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Mainz: Scholz, [1913]. First edition. Oblong 4to. Blue cloth spine, paper covered boards with delightful pictorial cover depicting a child feeding a line of swans. 16 pages of black and white blocked illustrations by Johanna Beckmann. Corners bumped, else very good. (Item #68)

London: Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Original "Rough Cloth Binding," Albert M. Cohn's Copy (bibliographer of George Cruikshank) with his bookplate on front paste down. Bound in 'rough' brown cloth with blindstamped design on cover, gilt lettering on spine. "The rough brown cloth and the smooth were issued simultaneously. Copies in... (Item #3195)

London: William Heinemann, 1926. Early edition. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt. ASSOCIATION COPY WITH SIGNED LETTERS. Personal copy of Margot Sieveking, wife of literary editor Allan Wade, including Typed Letter Signed by Max Beerbohm tipped onto front pastedown to "Mrs. Allan Wade," Typed Letter Signed by publisher and... (Item #2872)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Brown cloth with famed cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of stylized butterflies/bow-ties, gold lamps and vines stamped in bright gold and white. Superb copy with regards cover, rather excessive foxing almost always found with this title. Cover gilt is bold... (Item #848)

London & New York: George Bell and Sons, 1892. First edition. Thick folio. Smooth wove beige cloth with brown crushed morocco label on spine, gilt letter. A mammoth work recording much if not all of Edward Burne-Jones life work, replete with high-quality reproductiions of Edward Burne-Jones oeuvre of art and... (Item #4199)

Roudnice nad Labem: Milan Svoboda, 1912. First edition. Striking and eminently aesthetic Czech production printed in Bohemia just after the turn of the century, bound in exquisite silk over boards with Noveau-style illustration and decorative borders on both covers, lettering on spine in light brown, by Ant. Malik. With six... (Item #3893)

London: Printed for William Miller by J. Ballantyne, 1807. 2 vol., three-quarter polished brown calf, marbled boards. Ninth edition of vol.1, third edition vol.2, 2 folding stipple-engraved frontispieces by Edward Scriven after Beresford (short tears repaired). woodcut illustrations. . All edges stippled red. Near fine. (Item #3868)

Boston: The Atlantick Monthly Press, 1922. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original fine green buckram cloth with color pictorial insert on front cover, bold gilt lettering and designs. 67pp. Pictorial endpapers. Cover insert, decorative title page and 10 superb full-page color plates by Tom Seidmann-Freud (martha Gertrude), widely considered one of... (Item #3377)

Amsterdam: Scheltens & Giltay, [1909]. First Dutch Edition. Large quarto. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, brown cloth spine. 13 superb full-page color plates by Beskow. Cover and contents near fine; the book block is almost separated from the spine. Scarce. (Item #3317)

Munich: Georg W. Dietrich, [1908]. First edition. 4to. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, blue cloth spine. Olive green pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title, and first page and thirteen stunning full-page color illustrations by Elsa Beskow as well as half-page line drawings by Beskow throughout. One of Beskow's more alluring illustrated... (Item #2491)

11 x 15.5 inches. Advertising poster for Anna Alice Chapin's book, "Babes in Toyland" with illustrations by Ethyl Frankin Betts. Printed in red and black on Cream paper with insert of one of the illustrations in the center. Near fine. Most scarce. (Item #1213)

Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1908. First edition thus. Square folio. Original blue cloth with color pictorial insert on front cover, five full page tinted illustrations, other drawings throughout by Ethyl Franklin Betts. Unobtrusive crack in rear inside boards, else very good. (Item #528)