Illustrated Books from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1983. Hardcover. The book and extra set of prints (burgundy cloth) fine in fine matching burgundy slipcase. Moser, Barry. 282 pages. 35 x 26 cm. Limited Edition, copy 233 of 350 with an extra suite of 52 unsigned engravings by Moser: The first instance of the use of multiple color block prints in a… Read more about this item

Paris: Aux Editions Du Rameau D'Or, 1942. Orig. Stiff wraps. Fine. Orig. color illustrated front cover printed in red and black with original glassine. Fine. 158 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Host of brilliant aquarelles ( technique of painting in transparent, rather than opaque, watercolours). Originally published in 1872 his creativeness resulted in characters that were real and… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter navy watered silk lettered in gilt, red morocco corners and spine. Aeg. Very good. Leetch, John. Folio, 22 x 31 cm. Ttwenty-one etched plates by Leetch which were used as frontispieces to "Punch's Pocket Books." The plates and vignette on the title-page are colored by hand. FIELD p.101… Read more about this item

London: Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, 1809. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine. 140 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-nine hand colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Not in ABBEY LIFE or TOOLEY. Originally published, London, 1788 with Bunbury's illustrations. He was a contemporary of Gillray… Read more about this item

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Hardcover. Orig. cream boards covers lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Fine in fine cloth clam shell box. Moser, Barry. 268 pages. 33.5 x 30.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 200 of 350 illustrated and signed by Barry Moser. With an appreciation by Justin G. Shiller, printed by Harold McGrath in Van Dijck… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1931. First American Trade Edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper with a nick at lower front and head of spine. Rackham, Arthur. 224 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm. Twelve mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and numerous in text woodcuts. Printed in the UK for the American… Read more about this item

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with illustrated color paper inset front cover, backstrip lettered in green. Near fine. 204 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's `Popular Tales from the Norse' by P.C. Asbjornsen and J.I. Moe. "Nielsen acknowledged that his work was influenced by the art of… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth, front cover gilt decorated inset. Near fine in spotted very good dust wrapper. Pogany, Willy. 172 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. 12 tipped-in full page color plates and 46 mounted gilt decorated against a black background with gold borders. Partly unopened. Bright, fresh copy.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter maroon morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper at heqd and foot. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with… Read more about this item

London: R.A. Walker, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream linen cloth with gilt lettering front cover and spine. Very good. Beardsley, Aubrey. Unpaginated. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 198 of 500, signed by R.A. Walker. Collected and Annotated by R.A. Walker (Georges Derry). Walker claims to have uncovered sixty drawings hitherto unrecorded and presents thirty two… Read more about this item

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's gilt stamped teal pictorial cloth designed by Beardsley. Very good. Beardsley, Aubrey. 193 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 1000, includes one of the extra photogravure plates that was issued with the one of 100 copies that included a suite of the plates in a… Read more about this item

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Three quarter green calf and light blue cloth. Teg. Very good. Greenaway, Kate. 301 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Fifty-three full-color and ninety black and white illustrations. Bound by Zahnsforf. Extensive Index. FREITAG 3926. Raised bands, spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, backstrip faded to brown.

London: Printed by Samuel Leigh, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Later full red crushed morocco. Aeg. Fine. Rowlandson, Thomas. 14 1/2 x 8.5 cm. iv pages including title and advertisement. Fifty-four hand-colored plates by Rowlandson: a panoply of city life, the costumes of street vendors through Rowlandson's colorful, often affectionate delineation's of human character. The plates are related to… Read more about this item

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1867. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher blue morocco, rectangular gilt front cover frame houses center gilt escutcheon, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the… Read more about this item

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1868. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher green morocco, rectangular gilt front cover frame houses center gilt escutcheon, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. leather_bound. Full red levant. Aeg. Fine in matching red slipcase. Rene Bull. 75 pages printed recto only. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Hand bound by Joseph E. Zuffant Jr.,for The Monastery Hill Bindery with his label mounted to inside front free endpaper. Twenty four tipped in color plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrations after… Read more about this item

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 20th century three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 4 vols. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in… Read more about this item

New York: Braziller, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark blue and brown boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. With fifteen miniature prints reproduced in there actual size. Rockwell Kent, Goya, Blake, Callot are some of the artists represented.

Racine: Artists And Writers Guild, 1925. Stiff Boards. Orig. spiral bound illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Parrish, Maxfield. 28 pages. Folio, 32 x 26 1/2 cm. Fifteen full-page color plates and eight color illustrations in the text. Susan Meyer, AMERICA'S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS p.120, notes, "Only a mind rich in fantasy could have produced the unforgettable creatures populating his… Read more about this item