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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2108585
Published by William Heinemann. 2nd 1915. Very good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Darkening to spine. Corners and spine are a little bumped, with wear. A few marks to covers. Foxing to pages. All plates present.

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THE WIND IN THE WOOD
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2106950
Published by Hollis & Carter. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of fairy-stories illustrated by 12 glorious colour plates plus b/w chapter head and tail decorations. 143 pages. Light blue cloth, silver titles. Mottling to spine; a little fading to cover edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and a few to outer page edges. Illustrations are excellent. Wrapper has a few closed tears and chips. A little loss to corners and top of spine. Browning to wrapper spine. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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MORE PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1107009
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Second Little Book of Unusual Piety. Blue boards, gilt title to spine; vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Some uneven fading to covers. Foxing to pages. Wrapper is unevenly faded with some foxspots and edge-nicks.

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ARCADIAN BALLADS
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1307512
Published by Heinemann Educational Books. 1st thus 1978. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Tall format. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 48 pages. ISBN: 0435147722. Minimal rubbing to wrapper edges.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2106668
Published by Van Holkema & Warendorf. 1st 1906. Almost very good condition.

Full leather binding with gilt titles and pictorial onlay to front cover. Ribbon ties weaved into binding of covers. 50 colour plates; tipped-in. Heavy, hand-made paper. Text is in Dutch. A lovely edition! Limited edition to 325 copies. 8" split to top of spine next to front cover. 3-4" split to base of spine on rear side of covers. Bumping and wear to corners and spine. A little chipping along cover edges. Original ribbon ties are still present on binding - one to bottom of front cover has partly torn off, so can not be tied to ribbon on rear cover; original piece of torn of ribbon still present inside, but detached. A few marks to covers. Looks like repair work has been professionally done at some point; new overlap edges have been very neatly added, so protecting more original corners. The book also appears to have new endpapers. Some foxing to outer page edges and a few to some pages internally. Some creasing to uncut page edges. All plates are present and in excellent condition!

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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2106665
Published by William Heinemann. 2nd 1915. Very good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little uneven browning to covers. A few marks/scuff marks to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some foxing to outer page edges and a few pages internally. All plates present.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2105952
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Large format. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and front cover. 30 stunning tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plates, mounted on card with green decorative borders. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Some fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine. A few marks and scuffs to covers. Some foxing and light browning to pages.

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UNDINE
Written by Friedrich De La Motte Fouque. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1204481
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Deluxe edition limited to 1,000 SIGNED copies. Bound in vellum with gilt decoration to spine, gilt title and vignette to front. 15 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards. 30 b/w drawings. SIGNED by illustrator. Copy no. 683. Book: all plates present. Spine darkened, cover edges grubby. Contents clean and bright.

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THE DOGS OF WAR
Written by Walter Emanuel. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1105958
Published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1906. Good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine, red title to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spine darkened. Rear board stained. Same area of damage to cloth on front cover. Pencil name to front endpaper, a few foxspots and fingermarks but otherwise contents very good.

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WELSH SCENERY (CHIEFLY IN SNOWDONIA)
Written by T.G. Bonney. Illustrated by Elijah Walton.
Stock no. 1703843
Published by W.M. Thompson. 1875. Good condition.

Large format. Gilt and black titles and decorations. 20 tipped-in paper guarded chromolithograph plates. Some wear to cloth mainly to corners, with a little fraying. Front and rear joints cracked. All plates present but with some foxing. 1 plates has paper-guard missing. Another plate appears to have been re-inserted, but in the wrong place. The paper guards have a fair amount of damage with some pieces missing.

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THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE
Written by Algernon C. Swinburne; Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1202693
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1918. Very good condition.

As the close of his life approached, Swinburne often expressed his desire to extract from his various volumes those poems addressed to children. He died without doing so. Edmund Gosse has brought together this collection of Swinburne's poems which are concerned with infancy. Rackham's delicate and romantic illustrations are a perfect complement to the text. 8 colour plates plus b/w text decorations. Dark green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Green/white decorated endpapers. 133pp. cr 4to. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed. Contents clean.

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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1303332
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1929. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A jovial domestic portrayal of Goldsmith's classic. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 232 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped else a bright copy. Light foxing to outer page edges and light browning to first few and last few pages. White pictorial wrapper is edge chipped, slightly grubby, price-cut and has a 2" closed tear to top edge of front panel.

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