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Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph Manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, for mixed choir, baritone solo and orchestra, [1930-31], pp. 1-27, [27A, blank], 28-58, [58A-58B], 59-106, [106A-106B], 107-130, [1, blank], pp. 1-27 in blue ink in the hand of a copyist, frequent small additional notation by Walton, pp. 28-130 in dark blue ink in the hand of the composer, with frequent additional passages by him in red ink and pencil, eleven overlaid strips of music on matching paper (one loose), also all in Walton’s hand, additional heavy blue and red pencil markings throughout, most likely added in the 1930s/1940s, the blue mostly numeric pencil in the hand of Malcolm Sargent, the red pencil markings also possibly in the hand of Malcolm Sargent or Adrian Boult, contemporary grey boards, some wear to spine and edges, later brown paper covering, titled in blue ink, ‘Full Score / “Belshazzar’s Feast” / William Walton’, and in another hand, ‘Part Composers MS’, folio
£20,000-30,000 (28 January 2026)
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1 Atkinson (George Francklin). “Curry & Rice,” On Forty Plates; or, the Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station” in India, 3rd edition, London: Day & Son, circa 1860, 40 tinted lithograph plates, including additional title, occasional light spotting, a couple of short closed tears to one plate, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, spine faded with small split at lower joint, one or two small stains, 4to, together with Batty (Captain Robert). Campaign on the Left Wing of the Allied Army in the Western Pyrenees and South of France in the years 1813-14; under Field-Marshal The Marquess of Wellington, 1st edition, London; John Murray, 1923, folding engraved map (torn without loss), 25 plates, some light spotting and stains, contemporary half morocco gilt, lower joint splitting, 4to (2) £200 - £300
2 Baker (Samuel White). Cyprus As I Saw It In 1879, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1879, wood-engraved frontispiece, publisher’s catalogue at rear, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, one corner a little bumped, edges lightly rubbed, small stain to rear cover, 8vo, together with Scott-Stevenson (Esme). Our Home in Cyprus, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1880, folding colour map, steel-engraved plates, publisher’s catalogue at rear, partly unopened, small owner ink stamp at head of title, a little minor spotting to fore margins and edges, original cloth gilt, corners rubbed, 8vo, plus Smith (Agnes). Through Cyprus, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1887, folding map, illustrations, occasional light spotting, hinges tender, original cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with A Wandering Scholar in the Levant, by David G. Hogarth, 1st edition, 1896
Blackmer 67 and 1515 for the first two works respectively. (4)
£300 - £400
3 Beaumont (Albanis, Jean François). Travels through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc &c., 1st edition, London: T. Bensley, 1795, additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, 4 engraved maps (one double-page), 18 aquatint views, engraved plate of antiquities, bound with (as often) Select Views of the Antiquities and Harbours in the South of France, 1st edition, London: T. Bensley, 1794, additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, 12 aquatint views, variable water stains throughout to plates and text, mainly marginal but affecting some plates, Bridehead bookplate, front hinge tender, contemporary diced calf gilt, upper joint cracked, water stain at foot of spine, wormtrack at foot of lower cover, folio, 43 x 28.5 cm
Abbey Travel 52 and 51 respectively. (1)
£300 - £400
4
Cesnola (Louis Palma di). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples. A narrative of researches and excavations during ten years' residence in that island, 1st US edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878, portrait frontispiece, maps and illustrations, publisher's catalogue bound at rear, endpapers renewed, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, 8vo, together with Brassey (Lady Anna). Sunshine and Storm in the East, or cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1880, 2 folding colour maps, illustrations, contemporary ownership inscription, original cloth gilt, spine ends rubbed, 8vo, plus Löher (Franz von). Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive, from the earliest times to the present, with additional matter by Mrs. A. Batson Joyner, 1st US edition, New York: R. Worthington, 1879, 2 maps (frontispiece map with marginal water stain), light toning to textblock, previous owner inscription, original cloth gilt, some flecked marks, 8vo, with 10 others including Cyprus. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-MasterGneral's Department, Horse Guards, by Captain A. R. Savile, HMSO, 1878 (in modern wrappers with most of original covers laid down) a volume of 5 consular and high commissioner reports, 1884-89 (including Cyprus. Report by Her Majesty's High Commission fot the year ending 31st March 1885, to Cyprus. Report by Her Majesty's High Commissioner for 18878, London, 1889), Organic Law of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus (draft), manuscript of Rev. John Hackett's translation,, circa 1901, In An Enchanted Island or a Winter's Retreat in Cyprus, by W. H. Mallock, 3rd edition, 1892 (with a letter from the author, dated 1908 loosely inserted), and A Treatise of the Laws of Evqaf by Omer Hillmi Efendi, translated by C. R. Tyser, printed at the Government Printing Office, Nicosia, 1899, and Government of Cyprus. A Ten-Year Programme of Development for Cyprus, Nicoaia, 1946 (13)
£300 - £400
5* Chinese School. Four fine large-format watercolours of Chinese costumes, probably mid-19th century, two depicting females and two of men (one of an archer, the other in a purple and blue robe), vibrant watercolour and gouache on thin laid paper, average sheet size 40 x 35 cm, mounted (4)
£300 - £500
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£300 - £400
6 Coryate (Thomas). [Coryats crudities; hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alia�s Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this Kingdome, [London: printed by W[illiam] S[tansby]., 1611], lacking title, 4 other preliminaries, leaf 2X8 (pages 613/614) and also lacking final 75 pages at rear, with one full-page portrait to verso of 2O5, lacking all other plates, some damp-staining, dust-soiling and few marks, lower margins of some leaves (majority at front of volume) with some fraying, few leaves at front of volume with worm trail, 19th-century half calf, lightly rubbed, 4to ESTC S108716; STC 5808; Pforzheimer, 218. (1)
7 Cyprus Handbooks. A Handbook of Cyprus, compiled by Sir J. T. Hutchinson and Claude Delaval Cobham, 5 volumes, London: Waterlow and Sons, Edward Stanford (for 1907 & 1909), 1903, 1904, 1907 and 1909 (2 copies), frontispieces, small colour geological map to each (folding in 1903-04), larger folding maps to 1907 and one copy of 1909 (lacking in one copy of 1909), both reinforced to verso, 1909 torn without loss, offsetting from geological map in 1903, some light spotting, 1904 front endpapers renewed, Peter Hopkirk bookplates to 1903 & 1907, original morocco-backed boards, 1907 lacking spine (piece retained), 1904 rebacked, some wear to other spines, dust-soiling and light stains to covers, edges rubbed, 8vo, with 10 others other handbooks and guides etc, plus Cyprus: England’s New Possession. Its place in Bible history, by Rev. J. Thain Davidson, 1888, and London Atlas Map of Cyprus, by Edward Stanford, circa 1890 (15)
£200 - £300
8 Du Chaillu (Paul B.) The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland, 2 volumes, 1st UK edition, London: John Murray, 1881, frontispieces (1 folding), large folding map at rear of volume I (with short closed tear), plates and illustrations, one or two small stains, contemporary half calf gilt, spines with tan and green labels, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo (2)
£150 - £200
Lot 7
9 Ellis (Henry). Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the Embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed with Observations upon the face of the Country, the Polity, moral Character, and Manners of the Chinese Nation, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1817, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, 3 engraved maps (including one folding), 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, errata leaf at end, some toning to single-page maps and occasional very light offsetting to some plates, bookplate of G eorge Finch to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving black morocco title label to spine, board edges lightly rubbed, 4to Abbey Travel 536; Hill 542; Tooley 208. Ellis, in the capacity of third commissioner, accompanied Lord Amherst’s embassy to China in 1816. He provides a detailed account of the expedition, including its early curtailment due to Amherst’s refusal to kowtow to the Emperor. (1)
10 Fyler (Arthur Evelyn). The Development of Cyprus and Rambles in the Island, 1st edition, London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., [1899], 2 folding maps, colour and half-tone plates, advertisement leaf, yellow tape repair to inner margin of p. 186, light toning to textblock and occasional light spotting, small ink stamps to front endpaper and pastedown, previous owner inscription of A. Armstrong, 1927, original cloth lettered in silver with vignette to upper cover, spine and extremities faded, 8vo (1) £300 - £400
£400 - £600
11 Graaff Hunter (J. de). The Earth’s Axes and Triangulation (Survey of India. Professional Paper - No.16), 1st edition, Dehra Dun: Office of the Trigonometrical Survey, 1918, 6 folding charts at rear (final chart with some light overall toning), original publisher’s green cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed and some marks, 4to Graaff Hunter was appointed as Mathematician in charge of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1910. He is the author of the Professional Paper 14 (formulae for Atmospheric Refraction and their Application to Terrestrial Refraction and Geodesy), 1913, and The Earth’s Axes and Triangulation (1918). (1) £200 - £300
£300 - £400
12 Hakluyt Society. The Journals of Captain James Cook, edited by J. C. Beaglehole, 3 volumes (I, the Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, and III, The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 17761780, Parts One and Two), Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1967-68, colour frontispiece to the first two volumes, numerous monochrome plates and charts, including some folding, together with Second Series, 36 volumes, 1962-1997, & Third Series, 35 volumes, 1999-2022, a partly broken run, volumes 1-9, 11-16, 18-21, 23-34, 36, and 38-40, numerous monochrome plates and charts, including some folding, all (except two) in original blue cloth gilt in dustwrappers, generally G/VG, 8vo (76)
13 Hill (Sir George). A History of Cyprus, 4 volumes, Cambridge: University Press, 1948-52, volume I a 1949 reprint, maps and illustrations, some minor spotting at front of volume I, previous owner signature to title, original cloth, dust jacket only for volume I (some fading to spine), 8vo, together with Excerpta Cypria. Materials for a History of Cyprus, translated and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham, with an appendix on the Bibliography of Cyprus, 1st edition, Cambridge, CUP, 1908, some toning to endpapers, Blackwell ticket to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, small hole to lower joint, a little rubbed and edges bumped, 4to, plus Jeffrey (George). A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus. Studies in the Archaeology and Architecture of the Island, with illustrations from measured drawings and photographs, 1st edition, Cyprus: William James Archer, Government Printing Office, 1918, folding plans and illustrations, toning to half-title and rear endpaper, endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, a few light stains, 8vo, with others related including 1st editions The City of Dancing Dervishes, by Harry Charles Lukach, 1914, Anatolica, by Harry Charles Luke, 1924, and The Icons of Cyprus, by D. Talbot Rice, Courtauld Institute Publications of Near Eastern Art series, 1937 (34) £300 - £400
14 Lang (R. Hamilton). Cyprus: Its History, its Present Resources, and Future Prospects, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1878, 4 colour maps (one folding with short marginal tear), woodengraved plate, publisher’s catalogue at rear, light offsetting from press cutting to pp. 12-13, bookplate of Gerald Strickland, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Dixon (W. Hepworth). British Cyprus, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879, colour lithograph frontispiece, publisher’s catalogue at rear, light toning front and rear, front hinge breaking, original cloth gilt, spine faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, plus Löher (Franz von). Cyprus, Historical and Descriptive, adapted from the German... with much additional matter by Mrs. A. Batson Joyner, 1st UK edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1878, 2 maps (one folding with tears), some light spotting, previous owner ink stamp to front pastedown, hinges tender, original cloth gilt, spine darkened and lightly rubbed at ends, 8vo (3)
£200 - £300
15 Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch, S. Birt and others, 1737, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved frontispiece to volume II, 3 doublepage engraved maps, 114 engraved plates, many folding and double-page, engraved illustrations, occasional light toning, damp-staining mostly to lower margins throughout, bookplate of Rev. C. Buckeridge, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed with some worming to covers, folio
Dutch explorer Cornelius Le Bruyn undertook his second expedition in 1701 to Persia, India and the East-Indies via Moscow. The engravings include folding panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan, and fine engravings of the antiquities at Persepolis. (2) £1,500 - £2,000
16 Morocco. A Letter from a Gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard’s Retinue, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1. 1669. Wherein he gives a full Relation of the most remarkable Passages in their Voyage thither, and of the present State of the Countries under the Power of Taffaletta, Emperour of Morocco; with a brief account of the Merchandizing Commodities of Africa; as also, the Manners and Customs of the People there, [by S. L.], London: printed by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. for Moses Pitt, 1670, [2], 36 pp., light toning and dust-soiling, modern mottled calf, chipped at head of spine, slim 4to, together with: Alberoni (Giulio). Cardinal Alberoni’s Scheme for reducing the Turkish Empire to the obedience of Christian Princes: and for a Partition of the Conquests. Together with a Scheme of a perpetual dyet for establishing the publick tranquility. Translated from an authentick copy of the Italian manuscript, in the hands of the Prince de la Torella, the Sicilian Ambassador, at the Court of France, London: J. Roberts and J. Torbuck, 1736, [8], 72 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head and tail-pieces, contemporary red half morocco, slim 8vo, [Acland, Charles]. A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India, by the Rev. [Charles] T. Acland, late chaplain at Pooree, Cuttack, and Midnapore, London: John Murray, 1847, bound with [Maitland, Julia Charlotte]. Letters from Madras, during the years 1836-1839. By a Lady, London: John Murray, 1846, bound with Head (Francis B.). Rough Notes taken during some rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes, 4th edition, London: John Murray, 1846, early 20th-century cloth, 8vo, Ellison (Grace). Turkey To-day, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1928], monochrome portrait frontispiece and plates, light scattered spotting, original blue cloth, frayed at head and foot of spine, some fading to spine, 8vo
1. ESTC R5130; Wing L61.
2. ESTC T88116. (4)
£400 - £600
17 Mumm von Schwarzenstein (Philipp Alfons Freiherr). Ein Tagebuch in Bildern. Meinen Mitarbeitern in Peking zur freundlichen Erinnerung an ihren Chef. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen nach Photographien Mumms auf 268 Tafeln, Berlin, Graphische Gesellschaft, 1902, printed title and two leaves of contents, 268 full-page photogravure plates, patterned endpapers, original brown half morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt, rubbed and scuffed, oblong folio, with an autograph letter by the author loosely inserted
Western Travellers in China 101; Thiriez, Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor’s European Palaces, pp.103-106.
Printed in an unnumbered limited edition, this copy numbered 569. With an autograph letter of presentation from the author A. Mumm to ‘Sir Kenneth’, written in ink on a single folded sheet of paper, letterheaded Tokio, Kaiserlich Deutsche Botschaft, and dated July 26th, gifting this copy which ‘I published in a limited number of copies after my first year’s stay in China in 1902. As so little is known about Peking this book with its pictures taken from scenery, architecture and street life may perhaps interest you’.
A pictorial survey of the Chinese capital from the time of the Boxer Rebellion in imperial China, including views of the Forbidden City, buildings, temples, and scenes of public and cultural life.
(1)
£1,000 - £1,500
18 [Netherlands]. Billets in the Low Countries, 1814-1817. In a Series of Letters, London: J. J. Stockdale, 1818, 4 hand-coloured etched plates, crease to title, light offsetting to text, edges untrimmed, original boards, printed paper label to spine, 8vo, together with: [Peckham, Harry]. The Tour of Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands and part of France; in which is included a description of Paris and its Environs, London: G. Kearsly, 1772, edges untrimmed, armorial bookplate of Henry Stonor and ownership label of Washington Jackson to upper pastedown, late 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, 8vo, plus Manuscript Travel Journal. ‘Journal of a tour on the Continent, made by D. B. & M. C. & E. J. & A. M. C., Aug, 1862’, 34 pages written in a neat hand, remainder of volume blank, all edges gilt, contemporary black limp sheep, small 8vo (3)
£200 - £300
19 Orme (Edward). Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo, London: Edward Orme, 1819, 37 hand-coloured aquatint plates (of 40, lacks plate 5, ‘The Battle of Waterloo decided by the Duke of Wellington’, plate 39, ‘The Allies before Dantzic in Winter’ and plate 40, ‘A Corporal of the 13th Dragoons killing a French Colonel’), some tissue guards bearing ‘Fellows 1825’ watermark, occasional minor spotting, some light dust and finger-soiling mostly to margins, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy calf, blind and gilt decorated borders to boards with title in gilt to upper board, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine, few marks and minor scratches, 4to (31.5 x 24.5 cm)
Abbey, Life 376. (1)
£300 - £500
Lot 19
20 Palma di Cesnola (Luigi). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples. A narrative of researches and excavations during ten years’ residence as American Consul in that Island, 1st UK edition, London: John Murray, 1877, 2 maps, numerous illustrations, publisher’s catalogue at rear, some light spotting, mainly to haftitle and endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine a little darkened, rubbed at ends and edges, 8vo, together with Palma di Cesnola (Alessandro). Salaminia (Cyprus). The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus, 2nd edition, London: Whiting & Co., 1884, additional illustrated title, colour lithograph frontispiece, plates and illustrations, advertisement leaf, light dust-soiling to additional title, endpapers renewed, original cloth, recased, some lettering rubbed with light partial fading to covers, royal 8vo Blackmer 1237 and 1236 (for the first edition of 1882), respectively.
‘After serving on the Union side in the American Civil War Palma di Cesnola was appointed consul in Cyprus, 1865-76. He carried out excavations on the island and amassed a huge collection of antiquities numbering up to 10,000 pieces. The collection was sold eventually to the New York Art Museum (now Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Cesnola became first director of the Museum, 1879-1904. Cyprus is mostly an account of his excavations but also includes anecdotes of his experiences on the island.’ (Blackmer).
(2)
£300 - £400
21 Ralfe (James). The Naval Chronology of Great Britain; or, an Historical Account of Naval and Maritime Events, from the Commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the year 1816, 3 volumes, London: Whitmore and Fenn, 1820, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, and 59 uncoloured aquatint plates, subscribers list, occasional light offsetting to text and minor spotting, lower outer blank corners of initial few leaves in volume 1 with short worm trail and worm hole, upper outer blank corners and lower margins of initial few leaves in volume 3 with light worming, armorial bookplate of W. Thompson Lee to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, joints cracked and edges a little rubbed, 8vo Abbey Life 342; Sabin 67602; Tooley 392.
(3)
£600 - £800
22 Richards (Walter). Her Majesty’s Army, A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments now Comprising the Queen’s Forces, 3 volumes, London: J. S. Virtue & Co., Ltd., circa 1880s, 47 chromolithograph plates including frontispiece and vignette title page to each, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, spines faded, 4to, together with: Lloyd (William Whitelocke). On Active Service, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1890, 20 chromolithographed plates, a little light soiling and marginal water stains, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some edge wear and soiling, oblong 4to, together with Simkin (Richard). Life in the Army, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., [1889], 20 chromolithographed plates, a little light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, original cloth-backed boards, some wear to corners, a little rubbed, oblong 4to, with two others similar: Simkin (Richard). Our Armies, 2nd edition, London: Day & Son, [1894] and Gordon (William John). Bands of the British Army, London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., [1921] (7) £150 - £200
23 S.S. Great Britain. The Great Britain Atlantic steam ship of 3500 tons, constructed of iron, with engines of 1000 to 2000 horse-power and the screw propeller, London: John Weale, 1847, 14 engraved plates numbered 1-25 (majority folding), scattered spotting to plates, advertisement leaf browned, original wrappers with title printed to upper cover, margins torn and repaired, rebacked, vertical closed tear to spine edge of upper cover and lower cover also torn at spine edge, dust-soiled and marked, folio Only three UK institutional locations found (British Library, Institution of Mechanical Engineers and National Maritime Museum - Caird Library & Archive).
The SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and launched in 1843. In 1847, the SS Great Britain was refloated after running aground in 1846. It was sold to new owners who repaired and upgraded it with new engines and a propeller. The ship was the first large ocean-going vessel to be both built of iron and propelled by a screw propeller, revolutionising shipbuilding and transatlantic travel. (1)
£300 - £400
24 Stanford (Edward, publisher). The Harrow Atlas of Modern Geography, London: published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1858, title and contents, 28 (of 29, lacking Switzerland) double page maps, engraved by J & C Walker, all with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, text block detached, contents shaken and loose, bookplate of John E.J. Procter to the front pastedown, boards detached, lacking spine, publisher’s blindstamped cloth with gilt crest to upper siding, worn and rubbed, upright 4to, together with Wilkinson (R.). Wilkinson’s Atlas Classica, being a Collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by the Ancient Authors, both Sacred and Profane..., London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1827, decorative title, stained and torn with loss, 54 engraved maps and tables with contemporary wash colouring, lacking boards and spine, 4to, with D’Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon). A Complete Body of Ancient Geography; by Mons. D’Anville.... neatly engraved on Thirteen plates... the Whole Materially Improved, by Inserting the Modern Names of Places Under the Ancient, London: published by James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1818, calligraphic title, thirteen engraved maps (complete as list), including 12 double-page, all with contemporary outline colouring, slight scaring to the front pastedown (removal of bookplate), contemporary half calf gilt, worn and rubbed, slim folio, plus Andriveau-Goujon (E.). Atlas Usuel de Géographie Moderne..., Paris: circa 1885, lithographic title and index, 32 double-page colour lithographic maps, very slight spotting, contemporary quarter morocco gilt over blind stamped red cloth boards with additional gilt title to the upper siding, some wear to extremities, slight staining, upright folio, and Lesage (E.). Atlas Historique Généalogiq[ue] Chronolog[ique] Geographiq[ue], Paris: [1835], lacking title (title printed on upper cover), 33 (only) double-page engraved maps and tables, all with contemporary outline colouring, text block near detached, upper cover detached, lacking spine, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (5)
£200 - £300
25 Stocqueler (Joachim Hayward). Fifteen months’ pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a journey from India to England, through parts of Turkish Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Russia, and Germany. Performed in the Years 1831 and 1832, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1832, 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces with light offsetting, folding lithograph map in volume 1, without half-title in volume 2 (not called for in volume 1), occasional scattered spotting, upper pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Hon. Charles Lennox Butler, spotting to endpapers and front free endpaper in volume 2 creased, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, some joints slightly cracked, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo Wilson, p. 217; Not in Atabey.
26 Symes (Michael). An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795, by Michael Symes, Esq. Major in His Majesty’s 76th Regiment, London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland Row, St. James’s, and sold by Messrs. G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall Mall; and J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1800, half-title, 2 folding engraved maps, and 26 engraved plates including 8 plates of plants (4 plates folding), fore-margin of leaves b2-b4 and B1-B3 with small area of staining, closed tear to fore-margin of 2A2, plate of shoepaundogee torn to lower margin with loss to caption and small area of image, plate of pontedena dilatata, bauhinia diphylla and sonneratia apetala with long repaired closed tear to each, plate of epidendrum moschatum torn with large area of image loss, text leaf 3P3 torn to lower outer blank corner, occasional light dampstaining to few leaves and plates, edges untrimmed, original publisher’s boards, modern reback in light tan card, some wear to board edges, 4to (1)
£150 - £200
Stocqueler was an English journalist of Portuguese descent based in India, where he edited several periodicals. The account opens in Muscat, from where the author proceeded up the Persian Gulf to Basra, thence through Persia and Armenia to Odessa. (2)
£1,000 - £1,500
27 Turner (Samuel). An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet. To which are added, Views taken on the Spot, by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and Observations, Botanical, Mineralogical and Medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders, 1st edition, London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland Row, St. James’s; and sold by Messrs. G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers To His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1800, folding engraved map frontispiece, 13 engraved and etched plates (including one folding of specimen script, plate of Bhutanese yak partly printed with uncoloured aquatint), occasional light offsetting, toning and scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with later wide brown cloth hinges, front endpapers with the bookplate of the Select Library, King Edward VI School, Southampton, contemporary calf, morocco reback and repairs to board corners, slightly rubbed, 4to Yakushi T227.
Samuel Turner (1759-1802) was an army officer in the East India Company, who was commissioned by his cousin Warren Hastings to embark on a diplomatic mission to Bhutan and Tibet in 1783 and 1784. The majority of the plates within the volume are after drawings by Turner and Samuel Davis, the expedition’s surveyor. One of the plates depicts the Bhutanese yak that Turner successfully shipped back alive to Hastings, where it was painted by George Stubbs. The work includes the first eyewitness account in English of Tibet and Bhutan.
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£400 - £600
28 Atlases. The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, London: Carmelite House, [1907], colour frontispiece and title vignette, over 200 double-page colour maps, publisher’s half-morocco gilt, a little rubbed with stains and some worming to spine ends and corners, folio, together with 4 other atlases: The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, compiled by W. G. Blackie, 1882, The Citizen’s Atlas of the World, edited by J. G. Bartholomew, circa 1898, and other Harmsworth Atlas, [1907], and Philip’s Centenary Handy General Atlas, 1934
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£150 - £200
29 French Atlases. A Collection of 14 Atlases, 18th & 19th century, world atlases and geographical dictionaries, by or after Berenger, Bouvinet, Vosgien, Guthrie, Tardieu, Sydow, Wentzel, Monin, Barthelemy and Malte-Brun, mixed bindings, various sizes and condition
Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (14)
£150 - £200
30 Ackermann (Rudolf). [The History of the Charter-House, London: R. Ackermann, 1816], 32 pp., 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light scattered spotting, all edges gilt, 20thcentury cloth, slim 4to, together with: Armstrong (Walter). The Thames from its Rise to the Nore, 2 volumes, London: J. S. Virtue & Co., c. 1880, additional engraved titles, engraved plates and illustrations, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, 4to, Senior (William). The Thames from Oxford to the Tower, London: John C. Nimmo, 1891, etched frontispiece and plates, some scattered spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, 4to, plus four other volumes
The first work is from The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul’s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the free-school of Christ’s Hospital. (8)
£100 - £150
31 Baines (Edward). History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 4 volumes, London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1836, 4 engraved frontispieces (including double-page map), engraved plates and maps, several pedigrees, all edges gilt, endpapers renewed, contemporary gilt decorated black morocco, each volume with modern rebacks, few scuffs and minor marks to boards, large 4to, together with:
Lysons (Daniel & Samuel). Topographical and Historical Account of Cheshire, London: T. Cadell and G. & A. Greenland, [1810?], engraved plates and plans (some folding), ownership signature to title ‘James Haswell, 1901’, toning and scattered spotting, top edge gilt, endpapers renewed, 19th-century dark green half morocco, rebacked preserving spine, joints and extremities rubbed and worn, 4to, Baines (Thomas). History of the Commerce and Town of Liverpool, and of the rise of Manufacturing Industry in the adjoining Counties, bound in 2 volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Liverpool: published for the Author, 1852, lithograph frontispiece, folding lithograph maps and plans, light toning and minor spotting, front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Ronald Livingston, near contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, Richards (Raymond). Old Cheshire Churches..., deluxe edition, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1948-49, colour frontispiece, title in red and black, monochrome plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near contemporary terracotta red morocco by Leighton-Straker, large 4to, Austin (S., Harwood, J. & Pyne, G. & C., illustrators). Lancashire illustrated from original drawings... with descriptions, London: H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1831, additional engraved title and numerous plates, occasional scattered spotting, all edges gilt, modern red half morocco, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, 4to, plus Eyes (Charles). A Plan of the Town & Township of Liverpool, from an actual Survey taken in the year 1785, Liverpool: C. Eyes and sold by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, June 1st 1785, folding map engraved by Thomas Conder, linen-backed, some dust-soiling and offsetting, trimmed to neat line at head and at left and right, 53 x 84 cm, plus other mostly Liverpool and environs related reference, including Gore’s Liverpool Directories (for 1814, 1821, 1827, 1857, 1860 & 1867), and few other miscellaneous topography, etc., 19th and 20th-century publications (approx. 60)
£400 - £600
32 Barclay (James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language..., A New Edition, George Virtue, circa 1845, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title with a depiction of Queen Victoria enthroned, 48 uncoloured engraved maps by Thomas Moule and 10 uncoloured engraved plates (mostly portraits), some close trimming and shaving at head and foot, some damp-staining throughout much of volume, scattered spotting, few leaves with ink stain to lower edge of leaves, marbled endpapers with upper hinge split, contemporary half calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, joints and extremities rubbed, large 4to (1)
£150 - £200
33* Brighton. Mason (W.H.), To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, This Panorama is by permission most Gratefully and Humbly dedicated by W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts Ship S[treet], Brighton, and W. Mason, printseller &c. St Mary’s Place, Cambridge, Ackermann & Co. 1833, continuous aquatint panorama by A. Edington after H. Wilds (architect, Brighton), contemporary wash colouring, printed on seven conjoined sheets, printed calligraphic title attached to the right-hand margin with a morocco gilt ‘pulling band’ to protect the title, two short repaired closed tears to the left-hand vertical margin, very slight dust soiling, two small chips to the lower margin, 110 x 4150 mm, displayed on a contemporary wooden roller and contained within a turned wooden cylinder with a printed and varnished title label encasing the whole, height 170 mm
Abbey Life, 527. A rare and poignant evocation of Brighton’s seafront and street-life at a turning point in the town’s history, just before Victorian commercialisation, precipitated by the arrival of the railway in 1841, transformed the scale of building forever. Apart from some of the grander Regency terraces depicted, most of the humbler, domestic buildings have gone. Amongst the numerous buildings listed along the lower margin of the aquatint strip are “The Anthoneum,” “Western House,” “Norfolk Hotel,” “Oriental Place,” “Byam House,” “Esplanade Boarding House,” “Artillery Lodge & Baths” and “Custom House.” In remarkably good condition. (1)
£700 - £1,000
34 Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent islands..., revised by Edmund Gibson, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: published by James and John Knapton, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth and others, circa 1730, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red & black to each volume, each title page with near contemporary owneership signature, 10 plates of coins and antiquities, 51 uncoloured engraved double-page maps by Robert Morden, including 2 folding (Kent & Norfolk), occasional offsetting, slight water staining, index bound at rear, some fraying to endpapers, bookplate of Sidcot School to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, spines with old library labels at the base, boards worn and frayed, folio This edition is not in Chubb.
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£700 - £1,000
35 Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands Adjacent..., Enlarged by the latest Discoveries by Richard Gough, 4 volumes, London: printed for John Stockdale, 1806, portrait frontispiece, 56 uncoloured engraved maps by John Cary (including 51 folding and/or double-page), 104 engraved plates (including 8 folding), and one genealogical table, 11 of the maps are trimmed close to the neatline, slight worming to the lower margin of the first four pages of volume 4, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, heavily worn and rubbed, folio (4) £200 - £300
36 Cary (John). Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas: being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., London: Jany 1st, 1793, calligraphic title and contents list, 47 (complete as list) double-page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, nine pages of folding tables bound at rear, some water staining and dust soiling throughout, each map with a manuscript title to the verso, the folds in the tables strengthened on verso, all pages re-guarded, crude half leatherette over cardboard, old glue stains to the boards, 8vo, together with Hall (Sidney). Sidney Hall’s Travelling Atlas of the English Counties with all the Railroads Accurately Laid Down and the Boundaries Coloured, London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1850, title and index page, 46 (complete as list), double-page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including 4 folding, some spotting throughout, occasional pencil annotations to verso, publisher’s morocco gilt with additional gilt title to the upper cover, envelope style binding, spines heavily worn and frayed, 8vo, with Newman (Frederick). The Curiosities and Beauties of England Displayed..., London: Alex Hogg and others, circa 1790, engraved frontispiece (trimmed and laid on later card), 104 uncoloured engraved topographical views (the majority with multiple images to one sheet), some water staining and dust soiling throughout, the penultimate image trimmed to the plate mark and the final image laid on later card, later endpapers, modern half calf, folio Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return. (3) £200 - £300
37 Cary (John). Cary’s New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and the Navigable Canals, Cities, Market and Borough Towns, Parishes and most considerable Hamlets, Parks, Forests &c &c, 1st edition, June 11th 1794, dedication, printed title with some dust soiling and creasing, general map of England & Wales, table of explanation and 76 (complete) engraved map sheets (numbered 1 - 81 and omitting 62/63, 71/72 & 80 as intended), all with contemporary outline colouring, list of places bound at rear, the last leaf of the index crudely repaired, later endpapers, modern half calf over marbled boards with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, 4to, together with Cary’s Traveller’s Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales..., 1806, calligraphic title page, index and 43 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including one folding (Yorkshire), the map of Yorkshire with short closed handling tear and near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to the verso, the signature offsetting onto the map of North Wales, bound with Cary’s New Itinerary: or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, both Direct and Cross, throughout England and Wales..., 3rd edition, 1806, calligraphic title, folding map of England & Wales, map split along old folds, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, upper joint cracked, frayed and split at head of spine, boards worn and rubbed, 8vo, with Patterson (Daniel). Patterson’s British Itinerary..., volume 1 (only of 2), London: Bowles & Carver, 1796, calligraphic title, 339 engraved strip road maps, printed back-to-back, some staining, later endpapers, modern speckled calf, 8vo, plus Capper (Benjamin Pitts). A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom..., London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1808, frontispiece of a folding map of the British Isles, 44 engraved maps (complete as list), including five folding, all with contemporary hand colouring, some staining and spotting throughout, hinges repaired with tape, contemporary mottled calf with decorative gilt borders to the sidings, rebacked, worn and rubbed at extremities, 8vo
Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (4)
38 Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate Route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom..., 1791, calligraphic title with near-contemporary ownership signature, advertisement and contents leaf, 43 (complete) engraved maps by John Cary, all with contemporary outline colouring, including 1 folding map of Yorkshire, printed back-to-back, slight spotting, index bound at rear, bound with Cary’s New Itinerary; or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads both Direct and Cross throughout, England and Wales..., 1798, folding general map in contemporary wash colouring, lacking several pages of text, index and advertisement bound at rear, near-contemporary ownership signature to the front pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, re-backed but retaining the original gilt decorated spine, bumped with slight wear to the extremities, 8vo, together with Dugdale (Thomas). Curiosities of Great Britain. England & Wales Delineated, 8 volumes (bound in 4), London, circa 1842, frontispiece and decorative title to each volume, 58 uncoloured engraved maps by J. Archer and approximately 200 engraved topographical plates, slight spotting and offsetting throughout, later manuscript ownership signature to the front endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked but retaining the original gilt decorated spines, slight wear to extremities, 4to, with Johnston (Keith). The Half-Crown Atlas of Physical Geography, Edinburgh & London: published by W. & A.K.Johnston, circa 1869, decorative title and 30 colour printed maps, index bound at rear, upper hinge cracked, contemporary embossed green gilt cloth boards, 8vo, plus Johnston (W. & A.K. publishers). The World-Wide Atlas of Modern Geography, Political and Physical..., with an introduction by J. Scott Keltie, Edinburgh and London: 1894, frontispiece of ‘Flags of all Nations’ and ‘Time of all Nations’, 112 colour printed maps, index bound at rear, publisher’s advertisement bound at front and rear, publisher’s decorative gilt cloth, crudely rebacked, spine faded, boards stained, worn and rubbed, folio
Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
£150 - £250
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£100 - £200
39 Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion. or A Chorographical Description of the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarkquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures and Commodities of the Same: Digested in a Poem..., two parts bound in one, London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lowenes, J. Browne, J. Helme and J. Busbie 1612, the second part printed by Augustine Matthews for John Marriett, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, 1622, decorative and allegorical frontispiece engraved by W. Hole, additional half-title, dedication and portrait of Henry the Prince of Wales (2nd state with his name ‘Henricus Princeps’), 30 uncoloured engraved allegorical maps (18 in part one and 12 in part 2), part 2 with additional title and dedication to Charles Prince of Wales, a few maps trimmed close to the neatline, hinges cracked, later endpapers with an 18thcentury manuscript collation note tipped on to the first front blank, 19th century morocco gilt, worn at extremities, small folio bound in eights, overall size 295 x 195 mm
Chubb XXXIII & XXXV; STC 7226; ESTC S121632. (1)
£3,000 - £5,000
40 Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of England and Wales, 4 volumes, London: printed for S. Hooper, 1773 - 76, decorative title to each volume, additional half-titles, approximately 340 uncoloured engraved plates, unobtrusive blind stamp to most pages in the upper right corner, withdrawn stamp of Enfield Library to front pastedowns, upper joint to volumes 3 & 4 cracked, contemporary speckled calf with contrasting burgundy morocco gilt label to spine, head and foot of spine and extremities, worn, large 4to, together with Cooke (William). A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, Illustrated with Thirty-Six plates..., 2nd edition, Southampton: printed by and for T. Baker and others, 1813, title and preface, double-page engraved map with contemporary wash colouring and 36 uncoloured etched plates, some staining and spotting throughout, later endpapers, contemporary calf gilt, re-backed, worn at extremities, 4to, with another copy similar, but lacking the title and map, plus Malcolm (J.P.). Excursions in the Counties of Kent, Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth and Somerset, in the years 1802, 1803 and 1805, Illustrated by Descriptive Sketches..., 2nd edition, London: John Nichols & Son, 1814, additional decorative half-title, 20 uncoloured engraved plates, some spotting and staining throughout, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt, 8vo, and Jones & Co. (publishers). Jones’ Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Second Series comprising the Western Counties, London: 1829, decorative title, 88 engraved views (on 44 sheets), each with tissue guard, slight spotting, later endpapers, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, boards rubbed and worn, spine faded, 4to, with Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 volumes, London: Blackie and Son, 1854, portrait frontispiece and additional decorative half-title to each volume, 1 map of Europe, 35 uncoloured engraved plates (including 1 folding) and 36 engraved plates with contemporary hand-colouring, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, re-backed, worn at extremities, 4to
Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return. (10) £200 - £300
41 Guidott (Thomas). A Collection of Treatises relating to the City and Waters of Bath..., To which is added, Thermae Redivivae; or, The City of Bath described, &c. by Henry Chapman, London: J. Leake, 1725, six separate title-pages (dated 1724/1725), 5 engraved plates (including one folding), continuous pagination, some toning, browning to margins of initial two leaves, front pastedown with engraved bookplate ‘The Gift of Wm. Mountaine Esqr. F.R.S. to BurntYates School, Parh. of Ripley, W. Riding, Ebor., 1775’, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title label to spine, joints slightly cracked, worn at head of spine, 8vo, together with: Peirce (Robert). The History and Memoirs of the Bath: containing Observations on what Cures have been wrought, both by Bathing and Drinking those Waters. An Account of King Bladud, said to be first Founder of the Baths. With a Philosophical Preface, of several Experiments and Remarks, relating to the Origin, Quality, and Nature of Baths in general, and of these in particular, by Robert Peirce, M.D. near sixty years Physician in Bath, 2 parts in 1, London: printed for Henry Hammond Bookseller in Bath, 1713, general title and part title to second part (imprint dated 1697), general title cropped to lower double-rule border and with Birmingham Medical Institute ink stamp, without map frontispiece, with continuous pagination, occasional toning and light scattered spotting, 20thcentury cloth, 8vo, plus [Anstey, Christopher]. The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-r-d Family. In a series of Poetical Epistles, 5th edition, London: J. Dodsley; Cambridge: Fletcher and Hodson, 1767, with Bell (Benjamin). A System of Surgery, volume 6 only, Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1788, plus two engraved maps of Wiltshire, by SaxtonKip and Robert Morden (6)
£200 - £300
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42 Ingram (James). Memorials of Oxford, 3 volumes, Oxford: John Henry Parker and others, 1837, large paper copy, each volume with a topographical frontispiece, 98 (of 100) uncoloured engravings by John Le Keux after F. Mackenzie on India wove, some spotting and slight offsetting throughout, near-contemporary ownership signatures to the first front blanks, upper joint of volume three partially cracked, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spines, boards and extremities rubbed, 4to (leaf size 270 x 200 mm), together with Murray and Slatter (publishers). Views of all the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings in the University and City of Oxford; with Descriptions ..., Oxford: Herald Office, circa 1824, forty-two uncoloured etchings with aquatint, each with a paper guard and a descriptive leaf of text, some offsetting onto the guards, some marks and minor spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt with decorative printed label to the upper siding, worn and rubbed, oblong 8vo, with Rimmer (Alfred). Pleasant Spots around Oxford, 2nd edition, London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, circa 1900, numerous uncoloured wood engravings throughout, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine and armorial decoration to the upper siding, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, plus three ‘view books’ of Oxford by T. Nelson & Sons, and Slatter & Rose (publishers). The Oxford University and City Guide..., Oxford: circa 1865, frontispiece of publisher’s advertisement, additional half-title, folding map and numerous engraved plates, frontispiece with near contemporary ownership signature (dated 1868), later endpapers, disbound, 8vo, with three other early 20th century volumes on Oxford (12)
£300 - £500
43 Ireland (Samuel). Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore: with observations on the public buildings and other works of art, 2 volumes, London: printed by C. Clarke, published by T. Egerton, 1801-02, additional decorative aquatint titles, 2 uncoloured maps and 52 aquatint plates, occasional offsetting and light spotting, bookplate and cancelled library stamp of Lady Margaret Hall to the front pastedowns, contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spines, worn at extremities, 8vo, together with Cooke (W.B. & G.). Descriptions of the Views on the Thames, 2 volumes, London: published by W. B. Cooke, 1822, one volume of text and one of plates, the latter containing 75 (complete as list) uncoloured etched views, upper hinge in volume 2 cracked, bookplates of George Stewart Nicholson to the front pastedowns, with an additional bookplate of William Smith Nicholson to the front endpaper of volume 1, contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spines, worn at extremities, 8vo, with Cassell & Company Ltd (publishers). Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames from Source to Sea..., 1891, additional half-title, numerous illustrations throughout, some spotting to the endpapers, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, worn at extremities, large 4to, with another four books on the River Thames, various sizes and condition (9) £200 - £400
44 Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of London: being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within twelve miles of the Capital, 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: A. Strahan, 17921800, engraved map frontispieces to 3 volumes, engraved vignette titles, numerous engraved plates throughout (some folding and few with original hand-colouring), folding pedigrees, some offsetting and occasional browning, scattered spotting, upper pastedowns with bookplate of Baron Calthorpe of Elvetham Hall, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, contemporary diced calf gilt, each volume with modern neat rebacks with gilt decoration to spines, board corners worn and showing, 4to, together with: Maitland (William). The History of London, from its Foundation by the Romans, to the Present Time..., London: printed by Samuel Richardson, 1739, folding engraved frontispiece depicting a panoramic view of London (with several closed tears mostly to margins), engraved plates (few folding plates with closed tears mostly to margins), some toning, light offsetting, marginal dampstaining and scattered spotting, 20th-century half sheep, leather rubbed and worn, folio, Lambert (B.). The History and Survey of London and its Environs. From the earliest period to the present time, 4 volumes, London: T. Hughes and M. Jones, 1806, engraved frontispieces including large folding map (with repaired closed tears), numerous engraved plates, upper pastedowns with bookplate of Keith D. Young, 20thcentury brown half morocco, rubbed at head of spines, 8vo, Ditchfield (Peter Hampson). The City Companies of London..., London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904, monochrome frontispiece and plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s half vellum, green cloth sides with title in gilt to upper board, few marks, folio (limited edition 45/100), Welch (Charles). Modern History of the City of London..., London: Blades East & Blades, 1896, monochrome frontispiece and illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original maroon cloth gilt, slightly scuffed and few marks, large 4to (number 45 of undisclosed limitation), plus Allen (Thomas). The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent, 5 volumes, London: George Virtue, 1839, engraved plates, lacking general folding map, late 19th-century blue half calf, spines faded, 8vo
Provenance: Lysons Environs of London - Baron Calthorpe of Elvetham Hall. Volumes purchased by A. W. Ross at the sale of the contents of Elvetham Hall, home of the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family. (17)
£300 - £400
45 Morden (Robert). An untitled atlas of 52 counties of England and Wales described in a pack of cards, London: H. Turpin, no title (which is not called for), retaining the ‘explanation’ card and the general map of England & Wales, together with 52 (complete) uncoloured engraved playing card maps, all cards printed without the suit marks, each map laid on contemporary paper (as published), slight staining and dust soiling, stitching a little weak, marbled endpapers, bound in contemporary gilt black crushed morocco, some wear to extremities, 12mo, binding size 100 x 65 mm, together with Margary (Harry, publisher). Facsimile of Morden’s Playing Cards, First Published in 1676, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1972, title card, ‘explanation’ card and a general map of England & Wales, together with 52 (complete) colour printed playing card maps, all cards printed with the suit marks, contained within the publisher’s card case with printed title and the map of Middlesex printed on the covers, case a little spotted, overall size 100 x 65 mm
Geoffrey L. King. Miniature Antique Maps, third edition, 1676a. First published in 1676, the plates are known in several different states. The third state, published without suit marks, was reissued by Homan Turpin in about 1750 (Chubb CCI). Turpin, a bookseller who specialised in second-hand books, worked out of an address in West Smithfield from around 1764 to 1787. The final edition was published by Robert Bassam in 1796, in a leporello format. (2) £4,000 - £6,000
46 Osborne (Thomas). Geographia Magnae Britanniae. Or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales; with General ones of both Kingdoms and of the several Adjacent Islands..., printed for T. Osborne, D. Browne, J. Hodges, A. Miller, J. Robinson, W. Johnston, P. Davey & B. Law..., October 12th, 1748, double-page allegorical engraved title by S. Wale, engraved frontispiece map of England and Wales by Thos. Hutchinson, 1747, plus 60 double-page engraved maps (a few with short closed tears to central folds), faint damp stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf-backed, new title label to spine, damp stain to upper cover, some sunning, 8vo Chubb CCLXXXIX.
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£200 - £300
47 [Simond, Louis]. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller: with Remarks..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable and Company; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, half-title to volume 1, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispieces), volume 2 with some slight damp-staining to margins at head and foot, contemporary marbled calf with Greek key decorative roll border to boards, neat modern rebacks with morocco labels and gilt decoration, 8vo (2)
£150 - £250
48 Skelton (Joseph). Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata..., Oxford: printed by S. & J. Collingwood, 2 volumes, 1823, frontispiece of a folding plan of the city, title. dedication, preface and list of subscribers, 134 uncoloured engraved plates on India wove, each with tissue guard (plate. numbers 2 to 25 & 130 cancelled as called for in list), some offsetting, but onto text, large paper copy, later endpapers, later half calf, re-backed but retaining the original gilt decorated spines, folio, together with Wade (W.M.). Walks in Oxford Comprising an Original, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Colleges and Public Buildings of the University..., 2 parts bound in 1, 2nd edition, Oxford: printed for W. Baxter & London: Law & Whittaker, 1818, engraved frontispiece of the High Street, title, dedication and preface, engraved folding city plan, split along old folds, 9 engraved plates, appendix and index bound at rear, later endpapers, modern half calf, 8vo, with Brewer (J. N.). Oxfordshire; or Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of that County..., London: 1818, frontispiece of an uncoloured engraved folding map of Oxfordshire by J. Roper, 21 uncoloured engraved plates, index bound at rear, some spotting and staining throughout, upper hinge cracked, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo, plus, Lascelles (Rowley). The University and City of Oxford..., London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821, 72 uncoloured engraved plates (including frontispiece), each with tissue guard, slight spotting, contemporary gilt blind-stamped calf, upper board detached, slight loss to spine, worn and bumped, 8vo, and Trash (F. publisher). The Stranger’s Guide and Historical & Biographical Hand-Book to Oxford..., Oxford: circa 1850, numerous uncoloured engraved plates, hinges and joints cracked and loose, contemporary quarter calf gilt, spine faded and frayed, bumped and rubbed, 8vo (6)
£300 - £500
49 Somner (William & Battely, Nicolas). The Antiquities of Canterbury, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, London: R. Knaplock, 1703, engraved frontispiece by Kip, letterpress title with near contemporary ownership signature, additional ownership signature to the verso of the first front blank, additional titles, 13 engraved plates, 6 maps, city and ground plans by Kip, Hollar, Hill, etc., errata leaf present at rear, minor staining, upper hinge weak, some staining to rear endpapers, circular bookplate of Montagu George, Knight of Cawton to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, spine with morocco gilt label, boards and spine, rubbed and worn, folio, together with Gostling (William). A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury..., 2nd edition, Canterbury: printed by Simmons & Kirkby, 1777, portrait frontispiece, 23 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 1 table and 1 folding map, circular bookplate of Montagu George, Knight of Cawton to front pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, upper board light stained, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, with Ireland (W.H.). England’s Topographer, or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent..., from original Drawings by Geo. Shepherd, H. Gastineau &c...., London: George Virtue, 1828, frontispiece of a folding engraved map of Kent by G. Virtue, map torn and split along old folds, decorative title, list of subscribers, 30 uncoloured engraved plates, near-contemporary manuscript lines of verso to the verso of the front endpaper, mid-20th century ink ownership signature to the rear of the last index page, hinges crudely strengthened, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, 8vo The first described item: Cox III p. 187; Upcott pp. 388-390; Lowndes V 244 (3) £300 - £500
50 Turner (J.M.W). Picturesque Views in England and Wales, from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner..., with Descriptive and Historic Illustrations by H. E. Lloyd, 2 volumes (bound in 1), London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green..., 1838, titles to each volume, 96 (complete as lists) uncoloured engraved plates, some spotting and staining, manuscript description of the binding and ownership signature to the verso of the first front blank, hinges repaired with tape, all edges gilt, near contemporary morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, boards faded and stained, worn at extremities, 4to, together with Brewer (James Norris). A Descriptive and Historical Account of Various Palaces and Public Buildings (English and Foreign)..., with various Additions and Emendations by B.R. Gill Esq. London: printed by W. Lewis for William Gilling, 1821, title, preface and contents, 25 uncoloured engraved plates, abrasion to the front pastedown (removal of old bookplate), contemporary calf gilt, re-backed, worn at extremities, 4to, with Jones & Co. (publishers). Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, &c. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and other Picturesque Scenery..., London: January 1st 1829, decorative title with near-contemporary manuscript ownership signature, 152 engraved views (on 76 sheets), some spotting and staining throughout, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and worn, 4to (3)
£200 - £400
51 Watts (W.). The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in a Collection of the most Interesting & Picturesque Views..., London: John & Josiah Boydell, [1779], calligraphic title, 84 uncoloured engraved views, each with a tissue guard and a page of descriptive text, list of subscribers bound at rear, some water staining, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with an early 19th-century printed marriage announcement, area of scaring from removal of bookplate, contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine, some damp-staining to the boards, worn at extremities, oblong 8vo, together with Besley (Henry, publisher). Views in Devonshire and Cornwall, Exeter: circa 1870, calligraphic title, 60 uncoloured engraved vignette views, hinges weak, all edges gilt, 20th century blue cloth boards with gilt title to the spine, boards a little bowed, oblong 8vo (2)
£150 - £200
Lot 50
52 Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth, 6 volumes, 1st edition, London: Benjamin Meredith, Arding and Merrett and others for the author, J. D. C. and C. E. Sowerby, 1812-29, 611 hand-coloured engraved plates (complete, including 33 & 184 bis plates), occasional light offsetting and minor spotting (plates generally clean), lacking page 139 volume 4 (facsimile loosely inserted), a 2 pp. autograph letter from William Ridgeway, dated December 1885 regarding the unfinished seventh volume of the work (published much later in 1840-6, not present here), loosely inserted (formerly adhered to front endpaper of volume I, with two resultant holes to the endpaper), modern brown half morocco gilt, 8vo Nissen ZBI 3917; Ward & Carozzi 2093.
‘Still considered the supreme work of British mineralogy’ (Conklin, James Sowerby, his Publications and Collections, 1995). (6)
£2,000 - £3,000
53 Loddiges (Conrad, & Sons). The Botanical Cabinet, consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants, from all Counties, with a short Account of each, Directions for Management &c. &c., 20 volumes, London: John & Arthur Arch, John Hatchard, C. Loddiges & Sons, and G. Cooke, 1817-1833, engraved titles, 2000 engraved botanical plates by George Cooke (mostly partially hand-coloured, including several folding), some spotting particularly to title pages, some offsetting, front flyleaf in volume 1 with contemporary inscription ‘Maria Butler, with the kind regards of her old acquaintance Charlotte Shipley, March 5th 1860’, some marbled free endpapers lacking, contemporary calf, lacking 3 boards, many boards detached or loose, spines very worn, with loss and some lacking, worn, 8vo (20)
£500 - £800
54 Evelyn (John). Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions..., To which is annexed Pomona or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider; the making and several ways of ordering it..., Also Kalendarium Hortense; or, Gard’ners Almanac; directing what he is to do Monethly throughout the year, 3 parts in 1, 1st edition, London: printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, 1664, initial licence leaf (with early ownership signature ‘Ja: Forstrye’ and other side with inscription ‘Left to me by the Revd. Edward Hasted, Georgina Best(?)’, general title in red and black with engraved arms of the Royal Society, part 3 title also printed in red and black, with the “Animadversion” and “Sir Paul Neiles second paper” leaves, errata leaf at end, without cancel leaf H1 as usual (after title to Kalendarium), occasional toning, light damp-staining to upper margin, couple of leaves stained to lower outer corners, contemporary sheep, upper board detached and lower joint split, some wear, slim folio
ESTC R12326; Henrey 132; Hunt 296; Keynes 40; Wing E3516. Keynes calls the work ‘Evelyn’s most celebrated horticultural work’. It was originally delivered to the Royal Society in 1662 in concern at the deforestation of England.
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£400 - £600
55 Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897, photogravure portrait frontispiece to volume I, 421 chromolithograph plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, mounted on linen guards, occasional variable spotting and toning (as often), top edge gilt, contemporary crimson full morocco by R. H. Porter, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt to compartments (one or two bands and edges lightly rubbed), 8vo
Anker 308; Freeman 2244; Mullens and Swann 354; Nissen IVB 563; Wood 436; Zimmer p. 399.
Provenance: R. H. Porter, publisher and binder, 3 pp. autograph letter, dated March 1901 to Rowland Burdon, enclosing the set after rebinding them and detailing the work therein, loosely inserted in volume I. (7)
£800 - £1,200
56 Edwards (Lionel, illustrator). Shires and Provinces by “Sabretache”, limited edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926, 16 mounted colour plates, light marginal toning to textblock, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, some dust-soiling to spine, covers slightly bowed, 4to, limited edition, 63/100 signed by artist and author, together with Armour (G. Denholm). British Sport Past and Present, by E. D. Cuming, limited edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909, tipped-in colour plates, some toning to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, top edge gilt, original calf gilt, some fading to spine and extremities, a little rubbed, 4to, limited signed edition 39/500, with 8 others related including the trade editions of Shires and Provinces, 1926, and More Shires and Provinces, 1928, The New Book of the Horse, by Charles Richardson, 1911, British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, 1922, and Leicestershire & Its Hunts: The Quorn, the Cottesmore & the Belvoir, by Charles Simpson, 1926 (11)
£300 - £400
57 Amschewitz (John Henry). European Revue. Kill that Eagle, London: published by “Geographia Ltd.” & Hamburg: Walter Nölting, 1915, colour printed photolithographic satirical map of Europe, old folds, some strengthening and small areas of repair on verso, 515 x 655 mm, with the publisher’s upper paper wrapper affixed to the verso
A rare WW I propaganda map. This example is a counter-version published in Germany of the same map published in England a year earlier. Walter Nolting claimed that Amschewitz’s map was evidence and “documentary proof of Albion’s perfidy”. This was actually a misinterpretation of the phrase and context of ‘Business as usual’, written below a burly John Bull, who is about to cross the Channel armed with a cutlass. The phrase was coined as a collective patriotic response to the outbreak of war and was used by Winston Churchill. It was intended to be indicative of Britain’s willingness to continue with commerce and day-to-day living, despite being on a war footing. It was similar to the WW2 phrase ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’. Nolting has either misunderstood or deliberately twisted the phrase to imply that Britain was all too willing to indulge in a historical propensity for waging war. The personification of Europe’s various countries into ‘types’ was a common conceit, but by using humour, it allowed easier access to the geography of the conflict.
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£600 - £900
58 Arabian Gulf. Oil - The Middle East Situation, 1951, ink and watercolour manuscript map on thick paper, signed ‘M.E. 15.VII.1951’ to the lower right corner, inset key, 280 x 175 mm
The map details the sites of various oil-producing companies and their daily output in barrels. Possibly compiled by an oil industry executive stationed in the Gulf.
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£100 - £200
59 Asia, China & Japan. A collection of approximately 125 maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps, with examples by or after J & C Walker, Weller, Colton, Letts, Blackie & Son, Phillip & Son, Lodge, Levasseur, Archer, Fullarton, Dower, Hall, Mignon, Mallet, Bonne and Kitchin, some duplicates, various sizes, good condition (approx. 125)
£200 - £300
Lot 59
Lot 58 Lot 57
60 Australia. Arrowsmith (J.), Australia from Surveys made by Order of the British Government, combined with those of D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. 1st edition, London: 1st May 1838, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset maps of the world on Mercator’s projection and Tasmania, very slight spotting, grey linen endpapers, 645 x 880 mm, contained in a contemporary green linen slipcase with printed label to the upper cover (1)
£200 - £400
61 Australia. Spilhaus (Margaret Whiting), Pictorial Map of Australia, printed by George Philip & Son, London: circa 1930, decorative pictorial colour lithographic map, small ink library stamp in the lower margin, not affecting the printed image, 715 x 990 mm, together with Emery (James). The Discovery of Australia, Sydney: circa 1975, illustrated booklet, publisher’s paper gilt wrappers, slim 8vo, with the large pictorial map by the same author, printed in sepia, old folds strengthened on verso, 480 x 720 mm, with A New and most accurately drawn Seasonal map of Australia during the pleasant summer months, November to April, circa 1930, colour printed pictorial map taken from a periodical, 155 x 230 mm, English text on verso, plus Walker (Emery). The British Isles and their Relation with the Trade of Europe in the Middle Ages, London: Williams & Norgate, 1918, decorative pictorial map after Joan Kingsford, printed in black & white, old folds, backed with archival tissue, 575 x 410 mm, and Geographia Limited (publishers). The New Pictorial Map of England and Wales, London: circa 1935, chromolithographic pictorial map, old folds, slight wear where old folds cross, skillfully repaired, backed with archival tissue, 735 x 485 mm, with another nine pictorial maps and cartoons, mostly published in periodicals such as ‘Punch’, ‘Saturday Review’, ‘Home Arts Magazine’ and ‘Judge Magazine’, good condion, various sizes (14)
£400 - £600
62* Berkshire. Blaeu (W. & J.). Bercheria Vernacule Bark Shire, circa 1650, hand-coloured engraved map, 380 x 500 mm, Latin text to verso, Hogarth style frame, glazed, together with: Hondius (Henricus). Anglia Regnum, circa 1640, hand-coloured engraved map, 380 x 500 mm, Spanish text to verso, framed and glazed, plus Mercator (Gerard & H. Hondius). Anglia Regnum, 1636, handcoloured engraved map, toned, 350 x 460 mm, English text to verso, framed and glazed (3)
£150 - £200
63 Boucher (Lucien, 1889 - 1971). Air France, Nova et Vetera sur la Veille Terre des Chemins Nouveaux, Paris: printed by Perceval, 1939, colour lithographic map on a planispheric projection, with an allegorical representation of the four continents in each corner, heightened with gilt, slight dust soiling, very slight creasing, repaired pin holes to the upper corner margins, 600 x 965 mm Lucien Boucher produced a series of promotional posters for Air France throughout the middle of the 20th century. (1) £400 - £600
64 Boucher (Lucien, 1889 - 1971). Air France, Nova et Vetera sur la Veille Terre des Chemins Nouveaux, Paris: printed by Perceval, 1939, colour lithographic map on a planispheric projection, heightened with gilt, with an allegorical representation of the four continents in each corner, some dust soiling and slight creasing, 375 x 600 mm, (1)
£200 - £300
65 Boucher (Lucien, 1889 - 1971). Air France. Sur les Ailes d’Air France Decouvrez le Monde a Votre Tour, printed by Perceval, Paris, circa 1950, colour photolithographic map of the world produced for Air France, with an allegorical representation of the four continents in each corner, 360 x 575 mm (1)
£300 - £500
66 British County Maps. A collection of 24 Maps, mostly 19thcentury, engraved county maps, including examples by or after J & C Walker, Bacon, R. Morden, C. Smith, C & J Greenwood and J. Cary, with several of Gloucestershire, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (24)
£150 - £200
67* Cambridge. Jansson (Jan), Comitatis Cantabrigiensis vernacule Cambridgeshire, Amsterdam: circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, one short marginal closed tear, very slight staining, 415 x 520 mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Blaeu (Johannes). Comitatus Salopiensis Anglice Shrop Shire, Amsterdam: circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, some dust soiling, 380 x 500 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£150 - £200
68 Canterbury. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Cantuarbury. Cantuaria urbs fertilis simae Angliae celebris; Archiepiscopati sede Commendate, circa 1588, uncoloured engraved city plan, slight staining but largely confined to the margins, 290 x 430 mm, Latin text on verso (1)
£200 - £300
69 Caribbean. Vernon (Leo), British Caribbean Colonies, prepared for the Central Office of Information and published by H.M.S.O., printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd, 1948, colour pictorial lithograph with eight maps on one sheet (as published), old folds, some fraying to the horizontal margins, 740 x 485 mm
The map’s legend highlights the diverse resources produced in the British Caribbean, with symbols indicating the locations of sugar plantations, timber, bauxite mines, oil fields, and rice paddies. Surrounding the map are illustrations depicting elements of Caribbean culture, agriculture, and colonial history. A rare decorative map. (1)
£150 - £250
72 Cotton (William). Carriers of the New Black Plague, Ken Magazine, 1938, colour printed serio-comic map of the world showing the countries controlled by dictators and despots, with their portraits below the map (including Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco and Atatürk), inset key showing categories of free speech, descriptive text below the map, with three colour pictorial caricatures on the verso, including ‘Goering the Gaudy Cockeral’, old staple holes to the central fold, 330 x 520 mm
£200 - £300
70 Cheshire. Speed (John), The Countye Palatine of Chester with that most ancient citie described, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset city plan of Chester, toned overall, some creasing, slight worming, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, 390 x 510 mm, English text on verso (1)
71 Cornwall. Speed (John & John Norden), Cornwall, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset panorama of Launceston, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, two rust marks with very small holes in the royal crest, slight creasing and dust soiling, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso
R. C. E. Quixley. Antique Maps of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, 11. (1) £300 - £500
The map appeared in the first-ever edition of ‘Ken Magazine’, which was a controversial anti-fascist magazine. It was distinguished by unusual and powerful graphics, like this one and several articles on the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway. The magazine failed in August 1939 as a result of wariness by advertisers and a boycott by the Catholic Church (Baptista 2009, 109-115). The text below the map includes a description of the illustrated men as “ten adult bipeds, each equipped with distended ego and outsized adrenal glands, whose ten totalled brains wouldn’t counterbalance that of one Einstein in the measurement of man’s distance from the anthropoid ape.” (1)
£70 - £100
73 Egypt. Stanford (Edward, publisher), Untitled Map, London: Intelligence Department, War Office, June 1882, large-scale colour lithographic map printed on four sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset maps of Suez, Port Said, Cairo and Alexandria, marbled endpapers, each sheet approximately 540 x 820 mm, contained in a contemporary red cloth slipcase with printed label to the upper cover, slipcase strengthened with tape (1)
£100 - £200
74 Europe. Le Charivari (publisher), Carte de la Fraternité Européenne, October 27th, 1881, uncoloured allegorical map of Europe after Draner, bound as a bifolium, descriptive key below the image, light text showthrough, 200 x 390 mm, French text on all leaves (1)
£150 - £200
75 Europe. Low (David), Untitled Satirical Map of Cold War Europe, published in The Picture Post, 24th May 1952, photolithographic allegorical map, slight wear and rust staining around old staple holes, 310 x 485 mm, with an accompanying article on satirical maps, together with another copy similar, plus The Philadelphia Advertiser (publisher). Two Worlds Atlas, April 15th 1948, pictorial magazine with a colour-printed front cover depicting Uncle Sam with Marshall Plan gifts in a Wheelbarrow, with Russian bears behind the Iron Curtain, slight fraying, disbound, 345 x 275 mm, with Punch (publisher). Mrs Thatcher’s Europe Open for Business map, April 29th 1988, colour printed strip cartoon surrounding an allegorical map, 270 x 195 mm, and Evan Marengo (Kimon, pseud. Kem). Toy Titans, Politicartoons and Sociocaricatures, London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1937, frontispiece of a folding colour caricature, numerous black and white political caricatures, the endpapers decorated with allegorical map cartoons, contemporary quarter cloth, spine faded and toned, folio, with an uncoloured engraved satirical cartoon depicting the Division of Poland, dated 1772, 110 x 175 mm (6)
£200 - £300
76 Europe. Low (David), Untitled Satirical Map of Cold War Europe, published in The Picture Post, 24th May 1952, photolithographic allegorical map, small staple holes to the central fold, 310 x 485 mm, with an accompanying article on satirical maps (1)
£150 - £200
77 Europe. Neumont (Maurice), La Guerre est L’Industrie Nationale de la Prusse..., 1917, anti-German colour photolithographic map of Europe with a printed propaganda message ‘La Rêve Allemand’ on verso, 230 x 300 mm, together with Yves & Barrett (publishers). L’Europe en ce Moment - Fantaisie Politico Géographique [and] Ou Peut Mener la Question de L’Alabama - Fantaisie Prusso-Américaine en Deux Hemisphères, Paris: published in La Vie Parisienne, 1872, two uncoloured lithographic satirical maps, one of Europe and one of the World, the map of the world trimmed with loss of text along the lower margin, short split to the central fold, small ‘staple’ holes along the central fold, each with additional sheets of descriptive text, each approximately 325 x 500 mm
The first described map uses the conceit of a cartographic German octopus whose tentacles reach out to control various territorial ambitions. An image more often found associated with Russia. (3)
£300 - £500
78 Globe. By Royal Letters Patent, Bett’s Portable Terrestrial Globe, Compiled from the Latest and Best Authorities. British Empire Coloured, London & Liverpool: published by George Phillip and Son Ltd., circa 1920, 22-inch collapsible ‘umbrella’ globe, lithographic printing on silk stretched over an expandable metal frame, edged in green silk, very slight spotting, overall length 725 mm (28.5 inches), retaining the publisher’s printed card tube, with additional printed title
79 Gloucestershire. Saxton (C. & P. Lea), Glocester-shire described by C.S. Corrected and Amended with many Additions by P. Lea, circa 1690, hand-coloured engraved map, inset city plans of Bristol and Gloucester, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale surmounted by dividers, additional horizontal fold, narrow margins, slight toning, 385 x 500 mm (1)
£200 - £300
There were several editions of these umbrella globes produced by John Betts and George Philip & Son, which makes them difficult to date exactly, but because this example shows the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1912 and Yugoslavia, which was founded in 1918, we have therefore dated it as circa 1920. We would ask any prospective purchasers not to attempt to open the globe to its full extent, as the resulting tension will cause the silk to split. (1)
£100 - £150
80 Hampshire. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Southampton from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1825 & 1826, published June 15th, 1826, large-scale engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose, table of explanation and an uncoloured vignette of the South East View of Winchester Cathedral, slight dust soiling and staining, edged in green silk, some fraying to the silk, 1565 x 1460 mm, contained in a contemporary tree calf book box, with morocco gilt label to the spine, box with slight wear to the extremities (1)
£200 - £300
81 Hampshire. Milne (Thomas), Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight. Surveyed by Thos. Milne in the years 1788, 89 & 90, executed and published at the private expense of the Proprietor, W. Faden..., December 20th, 1791, large scale engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, contemporary outline colouring, calligraphic title, engraved vignette of a ‘View of the West Gate Winchester’, two inset town plans of Winchester and Southampton, large compass rose and numerous rhumb lines and a table of the Bailiwicks and walks in the New Forest, slight staining and dust soiling, edged in white linen, 1480 x 1425 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slip case with printed label to the upper board, heavily worn and frayed
The second edition of Milne’s map of Hampshire. The first was published in October 1st 1791, and the second (this example) in December 1791. Both editions are rare. (1)
£800 - £1,200
Lot 81
82 Holy Land. Blaeu (Willem Jans Zoon), Terra Sancta quae in sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina, Amsterdam: circa 1640, engraved map with bright contemporary hand-colouring, heightened in gilt, large margins, 385 x 495 mm, Latin text on verso E. Laor, 106.
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£200 - £300
84 Holy Land. Elwe (Jan Barend), Generaale Kaart van het Beloofde Land, tot Verlichting voor de Geschiedenisse; vervat in den Bybel, 1792, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, strapwork title cartouche flanked by garlands and putti, inset plan of the Tabernacle, supported by the figures of Moses and Aaron, 505 x 585 mm
E.Laor, 268.
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£150 - £250
85 Holy Land. Munster (Sebastian), Three maps: Terra Sancta XXIII Nova Tabula, Tabula Asiae IIII & Das Heilig Judisch Landt / mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter, 1544 - 52, together three woodcut maps, each approximately 300 x 385 mm, Latin text on verso
£100 - £200
83 Holy Land. De la Rue (Phillipe), Sovrie ou Terre Saincte Moderne..., published by Pierre Mariette, Paris, circa 1651, uncoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, inset map of the environs of Jerusalem, two worm holes, 395 x 545 mm, together with De la Rue (Phillipe). Pinax Geographicus Patriarchatus Hierosolymitani..., published by Pierre Mariette, Paris: 1651, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, uncoloured floriate cartouche, slight dust soiling, 410 x 535 mm (2)
E. Laor, 528, 527 & 526.
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£200 - £300
86* Holy Land. Visscher (Claes Janszoon), Situation Du Paradis Et Du Pais De Canaan comme Aussi des Premiers, Comme Aussi Des Premiers pais Habités par les Patriarches recueilli des Stes. Ecritures et de divers Autheurs, Amsterdam: [1656 or later], handcoloured engraved map, the corners decorated with oval vignettes of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, with an additional view of Noah’s Ark, 410 x 540 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£150 - £200
87* Homann (Johann Baptist). Neue Tafel vor alle Liebhabers und See-fahrende Personen Stellet vor ein Orlog oder Kriegs-Schiff..., Nuremberg, circa 1720, engraved plans and cross section of a warship surrounded by eighteen inset designs of maritime instruments and cross sections of various ships and boats, contemporary hand-colouring, 480 x 560 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Flaggen aller Seefahrenden Potenzen und Noationen in der gantzen Weldt..., Nuremberg, circa 1720, engraved flag chart displaying 139 flags of various nations, factions, and trading companies, including the flags of China (bottom centre) Dutch West India Company (Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie) and the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C), two Chinese flags and two Tartar flags, all with bright contemporary hand-colouring, 485 x 575 mm, mounted, framed and glazed
The maritime engraving is occasionally found in Homann’s ‘Atlas novus terrarum orbis imperia regna et status exactis tabulis geographice demonstrans’. (2) £400 - £600
88* Homann (Johann Baptist). Three maps: Hiberniae Regnum tam in praecipuas Ultoniae, Connaciae, Laceniae et Momoniae..., Magna Britannia complectens Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae Regna..., [and] Magnae Britanniae pars septentrionalis que regnum Scotiae..., Nuremberg, circa 1710, together three engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement to the cartouche, each approximately 585 x 485 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed (3)
£300 - £400
89 India & South East Asia. Gastaldi (Giacomo), India Tercera Nova Tabula, Venice: circa 1548, uncoloured engraved map, small areas of adhesion scarring to the verso, slight dust soiling, 130 x 175 mm, Italian text on verso
One of the earliest obtainable ‘modern’ maps of Southeast Asia and the Philippines. (1)
£500 - £800
90 India, the East Indies and the Maldives. A collection of approximately 130 maps, 18th & 19th-century, engraved and lithographic maps, including examples by or after Bonne, Tallis/Rapkin, Bellin, Findlay, J & C Walker, Weller and Mallet, some duplicates, various sizes, good condition (approx. 130)
£100 - £200
91 India. Munster (Sebastian), Tabula Asiae XI, [1540 or later], uncoloured woodblock map of Southeast Asia and the Bay of Bengal, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, slight overall toning, some fading to the central fold, 270 x 345 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden, Basel: circa 1560, uncoloured woodblock map of Sri Lanka, the left-hand margin depicting an elephant with descriptive text, slight mount staining, some fraying with loss to the printed image, some tape staining to the margins, 260 x 345 mm, German text on verso (2)
£150 - £250
92 Ireland. Jansson (Jan), Provincia Ultoniae, The Province of Ulster, Amsterdam, circa 1660, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, toned and stained, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 495 mm, no text on verso, together with Hole (George). Hiberniae Ireland Anglis. Yverdon Britannis Erin Incolis..., circa 1610, hand-coloured engraved map, orientated to the east, large strapwork cartouche and compass rose, spotted and stained, marginal repaired closed tears, 270 x 340 mm, with Morden (Robert). Ireland, circa 1700, hand-coloured engraved map heightened with gilt, spotted, some marginal tape staining, 140 x 125 mm, English text on verso, plus Rollos (G.). A Map of the Province of Ulster..., circa 1750, hand-coloured engraved map, stained and toned, 105 x 180 mm, with Van der Aa (Pieter). Hibernia, Leiden: circa 1707, hand-coloured engraved map, orientated to the west, some toning and spotting, 130 x 160 mm, with two others similar (7)
£200 - £300
93 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Mounster, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Limerick and Cork, slight creasing and staining, occasional marginal repaired closed tears, 390 x 510 mm, English text on verso (1)
£200 - £300
94 Jerusalem. Seutter (Matthaus), Prospectus Sanctae olim et celeberrimae Urbis Hierosolymae..., Prospect der vormals Heiligen und Welt Berühmtem Stadt Jerusalem..., Augsburg: circa 1735, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, uncoloured panorama of the city below the map, 495 x 580 mm E.Laor, 1131.
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£400 - £600
95 Lancashire. Speed (John), The Countie Palatine of Lancaster Described and Divided into Hundreds, G. Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Lancaster, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, decorated with eight portraits of Plantagenet Kings and Queens, toned overall, two wormholes affecting the printed image, top margin partially trimmed to the neatline, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso (1) £200 - £300
96 Lincolnshire. Speed (John), The Countie and Citie of Lincolne Described with the armes of them that have bene Earles thereof since the Conquest, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Lincoln, large strapwork cartouche and compass rose, toned overall, central fold a little faded, some creasing, slight abrasion to the printed surface, slight fraying to the margins, but not affecting the printed image, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso (1)
£150 - £200
97 London. A collection of 30 folding maps, mostly 19thcentury, engraved and lithographic folding maps of London and its environs, including examples by or after Bowles, Stanford, Wyld, Cary, Heskett, Coghlan, W.H. Smith, Mogg, G. Philip & Son, Collins, Ordnance Survey, Adams, G.W. Bacon, London Transport, Walker & Co. and Bartholomew, together with three additional folding maps, including Edward Stanford’s ‘The Oarsman’s & Angler’s map of the River Thames’, Alexander Taylor’s map of Ireland and James Wyld’s map of central Europe, various sizes and condition (33)
£200 - £400
98 London. Henshall (J.), London, published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and by Baldwin & Cradock, 1836, uncoloured engraved map, sectionalised and laid on later linen, slight staining, 405 x 700 mm, together with Tegg (T.). Tegg’s New Plan of London &c. with 360 References to the Principal Streets &c. 1827, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, index below the map, slight dust soiling, 420 x 610 mm, with Ellis (J.). The London Guide, or a Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster & Borough of Southwark with the New Buildings &c. to the year 1776, published by Carington Bowles, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight staining, 385 x 515 mm (3)
£200 - £300
99 London. Map of London and Its Vicinity, circa 1860, unattributed, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, slight browning to old folds, some old tape repairs to verso, very occasional spotting, 490 x 910 mm, together with Bell (Andrew). A Correct Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster & Borough of Southwark, including the Bills of Mortality with the Additional Buildings, circa 1761, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, 240 x 400 mm, with Noorthouck (John). A Plan of the City and Liberties of London shewing the extent of the dreadful Conflagration in the year 1666, circa 1772, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, 225 x 340 mm (3)
£200 - £300
100 London. Rocque (John), An exact survey of the City’s of London, Westminster, ye Borough of Southwark..., 1741, but later edition published by Edward Stanford, 1878, sixteen (complete) uncoloured photolithographic sheets, some marginal fraying, dust soiling and chipping, some closed tears to the margins, some of which have crude tape repairs on the verso, each sheet approximately 500 x 680 mm, contained in the publisher’s card boards, cloth spine, faded and part detached, with a printed title label to the upper siding, boards heavily worn, frayed and torn with slight loss, oblong folio, overall size 540 x 745 mm, together with Dower (John). Environs of London - Windsor Castle to Gravesend, London: published in ‘The Illustrated London News’ [1857], handcoloured wood engraved map, decorated with numerous topographical vignettes, old folds, 530 x 770 mm, framed and glazed (2)
£200 - £300
101 Lowrey (Jo.). Geographical Guide to a Man’s Heart and with Obstacles and Entrances Clearly Marked [and] Geographical Guide to a Woman’s Heart emphasizing Points of Interest to the Romantic Traveller, McCall’s Magazine, January 1960, a pair of colour printed allegorical maps printed on one sheet, old stitch holes to the central fold, overall size 330 x 525 mm
A charming pair of ‘geographical guides’ depicting a man’s and a woman’s heart. The maps reflect the social and moral outlook of the time - before the sexual revolution - with an emphasis on love, mutual support, understanding and compatibility. The maps are based upon a late Victorian pair of maps by the Kellogg brothers of Connecticut. On the verso of the man’s heart is a brief essay on the characteristics a man looks for in a woman (1) £150 - £200
102 Malta. Abela (Giovanni Francesco), In Insulis Maris Nomen Dni Dei Israel, published in Malta: [1647], uncoloured engraved doublepage map on laid, key plate below the map identifying 128 points of interest, large margins, old folds, slight offsetting, 255 x 400 mm
Published in Abela’s Della Descrittione di Malta. The first map of Malta to be printed and published on the island. (1)
£800 - £1,200
103 Mappa Mundi. Facsimile edition, published by The Folio Society, 2010, map printed in colours on Neobond and laid on canvas, stained wooden batten with brass ring to the upper margin (as published), limited edition 407/1000, retaining the numbered certificate, the map contained within the publisher’s purposemade wooden box with gilt title to the upper cover, supplied with the two associated volumes - the Introduction Volume by P. D. A. Harvey & the Commentary Volume by Scott D. Westrem, publishers cloth gilt, each in slip cases, the books retaining the shrink wrappers around the slipcases, 4to (3)
£600 - £900
Lot 102
105 Middle East. Ptolemy (Claudius & Laurent Fries), Tabula Quarta Asiae, published by Gaspar Treschel, Vienne: [1541], uncoloured Ptolemaic woodcut map of the Levant, Syria, Cyprus, and Iraq, title on the verso, large margins, very slight staining, 325 x 465 mm, Latin text on verso
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£300 - £500
104 Maps. A collection of approximately 170 maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps, many with contemporary outline colouring, including countries, regions (foreign and British) and American States, with examples by or after Antoine, Fosset, Delamarche, Abbé Clouet-Mondard, Aspin, Buchon, Bartolomew, Hughes, Mentelle and D’Anville, various sizes, good condition (approx. 170)
£400 - £600
106* Norfolk. Goddard (T. & R. Goodman), A New and Accurate Map of the County of Norfolk. Sold by Thos Goddard and Robert Goodman, Booksellers in Norwich, 1740, large map engraved by Willm. Roades, on two conjoined sheets, contemporary outline colouring, inset prospects of Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn, the vertical margins with lists of the county towns, decorated with coats of arms, slight staining, appears to be laid on card, 600 x 1020, framed and glazed T. Chubb. A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Norfolk 1574 - 1916, page 41. A close copy of Goddard and Chase’s map of 1731. Rare. Chubb states that only one copy is known (Norwich Public Library). We can find no other institutional copies recorded.
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£300 - £500
107 Palestine. Palestine North Sheet..., Map showing State, Arab & Jewish Owned Land, Compiled, drawn & printed by Survey of Palestine, August 1944, Supplied by G. Branch H.Q. December 1945, colour printed map, old folds, 880 x 600 mm
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£100 - £150
108 Rome. Bulla (Francois), Pianta Guida della Città di Roma, Veduta a volo d’uccello, Rome: circa 1885, lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, colourcoded key indicates churches, hotels, and Roman ruins, edged in grey linen, 515 x 645 mm
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£100 - £150
109 Rose (Fred W.). England on Guard, A Serio-Comic Map for 1878, London: G.W. Bacon & Co. lithograph with contemporary colouring, slight staining, dust soiling and creasing, several repaired closed tears, trimmed to the neatline, backed with archival tissue, 590 x 435 mm A rare map, which was published early in 1878, following the resignation of Lords Derby & Carnarvon. They were strongly opposed to Disraeli’s bellicose stance against an increasingly aggressive Russia. Gladstone is depicted as ‘William the Woodman’, taking an axe to the flagstaff labelled ‘British Honour’ and of being a ‘Russophile’. Gladstone was frequently ridiculed for his almost obsessive love of tree-felling. Rose’s solid Conservative sentiments are clear. By 1878, Russia looked likely to defeat Turkey and capture Constantinople. A decision was made to order the British fleet to the Bosphorus and to seek a £6 million Parliamentary grant as a contingency against any future war. Disraeli’s Foreign Secretary and closet Russophile Lord Derby, and the equally pacifist Earl of Carnarvon, resigned. Rose alludes to this in the map: ‘A timid earl, alarmed at the sight of a naked sword, deserts his post and hides his blushing face from the public gaze’. Rose also attacks the ‘Brummagen Quakers’ seeking ‘Peace at any Price’. (1)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22%
£1,200 - £1,500
110 Saxton (Christopher & William Web). Devoniae Comitat Rerumque omnium in eodem memorabilium recens vena pticularisq descriptio, Anno Dn. 1642, uncoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and a mileage scale surmounted by dividers, trimmed to the neatline and laid on later thick paper, several repaired closed tears, worn and frayed with some loss to the printed image, strengthened and repaired on verso, 400 x 450 mm, together with Saxton (Christoper). Staffordiae Comitatu pfecte et absolute elaboratu haec tibi tabula exhibet Anno Dni 1577 (but published circa 1579), hand-coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and a mileage scale surmounted by dividers, trimmed to the neatline, slight fraying to the strapwork margins, several repaired closed tears, worn and frayed with some loss to the printed image, strengthened and repaired on verso, the whole backed with archival tissue, 385 x 490 mm (2)
£300 - £500
111 Sayer (J. P.). The Map of Peace, Keep on Saving, We’ve great things to do, issued by The National Savings Committee, printed for H. M. Stationery Office by Field Sons & Co. Ltd. circa 1945, colour lithographic map, occasional repaired marginal tears, backed with archival tissue, 725 x 475 mm (1)
£100 - £150
112 Scandinavia. A collection of approximately 190 maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps of Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, including examples by or after Tallis/Rapkin, Cruchley, Findlay, Lowry, Hall, Dower, De Vaugondy, Sanson, Collins, J & C Walker, Monin, Delamarche, Fullarton, Bowen and Bonne, some duplicates, various sizes, good condition (approx. 190)
£200 - £300
113* Scotland. Homann (Johann Baptiste), Magnae Britanniae Pars Septentrionalis qua Regnum Scotiae..., Nuremberg: circa 1710, hand-coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight creasing, 575 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1) £150 - £200
114 Scotland. Lewis (S. publisher), A Map of Scotland Divided into Counties Shewing The Principal Road, Railways, Rivers, Canals, Lochs, Mountains, Islands, &c. on a scale of five miles to an inch, drawn by F.A. Carrington, the hills by G.W. Carrington, London: circa 1845, monumental map on three sheets, engraved by J. Dower and etched by T. Harwood, contemporary outline colouring, calligraphic title, table of explanation, compass rose and uncoloured vignette of Melrose Abbey, slight dust soiling and slight offsetting, overall size (if conjoined) approximately 1900 x 1320 mm, blindstamped card endpapers, contained in a contemporary brown cloth slipcase, the case a little worn at its extremities (1)
£150 - £250
115 Sea Chart. Heather (William), A New Chart of Bristol Channel reduced from the best Authorities..., circa 1803, hand-coloured engraved chart, inset maps of Padstow Harbour, Carmarthen Bay and the Kings Road on the River Avon, old folds, very slight dust soiling, thread margins, upper margin strengthened on verso, 630 x 920 mm (1)
£200 - £300
116* Stanford (Edward, publisher). Map of the Countries around the North Pole, London: Edward Stanford, Dec. 2nd, 1878, folding colour lithograph map, sectionalised on linen, light brown mark towards lower left corner, generally in good condition, overall sheet size 67.5 x 66.5 cm, original publishers green cloth with yellow printed label to upper cover, a little rubbed, 8vo
A reissue of Arrowsmith’s Map of the Arctic regions, first issued in 1818 and updated throughout the 19th century. (1)
£100 - £150
117* Wales. Speed (John), Caermarden Both Shyre and Towne described, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1627, hand-coloured engraved map with inset map of Carmarthen, large strapwork cartouche and compass rose, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, Hogarth style frame, glazed, together with: Speed (John). Cardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shire-town as it was surveyed by J. S. Anno 1610, John Sudbury and George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map with inset town plan of Cardigan, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 515 mm, English text to verso, Hogarth style frame, glazed (2)
£150 - £200
118 World. Arrowsmith (J.), The World on Mercator’s Projection, London: 15th Feby. 1853, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset polar projections, green linen endpapers, 520 x 640 mm, contained in a contemporary linen-covered card slipcase with printed title label and additional ownership label (Captain Bayly, Royal Artillery) to the upper cover, some wear to the extremities of the slipcase (1)
£100 - £200
119* Yorkshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Ducatus Eboracensis pars Occidentalis; The West Riding of Yorke Shire [and] Ducatus Eboracensis pars Borealis; The North Riding of York Shire, Amsterdam: circa 1645, two engraved maps with bright contemporary outline colouring, each with a decorative cartouche and mileage scale, each approximately 385 x 500 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£200 - £300
120 Yorkshire. Cruchley (G. F.), Cruchley’s New Map of Yorkshire Shewing all the Railways & Stations, also the new Parliamentary Divisions from the Ordnance Surveys, London: circa 1870, largescale lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche and table of explanation, very slight dust soiling, old folds strengthened on verso, marbled endpapers, 915 x 1090 mm, contemporary cloth boards with gilt title to the upper siding, rebacked (1)
£100 - £200
All lots unframed unless otherwise stated
123* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Kings Head Inn, Chigwell, Essex, pastel and graphite drawing, signed by the artist to the lower left corner, 360 x 505 mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£200 - £300
121* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). London Bridge and Thames Barges, originally published in ‘London’s River: Studies of the Thames from Source to Mouth’, circa 1925, two colour lithographs, the image of Thames Barges, signed by the artist to the lower left, both with a crayon and graphite remarque below the image, each approximately 275 x 440 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed with a separate aperture for the remarque (2)
122* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). Mickey, etching, showing Mickey, Aldin’s dog, resting his chin on the back of a sofa, pencil note to lower margin ‘a very bad print which I made myself. The first and only print I have ever made!!’, initialled C.A., some restoration to upper left edge, small pencil mark to lower right edge and blank margin, plate size 21.4 x 30 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (44 x 59.5 cm), two printed Chris Beetles Limited gallery labels to verso, together with a copy of Cecil Aldin, The Story of a Sporting Artist by Roy Heron (2)
£150 - £200
This famous pub dates from the 16th century and was the model for ‘The Maypole’ in Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge. (1)
£200 - £300
124* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Yarn Market at Dunster, Somerset, pastel and graphite drawing, signed by the artist to the lower left, 410 x 420 mm, mounted, framed and glazed
Aldin temporarily lived in Dunster and organised pony club meets in the grounds of Dunster Castle. (1)
£200 - £300
125* American Revolution. The Political Cartoon for the Year 1775, London: published in The Westminster Magazine or The Pantheon of Taste, 1775, uncoloured engraved caricature, some dust soiling, trimmed to the neatline along the upper margin, 115 x 180 mm, mounted
A rare caricature acting as a critique of the American War of Independence. It depicts King George III, driven by Lord Mansfield, driving a coach toward a cliff, pulled by two horses labelled “Obstinacy” and “Pride”. The footman is Lord Bute, who scatters pensions and other favours. A comment on the corruption surrounding the allocation of position and privilege within government. The chaise runs over books titled ‘Magna Charta’ and ‘Constitution’. The imagery represents Britain’s path to ruin, brought on by the war with the American colonies, a war supported by figures like North and opposed by others like Pitt and Camden, who are trying to intervene. The background shows America in flames, further illustrating the destructive nature of the conflict.
‘The Westminster Magazine or The Pantheon of Taste, was a society magazine published under the auspices of a number of different London publishers between 1773 and 1785. The magazine was founded with the intention of providing a high-brow alternative to the popular Gentleman’s Magazine, a publication which many felt was becoming overly preoccupied with commerce, industry and the bourgeois business of making money. The Westminster Magazine would therefore provide those who still clung to the aesthetic sensibilities of the true English gentleman, with reading material which focused exclusively on the world of the arts, philosophy and the polite sciences.’ The Printshop Window.
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£400 - £600
126* Attributed to William Conor (1881-1968). Irish Landscape with Church, pen, black ink and watercolour on card, unsigned, two small pin holes to centre of upper edge, 16 x 17.75 cm (6 1/4 x 7 ins), modern frame, glazed
Provenance: Marjorie Doreen Crawford (1902-1971), thence by descent. Doreen Crawford was the third child of Frederick Hugh Crawford, CBE (1861-1952), an officer in the British Army. A staunch Ulster loyalist, Crawford was notable for organising the Larne gun-running which secured guns and ammunition for the Ulster Volunteers in 1914, making him a hero among Northern Ireland’s unionists. Doreen Crawford married John Hubert Penson in 1929.
Irish artist William Conor (1881-1968) first exhibited in Belfast in 1910, and was appointed an official war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. He moved to London after the First World War and came into contact with the Cafe Royal circle, including Sir John Lavery and Augustus John. In 1921 Conor returned to Belfast and opened a studio at 7 Chichester Street. He carried a sketch book at all times to record ordinary life in the streets. He became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1946, received an OBE in 1952 and was President of the the Royal Ulster Academy from 1957 to 1964. (1)
£100 - £150
127* Mackinlay (Miguel, 1895-1958). Back Up the Fighting Forces, printed for HMSO by J. Wiener, c. 1940, colour lithographic wartime poster, a few short closed tear repairs to top and right margins, 75 x 51 cm, VG+ (1)
£100 - £150
128* Buckinghamshire. Chalfont St. Giles, by Wilfrid William Ball (1853-1917), 1899, watercolour with scratching out, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 39.5 cm (9 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins) mount aperture, period gilded wood frame, glazed, with old printed label of Grindley & Palmer, Printersellers, Publishers & Dealers in Works of Art, 75 Church Street, Liverpool to verso, Wilfred Ball (1853-1917), watercolour painter, etcher and illustrator, studied at the Heatherley School of Art, and exhibited at the R.A., R.S.E., and the R.I. He became President of the Society of British Artists in 1886. His watercolours of the Southern Counties of England, were exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1904, and published in several A. and C. Black colour guides - Sussex (1904), Hampshire (1909), and Buckinghamshire and Berkshire (1909).
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£150 - £200
129* Besler (Basilius). Doronicum..., [1613-1713], hand-coloured engraving on laid of a Doronicum and Primulas, slight creasing, 495 x 395 mm, together with Calamintha montana prae stantior [16131713], hand-coloured engraving on laid, slight creasing, 490 x 390 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed
Published in the 3rd edition of the Hortus Eystettensis or ‘The Garden of Eichstatt’. One of the most remarkable botanical books of the 17th century. (2)
£300 - £500
130* Boizot (Antoine, after). A pair of classical engravings: Uranie, muse qui preside a L’Astromie [and] Terpsichore, muse qui preside a la Danse, Paris: circa 1790, two uncoloured allegorical mixedmethod engravings by Ride, very slight spotting, each approximately 400 x 250 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, together with Augustin de Saint Aubin. Au moins soyez discret - Comptez sur mes sermens, Paris: circa 1765, uncoloured pair of engravings of an amorous couple, each approximately 360 x 260 mm, displayed in a double-aperture ‘line & wash’ mount and gilt frame, with Cauvet (Gilles Paul after, 1731 - 88). Untitled classical frieze, soft ground etching by Mlle Liottier, printed in sanguine on two conjoined sheets, 185 x 1070 mm, mounted, with another 30 uncoloured engravings of classical friezes and designs, including examples by or after Ranson, Hieronymus Cock and Liottier, various sizes and condition, nine mounted, three framed, plus Maggi (Giovanni). Three Italian views, Rome: by Giovanni de Rossi, [1618 or later], three hand-coloured engraved views, each approximately 215 x 375 mm, uniformly framed and glazed, and Diesel (Matthias, after). Engravings of Gardens, Jeremias Wolff, Augsburg: circa 1720, four uncoloured engravings, one with slight staining, each approximately 230 x 305 mm (41)
£300 - £500
Lot 129
131* Botanical. A collection of approximately 130 prints, mostly 19th and 20th-century, engravings and lithographs of flowers and fruit, including examples by or after Boulger, Wright, Pratt and Sowerby, various sizes, good condition, all mounted (approx. 130)
£200 - £300
132* British Topographical Views. A collection of approximately 575 prints, 18th & 19th century, engravings, lithographs, prints and watercolours of topographical views in Scotland, Wales and England, including examples by or after Malton, Finden, Allom, Dugdale, Buck, Shepherd and Bluck, various sizes and condition (approx. 575)
£150 - £200
133* Burn (Henry). Northampton from Huntsbury Hill, Birmingham: printed at R.B. Moody & Co., circa 1860, lithograph with contemporary hand-colouring, slight spotting, vertical fold, 350 x 490 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100 - £150
134* Chinese Pith Paintings. Selling Gourds & Dumpling Seller, circa 1860, two watercolours, some closed tears, each with fabric edging to extreme margins (one lacking edging to three sides), 20 x 29 cm (8 x 11 1/2 ins), mounted (25 x 33 cm) (2)
£100 - £150
135* Collins (William, 1788-1847). Fisherman on the Shoreline, oil on canvas depicting boats on the beach at low tide, group of three people sat on an upturned boat and fishing nets in the foreground, house and cliff face in the background, signed to lower left, frame maker label for R. Jackson of Slater Street, Liverpool to verso, some minor surface marks, 44 x 60 cm (17.3 x 23.6 ins), framed (59 x 74 cm)
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£100 - £150
136* Daghani (Arnold, 1909-1985). Love, Ten Brush Drawings, the complete portfolio of 10 screenprints in monochrome on wove paper, signed and numbered 11/150 in black ink to the colophon page, printed by Compton Press, the full sheets, loose as issued, sheet size 65.2 x 50.5 cm (25 1/2 x 20 3/4 ins), unframed (10)
£150 - £200
137* Demin (Andrey, 1962-). Midday, 1995, oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated in Russian to canvas verso, a street scene with two figures, canvas size 50 x 60 cm (19 3/4 x 23 1/2 ins), framed (63 x 74 cm) Andrey Demin was born in Zagorsk (now Sergiyev Posad) in 1962, and at the age of ten was sent to art school. In 1996 he was discovered by Marina Sokolskaya who exhibited his works in Mayfair. Demin’s travels across the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland have had a powerful influence on his painting. (1)
£200 - £300
138* English School. York Watergate, Embankment Gardens, London, circa 1850, watercolour on paper, lined with canvas, showing York Watergate on the left, in the distance Waterloo Bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral, 58 x 92 cm (22 3/4 x 36 1/4 ins) mount aperture, light toning, closed tear to upper right sky area, framed and glazed (88 x 122 cm) (1)
139 No lot
£100 - £150
Lot 136
140* Foreign Maps & Views. A collection of 37 maps and topographical views, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps and views of countries and regions, including several on Gibraltar, with examples by or after Braun & Hogenberg, Roberts, Philippe, Hall, Sanson/Jaillot, Blome, Wyld, De Vaugondy, Rapin/Basire and Laurie, various sizes and condition (37)
£150 - £250
142* Furniture. A collection of 11 furniture designs by E. Dreyfous, 99 Mount Street, London., circa 1852, pencil, and watercolour with pencil, one on ‘Papeterie de Renag’ watermarked paper, showing various designs for pieces of furniture including: sideboards, double bed, glass cabinet, chair, pole screen, etc., 5 with E. Dreyfous in pencil or ink stamp, various sizes, largest 36.5 x 30.5 cm (11)
£100 - £150
£200 - £300
141* Funghi. A collection of approximately 120 prints, late 19th & early 20th century, lithographs and photolithographic prints, including examples by or after Juillard-Hartman, Cooke, MAFF, Michael, Massee and Ozak, various sizes, good condition, all mounted (approx. 120)
143* Gill (Edmund, 1820-1894). View at Lynmouth North Devon, 1846, oil on board, 20 x 25 cm (8 x 9 3/4 ins), handwritten label with No. 147, title and date, signed by artist, and yellow chalk No2 10-8 to verso, in gilt decorated frame (32.5 x 37.5 cm) (1)
£150 - £200
144* Gillray (James). A collection of 14 caricatures, published by H. Humphreys, but later edition by H. Bohn [1851], fourteen handcoloured caricatures, various sizes, good condition, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed
145
The titles consist of: National Conveniences, Germans Eating Sour-Kraut, The Cow-Pock - or - the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation, French Generals Retiring on account of their Health..., The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks, The Union Club, Democracy - or - a Sketch in the Life of Buonaparte, Charon’s Boat..., The HandWriting upon the Wall, French Invasion - or - Buonaparte Landing in Great Britain, Political Dreamings! Visions of Peace! Perspective Horrors!, The French Consular Triumvirate settling the New Constitution [and] Siege de la Colonne de Pompée. (14)
£300 - £500
145* Gould (J. & E.). A collection of 17 lithographs of birds: Scops Eared Owl, Lanius Excubitor (2 copies), Silky Warbler, Mecistura Glaucugularis, Cypselus Apus, Cuculus Canorus (3 copies), Sitta Cinnamoventris, Reed Bunting, Parus Erythrocephalus, Pelidna Bonapartei, Nucifraga Caryocatactes, Pitta Gurneyi, Charadrius Pluvialis and Suthora Nipalensis, various editions and monographs, circa 1870, lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, most with repaired marginal closed tears, some dust soiling and slight creasing, some duplicates, each approximately 460 x 340 mm (17)
£200 - £400
146* Gould (John). Five lithographs of birds, originally published in ‘The Birds of Asia’: Falco peregrinator, Falco jugger, Milvus govinda, Otis himalayanus & Garrulus bispecularis, [1850 - 83], together five lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, Garrulus bispecularis a little faded with slight water staining, Otis himalayanus lightly toned with slight surface abrasion, each approximately 510 x 350 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (5)
£200 - £300
146
Lot
147* Gouvernement Militaire de Paris. Habitants de Paris, Les Membres du Gouvernement de la République ont quitté Paris pour donner une impulsion nouvelle á la défense nationale. J’ai reçu le mandat de défendre Paris contre l’envahisseur. Ce mandat, je le remplirai jusqu’au bout, Paris, le 3 Septembre 1914. Le Gouverneur Militaire de Paris, Commandant l’Armée de Paris, Galliéni, printed by Marcel Picard, [Paris], c. 1914, lithographic letterpress poster, printed in black on buff paper, small stain near head of vertical centrefold, small closed tear in blank area below Galliéni’s name, a few light marks and creases, 57 x 42 cm, framed and glazed, near fine
The famous proclamation of General Joseph Galliéni, addressed to the inhabitants of Paris after the departure of the government of the Republic for Bordeaux. In his message, Galliéni announced that he had received the mandate to defend Paris, and undertook to fulfil it to the end, and in order to strengthen national defence in the face of advancing German troops. Galliéni was about to play a critical role in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne.
148* Nottingham. River Trent with Angler, by Frank Gresley (18551936), 1925, watercolour, signed and dated lower right, 29 x 44 cm (11 1/2 x 17 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (46 x 61 cm), together with Hawksworth (William Thomas Martin, 1853-1935). Ship in Dock, watercolour with traces of pencil, 27 x 38 cm (10 5/8 x 15 ins), framed and glazed (47 x 57 cm), Scottish School. Glenbarr, Mull of Kintyre with coast of Ireland in distance, 1905, oil, initialled JAS. W. and dated to lower left, 13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (39 x 46 cm), handwritten note to backing board ‘The end of the moor, Glenbarr Mull of Kintyre & coast of Ireland in distance. Painted during eclipse of sun 30th August 1905’, and two other watercolours and one oil, by various artists, all framed and glazed, largest (69 x 82.5 cm)
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£150 - £200
149* Grimwood (Brian, 1948-). Five original illustrations for New Society magazine, circa 1975, five pen and ink original illustrations on artist’s board, showing various scenes including: The Borstal Diary (toned), The African Judge, etc., small scratch to surface of one, three with ‘New Society’ in ink to verso, various sizes, largest 54 x 47 cm, three framed and glazed, various sizes, largest 35 x 37 cm Grimwood earned a place at Bromley Technical School at the age of 13 due to his artistic talent. He illustrated for New Society magazine during his seven-year tenure and formed CIA Central Illustration Agency in Covent Garden in 1983. One of his most iconic works was the creation of the Johnnie Walker Man logo.
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£150 - £200
£150 - £200
A typed note window-mounted beneath the poster states: ‘Once of these proclamations can still be seen on a wall (preserved behind glass) in the Rue Royale.’ (1)
150 Bisetsky (Antoine, 1817-1892). A collection of 17 French racing caricatures from Album Comique: Le Marquis Maison, Charles Lafitte, Meissonier, Mr. L. Delâtre, Le Duc de Morny, Monseigneur Le Duc d'Aumale, Le Jockey Mills, Monseigneur Le Prince de Joinville, Mr. Bisetsky, Mr. Henri Vieillard, Monsieur Lassalle de l'Opéra, Mr. Musters, Comte de Puiseux, Baron de Roche-Taillée - Comte de Lamotte, Joachin Lefèvre, Mr. G Hugue, & Mr. Quiclet, 1ère/2ème Année, 1884-1885, 17 chromolithograph caricatures (Fac-simile d'aquarelle), sheet size 40 x 28.5 cm, each rolled and contained in five publisher's metal tubes with lid, with remains of printed label to each tube 'Album Comique. Envoi de Mr. Ch. Bisetsky de Chantilly (Oise)' (17)
£100 - £150
151* Industrial Poster Artwork. 2,700 and 1,500 Tons Forging Presses, at the East Hecla Works of Hadfields Limited, Sheffield, circa 1950, gouache on board, showing the interior of Hadfields Ltd and their large Loewy press, 74 x 55 cm, with title inset to mount, framed and glazed (94 x 72 cm) (1)
£100 - £150
152* Haid (Johann Elias). Set of four scenes from an Intermezzo: Con un Lacio piu tenace Nostra fe ci Stringera, La Moglie Bachettona, Scintilla & Il Marito Giocatore, Augsburg: circa 1780, four mezzotints after Johann Esaias Nilson, contemporary handcolouring, each trimmed with thread margins and tipped on to later card, later pencil translations into English in the title field, each approximately 245 x 345 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed
A rare set from G.M. Orlandini’s comic intermezzo in three parts, ‘Il marito Giocatore e la moglie Bacchettona.’ This was composed in 1715 and tells the story of a gambler, his wife who wishes to divorce him, the means by which he humiliates her and their reconciliation. Its Italianate vivacity and simple arias with wide vocal leaps made it a popular hit all over Europe, with revivals in England and France as late as 1752. (BM).
We have been unable to locate a complete set held by an Institution. The British Museum owns one of the four plates, with no other copies found. (4)
£300 - £500
153* Hamilton (William, 1751-1801). Winter Amusement, & Summer Amusement, circa 1780, two pen, grey ink and watercolours on paper, children playing in the snow in St James’s Park with Westminster Abbey in the background, the other of three children on a river bank with two naked boys bathing, oval mounts (the largest 14.5 x 19.5 cm), uniformly framed and glazed (the largest 38 x 41 cm)
Provenance: Christie’s London, A.N. Gilbey, 25-26 April 1940 and Christie’s London, British Watercolours, 8 June 1999, lot 132 (with two additional works by Hamilton).
The two engravings were later engraved by (John) Thomas Gaugain (1756–1831) and Charles Walmesley (1722-1797), also known as W.B. Pastorini. (2)
£300 - £400
Hine (Henry George, 1811-1895). Sunset
1872,
on board, signed and dated lower left, 34.5 x 27.5 cm (13 1/2 x 10 3/4 ins),
£100 - £150
£150 - £250
154* Hellyer (Thomas). The Battle off Camperdown, Fought on the 11th October, 1797. This Plate is most respectfully dedicated to Lord Viscount Duncan, the Officers and Seamen, who so gloriously fought under his command, by B. B. Evans, October 27th, 1799, hand-coloured aquatint after Thomas Whitcombe, trimmed to the image on three margins, repaired closed tear affecting the image, slight creasing and dust soiling, 460 x 680 mm, framed and glazed, together with Bernie (F. & R. Pollard). Representation of the British Fleet under the Command of Earl Howe Bringing into Spithead the Six French Ships captur'd on the 1st of June 1794..., published by John Jeffryes, 1st November 1794, uncoloured aquatint after T. Luny, slight surface abrasion and dust soiling, 440 x 655 mm, framed and glazed (2)
156* Hubbard (Bennet, 1806-1870). Black and Tan Terrier, 1835, oil on canvas, a portrait of a black and tan terrier (possibly a Manchester Terrier) standing in a yard, inscribed with paint brush by the artist to verso B. Hubbard Pinxit 1835, canvas size 29 x 38.5 cm (11 1/2 x 15 1/4 ins), contemporary gilt wood frame (39 x 49 cm) (1)
£300 - £500
155*
Riverscape,
oil
framed (55.5 x 48 cm) (1)
157* Is Your Journey Really Necessary? Railway Executive Committee, Haycock Press, London, early 1940s, colour lithographic poster in blue, red, black and yellow set against a white background, artwork by Bert Thomas, depicting a British infantryman standing in front of a railway ticket window, while pointing and looking directly at the viewer, some light spotting, 63 x 51 cm, VG+, together with: A Waste of Ammunition! … Don’t Waste Material, no publisher or printer, c. 1941, lithographic wartime poster asking people not to waste board and paper, printed in black and red against a white background, the pictorial element showing a cartoon drawing of an artillery gun being fired into the air towards an alarmed bird, some toning, mostly to lower margin, minor marks to upper blank centre, wall-hanging strips at top and bottom, 74 x 48 cm, VG+, plusJoin the Modern Army, HMSO, 1940s, two matching wartime posters featuring photographic illustrations of soldiers with weapons, slight creasing and a few closed tear repairs to versos, 76 x 51 cm, VG+ (4) £100 - £150
158* Japanese School. Portrait of a woman, circa 1890, gouache on canvas, heightened with gold, finely painted half-length portrait of a woman wearing traditional dress, some areas of wear, image size 49.5 x 35 cm (19 1/2 x 13 3/4 ins), in a contemporary stained wooden frame (56 x 41.5 cm) (1)
£100 - £150
159* John Hardman & Co. Two designs for stained glass windows, later 19th century, both pen, ink and watercolour on Hardman & Co. embossed paper, one design for San Francisco Nave No.1, paper laid onto canvas with title printed to lower ‘San Francisco Inch & Quarter Scale No. 2312, Nave No. 1 Framework for Nos 1,3,5,7,9’, and notes in ink to upper left margin, design showing The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, over one large window, 7 smaller floral and circular shaped designs above, two containing angelic depictions, one containing a depiction of a Saint, 48.5 x 18.5 cm (19 x 7 1/4 ins), second design for Church of the J...(?): Conc Hawthorn, Apse Window, April 25/93, with title in ink to lower margin, design showing a depiction of The Reward of the Faithful, over three main panels, 9 smaller panels above, of which 4 show angelic depictions, 50.5 x 20 cm (20 x 8 ins), both individually framed and glazed (56 x 25.5 cm)
The second design may be for the Immaculate Conception Church Hawthorn in Melbourne, Australia. Hardman was commissioned to design stained glass windows for this church after World War I.
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£200 - £300
160* Sussex. A view from Shoreham, Sussex, by Henry John Kinnaird (1861-1929), watercolour, showing a rural river landscape, signed lower left, titled lower right, 34.5 x 50.5 cm (13.5 x 19.75 ins), carved giltwood frame, glazed, frame size 62 x 45.5 cm (1) £100 - £150
161* Lindsay (Lionel Arthur, 1874-1961). The Swan, 1924, woodcut, signed in the plate, image size 10.0 x 7.2 cm (4 x 2 3/4 ins), framed and glazed, together with a woodcut of pelicans in a landscape, signed in the plate, image size 9.4 x 11 cm (3 3/4 x 4 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (2)
£100 - £150
162* London. Rooker (E.), A West View of London with the Bridge, taken from Somerset Gardens, published by Robert Sayer, circa 1750, engraving after Canaletti with contemporary hand-colouring, title repeated in French, trimmed to the image and laid on later card, 255 x 390 mm, together with another fifteen 18th-century engraved views of London, including several vue d’optiques, various sizes and condition (16)
£100 - £200
163* London. Visscher (Claes Jans), London, [1616, but later reprint, circa 1890], large uncoloured etched panorama on four conjoined sheets, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, old folds with short splits, strengthened and repaired on verso, the whole backed with archival paper, 445 x 2170 mm Howgego, Printed Maps of London, page 7. (1)
£300 - £500
Lot 161
Lot 163
164* Manner of William Pars (1742-1782). Irish Landscape, watercolour on paper, two figures stand in a rocky landscape with a castle in the background, mount aperture 28.3 x 40.3 cm (11 x 15 3/4 ins), framed, together with a maritime scene, ink and brown and maroon wash, toned overall, framed
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£200 - £300
165* Moody (C. printer). The Thorney Prize Ox, which took the First prize in London, L.25, First prize at Peterborough, L.8, Prize at Oakham, L.7 and was sold for L.65, Xmas 1858, was 4yrs, 5 months old and weighed 128 st. 8lbs..., circa 1860, lithograph with contemporary hand-colouring, trimmed to the image, some spotting and staining, laid on later card, 515 x 630 mm, framed and glazed Not in Rothamsted.
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166* After Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754). L’Avare, circa mid 19th-century, watercolour on paper, manuscript label to frame verso ‘L’Avare / Tableau de Piazzetta 18e siecle / L’originale est a Delaunay Park / chez Le Cte de Rosebery’ and one printed ‘Binant / Rue de Clery No. apres celle Montmartrre a Paris / Magasin de tous les effets relatifs aux arts...’, mount aperture 14.3 x 10.2 cm (5 1/2 x 4 ins), in a gilt wood frame (with losses) 16.5 x 22 cm, together with After Peter Simon (1764-1813). Frances Isabella Keir Gordon, Daughter of Lord and Lady Wm Gordon, circa mid 19th-century, fine watercolour on paper, after the engraving by Peter Simon, after the painting by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) ‘A Child’s Portrait in Different Views: Angel’s Heads’, a few scuffs and marks, mount aperture 19.8 x 18.5 cm (7 3/4 x 7 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (37 x 36 cm)
Binant was founded in Paris by Louis-Alfred Binant (1822-1904). The company was a leading canvas supplier and framer.
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£200 - £300
£100 - £150
167* Morghen (Filip & others). 33 prints of Roman Antiquities, circa 1780, engravings, 31 with hand-colouring, including classical scenes, friezes and statues, each approximately 320 x 250 mm (33) £300 - £500
168* Music Covers. A collection of approximately 200 prints, late 19th & early 20th century, colour and black & white lithographs, many with the sheet music attached, each approximately 360 x 260 mm, various condition (approx. 200) £150 - £200
169 No lot
170* National Service. If You Cannot Fight For Your CountryWork for It. Enrol To-Day and Release a Fit Man for the Front. Forms for offer of services can be obtained at all Post Offices, National Service Offices, and Employment Exchanges. (Series B10 50M), c. 1917, colour lithographic recruitment poster in black, yellow and white within a red border, Industrial Army 1917 NS Victory motif at centre left, several closed tear archival tape repairs to verso, 53 x 60 cm, VG, together with: Men. To Delay Is Dangerous When Your Country Needs You. Enlist Now, printed by Roberts & Leete, W.12241/316, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, poster no. 67, London, c. 1915, colour lithographic recruitment poster, laid on board, some marginal closed tears, 73 x 54 cm, plus Your King & Country Need You, printed by Dobson, Molle & Co, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, c. 1914, colour lithographic recruitment poster, artwork design by Lawson Wood, signed and dated 1914 in the image, some light brown splash (tea?) marks and streaks, 74 x 50 cm, VG (3) £150 - £200
171* Neapolitan School. Two views of the Bay of Naples, mid19th-century, a pair of gouache views on paper, laid on later card, both looking across the city and bay with a smoking Vesuvius in the distance, each approximately 330 x 470 mm (2)
£200 - £300
172* Nigg (Joseph 1782 - 1863). Eighteen large floral prints, Paris: circa 1938, eighteen large chromolithographs of bouquets of flowers and fruit, six designs, three copies of each, each approximately 740 x 555 mm (18)
£200 - £300
173* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). “Enjoyin yerselves aren’t yer?” circa 1940, colour photolithograph, signed by the artist in pencil to the lower right, uncoloured remarque to the lower left of a plough team with lapwings feeding in the newly turned furrows, additional remarque in the upper right of a dog fight, slight spotting and dust soiling, overall size 640 x 775 mm, framed and glazed (1)
£200 - £300
Lot 172
Lot 171
174* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). The Cameroons, circa 1916, colour photolithographic portrait of a Highland officer, uncoloured remarque of a charging soldier, overall size 370 x 260 mm, framed and glazed
A scarce Snaffles image.
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£200 - £300
175* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). The Finest View in Europe, circa 1924, lithograph heightened with bodycolour, uncoloured remarque of a hedge layer, crossed snaffle bit blind stamp, faintly signed in pencil by the artist to the lower right, some repairs to worm holes in the lower margin, overall size 470 x 750 mm, framed and glazed
The most famous of all of Snaffles’ sporting prints. It was first published around 1920, but there were several iterations, the most famous being the 1926 edition, which includes a brook in the middle distance. This example shows the reins and what appears to be a martingale strap around the horse’s neck.
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£200 - £300
176* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). ‘West of Gib and North across the Bay’ (R. K.), “Blimey! What a life!” circa 1940, colour photolithograph, heightened with body colour, title in manuscript in the artist’s hand, signed in watercolour within the image to the lower right, overall size 500 x 730 mm, framed and glazed (1)
£150 - £200
177* Peter Freeth (b.1938). An unpopular spectacle, etching with aquatint, signed, titled and numbered 3/20 in pencil, the full sheet, image size 8.4 x 12.1 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/4 ins), sheet size 32 x 40 cm (12 1/2 x 15 3/4 ins), framed, and Passing (3), etching with aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, the full sheet, image size 46.5 x 55 cm (18 1/4 x 21 1/2 ins), framed, together with two further prints by David Young Cameron and Neil MacPherson, the largest sheet 94.5 x 73.5 cm, framed (4)
£100 - £200
178* French School. Arabs on horseback crossing the desert, & Arab horsemen besieging a fortified town, early 20th century, a pair of oils on wood panel, unsigned, 20.5 x 40.5 cm (8 x 16 ins), matching gilt frames, frame size 39 x 59.5 cm, together with Moreau (Henri, 1869-1943). The Outpost, & A Lone Trail, a pair of oil on wood panel landscapes, showing a Native American Indian surveying a rocky mountain landscape, and a moonlit mountain landscape with a Native American Indian beside a fire, each signed, lower right and lower left respectively, 37 x 77.5 cm (14.5 x 13.5 ins), the second work with some surface abrasion, matching gilt frames, some wear
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£200 - £300
179* Place (M.). This Print of the Loyal Associated and Volunteer Corps of the City of Westminster is respectfully Dedicated to those Ladies who Honored them with the Presentation of Colours, London: Messrs. Schiavonetti, May 30th 1799, stipple engraving after R.K. Porter, contemporary hand-colouring, slight creasing, two long repaired closed tears affecting the printed image, 480 x 630 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Carington Bowles (publishers). An English Man of War taking a French Privateer, circa 1780, hand-coloured mezzotint droll, several repaired closed tears, laid on card, 360 x 260 mm, framed and glazed, with Robert Sayer & Co. (publishers). The Parting of Madelon & La Glorie in the Surrender of Calais, 6th December 1792, hand-coloured mezzotint with 40 lines of verse below the image, slight staining in the title, 360 x 260 mm, framed and glazed (3)
£150 - £200
180* Pollard (James). Stage Coach Passengers at Breakfast [and] Cottagers Hospitality to Travellers or the Coach Fast in the Snow, circa 1820, two aquatints by and after James Pollard, both with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 335 x 450 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, The Parker Gallery labels to the verso of the frames (2)
£150 - £250
181* Pollard (James & Dubourg Matthew). Panoramic View of British Horse Racing, published by Edward Orme, March 1st. 1816 [but slightly later impression], hand-coloured aquatint after Clifton Thomson of Nottingham, 135 x 645 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, Arthur Ackermann & Son gallery label to verso, together with Whessell (John). The Famous Match between Sir Harry Tempest Vanes’ Horse, Hambletonian, carrying 8 stone 3 pounds. Rode by Mr Buckle beating Diamond, the Property of Joseph Cookson Esqre. over the Beacon Course, Newmarket..., published by John Harris, March 1st 1800 [but slightly later impression], hand-coloured aquatint after J. N. Sartorius, some marginal staining, appears to be laid on later card, 415 x 595 mm, framed and glazed with Davey (William Turner). The Pytchley Hunt, The Crick Meet, published by Henry Barraud, 9th March 1852 [but later impression], hand coloured engraving after W & H Barraud, slight marginal water staining, 525 x 810 mm, framed and glazed (3)
20%)
£100 - £150
Lot 179
182* Pratt (Joseph B.,). ‘In Remembrance of your Vigil’, May 17th20th 1910 (Portrait of King Edward VII), mezzotint after Luke Fildes, signed in pencil by King George V to lower margin, original gilt wood frame, glazed, surmounted with Royal crown and pillow, together with another similar engraved portrait depicting the King Edward VII as the Prince of Wales, 1893, engraving after Archibold Stuart Wortley, signed in pencil by the artist who painted the picture, framed and glazed (2)
£150 - £200
183* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 140 prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs, including portraits, genre, sporting, historical and military, with examples by or after Simpson, Leech, Alken, Harris, Launay, Ogborne, Giller, Illustrated London News’, Bluck and Stadler, including approximately 30 lithographs from Simpson’s ‘Seat of the War in the East’ and seven framed aquatints from Ackermann’s ‘Microcosm’ of London’, various sizes and condition (approx. 140)
£200 - £300
184* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 200 prints, mostly 19th-century, mezzotints and engravings, including portraits, genre scenes, sporting and religion, with examples by or after Ward, Westall, Whitfield, Coombes, Bromley, Sartain, Blundell, Malgo, Bouvier, Miller, Marchi, Keating, Lowry and Laurie, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 200)
£200 - £400
185* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 800 prints, mostly 19th-century, engravings, lithographs, watercolours & drawings, etchings and prints, including coaching scenes, British & foreign topographical views, architecture, portraits, religion, natural history, sporting and genre, various sizes and condition (approx. 800)
£200 - £400
Lot 182
Lot 183
Lot 184
186* Pyall (Henry). Post Boys Watering their Horses, London: Thomas McLean [and] Paris: Giraldon & Bovinet, 1829, aquatint after James Pollard, contemporary hand-colouring, trimmed with loss to the printed margin along the upper border, skillfully replaced in facsimile, 370 x 440 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Hunt (C.). Foig-A-Ballah, The Winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster..., London: S. & J. Fuller, 1844 [but later impression], aquatint after H. Hall, contemporary hand-colouring, toned overall, 370 x 475 mm, with Harris (J.). Satirist, Winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster..., London: R. Ackermann, 1841 [but later impression], aquatint after C. Hancock, contemporary handcolouring, toned overall, 360 x 450 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (3)
£100 - £200
187* Pyall (Henry). A North East View of the New General Post Office, with the Royal Mails & Carts Preparing to Start, published by Messrs. Fores, circa 1832, aquatint after James Pollard, bright contemporary hand-colouring, 435 x 590 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, The Parker Gallery label to the verso, together with [Hunt (Charles). The Quicksilver Devonport Mail passing Windsor Castle], circa 1840, aquatint after James Pollard with bright contemporary hand-colouring, proof before title and letters, some staining to the upper margin, 345 x 570 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£200 - £300
188* Ragot (André, 1894-1971). Assisi, vue de la Rocca, 1929, watercolour on thick wove paper, signed lower right, titled and dated to sheet verso, fixed to mount with tape to upper margin verso, sheet size 31 x 46.8 cm (12 1/4 x 18 1/2 ins), mounted, and Berriat (Charles, 1853-1937). Provence, circa 1920, watercolour on thick wove paper, signed lower right, fixed to mount with tape to upper margin verso, sheet size 23.5 x 41 cm (9 1/4 x 16 ins), mounted, together with two French School studies of Anemones, gouache on paper, the largest sheet 48 x 33 cm, mounted (4)
£150 - £200
189* Raverat (Gwen, 1885-1957). Study for ‘Charity’, circa 1925, pen and ink on paper, squared off in pencil, the preparatory design for the woodcut of the same title ‘Charity’ or ‘La Charité’ (Selborne & Newman 129), signed ‘GR’ and titled ‘Charity’ by the artist to lower left and right margin respectively, ownership stamp for ‘Darnall’s Hall, Weston Stevenage Herts’ to verso, sheet size 115 x 175 mm (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 ins), framed and glazed, with Broughton House Gallery label to verso
Broughton House Gallery in Cambridge is home to an archive of Gwen Raverat’s work. It was renamed The Gwen Raverat Gallery in 2008. (1)
£200 - £300
190* Reeve (Richard Gilson). The West Keal Ox, Winner of the premium 20 sovereigns and silver medal to the breeder, also the gold medal for the best beast exhibited in any of the cattle classes at Smithfield, 1832, aquatint after H. Stafford, contemporary hand colouring, old vertical fold, torn with some loss to the title field, trimmed to the image on three margins, the whole varnished, 465 x 560 mm, mounted, framed and glazed Rothamsted, 53a.
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192* Roberts (David). Alexandria, London: published by S. Haghe [1846-49], lithograph with contemporary hand-colouring, tipped onto contemporary card (as published), slight toning, 380 x 525 mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£200 - £300
191* Rhodes (Marion, 1907-1999). Leep, Hampshire, pen, ink and watercolour on paper, signed to lower right, 25 x 35 cm (9 7/8 x 13 3/4 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (44 x 51.5 cm), together with British School. Polperro Harbour, pencil on paper, 28.2 x 40.6 cm (11 1/8 x 16 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (44 x 57 cm), plus Weir (Andrew Stewart, 1948 -). Cats and Trees above St Ives, Nov 2011, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 25.6 x 40.4 cm (10 x 15 7/8 ins), framed (45 x 60.5 cm) plus Richmond (Leonard, 1889-1965). Cornish Landscape, pastel on paper, 35.5 x 50 cm (14 x 19 3/4 ins), in card mount (50.5 x 65.5 cm) and two individually framed ceramic hearts, hand painted by Victoria Hilliard, 12.5 x 13 cm and Cliffe (Henry, 1919-1983). Figure, circa 1955, gouache on paper, 58 x 39.5 cm (22 4/5 x 15 1/2 ins), wooden frame, 75 x 58 cm (29 1/2 x 22 4/5 ins) (7)
£100 - £150
Originally published in the subscriber’s edition of Views in the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. (1)
£150 - £200
193* Scrap Albums. Two Victorian Scrap Albums, mid-19thcentury, two albums containing engravings, mezzotints, and lithographs, including portraits, military, religion and topographical scenes (including examples by S. & N. Buck), albums partially excised, mixed bindings, folio (2)
£100 - £150
194* Stead (J. lithographer). Bird’s Eye View of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull. This view is ..., respectfully dedicated to the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough, the Wardens and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House and the Chairmen and Directors of the various Railway and Dock Companies by their obedient Servant, Frank N. Pettingell, York: circa 1860, large lithograph with contemporary hand-colouring, some staining and spotting, but largely confined to the margins, 560 x 980 mm, framed and glazed in a near-contemporary gilt gesso moulding (1)
£100 - £200
195* Step (Edward). A collection of approximately 80 prints, circa 1897, colour lithographs of botanical studies, good condition, each approximately 220 x 145 mm, uniformly mounted (approx. 80)
£200 - £300
196* The Americas & Canada. A collection of approximately 50 prints, mostly 19th-century, engravings and lithographs of North & South America and Canada, including portraits, genre and topographical views, various sizes and condition (approx. 50)
£150 - £200
197 The Graphic. 32 volumes (occasional duplicates), 1880 -95, numerous black and white and colour illustrations throughout, including some folding and double-page, appears to lack all the city panoramas, but retains several folding military battle scene panoramas, mixed contemporary cloth bindings, a few with broken hinges and joints, some wear, folio
Sold as a periodical and not subject to return. (32)
£300 - £500
198* The latest despatch. “Send More Men!” from the Sportsman’s Battalions. Age 19 to 45, Head Recruiting Office, Hotel Cecil, London, published by P. C. Burton and Co., London, [1915], colour lithographic recruitment poster, artwork design by Norman Keene, 76 x 49.5 cm, framed and glazed, near fine
By 1915, with horror stories coming back from the Front, the numbers of men enlisting had decreased sharply. Recruiters and propagandists made a last effort to avoid instituting conscription with new recruitment drives and posters such as this one.
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£400 - £600
199* The Stamp Act. The Last Shift, [1765], uncoloured engraved caricature, some fraying and abrasion to the left-hand vertical margin, but not affecting the printed image, 150 x 110 mm
A scarce caricature referencing The Stamp Act of 1765. The act imposed an unpopular tax on British America and was introduced by George Grenville, Lord Bute’s successor as Prime Minister. King George III and Lord Bute are shown on the right, whilst a highwayman points two pistols at the American colonists. The act was designed to raise revenue for colonial defence after the Seven Years’ War. This was met with fierce opposition in the United States and was seen as deeply unjust. “No Taxation without Representation,” as colonists argued that only their own elected representatives could levy taxes and not a remote British parliament. The act arguably was the precursor to the American War of Independence that would shortly follow.
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£300 - £500
201* Vanity Fair. A collection of 28 ‘double’ prints: In Vanity Fair, Heads of the Law, On the Terrace, A General Group, Kirby Gate, The Winning Post & On the Heath, late 19th century, colour lithographs, with four copies of each title, good condition, each approximately 390 x 510 mm
£150 - £250
200* Vanity Fair. A collection of 123 caricatures, 1875, 82 & 84, colour lithographs of politicians, ambassadors, clergymen, ladies, turf devotees, naval and military, with examples by or after ‘Spy’, ‘Ape’, ‘Chartran’ and ‘T’, occasional duplicates, the caricatures published in 1875 are all laid on later thin card, each approximately 340 x 210 mm, good condition (123)
These examples appear never to have been issued, as they have no central fold. (28)
£150 - £250
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202* Vanity Fair. A collection of approximately 100 legal caricatures, mostly late 19th-century, colour lithographs of lawyers and judges, mostly begowned and bewigged, including examples by or after ‘Spy’, ‘Ape’, ‘T’, ‘WH’, ‘Ape Junior’, ‘FTD’, ‘Owl’, ‘ATN’, ‘Elf’, and ‘Guth’, some duplicates, each approximately 350 x 210 mm, good condition
(approx. 100)
£200 - £400
203* Vanity Fair. A collection of approximately 200 caricatures, mostly late 19th-century, colour lithographs of politicians, royalty, yachting devotees, teachers and academics, industrialists, turf devotees, scientists and doctors, clergymen and ambassadors, with examples by or after ‘Spy’, ‘Ape’, ‘T’, ‘Ray’, ‘WH’, ‘FCG’, ‘Drawl’, ‘Stuff’, ‘Guth’, ‘Elf’ and ‘Ruth’, some duplicates, each approximately 360 x 230 mm, good condition (approx. 200)
£200 - £400
204* Vanity Fair. A collection of approximately 200 prints, late 19th-century, colour lithographic caricatures after ‘Spy’, ‘Ape’, ‘Lib’, ‘Hay’, ‘Guth’, ‘FTD’, ‘Pal’ and ‘T’, including a jockey, politicians, royalty, businessmen, clergy, literature, doctors & scientists, military and shipping, some duplicates, each approximately 360 x 215 mm, various condition (approx. 200)
£200 - £300
205* Vanity Fair. A collection of approximately 50 caricatures of Field Sport Devotees, mostly late 19th century, colour lithographs of foxhunters, falconers and shooting men, with examples by or after ‘Ao’, ‘Spy’, ‘CG’, ‘Ape’, ‘Who’, ‘CB’ and ‘VA’, some duplicates, each approximately 350 x 220 mm, good condition (approx. 50)
£150 - £250
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206* Venner (Victor). Past [and] Present, London: published by Richard Wyman, Berlin: published by Steifbold & Company, 1903, a pair of chromolithographs, very slight spotting to the margins, overall size 500 x 725 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (2)
£150 - £250
207* Wharry (Olive, 1886-1947). A collection of etched views of Devon and Cornwall, 25 etchings on laid and wove paper, comprising views of street scenes, cottages, churches, moored ships, etc., one view hand-coloured, lower margin of 12 views bearing artist’s signature, few with light scattered spotting, each neatly mounted and in modern matching black frames, glazed, various size platemarks of approx. 11.5 x 16.5 cm and similar, accompanied by a privately produced volume entitled Olive Wharry’s Etchings, compiled by Damian Gardner-Thorpe, n.d., c. 2015, monochrome illustrations, original pictorial boards in dust jacket and card slipcase, slim 4to Olive Wharry (1886-1947) was an English artist and Suffragette. She was the only child of Robert and Clara Wharry, born at Cambridge Gate, London and educated at Roedean. On leaving school, Wharry became an art student at the School of Art in Exeter. In 1906, she joined her father on a round-the-world trip, during which she kept a diary of the places she visited and painted along the way. As a well-known Suffragette, she was arrested on numerous occasions for disruptive behaviour. On 7 March 1913, aged 27, she and Lilian Lenton were sent to Holloway Prison for setting fire to the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens. While in prison, Wharry went on a hunger strike for 32 days, passing her food to other prisoners. She said that during her time in prison, her weight had plummeted from 7 st 11 lb to 5 st 9 lb (50 kg to 36 kg). Wharry was arrested and imprisoned eight times between 1910 and 1914 for her part in various Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) window-smashing campaigns, sometimes under the name “Phyllis North”, sometimes as “Joyce Locke”. Each of her prison sentences were characterised by her going on hunger strike, being force-fed and then released under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913, known as the Cat and Mouse Act. Wharry was given a Hunger Strike Medal “for Valour” by the WSPU, and her prison diaries are held at the British Library. In the 1920s, she pursued a career as an artist, focusing on watercolours and copperplate etchings. She has been described as an eccentric, in the old-fashioned sense of the word - travelling around the country on her motorcycle with her easel in the sidecar. She remained a spinster and died in Torquay in 1947. (26)
£300 - £400
208* Whistler (James Abbot McNeill, 1834-1903). The Smiths Yard & Gants de Suède, lithograph on wove paper, showing a well dressed lady wearing a hat and holding gloves in her hands, the other showing two horses resting near a building, two figures standing by, both embossed with ‘The Studio, London’ stamp to lower margin, 28.3 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 ins), both individually framed and glazed (33 x 24 cm)
Levy 40.
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£100 - £150
209* Whydale (Ernest Herbert, 1886-1952). Horse and cart, etching with drypoint, signed in pencil, plate size 25 x 29.8 cm (9 3/4 x 11 3/4 ins), framed
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£70 - £100
210* Wyllie (William Lionel, 1851-1931). Dreadnought Battleships in their Lair, etching with drypoint, signed lower left, plate size 8.7 x 33.5 cm (3 1/2 x 13 1/4 ins), framed and glazed, together with another maritime scene by the same artist, etching with drypoint, signed lower left, framed
One of Wyllie’s rarer prints, the location for which is thought to be the naval dockyard at Sheerness in Kent. (2)
£150 - £200
211* You Can Help to Build Me a Gun, Ministry of Labour and National Service, early 1940s, lithographic recruitment poster with photographic illustration of a soldier pointing at the viewer, 38 x 25 cm, together with: You can Help to Win the War with 5/-. A Safe and Patriotic Investment. Apply at the Nearest Post Office, lithographic letterpress poster, in red, blue and white, 41 x 32 cm; and three other National Savings wartime posters: Back Them Up! Buy Saving Certificates, 38 x 25 cm; There Are More Victories to Win… Join the Prosperity Team. Be a Voluntary Worker or Saver in National Savings, 37 x 25 cm; Salute the Soldier. Save more, Lend More, 37 x 25 cm, the first three in mount apertures, all near fine (5)
£150 - £200
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212 Illuminated leaves. Two illuminated leaves from a manuscript missal on vellum (English, possibly Norwich?), circa 1350-1400, manuscript on vellum in dark brown, red and blue ink, 42 lines in double-column, including text from Psalm 20 of the Latin Vulgate and plainsong notation, each leaf with two large initials in red and blue with decorative tendril flourishes, some surface rubbing and minor soiling, outer margins discoloured, one leaf with minor losses to lower left column affecting two or three letters, anf with some other losses to outer blank margins (not affecting text), text size 28 x 22 cm, sheet size 39 x 27.5 cm, both framed and glazed (2) £300 - £500
213 Magni (Jacobus). Sophologium, 3rd edition, [Basel: Johann Solidi (Schilling), not after 29 September 1473], 165 leaves (of 168, including 2 contents leaves at front, bound without leaves 43, 44 and final blank), double-column text with 38 lines to each leaf, decorative initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, inscription in an early hand to incipit, with foliation and occasional marginalia possibly in the same hand, occasional marginal damp-staining, light dust-soiling and light spotting mostly to initial contents leaves, small catalogue note tipped to upper pastedown, later binding reusing two leaves of illuminated manuscript vellum from a missal, some dust-soiling and darkening to covers, folio (leaf size 29.1 x 21.2 cm)
BMC I, 236 (IB.3861); BSB-Ink M-20; CIBN L-99; Dalbanne & Droz II; Klebs 595.3; Goff M-40.
The third edition of this compendium of wisdom in various fields, including poetry, medicine, and morality. The present edition is one of only five works previously assigned to an anonymous Printer of Albertus Magnus, De virtutibus, located at Cologne between 1470 and 1472; Dalbanne and Droz (supported by Paul Needham) identified the printer as Johannes Schilling and assigned this group of books to his activity at Basel, based on the addition of new sorts to his fount, probably cut and cast by the lettercutter Hans Frank (cf. Needham, William Caxton and his Cologne Partners, Ars Impressoria ... Festgabe für Severin Corsten, 1986, pp. 103131). A copy in the Annmary Brown Memorial Library has a purchase note dated Michaelmas 1473, and two other copies also bear manuscript dates of 1473.
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£4,000 - £6,000
214 Curtius Rufus (Quintus, fl. first century). De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonum Liber Tertius, 3rd edition, Milan: Antonius Zarotus for Johannes de Legnano, 26 March 1481, 123 leaves (of 126 without blanks a1 and q6 and lacking qI), 34 lines to each leaf in roman type, first leaf with large initial letter in manuscript, some early marginalia in two or more hands, some damp-staining to initial gathering, occasional small worm holes, marbled endpapers, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (17731843) and front free endpaper with bookplate of John Richardson Major, 18th-century sheep, joints cracked, sides scuffed with sur face wear, early auction ticket tipped to lower board, 4to (leaf size 25.3 x 19.2 cm)
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843, sold, Evans of London, 25 April 1845, lot 952) and John Richardson Major. Bod-inc C495; BMC VI, 717; Goff C-1000; GW 7873; HC 5882. Not in BsB-Ink (Bavarian State Library online catalogue).
This history of Alexander the Great by Curtius Rufus, about whom little is known, was originally written in ten books. Its survival stems from a single source, from which the first two books and parts of five, six and ten were lost. This volume is the third edition of this work, which was first published in Venice in 1471.
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£2,000 - £3,000
215 Columna (Guido de). [Historia destructionis Troiae], 2nd edition, Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], circa 9 October 1486, 88 leaves, double-column text with 43 lines to each column, a1 with opening 6-line initial with green and purple foliate decoration on a gold ground and upper margin with erased ownership inscription, several 3- and 4-line initials in red, leaves m2-m5 transposed, occasional light damp-staining mostly to margins and minor dust-soiling, upper pastedown with bookplate of the Hon. W. J. Monson, lower board with pastedown of contemporary German printer’s waste from a grammatical treatise and with ‘Bibliotheca Heberiana’ ownership ink stamp of Richard Heber (1773-1823), contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasp, later vellum reback lifting from boards, faint evidence of early manuscript ownership at head and foot of boards, upper board slightly bowed, light dust-soiling and minor rubbing, folio (leaf size 28.5 x 20 cm)
Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1823, stamp on inside lower cover, Bibliotheca Heberiana, his sale at Sotheby’s on 17 April 1834, lot 1795, to Thorpe for 10s 6d), and the Hon. William John Monson, 1st Viscount Oxenbridge (1829-1898).
HC *5509; H *5509; BMC I, 134; Bod-inc C-396; GW 7230; Goff C-773.
The second edition printed in Strasbourg. Guido de Columna (c. 1210 - after 1280) was a Sicilian author of the early thirteenth century, who became known for writing about the history of the Trojan War in prose. (1)
£4,000 - £6,000
216 Blaubirer (Johann, printer, active 1478-1486). [Würfelbuch für Liebende], Den liebsten Buhlen, den du hast erkoren, Johann Blaubirer, circa 1482, [facsimile edition, Augsburg: Butsch, 1862], eight leaves of six-line German verse, printed on cream laid paper, each verse with woodcut illustrations of three dice, large illuminated initial in gold and colours onlaid to first verse, wide margins (sheet size 24 x 18 cm), modern blank leaves at front and rear, marbled endpapers, engraved bookplate of Anton Heinrich Röbel to front pastedown, 20th-century antique-style blindpatterned full calf, with gilt outer rule to each cover, with late 19th-century purpose-made slipcase (rubbed and marked), 4to Fine facsimile edition of the rare Würfelbuch für Liebende (Dice Book for Lovers), an anonymous rhymed lottery book. Only one original copy of this work is known (Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana). For the original edition, see Goff Incunabula in American Libraries, W-71, Helles, Standke & Reich, Gedruckte Deutsche Losbücher des 15. und 16. Janhrhunderts (2021), volume I, pp.1-29, and GKW M51819. (1) £400 - £600
217 Brassicanus (Joannes Alexander). Joannis Brassicani Tubingensis Pedotribae Institutiones grammaticae elimatissimae. In Osores Brassica si quibus ingrata est, nasturcia rodant, et grati his sunto Carduus atque filix. Alexander Brassicanus junior... Panegyrica epistola qua gymnasium Tubingense extollitur & commendatur, Haguenau: [T. Anshelmi, 1518], [115] leaves (of 116, lacking final leaf x8 with colophon), title in red and black within decorative woodcut border, old ink stamp to lower outer corner of title and verso of final leaf to lower blank margin, leaf k1 torn to lower outer corner with text loss, some early marginalia throughout volume, light toning and occasional light damp-stains, contemporary blind-stamped sheep bearing initials ‘L. C. V. in blind to upper board, paper labels to spine, old repairs at head and foot, rubbed and light wear, lacking ties, 4to VD 16, B7134. Not in Adams. (1)
£200 - £300
218 Latimer (Hugh). [Fruitfull sermons preached by the right reverend Father, and constant martyr of Jesus Christ M. Hugh Latimer, newly imprinted with others not heretofore set forth in print, to the edefiyng of all which will dispose themselves to the reading of the same. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted in the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions, London: printed by John Daye, 1584], lacking title (*1), black letter text with woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, leaf *2 with armorial blind stamp of the Earl of Macclesfield, T5-6 misbound before T3, FF4 misbound before FF3, FF6 misbound before FF5, OO5-6 before OO3, final leaf torn to fore-margin with slight loss, some dustsoiling, toning and occasional marginal damp-staining, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Thomas Parker of Inner Temple dated 1704, front free endpaper with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, South Library dated 1860, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some repairs at head and foot, lacking ties, 8vo, together with:
Manton (Thomas). A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition with notes on the Epistle of James. Delivered in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex, neer London, London: printed by J. Macock for Luke Fawne, 1651, title within typographic border, some toning and marginal browning, 20th-century gilt decorated sheep, 4to, Mangley (Thomas). Practical Discourses upon the Lord’s Prayer. Preach’d before the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London: W. Innys; York: F. Hildyard, 1717, title with contemporary of RearAdmiral Robert Fairfax (1666-1725), contemporary panelled calf, later morocco title label to spine, upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed, 8vo
1. ESTC S108319; STC 15280. A less complete collection of these was first published in 1562 as 27 sermons.
2. ESTC R38144; Wing M527. (3) £300 - £400
219 Broughton (Hugh). A Concent of Scripture, [London: Gabriel Simpson and ?William White, 1590], engraved architectural title, dedication to Elizabeth I, folding engraved map of the world by Jodocus Hondius, four engraved allegorical plates by William Rogers after Jodocus Hondius the Elder, woodcut initials and headpiece, 37 leaves of letterpress, without the map of Judea (as often), later endpapers, bookplate of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow to front pastedown, hinges strengthened with tape, all edges gilt, 19th-century blindstamped calf with morocco gilt label to spine, slight wear to the extremities, slim 4to
Provenance: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow.
STC 3851; ESTC S106759; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 15361603, 3851; Shirley, Mapping of the World, 172 (Hondius map).
The map is regarded as the first major work of Jodocus Hondius, who fled to England in 1583 as a Protestant refugee. This is the second edition, with copperplates by William Rogers, 'the first English engraver of any importance, and the most typical of the Elizabethans' (Hind I, pp. 163-65). The world map, a reduced version of Abraham Ortelius’s oval world map of 1570, relates biblical prophecies to the Roman empire and elsewhere. ESTC calls for a second map, of the northern hemisphere, present in the first edition of 1588-90. However neither STC nor Luborsky & Ingram call for this map in the second edition.
Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), divine, Hebrew scholar, and prebendary of Durham . A chronological account of biblical history, the book was seen through the press by John Speed. Ben Jonson satirised the author in Volpone and The Alchemist; and Sir John Harington mentions the work in the advertisement to his translation of Orlando Furioso: "..a treatise set foorth by Maister Broughton, the last year, upon the Revelation, in which there are some 3 or 4 pretie figures (in octavo) cut in brasse verie workemanly." (1)
£1,000 - £1,500
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220 Bible [English]. [The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1610], general title lacking, New Testament title present printed within decorative woodcut border with ownership name John Tench to verso, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text throughout, few woodcut illustrations, early ownership signatures of Margaret Large and John Large to final leaf of Prophets, lacking final preliminary leaf (A4) and Old Testament leaves F6, 3L1, 3O2 also lacking, leaves G1, G2, G4 and 2C6 with illustrations excised and consequent text loss, leaves 3I2 and 4M2 (leaf following New Testament title ‘The Printer to the diligent Reader’) excised with loss of lower half of each leaf, few leaves with short worm trail to lower margins, bound with at front an incomplete and defective Book of Common Prayer, London: Robert Barker, 1607, and bound with at rear an incomplete and defective Book of Psalms, London: printed by John Windet, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1603, some dustsoiling, toning and few marks throughout volume, few closed tears and repairs, some leaves with fraying and wear to margins, later endpapers, contemporary blind panelled and embossed calf over wooden boards, with brass central bosses, corner pieces and clasp fixings to boards (without clasps), old reback, upper board detached and lower joint split, worn, folio (leaf size 29.2 x 19.5 cm)
Darlow and Moule 232; Herbert 301; STC 2208.
The Geneva version of the Old Testament, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others; with Laurence Tomson’s revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament. The title border for the general and New Testament titles had a small portion of the woodblock cut away and a fresh piece inserted, featuring new royal arms and the unicorn in place of the dragon. (1) £400 - £600
de). The Mysterie of Iniquitie: that is to say, The historie of the Papacie. Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height, and what oppositions the better sort from time to time have made against it. Where is also defended the right of Emperours, Kings, and Christian Princes, against the assertions of the Cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius. By Philip Morney, knight, Lord du Plessis, &c. Englished by Samson Lennard, London: printed by Adam Islip, 1612, large vignette woodcut to title, lacks first and last blank leaves, fraying to margins of first and last few leaves, some light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, brass centre boss and corner pieces to each board, fore-edge of lower board with metal ring attachment where formerly chained, lacking clasps, joints splitting, some wear, folio, together with: Book of Common Prayer. [The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of John Bill, 1636], lacking general title (A1), with woodcut border to Psalter title page, woodcut decorative initials, head and tailpieces, black letter text, calendar printed in red and black, bound with The Forme and Manner of Making and Consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker... and assignes of John Bill, 1636, title with decorative headpiece and device, black letter text, bound with Book of Psalms. The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: printed by E[lizabeth]. P[urslowe]. for the Company of Stationers, 1636, title within decorative woodcut border, black letter text, last two leaves torn to gutter margin at foot, occasional light dustsoiling and toning throughout, some gatherings sprung and loosening within volume, lacking free endpapers, contemporary blind panelled and embossed calf over wooden boards, the name ‘Broughton’ scratched at head of each board in an early hand, spine torn at foot and some wear to extremities, few worm holes to board shoulders, lacking clasps, folio
1. ESTC S115092; Pforzheimer 745; STC 18147.
2. Book of Common Prayer - ESTC S113695; Griffiths p. 100 (1); STC 16403. Forme and Manner of Making and Consecrating Bishops - ESTC S122911; STC 16475. Whole Book of Psalmes - ESTC S123055; STC 2662.5. (2) £300 - £400
221 Mornay (Philippe
222 Bible [English]. The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1615, general title with woodcut border (heavily dust-soiled, stained and loss of right-hand third of leaf), New Testament title present with woodcut border, lacking initial blank (A1), preliminary leaf A3 and leaves A3, A6 and A7 of Genesis, also bound without Apocrypha, leaf A2 of Genesis torn with loss and with highlighter pen to word ‘breeches’, leaf also misbound between general title and preliminary leaf, leaves D5, G3, O4 & 3L5 torn to lower outer corners with slight text loss, some fraying and wear to initial few leaves, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms, published by the Company of Stationers, 1619, title with ornamental border, verso with early 18th-century genealogical entries relating to the Robertson family (with show-through to recto), few other early ownership entries, dust-soiling, toning and few marks throughout volume, bookplate of Peter Forbes to upper pastedown, manuscript note to front flyleaf ‘This “Breeches Bible” was rescued by my grandfather, William Forbes, Merchant, Leith, from a shop in Leith, as it was in process of being torn up to parcel snuff in - hence the absence of the leaf containing chapters V, VI, VII & VIII. 4 of Genesis. Peter Forbes’, and with tipped-in gift inscription from Christina F. B. Forbes to a Mr Flechler dated 2nd June 1896, 18th/early 19th-century blind-panelled black morocco with decoration in blind, lower board detached, upper joint splitting, rubbed and worn, 4to in 8s (21.6 x 16 cm), together with a defective Bible in English (possibly Robert Barker, 1615, with dedication to
James I), text in roman type, lacking titles and all leaves after 3N5, bound with an incomplete Genealogies by John Speed, with double-page woodcut map of the Canaan, several early ownership inscriptions throughout volume including one dated 1617, dustsoiling, spotting and some marks throughout volume, contemporary calf, lacking upper board, lower board near detached, worn, 4to in 8s (21 x 16.5 cm)
1. Darlow and Moule 266; Herbert 342; STC 2239. Apparently the last roman type quarto edition of this version printed by Barker. (Darlow & Moule, and Herbert). (2)
£300 - £400
223 Stow (John). The Survay of London: Containing, the Originall, Antiquitie, Encrease, and more Moderne Estate of the sayd Famous Citie. As also, the Rule and Government thereof (both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall) from time to time. With a briefe Relation of all the memorable Monuments and other especiall Observations, both in and about the same Citie. Written in the yeere 1598. by John Stow, Citizen of London. Since then, continued, corrected and much enlarged, with many rare and worthy notes, both of Venerable Antiquity, and later memorie; such, as were never published before this present yeere 1617, 3rd edition, London: printed by George Purslowe, 1618, title with woodcut vignette (close-trimmed at head shaving top of first word ‘The’) and early ownership inscription ‘Mr Tho Waring, His Book’, few decorative woodcut initials and head-pieces, some dustsoiling and occasional scattered spotting, upper outer corners of few leaves at front of volume with thin short worm trail (not affecting text), close-trimmed at head shaving some running titles, 20th-century half calf, 4to (17.5 x 13.5 cm)
ESTC S117891; Pforzheimer, 994; STC 23344.
A variant with last line of title reading ‘this present yeere 1617’ rather than ‘this present yeere 1618’. (1)
£200 - £300
224 Bacon (Francis). Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall Historie, in Ten Centuries..., Published after the Authors death, by William Rawley..., 2 parts in 1, 2nd edition, London: J.H. for William Lee, 1628, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title (dated 1629), decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, annotations and marginalia throughout volume (probably early 19th-century), light dust-soiling and toning, front flyleaves with ownership signature of Jo. Hirmin dated 1665 and James Ward, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked and board corners refurbished, folio
ESTC S106925; Gibson 172; STC 1170. (1)
£200 - £300
226 Viger (François). De praecipuis Graecae dictionis idiotismis, 2nd edition, Paris: Sebastianum Cramoisy, 1632, printer’s woodcut to title and early signature to upper margin ‘Jo. Stuart’ and with ink erased ownership to fore-margin, some toning and occasional light damp-staining, armorial bookplate of Jo. Stuart de Inchbreck to upper pastedown, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, 12mo, together with: Swedish Law. Kongl. stadgar, fo�rordningar, bref och resolutioner, ifra�n ahr 1528. in til 1701. anga�ende justitiae och executionsa �hrender..., 2 volumes, Stockholm: Johann Henrich Werner, 1706, engraved additional title to volume 1 and title page in red and black, engraved armorial pasted to p. 2 of preliminaries, 1 engraved plate, some browning, contemporary calf, upper boards with initials G. O. S. and date 1707, rubbed, light wear to joints, 4to, Stobaeus (Kilian). Dissertatio historica de numis et sigillis lundensibus / quam praeside Kilian Stobaeo pro solitis in philosophia honoribus publicae bonorum censuræ submittit. Zacharias Aaron Kihlgren, Londini Gothorum (Lund, Sweden): Ludovici Decreaux, 1741, 2 engraved plates, few woodcuts, some browning, scattered spotting and occasional damp-staining, early 19th-century speckled calf by Lewis dated 1839, gilt decorated spine with maroon title label, slim 4to, plus four other 18th and early 19th-century antiquarian volumes (8)
£200 - £300
225 Heylyn (Peter). The Historie of that most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus; St. George of Cappadocia..., 1st edition, London: Henry Seyle, 1631, without additional engraved title page (A1), later endpapers, contemporary limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, some marks to covers, 4to, together with: [Sandys, Edwin]. Europae Speculum. Or, A View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Westerne parts of the World. Wherein the Romane Religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoveries and commemorations. Published according to the authours originall copie, and acknowledged by him for a true copie, London: printed by T. Cotes for Michael Sparke, 1632, title with area of fore-margin excised and repaired, fore-margin of V2 cropped and reduced, some toning, modern calf with morocco title label to spine, 4to, Bunyan (John). The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream..., 3 parts in 1, 29th edition, London: printed by A. W. for W. Johnston, 1758, woodcut frontispiece to each part and several woodcut illustrations, some toning and scattered spotting, modern calf with red morocco title label to spine, 12mo, plus other theology and church history related, etc., mostly 17th and 18th-century publications, including a defective 16th-century Psalter, lacking title and final leaves, modern calf over wooden boards, spine bearing gilt title ‘Psalterium 1547’, 12mo (approx. 25)
£500 - £800
227 Goltzius (Hubert). Icones Imperatorum Romanorum, ex priscis Numismatibus ad vivum delineatae, & brevi narratione historica illustratae..., Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1645, half-title, engraved title by Cornelis Galle after Peter Paul Rubens (both with blind stamp of Grendon Hall, Warwickshire), 144 large chiaroscuro woodcut medallion portraits with bistre colour, 9 leaves with blank roundels, large woodcut printer’s device to final leaf, some offsetting and light toning to text leaves, occasional spotting, upper outer corner of front free endpaper torn away, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of George Chetwynd, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, some dust-soiling, small nick at head of spine, folio (37 x 23 cm, together with: Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V, notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassavii David Hoogstratanus, Amsterdam: Francisci Halmae, 1701, engraved additional pictorial title, letterpress title in red & black with engraved device, large folding engraved portrait (with short closed tear), and 18 medallion plates by Jan van Vianen, each containing 6 roundels, engraved head & tail-pieces, occasional light dust-soiling and minor scattered spotting, contemporary vellum, blind arabesque to centre of each board, light dust-soiling, 4to 1. Cicognara 2868.
Goltzius’ work on Roman emperors and nobles was first published in Antwerp in 1557, featuring his large, impressive medallion portraits, which range from Julius Caesar to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II in the present edition, extended by Caspar Gevaerts.
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£600 - £800
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228* Illuminated Leaves. An illuminated Psalter leaf, 17th century, large vellum leaf with single-column Latin manuscript text in black ink, probably taken from a large lectern copy of the Psalms, with one large decorative letter 'E' in red, blue and gold, 10 small initials in various colours (5 on each side), recto toned, both sides with dark brown stain centrally (text rubbed on verso), original (?) vellum tab sewn to fore-edge, spine margin with sewn closed 3.5 cm tear or hole (possibly original?), lower right blank corner excised, leaf size 81.5 x 55.5 cm, with another similar large Psalter leaf on vellum, with 10 small initials, also with 11 illuminated missal leaves, Latin text with musical notation in black ink, staves in red, comprising 2 large leaves (77.5 x 50 cm and similar), one with a large illuminated initial in red and blue, the other with a large black calligraphic initial; and 9 smaller leaves (63 x 48 cm and similar), each with a large illuminated initial in red and blue, some with one or more large calligraphic initial in black, plus 3 part-leaves of Latin (Biblical?) text, with small illuminated initials (16) £300 - £500
229 Cromwellian Protectorate & Charles II. An Act for Renouncing and Disanulling the Pretended Title of Charls [sic] Stuart, &c. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, Anno Domini 1656, London: printed by Henry Hills and John Field, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1657, [2], 4 pp., woodcut armorial of the Commonwealth to title page, main text in black letter, lacking final leaf B2 (blank), some toning and letterpress show-through, slim disbound small folio, together with: English Civil War. The Moderate Intelligencer: Impartially communicating Martial Affairs to the Kingdom of England, [numb. 156], from Thursday March 9 to Thursday March 16, 1648, 12 pp. (numbered 1209-[1220]), some browning, dust-soiling and few marks, untrimmed, side-stitched as issued, slim 4to, Mercurius Politicus. Comprising the summe of all Intelligence, with the Affairs and Designs now foot in the three Nations of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In defence of the Common-wealth, and for Information of the People, [numb. 85], from Thursday, January 15 to Thursday, January 22, 1652, 16 pp. (numbered 1349-1364), some dust-soiling, disbound, strengthened to spine edge of gathering, slim 4to
1. ESTC R29990; Wing E1064.
There are several variants of this Act. In this variant, on A1r, the last word in the first line of text: “of”; first word under initial: “the”; last word in the last full line of text: “either”.
In this version, the signature mark A is under the “h” of “him”. (3) £100 - £150
230 Spencer (John). [Kaina kai palaia]. Things New and Old, Or, A Store-House of Similies, Sentences, Allegories, Apophthegms, Adagies, Apologues, Divine, Morall, Politicall, &c, with their Severall Applications... , [edited by T. Fuller], 1st edition, London: printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John Spencer, 1658, title-page printed in red and black with first line printed in Greek characters and bearing early signature ‘John(?) Lawton’, gutter margin repaired to title with slight loss to ruled border and upper blank margin trimmed down, following leaf also torn to gutter margin with slight loss of ruled border, occasional light dust-soiling to first and last leaves, front free endpaper with ownership inscription ‘E. libris P. Gurdon, Coll. Mag., Oxon socii 1776’, upper pastedown with bookplate of Philip Gurdon of Assington Hall, Suffolk, and modern bookplate of Nathan Gedye, contemporary calf, joints splitting and wear to board corners, folio
ESTC R16985; Wing S4960. (1)
£150 - £200
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231 Welsch (Gottfried). Rationale Vulnerum Lethalium Judicium, in quo de Vulnerum Lethalium Natura, & Causis..., Leipsig: Sumptibus ac literis Ritzschianis, 1660, lacking additional engraved title, early indistinct manuscript ownership to letterpress title and last two numerals of imprint date indistinct, some browning and scattered spotting, early 18th-century mabled boards, upper board with blocked initials and date ‘M. A. L. 1713’, light wear to joints and spine, small 8vo, together with: Blankaart (Steven). Anatomia Reformata, sive Concinna Corporis Humani...., Accedit ejusdem authoris de balsamatione, nova methodus, 2 volumes in 1, Leiden: Jordaanum Luchtmans and Cornelium Boutesteyn, 1688, additional engraved title with small puncture hole, 48 engraved plates of 51 (lacking plates 17, 20 & 22), letterpress title with woodcut illustration, faint oval ink stamp and short closed tear to fore-margin, E4 with repaired closed tear across leaf, some damp-staining, occasional toning and spotting, contemporary calf, blind decorated spine, upper joint cracked, lower joint lightly rubbed, 8vo
Gottfried Welsch (1618-1690) was a German physician born in Leipzig. His best known work Rationale vulnerum lethalium judicium, published in 1660, is a significant work on forensic pathology and the understanding of lethal wounds. The title, which translates to “Rationale of Lethal Wounds, in which the Nature and Causes of Lethal Wounds are Discussed”, indicates its focus on the medical examination and determination of fatal injuries.
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£200 - £300
232 Beaumont de Perefixe (Hardouin de). The History of Henry IV. Surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre, written originally in French, by the Bishop of Rodez..., and made English by J[ohn]. D[auncey]., London: printed by James Cottrel for John Martin, James Allestry and Thomas Dicas, 1663, upper margin of title with early signature of J. Knightley (repaired tear to verso), worm trail to fore-margin of last few leaves (couple repaired), some toning and scattered spotting, modern blind panelled calf, 8vo, together with: Curtius Rufus (Quintus). Historiae Alexandri Magni, Leiden: Davidem Lopez & Franciscum Moiardum, 1649, double-page engraved map frontispiece and engraved title, contemporary calf, rebacked, thick 8vo, [Tasso, Torquato]. Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem. Done into English heroical verse, by Edward Fairfax..., Together with the Life of the said Godfrey. Together with the life of the said Godfrey, London: printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for George Wells and Abel Swalle, 1687, upper margin of title with ownership signature of Mr Higginson, upper pastedown with Broughton Baptist Library bookplate, contemporary blind panelled mottled calf, rebacked, boards rubbed, 8vo, plus 11 other 17th and 18th-century antiquarian, mostly history related
1. ESTC R218911; Wing P1465cA.
3. Wing T174A.
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£250 - £350
233 Luders (Theodoric). Traicté Mathematique Contenant Les Principales Definitions, Problemes at Theoremes d’Euclide. L’Arithmetique Decimale. la Trigonometrie, la Longimetrie, la Planimetrie & Stereometric. La Fortification Hollandoise, Francoise, Italienne et Espagnolle. La Perspective Militaire, et la Geographie Universelle, 1st edition, Paris: Chez l’Autheur, 1664, engraved title, 34 engraved sheets, including 11 double-page, one sheet with closed tear and small reinforcement to verso, a few small stains, contemporary mottled calf, some worming to spine, covers a little rubbed with some edge wear, folio, 47.5 x 34 cm
Rare. Another copy from the same date was sold in 2018, with 44 engraved sheets, so the work was possibly issued on a sheet by sheet basis, the majority of engravings in the present edition relate to military fortifications. Another edition was published in 1680, and due to uncertain collation the work is sold as described not subject to return.
(1) £800 - £1,200
234 Beveridge (William). Institutionum Chronologicarum libri II. Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicae libellis, 1st edition, London: Thomas Roycroft, & Walter Kettilby, 1669, Latin text with some Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew, etc., some light handling marks to margins, upper inner hinge restrengthened with later white cloth strip, 19th century bookplate of Skene Library to front pastedown, contemporary calf, 20th century reback, rubbed and some wear to outer corners, small 4to
Provenance: Skene Library, Skene Castle, Aberdeenshire, ancestral home of the ancient Skene family, whose main line died out in 1827, after which the house and estates passed into the possession of the Earl of Fife. Wing B2095; Tomash & William B147.
235 Popish Plot - Godfrey (Edmund Berry). A True and Perfect Narrative of the late Terrible and Bloody Murther of Sr. Edmondberry Godfrey; who was found Murthered on Thursday the 17th. of this instant October, in a Field near Primrose Hill. With a full Accompt of the manner of his being Murthered, and in what manner he was found. Also, the full Proceedings of the Coroner, who sat upon the inquest, &c. [London]: printed by N[athaniel]. T[hompson]., 1678, 8 pp., browning and spotting, edges untrimmed, 20th-century black morocco-backed marbled boards, slim 4to, together with:
Morrel (William). Diego redivivus: or The Last Will and Testament of the Pretended Humphrey Wickham, Esq; alias William Morrel, alias Bowyer, &c. With a full relation of his Notorious Cheats and Impostures: who dyed at Mr Cullins house, the third of ths instant January, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, &c., London: Abel Roper, 1692, [2], 10 pp., some browning and scattered spotting, 20th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, slim 4to
1. ESTC R33856; Wing T2533.
£200 - £300
‘It is of interest from both a typographical and historical standpoint for the many different fonts of exotic character sets used to print out the tables, ranging from Hebrew and Greek to various Middle Eastern languages, including Arabic, Samaritan and Syriac.’ (Tomash & Williams). The work includes an explanation of the Chinese Remainder Theorem, a rule for the resolution of indeterminate problems, perhaps the most famous mathematical technique coming from China. (1)
2. ESTC R205240; Wing D1414A & M2807A.
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-1678) was an English magistrate whose The body of Justice of the Peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found strangled and stabbed with his own sword on October 17, 1678, in a ditch near Primrose Hill, igniting widespread panic over a fabricated “Popish Plot” to kill King Charles II and place his Catholic brother on the throne. Despite his reputation for integrity, Godfrey had connections to individuals involved in political intrigue at the Restoration court, which fuelled public suspicion. His mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar and was attributed to Jesuit assassins, turning him into a Protestant martyr and a cult figure.
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£300 - £500
236 Wanley (Nathaniel). The Wonders of the Little World: or, A General History of Man..., 1st edition, London: T Basset, R. Cheswel, J. Wright and T. Sawbridge, 1678, title with ownership signatures (verso strengthened to margins), browning, some scattered spotting and dust-soiling, last three leaves repaired and strengthened to lower outer corners and fore-margin, late 20th-century quarter calf, cloth covered boards, folio, together with: Aesop. Fables of Aesop and others, translated into English, with instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, 9th edition, revised and improved, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, T. Caslon [et al], 1770, engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, light toning, occasional spotting and few marks, contemporary sheep, rebacked preserving morocco title label, board corners worn, 12mo, Buckingham (George Villiers, Duke of). Miscellaneous Works..., Collected in one volume from the original papers. ... Also State Poems on the late times, by Mr Dryden, ... With the late Duke of Buckingham’s speeches ... To which is added, a collection of choice remarkable speeches, that were spoken in both Houses of Parliament..., 2 parts in 1, London: Sam. Briscoe, and sold by J. Nutt, 1704, browning and scattered spotting, later endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, repaired at head and foot of spine and to board corners, 8vo, [Murray, James]. Sermons to Asses, London: J. Johnson, T. Cadell, (successor to Mr Millar); Newcastle: W. Charnley, 1768, engraved illustration to title and contemporary signature of Benjm. Wilson, some toning and scattered spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving morocco title label, small 8vo, plus other 18th-century antiquarian 1. Wing W709.
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£200 - £300
237 [Rabisha, William]. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and Fully Manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and According to the Best Tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. Or, a sympathy of all varieties in natural compounds in that mystery. Wherein is contained certain bills of fare for the seasons of the year, for feasts and common diets. whereunto is annexed a second part of rare receipts of cookery: with certain useful traditions. With a book of preserving, conserving and candying, after the most exquisite and newest manner: delectable for ladies and gentlewoman, 4th edition, London: printed for George Calvert and Ralph Simpson, [1682], title with tear and loss of part of imprint, small tear and loss at foot of K2 affecting catchword and one other letter, lacking rear endpaper, some light spotting and dust-soiling, front hinge tender, contemporary sheep, rubbed with some wear to spine ends, 8vo,
Provenance: ‘Leon: Millington, his Booke, 1682’ ink inscription to front blank.
Bitting pp. 386-7; Cagle 943; ESTC R232126; Oxford pp. 30-31; Vicaire 727 (first edition)
The fourth edition, first published in 1661. The author, a Cornishman, claimed to have worked for many noble families. ‘It is a well-arranged book giving recipes ‘to pickle Sleep-at-noon’, to make ‘Punnado’ and ‘Andolians’, to fry Primrose-leaves in March with eggs’, ‘to Spitchcoch an Eel’. Near the end are ‘Certain old useful Traditions of Carving and Sewing, &c. ‘which come from the ‘Book of Carving’ of 1508, and a dreadful recipe ‘to roast a shoulder of Mutton in blood’.’ (Oxford).
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£400 - £600
238 [Motteux, Pierre Antoine, editor]. The Gentleman’s Journal: or the Monthly Miscellany, volume 1 only of 3, London: printed and are to be sold by R. Baldwin, 1692, comprising issues for January to December 1692, with printed music to text, verso of front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of John Drummond of Logy Almond, front pastedown with trimmed bookplate/armorial of Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, contemporary speckled calf, upper board near detached, lower joint cracked, 4to, together with: Lynn (Samuel). A Short Narrative of the Case of Samuel Lynn, Esq; Late Muster Master General of the late Marine Forces, &c., 2 parts in 1, [London]: Printed in the year, 1720, modern brown buckram, slim 4to (2)
£150 - £200
Lot 237
239 Bohun (Edmund). The Character of Queen Elizabeth... Together with the Characters of Her Principal Ministers of State, 1st edition, London: Ric. Chiswell, 1693, half-title with engraved portrait frontispiece of Elizabeth and Mary to verso, title page with recurring early ownership signatures of Elizabeth Wolryche (one faint and with slight paper thinning and consequent minute holes), contemporary speckled calf with later morocco title label, 8vo, together with: Raleigh (Walter). An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England. With the Reign of King William the I. Entitled the Conqueror, London: Sam. Keble and Dan. Brown, 1693, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, all edges gilt, late 19th-century/ early 20th-century red morocco gilt by Cross and Beckwith of Leicester, upper joint rubbed and cracked, light wear at head of spine, slim 16mo in 8s, [Roper, William]. Vita D.Thomae Morie..., [Oxford]: no printer, 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece and title, occasional staining, front free endpaper with note “Bought at Sir Clement Cottrell’s sale March 10th 1764, £ 0.12-6.”, engraved bookplates of John Homfray and Henry Hobhouse, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label, joints splitting, wear at head and foot of spine, 8vo (pencil note ‘one of 100 copies on ordinary paper’), plus 4 others, [Strype, John]. The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith Kt. Doctor of the Civil Law; Principal Secretary of State to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth..., London: A. Roper and R. Basset, 1698, Drake (James, preface). The Perfect Picture of a Favourite: or, Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Prime Minister and Favourite of Queen Elizabeth..., 3rd edition, corrected, London: Sam. Briscoe, 1711, and Raleigh (Walter). The Works..., to which is prefixed a new account of his life by Tho. Birch, 2 volumes, London: R. Dodsley, 1751
1. Wing B3448. This work is largely drawn from R. Johnstone’s Historia rerum Britannicarum, 1655.
2. Wing R169. (7)
£250 - £350
240* Naval Manuscript. An Accompt of Money received and issued by the Treasurer of his Ma:ties Navy, Between the 2d September 1695 [- 25th January 1695/6], manuscript volume containing a total of 111 leaves of laid paper (with Strasbourg lily watermark with the initials WR & AP?), comprising 11 leaves (20 pages) of manuscript accounts at front of volume and 13 leaves (25 pages) of manuscript accounts at rear of volume bearing the heading ‘An Accompt of Money Remaineing in the hands of the Treasurer of his Ma:ties Navy on the 25th of March 1695... [-31th of August]’, recording wages to ships, recalls, wages to yards, and prize money, etc., remaining balances in town, out of town, funds sent to Chatham and Portsmouth, written in a neat secretarial hand within red-ruled columns, and the remaining middle portion of volume containing 87 blanks leaves, occasional minor spotting mostly to margins, contemporary vellum, folio (leaf size 40.5 x 26.3 cm) (1)
£200 - £300
241 Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper’s School of Physick, or, the Experimental Practice of the Whole Art..., with an Account of the Author’s Life and the Testimony of his Wife, Mrs Culpeper, and others, 3rd edition corrected, London: R. Bently, J. Phillips, H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1696, engraved portrait frontispiece (torn to gutter with slight loss and long repaired closed tear), some dust-soiling, browning and occasional marginal damp-staining, lacking endpapers, contemporary sheep, light wear to joints and extremities, 8vo, together with: Le Dran (Henri Francois). Observations in Surgery: Containing one hundred and fifteen different cases with particular remarks on each, for the improvement of young students. Written originally in French, by Henry-Francis Le Dran..., Translated by J. S. Surgeon, London: J. Hodges, 1739, title in red and black (detached from text block and crudely held in place to upper board with fabric tape at gutter, bound without all plates, some toning and scattered spotting, contemporary calf, upper board detached and lower joint slightly cracked, wear at head and foot of spine and board corners, 8vo, Hamilton (James). Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in several Diseases, 7th edition, Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, W. & D. Laing; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, 1823, light toning and scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, dark green morocco title label to spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, plus two others, The Anatomy of the Brain, adapted for the use of Students..., London: Callow and Wilson, 1824, and The Brain considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, volume 1 only of 4, London: James Speirs, 1882 1. ESTC R227434; Wing C7546.
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£200 - £300
Lot 240
242 Pamphlets. A samilband of 20 sermons and theological pamphlets, 1696-1732, comprising,
1. Williams (John). The Possibility, Expediency, and Necessity of Divine Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 7, 1694/5. At the Beginning of the Lecture for that Year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, 2nd edition, corrected, London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 26 pp., lacking A1 half-title/imprimatur leaf,
2. Williams (John). The Certainty of Divine Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Feb. 4, 1694/5..., 2nd edition, corrected, London: Ri. Chiswell, and Tho. Cockerill, 1696, [4], 39, [1] pp., half-title present,
3. Williams (John). The Characters of Divine Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, March 4. 1694/5..., 2nd edition, London: Ri. Chiswell, and Tho. Cockerill, 1697, [4], 32 pp., half-title present,
4. Williams (John). The Truth of the Holy Scriptures. A Sermon Preached at St. Martin’s in the Fields, April 1, 1695..., London: Ri. Chiswell, and Tho. Cockerill, 1695, [4], 32 pp., half-title present, occasional early marginalia,
5. Williams (John). The Divine Authority of the Scriptures. A Sermon Preached at St. Martin’s in the Fields, May 4, 1695..., London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1695, [4], 36 pp., half-title present,
6. Williams (John). The Divine Authority of the Scriptures. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Sept. 2, 1695..., London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1695, [4], 36 pp., half-title present,
7. Williams (John). The Several Ways of Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Octob. 7, 1695, London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 32 pp., halftitle present,
8. Williams (John). The Perfection of the Evanangelical Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Nov. 4, 1695. Being the Eighth and Last of the Lecture for that Year, Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 28 pp., half-title present, 9. Williams (John). The Perfection of the Evangelical Revelation. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 6, 1695/6. Being
the First of the Lecture for that Year, Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 32 pp., half-title present, light damp-staining, 10. Williams (John). Scripture the Rule of Faith. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Febr. 3, 1695/6..., London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 28 pp., half-title present, light damp-staining, 11. Williams (John). Of the Perspicuity of Scripture, and Rules for Interpretation of it. A Sermon Preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Mar. 2, 1695/6..., London: Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill, Senr. & Junr., 1696, [4], 32 pp., half-title present, light damp-staining, 12. Smalridge (George). A Sermon, Preached at the Parish-Church of St. Dunstan in the West, on Sunday Dec. the 23rd, 1711, London: Chr. Coningsby and Jonah Bowyer, 1711, [2], 27, [1] pp., lacking halftitle (A1), dust-soiling to title and verso of final leaf, 13. Burnet (Gilbert). A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Honourable Robert Boyle; at St. Martins in the Fields, January 1, 1691/2, London: Ric. Chiswell and John Taylor, 1692, [4], 5-40 pp., half-title present, final leaf torn to upper outer corner, 14. Burnet (Gilbert). A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of John [Tillotson] by the Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury..., London: Ri. Chiswell, 1694, [2], 36 pp., lacks half-title, 15. Gardner (James). Advice to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln, London: John Everingham, 1697, [2], 3-33, [1] pp., clipped to upper outer corner of A2, outer corners of A3 and lower outer corner of A4, 16. Fleetwood (William). A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Ely at Cambridge, Aug. the VIIth..., Cambridge: Cornelius Crownfield, 1716, [2], 25, [1] pp., 17. Newcome (Peter). Peccata in Deliciis. A Discourse born of Bosom Sins. A Sermon Preach’d before the Lord Mayor..., London: Jonathan Robinson, 1686, [4], 29, [1] pp.,
18. Tillotson (John). A Sermon Preached November 5. 1678. at St. Margarets Westminster..., London: printed by J. D. for B. Aylmer, 1678, [4], 36 pp., half-title, 19. Barne (Miles). A Sermon Preach’d before the University of Cambridge, on the 9th of September, being the Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of His Majesties Sacred Person... from the late Hellish Fanatick Conspiracy, Cambridge: printed by J. Hayes for R. Green, 1683, [2], 34 pp., lacking A1 half-title, 20. Middleton (Conyers). Oration de novo Physiologiae Explicandae Munere, ex celebrerrimi Woodwardi Testamento Instituto..., London: William Thurlbourn for J. & J. Knapton and others, 1732, [4], 5-29, [1] pp., half-title, contemporary ink number to title of each pamphlet within volume, some slight marking, contemporary marginalia on three titles, manuscript index at rear (with one sermon not present), 18th-century panelled calf, modern reback with red morocco title label, board corners refurbished, 4to 1. Wing W2719.
2. Wing W2695A.
3. Wing W2696B. 4. Wing W2736. 5. Wing W2703.
6. Wing W2704.
7. Wing W2733.
8. Wing W2716.
9. Wing W2717.
10. Wing W2722.
11. Wing W2712.
12. ESTC t11957.
13. Wing B5899.
14. Wing B5902.
15. Wing G223.
17. Wing N902.
18. Wing T1230.
19. Wing B861.
20. ESTC T62286. (1) £400 - £600
243* Krauss (Johann Ulrich, 1655-1719). A collection of 143 engraved illustrations from Historische Bilder-Bibel: welche besteht in Fünff Theill, [Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krauss, 1700], 143 fine engraved illustrations, each trimmed to printed outer borderline, and mounted on album leaves, with added outer ruled border in red ink, image size 110 x 160 mm, album leaves 300 x 240 mm, all loosely contained in 18th century calf binding, upper cover detached, with handwritten paper label to upper cover ‘Sainte Bible. Old and New Testament’
The original publication, in five parts, contained 145 full-page plates, each with two illustrations to each leaf.
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£150 - £200
Lot 244
244 Mead (Richard). De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in Corpore Humana, et Morbis inde oriundis, 1st edition, London: Raffael Smith, 1704, title, xxx, 96pp., some contemporary neat underlining in brown ink, later printed bookplate to front pastedown, with the motto ‘Fluit scaldis dum voltitur orbis’, contemporary blinddecorated panelled full calf, rubbed and joints cracked at head, rubbed and a little wear with joints cracked at head and outer corners showing, 8vo Norman 1475.
Richard Mead’s second work on the influence of the sun and moon on the human body and diseases resulting from it. The author maintains that atmospheric pressure, affected by the sun, moon, and stars, produced changes similar to those of the ocean tides, and that atmospheric variations in elasticity and pressure directly affected epilepsy, hysteria, menstrual disorders, nephritis, ulcers, and asthma.
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£200 - £300
245 Hooke (Nathaniel). The Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: James Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Huitch, [et al.], 1738, engraved frontispiece, plates and folding maps, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with some morocco labels to spines lacking, joints split, worn, 4to, together with:
Scott (Walter). The Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 4 volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1843, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, additional titles, contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spines, large 8vo, Alison (Archibald). Lives of Lord Castlereach and Sir Charles Stewart, 3 volumes, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, contemporary half calf, 8vo, Holl (Henry). The White Favour, 3 volumes, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866, toning and scattered spotting, contemporary half morocco, 8vo, plus other 19th-century antiquarian leather bindings, including Walter Scott and Scotlandrelated literature, etc. (32)
£200 - £300
246 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, By his Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, London: printed by Thomas Baskett... and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1751, engraved portrait of George II as frontispiece (cropped to image and laid down), general title and New Testament title with woodcut armorial vignette, Apocrypha present, 66 additional engraved plates (including one folding with repairs to folds and tear) and 5 engraved folding maps, verso of frontispiece leaf with inscription ‘This Bible was left by Charles Staniforth, in the year 1797 to his daughter Betsy Staniforth and given by her in 1832 to her nephew Philip James Green. By whom she hopes it may be considered as an heirloom, and left to one of his children,’ some light offsetting to text, occasional scattered spotting, minor dampstaining, front endpaper with split hinge, 20th-century brown morocco by V. M. Stoakley of Cambridge, folio (40.3 x 26.5 cm)
ESTC T82342; Herbert 1091.
The former owners of the Bible referred to in the inscription are understood to have been distantly related to the abolitionist Rev. James Ramsay (1733-1789).
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£300 - £400
247 Poulter (John). The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter; who was apprehended for robbing Dr. Hancock, of Salisbury, on Clarken Down, near Bath; and who has since been admitted King’s evidence, and discovered a most numerous gang of villains... Being a full account of all the robberies he has committed, and the surprizing Tricks and Frauds he has practised for the space of five years last past, in different parts of England. To which he has added, as a caution to prevent any unwary persons from being imposed on and defrauded, an exact account of the manner in which Gamblers and other Sharpers impose upon People at Fairs and other Places; wherein their whole Tricks, Behaviour and Language, is so laid open, that any one who reads it, may certainly know them at any time, and so be upon their guard against being cheated by them. With some Precautions to secure Houses from being broke open, very useful for all Families: and likewise some Cautions to Tradesmen, and others who travel, to prevent their being robbed. With Directions how to prevent Horses from being stolen out of Grounds and Commons, 7th edition, with additions, [Sherborne]: printed for R. Goadby, in Sherborne; and sold by W. Owen; Bookseller, at Temple-Bar, London, 1753, 44pp., browning and scattered spotting, late 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, upper joint slightly cracked, slim 8vo, together with: Haggart (David). The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M’Coul, alias John M’Colgan, alias Daniel O’Brien, alias The switcher. Written by himself, while under sentence of death, 1st edition, Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1821, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and plate of facsimile letter, some browning, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929, Prime Minister of the UK, March 1894 to June 1895), hinge cracked to front endpaper, late 19th/early 20th-century calf, joints rubbed and wear to head of spine, 8vo, Damiens (Robert Francois). Genuine memoirs of the life and adventures of that infamous assassin Robert-Francis Damien : (from the time of his birth) who attempted the life of his sovereign Lewis XV, King of France. Taken from the mouth of his wife, now a Prisoner in the Bastile, and communicated by a gentleman, residing in Paris, to the editor in London.
London: Printed for C. Langford, opposite St. Clement’s-Church, Temple-Bar MDCCLVII. [1757], [4], 5-31, [1] pp., half-title present, light toning, 20th-century half calf, upper joint split and board loosening, slight loss at head and foot of spine, slim 8vo (3) £300 - £500
250 Bramah (Joseph). A Dissertation on the Construction of Locks. Containing, First - Reasons and Observations, demonstrating all Locks, which depend on Fixed Wards, to be erroneous in Principle, and defective in Point of Security. Secondly - a Specification of a Lock, constructed on a new and infallible Principle, which, possessing all the Properties essential to Security, will prevent the most ruinous Consequences of House Robberies, and be a certain Protection against Thieves of all Descriptions, 1st edition, London: Printed for the author. Sold by R. Baldwin, [1785?], [4], 1-32, 37-40, 37-46, [2]p., half-title, two engraved plates (one folding, first plate cropped within ruled border line of fore-edge), final leaf of advertisements for Bramah’s wares, bound without pages 33-36 and with duplicates of pages 37-40, page number to E3 a little torn, bound with Robinson (William), The Gentleman and Builder’s Director..., London: G. Kearsley, [1774], half-title discarded, title torn to gutter margin and with few closed tears, engraved folding plate, occasional light damp-staining, early 19h century half calf gilt, 8vo ESTC T112550 and T8571.
The first title is a rare and important work by the most significant locksmith & lock manufacturer of the time. (1)
£300 - £500
248 Miniature Atlas. Dury (Andrew). A New General and Universal Atlas, Containing Forty Five Maps by Andrew Dury, Engraved by Mr. Kitchin, & others, Printed for & Sold by A. Dury & Robt. Sayer, 1761, pictorial title (with contemporary ownership inscription to top right margin), dedication leaf and contents list plus 45 engraved maps as called for, all folding, some double-counted, all with contemporary outline hand colouring, plate 25/26 (lower half on France) with old adhesive stain from old repair, all leaves with central vertical folds and guarded into volume, crimson morocco gilt rebacked, preserving original spine and upper cover, 12mo (13.5 x 9.5 cm) (1)
£200 - £300
249 Metastasio (Pietro). Opera del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio, 12 volumes, Paris: Vedova Herissant, 1780-82, engraved portrait frontispieces, some light marginal toning & wear, uniform contemporary full calf with a gilt decorated armorial to the front & rear boards of each, slightly rubbed with some minor marks, 8vo (12)
£100 - £150
Lot 250
Lot 251
251 Costumes. Fourth Year of the French Republic. 1795. Dresses of the Representatives of the People, Members of the Two Councils, and of the Executive Directory: also of the Ministers, Judges, Messengers, Ushers, and other Public Officers, &c. &c. From the original Drawings given by the Minister of the Interior to Citizen Grasset S. Sauveur. The Whole illustrated by an historical Description, translated from the French, [London]: Paris: printed for Deroy; London: printed for E. and S. Harding, Printsellers, No. 98, Pall-Mall, 1796, [6] pp.,12 leaves, additional hand-coloured etched title ‘Costumes des repre�sentants du peuple Francais’, 16 hand-coloured etched plates, sewing broken and contents loose, occasional light spotting, edges untrimmed, upper pastedown with ownership signature ‘Amelia Sloper, May 9, [18]62’, original wrappers, old paper spine strip, light dust-soiling, few marks and light wear, slim 8vo ESTC T34963. The headlines are in italic. Scarce. ESTC records only 5 institutional locations (British Library, Bodleian Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, Henry E. Huntington Library, California, and Auckland Museum Library). (1)
£300 - £400
252 Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order... and various original pieces of his composition never before published, fourth edition, revised and augmented, 4 volumes, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1804, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, contemporary ownership signature to head of title of each volume of Sarah Dale, 19th century engraved armorial bookplate of Joseph Livesey to front pastedown of first volume, 20th century antique-style half calf, with black morocco gilt spine label to each volume, a little rubbed to extremities, 8vo, together with: Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from the originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples by the best writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar, 4 volumes, ninth edition; corrected and revised, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805, portrait frontispiece of Samuel Johnson to first volume, 20th century quarter calf, thick 8vo, plus other various antiquarian interest, including The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, A Poem, Sixth edition, circa 1820, hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, all edges gilt, contemporary diced calf, worn with spine deficient, Thomas Carthew, Reports of Cases, adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench, from the Third Year of King James the Second, to the Twelfth Year of King William the Third, London: E. & R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1728, contemporary ownership signature of John Blaxland to title to front pastedown, early engraved bookplate of James Forster Serjt: at Law to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, 20th century reback, folio, and James Burrow, Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond, fourth part only, 3 volumes, 1771, folio
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253 Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Edinburgh: William Creech etc., 3 volumes, 3rd edition, 1806, some spotting throughout, volume I and II with W. Howard Goulty, Solicitor, Manchester stamp in black ink to titlepage, near contemporary half sheep over cloth, volume I cracked on joints, spine and extremities rubbed, 8vo Kress B1129.
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£200 - £300
£200 - £300
254 Ainsworth (William Harrison). Historical Romances, Library Edition, 19 volumes (of 20), Philadelphia: printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Son, [1898-1901], top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, contemporary uniform blue full morocco, rubbed and a little scuffed to extremities, spine lightly faded, 8vo, limited edition of japan vellum with the plates in two states in an edition of 1000 copies, together with 55 volumes of The works of Sir Walter Scott Works, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, circa 1814-1828, plus another leather-bound edition of Scott's Works, 24 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1912, bound in original uniform publisher's maroon morocco gilt, small 8vo (approx. 98)
£300 - £400
255 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Lara, A Tale; Jacqueline, A Tale, 1st ed., 1814, 6 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear (last two leaves reinforced to gutter margin, modern crimson morocco, some fading, 8vo, together with: The Works of Lord Byron, 4 volumes, London: John Murray, 1823, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, occasional scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, printed title labels to spines, wear with some loss to spines, marked, 8vo, plus other works by Byron including Don Juan, cantos 1-5 (of 16) bound in 2 volumes, London: Thomas Davison, 1820-21, spotting and marginal browning to few leaves, edges untrimmed, modern morocco in blue and brown, 8vo, and English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire, 4th edition, London: James Cawthorn, Sharpe and Hailes, 1811, front free endpaper with ownership signature of Henry Law and dated April 1819, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, joints split and couple of tears to spine, slim 8vo, and Child Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, London: John Murray, 1816, some browning and spotting, edges untrimmed, original wrappers, frayed and worn, slim 8vo, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto 3 and 4, London: John Murray, 1816, in contemporary vellum, 8vo, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto 4, London: John Murray, 1818, edges untrimmed, original boards, joints cracked and splitting, 8vo, plus Elgin (Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of). Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin’s pursuits in Greece, 2nd edition, corrected, London: John Murray, 1815, engraved frontispiece (slightly damp stained), upper outer corner of title with trimmed armorial bookplate of John Walsh, few engraved illustrations, 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, gutter margin of frontispiece and title page reinforced, modern blue morocco, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo (12)
£300 - £400
256 [Combe, William]. The Dance of Life, A Poem, 1st edition, London: R. Ackermann, 1817, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 24 handcoloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, light damp-staining at head of last few leaves, contemporary half calf, attractive gilt decorated spine with armorial crest of Rev. Robert Clarke (1771-1824) at foot, joints cracked, large 8vo Abbey Life 264; Tooley 410. (1)
257 [Combe, William]. Doctor Syntax in Paris or A Tour in search of the Grotesque, 1st edition, London: W. Wright, 18 handcoloured aquatint plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page by Charles Williams after Thomas Rowlandson, occasional minor offsetting and minor spotting, bookplate of Robert F. Watson to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century marbled calf by Riviere and Son, elaborate gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, joints slightly cracked, 8vo, together with: [Combe, William]. The History of Johnny Quae Genus The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax. A Poem by the Author of the Three Tours, 1st edition, London: R. Ackermann, 1822, 24 handcoloured lithograph plates including frontispiece, errata slip and 8 pp. publisher’s advertisement at rear, some offsetting from plates to text, edges untrimmed, armorial bookplate of William Nash Skillicorne to upper pastedown and bookplate of A. M. Cohn to front free endpaper, original boards, rebacked, preserving printed title label to spine, wear to board corners, large 8vo, Mitford (John). The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A Poem in four cantos with notes, 1st edition, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [et al.], 1819, 20 hand-coloured aquatints by C. Williams, including the frontispiece, lacking one leaf of preface (p. vii), upper margin of title torn and repaired, some spotting and toning, contemporary straight-grain black morocco, with gilt and blind decoration, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo
1. Abbey, Travel 109; Tooley 432.
2. Abbey, Life 268; Tooley 413.
3. Abbey, Life 340.
£200 - £300
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£300 - £400
258 Egan (Pierce). Life in London, 1st edition, mixed issue, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821, half-title discarded, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 35 hand-coloured plates by Cruikshank, wood-engraved vignettes, 3 folding music sheets, 2nd or 3rd issue of p.9 (bearing footnote), 1st issue p. 376 (with the word ‘good-bies’), unnumbered leaf ‘to the subscribers’ following p. 376 not present (as often), without advertisements at rear, browning and spotting mostly to text leaves, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:
Cruikshank (Robert, illustrator). Lessons of Thrift, published for General Benefit, by a Member of the Save-all Club, 1st edition, London: Thomas Boys, 1820, hand-coloured engraved title and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Cruikshank (including frontispiece), advertisement leaf at end lacking (as often), toning and spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked with gilt decoration to spine, wear to board edges, 8vo, plus Mudie (Robert). The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 2 volumes, London: Whittaker & Co., 1834, titles with coloured vignette, several handcoloured engraved plates, occasional scattered spotting, original green cloth, volume 1 rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed and few marks, 8vo
1. Abbey, Life 281; Tooley 196.
2. Abbey, Life 276; Tooley 165. (4)
259 No lot
£300 - £400
260 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates after the author, final leaf (pp.623-4) supplied in facsimile, plate at p. 109 marginally frayed at foot, some offsetting and spotting, all edges yellow, modern antique-style blindstamped calf, 8vo, together with Dickens (Charles). Works of Charles Dickens, Library Edition, 26 volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, circa 1870, engraved frontispiece and plates, some offsetting and spotting, contemporary half calf, spines somewhat rubbed, 8vo, plus 6 novels by Anthony Trollope, 1913-20
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£200 - £300
261 FitzRoy (Robert). The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863, 16 lithograph charts, tables and plates, including 2 on blue paper, 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, plates 1-2 detaching at gutter, a little minor spotting, previous owner inscription of B. Saltzman, 1962 to half-title, front hinge breaking, original blue cloth, upper joint splitting, spine darkened, joints an edges rubbed, 8vo FitzRoy was appointed to run the newly created meteorological department of the Board of Trade in 1854.
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£200 - £300
262 Bible [English]. The Practical and Devotional Family Bible. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version... and the commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John M’Farlane, L.L.D., Glasgow: John M’Gready, circa 1865, colour maps and plates, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt, contemporary blindstamped morocco gilt, brass mounts and clasps, a little rubbed, 4to, 33 x 23.5 cm, together with The Imperial Family Bible, Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1846, additional engraved title, engraved plates, some light spotting and small water stains, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt, covers a little rubbed and dulled, 4to (2) £150 - £200
263 [Raikes, George Alfred]. The History of our Reserve Forces, with suggestions for their organisation as a real Army of Reserve, London: W. Mitchell & Co., 1870, folding lithograph map, errata slip present, advertisement leaf at rear, bound with [Raikes, George Alfred]. The Strength and Cost of the British Army and Reserve Forces, London: Richard Bentley, 1871, advertisement leaf at rear, bound with Raikes (George Alfred). Militia Reform. With special reference to the Militia Reserve and the new organisation scheme, reprinted from “Colburn’s United Service Magazine”, London: W. Mitchell, 1873, bound with seven other related sections taken from Colburn’s United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1874, some pencil annotations and marginalia throughout volume (possibly in Raikes’ hand), armorial bookplate of George Alfred Raikes to pastedowns, contemporary burgundy half calf, modern morocco reback with decorated spine, 8vo, together with: Army Lists. Instructions for Training and Exercising The Local Militia, London: T Egerton, 1809, lightly dust-soiled, edges untrimmed, original paper-covered boards, with modern calf reback, 8vo,
A List of the Officers of the Local Militia of Great Britain, 1810, London: War Office, 1810, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, lightly dust-soiled, edges untrimmed, contemporary marbled boards with modern calf reback, 8vo, Thomson (Henry Byerley). The Military Forces & Institutions of Great Britain and Ireland: their Constitution, Administration, and Government, Military and Civil, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1855, Cheltenham College prize gift inscription to front flyleaf to a Fred Heneage dated 1860, contemporary red diced calf, gilt decorated spine and gilt blocked image of Cheltenham College to upper board, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo (4) £300 - £400
264 Parkman (Francis). Works, New Library Edition, 12 volumes, Toronto: Musson Book Company, circa 1900, monochrome plates, maps, etc., top edge gilt, contemporary half brown calf, gilt decorated spines with red and brown morocco labels (several missing), very lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo (12)
£150 - £200
265* Miniature chained Bible and Lectern. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Glasgow: David Bryce and Sons, [1901], general title slightly torn to lower blank inner corner, few plates, magnifier in rear pocket, contemporary blind embossed sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 64mo (42 x 29 mm), with chain attached to miniature lectern of stained wood construction, maximum height approximately 140 mm (1)
£100 - £150
266 Art Journal. A broken run of 31 volumes, 1866-1911, London, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light wear, mixed contemporary leather & cloth bindings, boards & spines slightly rubbed with some loss, folio, together with:
The Art Union, a monthly journal of fine arts, 4 volumes, 1839-40, 1844-45, London, numerous monochrome illustrations, mixed leather bindings, some light wear, large 8vo (35)
£200 - £400
267* Austrian School. Five Jugendstil furniture designs, circa 1900, watercolour and ink on wove paper, intricate and fine designs for various items of furniture: a sideboard, settle, chairs, and a plant stand, each tipped onto green paper, the largest sheet size 14.3 x 20 cm (5 3/4 x 8 ins), mounted (5)
£150 - £200
268 Binding. The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, by K. T. Parker, London: B. T. Batsford, 1931, colour frontispiece, monochrome plates, marginal offsetting to endpapers, all edges gilt contemporary morocco gilt by H. T. Wood, London, upper cover with Art Deco design in blue and gilt, spine and edges a little rubbed, 4to
The bookbinding firm Henry T. Wood was established in 1875, and under Thomas Harrison and W. Topping produced progressive and spectacular designs, before the company merged with Sangorski and Sutcliffe in 1939. (1) £100 - £200
269* Boyce (George Price, 1826-1897). Studies of the Interior of Ludlow Church and View of Ludlow Castle, 1845-49, pencil studies on 5 sheets of paper, each titled, dated and initialled, intricate studies across five sheets of Ludlow Castle and Church, including windows, corbels, fireplaces, a memorial, pews and a quire screen, largest sheet 17 x 16 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/2 ins), all mounted, together with Rooke (Thomas Matthews, 1842-1942). A study of Romsey Abbey, watercolour and pencil on laid paper, a view of the nave of Romsey Abbey looking east, with ruled grid and numerous annotations in pencil to upper and lower margins, sheet size 22.5 x 12.5 cm (9 x 5 ins), mounted, and a further pencil study by the same artist of St James’s Park, London, and a pencil study of a Sand martin by John W Wadsworth (8)
£150 - £200
270* French School. Interior designs, circa early 20th century, watercolour and ink on wove paper, heightened with white, seven decorative designs for interiors, often with annotations in pencil, three with ink stamps for Prouet-Leroux, Rouen, the largest sheet 42.5 x 26 cm (16 3/4 x 10 1/4 ins), mounted, together with five further original designs for furniture and interiors, the largest sheet 22 x 32 cm, mounted (12)
£200 - £300
271 Gill (Eric). The Engravings of Eric Gill, limited edition, Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983, numerous illustrations, a few colour and folding, original contrasting cloth (a couple of small stains to spine and small indentation), slipcase, 4to, limited edition, one of 1350 copies, together with Rutherston (Albert, editor). Contemporary British Artists: Eric Gill, 1st edition, London: Ernest Benn, 1927, half-tone illustrations, a little minor spotting, some toning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 4to, plus others by or on Eric Gill including first editions (all in original dustwrappers) of Beauty Looks After Herself, 1933, Art and a Changing Civilisation, 1934, Work and Leisure, 1935, Sacred and Secular, 1940, and Autobiography, 1940, plus other related publications including The Monotype Recorder. Eric Gill, volume 41, No. 3, 1958, and A Keepsake for the Guests at the Opening on October 14th 1958 of an Exhibition of the Work of Eric Gill, Master of Lettering, mostly 8vo, VG (22)
lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£200 - £300
Lot 270
Lot 271
272 Mezzotint Collection Catalogue. A manuscript catalogue of the collection of mezzotints belonging to George Jameson of Rutland Square, Dublin, 1889-1918, part-filled manuscript account book with many entries detailing the artists, subjects, sizes, date of purchase etc, with some letters tipped-in from the art dealers Francis Harvey, and Colnaghi to Jameson (from whom many purchases were made), the rear of the book ledger lists date of sale, title, from whom purchased, year of purchase, profit and loss etc. from 1899 to 1918, plus some press cuttings, several photographs of framed prints in situ at the collector's Dublin home loosely inserted at rear, Dublin account book supplier's printed label at front, original full calf with red morocco label to upper cover, rubbed and scuffed, 4to
George Jameson's fine mezzotint collection was sold by Christie's in London in 1904: Catalogue of a Small but Choice Collection of Engravings of the Early English School the Property of George Jameson, Esq. of Rutland Square, Dublin, Portraits of Sir J. Reynolds and Others, and Mezzotints after Constable, by Lucas, the Property of a Gentleman, and Mezzotint Portraits and Engravings in Colours From Various Private Sources, 17 February 1904. (1) £100 - £150
273 Jones (E. Alfred, compiler). Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of William Francis Farrer at No. 7 St. James’s Square, London: The St. Catherine Press, 1924, frontispiece, 93 photographic plates, some light offsetting, some marginal fraying to front silk-lined endpaper, top edge gilt, finely bound by Riviere and Son in maroon full morocco with gilt armorial to upper cover, spine with raised bands, lettered with thistle and foliate decorations in gilt to compartments, slipcase (partially faded), 4to, 35 x 27 cm
Limited edition 30/100.
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£300 - £400
274 Levey (Santina M.). Lace, A History, 1st edition, London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983, numerous black & white plates, original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket slightly rubbed and curled at edges, folio in 8s, together with a manuscript note loosely inserted written by Eileen Robbins ‘I first met Miss Levey when she was a Museum Assistant at Abington Park branch in Northampton. She knew NOTHING about lace! Mrs Violet Bullard got her interested. She moved to Luton Museum, then the V&A. This is her Magnum Opus!’, together with other 19th and 20th century books, catalogues, and pamphlets, mostly on lace-making and the history of lace, including some with lace patterns and tear-out prickings, but also a few on spinning, needlework, etc., e.g. A History of Hand-made Lace, by Mrs. F. Nevil Jackson, 1900, History of Lace, by Mrs. Bury Palliser, 1910, Lace Photographed by Peter Greenland, by Fulvia Lewis, Firenze, 1980, card portfolio worn, and a defective copy of Hand-made laces from the South Kensington Museum, edited by Alan S. Cole, several with damp-soiling or insect damage (mainly to covers/dust jackets)
Provenance: The Collection of Eileen Hope Robbins (1937-2015), Wappenham, Northamptonshire; bequeathed to her son, the present owner. Renowned lace expert and historian Eileen Robbins first became interested in lace as a child growing up in the village of Wappenham, Northamptonshire, where she was born (and where she also died). Alongside her fascination with lace she had a keen interest in history. Eileen won a scholarship to Towcester Grammar School, going on to graduate with a Masters degree in English, Latin and History from London University. She was particularly interested in the history of her home village, and especially that of the lacemakers of Wappenham. As well as buying lace from a variety of sources, Eileen was bequeathed lace and equipment from the lacemaking villagers as they passed away, building up a wide-ranging collection from different countries and eras. In the late 1970s she frequented Audrey Fields’s lace shop in Alfies Antique Market, Marylebone, London. Eileen had several jobs in teaching and librarianship, all the while carrying out her own researches into lace-making, and later on she used her lace collection as an educational tool to teach others about the craft. For over 20 years in the latter stages of her life Eileen was a valuer and antiques dealer, going on to appear on ‘Bargain Hunt’.
(2 cartons)
£80 - £120
275 New Bookbinder. The New Bookbinder. Journal of Designer Bookbinders, volumes 1-44, & index to vols. 1-21(1981-2001), London: Designer Bookbinders, 1981-2024, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, original printed wrappers, small slim folio, plus duplicates of volumes 15 and 36 (47)
£100 - £200
Lot 273
278 Wedge (James). James Wedge Book, limited edition, London: Countdown Publications, 1972, colour and monochrome photographic illustrations mounted on black card with glassine guards, original boards with monochrome illustrations to one side, edges slightly rubbed, oblong folio 27 x 35 cm
Limited edition 199/500, signed and dated by the photographer. (1)
£150 - £200
GENERAL LITERATURE
£300 - £500
276 Palmer (Samuel, 1805-1888). An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with Illustrations by the Author, 2nd edition, London: Seeley & Company, 1884, half-title and title printed in red and black, 14 etched plates, including 5 original etchings by Palmer, some spotting to half-title and endpapers, light marginal dampstaining to preliminary leaves, manuscript genealogical details and inscriptions of Godfrey Carter’s family to front flyleaf, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, slightly rubbed and dust-soiled, folio (1)
277 Tidcombe (Marianne). The Bookbindings of T. J. CobdenSanderson, London: British Library, 1984, colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth in slipcase, 4to, together with:
Crane (W. J. Eden). Bookbinding for Amateurs: being Descriptions of the various Tools and Appliances required and minute Instructions for their effective use, London: L. Upcott Gill, [1893], numerous wood-engraved illustrations to text, publisher’s catalogue at rear (with advertisements bearing date 1893 within text), occasional spotting, original green cloth blocked in gilt and black, joints rubbed, head and foot of spine slightly frayed, 8vo, Davenport (Cyril). English Embroidered Bookbindings, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Limited, 1899, colour frontispiece, title in red and black with decorative border (ownership name to upper margin), colour and monochrome plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, joints lightly rubbed and few marks, 4to, Nixon (Howard M.). Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, London: Scolar Press, 1978, monochrome plates, original cloth in dust jacket (closed tear to front), 8vo, plus a comprehensive selection of other bookbinding history and technique reference titles, including a few booklets, etc. (approx. 100)
£200 - £300
279 Bingham (Howard L.). Muhammad Ali. A Thirty-Year Journey, 1st UK edition, London: Robson Books, 1993, numerous photographic illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, 4to
Signed by the author and Muhammad Ali (his shortened signature) to a label pasted to front endpaper.
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£150 - £200
280 Churchill (Winston S.) Marlborough. His Life and Times, volumes II-IV only, 1st edition, London: George G. Harrap, 193438, maps and illustrations, top edge gilt, original plum cloth gilt (a couple of small abrasions at foot of volume II upper cover), dust jackets, edges lightly rubbed with a few tiny closed tears, a few small stains to spines, 8vo Woods A40a.
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£300 - £500
281 Jampol (Justinian, ed.). Beyond The Wall, Arts and Artifacts from the GDR, 1st edition, Köln: Taschen, 2014, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in ‘as new’ condition, with original box, lightly rubbed, folio, together with: Walter (Marc et al), Germany Around 1900, a portrait in colour, 1st edition, 2015, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket in ‘as new’ condition, with original box, lightly rubbed, folio (2)
£70 - £100
282 Greenaway (Kate). Almanack & Diary for 1897, London: J.M. Dent & Co., [1896], colour illustrations to text, endpapers parttoned, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges foxed, original mustard-coloured imitation Morocco, some fading, small stain to top of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, 10.5 x 8 cm, together with: Wallis, (E., publisher), Sophia and Mary or, The Sisters: An Interesting and Instructive Tale, London, 1818, 6 full-page engraved illustrations, early ink calligraphic ownership name to frontispiece blank reverse, front pastedown partly replaced, original printed wrappers, rubbed with some wear and marks, surface loss to top of spine area, affecting 'Sophia', 14.2 x 9 cm, plus an assortment of 19 various small format books and objects, including: a small framed Map of Berkshire, 1741, by W.H. Toms, after J. Badeslade, with handcolouring; a 1986 boxed 1st edition of Dreamlands, Roleplaying Beyond the Wall of Sleep, a Call of Cthulhu supplement, etc.
First item: Schuster & Engen 16. (21)
£70 - £100
283 Marryat (Frederick). Mr. Midshipman Easy, London: Macmillan and Co., 1896, illustrations by Fred Pegram, a few light stains, decorative endpapers, all edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened, 8vo, together with Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims, retold from Chaucer & others by F. J. Harbey Darton, London: Wells Gardiner, Darton & Co., [1906], illustrations by Hugh Thomson, advertisements front and rear, contemporary ownership signature, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 5th edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1887, illustrations by Reginald Birch, advertisements at rear, contemporary presentation inscription, endpapers a little toned, front hinge tender, original cloth gilt, small stain to upper joint, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with 13 others bound in pictorial cloth including The Red Book of Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, edited by Andrew Lang, 1909, Westward Ho!, by Charles Kingsley, illustrated by Charles Brock, circa 1900, and The Wallypug of Why, by G. E. Farrow, 2nd edition, 1896 (17)
£200 - £300
284 McRae (Lieut. Col. John M.D.). In Flanders Fields, New York, 1921, printed title, five colour illustrations after Ernest Clegg, limited to 265 copies printed by William Edwin Rudge, nearcontemporary manuscript ownership signature to the second front blank, publisher’s boards with gilt title to upper siding, slim 8vo, together with a black and white photograph of William Edwin Rudge, circa 1920, 175 x 125 mm, with a black and white photomechanical view of the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge at Mount Vernon New York with an architectural plan of the building on the verso, originally published in ‘The American Architect’, September 20th, 1926, sheet size 200 x 290 mm, plus Glick (William). Typophile Chap Book, no. 57, William Edwin Rudge, New York: published by The Typophiles, 1984, numerous illustrations throughout, quarter cloth over striped boards, printed title to the spine, glassine wrapper, binding size 185 x 120 mm (4)
£150 - £200
285 Meredith (George). Works, 39 volumes (complete, including Bibliography, Illustrations, and Letters, 2 volumes), Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1896-1912, engraved and photogravure plates, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary green uniform half calf gilt (by Hatchards, Piccadilly), spines faded to brown, and a little rubbed, 8vo
Limited edition of 1025 copies. (39)
£300 - £400
286* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 19522022 & Prince Philip (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Christmas card, 1954, signed by both in blue ink beneath a black and white photographic illustration of the couple on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with their children Charles and Anne, ‘Elizabeth R’ and ‘Philip’, with ‘1954’ added by Elizabeth beneath, folded stiff card with gold embossed crown to the front, some overall spotting, 18 x 20.5 cm, VG (1)
£300 - £500
288 Tarlé (Dominique). Exile: The Making of Exile On Main St., Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2001, photographic illustrations by Tarlé, including a few in colour, all edges gilt, original leatherbacked cloth, spine titled in black, printed paper title label to upper cover, original slipcase with pictorial cloth onlays, upper cover lettered in gilt, folio
287 Shakespeare (William). The Works of Shakespeare, Edited from the best texts, with a glossary, in 12 volumes, London: W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row, 1880, first four and final two leaves of volume I detached with small loss to inner edge, all edges gilt, all uniformly bound in original crimson morocco boards, gilt spine, 16mo, housed in red box, worn and rubbed, two short sides detached (1)
£150 - £200
Printed in an edition of 2,000 signed copies, this copy out of series. On the limitation page where the limitation number would be inserted, (and above the blue ink signature of Tarlé), is a two-line ink stamp: ‘This is an unnumbered review copy and not part of the limited edition.’ (1)
£500 - £800
289 Vermilye (Jerry & Mark Ricci). The Films of Elizabeth Taylor, 1st edition, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1976, photographic illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, some light edge wear, 4to
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292 Illustration & Art. A collection of modern illustration & art reference, including Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide, edited by John Betjeman & John Piper, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1949, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, The Etcher’s Craft, by Robin Tanner, Bristol: Friends of Bristol Art Gallery, 1980, original boards, 8vo, Folk Art of Bengal, by Ajitcoomar Mookerjee, 1st edition, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1939, original boards, 8vo, with others similar, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to (2 cartons)
£50 - £70
Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper ‘To Jason, Best wishes always, Elizabeth Taylor’. (1)
£150 - £200
290 Williamson (Henry). The Patriots' Progress, Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930, woodcut illustrations by William Kermode, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, ownership bookplate of Betty Handley to front pastedown, original quarter vellum gilt, lightly darkened to spine and with some marks, 8vo, limited edition of 350 copies, signed by author and illustrator, together with The Linhay on the Downs (Woburn Books no. 12), London: Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1929, original patterned boards in matching dustwrapper, slim 8vo, limited edition 107/530, initialled by the author, plus other Henry Williamson first editions, including Dandelion Days, 1st edition, 1922, The Peregrine Saga, 1st edition, 1923, Tarka the Otter, 1st US edition, 1927, The Pathway, 1st edition, 1928, The Village Book, 1st edition, 1930, all original cloth, The Pathway and The Village Book in dustwrappers, Devon Holiday, 1935, Goodbye West Country, 1937, Salar the Salmon, 1935, The Dream of Fair Women, 1931, 8vo, mostly original cloth, many in dustwrappers, but including a quantity of Henry Williamson Society Journal, Henry William Society News letter, and related booksellers' catalogues (approx. 140)
293 Miscellaneous Literature. A collection of miscellaneous 19th Century & modern literature, including Rare Poems of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, edited by W. J. Linton, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1883, J. G. Miles ex-libris book plate to the front pastedown, ‘from Lady Hesketh’ in pencil to the free front endpaper, later gilt decorated blue full calf bound by Hatchards, spine lightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, Design: Intelligence Made Visible, by Stephen Bayley & Terence Conran, 1st edition, London: Conran Octopus, 2007, original boards, large 4to, The Costume of the Theatre, by Theodore Komisarjevsky, 1ste edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1931, original boards, with others similar, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(a carton)
£300 - £400
291* Bookcase. A 20th century open oak bookcase, with 4 shelves, top with moulded edge, on 4 small casters, 129 cm x 75 cm x 27 cm
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£50 - £80
£50 - £70
294 Miscellaneous. A collection of miscellaneous 19th & early 20th Century pamphlets, prints & books, including Shakespeare’s Works, 12 volumes, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, & angling reference, G/VG, 8vo (4 cartons)
£70 - £100
295 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments..., Oxford: printed at the University Press, 1851, numerous engraved plates, upper pastedown with morocco presentation label ‘Presented to the Revd. J[ohn]. P[hilip]. Gell. By a few of the congregation of St. Mary’s Church, Bryanston Square..., Novr. 25th, 1854’ and bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gill to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco with brass corner pieces to boards and brass clasp, lower board detached (with final gathering), large 4to, together with a collection of 13 daguerreotype portrait photographs, selection of Carte de visite portrait photographs, three 19th-century manuscript volumes mostly containing poetry and verse, etc. with few drawings and watercolours, an album of miscellaneous 19th-century prints of scenes and views, etc., a Queen Victoria blotting paper signature and an autograph letter signed addressed to Isabella Anne Prout (daughter of artist Samuel Prout) from S. Kemble, plus The Harrow Atlas of Modern Geography, Junior, London: Edward Stanford, 1868 and The Harrow Atlas of Classical Geography, London: Edward Stanford, 1872, both in poor condition, and others various (a carton)
£150 - £200
£150 - £200
296 Nonesuch Press. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea, 5 volumes, 1929, numerous black and white illustrations by T. L. Poulton, original spare printed paper label tipped to each rear pastedown, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original uniform brown cloth with printed paper spine labels, rubbed and some marks, spines with some pale water staining (generally a good set), folio, together with other various illustrated literature, including A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, 16th edition, 1927, and Now We Are Six, 3rd edition, 1927, both original cloth gilt in dustwrappers, GaudierBrzeska, A Memoir by Ezra Pound, circa 1930, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, 1st edition, 1846 (worn copy), Pugin interest, etc. (a carton)
297 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Golden Cockerel, by Alexander Pushkin, N.Y., Limited Editions Club, 1950, colour illustrations to text, limitation page with one of 15 presentation copies blind embossed stamp to lower margin, signed by Dulac with ‘F.D.F.’ in ink under ‘This copy is number’, original cloth with large brass figure of a cockerel applied to upper cover (small area lightly marked), original glassine dust jacket with closed tear and rub with loss to spine, with slipcase, slim folio, together with Willcox Smith (Jessie, illustrator). Rhymes of Real Children by Betty Sage, New York: Fox, Duffield and Company, 1903, 6 full colour plates, black and red illustrations throughout, original brown cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and chipped to edges, slim 4to, and 38 other early to mid 20th-century books including various genres: children’s literature, poetry, theatre, ballet, etc, various sizes, largest 4to (1 shelf)
£200 - £300
298 Hemingway (Ernest). The Old Man and the Sea, 1st UK edition, London, Jonathan Cape, 1952, original cloth in dust jacket illustrated by Hans Tisdall, clipped with price 7/6d present, light fraying to dust jacket at head and foot, 8vo, together with: Spark (Muriel). The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1960, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press. Shelley at Oxford, The Early Correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T. J. Hogg..., edited by Walter Sidney Scott, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944, black and white plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter morocco over buckram, light stain to spine, slim 4to (limited edition 186/500), Doyle (Arthur Conan). The “Sunlight” Year-Book for 1898 [contains Burger’s Secret, first serial publication], Port Sunlight: Lever Brothers, Limited, [1898], black and white illustration, browning to text with some fraying and wear, original pictorial cloth, worn, 8vo, Johnson (Samuel). Rasselas, London: William Miller, 1895, engraved vignette and 4 plates by R. Smirke, some toning and light spotting, 20th-century tan calf, 4to, plus other miscellaneous books, comprising literature and reference, including Smith (William). The Particular Description of England 1588..., London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1879, chromolithograph plates, contemporary half morocco, slim 4to (one of 250 copies printed); Hartshorne (Albert). Old English Glasses..., London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1897, numerous lithograph plates, original half vellum, folio (a carton) £200 - £300
299 Miscellaneous Ephemera, 18th to 20th century, including scrap albums, manuscript albums, cigarette cards, postcards, vellum deeds, etc, viewing advised (5 cartons)
£200 - £300
300 Miscellaneous Ephemera, 19th and 20th century, including scrap albums, photographs, posters, prints, copper plates, etc, viewing advised (5 cartons)
£200 - £300
301 Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque, 2nd edition, London: R. Ackermann, 1812, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title and 29 plates, (verso of frontispiece crudely reattached at gutter), final leaf a little loose, some spotting, toning and light dust-soiling, contemporary half calf, upper board crudely attached and lower board detached, worn, 8vo, together with: Cobbett (William). The Woodlands: or a Treatise on the preparing of ground for planting; on the planting; on the cultivating; on the pruning; and on the cutting down of forest trees and underwoods, 1st edition, London: William Cobbett, 1825, upper pastedown with bookplate of Henry Arthur Blyth, edges untrimmed, original clothbacked boards, spine torn with loss and upper board loosening, 8vo, Dickens (Charles). Oliver Twist, 3 volumes, new edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1839, etched frontispieces and plates by George Cruikshank, some browning and spotting to plates, occasional scattered spotting to text, upper pastedowns with bookplate of W. Warner Parry, contemporary half calf, joints split, worn, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian, etc. (a carton)
£200 - £300
302 Sherlock (William). A Preservative Against Popery: Being some plain directions to unlearned Protestants, how to dispute with Romish Priests, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, London: William Rogers, 1688, imprimatur leaves at front, bound with 2 others: A Vindication of Both Parts of the Preservative Against Popery in Answer to the Cavils of Lewis Sabra, Jesuit, 1688, and A Brief But Full Vindication of the Church of England from the Romanist’s Charge of Schism, 1688, a little minor spotting, hinges reinforced, later panelled calf, rebacked and repaired, small 4to, together with Barclay (James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary, new edition, Bungay: Brightly & Childs, 1812, half-tile, engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 21 hand-coloured engraved maps, 27 engraved plates, marginal biopredation to first few leaves, some spotting and small water stains, modern half morocco, 4to, plus Churchill (Winston). Divi Britannici: Being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855 unto the year of Grace 1660, 1st edition, London: Thomas Roycroft, 1675, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved armorials in text (with later hand-colouring), several leaves in The First Dynasty of Britains lacking and supplied in manuscript facsimile, occasional light spotting, a few water stains, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, folio, with others, some antiquarian etc including volumes II & III only (of 3) of Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display’d, 2nd edition, 1737, Voyage of the Paper Canoe, by Nathaniel Bishop, 1st edition, Boston, 1878, Vines & Vine-Culture, 1883, Darwin, and After Darwin, by George John Romanes, 1892, and Prize Essays on Leprosy, 2 volumes, The New Sydenham Society, 1895 & 1897 (2 cartons)
£300 - £400
Lot 302
303 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). English Fairy Tales, retold by Flora Annie Steel, London: Macmillan & Co., circa 1927, 16 colour plates plus monochrome in-text illustrations, some minor toning, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine & boards slightly faded, front & rear boards slightly marked, 8vo Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M Barrie, London: Folio Society, 2004, 12 tipped-in colour plates plus 22 monochrome intext illustrations, original green cloth in slipcase, folio, with 4 further volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham, plus Lang (Andrew), The Green Fairy Book, London: The Folio Society, 2009, colour illustrations, original green cloth in slipcase, ‘as new’ in original plastic wrap, 8vo, and other late 19th Century & modern juvenile & illustrated literature & related bibliography, all original cloth or boards, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves) £300 - £400
304 Nicolo (Franco). Le Pistole vulgari, Venice: Antonium Gardane, 1542, engravings to the title page & verso of the rear ‘Con Gratia...’ leaf with repaired sections above both, later ink annotation to the front endpaper, some light toning throughout, small water stains to the foot of the text-block, contemporary full vellum with ink title to the spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Disney (John), An Essay upon the Execution of the Laws against Immorality and Prophaneness, 1st edition, London: printed by Joseph Downing, 1708, later endpapers, previous owner inscription to the head of the title page, some worming from pp.149 to the rear endpaper progressively becoming more prominent with some loss in the later pages, some light toning, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss, 8vo, plus Du Monceau (Duhamel), La Physique des Arbres; où il est traité de l’anatomie des plantes et de l’économie végétale:.., 2 volumes, Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1758, engraved folding plates, cracked gutters, some minor marginal toning, ex-libris bookplate to the front pastedown of volume 1, contemporary gilt decorated full mottled calf, some minor rubbing, large 8vo, and other miscellaneous 16th to 20th Century literature & reference, including Station Life in New Zealand, by Lady Barker, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1870, colour frontispiece, contemporary gilt decorated blue full calf ‘prize binding’, 8vo, some contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth or boards, some foreign language, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)
£400 - £600
305 Routledge (Hugh). Everest 1933, reprinted, London: Hodder and Stoughton, November 1934, previous owner inscription ‘Maude Lumsden from Olive Jacks Christmas 1934’ with extensive pencil annotations regarding those persons, further pencil annotations to the half-title, 59 monochrome illustrations, 3 in-text diagrams & 4 maps, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers toned & rubbed with some loss to the head of the spine & front cover, large 8vo Everest: the Unfinished Adventure, 1st edition, 1937, monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth, large 8vo, together with: Buhl (Hermann), Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, a mountaineers biography, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956, 19 monochrome illustrations & 3 maps, period inscription to the front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in priceclipped dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other modern mountaineering reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£300 - £400
306 Bowman (W. E.). The Ascent of Rum Doodle, 1st edition, London: Max Parish, 1956, monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Tilman (H. W.), China to Chitral, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1951, 69 monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed to the head & foot with some small tears & minor loss, 8vo, plus Banks (Mike), Rakaposhi, 1st, London: Secker & Warburg, 1959, colour frontispiece & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor rubbing, 8vo, and other modern mountaineering reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
307 Mountaineering Journals. A large collection of mid 20th Century & modern mountaineering journals, including The Himalayan Journal, The Rucksack Club Journal, The Climbers’ Club Journal, The Alpine Journal, The Journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, all original wrappers or boards, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves & a carton)
£200 - £300
308 Juvenile Literature. A large collection of late 19h & early 20th Century juvenile & pictorial cloth literature, including works by G. A. Henty, Andrew Lang, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mabel Lucie Atwell, W. Heath Robinson, Charles Kingsley, all in original cloth or boards, some in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
309 Modern Fiction. A large collection of modern 1st edition fiction, including works by Peter Carey, Wilbur Smith, Aldous Huxley, Nevil Shute, Graham Greene, Arthur C. Clarke, Iris Murdoch, some signed by the authors, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
310 Schuster (Peter, & Harald Tiede). Uniforms and Insignia of the Cossacks in the German Wehrmacht in World War II, 1st edition, Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2004, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Gunston (Bill, & Yefim Gordon), MiG Aircraft since 1937, 1st edition, London: Putnam, 1998, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus Lepre (George), Himmler’s Bosnian Division, the Waffen-SS in Handschar Division 1943-1945, 1st edition, Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 1997, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern military & naval reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Helion, Seaforth, Conway, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, some German language, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves) £300 - £400
311 Marangou (Anna G.). The Harbours and Ports of Cyprus, Nicosia: Laiki Group Cultural Centre, 2002, monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, original light brown cloth gilt in dustwrapper, 4to, VG, together with Scylianou (Andreas & Judith A.). The History of the Cartography of Cyprus (Cyprus Research Centre VIII), Nicosia, 1980, some colour and numerous monochrome illustrations, including a few folding, author's presentation inscription to half-title, dated 1981, original blue cloth in dustwrapper, spine lettered in gilt, large 4to, plus Thomson (John). Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878, London: Trigraph, 1985, photographic illustrations, original brown cloth gilt in dustwrapper, 4to, VG, and others on the history, archeology and culture of Cyprus including Andreas and Judith Scylianou, The Painted Churches of Cyprus, 1985, G. S. Georghallides, A Political and Administrative History of Cyprus 19181926, Nicosia, 1929, Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey between the years 1803 and 1807, facsimilie edition, 2 volumes, London: Garnet Publishing, 1993, Harry Luke, Cyprus Under the Turks 1571-1878, facsimilie reprint, 1969, Vassos Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Chesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, Stavros Lazarides, Souvenir of Famagusta, 1999, Peter W. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades 1191-1374, Cambridge University Press, 1991, etc., mostly original cloth, many in dustwrappers, but including some paperbound editions, maily 4to/8vo, generally G/VG (6 shelves)
£300 - £400
312 Megaw (Elektra). Wild Flowers of Cyprus, Text by Desmond Meikle, London and Chichester: Phillimore & Co., 1973, colour plates, original publisher's olive green mock leather gilt, large folio, together with Meikle (R. D.). Flora of Cyprus, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1977, colour frontispiece to each volume, original uniform blue cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Bannerman (David and W. Mary). Birds of Cyprus, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958, colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome illustrations, original dark green cloth gilt in dustwrapper, large 8vo, and Dunne (Major Benjamin Donisthorpe Alsop). Records of the Ottoman Conquest of Cyprus and Cyprus Guide and Directory, New Enlarged edition incorporating Dunne's Cyprus Journal and additional notes, edited by Philip Christian, Laiki Group Cultural Centre, 2000, monochrome illustrations, original half brown morocco, 4to, plus others on Cyprus history, travel, etc., including Rita C. Severis, Travelling Artist's in Cyprus 1700-1960, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2000, Cyprus 1878, The Journal of Sir Garnet Wolseley, edited by Anne Cavendish, 1991, Michael Radford, The Railways of Cyprus, Laiki Group Cultural Centre, 2003, Stavros Lazarides, The Splendor and Simplicity of Cyprus, Photographs of Vahan Avedissian 1925-1950, 2005, Anna Maragou, Before Traces Disappear..., Limassol, The Old Town Through Edward's Lense, 1999, Ewald Hein, Cyprus, Byzantine Churches and Monasteries, Mosaics and Frescoes, 1998, Panagiotis Dimtrakis, Military Intelligence in Cyprus from the Great War to Middle East Crises, 2010, Dwight E. Lee, Great Britain and the Cyprus Convention Policy of 1878, Harvard University Press, 1934, The Life and Times of a Victorian Officer, Journals of Colonel Benjamin Donisthorpe Alsop Dunne, edited by Alan Harfield, Wincanton Press, 1976, A. T. Reyes, The Stamp-Seals of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford University School of Archeology, 2001, etc., many original cloth in dustwrappers, and paperbound editions, 4to/8vo (6 shelves)
£300 - £400
313 Poetry. A collection of 19th & 20th Century poetry, including works by Tennyson, Byron, William Morris, Walter de la Mare, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, some gilt decorated leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo (5 shelves)
£150 - £200
314 Art & Interiors. A large collection of modern art & interiors reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£100 - £150
315 Trade Catalogues. A large collection of early to mid-20th Century trade catalogues & motoring reference, including Thos. P. Headland Ltd, Accessories for Cars, Coaches and Commercial Vehicles, London, March 1938, original boards, large slim 8vo, Harco Products 1874-1934, Diamond Jubilee Catalogue No. 650, G. A. Harvey & Co., London, 1934, original blue cloth, large 8vo, Abbirko supplementary catalogue & price list, for No. 50 general catalogue, Abbot, Birks & Co, London, February 1957, original green cloth, large 8vo, Nicholls & Clarke, Ltd, manufacturers and merchants of building materials, Catalogue No. 30, London, circa 1940s, original cloth, 8vo, with others similar plus some modern motoring reference, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
316 History. A large collection of modern history, topography & poor law reference, including Life and Labour of the People in London, 6 volumes, edited by Charles Booth, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892-95, ex-library copies with associated marks, lacks maps, original uniform blue cloth, 8vo, Eigth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners with appendices, London: printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1842, original cloth, 8vo, Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching, by A. P. Sinnett, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919, original plum cloth, 8vo, Manual of Freemasonry, in three parts, by Richard Carlile, London: Reeves and Turner, circa 1860, original gilt decorated red cloth, 8vo, with others similar, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£150 - £200
317 Sigfried (Giedion). Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition, the three space conceptions in architecture, 1st edition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor rubbing to head & foot, 4to, together with: Thornton (Dora), The Scholar in His Study, ownership and experience in Renaissance Italy, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus Lillich (Meredith Parsons), Rainbow Like an Emerald, stained glass in Lorraine in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, 1st edition, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, colour & numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and other modern art & architecture reference from the library of the late Sir William Whitfield CBE, architect, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(5 shelves)
£200 - £300
318 Alex (William, & George B. Tatum). Calvert Vaux, architect and planner, 1st edition, New York: Ink, Inc., 1994, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with: Carter II (Edward C., editor), The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1795- 1798, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, covers very lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus Lavin (Irving), Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini..., 1st edition, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, and other art & architecture reference from the library of the late Sir William Whitfield CBE, architect, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)
£200 - £300
319 Forster (E. M.). Alexandria: A History and a Guide, reprinted, Alexandria: Whitehead Maurice Limited, 1938, folding maps, and illustrations, original orange printed boards, worn, together with Fiske (Jane, editor). The Oakes Diaries, Business, Politics and the Family Bury St. Edmunds 1778-1827 (Suffolk Records Society, XXXIIXXXIII), 2 volumes, London: Boydell Press, 1990, monochrome plates, original green cloth in dustwrappers, 8vo, plus Hopkirk (Peter). The Great Game on Secret Service in High Asia, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1990, monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, original black cloth in dustwrapper, thick 8vo, and Armour (G. D.). Pastime with Good Company, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1914, tipped-in monochrome plates, with tissueguard to each, original quarter white cloth, with printed pictorial label to upper cover, rubbed and some light soiling, autograph letter by the artist loosely inserted, dated 14 December 1930, 4to, plus other literature, travel, etc., including Penguin paperbacks, Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Edmund Blampied, 1931 (in dustwrapper), Oscar Wilde, A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome, 1912, Ariel Poems numbers 9, 11, 12, 15, 21 & 22, etc., mostly original cloth in dustwrappers and paperback editions (Penguins), 8vo (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
320 Smith (Bernard, & Alwyne Wheeler, editors). The Art of The First Fleet & other early Australian drawings, 1st edition, New Have: Yale University Press, 1988, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, lightly rubbed & marked, folio, together with: Levey (Michael), Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus Cotton (Bernard D.), Scottish Vernacular Furniture, 1st edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 2008, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spines lightly faded, folio, and other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£150 - £200
321 Marsilio, publisher. Canova, 1st English language edition, New York, 1992, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Soros (Susan Weber, editor), E. W. Godwin, Aesthetic Movement architect and designer, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus Bown (Matthew Cullerne), A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s, 1st edition, London: Izomar Limited, 1998, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine & covers slightly faded, large square 4to, and other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£150 - £200
322 Draper (James David, & Guilhem Scherf). Augustin Pajou, Royal Sculptor 1730-1809, 1st edition, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with: T. Cadell, publisher, Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President, London, 1878, some period marginal annotations, front board & endpapers detached, some minor toning & spotting, contemporary full tree calf, boards & spine rubbed with some small loss, 8vo, plus, Petrova (Yevgenia), Russian Futurism and David Burliuk, “The Father of Russian Futurism”, St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2000, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, and other 19th & 20 Century art, antiques & miscellaneous reference & literature, some leather bindings, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£100 - £150
323 Silber (Evelyn). Gaudier-Brzeska, life and art...catalogue raisonné, 1st edition, London: Thames and Hudson, 1996, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, together with: Dehejia (Vidya), Delight in Design, Indian Silver for the Raj, 1st edition, India: Mapin Publishing, 2008, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Wittkower (Rudolf), Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, Milan: Electa, 1990, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, spine lightly marked, large 4to, and other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£150 - £200
324 Souday (Paul). Marcel Proust (Les Documentaires), troisième édition, Paris: Simon Kra, [1913], original orange printed wrappers, a little rubbed and lightly faded to edges, together with Larcher (P.-L.). Le Parfum de Combray, Pèlerinage Proustien à Illiers, Paris: Mercure de France, 1945, original printed wrappers, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, plus other Marcel Proust biographical interest and literary criticism, mostly printed in French, mainly 8vo (3 shelves)
£150 - £200
£150 - £200
325 Proust (Marcel). Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust, 6 volumes, Paris, Librairie Plon, 1930, top edge gilt, contemporary uniform quarter vellum, with gilt morocco label to spine of each volume, 8vo, together with other Marcel Proust editions, literary criticism, correspondence, including Correspondance de Marcel Proust, volumes I-III, V-XXI, Paris: Librairie Plon, 1970-93, Marie Scheikevitch, Time Past, 1st English edition, 1936, etc., mostly printed in French, mainly 8vo (3 shelves)
326 Antique Collectors’ Club, publisher. 46 volumes including Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, by Susan E. Stuart, 1st edition, 2008, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, spine lightly faded, large 8vo, Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, its students & teachers 1943-1960, by Geoff Hassell, 1st edition, 1995, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, Art and Artists of the Norwich School, by Josephine Walpole, 1st edition, 1997, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, W.A.S. Benson, arts and crafts luminary and pioneer of modern design, edited by Ian Hamerton, 1st edition, 2005, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus others similar, all original cloth in dust jackets, some covers slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Staley (Allen), The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, new edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
327 Ayers (John, et al). Porcelain for Palaces, the fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, 1st edition, London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990, numerous colour illustrations, original plum cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Billcliffe (Roger), The Glasgow Boys, 1st edition, London: Frances Lincoln, 2008, numerous colour illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Meyer (Anthony J.P.), Oceanic Art, single volume edition, Köln: Köneman, 1995, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)
£150 - £200
328 Hewetson (W. B.). History of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Wars of Europe, embracing the whole of his memorable career from infancy to his death at St. Helena, Concluding with an accurate description of the exhumation of his body..., 3 volumes, London: Thomas Kelly, 1841, engraved frontispiece to each volumes, additoanl engraved title to first volume, original blindstamped green cloth, rubbed and some marks, fraying to extremities, together with Nicolas (Sir Nicholas Harris). A History of the Royal Navy, from the earliest times to the wars of the French Revolution, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1847, engraved frontispiece to each volume (first volume frontispiece with light waterstain), original blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear with partial loss to spines, 8vo, plus Roskill (S. W.). The War at Sea (History of the Second World War series), 3 volumes bound in 4, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954-1961, numerous monochrome plates after photographs, folding maps, etc., all original green cloth in dustwrappers, rubbed and minor fraying to extremities, and Harrison (Sarah). The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat with Family Cook: containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring & c., 8th edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts.., London: C. R. Ware, 1764, contemporary ownership signatures of Catherine Baldwin, to front endpaper and head of title, the first dated 1769, contemporary sheep, worn, small 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books, including Naval interest, 19th and 20th century plus Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Coral Island, a tale of the Pacific Ocean, London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1860, E. A. Maling, Song Birds and How to Keep them, 1862, Little Truths Better Than Great Fables, volume I, 3rd edition, London: W. Darton & Co., 1789, Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs for Children, London: J. Johnson, 1787, Richard Sibbs, Bowels Opened, or a discovery of the neere and deere love union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, London: G. M. for George Edwards, 1639 (lacking covers), The Visible World; or, the chief things there in: drawn in pictures. Originally written in Latin and High Dutch; now rendered easy to the capacities of children, London: Darton and Harvey, 1791, etc., mostly 8vo (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
329 R. Ackermann, publisher. Pugin’s Gothic Furniture, London, circa 1829, 26 monochrome plates, previous owner inscription to the free front endpaper, some minor toning, original green cloth, spine lightly rubbed, large slim 4to, together with: Britton (J., & A. Pugin), Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London..., volume 2 only, London: printed for J. Taylor, 1828, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplate removed from the front pastedown, gutters cracked, some light marginal toning, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, plus Bindman (David, & Malcolm Baker), Roubiliac and the EighteenthCentury Monument, sculpture as theatre, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and other architecture & interiors reference, including Studies in Art, Architecture and Design, by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2 volumes, 2nd printing, London: Thames & Hudson, 1969, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
330 Smart (Alastair). Allan Ramsay, a complete catalogue of his painting, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Ferran (Denise, & Valerie Holman), The Sculpture of F. E. McWilliam, 1st edition, Surrey: Lund Humphries, 2012, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Watson (Wendy M.), Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st edition, Philadelphia: Museum of Art, 2002, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other modern art & antiques reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)
£150 - £200
331 Aviation. A large collection of modern aviation reference, including publications by Ian Allan, Midland, Naval Institute Press, Osprey, Crecy, Airlife, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio, together with a folder of 22 signed aviation prints, various sizes (6 shelves & a folder)
£300 - £400
332 Reid (Forrest). The Bracknels, a family chronicle, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1911, author inscription & signature dated ‘6 May 1914’ to the free front endpaper, front gutter cracked, some minor toning, original grey clot, some minor wear to the spine, 8vo Apostate, 1st edition, London: Constable & Co., 1926, signed by the author to the title page, some minor toning, original boards, spine slightly faded, 8vo, with a 1928 edition also inscribed & signed by the author to the free front endpaper, 8vo Uncle Stephen, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1931, inscribed & signed by Hugh Walpole to the free front endpaper, some minor toning, original red cloth, spine lightly faded, front board slightly marked, 8vo The Retreat, 1st edition, 1936, signed by the author to the title page, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning, original red cloth, spine lightly faded, 8vo Peter Waring, 1st edition, 1937, signed by the author to the title page, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning, original red cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine slightly toned, 8vo Private Road, 1st edition, 1940, author inscription & signature dated ‘25 Aug. 1943’ to the free front endpaper, some light marginal toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine & covers slightly toned, marked & rubbed to head & foot with some minor loss, 8vo Young Tom, or very mixed company, 1st edition, 1944, signed by the author to the title page, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & worn with some minor loss, 8vo, with a disbound proof copy with authors marginal notes & 3 hand written letters in envelopes contained in a red cloth folder, 8vo, plus 19 further unsigned works by Forrest Reid, together with: Poe (Edgar Allan), The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: Peter Pauper Press, circa 1950, monochrome wood engraving by Hans Alexander Mueller, previous owner inscription to the free front endpaper, original boards in slipcase, slipcase slightly spotted & faded, 8vo, plus Minton (John, illustrator), Time was away, a notebook in Corsica, by Alan Ross, 1st edition, London: John Lehmann, 1948, colour & monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, original yellow cloth, spine rubbed & toned, boards marked, 8vo, and other early 20th Century & modern poetry & fiction, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves)
£200 - £300
333 Harvey Darton (F. J.). A Wonder Book of Old Romance, 1st edition, London: Wells Gardener Darton, 1907, numerous monochrome illustrations by A. G. Walker, some light spotting & toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated red pictorial cloth, spine very lightly rubbed to the head & foot, 8vo, together with: Dixon (A. A., illustrator), King Arthur and His Knights, by Doris Ashley and others, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, circa 1932, colour & monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning, original red cloth with illustrated front board, 8vo, plus Defoe (Daniel), The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, London: Ward, Lock & Co., circa 1930, 8 colour illustrations, some light toning & spotting to the text-block, original gilt decorated red pictorial cloth, some minor rubbing, and other similar early 20th Century pictorial cloth & illustrated juvenile literature, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves)
£150 - £200
334 Lee (Jim). Arrested, 1st edition, East Sussex: Ammonite Press, 2012, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards, folio, together with: Guest (Rick, with Olivia Pomp), What Lies Beneath, 1st edition, London: Hospital Club, 2016, colour illustrations, original cloth in plastic dust cover, slim folio, limited edition of 1000 un-numbered copies, plus Barber (Edward), In The City, 1st edition, London: Concrete Editions, 1999, signed by the author to the limitation page, numerous monochrome illustrations, front gutter cracked, original cloth in slipcase, large 4to, limited edition number 2273 of 2750, and other modern photography reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, folio/4to (3 shelves)
£200 - £300
335 Sargeant (Philip W.). The Princess Matilde Bonaparte, 1st edition, London, Stanley Paul & Co., [1915], monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original dark green cloth gilt, large 8vo, together with Proust (Marcel). Rememberance of Things Past, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Parts Five, Six, & Seven (Cities of the Plain, The Captive, & The Sweet Cheat Gone), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929-1930, all original blue cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus other Marcel Proust interest, many printed in French, including Cahiers Marcel Proust, George D. Painter, Marcel Proust A Biography, 2 volumes, 1959/65, etc., mostly 8vo (3 shelves)
£150 - £200
336 Roe (A. S.). China As I Saw It, a woman's letters from the celestial empire, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1910, monochrome plates after photographs, some light scattered spotting, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, spine lightly faded, together with Potter (John). Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece, new editon, to which is now first added an apendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states,..., by G. Dunbar, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Doig & Stirling, 1813, folding map frontipiece to first volume, engraved plates, some light spotting, mainly to plates, contemporary ownership inscription of E. Thornton to front endpaper of each volume, and armorial bookplate of Edward Thornton to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform polished full calf, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed, plus Joppien (Rüdiger, and Bernard Smith). The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, 2 volumes (The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, & The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775), Yale University Press, 1985, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, both original boards gilt in dustwrappers, folio, and other travel interest, various, including Erich von Drygalski, The Southern Ice-Continent, The German South Polar Expedition, abroad the Gauss 1901-1903, translated by M. M. Raraty, Erskine Press, 1989, William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Phillips, Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, 1871, E. A. Wallis Budge, The Dwellers of the Nile, 1926, Algot Lange, The Lower Amazon, 1914, David Livingstone, Missionery Travels and Researches in South Africa, New York, 1858, etc., some leather bound, mostly 8vo (3 shelves) £300 - £400
337 Bruyn (J., et al). A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings [Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Foundation], 3 volumes, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982-9, some colour plus numerous monochrome illustrations, ex-libris Lenkiewicz Foundation bookplate to the front paste downs, original uniform cloth, slightly rubbed & worn, folio, together with: Wilson (Timothy), Italian Maiolica and Europe..., 1st edition, Oxford: Ashmolean, 2017, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Dalrymple (William), Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company, 1st edition, London: Philip Wilson, 2019, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor marks, large 4to, and other art & Old Masters reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves) £200 - £300
338 Aviation. A collection of modern aviation reference, including publications by Putnam, Airlife, Grub Street, PSL, PRC, Sutton, all original cloth in dust jackets, some duplicate copies, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves) £150 - £200
339 Barkahan (Menachem, editor). Jews of Latvia during WWII, 5 volumes bound in six, Riga: Shamir, 2013, 4to, together with Nezikin (Seder). The Babylonian Talmund, London: Soncino Press, 1935, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, thick 8vo, plus Adler (Hermann). Anglo-Jewish Memories and other sermons, 1st edition, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1909, author’s presentation copy, inscribed ‘with the Author’s warmest wishes. June 24, 1999’ to verso of half-title, later presentation inscription in another hand to front endpaper, top edge gilt, original dark green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, and others on Judaism and Jewish history and culture, mostly 20th century publications, including Selig Brodetski, Memoirs, from Ghetto to Israel, 1st edition, 1960, Leon Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism, 4 volumes, University of Pennsyvania Press, 1975, Franz Kopler, Letters of Jews through the Ages, 2 volumes, 1953, etc., many original cloth in dustwrappers, some paperbound editions, mainly 8vo (3 shelves) £100 - £150
340 Haward (Lazarus). The Charges issuing forth of the Crown Revenue of England and Dominion of Wales..., 1st edition, London: printed for John Wright, 1647, complete in 55 pages, bookplate to the front pastedown, later endpapers, later half morocco to marbled boards, slightly rubbed, slim 8vo, together with: Burnard (Robert), Dartmoor Pictorial Records, Plymouth: privately printed, W. Brendon & Son, 1890, signed by the author & printer to the limitation page, monochrome plates, title page through to the contents page partially detached, some minor toning, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter morocco, spine rubbed, 8vo, limited edition number 108 of 150 copies, plus Harper (Charles G.), The Oxford, Gloucester and Milford Haven Road, the ready way to South Wales, 2 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1905, numerous monochrome illustrations, ex-libris bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning, original uniform blue cloth, spines slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mostly 19th Century & modern UK topography reference & related, including a large run of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society, mostly original cloth, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves & 2 cartons)
£150 - £200
341 Turner (W. J., editor). New Excursions into English Poetry series: Traveller’s Verse, with original lithographs by Edward Bawden, Poems of Sleep and Dream, with original lithographs by Robert Colquhoun, The Poet’s Eye, with original lithographs by John Craxton, Sea Poems, with original lithographs by Mona Moore, 1944, English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape with original lithographs by John Piper, 1945, Soldier’s Verse with original lithographs by William Scott, 1945, and Poems of Death with original lithographs by Michael Ayrton, 1945, original cloth, three volumes in dustwrappers, frayed, all 8vo, together with other literature and modern poetry including Georgian Poetry, 5 volumes (1911-1912, 1913-15, 1916-1917, 1918-1919, & 19201922), W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, David Gascoyne, etc., all 8vo (6 shelves)
£150 - £200
342 Military. A large collection of modern military reference & related, including publications by Airlife, Arms & Armour Press, Blandford, After The Battle, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
£200 - £300
343 Mediterranean Travel. Malta Blue Book for the Year 1916-17, Government Printing Office 1918, a little worming to inner margins towards front of volume, original printed cloth, rubbed and some marks, recased with original spine laid down, folio, together with Bannerman (David & Mary). Birds of Cyprus, 1st edition, London: Oliver & Boyd, 1938, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper, large 8vo, plus Bannerman (D. A., and J. A. Vella-Gaffiero). Birds of the Maltese Archipelago, Valletta: Museums Department, 1976, colour plates, monochrome illustrations, original maroon cloth in dustwrapper, 8vo, plus others on the islands of the Mediterranean, including T. B. Mitford, The Inscriptions of Kourion, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971, Louis Golding, Sicilian Noon, 1st edition, 1925, Peter T. Jackson, Air Spies of Malta, circa 1930, in dustwrapper, all 20th century publications, many original cloth in dustwrappers, some paperback editions, all 8vo (6 shelves) £100 - £150
344 Bindings. The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters, 7 volumes, The Haworth Edition, London: John Murray, reprinted 1926, contemporary uniform gilt decorated red half calf bound by Riviere, boards slightly damp damaged, 8vo, Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, 2 volumes, by His Wife, 6th impression, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905, ‘Ex Libris W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey’ book plate to the front pastedown, contemporary unform gilt decorated red half calf, spine slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, Roland Cashel, 1st edition, by Charles Lever, London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, contemporary gilt decorated tan half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other mid to late 19th & early 20th Century literature, all gilt decorated leather bindings, some odd volumes & foreign language editions, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo (6 shelves) £300 - £500
345 Waugh (Evelyn).Robbery Under Law, The Mexican ObjectLesson, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1939, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities only, 8vo, together with Patmore (Coventry). Principle in Art etc., 1st edition, London: George Bell & Sons, 1889, ownership signature of Richard Garnett to half-title, author's compliments slip pasted to front endpaper, bookplate of David Garnett to front pastedown, original cloth with paper spine label, a little rubbed and spine faded, small 8vo, plus other literature, various, including Henry Cecil, C. P. Snow, T. H. White, Robert Lee Wolff, 19th-century fiction, A Bibliographic Catalogue, 5 volumes bound in two, Garland Publishing, 1981, Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in National Trust Properties, 6 volumes, 2013, Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, 5 volumes bound in 4, 1989-92, etc.
(3 shelves)
£200 - £300
DAY TWO
346 Marshall (John, publisher). A Series of Prints of Scripture History, Designed as Ornaments for Those Apartments in which Children Receive the First Rudiments of their Education, [by Sarah Trimmer], London: printed and sold by J. Marshall and Co. at No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane, [1786?], 4 pp., 32 engraved plates (some dated July 17, 1786), together with 6 other similar volumes by Sarah Trimmer, published by John Marshall, comprising: A series of prints of Roman history, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education, [1789], 2pp., 64 plates; A Series of Prints Taken from the New Testament, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education, [between 1790 and 1800?], [2] pp., 64 plates (some dated Feby 1, 1790); A Description of a Set of Prints of Ancient History; contained in a set of easy lessons. By Mrs. Trimmer. Second edition. In two parts ..., 2 volumes, 1787-1788, 104 & iv, 116 pp.; A Series of Prints of English History, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education, [between 1792 and 1800?], plates 3-62 only, lacks initial title-page and 4 plates (1-2, 63-64), some of the plates dated Oct. 2, 1792; A Series of Prints of Ancient History, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education. In Two Parts, 2 volumes, no date & 1788, [2] pp., 32 plates; [2] pp., 32 plates, (some plates dates 1786 and some 1788), all volumes with occasional spotting and a few leaves with marginal fraying, contemporary sheep wit gilt-ruled borders, worn, some loss to spines and two covers detached, 16mo ESTC N22074, N22073, T132937, N6354, T132939 and this edition not in ESTC. (8)
£300 - £500
347 Peacock (Lucy). The Little Emigrant, a Tale. Interspersed with Moral Anecdotes and Instructive Conversations. Designed for the Perusal of Youth, 1st edition, London: Printed by S. Low… For the Author, at the Juvenile Library, 1799, engraved frontispiece, a few scattered ink corrections, some spotting and soiling throughout, some staining to lower blank area of frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, library stamp at foot of partially excised front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rubbed, corner wear and small loss at head of spine, upper cover held by cords, lower cover detached, 12mo (1)
£100 - £150
348 Marshall (John, publisher). A group of 8 miniature children’s books, c. 1800-1823, comprising: Geography Embellished with a variety of Views from Nature for the Bookcase of Instruction and Delight, London: John Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, Cheapside, no date, [4] pp., hand-coloured frontispiece (with imprint date ‘June 2 1802’) and 26 hand-coloured plates; Prints of Natural History, with Descriptions, 2 volumes, London: John Marshall, 140, Fleet Street, from Aldermary Church-Yard, no date, [8] & [9] leaves, 15 & 13 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece to volume 1, mostly bearing the date ‘April 8 1802’ in imprint, frontispiece to volume 1 with artist identified as John Piggot; Stories for the Book-Case of Instruction and Delight, 2 volumes, John Marshall, 140, Fleet Street, from Aldermary Church-yard, 1819, each 36 pp.; A History of England, in Verse, from the Conquest, to the Present Time, London: John Marshall, 140, Fleet Street, from Aldermary Church-Yard, 1819, 35, [1] pp., including 33 half-page copper-engraved medallion portraits; Poems, Riddles, & c., London: E[leanor] Marshall, 140, Fleet Street, from Aldermary Church-Yard, 1823, [2], 11-56 pp.; Drawing Book [so titled on upper cover], London: John Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, no date, 12 leaves of copper-engraved plates, all bearing publisher’s imprint and date ‘Oct. 1 1800’ at foot, four with the artist identified as J. Piggot, interleaved with blanks (for a child to copy), bound (as issued?) without title-page or letterpress, old juvenile pencil scribbles and handwriting trials to blanks and some plates, additional unrelated plate pasted down at rear; some occasional spotting to all volumes, original paper-covered decorative boards with decorative paper title labels to upper covers, all with edge wear and defective spines, 32mo
John Marshall (1783-1828) began publishing miniature children’s books in 1800, including The Juvenile, or Child’s Library, The Infant’s Library, The Doll’s Library and The Book-Case of Instruction and Delight (1802). In the following years he published other miniatures, including numerous variations and stand-alone titles. His work, printed in brightly coloured boards, and often housed in doll-house-like bookcases, became incredibly popular and spawned dozens of imitators. In about 1805, John Marshall’s business transferred from 4 Aldermary Churchyard to 140 Fleet Street. Eleanor Marshall also printed and sold from there, c. 1806-1828. Some of these undated titles appear to be variant reprints, possibly published slightly later than the illustration imprint dates suggest. For further information about these series, see Brian Alderson, ‘Miniature Libraries for the Young’, The Private Library, Spring 1983, pp. 2-38. (8)
£700 - £1,000
349* Dick Whittington. A series of 15 pictorial cards, circa 1810, 15 handcoloured engravings, on paper, laid onto paper backed card, depicting the adventures of Dick Whittington, scenes including: Dick working as a scullion, Mrs Cicely beating Dick, dinner table being swarmed with rats, Dick marrying Mr Fitzwarren’s daughter Alice, Dick buying a cat, etc., each card with black border (possibly later), dust soiled and toned, some light rubbing to edges, pin hole to lower edges, a few with remnants of yellow string, some with adhesive tape to outer edges of verso, all approximately 84 x 74 mm Scarce, unable to find another copy. (15)
£300 - £500
350* Harris (John, publisher). Marmaduke Multiply’s Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians; or the Multiplication Table illustrated by sixty-nine appropriate engravings, published by J. Harris, circa 1818 [or slightly later], 8 hand-coloured engraved plates only (numbered 25, 32, 43, 46, 47, 51, 52, 62), from the published book, each hand-coloured engraving with text below, comprising: Six times 10 are 60. This pretty cap will fix me., Four times 11 are 44. Pray make this noise my dears no more., Seven times 10 are 70. We’re sailing very pleasantly., Four times 4 are 16. The Air is very keen., Six times 7 are 42. This is the road which leads to Looe., Seven times 9 are 63. Come pray Sir, give that Hat to me., Six times 11 are 66., We’re four by Honours and three by tricks., and Nine times 11 are 99., See Sophy, how my Ear-rings shine, each numbered to the top of the page, each individually mounted and framed (mount aperture 12 x 9.5 cm), matching modern gilt frames, glazed (27.5 x 25 cm)
See Moon, John Harris’s Books for Youth 1801-1843, (1976), 520.
The very pretty and amusing illustrations to this engaging little book, rather than its somewhat lame couplets, have made it one of John Harris’s bestknown and most desirable productions for young children. (8) £100 - £150
351* Miller (R., publisher). My Father, A Poem, In Imitation of Cowper’s Mary, embellished with twelve engravings, London, circa 1820, 12 (of 13) cards, comprising an engraved title, with handcoloured vignette of a flower basket (slightly dusty), and 11 hand-coloured engraved cards, each numbered (lacking number 2), each with a 3-line stanza below an illustration, a few with some light foxing to upper edge, faint paper fault crease across card 3, approximately 71 x 65 mm
Various versions of this title were published, mostly in anthology volumes, for example by John Arliss, Hodgson & Co., and William Darton, all of them apparently scarce. We have not traced a copy in card form as here. (1)
£150 - £200
352 Pinnock’s Catechisms. Catechisms by Pinnock, 41 volumes, 1819-1832, comprising: History of America Part I, and Part II (x2), 1819; Ornithology (x3), 1820; Trade and Commerce, 1821; Chemistry (x3), [1812]; Ichthyology (x2), 1820; Mineralogy, 1821; Pinnock’s French Catechisms Geographie (x 5), [1820]; Geometry, 1843; Modern History, new edition; Geography of the British Empire, Part II Scotland, [1830]; Bible, 1810; Theophilus, 1828; British Biography, (x2), [1822]; Poetry, (x3), 1822; Nature (x3), 1822; Architecture (x2), 1829; Classical Biography (x3), [1824]; Ancient History, 1825; New Testament, a New Edition; Bible and Gospel History, 1829; History of France, [1820]; Christian Religion, 1832; dust-soiling and a few marks, all in original wrappers, slim 18 mo, (a carton)
£200 - £300
353 Manuscript. The Birthday, or, Harry Somerville. With Eight Illustrations, [Ireland]: Ballylin, 1842, pp.[ii]+8, calligraphic titlepage (dusty), with dedication on verso ‘To Leonard John Graham-Clarke, this work is humbly Dedicated by his Cousins’, and 8 pages each written in neat manuscript in sepia ink, with an illustration below also in sepia ink, somewhat foxed, blank leaf at rear (conjugate to title), original pink paste paper wrappers, spine rubbed, corner tips curled, 12 x 9.5 cm
A charmingly written and illustrated tale of Harry Somerville’s sixth birthday, in which he breakfasts with his parents (“a great treat”), is allowed to ride his papa’s horse, traverses a river in a boat, flies a kite made for him by his papa, and visits his cousins, with whom he plays battledore. (1)
£150 - £200
354* Calendar. A hand-painted perpetual calendar, circa 1850, circular pen, ink, and watercolour calendar, with shield-shaped cut-outs around the edge revealing changeable letters representing the initial letters of the days of the week, from which emanate a series of black ink numbers representing dates of the month, each within a blue roundel, the intersections filled with foliate scrollwork (one with short closed tear), lightly toned, and with a few small ink splatters, diameter 14.5 cm, gilt mount, glazed heptagonal frame (18.5 cm), black leather reverse of frame with hanging loop to top and small brass loop in centre to operate rotating mechanism (1)
£200 - £300
355* Doilies. A set of 12 hand-painted silk placemats depicting feathers, late 19th/early 20th century, watercolour on cream silk squares, each finely hand-painted with images of variously coloured feathers, fringed edges, most with some light marks (one slightly more stained), 2 with a very small hole, each approximately 16 x 16 cm, together with a small gouache painting on a square of cream gauze, depicting a river scene with an anthropomorphic heron lording it over a group of revelling frogs, 13 x 13 cm (13)
£100 - £150
356* Scissor Cuts Pictures. A small collection of 15 delicate scissor cut pictures, mid 19th century, fifteen paper silhouettes, in black, laid onto 8 sheets of laid paper with watermark ‘Parkins & Gotto, London’ and blind embossed crest with ‘Bear Up’ motto and bears head within a belted border, showing various scenes including: two travellers one walking, one on a donkey, a palm tree and snake in the foreground; a man walking a dog; two billy goats rutting; man on a cliff, a donkey and lion below; woman sitting in a chair, man on his knees in front of her; man having his hair cut; gathering around a campfire; landscape with trees and a bridge, one side some armed men and a camel, the other side a traveller and donkey walking over the bridge; various birds, etc., various sizes, largest 24 x 10.2 cm, together with a sketchbook titled a few sketches, done, while abroad in Germany Nov 1891, containing 23 leaves with watercolours and text (in English and German), mainly to rectos and versos, various illustrations, all titled and initialled ‘RJR7’, including: a happy moment, a sumptuous repast!!, Carambolage, a dancing lesson, May I have the pleasure, a French General, etc., some pages detached, original light brown cloth boards, oblong 8vo Burke, p.719-720. Crest possibly belongs to Fulford of Fulford, Devon. (9)
£200 - £400
357* Satirical Card Game. Toverkaart of Genees middel der Windbreuken vant Zuid west en de Uitvaart van Cartouche, Amsterdam?, circa 1720, the complete uncut sheet of 9 cards on laid paper, divided diagonally so that each contains the upper part of two adjacent engraved illustrations and their accompanying captions in Dutch (one portion inverted), the triangular portions labelled A to S, bunch of grapes watermark centrally, few light marks, faint creasing towards upper right corner, one short edge tear, plate size 31 x 19 cm (12 1/4 x 7 1/2 ins), sheet size 39 x 26.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/2 ins), the top edge hinged in two places to mount (48.5 x 36.5 cm) BM Satires,1690.
A rare survival - only one other copy of this divided version has been found at auction.
The original version of Toverkaart of Genees middel der Wind-breuken vant Zuid west en de Uitvaart van Cartouche [Magic card, or Remedy for the Wind-breaking of the South-West and the Departure of Cartouche] comprised 18 cards, labelled A to S (see BM Satires 1689). This version, with only half of each card represented therefore comprises 9 cards, each divided in half. The illustrations on the cards satirise the various financial crises of 1720, plus the French bandit and folk-hero Cartouche (Louis Dominique Bourguignon), who was executed in 1721. Characters from the Italian commedia dell’arte, such as Scaramouche, Columbine and Harlequin, are used to parody the Bubbles (South Sea and Mississippi) of 1720, while Cartouche appears as himself on card S. It is not known what game was intended to be played with these diagonally divided cards. The British Museum suggests they could be cut and formed into an optical toy like a thaumatrope. However, the first thaumatrope was not invented until more than a century later, and the detailed and very different images do not lend themselves to creating optical illusions.
(1) £300 - £500
358* Hodges (Charles, publisher). Astronomical Playing Cards, London, 1828, 51 (of 53, without queen of trefoils, jack of pikes) hand-coloured engraved playing cards, some heightened with gold, comprising 4 suits of 13: pike heads (blue), trefoils (green), hearts (red), and diamonds (gold/orange), the court cards depicting Roman gods and goddesses, the pip cards 2-10 portraying the constellations and overlaid with suit signs, and 4 aces representing spring, summer, autumn and winter (the winter card ‘Hiems’ without suit sign), also an ‘Old Frizzle’ duty ace for Stopforth & Son (finger-soiled), dusty and lightly toned, some marks or edge stains, few pip cards rubbed along left edges (affecting some letters and pip signs, and just touching image on two cards), one with rubbing also to top edge (affecting letters), single pip card with small red spot centrally, gilt edges, versos plain white, each card 97 x 64 mm
Berry, Playing-Cards of the World, pages IV 50-52; Mann, Collecting Playing Cards, p.137; Tilley, pp.152-153 (illustrated p.113); Wowk, p.145.
This pack, issued by Hodges as New Royal Playing Cards, were published as a fully-suited deck based on his 1827 educational pack New Astronomical Cards, which only had 40 cards and lacked suit signs. Hodges had also issued a game called Astrophilogeon, using 30 of these same cards combined with 30 of his New Geographical Cards. By mid-1828 Hodges had decided to issue two 52-card suited packs, based on the Geographical and Astronomical Cards, with single-figure courts added. Because a duty Ace of spades had to be added, the Hiems card (which would have been the ace of spades/pikes) has no suit sign, but it is still present, making a total of 53 cards in a complete deck.
H.T. Morley describes this “very carefully engraved, and beautifully finished in colours” pack of cards as being “worth studying, not only for its historical, but also for its artistic value” (see Old and Curious Playing Cards, 137). Catherine Perry Hargrave explains that “the workmanship is beautiful” (see A History of Playing Cards, 212).
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£700 - £1,000
359* French costume playing cards. Cartes Parisienne, [or]
Second Empire card game, Paris: O. Gibert, circa 1855, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, jack of clubs with maker’s details (small corner chip), jack of spades with ‘Déposé’, jack of diamonds with ‘France’, lightly bowed, dusty, occasional minor marks, 3C with corner crease, 2D soiled, gilt edges, versos plain blue, each card 84 x 55 mm, together with: Spanish Playing Cards, Cadiz pattern, Cadiz: Marchan, 1817, 46 (of 48, without cavalier and 3 of cups) stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (Spanish suits) with pintas, ace of coins with date and maker’s name, 2 of coins with ‘Cadiz’, 4 of cups with ink manuscript maker’s mark/initials, also with trademark? of sun and crescent moon rising above a cloud, dusty, some minor edge soiling or marks, couple of pip cards lightly spotted, jack of swords with small brown stain to left side, versos blue dotted pattern, each card 90 x 56 mm, plus:
English Playing Cards, Hardy & Sons type IIIa/HD1, circa 1835, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, Old Frizzle AS, Superfine stamp on AC, dusty, some stains and marks (JS and 6D heavily stained on left side), versos plain white, each card 94 x 65 mm, with another 5 decks: Le Petit Cartomancien ou Petit Le Normand, by Grimaud, circa 1890 (36 complete and booklet); Tarot Grand Etteilla, by Grimaud, circa 1950 (78 complete); Swiss Canton Costumes deck, by Wüst, circa 1880 (52 complete); Speelkaarten No.212 (Rhineland pattern), by Piatnik, mid-20th century (55 complete with defective box); and an incomplete Industrie und Gluck tarock deck, by Piatnik (21 trumps, skuse, 15 courts and 16 pips), 20th century, various conditions
First item: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ark:/12148/btv1b10509383x; Cartorama 59, #47; Cary, FRA 362; British Museum 1982,U.4583 (Wilshire, French 69).
Second item: Berry, Playing-Cards of the World, p.V 12 (720); Denning, Spanish Playing-Cards, p.43; Denning, The Playing-Cards of Spain, pp.5455. An early example of the Cadiz pattern, with strong similarities to the Spanish National Pattern (kings feet not yet visible, all but one of the jacks & cavaliers wear knee-breeches, mostly quilted). The jack of cups’ coat is wrapped round his waist, which Denning (in Spanish Playing-Cards) notes as being a feature of both the early Cadiz decks he has seen. (8) £200 - £300
360* Compendium. A Compendium of Games, circa 1880, mahogany box with hinged lid and fully fitted interior including folding leather chess, backgammon and race and steeplechase board in lid (worn with some minor loss), top layer with variously sized sections comprising: 44 wooden chess pieces (29 painted black & 17 white) not complete sets, 31 wooden draughts counters, 2 mauchline ware wood whist/bezique markers (Post Office and Mansion House), Bell and Hammer card games and bone dice, 28 bone dominos, 4 bone dice, 6 painted lead jockey and horse figures plus a jump and a track, 2 wooden hammers, 2 wooden dice shakers; the second layer contained in a drawer contains a further hinged wooden playing board with 2 solitaire boards, 21 assorted marbles and a Guide to the Compendium of Games published by M.S & Co Ent at Stat Hall, (stitching loose), small loss of wood edging to inside of upper lid, one section with loose divider, small blank brass plaque to upper lid, decorative brass strips and corners to edges of box, locking mechanism (lacking key), and brass handle to lower drawer, some scratches, 24.5 x 45 x 18.5 cm
Provenance: Collection of Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs (1777-1866), Worcester, by family descent. (1)
£300 - £500
362* Black Banjo-Player Automaton. An inoperative, standing, black banjo-player automaton, attributed to Gustav Vichy, Paris, c. 1900, the figure modelled with painted, papier-mâché head and hands, brown glass lidded eyes, open mouth with pink upper lip and white upper teeth, hinged lower jaw, brown silk-covered top hat (detached) and black mohair hair, wearing the original tan cord jacket, cream frilled shirt with lace cuffs, and pink waistcoat, with red-and-white striped trousers and pale shoes, holding a wooden banjo (detached), standing upon a fabric-covered wooden base; painted papier-mâché surfaces with craquelure, small areas of paint loss and flaking, particularly around face and hands, some damage and loss to finger tips, minor separation and wear to costume fabric and around neck area, staining and small tears to trousers, lace cuffs frayed, banjo lacking all strings and two pegs, base fabric worn and soiled, but stable overall, height approximately 70 cm
The automaton is non-operational, with seized mechanism present within the torso. A rare survival in its original form and period costume, demonstrating the craftsmanship and detailed design that was typical of the notable Parisian automaton maker Gustav Vichy (active 1860-1904). Suitable for conservation, in restored condition this key-winding automaton would strum the banjo, move its mouth and, very likely, tilt the head back and forth.
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£200 - £300
361* Nursery Ceramics. A 23-piece children’s miniature enamel tea service, circa 1890, 23 pieces each with gilt edging and green beaded pattern, comprising: round domed butter dish, soup tureen, 2 oval serving plates, 2 square dishes, 2 double bowled serving dishes with handle, shallow oval serving dish with lid, gravy boat, oval basket dish, and 12 dinner plates, plus ladle and a metal knife, tallest 8.5 cm, together with another miniature 6-piece set of ceramic lusterware in periwinkle blue, comprising: teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl, cup and two saucers, tallest 7.8 cm, and children’s doll, circa 1908, ceramic head and painted wooden body, with long brown hair, silk bow to one side, self closing eyes, with articulated knees, elbows, shoulders and wrists, wearing red velvet coat with large white buttons and bead necklace, orange silk dress (splits to silk), cotton petticoat, brown socks and reddy brown leather shoes (with ‘FCN’ logo to sole), some wear to paint on fingers, 46 cm long (two cartons)
£500 - £800
363* Games. A varied collection of games, Victorian and later, approximately 16 games, including: Schimmell or the Bell and Hammer, complete with instructions, leather shaker and gavel in original box; Fox Hunting board game with instructions and six painted metal mounted horses (some with loss); three board games with squares and backgammon markings; a chest set with red and white bone figures contained in folding wooden box; Reversi with rules and introduction cards, invented by T.W. Mollett; two small boxes containing counters; two boxes full of wooden building blocks; small wooden hand racket with leather handle; a facsimile hornbook with the effigy of Charles II on horseback to verso; The Entertaining History of Little Goody Goosecap (lacking pages 5158); and 5 decks of playing cards, some wear, various sizes (1 carton)
£100 - £150
Lot 362
364* Jigsaw Puzzles. Superior Dissected Maps: World [and] England & Wales, Edinburgh & London: W & A. K. Johnston limited, c. 1920, cut-printed wooden jigsaw puzzles, both complete (one small piece of North Wales possibly replaced), pieces contained in original wooden boxes with printed pictorial labels to sliding lids, boxes 26 x 20.5cm, plus (Reversible) New Map Puzzle (Unbreakable), London: G. W. Bacon & Co, c. 1920, double sided, colour printed, wooden jigsaw puzzle (complete) in original card box with printed paper labels to upper lid and base, some soiling and wear, 9.5 x 13.5 x 7 cm (3)
£100 - £150
365* Attwell (Mabel Lucie). Boo Boo Tea Set, Shelley Potteries, 1926, three-piece tea set comprising: mushroom house teapot (12 cm), mushroom-shaped sugar bowl (10cm) and green Boo Boo milk jug (16cm), all stamped ‘Shelley, England’ to base (3)
£150 - £200
366* Attwell (Mabel Lucie). Children’s Warming Plates, Shelley Potteries, circa 1930, two children’s warming plates comprising; ‘No, Mr Fairy-That Won’t Do-I Don’t Want To Make A Fuss-A Fairy House May Well Suit You- It Won’t Fit Us’, aluminium base with ceramic interior bowl designed by Attwell, handles to outer rim, 20 cm, and ‘If The Fairies Came To Tea, How Very Jolly That Would be. They’d Say ‘’Hullo’’, I’d say ‘’Come In’’, And Then The Fun Would All Begin.’, ceramic bowl designed by Attwell, with cork stopper, 20 cm, together with 3 Children’s Porridge Bowls with Boo Boo designs by Mabel Lucie Attwell, largest 22 cm wide (5)
£150 - £200
367* Attwell (Mabel Lucie). Mary Lou Novelty Biscuit Tins, circa 1960, 2 circular tins, lids with ‘Mary Lou’ decoration, some minor wear, 20 cm, together with: Wright’s Biscuits, ‘’I’m nuts for Ginger Nuts’’ tray, circa 1940, tin tea tray decorated in blue, showing a young boy eating a biscuit, some minor wear, 31 x 41 cm (3)
£150 - £200
368* Dolls’ House. A bespoke half-timbered Tudor-style dolls’ house, 1930s, the interior consisting of a spacious kitchen with open fireplace and high-mantled oak surround, a reception room, and 2 large bedrooms, latter 3 all with Art Deco fireplace, and a tiled bathroom over the front porch, electric lighting throughout (not currently working), the exterior with 2 hinged openings to each sides accessing downstairs and upstairs, and another to front of bathroom, square leaded light windows (some of ‘lead’ broken and lost), the front with 2 gables and 2 oriel windows on wooden corbels, wooden roof with triple Tudor chimney stack, some vegetation growing on exterior walls, the house mounted on a bevel-edged wooden base, with metal carrying handle either side, overall dimensions including plinth: height including chimneys 67.5 cm, length 75.5 cm, depth 48 cm, together with a small and a larger box of miniature accessories, including a number of dolls, various furniture (e.g. 4-piece suite with removable loose covers and original velvet upholstery beneath, wooden beds, an Art deco wooden sideboard, a bookcase with miniature blank books, a tea trolley), a ceramic bathroom suite, an articulated spinning wheel, a metal pram, a fire basket and fire irons, a cheval mirror, 6 celluloid lampshades, one depicting Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop, various rugs and cushions, a metal gramophone, candlesticks, kitchenware (including cutlery tray), and crockery, various sizes and condition (3)
369* Games. Peter Rabbit Chick-Mobile, U.S. of America: The Lionel Corporation, no.1103, circa 1935, clockwork Peter Rabbit with pink eyes, wearing a red jacket and pushing a yellow metal hand cart with green wheels and a green Easter basket at the front, some areas of rubbing with loss of paint, metal bracket on top of hand cart sheared off (resulting in intermittent action), with metal key, five sections of metal track (lacking several sections), and small nest containing two chicks with shells (not original but contemporary), housed in original cardboard box, pictorial lid with printed blue and white label ‘Licensed by Messrs. Frederick Warne & Co, Ltd. March, 1935’, lid with closed tear to one edge, small paper abrasion, and corners a little bumped, together with Peter Rabbit Game, U.S.A.: Sam. Gabriel Sons & Company, no. T249, circa 1935, folding pictorial board (fabric connecting two sides rubbed with loss, corners bumped), and 2 pictorial number spinners and 4 coloured metal rabbits (Peter, Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail) in card compartments, housed in original wooden box with pictorial label to hinged lid, plus The Story of Peter Rabbit, Fold-A-Way Edition, Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1917, 16 pp. booklet printed on thick paper (printed card wrappers toned, slightly stained, and becoming detached), with 20 chromolithographed die-cut figures, including: Peter Rabbit, Flopsy, Mr McGregor, Cotton-tail, Mopsy, 3 wrap-around coats, homeware, bowl of blackberries, etc., various sizes, plus a tri-fold chromolithographed background scene, 19.3 x 22.4 cm, and Peter Rabbit Ring Toss, Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley, circa 1930, cut-out Peter Rabbit of thick board, with slats to enable standing, height 29 cm, with 2 wooden rings (one smaller) for tossing, in original pictorial box, lid dusty and worn with some losses to edge of lid, plus 2 other Beatrix Potter related items: a Peter Rabbit Bean Bag, Kansas City: Quaddy Playthings Mfg. Co., 11 cm high; and 4 Timpo Models, Frederick Warne, circa 1954, comprising: Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Timmy Tiptoes, and Jeremy Fisher, in original pictorial green box
Provenance: The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster. (7)
£300 - £500
£200 - £300
370* World War II Playing Cards. Le Jeu des “Atouts de la Vie”, Récreatif et Éducatif, Création de Madame Lucien Willemetz, [France], circa 1941, 50 colour-printed pictorial cards, comprising 10 sets of 5 cards, each set illustrating a virtue with printed caption below, red moiré-patterned versos, together with the information card, printed on both sides and with ‘Witho’ trademark label applied to verso, rounded corners (some tips creased or missing), 117 x 76 mm, contained in original printed pictorial cardboard box, slightly rubbed and soiled, pull-off lid detached
A rare deck with social and military significance. The National Museum of Education in Rouen has an incomplete set, consisting of just 18 cards. The deck was produced by the Vichy Government during the Second World War, extolling the virtues - somewhat ironically - that their citizens should adopt: honneur, propreté, hygiène, éducation, etc. (1)
£400 - £600
Lot 369
371 Dickens (Charles). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.”, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, etched frontispieces and 21 etched plates by George Cruikshank, some browning to plates and light offsetting, volume III front hinge a little tender, later black half calf gilt, red label to spines (one or two small rubbed patches), 8vo Eckel p. 59-60; Podeshci A27; Smith I, 4.
The first issue of the first edition, with the ‘Fireside’ plate present opposite p. 313 in volume III. This plate was cancelled and replaced with the ‘Church’ plate in the second and third issues due to the author objecting to George Cruikshank’s illustration, one of several rushed in order to complete the illustrations in time prior to publication.
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£1,000 - £1,500
372 Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, 1st edition in book form, later issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1838, half-title, frontispiece, additional etched title and plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (Halbot K Browne), scattered spotting, some browning to plates (as expected), edges untrimmed, original blindstamped cloth, modern reback, some fading to board margins and minor marks, 8vo, together with:
The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, half-title, frontispiece, additional etched title and plates by Halbot K Browne, spotting and some toning to plates, initial three gatherings sprung and half-title pulled away from text-block, all edges gilt, contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo
Smith I, 3 & 9.
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373 Dickens (Charles, editor). Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by “Boz.”, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, first issue with ‘Last Song’ plate at end of volume Ii without border, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, both volumes lacking the Embellishments leaf (one supplied in loose facsimile), a little minor spotting, bookplates, top edge gilt, contemporary garnet red half morocco gilt, volume I upper joint splitting at foot, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Hard Times for These Times, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854, 1st issue with p. 244 mispaginated 44, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spine torn at head, rubbed with small abrasions, 8vo
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£200 - £300
374 Ainsworth (William Harrison). The Miser’s Daughter: A Tale, 1st edition, London: Cunningham and Mortimer, 1842, etched frontispieces and 17 etched plates by George Cruikshank, half-titles bound before opening chapters, closed tear at foot of volume I title & p. 231 in volume II, small abrasion and loss of a few letters to p. 303 in volume III, a little minor dust-soiling and a few small stains, bookplates of Herbert H. Smith, Inner Temple, attractive sprinkled polished calf by Zaehnsdorf, spines with crimson and green labels and decorated in gilt, a few raised bands rubbed, 8vo Cohn 17.
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£300 - £400
£200 - £300
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375 Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, half-title printed in blue, title printed in red and blue, handcoloured etched frontispiece and 3 hand-coloured plates by John Leech, 4 wood-engravings by W. Linton after Leech, advertisement leaf at rear, some toning to frontispiece and title, occasional light spotting and stains, green chalk-glazed endpapers (some fading), all edges gilt, original brown ribbed cloth, decorated in blind to borders, upper cover with central wreath and title in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, some darkening to spine and covers, rubbed at spine ends with tiny tears, a few small ink stains to covers, slight lean, contained in modern morocco-backed solander box, 8vo Eckel pp. 110-115; Smith II, 4. First edition, first issue, with the half-title printed in blue, title printed in red and blue, ‘Stave I’ as the first chapter heading, and green endpapers. The binding conforms to William B. Todd’s first issue, with the closest interval between the blindstamping to left margin and left extremity of gilt wreath 14-15 mm, and the ‘D’ of Dickens within the wreath in perfect condition. (The Book Collector, Winter 1961, pp. 449-454)
A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, selling 6,000 copies in the few days before Christmas. Despite its enormous success it was a financial disaster for Dickens. It was a separate commission requested by him of his publishers Chapman and Hall, with Dickens insisting on a fine coloured binding and endpapers with gilt lettering. Although it went into seven editions by May 1844 almost all the profits were absorbed in the expenses of binding, special papers, coloured plates and advertising, and Dickens found himself overdrawn on his Coutts account, and had to ask his friend Mitton for another loan.
Dickens had requested the title be printed in red and green with green endpapers to match, but he was disappointed with the appearance of the green printing. The title was subsequently printed in red and blue, the titlepage date changed to 1843 (rather than the gift book convention of using the following year’s date), and the green endpapers replaced with yellow. (1) £3,000 - £5,000
376 Dickens (Charles). A set of 4 Christmas books: The Chimes, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846; The Battle of Life, 1846; The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, 1848, 1st editions, halftitles for The Chimes and The Battle of Life only, frontispiece and additional titles to each, illustrations, some spotting and light toning, original cloth upper cover and spine bound at rear of The Chimes, previous owner inscription, 1875 at head of The Battle of Life, contemporary presentation inscription at front of The Haunted Man (front endpaper with small loss from insect predation), The Cricket on the Hearth bound in contemporary half calf, The Chimes and The Battle of Life in contemporary half morocco (Battle of Life upper cover detached), The Haunted Man bound in full calf gilt, some edge wear to Battle of Life, 8vo (4)
£300 - £400
377 Bronte (Charlotte, “Currer Bell”). Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1848, half-titles, 9 pp. ‘Opinions of the Press’ bound at front of volume I, 5pp. preface dated December 21st 1847, 32pp. publisher’s advertisements dated April 1847 & October 1847 at rear of volume I, first volume with short closed marginal tear to p. 17, occasional minor dust-soiling and light stains, contemporary ownership signature ‘Pitcairn’ to front endpapers of volumes I and II, original blindstamped cloth gilt, volume III with variant (unrecorded) blindstamped decoration to covers, spines repaired, some light fading, 8vo Smith pp. 29-30. The second edition, published one year after the first edition.
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£1,000 - £1,500
378 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, ‘Mr. Pitt’ for ‘Sir Pitt’ on page 453, and the rustic hidding on page one, 38 steel-engraved plates and numerous illustrations to text, some spotting to text and heavy spotting to plates, contemporary ownership inscription of W. B. Tristrim dated October 1848 to blank recto of advert leaf before frontispiece, and his armorial bookplate front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt over cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with four other multi-volume 1st editions by Thackeray: The History of Pendennis…, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849, engraved vignette titles, 46 plates and numerous illustrations to text, some spotting and heavy browning to plates, plate of John T. Walters to both front pastedowns, contemporary half calf over marbled boards with recent gilt-decorated calf rebacks, some corner wear, 8vo
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. …, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1852, bound without half-titles and advertisements at rear of volumes 2 and 3, some spotting, bookplates of W. B. Tristrim to front pastedowns and his ink initials to titles, top edges gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most Respectable Family, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854, half-titles, additional engraved vignette titles and 46 engraved plates by Richard Doyle, some spotting and damp staining, mostly to plates, modern green half calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo
The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858, first issue with ‘actress’ for ‘ancestresses’ to page 207 and chapters 47 and 48 misnumbered in volume 1, some heavy browning to plates, modern blue-green half calf over marbled boards, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo
The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century [and] Miscellanies, 4 volumes, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853 & 1855, all bound without half-titles, spotting, ownership signatures and bookplates of W. B. Tristram, top edges gilt, matching contemporary half morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo (14) £300 - £500
379 Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 12th edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates by John Leech (including frontispiece), few wood-engraved vignette illustrations, advertisement leaf at rear, some light toning and occasional marks, front free endpaper torn out, all edges gilt, original red cloth with gilt and blind decoration, wear at head and foot of spine, few marks, 8vo, together with:
The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846, engraved frontispiece and additional title, wood-engraved vignette illustrations, 1st state advertisement leaf at rear, light toning mostly to margins, all edges gilt, original red cloth with gilt and blind decoration, light wear at head and foot of spine, mark to lower board, 8vo, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for ChristmasTime, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece and additional title, wood-engraved vignette illustrations, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original red cloth with gilt and blind decoration, wear at head and foot of spine, short tear to lower joint, few marks, 8vo, The Battle of Life. A Love Story, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title (in 4th state without imprint), wood-engraved vignette illustrations, upper pastedown with bookplate of J. C. Hawkshaw, contemporary red calf, gilt decorated spine, few scuffs to boards, 8vo Smith II, 4, 6, 9 & 8, respectively. (4)
£300 - £400
Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn). Mary Barton. A Tale of Manchester Life, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1849, closed tear to left margin of volume I title, a few minor stains, contemporary half calf, spines and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Cranford, 2nd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853, slight toning to textblock, contemporary ownership signature at head of title, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo, plus Round the Sofa, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1859, a little minor spotting and marks, small blindstamp and shelf numbers to titles, contemporary olive half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, with 5 others including The Moorlland Cottage, 1st edition, 1850 (rebound in later cloth), Sylvia’s Lovers, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1863, Cousin Phillis and Other Tales, illustrated edition, 1865, Wives and Daughters, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1866, and Shirley, by Currer Bell (i.e. Charlotte Bronte), new edition, 1858 (13)
£300 - £500
380
381 Dickens (Charles). The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, one or two closed tears, gutter exposed at Preface leaf with leaves before partially adhered to front pastedown, some spotting and browning, previous owner inscription to frontispiece verso, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine a little rubbed and dulled, covers rubbed, 8vo, together with The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837, etched frontispiece, additional title and 41 etched plates by H. K. Browne, R. Seymour and R. Buss, lacking front endpaper, some spotting and browning, contemporary half calf gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1839, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author after Daniel Maclise, 39 etched plates by H. K. Browne, p. 211-212 lower corner torn away with loss to one or two letters, some spotting and browning, previous owner inscription, bookplate, contemporary half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with 6 others including 1st editions Master Humphrey’s Clock, 2 volumes, 1841, Dombey and Son, 1848, Bleak House, 1853, (10) £300 - £500
382 Trollope (Anthony). La Vendée. An Historical Romance, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Henry Colburn, 1850, second issue with cancel titles without publisher’s imprint to verso, without half-title called for to volume 2, volume 3 with first page of advertisements only (of 16), scattered minor spotting, top edges gilt, 20th-century red half morocco over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-titled spines, 8vo Sadleir 3a.
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£700 - £1,000
383 Dickens (Charles). Bleak House, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, half-title, etched frontispiece and additional title, 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne, some light spotting and offsetting, previous owner inscription of M. Greene, 1882 to front endpaper, original blindstamped cloth, lower joint repaired, small repairs at spine ends, some fading and small ink stains to lower cover, 8vo Eckel pp. 79-81; Smith I, 10. Variant issue, with MDCCCLIII lettered in gilt at foot of spine. Smith states seeing a copy, identical to the first cloth binding except for this date to the spine, which lacked the half-title. (1)
£500 - £800
384 Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn). Ruth. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1853, a little minor spotting, bookplates of Philip Brewster, contemporary half calf, spines with black labels and decorated in blind, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo Sadleir 933; Wolff 2425. The author’s third novel. (3)
£300 - £400
386 Trollope (Anthony). The Warden, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, [etc.], 1855, half-title not called for, bound without the adverts at rear, a little spotting at front and rear, early 20th-century green half calf gilt over marbled boards, gilt-titled morocco title label, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with: Trollope (Anthony). Barchester Towers, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown [etc.], 1857, bound without initial advert leaf and half-title to volume 1 or publisher’s advertisements in volumes 1 and 3, with the first issue point ‘tattooed’ for ‘tabooed’ on p. 269 of volume 2, spotting and soiling throughout, small neat archival closed tear repair to contents leaf of volumes 1 and 2, vertical, full-page, closed tear repair to pp. 173-74 of volume 1 (leaf partly damp-stained), early 20th-century red half calf gilt over cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo
Sadleir 4 & 5. First editions of the first two books in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series. 1,000 copies of each were printed, of which Sadleir conjectures 300-400 of The Warden were pulped. (4)
£500 - £800
£200 - £300
385 Dickens (Charles). Hard Times. For These Hard Times, 1st edition in book form, 1st issue, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854, half-title, with p.244 misnumbered 44, ink stamp at head of B2 (not affecting text), leaf B3 torn at foot with loss of few words, toning, occasional light finger-soiling and spotting, contemporary blind embossed brown morocco, spine and extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Eliot (George). Adam Bede, 2 volumes, 4th edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859, half-titles, upper margins of titles with contemporary ownership signature and label, occasional spotting and few marks, gatherings a little sprung in volume 1, original cloth gilt, few marks to spine of volume 2, slightly frayed at head and foot of spines, 8vo, Tennyson (Alfred). The Princess: A Medley, 12th edition, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1864, 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements at front, original cloth, spine slightly faded and frayed at head and foot, 8vo 1. Eckel p.131; Smith I, 11. (4)
387 Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, some spotting and browning, bookplate, contemporary half calf gilt, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with the Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1st edition, Chapman and Hall, 1844, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by Browne, some spotting and browning, contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, with 3 others: Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, 1865, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition, 1870, and Sketches by Boz, new edition, 1839 (5)
£300 - £400
388 Eliot (George). Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858, half-title for volume II only, a few minor spots, armorial bookplates of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881-1963), and Godfrey G. Roundell Greene (1888-1956), contemporary brown half calf gilt, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo
Parrish p. 7; Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062.
The author’s debut work, comprising three tales, first appearing anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857. The stories were widely praised for their domestic realism, pathos and humour, and Charles Dickens himself was full of admiration for Eliot’s writings, prompting much speculation about the identity of the author (Mary Ann Evans, using her nom de plume ‘George Eliot’ here for the first time), who was widely supposed to be a clergyman or clergyman’s wife.
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£500 - £800
389 Trollope (Anthony). Doctor Thorne. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1858, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 1, scattered minor spotting, top edges gilt, early 20th-century dark blue half morocco gilt over cloth by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a little rubbed on joints and edges, small nick at top right of spine of volume 3, 8vo Sadleir 7.
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£700 - £1,000
390 Trollope (Anthony). The Three Clerks. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1858, together with: Trollope (Anthony). The Bertrams. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1859, both works with scattered spotting, mostly at front and rear of each volume, matching modern burgundy half calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo Sadleir 6 & 8. (6)
£400 - £600
391 Dickens (Charles). A Tale of Two Cities, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by H. K. Browne, lacking the list of plates leaf, a few light marks, modern black half morocco, 8vo Eckel pp. 86-90; Podeschi A143; Smith I, pp. 96-98. First issue copy with p. 213 misnumbered 113, misspelling ‘affetcionately’ to line 12, p. 134. (1)
£500 - £800
392 Eliot (George). Adam Bede, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1859, half-titles, a few minor stains, contemporary rose red half calf gilt by David Bryce and Sons, Glasgow, slight fading to spines, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo Parrish 12; Sadleir 812; Wolff 2056. (3)
£400 - £600
393 Eliot (George). The Mill on the Floss, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860, half-titles, occasional minor spotting, previous owner signatures, contemporary rose red half calf gilt by David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, spines slightly faded, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo Parrish pp. 14-16; Sadleir 816; Wolff 2060. (3)
£400 - £600
394 Trollope (Anthony). Castle Richmond. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1860, bound without half-titles and publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 3, some spotting, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth with leather spine labels, rubbed, together with two others in near-matching bindings: Trollope (Anthony), Cousin Henry. A Novel, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1879, bound without half-titles and publishers’ adverts at rear of volume 1, closed tear to first title, some spotting, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth with leather spine labels, rubbed, plus Trollope (Anthony), Dr. Wortle’s School. A Novel, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1881, half-titles, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 2, some spotting, contemporary ink presentation inscriptions to Jessie S. Verey from her mother to both upper margin of both titles, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth by Mudie, leather spine labels, rubbed, all 8vo Sadleir 10, 56 & 59. (7)
£300 - £500
395 Dickens (Charles). Great Expectations, 3 volumes, 2nd edition (i.e. 2nd issue), London: Chapman and Hall, 1861, dedication leaf to Chauncy Hare Townshend after title in volume I, bound without advertisements, occasional minor spotting, modern black half morocco gilt, red label to spines, 8vo
Eckel pp. 91-93; Podeschi A146; Smith I, 14. The text conforms to the first issue points: volume II, p. 162, line 21, ‘their’ for ‘her’, volume III, p. 37, line 25, ‘raving’ for ‘staving’, p. 145, line 1, ‘but’ for ‘was’, p. 150, line 4, ‘led’ for ‘lead’. Although the titles state ‘second edition’ they are actually one of five issues of the same edition. ‘These five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale. (The words announcing the “edition” are printed between the volume number and the imprint.)’ (Smith).
(3) £1,500 - £2,000
Lot 392
Lot 393
Lot 394
Lot 395
396 Trollope (Anthony). Framley Parsonage, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861, 6 woodengraved plates by J. E. Millais, publisher’s 16-page catalogue (dated April 1861) at rear of volume 3, some heavy spotting, modern green half calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, together with: Trollope (Anthony), The Small House at Allington, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1864, 18 woodengraved plates by J. E. Millais, with ‘hobbledehoya’ on p. 33 but p. 70 correctly paginated, top edges gilt, 20th-century straight-grain tan calf by Zaehnsdorf, triple gilt fillet borders, gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands, spine ends and corners rubbed, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony), The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, 1st issue, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, 32 wood-engraved plates by George H. Thomas, 32 engraved vignettes to text, ‘The right of Translation is reserved’ to both title versos, bound without advert leaf at rear of volume 2, scattered minor spotting and a few damp spots to plate margins, modern dark green half morocco gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges, 8vo (7)
398 Trollope (Anthony). The Macdermots of Ballycloran, new edition [first reprint], London: Chapman & Hall, 1861, a little spotting, contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt-decorated spine, very rubbed and some edge wear, together with:
£400 - £600
397 Trollope (Anthony). Tales of All Countries [First Series] [and:] Tales of All Countries, Second Series, 1st editions, London: Chapman & Hall, 1861 & 1863, some minor spotting and soiling, together with: Trollope (Anthony). Rachel Ray. A Novel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1863, occasional spotting, circulating library labels of the Royal Library, Malvern, pasted to rear free endpaper rectos of both volumes, all with top edges gilt, early 20th-century red half morocco gilt over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo
Sadleir 12, 16 & 17.
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£400 - £600
Trollope (Anthony). The Kellys and the O’Kellys, new edition [first reprint], London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, half-title, old ink inscription at head of first page of text, early 20th-century green morocco gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony, Editor), The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By one of the Firm, First English edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1870, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece and additional title-page, some minor spotting, old ink name inscription to front free endpaper, marbled edges, rubbed, closely trimmed, marbled end papers, contemporary green half morocco gilt over marbled boards, Trollope (Anthony). Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. A Tale of Australian Bush Life, 1st illustrated edition, London: Sampson Low [etc.] 1874, 6 wood-engraved plates (closely trimmed), bound without publishers’ catalogue rear, some soiling throughout, modern tan half calf over marbled boards with gilt-decorated and titled spine, Trollope (Anthony). Why Frau Frohmann Raised her Prices and Other Stories, 1st edition, London: Wm. Isbister, 1882, bound without half-title, a little spotting and soiling, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth, rubbed and a little soiled, Trollope (Anthony). Thompson Hall, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low [etc.], 1885, half-title, 8 wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary brown half morocco gilt over cloth, rubbed, all 8vo
Sadleir 1 (note), 2 (note), 15a, 43 (note), 61 & 61a. (6)
£300 - £500
Lot 396
Lot 397
Lot 398
399 Trollope (Anthony). Orley Farm, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1862, illustrations by J. E. Millais, occasional light spotting, bookplate of Richard Adams to volume II, bookplates of Josslyn Francis Pennington, 5th Baron Muncaster to both volumes, contemporary green half calf gilt by Sotheran, spines faded to brown, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, illustrations by George H. Thomas, occasional light spotting, bookplate of Richard Adams to volume I, contemporary green half calf gilt by Sotheran, spines faded to brown, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Shardik, by Richard Adams, 1975 reprint, Richard Adams’s copy with his bookplate, rebound in green morocco Sadleir 13 (Orley Farm). Trollope himself described Orley Farm, with 40 wood-engraved illustrations by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, as his best plotted and personal favourite. ‘Millais was a ‘sixties’style illustrator, representational and realistic, a style which accorded nicely with that of Trollope, whose writing was often characterized as ‘photographic’, ‘uncompromisingly realistic’, and even ‘pre-Raphaelite’. ‘ (ODNB).
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£300 - £400
400 Eliot (George). Romola, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863, advertisement leaf at rear of volume II, some light spotting and small stains, later maroon half morocco gilt, 8vo (3)
£200 - £300
401 Trollope (Anthony). Can You Forgive Her? 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65, 40 etched plates by Phiz and Miss Taylor, bound without half-titles, some spotting, edges of plate opposite p. 129 of volume 2 a little chipped and frayed, contemporary ink inscription at head of title of volume 1, ‘Book Society, Church Porch’, modern red half calf over marbled boards, gilt-titled and decorated spines, 8vo, together with: Trollope (Anthony), The Claverings, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, 16 wood-engraved plates (short closed tear to foremargin of plate opposite p. 100 in volume 2), bound without advert leaf at rear of both volumes, some spotting, embossed circular ex libris stamp of Anthony Day to front free endpapers, top edge gilt, contemporary blue half calf gilt over cloth by F. & E. Stoneham, gilt-titled and tooled spines, rubbed, some corner wear, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony), He Knew He Was Right, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Strahan and Company, 1869, 32 wood-engraved plates and 32 vignettes by Marcus Stone, bound without half-titles, contemporary blue half calf gilt over pimpled cloth, rubbed, spines slightly sunned and scuffed, 8vo, Trollope (Anthony), The Way We Live Now, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1875, 40 wood-engraved plates by Luke Fildes, some spotting (mostly to plates), bound without halftitles, contemporary tan half calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, spines slightly darkened and scuffed, 8vo
Sadleir 19, 27, 31 & 44.
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£300 - £500
Lot 399
Lot 400
Lot 401
402 Trollope (Anthony). Hunting Sketches, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, 32 pp. publishers’ catalogue at rear (dated May 1865), contemporary ink ownership name at head of title, together with three others in matching bindings: Trollope (Anthony), Travelling Sketches, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1866, 24 pp. publishers’ catalogue at rear (dated February 1, 1866), plus Trollope (Anthony), Clergymen of the Church of England, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1866, 24 pp. publishers’ catalogue at rear (dated March 30, 1866)
Trollope (Anthony), Lotta Schmidt and other Stories, 1st edition, London: Alexander Strahan, 1867, half-title, all with top edges gilt, matching modern red half morocco gilt over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo
Sadleir 21, 23, 24 & 28.
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£400 - £600
403 Trollope (Anthony). Miss Mackenzie, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, bound without half-titles and adverts at rear of volume 2, minor spotting, contemporary green half calf gilt over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:
Trollope (Anthony). Lady Anna, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1874, half-title to volume 2 only, a little marginal spotting and toning, early 20th-century, green half calf gilt over cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony). The Prime Minister, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1876, occasional spotting, 20th-century grey-blue half calf gilt over marbled boards, slightly rubbed and faded on spines, 8vo
Sadleir 20, 42 & 45.
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£200 - £300
404 Eliot (George). Felix Holt the Radical, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, and Sons, 1866, halftitles for volumes II-III only, publisher’s 4 pp. and 20 pp. catalogue bound at rear of volume III, small Harrison’s Library label pasted at head of introduction leaf in volume I and first chapter of volumes II-III, occasional light spotting and stains, modern tan half calf gilt, red and black labels to spines, 8vo
(3)
£200 - £300
405 Trollope (Anthony). The Belton Estate, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1866, some spotting and soiling, heaviest in volume 1, modern ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper of volume 1, contemporary tan half morocco gilt over cloth, heavily rubbed, 8vo, together with: Trollope (Anthony), John Caltigate, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1879, bound without half-titles, some spotting, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth, gilt-titled leather spine labels and raised bands, rubbed, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony), The Duke’s Children. A novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1880, half-titles, 24 pp., publishers’ catalogue bound at rear of volume 3, a little spotting and soiling, modern red-brown half calf gilt over marbled board with gilt-titled black leather spine labels, 8vo
Sadleir 22, 55 & 57.
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£200 - £300
Lot 402
Lot 403
Lot 404
406 Macdonald (George). The Disciple and Other Poems, 1st edition, London: Strahan and Co., 1867, 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear dated January 1868, p. 7 a little roughly opened at lower margin, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded with light wear at ends, 8vo
Presentation copy, inscribed to half-title ‘John F. Robertson, with kindest regards from George Macdonald’. Probably John Forbes-Robertson (18221903), Scottish theatre critic and father of actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937).
407 [Trollope, Anthony]. Nina Balatka. The Story of a Maiden of Prague, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1867, half-titles, advert leaf at rear of volume 1, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 2, minor spotting and soiling, bookplates of Oliver Brett and Joseph Spencer Graydon to both volumes, top edges gilt, early 20th-century dark blue half morocco over marbled boards by Roger de Coverly & Sons, gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands, slightly rubbed and faded on spines, 8vo, together with: [Trollope, Anthony], Linda Tressel, volum2 only (of 2), 1st edition in book form, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, halftitle, top edge gilt, early 20th-century red half morocco gilt over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo, plus a remainder issue of the same work, 2 volumes in one, London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date, c. 1880, bound without original preliminary leaves to both volumes, minor soiling, pencil number to title verso, modern red morocco-backed cloth, gilt-titled spine, 8vo
Sadleir 25 & 29.
1) Originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine, July 1866 to January 1867. Both issues of the first edition in book form are extremely rare, especially in the original cloth. The first issue was published anonymously in two volumes, as an experiment to see if the public were faithful to Trollope because of the quality of his work, or purchased simply because of his nowfamous name. His publishers lacked faith and printed a small edition of the book. However, sales were even lower than they anticipated, and the remaining sheets were subsequently bound up in the one-volume edition and issued in 1879 with a new, undated, title-page. Sadleir says of the first issue, ‘I am doubtful whether more than 150 or 200 copies... were actually bound up in two-volume shape’, adding that the book is ‘only a little less rare’ in its remaindered form.
£300 - £500
Uncommon poetry book and unusual to find any work signed by Scottish writer George Macdonald, an influential pioneer of fantasy fiction. (1)
2) Originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine, October 1867 to May 1868. ‘This [anonymous] story was no greater a success than Nina Balatka and, as with its predecessor, the publisher bound up the unsold sheets of the two-volume first edition in a single volume...’.
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£500 - £800
408 Trollope (Anthony, editor). British Sports and Pastimes, 1st edition, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, half-title and final page toned, pale yellow endpapers, original brown cloth, blocked in black and blind, gilt-lettered spine (without imprint), minor rubbing, 8vo Sadleir P4. Usually found in bright green cloth, this is a bright copy of a first edition variant not mentioned by Sadleir (the title-page, but not the binding, conforming to his first issue): ‘no other item in Trollopiana appears in so many different cloths...’.
(1)
£100 - £150
409 Trollope (Anthony). Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Virtue & Co., 1869, 20 wood-engraved plates by J. E. Millais, together with: Trollope (Anthony), Phineas Redux, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1874, 24 wood-engraved plates by Frank Holl, neat closed tear repairs to outer margin of title and frontispiece tissue-guard of volume 1, all with top edges gilt, matching modern red half morocco gilt over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo
Sadleir 30 & 41. (4)
£200 - £300
410 Ainsworth (William Harrison). Hilary St. Ives. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, closed tears to final leaf in volume III, occasional light dust-soiling, top edge gilt, contemporary crimson half morocco gilt, volume III lower cover detached, spines a little darkened and rubbed at ends, joints lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Saint James’s: or, the Court of Queen Anne. An Historical Romance, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Mortimer, 1844, etched plates by George Cruikshank, some spotting and stains, bookplates, contemporary half calf, volume I lacking spine label, rubbed with some fading, 8vo, plus The Tower of London, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1840, illustrations by George Cruikshank, some spotting and water stains, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, with others by the author including 1st editions Old Saint Paul’s. A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, 3 volumes, 1841, and Ovingdean Grange, 1860, plus a defective set of Jack Sheppard, 1839
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411 [Hardy, Thomas]. Desperate Remedies. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871, half-title to each volume, scattered minor spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and a little corner wear, 8vo Purdy, pp. 3-5. One of 500 copies.
Hardy’s rare, first published novel. Issued anonymously, it was savagely reviewed in the Spectator and quickly remaindered with the three volumes bound in one. Hardy destroyed the manuscript himself soon after it was written.
(3)
£200 - £300
£2,000 - £3,000
412 Eliot (George). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-72, half-titles, some light spotting, contemporary ink inscriptions to front endpapers, contemporary green half calf, volume I lower joint split, rubbed with some damp stains to covers, slight lean, 8vo, together with Daniel Deronda, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1876, half-titles, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, 1st edition, 1861 (9)
£200 - £300
413 Trollope (Anthony). Ralph the Heir, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1871, half-titles without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 3, later pencil ownership inscription to half-title volume 1, a little spotting or soiling, top edges gilt, early 20th-century, blue half morocco gilt over cloth by W & G Foyle, 8vo together with:
414 [Hardy, Thomas]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872, half-title to volume 1 only, scattered minor spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, evidence of paper label removal to rear free endpaper verso of volume 2, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, extremities a little rubbed and minor corner wear, 8vo
Purdy, pp. 6-8. One of a presumed 500 copies.
Hardy’s second published novel, also issued anonymously, was favourably reviewed but sales were poor. It was remaindered in 1874, following the success of Far from the Madding Crowd (2)
£700 - £1,000
£300 - £400
Trollope (Anthony), The Eustace Diamonds, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1873, half-titles, top edges gilt, early 20th- century, straight grain tan calf gilt by Zaehnsderf, little rubbed, 8vo, plus Trollope (Anthony), The Landleaguers, 1st edition in book form, London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, half-titles, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 3, tope edges gilt, early 20th-century, crushed blue half morocco gilt by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, slightly rubbed, a little wear to head of spine of volume 3, 8vo Sadleir 37, 39 & 68. (9)
415 Trollope (Anthony). Orley Farm, 2 volumes bound in one, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1862, 40 wood-engraved plates (occasional marginal damp staining), bound without halftitles and publishers’ adverts at rear of volume 1, contemporary diced calf gilt, modern gilt-decorated calf reback, corners bumped, thick 8vo, together with:
Trollope (Anthony), The Vicar of Bullhampton, 1st edition, London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1870, 35 wood-engraved plates and illustrations by H. Woods, some spotting, mostly to plates, bound without half-title, blue half morocco gilt over marbled board, plus Trollope (Anthony), An Editor’s Tales, 1st edition, London: Strahan & Co., 1870, half-title, adverts to final leaf verso, a little spotting, modern green half morocco gilt over marbled boards
Trollope (Anthony), Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, 1st edition in book form, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1871, half-title, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear, a little finger soiling, top edge gilt, green half morocco gilt over marbled boards, spine darkened, slightly rubbed and some edge wear, Trollope (Anthony), The Golden Lion of Granpere, 1st edition in book form, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872, bound without halftitle and publishers’ adverts at rear, some spotting, contemporary tan half calf gilt over cloth, rubbed and a little soiled, Trollope (Anthony), Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. A Tale of Australian Bush Life, 1st edition in book form, London: Sampson Low [etc.] 1874, unillustrated first issue, 44 (of 48) pp. publishers’ catalogue (dated October 1873) bound at rear, ex-library with numerous oval ink library stamps, some browning and soiling throughout, additional library markings to title and contents leaf, recent brown half calf gilt over marbled boards with contrasting leather labels and gilt tools to spine, all 8vo
Sadleir 13, 33, 34, 36, 38 & 43. ‘Harry Heathcote in its genuine (unillustrated) first edition is of extreme rarity’ (Sadleir).
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£500 - £800
416 Hardy (Thomas). A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873, half-title to each volume, with ‘c’ misaligned in ‘clouds’ p. 5 on last line of volume 2, bound without publisher’s catalogue at rear of volume 3 (as often), scattered minor spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, pp. 199-202 of volume 1 slightly sprung, top edges gilt, early 20thcentury red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, extremities a little rubbed and minor corner wear, 8vo Purdy, pp. 8-13. One of a presumed 500 copies.
Scarce first edition of Hardy’s third novel, and the first to bear his name. It was first serialised in Tinsley’s Magazine between September 1872 and July 1873. In spite of favourable reviews, Tinsley considered it the weakest of the three novels he had published for Hardy, and ended his association with him.
(3)
£500 - £800
Lot 417
417 Hardy (Thomas). Far from the Madding Crowd, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1874, 12 woodengraved plates by Helen Allingham (all but the last two signed under her maiden name of Paterson), scattered spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and edges, minor wear to corners and foot of spine of volume 2, 8vo Purdy, pp. 13-20. One of 1,000 copies.
First serialised in the Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874. (2) £500 - £800
418 Hardy (Thomas). The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876, half-titles, 11 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, first state with uncancelled leaves in volume 1 (pp. 710, 65-66, 79-80), bound without advert leaves at rear of both volumes, together with 3 other Thomas Hardy first editions in matching bindings:
The Trumpet-Major. A Tale, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878, half-titles, plus A Laodicean; or, the Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day, 3 volumes, 1st English edition in book form, London: Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington, 1881, lacks half-title to volume 1, light toning to first and last leaves, and
Two on a Tower, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington, 1882, half-titles, printers’ imprint to final blank leaf recto of volume 1; all with some scattered spotting, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and extremities, (The Trumpet-Major a little chipped at head of volume 2, A Laodicean bruised and tender at head of volume 3), 8vo
Purdy, pp. 20-23, 31-35, 35-40 & 41-47 respectively. All one of 1,000 copies.
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£500 - £800
419 Trollope (Anthony). The American Senator, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1877, half-titles, together with: Trollope (Anthony). Kept in the Dark, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chatto & Windus, 1882, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispiece by J. E. Millais to volume 1, publisher’s device to final blank of volume 1, both works with scattered minor spotting, top edges gilt, matching early 20th-century dark blue crushed half morocco gilt over cloth by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, gilt-titled spines with five raised bands and gilt fillet compartments, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 8vo Sadleir 46 & 65.
(5)
£400 - £600
420 Hardy (Thomas). The Return of the Native, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878, half-titles, wood-engraved sketch map frontispiece to volume 1, scattered spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, adhesion spot to p. 272 of volume 2 affecting the word ‘to’, some browning to gutter margins of preliminary leaves of volume 3, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, slightly rubbed on joints and extremities, 8vo
Purdy, pp. 24-27. One of 1,000 copies.
First serialised in Belgravia between January and December 1878. Several chapters were retitled before it was published in book form. (3)
£300 - £500
421 Trollope (Anthony). Is He Popenjoy? A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1878, half-titles, bound without advert leaves at rear of volumes 1 and 2, some heavy spotting, together with three others in matching bindings: Trollope (Anthony), Ayala’s Angel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1881, some heavy spotting, plus Trollope (Anthony), Marion Fay. A Novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman & Hall, 1882, half-titles, and Trollope (Anthony), Mr. Scarborough’s Family, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, half-titles, publishers’ device to recto of final blank of volumes 2 and 3, bound without publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 1, dampstain to text block fore-edge of volume 3, all with top edges gilt, matching contemporary red half morocco gilt over marbled boards, gilttitled spines with five raised bands, gilt fillet compartment borders with gilt quatrefoils in the blank compartments, rubbed, spines darkened, a little edge and corner wear, small chip at head of spine of volume 3 of first work, some scuffing to joints of first two works, top corners of last work bruised, 8vo
Sadleir 49, 60, 64 & 66.
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£500 - £800
422 Trollope (Anthony). An Eye for an Eye, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879, half-titles, 28 (of 32) pp. publishers’ catalogue at rear of volume 1, a little spotting and soiling, together with: Trollope (Anthony), An Old Man’s Love, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884, half-titles, 4 pp. publishers’ adverts at rear of volume 2, matching modern burgundy calf-backed grey boards, gilt-titled spine labels and five raised bands, 8vo
Sadleir 53 & 69.
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423 Trollope (Anthony). The Fixed Period. A Novel, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882, half-titles, occasional, mostly marginal, circular library ink stamps of G.W.R. New Swindon Mechanics Institution, some soiling, 20th-century red calf-backed cloth with giltdecorated spines, covers slightly rubbed and soiled with slight corner wear, 8vo
Sadleir 62. George Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 214.
A rare, late Trollope science fiction novel. Set in the futuristic, antipodean colony of Brittanula, the ‘fixed period’ alludes to the useful life-span of its citizenry, and that after the age of 67 its citizens are taken to Necropolis and euthanised.
(2)
£300 - £500
£200 - £300
424 Hardy (Thomas). The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1886, half-titles, bound without advert leaves at rear of both volumes, some spotting, browning to inner margins of initial leaves of volume 1, top edges gilt, early 20thcentury red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and a little wear to lower outer corners, upper cover to volume 1 (with endpapers and both titles) detached, 8vo, together with: Hardy (Thomas), The Woodlanders, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Macmillan & Co., 1887, half-titles, bound without advert leaf at rear of volume 1, some spotting and dust-soiling, browning to inner margins of initial leaves of volume 1, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and a little wear to lower outer corners, a little nicked at head and foot of upper joint of volume 1, 8vo
Purdy, pp. 50-54 & 54-57. One of 758 & 1,000 copies respectively.
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£400 - £600
425 Hardy (Thomas). Wessex Tales. Strange, Lively and Commonplace, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Macmillan & Co., 1888, half-titles, bound without advert leaves at rear of volume 2, some spotting and dust-soiling, top edges gilt, together with 5 other Thomas Hardy first editions in matching bindings:
426 Gissing (George). The Nether World, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1889, half-titles, together with The Emancipated, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890, without half-tiles (as issued); Born in Exile, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London and Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1892, half-titles, some margins brittle and chipped and largely affecting pp. 137-184 of volume 2, without loss of text; A Life’s Mourning, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1888, half-titles; Demos, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1886, lacks half-title to volume 3, some browning, plus 12 other single volume Gissing works and 5 incomplete multi-volume works in 9 volumes, top edges gilt, contemporary crushed green half morocco gilt over cloth by Rivière & Son, rubbed and spines browned , a few minor nicks and chips, A Life’s Mourning split at the head of volume 2, By the Ionian Sea with upper cover detached, 8vo (and one volume 4to)
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£500 - £800
£300 - £500
A Group of Noble Dames, 1891; Life’s Little Ironies, 1894; Jude the Obscure, 1896; The Well-Beloved, 1897; Wessex Poems, 1898; all 1st editions in book form (except Wessex Tales, 1st edition), halftitles, first two volumes bound without final blank, etched frontispiece and wood-engraved sketch map at rear of Jude the Obscure and The Well-Beloved, frontispiece, 12 plates and 18 headand tail-pieces from drawings by Hardy in Wessex Poems, some spotting and dust-soiling, top edges gilt and most other edges untrimmed, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and some wear to outer corners, Wessex Tales volume 2, Life’s Little Ironies, and Jude the Obscure chipped at head of spines, top band of Life’s Little Ironies rubbed away, all 8vo Purdy, pp. 58-60, 61-67, 81-86, 86-91, 92-96 & 96-106. (7)
427* Hardy (Thomas). Tess of the D’Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, revised second impression, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892, half-titles, bound without final blank of volume 2, scattered spotting and light marginal dust-soiling, top edges gilt, early 20th-century red crushed half morocco gilt by Rivière & Son, gilt-decorated and titled spines with five raised bands and floral tool to four compartments, slightly darkened, rubbed on joints and edges, small nick at head of upper joint of volume 2, 8vo
Purdy, pp. 67-78. Tess of the D’Urbervilles was first published, and censored, as a serial in the Graphic from July to December 1891, having being rejected by several other periodicals. The controversial sections were published separately prior to serialization but reinstated with the original text when issued in book form. One of 500 copies (the first impression of the previous year was 1,000 copies), this impression having a few minor corrections or changes to spelling and imprints.
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£300 - £500
428 [Potter, Beatrix, illustrator]. Bunny the Postman [caption title, being extracts from A Happy Pair], U.S.A., Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, circa 1892, 5 chromolithographed illustrations (one to front cover), some light strikethrough from illustrations, original stapled pictorial wrappers (detached and separated along spine), covers lightly soiled (more so to rear cover), inside front cover with ‘Compliments of B. Fischer & Co., New York’, oblong 24mo, contained in cloth-covered drop-back box Not in Linder or Quinby.
The rare American pirated edition of A Happy Pair, containing inferior reproductions of five of Beatrix Potter’s illustrations, together with verses by Frederick Weatherly (some altered) and others. Apparently only ten copies of this pirated edition are known, each featuring advertisements for a different company. This particular copy promotes B. Fischer & Co., with an advert for Fischer’s B.F. Mustard on the inside rear cover. (1) £600 - £800
429 Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). Changing Pictures, London: Ernest Nister, [1893], 6 dissolving chromolithograph transformations, final with one slat not moving but present, two tab ends broken off (but present), a few short closed tears, rear endpaper with finger-slot (indicating 1st edition), contents loose in cover, original red cloth-backed pictorial boards, front cover with illustration by Beatrix Potter to top right (the variant issue, without her initials), small rub to upper left blank area of pictorial front cover, 4to, together with another copy of the same, 5 working transformations, one transformation lacking second picture, some creases and breaks to tabs, a little foxing to blank margins, front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription dated 1893, contents loose in cover, original green cloth-backed pictorial boards, lightly soiled, a little wear to extremities, 4to, plus: Isn’t It Funny, London: Ernest Nister, circa 1893, 6 pages of chromolithographed illustrations, including small illustration by Potter of rabbit looking at basket of carrots outside door, line illustrations throughout, lacking 2 leaves, some finger-soiling and light marks, without free endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, lightly soiled, a little wear and light marks, spine faded, 4to, with a defective copy of Comical Customers, including full-page monochrome illustration of Squintina Tabby Licensed to sell tea, by Beatrix Potter, lacking frontispiece and 3 leaves (including the final page of A Frog he would a fishing Go), also with a facsimile copy of the same title (5)
£200 - £300
430 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, [1902], colour frontispiece and 30 colour illustrations, gift inscription to verso of half tile dated 1992, booksellers’ ticket for ‘Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle’ to front pastedown, toning to endpapers (plain leaf pattern), original dark brown boards with rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, thin crack to upper hinge, but firm, 16mo Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2.
One of the first three printings with ‘wept’ instead of ‘shed’ on page 51. (1) £500 - £800
Lot 429
431 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1903, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 illustrations, with single endpapers occurring four times, stitching showing in some openings, contemporary gift inscription (partially erased) to half-title, upper joint with minor repair, original dark green boards, truncated pyramid pictorial panel inset to upper cover, minor fading to spine with small tears to head and foot, corners a little bumped, 16mo Linder p. 423; Quinby no. 4.
First printing with single endpapers occurring four times. (1) £200 - £300
432 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1903], colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some marginal finger soiling, one or two short closed tears, with text ending on p. 85 and single page endpaper occurring four times, original dark brown boards rebacked preserving original spine, pictorial panel inset to upper cover, some marks to covers, corners bumped, 16mo, together with: The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1906], colour frontispiece and colour illustrations, some marginal finger soiling, stitching showing in some openings (sewing snapped between p. 46 & 47), mottled lavender endpapers (with gift inscription dated 1908 to front free endpaper), original maroon boards with small pictorial circular panel showing a cat with blue eyes to upper cover, spine sunned, extremities bumped, small 4to, plus
Ginger & Pickles, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, colour frontispiece (with short closed tear to upper inner margin), title vignette and colour illustrations, faded gift inscription dated 1913 to front free endpaper, stitching showing in some openings, original green boards with pictorial panel to upper cover (with minor loss to left edge), small 4to, plus
The Roly-Poly Pudding, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1st edition, Frederick Warne and Co., [1913], colour frontispiece and colour illustrations, some areas of finger soiling, old crease to p. 69, original maroon cloth with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine sunned, extremities a little rubbed, small 4to, plus
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, ownership inscription removed from front free endpaper, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine sunned, small chip to upper cover at lower edge, 16mo Linder p. 422, 425, 428, 430, 427 respectively. (5)
£200 - £300
433 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade edition, 4th printing, London: Frederick Warne, 1903, 31 colour illustrations including frontispiece, p. 51 with ‘shed big tears’, half-title with ink ownership name, occasional generally light finger-soiling (more so to frontispiece), several openings with adhesion/surface loss, few centrally (affecting illustrations), two openings with more severe surface loss to blank margins (affecting page numbers), grey leaf-pattern endpapers, hinges strengthened, original dark green boards, front cover with inset pictorial panel (a little scratched and marked), extremities rubbed, rear cover slightly marked, with skinned area to bottom edge, one corner tip showing, 16mo, together with another copy of the same title, circa 1905, 27 colour illustrations, occasional finger-soiling, pp. 70-71 with small area of adhesion to blank area (just touching illustration), stitching somewhat strained, colour pictorial endpapers (designs 2 & 3), ink manuscript inscription to front pastedown dated 1905, original green boards, colour pictorial panel (with pale yellow mark to foreground) inset to front cover, small spot of wear to top of spine, front cover with faint red mark by imprint, 16mo, with another 12 small format Beatrix Potter books, all published before May 1919 (none with Frederick Warne Ltd. imprint), various conditions, 16mo
First item: Linder p.421.
The titles, in addition to the two described, comprise: Squirrel Nutkin, Tailor of Gloucester, Two Bad Mice, Benjamin Bunny, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Timmy Tiptoes, Johnny Town-Mouse (1st edition). (14)
£300 - £500
434 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 2nd printing, London: Frederick Warne, 1903, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, light finger-soiling, several openings with some (generally minor) surface loss to blank areas, illustration on p. 14 with surface loss to tree, frontispiece and p. 19 (blank) with adhesive tape stain to gutter (frontispiece sometime wrongly inserted to face p. 19?), short splits to 3 hinge ends, original dark green boards, rubbed, tiny spots of wear to spine ends and corners, front hinge with very slight split at foot, circular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing, London: Frederick Warne, 1910, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, occasional minor marks, pp. 50-51 with tiny spot of adhesion to blank area, stitching slightly strained, front hinge strengthened, rear hinge strengthened at top (very slightly cracked at bottom), original cream boards, lightly soiled, extremities rubbed, darkened spine with wear to ends (small infilled loss at top), front joint with 2.5 cm split, hexagonal pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, plus:
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st American edition, New York: Frederick Warne, 36 East 22nd Street, circa 1905, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, with ‘How Keld’ in the illustration on p. 20, very slight finger-soiling to a couple of blank lower margins, faint toning to bottom edges, Schlueter printer’s imprint on [page 86], pictorial endpapers (designs 2 & 3), front free endpaper with early ink manuscript inscription dated March 1907, original brown boards, spine a little faded, with tiny spots of wear at ends, shaped pictorial panel inset to front cover, 16mo, with another 6 first editions comprising: Jeremy Fisher, 1906 (rebacked); Mr. Tod, 1912 (1st printing, with ‘William Francis’, foxing to letterpress); Pigling Bland, 1913; Johnny Town-Mouse, [1918]; Appley Dapply, [1917], with inscription dated 1918 (faint edge staining); Cecily Parsley, [1922-1925] with correct endpapers indicating a ‘first’, generally good condition except where noted
First two items: Linder, pp. 423, 429; Quinby 5A, 18 respectively.
Third item: See Linder p. 425; Quinby 8 for the first edition. (9)
£300 - £400
435 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, without ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ under the author’s name on the title page, colour frontispiece (reattached to text block) title vignette and colour illustrations, pencil gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, stitching showing in some openings, original grey boards rebacked, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, together with: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, colour frontispiece and colour illustrations, near contemporary ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece, gift inscription dated 1904 to front free endpaper, some light soiling and offsetting, with single endpaper occurring four times, original maroon boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, covers a little marked, spine relaid with loss to head and foot, 16mo, plus The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904, title vignette and colour illustrations, with ‘muffatees’ on p. 15, lacking frontispiece, text block cracked, original tan boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine detached, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, gift inscription dated 1904 to front pastedown, some finger soiling, original red boards rebacked, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1906, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912, Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1917], The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: [1926], The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1st small format edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1926, various condition, all in original boards, 16mo
Linder 423, 423, 424, 424 for the first four works, respectively. (14) £300 - £400
436 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, with ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ under the author’s name on the title page, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some soiling and toning, text block near detached, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine lacking, 16mo, together with: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, near contemporary ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece, stitching showing in some openings, first few leaves detached at lower portion of inner margin, with double endpaper occurring twice, original maroon boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, covers wth small areas of abrasion, spine sunned, 16mo, plus The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1908, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some marginal finger soiling, gift inscription dated 1914 to verso of frontispiece, ‘JAN 1913’ stamped in purple to front pastedown, upper hinge cracked, original green boards rebacked, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, plus The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, some abrasion marks to lower margins, original brown boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, joints cracked (upper joint repaired), loss to head of spine, small stains to covers, 16mo, plus The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913, Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1917], Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: [1926], various condition, all in original boards, 16mo Linder 423, 423, 427, 425 for the first four works, respectively. (10)
£300 - £400
437 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, without ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ under the author’s name on the title page, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some soiling, some short closed tears, text block cracked, purple ink ownership stamp to front free endpaper, rear endpapers adhered together, ink stain to fore edge throughout, original grey boards with large ink stain over pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine worn with loss, 16mo, together with:
The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, colour frontispiece (with tape stain, also to title page) and colour illustrations, all pages before p. 9 detached, with double endpaper occurring twice, front free endpaper with near contemporary gift inscription, with large repaired tear and tape stains, original maroon boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, covers a little marked, spine worn with loss, 16mo, plus The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, with ‘muffatees’ on p. 15, all pages before p. 9 detached, some finger soiling, many marginal tears, area of abrasion to endpapers, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, worn 16mo, plus The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912, The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913, The Tale of Johnny TownMouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], Appley Dappley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1917]
Linder 423, 423, 424, for the first three works, respectively. (11) £300 - £400
438 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, small abrasion to p. 10, some small closed tears to p. 11 and p. 14, hinges refurbished, original grey boards skilfully rebacked, with circular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Jemima PuddleDuck, 1st edition, London: Fredrick Warne and Co., 1908, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, contemporary gift inscription dated ‘1908’ to verso of frontispiece, some marginal finger soiling, stitching showing in some openings, original green boards, rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine near detached with loss to lower joint, 16mo Linder, p. 423; Quinby no. 5 for the first work, Linder, p. 427; Quinby 14 for the second work.
1st or 2nd printing of the first described item, without ‘author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ under Potter’s name on the title page. (2)
£100 - £150
439 Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and The Patty-Pan, 1st deluxe edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1905, 10 colour plates, monochrome illustrations to text, some foxing to letterpress, front free endpaper with neat ink ownership signature dated 1977, front pastedown with Dutch booksellers ticket at bottom corner, all edges gilt, stitching showing in one opening (but firm), hinges neatly strengthened, original publisher’s deluxe binding in light blue cloth, art nouveau-style design in dark blue and gilt to upper cover, with inset illustration in dark blue and gold of Ribby and Duchess sitting at a table taking tea (very slightly rubbed), rear cover lightly marked, extremities a little rubbed, small 4to (180 x 138 mm)
Linder p. 425; Quinby 9. (1)
£400 - £600
440 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1905, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, 2 leaves with faint vertical crease, one centrally through text, the other affecting lower right corner of p. 14 illustration, pictorial endpapers (designs 2 & 3), bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown bottom edge, original dark blue boards, spine and board edges slightly faded, joint ends a little rubbed, rear cover with a very small skinned area to top edge, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing, London: Frederick Warne, 1910, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, scarce minor marks, stitching slightly showing in one opening (but firm), original cream boards, rebacked with original spine relaid, front cover with inset pictorial panel, a little marked and rubbed, corners showing, 16mo, plus: The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, 1st printing (with ‘William Francis’, not ‘Francis William’ on half-title verso), London; Frederick Warne, 1912, 15 colour illustrations including frontispiece, occasional light finger-soiling, p. 62 with small adhered mark to lower margin, with small skinned area on facing leaf, p. 86 with faint crease to upper corner, original pictorial boards, rebacked with original spine relaid, rear cover with slight horizontal crease, 16mo, with another 13 small format Beatrix Potter books, all published before May 1919 (none with Frederick Warne Ltd. imprint), various conditions, 16mo
The titles, in addition to the three described, comprise: Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Tailor of Gloucester, Benjamin Bunny, Two Bad Mice, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Flopsy Bunnies, Timmy Tiptoes, Johnny Town-Mouse (first edition), Miss Moppet (first edition in book form).
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441 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1907, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, finger-soiling and generally minor marks, pp. 44-45 soiled at gutter, 2 illustrations with crease to blank margin, stitching strained, pictorial endpapers (designs 2 & 4), front hinge partly cracked, original dark green boards, front cover with inset pictorial panel, minor wear to spine ends, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1911, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, occasional slight finger-soiling, pp. 28-29 and 32-33 with small area of adhesion (touching text on p. 33, and affecting owl’s head p.32), stitching showing in places (but firm), pictorial endpapers (designs 6 & 7), front free endpaper with small ink smudge, original grey boards, front cover with inset pictorial panel, front joint with short split at top, rear joint cracked, spine lightly toned, 16mo, plus: The Tailor of Gloucester, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1908, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, p. 8 with crease at gutter (not affecting illustration), pictorial endpapers (designs 4 & 5), front free endpaper with 2.5 cm edge tear (with adhesive tape repair on blank verso), stitching strained, original dark green boards, front cover with inset pictorial panel, minor wear to extremities, nearly detached spine with small loss at top, 16mo, with another 12 Beatrix Potter titles, all published before May 1919 (none with Frederick Warne Ltd. imprint), including a first edition of Johnny Town-Mouse, various conditions, 16mo A set of the small format tales by Beatrix Potter, excluding the two walletform stories, all in early editions. The titles, in addition to the three described, comprise: Two Bad Mice, Benjamin Bunny, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Timmy Tiptoes, Mr. Tod, Pigling Bland, Johnny Town-Mouse. (15) £300 - £500
£300 - £500
442 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1907, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, gift inscription dated 1907 to front pastedown, stitching showing in some openings, original green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, small areas of scuffing, spine sunned and slightly chipped, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1909, colour frontispiece (lower inner margin detached from text block), title vignette and colour illustrations (with notice board on p. 14), ownership inscription to rear of front free endpaper, original green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine sunned, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1st edition, Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, gift inscription dated 1910 to verso of front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted, original cream boards rebacked, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Pigling Bland, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, original green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover (with small area of loss), lower portion of lower joint strengthened, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1912, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some light spotting, stitching showing in some openings, original buff boards rebacked preserving original spine, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1919] colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, lower portion of upper joint split, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1st edition thus, London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., [1926], colour frontispiece and colour illustrations, some light spotting, gift inscription dated 1933 to front free endpaper, original red boards (faded to pink and white) with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo plus Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929, London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd..., colour frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations, original tan boards, spine near detached, 16mo (8) £300 - £500
443 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1907], colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, minor area of abrasion to p. 8, minor marginal finger soiling, ‘TC’ in pencil to verso of frontispiece, hinges refurbished, original grey-green boards with rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine sunned and relaid, 16mo, together with: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, original brown boards, with rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, repair to head and foot of spine 16mo, plus The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, colour frontispiece, title vignette (with juvenile scribble in red pencil) and 26 colour illustrations, some minor marginal finger soiling, stitching showing in some openings, upper hinge cracked, original dark green boards, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, corners bumped, head and foot of spine cracked with some loss, 16mo Linder p. 427, 429 & 429; Quinby no. 13, 16 & 20 respectively.
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies shows ‘The Notice Board’ in the illustration on p.14. This was removed soon after publication, indicating that this copy is an early printing.
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£300 - £500
444 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, London: Fredrick Warne and Co., 1908, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, contemporary gift inscription dated 1908 to half-title, original grey boards, rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, minor fading to spine, slightly cocked, 16mo Linder, p. 427; Quinby 14. (1)
£200 - £300
446 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st deluxe edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1909, early printing, with notice board in illustration on p. 14, colour frontispiece and illustrations, many large areas of abrasion with loss, all edges gilt, original brown cloth gilt, pictorial panel inset to upper cover, extremities a little rubbed, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, [1904-06], colour frontispiece and illustrations, pictorial endpapers with ownership inscription, some areas of abrasion, some tape stains and finger soling, hinges repaired, all edges gilt, original pink cloth gilt, pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine and corners rubbed, 16mo, plus
£2,000 - £3,000
445 Potter (Beatrix). Ginger & Pickles, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1909, 10 full-page colour illustrations, including frontispiece, one with closed tear in blank fore-margin, letterpress illustrations, front cover detached at front hinge between half-title and frontispiece, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper with partially erased purple ink stamp, original red cloth, spine faded, upper cover gilt blocked with circular ‘BP’ monogram in centre, title to upper margin, and author’s name to lower margin, upper cover slightly faded and with gilt dulled, silk ribbon ties missing, small 4to Extremely rare deluxe trial binding; we have not traced another copy. (1)
The Tailor of Gloucester [&] The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, later deluxe editions, Frederick Warne and Co., after 1909, colour frontispieces and illustrations, original cloth gilt with pictorial panel insets to upper covers, extremities a little rubbed, 16mo Linder p. 428, 421; Quinby 16, 2D respectively, for the first two works. (4)
£200 - £300
447 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, colour frontispiece (short split at lower inner margin), title vignette and colour illustrations, with notice board in illustration on p. 14, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers a little dust soiled, original brown boards rebacked preserving original spine, with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some light marginal soiling to one or two leaves, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper, original brown boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, some minor wear to spine, 16mo, together with another copy dated 1910, with blue ink inscription to title, frontispiece near detached with gift inscription to verso, original blue boards rebacked, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, colour frontispiece (possibly supplied from another copy), title vignette and 26 colour plates, very minor marginal finger soiling, original dark green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1912, colour frontispiece (near detached) title vignette and colour illustrations, some spotting, stitching showing in some openings, original buff boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, toning to spine, 16mo, plus
448 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, half-title and colour frontispiece (both possibly supplied from another copy), title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some minor dust soiling to a few leaves, stitching showing in some openings, original blue boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine toned with cracks to head and foot, upper cover with small repaired area of loss, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, colour frontispiece (near detached), title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, areas of finger soiling (mostly to p. 8 & 9), stitching loose, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper, gift inscription dated 1914 pasted to front pastedown, hinges weak, original dark green boards with pictorial panel inset (worn) to upper cover, spine split at head and foot, corners bumped, 16mo, plus
£300 - £500
The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913, colour frontispiece (near detached), title vignette and colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, original brown boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover (with small area of loss and small blue ink mark), small splits to head and tail of spine, 16mo (6)
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour illustrations, long sympathetically repaired closed tear to p. 77, initials in pencil to half-title, original grey boards rebacked preserving original spine, pictorial panel inset (sunned) to upper cover, abrasion marks to upper cover, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, Frederick Warne and Co., [1903], colour frontispiece, title vignette (with ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ under ‘Beatrix Potter’) and 26 colour illustrations, near contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper, booksellers’ ticket for ‘A. G. Bird, late Gubbins & Son, Newport’ to front pastedown, some small areas of wear to a few leaves, original grey boards rebacked preserving original spine, pictorial panel inset to upper cover, some toning to upper cover, 16mo
Linder, p. 429, 429, 430 & 423; Quinby no. 18, 20, 25 & 5a respectively. (3) £300 - £500
449 Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit’s Painting Book, 1st edition, [1911], 28 full-page illustrations (including endpapers and title), 12 of which printed in colours, and 16 in outline, all outline illustrations with generally neatly applied watercolour, one gutter strengthened, original olive-green boards, a little rubbed with some wear to extremities, spine with two infilled losses at ends, front cover with neat ink manuscript ownership name and dated 1911, slim 4to, together with another 14 Beatrix Potter Painting Books, including: Peter Rabbit, 2nd edition, 1913-1919; Tom Kitten, 1st edition, [1917] (defective); Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, [1925], two copies, and 10 other later editions, various conditions (15)
£70 - £100
450 Potter (Beatrix). The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, 1st edition in book form, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1916], colour frontispiece, title vignette and 14 colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, original tan boards with circular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, together with: The Story of Miss Moppet, London: Frederick Warne and Co, [1917 or later], colour frontispiece, title vignette and 14 colour illustrations, stitching showing in some openings, original grey boards with circular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo Linder, p. 426; Quinby no. 12a for the first work.
The first edition in book form of The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit is identified by the absence of the titles Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes and Tom Kitten’s Printing Book from the ‘Other Volumes’ notice board on the rear endpaper.
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£200 - £300
451 Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, [1917], colour frontispiece and 14 illustrations, scarce spotting (mainly affecting half-title), some minor water-staining to top and bottom edges, stitching slightly showing (but firm), endpapers with minor skinning to lower edges, original green boards, rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, faint water staining to margins of boards (rear cover more affected at foot), 16mo
Linder p. 430; Quinby no. 23.
The idea for Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes had been conceived shortly after the publication of Peter Rabbit, but only came to fruition later in 1917. Its publication was an attempt to save the firm from closure during the Harold Warne forgery scandal. (1)
£150 - £200
452 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918], colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, ownership inscription dated 1918 to front free endpaper, bookseller ticket for ‘E. J. Blanchard, Barrow-in-Furness’ to front pastedown, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, short split to lower joint, 16mo, together with:
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, original cream boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, lightly toned, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some spotting and toning, rear hinge with short crack, original maroon boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, some wear to spine, 16mo, plus
The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, gift inscription in pencil to half-title, some light spotting, original grey boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine toned with some loss to head and foot, 16mo
This second issue, first printing of this edition of Johnny Town-Mouse has the correct spelling of ‘London’ on the title page, but still does not have ‘Ltd’, indicating a pre-May 1919 printing. The second printing of Johnny Town-Mouse was produced in June 1919. In a letter to Doris Frohnsdorff, Leslie Linder quoted a man who was the Warnes production manager at the time of publishing Johnny Town-Mouse. He confirmed that Warnes would have added ‘Ltd.’ to their imprint on any books printed on or after May 26th 1919. (4) £200 - £300
453 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., after 1919, signed by author to halftitle, 26 colour illustrations, frontispiece loosely inserted, occasional light finger-soiling, p.58 with 13mm closed tear at foot of gutter, p.56 with paper surface slightly lifting at foot of gutter, stitching a little strained, original tan boards, pictorial illustration inset to upper cover, some faint marks, extremities a little rubbed, very slight wear to joint ends, 16mo
Signed by the author to the half-title and dated Ap. 22. 41. (1)
£400 - £600
454 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., after 1919, signed by author to halftitle, 26 colour illustrations, frontispiece missing, some light finger-soiling and faint creasing, front free endpaper lightly worn, with closed repaired edge tear, blank verso with contemporary ownership inscription: K.I. (?) Brockbank, Grizedale, Allithwaite, 1942, original tan boards, pictorial illustration inset to upper cover, spine relined, extremities and back cover a little rubbed, tiny dent to bottom edge of front cover, 16mo
Signed by the author to the half-title and dated May 29th 42. (1)
£300 - £500
455* Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920, [?to Nancy Nicholson, Potter’s niece by marriage], an incomplete letter, written and drawn in brown ink and pencil on the first three pages of an off-white bifolium with watermark ‘Occam Fine’, the first page with the start of the nonsense verse ‘Dig Deep & Low’ written beneath a sketch of three Oakmen digging a grave, the second page with heading ‘Other buryings’ and continuing, ‘(item) 2 infant pigs of Biddy’s (one born dead, also “Tom Thumb”), born on Friday buried on Sunday, he had a large head & bandy legs. 1 gray kitten of Judys (died “suddenly”, born dead), 1 white ditto…’, the page also including a thumbnail sketch of rabbit pie and ending with more thumbnail sketches and a post script, ‘I have mislaid your letter and forget the exact extent of the catastrophe – It was extensive!’ There were lots left’, with a facing full-page sketch of ‘Pixies burying’, some overall dust-soiling (heaviest to final blank page), light horizontal toning mark to upper margin of first page, away from illustration, small closed tears at head of first leaf, foot of second leaf and to top and bottom of fold line, unevenly folded, 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm)
Provenance: Thomson Roddick & Laurie, 2 November 1995, lot 100. Beatrix Potter married William Heelis in 1913. Nancy was one of his sister Grace’s five children, meeting and becoming friends with Beatrix when she was about nine years old. Recalling this first meeting Nancy wrote: ‘To amuse myself I used to play with stones, shells, worms, and of course imaginary people. The oak-men were imaginary people who lived in trees, and I remember my amazement on my first visit to Sawrey, when this new aunt left the grown-ups and came to me to imagine windows and doors in the trees with people peeping out’. In spite of good intentions by Potter, a published version of ‘The Oakmen’ never came to fruition, but Potter did produce a beautifully illustrated manuscript of the story of the oakmen and gave it to Nancy as a Christmas present in 1916. Nancy presented the illustrated manuscript to the Victoria & Albert Museum (AAD/1997/22/1) in 1997, together with other letters to both her and her mother, Grace Nicholson. ‘Pixie’s burying’ and the ‘Oakmen’ sketch here are clearly related to the scenes drawn by Potter in her Christmas 1916 illustrated letter to Nancy, now at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The accompanying text comprises a list of animals who have met their ends, ranging from pigs to kittens, enlivened by flashes of morbid humour. After two of Biddy’s pigs are noted as having died she remarks ‘She reared 10, she had too many’. The present letter, apparently a fragment or draft for a longer missive, seems likely to have been to Nancy Nicholson, though whether the content relates to the Oakmen tale is less clear. In a letter to Nancy Nicholson of late 1919, Potter records the purchase of two pigs, one being ‘Biddy’, and therefore the present letter must postdate this acquisition.
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£2,000 - £3,000
456 Potter (Beatrix). Histoire de Jeannot Lapin, Traduit de l’Anglais par Victorine Ballon & Julienne Profichet, 1st edition in French, London: Warne, [1921], colour illustrations and frontispiece, pictorial endpapers, original grey boards, front cover with inset oval illustration, original plain glassine wrapper (tears and losses), 16mo, together with another 47 Beatrix Potter translations, including: Histoire de Pierre Lapin, 1st French edition, translated by V. Ballon, [1921]; another copy, translated by Victorine Ballon & Julienne Profichet, [1921]; Histoire de Pierre-Lapin, translated by Madeleine Bleriot Johnson, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, circa 1921 (two copies); Hanes Meistres Tigi-Dwt, [1932]; Die Geschichte des Peterchen Hase (Gothic type), [1934], and others, also 7 Beatrix Potter phonetic editions, some in dust jackets, various conditions, with a wooden Peter Rabbit’s Book Shelf, 1955-1972, lacking label
The translated editions comprise: 24 French, 7 German, 5 Latin, 2 Spanish, 1 Swedish, 2 Norwegian, 2 Dutch, and 4 Welsh.
It is thought that the French translation of Peter Rabbit published in New York by Stokes was published at around the same time as (or possibly slightly earlier than) the first Warne edition in French. (55) £100 - £150
Lot 455
457 Potter (Beatrix). Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1922, colour frontispiece and 15 illustrations, original red boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, upper cover and spine a little faded, spine very slightly cocked, original glassine printed wrapper with long closed repaired tears and areas of loss to spine and upper cover, 16mo Linder, p. 430; Quinby 26. (1)
£200 - £300
459 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The RolyPoly Pudding, 1st edition in this small format, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1926], signed by the author to half-title, 18 colour illustrations, including frontispiece, pale staining to some upper edges, letterpress toned and foxed, occasional minor fingersoiling or marks to illustration blank margins, endpaper margins somewhat stained with surface loss, front free endpaper with advertisement for The Roly-Poly Pudding on verso, original red boards, pictorial panel inset to front cover, rebacked, rubbed and a little marked, front cover repaired along left side, some wear to corners, 16mo
Signed by the author “Beatrix Potter” Sawrey to the half-title, and dated July 29. 31.
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458* Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., circa 1924, inscribed by the author on the halftitle ‘From. Mrs Heelis. To. Jack. For Xmas. 1924’, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, finger-soiled, frontispiece and title-page with surface loss to lower margin resulting in short tears, and obscuring part of imprint to title, pp. 10-11 with small area of surface loss to lower blank margin, pictorial endpapers, original grey boards rebacked with inset oval pictorial panel to upper cover, a few marks to lower cover, 16mo (1) £200 - £300
£300 - £500
460 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., [1930], colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some light spotting, some small areas of surface abrasion, original light blue cloth, extremities a little rubbed, dust jacket with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, some small closed tears, sunning to top edge, 8vo, together with:
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1st US edition, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1930], colour frontispiece, title vignette, illustrations including head and tails for the chapters, some minor toning, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, bookseller’s ticket for ‘Young Books. Inc, New York’ to front pastedown, original green cloth, some minor wear to pictorial inset on upper cover, 8vo, plus Ginger & Pickles, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909, colour frontispiece, title vignette and colour illustrations, some finger soiling, ownership inscription to verso of half-title, gift inscription dated 1909 to front free endpaper, original tan boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine a little worn with loss to lettering and split to lower portion of upper joint, small 4to, and The Pie and the Patty Pan, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1906/7], plus another copy, but later edition [pre 1930], Ginger & Pickles, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 19090, plus another copy of the same, both worn, plus The Roly-Poly Pudding (lacking title)
Linder p. 430, 257, 428 for the first three works. (8)
£300 - £400
461 Sage (Sidney). Stand-ups, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, New York: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1934, with unused die cut figures, some minor areas of wear, original paper printed wrappers, 32 x 27 cm, plus another copy of the same, together with: Aldredge (Edna & Jessie McKee). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st edition, Ohio: The Harter Publishing Company, 1931, colour and black & white illustrations, some water staining, original printed paper covers ( small areas of loss to extremities), 33 x 24 cm, plus Peter Rabbit and his Pa, New York: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1908, illustrated, some toning, original printed paper covers, some wear, 39 x 21 cm, and 13 other early-to-mid-20th-century American editions of Peter Rabbit tales, large formats, various condition (17) £150 - £200
462 [Potter, Beatrix]. Peter Rabbit’s Book Shelf, 1939-1947, double-shelved pale green painted bookcase (edges and ends rubbed), partial original printed paper label (toned and worn) to hinged top, 37 x 28 x 12.5 cm, containing the Beatrix Potter collection of 23 volumes, circa 1919-1940 (except a later Mr. Tod), together with 4 further Peter Rabbit Book Shelves, circa 1955-1972, 2 wooden, 2 painted (one Cream/Primrose, one Mist Blue), some surface wear to each, all with original printed paper label to top, each containing the 23 Beatrix Potter volumes (after 1919), except 2 shelves without Cecily Parsley, various conditions, plus another two modern bookshelves, one titled The World of Peter Rabbit, containing all 23 volumes in later editions, all but one with dust jacket (various conditions), the other empty bookcase titled Tom Kitten (on shelf ends) (7)
£100 - £150
Lot 460
463* Printing Block. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse printing block, 1918, original metal alloy engraved plate mounted on wood, showing Timmy Willie holding a rake and basket, 4.2 x 3 cm surface size This charming depiction of Timmy Willie, the country mouse who prefers the quiet and peaceful countryside, is used as the title-page vignette for The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Potter writes at the end of the book: ‘One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.’
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£300 - £400
464 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Centenary Edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1993, facsimile copies of the three stages in the publication of the book: the 8pp. picture letter Beatrix Potter wrote to Noel Moore in 1893 (in addressed envelope); her own privately printed volume of 1901 (first printing); and the deluxe gold cloth edition published by Frederick Warne in 1902, together with a printed booklet The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 1893-1993, 16mo, all contained in original blue cloth presentation box, hinged lid and spine lettered in silver, limitation label mounted inside lid, parchment paper protecting sheet with gilt stamped centenary emblem, the box enclosed in original white card sleeve titled Peter Rabbit: Limited Edition Cased Set Limited edition, 330/750 copies.
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£100 - £150
465 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Centenary Edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1993, facsimile copies of the three stages in the publication of the book: the 8pp. picture letter Beatrix Potter wrote to Noel Moore in 1893 (in addressed envelope); her own privately printed volume of 1901 (first printing); and the deluxe gold cloth edition published by Frederick Warne in 1902, together with a printed booklet The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 1893-1993, 16mo, all contained in original blue cloth presentation box, hinged lid and spine lettered in silver, limitation label mounted inside lid, parchment paper protecting sheet with gilt stamped centenary emblem, the box enclosed in original white card sleeve titled Peter Rabbit: Limited Edition Cased Set, together with two deluxe facsimile Beatrix Potter editions: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1993, and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1995, each comprising a facsimile edition of the book, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt decorated blue or yellow cloth respectively, both with matching slipcase, plus Sister Anne, Illustrated by Katharine Sturges, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1932, with frontispiece incorrectly published facing p. 7, letterpress toned, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine faded, extremities rubbed, front cover lower right corner a little bumped, 8vo, with 3 later Beatrix Potter and related titles: The Tale of the Faithful Dove, 1st American edition, 2nd printing, 1956, and The Sly Old Cat, 1st edition, 1971, both with dustjacket; Beatrix Potter Letters to Children, 1966, blue cloth gilt, all slim 8vo First item: Limited edition, 417/750 copies. (7)
£150 - £200
466* Vinyl Records. A collection of 67 Beatrix Potter spoken word vinyls, 1960-78, comprising: forty 7 inch and twenty-seven 12 inch spoken word vinyls, with various stories including: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Tiggy-winkle, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tales of Beatrix Potter, etc., many duplicates, narrated by various including: Wendy Craig, David Davis, Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, etc., published by various companies including: EMI, Caedmon, RCA Limited, His Master’s Voice, etc., all in original sleeves (a carton)
£100 - £150
467* Wooden Plaque. Peter Rabbit, circa 1918, wooden plaque, oval-shaped, painted black with colour transfer of Peter Rabbit, his name and Beatrix Potter’s signature, drilled hole to upper edge for hanging, slightly rubbed, length 25.3 cm
Scarce. There is one example of a square plaque showing Jemima PuddleDuck (produced the following year), in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (accession number BP.875).
The first Beatrix Potter plaques were introduced in 1918, oval in shape and with four different characters printed on them. The majority of these were issued with a glued-on calendar for 1919. Further wall plaques were published from 1920 in various shapes, including oblong with curved upper edge, circular, square, etc. All of which have small variations due to them being produced in a cottage industry. Wall plaques were replaced when in 1926 free-standing desk calendars were produced with the plaques on a cut-out background. The final plaque seems to have been produced around 1934. (1) £400 - £600
468* Wooden Plaque. Hunca Munca, circa 1919, square wooden plaque, with colour transfer of Hunca Munca, her name and Beatrix Potter's signature, two drilled holes to upper edge for hanging, with modern white string present, four small pin prick holes to blank margin, length 17.8 cm
Scarce. There is one example of a square plaque showing Jemima Puddleduck (produced the following year), in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (accession number BP.875).
The first Beatrix Potter plaques were introduced in 1918, oval in shape and with four different characters printed on them. The majority of these were issued with a glued-on calendar for 1919. Further wall plaques were published from 1920 in various shapes, including oblong with curved upper edge, circular, square, etc. All of which have small variations due to them being produced in a cottage industry. Wall plaques were replaced when in 1926 free-standing desk calendars were produced with the plaques on a cut-out background. The final plaque seems to have been produced around 1934.
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£300 - £500
469* Robinson (P.G., 20th century). Five original drawings after Beatrix Potter, for an edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, circa 1930s, pen & ink on artist’s board, one with watercolour, and 2 with coloured tissue overlays (toned and wrinkled, one detached), 3 depicting Peter Rabbit, 1 depicting Mrs Rabbit and her children, and the other showing a cat staring at goldfish in a pond, 2 signed to lower edge of image, some pencilled marginalia, sheet size largest 50.7 x 38 cm (20 x 15 ins), remainder approximately 35.5 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 ins), together with 2 pen, ink, and watercolour drawings also after Beatrix Potter, captioned ‘Mrs Mouse started to knit’ and ‘Old Mrs. Rabbit decided to go shopping’, both initialled within image ‘HBP’, each approximately 19.5 x 15 cm (7 3/4 x 6 ins)
Provenance (P.G. Robinson drawings): Doris Frohnsdorff Collection; Christie’s New York, Beatrix Potter: The Doris Frohnsdorff Collection, 16th April 1997, lot 311.
We have been unable to trace an edition of Peter Rabbit with illustrations by P.G. Robinson.
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£200 - £300
470* Biscuit Tins. Peter Rabbit with Flopsy, Mopsy, and CottonTail, Edinburgh: McVitie & Price, [1939], octagonal tin with lid, decorated with chromolithograph illustrations after Beatrix Potter, showing illustrations from Peter Rabbit, comprising five larger illustrations on panels and lid, interspersed with small vignettes, some rubbing to extremities of lid, a few small scratches with minor surface loss, embossed stamp to base ‘McVitie & Price, Edinburgh’, height 13.8 cm, together with 6 Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins, circa 1974, (Mrs Tittlemouse, 1955), comprising: Peter Rabbit (x2), Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Mrs Tittlemouse, each with chromolithograph illustration to lid, some rubbing to extremities and light surface scratches, embossed stamp to base ‘Huntley & Palmers, Biscuits, Reading & London, England’,12.5 cm diameter, and two tin trays, circa 1935, showing: Peter Rabbit having a dose of camomile tea and Peter Rabbit eating radishes, both with Texagen Made in England in brown to inner edge of tray, slightly rubbed, approximately 31.5 cm diameter (11)
£300 - £500
471* Biscuit Tins. Peter Rabbit with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-Tail, Edinburgh: McVitie & Price, [1939], octagonal tin with lid, decorated with chromolithograph illustrations after Beatrix Potter, showing illustrations from Peter Rabbit, comprising five larger illustrations on panels and lid, interspersed with small vignettes, some rubbing to extremities of lid, a few small scratches with minor surface loss, embossed stamp to base ‘McVitie & Price, Edinburgh’, height 13.8 cm, together with 6 Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins, circa 1974, comprising: Peter Rabbit (x2), Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddleduck, Jeremy Fisher and Mrs Tiggy-winkle (x2), each with chromolithograph illustration to lid, some rubbing to extremities and light surface scratches, embossed stamp to base ‘Huntley & Palmers, Biscuits, Reading & London, England’,12.5 cm diameter, and two tin trays, circa 1935, showing: Peter Rabbit having a dose of camomile tea and Peter Rabbit eating radishes, both with Texagen Made in England in brown to inner edge of tray, slightly rubbed, approximately 31.5 cm diameter (10) £300 - £500
472* Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Lake District. View of Hill Top Farmhouse, Sawrey, the home of Beatrix Potter, mid 20th century, oil on board, unsigned, showing a female figure with a basket of flowers in the garden in front of the farmhouse, inscribed in pencil to verso ‘Hill Top, Sawrey’, 27 x 35.5 cm, gilt frame (1)
£150 - £200
473* [Potter, Beatrix]. A Jig-Saw Puzzle of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter’s Famous Character, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1960, colour printed plywood jigsaw puzzle, contained within original coloured card box with pictorial label to lid, some areas of wear and tape stains, 220 x 220 x 40 mm, together with 6 other Jig-Saw puzzles, also from the Beatrix Potter’s Famous Character series, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1960, including Benjamin Bunny, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Kitten, Jeremy Fisher (lacking 1 piece), all in original card boxes with colour pictorial labels to lids, some areas of wear and tear (7)
£150 - £200
474* Beswick. A collection of 48 Beatrix Potter figurines, issued post 1973, including: Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Mrs Rabbit, Goody & Timmy Tiptoes, Mr Benjamin Bunny & Peter Rabbit, Little Pig Robinson Spying, Johnny Town Mouse with bag, Tom Kitten, Jeremy Fisher, Hunca Munca, Poorly Peter Rabbit, Benjamin ate a Lettuce Leaf, Mr Tod, And this pig had none, Susan, Yock-yock in the tub, etc., plus six miniature character jugs, comprising: Jemima Puddleduck, Jeremy Fisher, Mrs Tiggy-winkle, Old Mr Brown, Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten, all with various stamps, earliest BP3a, all various sizes, tallest 17.5 cm, and two unpainted, comprising: Jemima Puddleduck (with ‘T’ to base) and Little Pig Robinson Spying (initialled S.L. to base), unglazed, tallest 12 cm (56)
£100 - £150
475* Shop Display Features. Beatrix Potter Characters, circa 1970, printed wooden panels showing; The Tailor of Gloucester, Squirrel Nutkin (x 2), Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Pigling Bland (x 2), Tom Kitten (x 4) and Mr. Jeremy Fisher (x 2), some sunned, some surface wear to a few examples, tallest 36 cm, together with: Jemima Puddle-Duck Memo chalkboard, circa 1990, 45 x 22 cm (14)
£150 - £200
476* Decorative Plates. Beswick hand-painted collectors plates ‘scenes from Beatrix Potter’ series, 1979-1981, 3 decorative plates comprising: Jemima Puddle-Duck and Fox, Peter Rabbit with Robin, Mrs. Tittle-Mouse, 22 cm , all contained in original boxes, together with 6 Wedgwood Decorative plates, comprising: Squirrel Nutkin, Benjamin Bunny & Timmy Tiptoes (x 2), ‘Peter Rabbit Wishes you a Happy Birthday 1997’ & ‘1984’, 20cm, one contained within original box, plus a Border Fine Arts Studio decorative plate ‘Jemima Puddle-Duck’ 2004, and a Peter Rabbit-style plate by ‘Porcelain fine de Bohemia’, Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia (11)
£100 - £150
477* Wedgwood. Peter Rabbit Tea Set, Frederick Warne and Co, late 20th century, a large Peter Rabbit tea set with blue rim detail, by Wedgwood, comprising: 12 mugs, 5 assorted-sized plates, 9 saucers with 8 tea cups, 3 bowls, 4 milk jugs, 2 sugar bowls, 1 teapot, together with: Wedgwood of Etruria & Barlaston, Peter Rabbit Tea Set, Frederick Warne and Co, late 20th century, a large Peter Rabbit tea set with green floral details, by Wedgwood, comprising: 2 large plates, 2 small plates, 1 bowl, 1 cup,1 saucer, 1 milk jug, 1 mug, 1 egg cup, plus Wedgwood of Etruria & Barlaston, Money-Box, novelty ceramic money box in the shape of 5 books by Beatrix Potter, 14 cm tall (60)
£200 - £300
478* Royal Albert. A collection of 32 Beatrix Potter ceramics, issued between 1982 and 1995, pottery figurines, comprising various figures, including: Peter Rabbit, Mr Tod, Little Black Rabbit, Timmie Willie Sleeping, Mrs Rabbit and Peter, Mrs Rabbit and Bunnies, Ribby and the Patty Pan, Benjamin Wakes Up, Rebeccah Puddle-Duck, Mittens and Moppet, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddleduck (x2), etc., various sizes, tallest 16.5 cm (32)
£200 - £300
479* Beswick Figures. A Collection of Beswick Ceramic Figures, 1984-2002, comprising Peter Rabbit Gardening (x 2), Amiable Guinea Pig, Jeremy Fisher Catches a Fish, The Head Gardener, Two Gentlemen Rabbits, Peter and Benjamin Picking Up Onions, Mittens, Tom Kitten and Moppet, Floppy, Mopsy and Cotton Tale, My Dear Son Thomas, Kep and Jemima, Peter and Benjamin Picking Apples, plus 3 others, largest 13cm, all contained within Bewsick card boxes (15)
£100 - £150
Lot 476
480* Beswick. John Beswick Studio Sculptures from ‘The World of Beatrix Potter’, 1984, set of 5 studio sculptures, comprising: Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Timmy Willy, Flopsy Bunies. Mrs TiggyWinkle, largest 18 cm tall, all contained within original boxes (5)
£150 - £200
481* Potter (Beatrix). A set of 10 silver and enamel trinket boxes by James House Company, London 1984, comprising Mrs Tiggy Winkle, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, Benjamin Bunny, Timmy Tiptoes, Mrs Tittlemouse, Mr Jeremy Fisher, Two Bad Mice, Taylor of Gloucester and Piglet Bland, each stamped Set 60/150, 5.5 cm diameter, gross weight approximately 395g and with blue card boxes (10)
£200 - £300
482* Collectable Figures. Group of Beatrix Potter characters, late 20th century, including Piggling Bland cast in brass, Jemima and Tom Kitten cast in lead alloy and Johnny Town-Mouse by Cambridge Bronzes Ltd, plus 5 others in resin, plaster or ceramic indulging: Peter Rabbit, Mrs Rabbit, Pigling Bland, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 11.5 cm or smaller (9)
£100 - £150
483* Wedgwood. Peter Rabbit Jasperware set, late 20th century, blue jasperware set comprising; square trinket dish, 10cm (x2), oval trinket dish, 11 cm, circular trinket box with lid, 10cm, small circular trinket box with lid, 5cm, egg-shaped trinket box with lid, 9 cm, thimble, 2.5 cm, flower vase 8.5 cm (x2), large plate, 16.5 cm (x2), small plate 11.5 cm (x4), together with: large green jasperware plate with 2007 to edge, 18.5 cm (15)
£150 - £200
484* [Potter, Beatrix]. Peter’s Friends, A Tea Set for Children, Stoke-on-Trent: Grimwade’s Ltd, circa 1922, comprising a teapot with lid (height 9 cm), milk jug (height 5.5 cm), sugar bowl (height 4 cm), four cups (height 5 cm), four saucers (diameter 11 cm), four small plates (diameter 10.5 cm), and two bread & butter or cake plates (diameter 15.5 cm), each with a colour lithographed scene after Beatrix Potter (Tom Kitten cup and saucer appearing twice), gilt rims and handles, each with maker’s mark on base, contained within a facsimile storage box with printed label to upper cover Batkin, Gifts for Good Children. The History of Children’s China, pp. 78/9. Extremely rare set of Beatrix Potter nursery china, the very first to be produced. Miss Potter sanctioned production of the set in 1917, but Grimwades didn’t begin manufacturing until 1922, blaming war-time shortages of materials and staff. Even incomplete sets are difficult to find, given the limited production of the set and its fragile nature. Beatrix Potter was said to be very pleased with the set and ordered some for Christmas presents. (Louise Irvine, editor, John Beswick & Royal Albert Beatrix Potter Figures & Giftware, 1996, pp. 10 & 83) (1)
£300 - £500
485* Crummles & Co. Enamel Boxes. A collection of eleven Beatrix Potter boxes, 1992, 11 hand-painted English enamels, mainly boxes, comprising: Johnny Town Mouse, Tom Kitten, Aunt Petittoes, Peter was so tired (napkin ring), Mrs Tittlemouse, Jemima Puddleduck and Mr Tod, Hunca Munca Christmas box (65 mm diameter), Jemima Puddleduck, Peter Rabbit, boxes all 43 mm diameter, plus a limited edition Peter Rabbit stamp box (42/150) and a set of 6 smaller boxes with characters holding boards with their names on, including: Peter Rabbit, Flopsy Bunnies, Tom Kitten, J. Fisher, etc., all 25 mm diameter, all housed in original boxes (11)
£200 - £300
486* Crummles & Co. Enamel Boxes. A collection of eleven Beatrix Potter boxes, 1992, 11 hand-painted English enamels, mainly boxes, comprising: Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, Mrs Tiggywinkle at the stove, Hunca Munca with babies, Jemima Puddleduck, Mrs Tiggy-winkle folding washing, three white ducks on a pond, and Little Black Rabbit carrying a basket of carrots, boxes all 43 mm diameter, plus Peter Rabbit Centenary enamel box (420/500, 65 mm diameter), an oval Beatrix Potter enamel box with view of the Lake District to lid and Hill Top, Sawrey to the sides, 48 mm diameter, and an egg shaped enamel with Jemima Puddleduck and Mr Tod, 65 mm high, all housed in original boxes (11)
£200 - £300
487* Garden Set. Mr McGregor’s Garden Ceramic Figures, Euphoria Manor Ltd, 1992, 6 ceramic figures comprising: Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Squirrel Nutkin, each approximately 30 cm tall, all contained within original boxes (6)
£200 - £300
488* Potter (Beatrix). Silver Beatrix Potter / Peter Rabbit proof coins, comprising a set of 6 crowns commemorating 100 years of Peter Rabbit, 1993, presented in a Pobjoy Mint display box, another set of 6 Peter Rabbit crowns, 1993, presented in a Westminster display box with certificate of authenticity, plus 6 single crowns each with display box and certificate, uncirculated and encapsulated, gross weight approximately 514g (18)
£300 - £500
489* Shop Display Figures. Peter Rabbit, by Nedus Ltd for Frederick Warne, circa 1955 and later, 2 painted rubberoid figures of Peter Rabbit, with nylon whiskers, in a running stance, standing on a grassy knoll, dressed in a blue jacket with red buttons, and black shoes, both on bases with ‘Peter Rabbit’, both with some areas of craquelure, 41 and 37 cm tall, together with another example but ceramic, 34 cm tall, plus a display figure of Squirrel Nutkin eating a nut, painted wooden panel, mounted on a section of log (4)
£150 - £200
490* Halcyon Days Enamel Boxes. A collection of 7 Beatrix Potter enamels, comprising: four enamel boxes - Peter Rabbit, Mrs Rabbit with Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail by the fire, The Tailor of Gloucester (oval box), Peter heard noises worse than ever, his eyes were as big as lolly-pops, various sizes, largest 46 mm diameter, two enamel pendent fobs, comprising: Peter Rabbit in his blue coat, and Peter Rabbit in his blue coat holding a red blanket, and an egg shaped enamel with various scenes from Peter Rabbit, 60 mm high, all housed in original boxes (7)
£200 - £300
491* Beswick Figures. Limited ‘Gold Edition’ ceramic figure pairs by Royal Doulton & Beswick Ware, 1998-1999, comprising: Peter and the Red Pocket Handkerchief and the Tailor of Gloucester, Jemima Puddle Duck and Mrs Twiggy Winkle, Hunca Munka Sweeping and Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs Rabbit and Foxy Whiskered Gentleman, limitation numbers to bases, tallest 17 cm, with certificates of authenticity, plus Limited Edition ‘Exclusive Gold’ Series commissioned by Peter Rabbit and Friends TM, 1998-2000, comprising: The Pig Had a Bit of Meat, Sweet Peter Rabbit, Tiggy Winkle and Lucy (with wooden stand), Ginger and Pickle (with wooden stand)
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£150 - £200
492* R. John Wright. Jemima’s Ducklings (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2000, 4 mohair plush ducklings, with felt beaks and feet, glass eyes, moveable wings and jointed necks, and felt egg, each approximately 10 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 231 from a limited edition of 1000, dated May 31 2000
Goddu, p162.
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493* R. John Wright. The Mouse Tailor (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2001-2002, mohair plush character of the Tailor of Gloucester, jointed neck and arms, with glass eyes, seated on a wooden spool of silk thread, approximately 10.5 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with gilt stamp to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 424 from a limited edition of 585, dated Club Year 20012002, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope
Goddu, p165.
This is the first mouse produced by R. John Wright. (1)
£100 - £150
£200 - £300
494* R. John Wright. Flopsy, Mopsy & Cotton-tail (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2004, three mohair plushies, fully jointed, with glass eyes, wearing red felt capes, two carrying baskets of felt blackberries, each approximately 21 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. J. Wright Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 246 from a limited edition of 500, dated April 15 2004, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope
Goddu, p163.
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£200 - £300
495* R. John Wright. Johnny Town Mouse, and Timmy Willie, (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2002-2004, two mohair plush, fully jointed, with glass eyes, Johnny Town Mouse in felt jacket and yellow silk waistcoat, Timmy Willie with felt strawberries, each approximately 9 cm high, contained in individual original manufacturer’s card boxes, both in mint condition, with R. J. Wright Inc. printed certificate of authenticity (Johnny Town Mouse numbered 71 from a limited edition of 425, and dated 2002-2003) and (Timmy Willie numbered 219 from a limited edition of 315, and dated 2003-2004), and Johnny Town Mouse with a colour printed story booklet, contained in original envelope Goddu, p165.
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£200 - £300
496* R. John Wright. Peter Rabbit Centennial (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2002, mohair plush character of Peter Rabbit, fully jointed, with glass eyes, dressed in a blue felt jacket with pin badge to lapel, brown leather shoes, carrying a wood and metal spade, with a wooden trug with felt flowers, and a felt geranium plant, approximately 30 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 295 from a limited production available only during the Peter Rabbit Centennial, 2002, contained in original envelope Goddu, p164.
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£200 - £300
497* R. John Wright. The Flopsy Bunnies,(Beatrix Potter Collection), 2002, 6 mohair plush bunnies, fully jointed, with embroidered features, a moulded felt lettuce on a felt-covered wooden base, approximately 21 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. J. Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 163 from a limited edition of 500, dated Jan 14 2002, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope Goddu, p163.
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£200 - £300
498* Royal Worcester. Set of 6 ‘Golden Edition’ Candle Snuffers from ‘Celebrating Peter Rabbit 100 Years’ limited edition series, Frederick Warne & Co., 2002, comprising: Benjamin Bunny, Hunca Munca, Jeremy Fisher, Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and The Tailor of Gloucester, plus another set, comprising: Miss Moppet, Pigling Bland, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Gentleman Fox and Tom Kitten, tallest 14 cm, both sets numbered 43/500, with original display stands, certificates and felt-lined wooden storage boxes Goddu, p163.
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£300 - £500
499* Steiff. Peter Rabbit, 1904/05 replica, limited edition, 2002, wool plush, hand stitched nose and mouth, wearing a navy blue felt jacket with yellow stitching to the edge and gold buttons, a pair of red felt and leather slippers on his feet, both slippers with blind embossed stamps, circular card with ‘Peter Hase Replik 1904/05’ to chest, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag, length 22 cm, together with Steiff certificate (limited edition, 1820/3000), housed in original brown Steiff box, together with Tom Kitten, 2004, mohair plush, with yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition 382/1500), length 26 cm, housed in original light green Steiff box and Squirrel Nutkin, 2005, mohair plush, with wooden nut, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition 474/1500), length 18 cm, housed in original pale green Steiff box
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501* Steiff. The Mouse Tailor, 2003, wool plush, wearing glasses and sitting on a wooden spool of pink cotton, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition, 493/1500), length 17.5 cm, housed in original pale green Steiff box, together with Samuel Whiskers, 2006, alpaca plush, wearing yellow trousers, green jacket and cream waistcoat, white necktie, and leather shoes (U shaped rub to soles), yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition 422/1500), length 28 cm, and Hunca Munca, 2004, alpaca plush, wearing a flowery dress and white apron, holding a dustpan and brush, with yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition 835/1500), length 12 cm, housed in original light green Steiff box
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£200 - £300
500* R. John Wright. Flopsy Bunny (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2003, mohair plush character of Flopsy Bunny, fully jointed, with embroidered features, nestled into a felt lettuce leaf, approximately 14.5 cm long, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 246 from a limited edition of 350, dated 2003, and contained in original envelope Goddu, p163.
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£150 - £200
£200 - £300
502* R. John Wright. Mittens (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2004, mohair plush character of Mittens, fully jointed, with glass eyes, felt paw pads, embroidered features and orange calico colouration, wearing a cotton bastiste pinafore and lace tucker, approximately 27 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 227 from a limited edition of 500, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope
Provenance: The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster. (1)
£200 - £300
503* R. John Wright. Moppet (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2004, mohair plush character of Moppet, fully jointed, with glass eyes, felt paw pads, embroidered features and grey colouration, wearing a cotton bastiste pinafore and lace tucker, approximately 27 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 301 from a limited edition of 500, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope
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£200 - £300
504* R. John Wright. Mrs Rabbit (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2004, mohair plush character of Mrs Rabbit, fully jointed, with glass eyes, wearing a felt dress with light blue cotton overdress and white apron, brown leather shoes with yellow metal buckle, with wooden broom, approximately 35 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 246 from a limited edition of 500, dated April 15 2004, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope Goddu, p159.
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£200 - £300
505* R. John Wright. Tom Kitten, (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2004, mohair plus character of Tom Kitten, fully jointed, with glass eyes, wearing a pale blue cotton romper and straw hat, approximately 27 cm high, contained in original manufacturer’s card box with mounted colour illustration to lid, some staining to upper lid, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity numbered 326 from a limited edition of 1500, and a colour printed story booklet, both contained in original envelope Goddu, p166.
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£200 - £300
Lot 504
Lot 505
507* Steiff. Jemima Puddle-Duck, 2006, alpaca plush, wearing a pink shawl and blue bonnet, yellow metal Steiff button to left wing with white tag (limited edition, 827/1500), length 38 cm, housed in original pale green Steiff box, together with Mr Tod, 2007, alpaca plush, wearing green trousers and jacket with red waistcoat and white shirt, holding a walking stick, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition 985/1500), length 35 cm, housed in original light green Steiff box (2)
£200 - £300
506* R. John Wright. Peter Rabbit in the Gooseberry Net (Beatrix Potter Collection), 2006, mohair plush character of Peter Rabbit, fully jointed, with embroidered features, and glass eyes, wearing a blue felt jacket with brass buttons and laying on a cotton net with felt gooseberries and leaves, approximately 14.5 cm long, contained in original manufacturer’s card box, in mint condition, with R. John Wright Dolls Inc. printed certificate of authenticity from a limited edition of 250, dated 2006, and contained in original envelope (1)
£200 - £300
508* Steiff. Tommy Brock, limited edition, 2008, alpaca plush, wearing yellow trousers, red waistcoat, flowered scarf and brown jacket, light tan leather shoes, with yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition, 710/1500), length 34 cm, housed in original light green Steiff box and The Mouse Tailor, 2003, wool plush, wearing glasses and sitting on a wooden spool of pink cotton, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with white tag (limited edition, 332/1500), length 17.5 cm, housed in original pale green Steiff box, and Peter Rabbit, 2002, mohair plush, jointed arms and legs, wearing a light blue felt jacket with gold buttons, a pair of leather slippers on his feet, holding a carrot, yellow metal Steiff button to ear with yellow tag, length 29 cm (1)
£200 - £300
509 Austen (Jane). Pride & Prejudice, ... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, 1st ‘Peacock’ edition, London: George Allen, 1894, numerous illustrations to text, scattered spotting, a little light damps-staining to inner and lower margins, ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper verso and tipped-in bifolium, for Florence Adele St. George Smith, from all the girls at Rodney House, 9 April 1895, all edges gilt, original green gilt-pictorial cloth, slight shelf lean, light rubbing and minimal fraying to spine ends and lower joint, 8vo Gilson E78; Keynes 82. (1)
£400 - £600
510 Awdry (Rev. W.). The Rev. W. Awdry’s Famous Railway Series, Station Book Box, London: William Heinemann Ltd, reprinted 19901992, 26 volumes all signed by the author to titles in blue ink, no. 19 (Mountain Engines) with upper hinge loosening, tear to pastedown and upper joint cracked but without loss, oblong duodecimos, all contained within publisher’s original presentation box, tape repair to lower hinge of front flap (1)
£300 - £500
511* Attwell (Mabel Lucie). ‘Household Wants’ Kitchen Memo Board, Dundee: Valentine & Sons Ltd, circa 1950, washable list board with illustrations by Attwell, some light spotting, with original pencil attached with red string, contained within original box, 32 x 16 cm, plus 7 other copies of the same, various conditions, together with: ‘Wedding Anniversary, To Wish You Joy and Prosperity- Luck and Good Cheer...’ Dundee: Valentine & Sons Ltd, 1943, framed gift card illustrated by Attwell, 9 x 11 cm, plus another copy of the same, plus ‘This Is My Room’ wall mount from The Robert Opie Collection, 1997, 30 x 20 cm, plus four other works illustrated by Attwell, including annuals, birthday cards and knitting patterns (16)
£150 - £200
512* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Green Hedges, Penn Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 17 June 1948, to Sandra Allen thanking her for the nice little note and continuing, ‘I have been expecting letters about the Faraway Tree Game this week, and I am sure you will pleased to know that yours is the very first one! I am so glad you like it. I played it with my own children when I first made it up, and it was such fun making the rules! My children love the Faraway Tree books too and we all love dear old Saucepan. I am pleased that you like my books – I have written over 200 so you have plenty to read! I expect you will like the School Stories soon. I will write you plenty more books. I will put in an autograph for you to stick in your Faraway Tree book’, 2 pages on pastel stationary, 8vo, together with the original postmarked envelope addressed and signed in Enid Blyton’s hand, plus the mentioned separate autograph signed on a small pre-printed pale pink adhesive slip in blue ink and made out to Sandra, 57 x 102 mm, with the original facsimile autograph letter signed from Enid Blyton that was included with the card game for the Faraway Tree, one page, 8vo (4)
£150 - £200
513* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, [early 1953], to a young fan named Virginia, ‘Thank you for your nicely written letter and all your news. I am so glad you like my books. I will be sure to write you plenty more. I can’t put Spiggy Holes into “Sunny Stories” because I am not going to write the stories there anymore, as I am going to have our very own magazine, “Enid Blyton’s Magazine”’, and explaining that someone else will be writing “Sunny Stories” and that her characters ‘Brer Rabbit, Pinkwhistle, Amelia Jane and the rest’ will be in the new magazine, hoping that Virginia will like it and saying that the first number will be out on 18 March with a new adventure story, written to first and fourth pages of a pale blue bifolium with Noddy & Big Ears pictorial motif at head, some creasing along folds, old adhesion marks to upper margin and foot of final page, away from signature and text, small 8vo Enid Blyton parted company from Newnes and Sunny Stories in 1953 and launched Enid Blyton’s Magazine with Evans Brothers. In this magazine, Enid was able to advertise all her books, jigsaws, toys and games, not just those published by Newnes. The magazine ran to 162 issues until Enid’s failing health caused its closure in 1959. (1) £100 - £150
515 [Cameron, Katharine, 1874-1965, artist]. Lachryde Musarum and Other Poems, by William Watson, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892, signed by the poet to half-title, a few minor spots, light offsetting to endpapers, top edge gilt, book label ‘From the Library of Roderick Gradidge Architect’, later maroon morocco by Maclehose, Glasgow, 8vo
With two original pen, ink and watercolours by Katharine Cameron, the first full-page (opposite page 74) with ink caption at head and foot ‘So lightly we parted at eve we knew not that love was born’, signed in the image by the artist and dated 1897, the other a small floral watercolour to page 75, signed in initials.
£200 - £300
514 Brock (Charles E., illustrator). The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, London: J. M. Dent, 1904, colour illustrations, endpapers toned, top edge gilt, original deluxe vellum gilt, covers slightly bowed, 8vo, together with Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1904, The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, by Washington Irving, 1906, and Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, 1908, cloth editions illustrated by C. E. Brock, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, by Jane Austen, 1897, and Emma, 1899 both in decorative cloth illustrated by Hugh Thomson, and 4 first editions by Edith Nesbit: Oswald Bastable and Others, 1905 (plate at p. 214 reattached at gutter), The House of Arden, 1908 (lacking front endpaper), The Magic City, 1910, and Wet Magic, [1913] (11)
Katharine Cameron (1874-1965) studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1889-93, and was a member of the Immortals which included other female artists Francis and Margaret Macdonald, Jessie Keppie, Janet Aitken and Agnes Raeburn, plus Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and illustrated for publications such as the Yellow Book, The Magazine, and children’s books Provenance: Roderick Gradidge (1929-2000), British architect. (1) £700 - £1,000
516 Clarke (Harry, illustrator). Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1st Edition, 1919, London: George Harrap & Co Ltd, 24 black and white plates, top edge gilt, evidence of bookplate removal, endpapers toned, original cloth, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to (1)
£150 - £200
517 Crompton (Richmal). Just-William, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, [1922], 4pp. publisher’s advertisement at rear, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper of Mary M. M. Munro, dated September 1922, upper inner hinge partly cracked, original red cloth lettered in black, rubbed and some marks and some lightly discolouration, together with other Just William titles, almost all 1st editions, including William Again, 1923, William - The Fourth, 1924, Still-William, [1925] (in remains of dustwrapper), William -The Outlaw, 1927, William - The Pirate, 1932, William The Lawless, 1970 (in worn dustwrapper), and 8 other Just William titles in dustwarppers (William and the Space Animal, William’s Television Show, William - The Explorer, William’s Treasure Trove, William and The Witch, William and The Pop Singers, William and The Masked Ranger, and William The Superman), and 23 other Just William titles, all without dustwrappers, all 8vo (38) £300 - £400
518 Detmold (E. J., illustrator). Hours of Gladness, by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1st edition, London: George Allen & Co., New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1912, 20 mounted colour plates, light spotting and offsetting, original cream cloth gilt, spine slightly toned, dust jacket, spine toned, a few chips and tears to edges, 4to, together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, 5th edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, 50 colour tipped-in plates, half-title and frontispiece detaching, light spotting to halftitle, original cloth gilt, spine toned and rubbed at ends, small closed tear at head, 4to, plus Smith (Jessie Willcox, illustrator). A Child’s Book of Old Verses, 1st edition, New York: Duffield & Co., 1910, colour plates, illustrations, contemporary ownership inscription and bookplate, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, upper cover with mounted colour illustration, upper cover a little bumped at foot, edges lightly rubbed, small 4to, with others illustrated including A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1908 (spine detaching), Some British Ballads, illustrated by Arthur Rackham,[1919[ (covers bowed), The Old Fairy Tales No. II, Comprising Hop-O’-My-Thumb and Beauty and the Beast, illustrated by H. M. Brock, circa 1915, Nip and Tuck, by Leila Crocheron Freeman, 1926, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry G. Theaker, circa 1930, and Who’s Who in the Zoo, illustrated by Milo Winter,, 1932 (35)
£300 - £400
519 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2nd (1st published) edition, 1st issue, London: Macmillan and Co., 1866, 1st issue with page 30 correctly numbered and inverted ‘S’ to final line of contents leaf, woodengraved frontispiece and illustrations after John Tenniel, short closed marginal tear to p. 5/6, some light spotting, previous owner inscription ‘H. M. Archer, Oxford, 1865’ to half-title, light blue endpapers, Burn bookbinder ticket to rear pastedown, small Wheeler & Day, Oxford bookseller blindstamp to front endpaper, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, recased with original spine relaid, one corner bumped, spine a little darkened, 8vo, together with Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Macmillan and Co., 1872, 1st issue with ‘wade’ misspelled on p. 21, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, advertisement leaf at rear, a few minor spots, presentation inscription ‘H. M. A. from F. Wilberforce Bird- 1871’ to half-title, dark-green endpapers, Burn ticket to rear pastedown, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt, original red cloth, recased with original spine relaid, spine darkened and rubbed at ends, a few light stains to upper cover, 8vo, both titles housed in a later cloth solander box, lettered to spine (edges rubbed) William, Madan, Green & Crutch 46 and 84 respectively. (2)
520 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Sylvie and Bruno, & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: Macmillan & Co., 1889 & 1893, monochrome illustrations by Harry Furniss, 3pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of first volume and 5pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of second volume, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, fine modern uniform red full morocco gilt (by Bayntun Riviere, Bath), 8vo
Finely bound set. (2)
£200 - £300
£4,000 - £6,000
Lot 519
Lot 520
521 Doughty (Arthur George, 1860-1936). Under the Lily and the Rose: A Short History of Canada for Children, 1st edition, Ottawa: The Modern Press, 1928, 39 colour plates (correct as listed), a few scattered spots, rough-trimmed with wide margins, both copies signed by the author in ink to front free endpapers, ‘First Copy, A. W. Doughty’, volume 1 with a further signed inscription from W[ard] C. Pitfield to A. M. Gordon, dated 9 May 1930, contemporary plum half calf gilt over marbled boards, gilt-titled spines with floral tool and five raised bands, spines slightly faded, large 8vo
The privately printed first edition of this work, was ‘offered as a prize book to certain schools in England and in Canada’ and was not for general sale. The first trade edition did not appear until 1931. Ward C. Pitfield (1892-1937), Canadian financier and art collector who provided the painting that is reproduced as the frontispiece in volume I. (2)
£100 - £150
522 Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland. A series of pictures from the Elf-World, with a poem by William Allingham, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875, 16 hand-coloured illustrations, occasional light marginal spotting, original green cloth gilt, edges lightly rubbed, folio (1)
£300 - £400
523 Cresset Press. The Apocrypha, according to the Authorised Version, with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, René Ben Sussan, M. E. Groom, Eric Jones, Wlatislaw Skoczylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, D. Galanis, London: Cresset Press, 1929, wood-engraved illustrations, a little minor spotting, top edge gilt, original vellum, spine label a little rubbed, a few stains, folio, limited edition 32/450, together with Blackamore Press. The Pilgrim on Earth, by Julian Green, London: The Blackamore Press, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929, 12 colour wood-engraved plates by René Ben Sussan, light spotting front and rear, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, some dust-soiling, small 4to, limited edition 281/375, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper 'A Xmas card for Ernest, with love from Marion & Ted (E. Mcknight Kauffer) 1932-33', plus Du Maurier (George). The Martian, A Novel, 1st edition, London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, light toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original buckram, spine faded, 4to, limited large paper edition 186/250, with others similar including Trilby, by George du Maurier, 1905, limited large paper signed edition 112/250, The Brook Kerith. A Syrian Story, by George Moore, illustrated by Stephen Gooden, 1929, limited edition 119/375, signed by author and artist, a proof etching by Lawrence Alma-Tadema "A man shooting at a bird", 1882 for Firdusi's "Epic of Kings" retold by Helen Zimmern (note to verso of framed etching), signed lower right, Portraits of Presses, Photographs by Ski Harrison, Whittington Press, 1997, limited edition 207/500, Pastoral or Virtue Requited by H. H. M. with wood-engravings by B. H. S., Gemeni Press, 1935, limited edition 4/100, issues 4-15 &17-22 of Priapus. A Magazine of Poetry and Art, edited by John Cotton, Autumn 1965 - Winter 1971, and a few broadsides from the Old Stile Press, 2003 (25)
£300 - £400
524 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909], 20 colour tipped-in plates, a few minor spots, original cream cloth gilt, spine very slightly darkened, 4to (1)
£150 - £200
525 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Stories From Hans Andersen, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, 28 tipped-in colour plates, occasional light offsetting, one or two light marginal finger marks, Edmund Dulac Exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, London 1911 flyer loosely inserted, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, a few small marks, covers slightly bowed, 4to Edition de Luxe 383/750, signed by the artist. (1)
£700 - £1,000
526 Gaskin (Arthur J., illustrator). Stories & Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H. Oskar Sommer, 2 volumes, London: George Allen, 1893, numerous black and white woodengraved plates and illustrations, untrimmed, original publisher’s gilt-decorated cream cloth, rubbed with heavy spotting and some soiling, 4to, (one of 300 large paper copies, inscribed by the publisher), together with:
Winterich (John T.), The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer, with the Original EightySeven Illustrations, by Edwin Burne-Jones, New York, 1958, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth gilt in dust jacket, folio (3)
£200 - £300
527 Goble (Warwick, illustrator). Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, London: Macmillan and Co., 1910, 40 tippedin colour plates including frontispiece, captioned tissue guards (a couple with wear at foot), few plates detached, original giltblocked blue cloth, extremities rubbed, spine dust-soiled and frayed at head, 4to, together with: Doyle (Richard). Fairyland, a series of pictures from the Elf-World, with a poem, by William Allingham, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1875, 16 chromolithograph plates, occasional spotting, few leaves with short closed tears to margins, hinges split, original green cloth with gilt blocked decoration, rubbed and some wear, folio, Dulac (Edmund). Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916], 15 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, decorative endpapers, original pictorial cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to (3)
£150 - £200
528 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1908, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, one or two leaves a little roughly opened, some light spotting, light toning to endpapers, contemporary presentation, W. H. Smith & Sons Library label to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, corners lightly bumped, slight lean, 8vo (1)
£700 - £1,000
529 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co.,1908, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, a few minor spots, light toning to endpapers, small blue ink stamp and ‘J. Steegmann’s Library, No. 31’ manuscript inscription to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, small bump to front upper corner, joints and edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with the first US edition of the same work, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1908 (spine faded), 8vo (2) £800 - £1,200
530 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1908, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, some light spotting, small blue and red ink stamps to front endpaper, Mudie’s Library label to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, joints and edges rubbed, upper cover slightly bowed, 8vo (1)
£400 - £600
531 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1908, frontispiece by Graham Robertson with later hand-colouring, some light spotting and occasional marginal finger-soiling, endpapers renewed, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, upper board very rubbed with loss to gilt blocked image, lower board with remnants of Commin’s Central Circulating Library adhered label, covers rubbed and worn, 8vo (1) £200 - £300
532 Greenaway (Kate). A small collection of 21 Almanacks, 18841895, and 1924-1929, all with colour illustrations and original wrappers or boards, 1924-1928 with glassine dust jacket, two copies of 1884 (one in limp white imitation morocco wrappers, the other in glazed limp pictorial wrappers), two copies of 1885 (one with cream coloured glazed pictorial boards, the other in white imitation morocco boards), all generally very good copies, each approximately 10 x 7.5 cm, together with Kate Greenaway’s Alphabet, London: George Routledge & Sons, first edition, third issue, circa 1886, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, original yellow glazed pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with sliver of upper right corner detached and adhered to endpaper, 67 x 60 mm, plus Kate Greenaway calendar for 1884 on four sheets of card, published by George Routledge & Sons, each sheet with single punctured hole to upper margin for hanging, 18.8 x 25.1 cm, two in card mounts (28.2 x 35 cm), and Calendar of the Seasons, 1881, set of 3 gold-bordered cards, showing well-dressed girls with a printed caption below, a verse to verso, 10.6 x 7.4 cm (a folder) £600 - £800
533 Greenaway (Kate). A small collection of 7 Almanacks, 1883,1884 (x2), 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888, all with colour illustrations and original wrappers or boards, two copies of 1884 one in limp light green imitation morocco, the other in glazed limp pictorial wrappers, all generally very good copies, each approximately 10 x 7.5 cm, together with Kate Greenaway’s Alphabet, London: George Routledge & Sons, first edition, third issue, circa 1886, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, original yellow glazed pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with sliver of upper right corner detached and adhered to endpaper, 67 x 60 mm, plus: Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes, London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., pre 1918, coloured illustrations throughout, some finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers, slightly toned, original green cloth-backed cream pictorial boards with trellis border, slim 8vo, and a copy of Language of Flowers illustrated by Kate Greenaway, published by Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, small 8vo (10)
£400 - £600
534 Greenaway (Kate). Language of Flowers, 1st edition, London: George Routledge, [1884], colour illustrations throughout, bright yellow endpapers, original glazed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and marked, 12 mo, together with Little Ann and other poems,1st edition, London: George Routledge, [1882], colour illustrations throughout, verso of free front endpaper with adhesive tape repair to hinge, some soiling, bright yellow endpapers, original green cloth backed pictorial boards, 8vo, plus A Day in a Child’s Life, 1st edition, 4th issue, London: George Routledge, [1881], colour illustrations, front free blank excised, original cloth backed pictorial boards, slim 4to, and eleven other books illustrated by Kate Greenaway, comprising: Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes, Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children, The Royal Progress of King Pepito, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, Kate Greenaway, The April Baby’s Book of Tunes, Kate Greenaway’s Painting Book, Under the Window, Marigold Garden, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, A Century of Kate Greenaway and Kate Greenaway Pictures, various sizes, largest slim 4to, and 7 framed prints (32.5 x 28 cm)
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£400 - £600
Lot 533
535 Haggard (Henry Rider). King Solomon’s Mines, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Cassell & Company, 1885, 1st issue with ‘Bamamgwato’ for ‘Bamangwato’, p. 14, line 10, ‘to let twins to live’ for ‘to let twins live’, p. 122, line 27, and ‘wrod’ for ‘word’, p. 307, line 29, and the publisher’s 16 pp. advertisements dated ‘5 G. 8. 85’, half-title, folding lithograph map frontispiece (with reinforcement along one fold to verso), further map in text, a couple of advertisement leaves roughly opened, some light spotting, endpapers renewed, original red pictorial cloth, spine faded and lettering dulled (small repairs head and foot), 8vo Sadleir 1089; Whatmore F3; Wolff 2863. (1)
536 King (Jessie M., illustrator). The Book of Bridges, by Edme Arcambeau, London and Glasgow: Gowans and Gray, 1911, 11 colour plates, some foxing, mainly to edges and at front and rear, free endpapers toned, top edge gilt, original green cloth with colour illustration inset to upper cover (very slightly rubbed), gilt spine (very lightly faded), 4to, a very good copy, together with: Glasgow, The City of the West, Edinburgh & London: T. M. Foulis, 1911, & Edinburgh: The Grey City of the North, Edinburgh & London: T. M. Foulis, 1914, monochrome plates to each volume, those in the former tipped-in, Glasgow with some light spotting (barely affecting plates), original pictorial wrappers, some toning (more so to Glasgow), extremities rubbed, top and bottom edges creased and slightly frayed, slim 8vo, plus: Atwell (Mabel Lucie, illustrator). J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan & Wendy retold by May Byron for Boys and Girls, with the approval of the author, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1927], 10 colour plates, monochrome illustrations, some foxing, mainly to edges, free endpapers partly toned, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, spine very lightly faded, pictorial dust jacket, rubbed and slight fraying to extremities, small repair to foot of spine, 4to, and 3 others: Our Old Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair, circa 1910; Everyman: A Morality Play, illustrated after drawings by John H. Amschewitz (Riccardi Press Books), London: Philip Lee Warner, 1911 (limited edition, one of 500 copies on paper); and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, illustrations by Charles E. Brock, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1919, rebound in contemporary light green half calf gilt, 4to/8vo (7) £200 - £300
£1,000 - £1,500
537 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Sylvie and Bruno, & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 2 volumes, both 1st editions, London: Macmillan & Co., 1889 & 1893, monochrome illustrations by Harry Furniss, author’s presentation inscription in purple ink to half-title of Sylvie and Bruno, ‘Mrs. Jebb with grateful regards from the Author, Dec. 12. 1889’, and a further author’s presentation inscription to half-title of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded ‘Mrs Jebb, with the Author’s sincere regards. Dec. 27. 1893’, 3pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of first volume and 5pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of second volume, several signatures loosened towards centre of Sylvie and Bruno, but still holding, all edges gilt, original publisher’s uniform white cloth gilt, rubbed and some soiling to covers, joints cracked and with some wear, with first volume detaching along upper joint, 8vo
Signed presentation copies from Lewis Carroll to Mrs. Florence Jebb, wife of Reverend Henry Gladwyn Jebb (1826-1898), Rector of Fontmell Magna, Dorset, and of Chetwynd, Shropshire, whose two daughters, Florence and Edith, were photographed by Carroll in 1866 (see preceding lot 589). (2)
£1,000 - £1,500
538 [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’]. The Wonderland Postage Stamp Case & Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, Oxford: Emberlin, 1890 [but later], comprising 40 pp. booklet (with advertisement for ‘Feeding the Mind’, first published in 1907), with stamp holder of twelve separate pockets each containing an unused stamp, housed in a printed stamp-case (verso with words ‘published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford’ printed above the Cheshire cat, and below ‘(post free, 13d.) price one shilling’), all contained within an original printed envelope, together with: 1 other set with unused stamps, 1 other set with used stamps, 2 other sets lacking stamps, plus another set lacking stamps and booklet
See Williams, Maddan, Green 223. (5)
£150 - £200
539 Lucas (E.V.). The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy’s Apprentice, London: Grant Richards, 1st edition, 2nd printing, 1897, pictorial endpapers with juvenile hand-colouring, previous ownership inscription to free front endpaper, 12mo, together with five other books from the Dumpy Books for Children Series, comprising: Mrs Turner’s Cautionary Stories, by [Elizabeth Turner], 1897; The Bad Family and other stories, by Mrs Fenwick, 1900; The Bountiful Lady, by Thomas Cobb, 1900; The Pink Knight, by J.R. Monsell, 1901; The Sooty Man, by E. B Mackinnon and Eden Coybee, 1903; all in original green cloth, some dust-soiling and marks, two spines lightly toned (The Pink Knight and The Sooty Man), all 12mo (6)
£200 - £300
540 Mates (Rudolf, illustrator). The Magic Flutes, by Josef Kozisek, translated by Clara V. Winlow, New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929, colour illustrations, upper corner of front endpaper torn away (piece retained), hinges tender, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some light edge wear, oblong 4to, together with Edwards (M. Ellen & John C. Staples, illustrators). Told in the Twilight, by E. E. Weatherly, 1st edition, London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, circa 1883, chromolithograph title and illustrations, a few small marginal stains, original clothbacked pictorial boards, a little rubbed, small 4to, plus Who’s There?, London: Raphael Tuck & SonsNo. 1509, circa 1896, chromolithograph and monochrome illustrations, textblock detached, some light marginal dust-soiling, contemporary presentation inscription to front board verso, original pictorial boards, some wear to spine, 4to, with others illustrated including My ABC of Animals, Aunt Louisa’s Playtime Toy Books, circa 1885, From Toy-Land, Frederick Warne, circa 1885, [ABC], Dean’s Diploma Series No. 13, circa 1900, The Camp in the Wood, circa, 1930, and Object ABC, M. A. Donohue & Co., No. 1800, circa 1910 (approximately 55)
£300 - £400
Lot 539
541 McBryde (James). The Story of a Troll-Hunt, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1904, introduction by M. R. James, numerous illustrations by the author, a few minor spots, endpapers toned, original Japanese vellum-backed boards, slight dust-soiling to spine, 4to
One of around 100 copies privately printed by M. R. James, as a memorial to his close friend James McBryde, who died unexpectedly in 1904. McBryde illustrated James’s first book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) and the pair made several visits to Denmark and Sweden from 1899-1901. McBryde had written and illustrated the book following their trip to Denmark in 1899, and following his death and agreement of McBryde’s widow Gwen, the book was published by the Cambridge University Press in 1904. (1) £400 - £600
542 Milne (A. A.) A collection of 6 books, each inscribed by A. A. Milne or his wife Dorothy ‘Daphne’ Milne, 1934-62, comprising Peace With Honour, 1934; Behind the Lines, 1940, Birthday Party and Other Stories, 1948, A Table Near the Band, 1950, all 1st US editions (dust jacket only for A Table Near the Band), each inscribed by A. A. Milne (as ‘Alan’ or ‘Blue’) to Nancy, i.e. Dorothy Nancy Hunter-Gray, wife of Martin Robert de Selincourt, some fading and stains, together with 2 further books inscribed by ‘Daff’ (i.e. Dorothy ‘Daphne’ Milne, wife pf A. A. Milne, 1890-1971), the first book Four Plays, by A. A. Milne, 1st edition, 1926 inscribed to ‘Bob’ (Martin Robert de Selincourt), April 7, 1926, and Once Upon a Time, 1st US edition, 1962, inscribed to Nancy, together with a 1 pp autograph letter from A. A, Milne to Nancy, on Cotchford Farm headed paper, dated 30. xii.51, discussing a map and directions, ‘Dearest Nancy, How good are you at map-reading?’, loosely inserted Dorothy ‘Daphne’ de Selincourt was the daughter of Martin Robert de Selincourt and married A. A. Milne in 1913. Dorothy ‘Nancy’ (Brown) HunterGray married Martin Robert de Selincourt in 1933, and later married John Hunter-Gray in 1964. She was awarded the MBE in 1992 for founding The Lullaby Trust in 1969, to study sudden infant deaths following the sudden inexplicable death of her grandson Martin.
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£300 - £500
543 Milne (A. A.) A set of all 4 Winnie-the-Pooh books, 1st editions, 1924-28, comprising When We Were Very Young, 1924, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, Now We Are Six, 1927 and The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, light offsetting to endpapers of first 2 titles, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, light fading to spines, When We Were Very Young lightly rubbed at ends, a couple of small light marks to covers, all contained in contemporary cloth slipcase, 8vo (4)
£1,000 - £1,500
544 Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1927, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, light partial offsetting to half-title and final leaf verso, slight spotting to endpaper margins, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends, dust jacket, some fading to spine, tiny nicks at ends, 8vo (1)
£600 - £800
545 Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, 1st deluxe edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1928, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, illustrated endpapers, small contemporary inscription to front pastedown, all edges gilt, original maroon limp calf gilt, spine a little faded with small central wormtrack, small losses at spine tips from worming, 8vo, together with 2 others: When We Were Very Young, 5th edition, December 1924, and Winnie-the-Pooh, 10th edition, 1930 (3)
£300 - £400
546 Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1928, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, exhibition flyer for the original drawings for the book, November-December 1928 loosely inserted, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, minor spotting to fore edges, top edge gilt, original salmon cloth gilt, light fading to spine and extremities of covers, lower corner of front boards a little bumped, dust jacket, spine slightly faded with tiny nicks at head, 8vo (1)
£600 - £800
547 Nielsen (Kay, illustrator). East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North, 1st edition, [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914], decorative title, 25 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations throughout, occasional light scattered spotting, pictorial endpapers lightly toned, ownership bookplate of I.R.A. Berens to upper pastedown, tipped-in typed slip ‘Iris Berens from her Granny. Christmas 1914’ between front free endpaper and frontispiece, original gilt decorated blue cloth, 4to (1)
£500 - £800
548 Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul & Grenbry). The Enchanted Forest, Edition de Luxe, London: A. & C. Black, 1921, colour frontispiece and 15 colour tipped-in plates, illustrations, some light offsetting and spotting, original cream cloth gilt (in bright condition), dust jacket, spine faded, small tears at spine ends and folds, light dustsoiling to panels, 4to
Edition de Luxe 61/500, signed by the artist. Rare in the dust jacket. (1)
£800 - £1,200
549 Parain (Nathalie, illustrator). Faites Votre Marché. Albums du Père Castor, 1st edition, Paris: Flammarion-Editeur, 1935, 32 pp. including covers, printed on thick paper stock, 8 full-page colour lithographic plates of shop fronts, plus four leaves with 117 perforated colour lithographic illustrations (game tokens) of merchandise to one side, and printed captions to versos, light marginal toning, original stapled and glazed pictorial card covers, a little rubbed and marked with some marginal darkening, short closed tear to fore-margin of upper cover and small crease to lower outer corner of lower cover, slight paper surface loss at head and foot of spine, 4to
550 Parker (Nancy, illustrator). The A’s and the K’s or Twice Three is Six, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Limited, [1914], chromolithographic plates (one with short closed tear) plus illustrations to text, light spotting to endpapers, original colour-illustrated paper covers, minor edge wear, oblong 4to, together with:
The Hole and Corner Book, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Limited, [1910], chromo-lithographic plates plus illustrations to text, light spotting to endpapers, original colourillustrated paper covers, minor edge wear, oblong 4to, plus Cinderella at the Zoo, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Limited, [circa 1910], chromolithographic plates (some with short closed tears), text block cracked, light spotting and toning, original colour-illustrated paper covers, corners bumped, joints rubbed, small folio, and 3 other volumes illustrated by Parker; Frolic Farm [1910], The Lays of the Grays [1909], and The Browns:- Book of Bears [1900], all in original colour-illustrated paper covers, somewhat rubbed with losses to spines, oblong 4to, together with: Nister (Ernest, publisher). Little Folk’s Peep Show, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, circa 1890, 6 circular dissolving illustrations with pull ties (some with short closed tears, some lacking ties and pins, 2 loose from textblock), textblock cracked, original pictorial boards backed in red cloth, slightly scuffed, 4to, and 9 other similar titles including: Our Darlings Pictures, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, [1895], folio, Day (Lewis Foreman, illustrator). The Nodding Mandarin, A Tragedy in China, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1883], small folio, Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, London: Griffith, Farran, Browne & Co., Seaside Stories, A Volume of Tales and Pictures for the little ones, London: Ernest Nister, Nurse’s Memories by Charlotte M. Younge..., London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, generally in good condition, various sizes and condition, all 8vo or smaller (16)
£200 - £300
An excellent and complete copy of a very scarce book. This was one of the most successful, and attractive, of Père Castor’s playbooks of the period, with striking illustrations by the highly influential Nathalie Parain (née Natacha Tchelpanova, born in Kiev, 1897-1958). Due to the fact that the four sheets of perforated game tokens of merchandise were intended to be excised and then glued into the appropriate squares facing the relevant shop, the book is rarely encountered in such fine condition. The shops featured comprise: Boulangerie, Boucherie, Poissonnerie, LégumesPrimeurs, Fruits, Crémerie, Bazar-Couleurs and Mercerie. (1)
£400 - £600
551 Peake (Mervyn). Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1939, numerous illustrations by the author, some toning to title, final leaf and endpapers, occasional light spotting, small split at gutter to front endpaper, original clothbacked pictorial boards, lower joint splitting, some toning and rubbed patches to covers, 4to, together with the 1945 reprint of the same in a price-clipped dust jacket Scarce. The author’s first book, many of which were destroyed as a result of enemy action early in the war.
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£400 - £600
553 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1902], ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on page 51, colour illustrations (frontispiece excised and bound at end), presentation inscription in ink to half-title ‘For Diddy & Georgie from the fairies, 1902’, textblock faintly cockled, variable finger-soiling, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, gutter of front endpaper with adhesive residue with consequent skinning and tears, original brown boards lettered in silver-grey, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, very lightly rubbed, vertical crease to spine, 12mo Linder, page 421; Quinby 2. (1)
£400 - £500
552 Poe (Edgar Allan). The Bells and Other Poems with Illustrations By Edmund Dulac, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], colour frontispiece plus 27 full-page colour plates by Edmund Dulac, tissue guards, some minor toning, armorial bookplate of Parnham Phillips of Wendover to front pastedown, original green limp calf, gilt lettering to spine and title inset to upper cover, spine sunned, 4to (1)
£200 - £300
554 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1909, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, page 14 with notice board in market-garden scene, pages 17 and 28/29 with marks to lower blank margin, presentation inscription to verso of colour frontispiece dated 1912, original dark green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine lightly toned, 16mo, together with The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1910, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, scattered finger soiling to blank margins, small bump to upper edge of colour frontispiece and title-page, original blue boards, pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine a little toned, 16mo, plus The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1911, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, some finger soiling to a few leaves, original dark green boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 16mo, and The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1913, colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates, numerous black and white line illustrations, some light finger soiling, and ten later copies including: The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse, The Tale of Mr Tod, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tailor of Gloucester (x2), etc., three with minor repairs to spine, 16mo (14)
£400 - £600
555* After Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). Six Silk Placemats from The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, early 20th century, pen, ink and watercolour on cream silk, each depicting various scenes, comprising: 2 from The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 3 from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and 1 from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, each doily 14.3 x 15.3 cm, including short fringed edge (a couple with small areas of loss to fringe), housed in mid 20th-century box, inscribed in ink to inside lid ‘Bon Voyage from Mrs Banks’
Doilies depicting the following scenes: ‘I am not very sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening’ and ‘One table-spoon to be taken at bed-time’, from Peter Rabbit, ‘Old Mr Bunny...took out his son Benjamin by the ears, and whipped him with a little switch. Then he took out his nephew Peter’, ‘Old Mr Bunny along the top of the wall of the upper terrace’, and ‘Old Mrs Rabbit and Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail selling rabbit wool mittens and muffatees...’ from Benjamin Bunny and ‘Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy’s brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden’ from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (from the early printing with the noticeboard).
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£400 - £600
556* Botanical Card Game. The Botanical Pastime, circa 1800-1820, 65 engraved game cards (complete in accordance with 'Key to the Botanical Pastime' list) on stiff card with individual number to upper right, printed to recto only, 31 with hand-coloured illustrations, each card with text relating to questions and statements about flora and fauna, one card erronously numbered 38 and corrected in manuscript, with corresponding number on key card also corrected, pistillam neatly corrected with m crossed through in manuscript to card 90, small chip to upper left card showing mushrooms, some occasional minor spotting to one or two cards, each 119 x 76 mm, housed in original purple silk edged card slip case, with silk pull (end reattached), 122 x 80 x 38 mm
The instruction card states that: 'The Botanical Pastime is intended as a familiar introduction to the Science, by an acquaintance with its principles & general terms, offer'd in a series of Questions & exemplifications calculated to render the first more uninteresting part of the study an agreeable Amusement...'
(1) £300 - £500
557 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910, 34 colour tipped-in plates, some spotting and light offsetting, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, modern silk ties, 4to, limited signed edition 108/1150, together with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1911, 30 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting and offsetting, endpapers toned, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, modern silk ties, a few minor marks, one corner a little bumped, 4to, limited signed edition 108/1150
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558 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1908, 40 colour tipped-in plates, sheet with plate and guards opposite p. 38 detached, occasional light offsetting and toning to text, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, some dustsoiling, 4to
Limited signed edition 74/1000.
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£600 - £800
£300 - £500
559 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures, London: William Heinemann, 1913, 44 tipped-in colour plates, front hinge tender, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth gilt, spine lightly toned and rubbed at ends, small bump to one corner, 4to, together with The Land of Enchantment, London: Cassell and Co., 1907, plates and illustrations, light offsetting to title, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth gilt, spine toned with some wear at ends, covers a little bowed, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, plus The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, London: George G. Harrap, 1929, 12 colour plates, presentation inscription, some toning to half-title and endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine faded and rubbed at ends, small splits to lower joint, 4to, with 3 others illustrated by Rackham: Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, 1936, The Chimes, by Charles Dickens, Limited Editions Club, 1931, limited signed edition 732/1500, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Limited Editions Club, New York, 1939, limited edition 1784/1950
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£300 - £400
Lot 557
Lot 559
560 Rackham (Arthur, illustrated). Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, London: J. M. Dent & Co, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909, 13 colour tipped-in plates, including extra plate of Yahoos facing p. 256 not issued for the trade edition, some light damp stains to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cream buckram gilt, later silk ties, spine with some light toning, light dust-soiling to covers, 4to
Large Paper limited signed edition 741/750.
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562 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, London: J. M. Dent, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907, 24 colour tipped-in plates, some light toning to text, bookplate to front pastedown, original vellum gilt, cloth ties, some light dust-soiling, covers slightly bowed, 4to
Limited signed edition 44/560.
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£300 - £500
561 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Wonder Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, London, New York & Toronto, [1922], 24 tipped-in colour plates, light marginal toning to mounts, frontispiece and first few leaves detaching at gutter, armorial bookplate of Hamilton of Carnell, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, light toning to spine and slightly to upper cover, 4to
Limited signed edition 36/600.
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£400 - £600
£300 - £400
563 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Mother Goose, the Old Nursery Rhymes, limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1913, 13 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, half-title and frontispiece detached, some light offsetting, hinges tender, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, spine toned, some biopredation along joints. partial toning to covers, 4to limited signed edition 609/1130, together with Aesop’s Fables. A new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by C. K. Chesterton, London: William Heinemann, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912, 13 tipped-in colour plates, some offsetting from the buff sheets, some spotting front and rear, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, spine toned, some spotting and dust-soiling, 4to, limited signed edition 1167/1450 (2)
£400 - £600
564 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, 1st trade edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, 50 colour tipped-in plates, original upper cloth cover bound-in at rear, all edges gilt, modern russet morocco gilt, 4to
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£300 - £500
565 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Rip van Winkle, by Washington Irving, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905, 51 tipped-in colour plates, including frontispiece, tear and marginal loss to tissue guard over plate 5 ‘These fairy mountains’, occasional light spotting, small portrait of the artist to half-title, small previous owner stamp to front endpaper, original cloth gilt, some fading to spine, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, together with A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908, 40 tipped-in colour plates, plate ‘Come, now a roundel’ detached, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, some flecked marks to spine, a few small stains, 4to, plus The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, London: George Harrap, 1931, 12 colour plates, small previous owner inscription to front endpaper, light toning to half-title and endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine faded, a little rubbed at ends, 4to, with 2 others illustrated by Rackham: Some British Ballads, [1919], and Poor Cecco, 1925 (5)
£300 - £400
566 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, London: J. M. Dent & Co, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909, 13 colour tipped-in plates, including extra plate of Puck opposite p. 16, not issued for the trade edition, light damp stains to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cream buckram, lacking ties, spine toned, some marks and small stains to covers, 4to Large Paper limited signed edition 619/750. (1)
£300 - £500
567 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, limited edition, London: J. M. Dent, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909, 13 tipped-in colour plates, contemporary presentation inscription to half-title, a few light stains to endpapers, original buckram gilt, lacking ties, spine toned, some light dust-soiling and small stains, 4to, limited signed edition 73/750, together with Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, 1st trade edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, 50 tipped-in colour plates, pp. ix-xii detached, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription to front map endpaper, originally cloth gilt, lower cover damp stained, tears at spine ends, 4to, plus In The Fairy Ring, by Florence Harrison, circa 1909 (3)
£300 - £400
Lot 564
Lot 565
Lot 566
568 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, limited edition, London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1935, 12 colour mounted plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, spine lightly discoloured, card slipcase with paper label (toned with some light wear), 4to limited edition 79/460, signed by the artist. (1)
£800 - £1,200
569 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1st trade edition, London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1935, colour and monochrome plates, original cloth gilt, priceclipped dust jacket, some toning to spine, a few chips and tears, 4to, together with The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1st trade edition, London: William Heinemann, 1918, 8 colour plates, illustrations, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, some fading to spine, 4to, plus A Dish of Apples, by Eden Phillpotts, 1st trade edition, London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921, 3 colour plates, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, a few small flecked marks, dust jacket, small tears and reinforcements to verso, small 4to (3)
£300 - £400
570 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas, 1st trade edition, London: Constable & Company, 1909, 40 tipped-in colour plates, frontispiece detached, some light spotting, previous owner inscription, top edge gilt, contemporary crimson half morocco gilt, slight fading to spine, small water stain at foot of lower cover, 4to, together with Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, London: Constable & Co., 1917, 12 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, a few light spots and stains, contemporary calf-backed boards, spine a little rubbed and faded, 4to, plus Irish Fairy Tales, by James Stephens, London: Macmillan & Co., 1920, 16 colour plates, bookplate, contemporary blindstamped morocco, slight fading to spine, small 4to, plus The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin, 1932, rebound in tan calf gilt by Bayntun Riviere, Bath (4)
£300 - £500
571 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1928, 8 colour plates, illustrated endpapers, occasional minor spotting, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine ends slightly rubbed, 4to, together with The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926, 20 tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, original cloth gilt, rubbed at head of spine, 4to, plus The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, London: George G. Harrap, 1929, 12 colour plates, a few minor spots, bookplate, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, one corner bumped, 4to, with 2 others illustrated by Rackham: Comus, by John Milton, [1921] (spine faded and lower joint split), and Fairy Tales, by Hans Andersen, 1932 (5) £300 - £400
572 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, 1st trade edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1917, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, occasional light toning, light stains to fore edges, prize label, original cloth gilt, some fading to spine, joints and edges rubbed, small 4to, together with English Fairy Tales. Retold by Flora Annie Steel, London: Macmillan & Co., 1918, colour plates, illustrations, some light spotting, previous owner inscription, original cloth gilt, some fading and small stains, slight lean, later slipcase, small 4to, plus A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, London: William Heinemann, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1915, 12 colour plates, some light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, original cloth gilt, spine faded, a little rubbed, small 4to, with 12 others illustrated by Arthur Rackham including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, [1907], Mother Goose, [1913], The Allies’ Fairy Book, [1915], Cinderella, 1919, The Sleeping Beauty, 1920 (with a Walter de la Mare poem copied in blue ink to title verso), and Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, 1933 (15) £300 - £400
573 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, introduction by A. A. Milne, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940, 16 mounted colour plates, all edges gilt, contemporary blue morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath for Samuel F. Zeitlin of Chicago, upper cover stamped with gilt vignette of the Mole, Toad and Rat, spine and head of upper cover faded to green, 4to
Limited edition 738/2020, signed by book designer Bruce Rogers. The last book illustrated by Arthur Rackham before his death in 1939. (1)
£500 - £800
574 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Undine, by De La Motte Fouqué, adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909, 15 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting and offsetting, bookplate, original vellum-backed boards, upper joint splitting at foot, some toning and edge wear, 4tp
Limited signed edition 45/250. (1)
£200 - £300
575 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., [1922], 4 full-page colour illustrations, illustrations in text, light toning to endpapers, original buckrambacked boards, joints splitting, some light edge wear and stains to covers, 4to
Edition de Luxe 172/175, signed by the artist. (1)
£200 - £300
576 Robinson (Charles, illustrator). The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes, edited by Walter Jerrold, London: Blackie and Son, circa 1903, colour and monochrome illustrations by Charles Robinson, a few minor spots, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, some fading to spine, edges lightly rubbed, upper cover slightly bowed, 4to, together with Gray (Millicent Etheldreda, illustrator). A Book of Children’s Verse, arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch, London: Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1911, colour plates, a little minor spotting, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, a few light stains to rear cover, 4to (2)
£100 - £150
578 Searle (Ronald, illustrator). The Journal of Edwin Carp, edited by Richard Haydn, 1st edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954, illustrations, a few light spots to fore edges, original cloth, dust jacket, short closed tear at head of upper joint, a little faint spotting, 8vo
Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper ‘Happy Birthday Fitz, with love and best wishes from Kaye and Ronald Carp’, dated 19 November 1954 at top, with an ink cartoon of two amorous fish beneath. (1)
£200 - £300
£300 - £500
577 Brunhoff (Jean de). Le Voyage de Babar, 1st edition (of the second Babar book), Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1932, together with first French editions of Babar en Famille, 1938, and Babar et ce coquin d’Arthur, 1946, and first English editions (London: Methuen) of Babar’s Friend Zephir, 1937, and Picnic at Babar’s, 1950, plus three English Methuen reprints, all with colour illustrations throughout, occasional spotting or soiling, original linen-backed pictorial boards, all rubbed with some edge and corner wear, Babar en Famille broken on spine with contents loose, all folio, together with: Rojankovsky (Feodor, illustrator). Calendrier des Enfants. Albums du Père Castor. Texte de Y. Lacôte, Images de Rojan, 1st edition, [Paris]: Flammarion, 1936, [26] pp., colour lithographic frontispiece and 12 full-page illustrations, original stapled pictorial wrappers, minor creasing and toning, small 4to, plus: Hale (Kathleen), Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Keeps a Dog, 1st edition, London: Country Life Limited, [1949], colour lithographic illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket (torn with some loss), folio Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin, 1st edition, London: George Harrap, 1932, 4 colour plates, illustrations to text, partly uncut, original pictorial stiff wrappers in matching dust jacket, some soiling, a little wear at head and foot of spine, 8vo, and other assorted illustrated books interest including paperbacks (a carton)
579 Silbermann (Dr. A. M. Silbermann, edited). The Children’s Haggadah, illustrated by Erwin Singer, with a new translation in prose and verse by Mr Isidore Wartski B.A. and Rev. Arthur Saul Super M.A. and with a selection of seder melodies, London: Shapiro, Vallentine & Co., 1933, 4 moveable colour illustrations, 3 with pull tabs, 1 with moveable wheel, some short closed tears (leaf 25 with adhesive tape repair to outer edge), swaddled baby moveable a little creased, and one colour double page spread, text in Hebrew and English, original orange cloth backed pictorial boards, 4to (1)
£200 - £300
580 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1883, map frontispiece, 8 pp. advertisements at rear with the code 5R - 1083, some light spotting, contemporary inscription dated March 28 1884 to front endpaper verso, hinges tender, original red-brown cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, corners rubbed, slight lean, 8vo Beinecke 240; Prideaux 11. Contains the first issue points: ‘dead man’s chest’ not capitalized on pp. 2 & 7; p. 127 lacking the ‘7’ in the pagination, no full stop after ‘opportunity’, line 20, p. 178, ‘worse’ for ‘worst’, line 3, p. 197, broken ‘v’ in ‘vain’ last line p. 40.
581 Symons (Arthur, editor). The Savoy. An Illustrated Quarterly [An Illustrated Monthly from No. 3, July 1896 onwards], 8 volumes [all published] bound in 2, London: Leonard Smithers, JanuaryDecember 1896, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Rothenstein, Charles Conder and others, contributions by Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Dowson, Paul Verlaine et al, advertisements, original wrappers for volumes 3-8 bound at rear of each volume (volumes 1-2 were issued in pink pictorial boards, some dust-soiling, creasing and small tears to wrappers), without the loose Christmas card sometimes found in volume one, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplates of George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948, writer and bibliophile), top edge gilt, later green half morocco gilt, spines faded to brown, some partial fading to covers, 4to, together with The Dial, edited by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, number 1 only (of 5), 1889 (in original wrappers and bound in cloth)
£3,000 - £4,000
Second state of the advertisements, the first issue advertisements were 4 pages with the code ‘5G - 783’. Issued in 4 bindings, with some disagreement about priority, also found in blue, green and red. (1)
The Savoy (named after the London hotel) was a short-lived publication by Arthur Symons and Aubrey Beardsley intended as a successor to The Yellow Book, the quarterly periodical which ran from 1894-97. Due to Beardsley’s close association with Oscar Wilde (he illustrated Wilde’s Salome in 1894) the artist was dismissed after volume V (April 1895). Holbrook Jackson described The Savoy as ‘the most satisfying achievement of fin de siècle journalism in England’. (3) £400 - £600
582* Tarrant (Margaret, 1888-1959). Two Autograph Letters
Signed, ‘Margaret W Tarrant’, Troon letterhead, 8 April & 27 October 1946, both to Miss Embury, one congratulating her on the success of her story but also apologising for being unable to illustrate a book by Miss Embury: ‘I was most interested to read your little story, as I know that one of my post-cards had started you off on it. I know it was successful, because one or two American friends told me about it, & one sent all the cuttings from the Monitor’, pp. 2, the other apologising again for not being able to undertake any further work, ‘Several books which I illustrated years ago are going to be republished, but all the originals & blocks were destroyed in the blitz...My unhappy job has been to touch up the photos...There are 44 coloured plates in each book!!’, pp. 6, 8vo, both contained in a pale blue envelope stamped Guildford, Surrey 9 Apr 1946, together with an airmail letter from J.R. Coombe to Mrs Hubbell dated 29/7/61 advising of Miss Margaret Tarrant’s death two years ago, 4 page typed manuscript for Sixty Cents Worth of Fairies, on USA watermarked paper, and The Margaret Tarrant Christmas Book, Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint (a folder)
£150 - £200
583 The Golden Hind. A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature, edited by Clifford Bax & Austin O. Spare, Vol. 1, numbers. 1-4, October 1922 - July 1923, original woodcuts and lithographs, including examples by John Nash, Frank Brangwyn, Glyn Philpot, Haydn Mackey, Robert Gibbings, Ludovic Rodo, Nora Wright and others, original publisher's pale orange quarter cloth, rubbed and light soiling, with original printed upper wrappers retained, slim folio, together with The Apple (of Beauty and Discord), a run, volume 1, first quarter - volume 2, first quarter, 1920-1921, numerous monochrome and tinted illustrations after Paul Nash, Robert Gibbings, Ethelbert White, McKnight Kauffer, Gwen Raverat, Ethel Gabain, J.D. Ferguson and many others, literary contributions by Sturge Moore, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves and others, second, third and fourth issues each lacking one leaf (Ezra Pound by Wyndham Lewis, page 97-98, Pan and Nymph by E. Lucchesi, page 183-184, and Shannon/Ernest Wills, page 239-40), a little rubbed and some handling marks, all in original pictorial printed wrappers, some light soiling and a little fraying to edges, slim folio (6)
£200 - £300
Trevor (Elleston). Deep Wood, 1945 (2 copies), Heather Hill, 1946; Heather Hill, 1948 (1st US edition), Badger’s Beech, 1948; The Wizard of the Wood, 1948; Sweethallow Valley, 1950, Mole’s Castle, 1950 (2 copies); Badger’s Wood, 1958, 1st editions, illustrations by David Williams and Leslie Atkinson, a few scattered spots, bookplate and ink inscription to Heather Hill, original cloth, some fading to extremities of a few early covers, dust jackets, some light edge wear and small creases, 8vo
One copy of Deep Wood inscribed ‘To Nau(/) Macdonald, with my thanks for her excellent production of “Badger’s Beech” in 1946, Elleston Trever, December 1946’. One copy of Mole’s Castle inscribed ‘For Richard and Felicity, a somewhat apocryphal history-book. Sincere good wishesElleston Trever, Brighton, September 1951’ (inscribed to fellow author Richard Mason & his wife Felicity, who wrote under the nom-de-plume Anne Cumming), the other copy of Mole’s Castle possibly an artist’s proof copy bound in yellow buckram, with the vignette on the title hand-coloured and initialled by the illustrator Leslie Atkinson. (10)
£300 - £400
584
585 Verne (Jules). A Family Without a Name, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891, 80 plates (complete), advertisement leaf and 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear (dated October 1890), stitching occasionally strained but all leaves holding, occasional light marks, all edges gilt, original maroon pictorial cloth gilt, some fading to spine and to small patches of the upper cover, corners rubbed, 8vo Myers 19. The first UK edition of an uncommon Jules Verne novel, set in Canada during the Rebellions of 1837-38. First published in French, then in New York in 1889.
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£300 - £400
587 Yellow Book. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, volumes I-XIII [all published], 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, The Bodley Head, April 1894 - April 1897, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman and others, original pictorial yellow cloth, spines toned and darkened, 8vo (13)
£300 - £400
586 Wain (Louis, illustrator). Ping-Pong, Told by Clifton Bingham, [cover-title], London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck, [1903], 6 fullpage colour illustrations, vignettes to text printed in red and black, first leaf partly detached, original pictorial wrappers, previous presentation inscription in pencil, and date 1904 in ink to upper wrapper, covers detached and split along spine (with remnants of old adhesive tape repair), oblong 8vo (1)
£300 - £500
588* Boyle (Eleanor Vere, 1825-1916). Six anastatic printed illustrations for Child’s Play, 1852, a group of six anastatic printed illustrations on thin card, four heightened with brown ink, each with handwritten caption to verso, including the title page, the other illustrations depicting Wee Willie Winkie, Here we are on Tom Tickler’s ground, Cuckoo, Mary, Mary, quite contrary, and I had a little Castle upon the sea-side, some minor or light soiling (mainly to sheet edges), generally in good condition, each 248 x 177 mm
Six of the seventeen anastatic printed illustrations from Eleanor Vere Boyle’s Child’s Play, published by Addey & Co. in 1852. This first edition of Eleanor Vere Boyle’s first book, a collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, was issued with monochrome illustrations after her original drawings printed by the anastatic process.
An original drawing by the artist for the same publication was sold in these rooms in June 2024 (Modern Literature, Private Press, Original Book Art, Pop-Up Books, Playing Cards & Games, 20 June, 2024, lot 549) along with two smaller related sketches, and some proof engravings after the illustrations, which were contained in a contemporary album inscribed by Eleanor Vere Boyle to her friend and art tutor Sir William Boxall. This lot originates from the same private collection and may therefore be proofs for the published work, four of which have corrections in brown ink, presumably by the artist herself. (6) £200 - £300
589* Boucher (William, 1837-1906). Complete set of original illustrations for Diamond Dyke, or The Lone Farm on the Veldt : A Story of South African Adventure, by George Manville Fenn, W. & R. Chambers, [1895], eight original watercolour illustrations on artist’s board, each heightened with white, of various scenes from the novel including: ‘Dyke gave his whip a whish through the air’, ‘the boy asked himself what to do next’, ‘keeping a watchful eye the while upon the lion’, etc., each monogrammed WB, 26.5 x 18.4 cm, seven in card mount (31 x 25 cm)
Manville Fenn’s adventure novel Diamond Dyke, or The Lone Farm on the Veldt : A Story of South African Adventure describes the adversities encountered by two young Britons, Joseph Emson and his half-brother, Vandyke (“Dyke”), when they emigrate to South Africa to set up an ostrich farm on the dry and empty veldt. The work was issued with eight illustrations by William Boucher.
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£300 - £500
590* Clarke (Joseph Clayton, 1856-1937). Three Charles Dickens Characters, watercolour, showing the full-length profile of three characters, one lady and two gentlemen, each signed, some spotting and slight water staining to one, each 23 x 18 cm, all mounted together (32 x 69.5 cm)
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£70 - £100
591* Sandys (Ruth, 1880-1941). An archive of original children’s illustrations, early 20th century, comprising: approximately 190 original illustrations, mainly on paper, pen, ink and watercolour, and pencil, illustrations from various titles (some unpublished) including: Mr. Poppet goes to Sleep, Yesterday and Long Ago, Jolly Jingles in the Jungle painting book, A Book of Signs and Customs, Numerous Names Nimbly Narrated, etc., including 12 from Numerous Names Nimbly Narrated mounted in card frames (41 x 34.5 cm), plus 14 letters mostly addressed to Ruth Sandys, a Happy Christmas greeting for ‘Dearest Tonty and Anna wishing them the Best of EVERYTHING with much love from Ruth’ on artist’s board, press cuttings, typed and handwritten manuscripts for children’s books, and other ephemera, largest 23.5 x 38.5 cm Ruth Sandys (1880-1941) was a popular children’s book illustrator who also worked commercially, designing the logo and posters for the shoe firm Lilley and Skinner Ltd between 1925-30. She also designed a small number of posters for the London Underground in 1925. She was the daughter of painter Frederick Sandys’s and sister-in-law to Lionel F. Crane, Walter Crane’s son. (1 folder)
£300 - £500
592* Groome (William Henry Charles, 18541913). Set of 6 original illustrations for Stan Lynn: A Boy’s Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn, W. & R. Chambers, 1902, watercolour and gouache, all but one signed, 33 x 21 cm mount aperture, all uniformly framed and glazed, 48 x 38 cm (6)
£400 - £600
593* Wright (Alan, 1864-1959). Five original illustrations for Baker Minor & the Dragon, and In Search of the Wallypug, by G.E. Farrow, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, [1902-3], five pen and ink on artist’s board, depicting two scenes from Baker Minor and the Dragon: The Princess thanked Baker minor with a sweet smile; This Peacock has led me here to you, and three scenes from In Search of the Wallypug: ‘All Change Here!!’; ‘To restore a vanished castle’, read the yellow dwarf; ‘Ha! a nice day, gentlefolks!’;, all monogrammed or signed, titles in pen to lower margin, 15.5 x 13 cm mount aperture, all in matching frames, glazed (33 x 28 cm)
Alan Wright (1864-1959) studied at St John’s Wood School of Art and exhibited an oil painting at the Royal Academy in 1889. He shared rooms in Hammersmith with Gleeson White, the first editor of The Studio, and began producing large numbers of illustrations including for a series called Wallypug. (5)
£150 - £200
594* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 12 original illustrations for Walsh the Wonder-Worker, by G. Manville Fenn [1903], and Viva Christina! The Adventures of a Young Scot with the British Legion, by Edith E. Cowper, [1904], 14 watercolour and gouache en grisaille on artist’s board, comprising 8 for Walsh the Wonder-Worker, including: Joe Goodsel took the gate off its hinges in his desperate charge, and sent it before him half-way down the path; Smith was describing him - holding a stout stick well balanced in his hand; It’s getting rather hot in there, etc., all signed, with pencil captions to margins, 36.5 x 26.5 cm, and 6 for Viva Christina!, including: She struck at him releasing a terrible howl; Skene struck upwards, his right fist doubled; The hideous oneeyed face...stared uneasily at the group, three ladies were swept along in the midst of them, etc., all signed, 36.5 x 27 cm, in green card mounts (45.5 x 35.5 cm) together with a copy of Viva Christina! The Adventures of a Young Scot with the British Legion (lacking frontispiece), 8vo (14)
£300 - £500
595* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Set of 6 original illustrations, possibly for Hazard and Heroism, Being Stories told by G.A. Henty etc., W. & R. Chambers, 1904, gouache en grisaille, showing scenes including: As The Horse Passed, He Seized it; Train Brawl, Caught Him By The Throat; Through The Fire; He Leapt and Look Down, all but one signed, each approximately 30 x 20 cm mount aperture, uniformly framed and glazed, 45 x 34 cm (6)
£300 - £500
596* Baumer (Lewis, 1870-1963). Hill Top Girl, by L.T. Meade, W & R Chambers, [1906], watercolour en grisaille on artist’s board, depicting: ‘Again she took the short cut across the fields’, signed, publisher’s notes in pencil to margins, 37.5 x 28.5 cm, together with Murray (J.T.). Queen Rose, by L.T. Meade, W & R Chambers, [1902], showing a woman dressed in white standing at a train station with a well-dressed gentleman holding a walking stick, signed, 26.5 x 16.5 cm, laid onto card mount (40 x 29 cm), plus Flower (Clement). Sue: the story of a little heroine and her friend, by L.T. Meade, W & R Chambers, [1906], showing a young girl standing by a round table, a father figure sitting looking at her, signed, publisher’s notes in pencil to margin, 35 x 24.5 cm, and Benatar (Molly). The Seven Basils, by E.M. Channon, [1924], pen and ink showing a scene from the book: I stood up on a chair to do it, he was so very tall, signed, 26.5 x 17 cm, framed and glazed (38 x 28 cm) (4)
£150 - £200
597* Dust Jacket Designs. Five original designs for: In Texas with Davy Crocket, A Prairie Person, Forester’s Girl, Dorty Speaking and The World’s Best Stories for Boys and Girls, by various artists, W & R Chambers, 1908-1930, five dust jacket illustrations, gouache, and watercolour, comprising: In Texas with Davy Crocket, by Everett McNeil, illustrated by Tom Curr, signed, [1908]; A Prairie Parson, by R.W. Campbell, [1925]; Dorty Speaking, by Anne Macdonald, illustrated by Nina Brisley, signed, [1927]; The Forester’s Girl by W.F. Irvine Bell, illustrated by Harold Earnshaw, signed, [1919], and The World’s Best Stories for Boys & Girls, 1st Series, illustrated by Honor. C. Appleton, [1930], and a front cover wrapper design on grey paper for Dorothy V.A.D. and The Doctor, by R. W. Campbell, illustrated by Joyce Dennys, signed, [1918], various sizes, largest 26.5 x 25 cm (mount aperture), all framed and glazed, largest (48 x 45 cm) (6)
£300 - £500
598AR* Attwell (Mabel Lucie, 1879-1964). Complete set of 6 illustrations for The Little Tin Soldier, by Graham Mar, W. & R. Chambers, [1909], complete set of six original pen and ink en grisaille watercolours, comprising: Halt! - Mark time!; The Woman was a closed book: The boy an open page; Yes Dearie; He sent me to take care of you; Hanging on the wall was a life-size, like-like picture of a boy in a myrtle-green velvet suit and lace collar; Let us race for it!; and Eliza Jane burnt her mouth with the hot tea, all signed, all approximately 22.6 x 15.1 cm, all in matching frames, glazed (44 x 35 cm) (6)
£1,000 - £1,500
599* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for A Trip to Mars, by Fenton Ash, W. & R. Chambers Limited, [1909], six watercolours on artist’s board, depicting various scenes from the book, comprising: They returned his greeting as heartily as it was given (frontispiece); He feel backwards upon the floor; There was a flash of light, and a sharp, crackling sound.; The wing drooped, and the flier fell heavily to the ground; They were then blindfolded, and the march resumed; and, The assailant was lifted high in the air and flung down with terrible force, each signed to lower margin, mount aperture 31.5 x 20 cm, each individually framed and glazed (49.5 x 39.5 cm), together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo George Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, volume I, page 23. Fenton Ash’s science fiction novel A Trip to Mars describes the adventures of two young men, invited by a visiting Martian to go to Mars in his spaceship.
‘Boys’ adventure story of a group of humanoid Martians who visit Earth and take the protagonists back to Mars in their spacecraft. The Martians have an air-minded civilisation, using both aircraft and artificial, personal wings. Serialised as King of Mars in the Sunday Circle.’ Locke.
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£400 - £600
600* Baumer (Lewis, 1870-1963). How to have a thorough change..., 4 original pen and ink illustrations on paper, laid onto artist’s board, depicting four scenes from the How to have a thorough change series, comprising: While the ‘Militant’ might camp out in the middle of Dartmoor or any other equally non-inflammable locality (signed to lower right), The Sporting man might try a month at a health resort, A Society Woman might go as payingguest to a county Vicarage, and A Gourmand should take lodgings over a tripe-shop, and feed downstairs, all with titles in pencil to artist’s board, various sizes, largest 13.2 x 10.5 cm, all in card mounts, largest 24.5 x 20.5 cm, each with titles to mount board (4) £150 - £200
Lot 598
Lot 599
601* Rainey (William, 1852-1936). Set of 6 original illustrations for Hilda’s Experiences by May Baldwin, W. & R. Chambers, 1910, watercolour with pencil and body colour, various scenes including: Hilda had thrown off her blanket and was lying on the ground; 'I'm afraid it's fainted with the cold and wet', said Fred; He heard a hiss, and saw in the half-light a dark object uncurl itself and make for Hilda's foot, one signed, comprising: 29 x 18 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, 51 x 41 cm (6)
£200 - £400
603* Rainey (William, 1852-1936). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for The Girls of Merton College, by L.T. Merton, W. & R. Chambers, 1911, six watercolours on artist’s board, depicting various scenes from the book, including: three well-dressed ladies in a train carriage, a woman kneeling on the ground holding the hands of a gentleman, a man sitting on a bench with striped jacket and straw hat watching a young girl, etc., each approximately 29.4 x 18.4 cm, all uniformly framed and glazed (50 x 38.5 cm) (6)
£200 - £400
602* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for Teddy and Lily’s Adventures, by May Baldwin, W & R Chambers, [1911], 6 watercolours with traces of pen and ink on artist’s board, depicting various scenes from the book the illustrations were produced, each signed, ‘Teddy & Lily’ to verso, 34.5 x 22.5 cm, framed and glazed (49 x 38.5 cm), printed Daniel Shackleton label with Teddy & Lily and numbers from 1-6 in blue ink to verso (6)
£400 - £600
604* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for The Captain of the King’s Guard, by Commander E. H. Currey R N, W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1912, six watercolours on artist’s board, depicting various scenes from the book, comprising: Struck it fair on the quarter, Brought it down with crashing violence on the skull of the bully, The hand of Ramon went instantaneously to his sword, As the thrust came he swayed his head on one side, etc., each signed to lower margin, mount aperture 36.5 x 22 cm, each uniformly framed and glazed (54 x 38 cm), together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo (7)
£400 - £600
605* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for Moll Meredyth. Mapcap, by May Baldwin, 1913, six original illustrations, watercolour, comprising scenes from the book showing: 'Yes, rather, only you've got to take off your shoes and stockings,' said Moll; a monkey pulling Moll's hair, Moll watching a show with fire jugglers, Moll sitting on the ground holding her shoulder surrounded by concerned locals, etc., all signed, 32.5 x 20 cm, mounted framed and glazed (48.5 x 39 cm)
Moll Meredyth, Mapcap is a story about the adventures of an English girl who proves too much of a tomboy for the teachers at her school in England. As a result, she is sent to join her parents on their rubber plantation in the Malay Peninsula.
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£400 - £600
606* Groome (William Henry Charles, 1854-1913). Complete set of 6 original illustrations for Boy Scout in the Balkans, by John Finnemore, W. & R. Chambers Limited, [1914], six watercolours on artist’s board, depicting various scenes from the book, comprising: A very hard bunch of knuckles landed full on the tall Turk’s nose; Hold, Yanitch! He bellowed in a tremendous voice; Child and revolver fell to the ground, then the bandit whirled around; Tom whirled round his rifle, but Yanitch was quicker still; In the confusion Tom made a break for the friendly willows; and Flourished the yatagham to gain power for the last dreadful stroke, etc., each signed to lower margin, mount aperture 36.5 x 22 cm, each uniformly framed and glazed (54 x 38 cm), together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo (7) £400 - £600
607* Cowham (Hilda Gertrude, 1873-1964). Original illustrations from Vivian’s Lesson, by Elizabeth Grierson, W. & R. Chambers Ltd, 3 watercolours en grisaille, highlighted with white on artist’s board, showing scenes comprising: Mother oh mother he cried can you forgive me?, They made such a pretty picture, and There to his horror looking through the gap was a rough looking man with a stubbly beard and a dirty white muffler round his neck, each signed, 37 x 27 cm, caption and title of book in pencil to lower margin, one in card mount (46 x 35.5 cm) (3) £200 - £300
608* Earnshaw (Harold C.). Complete set of 5 original illustrations and dust-jacket design, for The School Torment, by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1920, 5 watercolours comprising: 4 en grisaille, 1 in colour, heightened with white on artist’s board, depicting various scenes, including: Help me, please! It’s jolly heavy!, They wandered along the path, Not ‘in his line’ at all, By the fire we have kindled, nothing shall come between us three, etc., 37 x 27 cm, each with book title, chapter and caption in pencil to verso, dust-jacket design 27.5 x 26 cm, framed and glazed (42 x 41 cm), together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo, plus a complete set of 6 original illustrations by Harold C. Earnshaw for The Chesterton Girl Graduates, by L.T. Meade, W. & R. Chambers, 1913, six watercolours on Whatman drawing board, all signed to lower edge, depicting various scenes, 38 x 27 cm, each with title of book, chapter and caption in pencil to verso (12)
£300 - £500
609AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Gypsies, circa 192025, pencil on paper, signed with initials lower right, 200 x 215 mm, mount aperture, framed and glazed, with early Pastel Society label to verso giving the name of the work and the artist’s name and address Shamley Green, Gilford, added in brown ink (1)
£150 - £200
610* Tarrant (Percy 1855-1934). Complete set of 7 original illustrations and dust jacket design for The Werewolf of Whispers School, by Kent Carr, W & R Chambers, [1921], 7 original oil on artist’s board, comprising: one colour dust jacket showing spine and upper wrapper, 22.3 x 21.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (38.5 x 36.5 cm), 6 en grisaille, showing various scenes including: You idiots! It’s his dog, I heerd ‘um again last night, If with me you’d fondly stray, It wasn’t easy work for the two of them, etc., 5 of which initialled, each 20 x 13 cm, mounted in threes in matching frames, glazed (41.5 x 62.5 cm), five captions in pencil on artist’s board adhered to verso, together with a copy of the book for which they were produced, 8vo (8)
£500 - £800
611* Burgess (John Riddle, 1880-1966). Complete set of 7 original illustrations and dust jacket design for Stirring Days in Old Virginia, by Escott Lynn, London: W. & R. Chambers, [1922], gouache, comprising: one dust jacket design in colour showing the spine and front cover, signed, 33 x 31 cm, mounted, and 6 en grisaille, original illustrations showing scenes including: Steel Clicked on Steel; The Crew of the Sen Venture gave a Hoarse Cheer; What Trouble is Here, Gentlemen?; I Hold Your Threats as Valueless as I Hold You; What Do You Mean? & Nick Bounded In, each signed, 22.5 x 14.5 cm, mounted onto card (7)
£300 - £500
Lot 612
612* Jones (David, 1895-1974). David Jones and Pepler on Pegasus, 1924, wood engraving on japon, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, from the edition of 75, printed from the original block, the full sheet, image size 11 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 3 ins), unframed, together with 37 further wood engravings on japon, spilt across 23 sheets by the same artist, including: Gulliver cuts down trees, Gulliver seized by a monkey, Cockerel, Female Yahoo, Abraham Lincoln, Death of Absalom, Cain kills Abel, Spode, Madonna & Child, Nativity with Star & Cross, Jack Squire, etc., printed from the original block, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, one, two or three images per sheet, each the full sheet (bar one), unframed (24)
£300 - £500
614* Jones (David, 1895-1974). Gulliver seized by a Monkey, 1924, wood engraving on japon, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, from the edition of 75, printed from the original block, the full sheet, image size 12 x 5 cm (4 3/4 x 2 ins), unframed, together with 22 further wood engravings on japon, spilt across 15 sheets by the same artist, some duplicates, including: Crucifixion, Employer and Wage-slave, Husband leaving Wife, Ship and longboat in bay, Gulliver on bridge, Easle flies off with box, Aspidistra, Witanbel Watloo, Gulliver cuts down trees, Madonna & Child with SS Dominic & Francis, Nativity with Cross & Star, etc., the majority printed from the original block, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, one, two or three images per sheet, each the full sheet, unframed (16) £300 - £500
615* Kettelwell (John, 1890-1933). ‘The brimming Kausar-cup’, illustration for Sir Richard Burton, The Kasidah, 1925, pen and black ink on paper, some very light spots, 318 x 225 mm (12 1/2 x 9 ins), mount aperture, some very light spots, framed and glazed with printed label of J. S. Mars & Co. Ltd. to verso with handwritten title description
Provenance: Frances and Nicolas McDowall.
£300 - £500
613* Jones (David, 1895-1974). Epstein and John, 1924, wood engraving on japon, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, from the edition of 75, printed from the original block, the full sheet, image size 11 x 8 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins), unframed, together with 39 further wood engravings on japon, spilt across 23 sheets by the same artist, including Aspidistra, Witanbel Watloo, Dominican Friar, S. Dominic blessing Friar, Eagle flies off with box, Gulliver on bridge, The Resurrection of Christ, The Most Holy Rosary, The Church on the Rock, Jesus before Pilate, etc., a few duplicates, printed from the original block, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, one, two or three images per sheet, each the full sheet, unframed (24)
John Kettelwell was born in London, and became a successful illustrator for various authors, including Robert Massie Freeman and Robert Augustus Bennett’s pseudonymous A Diary of the Great Warr (A Second Diary of the Great Warr, and A Last Diary of the Great Warr) published in 1916, 1917, and 1919, Stephen Leacock’s Nonsense Novels (1921), and Sir Richard Burton’s Translations of The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1925) and Tales from the Gulistan or Rose-Garden (1928). (1)
£400 - £600
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616* Burgess (John Riddle, 1880-1966). Complete set of 5 original illustrations and dust jacket design for The Second Adventure, A Story of Peril & Prowess in Rumania, by Escott Lynn, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1927, gouache, comprising: one dust jacket design in colour showing the spine and front cover, signed, 26 x 25 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (41 x 40 cm), and 4 en grisaille original illustrations, each signed, 28 x 19 cm, mounted (5)
£300 - £500
617* Fraser (Eric, 1902-1983). Illustration for the poem ‘A Still Place’ by R. F. Doria, 1929, pen and black ink on Clifford & Milburn watercolour board, 120 x 90 cm mount aperture, sheet size 26 x 19.5 cm, framed and glazed
Drawn by Eric Fraser for Nash’s Magazine, 15th June 1929 (inscribed in pencil thus to verso).
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£100 - £150
618* Attributed to Mary Tourtel (1897-1940). Rupert and Friends, 17 small illustrations mounted onto three sheets, printed in black, hand-coloured with watercolour and bodycolour, showing Rupert in various scenes including: Rupert and Mrs Bear, Rupert and the Princess, Giant Boy with Rupert and the Princess, Rupert and the wicked Gnome, M.T. printed to lower edge of two illustrations, various sizes, largest 10.5 x 14 cm, three card mounts (each 35.5 x 25.5 cm), sections of printed text adhered to versos of all three, together with three large illustrations attributed to Mary Tourtel, watercolour and gouache on artist’s board (one on paper laid onto artist’s board), showing scenes comprising: Rupert, Margot and a gnome with a bag over his shoulder running away from a man dressed in brown, 33.5 x 27 cm; Rupert with a bag over his shoulder being pursued by a line of men in colourful coats, Margot and Bill Badger watching on, (lower half on paper laid onto artist’s board), 37 x 30 cm; and Rupert sitting at the base of a tree an elf talking to him, ‘Stolen Apples’ in pencil to lower margin, 38 x 31.5 cm, all in card mounts (40.5 x 33 cm), and artwork for the cover of Rupert and the Wonderful Boots by Mary Tourtel in watercolour on artist’s board 19.5 x 27 cm, Edward Jeffrey’s ink stamp to verso, mounted (28. x 34 cm), and two lined handwritten ledgers the first: A4 2 pp. lined handwritten ledger entitled Jeffrey documenting Rupert titles and other information such as date received from Jeffrey, Bromides taken, Colour originals sent to Purnells etc, dated 14-1245 to 1-10-49, the second A3 4 pp. documenting Title of Rupert story, trade or M&S publications with dates etc. from 1947-1951, and a 6 pp. printed copy of Rupert and his Friend Margot with a blank mocked up copy in pencil for the same publication (9) £300 - £500
619AR* Chapman (Charles Henry, 1879-1972). Billy Bunter, 12 original illustrations, pen and ink original illustrations, showing Billy in various poses and predicaments, including: Billy Bunter & The Bull!, The One & Only, Deliberately & Intentionally Kicked!, ‘’Not Bene’’ Not a Bean!, Blushful Billy, Artful Bunter!, The Billy Bunter Picture Book, etc., 5 signed to lower margin, all but one also signed to verso by artist, various sizes, largest 28.4 x 21.6 cm
Provenance: Purchased from the beneficiary of the artist. (12)
£500 - £700
621* Gill (Eric, 1882-1940). Inter ubera mea, 1930, woodengraved Christmas card printed at Hague & Gill, illustration from Canticum Canticorum, with red lettering, sheet size 18 x 12 cm, together with: O'Connor (John, 1913-2004). The Cockrel [&] The Fountain, The Golden The Cockerel Press, wood engraved greetings cards, sheet size 11 x 14 cm and 14 x 11 cm respectively, plus HughesStanton (Blair, 1902-1981). Stars in a Landscape, 1959, colour printed Christmas card, sheet size 14 x 17 cm, plus Hughes-Stanton (Judith). Lobster [&] Nativity, linocut Christmas cards, sheet size 15 x 12 cm, 12 x 14 cm respectively, and Braby (Dorothea, 1909-1987). Christmas Greetings [&] Jesus and Angels, colour printed Christmas cards, 17 x 26 cm and 6 x 23 cm respectively, plus Dulac (Edmund, 1882-1953). Two Greetings cards, with respective profiles of Edmund Dulac and Helen Beauclerk, dated 1936, 13 x 10 cm, plus another 'Health, Wealth and Happiness' greetings card by Dulac, dated 1938, 14 x 10 cm and 6 others, largest 15 x 24 cm
Provenance: William McCance (1894-1970) and Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980). Physick p66 for the first described work.
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£200 - £300
622* Brisley (Nina Kennard, 1898-1978). Complete set of 5 original illustrations and dust jacket design for Deb of Sea House by Elsie J. Oxenham, W. & R. Chambers, [1931], five original illustrations, watercolour, comprising: one colour dust jacket, showing the spine and upper wrapper, signed to lower right, 22.5 x 21 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (42 x 39 cm), and four en grisaille, depicting scenes from the book, including: an awful clatter filled the empty house, he didn’t mean any harm Di faltered we were doing it to please you, Deb, etc., 17.4 x 11.5 cm, all four mounted together (40 x 72.5 cm)
£200 - £400
620* Curr (Thomas, 1887-1958). Complete set of 5 original illustrations and dust jacket design for Yellerlegs, by L.C. Douthwaite, W & R Chambers, [1930], gouache, comprising: one dust jacket design in colour showing the spine and front cover, signed, 28 x 27 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (39 x 38.5 cm), and four en grisaille, original illustrations showing scenes including: Where did you find it - Peter demanded; The revolver spoke; He saw with icy certainty that he had encountered tragedy; and Peter flung him into the middle of the r[oad], each signed, 22.5 x 14.5 cm mount aperture, uniformly framed and glazed (35.5 x 27 cm) (5)
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£200 - £400
623* French Children’s Drawings. Six children’s drawings from a J.M. Paillard Competition, 1938, six watercolours, comprising: watercolour on laid paper with Montgolfier watermark, showing a green and red big top tent with animals and people gathering outside, closed repair to upper left (repaired with adhesive tape to verso), one pink printed label with manuscript in blue ink to verso ‘Concours 1938-1939 J. M. Paillard Age du Concurrent 13 ans..., Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: Le cirque joie de tous’, 31.5 x 48 cm; watercolour on wove paper with Montgolfier St. Marcel Les Annonay watermark, showing a large grey big top tent with elephant and giraffes standing on the left, a crowd of people entering the tent on the right, small loss to lower right edge of paper (64 x 12 mm), small crease to lower left edge, small mark to elephant’s head, to verso a purple ink stamp ‘Douane Centrale Exportation Paris’, blue and green chalk notes and two pink printed slips with manuscript in blue ink, first one with ‘Concours 1938-1939 J. M. Paillard, Age du Concurrent: 15 (au 31 Decembre 1938) Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: Girafe, Girafon et Loulou annoucent la representation, No 35422’ the second with ‘Concours 1938-1939, J.M. Paillard, Nom et prénoms: Simone Masson, Adresse: Chez sou père ProfesseurEcole Pratique Roanne, Date et lieu de naissance: le 17 Fevrier 1923 - Casablanca, Adresse de l’Ecole: E. P. S. de jeunes filles de Roanne, Nom du Professeur: Mademoiselle Tranchaud, No. 35422’, small paper abrasion to upper left of verso, together with four others on thick wove paper comprising: Fete Foraine, artist aged 15; Tu Milieu d’une foule grouillante la fete jetait son plein, aritst aged 14 (erroneous label for 1937-1938, corrected in ink to 1938); La vogue de chez nous!, artist aged 15; and Le Cirque, artist aged 14, each with chalk notes and printed label with Age du Concurrent, Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie and typed number to verso, largest 32 x 48.5 cm
J. M. Paillard of Paris held painting competitions for school children between 1935-1947. A different theme was supplied each year by the colour-manufacturing firm, in 1938-39 it was Fairs.
According to a press release issued by The Museum of Modern Art on the 14 January 1948. MOMA held an exhibition of Paintings by French Children at 11 West 53 Street. It contained 41 watercolours which showed various scenes, from Paris streets and country landscapes to fairs, sports and the liberation. ‘In short, the life of France as seen by her school children from 1935 to 1947. The exhibition has been selected by the museum from the collection of French color-manufacturing firm of J.M. Paillard of Paris, which has held annual competitions since 1935 to encourage children to paint...’. After the exhibition at MOMA ended on the 21 March 1948 the collection was circulated for a further six months to other various galleries and museums throughout the United States (6) £200 - £400
624* French Children’s Drawings. Six children’s drawings from a J.M. Paillard Competition, 1938, six watercolours, comprising: watercolour on wove paper with Montgolfier St. Marcel Les Annonay watermark, showing a town square with fairground rides under a banner ‘Honneur aux Sociétés’, to verso a purple ink stamp ‘Douane Centrale Exportation Paris’, blue and green chalk notes (including 1 er, [1st]) and two yellow printed labels each with manuscript in blue ink to verso ‘Concours 1937-1938 (each date amended in ink to read 1938-1938) J. M. Paillard Age du Concurrent 14 ans (au 31 Décembre 1937), Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: Joyeux Fête! Maid gare aux tournoute, No 90035’, and ‘Concours 19381939, J.M. Paillard, Nom et prénoms: Bec Jacqueline, Adresse: Place du Marché Roën o/r Lignon, Date et lieu de naissance: 25 mai 1924, Adresse de l’Ecole: Ecole Primaire supérieuse de jeunes filles Roanne, Nom du Professeur: M Tranchant, No. 90035, 32 x 48 cm; watercolour on wove paper with indistinct watermark, showing a vibrant fairground, train in the background, faint horizontal crease running 4mm from lower edge, small closed tear (with slight loss) to lower right edge, yellow printed label with manuscript in blue ink to verso ‘Concours 1937-1938 J. M. Paillard Age du Concurrent 13 ans (au 31 Décembre 1937) (with pencil amendment to 1938), Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: Grain de plaisir 1 franc le voyage, No 29953’, 31.5 x 48 cm; plus watercolour on wove paper, faint horizontal crease running along upper and lower edges, lower edge with two small chips, pink printed label with manuscript in blue ink to verso ‘Concours 1938-1939 J. M. Paillard Age du Concurrent 13 ans (au 31 Décembre 1938), Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: La fete dans une petite ville de Provinces, No 34684’, 31.5 x 48 cm; plus La Fete Forraine, artist aged 13; Le Serpentin, artist aged 14; and Heureux jour au village, artist aged 13 (some short closed tears to right edge and one to upper left), each with chalk notes and printed label with Age du Concurrent, Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie and typed number to verso, largest 32 x 48.5 cm
J. M. Paillard of Paris held painting competitions for school children between 1935-1947. A different theme was supplied each year by the colour-manufacturing firm, in 1938-39 it was Fairs.
According to a press release issued by The Museum of Modern Art on the 14 January 1948. MOMA held an exhibition of Paintings by French Children at 11 West 53 Street. It contained 41 watercolours which showed various scenes, from Paris streets and country landscapes to fairs, sports and the liberation. ‘In short, the life of France as seen by her school children from 1935 to 1947. The exhibition has been selected by the museum from the collection of French color-manufacturing firm of J.M. Paillard of Paris, which has held annual competitions since 1935 to encourage children to paint...’. After the exhibition at MOMA ended on the 21 March 1948 the collection was circulated for a further six months to other various galleries and museums throughout the United States.
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£200 - £400
625* French Children’s Drawings. Eight children’s drawings from a J.M. Paillard Competitions, 1939-43, eight original illustrations by French school children during World War II, in watercolour and gouache, comprising: watercolour and gouache on wove paper with ‘...ELIS’ watermark, showing two male figures cycling up a country lane, small pin holes to each corner, purple ink stamp ‘Douane Centrale Exportation Paris’, red chalk notes and two printed labels with manuscript in blue ink to verso, ‘Concours 19401941 J. M. Paillard, Age du Concurrent: 10 (au 31 Decembre 1940), Sujet de l’oeuvre choisie: Courle cycliste, No 13732’, the second with ‘Concours 1940-41, J.M. Paillard, Nom et prénoms: Cousty Bernard, Adresse: 14 rue cachux, Courbevoire, Date et lieu de naissance: 24 Octobre 1931 à Paris..., Adresse de l’Ecole: Petit Condorcet rue d’Amsterdam, Nom du Professeur: Touzeau, No. 13732’, 31.5 x 47.5 cm; gouache on wove paper, showing St Nicholas standing by a wooden barrel containing three infants, with small flecks of yellow paint to surface, two paper labels dated 1942-43 and red chalk numbers to verso, 31 x 24.5 cm; gouache on wove paper, showing Croque-Mitaine running from a castle, sword in hand, two printed labels dated 1942-43 and red chalk numbers to verso, 31 x 24 cm, and Vieille église bretonne, artist aged 13, dated 1939-40 (some small areas of loss of paint); Siena(?) de la vie sportive, artist aged 15, dated 1940-41; Le marais poitevin, artist aged 19, dated 194142; La moisson, artist aged 12, dated 1941-42; Retour á la terre, artist aged 15, all with printed label to verso and chalk numbers, various sizes, largest 46 x 38 cm, and another gouache showing Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf in bed dressed as Grandma, some small areas with loss of paint, pencil note to verso ‘Dourouze Jeannie, 10 rue Gluguste Geliz - Le Coteau (Loire). Meé le 30 Octobre 1931 a St Etienne - Lycee de Jeunes filles Mme Gluzel, (perhaps an entry for 1942-43), 24 x 31 cm
J. M. Paillard of Paris held painting competitions for school children between 1935-1947. A different theme was supplied each year by the colour-manufacturing firm. In 1939-40 the theme was churches and monuments, 1940-41 it was Sports, 1941-42 Work on the Farm. There is no record for the theme of 1942-43, but from the pictures we have, it was perhaps storybook characters.
According to a press release issued by The Museum of Modern Art on the 14 January 1948. MOMA held an exhibition of Paintings by French Children at 11 West 53 Street. It contained 41 watercolours which showed various scenes, from Paris streets and country landscapes to fairs, sports and the liberation. ‘In short, the life of France as seen by her school children from 1935 to 1947. The exhibition has been selected by the museum from the collection of French color-manufacturing firm of J.M. Paillard of Paris, which has held annual competitions since 1935 to encourage children to paint...’. After the exhibition at MOMA ended on the 21 March 1948 the collection was circulated for a further six months to other various galleries and museums throughout the United States.
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626* Mansbridge (John, 1901–1981). 3 Greetings cards, colour woodcuts comprising: Globe and Compass Christmas card, sheet size 18 x 12 cm, Star and Dove Christmas card dated 1933, sheet size 22 x 14 cm, and Horse and Rider with Sun and Moon greetings card, sheet size 25 x 17 cm, together with: Le Campion (Valentin, 19031952). Sleighing - XVI Century [&] Hyde Park, 2 Christmas cards, sheet sizes 16 x 14 cm and 14 x 18 cm respectively, plus 7 other greetings cards by A. A. Mason, most in colour, some depicting cats, largest 20 x 13 cm, and approximately 80 other Christmas or greetings cards, various sizes and condition
Provenance: William McCance (1894-1970) and Agnes Miller Parker (18951980).
(approx. 90)
£200 - £300
627* Dicks (P.R. 20th century). Two Original Dust Jacket Designs for The Snow and Odd Man Out, Michael Joseph, [1944], two gouache dust jacket designs, both signed, 30.2 x 25 cm, both in matching frames, glazed (43.5 x 36.5 cm)
No records can be traced that show these covers being published.
P.R. Dicks produced advertising posters for companies like Nescafé. (2)
£200 - £300
£300 - £500
£200 - £300
628* Banks (Eulalia Minfred, 1895-1999). A small collection of original illustrations and a letter, mainly watercolour, and ink, or pen, including: two Christmas scenes on paper showing two birds in a holly bush, one peeking out of a bird box, the other wearing a scarf and hat, the other showing a snowy street scene with a rabbit, weasel and mouse carrying wrapped presents and a tree, both 12 x 12 cm, individually mounted, plus 9 other illustrations, comprising: a young child brushing their teeth, Blinky Bill and Splodge the Kangaroo, a mouse in a wine glass with bubbles, Falling Leaves, signed Banski, Annes Alphabet cover, A is for Anne, B’s Brother Bob, plus two scraperboards showing rabbits ice skating and walking with a stick, 32 x 23 cm and smaller, and a handwritten letter from Eulalia, with a watercolour illustration to upper margin, dated October 2nd 1945, sending birthday wishes with my love and appreciation for all the wonderful things you have done for methe grand comradeship - the friendship that I cherish so deeplytender memories to take 6,000 miles away - a real incentive to come back once more to your happy studio! Happy BirthdaySuccess always, 23.9 x 17.8 cm Eulalia Banks (1895-1999) was born in London and started her career drawing and designing Christmas cards aged 12. She emigrated to Canada, then moved to the United States, where she had a working relationship with the publisher Platt and Munk. She illustrated many children’s books and worked painting murals in public and private spaces, including the nurseries of Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. She died aged 104 in California. (a folder)
titled by the artist, 31 x 25 cm (mount aperture), framed and glazed
630* Ellis (Ivy Ann, 1897-1984). A collection of woodcuts and works on paper by Ivy Anne Ellis (1897-1984), including a view of a harbour, watercolour heightened with white, laid onto board, initialled, Wild Roses, colour wood cut, signed, colour and monochrome woodcuts (some duplicates), a view of Polperro, pencil and chalk heightened with white, initialled, various postcards of fish after the original woodcut, various papers, the largest sheet 25.2 x 18.2 cm (10 x 7 1/4 ins), unframed Ivy Ann Ellis RBSA studied at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. She worked as a book illustrator and printmaker using woodcut, linocut and wood engraving techniques. She collaborated with the Birmingham Arts & Crafts artist Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954). On Sleigh’s retirement in 1937, she moved to Chipping Campden, where she was involved with the Guild of Handicraft.
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£150 - £200
631* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). Horse and Dray, & Entrance to a Drive with Iron Gates, circa 1947, two scraperboard engravings, one of a horse and dray in a narrow London street, the other of an entrance to drive with large iron gates, both inscribed in pencil to lower margin ‘3 7/8’, the first with ‘Chapt. 3.’ in ink to card mount, the other with ‘Chapt. 1.’ to card mount, produced as illustrations for A Farmer’s Creed by Crichton Porteous, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.., 1947, each mounted on card, the largest image 7.8 x 10.2 cm (3 x 4 ins), uniformly framed and glazed
The Horse and Dray scraperboard engraving sold as part of lot 234 in Modern Pictures, Bonhams London, 13 May 2008.
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£200 - £300
A study for the illustration in The Young King and Other Stories, by Oscar Wilde published by Allan Wingate in 1945. (1)
£150 - £200
629* Ehrlich (Georg, 1897-1966). The Goat Shepherd, illustration for The Young King by Oscar Wilde, [1945], pen, ink and wash on paper, signed and
632* Tarrant (Percy 1855-1934). Complete set of 6 original illustrations from Teddy Lester in the Fifth, by John Finnemore, W & R. Chambers, [1949], six original illustrations, oil en grisaille, depicting scenes from the book, comprising: Teddy Countered with a Straight Drive; He Leapt upon Teddy from behind; It was plucked from his grasp; Over he rolled, and took the table with him; He just got his hand to it; and He made a pass as if with a simple stick, five initialled PT to lower margin, all approximately 22 x 14.5 cm, all uniformly framed and glazed (43 x 35 cm), each with title in pencil to artist’s board, adhered to verso of frame, together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced (lacking 3 plates), 8vo
John Finnemore wrote a series of novels about Teddy Lester and his friends at Slapton, a fictitious English private school. This novel was the sixth and final in the series.
(6) £500 - £800
633AR* Cloke (Rene, 1905-1995). Complete set of 5 original illustrations, including dust jacket, from Maidlin to the Rescue, by Elsie J. Oxenham, W & R. Chambers, five original illustrations, watercolour, comprising: one colour dust jacket design, showing the spine and upper wrapper, signed to lower left, 31 x 29.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (49 x 46.5 cm), and four en grisaille, depicting scenes from the book, including: You sneak! cried Damaris. Oh, you rotter, Rachel held the torch and flashed the light about, etc., together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo (6)
£300 - £500
634* Jones (David, 1895-1974). Bookplate for Arthur J. Plenty, wood engraving on japon, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, from the edition of 75, printed from the original block, image size 8 x 3.5 cm (3 1/4 x 1 1/2 ins), sheet size 14.5 x 22.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 ins), mounted, plus Young Nobleman with Lewd Female, wood engraving on japon, published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, from the edition of 75, printed from the original block, image size 5.5 x 6 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/2 ins), mounted, together with 10 further wood engravings by the same artist, including Pamela Riddick and Constance Gold, The Most Holy Rosary, Mammon and Worshipers, Elevation of the Host, Welfare Speaker, Crucifixion, Nativity with Cross & Star etc., all printed from the original block and published by Douglas Cleverdon at Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981, mounted (11)
£150 - £200
635* Campbell (Barbara Mary ‘Cam’, 1913-1984). Original illustrations for Three Jolly Clowns and The Three Jolly Mountaineers, Collins, 1952-4, 6 watercolour with pen and ink, comprising: title-page from The Three Jolly Mountaineers, and five scenes from Three Jolly Clowns, including cover artwork and four other scenes including Trigger and Toza rescuing Polly, Polly being kidnapped, etc., various sizes, largest 26 x 19 cm, all in card mounts (43 x 34 cm), together with two similar featuring Hopper and Skipper, and 6 storyboards from Jack and Jill Weekly, 1978-1980, gouache on artist’s board showing the adventures of a mouse family, three initialled TW, 14.5 x 38 cm (14)
£150 - £200
636AR* Lancaster (Osbert, 1908-1986). ‘Suppose he Starts to do His Thing’, 29.iv.71, pen and ink with coloured pencil, signed to lower left, title and date typed to lower margin, strip of adhesive to upper edge of verso showing through, 24.5 x 16.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (34 x 25 cm), together with three books by Osbert Lancaster, comprising: Private Views, London: Gryphon Books Ltd, 1956, with dust jacket (a little rubbed); Pillar to Post, English Architecture without Tears, London: John Murray, 1956, with dust jacket (some loss to upper edge; and Liquid Assets, London: John Murray, 1975, with dust jacket, slim 4to and smaller (4)
£150 - £200
637* Bestall (Alfred Edmeades, 1892-1986). Rupert and the Jackdaw, circa 1958, pen and ink drawings, showing two sequential scenes comprising: Rupert the Bear feeding the birds, and then Rupert turning to look over at someone walking away in the distance, first scene signed by Bestall lower right, 9 x 20.8 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (27 x 38 cm), together with Rupert and the Jackdaw, storyboard, circa 1971, watercolour scenes on artist’s board with acetate outline overlay, storyboard containing four sequential scenes, including Rupert looking up at a black bird, then Rupert talking to his mother in the kitchen, etc., each 9 x 10 cm, overall 22.3 x 21 cm, in card mount (32.5 x 30 cm), plus a small pictorial card with a printed image of Rupert and his friends, page 2 with a printed A.E. Bestall address label, and manuscript note in black ink dated 27.2.’84 ‘Dear Anne, Thank you for forwarding the attractive letters + press photo from ‘Dusty’ Wiker(?) + family. It is rejuvenating to get such confirmations that the Rupert of long ago has a continuing appeal to to-day’s youngsters as well as to their parents. I trust you can do something to complete their collection of annuals! Every good wish Alfred E Bestall’, in envelope addressed to Ms Anne C. Excell, and Rupert and Friends, 1966, a pen and ink drawing on watermarked lined paper by Bestall, showing Rupert sitting on the top of a fence with four other characters (Bill Badger, Algy Pug, Willie Mouse, and Lily Duckling), sitting or standing near the fence flying paper airplanes, signed and dated in blue ink to lower right, overall browning (from adhesive layer?), 12.6 x 16 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (28.5 x 31 cm) and three Rupert Daily Express annuals, 1960,1971 & 1963, various condition, 4to
The black ink Rupert and the Jackdaw originally appeared in the Daily Express in 1958. It was later republished in the Rupert Annual in 1971 with an additional two illustrations and in colour.
On 28 June 1935, Mary Tourtel, Rupert’s original creator, passed ‘Rupert’ on to Alfred Bestall. Mary was suffering from failing eyesight and also reportedly getting tired of Rupert.
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£600 - £800
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638* Piech (Paul Peter, 1920-1996). ‘Tyger Tyger’ by William Blake [&] ‘This royal Throne of Kings, this sceptered isle…’ [&] ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, The truth will set you free’, 3 lithographs, all printed in two colours, some old folds and light creasing, Shakespeare with small repair tear to lower right edge, pin holes to corners, largest 45 x 64 cm (3)
£100 - £150
639AR* Watkins-Pitchford (BB Denys James, 1905-1990). 15 original illustrations for Vix and The Birds of a Lonely Lake, circa 1960, 15 pen and ink illustrations, showing various wild animals, birds and scenes including: fox cubs playing, squirrels, butterflies, magpies, children rescuing a fox cub, heron, thrush, etc., various sizes, largest 62 x 110 mm, all in card mounts (21 x 29.7 cm), each with publisher’s notes in pencil to verso (15)
£400 - £600
640 Fraser (Eric, 1902-1983). Original design for The Golden Bough by J. G. Frazer, London: Macmillan, St. Martin's Library, circa 1963, gouache on paper, design for a book cover or dustjacket, the front cover depicting a minotaur kneeling before a flaming fire holding the body of a naked man, the spine depicting a tree with many eyes, both panels with lettering 'The Golden Bough', and 'SML', the front cover additionally with '6s net', signed to right of front cover within image, 17 x 15.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (37 x 32.5 cm)
We have been unable to find an edition of The Golden Bough bearing this striking design on the cover or dustjacket. (1)
£150 - £200
641* Famepress Publishers Limited. Twelve original cover designs for Girl’s Diary, Famepress Ltd., 1964-65, 12 Gouache with pen and black ink, including numbers 10:The Adventurers, 12: The Wild One, 20: Daughter of the Sun, 21: Silky and I, 22: Riviera Rendezvous, 29: Mystery at Pony Moor, 31: The Golden Saddle, 37: The Marionette Mystery, 38: The Sweetest Sound, 36: The Secret Zoo, 39: Two Down-Under, and 40: The Jade Dancer, all 27.5 x 19.5 cm (mount aperture), and similar, all in matching modern grey wood frames, glazed (47 x 38 cm) (11)
£150 - £200
642* Dorrien (died 1998). A collection of approximately 400 original cartoons, circa 1970-80, pen and ink, a few with wash, including: ...and try to forget that old inferiority complex of yours, shorty!; Why don’t you tell mummy that you’re the boss in this house, dad - that usually makes her laugh; Take no notice he’ll do anything to get attention; I’m worried about him - he wants a skindiving outfit for his birthday; I can’t wait to see their faces today, etc., each signed ‘Dorrien’, with typed captions to lower margin, various sizes, largest 25.4 x 17.6 cm, each with Kingleo Studios Ltd, and/or artist’s own stamp to verso Dorrien was a well-known cartoonist for the Western Mail and the South Wales Echo.
(a carton)
£200 - £400
644* Cartoons. A collection of approximately 200 original cartoons, circa 1970-80, pen and ink, a few with wash, including: We’re thinking of having his tail docked!; Mr Bender - I know I advised you to get an outdoor occupation, but-; It looks seriousthe inside will have to be completely gutted and rebuilt; Do you mind, mate?; Well you asked for something patriotic - it’s the Aldershot tattoo, etc., each signed by either Jack Kirkbride (19232006), or ‘Pierre’, some with manuscript captions to lower margin, various sizes, largest 25.1 x 20.4 cm, each with Member of the National Union of Journalists, and/or artist’s own stamp to verso (a folder) £200 - £300
643* Harpur (Merrily, 1948-2024). A collection of approximately 200 cartoons, circa 1970-80, pen and ink, including: If this is London you must be some foreigner who doesn’t know his way round either - right?; Of course we always overrule you in the Appeal Court - you’re the youngest; Let’s fill in the income tax return together like we used to in the old days...; An ashtray does something for a room; I sentence you to five minutes in prison and a lifetime of relief and gratitude, etc., each signed, majority with typed captions to lower margin, various sizes, largest 25.2 x 20.3 cm, majority with Kingleo Studios Ltd ink stamp to verso Merrily Harpur was a pioneering female cartoonist who provided work for various titles including Punch, the Listener, the Spectator, the Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the London Evening Standard. (a folder)
£200 - £400
645* Don Witchell. A collection of approximately 280 original cartoons, circa 1970, pen, ink and wash on paper, all signed ‘Don Witchell’, handwritten captions to margins, including: A message from D’Artagnan Madame, He’s not coming out tonight - He’s staying in to Swash his Buckle!; Honestly, Guvnor, she was unconscious on the bed - I was giving he the Kiss of Life; Oh yes! This is a real Queens dress alright - My Daddy’s a drag artiste!; Lesson one! How to avoid a large supermarket bill - eat it all before you get to the pay desk!, some minor spotting, each approximately 26 x 21 cm, all with ‘Kingleo Studios Ltd, 50, Parkhill Rd. London, N.W.3’ stamp with artist code in pen to verso (1 box)
£200 - £300
646* Dorrien. A collection of approximately 250 original cartoons, circa 1970, pen, ink and wash on paper, all signed ‘Dorrien’, handwritten or typed captions to margins, including: That woodworm killer you gave me for my husband’s wooden leg doesn’t seem to be doing any good - and he says it tastes funny anyway!; Sometimes I think you get put inside deliberately just when my mother’s due to spend a couple of months with us; No, sir, the Bridal Suite is the one room without a television set - but you’re welcome to come and see Match-Of-The-Day in the lounge tonight!; Just think, dear - a ‘former husband’ of my very own!, some minor spotting and toning, each approximately 26 x 21 cm, all with ‘Kingleo Studios Ltd, 50, Parkhill Rd. London, N.W.3’ stamp with artist code in pen to verso (1 box)
£200 - £300
647* Nougerede (Alan de la, 1932-). A collection of approximately 200 original cartoons, pen and ink, a few with wash, including: I can’t say Heaven is much like I’d expected; Shall we try to toppled another male bastion, Sara?; Oooo - you are terrible but I do like you!; My boyfriend is schizophrenic, Mum, but both of him are very nice; You must be firm with children - if you want your car, insist he lend it to you!, etc., each signed with typed caption to lower margin, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, each with Member of the National Union of Journalists, and/or artist’s own stamp to verso (a folder)
£200 - £300
648* Nougerede (Alan de la, 1932-). A collection of approximately 200 original cartoons, pen and ink, a few with wash, including: Somehow, I never thought of Tarzan as being fashion-conscious..., Everytime I meet your mother I’m sorry that we’ve abandoned the witchcraft laws, Your mother is superb - the perfect argument in favour of euthanasia, I’m sorry, Justin, but perhaps I don’t love you as much as I thought I did, Stop yer moanin, woman - yer know we cannae afford a ferret, etc., each signed with typed caption to lower margin, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, each with Member of the National Union of Journalists, and/or artist’s own stamp to verso (a folder)
£200 - £300
649* Nougerede (Alan de la, 1932-). A collection of approximately 200 original cartoons, pen and ink, a few with wash, including: I have to say it, Frank - You’re a punk ricker!; My husband thinks its unmanly to help with the shopping - He stays home and does the washing-up; No They’ll never cut the social services - oh, here comes the meals on feet now; Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful nostrils?; Disgraceful - they’re ending free school blood, etc., each signed with typed caption to lower margin, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, each with Member of the National Union of Journalists, and/or artist’s own stamp to verso (a folder)
£200 - £300
650AR* Poole (Monica, 1921-2003). Foxgloves, wood engraving on ivory white paper, signed, titled, and numbered 169/175 in pencil, tipped onto backing board, light mount staining, image size 19.9 x 10.8 cm (7 3/4 x 4 1/4 ins), sheet size 29.3 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 21 1/4 ins), unframed (1)
£300 - £500
651* Toni Goffe. A collection of approximately 360 original cartoons, circa 1970, pen, ink and wash on paper, all signed ‘Toni Goffe’, handwritten or typed captions to margins, including: Phew!! It was only a burglar! I thought it was your husband!; A wife and a sagging body to support; Magic Carpet!! Bah!! this is a wall carpet!; For a handbag-snatcher Fred, you’re a little unimaginative when it comes to presents, some minor spotting and toning, some tape stains from captions, each approximately 26 x 21 cm, all with ‘Kingleo Studios Ltd, 50, Parkhill Rd. London, N.W.3’ stamp with artist code in pen to verso (1 box)
£200 - £300
652* Jaques (Faith, 1923-1997). Original illustrations for Lonely Dragon, by Margaret Howell, published by Longman Young Books, circa 1972, 15 watercolour vignettes on 6 sheets of ‘’The Milburn’’ Wash & Line artist’s board, depicting various scenes including: Dragon & Tom sit and talk; Tom came home riding on Dragon’s back; Dragon & children sit in a fire-lit cove; Wise man talks to children about Dragon; Dragon comes our of cave to sniff apples, etc., and vignette for endpapers and title-page, various sizes, each sheet 27.5 x 37.5 cm, score marks around vignettes, each with pencil title and page number below, each board signed by artist in ink to verso, together with an original brass printing block, showing cover illustration (although smaller and with border) for Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, 15.2 x 7.4 cm (7)
£150 - £200
653* Baxter. A collection of approximately 520 original cartoons, circa 1970, pen, ink and wash on paper, all signed ‘Baxter’, handwritten captions to margins, including: Brand new, one owner, who ran it straight into the showroom door; I could be wrong, in which case you’ll have time for a second opinion; I reckon we’re dead unlucky, the first outbreak of bubonic plague since 1665; ...It has beautiful perception, sharply drawn characters, a superb story with a beginning, a middle and an end - all in all a thoroughly dirty book sir; I think your sweater is far too tight, Miss Whipple, it’s restricting my breathing, some minor spotting and toning, each approximately 26 x 21 cm, all with ‘Kingleo Studios Ltd, 50, Parkhill Rd. London, N.W.3’ stamp with artist code in pen to verso (1 box)
£200 - £300
654 Children’s Annual artwork. A collection of original illustrations for Playhour, Toby Annual, Disney Annual, and Jack & Jill, 1970s-1980s, approximately 65 watercolour, ink and gouache storyboards, mostly on artist’s board, comprising cartoon animals, children, etc., including two Mr Men storyboards, Portland Bill, Douglas Dachshund, Cuddles, Mr Toad, Leo the Merry Lion, Famous Places of the Commonwealth, etc., by John Grace, Peter Woolcock, Arthur Baker, etc., all unsigned, various sizes, largest 53.5 x 40.5 cm (approx. 65)
£300 - £500
655AR* Goodall (John Strickland, 1908-1996). An Edwardian Summer, four original illustrations, circa 1976, watercolour on paper, showing four pages of illustrations from the book, two pages depicting the interior of an Edwardian nursery complete with rocking horse, doll’s house, toy train, chess set, etc., children running through with a female nanny holding their night clothes, two more illustrations to the verso of the same page, one showing well-dressed Edwardian gentlemen and ladies arriving at church, the other showing a cook preparing food on a black leaded coal fired range, a maid over the sink washing, signed lower right by the artist, two vertical creases to inner edges (perhaps from when mocked up as book), each 13 x 17.5 cm, double-mounted, doubleglazed frame, (34 x 56.5 cm), together with a book An Edwardian Summer for which the illustrations were produced (2)
£300 - £500
656AR* Goodall (John Strickland, 1908-1996). The Cricket Match, watercolour with traces of pencil, signed to lower left, 17.2 x 22 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (29.5 x 34 cm), John S. Goodall printed label with handwritten title to verso, together with four books illustrated by John S. Goodall, comprising: An Edwardian Summer, 1978; An Edwardian Christmas, 1977; The Story of a High Street,1987; and Great Days of a Country House, 1991, largest thin 4to, plus a flyer for an exhibition by Goodall held at the Nevill Gallery, 29th July - 23rd August 1986 (6)
£200 - £300
657* Marcellino (Fred, 1939-2001). Birdy, by William Wharton, original dust jacket illustration, circa 1979, watercolour on Bainbridge board, heightened with bodycolour on acetate laid over the illustration, signed in pencil to lower right, some fading, sheet size 39 x 29 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (48 x 38 cm) This illustration was produced for William Wharton’s Birdy first published by Knopf in 1978. (1)
£150 - £200
658* Harrold (John, 1947-). Rupert and Friends, circa 1980, watercolour scenes on artist’s board with acetate outline overlay, storyboard containing four sequential scenes, including: Rupert waving to Bill Badger over his garden gate; Rupert holding a blue ball, looking at his friends and pointing to a figure in the distance, handwritten ‘Best Wishes! John Harrold.’ in red to upper margin, 23 x 21 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (31 x 29.5 cm)
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£200 - £400
659AR* Hickson (Joan, 1939-). Postman Pat’s Picture Paper, No. 138, original acrylic illustration, showing Postman Pat holding an envelope with S.W.A.L.K. on the reverse, with Alf and Dorothy Thompson, and their son, Bill, standing with them, 40 x 31 cm, mounted, framed and glazed, (59.5 x 48.5 cm)
Original design for the front cover of the children’s comic. Postman Pat was created in 1982 as a BBC TV series. It was a great success and first appeared in print in ‘Buttons’, the BBC children’s comic. Joan Hickson illustrated the Postman Pat books by John Cunliffe from 1985 and transformed the television model into a drawn character. (1) £100 - £150
660* Rupert the Bear. A small collection of 23 original illustrations, mainly late 20th century, pen, ink and watercolour, on artist’s board, showing various scenes from stories including: Rupert and Tiger Lilly, Rupert and Algy Pug, (each with Linden Artists Ltd stamp to verso), cover designs for books including: The New Rupert Colour Adventure Book (x 3 with brown faced Rupert), St Michael Activity Rupert Sticker Book, and Rupert and the Women in his World, 21 smaller illustrations for sticker designs laid onto two card mounts, 2 large watercolour background scenes, all by various artist’s including Peter Longden, Gina Hart, etc., and a copy of Rupert and the Women in his World by Mary Cadogan, Sussex: The Followers of Rupert, signed by Mary Cadogan and Jennifer Miles Kisler, limited edition of 250 (unnumbered but with blue ink ‘file copy’ stamp to limitation leaf), 2006, 4to (24)
£200 - £400
661* Holleyman (Sonia, 1950-). A collection of approximately 85 original illustrations, for various books including: What Did You Do At School Today?, Don’t Be Silly Mrs Nellie, and Tiny the Troll’s Friendly Monster Stories, circa 1992, approximately 85 watercolours on thick paper, various sizes, largest 38 x 57.5 cm, most titled to verso in pencil, together with a copy of the book the illustrations were produced, comprising: Tiny the Troll’s Friendly Monster Stories by Sonia Holleyman, Don’t be Silly Mrs Nellie by Shen Roddie, and What Did You Do At School Today? by Humphrey Carpenter, published by Orchard Books (a folder)
£200 - £400
662* Mortimer (Anne, 1958-). Three original Greeting card designs, 1995, three original watercolours, each showing a teddy bear(s) in a decorative background and border, each signed, largest 15 x 15.4 cm, smallest 12 x 12.6 cm, in card mounts (27 x 26.5 cm) (3)
£100 - £150
663* Disney. Pongo, an original celluloid from 101 Dalmatians, colour celluloid, showing Pongo and Roger Dearly, 19 x 28 cm, mounted, (28 x 35.5 cm), printed label to verso ‘This is an Original hand-painted celluloid drawing actually used in a Walt Disney Production, released exclusively by Disneyland 1313 Harbor Blvd Anaheim California, copyright Walt Disney Productions’ (1)
£300 - £500
664* Mortimer (Anne, 1958-). Cat and Bear, New York: Hyperion Books, 1998, original watercolour illustration, showing a teddy bear with red ribbon around its neck emerging from a coloured box, signed in the illustration, 21 x 26 cm, in card mount (33.5 x 38 cm), together with a first edition, signed copy of the book for which the illustration was drawn (2)
£150 - £200
665* Jeram (Anita, illustrator). Three original pen, ink and watercolour illustrations for All Together Now, circa 1999, pen, black ink and watercolour on paper, each signed in pencil by the artist, including: Bunnies, Grey Rabbit and Chick Hatching, all signed in pencil, largest 36.5 x 16 cm and smaller, all individually mounted in card mounts, together with Ray (Jane, illustrator). An original pen, ink and watercolour illustration for Rapunzel by Berlie Doherty, circa 2000, pen, black ink and watercolour, showing a wooded scene with the Prince and Rapunzel in silhouette against the night sky, signed to lower right, 16 x 11.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (44 x 37 cm), together with a copy of the book containing the illustration, plus Voake (Charlotte, illustrator). The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussy Cat, original illustration for the book by Julia Donaldson, circa 2013, pen, ink and watercolour, showing the owl carrying a guitar walking with the pussy cat, enclosed by a decorative border, signed in pencil to lower left, 19 x 18 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (40 x 37 cm), plus an original illustration for Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep by Eleanor Farjeon, circa 1997, pen, ink and watercolour, showing a face peering from an upstairs window, a small fairy standing on the window ledge, signed to lower margin, 10 x 8.5 cm, and another by the same artist showing a girl skipping, a round ruddy faced man looking on, initialled in pencil to lower right, 10 x 12 cm, both individually mounted, framed and glazed, largest (37 x 44.5 cm), and Morton Sale (John and Isobel). Five Children, pencil and wash, showing five young children standing in a row wearing tunics, 22.5 x 25 cm, mounted framed and glazed (39.5 x 41.5 cm) (9)
£200 - £400
666* Mortimer (Anne, 1958-). Santa’s Snow Cat, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001, two original watercolour illustrations, comprising: snowy cat standing by a Christmas tree decorated with red ribbons, Father Christmas’s and twinkly lights,11.4 x 11.3 cm, in card mount (23.9 x 23.3 cm) and a larger one showing a Christmas themed decorated border with snowy cat in the corner, both signed, 26.4 x 17.6 cm, in card mount (39 x 29.6 cm), together with two signed first editions, one hardback and one paperback, of the book for which the illustration was drawn (4)
667* Mortimer (Anne, 1958-). Christmas Mouse, published by Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, original watercolour illustration, of a mouse wearing a Christmas hat, dangling from a colourful paper chain, signed in the illustration, 24.5 x 26 cm, in card mount (37 x 38.5 cm), together with a first edition, signed copy of the book for which the illustration was drawn
£200 - £300
This illustration appears on the title-page of the book as well as in the text. (2)
£100 - £150
Lot 666
668 Basilisk Press. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 2 volumes, London: Basilisk Press, 1974-75, volume I a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer, volume II with tipped-in facsimile Burne-Jones illustrations, both bound in patterned cloth originally designed by William Morris and contained in slipcase (some light fading and marks to slipcase), with the publisher’s prospectus for the work, folio Limited edition 77/515.
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£800 - £1,200
669 Craig (Edward Gordon). Woodcuts and Some Words, limited edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1924, tipped-in plates, illustrations, some toning to front endpapers and final leaf, top edge gilt, original buckram gilt, spine lettering dulled, 4to, limited signed edition 113/160, together with Gribble (Vivien, illustrator). Cupid and Psyche, translated into English from the original Latin of Apuleius by J. H. Mason, London: privately printed by J. H. Mason, 1935, woodcut illustrations, light offsetting to endpapers, original clothbacked patterned boards, spine faded, 4to, limited edition 76/130, plus Robinson (Frederick Cayley, illustrator). The Book of Genesis, The Riccardi Press Books series, London: Philip Lee Warner, 1914, mounted colour illustrations, light partial offsetting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth-backed boards, some light spotting, dust jacket, spine faded, 4to, limited edition 373/500, with 16 others including the Book of Job, George Bell & Sons/The Abbey Press, 1902, limited edition 347/750, The Georgics of Vergil, translated by R. D. Blackmore, George W, Jones, London, 1931, limited edition of 500 (this copy unnumbered), The Miracle of Love and Other Poems, by Arthur Clutton-Brock, Julian Editions, 1926, limited edition, one of 450 copies, Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers, First Edition Club, 1937, The Smell of Lebanon. Twenty-Four Syrian Folk-Songs Collected by S. H. Stephan and with English Versions made by E. Powys Mathers, Francis Walterson, Talybont Dyffryn Merioneth, 1928, limited signed edition 242/375, The Twelve Months, by Llewelyn Powys, engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1936, and Unrecorded Histories, by Charles Ricketts, 1933, limited edition, one of 950 copies (18)
£300 - £500
670 Cresset Press. Paradise Lost/Paradise Regain’d, by John Milton, 2 volumes, London: Shakespeare Head Press for Cresset Press, 1931, wood-engraved illustrations by Demetrios Galanis, title and initials designed by Anna Simons, light toning to endpapers, original cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a few small light dust stains, folio Limited edition of 195 copies on hand-made paper, this copy numbered 85, plus an additional 10 copies printed on vellum. (2)
£600 - £900
671 Painter (William). The Palace of Pleasure, with an introduction by Hamish Miles and illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss, 4 volumes, Cresset Press, 1929, colour frontispieces, illustrations, a few minor spots, slight toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original linen-backed patterned boards, light toning to spines, folio, limited edition 478/500, together with Raven Press. Venus and Adonis, by William Shakespeare, printed by R. A. Maynard & H. W. Bray at the Raven Press, Harrow Weald, 1931, wood-engravings by H. W. Bray, top edge gilt, original marbled boards, slipcase, folio, limited signed edition 164/275, plus The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Oliver Simon, Curwen Press, 1931, colour illustrations by Barnett Freedman, Edward Bawden and E. McKnight Kauffer, wood-engravings and typographical illustrations, typed letter from the Press reserving a copy for The Soncino Press Ltd, London, dated January 1931 loosely inserted, original cloth, folio, limited edition 73/275, with 9 others including The Dolphin. A Journal of the Making of Books, volumes 1 & 2, New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1933 & 1935, limited edition, one of 1200 & 2000 copies respectively, The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome, from the Edition of 1606, Haslewood Books, 1931, limited edition 42/400, Evgeny Onegin, by A. S. Pushkin, Pushkin Press, 1937, limited edition 132/775, and Modern Book Production, The Studio Ltd, 1928 (14)
£300 - £500
672 Fanfrolico Press. Women in Parliament, by Aristophanes, done into English by Jack Lindsay, London: Fanfrolico Press, 1929, illustrations by Norman Lindsay, slight toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue calf over boards, some fading to spine, a little rubbed, folio, limited edition 452/500, together with Robert Eyres Landor. Selections from his poetry and prose, with an introduction biographical & critical by Eric Partridge, Fanfrolico Press, 1927, illustrations, one or two light spots, top edge gilt, original half vellum gilt, slight discolouration, 8vo, limited edition 69/150, plus Gaius Valerius Catullus. The Complete Poetry of Gaius Catullus , translated by Jack Lindsay with decorations on wood by Lionel Ellis..., Fanfrolico Press, [1929], illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original morocco, spine faded, a little rubbed at ends and corners, 8vo, limited edition 273/325, plus Kookaburras and Satyrs. Some recollections of the Fanfrolico Press by P. R. Stephenson, hand-printed by Walter W. Stone, Talkarra Press, Cremorne, Australia, 1954, limited edition 192/225, signed to final leaf by the printer (4) £200 - £300
673 Fleece Press. Agnes Miller Parker, wood-engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980, by Ian Rogerson, with recollections of the artist by John Dreyfus, Wakefield: Fleece Press, 1990, tipped-in portrait, wood-engaved illustrations, a further six engravings towards end, original vellum-backed decorative boards, slipcase, oblong 4to, limited edition of 50 copies with the extra prints, from a total edition of 300, together with leon Underwood. His wood engravings, Fleece Press, 1986, wood-engravings, original green morocco-backed patterned boards, original drop-over cloth box, 4to, limited edition 130/200, plus Claughton Pellew, Fleece Press, 1987, 5 wood-engravings from the original blocks, each in original printed wrappers, biographical text in separate wrappers, all contained in original drop-over cloth box, edges slightly rubbed, large 4to, limited edition, one of 150 copies, with 5 others by the Fleece Press: The Yorkshire Dales. Wood Engravings by Marie Hartley, 1989 (limited edition 32/40, from a total edition of 268), First Friends. Paul and Bunty, John and Christine - and Carrington. Ronald Blythe, 1997 (limited edition, one of 300 copies), Dear Mercia. Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, edited by Janet Boulton (limited edition of 300), Mud Walls. Excerpts from the sermons of John Donne, 1986 (limited edition of 200), and Dearest Sydney. Joan Hassall’s letters to Sydney Cockerell from Italy & France April-May 1950, edited by Brian North Lee, 1991 (limited edition of 220) (8)
£400 - £600
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674 Lockwood (George, 1929-1969). Homage to Redon, Northampton, Massachusetts: The Gehenna Press, 1959, 10 engraved portraits, on a variety of Japanese hand-made papers, some printed with colour, accompanying Redon’s essay (15 pages of text), unbound, with limitation sheet and prospectus, slim 4to, in original publisher’s envelope, limited edition (one of 150 copies) The introduction/prospectus states that ‘a number of copies are available in sheets, so that the prints may be framed’.
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£70 - £100
675 Gemini Press. Epithalamion. A Poem by Ida Graves with Associate Wood-Engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, The Gemini Press, [1934], wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, a little minor spotting, Basilik Press prospectus for the work loosely inserted (plus a letter from the Press to Cheltenham bookseller Alan Hancox dated 1980), original boards (a few light marks to spine), slipcase (some wear to edges), folio, limited edition on Basingwerk Parchment 175/330, signed by poet and artist, together with Crawhall (Joseph). Crawhall’s Chap-book Chaplets, London: Field & Tuer & others, New York: Scribner & Welford, 1883, numerous hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, occasional light offsetting, original pictorial boards, upper joint splitting, spine toned, a few stains, 4to, plus Old ffrendes wyth newe Faces, 1883, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, prospectus for Chap-book Chaplets bound at rear, some toning and light offsetting, original pictorial boards, spine toned, some light spotting and soiling, 4to, and Farleigh (John). Graven Image. An Autobiographical Textbook, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1940, monochrome illustrations, original illustrated boards, dust jacket, a little light spotting, 8vo, with 2 small wood-engraved Christmas cards to Shelagh Hancox (wife of Alan) loosely inserted, plus others including the Followers of William Blake. Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle, by Laurence Binyon, 1925, Heinrich Heine. Doktor Faust. A Dance Poem, engravings by Helmuth Weissenborn,, Peter Nevill, 1952, limited edition 118/150, Cotswold Characters, by John Drinkwater, with five woodengravings by Paul Nash, Yale University Press, 1921, and 3 books illustrated by Clare Leighton: Four Hedges, 1935, Country Matters, 1937, and Under the Greenwood Tree or the Mellstock Quire, 1940 (17) £200 - £300
676 Golden Cockerel Press. Crusader Castles, by T. E. Lawrence, volume II only (of 2), The Letters, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936, portrait frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, light marginal toning, top edge gilt, original half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lightly faded, 4to Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. (1)
£500 - £700
677 Golden Cockerel Press. Glory of Life, by Llewelyn Powys, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934, title printed in red and black, woodengravings by Robert Gibbings, light offsetting to frontispiece, endpapers lightly toned, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, a few stains to covers, folio, limited edition 16/277, with a manuscript presentation inscription from Llewelyn Powys to Gamel Woolsey under printed dedication, together with The Book of Days of Llewelyn Powys. Thoughts from his Philosophy Selected by John Wallis, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, 12 etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, occasional light offsetting, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed boards, some darkening to spine, a few marks to leather, folio, limited edition 266/300, plus A Lovers Progress. Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Selected by Nancy Quennell, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938, initials printed in red, minor spotting to fore margins, prospectus for the work loosely inserted, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in torn glassine wrappers, small folio, limited edition 208/215 (3)
£300 - £500
678 Golden Cockerel Press. Paradise Lost. A Poem by John Milton, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, title printed in red and black designed by Robert Gibbings, wood-engravings by Mary Groom, light damp marks to margins of first and last few leaves, top edge gilt, original half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, small abrasion to lower corner of upper cover, light damp marks to spine, covers a little bowed, folio
Limited edition 28/200.
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£1,500 - £2,000
679 Golden Cockerel Press. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, with Wood Engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31, wood-engraved decorative border, initials printed in red, blue and black all by Eric Gill, occasional minor spotting to endpapers and fore edges, top edge gilt, original russet morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, light fading to volume II spine, occasional small discoloured patches to spines and joints, corners lightly rubbed, some light partial toning to covers, folio, 31 x 18.5 cm
Chanticleer 63. Limited edition 219/485. An internally fine copy of one of the great works of Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Press.
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£4,000 - £6,000
680 Golden Cockerel Press. The Green Ship, by Patrick Miller, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936, 8 wood-engravings by Eric Gill, top edge gilt, original green morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine faded to brown, small stain at foot, 4to, limited edition 89/200, together with The Amores of P. Ovidius Naso, newly translated by E. Powys Mathers, Golden Cockerel Press, 1932, 5 sepia engravings by J. E. Laboureur, some light offsetting, top edge gilt, original half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine slightly faded, 8vo, limited edition 229/350, plus Grant (Duncan, illustrator). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: for Allen and Richard Lane, 1945, printed in red and black, colour plates by Duncan Grant, light marginal offsetting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original morocco, spine and extremities faded, some marks to covers, 8vo, limited edition, one of 700 copies, together with others, private press etc, including The Temptation of Saint Antony, by Gustave Flaubert, authorised edition, 1895 (additional and printed titles detached), Restoration Love Songs, edited by John Hadfield, Cupid Press, 1950, limited edition 369/660, Democracy and the Arts, by Rupert Brooke, 1946, limited edition 139/240, and The Man Who Died, by D. H. Lawrence, 1931, limited edition, one of 2000 (15)
682 Gregynog Press. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1932, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton, printed in red and black on Japanese vellum, publisher’s morocco, slipcase (small nicks and tears), folio
Limited edition 61/250.
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£300 - £400
£500 - £800
681 Golden Cockerel Press. A Ballad Upon a Wedding by Sir John Suckling, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious, small abrasion and bookplate of Eric Gill (‘Ex Libris Eric Gill T. O. S. D. Pigotts near Speen Buckinghamshire), original clothbacked patterned boards, dust jacket, spine toned, one or two small tears and some light spotting to panels, 8vo, limited edition 24/375, together with The Twelve Months by Llewelyn Powys, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, occasional light offsetting, top edge gilt, original green morocco gilt, spine faded to brown, royal 8vo, limited edition 26/100, signed by author and artist, plus Shelley at Oxford. The early correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T. J. Hogg together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley, edited by Walter Sidney Scott, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944, 2 portraits, top edge gilt, original moroccobacked boards, 4to, limited edition 210/500, with 3 others from the Press: The Athenians. Being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, edited by Walter Sidney Scott, Golden Cockerel Press 1943, limited edition 154/350, Harriet & Mary. Being the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelly, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, edited by Walter Sidney Scott, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944, limited edition 179/500, and W. H. Hudson’s Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Golden Cockerel Press, 1941, limited edition 89/250 (ex-libris Woverhampton Reference Library with their ink stamps in various places) (6)
£300 - £400
683 Gwasg Gregynog Press. A small collection of publications including When the Rose-Bush Brings Forth Apples. Old Welsh verses translated and introduced by Glyn Jones, Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1980 (limited edition 193/400), The Old Home, by Eiluned Lewis, Gwasg Gregynog, 1981 (limited edition 191/250), A Selection of Wood Engravings used by the Gregynog Press 1924, Gwasg Gregynog, 1978, Written on walking in the woods of Gregynog in Montgomeryshire the seat of Arthur Blayney, by Mrs. Mary Darwall formerly Miss Whately. First published in 1794 now reprinted at Gwasg Gregynog in June 1979, The Primrose, by John Donne, circa 1980 (limited edition 19/250), A Selection of Weather Signs made for the County of Montgomeryshire in the late 1870’s by the folklorist the Revd Elias Owen and now reprinted at Gwasg Gregynog in 1981, The Wild Cherry of Gregynog, circa 1980, plus a letter from the Press to Cheltenham bookseller Alan Hancox, dated 1979 enclosing the order for three Gwasg Gregynog ephemera items, 2 compliments slips and printed sheets, plus Alcuin Press. A small group of publications and ephemera including An Exhibition of Selected Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Cotswolds held at the Alcuin Press, Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, August 6th - September 10th 1932, An introduction to the work & aims of the Alcuin Press, revised and reprinted 1932, A note on the work done at the Alcuin Press, Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire 1928-1930, plus other printed ephemera, and 3 others: Doves Press: The Start of a Worry, edited by Colin Franklin, Dallas: The Brideswell Library, 1983, limited edition 183/275, with a presentation inscription from Franklin to Alan Hancox, The Cambridge University Press Collection of Private Press Types, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny Cranach, by Thomas Balston, 1951, and Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press, by Ruari McLean [1964[, limited edition 38/325 (approx. 30)
£200 - £300
684 Hesperides Press. A Greene Forest or a naturall historie... compiled by John Maplet, M. of Arte and student in Cambridge... reprinted from the edition of 1567, with an introduction by W. H. Davies, London: Hesperides Press, 1930, title printed in green and black, some light spotting, top edge gilt, original green buckram, spine faded, 4to, limited edition, one of 500 copies, this copy unnumbered, together with Bracebridge Press. The Boke for a Justyce of Peace: Neuer soo welle and diligently set forthe, produced by W. T. Wiggins-Davies, Bracebridge Press, Four Oaks, Warwickshire, 1942, printed in red and black, red-ruled throughout, original sprinkled calf, small tear at head of spine, small folio, limited edition 2/180, with a dedication inscription from Wiggins-Davies to Leonard Jay (from the Birmingham School of Printing), plus Shakespeare (William). The Poems and Sonnets of Shakespeare, with an introduction by Edward Dowden, London: Keegan Paul, Trench Trubner and Co. 1903 portrait frontispiece, printed in red and black, some spotting and toning to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, slight marginal fading, 8vo, limited edition 171/400, with others including Areopagitica, by John Milton, A & C Black, 1911 (limited edition, one of 500 copies), The Decorative Work of T. M. Cleland, New York, Pynson Printer, 1929, limited edition 447/1200, A Distinguished Family of French Printers of the Sixteenth Century. Henri & Robert Estienne, 1929, Les Rimes de Christophie Plantin (Deuxieme edition augmentee), Paris, [1921{, limited edition 158/450, and 2 Noel Douglas vellum-bound editions of John Keats Poems, 1927 (each a limited edition of 100) (32)
£300 - £400
685* Matrix. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, Issues 10-36, Andoversford: Whittington Press, September 1990-June 2020, 27 volumes, with numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, wood engravings, typographic samples and inserts, all in original issued patterned or pictorial boards with wrappers, folio, together with: Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, December 2000-Spring 2025, 39 volumes comprising of issues 5, 8, 13-48 (lacking 14 and 27, some duplicates), folio (66)
£1,000 - £1,500
686 Nonesuch Press. La Divina Commedia or, the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, Nonesuch Press, 1928, 42 illustrations after Sandro Botticelli, some toning to endpapers, bookplate of Charles Edward Lambe (1900-1960, Admiral of the Fleet), original orange vellum gilt, one or two light marks, folio Limited edition 1349/1475. (1)
£300 - £400
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687 Nonesuch Press.The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it ... by Democritus Junior, Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, 2 volumes, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925, title-page printed in red and black, frontispiece, additional illustrated title-page, and numerous letterpress illustrations, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed (foxed), original cream cloth-backed boards, some faint marks and foxing, volume 2 with tiny pierced indentation on spine, folio, (limited edition, 107/750 copies), together with: Symons (A. J. A., Flower, Desmond & Meynell, Francis), The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press, 19231934, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936, plates, and numerous printed sample leaves (title-pages, illustrations, etc.) tipped-in at rear, endpapers lightly foxed, upper hinge starting to split at head, rough-trimmed, original green cloth, spine and board edges faded, spine with label a little rubbed and small mark near foot, folio, (limited edition, 722/750 copies) (3)
£200 - £300
688 Old Stile Press. Benedicite Omnia Opera, Llandogo, Gwent: Old Stile Press, 1987, wood-engraved illustrations by Alyson MacNeill, printed by Nicolas McDowall, top edge gilt, original clothbacked illustrated boards, slipcase, folio, limited signed edition 28/225, together with Rampant Lions Press. The Quest of Gilgamesh, edited by D. G. Bridson, Rampant Lions Press, 1972, lithograph frontispiece by Michael Ayrton, original cloth-backed marbled boards, small stain at foot of spine, 4to, limited edition 84/125, plus Old Stile Press. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot, by Robert Buchanan 1841-1901, Old Stile Press, 1981, linocut illustrations by J. Martin Pitts, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 4to, limited signed edition 56/100, together with 18 other private press works including Volpone the Fox. A Comedy by Ben Jonson first acted in 1605, illustrations by René Ben Sussan, Oxford, Limited Editions Club, 1952, limited signed edition 7/1500, Meadow Thoughts, by Richard Jefferies, Tern Press, 1977, limited signed edition 74/80, William Cory. Lucretius, Rampant Lions Press, 1951, limited edition 86/175, The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Sylvan Press, 1955, limited edition 55/500, Revolt of the Tartars, by Thomas de Quincey, Dropmore Press, 1948, limited edition 171/450, The Merchant’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer, illustrations by Derek Cousins, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1960, limited edition 196/200, The Sculptured Garland. A Selection of Lyrical Poems of Walter Savage Landor, Dropmore Press, 1948, limited edition 225/300, The Birth of a Naturalist, by Richard Jefferies, Tern Press, 1985, limited signed edition 57/300, and The Water Colley, by Richard Jefferies, Tern Press, 1984, limited signed edition 82/90 (21)
£300 - £400
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689 Oriole Press. Free Vistas. An Anthology of the Life & Letters Edited and Printed by Joseph Ishill, privately printed at the Oriole Press, Berkeley Press, New Jersey, 1933, printed in black, red and green, tipped-in plates, illustrations, occasional light offsetting and toning, original cloth-backed patterned boards, light partial toning to covers, small 4to, limited edition 16/290, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper ‘To Holbrook Jackson, with deep appreciation from a proletarian bibliomaniac - Joseph Ishill, May. 1933’, together with Elisée and Elie Reclus... compiled, edited and printed by Joseph Ishill, Oriole Press, 1927, illustrations, prospects for the work loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, light partial fading to covers, small 4to, limited edition 22/40 printed on Alexandra Japan, from a total edition of 290, inscribed to Holbrook Jackson, with Jackson’s loose bookplate and an autograph letter from Ishill to Jackson, on Oriole Press headed paper, dated June 1931, discussing Jackson’s essay on Walt Whitman and Ishill sending him a copy of Cum Grano by Henry S. Salt, and other matters, plus Havelock Ellis in Appreciation... compiled, edited and printed by Joseph Ishill, Oriole Press, 1929, tipped-in portrait frontispiece, illustrations, top edge gilt, original Japan-backed patterned boards, small 4to, with a presentation inscription to Holbrook Jackson from Ishill, April 1930, with 10 others including the Oriole Press edition of Cum Grano by Salt, presented to Jackson by Ishill, Library Confessions. A Study in Pathology by Arthur Symons, Fountain Press, New York, 1930, limited signed edition 96/542, Library Publications, by William R. Holman, Roger Beacham, San Francisco, 1965, limited edition, one of 350 copies, Lessons of War, by Henry Reed, Clover Hill Editions, New York, 1970, limited edition 147/530, and Themes in Aquatint, by Colin Franklin, Book Club of California, 1978, limited edition, one of 500 copies (13)
690 Pear Tree Press. Poetry by Edward Percy Plantagenet Macloghlin, with an introduction by Eliza Macloghlin, Harting, Petersfield: The Peart Tree Press, 1905, title printed in red within green wood-engraved border, text printed in black and green, occasional minor offsetting, ‘In Memoriam’ by Eliza Macloghlin, 1904 loosely inserted with a printed note offering ‘this chaste little memorial book’, dated 1905 and signed by the author, decorative endpapers, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little light toning, 4to, presentation inscription from Eliza Macloghlin to Frederick Howard Marsh (1839-1915, surgeon and academic), dated March 1905, together with A Sussex Alphabet, by Eleanor Farjeon, Pear Tree Press, 1939, colour illustrations by Sheila M. Thompson, light toning to endpapers, original pictorial boards, small abrasions along cover edges, 4to, limited edition 197/220, plus The Phoenix and Turtle, by William Shakespeare, edited with an introduction by Gerald Bullett, Green Pastures Series No. 1, Pear Tree Press, 1938, title and illustrations printed in red, a few minor spots, original cloth, dust jacket, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition 81/200, with five others: Twenty-Five Lyrics, by Seamus O’ Sullivan, Pear Tree Press, 1933 (limited edition 37/150), A Chapbook for Little Chaps, Pear Tree Press, 1920 (unstitched copy in wrappers, with a presentation inscription from James Guthrie, June 1943), and 3 Beaumont Press works by Edmund Blunden: To Nature, 1923 (limited edition 369/390), A Summer’s Fancy, 1930 (limited edition 139/405), and To Themis, 1931 (limited edition 320/405)
Following the death of her husband Dr. Edward Macloghlin in 1904, Eliza Macloghlin commissioned the sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert to create Mors janua vitae, a monument of the husband and wife, which was presented to the Royal College of Surgeons after the plaster model was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907.
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£400 - £600
691 Tern Press. Birds Nesting. The Lost Manuscript, by John Clare, edited by Eric Robinson, Market Drayton: 1987, colour illustrations by Nicholas Parry, original patterned cloth, contained in solander box, folio, limited signed edition 1/6 special copies on Langley paper, from a total edition of 90, together with The Valleys of Springs of Rivers, Tern Press, 1981, 20 etched plates by Nicholas Parry, publisher’s morocco (light damp marks to lower cover), 4to, limited signed edition 4/7 on Zercall paper, from a total edition of 50, plus The Hounting of the Chivyat, quoth Rychard Sheale, Tern Press, 1981, woodengravings by Nicholas Parry, original paper-backed patterned boards (minor spotting to rear cover), 4to, limited edition 9/100, with others by the Tern Press and others including The Disasters of War. Poems by Randolph Ellis, 1975, limited signed edition 45/50, Songs of a New Taliesin, 1979, limited signed edition 77/90, The Prize, by Mary Webb, 1985 (4 copies, each a limited edition of 100), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1996, limited signed edition 36/100, Aphorisms of John Clare, by David Powell, 2002, signed limited edition 71/75, and Memoirs of a Coxcomb, by John Cleland, Fortune Press, 1926, limited edition 30/105
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£300 - £400
692 Tintern Press. Songs Pastoral and Paradisal, by Ralph Chubb, Brockweir, Gloucetershire: The Tintern Press, 1935, hand-printed and decorated plates by Vincent Stuart throughout, printed in red, black and yellow, text by Helen Hinkley, one or two minor spots, publisher’s half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, light partial fading to cloth, 4to, limited edition 36/100, signed by Ralph Chubb, together with Old Stile Press. The Way to the Tree of Life, by Michael Justin Davis, The Old Stile Press, 1983, wood-engravings by Simon Brett, 5 proof engravings, each marked ‘K’ and signed by the artist, contained in rear folder, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, royal 8vo, limited edition, letter ‘K’ of 26 special copies, signed by poet and artist, from a total edition of 250, plus The More Angels Shall I Paint. A selection from the sketchbooks, writings and commonplace books of Robin Tanner, The Old Stile Press, 1991, illustrations, original morocco-backed patterned boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 100/275, signed by Heather Tanner, with some correspondence from the Press to Cheltenham bookseller Alan Hancox, regarding bindings and other matters loosely inserted, with 3 others: William Caxton’s Prologues and Epilogues, printed by Vyvyan Richards, 1937, limited edition, one of 300 copies, Of Pilgrimage, being the chapter the third of The Dialogue Concerning Tyndale, by Sir Thomas More, Albion Press, February-March 1956, limited edition, one of 200 copies, and Old China, by Charles Lamb, Boston and New York, 1912, limited edition 82/540 (6)
£400 - £600
693 Tragara Press. The Tragara Press 1954-1979. A Bibliography by Alan Anderson, Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1979, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition 52/135, together with Some Letters from Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon to ‘Michael Field’ (1894-1902), edited by J. G. Paul Delaney, Tragara Press, 1979, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition 20/145, plus Bronowski (Jacob). The Poet’s Defence, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge: CUP, 1939, light spotting and partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, some toning to spines, a couple of small stains, 8vo, both volumes inscribed from the author to Alan Hancox, Cheltenham bookseller, with an autograph letter and Christmas card from the author to Alan Hancox loosely inserted, together with others including Granite and Rainbow, by Virginia Woolf, 1st edition, 1958, Grigson at Eighty. Tributes from friends and admirers, Rampant Lion Press, 1985 (limited edition 25/375), Herbert Hodgson. Printer. Work for T. E. Lawrence & at Gregynog, Fleece Press, 1989 (limited edition, one of 340 copies), The Red Limbo Lingo. A Poetry Notebook, by Lawrence Durrell, 1971 (limited edition 530/1200), Pages from a Diary in Greece, by Charles Ricketts, edited by Paul Delaney, Traagara Press, 1978 (limited edition 27/150), plus others, Tragara Press, poetry-related etc (32)
£200 - £300
£300 - £400
694 The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1971-1981, compiled by David Butcher, with an introduction and notes by John Randle, Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1982, monochrome illustrations and photographs, including 2 folding broadsides tipped-in (one reprinting Eric Gill’s letter in the Hakesyard Review, the other advertising the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 10-17 October 1982), original rust-brown quarter buckram-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, folio, limited edition 174/200, from the overall edition of 320, together with Hellmuth Weissenborn Engraver, with an autobiographical introduction by the artist, Whittington Press & Acorn Press, 1988, tipped-in photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, original cream linen, a few light marks, small woodcut inset to upper cover, with slipcase, folio, limited edition 122/240, from the total edition of 260, plus Poems for Alan Hancox, Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1993, additional broad sheet proof of the title page loosely inserted at front, and with type written letter signed by Alan Tucker, dated 26 February 1992 relating to the preparation of the publication, and a typescript single-sheet prospectus for the publication, also loosely inserted at front of volume, original quarter brown cloth over patterned boards, 4to (limited edition 3/300) (3)
695 Whittington Press. Poems for Alan Hancox, Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1993, two additional proofs of the title-page wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor contained in rear pocket, top edge gilt, original rust-brown morocco-backed patterned boards, with slipcase, small 4to, limited edition of 350 copies, this being one of 50 copies (this copy unnumbered) signed by all 19 contributors including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Laurie Lee, P. J. Kavanagh, Peter Levi, Michael Horovitz, Charles Tomlinson, Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten, Jon Stallworthy, D. J. Enright, Ursula Fanthorpe, etc. (1)
£300 - £400
696 Whittington Press. Poems for Alan Hancox, Whittington Press, 1993, 2 wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor contained in rear pocket, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, small 4to, limited edition, one of 50 copies, from a total edition of 350, signed by all 19 contributors including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Laurie Lee, P. J. Kavanah, Peter Levi, Michael Horovitz
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£200 - £300
697 Montesquiou (Comte Robert de). Le Chef des Odeurs Suaves, Paris: Georges Richard, [1893], author’s signed presentation copy, to the musician Mrs Talbot, with presentation inscription to front blank before half-title ‘A Mrs. Talbot Gracieuse Musicienne, Ce melodique envoi de Fleurs. Comte Robert de Montesquiou Fezensac. Mars 1893’, original printed wrappers bound in at front and rear, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, marbled endpapers, inside gilt doublures, contemporary green crushed full morocco (by Paul Vié), faded to brown on spine and to board edges, rubbed and some scuff marks, 4to, Large Paper copy Limited edition of 200 copies. Author’s presentation copy to Mrs Talbot, musician.
699 Montesquiou (Robert de). Les Perles Rouges, 93 Sonnets avec quatre eaux-fortes inédites de Albert Besnard, 1st edition, Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1899, half-title, title-page printed in red and black, 4 full-page etchings by Albert Besnard, including frontispiece, untrimmed, original printed wrappers, some marks, chipped and torn in places (with a couple of adhesive tape repairs to fore-edge of rear cover), large 4to, limited edition 79/160 copies, together with:
Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) symbolist poet and dandy, is regarded as the model for Proust’s Baron Charlus, as well as Huysman’s hero Des Esseintes, in A Rebours. According to W. Graham Robertson, Montesquieu was ‘a typical member of that curious little world of amateurs which hangs midway between the worlds of art and society’. (1)
£400 - £600
698 Proust (Marcel). Les Plaisirs et Les Jours illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire, préface d’Anatole France et quatre pièces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn, 1st edition, Paris: Calmann Lévy, Editeur, 1896, half-title, x+271 [272-274] pp., pale green printed wrappers bound in at front and rear (some very light soiling), 14 full-page tinted illustrations and numerous monochrome illustrations to text after Madeleine Lemaire, 13 pp of printed facsimile musical manuscript by Reynaldo Hahn (titled Albert Cuip), 20th century wood engraved bookplate of Adrian Eeles to front pastedown, top edge gilt, later 20th century black half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, 4to Carteret IV, 325. The author’s first published work.
Les Plaisirs et Les Jours brings together various stories by Proust published from 1892 onwards in various journals, including Le Banquet, La Revue Blanche, Le Gaulois, and L’Annèe des Poètes. ‘Wordly News, tender stories, melodic verses, fragments where the precision of the line fades into the soft grace of the sentence, Mr. Proust has brought together all the genres and all the charms.’ (Leon Blum).
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£700 - £1,000
Autograph Letter Signed by Robert de Montesquiou to 'Monsieur et Très noble Poëte', 53 Avenue de Paris, Juillet '95, single folded sheet of laid paper, watermarked Old England Paris, written in brown ink, 'C'est avec beaucoup de regrets que je recois trop tard pour m'y pouvoir rendrer - dès longtemps retourne ce jour là par mes anterieur engagements, la convocation du banquet commemoratif de la nouvelle dignités d'un ordre qui se deviat de s'honorer de vous ... ', 18 x 11.5 cm (when folded), loosely contained in a later black cloth chemise, plus Prières de Tous, huit dizaines d'un Chapelet Rýthmique, Dessins de Mme Madeleine Lemaire, Paris: Maison de Livre, 1902, printed in red and black throughout, with floral borders and vignettes, largely uncut, original printed wrappers, upper cover with decorative floral border design in black and gilt, toned and some light marks, superficial scuff to rear cover, large 8vo, and Halévy (Ludovic), L'Abbé Constantin illustré par Madame Madeleine Lemaire, 1st edition, Paris: Calmann Lévy, éditeur, Boussod Valadon et Cie, 1888, title-page printed in red and black, 18 colour plates with tissue guards, black & white letterpress illustrations, some spotting to first and last few leaves, marbled endpapers, hinges split, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, contemporary black half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, upper return faded at head, large 8vo, and 12 others related, including: Les Délices de Capharnaum, 1921; Mémoires, 3 volumes, 1923; a duplicate copy of Prières de Tous, 1902; Edgar Munhall, Whistler and Montesquiou, The Butterfly and the Bat, Frick Collection, 1995, etc. (16)
£300 - £400
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700 Proust (Marcel). Du côté de chez Swann, 1st edition, second issue, Paris: Bernard Grasset 1914 [1913], with the typographical error in publisher’s name Grasset on the title page corrected, table of contents leaf with completed date of printing November 8, 1913 to verso, leaf pattern endpapers, wood engraved bookplate of Adrian Eeles to front pastedown, contemporary olive green cloth with maroon morocco title label to spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo
The first volume of Proust’s monumental A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), a landmark in modern French literature. ‘Précisons bien que tous les exemplaires de Swann datés de 1913 proviennent des mêmes formes : ce n’est que pour la commodité du langage que nous appelons exemplaires ‘de second tirage’ ceux qui furent imprimés sur les formes rectifiées. Les exemplaires corrigés furent vendus en priorité’ (Max Brun, Contribution à l’étude des premiers tirages de l’édition originale de Du côté de chez Swann, Le Livre et l’Estampe, 1966, 45-46, pp. 5-39).
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£300 - £500
701 Bell (Clive). Proust, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1928, original mottled red cloth with paper label to spine (faded), 8vo, together with Scott Moncrieff (C. K., editor). Marcel Proust, An English Tribute, by Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Symons, Compton Mackenzie, Clive Bell, W. J. Turner, Catherine Karlswell, E. Rickword..., 1st edition, London; Chatto & Windus, 1923, top edge gilt, original quarter vellum, lightly marked, 8vo
Woolmer 156.
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702 Proust (Marcel). Lettres a une amie, recueil de quarante-etune lettres inédites adressés a Marie Nordlinger 1899-1908, 1st edition, Manchester: Eddison’s Editions du Calame, 1942, tippedin portrait frontispiece of Proust after a wood engraving by G. Aubert, and tipped-in monochrome portrait of Marie Nordlinger, wood engraved bookplate of Adrian Eeles to front pastedown, untrimmed, original printed wrappers bound-in, nearcontemporary half calf, large octavo, 8vo Limited edition of 225 copies, this copy number 221. Additionally signed in ink at end of the preface by Marie Riefstahl (née Nordlinger), and dated June 1944.
Marie Nordlinger was the cousin of Reynaldo Hahn (1876-1961), the composer and friend of Marcel Proust. Sometimes called the Parisienne Maid from Manchester, Nordlinger was an artist in her own right, and fluent in both English and French. She helped Proust to translate Ruskin’s The Bible of Amiens (1)
£200 - £300
703 Jullian (Philippe). XV Portraits d’après l’oeuvre de Marcel Proust, dédiés à Isabelle de Broglie, [Paris, 1965], 15 etchings on wove papers, loosely contained in original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, rubbed and some light soiling, contained in original printed paper overwrapper (spotted and some fraying and wear), with modern dark brown cloth bookbox, 8vo, together with four duplicate etchings from the same series, mounted together, framed and glazed Limited edition of 150 copies, this copy numbered 58 to wrapper. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to verso of the upper wrapper ‘Christmas 48 à John Lhemann, un souvenir d’un charmont Acceuil, Philippe Jullian’. The illustrator and engraver Philippe Jullian (really Philippe Simounet, 19191977) was the grandson of the art historian Camille Jullian. (2) £200 - £300
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704* Aldington (Richard, 1892-1962), English writer and poet. Two Letters Signed, 'Richard Aldington', The Egoist, London, c. 1915/16, to Madame [Muriel] Ciolkowska, the first autograph letter telling her how much he likes her articles in the Egoist, continuing, ‘You may have noticed that I have been desperately trying to find English poets who were not either imbeciles or arrivistes. It is a difficult job, and it strikes me that we might educate this infernal country by publishing good French stuff by young authors. I have written to P.-J. Jouve to ask him to let us reproduce a few poems from “Parler”. The letter has just gone, and it occurs to me that you have a better opportunity than I of knowing the young men, and I wondered if you would try and get hold of a regular supply. It wouldn’t matter very much if it had been already published in France, for English and American people are not, as a rule, particularly well up in foreign matters. Among the newer people, I very much fancy, [Charles] Cros, Jouve & Durtain. I like Spire too but I imagine he’s an older man. You will know many more… Of course, the war has, I know, hit French literature most dreadfully, but it might encourage someone to have a place over here’, the second typed letter seemingly a slightly later follow-up and in similar vein, both 2 pp. on Egoist letterhead, some toning, 4to, together with an autograph postcard on Egoist stationery, signed with initials, referencing Jouve who has offered some inedit poems, and then referring to James Joyce [?Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published 1916], whose ‘novel will finish in a few months – could we get a translation by some really good French novelist, do you think? I suppose [André] Gide would want to be paid? …’, 2 pages, plus two further autograph letters signed to Mme. Ciolkowska from Grace Jardine on The New Freewoman stationery, 30 April 1913, concerning her quer y about Dr [Guy] Wrench’s book “The Mastery of Life”, etc., 2 pp., 4to, the second from Egoist editor Dora Marsden, 6 February 19 14, 1 page, 4to, and a real photo postcard to Mme. Ciolkowska from her niece ‘Emilie’ (E.R.R.), 1915
Muriel Ciolkowska was the author of Rodin (1912) and Blameless Man (1926), and contributed to Poetry, The Nation and The Egoist. In 1921 she received a press copy of the first printing of James Joyce's Ulysses Richard Aldington was literary editor and a columnist at The Egoist from 1914 until he joined the army in June 1916. He was assistant editor with Leonard Compton-Rickett under Dora Marsden.
Dora Marsden (1882-1960), was an English suffragette and editor of literary journals. Beginning her career as an activist in the Women's Social and Political Union, Marsden eventually broke off from the suffragist organization in order to found a journal that would provide a space for more radical voices in the movement. Her prime importance lies with her contributions to the suffrage movement, her criticism of the Pankhursts' WSPU, and her radical feminism. The New Freewoman, of which Marsden was also the editor, shifted the view of The Freewoman, which held a radical feminist view, to an idealistic anarchism and literary experimentalism. Its advanced views on sexuality scandalised many, Marsden writing in one issue: ‘… indissoluble monogamy is blunderingly stupid, producing deceit, sensuality, vice and promiscuity’. Grace Jardine, like Marsden, was a member of the Women’s Freedom League (6)
£200 - £300
705 Ash-Tree Press. A collection of 13 titles, Ash-Tree Press editions, Ashcroft, British Columbia & Penyffordd, Chester, 1996-2010, comprising Conference With the Dead, 1996 & Under the Crust, 1997 both by Terry Lamsley, The Far Side of the Lake, by Steve Basnie Tem, 2001, The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections, by Arthur Porges, edited by Mike Ashley, 2002, Figures in the Rain, by Chet Williamson, 2002, The Deep Museum, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 2003, The Undying Monster, by Jessie Douglas Kerruish, 2006, The Attic Express, by Alex Hamilton, 2007, The Woman in Black, by M. Y. Halidom, 2007, A Natural Body and A Spiritual Body, by J. S. Leatherbarrow, 2007, Masques of Satan, by Reggie Oliver, 2007, Pieces of Midnight, by Gary McMahon, 2010, Lost Places by Simon Kurt Unsworth, 2010, all original cloth, dust jackets, together with Tartarus Press. 8 titles, including The Haunted Woman, by David Lindsay, 2004, limited edition, one of 300 copies, Father Raven and Other Tales, by A. E. Coppard, 2004, limited edition, one of 300 copies, Black Horse and Other Strange Stories, by Jason A. Wyckoff, 2012, limited edition, one of 300 copies, Holidays From Hell, by Reggie Oliver, Tartarus Press, 2017, limited signed edition 94/500, A Country Still All Mystery, 2017, signed by the author, Written With My Left Hand, by Nugent Barker, 2014, limited edition, one of 300 copies, Night Voices, by Robert Aickman, 2013, Seven Strange Stories, by Rebecca Lloyd, 2017, plus others, some signed or limited editions including Shadow Writer, by Paul Kane, 2011, signed collectors edition 66/150, The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory, 2009, limited edition 260/750, Ghost Train, by Stephen Laws, 2011, signed deluxe edition VIII/75, The Howling, by Gary Brandner, 2010, deluxe signed edition VIII/150, and 3 titles by Sean Wright: The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor, 2004, Dark Tales of Time and Space, 2005 & Wicked or What?, 2005, each signed by the author (42)
£300 - £500
706 Atwood (Margaret). The Handmaid’ s Tale, 1st UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1986, some toning to textblock (as usual), original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo
Signed by the author to title, with a Hay Festival event ticket for Margaret Atwood and Gaby Wood, 2018 loosely inserted. A fine copy. (1) £300 - £400
707 Beckett (Samuel). Endgame, A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1958, original russet brown cloth, spine lettered in pale blue in dustwrapper, a little rubbed and minor fraying to extreme head and foot of spine, together with Waiting for Godot, a tragic comedy in two acts, 2nd impression, London: Faber & Faber, 1956, original pale yellow cloth, spine lettered in red in dustwrapper, rubbed and a little frayed to extremities, plus other 20th century plays including many in 1st edition: Samuel Beckett, All That Fall, 1957, Krap's last Tape and Embers, 1959, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, 1959, and The Caretaker [1960], and an additional copy of The Birthday Party inscribed by Reggie Smith, BBC producer to Gudrun Ure, Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, 1964, Tom Stoppard, Traversties, 1st edition, 1975 (signed), N. F. Simpson, One Way Pendulum, 1960, Alan Ayckbourn, Three Plays, 1977 (signed), Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 2nd printing, New York, Viking press, 1955, etc., mostly original cloth in dustwrappers (some in original printed wrappers), rubbed and some marks, all 8vo (31) £200 - £300
708 Bennett (Arnold). The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett: reproduced in facsimile from the author’s manuscript, 2 volumes, London: Ernest Benn Ltd / New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927, top edge gilt, original quarter vellum with original card slipcase (some wear to edges), large 8vo, limited editon of 500 copies, signed by the author to verso of the preliminary note, together with Polite Farces for the Drawing-room, 1st edition, London: Lamley and Co., 1900, half-title, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, untrimmed, original red cloth lettered in gilt, a few light marks to covers, housed in later green cloth chemise and matching green morocco-backed slipcase, spine rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus other 1st editions by Arnold Bennett, including From the Log of the Velsa, 1920, limited signed edition 43/110, Hugo, A Fantasia on Modern Themes, 1906, The Glimpse, An Adventure of the Soul, 1912, The Lion’s Share, 1916, etc.
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£200 - £400
709 Charteris (Leslie). A set of 10 ‘Saint’ novels, 1st editions, 1959-79, comprising Señor Saint, 1959, The Saint in the Sun, 1964, Vendetta for the Saint, 1965, The Saint on TV, 1968, The Saint and the Fiction Makers, 1969, The Saint Abroad, 1970, The Saint in Pursuit, 1971, The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace (written by Christopher Short), 1976, Send for the Saint, 1977, The Saint in Trouble, 1979, all rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in maroon halfmorocco, 8vo, together with 2 loose Christmas cards, each signed by the Directors of publisher’s Hodder and Stoughton From the library of Leslie Charteris, the books were commissioned by Hodder and Stoughton as Christmas gifts for the author.
Provenance: Ian Dickerson, writer and friend of the family, and recipient of many books from Leslie Charteris’s library after the death of his wife Audrey Charteris.
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£200 - £300
711 Christie (Agatha). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1st edition, London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1926, occasional light spotting, light toning to endpapers, neat contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, original blue cloth, lettered and ruled in red to upper cover and spine, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo
A good copy of what is regarded as a landmark crime novel and the third appearance of Hercule Poirot. (1)
£800 - £1,200
712 Conrad (Joseph). Almayers Folly. A Story of an Eastern River, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895, 1st issue with the letter 'e' omitted from 'generosity' 2nd line up from the bottom of p. 110, light toning to endpapers, previous owner signature, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine faded, a few small stains and bumps, 8vo, together with An Outcast of the Islands, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896, a few minor stains, bookplate of James Robert Hall, top edge gilt, original cloth, spine faded, joints splitting, light fading to upper cover from label removal, 8vo, plus The Rescue.
£300 - £400
710 Chevalier (Tracy). Girl With a Pearl Earring, 1st UK edition, London: HarperCollins, 1999, original cloth, 1st state dustjacket (with ‘Earing’ misspelled to rear panel), 8vo, signed and inscribed to title ‘My mother did not tell me they were coming’ (the opening line in the book), together with Hosseini (Khaled). The Kite Runner, 1st UK edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2003, original cloth, dust jacket with the red wraparound band, 8vo, signed in Persian and English, plus [Le Carre, John]. Granta. The Unbearable Peace 35, London: Granta Publications, Spring 1991, half-tone illustrations and advertisements, original wrappers (joints rubbed), 8vo, signed by John Le Carre, with 3 others: Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, 1st UK edition, 1958, The Power, by Naomi Alderman, 1st edition, 2016, inscribed by the author, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, David Fickling Books edition, 2003, signed (6)
A Romance of the Shallows, 1st edition, London & Toronto, J. M. Dent, 1920, light toning front and rear, contemporary previous owner inscription, original cloth, light vertical crease along spine, dust jacket, spine toned with '1st edn' in ink below author name, small chips and tears, 8vo, with others by the author including 1st editions The Nigger of the "Narcissus", 1898, Tales of Unrest, 1898, Lord Jim, 1900, Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903, Nostromo, 1904, The Secret Agent, 1907, A Set of Six, 3rd issue, 1908 (advertisements dated June 1908), Tales of Hearsay, 1925 (in dust jacket) (20)
£400 - £600
713 Cornwell (Bernard). A complete run of the ‘Richard Sharpe’ novels, 1st editions, 1981-2021, from Sharpe’s Eagle, 1981 to Sharpe’s Assassin, 2021 (only lacking Sharpe’s Command, 2023), some toning to a few textblocks (as usual), original cloth, dust jackets (Sharpe’s Honour price-clipped), some fading to a few spines, 8vo, each signed by the author to title or on adhesive Bernard Cornwell book labels, 8vo, plus a 1st US edition of Sharpe’s Eagle (Viking Press, 1981), signed, Sharpe’s Assassin a signed limited edition, and Sharpe’s Rifles and Sharpe’s Eagle one volume omnibus edition, 1993, with signed label, together with 29 other novels by the author, From Redcoat, 1987 to Fools and Mortals, 2017 all 1st editions, each signed by the author including the ‘Warlord’, ‘Great Quest’, ‘Nathaniel Starbuck’ and ‘Alfred the Great’ novels, plus the 3 ‘Crowning Mercy’ novels written with his wife Judy Cornwell (writing as ‘Susannah Kells’), The Fallen Angels a 1st US edition, 1984 (each signed by Cornwell or Kells), plus Waterloo, 2014 (lacking title page but with signed book label) (53)
£700 - £1,000
714 Dahl (Roald). A set of 6 Puffin Books paperbacks, reprint editions, 1977, each inscribed by the author, some light toning, original wrappers (James and the Giant Peach with tear and loss to lower corner of front wrapper) a few creases, a little rubbed, slipcase, laminate peeling at folds, 8vo
Each inscribed ‘Ashleigh, Love, Roald Dahl’.
Provenance: given by the author to Eileen Robbins to give to her son Ashleigh, the current vendor. Eileen Robbins was the head librarian at Mary Boon School in London, and on one occasion she took a group of school girls to Roald Dahl’s house, Gipsy House, in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, visiting his writing hut in the orchard. He took this set of books off the shelf and signed them for Eileen to take back home for her son.
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715 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, London: John Murray, thin paper edition, 1925, advertisements at rear, previous owner signature to rear endpaper, endpapers a little toned, front hinge splitting, top edge red, original limp red calf gilt, small loss at head of spine, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo Signed to front endpaper by the author. With a letter of provenance from Geoffrey Parkins, confirming the book was purchased by his grandfather from a bookshop off Chiswick High Road, London, and signed for him by the author, both attending spiritualist meetings over the years, thence by descent.
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£500 - £700
£200 - £300
716* Du Maurier (Daphne, 1907-1989). Typed Letter Signed, ‘Daphne du Maurier’, Menabilly, Parr, Cornwall, 10 September 1957, to Miss McLardy, offering friendly and helpful advice about becoming a published writer, ‘I think you are probably right about double spacing, but I’m afraid I dont use it myself! I’ve done all my own typing now for many years, and then when my manuscripts go up to the publisher, they are generally retyped again in the office. I have the advantage though of being an established author, and this might not work for a beginner. If you have written stories, and need them typing, you must either get a machine and type them yourself, or take them to a typing agency in Coventry…’, suggesting the agency Curtis Brown in Covent Garden and that if they think the work is worth sending to a publisher they will let her know, du Maurier saying that she started this way herself, but that ‘Conditions are harder now, and a young and inexperienced author has great difficulty in getting his or her work published unless he or she has exceptional talent which an agent or publisher can spot at first reading. I’m sorry to sound unhelpful, but it is better for you to realise these facts, and then you will not be too disappointed if you do not find success. Good luck anyway’, 2 pages on personal stationery, 8vo, together with the typed and postmarked envelope (1) £150 - £200
717 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1962 [&] On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1st edition, 1963, the latter with blue ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust jackets, with small closed tears or chips, mostly to head of spine, light toning or sunning, 8vo (2)
£100 - £150
718
Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 14th paperback printing, London: Pan Books, 1965, some toning to textblock, original wrappers with scenes from the film version, a little rubbed with small abrasion and light crease, 8vo
£100 - £200
Player’s Cigarettes promotional edition, with the folding facsimile letter from ‘Domino’ to James Bond, urging him to read pages 152-155 and referring to Player’s Cigarettes, loosely inserted. (2)
719 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961, one or two minor spots, original cloth, dust jacket, short tear at head of lower joint, small nicks at folds, a few tiny tears, some light edge wear, 8vo, together with For Your Eyes Only, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960, small marginal spot to a few opening leaves, original cloth, dust jacket, spine lettering faded to yellow (as often), narrow vertical abrasion to front panel, a little rubbed with a few light stains, 8vo, plus 3 other 1st editions: Moonraker, 1955 (no dust jacket), The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965 (spine of jacket with a small ink drawing of a flag and letter ‘F’), and Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966 (5)
£300 - £500
720 Forester (C. S.) Love Lies Dreaming, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927, advertisements at rear, bookplate of Walter A. Frankel, original cloth, some mottled fading to spine, dust jacket designed by Florence Mary Anderson,, one or two small marks to spine, extremities a trifle rubbed, 8vo Scarce in the dust jacket.
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£500 - £700
Lot 719
721 [Fox, Samuel Middleton]. Our Own Pompeii. A Romance of To-Morrow, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1887, publisher’s catalogue at rear of volume 2, a little minor spotting, original cloth gilt, some fading to spines, lightly rubbed at ends, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to volume 1 halftitle ‘For Mama, from the author, Xmas 86’, together with Henderson (William). Clues or Leaves from a Chief Constable’s Note Book, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1889, ‘Opinions of the Press’ bound at rear, a few light spots, original cloth, spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, inscribed at head of title ‘With the author’s compliments, 21.3.89’ and in pencil to front endpaper verso ‘B. Stoker’s copy’, plus Wells (H. G.) Man Who Could Work Miracles. A film story based on the material contained in the short story “Man Who Could Work Miracles”, 1st edition, London: Cresset Press, 1936, faint offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket designed by E. McNight Kauffer, some chips and tears, 8vo, with others, crime fiction etc including 1st editions “Made in Heaven”, [by F. Weller Shepherd], 2 volumes in one, 1873, The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch of the Russian Secret Service, by Dick Donovan, 1897, The Chronicles of Don Q., by K. and Hesketh Prichard, 1904, The Mystery of the Green Heart, by Max Pemberton, 1910 (with signature loosely inserted), The Strange Story in the Falconer Papers, by Una L. Silberrad, [1934], Fakes Passports, 1940 & The Scarlet Imposter, 1940, both by Denis Wheatley, (both inscribed by the author), Yellow Gods, 1940 (in the cheaper 3/6 jacket) & The Blue Print Murders, 1942 (4/6 jacket), and 3 titles by Edgar Rice Burroughs including Tarzan and ‘The Foreign Legion”, 1st US edition, 1947, and Tanar of Pellucidar, 1st UK edition, 1939 (in the cheaper 4/6 jacket) (35)
£400 - £600
722 Freeman (R. Austin). The Surprising Experiences of Mr. Shuttlebury Cobb, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1927], publisher’s catalogue at rear, closed marginal tear to p. 45, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, dust jacket, small tear at head of front panel and repair to verso, small nicks at spine ends, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper ‘Eliot Slater, with all good wishes from R. Austin Freeman, 14th June 1940’. (1)
£300 - £500
Lot 721
723 French (Cecil). Between Sun and Moon, Poems and WoodCuts by Cecil French, Kensington, London: The Favil Press, 1922, four hand-printed proof woodcuts on thin paper, each initialled by the artist, errata slip tipped-in, original marbled boards with printed paper labels to spine and upper cover, rubbed to edges, 8vo, limited signed edition 101/350, together with Elliot (T. S.). The Sacred Wood, Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, very lightly rubbed (generally a good copy), small 8vo, plus Owen (Wilfred). Poems by Wilfred Owen, with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, London: Chatto & Windus, reprinted March 1921, xi, 34pp., half-title with some browning (from news cuttings), original red cloth with printed paper label to spine, square 8vo, and other mostly early 20th century poetry and literature, including Gordon Bottomley, The Crier by Night, 1902 (with presentation inscription from John Ballie dated 1905), T. W. Earp, The Gate of Bronze, Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1919, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900 (printed in an edition of 50 copies only), Frances Vilé-Griffin, Poèmes et Poésies, Paris, 1895 (with author’s presentation inscription to Charles Whilby, Herbert Sleigh, The Initials & Other Poems, Shakespeare Head press, 1925, Henrik Ibsen, Brand, A Dramatic Poem (Cameo Series), 1894, and four other titles from the Cameo Series (Thomas Wright, Unpublished and Uncollected Poems of William Cawper, 1900, Richard Garnett, A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology, 1892, Amy Levy, A London Plane-Tree, 1889, & Eugene Mason, Flamma Vestalis and other poems, 1895, Theodora Roscoe, Market Morning and other poems, Saint Katherine Press, 1929, Wilfred Rowland, Childe, Blue Distance, Swan Press, 1930, Fiona Macleod, The Immortal Hour, 1908, and From The Hills of Dreams, Thomas B. Mosher, 1901 (with original autograph manuscript poem by Cecil French entitled The Dirge of the Four Cities loosely inserted), etc.
Provenance: From the collection of David Gould (1922 -2004). (48)
£300 - £400
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£200 - £300
724 Gaiman (Neil). The Absolute Sandman, 5 volumes, New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 2006-11, original boards, upper covers with inset colour illustration, slipcases, folio, volume 1 signed by the author with an ink sketch and caption ‘Jamilah...’, together with Coraline. The Red Thread Edition, Lyra’s Press, 2023, illustrations by Rovina Cai, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, one of 500 copies, signed by the artist, plus a photocopy (proof?) of Crossing: Quotations for Living, Dying and Letting Go, edited by Gail Perry & Jill Perry, 1986, inscribed to ‘Euge’ by his friend Quincy Jones, ‘Alice Walker send me this at a very difficult time and it seemed to help a lot...’ (7)
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725 Gibran (Kahlil). The Prophet, 1st edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, 12 monochrome plates by the author, occasional minor spotting, contemporary ownership signature of M. E. Haskell to front endpaper, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt with circular gilt vignette, light fading at foot of spine, small residue marks from jacket verso to lower cover, dust jacket, spine with tears and loss to lower third (small piece retained), upper joint vertically split, tear and loss at head of rear panel, a few small chips and light marks, 8vo Rare in the dust jacket, no copy recorded at auction in the first printing jacket.
Provenance: Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-1964), US educator, headmistress of a private girl’s school in Boston and close friend of and benefactor to the author. She first met Kahlil Gibran at an exhibition of his work in 1904, and formed a close relationship with him, editing his English works and financing his artistic activities.
The first edition of Gibran’s most famous prose poem, some 2000 copies printed. The book’s popularity subsequently soared, it has been translated into 100 languages and has never been out of print. Lebanese-born poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) moved with his family to Boston in 1895, his first works were written in Arabic and his first book in English The Madman was published by Alfred Knopf in New York in 1918.
The Prophet deals with many themes of human life, as told through the ‘prophet’ Ali Mustafa. Gibran’s poetry was strongly influenced by his own Maronite Christian faith, as well as the Baha’i Faith (he had met ‘Abdu’lBahá in 1911-12) and Sufism, as well as poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Arabic art and European Classicism.
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£4,000 - £6,000
726 Grafton (Sue). A complete set of the ‘Alphabet’ series, mixed US and UK 1st editions, 1986-2017, comprising ‘A’ is for Alibi, ‘B’ is for Burglar, ‘C’ is for Corpse, X, & Y is for Yesterday all 1st UK editions, the others 1st US editions, some toning to textblocks of first 3 titles, light spotting to fore edges of a few others, first 2 titles with labels signed by the author tipped-in at front, P is for Peril and V is for Vengeance both signed to titles, original cloth, dust jackets, some fading to one or two spines, 8vo (25)
£200 - £300
727 Huxley (Aldous). Arabia Infelix and Other Poems, New York: Fountain Press, London: Chatto and Windus, 1929, original clothbacked boards, a few marks to covers, 8vo, limited signed edition 468/692, together with The Cicadas and Other Poems, limited edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1931, original cloth-backed boards, small marks to spine, 8vo, limited signed edition 131/160, plus Music at Night and Other Essays, New York: Fountain Press, London: Chatto & Windus, 1931, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, s few chips and tears, 8vo, limited signed edition 173/842 (3)
£200 - £300
728 Ishiguro (Kazuo). Remains of the Day, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, 8vo
Presentation copy, inscribed to title ‘To Michael, Kazuo Ishiguro, 23/5/89’. (1) £300 - £400
729 Joyce (James). Dubliners, 1st edition, Grant Richards Ltd., 1914, front free endpaper largely excised and no longer present, following flyleaf browned, half-title and title spotted, paper abrasions to front pastedown, a little spotting to text block edges, original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, a little fading to spine, 8vo
Slocum & Cahoon A8. One of 1250 copies printed, of which only 746 were bound in the publisher’s maroon cloth.
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£2,000 - £3,000
730 Kafka (Franz). The Metamorphosis, translated by A. L. Lloyd, 1st edition in English, London: The Parton Press, 1937, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, a few light marks to covers, slight lean, 8vo
First English language edition of Kafka’s Die Verwandlung, first published in Leipzig in 1915. (1)
£1,000 - £1,500
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731 Lawrence (D. H.) Sons and Lovers, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Duckworth and Co., 1913, 2nd issue with integral title dated 1913, publisher’s catalogue at rear, occasional light spotting, contemporary previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with England My England, 1st edition, London: Martin Secker, 1924, advertisements at rear, light offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned, tear and loss midway, small chips at ends, 8vo, plus St. Mawr. Together with The Princess, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Martin Secker, 1925, 1st issue with contents leaf stating text begins on p. 9, occasional light spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth, dust jacket laid down, spine a little rubbed and faded 8vo, with others by and on the author including 1st editions in jackets The Boy in the Bush, (1st US edition), 1924, David. A Play, 1926, The Woman Who Rode Away and other stories, 1928, The Virgin and the Gypsy, G. Orioli, Florence, 1928, limited edition 636/810, John Fowles’ copy (bookplate), The Man Who Died, 1931 (limited edition, one of 2000 copies), The Lovely Lady, 1932, The Ship of Death, 1933 (2 copies), A Modern Lover, 1934, plus The Trespasser, 2nd impression, July 1912 and The Lost Girl, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1920, biographies, bibliographies etc (38)
£400 - £600
732 [Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 1888-1935]. Oeuvres de Emile
Verhaeren: Les campagnes hallucine�es, Les villes tentaculaires, Les douze mois, Les visages de la vie, Paris: Mercure de France, [1912], volume 1 of the 9-volume Works edition, 358pp., very light spotting to first and last few leaves, initialled in pencil ‘TES’ by T. E. Lawrence (T. E. Shaw) to upper outer corner of front free endpaper, small printed bookplate to front pastedown ‘From the library of T. E. Lawrence, Clouds Hill’, top edge gilt, near-contemporary bluegreen full morocco gilt (by G. & C. McLeish, signed to rear turn-in), rubbed, spine faded and scuffed to joints, 8vo
Provenance: From the library of T. E. Lawrence, Clouds Hill, with his bookplate and pencil initials. This copy is identified in the catalogue of books at Clouds Hill in A. W. Lawrence (editor), T. E. Lawrence by his Friends, Jonathan Cape, 1937, p. 458. (1)
£300 - £500
733* Le Carré (John, i.e. David Cornwell, 1931-2020), British author of espionage novels. An important series of 12 unpublished Autograph Letters Signed and 4 Typed Letters Signed, various locations, 1987-2019, to Anglo-Soviet go-between John C. Q. Roberts, all signed ‘David’, covering their trip to Russia in 1987, and subsequent lifelong friendship, with mentions of notable people, family and friends, books and films, proposed reunions, etc., a total of 31 pp., 4to/8vo and notecards, with 11 of the accompanying envelopes, plus one other letter from Cornwell to Roberts’s wife Liz, and one letter to Roberts from Cornwell’s wife Jane; plus a Typed Letter Signed from David Cornwell to V. Makarov, a former KGB officer charged with spying, (21 September 1992), and original and photocopy paperwork relating to this topic, plus photocopies of 11 autograph letters signed ‘John’ and two typed letters from John Roberts to David [Cornwell], 8 July 1987 – 22 September 2019, plus a few related print-outs of associated emails, etc., together with: A proof copy of John C. Q. Roberts’s memoir, Speak Clearly into the Chandelier. Cultural Politics between Britain and Russia 19732000. With a Foreword by John le Carré, (Curzon Press, 2000), scattered proof marks and errata/changes in pen and pencil, original printed monochrome wrappers, Roberts’s ink ownership initials to upper cover and the circled pencil words ‘Proof Copy’, rubbed, some creasing to corners and spine, 8vo, plus An original painting used as the artwork for a partial wraparound for this proof copy (reproduced in black and white) and the published book, [2000], watercolour and gouache with traces of pencil on paper, featuring Roberts and le Carré (carrying a Pravda newspaper) striding together against a Russian backdrop, indistinctly signed by the artist Paul Slater lower right, 34 x 34 cm, framed and glazed
Provenance: From the estate of John Roberts (1933-2024), by direct family descent.
John Charles Quentin Roberts (1933-2024) was director of the Great Britain-USSR Association from 1973 to 1993. During his time in that role he acted as a linchpin in Cold War cultural relations, developing links and interaction between the cultures of Russia and the UK. In 1987 he acted as John le Carré’s guide for his first visit behind the Iron Curtain when he was gathering material for his novel The Russia House. Thereafter, Roberts and le Carré, (under his real name of David Cornwell), maintained a close friendship until le Carré’s death in 2020. Roberts’s memoir, Speak Clearly into the Chandelier, published in 2000, mentions le Carré several times and provides a unique view of British-Russian relations during the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime and the first ten years following its collapse. This remarkable series of letters from Cornwell to Roberts, and copies of letters from Roberts to Cornwell, demonstrate that close bond, covering a range of subjects, from politics to espionage and double agents, literature and film, travel, family and friends.
‘John Roberts in his official life was that rarest of British fauna - the right man in the right place at the right time. We first met in 1987 and my first impression was of Mr. Convention himself.... But to know and travel with, he was something altogether unusual: a convinced servant of his country, a gifted polyglot, a lover of music, art and life’s good things, and above all kulturny as the Russians have it, meaning that he was grounded in the arts and sciences and able to hold his own, and more than that, in the selfregarding but impressive company of Russia’s home-grown intellectuals. ... John Roberts was as doughty an ally as you could wish for, a sensitive matchmaker for a writer in search of his material, steady under fire and, as this book testifies, a calm and objective witness for truth.’ (John le Carré)
Extracts from David Cornwell’s letters to John Roberts, all signed as ‘David’: 12 May 1987: Referring to six points concerning their upcoming travel arrangements to Russia, mentioning in response to point five that, ‘as I explained to Anne, I have to go on to California in early June in response to a green light on a long awaited and, to me, long cherished film project. If it takes off, as it appears to be doing, I shall be locked into a twelve week writing project from which there is no easy escape…’, in answer to point 6 saying, ‘I do not want to meet [Kim] Philby on this trip and our answer to any such suggestion should be a straight “no thanks”. I feel sure that to do otherwise wd. be to embarrass you, the Association, the Ambassador and,
as a matter of fact, myself. As I told you, I’d like to meet him for zoological reasons, but not at anyone’s expense. And on this trip, absolutely no, not on any pretext, in any circumstances’.
12 June 1987: ‘Thanks so very, very much for everything: the interpreting, so painstaking and conscientious and good, the good company and the protective eye, and for the knowledge and experience which enabled us to get to the centre of things so fast, and duck so much that could have been a waste of time. Two weeks in Russia seem, in retrospect, like a year anywhere else. Looking through my notes, I’m amazed by how much we got done, and by how we stood up to it without folding at the knees. So thank you for delivering, above all, a rich and splendid experience which I cd. never have had alone...’.
2 July 1987 (to Liz Roberts, his wife): Thanking her for the lovely evening, ‘… I never wanted to take my feet off that footstool, I’d have been perfectly happy turning the pages of Buttons’ animal magazines for him forever ... A couple of swoots & N[ora] Beloff’s preoccupations turned to dust. What a stupid cow, and how wrong she was. But – when I read the S.L.G. version of that interview, I did feel slightly queasy myself. Has le C gone soft on Russia I asked myself? Answer, no, but another time we’ll take our own tape recorder, because they did, I’m afraid, diddle a bit… What the hell. It’s newspapers’.
6 July 1987: A brief note: ‘So far pure enchantment. I shall buy the set..’, with a pencil footnote by John Roberts explaining that he had lent him volume 1 of the Lyttleton—Hart Davis Correspondence
13 July 1987: Saying that ‘a meeting with Isaiah Berlin would be delightful, and you must come to us, both, and he must, they?, and we must ask Alfred and Reni Brendel who are great buddies of his and who live 50x from us. And everyone says he’s a star, and I think I taught his son, if that’s possible, anyway ein Berlinchen’, and then continuing, ‘The bad news is swiftly dealt with. The lad’s suggestion is perfectly disgraceful…’.
12 January 1989: Saying that he completed the rewrite and enclosing a draft of the foreword ‘for you to kick around as you like. I wd. like to mention Anne [Vaughn] but in general I like to keep acknowledgements to a minimum, as too many names reduce the glory of the few’, with a photocopy of the slightly amended foreword.
21 September 1992 (typed): ‘Many thanks for your letter with its enclosures. I enclose a copy of my reply and would be grateful if you would forward the enclosed original to Mr. Makarov. It looks to me like one of those situations when none of us will ever be able to tell fact from fantasy but what I have written him is the absolute truth. I have just finished an endless novel [The Night Manager]. It would be such fun to see you again – perhaps that long delayed visit to Cornwall?’
with the aforementioned typed letter signed from Cornwell to Makarov, also dated 21 September 1992:
‘Thank you for your letter, sent to me with a translation by John Roberts of the Britain – Russia Centre on 15th September. May I at once address your principal question? My character Katya in The Russia House was not in the remotest way based on any person living or dead, nor was the story of The Russia House based on any intelligence operation with which I was familiar in anyway. If I could help you find the lady whose photograph you have sent me… and whom you describe in your letter, I would. But I have no way of doing so which is not open to you also: namely to approach the British authorities with whom you say she put you in touch. And if they don’t want to tell you, they won’t want to tell me either’, thanking him for his kind comments about The Russia House and saying that he does not think that he could impinge on his rights with anything he wrote unless he quoted extensively from The Russia House or any other books of his in which case he should seek out rights to his agent for the necessary legal release. plus a copy of Roberts’s typed cover letter to Cornwell and a typed copy of his translation of the Makarov letter in which Makarov explains that he is a political refugee from the former USSR, now living in England. ‘I am a former KGB officer, arrested on a charge of espionage in 1987. I read you’re The Russia House whilst still in captivity and noticed that very many details correspond to the circumstances of my case. My principal question to you is the following: did somebody broadly suggest to you the theme of your novel? The fact is that I am trying to trace the Russian girl, and interpreter, who helped me make contact with the British Secret Service. Her age, appearance and knowledge of English etc. were all the same as described by you. I would add that she is my fiancée...’. (John Roberts suggests in his cover letter that the girl in question may be Olga Biryova.) plus associated paperwork including a handwritten letter from Makarov, associated photocopies, etc.
15 February 1993 (typed): Thanking him for sending him the front page of the Russian Independent, and saying to try and come and visit them in Cornwall.
27 February 1997: Hoping that they will meet and possibly visit them in Cornwall, concluding, ‘Did you see “Shine”? I did, and thought of you and your music’.
21 July 1997: ‘You have a happy style, very deft, and it’s good stuff – I enjoyed it hugely as an opening salvo, partly of course because I know you, know the shop a bit, and some of the players, and particularly because I’ve had the pleasure of seeing you operate. I’m sure a publisher will quail at the number of names and the occasional over-detailed passages, but that’s editing. I’m equally sure he’ll want a more generous portrait of the remit of the association, and where, if anywhere, it fitted into overall UK policy and the activities of the British Council. The opening is not discursive enough. And I think Hill want certain episodes highlighted – you can’t tease us with stories of attempted compromise without telling us what the ploy was, and whether she was dishy etc! What are your publishing plans? At this stage, that seems to be quite important, because any potential publisher is likely to draw up quite a shopping list for the future development of the book –more anecdote, e.g., less reportage etc…’.
30 July 1997: Conveying Roland Phillips’s contact details at Hodder and Stoughton.
4 September 1999: ‘… Your house looks beautifully positioned – wind farms don’t bother me as much as they do some, because I used to believe in them as eco-friendly. Now I suspect they’re cosmetic nonsense, but the only ones I’ve seen are on Bodmin Moor…’.
23 March 2000 (typed): Thanking him for sending a copy of his book which he describes as handsome and wishing that it gains the sales it deserves. 24 June 2002 (from David’s wife, Jane Cornwell): Saying that they are sorry things are not going well for Roberts, how busy they are with children and grandchildren, and referring to The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and how David has unusually just given an hour-long phone interview about it to a French journalist.
8 July 2005: ‘Good to hear from you, as always. I’m delighted by your Russian honour. I’m in a curiously analogous situation. I have always turn down UK medals – total fog about how they are awarded, idiotic descriptions (commander of the Brit Empire? No thanks) and I’ve learnt to detest the whole crappy structure from the Lords downwards, or upwards, when it’s bestowing favours. Then out of the blue comes a letter from the French minister of culture, and a certificate signed by him, appointing me, not commander of the French Empire, but of the “order of arts and letters”, and asking me when I would like the ceremony. So I took it, and await the ambassador’s pleasure, because how pompous do you have to be to send it back?’. [John Roberts’s invitation to the reception for David Cornwell’s award ceremony on 2 November 2005 is included with the lot].
17 August 2011 (notecard): ‘... Glad Arkadi [Arkady Vaksberg, 1927-2011] got a good sendoff – and typical of [Vladimir] Putin to suppress his life and death’. 28 September 2016: ‘... Glad you’re enjoying TPT [The Pigeon Tunnel]. ... we are under several whips, what with more films in the pipeline, and a new novel coming out next year [A Legacy of Spies]. ... So please stay in touch, and we look forward to seeing you in quieter times… (if times are ever quiet in the year of [Donald] Trump and [Theresa] May…)’.
4 June 2018 (typed): ‘... I have just returned from Karlovy Vary where we were filming the last episodes of The Little Drummer Girl, and I have returned to an accusing manuscript and too many distractions. I was delighted to read that you are up-and-running again. Yes, of course, I have watched Das Leben der Anderen several times, first in Hamburg in German, and then back in England with subtitles. And I agree with you entirely: it is one of the best films I have ever seen’.
2 October 2019 (typed): ‘... Forgive this belated reply, and a typed letter to boot. I’m in the thick of publishing my new novel [Agent Running in the Field], due out in a couple of weeks, and playing a dubious part in a couple of films of my work that are in preparation’.
3 November 2019 (notecard): Saying that they are going down to Cornwall for the whole of November, ‘but please remember that I am on the receiving end of a bunch of film productions, so we may just have to shoot off somewhere’. (a folder plus a picture)
£2,000 - £3,000
734 Lewis (C. S.) The Horse and His Boy, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, light partial offsetting to front map endpaper, original cloth (light fading to spine), dust jacket, spine a little faded with small nicks at ends, short closed tear at head of rear panel, light toning to spine illustration and rear panel, 8vo
The fifth novel in the seven-volume Narnia series. (1)
£400 - £600
735 Lewis (C. S.) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, short closed marginal tear to dedication leaf, a few small stains, previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, spine toned, some fading and spotting to covers, slight lean, 8vo
The first book in the Narnia series. (1)
£300 - £400
736 Lewis (C. S.) The Silver Chair, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, one or two light marks, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth (spine ends faded, slight lean), dust jacket, a few chips, tears and losses to spine and panel edges, 8vo
The fourth and scarcest novel in the Narnia series (1)
£500 - £700
737* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898–1963). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘C. S. Lewis’, Magdalen College, Oxford, 2 June, no date, c. 1950, to [Colin Graham] Hardie, a substantial and intellectually dense letter, discussing myth, the Fall, the emergence of consciousness, and theological interpretation, in response to Hardie’s comments on his book on the problem of evil, The Problem of Pain [first published in 1940], and offering an extended reflection on the multi-faceted nature of myth, explaining that great myths ‘have layers of significance’ and ‘different patterns’ which may be discerned without cancelling one another out, Lewis argues for a radiating centre of meaning that lies ‘outside all human consciousness and may be strictly metaphysical or metapsychical’, Lewis distinguishes between the historical Fall, which he affirms, and the mythic dimension of the Fall narrative, which he regards as a symbolic re-enactment of a prior metaphysical rupture, anthropology and psychology, he suggests, recover only ‘the first period of prehistoric human life after the Fall’, the letter developing into a philosophical treatment of the origins of consciousness, the relation of self-awareness to objectification, and the harmony and subsequent disharmony of the human faculties, concluding with a meditation on the persistent intuition of an unreachable archetypal ‘before,’ a theme central to his understanding of myth and memory, returning to Hardie the ‘Dream’ about which he cannot make anything, written in dark blue ink in a small neat hand on both sides of Magdalen College letterhead, some pencil underscoring and notes (presumably by Hardie), a little dust-soiling and rubbing to folds, 2 pages, 4to
A fine and characteristic Lewis letter, rich in theological and mythopoeic speculation. A full transcription is available on request.
738* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898–1963). Autograph Postcard Signed with initial ‘J.’ for ‘Jack’, postmarked Cambridge, 7 May 1963, in blue ink, comprising date, a Latin quotation and three references, in full: ‘vii maii / Caelos translunarios no peinturos in novissima conflagratione sentient / S[aint] Aug[ustine] De Civit[ate] Dei xx, xviiii, xxiv / Aquinas IIIa. Supplement. Q LXXIV. art. 4 / Dante Par[adiso] VII. 67 sq. / J.’, plain postcard, addressed to C. G. Hardie at Magdalen College, Oxford, stamped and postmarked, small bruise and tiny closed tear to blank upper margin, 9 x 14 cm Colin Graham Hardie (1906-1998) was a British classicist and academic. From 1933 to 1936, he was Director of the British School at Rome. From 1936-41 and 1945-73, he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a tutor in classics, coinciding with Lewis’s teaching time teaching there from 1925-54. Lewis was then fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1954-63. Hardie was also a member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group which included the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
The translation of the Latin quotation is: ‘They will feel that they will not paint the translunar heavens in the last conflagration’. The three book references below it are:
Saint Augustine, The City of God. Book XX: The prophecies of the Last Judgment in the Old and New Testaments. Book XVIII: The parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from Abraham to the end. Doctrine of Witness, that Jews received prophecy predicting Jesus, and that Jews are dispersed among the nations to provide independent testimony of the Hebrew Scriptures. The reference to Book XXIV is puzzling, the last Book being XXII.
St Thomas Aquinas, Supplement to the third part of the Summa Theologica Question 74: Of the fire of the final conflagration. Article 4: Whether that fire will cleanse also the higher heavens?
Dante, Paradiso 7.64-78: On a backdrop of creation theology — verses 6466 are a medieval description of the Big Bang, Beatrice explaining that God created humans directly, without mediation.
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£3,000 - £5,000
Colin Graham Hardie (1906-1998) was a British classicist and academic. From 1933 to 1936, he was Director of the British School at Rome. From 1936-41 and 1945-73, he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a tutor in classics, coinciding with Lewis’s teaching time teaching there from 1925-54. Lewis was then fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1954-63. Hardie was also a member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group which included the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. (1)
£500 - £800
739 [Lewis, Clive Staples, 1898-1963]. The Demi-Gods, by James Stephens, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1914, 3 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, brown ink signature of ‘C. S. Lewis’ to recto of front free endpaper, written boldly and sloping upwards, with a curling underline flourish, minor pencil marks on pp. 18, 19 and 48, possibly in Lewis’s hand, original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and cocked, spine dulled, a few ink spots to lower cover, 8vo C. S. Lewis ‘discovered’ James Stephens (1882-1950) - the notable Irish author of works inspired by traditional Irish mythology - whilst a teenager. Lewis not only read Stephens’s books, but also gave a public lecture on him. While their writing styles differed, both authors engaged with themes of mythology, fantasy, and the spiritual world in their work. Lewis apparently appreciated the beauty and truth he found in Stephens’s fantastical narratives, and considered The Crock of Gold to be one of his all-time favourite books.
In spite of the popular perception that Lewis was English, he always saw himself as Irish, and was in fact an Ulster Protestant, born in Belfast and raised there until his mother’s death when he was nine. Lewis was then sent to boarding schools in England, but returned to Belfast for school holidays and to various parts of Ireland for his holidays almost every year for the rest of his life. While his early interest in much of Irish mythological literature waned, he never lost his love for Yeats and the stories of James Stephens. In his teens he read Yeats voraciously, and once wrote of his brief time at Malvern College:
‘There were more leprechauns than fags in my house [at Malvern College]. I saw the victories of Cuchulain more often than those of the first eleven. Was Borage the head of the college? Or was it Conchubar MacNessa?’ (C. S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, 1955)
There are a few minor pencil marks to 3 pages of this copy: a deleted comma on p. 18 and a marginal mark on p. 48. The most significant markings are two pencil ticks, suggesting grammatical approval, for the underlined words ‘An hesitation’ and ‘inquieting’ on p. 19. However, it has not been possible to verify whether these are in the hand of Lewis or another.
This copy of The Demi-Gods was recently discovered in Malvern in Worcestershire. Significantly, Lewis attended Malvern College between September 1913 and July 1914, making it very likely Lewis bought this new at the time of publication. James Stephens published The Charwoman’s Daughter in 1912 and, later in the same year, his noted work The Crock of Gold (both advertised at the back of this book). Later, in 1935, Stephens began a literary and personal friendship with James Joyce, who considered Stephens to be a genius who ‘easily embraced fantasy, philosophy, and comedy’. (1) £300 - £500
740 Lucas (Edward Verrall & George Morrow). What A Life! An Autobiography, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1911, illustrations by Whiteley’s, manuscript annotations to p. 126, a little minor spotting and occasional small damp stain at gutter, light partial offsetting to endpapers, small previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, spine faded, a little rubbed, 8vo
An early surrealist novel, the storyline using images taken from London department store Whiteley’s General Catalogue (1) £200 - £300
741
741 Lucas (Victoria, pseudonym of Sylvia Plath]. The Bell Jar, 1st Contemporary Fiction edition, London: Contemporary Fiction/William Heinemann, 1964, slight toning to textblock, small contemporary inscription to front pastedown, original green cloth, spine faded to brown, small bumps to corners, 8vo, together with Ariel, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: Faber and Faber, March,1965, light spotting to endpapers, small presentation inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, 8vo, with others related including Winter Trees, 1st edition, 1971, Letters Home, by Sylvia Plath, selected and edited by Aurelia Schober Plath, 1st US edition, 1975, Sylvia Plath. The Woman and the Work, edited by Edward Butscher, 1st UK edition, 1979, The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil, 2000, Eye Rhymes. Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual, edited by Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley, 2007, The Letters of Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, 2 volumes, 2017-18, plus other biographies etc (23)
£150 - £200
Mackenzie (Compton). Sinister Street, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Martin Secker, 1913-14, volume I 4th impression?, occasional light spotting and toning, small marginal repair to volume I half-title, original cloth gilt, spines faded, lightly rubbed at ends, 8vo
The author’s own copy, with his signature, address and bookplate to volume I front endpaper.
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742 MacDiarmid (Hugh). Direadh I, II and III, Frenich Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974, small lament by Valda Grieve and typescript note from publisher Kulgin Duval to Alan Hancox, dated 1965, enclosing the same loosely inserted, original moroccobacked boards, slipcase, 4to, limited signed edition 16/200, together with Jones (David). The Sleeping Lord, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, monochrome frontispiece, original cloth, slipcase, 8vo, limited signed edition 17/150, plus Brown (George Mackay). Keepers of the House, The Old Stile Press, 1986, colour illustrations by Gilliam Martin, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, royal 8vo, limited signed edition 50/225, with 4 others: The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts, by John M. Synge, 1907, limited edition 228/1000, The Red Limbo Lingo, by Lawrence Durrell, 1971, limited edition 529/1200, Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid and addressed to him on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1967, limited edition 56/350, signed by artist and editor with a prospectus for the work and 2 letters from editor Duncan Glen to Arnold Yates loosely inserted, and J. M. Synge. Translations, edited from the original manuscripts by Robin Skelton, Dolmen Press, 1961, limited edition 663/750
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£300 - £400
£150 - £200
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1962; The Unicorn, 1965; The Italian Girl, 1964; The Red and the Green, 1965; The Time of Angels, 1966; The Nice and the Good, 1968, 1st editions, The Red and the Green with front endpaper excised and adhesive tape residue to rear endpaper, original cloth (Official Rose spine and extremities faded, light toning to margins of The Unicorn), dust jackets, The Unicorn split along front flap, small stains to spine, one or two small tears and nicks to others, 8vo, together with a complete set of all novels from Bruno’s Dream, 1969 to Jackson’s Dilema, 1995, 1st editions (Sacred & Profane Love Machine with front endpaper excised), marginal toning to textblocks of The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood and The Message to the Planet, plus 5 others including The Flight from the Enchanter, January 1960 reprint, The Bell, 1958 Book Society edition, Something Special, 1999 and 2 others by John Bayley (27)
£200 - £300
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744 Murdoch (Iris).
Severed Head, 1961;
Official Rose,
745 Murdoch (Iris). A Year of Birds, Compton Press, 1978, woodengravings by Reynolds Stone, top edge gilt, original cloth-backed boards (spine ends slightly rubbed), 8vo, limited signed edition 40/350, together with Boxwood. Sixteen engravings by Reynolds Stone, illustrated in verse by Sylvia Townsend Warner, London: The Monotype Corporation Limited, 1958, original cloth gilt, glassine wrapper (small tear and chip), 8vo, limited edition, one of 500 copies (2)
£300 - £400
746 Nabokov (Vladimir). Lolita, volume I only (of 2), 1st edition, 1st printing, Paris: Olympia Press, 1955, manuscript numbers to rear blank verso, light spotting to fore edges, original wrappers with printed price of 900 Francs to rear wrapper, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo
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£200 - £300
747 O’Brian (Patrick). The Commodore, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 1994, signed by the author to title, gift inscription from the author to front blank, with two letters from the author dated ‘95 and ‘96, together with: The Yellow Admiral, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 1997, The Hundred Days, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 1998, gift inscription from the author to title page, Blue At The Mizzen, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 1999, Master and Commander, London: Harper Collins: 1998, with letter from the author dated ‘99 loosely inserted, The Yellow Admiral, 1st US edition, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1996, and Patrick O’Brian, Critixan Appreciations and Bibliography, edited by A. E. Cunningham, The British Library, 1994, all in original cloth gilt with dust jackets, together with 42 Patrick O’Brian reprints, plus a collection of signed modern 1st editions comprising: Ishiguro (Kazuo). Klara and The Sun 2021, Harris (Robert). V2 [&] The Second Sleep, 2019, Sansom (C. J.). Tombland, 2018 and Parris (S. J.). Execution, 2020, plus 12 other volumes (66)
£300 - £400
748 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949, a few minor spots to endpapers, top edge red, original cloth, spine faded, one or two light stains, 8vo (1)
£200 - £300
750 Poe (Edgar Allan). The Raven, 1887, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1887, additional wood-engraved title and numerous wood-engraved illustrations by W. L. Taylor throughout volume, original limp relievo leather with foliate embossed decoration, title in gilt to upper cover, original Japanese-style side sewing to spine with gold coloured thread, square 8vo, contained in original box (1)
£150 - £200
£300 - £500
749 Peake (Mervyn). Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone, 3 volumes, 1st editions, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950 & 1959 respectively, all original red cloth, the first and second titles in somewhat worn dustwrappers, together with Ride a Cock-Horse and other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1940, The Adventures of the Young Soldier in search of the Better World by C. E. M. Joad, with drawings by Meryn Peake, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1943, Rhymes Without Reason, 1st edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944, Figures of Speech, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1954, & The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, 1st editon, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962, illustrations to each, all original cloth in dustwrappers (except Rhymes Without Reason without dustwrapper), small 4to/8vo, and other Mervyn Peake interest, including Quest for Sieta by Maurice Collis, 1st edition, 1946, limited edition of 500 copies, The Book of Lyonne, 1952, Treasure Island, 1949, The Yound Blackbird, 1953, Grimms Household Tales, 1946, etc., mostly original cloth, some in dustwrappers, 8vo/4to (36)
751 Pratchett (Terry). The Carpet People, 1st edition, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1971, illustrations by the author, lacking front and rear endpapers, original cloth gilt, price-lipped dust jacket, small adhesive tape reinforcement at foot of spine, 8vo, together with A signed menu from the Athenaeum, 24 November 2004, 2 leaves, original pictorial paper wrappers, signed in black ink by Pratchett to upper cover, small 4to
The dinner celebrated 21 years of the Discworld series. (2)
£150 - £200
752 Proulx (Edna Ann). The Shipping News, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, 8vo, inscribed by the author to title, together with 2 others: The Shipping News, 1st UK edition, 1994, inscribed, and Close Range. Wyoming Stories, 1st US edition, 1999, signed by the author and artist William Matthews (3)
£200 - £300
753 Proust (Marcel). The Guermantes Way, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1925, some pages unopened and few roughly opened (with consequent tearing of some fore-margins), original cloth in dust jackets, light dust-soiling, toning and few marks to dust-jackets, also torn at head and foot, frayed to edges, volume 2 dust jacket with 8 cm diagonal closed tear, 8vo Extremely uncommon in the dust-jackets. (2)
£400 - £600
754 Rankin (Ian). Hide & Seek, 1st edition, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1991, slight toning to textblock, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author to David with hangman doodle to title, together with Herbert in Motion and other stories, London: Revolver, 1997, light spotting to fore edges, original wrappers, price sticker to rear wrapper, 8vo, limited edition 91/200, signed by the author with noughts and crosses doodle, plus 1st editions of A Good Hanging, 1992, and The Falls, 2001, both signed, plus 7 Scorpion Press signed limited editions: The Hanging Garden, 1998, A Question of Blood, 2003, Fleshmarket Close, 2004, Doors Open, 2008, Standing in Another Man’s Grave, 2012, Even Dogs in the Wild, 2015, Rather Be the Devil, 2016, together with other crime-related etc including Scorpion Press limited signed editions Recalled to Life, 1992, and The Wood Beyond, 1996 by Reginald Hill (with loose signed promotional photos of actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan), A Touch of Frost, by R. D. Wingfield, 1998, Post Mortem Books limited signed edition 283/350, 3 titles by Bernard Cornwell including Scorpion Press limited signed editions of Sharpe’s Tiger, 1997, and Sharpe’s Fury, 2006, John Le Carré’s Our Game, 2nd impression, 1995, signed, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith, Collectors’ Edition, 2007 (one of 1200, in the publisher’s shrinkwrap) and 7 novels by David Roberts, from Sweet Poison, 2001 to the Quality of Mercy, 2006, 1st editions, each signed (26)
£300 - £400
755 Ransome (Arthur). Swallows & Amazons, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1930, illustrations by Stephen Spurrier, half-title (supplied from another copy) bearing inscription ‘To Barkbooth from Ludderburn. July 21 1930. Arthur Ransome’, and ownership inscription beneath in pencil ‘Ella H. Kelsall, Aug 1930, Barkbooth’, map endpapers with upper hinge cracked, occasional light toning and small stains, original cloth, upper joint with possible adhesive strengthening beneath, spine discoloured and faded, head and foot of spine frayed with slight loss, boards faded and with few marks, lower joint, board corners and edges rubbed, contained in later cloth solander box, 8vo
The Kelsall family lived at Barkbooth, across the valley from the Ransome’s at Low Ludderburn, Colonel Kelsall a friend and fishing companion of Arthur, and due to a lack of telephones devised a signalling system to coordinate fishing plans. The Kelsall’s had two young children, Desmond and Richard (Dick), whom Ransome used to take fishing. He also held children’s parties at Ludderburn, where he sang sea shanties and told them stories. The children, inspired by boat trips on Lake Windermere, made a sail and mast and fitted them to their Triang pedal car.
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£1,000 - £1,500
757 Rowling (J. K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 10th impression paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, original wrappers, some edge wear and creases, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to dedication page ‘To Tansy - I couldn’t be more pleased to hear I’m your favourite author! J. K. Rowling’, together with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, water stain to lower corner of textblock throughout (mainly marginal but increasing towards end), small marginal stain to first few leaves, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, pale water stain to verso, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to dedication ‘Tp Tansy, I really hope you like this one as much! J. K. Rowling’, plus Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1999
Provenance: Tansy Wilkinson, aged 7. Inscribed by the author to Tansy at Heffers Children’s Bookshop, King Street, Cambridge, where J. K. Rowling had given a talk to a small audience of keen young readers including Tansy, a devout Harry Potter enthusiast, and her mother, on writing the books and being a writer.
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£1,000 - £1,500
£200 - £300
756 Rowling (J. K.) A set of all 7 Harry Potter titles, deluxe editions, London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban both 2nd printings, the others 1st printings, one or two small pale stains to half-titles of first two titles, original cloth, upper covers with inset colour illustrations, 8vo (7)
758 Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, original pictorial boards, light spotting to the first few leaves, slightly cocked, spine to dust jacket faded and a little worn at extremities, 8vo
Errington A2 (a).
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£400 - £600
759 Shaw (George Bernard). Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, 1st edition, London: Constable and Company, 1919, advertisement leaf at rear, a few minor spots, original cloth, upper joint splitting, dust jacket, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to half-title ‘To Cyril Maude, from Bernard Shaw, 20th Feb. 1920’, with a cut signature of Cyril Maude loosely inserted (Cyril Maude, 1862-1951, actor-manager), together with Fry (Christopher). The Lady’s Not For Burning, 5th impression, October 1949, partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, priceclipped dust jacket, spine toned, a few small tears, 8vo, signed by the author and 3 cast members of the Globe Theatre production (John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Claire Bloom), plus Cecil Day Lewis, and 2 autograph notes from Claire Bloom to David Gillard MBE (arts journalist and critic), and Amadeus. A Play by Peter Shaffer, 1st edition, 1980, signed by the playwright (dust jacket with adhesive tape covering)
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£200 - £300
760 Shute (Nevil). The Chequer Board, 1947; A Town Like Alice, 1950, Round the Bend, 1951, The Far Country, 1952, In the Wet, 1953, Requiem For a Wren, 1953, Beyond the Black Stump, 1956, 1st editions, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplate to front endpaper of A Town Like Alice, original cloth (a few spine tips faded), dust jackets, A Town Like Alice with small abrasion at head of spine and reinforced at ends to verso, small nicks and creases generally to others, together with others by the author, including 1st editions On the Beach, 1957 The Rainbow and the Rose, 1958, Trustee from the Toolroom, 1960, Stephen Morris, 1961, plus the author’s autobiography, Slide Rule, 1954 (22)
£200 - £300
761 Speight (Thomas Wilkinson). A Secret of the Sea. A novel, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1876, occasional minor stains, previous owner ink stamps of James Smyth, Portavogie, Kirkcubbin to most endpapers, original cloth gilt, spines slightly darkened, 8vo, together with Benson (Arthur Christopher). Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories. Reprinted from the Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911, light spotting and offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, with a clipped signature of the author to front pastedown, plus Hichens (Robert). The Dweller on the Threshold, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1911, publisher’s catalogue at rear, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, 8vo, together with other supernatural etc including The Devil’s Advocate, by Percy Greg, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1878 (exlibris), The Average Woman. A Common Story, Reffey, Captain My Captain, by Wolcott Balestier, 1st edition, 1892, The Silent Isle, by A. C. Benson, 1st edition, 1910, The Children of the Night, by W. B. Maxwell, 1st edition, 1925, The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James, 1st edition, 1931, The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by Lord Dunsany, 1st edition, 1931 The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, by Gerald Heard, 1st UK edition, 1947, What Dreams May Come, by Cynthia Asquith, 1st edition, 1951, and The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, by Everett F. Bleiler, Kent State University Press,, 1983 (28)
£300 - £500
762 Taylor (Elizabeth). Angel, 1st edition, London: Peter Davies, 1957, advertisements at rear, endpapers a little toned, original cloth, spine a little faded, dust jacket, spine rubbed at head with small reinforcement to verso, minor spotting to panels, 21/- price sticker over printed price on front flap, 8vo
Novel by the respected author Elizabeth Taylor, partly based on the life of Victorian novelist Marie Corelli, and later made into a film in 2007. (1) £150 - £200
763 Tolkien (J. R. R.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 4th impression, November 1955, The Two Towers, 2nd impression, 1955, The Return of the King, 1st edition, 1st state, 1955, 1st state of Return of the King, with signature ‘4’ at foot of p. 49 and sagging text, folding map to each (detached in Two Towers), Fellowship and Return with small bookseller ticket of H. Preiss to front pastedown, original red cloth, some light edge wear, slight lean, 8vo (3)
£1,500 - £2,000
764 Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Fellowship of the Ring, 1st edition, 7th impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, October 1957, folding map, top edge red, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine toned. a few small tears, small stains to front panel, 8vo (1)
£200 - £300
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766 Verlaine (Paul). Chansons pour Elle, vingt cinq poèmes de Paul Verlaine ornés de vingt-huit bois du sculpteur Aristide Maillol, Paris: chez l’artiste [Édouard Pelletan], 1939, 28 woodcut illustrations to text, original wrappers bound in at front and rear, wood-grain effect endpapers, top edge gilt, contemporary light brown full calf in Jansenist style (by Henri Creuzevault, signed to front turn-in), spine lettered in gilt, lightly scuffed to head and foot of spine, in matching wood-grain effect slipcase, small 4to Carteret IV, 392; Skira 218; Rauch 142; Monod 11078; Guerin 128-158.
Limited edition of 175 copies (20 on old Japan, 60 on Montval and 95 on Marais). This copy one of sixty numbered copies on Montval, a paper invented by Aristide Maillol’s nephew. Bound by the Paris bookbinder Henri Creuzevault (1905-1971), who established his bookshop and publishing house at 159 faubourg Saint Honoré in 1936. An exhibition of his work was held at the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Bordeaux in 1984.
£400 - £600
765 Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 2nd edition, 10th impression overall, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958, colour frontispiece and illustrations by the author, map endpapers, light spotting and small adhesive tape residue marks front and rear, original cloth (spine tips faded), price-clipped dust jacket, light toning to spine, small adhesive residue marks to verso (one with show-through to front panel), 8vo, together with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 5th impression, 1956; The Two Towers, 2nd edition, 7th impression, 1973; The Return of the King, 2nd edition, 1966, folding map to each, Fellowship with adhesive tape residue marks to endpapers, original cloth (spine faded), Two Towers in original cloth, dust jacket (red lettering to spine faded), Return of the King in original cloth (edges a little rubbed), price-clipped dust jacket with small tears at spine ends, some edge wear and small stains, 8vo (4)
First published by Léon Vanier in 1891, Chansons pour Elle celebrates Verlaine’s love affair with Eugénie Krantz, his last mistress, or with Philomène Boudin, a prostitute he met at the Broussais Hospital. The poet died in 1896 after a long descent into alcoholism, drug addiction and squalor.
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£700 - £1,000
767* Waugh (Evelyn, 1903-1966). A group of three prep school reports initialled (‘E.W.’) by English and History teacher Evelyn Waugh, for the school pupil A[rthur] B[ookey] Riall, at Arnold House, Llanddulas, North Wales, for terms beginning March, June and July 1925, each including brief autograph comments by Evelyn Waugh for the subjects English and History, Waugh’s comments for English being: ‘Considerable progress made’, ‘Satisfactory progress made’, ‘Quite good – a sound memory for repetition’, the comments for History being: ‘Rather backward – working well’, ‘Shows much more interest this term’ and ‘Has made some progress’, together with 11 earlier Arnold House reports for Riall (1921-24), all pre-printed reports with columns for Class, Place, Subjects, and teachers’ initials, all one page, 4to, together with: Two original gelatin silver print photographs of the pupils and staff, Summer 1923 & Summer 1925, the first showing the group arranged in four long rows in front of a high hedge, 22 x 29.5 cm, on original card mount of the studio Richard Brown of Liverpool, some creasing and bruising lower right, spotting to mount, the second showing Evelyn Waugh standing to the extreme left of the group arranged with the school visible behind, Waugh with a moustache wearing a buttoned jacket and striped tie, his hands in the pockets of his plus fours with shooting socks visible below, small crease to top right corner, unmounted, 19 x 28 cm, plus two small snapshots (by Riall?), the first a group photograph of the entire school, in the same location and in a near-identical arrangement as the formal 1925 photograph, Waugh apparently visible at the very back towards the far left, the other in the same setting showing the schoolboy cricket team, each 9 x 9 cm, plus 4 printed roll calls of pupils at the school for May 1923, September 1924, January & May 1925, a group of 77 autograph letters written home by Riall to his parents at Duninga, Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny, October 1921 to July 1925, and a few related items of ephemera
Provenance: From the family of Arthur Bookey Riall, by direct descent.
Arthur Bookey Riall (1911-1984) was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and spent his early years there, and then at Doninga, Goresbridge, Ireland. His parents were Major Malcolm Riall, West Yorkshire Regiment, and Sydney Maud (née Lefroy, the great-niece of Tom Lefroy, who famously began a flirtation with Jane Austen in 1796). Arthur Riall attended Charterhouse School, Goldalming, Surrey, and then RMC Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1932, serving in India, seeing service in WW2, mostly in India then France, Low Countries (at Arnhem) and Germany 1944-45. He transferred to the RAF Levies, Iraq, in 1948, subsequently into the RAF Regiment. He retired in the rank of Air Commodore in 1966, becoming the Secretar y of the National Rifle Association 1967-80.
Little is known about Evelyn Waugh’s brief time teaching at Arnold House and the 1925 school photograph depicting him is apparently unpublished, with no other copies traced.
Waugh taught at this North Wales prep school for a period of just six months in 1925. It was his first work experience but a purgatorial period for him, which culminated in a half-hearted attempt at suicide by swimming out to sea, thwarted by jellyfish stings forcing a retreat back to land.
Teaching at Arnold House, however, did give him good, raw material for Decline and Fall, his first published novel, appearing in 1928. It was written at Plas Dulas, near the village of Llanddulas, and this experience influenced the fictional school Llanabba Castle in the novel. Interestingly, one can compare Waugh’s fictionalised account of a school outing (Chapter Nine. In Which Our Hero’s Fortunes Fall Very Low) with a different version of the outing as given by the 13year-old Riall in his letter home, written on 5 July 1925. In the book Waugh renames the headmaster Mr. Vanhomrigh, whose real name was Charles P. Banks. His name appears in Waugh’s ‘account’ of the school trip and Riall’s letter, Banks also signing off all of Riall’s school reports. (a large folder) £1,000 - £1,500
770 Wilde (Oscar). De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 36 Essex Street, Strand, [1905], gift inscription to front free endpaper ‘For Ursular Borne, With Compliments & Wishes, Fr, Robert Ross, Feb 5th/05’, light spotting (mostly to extreme margins), top edge gilt, the rest uncut, cream cloth boards lettered and decorated in gilt with designs by Charles Ricketts, spine a little faded, light staining to covers, 8vo Mason 389.
Limited edition of 200 copies printed on handmade paper.
A rare presentation copy inscribed by the editor and Wilde’s close friend Robert ‘Robbie’ Ross. Wilde was not allowed to send or publish the manuscript from prison, but entrusted the work to Ross the day after Wilde’s release. Ross published the present excerpted version five years after Wilde’s death, adding a preface and the title De Profundis (“from the depths”).
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£2,000 - £3,000
£200 - £300
768* Waugh (Evelyn, 1903-1966). Two brief Autograph Letters Signed with initials, Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Dursley, Gloucestershire, postmarked 23 June 1956 & Combe Florey House, Nr. Taunton, postmark indistinct, c. 1960, written in blue ink on personalised correspondence cards to J[ohn] Lehmann and Neville Braybrooke, in the first, Waugh informs his correspondent that he is ‘...moving house and can’t write anything for months...’, adding, ‘Anyway, I was born in London & left it, so I wouldn’t be a suitable man for your series’, light franking marks in two places, not affecting legibility, toning to right margin, and in the second, the author thanks his recipient ‘…for sending me the proof copy of your book which I look forward to reading’, slightly creased upper right, both addressed to versos in Waugh’s hand, each 9 x 14 cm John Lehmann (1907-1987), English poet and man of letters; Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001), English poet, writer, editor and literary critic. (2)
769 Wheatley (Dennis). The Devil Rides Out, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1934], 5pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, pictorial (ownership inscription to verso scratched out), original red cloth lettered in black, lightly marked, author’s signed presentation copy, inscribed to title ‘With the compliments of Dennis Wheatley’, together with other Dennis Wheatley 1st editions, including The Man Who Missed the War, [1945], Code Word-Golden Fleece [1946], The Second Seal, 1950, Star of Ill-Omen, 1952, To the Devi-A Daughter, 1953, The Prisoner in the Mask, 1957, The Rape of Venice, 1959, The Satanist, 1960, Vendetta in Spain, 1961, etc., all original cloth in dustwrappers (except Code Word-Golden Fleece without dustwrapper), and other Dennis Wheatley titles, including a further 26 in dustwrappers, all 8vo (51)
771 Williamson (Henry). ‘A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight’, a complete set of all 15 titles, 1st editions, 1951-69, occasional light spotting, one or two previous owner inscriptions, The Golden Virgin lacking front endpaper, a few bookplates of Christopher C. Hughes, original cloth (some fading to a couple of covers), dust jackets, some price-clipped with a few chips and tears, some fading to a few spines, 8vo
£200 - £300
The Dark Lantern and Young Phillip Maddison inscribed by the author. (15)
£300 - £400
772 Williamson (Henry). Tarka the Otter, privately printed for subscribers only, London: Chiswick Press, 1927, top edge gilt, original vellum, label to spine (a little rubbed), covers slightly bowed, 8vo
Limited edition 17/100. Inscribed by the author ‘for Christopher à Beckett Williams (Old Half-Wit) from Henry Williamson’, with his small ink owl sketch Christopher à Beckett Williams (‘Kit’) (1890-1956) author and composer, was a friend of Williamson, the pair had gone skiing to the Pyrenees in 1929 before later falling out.
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773 Williamson (Henry). The Flax of Dream, 4 volumes, limited edition, volumes I-III, Faber and Faber, volume IV, Jonathan Cape, 1929-31 volumes I-II revised editions 1929-30, one or two endpapers a little toned, top edge gilt, original buckram, some fading to spines (and partially to upper covers of the Beautiful Years and The Dream of Fair Women), 8vo
Each a signed limited edition, one of 200 copies.
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£800 - £1,200
£200 - £300
774 Wilson (Colin). The Philosopher’s Stone, 1st edition, London: Arthur baker, 1969, signed and inscribed by the author to ‘David (Clark) Xmas 69’ to the front free endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo
The Outsider, 17th impression, London: Victor Gollancz, 1974, signed and inscribed by the author to ‘David & Pamela Jan 7 78’ to the front free endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, minor rubbing to head & foot, 8vo
New Pathways in Psychology, Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution, 2nd impression, London: Victor Gollancz, 1973, signed and inscribed by the author to ‘David & Pamela Jan 78’ to the front free endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo
A Book of Booze, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1974, signed and inscribed by the author to ‘David Jan 75’ with a quote from Shakespeare to the front free endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo
A Criminal History of Mankind, 1st edition, London: Granada, 1984, signed and inscribed by the autho5r to ‘David July 84’ to the front free endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor rubbing, 8vo
From the family of David Clark, who became good friends with Colin Wilson when they met at St Austell gentleman’s club in the 1970s
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£500 - £800
775 Wodehouse (P. G.) Lord Emsworth and Others, 1st edition, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937, advertisements at rear, a little minor spotting, offsetting top endpapers, original cloth (spine ends faded), dust jacket priced at 7/6, spine faded with tears and losses, some repairs to verso, 8vo, together with 13 others by the author in dust jackets including Summer Lightning, 12th printing, circa 1951, Blanding’s Castle, 2nd printing, [1936] in a later wartime dust jacket (priced at 3/-), Uncle Fred in the Springtime, 3rd printing, circa 1946 (dust jacket price 5/-), Heavy Weather, 7th printing, circa 1936 (price 5/-), and 1st editions Full Moon, [1947], Nothing Serious, [1950], Pigs Have Wings, 1952, and Service With a Smile,.1962
McIlvaine A57a for first novel. (14)
£300 - £400
776 Woolf (Virginia). To the Lighthouse,1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1927, some light spotting, endpapers a little toned, original cloth, spine very slightly darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with The Common Reader, 1925, and The Common Reader Second Series, 1st editions, Hogarth Press 1925 & 1932, some spotting, partial offsetting to Common Reader endpapers and contemporary ink inscription, Hogarth Press works list loosely inserted to Second Series, original cloth, Common Reader upper cover designed by Vanessa Bell, Second Series with dust jacket (chipped at head of spine and with adhesive tape repairs), some spotting, Common Reader spine woth some fading, a few light marks, 8vo, with 2 others: Vision and Design, by Roger Fry, 2nd impression, March 1925, and Civilization. An Essay by Clive Bell, 3rd impression, March 1929 (5)
£300 - £400
