Children's And Illustrated Books from Paul Foster Books

Methuen & Co. London. 1929. SECOND EDITION. Published just weeks after the First edition which was issued on October 31st 1929. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with beautiful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. A clean and bright copy internally, bound in Publishers special delux full dark blue leather binding. Spine double ruled to the top and… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green and co. London. 1887. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 20 mono plates engraved on wood by J. Cooper from drawings by C. H. M. Kerr. A very good copy bound in early twentieth century half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt. Compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Green cloth on boards.… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press. London. 1938. NEW EDITION. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.4 inches). 22, 590pp. Colour frontispiece of Vauxhall, by Thomas Rowlandson, and 13 mono plates. A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Raised bands with gilt dotted lines on the spine. The compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards… Read more about this item

Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. 1920. FIRST 2 VOLUME EDITION. Small Crown 4to. (9.3 x 6.8 inches). xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp. Originally issued as four slim quarto volumes in a limited edition in 1910-11, this is the first issue in this format and is complete in 2 thicker volumes. Beautifully Illustrated with… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1907. FIRST EDITION. First printing. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 6.4 inches). Colour frontis, 22 full page mono plates and hundreds of small engraved vignettes to the margins of the text pages, all by E. Caldwell. This is the scarce first issue with the margin drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his… Read more about this item

No place. No date. Circa 1870. ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT. Oblong 8vo. (9.4 x 5.5 inches). Longfellow's popular eearly poem, An April day, written in a neat hand on 12 thick paper leaves. Ten of the leaves are beautifully illustrated in watercolour by an unknown but very skilled artist. Bound in attractive nineteenth century full red morocco. Spine with multiple… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1898. FIRST SIXPENNY EDITIONS. 8vo. (8.4 x 6 inches). Both volumes are the first printings of the Macmillan sixpenny series. Illustrated with forty two and fifty line illustrations, respectively, by John Tenniel. Publishers original red printed paper wraps. Page edges a bit chipped, as to be expected with the cheap paper used in… Read more about this item

Frederick Warne and Co. London. 1902. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 16mo. (5.6 x 4.4 inches). First state of the text with "wept big tears" on page 51. Illustrated with colour frontis, line vignette of a bunny on the title page and 30 fine colour plates by the Author throughout. A very good bright and clean copy. Original brown boards with… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co, Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Neat previous owner name and date Oct. 1910, the month of publication, on the top of the front free endpaper. A very good clean copy throughout. Publishers original burgundy cloth boards. Gilt lettering to the… Read more about this item

Printed and Published by G. Ross. Edinburgh. - (No date). Circa 1814. Small 8vo. (3.9 x 2.5 inches). 48pp, including the first and last blanks which are pasted directly onto the inside leaves of the printed wrappers. Sewn text pages. Illustrated with a full page wood-engraved frontispiece of Captain Gulliver and 12 smaller woodcuts within the text. Original blue… Read more about this item

Henry Colburn. London. 1847. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. -- NEW EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Colour printed extra title page and 236 wood engravings throughout the text but the volume has been beautifully extra illustrated with 23 full page plates, three fold-out and six of these hand coloured, dating from the early 19th to early 20th century, bound in, each… Read more about this item

Cassell & Company Limited. London. 1933. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10 x 7.6 inches). Illustrated with colour frontispiece and sixty four mono illustrations on 60 pages, plus decorative endpapers illustrated in red on cream paper. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. In the original plain brown paper dustwrapper, lettered in black to the front panel and spine.… Read more about this item

Collins. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.3 x 7.6 inches). 32pp. Illustrated in colour by the Author. Original colour illustrated boards and in the rare original dustwrapper. Two pages with minor blemishes but overall a bright and clean copy in the original colour printed dustwrapper, which reproduces the board illustrations and lettering. Some minor bumping to the board edges.… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1909. FIRST DULAC EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.6 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Finely bound in early full white vellum binding. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling and red morocco label, lettered and decorated in gilt. Front board lettered… Read more about this item

George G. Harrap & Co Ltd. London. 1933. SIGNED, LIMITED FIRST EDITION. 4to. (9.3 x 6.4 inches). One of 460 copies numbered and signed by Rackham, this number 76. Illustrated with 8 full page colour plates and 55 drawings in black & white, some full page. A few very light spots to some pages but overall a very clean… Read more about this item

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. 1811. FIRST SCOTT EDITION. Six volumes. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with six full page copper engraved frontipieces, after paintings by Robert Smirke, which were originally published in Edward Forster's translation of this work in 1802. The plates were specially re-engraved by J. Fittler, C. Warren, A. Raimbach (x2), A. Smith,… Read more about this item

Fred De Fau & Company. New York. 1902. LIMITED EDITION. One of 1,000 numbered sets, this number 942. 10 volumes. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.5 inches). Finely bound by Brentanos in contemporary half tan morocco. Each spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt piping. Compartments multi ruled and lettered in gilt and with blind tooled centre decorations. Marbled paper… Read more about this item

The Rocket Press, Blewbury, Oxfordshire. ND. 1991. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). One of only 40 copies, numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon, this is copy number 5. A collection of 24 fine wood engravings by O'Connor printed from the original blocks, on hand made Zerkel paper, in blue, brick red, brown and… Read more about this item

John Murray. London. 1977. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY STONE, and with 8 ephemeral items of his of printed work. 4to. Fully illustrated with 151 pages of designs, most with several images to each page. Signed by Stone in black ink on the title page. Also there are 8 pieces of his printed work, one inscribed by Stone on the… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1890. FIRST EDITION, first impression. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). xii, 367pp, 16pp publishers adverts at end dated September 1890. Illustrated with 4 full page mono plates and scores of smaller illustrations throughout the text by Ford, G. P. Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed. Publishers decorated red cloth binding with gilt illustration to the front… Read more about this item