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190. leslie Henry (composer). millais, J.[ohn] e.[everett] (illustrator). little songs For Me. to sing. London; Cassell Petter & Galpin. [1865].
£68
square 8vo. original red cloth, spine elaborately and decoratively blocked in gilt, the upper cover with a large and intricate pictorial panel featuring a floral wreath with birds and butterflies in gilt surrounded by a wide decorated panel in blind, blocked in blind to lower cover, bevelled boards, all edges gilt; ff. [21]; with 7 engraved plates by Millais; a nice copy with a little light staining to both boards, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed; internally clean.
second edition, published in the same year as the first. a collection of songs composed for the piano enlived by the work of the pre-raphaelite artist John everett Millais including “twinkle, twinkle little star” and “Mary had a little lamb”.
191. leVy, mervyn. the Paintings of l.s. lowry. oils and Watercolours. With an introduction and nores by Mervyn levy. Jupiter Books. 1975.
£500
4to., original dark blue publisher’s leather lettered in gilt on spine, all edges gilt. With 31 colour plates and 100 black and white plates. a fine copy.
First edition, one of 100 specially bound copies signed by lowry.
192. leWis, C.s. (author). Pauline Baynes (illustrator). the Magician’s nephew. London, The Bodley Head. 1955.
£2,450
8vo. original apple-green cloth lettered in silver to spine, preserved and protected by original pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-183; wonderfully illustrated throughout with full-page plates and other drawings, decorations and vignettes throughout in line by Pauline Baynes; a very nice bright copy with a few light offset fox spots to upper board; internally near fine with a tiny ownership inscription to front free endpaper and very pale foxing to endpapers; the price-clipped dustwrapper in
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uncommonly good condition with dust-soiling to lower panel, light speckling to flaps, mild rubbing to top edge and a very little toning to the spine.
First edition. Despite being the sixth of the seven books in the narnia chronicles to be published, this is the first title in the reading order recommended by c.s. lewis himself.
193. loeWy, raymond. the new Vision. locomotive (its esthetics). London, Studio Ltd., New York, Studio Publications, [1937].
£395
royal 8vo.(252 x 190 mm). original putty coloured cloth, blocked in brown letter to the spine and upper board, attractive dust jacket with a design printed in yellow and white on a blue ground superimposing in profile loewy’s Prr s1 locomotive over stephen’s rocket; pp. 108, illustrated throughout with b/w photos; a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny area of negligible rubbing at the head.
First edition. the third title in the New Vision series. the first two being Aircraft by le corbusier and the second, World Beneath The Microscope by W. Watson Baker.
“loewy has probably affected the daily life of more americans than any other man of his time” cosmopolitan Magazine, 1950.
194. maCdonald, George (author). Jessie Willcox smitH (illustrator). at the Back of the north Wind. Philadelphia, David Mackay. 1919.
£178
imperial 8vo. original beige cloth panelled and lettered in dark blue with onlaid pictorial plate to upper board, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers; pp. [viii], 9-342; illustrated with 8 fine coloured plates by Jessie Willcox smith; spine cloth slightly yellowed with small wear to head and tail; internally fine and fresh.
First edition illustrated thus, presented in the later issue binding.
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