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THE BUNKUM BOOK, A TOPSY TURVEY TALE. Written by Audrey Hopwood. Illustrated by Maud Trelawny.Good coloured illustrations complete. Other illustra...

CHARLES ROBINSON ILLUSTRATIONS. 'A Book of Days for Little Ones,' by Clare Bridgman, col plates complete, pictorial cloth, some childish pencil ma...

J MORDAUNT CROOK. 'William Burges and the High Victorian Dream.' First edition, coloured and black and white plates and illustrations complete, or...

JOHN STUART MILL. 'Autobiography.' First edition, orig half calf, gilt, chip to top of spine else vg Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. 1872. Cond...

MICHAEL UNDERWOOD M.D. 'A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth.' 3 volumes, Vol I cl...

T GWYN ELGER FRAS. 'The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Features.' First Edition, orig cloth, silver, plates and illustrations, ...

PH. AUG. ALBRECHT. 'Astronomical Doctrines Presented in New Aspects.' Second edition, orig wps, 1897, Baltimore Maryland, the front cover is chipp...

ARABELLA B BUCKLEY. 'Through Magic Glasses and other Lectures: A Sequel to 'The Fairyland of Science'. First edition, original cloth gilt, illustr...

WILHELM SLOMANN. 'Bizarre Designs in Silk: Trade and Traditions.' Published for the NY Carlsberg Foundation, original cloth, colour frontispiece w...

J. MANTON SMITH. 'Lecture Jottings: Jottings on My Journeys in Switzerland.' Illustrated and Inspired with Songs by J. Manton Smith, Fourth Thousa...

FRANK AND JANET HAMER. 'The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques.' Fourth edition, orig cl, colour and black-and-white illustrations, A...

LIZA GARDNER. 'The Handmade Tile Book.' First edition, orig boards, dj, 1999, vg; Plus two others on ceramics. Condition: please request a condit...

GREG DALY. 'Glazes and Glazing Techniques: A Glaze Journey.' Reprint 1998, glazed boards, A & C Black, vg; Plus two others. Condition: please req...

OLIVER WATSON. 'British Studio Pottery: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection.' First edition, orig cloth, Phaidon, 1999, vg; plus four others...

PAUL RICE, CHRISTOPHER GOWING. 'British Studio Ceramics in the 20th Century.' Orig cloth, dj price clipped, profusely illustrated,Barrie & Jenkins...

North Carolina and Southern Folk Pottery. 11th Annual Seagrove Pottery Festival, Friends of North Carolina Pottery Museum. Sunday, November 22, 19...

ALEX GIBSON & ANN WOODS. 'Prehistoric Pottery for the Archaeologist.' Orig card covers, second edition, photographic illustrations and line drawin...

'Our Rapid Run through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & France. How we did them in seventeen days: To wit: Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland & France...

JOHN HASSALL ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Twins.' Verses by Edward Shirley, cloth-backed illustrated boards, 24 colour plates, worn and loose; CARTON MOORE...

GEO F MUNFORD. Munford's Old-Fashioned Visitors' Guide and Companion. Bright and Bracing Seaton and Beer ... 22nd Thousand, Western Gazette, circa...

JAMES M'CABE. 'Directions for Drinking the CHELTENHAM WATERS with a Selection of Cases, Illustrating their Effects in a Great Variety of Diseases....

G. MUIR MCKENZIE & A. P. IRBY. 'Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe.' With nineteen sketches by F. Kanitz, first edition, maps a...

WILFRED BROWN. 'From Ottery to Highgate: The Story of the Childhood and Later Years of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.' Eleven illustrations complete, or...

RUTH MANNING-SANDERS. 'Jonnikins and the Flying Basket.' First edition, colour and other illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Unclipped dustjacket, 196...

DONALD MCDONALD. 'Percival Norton Johnson.' First edition, orig half morocco, dj, signed author "For our old friend, A P Tiley with the sincere co...

MANMATHA NATH DUTT, M A. 'The Ramayama, Translated into English Prose from the original Sanskrit of Valmiki. Balakandam on title page,(Valakandam ...

VERNON L S CHARLEY. The Principles and Practice of Cider-Making. assisted by Pamela Munford. With 16 tables and 86 illustrations. A Translation of...

THOM GUNN. 'The Passages of Joy.' First edition, 1982, very good condition; HENRY SEWELL STOKES. 'The Chantry Owl.' Signed ded author to St John S...

ANNE PRATT. 'Wild Flowers.' Two volumes, 190 coloured plates complete, orig cloth, gilt, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Gutta percha b...

HAZEL BERRIMAN. 'Crysede: The unique textile designs of Alec Walker.' Thirty-six plates of designs in full colour. Paperback. Very good. Conditio...

BIRKET FOSTER ILLUSTRATIONS. Common Wayside Flowers by Thomas Miller. First Edition, colour plates, decorative pictorial binding, dated in inscrip...

EDWIN FRAY. Golden Recipes for use of all ages. William M'Call, 7, 9, & 11, Hunter Street, Liverpool, etc. orig wps, c 1890, some marks to covers,...

MILLICENT AND GITHA SOWERBY Childhood, Original cloth-backed boards. Chatto and Windus. Inscription dated 1907. Twelve beautiful colour plates com...

KINGSLEY AMIS. The James Bond Dossier. orig cloth, dustjacket unclipped and in very good condition except pencil on inside back cover listing titl...

THOMAS W F GANN The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras, Smithsonian Institution. Burea of Ethnology, Bulletin 64. Gree...

Gustav Jahn, Ein Maler und Bergstreigerleben. Orig cloth-backed boards, colour and black-and-white plates and illustrations complete. 1920 (Presen...

BRITAIN'S BEST TONIC. HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS. Tourist Guide for 1931/2. Plates, photographs and lots of advertisements. vg condition save for dark...

A H CHURCHER , FRS. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting. Orig cloth, Seeley and Co, 1898. Top and bottom of backstrip and edges rubbed. Conditio...

R TURNER An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences: being a short but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning divided into lessons....

LONDON TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE. Twenty-four later miniature Underground posters in original wrappers with the logo of London Transport on the cover in...

R D PENHALLURICK Birds of the Cornish Coast including the Isles of Scilly. Dustjacket, unclipped; plates and line -drawings; very good condition. ...

WALKERS' TOY-BOOKS Series. The Book of Animals. Eight paged Chap-Book, woodcuts complete. Tan printed paper covers with book list on rear cover. E...

WILL KIDD Dickydidos. The story of two little people and a dog. Cloth-backed boards. Plates in good clean condition complete, but the text pages a...

"The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon". Texts translated with introductions. Vol II. by Alexandre Piankoff. Edited by N. Rambova. Bollingen Series XL.2. O...

ANDREW LANYON The Helping Hand. An Artists' and Collectors' Accessory. A Pocket Critic. Signed Limited Edition of 250 (this is 117), orig card cov...

LION AND UNICORN PRESS. A Newe Booke of Copies. 1574. A facsimile of a unique Elizabethan Writing Book in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Edited wit...

W HEATON COOPER. The Tarns of Lakeland. Orig cloth in vg condition, pictorial dustjacket torn at corners of backstrip. Beautifully illustrated by ...

THE VALE PRESS. THE AMBER WITCH EDITED BY WILLIAM MEINHOLD AND TRANSLATED BY LADY DUFF GORDON. Mary Schweidler, the most interesting trial for wit...

BRASSAI PHOTOGRAPHS. The Sculptures of Picasso by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. Printed in France by Theo Brugiere. 214 black and white plates and imag...

THE GRABHORN PRESS. The First Part of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn has been printed at the Grabhorn Press ...

The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, A National Toy, with Fourteen Step Scenes; and Illustrations in Verse, and eighteen other cuts. By the Author of "...

VICTORIAN THREE-DECKER. 'Arundel: A Tale of the French Revolution,' by Sir Francis Vincent, Bart, first edition, three vols complete, each volume ...

"Struwwelhitler." 'A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit,' coloured plates complete, original wraps, printed by the Daily Sketch and Sunday ...

VICTORIAN THREE-DECKER. 'Martin french,' By John Bradshaw author of Dedham Park etc, first edition, three vols complete except for ffep missing fr...

Bentley, G., E., Jr. 'Blake Books: Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing' in Conventional Typography and in Man...

GARSTANG, JOHN. 'The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt: As Illustrated by Tombs of the Middle Kingdom being A Report of Excavations made in the Necr...

VICTORIAN TWO-DECKER NOVEL. 'Richard Dare by Mrs Alfred Baldwin.' First Edition, two vols complete, partially unopened, adverts complete, original...

MAURICE RICHARDSON. 'The Exploits of Engelbrecht.' First edition, orig cloth, pictorial dusthacket and illustrations by James Boswell who signed t...

EDWARD BAWDEN ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Adam and Evelyn at Kew, or, Revolt in the Gardens,' by Robert Herring, limited edition of 1060 of which this is un-n...

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. 'Lord of the Jungle.' Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York, 1928, original cloth; RONALD SEGAL. 'Into Exile.' Richard Clay a...

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