GALLERY 5: ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN BOOKS

This new Gallery offers you a selection of beautifully illustrated children books from my own collection. Please quote the reference number(s) preceding the selected book(s) so that I may send you additional photos if required. Genuine offers are welcome!

The artists names precede the titles

Ref. 1 Harry Furniss: ROMPS all the year round, verses by E.T. Milliken, 6 full colour plates including 2 double-page spreads, George Routledge and Sons, London, ca. 1900 – in fine condition.

£ 34.-

Ref. 2 Dorothy Furniss: (wife of Harry Furniss) OTHERLAND IN GREEN PICTORIAL CLOTH; Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. in fine condition.

£ 30.-

Ref. 3 Kate Greenaway: The Pied Piper of Hamelin , engraved and printed by Frederick Warne, London, (1910?) offered in flawless conditions full of enchanting colour illustrations by this sought after illustrator.

£ 120.-

Ref. 4 Mariette Lydis: Angomar et Priscilla, Collection pour nos enfants, Callmann-Lévy Editeurs, Paris, 1933, superb copy with many full-and in-text colour lithographs executed by Mourlot Frères.

£ 146.-

Ref. 5 Boutet de Monvel: La Civilité puérile et honnête ; E. Plon et Cie, Paris, a fine copy of this rare book, minor foxing on cover pages. The pictures reflect how children ought to behave …

£ 128.-

Ref. 6 Boutet de Monvel: Vielles Chansons pour les petits enfants – charming colour illustrations of this song book in good condition (slight discolouring on upper spine).

£ 128.-

Ref. 7 Ewin J. Ellis, etched by Tristam J. Ellis: Sugar’d Sonnets by William Shakespeare, a loose-leaf album with numerous etchings in fine conditions, new folder with original title and original cover retained.

£ 68.-

Ref. 8 Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohan: Rondes et Chansons, 1936, A Tours Maison Mame with plenty of colour illustrations offered in fine condition.

£ 98.-

Ref. 9 Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohan: The Misfortunes of Sophy by Comtesse de Ségur, illustrated in colour and line, Williams & Norgate Ltd., London with most attractive full-page colour illustrations. Cover somewhat soiled.

£ 64.-

Ref. 10 George Delaw: Voyez comme on danse, profusely illustrated in colour of this famous children book, 1902, Adrian Sporck, Paris, offered in good condition.

£ 115.-

Ref. 11 Jane M. Dealy: The Land of Little People –poems – by E. Watherly with many colour full- page illustrations and tinted in-text ones in fair condition; London Hildesheimer & Faulkner.

£ 68.-

Ref. 12 Helen Stratton: Hansel and Gretel and other stories from Grimm; Blackie and Son Limited with many colour full-page illustration and black in-text in fine condition.

£ 90.-

Ref. 13 F.D. Bedford: The Original Poems and Others by Ann and Jane Taylor and Adeleide O’Keffe, colour frontispiece and title page and many full-and in-text black and white illustrations, second edition 1905 of Centenary Issue, fine linen cover with charming colour illustration, a fine copy.

£ 82.-

Ref. 14 T.H. Robinson: The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley, with full-page colour and black/white plates printed in Germany, Ernest Nister/E.P.Dutton & Co. in fine condition and with beautiful cover design, a gold-rimmed volume.

£ 127.-

Ref. 15 R.Caldecott: The Panjandrum Picture Book, Frederick Warne and Co., very good copy with many colour and black/white illustrations by this famous English illustrator.

£ 12.-

Ref. 16 Mary S.Reve and others: Bluebell Time, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, a clean copy with colour cover page illustration and full-page colour plate of “The Little Lady” by Mary S. Reve.

£ 16.-

Ref. 17 Rosa Petherick (1871-1931), Peep-Bo – The story of a naughty lamb, written by May Byron, ca. 1910-1915, small volume 10cm x 12cm, Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stroughton with beautiful colour pictures, the small separate vignettes have been coloured in by a child (as it was meant to be).

£ 18.-

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