Fine Art & Antiques

Two family visitor and photograph albums, from the Durnford family, one from 1892-1898 the other 1900-1904, both in tooled leather bindings

An Autograph album including a letter signed by the Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, dated 12 Juillet 1832 and William IV signatur...

A Victorian photograph album of the Gunn family, Neame and Harding together with another signed H Mortimer 1902 and two other albums

A Victorian photograph album depicting images of North Wales, in tooled leather bindings and another album depicting mainly the Alps

Five Victorian photograph albums various, family portraits

A Victorian photograph album with half leather bound bindings, gilt tooled W Playne 1880-1902, to include photographs of Agar School Yorkshire, Th...

Johnson (S) A Dictionary of the English Language, three volumes (of five), London 1818 in later quarter-calf bindings with panelled spines

Coward (T A) The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs, three volumes, 3rd edition, London 1928; South (R) The Butterflies of the British Isle...

Lethaby (W R), Powell (A H) and Griggs (F L) Ernest Gimson His Life & Work, Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon 1924, unnumbered copy from...

Shakespeare (W) A Midsummer Night's Dream, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published by William Heinemann, New York, January 1929

Fitzgerald (E) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Edward Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, London and New York

Malory (T) Morte d'Arthur, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, published by J M Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 3rd edition, limited edition of 1600 copies

Duxbury (K) Lugworm Homeward Bound, signed and other signed books by the same author

Sharp (C J) English Folk Song and sundry books on folk songs etc (1 box)

Palmer (R) The Folklore of Gloucestershire and other volumes on folk stories etc (2 boxes)

Kevill Davies (S) Yesterday's Children and other books on childhood history and pastimes (2 boxes)

Gethyn-Jones (E) George Thorpe and the Berkeley Company and sundry volumes including social history and folk dancing

Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volumes I-III, published W Suttaby London 1809, quarter calf bindings with marbled boards, The Masquerade: A Collec...

Jacobs (J) Indian Fairy Tales, illustrated by John D Batten, 1892, McCosh Clark (K) Maori Tales & Legends, David Nutt 1896 and other books on inte...

Thoms (W J) ed. A Collection of Early Prose Romances, William Pickering, London 1828, three volumes, uniformly bound in full calf with gilt toolin...

Brand (J) Observations on Popular Antiquities, Charles Knight & Co 1841, three volumes, uniformly bound half calf with marbled boards and gilt too...

Fionn, The Celtic Lyre: A Collection of Gaelic Songs, 1908 and five other books on Irish and Scottish songs and ballads

Campbell (A) Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition, David Nutt, Volume I 1889 and Volume IV 1891

Emerson (P H) Tales from Welsh Wales, David Nutt 1894, with author's bookplate and signature to the flyleaf R B Emerson, together with Birds, Beas...

Lilly (J) ed. A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides, printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth between the years 1559 and...

Jones (R) The Life of Old Jemmy Catnach, numbered 113/220, The Craft Press, Newlyn, Penzance 1965 and Hindley (C) The History of the Catnach Press...

Thomas (R S) Song at the Year's Turning, 1955 and Poetry for Supper, 1958, both 1st editions with dust jackets, printed by Rupert Hart-Davis, Lond...

MacGregor (A A) The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands, illustrated with 56 photographs, 1st edition, title p...

Murdoch (I) The Green Knight, Chatto and Windus, 1993, 1st edition hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust jacket, signed by the ...

Benson (A C) and Weaver (L) ed. The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House, Volume I, Methuen & Co Ltd 1924, numbered 111/1500, 92 plates of which 24 co...

Hind (A M) Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Cambridge 1952, two volumes and Corbett (M) and Norton (M) volume thre...

Fletcher (W Y) English Book Collectors, London 1902 and sundry volumes on book collecting and collectors

Guillim (J) and Logan (J) A Display of Heraldry, bound with Analogia Honorum or a Treatise of Honour and Nobility, in two parts, London 1677

Hoare (Sir R C) The Ancient History of Wiltshire, republished edition 1975, 2 volumes

Wharton (E) Madame De Treymes, 1st edition, New York 1907, in gilt decorated brown cloth; a miniature edition of the Poetical Works of Sir Walter ...

A quantity of hardback art reference books

A quantity of auction catalogues including Damien Hirst Beautiful Inside my Head Forever (Sotheby's 2008), Impressionist, Modern etc.

Kingsley (C) The Water Babies, Stevenson (RL) Treasure Island, Andersen (HC) Fairy Tales and two others

Ransome (A) The Swallows and Amazons series, Jonathan Cape, twelve volumes, most 1st editions with dust jackets, comprising:/Swallows and Amazons,...

Ransome (A) Swallows and Amazons, illustrated by Helene Carter, 1st American edition, Lippincott 1931 (no dust jacket)

Ransome (A) Old Peter's Russian Tales, 1st edition, TC & EC Jack Ltd, London 1916, large 8vo, cover design and decorations by Dmitri Mitrokhin, co...

Ransome (A) The Book of Friendship, TC & EC Jack, 1st edition 1909 (no dust jacket), signed presentation copy to 'G G Walker from Joy & Arthur Ran...

Ransome (A) The Imp and the Elf and the Ogre, James Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1910

Ransome (A) Autobiography, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1976, Coots in the North & Other Stories, 1988, Signalling from Mars, 1997 and Fishing, Na...

Grimm (Brothers) Fairy Tales and Household Stories and other books on toys, children's stories etc.

Hockney (David) ill. Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Petersburg Press, 1970, Carol (L) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan & Co, ...

Parry (E A) The Scarlet Herring and Other Stories, 1899, Katawampus, 1895 and a quantity of books of fairy tales and fables

Collodi (C) The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio, illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti, T Fisher Unwin 1892, 1st English edition, with...

Berryman (E R P) Nursery Rhymes of Gloucestershire, calligraphy and illustrations by Noreen Littleton, Longsmith Books, Gloucester, numbered 321, ...

d'Aulnoy (Madame) Les Contes des Fees, London 1782, bound as a six volume series for Bibliotecque Amusant, full calf, gilt tooled, Blanchard (P) M...

Dunn (J) The Ancient Irish Epic Tale, Tain Bo Cualnge, David Nutt 1914, Jenkyn Thomas (W) The Welsh Fairy Book, illustrated by Willy Pogany, T Fis...

Lowry (H D) Make Believe, illustrated by Charles Robinson, The Bodley Head 1896 and various other illustrated books on fairy tales with decorative...

La Fontaine, A Hundred Fables, illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst, The Bodley Head 1900 and Anderson (H C) The Little Mermaid and five others pri...

Brock (H M) ill. The Old Fairy Tales comprising Hop-O'-My-Thumb and Beauty and The Beast, Frederick Warne & Co and Calthrop (D C) The Guide to Fai...

Ozaki (Y T) ed. The Japanese Fairy Book, 1903, Griffis (W E) Fairy Tales of Old Japan, 1920, Wilhelm (R) ed. The Chinese Fairy Book, 1922 and Hall...

Ellis (F S) The History of Reynard the Fox, illustrated by Walter Crane, David Nutt 1897

Rackham (A) ill. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, William Heinemann 1915, with dust jacket and The Allies' Fairy Book edited by E Gosse, Will...

Opie (I & P) I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, numbered 282, signed by Iona Opie and Maurice Sendak on the...

Irving (W) Knickerbocker Papers, being Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Riccardi Press, limited edition 546/1000, on hand-made Ricc...

Lucas (E V) Forgotten Tales of Long Ago and Old Fashioned Tales, both illustrated by F D Bedford and sundry children's books