A small collection of children's & illustrated, art, illustr...

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Hammer

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A small collection of children's & illustrated, art, illustrated titles, including Frances Hodgson Burnett: 'Racketty-Packetty House. By Queen Crosspatch. Spelled by F. H. Burnett.', London, Warne, 1907, 1st UK edition, 15 colour plates by Harrison Cady as called for, 92pp, 16mo, recased retaining original cloth, mounted colour illustration to front cover; John Ruskin: 'The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers. A Legend of Stiria.', illustrated Richard Doyle, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1886, 1st US edition, 68pp, frontis, title + 20 b/w ills. by Richard Doyle as called for, original publisher's cloth, "Ex-Libris Shakespeare and Company Paris" bookplate to front pastedown; Noël Spencer: 'A Scrap Book of Huddersfield', [Huddersfield], [Norwich printed] , [1945, 1948], 2 volumes, each signed & inscribed by the author (vol. 2 limited to 450 copies, presentation copy to the Norwich artist John Rowbottom), each with full page & in text b/w ills by Spencer, each orig. cloth backed paper covered boards; Alfred Austin: 'Lamia's Winter Quarters', L, Adam and Charles Black, 1907, limited edition de luxe, number 41 of 250 copies only, 16 colour plates by George S. Elgood as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Mortimer & Dorothy Menpes: 'Japan: A Record in Colour', L, A & C Black, 1901, limited edition de luxe, number 137 of 600 copies only, numbered and signed by Mortimer Menpes, 100 colour plates as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt (worn), top edge gilt; plus 1 other illustrated Cecil Aldin (7)

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