London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 by 190 mm (10¾ by 7½ inches).

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1924. First edition thus, as first with Rountree's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth hardback, with black lettering and colour illustration onlaid to the front board. The colour plates include full colour pictorial endpapers.
Including favourites such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse", and "Crying Wolf". Complete with colour frontis and all plates. Has a prize bookplate to the front, dated 1927 - from 'Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls' in Leicester (UK). This school's emblem is also attractively gilt-stamped on to the rear board. 340, [4]pp. publisher's catalogue.. 210 x 155 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).

Neuchâtel: Collection Artistes Suisses / Éditions a la Baconnière, 1941. Softback cream coloured covers with a sepia illustration to front. Limited edition # 32 of 600 copies printed on vergé teinté. Signed dedication to front by Cavalleris, dated 1941. Beautifully illustrated with woodcut frontispiece, and 41 other full page woodcut plates. Introduction by René de Cérenville. Text in French. 194 pages. 220 x 180 mm (8¾ x 7 inches). Also includes insertions of two artists signed coloured woodcut engraved cards. One from the series "Storia della mela" reads: Che ogni gemma dia un fiore ed ogni fiore un frutto; e' l'augourio di (Patocchi's signature in pen). The other is signed once in pencil to the front by Patocchi, and has a dedication in pen by Patocchi to the verso dated 1966. It reads: Auguri fervidi ricambia (Patocchi's signature in pen).

Amsterdam: G. Schaares: 1825. A small almanac in a marbled slipcase. Turquoise illustrated boards. Engraved title page & 5 further engraved plates. Calendar to the first few pages. Contents to the rear. There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards, and splitting to both front and rear hinge (boards are holding well though). Slipcase is marbled, with a touch of rubbing and a little nicking to the head and tail - not split though. Internally clean and tidy - with a little darkening and a few light foxing spots.

Gouda: G. B. van Goor Zonen, 1844. First edition. Softback with paper covers. 24 letters of the alphabet (the letters Q and X being the exceptions) are assigned an animal illustration, examples of how to write that letter, and a short verse of poetry about the animal in Dutch. Illustrations are hand coloured. A charming children's book. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. Full-page caricature illustrations by Sokol. Unpaginated, text and then 60 b/w plates, printed on recto only. In original unclipped dust jacket. 300 x 235 mm (11¾ x 9¼ inches). In his introduction's conclusion, Steve Allen says: I promise him (the reader) that once he meets Sokol's characters he will not easily forget them. He will go back to them again and again, in much the same way he goes back to pictures in a family album. And probably for the same reasons.

Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1912. Limited edition, one of only 15 printed on Japon. soft cover with integral folding wrapper. This is clean and bright, but there is splitting and chipping to the spine. Tipped in frontis portrait. Limitation page to verso of title. (There was a total edition of 500 copies, but only 15 on Japon). With many reproductions of his drawings. Internally an excellent example. 128 pages. Many pages uncut. 260 by 190mm (10¼ by 7½ inches).

London: The Faith Press, Ltd, 1948. A delightfully illustrated children's book. Author signed / dedicated. In original mottled blue illustrated paper covered boards. 20 pp. With 6 attractive full-page b/w illustrations by the author. Eleanor Marian Dundas Allen (1892 – 1953) was a successful author/illustrator of several children's books such as 'The Wind in the Chimney', and Joy Street volumes. She was also author of the poem now known as "The Wind on the Downs". The book has a dedication from her at the front to a friend, dated Christmas 1948.

London: Heinemann, 1960.

Paris: Libraire Hachette: 1910. First Thus (French trade edition). Attractive, new, full dark green leather binding. gilt titles and decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. green marbled end papers. Original green cloth front board laid into rear of book (with decoration etc.) Original spine is also laid in. Slight creasing to the frontis (Rackham's portrait of Alice). A touch of foxing to some of the pages, Otherwise in excellent condition throughout. The original spine is a rather faded. A beautifully preserved and presented copy. 13 full colour plates by Rackham. Some additional black and white illustrations and decorated initials throughout the book. 168 pages.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and colour pictorial boards. Text in English. 39 [1] pp. 365 x 265 mm (14¼ x 10½ inches).

Paris: c. 1965. Vintage René Gruau (1909–2004) designed programme for the Bal Du Moulin Rouge - Frisson, in Paris during 1966. In softback with original cord tie. 20 pages. 210 x 295 mm (8¼ x 11½ inches). The fashion illustrator Count Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli della Caminate was professionally known as René Gruau, and his work is both instantly recognisable, and highly desirable!

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1894. Original yellow hardback. buckram spine. A touch of bumping to the edges only. Unpaginated. 15 coloured lithographs with a black and white copy of each opposite for children to colour themselves. This copy largely uncoloured, although the first black and white image has a very feint colour wash to it. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).

London: Elliot Stock: 1881. A beautiful, and it would seem unique, copy of this work, which provides an account of the portraits held at Longleat, with biographies of the subjects. Hand coloured throughout. Bound is in three quarters red leather with red marbled boards. Label to the spine and gilt titles. clamshell box in similar colour card with the same marbled side. Rough cut pages. The title page is decorated around the edges, and coloured. Throughout the work, are historiated initials which are all hand coloured. Folding plan of the ground floor of Longleat to the front. 210 by 180mm (8¼ by 7 inches). 370pp

Paris: Jacques Haumont, 1942. Softback book, with text in French. Illustrations in colour are by Claude Garnier. 72 pages. 187 x 120 mm (7¼ x 4¾ inches). Title in English: 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'. Originally by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, that was first published in 1816. The story is the tale of a special Christmas toy who comes to life at night!