Dusty Pages

c1727

rather nice art nouveau illustration from a bound magazine from 1892 

Warne’s Useful Books 

Apocalypse - wood engraved illustration of the Four Horsemen and the rain of fire.. Venice 1727 

rare leather binding with angels on the covers

art nouveau influence illustration c1905

c1905

London 1792

2 variations of the same design used on different books - the middle one used upside down - all by Talwin Morris friend and contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c1905-10

from a rare 1870′s juvenile ‘Sunday Alphabet’

from The Tempest published 1901

Printed in Hamburg 1719

illustration from a Victorian children’s book c1885

Illustration by Helen Stratton 1899

How to study the Stars Astronomy with small telescopes and the naked eye and notes on celestial photography By L Rudaux  Translated by A H Keane with 79 illustrations [not yet collated] London T Fisher Unwin 1909 First Edition

The Anatomy of the Human Body by W Cheselden Surgeon to his Majesty’s Royal Hospital at Chelsea, Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal Accademy of Surgeons at Paris The VIth Edition [6th] with forty copper plates - engraved by Ger. Vandergucht London William Bowyer 1741

c1839