NO RESERVE Du Maurier (George) Trilby, one of 250 large paper copies signed by the author, endpapers browned, original vellum-backed boards, a little discoloured, housed in original slip-case, 1895 § Joyce (James) and others. The Venture, an Annual of Art and Literature, original pictoiral cloth, rubbed and stained, 1905 § Hewlett (Maurice) The Forest Lovers, plates by A. S. Hartrick, bookplate to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, 1909 § Von Chamisso (A.) The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and the Cold Heart, plates by Wilhelm Hauff, [c.1913], plates and illustrations, many in colour, last two tipped in, some endpapers browned, occasional light foxing; and 14 others, illustrated books, v.s. (17)⁂ The Venture, one of only two issues, contains 'Two Songs' - the first printing of two poems by Joyce (What Counsel Has The Hooded Moon and Thou Leanest To The Shell of Night). These poems subsequently appeared in Joyce's first printed book entitled 'Chamber Music' (Slocum & Cahoon B2), published two years later. List of contributors include Edmund Gosse, Alice Meynell, Arthur Ransome, and Edward Thomas, among many others.
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Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, 1910 § Swinburne (A.C.) The Springtide of Life, 1918 § Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, 1929, all with colour plates by Arthur Rackham, most tipped in or mounted with captioned tissue guards, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, most gilt, all a little rubbed, the first with some light staining, 4to (3)
NO RESERVE Blake (William) Visions of the Daughters of Albion, one of 446 copies, 9 facsimile colour plates, some light scattered spotting, original morocco-backed boards, spine faded, original slip-case (lightly scuffed), Trianon Press, 1959 § Byron (Lord) Poems, one of 260 copies on hand-made paper, endpapers very lightly browned, original half-vellum, lightly discoloured and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, The Florence Press, 1923 § Gibbon (Monk) The Branch of Hawthorn Tree, presentation inscription from the author, with an additional later inscription and unpublished manuscript poem from the author to front free endpaper, bookplate to pastedwn, the Grayhound Press, 1927; and c.75 others, private press, pamphlets, and bibliography, including duplicates of James Fenton's Children in Exile by the Salamander Press, v.s. (c.80)
Bahr (A.W.) Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, light foxing, 1911 § Earle (Maj. Cyril) The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, [c.1915] § Watts (W.W.) Old English Silver, 1924 § Constable (W.G.) Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, 2 vol., second edition, Oxford, 1976., plates and illustrations, a few colour, some photogravure, original cloth, slightly rubbed, the last with dust-jackets; and a box of Apollo magazines, 8vo & 4to (2 boxes)
French agricultural architecture.- Petit (Armand, architect) Projet de Ferme, 5 original architectural designs, including a general plan of the farm, pen and ink over pencil with watercolour on Whatman wove paper, one sheet with watermark date '1838', each sheet signed by the architect, manuscript captions and accompanying text, title loose, some light foxing and browning, original cloth, extremities and joints worn, Seine-et-Oise, folio, 1849.
NO RESERVE Theatre.- Strindberg (August) The Inferno, first edition, 1912; The Father, translated by N. Erichsen, second edition, 1899 § Lind-Af-Hageby (L.) August Strindberg: The Spirit of Revolt, 1913, last with frontispiece, first with ink ownership inscription to half-title, original cloth or boards, light bumping to spine ends, second a little marked; and c.80 others, theatre, v.s. (c.85)
NO RESERVE Architecture and decorative arts.- Wharton (Edith) The Decoration of Houses, plates by Ogden Codman, later blue morocco-backed boards, faded and lightly rubbed, New York, 1897 § Woodhouse (Thomas) Artificial Silk, its Manufacture and Uses, contemporary ink ownership name to half-title, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly frayed and chipped to extremities, a little toned, 1927 § Macqouoid (Percy) and Ralph Edwards. The Dictionary of English Furniture, 3 vol., original cloth, first 2 vol. with dust-jackets, fraying and bumping to extremities, lightly spotted and browned, 1924-1927 § Streit (A.) Das Theatre, untersuchungen Theater-Bauwerk, light spotting, original wrappers, Vienna, 1903, first editions, plates and illustrations, some light spotting and foxing; and c.50 others, architecture and decorative arts, v.s. (c.55)
Perrault (Charles) Histoire de Peau d'Ane, one of 230 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by him and Esther Pissarro, 3 illustrations by T.Sturge Moore, some light browning, slight worming to upper edge of first few leaves, free endpapers browned, original floral patterned-paper boards, uncut, spine rubbed and browned, printed by the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 § Steele (Robert, editor) Some Old French and English Ballads, one of 200 copies, printed in red & black, wood-engraved colour frontispiece by L.Pissarro, original boards, a little soiled and stained, Eragny Press, 1905 § Smollett (T.) [The Novels], 11 vol., one of 780 sets, occasional spotting, original green buckram, uncut, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1925-26 § Ashton (John, editor) The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight, number 50 of 100 large paper copies, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, spine gilt, rubbed, corners worn, 1887; and c.20 others, private press and limited editions, v.s. (c.35)
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poems...Modernized, edited by Robert Hengist Horne, first edition, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, Whittaker & Co., 1841 § Skipsey (Joseph) Carols from the Coal-Fields..., first edition, errata slip, original cloth, paper label (chipped), splits to joints, 1886 § Locker (Frederick) London Lyrics, presentation copy from the author to Sir John Simeon inscribed in pencil on half-title, bookplate of Stephen Louis Simeon, upper hinge weak, original cloth, cockled, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1862 § Trollope (Anthony) An Autobiography, 2 vol. in 1, mounted portrait, light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, Edinburgh & London, 1883 § Lamb (Charles) The Life and Works, 12 vol., Edition de Luxe, one of 675 copies, foxing, original blue cloth, gilt, uncut, spines rubbed and faded, 1899-1900, all rubbed; and c.50 others, mostly nineteenth century literature, 8vo & 4to (c.55)⁂ The first contains contributions by Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.
Architecture.- Donaldson (Thomas Leverton) A Collection of...Doorways, from Ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, first edition, 26 engraved plates, a few with partial hand-colouring, some light foxing, original cloth, roan label, 1833 § Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture...with...An Examination of Grecian Architecture by Joseph Gwilt, 2 vol., engraved portrait and plates, lacking one plate, offsetting, contemporary half morocco, 1825, a little rubbed, 4to (3)
Trees & Forestry.- Evelyn (John) Silva, edited by A.Hunter, 2 vol., fourth edition, engraved portrait and 45 plates, 2 folding, light offsetting, some foxing to plates, mostly marginal, contemporary half calf, York, 1812 § Nicol (Walter) The Practical Planter, or, a Treatise on Forest Planting, second edition, advertisement leaf at end, original boards, uncut, 1803 § Pontey (William) The Profitable Planter, second edition, lacking engraved frontispiece but with advertisement leaf at end, Huddersfield, 1808; The Forest Pruner, second edition, 8 engraved plates, some printed in sepia and hand-tinted, 3 folding, title soiled, 1808, together 2 works in 1 vol., some light soiling or browning, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached § Taylor (Joseph) Arbores Mirabiles, first edition, half-title (loose), 6 engraved plates (foxed and offset), contemporary roan-backed boards, 1812, all rubbed, spines worn and defective, v.s. (5)
Bartsch (Adam, editor) Catalogue Raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'Oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs, 2 vol. in 1, large paper copy, engraved portrait frontispieces of Rembrandt and Livens, 2 etched plates of nocturnal scene (different states) and 3 folding engraved plates, light foxing to plates, Knowsley Hall copy with bookplate of the Earl of Derby and inscribed "Knowsley" on front free endpaper, contemporary half russia, rubbed, rebacked, 4to, Vienna, A.Blumauer, 1797.⁂ First published by Gersaint and others in 1751 but revised and expanded by Bartsch. Rembrandt's great work Belshazzar's Feast was at one time owned by the Earl of Derby and displayed at his seat Knowsley Hall near Liverpool; it is now in the National Gallery.
Games & Puzzles.- Grimm (Georg) Neuestes Spielbuch..., manuscript notes to rear free endpapers, some light foxing, contemporary boards, Leipzig, 1840 § Academie Universelle des Jeux contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux, 2 vol. in 1, half-title, contemporary calf, spine ends worn, joints split, Paris, Theodore le Gras, 1743 § [Soumille (B.L.)] Le Grand Trictrac..., half-title, woodcuts of backgammon boards, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked in calf, Paris, de Hansy, 1790 § Blismon de Douai. Les Mille et Un Amusemens de Société, 4 parts in 1, hand-coloured woodcut of maze as frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, lacking label and defective at head, split to upper joint, Paris, [c.1850], rubbed; and 4 others, French, on games and puzzles, 8vo et infra (8)⁂ The first concerns card games.
Science.- Peregrinus de Maricourt (Petrus) The Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, Soldier concerning the Magnet, translated by Silvanus P.Thompson, one of 240 copies, printed in black letter and rubricated throughout, diagrams, old wrappers, uncut, frayed at edges, spine worn, Chiswick Press, 1902 § Chevreul (Michel Eugène) The Laws of Contrast of Colour: and their application to the Arts..., translated by John Spanton, first edition of this translation, colour frontispiece, 3 plates, one with overlay, advertisement leaf at end, light foxing, original pinkish brown cloth with border in blind, spine faded and slightly frayed at head, G.Routledge & Son, 1857 § Halliwell (J.O., editor) Historical Society of Science. A Collection of Letters illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and stained, 1841; and another on science, small 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ The first item is the first complete edition in English of Pierre de Maricourt's letter of 1269, the first separate treatise on magnetism and an influence on William Gilbert. The second item is the first book in English on the subject of colour to use colour-printing.
Italy.- Baretti (Joseph) An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, 2 vol., first English edition, 2 plates of engraved music, some light foxing, upper outer corner of I4 in vol.2 torn away with loss of a few letters, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, spine ends worn, T. Davies, 1768 § Bell (John) Observations on Italy, first edition, 9 engraved plates, light foxing to plates, original boards, uncut, spine worn and defective, Edinburgh & London, 1825 § Guida della Città di Firenze..., engraved plates, original printed boards, joints rubbed, upper split, Florence, A.Campani, 1830, all rubbed, 4to & 8vo (4)
***Please note, the description of this lot has changed.Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plate and folding mezzotint plate by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera, light offsetting, marginal water-staining to folding plate, bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson with his manuscript note of acquisition "Quaritch Sep 30th 1885" and presentation label from his widow, later diced calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, for J. Payne, 1755.*** Originally published in 1662 this was the first book in English to describe the process of mezzotint engraving and to include a mezzotint print, 'The Executioner' by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera. Mezzotint was invented by Ludwig von Siegen in the 1640s and the process was developed and brought to England by Prince Rupert, whom Evelyn credited with the invention. This edition includes 'The Little Executioner', a copy of Rupert's version; itself a reduced version of the head in Rupert's masterpiece, the much larger 'Great Executioner' of 1658.
China.- Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, wood-engraved additional pictorial title & tail-piece, map, ex-library copy with cancellation stamp to head of title, modern bookplate, modern morocco, 1847 § Gordon-Cumming (C.F.) The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the use of which Illiterate Chinese both Blind and Sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently, first edition, plates, tables, printed slips and 12th Annual Report tipped in, original yellow cloth, 1898 § Proudfoot (W.J.) "Barrow's Travels in China". An Investigation..., light foxing, original cloth, 1861 § [Crowe (Eyre Evans)] A History of China to the Present Time..., first edition, advertisements at end, ink inscription to title, browned, lacking rear free endpaper, original cloth, upper cover stained, 1854, all rubbed; and 4 others on China, 8vo (8)⁂ Library Hub lists only 5 copies of the last.
Japan.- Beaton (Cecil) Japanese, first edition, light spotting to text, original cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust-jacket, a little stained and frayed at edges, 1959 § Changing Japan seen through the Camera; Image du Japon, text in English & French, Tokyo & Osaka, 1933 § Menpes (Mortimer & Dorothy) Japan: A Record in Colour, reprint, A. & C.Black, 1904 §Du Cane (Ella & Florence) The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, A. & C.Black, 1908 § Kincaid (Zoë) Tokyo Vignettes, light foxing, Tokyo & Osaka, 1933, all but the third first editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth, the last two pictorial; and c.20 others on Japan, v.s. (c.25)
NO RESERVE America.- Hall (Capt. Basil) Travels in North America, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding hand-coloured engraved map, folding table, map lightly offset and with tear to inner edge, contemporary half calf, a little worn, joints split, one cover almost detached, Edinburgh, 1829 § Trollope (Frances) Domestic Manners of the Americans, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, 24 lithographed plates by Ducôte after Hervieu, tissue guards, occasional light foxing, broken and becoming loose, original blue cloth, paper labels, rubbed and marked, cockling to upper covers, 1832, 8vo et infra (5)
NO RESERVE Germany.- Album des Rheins, chromolithographed title and 20 fine engraved plates, blue tissue-guards, some very light finger-soiling to margins but unusually clean and bright overall, front free endpaper with ink inscription and some marginal fraying, original red cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, but fine copy generally, oblong folio, Mainz, [1870s].⁂ Superb example of this collection of German views.
Britain.- Byrne (William) Britannia Depicta; A Series of Views, engraved frontispiece, 128 engraved plates, title creased, with ink ownership inscription, some light foxing and occasional offsetting, upper hinge and joint cracked, contemporary calf-backed boards, spine and extremities worn, 1806 § Langley (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, folding engraved map, small repair to verso, 3 engraved plates, 2 folding tables, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title and annotations throughout, several modern newspaper cuttings loosely inserted, tipped in or laid down, some browning, contemporary half-calf, re-backed with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 1797 § Fleetwood (John) A New and Complete History of the Bible, engraved frontispiece, 2 maps and 33 plates (only, of 39) initial 5 ff. loose, spotting, light marginal browning, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, [1769], v.s. (3)
![T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/632e2cc2-edd8-4aaa-b0c0-ad4a00ae29df/468x382.jpg)
T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of the Poor, the Common Plenty of All, and the Increase and Preservation of Timber... Are Considered, FIRST EDITION, title within one-line rule border, light dampstain to final 2 leaves, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [ESTC R203768; Goldsmiths 1248; Kress 860], small 4to (182 x 134mm.), Francis Tyton, 1652Footnotes:RARE, only this copy traced at auction in the past fifty years. A plea to reduce the impact of rapid deforestation in England, in which Taylor argues for a programme of planting on the 30,000 acres of Dean, Windsor and the New Forests. The author 'acknowledged that as it stood it was actually cheaper to get timber from New England than transport it 10-15 miles in England, but suggested this supply would soon be logged out' (P. Warde, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1900, 2018).Provenance: Donald McDonald, author of Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800 (1908), bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on endpapers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WYLD (SAMUEL)The Practical Surveyor, or, the Art of Land-Measuring, Made Easy, FIRST EDITION, engraved folding frontispiece and 5 plates (one with short tear), some spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt, upper cover near detached, J. Hooke and J. Sisson, 1725; idem, second edition 'Corrected and enlarged by a careful hand', engraved folding frontispiece and 6 plates (2 shaved touching lettering), light dampstaining to frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco spine label, joints weakened, H. Lintot, [1730?]; idem, fourth edition, engraved folding frontispiece and 6 plates, contemporary calf, worn, joints weakened, W. Johnston, 1760--DAVIS (WILLIAM) A Treatise on Land Surveying, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 9 folding engraved plates, some off-setting and spotting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, joints weakened, Anne Davis, 1813, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within woodcut borders (the first signed 'IF', i.e. Jakob Faber), woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final verso, light dampstaining to lower margin of opening 30 leaves, slightly heavier dampstain to approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf, the sides each with small panels of animals/birds and frieze of dogs and a porcupine surrounded by legends ('O[mn]ias si perdas/fama[m] savare memento/qua semel/amissa nul]la revisio erit'; 'De profundis/clamavi ad te domine/domine/exaudi vocem meam', rebacked using a seventeenth century manuscript on vellum, old paper spine label, pastedowns made of a fourteenth century manuscript of Comester's 'Historia scholastica', vellum waste visible at hinges, joints slightly weakened [Adams E396; USTC 676454], 8vo, Basle, [Froben], [July], 1522Footnotes:Early edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly in a contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, using binder's waste of a fourteenth century manuscript on vellum pastedowns. This edition includes the commentary attributed to Gerhard Lister, Erasmus's supplementary Epistola apologetica ad Martinum Dorpium, Seneca's satire on the Emperor Claudius, and Synesius of Cyrene's praise of baldness. The binding is illustrated in Janet E. Scinto, 'The Panel Stamp in Early Modern Bindings', Library Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 1, University of Chicago, 2015.Provenance: Franciscan monastic inscription dated 1638 on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/a995bba8-f393-4ccc-b29f-ad4a00ac92af/468x382.jpg)
FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved decorative title-page to each volume, 8pp. letterpress dedication to Battista Dotto (cropped touching first line of text on each page), 193 engraved plates only, including 189 of costumes (misbound, some unnumbered or numbered erratically), without the engraved dedication to Dotto or any overlays, most with additional ink numeral either in blank border or over original printed numeral, one with crude pencil drawing of a man in the margin, one with small ink annotation, approximately 14 with some light dampstains or toning, one cropped at outer margin not touching image, occasional spot or mark, full page of eighteenth century ink notes written in Spanish on the blank verso of first title and 2 non-costume plates, nineteenth century calf, gilt morocco spine labels, lacks upper cover, lower cover near detached with tape repairs [USTC 828580; Brunet II, 1151; Cicognara 1643, 'rara e copiosa collezione'; Colas I, 1021; Lipperheide Aa39; Vinet 2094, 'recueil fort intéressant, mais très difficile à trouver'], 8vo, [Padua, 1593], sold not subject to returnFootnotes:RARE AND CHARMING SIXTEENTH CENTURY COSTUME BOOK PRESENTED BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES, with only one other copy traced on Rare Book Hub. The majority of the plates depict single figures in costumes from Europe (Moscow, England, Finland, Greece, etc), Turkey, Arabia and the Americas (4, including inhabitants of Virginia), with a series of Venetian carnival costumes, a series of officials of the Holy Roman Empire, a few portraits of Paduans, and 4 views (bull fight, gondola, bird shoot on a lake, and the procession of the Doge). The engravings are based on those in Pietro Bertelli's more common Diversarum nationum habitus (Padua, 1589-96). The plate count called for these parts is variable in the standard bibliographies.Provenance: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), presented by him to Sir Edward Aurelian Ridsdale (1864-1923), with inscription 'Ridsdale, Rottingdean 1896. From Sir E. Burne-Jones - my friend and neighbour'. Ridsdale, from 1906-1910 Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton, lived at Rottingdean, Sussex where from 1880 until his death Burne-Jones also lived for part of the year. In 1893 he painted a portrait of Ridsdale; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/1801adc5-b2e0-4ced-ad02-ad3b00d32c85/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly worn at extremities) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/8e05eac3-d93d-4132-9b11-ad3b00d332b1/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly creased and frayed at corners and extremities of spine) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, VERY FINE COPY [Tabor A5a], F](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/e6f1a2e8-b34b-40d0-bd04-ad3b00d33eb5/468x382.jpg)
PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, VERY FINE COPY [Tabor A5a], Faber and Faber, 1965; idem, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, introduction by Robert Lowell, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (light toning to spine, very small snick to fore-edge of upper cover) [Tabor A5b], New York, Harper & Row, [1966]; and 3 others, including fine copies of the first editions of Winter Trees and Crossing the Water (5)Footnotes:'In these poems, written in the last months of her life and often rushed out at a rate of two or three a day, Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created...' (Robert Lowell, introduction to the American edition).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLATH (SYLVIA)Pursuit. With an Etching & Drawings by Leonard Baskin, NUMBER 18 OF 100 COPIES, etched plate by Baskin signed and numbered, original green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A17], 1973; Lyonnesse. Poems, ONE OF 90 COPIES BOUND IN FULL CALF, from an overall edition of 400 copies, this copy number 50, full calf, gilt, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A13], 1971; Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, ONE OF 80 COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER from an overall edition of 400, this copy number 23), one plate after Plath, full blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine age soiled, with light abrasions at lower joint, slipcase (non-matching, worn at spine) [Tabor A9], 1917; Dialogue Over the Ouija Board, NUMBER 90 OF 140 COPIES, frontispiece by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], 1981, 4to and 8vo, The Rainbow Press (4)Footnotes:The four titles by Sylvia Plath published by The Rainbow Press.Provenance: Ted and Olwyn Hughes, of the Rainbow Press; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]Smith Review. Spring 53, including 3 poems ('Mad Girl's Love Song' etc.) by Plath, light dampstain to upper](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/68ef8d85-d6cb-4b7a-b711-ad3b00d34a66/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]Smith Review. Spring 53, including 3 poems ('Mad Girl's Love Song' etc.) by Plath, light dampstain to upper cover [Tabor C33], Smith Review, 1952--Mademoiselle. College Issue, including Plath's prize-winning story 'Sunday at the Mintons' and photo of her [Tabor C26], New York, August 1952; Mademoiselle, includes an illustrated article about Sylvia and Ted, New York, January 1959, ANNOTATED BY PLATH'S MOTHER AURELIA ON THE UPPER COVERS, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 4to; and 10 copies of American Poetry Now, edited by Sylvia Plath, 1961 (13)Footnotes:Copies of Mademoiselle and Smith Review with early appearances of Sylvia Plath in print, each annotated on the cover by her mother Aurelia.Provenance: Aurelia Plath, Sylvia's mother; gifted to Frieda Hughes, Sylvia's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLATH (SYLVIA)Uncollected Poems, 9 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, THESE COPIES SPECIALLY INSCRIBED AND LETTERED BY TED HUGHES ('Ted Hughes, Feb. 1966. D [or other letter] of 13 copies) inside upper cover, facsimile of the manuscript of 'Half-Moon' (i.e. 'Thalidomide') printed on pink paper, publisher's stiff wrappers, dust-jacket printed with a drawing of 'Wuthering Heights' by Plath on the upper cover, a couple with a few light spots [cf. Tabor A6], 8vo, Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]--HUGHES (TED) Animal Poems, 4 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, 2 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Ted Hughes, 25th Sept. 1971' on the front free endpaper, ink smudge on one page of one of the signed copies, contents loose in original printed salmon-pink textured wrappers [Sagar/Tabor A13], small 4to, [Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1967]; and a copy of Plath's The Magic Mirror, Embers Handpress, 1989, THIS COPY SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (14)Footnotes:Nine copies from thirteen special 'lettered' copies (from 'D' to ''L') signed by Ted Hughes of Plath's Uncollected Poem. There is no mention of these copies in Stephen Tabor's Plath bibliography. According to the blurb these twelve poems in the collection 'represent an intermediate stage in Sylvia Plath's development as a poet... [a] connecting link between the poems to be found in the The Colossus... and those in her posthumous volume, Ariel'. Hughes's Animal Poems were published in a an edition of 100 copies, but the Sagar/Tabor bibliography suggests that some of the proposed edition were never printed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an orn](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/ecca18ba-df8d-45ff-a252-ad3b00d3560f/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960; Three Women. A Monologue for Three Voices, second (first published) edition, NUMBER 167 OF 180 COPIES, frontispiece by Stanislaw Gliwa, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt [Tabor A3b.1], 1968; Ariel, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (very small tear at lower margin of upper cover, but otherwise very good) [Tabor A5a], [1965]; Uncollected Poems, [LIMITED TO 150 COPIES], THIS COPY 'M OF 13 COPIES' SIGNED BY TED HUGHES inside upper cover, a few light spots to covers [Tabor A6, not mentioning this 'lettered' limited variant], Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]; Wreath for a Bridal, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this number 13 [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, 1970; Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, NUMBER 105 OF 400 COPIES, publisher's quarter cloth, slipcase [Tabor 9], Rainbow Press, 1971; Fiesta Melons, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this numbered '8/30', publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Crossing the Water, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A11], Faber, 1971; Lyonnesse. Poems, ONE OF 90 COPIES BOUND IN FULL CALF, from an overall edition of 300, this copy number 35, publisher's calf gilt, slipcase [Tabor A13], Rainbow Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, NUMBER 49 OF 150 COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Winter Trees, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A15], Faber, 1971; Child, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, this copy not numbered [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, [1971]; Pursuit, NUMBER 22 OF 100 COPIES, WITH ORIGINAL ETCHING SIGNED BY LEONARD BASKIN, 4 full-page illustrations by Baskin, full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A17], Rainbow Press, 1973; Two Poems, NUMBER 68 OF 75 'ESPECIAL' COPIES, from an overall edition of 300 [Tabor A22], Knotting, Martin Booth at Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, NUMBER 4 OF 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press, 1980; A Day in June. An Uncollected Short Story, NUMBER 162 OF 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981; A Dialogue Over a Ouija Board, NUMBER 127 OF 140 COPIES, illustration by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], Rainbow Press, 1981; The Green Rock, NUMBER 11 OF 160 COPIES [Tabor A28], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1982; The Magic Mirror, NUMBER 127 OF 226 COPIES, a few light spots, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, Rhiwagor, Embers Handpress, 1989, unless otherwise stated publisher's stiff wrappers (with additional dust-jacket where required), FIRST EDITIONS, FINE COPIES, 8vo and 4to; and 3 others relating to Plath (22)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, 20 copies, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, FINE COPIES (2 spines slightly faded and toned, short tear to extremity of 5 spines, short tear to upper cover of 3, but generally all bright) [Tabor A5a], 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1965; and 48 others by Plath, including first editions in good dust-jackets of 'Crossing the Water', 1971 (13 copies, and 3 American firsts, Tabor A11a/b); 'Winter Trees', 1971 (18 copies, and 8 American firsts, light blue smudge on lower covers off-set from upper covers of UK edition, spines slightly frayed to American editions, Tabor A15a/b), a first American edition of 'Ariel', smudge on upper wrapper [Tabor A5b], 1966 (68)Footnotes:A COLLECTION INCLUDING TWENTY COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ARIEL, all retained since publication by family of Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn.''Ariel' by Sylvia, is in a class apart. She truly became the most phenomenal genius just before she died. In English there is nothing quite so direct & naked & radiant - yet complicated & mysterious at the same time' (Ted Hughes, letter to János Csokits, 21 April 1967).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLATH (SYLVIA)The remaining stock of twelve works by Sylvia Plath previously retained by Ted Hughes, comprising: Three Women, 9 copies, second (first published) edition, LIMITED TO 180 COPIES, these numbered '167' to '175', introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, frontispiece by Stanislawa Gliwy, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, original plastic dust-wrapper [Tabor A3b.1], Turret Books, 1968; Wreath for a Bridal, 7 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, these numbered '14', '21' to '25', and one marked by Ted Hughes '[copy] D of 5 unumbered', all but the last mentioned in plain tissue dust-wrapper [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1970]; Fiesta Melons, 14 copies, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, these all numbered as if limited to 30 copies (i.e. 4/30), illustrations by Sylvia Plath, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (one with short tear to upper cover, light fading to a few) [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, 8 copies, LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Child, 26 copies, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, some of these unnumbered, occasional uneven fading to dust-jackets [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Two Poems, 48 copies (including 4 'especial' copies), LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, [Tabor A22, mentioning that 'Ted and Olwyn Hughes took numbers 51-60 and 201-250'), Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, 22 copies, LIMITED TO 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press Poetry, 1980; A Day in June, 23 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], 1981; The Green Rock, 24 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A28], 1982; The Magic Mirror, 10 copies, LIMITED TO 226 COPIES, OF WHICH 2 SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (these from the 26 'lettered' copies 'reserved by the Press'), publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (7 with some uneven discolouring or dusting), 1989, Ely [or Rhiwagor], Embers Handpress; To Eva Descending the Stair, 6 copies, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, colour lithographed illustration by Ralph Steadman, single folded sheet with dust-jacket (missing from 2 copies), Steam Press, [1974], unless otherwise mentioned publisher's stiff wrappers with dust-jackets if where printed, 8vo and 4to; and 14 copies of American Poetry Now... edited by Sylvia Plath, [1961] (c. 211)Footnotes:Provenance: Ted Hughes; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'you' for 'your' on page 13, line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget (2 loose), publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, thin vertical light dampstain on lower cover, light dampstain at foot of spine but generally bright [De Waal 87], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ORWELL (GEORGE)Nineteen Eighty-four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine (slightly faded), publisher's red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard (slightly rubbed or frayed at extremities, spine faded, old tape repair on verso of spine ends and corners, short tear to edge of lower cover) [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[THOMAS (EDWARD)]BIRKET FOSTER (MYLES) In Rustic England... edited by W. Shaw Sparrow, INSCRIBED BY EDWARD THOMAS TO HIS SIST](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/2d638d8c-f199-43ca-a8ce-ad3b00d39db0/468x382.jpg)
[THOMAS (EDWARD)]BIRKET FOSTER (MYLES) In Rustic England... edited by W. Shaw Sparrow, INSCRIBED BY EDWARD THOMAS TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, 'Mary & Arthur Valon from Edward Thomas 1906' on the front free endpaper, 25 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting, publisher's cloth, small 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906--THOMAS (EDWARD) Poems, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait photogravure, publisher's grey boards, printed label on spine (abrasions affecting several letters), a few scattered stains on lower cover [Eckert pp.242-244], 8vo, Selwyn & Blount; and a copy of the first edition in dust-jacket of A Witness Tree (1943) by Robert Frost, to whom Poems was dedicated (3)Footnotes:Edward Thomas, in his role at literary critic for The Daily Chronicle, wrote a review of In Rustic England, published on 20 December 1906, inscribing this copy of the book to Mary Valon, sister of his wife Helen, and her husband. In the same year Thomas published his book The Heart of England. Poems, published six months after his death at Arras, was Thomas's first regularly published book of poetry, this being one of 525 copies printed for distribution in England.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GRIMBLE (AUGUSTUS)Deer-Stalking, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 18 plates after the author, errata slip, light spotting to opening and final leaves, modern half calf, 1888; Shooting and Salmon Fishing. Hints and Recollections, 19 plates after the author, 1892; Highland Sport, 10 plates after Archibald Thorburn, one gathering working loose, 1894, Chapman and Hall; The Deer Forests of Scotland, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 8 photogravure plates after Thorburn, some staining to title, occasional browning, 1896; The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, plates, folding map, 1904, contemporary half morocco gilt, t.e.g.; The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, 4 vol., prospectus loosely inserted, 1899-1900; The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, library stamp on titles, verso of frontispiece maps and spines, 1903, photographic plates and illustrations, publisher's parchment-backed boards, paper spine labels printed in red, some rubbing and soiling, all 4to; Leaves from a Game Book, 1898; More Leaves from a Game Book, Printed by R. Clay and Sons for Augustus Grimble, [1917], LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, photographic illustrations, publisher's half vellum, red morocco gilt spine labels (worn with some loss), large 8vo, unless otherwise stated, Kegan Paul (14)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, 12pp., unrecorded issue with variant title border and without printer's name on p.12, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, some soiling, corner crease with very small chip to front wrapper, joint split at top [cf. Cohen A74; Woods A33], 207 x 95mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [?New York, Eilert printing Co., 1924]--[GIBB (ALEX DEWER)] With Winston Churchill at the Front, By Captain X [Capt. Alex Dewer Gibb], frontispiece portrait of Churchill, some foxing to first few pages, publisher's pictorial wrappers, soiled, scratch to upper cover, spine chipped at foot (lettering unaffected), small 8vo, London & Glasgow, Gowans & Gray, 1924--KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, publisher's printed wrappers, darkened, spine and one corner reinforced, 2 chips to lower cover, 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925--CHURCHILL (WINSTON) A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 2 copies, 16pp., one copy in publisher's buff wrappers and on unwatermarked paper, and the other in light bluish grey wrappers on watermarked paper, some foxing, especially to the second [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], 8vo, [Baynard Press], 1940--The Pilgrims. Speeches at the Dinner to Celebrate the Bi-Centenary of the Birth of George Washington, Tuesday, 12th July, 1932, 19 pages (Churchill's speech occupying 4), original stiff wrappers [Cohen D63], [1932]; together with the table plan for the dinner (16pp., stiff wrappers) and menu (4pp., on card), both printed in blue (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Beating the Invader. A Message from the Prime Minister, 2-page leaflet, 4 copies, all Cohen's first or second issue, creases where formerly folded, one unusually good condition, the others with slight creases, chips or staining at edges [Cohen B76.1-2; Woods A69], [1941]--If the Invader Comes. What To Do - And How to Do It, 2-page leaflet, 8 copies, some browning and fold creases, 2 chipped at edges, one with hole affecting text and tear, [1940], 4to (c.275 x 208mm.), Ministry of Information in Co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security--After the Raid, 6-page folding leaflet, 15 x 245mm. when opened, Ministry of Home Security London Region Edition, December 1940 (13)Footnotes:Two hitherto scarce wartime leaflets, issued in 1941 and 1940, the first with a lengthy introduction by Churchill and instructions to the public as to what to do in the event of an invasion. This group of leaflets came to light following a previous consignment earlier this year (see our sale on 31 March 2021, lot 116).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)A Speech before the Parliament of England on 11th November 1942, limited to 400 copies, stitched in publisher's light blue wrappers, printed paper label, slight fading at edges [Cohen A177; Woods A89/1], Kingsport, Tennessee, 1943; Allies Now in their Stride... January 27, 1940 at Manchester, 8pp. stapled in self-wrappers, rust marks, [Cohen A116; Woods A49], [Ministry of Information, 1940]; A Speech... in the House of Commons. August 20th, 1940, 19pp., on unwatermarked paper, publisher's buff wrappers, slightly creased [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], Baynard Press, 1940]; Speech in the House of Commons 2nd of August 1944. Increasing Supremacy of the Allies. The Turkish Break with Germany, 2 copies; Speech in the House of Commons 28th of September 1944. Achievements of United Nations Great Powers' Part in World Peace Plan. War Survey, 2 copies, the last 2 speeches Swedish printings, 20pp. each, integral wrappers, edges browned [Cohen A195.2 & A196.2], Stockholm, 1944; 'Trust the People'. A Speech... Ayr, May 16th, 1947, 16pp., text and wrappers printed in blue [Cohen A234; Woods A119], Conservative Central Office, [1947], 8vo (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy - from the Author' in black ink on the half-title, frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, small piece torn away from pp.25/26, short tear in margin of 7 leaves (of which 5 repaired with archival tape), final leaf with ragged tear touching some letters repaired and long crease, approximately 7 leaves with light fold crease in corner, occasional light spotting and handling marks, later red calf gilt, g.e., worn at extremities, small losses at spine ends [Handbook 46], 8vo, Macmillan, 1866 [1865]Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION OF ALICE, inscribed to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne-Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook. Gathorne-Hardy had come into the orbit of Dodgson's Oxford circle in 1865, the year in which Alice was published, when he stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in the election for the Oxford University constituency, a seat he won by defeating William Ewart Gladstone. Dodgson records his signing of a voting paper for the election in his diary (10 July 1865) and, prompted by that election, wrote Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865), a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise.In 1867, newly promoted to the role of Home-Secretary, Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, and Dodgson took the opportunity of inviting him to Christ Church to have his photograph taken. Dodgson noted in his diary on 10 June 1867 '...I succeeded in taking two pictures of him, neither of them, I fear, particularly successful'. However, a friendship was forged. Later that month, Gathorne-Hardy wrote to Dodgson that 'My little girl's names are Margaret Evelyn, and I am sure she would dearly treasure Alice in English and French, but has no right to tax you for both.' A correspondence between the two men ensued, Dodgson later meeting Mrs. Hardy and the family, and evidently [see following 2 lots] continuing to send copies of his books to the young Margaret Evelyn.Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, first edition in German, translated by Antonie Zimmermann, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author' in brown ink on the half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, light soiling and fingering, small dampstain at margin of of a few leaves, small pencil date '1871' added on title, brown endpapers, publisher's (variant) green pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown, some abrasions and bubbling to sides, hinges cracked [Handbook 71], 8vo, Macmillan, 1869Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN GERMAN OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, inscribed to one of Dodgson's young female readers. The German edition was the first foreign language edition of Alice to appear. 'The reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent' (Madan and Williams).Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JUDAICA - GAMEThe New Game of the Jew, engraving on 12 sections mounted on linen, comprising a central hand-coloured representation of a Jewish money-lender seated at a table holding bags of money (235 x 170mm.), surrounded by 10 numbered compartments, one of which has the 'Directions for Playing' the game, dust-soiling, folding into publisher's card slipcase, original hand-coloured engraved pictorial label ('The New Fashionable Game of the Jew' above an image of the Jewish money-lender) on the upper cover, age-soiled with a few light spots, overall image 490 x 435mm., J. Wallis, 27 May 1807Footnotes:An early nineteenth century parlour game, based on anti-semitic stereotypes of a Jewish money-lender.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ELIOT (T.S.)Murder in the Cathedral, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER, inscribed 'for E. McKnight Kauffer by T.S. Eliot 11.vi.[19]35' on the front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, spine faded and rubbed at extremities, 8vo, Faber and Faber, [1935]Footnotes:First edition, inscribed in the month of publication by Eliot to his close friend, the American-born artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). Best known for his posters designed for London Underground, Kauffer supplied the cover artwork to Eliot's Journey of the Magi (1927), Marina (1930) and Triumphal March (1931), and of him Eliot wrote he 'did something for modern art with the public and something for the public with modern art' (British Library website).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![KAR (IDA)Noel Coward, light crease upper left, 303 x 390mm., [1957]; Raymond Chandler, 388 x 278mm., [early 1950s]; Julian an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/652c9f34-3a78-47fe-95e4-ad4a00af61ae/468x382.jpg)
KAR (IDA)Noel Coward, light crease upper left, 303 x 390mm., [1957]; Raymond Chandler, 388 x 278mm., [early 1950s]; Julian and Aldous Huxley, 194 x 245mm., [1959], gelatin silver prints, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER in white pen (lower right), with photographer's name and address stamp, and sitters identified in pen on verso (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LILFORD (THOMAS POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, photogravure portrait, 421 plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge and J.G. Keulemans, mostly chromolithographed, some hand-finished, all mounted on guards, some scattered spotting and foxing, original half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, t.e.g., a few light abrasions [Fine Bird Books, p.91; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer, p.399], large 8vo, R.H. Porter, 1885-1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMEPERRELLI (NICK, pseud. of George Herbert Dawson) Terror in Tokyo, [1950]; The Body Ran Home, very short t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/3479afac-e23b-49bb-b00a-ad4a00af841b/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMEPERRELLI (NICK, pseud. of George Herbert Dawson) Terror in Tokyo, [1950]; The Body Ran Home, very short tear lower margin of upper cover, [1951], each with 'Printed in England' stamp on title, and '35c.' stamp on upper cover; Virgins Die Lonely, [1950]; Virgin's Vendetta, [1950], Bolton, Tempest; She Sure Slipped, [1952]; A Dame Doles Death, [1953]--BARONI (NICK), Pseud. of FREDERICK TOM FODEN [and others]. Red Doll, [c.1951]; Shapely Lady, [c.1951]; Pay Off, [c.1951]; Don't Mind Stella, [c.1951]; High Heels and Scanties, [c.1951]; Easy Curves, [c.1951], Curtis Warren Ltd--CELLO (JOHNNY) A Guy Gets His, [1951]; Lights Out, [1952], Scion--COSTELLO (PETE) Bowery Blonde, [c.1951]; Call Girl, [c.1951]; Redheads Spell Danger, [c.1952]; Dames Die Hard, [c.1952]; Murder in Mink, [c.1953]--BARNATO (BART) Broadway Siren, [c.1951]; Dames Play Dumb, [c.1951]; Bigtime Payoff, [c.1953], Edwin Self--ANGELO (TONY), Pseud. of THOMAS WEBB. Sinner's Shroud, [1950] MORELLI (SPIKE), Pseud. of WILLIAM NEWTON. You'll Never Get Me, [1950]; Coffin for Cutie, [1950], stamped 'Printed In England' on title and £35c.' on upper cover, Stoke, Archer; This Way for Hell, [1952]; Death for a Doll, [1952], New York, Leisure Library--BORELLI (CASS) I will Kill, Scion, [1953]--ROSA (VICKI) Palm Beach Playgirl, Bush, 1948, mostly first editions, publisher's pictorial wrappers (some by designed Heade, and Ferrari), a few with light creases, 8vo; and 44 others by 'Italian American' authors, including Perrelli, Cello, Costello, Baroni, etc. (c.74)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMESARTO (BEN), Pseud. of FRANK DUBREZ FAWCETT [and others]. She Ruled with a Rod, [c.1945]; Miss Otis Comes](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/ecba22b0-e2ac-4a15-aa40-ad4a00af0215/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMESARTO (BEN), Pseud. of FRANK DUBREZ FAWCETT [and others]. She Ruled with a Rod, [c.1945]; Miss Otis Comes to Piccadilly, very small hole to upper cover, [c.1943]; Rebecca of the Snatch, [c.1949]; Duchess of Dope, [c.1945]; 'Jews' Pellegrini, [1949]; 'Soho Spiv', [1949]; Miss Ottis Has a Daughter, [c.1949]; There's Always a Dame, [c.1949]; Queen of Crook's Harem, [1949]; Pinday and the 'White Slaver', [c.1949]; 'Dames Can Be Poison', [c.1949]; I'll Get By, [c.1949]; The Oldest Profession, [c.1952]; Beech on the Boulevard, [c.1952]; Gorilla's Moll, [c.1953]; City of Sin, [c.1952]; Baby Moll, [c.1953]; Floozie Takes Lawman, [c.1952], FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's pictorial wrappers (many signed by H.W. Perl), a few creases or light soiling, 8vo, Modern Fiction; and 64 others by Ben Sarto (c.82)Footnotes:An almost complete set of the works of 'Ben Sarto', one of the most influential of the British crime fiction writers in the 1940s. During a court trial relating to copyright between the publisher Modern Fiction Ltd and F.D. Fawcett (who wrote the early Sarto titles) in 1949, the author said for for his third book he had been inspired by 'news about kidnapping in American papers and it occurred to him to use that as the particular crime to be attacked, [and] that the title 'Rebecca of the Snatch Racket' came to him in a flash...'. Rebecca is one of the many rarities in this collection, with no copies recorded in any library collections.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/0c9326a5-c215-4049-afb3-ad4a00afa8d0/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949]; Make Mine a Corpse, [1950], Make Mine Beautiful, [1949]; Satan Buys a Wreath, [1950], Stoke, Archer; Unlucky Virgin, first American edition, extreme tip of one upper cover corner torn away, Cleveland, Kaywin, [1951]; Hot Dames on Cold Slabs, first American edition, New York, Leisure Library, [1952]; Elvira Digs a Grave, [1952]; Chicago Terror, [1952]; Make Mine a Redhead, [1952], Harborough--ANGEL (ROSS), Pseud. of DONALD CRESSWELL. Dead Easy, [c.1951]; Smile Baby, Smile, [c.1951]; Over My Dead Body, [c.1951]; One-Way Trip, '2/6d.' price tab pasted on upper cover, [c.1953]; Dames Don't Dictate, [c.1952]; So Long, Johnny!, [c.1952], Scion--MARKHAM (STEVE) Alcatraz Breakout, [c.1950]; Dames Can't Wait, [c.1950]; It's Not Easy to Die, [c.1950]; The Hideout, [c.1950]; The Maltese Mob, [c.1950]; Date in Detroit, [c.1950], Art Publicity; Cornered, [c.1951]; New Orleans Wildcat, [c.1951]; I'll Take Blonde!, [c.1951], Gaywood; Dames Spell Trouble, Kaye Publications, [c.1953]--SHANNON (BRAD) The Big Snatch, [c.150]; Fall Guy, [c.1951]; The Lady's for Killing, short tear to upper cover, [c.1950]; Blues for My Baby, [1950]; So Many Dead, [c.1950]; The Countless Steps, [1952]--LUGAR (HANS) You Don't Say, Bolton Book Exchange stamp on upper cover, [1951]; Handle with Care, [1952] Midnight Sister, short tear to upper cover, [1953]--DRAYTON (RICKY) Stick or Bust!, [1953]--HANSEN (FRANK) I'll Get By, [1953]; Lady Be Bad, [1953], Scion publisher's pictorial wrappers by Heade, Ferrari, Gomez, Roger Davis, J. Pollock, and others, occasional light creases or light markings, 8vo; and 62 others by mentioned authors, R.C. Finney, and Christ Wheatley (c.100)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, mint in original dust-jacket (this with the slightest of creasing at top of spine, and lower cover with some very slight scratches/scuffs visible only under certain light), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:A fine copy of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 through to 1 on the verso of title, publisher's pictorial boards (very slightly bumped at extremities of spine, small indentation near fore-edge of lower cover), pictorial dust-jacket (very light creases at spine ends), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYALTY - EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSORThree typed letters signed ('Edward') to Major-General John Marriott, C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C., at Guards' Division Headquarters, the first thanking him for the haunch of venison ('a valuable addition to our meager rations... which we shared last night in company with Max Beaverbrook, Harold Balfour and Arthur Forbes... I have not forgotten your invitation to pay you a visit at your headquarters in Gottesberg'); the second discussing the relative merits of three potential valets ('that almost extinct profession') suggested by Marriott; the third outlining why he can not visit him in Germany to interview the candidates ('Long experience having taught me the advisability of seeking the approval of higher authority where the Army is concerned, I mentioned the project to the King the last time I was in London') and regretting that 'the security problem and general economic conditions in Germany oblige the discouragement of distinguished visitors', 3 pages, light dust staining at folds, 4to (242 x 10mm.) and smaller, 24 Boulevard Suchet, 8 December, 27 December 1945 and 24 January 1946; with a handwritten note on a printed calling card ('I hope you will enjoy Villavieja's book as much as we have – Edward')Footnotes:EXILED DUKE IN SEARCH OF A VALET. The recipient of these letters, Major-General John Charles Oakes Marriott (1895-1978), enjoyed a distinguished military career in both world wars and, at the time of this correspondence, had just been appointed General Officer Commanding of the Guards Division in Germany, a post he retained until 1947. Bearing in mind the Duke of Windsor's controversial visit with Hitler before the war it is unsurprising that his request to visit Germany even to interview potential staff met with disapproval at the palace. Back in their Paris home near the Bois de Boulogne, the Windsors led an extravagant 'quasi-royal' lifestyle well beyond their means, so their request to find a suitable valet from amongst Marriott's Guardsmen seems particularly apposite.Provenance: Adrian Pryce-Jones (1919-1968); by descent to his nephew the author David Pryce-Jones.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SCHULZ (CHARLES)Original four-panel Peanuts comic strip, featuring Sally Brown writing a report on Charles Dickens, pen and ink on paper, light blue pencil and spot of white correcting fluid to three letters, signed 'Schulz' far right panel and dated '4-8' in third panel with '1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.' label pasted above, light overall toning, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 150 x 555mm., [1983]Footnotes:The strip depicts Sally Brown, Charlie's little sister, writing a report on Dickens: 'I did not know Charles Dickens personally... If I had known him personally, I would not be here now and would not be writing this report'. In the third panel Sally re-reads her report, in the fourth she tosses the scrumpled up paper over her shoulder.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WORLD WAR I - ROYAL FLYING CORPSTwo autograph letters from Jim Davison of the Royal Flying Corps signed ('Jim Davison'), to Captain Duncan Warrand, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders ('My dear Warrand'), the first reporting that due to the fine weather there has been a lot of flying and describing a dog-fight with a German plane ('...Had a bit of a dust-up with a couple of Huns the other day. One dived on me from behind... The first that we knew was getting the machine all shot up; one or two through the cushion the pilot was sitting on & the tail and fuselage all shot up. By the time I had got the gun the Hun was too far overhead to give a fair shot. Had a very bad gun-mounting or could have got him... the other a bit higher up waiting till [I] had emptied the gun & all ready to dive... We turned round pretty quick towards him & the Hun followed us round... & then turned off & joined his pal... I didn't fire as we should likely want all our ammunition as we had the shoot to finish & they would be pretty certain to attack again. So I shouted across to the pilot to ask if he was alright... he shut off the engine to hear what I was saying & then it wouldn't start again... when we got down we found the old bus was badly shot about... Flying is a topping game but it is a better summer amusement than winter one...'), with envelope, 4 pages, light dust staining, 8vo (180 x 140mm.), [no place], 18 February [19]17; the second complaining of his '...rotten job which what they called Artillery Intelligence Officer which meant scratching away in a book and looking carefully at all photographs... with absolutely nil results...', pleased to be flying again with new machines ('...6 Huns came after us but we just turned away home... I wasn't wanting any scrap against 6 of them...'), with envelope, 4 pages, light dust staining, 8vo (180 x 140mm.), [no place], 15 May [19]17; with another from 'Jimmy' reporting on casualties and news of the Seaforths from the Front ('...at what cost we gained the ground... on 2nd May we had a gas attack, & it cost us many men... It's all too ghastly, old chap! & it makes me mad to think that our old country is still fast asleep. I hope America will be drawn in... everyone feels the strain of this campaign...'), 7 pages, 8vo (150 x 102mm.), with envelope, [no place], 10 June [19]15 (3)Footnotes:'FLYING IS A TOPPING GAME': a young pilot in the newly formed Royal Flying Corps describes an encounter with the enemy over France.The Royal Flying Corps, founded only in 1912, was initially responsible for the manning and operation of observation balloons on the Western Front, and was later involved in air support, aerial reconnaissance, and artillery observation. At the time our correspondent was writing, casualty rates were particularly high for new pilots, with their involvement in the Battle of Arras known as 'Bloody April'.Provenance: Captain Duncan Warrand and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
OVID - ANTONIO TEMPESTAMetamorphoseon sive tranformationium Ovidianarum libri... Antonio Tempesta inventor, engraved pictorial title, 149 engraved plates (of 150, lacking plate 47), each with title and 4-line verse in French, light dampstain in margin of 16 plates, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, small oblong 4to (170 x 210mm.), Paris, Baltazar Moncornet, [c.1625]Footnotes:A fine series of engravings by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses. First published in Amsterdam in 1606 with captions in Latin, this Paris edition has the captions printed in French.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![CHISWICK PRESS[MORRIS (WILLIAM) and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON, translators]. The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/0ad5b81d-edd3-4269-b28a-ad4a00b042d9/468x382.jpg)
CHISWICK PRESS[MORRIS (WILLIAM) and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON, translators]. The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald. Even as Ari Thirgilson the Learned/the Priest/hath Told it, LIMITED TO 75 COPIES, THIS A PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM DE MORGAN, inscribed 'from Jane Morris in memory of Kelmscott' on front free endpaper, printed in Gothic letter, light offsetting from first and last pages onto facing blank, untrimmed in original holland-backed boards, slight wear to spine ends, housed in red morocco-backed slipcase with gilt-lettered spine, 4to, Chiswick Press for William Morris, 1891Footnotes:'IN MEMORY OF KELMSCOTT': PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM DE MORGAN, TOUCHINGLY INSCRIBED BY JANE MORRIS.The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue was translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris. In addition to translating it, Morris also designed a new typeface which he thought suitable for the tone of the work. However, after a small print run, he abandoned the idea as the typeface was proving so hard to read. He also left spaces at the beginning of each chapter for the intended initial letters, but on the whole these were never supplied.Provenance: William de Morgan, inscribed to him by Jane Morris; C.G. Stirling, ownership inscription on front paste-down. Stirling was the husband of A.M.W. Stirling (1865-1965), author, sister of the painter Evelyn De Morgan, and founder of the De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society in Wandsworth.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOVES PRESSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., each limited to 300 copies on paper, from editions limited to 325, marginal glosses and portions of text printed in red, hand-painted initials in red and blue by Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt, a little very light foxing at edges of first and last few leaves, bound in richly decorated tawny morocco gilt by THE DOVES PRESS BINDERY (signed on rear turn-ins 'The Doves Bindery 19 C-S 06 [-08]'), sides with an all-over interweaving floral pattern within an outer border containing quotations from the text, gilt tooled and lettered spines with repeated floral tool, morocco turn-ins with gilt trefoil in corners, g.e., very skilfully rebacked retaining the original spines, preserved in red velvet-lined morocco solander box with volume separator, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1902-1905Footnotes:A 'BREATHTAKING MASTERPIECE' IN A FINE DOVES PRESS BINDING. 'Johnston's red initial letters, often lying outside the text area to the Left, were quite unconventional and they can still carry the force of invention. Mr. Ronald Briggs wrote recently of Johnston's opening to the first book of the Doves Press 'Paradise Lost': 'The elements of this masterpiece are utterly simple and purely typographic, but the first glimpse of it as the page is turned is breathtaking'... The book in which the initials are drawn rather than printed give special pleasure; and of them one thinks first of 'Paradise Lost' where each book of the Poem, apart from the complex opening Mr. Briggs mentioned, has drawn initials' (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, p.107).The present volumes were bound in 1906 and 1908 respectively, presumably on commission or for a private collector. Although signed 'C-S', the bindings are likely to have been finished by Charles McLeish, their intricate designs showing the influence of William Morris and contrasting with the simplicity of the typography.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHYHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) AND ROBERT ADAMSON. Collection of 49 portraits, groups and landscapes (2) by Hill and Adamson printed by Jessie Bertram, carbon prints, mounted on card (recto only), within border ruled in brown ink, many titled and numbered in pencil below, several with pencil annotations in a later hand on verso, a few with light spotting to mounts (one mount toned), housed in a contemporary wooden box with hinged opening front panel and lid, printed paper label pasted inside lid 'J. Bertram, Platinotype and Carbon printer, 148 Rose Street, Edinburgh', the images approximately 205 x 160mm.), the card mounts approximately 995 x 265mm., [1840s, but printed later]Footnotes:A fine group of carbon prints from the original negatives of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's celebrated portraits of Scottish women (including Newhaven groups), men and children, mostly taken between 1843 and 1847.These photographic carbon prints were printed by Edinburgh photographer Jessie Bertram (1881–1954) from Hill and Adamson's original negatives. Selections of her works were issued by Andrew Elliot in 1916. They are held in a wooden box, with Bertram's printed label attached. Found with the box is a passport photograph of a middle-aged woman, signed 'Jessie Bertram' on the verso and assumed to be her.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHYMUYBRIDGE (EADWEARD) Autograph letter signed ('Eadweard Muybridge'), to W.J. Chadwick Esq., Hon. Secretary of the Manchester Photographic Society, having just returned from lecturing in Oxford he thanks him for his appreciation of his lectures and would be '...delighted to place the subject of animal Locomotion before a Manchester audience...', going on to describe a busy schedule of engagements across the country and outlining his terms ('...My terms for a Lecture in Manchester before an audience not exclusively of Scientists or artists, will be 22 ½ guineas...'), ending by complaining that the Manchester Athenaeum is advertising a lecture without his authority, 4 pages, light dust-staining at folds otherwise in clean fresh condition, on 'University of Pennsylvania' headed notepaper, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), 38 Craven Street, Charing Cross, 2 November [18]89Footnotes:After the successful publication of the seminal work, Animal Locomotion in 1887, Muybridge embarked on a whirlwind publicity tour taking in the UK, Ireland and America. According to notices in the local newspapers he gave a series of lectures in Manchester from January to the end of February 1890 illustrated by lantern slides and including demonstrations of the zoöpraxiscope (www.stephenherbert.co.uk).The recipient of our letter, W.J. Chadwick, was the Secretary of the Manchester Photographic Society and a frequent contributor to photographic journals such as Amateur Photographer, and wrote The Magic Lantern Manual, published in 1898. Chadwick was also a pioneer of the newly discovered technique of x-ray photography. From 1897 to 1898 he set up a studio in his premises at 2 St Mary's Street and photographed patients using the new Röntgen ray process on behalf of the Manchester Infirmary. The patient was charged 5s each for images of hands, feet, ankles and elbows, and 10s for larger parts of the body (ed. Elwood & Tuxford, Some Manchester Doctors, 1984).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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