BEAUMONT, Cyril W.

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The Mysterious Toyshop. First edition, signed limited issue, number 50 of 110 copies (of which ten were not for sale) signed by the author and artist. This fairytale of a Victorian Christmas in London was published by the author's private hand-press, founded in the basement of his bookshop at 75 Charing Cross Road. Payne, who later illustrated The Wind in the Willows, first made his name thanks to his collaborations with Beaumont.

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