Stella & Rose's Books

A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
Written by Augustine Page.
Stock no. 627224
Published by Frederic Pawsey. 1st 1847. Very good condition.

viii + 1054 pages. Attractive modern binding. Black leather spine with gilt title and decorations and raised bands. Red cloth covered boards. A super copy.

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THE KINGS AND THE CATS
Written by John Hannon. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 379626
Published by Burns & Oates. 1st 1908. Good condition.

Munster Fairy Tales For Young And Old. 3 stories. Red Cloth, gilt title and border. Attractive b/w plates, some cats but not in Wain's usual anthropomorphic style. xiii + 78 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers soiled. Foxing throughout, mainly to endpapers. Erased child's pencil writing to front endpaper. Initial 'F' in ink to margin of page 2. Some grubby marks to pages and to rear side of some plates but generally contents still clean. A desirable copy of a very scarce Wain item.

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POPINJAY'S JIG-PUZ BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 596255
Published by John Leng. 1st 1935. Very good condition.

A book containing five jig-saw puzzles, a story about the pictures, and keys for the puzzles to be coloured in. Each puzzles fits into a page and if closed carefully the puzzles remain in position. The stories are about the toys in Anthony and Rosemary's nursery - Popinjay and Pongo the two teddies and Wogga the golly. Pictorial front cover, blue cloth spine. All puzzles complete and in very good condition, complete with transparent overlays. Spine faded and worn at top and tail. Edges and corners worn. Front cover bright and clean. Rear cover just a little grubby. No colouring to contents. A lovely bright copy.

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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY AND CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF HEREFORD
No author listed.
Stock no. 596267
Published by R. Gosling. 1717. Fair condition.

Containing an Account of all the Inscriptions, Epitaphs, Etc Upon the Tombs, Monuments and Gravestones With Lists of the Principal Dignitaries and an Appendix Consisting of Several Valuable Original Papers. Many of the Epitaphs are in Latin. viii + 254 + 87 + 1 page booklist + 4 page index. Full brown leather binding. Contents very good but front board and front endpaper are detached. Boards worn.

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ORIGINES PAROCHIALES SCOTIAE
No author listed.
Stock no. 595827
Published by W.H. Lizars. 1st 1851. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two volumes bound in three books. Vol I: xlii + 532 pages; Vol II Part I: xx + subscribers list + 390 pages + index of Parishes; Vol II Part II: xv + 846 pages + index of Parishes. Five large folding maps. Modern turquoise cloth binding with gilt title to spines. Editions published 1851 through to 1855. Ex-lib with labels to front endpapers and stamps to title pages but overall a very clean and bright set.

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OUR OLD NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Alfred Moffat. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 379320
Published by Augener Ltd.. 1st 1912. Very good condition.

De-luxe edition limited to 450 copies. Cream vellum binding, gilt titles, pictorial onlay to front cover. Very pretty illustrations in delicate pastel colours. Oblong format. All edges gilt. Rhymes set to music. SIGNED by illustrator. Covers ever so slightly marked, corners a little bumped and rubbed. Ties missing. Endpapers heavily foxed. Grubby fingermarks to some page margins but generally contents clean. A nice example - copy no. 4.

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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SOMERSETSHIRE
Written by William Phelps.
Stock no. 595693
Published by J.B. Nichols and Son. 1st 1836. Very good condition.

Parts 1-8 bound in four (all published). 1836-1839. 50 plates including six maps, a few tinted, 50 engraved vignettes to text. Original printed wrappers. Subscribers list. Contained in purpose-made cloth-covered book box. Paperwraps slightly edge-chipped. Contents very good indeed. Book box is split on one edge but still holding.

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GUM TREE BROWNIE AND OTHER FAERIE FOLK OF THE NEVER-NEVER
Written by Tarella A. Quin. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Stock no. 595653
Published by George Robertson & Co.. 1st 1907. Slightly better than very good condition.

Green cloth covers with bevelled edges, red title to front with illustration of a Brownie swinging in a cobweb. Marbled endpapers. Packed with charming pen-and-ink illustrations, many full-page. A typically stylised Outhwaite fairyland. 184 pages. Oblong format. Spine bumped and rubbed at top and tail. Corners slightly worn. Two small dents to cover foredges, Contents near fine with just the occasional very pale mark. A super copy of this rare fairy book.

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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 595605
Published by George G. Harrap & Company Ltd.. 1st 1929. Slightly better than very good condition.

Publisher's de-luxe binding. Olive green morocco with gilt titles. Front cover has coloured leather inlaid illustration. Pictorial endpapers. 12 colour plates. A handsome book. Light bump to one edge of front cover. A little bumping to spine. A few brown marks to rear cover. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates are present and in fine condition - a really lovely copy of this special publishers edition.

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CARAVANNING AND CAMPING
Written by A.H.M. Ward.
Stock no. 595515
Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.. 1933. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Complete Guide to Camping and Motoring With Caravan or Tent. Pictorial boards with dark blue cloth spine. Numerous interesting b/w photos and illustrations of early motor caravans and towed caravans. xii + 172 pages. 2nd edition. Attractive pictorial wrapper torn with some loss at top of spine and top egde of rear cover. Scarce in original wrapper. Reduced from £125.

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THE SQUIRREL THE HARE AND THE LITTLE GREY RABBIT
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 595132
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1929. Good condition.

Red boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. Green pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. 111 pages. The first in the Little Grey Rabbit series and Alison Uttley's first book. Corners worn, covers lightly marked. pictorial onlay to front cover has surface paper loss to vertical edge. Backstrip missing and replaced with red cloth. A few light creases, a few margin marks. Rear joint just starting to crack.

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A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLE OF MAN
Written by David Robertson.
Stock no. 594980
Published by E. Hodson. 1st 1794. Very good condition.

Full brown leather binding. Gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers. 8 aquatint plates. 12 unnumbered pages of prelims + 235 pages. Also includes a Review of the Manks (sic) History. Book: all plates present. Corners worn. Covers scuffed. Contents clean and bright.

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