Illustrated and Children's Books. Heath Robinson (William), ...

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£100 - £150

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Illustrated and Children's Books. Heath Robinson (William), Bill The Minder, first edition, London: Contable & Co. Ltd., 1912, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome pictorial title-page, further illustrations and vignettes, later bound in green quarter-calf gilt over cloth, marbled slipcase, 8vo; Basile (Giambattista), Strange (E.F., editor), & Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Stories from The Pentamerone, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911, colour plates, some loose/loosening, original publisher's red cloth, 4to; Goldsmith (Oliver) & Hankey (W. Lee, illustrator), The Deserted Village, first edition thus, copy no. 21/250 signed and numbered by the illustrator, London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909, tipped-in colour plates, top edge gilt, others uncut, original publisher's vellum over boards, pictorial gilt, lacking ties, 4to; Barrie (J.M.) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), Quality Street, first edition thus, Hodder & Stoughton, 1901, tipped-in colour plates, further b/w illustrations, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, 4to; Goethe & Pogány, Faust, London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [c. 1920], colour plates, original cloth, 8vo; Detmold's Arabian Nights, Folio Society, 1999, original pictorial cloth, slipcase, 8vo; Babies' Classics, 1904, lacking ffep, 4to; other illustrators, including Edmund Dulac, Francis Bedford, Charles Folkard, Kate Greenaway; four pop-up books, early 20th c and later; etc., (24)

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