Miss Carter sequence.
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DOSTOEVSKY Feodor
A Raw Youth. Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by Konstantin Mochulsky and illustrated with Wood-Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR; 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 15 fine plates; green cloth, gilt backs, a fine copy in glassine dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's green board slip-case (one small scuff) with printed paper label.
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DASENT G.W.
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. Illustrated by Edna Cooke. [Newbery Classics edition].
8vo., with a coloured frontispiece and 3 coloured plates; red cloth, coloured illustration (repeated from text) mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in black, green top, pictorial endpapers, a good, tight copy. The Newbery Classics edition, with fewer plates than the first edition.
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ROBINSON William Heath
Railway Ribaldry. Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour by W. Heath Robinson. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous full-page illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers printed in green, yellow and white, yapped edges, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Heath-Robinson's classic collection on the humorous side of railway operations was published to mark an event unique in British railway history: the Centenary of the GWR. One of his inimitable cartoons was reproduced in Radio Times to mark a special feature broadcast. See Wilson, pp.33-34 et seq.
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BENINGFIELD (illus.) Gordon
Beningfield's English Farm. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and tinted illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; grey-green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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UTTLEY Alison
The Swans Fly Over. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BATEMAN H.M.
Suburbia. Caricatured by H. . Bateman. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Sm. folio, First Edition, with full-age illustrations throughout, endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial boards, black cloth back, very neatly recased, covers mildly age-marked else an unusually well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The third of Bateman's cartoon collections, and the first to focus on a specific theme - one which Bateman waas to make his own. He had just changed houses in Clapham, seen then (as, perhaps now) as the very essence of his subject. 'It is fair and reasonable to call Clapham the capital of Suburbia' (TWH Crosland, 1905). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson pp. 51,215.
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AYRTON Michael
Tittivulus. Or, the Verbiage Collector. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations (several full-page) by the author in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Striking dustwrapper artwork by the author.
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STEADMAN Ralph
Between the Eyes. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated half-title and title, and very numerous illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip.
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GREENAWAY Kate
Kate Greenaway. Sixteen Examples in Colour of the Artist's Work. With an Introduction by M.H. Spilemann. [British Artists series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece and 15 mounted coloured plates, free endpapers mildly browned; green cloth upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, a very good, bright copy. Inman 412.
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LOW David
Low's Autobiography. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in white and black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel
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HARM Ray
Ray Harm's African Sketchbook. Edited by Robert Emmett McDowell. [Foreword by Adrian Luckhurst]. SIGNED COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
4to., First Edition, with coloured title-illustration, 80 pages of plates (a number in colour) and full-page map; beige broad-weave cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON HALF-TITLE.
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TAYLOR Ina
Helen Bradley's Lancashire. Text by Ina Taylor. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page coloured illustrations throughout; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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NICHOLS Beverley
A Book of Old Ballads. Selected and with an Introduction. Illustrated by H.M. Brock. IN FULL MOROCCO
Sm. folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with fine coloured frontispiece and 15 fine coloured plates; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, original gilt lettering from front board preserved and mounted on new and separate leaf, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a git or for presentation.
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CHALMERS Patrick R.
A Fisherman's Angles. Illustrated from Drypoints by Norman Wilkinson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 23 fine plates, half-title and title very lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Collects a series of delightful essays on angling greatly enhanced by superb plates. Hampton, p.65.
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'SNAFFLES', pseud.
'Osses and Obstacles. [Second Impression]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., Second Impression, with title-vignette and numerous fine full-page plates, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted, ; original olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, firm, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Published a year after the first impression.
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CUNDALL H.M.
Birket Foster R.W.S.. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 73 coloured plates, 20 full-page plates in monochrome (a number full-page) and 58 illustrations in the text, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; original decorative blue cloth, upper board blocked and lattered in yellow and white, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end, and the trade ticket of Burlington of Whitehaven on front paste-down. Published in September 1930 but retaining the date (1906) of the first edition.
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FLEMWELL G
Alpine Flowers and Gardens. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 19 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), free endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial green cloth, upper board framed and blocked in lighter green and white lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A lovely copy. Inman 123.
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ANON.
Coridon's Song and other Verses. With Illustrations by Huigh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and very numerous full-page illustrations in the text; original dark green cloth, backstrip with printed paper label (mildly browned but entirely legible), uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Thomson's evocative illustrations to this work were first published in the English Illustrated Magazine. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Spielmann & Jerrold, 13.
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BESHLIE
Snailsleap Lane. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; brown boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WHYMPER Edward
Winter Pictures by Poet and Artist. [A Selection of Verse by various Authors]. With numerous Engravings by Edward Whymper. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette, numerous illustrations in the text and decorative endpapers; contemporary and later inscriptions on front free endpaper verso; pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, bevelled boards, gilt edges, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of Kirshaw of Worthing on front paste-down. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WATKINS-PITCHFORD Deny J.
The Idle Countryman. Illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in in the text; maroon cloth, cream cloth back lettered in maroon, a very good, bright, clean, fresh copy.
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GILBEY Sir Walter
George Morland. His Life and Works. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present) and 49 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tussue guards present), free endpapers browned, top third of front free endpaper clipped, some very light and occasional spotting; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered, in gilt, green and black, git top, uncut, upper hinge cracked on surface (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end. Inman 56, recording that 3000 copies were printed.
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TUNNICLIFFE C.F.
Mereside Chronicle. With a Short Interlude of Lochs and Lochans. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a fine frontispiece in sepia and black, title-vignette, very numerous illustrations in sepia and black (a number full-page) and 4 full-page maps in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; brick red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at edges. Lovely copy of one of Tunnicliffe's finest and most impressive works. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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