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1925004589London: Frederick Warne & Co 1925. No date but 192030s.Bound in original linen backed pictorial boards the binding is holding firm with some light wear on edges. Internally the text is complete in 56 pages all pages illustrated the contents are holding firm no writing or marking light browing to endpapers otherwise pages in unusally good clean condition. Book measures 25x20cm.A44. Quarto. Frederick Warne & Co hardcover
193049119Frederick Warne n.d. c.1930. Sm. 4to. with illustrated half-title and title numerous fine coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers free endpapers mildly browned; pictorial boards white cloth back lettered in green corners lightly bruised else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean crisp copy. Bright copy of an early printing of the the author's first book first published 1878. Printed by Edmund Evans arguably the finest printer of British colour printed books of the late nineteenth century. Our dating is suggested by the printer's colophon later style on rear free endpaper recto. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Schuster & Engen 3a recording Warne editions 44 poems beginning 1900; Spielmann & Layard p.285 recording the first edition. Frederick Warne, hardcover
190510814Adam and Charles Black. London. 1905. NEW EDITION reprinted with minor alterations in December 1905 shortly after the first printing of October the same year. 4to. 9 x 6.6 inches. Fully illustrated with fifty three colour plates. each with a printed tissue guard and ninety mono illustrations. A fine and bright copy bound in attractive late twentieth century half dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands each decorated with gilt piping. The compartments are ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Green cloth and ruled gilt borders on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A little light spotting to a few pages otherwise a near fine copy in a lovely leather binding. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder. Adam and Charles Black. London. 1905 hardcover