An excellent broken run with good margins and 594 bright, hand-coloured, engraved plates of which many are folding. All uniformly bound in contemporary half tan calf with gilt-decorated raised bands and contrasting gilt-lettered labels over marbled ...

Considered to be from the Edo/Meiji period 19th century. Original woodblock printed book of heroes. Complete with 20 double page vibrant illustrations and text band above. Paper covers a little warn and creased. Contents clean and tight. A very goo...

A fine unfaded copy of the first and only hardback edition, pp. 192, 14 colour photographs and 150 b/w photographs and drawings. Dust jacket fine, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Green Buckram boards fine. Con...

A fine of the first and only hardback edition; pp. 200, with sixteen pages of colour plates and over 60 black and white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket fine, no fading to the spine, there is no change in colour of the bright orange flowers and...

This is the original plate No. 42 from "Wild Flowers of the World" - a fine water-colour painting by the renowned botanical artist Barbara Everard (b. 1910, died ?). It is a highly decorative work in very good condition with vibrant but accurate co...

This is an original botanical watercolour painting of a lily cultivar painted by Lorna B. Kell. The dimensions are 380x570mm. "Lorna Beatrice Kell born in London 1914. Painter of still life and abstracts, printmaker and textile designer. She stu...