Lot: 12
19th Century illustrated works, mostly topographical (though one devoted to birds), all with steel or wood engravings; includes S.C.Hall Ireland, its Scenery, Character, &c., volumes 2 & 3 (of 3), ex-library; The Ports, Harbours, Watering Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain, Virtue & Co, Vol.1 (of 2) with 130 engraved plates; etc. Mixed condition. (14)
Lot: 13
20th Century illustrated works, all with plates, including Jessie M. King, Kay Nielsen, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Lawson Wood, Cecil Aldin, A.E. Kerr (A Dunleary Legend), and others. Mixed condition. (10)
Lot: 19
Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels – Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Dent, 1907, large paper edition, complete with 24 tissue-guarded plates; original gilt cloth, spine rather faded o/w VG; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; no inscriptions, fine internally.
Lot: 20
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan, 1893, pictorial cloth, illustrations by Tenniel, contemporary gift inscription, browning to endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. VG
Lot: 21
Chatterbox 1902 and volumes for 1903, 1904 and 1905, all in VG publisher's gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., complete with the coloured plates and numerous b/w illustrations. Foxing and pencil ownership inscriptions to endpapers o/w fine internally. The 1903 issue with one gathering a little loose. (4)
Lot: 22
Late-19th/early 20th Century children's & illustrated selection including Rosina Emmet Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1880; Hoffmann The English Struwwelpeter, Griffith, Farrar, Browne & Co; Walter Crane The Baby's Bouquet Routledge, text loose [1878]; The Motograph Moving Picture Book, Bliss, Sands & Co, complete with transparency device (text loose); Harry Payne Our Volunteers, Raphael Tuck; W. Heath Robinson Some Frightful War Pictures, Duckworth, 1915; and various others, plus a one later title. Mixed condition with worn and grubby covers but generally good internally. (14)
Lot: 28
M. Racinet Le Costume Historique, Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates in good condition. Title page with spotting. All plates loose.
Lot: 50
Our Beautiful Homeland. Painted by Ernest W. Haslehust. Gresham, 1940s, eight various volumes, all with the colour plates, mixed condition; together with two other illustrated works, one ex-library. (10)