TOYS Painted By W. Trier by Seyffert, O - 1922

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1870. Book containing six full page line drawings accompanying the story of a cat's pilgrimage, meeting other animals along the way. 1870 original publcation, 21 pages in very bright clean condition just some foxing on first 3 and last 2 pages. Boards are rubbed on edges and surface but still presentable. Spine is possibly respined professionally in cloth the endpapers look original inside so it is a very good piece of work. A pleasing copy SEE IMAGE DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Illustrated Boards Cloth Spine. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by J Bernard Partridge. 11 ¼ x 8½ Inches. Hardcover.

Moore, George : Ulick and Soracha. Nonesuch Press, London. 1926, 8vo, 1st edition. Limited No. 1154 of 1250 numbered copies signed by the author with copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Natural buckram with gilt titles to spine. Stiff paper dust wrapper, with red stencil design, a small tear to op edge (6mm). Edges rough cut. PP286 on Japon Vellum. In excellent clean and bright condition throughout. The book is dedicated by Moore to Lady Cunard, with whom he conducted a long lasting love affair. He writes " I have come to think of you as an evening fountain under embosoming trees…" the imagery of which Stephen Gooden has captured this in his engraving.

The Studio of Design and Illustration. London. nd. [c.1898] Oblong quarto. 203pp. Pictorial title page signed C. Hentschel. 99 full page illustrations. All pages with a red-ruled border. Red historiated initials. Original publisher's green pictorial cloth, gilt, coloured flag. All edges gilt. Slightly bumped and rubbed to extremities. Minor spotting/toning.
Includes the "Cigarette Race". "Life on board a P&O steamer is one continual round of pictures kaleidoscopic in its quick change and variety of colour".
CARL HENTSCHEL (1864-1930) Engraving pioneer who invented the Colortype Process. Jerome K. Jerome used him as the character Harris in "Three Men in a Boat".
HARRY FURNISS (1854-1925) Anglo Irish caricaturist and illustrator.
Keywords: Peninsular and Steam Navigation Company, Ocean Travel, Smoking in Art, Caricature and Cartoons.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated maroon cloth. Very good. 208 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. 733 diagrams and illustrations. The first 28 illustrations are full page scrolls, panels, capitals and Japanese Rails. The author taught design at the Royal Polytechnic Institute. Modest rubbing to backstrip extremities, interior clean and fresh.

Lisbon: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Turismo, c. 1992. Rare! Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. 141 pages. About 100 color photographs. 9.75 x 12.5 x 0.63 inches.

A written and photographic essay on the life, art and scenery of Lisbon. Beautifully illustrated. Text in Portuguese, English and German. Contents: A First Glance; Moorish and medieval Lisbon; Manueline Lisbon; Genuine, noble and devout Lisbon; Pombaline Lisbon: From Terreiro do Paco to Rossio; Romantic Lisbon; Present-day Lisbon.

Fawcett, Robert [Illust] : Epitaph. A poem by Theodore Dreiser. N.Y. Heron Press Incorporated. 1929. 32pp Uncut, printed on hand made Keijyo Kami. Clean. Limited Edition 900/1100. Large 4to. Signed by Author, frontis signed by the artist. Woodcut illustrations. Spine sunned, recent cloth slip case wholly sympathetic to original, retaining limited edition panel.

Moore, George : Ulick and Soracha. Nonesuch Press, London. 1926, 8vo, 1st edition. Limited No. 1154 of 1250 numbered copies signed by the author with copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Natural buckram with gilt titles to spine. Stiff paper dust wrapper, with red stencil design, a small tear to op edge (6mm). Edges rough cut. PP286 on Japon Vellum. In excellent clean and bright condition throughout. The book is dedicated by Moore to Lady Cunard, with whom he conducted a long lasting love affair. He writes " I have come to think of you as an evening fountain under embosoming trees…" the imagery of which Stephen Gooden has captured this in his engraving.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated maroon cloth. Very good. 208 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. 733 diagrams and illustrations. The first 28 illustrations are full page scrolls, panels, capitals and Japanese Rails. The author taught design at the Royal Polytechnic Institute. Modest rubbing to backstrip extremities, interior clean and fresh.

Overall size c.7. x 9.3/4 inches c.18 x 24.5 cm. 83 pages including many coloured woodcuts ( fourteen full page) by the illustrator Fritz Lang who also cut the blocks. Pictorial upper cover in colour, original brown end-papers, top edge brown. A near fine copy.

Lisbon: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Turismo, c. 1992. Rare! Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. 141 pages. About 100 color photographs. 9.75 x 12.5 x 0.63 inches.

A written and photographic essay on the life, art and scenery of Lisbon. Beautifully illustrated. Text in Portuguese, English and German. Contents: A First Glance; Moorish and medieval Lisbon; Manueline Lisbon; Genuine, noble and devout Lisbon; Pombaline Lisbon: From Terreiro do Paco to Rossio; Romantic Lisbon; Present-day Lisbon.