London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1902. Third Edition. Hardcover. When young Rhoda laments her embarrassment in not knowing the difference between a buttercup and a daisy and dreams aloud that she could learn from the flowers themselves, good Dame Nature and wise Lady Science themselves appear in person to..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. circa 1875. Hardcover. Like the moonlit fairy gracing its covers, this turn-of-the-century collection of fairy tales is sure to sweep you off your feet and into worlds full of magic and adventure. This beautifully and bountifully illustrated edition collects over 150 beloved fairy tales..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. In this second collection of fairy tales by Mary De Morgan, a wicked princess who doesn't want to marry practices black magic and strings her suitors into beads on her beautiful necklace, elves transform a courageous busker into a golden harp..... More
London: Seeley, James, & Halliday, 1877. Second Edition. Hardcover. This enchanting fairy tale collection was the first published by the English writer Mary De Morgan (1850–1907), a women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist whose politics informed her remarkable fairy tales, known for their feminism, criticism of mass production, and..... More
New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, circa 1887. Hardcover. “River, River, I wonder where you come from?” In this scientific fantasy, a curious boy gets his answer when he inadvertently summons a River-spirit and embarks on an adventure through the history of rivers, from their source, in springs, to the..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in cloth that's plain but ever green, this survey of the history of women's book-plates, possibly the first of its kind in English, certainly offers its subject the spotlight—being fully illustrated in over 200 bookplates reproduced in vignettes and in..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Venture into the misty woodland at sunset depicted on these forest green covers and befriend the trees inside. In these pages, pioneering British botanist and lichenologist Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (1867-1929) offers a life history of these 24 tree species, full of..... More
London: Messrs. (William) Heinemann Ltd.; Constable & Co., circa 1919. Hardcover. This romantic, rousing, and rowdy circa 1919 collection of historic ballads comes illustrated by the great Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), crown prince of the Golden Age of Illustration, who here offers a feast of 16 mounted and tissue-guarded color plates..... More
London; New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. The Ring of the Nibelung—Richard Wagner's iconic cycle of four musical dramas inspired by Norse mythology, Germanic legend, and the Nibelungenlied—finds its glorious, fiery end here, in this 1911 first edition of Siegfried and The Twilight of..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883-1893. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes, this set of anthologies forms a veritable ark of poetry, mythology, and folklore of the animal world, in particular consulting the great English poets, from Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton to the Romantics—Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson—and between, all on..... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips by B. McMillan, 1809. Hardcover. "One of these Instruments astonishes us by the wonders it displays, relative to the infinite divisibility of matter and the perfection of objects comparatively minute, and the other demonstrates our own insignificance, by affording us a glimpse of infinite space..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1915. Hardcover. "Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples…trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land…" With these words..... More
London: Hutchinson and Co., [1913]. Hardcover. Hiding beneath the fallen leaf of its scarce dust jacket lies a forest green and fungi-laden front cover, itself hiding a harvest of colorful illustrations within, this 1913 guide to the larger fungi found in the countryside is sure to inspire rambles and ruminations..... More
