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263. sendaK, maurice (illustrator). Wilhelm Grimm (author). Dear Mili. New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1988.
£78
landscape 4to. original grey blind-stamped boards lettered in gilt at spine, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [40]; illustrated throughout in beautiful colour with 12 full-page and 3 double-page plates; a fine copy in similarly fine, unclipped, dustwrapper (16.95)..
First edition, as issued in the united states.
264. setH, Vikram. a suitable Boy. Phoenix House. 1993. £128 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. a little yellowing to wrapper which has a scratch on the lower panel and a small chip on the lower fold, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. inscribed by seth “to nigel, Vickram seth”.
265. sHaKesPeare, William (author). Hugh tHomson (illustrator). as You like it. Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1915. £138
imperial 8vo. original brown grained pictorial cloth with a full-size arboreal design to the upper board blocked in green and lettered in gilt[x], 5-142 + [ii]; with 16 fine coloured plates mounted-at-large within decorative panels in line; externally and internally near fine.
early edition illustrated thus. thomson’s first edition of this work was published in 1909, with 40 mounted plates.
266. sHaW, Henry. the art of illumination as Practised During the Middle ages With a Description of the Metals, Pigments and Prosesses employed By the artists at Different Periods. second edition With coloured illustrations. Bell And Dalby, 1870.
£295
royal 8vo. (263 x 182 mm). contemporary quarter brown morocco over papier-maché boards, hand grained to resemble walnut, the upper board titled in gilt within an elaborate gilt blocked border composed of trailing ivy leaves, rebacked preserving the original gilt-lettered backsstrip, aeg., white silk moiré endpapers; viii, 66pp., 16 wood-engraved plates (including frontis), 12 fine chromolithographed plates duplicating 12 of the wood-engraved plates; some offsetting, light dust marks, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Provenance
1.the large chromolithographed armorial bookplate of henry W. thompson to the front pastedown. 2. the engraved book label of W.P. Firebrace to the upper portion of the front pastedown.
second and best edition containing the chromolithograph plates.
267. sHeridan, richard Brinsley. the speeches of the right honourable richard Brinsley sheridan with a sketch of his life.Henry G. Bohn, 1842.
£398
8vo (3 volumes). Full polished calf gilt, boards with double gilt-ruled fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering pieces in two, others with gilt foliate designs, lettered directly in gilt at foot with imprint, gilt roll-tooled board edges, turn-ins roll- tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; engraved frontispiece in i; a very handsome set.
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