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Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne was published in 1927 as part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection comprises 35 poems, with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin appearing in illustrations. This second edition was published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1927. The volume features numerous black-and-white decorations by E. H. Shepard, including full-page illustrations that bring Milne’s much-loved characters and verses to life. The book is bound in red cloth, with gilt decora

This is a limited edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, numbered #1809/2750, published by the Folio Society. The volume comes complete with its matching solander/slipcase. The book is fully bound in Nigerian goatskin leather by Lachenmaier, Reutlingen. It is typeset in Centaur by the Folio Society and printed on Vézille Ivoire laid paper by Memminger Mediencentrum, Germany. The front board features a gilt design by Simon Brett, based on the classical painting Apollo and Daphne

A beautiful and scarce deluxe edition of Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant, illustrated by the renowned artist Charles Robinson. This charming volume features delicate watercolour illustrations throughout, including 18 full-page tipped-in colour plates, each protected by tissue guards. The long narrative poem is an allegorical fable about a paradisical garden; it describes nature as it moves through the joy and abundance of spring and summer, before gradually succumbing to the

The Christmas Processional is a rare late-19th century illustrated poem, written by the author known by the pseudonym ''Tertius'' and illustrated by American watercolourist and etcher Louis Kinney Harlow. Published in 1888 by L. Prang & Co of Boston, Massachusetts, this book comes from a firm renowned for its work in commercial chromolithography and the popularisation of the modern Christmas card in America. Originally produced as an ephemeral Victorian Christmas souvenir, su

This volume presents Dance of Death, a series of design by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger, later engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar. This book contains 30 plates, together with a fold-out plate depicting the Dance Macabre, illustrating one of humanity’s most universal and enduring subjects: Death. Each image is accompanied by a short English description of the plate that presents Death's enduring presence in human life. From Pope to Ploughman, regardless of wealth, status

An early edition of J. M. Barrie’s origin story of Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a charming book that details the adventures of the little boy who would become one of the most beloved figures in children's literature. Whimsical and, at times, devastating, Barrie’s tale has endured generations and has become a lasting source of nostalgic magic and childhood wonder. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, this edition predates the incorporation as a limited publishing

John Keats was an English poet who died in 1821 at only 25 years old and remains an influential figure in the poetic Romantic movement. Life of John Keats is a non-fiction biography published by Walter Scott in 1887; a beautiful dark red leather-bound book with ornate golden embossing and golden edges. Written by William Michael Rossetti, brother to Christina Rossetti, the book has 49 plates of illustrations, many of which are hand coloured. Inside, you can find the binder of

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is one of William Shakespeare’s comedy plays, but it’s also a romantic and magical story. The playbook that we are selling comes with detailed and intricate illustrations by Arthur Rackham, which pair wonderfully with the play’s dream-like narrative. Published in 1908 by William Heinemann, this book has forty colour plates by Rackham, with numerous black and white illustrations adorning the pages. You can’t go a few pages without seeing a drawing o

Robinson Crusoe is often credited as being one of the first novels in the English language. The edition that we have on sale was published in 1929, over 200 years after the first edition, yet this book is still very special... This edition of Robinson Crusoe is illustrated by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Included are eight full-page and hand-coloured illustrations, painted using layers of stencils in a process called pochoir, resulting in richly coloured and textured piece of art

Delve into the world of Edmund Dulac’s magical and dream-like illustrations in this fairy tale book... Published by Hodder and Stoughton (c.1910), this book contains four classic fairy tales: Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. These stories have been translated from the Old French and retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch. However, the stand-out feature of this book is the thirty, full-page colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac that accompany these pere

Anne Pratt’s Flowering Plants of Great Britain is the primary work when looking for detailed, intelligible descriptions of thousands of flowers from across England, Scotland and Wales, accompanied by colourful and intricate illustrations. The set of Pratt’s work that we are selling comes in three volumes, all filled with hundreds of full-page, colour plates of elaborate drawings of flowers from Great Britain. The books are filled with succinct yet accurate descriptions of tho

With its beige, unembellished dust jacket, this illustrated edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte D’Arthur is very unassuming from the outside. However, the inside bursts with colour and gold of Alberto Sangorski’s fabulous illustrations, brining to life this version of the classic British myth. This illustrated edition of the poem Morte D’Arthur by Tennyson was published in 1912 by Chatto and Windus. The page design was produced by the Graphic Engraving Company, to (as the

The Tempest was one of the later plays written by William Shakespeare: the play is thought to have been written in 1610 or 1611, but wasn’t published until 1623, after Shakespeare’s death. The book that we have on sale is an illustrated version of The Tempest, published in 1908 by Chapman and Hall. Included are seventeen full-page, colour illustrations by Paul Woodroffe and multiple other black and white drawings amongst the text. There is also accompanying music by Joseph Mo