The MFLIBRA Reference Archive

An attractive 1894 illustrated English edition of Jules Verne’s Arctic adventure, with a remarkable contemporary presentation label from the July 1...

An attractive early Grosset & Dunlap edition bringing both of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books together in one volume, illustrated throughout with t...

An exceptionally attractive small-format Victorian Church Services volume, combining the Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, New Testament and metrical...

An attractive complete three-volume First Edition, First Issue, First State of Sir Walter Scott’s The Pirate (1822), retaining all three half-title...

A very scarce and beautifully preserved 2005 collection of six illustrated bookplates and two bookmarks by Charles van Sandwyk, complete in its ori...

A beautifully preserved First American Edition of Clement C. Moore’s beloved Christmas classic, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with four enchanting ...

An attractive 1682 Venetian edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, preserving the complete fifteen books in Latin in a handsome contemporary vellum bindi...

The scarce 1916 Second Edition of Anne Macdonell’s enchanting collection of Italian fairy tales, beautifully illustrated by Morris Meredith William...

The first edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women illustrated by Harold Copping, published in 1912 and complete with all eight of his full-page...

An exceptionally attractive 1868 edition of Baron Munchausen’s fantastical adventures, preserved in its richly gilt original cloth and distinguishe...

The attractive 1909 First Edition of this charming Edwardian gardening book for young readers, complete with all twelve delicate full-page colour i...

An exceptionally handsome 1883 illustrated collection of classic French fairy tales, including Perrault’s Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and Madame...

The true 1898 First Edition of Andrew Lang’s beautifully illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, in its striking original gilt pictorial binding...

Washington Irving’s enduring American ghost story in the desirable 1928 Arthur Rackham edition, complete with all eight colour plates, richly illus...

The true 1946 First Edition of Elizabeth Goudge’s beloved Carnegie Medal-winning fantasy, complete with its original illustrated dust jacket and th...

An unusually bright 1937 First Edition of this large-format children’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s two Alice classics, profusely illustrated in c...

An attractive 1953 First Edition of this large-format fairy-tale anthology, bringing together classic stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christ...

An attractive and scarce Victorian “Popular Edition” of Joseph Jacobs’ Celtic Fairy Tales, richly illustrated throughout by John D. Batten and comp...

First UK Edition of Thoreau’s Walden, published in London in 1886 as part of the Camelot Classics series, retaining its original blue cloth and rem...

An attractive First Edition of Howard Pyle’s early pirate adventure, complete with all eight dramatic illustrations and preserved in its original g...

An exceptionally attractive First Edition of Alice Meynell’s The Children, preserved in a sumptuous signed Bayntun-Rivière full morocco binding wit...

An attractive late nineteenth-century edition of Poe’s poetry and critical writings, richly illustrated and preserved in its striking original gilt...

An uncommon 1907 Bessie Pease Gutmann edition of Carroll’s classic, complete with its charming color plates and distinctive decorated blue cloth bi...

An attractive turn-of-the-century edition of Thoreau’s enduring meditation on simplicity, nature, and individual conscience, handsomely preserv...

An attractive and richly illustrated 1927 edition of the Arthurian legends, beautifully presented in its elaborate original pictorial binding and e...

An enchanting and increasingly scarce early fairy book by Marion St. John Webb, beautifully illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant with six full-page c...

An exceptionally decorative edition of The True Annals of Fairy-Land: The Reign of King Herla, profusely illustrated by Charles Robinson with an im...

An unusually shaped and beautifully illustrated 1975 First English Edition of the traditional Ukrainian folk tale The Mitten, with striking artwork...

An attractive and very scarce late-Victorian Belfast edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, handsomely presented in richly gilt-decorated blue cl...

A handsome early American illustrated edition of both Alice books, complete with all sixteen striking full-page colour illustrations by Blanche McM...

A charming signed First Edition by Charles van Sandwyk, beautifully produced by The Fairy Press and filled with autobiographical reflections, calli...

An attractive 1885 First American Edition of Édouard Laboulaye’s final collection of fairy tales, in its striking original pictorial binding and pr...

An exceptionally scarce and beautifully produced Charles van Sandwyk artist’s book, issued in approximately thirty copies and containing a signed o...

An exquisite miniature Folio Society production by Charles van Sandwyk, combining his delicate calligraphy, whimsical mice, and richly detailed wat...

The scarce 1942 first edition of Tasha Tudor’s charming early “Calico Book,” preserved in its original illustrated dust jacket with the 75-cent pri...

An unusually artistic 1895 interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, retold from an old Italian version by Mary Stuart Wortley, Countess of Lovelace,...