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The Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling 

Illustration by W Heath Robinson

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Bright clear attractive period illustration ‘The Bicycle Ride’

from Road Rail and Sea - undated c1910

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Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling

Illustration by W Heath Robinson

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Robinson Crusoe 

1810 - a well read copy

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Road Rail and Sea 

Illustration by Charles Robinson c1910

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A treatise of direction, how to travell safely and profitably into forraigne countries Thomas Neale London Printed for Humphrey Robinson 1643

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wonderful antique botanical manuscript illustrated with original water colours dated 1823 

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Superb Illustrated Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there

This edition published in 1911 is the first time John Tenniel’s legendary illustrations were printed in colour 

sadly the original covers are faded and marked as shown in the photos - but the contents are beautiful fresh and clean 

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A General System of Surgery in Three Parts containing the Doctrine and Management of I, Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors and Ulcers of all kinds II, Of the several operations performed on all parts of the Body III, Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders The whole illustrated with forty copper plates exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments and Bandages and improvements according to the Modern and most approved Practice. Towhich is prefixed an introduction concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and improvements of Surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a work of Thirty Years experience Dr Laurence Heister London printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. Clarke, R. Manby, J. Whiston and B. White, H. S. Cox, and L. Davis and C. Reymers 1757 Sixth Edition Translated from the Author’s Last Edition, Greatly improved.

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The Insect by Jules Michelet - Illustrated by Giacomelli

Attractive finely detailed cover design published 1875

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Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Illustrated by John Gilbert A New Edition London George Routledge and Sons 1869

The inscription which faces the posie is from Longfellow’s ‘THE CASTLE OF VAUTSBERG ON THE RHINE’ In life’s delight, in death’s dismay, In storm and sunshine, night and day, In health, in sickness, in decay, Here and hereafter, I am thine!

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Sense and Sensiblity by Jane Austen Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with an introduction by Austin Dobson London Macmillan and Co Limited 1896 / 1905 342 pages + ads, all page edges gilt, measures 187mm x 130mm

An attractive copy of a classic illustrated edition in the publishers salmon coloured cloth with swirling art nouveau design covers

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The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Illustrated by Charles Robinson 

First Published Oct. 191, New Impressions Jan. 1912, May 1913

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The Vision of Hell Dante Alighieri Translated by Rev.Henry Francis Cary MA Illustrated with the designs of Gustav Dore New Edition with critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante and Chronology London Cassell Petter Galpin 1866 - contemporary full morocco leather gilt binding 

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Hartmann the Anarchist, or The Doom of the Great City E Douglas Fawcett

(June-September 1893 The English Illustrated Magazine; 1893)

His first and best science fiction novel illustrated by Fred T Jane, it features a 1920 anarchist revolution against a wicked, capitalist UK, with London being destroyed by Airships; but, in the face of opposition and gripped by guilt, the rebel Hartmann eventually destroys himself and the Attila, his fearsome Airship, and all is well (except for London). The subtitle is lifted from William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880 chap); the attempt to dominate from the air, as in several stories featuring anarchists with airships, derives from Jules Verne’s Robur the Conqueror (1886), and prefigures the more high-minded Pax Aeronautica tales of the new century. 

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The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 

Illustrated by Hugh Thomson

Deluxe Vellum Gilt Binding  

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated by Ronald Balfour London Constable and Company Limited 1920 - New Edition 1930 unpaginated - 38 finely printed tipped in plates in colour and black & white, the monochrome plates very much echo the manner of Aubrey Beardsley