FOUR AND TWENTY TOILERS
First edition of this delightful book of trades printed by one of the leading publishers of the Golden Age –with beautiful illustrations by F. D. Bedford.
First edition of this delightful book of trades printed by one of the leading publishers of the Golden Age –with beautiful illustrations by F. D. Bedford.
First edition of this reference guide to illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from Aldin to Wyeth, with essays including Lynd Ward's "Contemporary Book Illustration," Esther Averill's "Avant-Gardes and Traditions in France," and Jacqueline Overton's "The Fairies Come Into Their Own."
Scarce first edition "picture-story" of a terrible child taken on a nighttime journey over the moon to Toyland, to learn good manners.
First US Rackham edition of Milton's masque, one of the artist's less common illustrated titles, a beautiful copy.
Rare first edition of this children's guide to life in New Zealand, beautifully illustrated by Charles Robinson.
First edition of this early Kewpie book – with the rare boxed set of 3 Kewpie handkerchiefs.
A later edition illustrated with cover plate and four beautiful color plates by Parrish.
Original WWI-era calendar for the modern business man with an original Parrish cover, featuring motivational aphorisms like "Be Ambitious: To rest content with results achieved is the first sign of business decay."
Original Jazz Age calendar with a vivid original Parrish cover, featuring inspirational quotes from Emerson, Longfellow, Ruskin, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and more.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Pogany.
Signed original watercolor depicting 3 little Peek-A-Boos walking through the woods, each carrying a different bouquet of flowers, in rich and vivid colors.
Signed original art featuring a little girl with a doll by the inimitable artist of cute little children.
Early edition of the Rackham-illustrated PETER PAN, one of his most desirable titles.
Signed limited edition of this lavish illustrated collection of Grimm tales, including Snow White – one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Rackham, with the additional signed color plate.
First Rackham trade edition of six stories from Ancient Greek mythology, famously retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with gorgeous Golden Age illustrations.
First US edition of Rackham's illustrated rendition of Poe's short stories, in the original dust jacket.
First edition of this collection of poetry for children by multiple Nobel Prize-nominated poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, with delightful Golden Age illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
First printing of this collection of poetry for children alongside delightful Golden Age illustrations by Arthur Rackham — with a letter from Rackham to the assistant of art dealer and collector Alwin J. Scheuer.
Signed original watercolor by Rackham created for his illustrated edition of Wagner's SIEGFRIED, beautifully matted and framed.
Signed Scribner Classic edition of Wyeth's iillustrated version of the Pulitzer prize-winning classic.
First edition of this collection of sentimental poems, a beautiful Brandywine production rare in the original publisher's box.
First edition of this compendium of short stories, plays, and poems for children, featuring magnificent color linoleum block illustrations by an important collector and admirer of William Blake.
Ephemeral color printed production of classic nursery rhymes, an uncredited piracy of excerpts from Robinson's illustrated BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES (1903).
First US edition of the first book written and illustrated by Robinson, a quixotic comedy of contraptions, printed in Great Britain and published the same year as the UK first.
Original weekly calendar for the year 1935, illustrated with Heath Robinson's comic drawings of useful new inventions, such as a cat-silencer and a mountain-climbing motorcar.