British Illustrated Books

1 ALLIX. Strutt, Arthur John.

A South Italian Journey.

London. Willow Press. 1985. Folio. Illustrated with frontispiece and 30 relief and intaglio prints ... (more)

From the edition limited to 30 copies signed by the artist on the colophon, with this copy, number ... (more)

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1 ACKERMANN, Rudolph.

Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics.

London. 1809-1828. 40 vols. 8vo. With 1491 plates including about 800 hand-coloured aquatint views and 450 hand-coloured fashion plates, together with numerous specimens of cotton, silk, etc. Half-morocco, marbled boards and endpapers.

A complete run of this celebrated periodical. Immensely popular in its day (there were 3000 ... (more)

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2 ANNAN, Thomas.

The Old Country Houses of the Glasgow Gentry.

Glasgow. James Maclehose. 1870. 4to. pp. 289. Contents: Half-title recto, colophon verso; title ... (more)

First edition limited to 120 copies. An intriguing and nostalgic pictorial record of lost ... (more)

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3 ASHENDENE PRESS.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Chelsea. The Ashendene Press. 1930. Folio. pp. (3 blank leaves), 363, (3 blank leaves). Initials from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for the Press's Utopia, marginal chapter summaries and opening lines, designed by Graily Hewitt, printed in red. Original publisher's white pigskin, title gilt to banded spine in six compartments.

From the edition limited to 280 copies, with this one of 260 on paper. A good copy of this final ... (more)

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4 AYRTON.

Etchings by Michael Ayrton illustrating Femmes/Hombres by Paul Verlaine.

London. Douglas Cleverdon. 1972. Plate size 200 x 255 mm (8 x 10 ins), sheet size 285 x 405 mm (11.25 x 16 ins). Set of seventeen etchings, printed on white japon, each signed, numbered in sequence, and marked O, aside from the published edition. Some creases to margins otherwise a fine set.

This set of the signed etchings includes two additional etchings not published in the book edition - variant impressions of two of the prints, one printed in reverse.

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5 BANTING, John.

A Blue Book of Conversation.

London. Editions Poetry. 1946. 8vo. pp. v, 57. Illustrated with decorative title and twenty-five plates, of which one is double-page. All of the plates are printed in blue after designs by Banting. Original cloth with yellow printed dust-jacket.

First edition, from the library of André Breton. 'A Blue Book of Conversation is a series of ... (more)

£900

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6 BARTOLOZZI. Chamberlaine.

Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein in the collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With Biographical Tracts.

London. Bulmer. 1792 (published in parts between 1792 and 1800). Large folio. Illustrated with 84 ... (more)

'This magnificent work is surely the finest example of English colour printing' (Ray). Originally ... (more)

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6 BARLOW.

Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. Newly translated. Illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures. To this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life by Francis Barlow.

London. H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. 1687. Folio. [196 leaves; pp. (x), 40, (62), 40, 17, 2 ... (more)

Second and enlarged edition of Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration. For ... (more)

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7 BEARDSLEY. Jonson, Ben.

Volpone; or, the Foxe, a new edition.

London. Leonard Smithers. 1898. 4to. Cover, frontispiece and five initial letters by Beardsley. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt design by Beardsley, slightly worn on base of spine.

From the edition of 1,100 copies.

£450

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8 BEARDSLEY.

The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley with a prefaratory note by H.C. Marillier [together with] The later Work of Aubrey Beardsley [and] The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley with and Introduction by C. Lewis Hind.

London. John Lane, The Bodley head. 1899, 1901 & 1925. 3 vols. 4to. 1. Frontispiece, title page ... (more)

£1,200

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9 BEARDSLEY.

The Yellow Book.

London. Elkin Mathews & John Lane. April 1894 - April 1897. (But a later printing). 13 volumes. 8vo. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's decorated cloth after designs by Aubrey Beardsley.

A complete set of the most famous periodical of the 1890s with contributions by Beardsley, Sickert, Housman, Rothenstein, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Yeats, Le Gallienne, Conder, Baron Corvo, Kenneth Grahame, Alma Tadema and many others.

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10 BLAKE. Binyon, Laurence and Geoffrey Keynes.

Illustrations of the Book of Job.

New York. Pierpont Morgan Library. 1935. 6 vols. Introduction illustrated with collotypes (61 ... (more)

A fine set of facsimiles made and printed by Emery Walker & Co.

£1,850

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11 BLAKE. Ellis, Edwin John & William Butler Yeats.

The Works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic, and critical. Edited with lithographs of the illustrated 'Prophetic Books' and a memoir and interpretation.

London. Bernard Quaritch. 1893. 3 vols. large 4to. pp. xvi, 420; vi, 435; ix and various paginations ... (more)

Yeats recorded that 'the writing of this book is mainly Ellis's. The thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine.'

£1,650

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12 BLAKE. Grierson, H. J. C. (Introduction).

William Blake's designs for Gray's Poems reproduced full-size in monochrome or colour from the unique copy belonging to His Grace the Duke of Hamilton.

London. Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press. 1922. Folio. pp. 22. 117 plates, including 6 in colour on rectos only. Publisher's cloth, bumped on top forecorner.

Limited to 650 copies. 'Gray, said Johnson was 'dull, but dull in a new sort of way'. But the 'new ... (more)

£220

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13 BLAKE. Keynes, Geoffrey.

William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray.

London. The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust. 1972. Large 4to. 32. 116 colour plates printed by collotype and hand-stencil process on rectos only, 4 monochrome plates. Unbound, as issued, in publisher's wrapper, morocco-backed chemise and matching drop-back box. Spine of the box stained, otherwise fine.

The series of water-colours, from the collection of Paul Mellon, is reproduced here for the first ... (more)

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