Books

& Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

124 Morris (William) The Manifesto of The Socialist League, 1885, and other pamphlets. Morris (William)

The Manifesto of The Socialist League, first edition, 8pp. original folded sheets, uncut, adverts to rear of last page, price one penny, Arthur Bonner, 1885; The Socialist Platform. No. 2. The Socialist League, Useful Work versus Useless Toil, 40pp, original wrappers as issued, decorated heading to upper wrapper by Walter Crane, sewn as issued, Socialist League Office, 1886; The Socialist Platform. No. 7. The Socialist League, Monopoly; or, How Labour is Robbed, 16pp, original wrappers as issued, decorated heading to upper wrapper by Walter Crane, stapled as issued, Office of “The Commonweal”, 1890; The Reward of Labour; A Dialogue…Being No. 1 of the Hammersmith

Socialist Library, first edition, 12pp, original light blue printed wrappers, [1893]; How I became a Socialist, first edition, 16pp., printed portrait of William Morris to upper wrapper, original wrappers, stapled, small stain to upper wrapper at lower margin not affecting portrait, 1896; A Factory As It Might Be, Preface by James Leatham, first edition, 16pp., original printed wrappers, stapled, upper cover lose, slightly worn at extremities, 1907, 8vo., (6)

£600-800

125 Otway (Thomas) Venice Preserv'd or, A Plot Discover'd. 1696

Otway (Thomas)

Otway Venice Preserv'd , or, A Plot Discovered. A Tragedy. First edition., 58pp., later Morocco over cloth boards, 4to., R.Bentley and James Knapton, 1696

£150-200

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126 Pearson’s Miniature Dictionary. The Smallest English Dictionary in the World, Miniature Books.Pearson’s Miniature Dictionary. The Smallest English Dictionary in the World, portrait of Johnson, original leather binding, lettered in gilt to upper cover, in metal case with magnifying inlay, 25x17mm., Glasgow, Bryce and Son (David, publisher) [1890]

£100-150

127 Poetry. WWII. McMurtrie. Diary of a Heart. 1951 [1941-43] McMurtrie (Duncan Gilbert Scott) Lieut. Scots Guards. The Diary of A Heart, portrait frontispiece, 35pp., original printed stiff wrappers, ‘new’ as issued, 4to., Oxford, 1951, together with 30pp original mss. folio, 1941-43; The Wykehamist, pamphlet, 4to., Dec. 16th. 1941; ‘Automatic Machine’, mss. 4to., n.d.

*** The author died of wounds received at Anzio, February 1944. The poems were written while at Winchester & Cambridge and during his service in North Africa.

£150-200

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128 Satire.- ‘Stern (Mervyn)’ What I Know about Foreign Securities Satire.-

‘Stern (Mervyn)’ What I Know about Foreign Securities, preface page stating “I have dispensed with the usual charts and statistical information and have set forth all of the information I have accumulated over the years on the subject of FOREIGN SECURITIES”, all other pages blank as issued, original gilt-lettered cloth, some discolouration, 8vo, in cooperation with Carl Marks & Co. Inc, New York, preface dated 1957.

***These volumes were most likely presented to employees, each with a customised ‘author’.

£80-120

129 Shakespeare (William) Works, The National Shakespeare Edition Shakespeare (William) Works, The National Shakespeare Edition, 3 vol., facsimile edition, engraved plates by Noël Paton, some marking, original decorative morocco, scuffed, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Edinburgh and Dublin, [n.d.] (3)

£100-150

Souvenir Programme

London Hippodrome – Matineé

Tuesday, April 30, 1912: In aid of the Fund for the Sufferers from the Disaster to the White Star Liner TITANIC wrecked in mid-ocean April 15, 1912

Illustrated throughout by Mabel Lucy Atwell, Walter Crane, W.Heath Robinson and others, writings and poems, including the first appearance of A.Conan Doyle: Ragtime! (published as it appeared in the Daily Telegraph, photographic images celebrities that appeared on stage. original decorated wrappers, image of Titanic on upper cover, remains of original silk ties, slightly worn at extremities, otherwise fine, 4to., 1912.

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

£150-200

131 Trollope. The Last Chronicle of Barset, in original parts, 186667 Trollope (Anthony)

The Last Chronicle of Barset, first edition, in the original 32 monthly parts, 32 woodengraved plates and vignette illustrations by G.H. Thomas, original wrappers, except for rear wrappers to parts, 1, 7, and 31 which are plain, front ‘compulsory’ adverts lacking in part 9 & 1pp in part 10, advert in part 5 torn with loss, otherwise complete, some minor creasing and finger soiling, contemporary ink ownership signature to a few front wrappers, otherwise a very good set, housed in a quarter morocco foldover case, lettered in gilt, [Sadleir 26], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866-67.

*** The only book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire to be issued in parts.

£600-800

132 [Wagstaffe] A Vindication of K. Charles the Martyr bound with 2 others, 1711 & 1694 [Wagstaffe, Thomas].

A Vindication of K. Charles the Martyr: proving that His Majesty was the Author of 'Eikon Basilike'. Against a Memorandum…… third edition, with large Additions, (ESTC T70182) London: R. Wilkin, 1711, bound with: A Letter out of Suffolk to a Friend in London. Giving some Account of the Last Sickness and Death of Dr. William Sancroft late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, [Wing W209], 1694; and another book imperfect lacking title, with a contemporary note on the waistcoat worn by Charles I at his execution, later calf over early boards, lacking front endpaper, second mentioned title with damp stain, 8vo. (1)

£200-300