HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA
197 Armorial Bindings. An original manuscript book titled “Catalogue of a Collection of British Armorial Bindings”, prepared by Ellis (J.J. Holdsworth & J. Smith) Booksellers, 29 New Bond Street, London, circa 1920s, containing approximately 400 pencil rubbings of fine armorial bindings, with manuscript annotations to each example, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near contemporary maroon half morocco gilt by Morrell, light wear at head of spine, 4to
199* Cigarette Cards - Boxing. A group of 7 sets of boxing cigarette cards, including [Fred C. Cartledge] Famous Prize Fighters (50), Churchman, Boxing Personalities (50), Ogden, Pugilists in Action (50), Carreras/Black Cat, Science of Boxing (50), Cowen, Weenen & Co., untitled (25), Franklyn, Davey & Co., Boxing (25) and Hudden & Co., A Series of 25 Famous Boxers (25), plus Cope, Boxers, nos. 1-75 & 101-125 in four frames, all framed and double-glazed, some glass cracked or missing, plus an album with approximately 60 duplicates (Cope, Ogden, Churchman (these in more worn condition), plus two more modern related boxing sets in frames, Boxing Greats by Ideal Album (25, first series) and Victoria Gallery, Boxing Champions (25), plus one unnumbered Cope card of Jess Willard, framed and glazed (lacking backing)
This volume was probably prepared around the time of Ellis’ 1927 catalogue “A Collection of the Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian Periods”, and contains a printed listing possibly from the catalogue at the front of the volume. (1) £200-300
198* Cheshire - Assignment of a Pew. Assignment ‘For making the Chapelry of Nether Knutsford, in the Parish of Rosthern and County of Chester, a separate and distinct Parish’, to Joseph Royle of Over Knutsford, shoemaker, of a Pew in the Church of Nether Knutsford numbered 31, 7 August 1744, printed deed on vellum with a decorated initial W, manuscript insertions, signed by 8 of the commissioners, with seals, endorsements on dorse include receipt for the three pounds specified in the deed to be paid by Royle, a little spotting and dust-soiling, 38 x 34cm
(a carton)
£200-300
200* Cookery receipt books. An assortment of manuscript medical and cookery receipts, 18th & 19th century, in various hands and on various size sheets of paper, including to make ginger wine, for the bite of a mad dog, a fine perfume, for consumption, calves foot jelly, cracknells, etc., some receipts identified as those of Mrs of Lady Chauncy, a total of approximately 40 leaves loosely inserted into the front and rear of an unused 17th-century receipts book with note of the death of Dame L.E.L: Chauncy in 1706, contemporary morocco with gilt armorials to covers, heavily worn and covers detached, 4to, together with a later cookery receipts manuscript book containing late 19th-century receipts and cuttings plus some 20th-century material, contemporary half morocco, worn, 4to
Being specifically related to one parish there are unlikely to have been a large number of these deeds issued. The conditions include no burial under the pew, no alteration in height or uniformity of the wainscot, etc. (1) £100-150
(2)
41
£200-300