Eighteen assorted children's & illustrated titles, including...

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Eighteen assorted children's & illustrated titles, including Arthur Rackham: 'Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures', London, William Heinemann, 1913, 1st trade edition, 44 tipped in colour plates complete, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt; Louis Wain: 'Louis Wain's Great Big Midget Book', London, Dean & Son, [1934], frontis + numerous full page and in text b/w illustrations complete, square 16mo (11 x 10cm), original pictorial boards (later laminated), inner joints reinforced. Louis Wain's last book printed in his lifetime; it was done with the assistance of his sister, Claire, whilst he was a patient at Napsbury Hospital, near St. Albans in Hertfordshire, a psychiatric establishment where he spent the final 15 years of his life; W. Heath Robinson (ill.): 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales', L, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots the Chemists, [nd], c.1930, 16 tipped in colour plates + 75 b/w ills. by W. Heath Robinson complete, 4to, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Kate Greenaway: 'Almanack for 1924', L, Warne, [1924], 1st edition thus, 24pp, colour illustrated throughout, being reproductions from the first 1883 Almanack, 10 x 7.5cm, original quarter cloth, pictorial paper covered boards; Spielmann & Layard: 'Kate Greenaway', L, A & C Black, 1905, 1st edition, colour frontis + 52 colour plates + numerous b/w plates etc complete, orig. dec. cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Charles Ricketts: 'Unrecorded Histories', L, Martin Secker, 1933, limited edition, one of 950 copies, 6 illustrations by Ricketts complete, original decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt, ; Friedeswith Huddart (ill.): 'The Hound of Heaven: Ten Drawings for the Poem of Francis Thompson', L, Chatto & Windus, 1914, limited edition, number 44 of 50 copies only, signed by the illustrator, 10 mounted plates complete, each with printed captioned tissue guards, large 4to (31 x 25.5cm), orig. vellum gilt (worn); Waring & Gillow (pub.): 'The Artistic Evolution of the English Home', c.1900, limited edition, No.30 of 300 copies, inscribed by the publisher to verso of limitation page, 24 remarque proof photogravure plates complete, 4to, original vellum gilt (slightly worn); Helen Stratton (ill.): 'The Lily of Life', L, Hodder, [1913], 18 tipped in colour plates complete, 4to, orig. cloth gilt, top edge gilt, plus 9 others including Charles Brock, D.G. Rossetti etc, and a mounted b/w Louis Wain print of cats (19)