Illustrated

With an illustrated inscription on the half title signed by Tice “To Captain Edwin Callahan” with an drawing of a reclining female nude.
Clara Tice was…

With an original original drawing inserted loose and a decorated inscription filling the first blank from Serge to Pierrot Lagarde which reads “Pour Pierrot Lagarde.…

Apart from the first number none of the parts were issued with wrappers and are sewn as issued. A unusually bright set,
The first state…

Laboureur never finished this project. He intended to execute six etching showing the Acropolis from a distance, with various Greek landscapes in the foreground. Ultimately…

John Nash was the younger brother of Paul Nash whose main fame was as a wood engraver and illustrator, particularly of botancial books. Here we…

Eric Gill had undertaken to illustrate this book with copper engravings and during the last week of his life, while in hospital, he completed the…

The male nude here seen as the frontispiece is a perhaps exaggerated self-portrait of Gill originally intended to depict Lady Chatterley's gamekeeper lover.

A lovely image by Annie French (1872-1965) who was an important Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer and one of the so called ‘Glasgow Girls’…

In 1932, book tokens were launched by the National Book Council explaining that the token “enables you to show courtesy, esteem, affection, appreciation or gratitude…

The text, apparently by the scribe, is in effect a guide to walks on the South Downs in Sussex around Worthing. The routes are very…

The eighth book in the Stols series ‘Les Belles Heures’.
The copper engraving is rather in the style of Laboureur showing a semi-nude in her…

Elaine Williamson studied at Manchester College of Art and then went on to post-graduate study at Stoke-on-Trent, the centre of the English ceramic industry. Her…

The book informs the reader about the W.L.A. in different areas, its organisation, various guides to different farm work, the problems of rats and ends…

A meditative poetic work inspired by a beloved tree and the day when the artist and a friend found a string of scarlet beads hanging…

Abigail Rorer is a much respected American wood engraver and publisher of limited edition and fine press books using her own artwork. She was drawn…

An anthology of extracts from English Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Southey, De Quincey, Hazlitt and Peacock. They are arranged thematically - Distant…

In the 1920s many women were drawn to the medium of bookbinding, perhaps influenced by the new modernist designs forged by Pierre Legrain. The women…

A WWI novel by Joseph Kessel focussed on a the crew of a two-man reconnaissance plane, inscribed in memory of the author it would seem…

A splendid art deco binding by Lucette Levy, very much in the same style as the bindings of Genevieve de Leotard (see the work in…