Lot 2080 , Rossetti, Christina – Florence Harrison (illustrator) – Poems, 4to, introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, captioned tissue-guards, original cream buckram with pre-Raphaelite design to up

° Rossetti, Christina – Florence Harrison (illustrator) – Poems, 4to, introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, captioned tissue-guards, original cream buckram with pre-Raphaelite design to upper cover, t.e.g., London, Blackie & Son, [1910]; Percy B. Shelley – Charles Robinson (illustrator) – The Sensitive Plant, 4to, introduction by Edmund Goose, 18 tipped-in colour plates, num. illustrations, illus. e/papers, tissue-guards, original green pictorial cloth, London & Philadelphia, Heinemann & Lippincott, [1911]; Charles Kingsley – Jessie Willcox Smith (illustrator) – The Water Babies, 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original green pictorial cloth, [London], Hodder & Stoughton for Boots, [1919]; Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Blossom, A Fairy Story, first edition, 4to, 16 plates, including 8 in colour, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, London, A. & C. Black, 1928; Ida Rentoul and Grenbry Outhwaite, The Little Fairy Sister, reprint, 16 plates, original cloth, London, A. & C. Black, 1929; Annie R. and Ida Rentoul Outwaite, The Little Green Road to Fairyland, reprint, 16 plates, original blue cloth, London, A. & C. Black, 1932; Oliver Herford, A Child’s Primer of Natural History, London, John Lane, 1900; Walter Crane (illustrator) – Theo Marzials – Pan Pipes, A Book of Old Songs, London, F. Warne, [1890]. Together with a further 5 illustrated volumes (13).
£200-300

Condition:
‘Poems’: large [unidentified] b/plate verso front e/paper, toning to plate and text leaves, sm. closed tear to front blank, 1-inch closed tear to rear e/paper, no inscriptions, some finger-marks to lower cover; ‘Sensitive Plant’: large [unidentified] b/plate verso front e/paper, toning, lightly bumped spine ends; ‘The Water Babies’: toning, light occasional spotting o/wise clean and neat, spotting to covers; ‘Blossom’: gift inscription to half-title, light to moderate spotting throughout, extremities bumped, price-clipped dust-jacket with tear and loss at tail of spine; ‘The Little Fairy Sister’: browning, spotting to fore-edge and occasionally within, spine and lower cover sunned; ‘The Little Green Road’: gift inscribed to half-title, occasional spotting, some leaves heavily, spine v. sunned, bumped, minor stains.

Sold for £700