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William Blake
William Blake
Golden Age Illustration
The Golden Age of Illustration roughly from 1880 to the 1930's was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art, combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art.
Victorian Chromolithography
Chromolithography is a magical process, resulting in beautiful images in colour, the richness of which results from the successive layers of colours and tones inherent in their printing. The process was at its height in Victorian times when together with their beautiful Relivo binding designers like Owen Jones and Noel Humphreys published these amazing volumes.
William Blake
A collection of William Blake's illustrated works both early originals and an extensive selection of the Illuminated Books of William Blake published by the Trianon Press (1951-1987). Over three decades the Trianon Press created near indistinguishable pochoir facsimiles of Blake’s extraordinary illuminated books in all their visionary strangeness and exceptional beauty.
Gustave Dore
Gustave Dore, was a renowned painter and book illustrator, who flourished during the second half of the 19th century (from around 1850 until his death in 1883). He was noted for his illustrations of the Divine Comedy, the Bible and other classics. Dore's illustrations were characterized by fine detail, technical mastery, and realistic depictions of the human form as well as fantastical ...
Caricature & cartoon
A collection of amazing beautiful and sometimes comical or deeply moving art pieces from previous eras, like John Leech the Punch Cartoonist combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy or Georges Goursat's caricatures of golden age celebrities or Louis Rakemaker's brilliant propaganda cartoons of the 1st world war.
Founded in London in 1947, The Folio Society publishes carefully crafted editions of the world’s finest literature. Beautifully crafted, imaginative editions of the world’s great works of fiction and non-fiction. The Folio Society's Limited Editions range are highly collectable offers the collector the chance to get great value modern facsimiles of what would be otherwise be unobtainable original classics
Classic Literature
Although there is debate on what makes a classic, for me these are works that have stood the test of time from examples like Metamorphoses (8 AD) – Ovid Chaucer's Canterbury tales, ,Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy or later works like Dickens or Jane Austin. So here is a small collection of some our favourites.
Folio Society
Modern First Editions
For us we normally catalogue books from later half of 20th Century to now as Modern. Explore contemporary literature with a selection of modern first edition books. Immerse yourself in the classics such as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings or J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series, or the world of Lyra in Philip Pullman's fabulous trilogy His Dark Materials...
Science & Naural History
A small selection including beautiful illustrated copies of 19th Century works like Noel Humphrey's The Genera of British Moths or Owen Jones and Mary Bacon's Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts, 1848; Fruits from the Garden and Field, 1850, or classic work like Darwin's the Origin of Species, or The Voyage of the Beagle...