NIGHT SONGS AND SKETCHES
Lovely Victorian collection of poems evocative of the night with lovely dark toned chromolithographs.
Lovely Victorian collection of poems evocative of the night with lovely dark toned chromolithographs.
First edition of an alphabet of rhyming "military nonsense," published in the midst of the British Empire's military expansion.
First edition thus, in which the evocative Macedonian leader from antiquity receives a late Victorian update in this children's telling, beautifully illustrated by Mason with a consciously antiquarian flair.
First edition of this very scarce Humphrey book, magnificently illustrated of little children dressed in the national costumes of various nations from Russia to Scotland, and with one child representing Africa.
Early issue of the first UK edition, in attractive pictorial cloth.
First edition of publisher Seitz's scarce shape book version of this beloved fairy tale, shaped like the titular character herself (complete with bird friends).
First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh.
First edition of this fantasy adventure set in Toyland, fetchingly illustrated in Art Nouveau style.