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Perhaps Jansson's illustrations, in this delightful new edition from the Tate, will help to elucidate the elusive nature of the Boojum... This edition has a slipcase.

The Hunting of the Snark (Slipcase Edition)

Lewis Carroll

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Crane's illustrations will be familiar to many from childhood: sweet, pre-Raphaelite scenes, hand-drawn lettering with an Arts & Crafts flair for design. These two volumes catalogue almost 4... read more

Walter Crane: Books in Colour

Francesca Tancini

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£250.00

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Due, perhaps, to the consistently high standard of the raw material, these are as good as ever.

Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2025

Timothy S. Benson

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A very joyful addition to shelves already groaning with Goreyomania, especially when true fantods are so hard to come by: a mighty book illustrated with hundreds of works and archival materi... read more

E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of E ...

Gregory Hischak

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The sequel to What Feelings Do When No One's Looking, translated from Polish and featuring the same strange, delightful illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac. Ages 3-6.

What Feelings Do at Night

Tina Oziewicz

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This dear bear has a lovely time on his own, reading, playing with his wooden locamotive, listening to the wind, smelling the rain... An ode to the pleasures of solitude, from morning to nig... read more

Bear by Himself

Geoffrey Hayes

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Once in a while a really great book for children comes along and this is one of them: a gloriously tall tale of canine derring-do, with superb illustrations. A story to fire the imagination ... read more

A Dog’s Tale: The Story of a Little Dog with a Big Imagination ...

Kiko

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A small girl braves her fears in her quest to find her mother a life-saving flower, guarded by dragons. Richly illustrated and exciting, for ages 4-7.

Dragon Flower

Chen Jiang Hong

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The true story of the discovery of the Lascaux cave paintings by a teenage boy and his dog. Expansively illustrated (the pages fold out!) and brimming with facts for the budding archeologist... read more

The Cave Explorer

Kate Winter

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Same cast, different situation: a follow-up to CM's hugely successful The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Ages 5-10 - or anyone, in fact...

Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm ...

Charlie Mackesy

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The first in a planned trilogy-in-verse from the acclaimed nature writer and academic, in which a child goes looking for light in a dark time. A handsome book, cloth-bound, with striking woo... read more

The Night Creatures: Firefly

Robert Macfarlane

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Two of RB's early children's novels - The Strange House and Midnight Adventure - each inspired by his own post-war London childhood, in one handsome edition with Briggs' b&w illustrations an... read more

The Strange House

Raymond Briggs

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Limited edition - Number 491 of 625 numbered copies - in very good condition with minor wear on the cover edges and some foxing to the endpapers. With eight wood engravings by John Nash. Tra... read more

Ovid’s Elegies

Ovid

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Handsome, large format, with generous illustrations. As new, with a pristine dustjacket. A bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Edward Bawden & His Circle

Malcolm Yorke

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As new copy in as new dustjacket of this scarce book, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist

Helen Binyon

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Large format, illustrated and very wonderful! For ages 6-12.

The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who I ...

Wolverton Hill

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The Swiss-French painter was also a prolific illustrator, reviving the art of the woodcut in the late C19th. Some 250 of his woodcuts for books and periodicals are included in this handsome ... read more

L’Age du Papier: Felix Vallotton illustrateur ...

Katia Poletti

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To celebrate the centenary of Ogdred Weary's birth: fifty envelopes addressed to his friend Fitzharris and a selection of his correspondence.

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey ...

Edward Gorey

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Here are artichokes, sea holly, pelargoniums, cyclamen, columbines, astrantia, auriculas and many others. Beautifully illustrated by one of our finest printmakers; a companion to their Book ... read more

The Book of Garden Flowers

Angie Lewin

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All you tiniest tots - be prepared to be gasp and stretch your eyes at this astonishing magic show, complete with hat! A previously unpublished work by the glorious Sendak. This is a board ... read more

Ten Little Rabbits

Maurice Sendak

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Pamuk has kept a diary for over a decade, noting down thoughts, experiences, events, dialogues with his characters - and all illustrated with his own drawings.

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks ...

Orhan Pamuk

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In 1887 Oscar Wilde became editor of this magazine, dedicated to 'the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art, and modern life'. This selection comprises 30 article... read more

Selected Articles from The Woman’s World: Edited by Oscar Wilde ...

Eleanor Fitzsimons

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This treasure, finally in hardback once again! For ages 3-300 and back again.

The Complete Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

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Blissful facsimile of the 1932 Golden Cockerel Press edition, with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Twelfth Night or What You Will

William Shakespeare

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A facsimile of his last intact sketchbook, with an accompanying poem by Tracy Emin - whose hometown, Margate, Turner returned to throughout his life.

Turner’s Last Sketchbook

J. M. W. Turner

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"That must be a terrible thing to make a railway engine weep" quoth Dai Station: what oh what is the matter with Ivor, the little green steam engine of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Tra... read more

Ivor the Engine

Oliver Postgate

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An anthology exploring the rich Greek and Roman literary traditions of queer love; with some of LEH's lovely drawings too.

300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World ...

Luke Edward Hall

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The Grimm Brothers' tale recast as a C21st dystopia by the Poet Laureate. Illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who also did the other-worldly illustrations for Armitage's Sir Gawain and the ... read more

Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Simon Armitage

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Windows into the minds of 60 illustrators. In the same attractive format as Explorers' Sketchbooks.

Illustrators’ Sketchbooks

Martin Salisbury

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The second volume in the Boutiques series, beautifully produced - as always - by The Mainstone Press. With an essay by a fairground supremo and Sorbonne professor Pascal Jacob; captions by A... read more

Boutiques de la foire: Lucien Boucher’s Fairground stalls ...

Pascal Jacob

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This lovely anthology of the work of the writer, artist and wood engraver famous for The Farmer's Year and Four Hedges is beautifully produced, and includes some of her lesser-known writing ... read more

Clare Leighton’s Rural Life

David Leighton

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Wildsmith's three wonderful bestiaries in one volume, first published in 1967-1968: all creatures portrayed are given their lyrical collective nouns too, wakening the imagination: a walk of ... read more

Brian Wildsmith’s Animal Kingdom: Paws, Claws, Tails & Roar ...

Brian Wildsmith

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Serraillier's fairy tale is back in print and enchanting as ever - re-isssued with Emberley's amazing, psychedelic illustrations from the 1973 edition. Ages 5-8.

Suppose You Met a Witch

Iain Serraillier

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Kreidolf (1863-1956) was a Swiss painter and leading figure in the Jugendstil movement who also wrote and illustrated children's books. In this enchanting tale from 1924, three gnomes set ou... read more

The Gnomes’ Winter Journey

Ernst Kreidolf

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A delightful catalogue to the recent exhibition held in Brecon, which looked at the two years Jones spent in in a small village in the Black Mountains in the mid-1920s, recovering (somewhat)... read more

Hill-Rhythms: David Jones & Capel-y-ffin

Peter Wakelin

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Condensed into one day on the farm, here is Mrs Rebank's delightful take on the shepherd's life.

The Farmer’s Wife: My Life in Days

Helen Rebanks

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