The MFLIBRA Reference Archive

Author: Lewis Carroll (John Tenniel, illustrator).Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There....

Author: Lucy Foster Madison.Title: Joan of Arc: The Warrior Maid.Language: Text in English.Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 19...

A superb and beautifully preserved Victorian family Bible in a particularly ornate Gothic-style leather binding. An appealing devotional volume wit...

An attractive and complete early Edmund Dulac gift book, bringing together twelve tales from the Arabian Nights with twelve richly atmospheric colo...

An exceptionally handsome copy of Ainsworth’s great Gothic romance of witchcraft and Pendle Forest, beautifully bound in red morocco and complete w...

An especially charming Flower Fairies volume, bringing Cicely Mary Barker’s autumn fairies together with Olive Linnell’s musical settings, and part...

A scarce and uncommon large-format fairy-tale book from the golden age of illustrated children’s gift books, with eight colour plates and m...

An elegant Victorian gift edition of Poe’s mournful “Lenore,” beautifully presented in decorated cloth with atmospheric illustrations by Henry Sand...

An appealing Victorian children’s gift book, full of gentle verses, nursery scenes, and bright chromolithographic plates. Author: Various contribut...

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.Title: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Spanish of Cervantes.Publisher: New-York, Leavitt &am...

An attractive miniature 1893 illustrated edition of Poe’s classic tale of cryptography, treasure, and mystery. Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: The G...

An exquisite large-folio first English edition of Andersen’s own life story, beautifully illustrated and dressed in a superb Danish binding by Henn...

Alice steps from page to picture in this scarce early photoplay edition, still preserved in its wonderfully theatrical original dust jacket. Author...

An exquisite signed Dulac fairy book, bound in deep blue morocco and filled with the luminous dream-colours of the Golden Age of illustration. Auth...

A highly desirable first edition of Kate Greenaway’s iconic Under the Window, presented here in a fine Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. Author: ...

An exceptional literary association copy: Eleanor Farjeon’s childhood copy of George MacDonald’s fairy classic, inscribed to her by her mother on h...

An especially charming first edition, gathering Eleanor Farjeon’s own chosen stories with Edward Ardizzone’s warm and unmistakable illustra...

An enchanting van Sandwyk dreamscape, alive with birds, fishes, calligraphy, and the quiet magic of handmade-looking book art. Author: Charles van ...

A lovely early illustrated impression of The Secret Garden, beautifully presented in its original gilt-decorated cloth with Charles Robinson’s drea...

Author: Anonymous / Traditional. Illustrated by Thomas B. Dalziel.Title: The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.Publisher: London: George Routledge and...

Author: C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.Title: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. A Story for Children.Publisher: London: Geoffrey Bl...

Author: Susan Pindar.Title: The Floral Offering; or, Legends of the Flowers.Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, 1...

Author: Jonathan Swift.Title: Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World.Illustrator: Arthur Rackham.Publisher: London: J...

Author: Cicely Mary Barker.Composer: Olive Linnell.Title: Flower Songs of the Seasons With Music.Publisher: London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son L...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Illustrated by the author.Title: Fah-nama-nama-nama-lah. A Tale of One Elephant & Three Continents.Publisher: Vanc...

Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.Title: The Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales.Publisher: London: J. M. Dent & Sons L...

Author: Alfred Tennyson.Title: Idylls of the King.Publisher: London, Strahan and Co., Publishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, 1869. Early edition.Language: Te...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Illustrated by the author.Title: Fah-nama-nama-nama-lah. A Tale of One Elephant & Three Continents.Publisher: Vanc...

Author: Lewis Carroll. Charles van Sandwyk, illustrator.Title:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Illustrations by Charles van San...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Long Ago in Bangalore: Six Bookplates, Four Bookmarks, and One Lovely Poem by Charles van Sandwyk.Language: Text...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Tree Whispers.Publisher: North Vancouver, Savuti Press, 2015. First Edition. Printed offset (600 copies).Languag...

Author: George MacDonald. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes.Title: Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood.Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, 49 & 50 Old Bail...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Illustrated by the author.Title: Fah-nama-nama-nama-lah. A Tale of One Elephant & Three Continents.Publisher: Vanc...

Author: Charles van Sandwyk.  Title: Splendid Crow: Life is Art; Art is Life (also known as A Field Guide to Decent Humans).Publisher: North Vancou...

Author: Charles Van Sandwyk.Title: The Parade to Paradise.Publisher: Vancouver, SummerWild Productions, 1992. First Limited Edition, Collector’s Ed...

Author: Dante Alighieri. Commentary by Pietro Fraticelli.Title: La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri col comento di Pietro Fraticelli.Publisher: F...