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2008 Rare First Edition - Mr. Rabbit's Symphony of Nature by Charles van Sandwyk
A beautiful and scarce limited first edition of Mr. Rabbit's Symphony of Nature by Charles van Sandwyk, featuring exquisite colour illustrations, e...
View full details2014 Rare Book - Long Ago in Bangalore, One Lovely Poem by Charles van Sandwyk
A delightful and beautifully preserved 2014 production by Charles van Sandwyk, bringing together a whimsical poem, six charming illustrated bookpla...
View full details1920 Bayntun First Rowland Wheelwright Illustrated Edition- The Three Musketeers
The first Rowland Wheelwright-illustrated edition of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers (1920), with sixteen colour plates, in a signed full-ca...
View full details1910 First Miniature Edition - The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
A charming 1910 First Miniature Edition of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, retaining Henry Holiday’s remarkable original illustrations an...
View full details2007 Rare Book - Mr. Rabbit's Christmas Wish by Charles van Sandwyk
A rare and beautifully produced second printing of Charles van Sandwyk’s Mr. Rabbit’s Christmas Wish, presented in the particularly desirable green...
View full details1858 Victorian Edition - The Language of Flowers by the editor of Forget Me Not
A rare and charming 1858 Victorian edition of The Language of Flowers, combining the romantic symbolism of flowers with illustrative poetry, a beau...
View full details1999 First Edition- Animal Wisdom written and illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
A beautiful signed First Edition of Animal Wisdom by Charles van Sandwyk, presented in its distinctive blue pictorial binding, with exquisite water...
View full details1910 Rare First Edition - Edmund Dulac's Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales
A magnificent First Edition of The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 30 exquisite colour plates, in its excep...
View full details2000 Scarce Signed 1stED- The Gnome King’s Treasure Song by Charles van Sandwyk
A beautiful signed First Edition of The Gnome King’s Treasure Song by Charles van Sandwyk, featuring exquisite hand-coloured illustrations, whimsic...
View full details2009 Rare Signed Book - Canadian Content by Charles van Sandwyk
A beautiful signed and limited 2009 edition of Canadian Content by Charles van Sandwyk, featuring his enchanting illustrations of Canadian wildlife...
View full details1924 First Edition - At The Back of The North Wind Illustrated by F. D. Bedford
A beautifully illustrated 1924 First Edition of George MacDonald’s beloved fantasy classic, At the Back of the North Wind, featuring the atmospheri...
View full details1950 First UK Arthur Rackham Illustrated Edition - The Wind in the Willows
A charming 1950 First British Arthur Rackham Illustrated Edition of Kenneth Grahame’s beloved classic The Wind in the Willows, featuring Rackham’s ...
View full details1887 Rare Book - The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein the Younger
A beautifully illustrated 1887 edition of Hans Holbein's celebrated Dance of Death, featuring forty-eight plates depicting Death's encounters with ...
View full details1879 Italian Vellum Book - La Divina Commedia, Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
A handsome 1879 Florentine edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, preserved in an elegant full vellum binding with gilt decoration and striking red edge...
View full details1923 First Edition illustrated by Edwin John Prittie - Alice in Wonderland
A particularly attractive 1923 first edition illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, combining his four evocative color plates with John Tenniel’s celeb...
View full details1870 Rare Victorian Hand-Colored Alphabet Book - Fairy ABC
A very scarce Victorian fairy-tale alphabet, delightfully illustrated with twenty-five large hand-colored pictorial letters incorporating character...
View full details1933 Scarce Book- The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by R. Kirk
A particularly appealing, scarce 1933 edition of Robert Kirk’s celebrated seventeenth-century account of Scottish fairy belief, complete with the s...
View full details1870 Scarce Victorian Edition- The Little Drummer, Story of the Russian Campaign
A charming Victorian juvenile tale set against Napoleon’s disastrous Russian Campaign, preserved in a particularly attractive pictorial green cloth...
View full details1918 Scarce First Edition - Japanese Fairy Tales by Lafcadio Hearn
A scarce early American collection of Japanese folklore, bringing together Lafcadio Hearn’s celebrated retellings with traditional tales adapted by...
View full details2019 Signed First Edition - Alice in Wonderland, Charles van Sandwyk Illustrator
A beautifully produced signed Folio Society edition of Lewis Carroll’s enduring classic, transformed by Charles van Sandwyk’s exquisitely whimsical...
View full details1911 Rare Book - At the Back of the North Wind Illustrated by Frank C. Pape
A particularly attractive early illustrated edition of George MacDonald’s great fantasy classic, combining Frank C. Papé’s dreamlike colour plates ...
View full details1933 Rare Deluxe Edition - Grimm’s Fairy Tales illustrated by Noel Pocock
An exceptionally attractive 1933 Oxford edition of the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales, presented in the handsome white-and-gilt deluxe binding and il...
View full details1912 Rare First Edition - Bill the Minder illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
The first American edition of W. Heath Robinson’s wonderfully eccentric Bill the Minder, lavishly illustrated by the author with sixteen mounted co...
View full details1897 First UK Edition, 2nd Printing - Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
A handsome 1897 first UK edition, second printing, in the publisher’s striking gilt pictorial cloth, with I. W. Taber’s atmospheric illustrations o...
View full details1925 Donohue Edition - Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Tenniel and Saunders
A striking early American edition of Lewis Carroll’s immortal fantasy, retaining its wonderfully evocative colour pictorial binding and combining J...
View full details1566 Rare Illuminated Manuscript Binding - Marco Antonio Cucchi Canon Law
A remarkable 1566 Renaissance pocket edition of canon law, beautifully preserved in an extraordinary early binding fashioned from an illuminated ma...
View full details1895 First Edition - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Brock, Bayntun-Riviere
The first Charles E. Brock illustrated edition of Jane Austen’s enduring masterpiece, published by Macmillan in 1895 and presented in a superb full...
View full details1999 Rare 36th impression - The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler
An attractive large-format hardcover 1999 edition of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s modern children’s classic, vividly illustrated throughout...
View full details1920s Rare Book - Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant
An attractive and complete 1920s edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, richly illustrated with Margaret W. Tarrant’s celebra...
View full details1942 Rare Book bound by Bayntun-Riviere - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
An exceptionally handsome 1942 edition of Tolstoy’s monumental War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and presented in a fine signed ...
View full details1990 Signed First Edition - A Brighter Garden by Emily Dickinson and Tasha Tudor
An exceptionally attractive signed First Edition of Emily Dickinson’s seasonal poetry, selected by Karen Ackerman and illustrated throughout with T...
View full details1890 Rare Book - The Lady of the Lake: A Poem by Sir Walter Scott
An attractive late nineteenth-century American edition of Sir Walter Scott’s celebrated Highland romance, preserved in its richly decorated publish...
View full details1914 Rare 1stED - Our Sentimental Garden Illustrated by Charles Robinson
The first edition of Agnes and Egerton Castle’s affectionate portrait of their English garden, beautifully illustrated by Charles Robinson with eig...
View full details1908 First Edition Illustrated by Rackham - Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream
The celebrated 1908 First Rackham Illustrated Edition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, complete with all forty luminous tipped-in colour...
View full details1962 Tasha Tudor First Illustrated Edition - The Secret Garden by F. H. Burnett
The true 1962 first Tasha Tudor illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic, complete with its original floral dust jacket and...
View full details1882 Rare Ornithology Book ~ Our Native Songsters, Illustrated by Anne Pratt
An unusually attractive Victorian edition of Anne Pratt’s celebrated ornithological work, complete with 72 full-page coloured plates and preserved ...
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