Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Complete in two volumes, both 22.5 x 28.5 cm, bound in grey cloth with unclipped dust jackets. Volume one: [16], 323, [4, blank] pp. Light foxing to edges of dust jacket and edges of text block; small scuff to bottom... More about The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
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 about The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley TOGETHER WITH The Later Works of Aubrey Beardsley
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 about The Grave; A poem by Robert Blair with a Preface by the Rev. F.W. Farrar, M.A
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 about The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Child's Story by Robert Browning. Set forth in a series of designs...
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 about The Merry Piper; or the magical trip of the sugar bowl ship
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 about Treasure Jar
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 about The House That Beckons; Decorated by Pixie O'Harris and Author
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 about Magic in the Pool