"Cinderella" and "The Two Gifts" by Edouard de Beaumont, Charles Perrault - 1886

John Major, London.,1824. SECOND MAJOR EDITION. Illustrated with 14 copper engraved plates and several woodcuts throughout the text. Two small patches of browning affecting the top outer corner of ten leaves, otherwise a very good copy in fine nineteenth century binding by Thomson of Exeter, with binders ticket on front paste down. Full tan calf, raised bands, compartments fully gilt. Red title label, gilt. Boards with double blind ruled and one gilt ruled borders. Marbled endpapers. School prize plate on front paste down shows that this copy was given as a prize in January 1842. Previous owners name(dated 1881) and ink name stamp on blank endpapers. Front hinge neatly repaired. Some minor rubbing to edges but generally a very good copy in an attractive nineteenth century binding.:

Published at The Hampshire House Workshops, Hampshire Hog Lane, Hammersmith, London. 1915. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 12 wood engravings. One of 1500 copies. Inscribed by Gill on the front free endpaper "Eric Gill for H. Davis, 22.3.28" A very good copy in original grey canvas spine, lettered in black, with red paper covered boards with black lettering and illustration to the front board. Some loss to the paper on the boards, affecting 7 letters of the address at the bottom. Spine with just a little darkening. Overall a very good copy. Uncommon inscribed by Gill. --Evan Gill. Bibliography of Eric Gill. No. 259.

MAUDE HUMPHREY: Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes. Frederick A. Stokes, undated. Circa 1894. FIRST EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY MAUDE HUMPHREY. Written by Mary Rice Miller and Elisabeth S. Tucker. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. 242 pages. Maroon boards with gold titling and ornamentation. Good condition front paper paste-down label of a little girl wearing a red feather in her blue hat. Please see our photos. Used. Good/ No DJ. A solid copy with intact gutters. "Humphrey was one of the first great American women illustrators paving the way for Jessie Willcox Smith, Grace Drayton and the many other women illustrators of the early 20th century. Humphrey is also known for being film star HUMPHREY BOGART'S mother (and in fact she used her son as a model for many of her pictures)." QUITE RARE. A NICE FIND.

Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited. London. 1923. Large 8vo. (9.6 x 6.6 inches). Colour frontis and fifteen mono plates by Worth Brehm. A few spots of foxing to the fore edge otherwise a very good clean copy throughout, finely bound in recent half dark green morocco, raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. An attractively leather bound copy of this classic of American literature.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, for Boots pure drug company. circa 1923. Early reprint edition. 4to.(10 x 7.9 inches). Twenty full colour tipped in plates by Dulac. Finely bound recent half dark brown morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and gilt, plus gilt lettering and centre decorations. Marbled paper on boards. A clean and attractively bound copy.

Medford OR, Webb Research Group, 1990, Hardcover, One of a Limited, Presentation Edition of 20 hardcover copies, this copy is designated by the bookplate as a gift from the Author to her husband, Roscoe Albert Baker. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight corner and spine end bumps. Dustjacket lightly bumped at corner and spine ends, in Brodart sleeve. An in-depth study of the places and people involved in the World War II relocations of Japanese, German, and Italian-Americans throughout the United States, filled with documentary and photographic evidence regarding this period of U.S. domestic history. Nominated in 1990 for the Pulitzer Prize "for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States". ISBN 9780093673831

Paris: Borderie, 1979. Livre. Illus. by Cécile Deux - Fred Deux. Très bon. En Feuilles. Signé par l'illustrateur. Ed. originale. Paris, Editions Borderie, 1979. 19 x 20 cm, 26 cahiers de papier couché légendés, portant, pour 24 d'entre eux un dessin en noir reproduit sur vélin d'Arches et pour le premier un triptyque gravé par Cécile Deux légendé et signé à la mine de plomb, le dernier cahier constituant l'achevé d'imprimer et la justification, en feuilles sous couverture repliée imprimée et illustrée. Edition originale de ce recueil de dessins. Tirage à 300 exemplaires, tous sur Arches. Celui-ci hors commerce, signé par Fred Deux. Bien complet des trois gravures originales de Cécile Deux d'après Fred Deux. Sans la chemise, sinon très bon..

Dust jacket has wear along the edges with small tears. There is a piece of tape on the spine along with reinforcement tape inside of dust jacket. Bottem edge of HC is bent. Dust jacket has some scratches and some creasing. Reinforcement binding was added inside front end page and next page. Dust jacket and pages of book have some discoloration from age. Delivery confirmation is provided where available. BOOK IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

Kaishien Gaden (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden) is an Edo-Era Japanese edition of the very popular Chinese painting guide Jieziyuan Huazhaun by Wang Gai, first published in the Qing Dynasty in China (1701). The manual was reprinted many times from 1748 onwards in Japan.Four volumes from the Second Collection, with drawing instructions and examples for ume plums and kiku chrysanthemums. (Lacks the four volumes on ran orchids and take bamboo.)Vol. 1 Plums: 28pp text, 22 b/w plates; 6pp text, 40 color platesVol. 2 Chrysanthemums: 16pp text, 22 b/w plates; 12pp text, 20 b/w plates The woodblock prints in the plum volume, part 2, are double-page full-color reproductions of botanical art by famous Chinese artists with their seals.Condition: Covers browned and scuffed with some minor worm damage, interior solid and woodcuts mostly clean and bright, but with some browning and worming mostly outside the image.

3 volumes of French engraver F.A. David's depiction of the gems, engraved stones and statues in the collection of the Medicis, Grand Dukes of Tuscany, at the Museum of Florence.All copperplates drawn and engraved by Francois-Anne David with explanations by F. Mulot, Doctor in Theology at the Faculty of Paris. Vol. 1: Ancient gems, 258 pp, 95 plates of portraits of Roman emperors, mythological gods and goddesses, philosophers, poets, monsters, etc. Vol. 2: Ancient gems, 176 pp, 96 plates of gods and goddesses, cupids, Bacchantes and figures from Roman mythologyVol. 3: Statues, 143pp, 72 plates of gods, goddesses, Bacchantes and figures from Greek and Roman mythology.Condition: Leather spines disintegrating, boards hanging by a thread, text and tissue guards foxed, but plates mostly clean and sharp, although slightly browned.Francois-Anne David was a French engraver and publisher, a pupil of Le Bas, who lived and worked in Paris (1741-1824).Heavy set, extra shipping charges required.