J. Andre Castaigne – illustratör

A stolen prayer rug, a woman who should not be in Bagdad, and a chase that runs from the bazaar to the desert. MacGrath wrote it for the magazines and it was filmed in the silent era; the pacing is his newspaper training showing. This edition adds 56 plates bound with the text, among them David Roberts, Edvard Munch and Harry Payne, plus four restored and coloured illustrations.

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Thomas Moran and Jan Nowopacky. St Louis in 1803, when the Louisiana Purchase ran three flags over the town in two days, and a girl of the old French families caught between two of them. Mary Dillon worked from local records and the detail of the transfer is right. This edition is bound with a gallery of 57 plates, among them paintings by Edvard Munch, George Catlin and Emilio Sanchez-Perrier, and its three in-text illustrations are restored and coloured.

A nun and a doctor flee a convent at Subiaco in the hills east of Rome, and two generations later the consequences arrive in Rome. Crawford knew Italy from the inside and this is among the darkest of his Italian novels. This edition adds a gallery of 51 plates after Mengs, Panini and Joli, and nine illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.