"CRANFORD" By MRS. GASKELL. WITH A PREFACE BY ANNE THACKERAY RITCHIE. AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON. London: Macmillan, 1891. 8vo. Pictorial gilt stamped green cloth cover designed by Thomson and SIGNED with his initials. The cover features, in gilt, a large pot of flowers with playing cards strewn around it and a tray set with tea accessories. Gilt floral design on the spine. All edges gilt. Green coated endpapers. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and 110 black and w ...click for details
CHRISTMAS IN CATLAND. ALICE GOYDER. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. FIRST EDITION. Pictorial boards measuring approximately 6 1/4 inches by 6 1/4 inches. 12 full color illustrations with decorative borders. The author and artist wrote this charming book when she was a young girl in 1893 but the work was never published until 1978. The illustrations depict cats in Victorian times preparing for Christmas with all sorts of activities such as trimming the tree, hanging mistletoe, wrapping present ...click for details
THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE. October, 1955. Contains TWO IMPORTANT ARTICLES ABOUT BEATRIX POTTER. "THE ART OF BEATRIX POTTER" (9 pages) by DOROTHY P. LATHROP. "THE ART OF BEATRIX POTTER AND HOW IT CAME TO BE" (19 pages) by LESLIE LINDER. PLUS, an Editorial "BEATRIX POTTER AND HER ART" (1 page) by Bertha Mahoney Miller - and, "The Three Owl's Notebook" (4 pages) by Anne Carroll Moore. Illustrated. Please note: the "yellow" cast to the photo shown i ...click for details
THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE. CHRISTMAS ISSUE. 1946. OF BEATRIX POTTER INTEREST containing the following articles: an 8 page (illustrated) article by Marcia Dalphin reviewing "THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER"; and, an 8 page (illustrated) article by MARGARET LANE "On The Writing of Beatrix Potter's Life Story". Other articles relating to children's books are included as well as page after page of publisher's advertisements promoting their latest children's books. Please ...click for details
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA. A CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION AT THE ROSENBACH MUSEUM & LIBRARY. (A catalog of the Exhibition). With An Introduction by Nina Auerbach. Philadelphia,1997. 4to. 36 pages plus covers. WITH A FULL COLOR COVER DESIGN BY MAURICE SENDAK. The back cover features a color photograph of the Rosenbach copy in its ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Illustrated. This catalog of the exhibition was LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. A fine copy.
(CARROLLIANA) CREATORS OF WONDERLAND BY M. MESPOULET. New York: Arrow Editions, (1934). 4to. NUMBER 219 of A LIMITED EDITION (total number unspecified). Original gilt stamped red cloth with beveled edges. Patterned endpapers. Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations. A fascinating account by Marguerite Mespoulet is given by showing the possible influences J.J. Granville may have had on Tenniel's contributions to Lewis Carroll's "Alice". The book measures 11 inches b ...click for details
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. BY LEWIS CARROLL. THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE EDITION (COVER TITLE). London: Macmillan & Co., 1899. 8vo. White pebbled cloth stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. This edition features a special binding in white cloth which, sadly here, is soiled, cocked, and has some wear (please see enlargements 1 through 7 for details of cover condition). The front cover is stamped in gilt with a facsimile greeting from the famous E ...click for details
KATE GREENAWAY. SIXTEEN EXAMPLES IN COLOUR OF THE ARTIST'S WORK WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY M.H. SPIELMANN. London: A.& C. Black, 1910. 4to. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and with a color pictorial llustration "BUBBLES" on the front cover. One of the "British Artists" series. There are 16 color plates - 15 mounted on heavy brown paper and 1 ("Bubbles") mounted on the cover. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, Schuster 1a.
THE RAINBOW BOOK. TALES OF FUN & FANCY. By MRS. M.H.SPIELMANN. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, HUGH THOMSON, BERNARD PARTRIDGE, LEWIS BAUMER, HARRY ROUNTREE, C. WILHELM. New York: F. Warne & Co., no date (1909). 8vo. Red cloth with pictorial stamping in gilt. Illustrated endpapers by Carton Moore Park. There are 36 illustrations of which, ARTHUR RACKHAM did the color frontispiece and fifteen of the black and white illustrations. Top edge gilt. Xmas 1911 ink date on half-title. There is so ...click for details
FINE GILT BINDING. PEG WOFFINGTON. BY CHARLES READE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION by AUSTIN DOBSON AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON. London: George Allen, 1899. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt pictorial stamping. The cover title is within a gilt wreath having a cherub on either side each supporting a mask. At the top is a cartouche framing a woman's head. A leafy border contains an all-over pattern of butterflies and stars (please see enlargement for details). There are 75 black and white illustrations b ...click for details
