The First Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Rene Francis with an Introduction by E.B. Osborn and Illustrated in Colour & Black and White, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924, twelve colour and duotone plates, eight black & white plates, letterpress illustrations, free endpapers toned, top edges red, remainder untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, faintly faded spine a trifle rubbed to extremities in places, one or two minor marks to covers, large 8vo, (limited edition, 1042 of 3000 copies), together with Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator) , Railway Ribaldry, Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour, 1st edition, Published by the Great Western Railway Paddington Station... in the Centenary Year of the Company, 1935, illustrated throughout, contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown, original pictorial wrappers, some faint spotting, and edges a little rubbed, 4to, plus Nonesuch Press , The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo, 1st edition, [1925], full-page colour illustrations throughout, original paper-covered boards, slightly rubbed and marked in places, and spine frayed at ends, oblong 4to, plus others, mostly illustrated books, including Walter Crane Cecil Aldin, Muirhead Bone Harry Furniss (a carton)
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Rene Francis with an Introduction by E.B. Osborn and Illustrated in Colour & Black and White, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924, twelve colour and duotone plates, eight black & white plates, letterpress illustrations, free endpapers toned, top edges red, remainder untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, faintly faded spine a trifle rubbed to extremities in places, one or two minor marks to covers, large 8vo, (limited edition, 1042 of 3000 copies), together with Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator) , Railway Ribaldry, Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour, 1st edition, Published by the Great Western Railway Paddington Station... in the Centenary Year of the Company, 1935, illustrated throughout, contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown, original pictorial wrappers, some faint spotting, and edges a little rubbed, 4to, plus Nonesuch Press , The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo, 1st edition, [1925], full-page colour illustrations throughout, original paper-covered boards, slightly rubbed and marked in places, and spine frayed at ends, oblong 4to, plus others, mostly illustrated books, including Walter Crane Cecil Aldin, Muirhead Bone Harry Furniss (a carton)
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