London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1920. 3rd Printing. Cloth. First published, March 1899; reprinted, October 1911, May 1920. Two uniform octavo volumes (29 x 22cm), The Early Work:15 pp, 157 plates (including port. frontis and tp). The Later Work: (18pp) unpaginated, 174 plates (including port. frontis and tp). Blue..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First thus. Pp. xxviii, 50, twenty-three fine wood engravings after designs by Birket Foster, John Tenniel and others. Full brown morocco with gilt borders, lettering and dentelles, all edges gilt, bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton, Ingleton Catalogue sticker No. 8960. Joints and corners..... More
London: Harry Quilter, 1898. Harcover, (dimensions 32 x 26cm), 56pp (unpaginated), each separated by a tissue guard, 25 decorative borders and 25 designs, red cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt blocked design to top board, gilt lettering to spine. Large spot (3.5 x 3cm) on spine and wrapping around to..... More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, n.d. [1916]. First thus. Octavo (215 x 155mm). (xvi), 19-332pp. Endpapers, frontispiece plus 43 coloured plates as called for illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant. Recent binding by Karen McGuire; gilt decoration including heart, club and rose detailing in homage to the subject..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925. First Edition. Pp. 247, decorated title page, colour frontispiece, 7 full page colour illustrations, 12 full page b&w illustrations & b&w drawings in text, original grey cloth with navy lettering and silhouette images, decorated endpapers, dust light green wrapper with illustration pasted onto the..... More
Brisbane: Self-published, Unknown (late 1970s). Billy Jones. Print of one of Jones's many nature- and sunflower-themed illustrations, 6100 x 4000mm. One corner slightly bruised. In March 2018 Archives Fine Books acquired the better portion of the personal library of Queensland-based poet and artist Billy Jones (1935 – 2012). Upward of..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, [n.d. circa 1920s]. Hardcover 4mo (24 x 16.5cm), pp. [2, blank], ix, [1, blank], 305, [3, blank], richly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrated endpapers, black line drawings throughout + 12 tipped in colour illustrations; orange cloth covered boards with embossed black lettering on the..... More
[Sydney]: Blyth and Pratt, n.d. [c.1920]. First Edition. Quarto (28 x 21.8cm), 56 unnumbered pages, 55 illustrations by Lionel Lindsay; oatmeal cloth spine, illustrated card covers. Not mentioned in the Muir bibliography though she does mention it in her history of Australian childrens' book illustrations. OCLC lists seven copies with..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. First Edition. Quarto (29 x 22cm); pp. [2, half title, blank], 171, [1, printers' address]; coloured title page precedes typographical title page, A&R endpapers; tan illustrated boards, brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, facsimile illustrated dust wrapper. Muir 4263. Boards are mostly clean with soiling along..... More
Sydney: New Century Press, 1940. First Edition. Pp 122, 10 full page part coloured illustrations, illustrated paper covered boards, decorated endpapers, illustrated paper dust wrapper. Dust wrapper with a small (5mm) tear at bottom of front cover, a little edgeworn along the top, a few foxmarks (10) scattered across top..... More
Sydney: 1951. First Edition. No publisher named but printed by Winn & Co., Sydney. Paper covered boards with illustration pasted on top board, 26pp.,6 colour plates, 2 full page black and white illustrations and several in text illustrations. Head of spine chipped and foot of spine abraded, corners tender, plate..... More
Sydney: Dunvegan publications, n.d. [1946]. Octavo (19 x 12.5cm), frontis, 127pp (1), original green cloth binding with dark green lettering, illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations by Mirren. Some of the illustrations have been neatly hand coloured (probably by a previous owner) and the jacket is chipped and torn (now protected in librarian's..... More
London: The Bodley Head. Various bindings. Thirty-five facsimile volumes in twenty-eight slipcases designed by Mitsumasa Anno. The facsimiles were produced by the Japanese specialists, Holp Shuppan, matching the paper, colour printing, and binding of the original editions produced in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. This set is fine..... More