Illustrated
Beardsley
Dulac
Gibbings
Gill
Gorey
Heath Robinson
Nielsen
Pogany
Rackham
Rockwell Kent
Searle
Steadman
Ward
The Magic Picture Book -
c 1860 - D. u. V. v. Tauber & Geek, Germany
A small booklet [14x9cm] with pictorial boards showing a wizard . This is a trick book, which allows the performer to make the pictures disappear of change into something else, ‘to the grand astonishment of the spectator’.
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c 1860 - D. u. V. v. Tauber & Geek, Germany
A small booklet [14x9cm] with pictorial boards showing a wizard . This is a trick book, which allows the performer to make the pictures disappear of change into something else, ‘to the grand astonishment of the spectator’.
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Almanach du Masque d'Or -
1920 - chez Devambez, 23 - Premiere Année
A fine copy of this delightful Almanach. A stunning example of beauty, finesse and luxury from the Art-Deco period. Only 1000 copies were printed and this is numbered 68. The hand-coloured illustrations are by Edouard Halouze and include four plates of the seasons as well as 17 full page plates which decorate the ‘Petit Guide de la Vie Elégante’ presented in the form of a collection of advertisements for the Moulin Bleu, Cartier, Prunier, Gaveau, les couturiers Raimon et Martial & Armand, etc. Suitably housed in a one of a kind, hand-tooled case by Bayntun-Riviere.
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1920 - chez Devambez, 23 - Premiere Année
A fine copy of this delightful Almanach. A stunning example of beauty, finesse and luxury from the Art-Deco period. Only 1000 copies were printed and this is numbered 68. The hand-coloured illustrations are by Edouard Halouze and include four plates of the seasons as well as 17 full page plates which decorate the ‘Petit Guide de la Vie Elégante’ presented in the form of a collection of advertisements for the Moulin Bleu, Cartier, Prunier, Gaveau, les couturiers Raimon et Martial & Armand, etc. Suitably housed in a one of a kind, hand-tooled case by Bayntun-Riviere.
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Vins, Fleurs et Flammes -
1953 - Bernard Klein, Paris - Limited edition - from a total of 850 copies this is number 276 of 500 copies on Arches paper reserves aux bibliophiles Francais.Edition
In-4, in loose signatures as issued within a pictorial wrappers and housed in a two-piece slipcase. (Emboîtage de l'éditeur). A collection of essays in French and illustrations celebrating the glories of French wine executed by a variety of renowned authors and artists.
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1953 - Bernard Klein, Paris - Limited edition - from a total of 850 copies this is number 276 of 500 copies on Arches paper reserves aux bibliophiles Francais.Edition
In-4, in loose signatures as issued within a pictorial wrappers and housed in a two-piece slipcase. (Emboîtage de l'éditeur). A collection of essays in French and illustrations celebrating the glories of French wine executed by a variety of renowned authors and artists.
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The New Life (La Vita Nuova) -
Dante Alighieri. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (translator)
c. 1915 - George G. Harrap & Co, New York
Written by Dante over a ten year period from 1283, as an expression of the mediaeval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. The most appropriate translator is Dante Rossetti, English poet, illustrator, and painter. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
A wonderfully produced work, with the illustrations and designs of Evelyn Paul, whose role model was Rossetti. Musical score by Alfred Mercer.
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c. 1915 - George G. Harrap & Co, New York
Written by Dante over a ten year period from 1283, as an expression of the mediaeval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. The most appropriate translator is Dante Rossetti, English poet, illustrator, and painter. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.A wonderfully produced work, with the illustrations and designs of Evelyn Paul, whose role model was Rossetti. Musical score by Alfred Mercer.
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Fairy Tales -
Hans C. Andersen
1924 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Thus : Illustrated by Kay Nielsen
Exquisitely illustrated by Kay Nielsen, sumptuously bound by Bayntun-Riviere. A large volume [28x22cm], containing sixteen fairy tales, including 'The Snow Queen', 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Hardy Tin Soldier'.
Twelve full page mounted colour plates and seventeen full page black and white drawings.
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1924 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Thus : Illustrated by Kay Nielsen
Exquisitely illustrated by Kay Nielsen, sumptuously bound by Bayntun-Riviere. A large volume [28x22cm], containing sixteen fairy tales, including 'The Snow Queen', 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Hardy Tin Soldier'. Twelve full page mounted colour plates and seventeen full page black and white drawings.
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Love and Marriage -
Daisy Ashford, Angela Ashford, Ralph Steadman [Illustrator]
1965 - Rupert Hart-Davis, London - First Edition with Steadman’s Illustrations
A collection of four short stories by the Ashford sisters dealing ‘with love marriage and the social foibles of the adult world, written with charm and mordant perception’.
First published in the 1920’s these stories have been enhanced by a series of early Ralph Steadman illustrations who also designed the dust jacket.
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1965 - Rupert Hart-Davis, London - First Edition with Steadman’s Illustrations
A collection of four short stories by the Ashford sisters dealing ‘with love marriage and the social foibles of the adult world, written with charm and mordant perception’. First published in the 1920’s these stories have been enhanced by a series of early Ralph Steadman illustrations who also designed the dust jacket.
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Droll Stories collected from the Abbeys of Touraine - Translated into English, Complete and Unabridged. -
Honore de Balzac. Gustave Doré
1874 - John Camden Hotten, London - First Edition in English
Illustrated with 425 engraved plates and vignettes by Gustave Doré.
The first English translation of this ‘collection of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published in three sets of 10 stories each, in 1832, 1833, and 1837, as Contes drolatiques.
Rabelaisian in theme, the stories are written with great vitality in a pastiche of 16th-century language. The tales are fully as lively as the author’s masterful Comédie humaine series, but they stand apart for their good-humoured licentiousness and historical wordplay.’ [Encyclopedia Britannica]
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1874 - John Camden Hotten, London - First Edition in English
Illustrated with 425 engraved plates and vignettes by Gustave Doré.The first English translation of this ‘collection of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published in three sets of 10 stories each, in 1832, 1833, and 1837, as Contes drolatiques.
Rabelaisian in theme, the stories are written with great vitality in a pastiche of 16th-century language. The tales are fully as lively as the author’s masterful Comédie humaine series, but they stand apart for their good-humoured licentiousness and historical wordplay.’ [Encyclopedia Britannica]
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens -
J.M. Barrie
1912 - Hodder & Stoughton, London
In Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens, Peter, not wanting to grow up, was joined by other boys, later flying and encountering Hook and all in the later play Peter Pan. With 50 delightful illustrations by Rackham who 'seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie’s fairyland, sent by a special providence to make pictures in tune to his genius' - Pall Mall Gazette.
‘The still air is filled with the ringing of hundreds of little fairy bells,
but the sweetest sound of all,
is the fluting of Peter Pan’s pipes as he calls to the spring to make haste,
because with the spring comes Wendy.'
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1912 - Hodder & Stoughton, London
In Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens, Peter, not wanting to grow up, was joined by other boys, later flying and encountering Hook and all in the later play Peter Pan. With 50 delightful illustrations by Rackham who 'seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie’s fairyland, sent by a special providence to make pictures in tune to his genius' - Pall Mall Gazette.‘The still air is filled with the ringing of hundreds of little fairy bells,
but the sweetest sound of all,
is the fluting of Peter Pan’s pipes as he calls to the spring to make haste,
because with the spring comes Wendy.'
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