31. Sowerby, J.G. / Crane, Thomas / Keary, Eliza.

At Home Again.

First Edition. London / Belfast / New York. Marcus Ward & Co Limited, 1886. 22.5cm x 22cm. 59 pages. With beautiful illustrations (stunning chromolithographs). Original, illustrated Hardcover. Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Some foxing and bumped edges. Binding a little shaky.

32. Milton, Johann [Milton, John].

[Das verlorene Paradies] Das Verlohrne Paradies, aus dem Englischen Johann Miltons in Reimfreye Verse übersetzt, und mit eignen sowohl als andrer Anmerkungen begleitet von Friedrich Wilhelm Zacharia. Mit Kupfern.

Zweyte, durchaus verbesserte Ausgabe. Zwei Teile in einem Band (vollständig). Altona [Hamburg], David Iversen, Koenigl. priviligierte Buchhandlung in Holstein, 1762-1763. Octak (16,5 cm x 23.5 cm). Portrait-Frontispiz Miltons, [12], 266, 248 Seiten mit 12 ganzseitigen Kupfertafeln (plus Frontispiz). Portrait Miltons von C. Fritzsch. Die 12 blattgrossen Kupfertafeln von C. Fritzsch und Meil nach Haymann. Hardcover / Originaler, zeitgenoessischer Pappband mit handschriftlichem Rueckenschildchen. Bindung firm und sehr gut erhalten. Die gesamte Ausgabe in wunderbarer Erhaltung mit nur ganz geringen Anzeichen von vereinzelten Stockfleckchen. Stempelchen auf Titelblatt. Kleines, ganz dezentes Namensetikett des Vorbesitzers auf dem hinteren Vorsatzblatt.

33. The Fleetway House Publishers.

The Story of the Bible, told by Living Writers of Authority. [2 Volumes].

2 Volumes (complete set). London, Amalgamated Press Inc. / The Fleetway House Publishers, n.d. (c.1930). 21 x 30cm. Vol. 1: Frontispiece, 796 pages / Vol. 2: Frontispiece, 595 pages. Over 1200 colour and black and white illustrations across both volumes. Original embossed hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition, with binding solid and text clear and bright on both volumes. Mild foxing to endpapers. Volume One very slightly bumped to corners. Previous owner’s name stamp on half-title page of Volume Two.

34. Planat, P.

La Construction Moderne [44e Annee: 7 Octobre 1928 – 29 Septembre 1929]. Journal Hebdomadaire Illustré.

Paris, Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1928-1929. 23.6 cm x 31 cm. 668 pages. With black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. With quarter leather and marbled boards, pastedowns and endpapers. Raised bands and gilt title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. Moderate rubbing to cover corners and edges. Title-page loosely inserted / A few loose pages at beginning. Minor tear to rear endpaper. Otherwise binding strong.

35. Karwath, Cary von / Fuchs, Eduard.

Die Erotik in der Kunst. Privatdruck des Verlages C.W.Stern / Wien, 1908. (Als Manuskript gedruckte Publikation der Gesellschaft oesterreichischer Bibliophilen – nicht im Handel erhältlich). 236 Seiten plus 40 Tafeln [Hayn-Gotendorf III, 518 / Stern-Szana 252]. Dem Werk vorgebunden: Ernst Fuchs – L’Élement érotique dans la caricature – (Das erotische Element in der Karikatur / The Erotic Element in Caricature).

Wien, Stern, 1906-1908. 4°. Eduard Fuchs – L’élément érotique dans la caricature: VI, 259 pages with 223 illustrations. / Cary von Karwath – 236 pages plus 40 tipped-in plates on titled cardboard. Both publications in their original wrappers bound in a beautiful private half – leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly rubbed. The publications in unusually excellent condition. All tipped-in plates complete and in their place. Spectacular publication in a worthy binding.

36. Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

37. Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

38. Wootton, David / Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith etc.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996 / 1880-1997. [With many short biographies and listings of women illustrators].

2 volumes (complete set). London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th – January 25th 1996).

39. Stevenson, Robert Louis / Olver, Kate Elizabeth.

A Child’s Garden of Verses. With an Introduction by Laurence Alma Tadema. Illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver.

London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, no year [c.1910]. Small Quarto (19 cm x 23.5 cm). 191 pages with six full-page-colour illustrations by Kate Elizabeth Olver and numerous beautiful black-and-white-illustrations throughout the text. Hardcover / original, illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spiena and board. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. The binding a little faded. Interior excellent with only two or three signs of foxing. All the colour-plates in place and in excellent condition.

40. Shaw, Bernard.

Back to Methuselah [A Metabiological Pentateuch]. [With several items of Ephemera included] With a Preface by Mr.Shaw and with Wood Engravings by John Farleigh.

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1939. 19 cm x 28 cm. LVI, 260 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective slip-case. Excellent condition edition with only very minor signs of external wear to the slipcase. The ephemeral items include an advertising card for this publication from “The Leicester Galleries, London” , The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Clb from July, 1939, Number 119. The printed Letter’s title was: “If there are Four Hitlers” / Also included is a pamphlet of the Limited Editions Club on the artwork of John Farleigh.