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Henry de Ternant - `The North Coast of Devon`, a series of 14 watercolours (including manuscript title), the majority titled, mounted on thick card leaves, together with three pen and ink drawings by the same hand of related interest.

A Sand script palm lead decorated manuscript, pages inscribed vertically to one side of each leaf, wooden bound, width 25 cm.

G BOUVIER Tudor Nobleman, seated, reading manuscript watercolour, signed 25cm x 17cm

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE: MORAL AND RELIGIOUS APHORISMS COLLECTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT PAPERS OF, Ed Samuel Salter, L 1753, 1st Salter edn, old cf crudely rebkd

THE HOLY BIBLE ……., Edinburgh 1633, 1st edn of King James’ Bible ptd in Scotland, engrd ttl, frontis, Ll 2 and Qq damaged with part loss of text, repaired with lost text supplied in manuscript, Qq2 damaged with small part loss, lacks Eee5 and 6, concordance lacks ttl pge, this edn without plts which appear in some copies, old cf worn, lacks lower bd, top bd detchd, Herbert 476

Printed and manuscript document granting permission to accept and wear and foreign insignia sigd by Sir Winston Churchill and further signed by King George V dtd 12th November 1910

One Box: Manuscript Prescription Registers from Retail Pharmacies

A Manuscript Recipe Book, circa 1870, containing mainly Swedish cookery instructions and recipes etc, orig qtr cf worn, edges rubbed

Fishing tackle Ð Hardy Brothers important comprehensive archive of papers 1907-30, mainly from c1920, both manuscript and printed relating to the constitution of Hardy Brothers the leading manufacturer of fishing reels and tackle in the world including a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company a file of general correspondence draft proposals for the selling of the company shares to employees including counsel`s opinion on the viability of the scheme etc. The archive largely dates from 1920 when the company`s assets were devalued by a considerable degree prompting the company to investigate ways in which the new increased capital could best be used. Contents also include personal hand written ledger deposit account bankbooks for William Hardy, Foster Hardy and Miss Francis A Hardy, share certificates, trading correspondence, Hardy headed & hand signed letters etc. A unique insight into the personal financial life of Hardy Bros Ltd. Illus.

An early photograph of a Dreadnought titled in manuscript below picture HMS Diana 1909.

Two books - The History Antiquities Of Northamptonshire compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned and antiquary John Bridges by the Rev Peter Whalley, late fellow of St Johns College, Oxford, being volumes 1 & 2, 1741.

Bible English. The Bible... [Geneva Version] black letter double column NT title within woodcut heart-shaped border lacks title and all to A1 NT title with hole and some 18th century manuscript notes some other notes wormholes in some inner margins Ii7 tear in margin margins extensively trimmed affecting sidenotes bound with “The booke of Common prayer” at beginning and “Two right profitable and friutfull Concordances” and “The Whole Booke of Psalmes” at end numerous tears rendering them defective extensively browned and marked contemporary calf worn remains of clasps [Herbert 287] 4to Robert Barker 1606; sold not subject to return.

Newman-A Large & Complete Concordance... title and first few pages laid down half of last index page missing contemporary calf later spine 1643 § Craddock (Samuel) The Harmony of the Four Evangelists and their Text Methodiz`d... incorrect pagination deleted and corrected in manuscript rear endpapers annotated contemporary calf later spine 1668; and another religion folio(3)

Paris (Matthew) Monachi Albanensis Angli half-title underlined in biro title in red and black manuscript notes to verso of half-title pencil annotations to margins light browning later calf folio 1644.

[Deloney (Thomas)] THe Pleasant and Princely Histo ...What Famous Men have been Shooe-Makers in Time past in this land... 48pp. woodcut illustrations p.21/22 torn and lacking in part including woodcut text supplied in manuscript slightly browned contemporary signature to title contemporary half calf over marbled boards worn joints cracked spine with some loss H.Rhodes [?1695]

[Reports of the Lords & Commons] including: Naval Reports Committee of Secrecy Parliamentary Papers Votes Ordinances etc. some browning various calf and leather bindings some worn or defective many with covers detached; 18th-19th centuries; and a quantity of others Acts relating to taxation finance law etc. a manuscript petition by the Earl of Queensberry relating to a peerage case 1812 folio; sold not subject to return(qty)

Confederate States of America Loan for $1000 D.s.”Ro: Tyler” No. 27238 engraved bond with 6 $40 interest receipts below some cut away printed with manuscript insertions framed and glazed 360 x 375mm. 2nd March 1863. ***Robert Tyler (1816-77) the Registry of the Treasury; son of President John Tyler..

Villon-Les Escripts Enlumines... 2 vol. each page with an illuminated margin and border metal embossed morocco covers within quarter morocco shelf cases Paris 1974 § Henry (Francoise editor) The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin 1977; and 6 others similar v.s.(9)

Conrad An Outcast of the Islands 1896 first edition title in red & black half-title manuscript annotations to endpapers marginal browning the first 5 leaves slightly trimmed original cloth t.e.g. others uncut 2 small tears to head of spine and one to lower joint spine faded 8vo 1896. ***The author`s second novel..

Conrad (Joseph) Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard first edition spotting to first and last few leaves manuscript annotations to endpapers edges soiled original cloth rubbed and soiled 8vo 1904.

* Chinese album. An early nineteenth century pictorial dictionary, pen, ink and watercolour, approx. fifty leaves, each with six illustrations (on facing pages), with accompanying ms., depicting flowers, implements, musical instruments, lanterns, birds and animals, figures, ships, weapons, furniture, china, houses, costumes, dragons, etc., some marginal creasing, first leaf detached and frayed, orig. woven silk card wrappers, covers detached and lacking spine, 4to, together with a 19th c. illuminated leaf from a Persian manuscript, decorated in gold and colours, chipped, with sl. loss at edges, 248 x 185mm (9.75 x 7.25 ins (2)

Gloucestershire Broadsides. A group of four broadsides titled ‘Rules to be Observed at a Dinner to be given to the Poor at Lechlade on Thursday June 28th, 1838, to commemorate Her Majesty’s Coronotion’, printed R. Knapp, Faringdon, two pink copies and two yellow copies, the pink copies a little faded along vertical fold, plus a fifth broadside concerning a public meeting in Lechlade to consider the best means of discovering and convicting ‘the personal persons who have so wontanly and maliciously destroyed the trees in the churchyard and other places’, issued by the Vicar Richard Vernon Whitby, 13th November 1855, manuscript amendments to place and time, a little soiled and creased, each approx. 28 x 22cm (5)

* Lincolnshire - Crime. A manuscript ledger of records of crimes in the borough of Louth, Lincolnshire, 1909-1920, with tabulated headings for date and hour when property was stolen or missed, date and hour when information given to the police, particulars, estimated value, steps taken, estimate value of property recovered and remarks, items stolen include three fleeces of wool, silver watch and chain, a stilton cheese, a pair of mens boots, a dead rabbit, bicycles, a purse, plus other related thefts and misdemeanours, written in a neat hand, contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear, folio (1)

Scrap album. Victorian scrap album, mid 19th century, containing manuscript poetry and songs, engravings and lithographs of flowers, topography, portraits and fashion, valentine cards, scraps and original pencil drawings and watercolours, blind embossed sheep with foliate design by W & H Rock of London, 4to (1)

Scrap albums. A collection of five Victorian scrap albums, late 19th century, five albums containing manuscript verse, scraps, greetings cards, original drawings and watercolours, engravings and lithographs, various sizes and condition (5)

Seven Years War. Relacion de la Toma de la Habana por los Ingleses, 1762, together with Relacion de la Presa de la Sultana llamada la Nueva, que mandaba Hali Contrarmiraglio del Gr. Snr, hecha por el Comr. de Chambrey Tente. Gnl de la Relign. y Comte. de su Ciquadra de Vaseles, [1762?], two contemp. manuscripts in the same holograph and on the same paper stock, the first with title and 9 pp., the second 4 pp. including title, both browned, the first stitched and both without wrappers, 4to, together with Genealogia del Princiapato di Europe, c. 1720, 330 ff. written in a neat hand throughout with some slightly later additions and amendments, occ. browning or soiling, Phillipps MS 5747 pencil note at foot of first leaf, the number repeated on the armorial bookplate of Lord North to front pastedown, rough trimmed, contemp. half vellum over marbled boards, Phillipps number at foot of spine, rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus two further Spanish manuscripts, one an unidentified volume on natural history, geography and theology, 19th c. (?) over 100 leaves in a neat hand, some damp staining, contemp. boards, soiled and worn, pencil note at front of the volume indicating that it was bought at the sale of the Baydon Library, February 1896, the final dampstained manuscript being a collection of papers and legal documents relating to the De Li Pina family and possessions in Gibraltar, Seville, Granada and Toledo, 17th c., damp stained and worn with some loss, loosely contained in contemp. limp vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (4)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1649, lacking general title and leaf A2, New Testament title present (NT title and colophon dated 1648), manuscript genealogical entries to verso of New Testament title, bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes.., 1651, fraying to first and last leaves in volume, some dampstaining and spotting, endpapers replaced, near contemp. calf, one silver clasp present, rebacked, 8vo. Herbert 618. (1)

Ethiopian Prayer Book. An Ethiopian Prayer Book, probably 19th c., 183 vellum leaves including two blanks at rear, manuscript text in black and red ink throughout, a few minor decs., somewhat soiled throughout, stitch holes to outer margins, contemp. wooden boards, 145 x 105mm, contained in contemp. leather chemise and leather bag with strips (1)

Hobbes (Thomas, of Malmesbury). Elementa Philosophica de Cive..., Amsterdam, Henr. & Viduam Th. Boom, 1696, pp.383, eng. title (plate-mark to fore-edge slightly cracked and strengthened to verso), few early ink marginal notes, repaired closed-tear to p.383, bound with Magni Philosophi Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita. Partim per se ipsum & Reliqua per Dr. R.B. Conscripta. Cum elencho Authorum qui pro et Contra ipsum scripsere. Et Catalogo Librorum per eundem editorum & scriptorum, 2 parts in one, [London]: Juxta exemplar Londini impressum, 1682, 164pp., 18th c. vellum with yapp fore-edges (printed binders label of J. Bird, 52 Hatton Garden to front pastedown), manuscript paper title label to spine, 12mo. Not in MacDonald. (1)

Hogg (James). The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; being the songs, airs, and legends of the adherents to the House of Stuart, collected and illustrated by James Hogg, author of ‘The Queen’s Wake’, 2 vols. (1st/2nd series), 1819-21, without half-titles, some early manuscript annotations to blank leaf before title of first vol., marbled top edge, remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. bookplate of the Rev. John Besly to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. half calf gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (2)

Illuminated manuscript. A bifolium on vellum from a missal, possibly Spanish, 17th/18th c., comprising 4 pages of Gmusical notation in red & black, few hand painted initials and one page with decorative foliage border, some dust-soiling and wear, stitched leather to spine edge and margin edges (possibly used as a volume covering), leaf dimensions approx. 49.5 x 37cm (19.5 x 14.5 inches) (1)

Mauvillon (Jacob von). Essai sur L’Influence de la Poudre a Canon dans L’Art de la Guerre Moderne, 1st ed., Dessau, 1782, half title, seven folding engraved plates at end, occasional light spotting and browning, original boards, manuscript title to spine, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo. Rare, only one recorded institutional copy as far as we are aware. Mauvillon (1743-1794) was a German teacher of military science and politics, and a leading figure in eighteenth century German liberalism. (1)

Waterways & Railways. A collection of eleven Acts of Parliament relating to rivers, canals and railways, 1712-1852, including with An Act for Making the River Avon, in the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Navigable from the City of Bath to or Near Hanhams-Mills, 10pp., 1712 (but reprinted 1813), An Act... for Making the River Kennet Navigable from Reading to Newbury in the County of Berks more Effectual, 14pp., 1730, An Act for Making and Maintaining a Railway or Tram Road from Rodway Hill, in the Parish of Mangotsfield in the County of Gloucester, to the River Avon in the Parish of Bitton in the Same County, 58pp., 1828 and an Act to Alter the Line of the Avon and Gloucester Rail Way, to Make Certain BRanches from the Same, and to ammend the Act for Making the Said Rail Way, 12pp., 1831, three Acts in typescript, continous pagination, manuscript index at front, some marginal rodent damage and light spots, front hinges broken, contemporary half calf, some wear, folio, together with a Great Western Railways folding map, Henley-on-Thames Branch, 2 Chain Survey, 1920 (2)

Marryat (Thomas). The Art of Healing, or, A New Practice of Physic, 5th ed., with Alterations and Additions, printed by M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1776, half-title with manuscript ownership & date to top margin, lacking last (Index) leaf at rear and rear free endpaper, first few leaves a little finger-soiled, hinges split, 19th c. half sheep, darkened and rubbed, spine extrems. worn, 8vo, together with The Modern Family Physician, or the Art of Healing made Easy..., pub. F. Newbury, 1775, browning to margins of first & last leaves, modern qtr. calf, 12mo (2)

Phaidon Press. Das Nibelungenlied. Manuscript C from the Fürstenberg Court Library Donauschingen, Edited by Heinz Engels, 2 vols., 1968, comprising volume of facsimile manuscript bound in orig. full pigskin and accompanied by text volume in orig. qtr. pigskin, large 8vo, contained together in orig. slipcase, (limited ed. of 500 copies printed), together with The Weingarten Manuscript, 2 vols., 1969, comprising volume of facsimile manuscript bound in orig. calf, and acoompanied by text volume in orig. cloth, small 4to, contained together in orig. slipcase, (limited ed.of 850 copies printed) (2)

Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, now first published, edited with notes by Robert Bridges, 1st ed., Humphrey Milford, 1918, half-title, two port. plts. and two double-page plts. of facsimile manuscript, pages slightly yellowed mostly to margins, edges untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label (rubbed) to spine, spine frayed at head & foot and darkened, 8vo. One of 750 copies, containing the first appearance of many of Hopkins’ poems. Scarce. (1)

Beer (Eduard). Bericht uber Eduard Beer’s kleinen Duodez-Atlas in 24 Blatt uber alle Theile der Erbe, Weimar, 1842 title page water stained and with near contemp. manuscript owners signature, twenty-four eng. maps with orig. outline colouring, some soiling and spotting throughout, new end papers, modern marbled boards with printed label to upper board, oblong 8vo (1)

Blount (Henry). A Voyage into the Levant, A Brief Relation of a Journey... from England by the Way of Venice... , Unto Gran Cairo, with Particular Observations Concerning the Moderne Condition of the Turks, and other People under that Empire, 4th ed., 1650, title (within dec. woodcut border) det. and somewhat spotted and soiled, some spotting throughout and marginal damp staining towards rear, paper flaw to leaf C4 with resultant triangular hole affecting two lines of text on both pages, old manuscript accounts to pastedowns, contemp. reversed calf, broken and worn and lacking spine, 12mo. Wing B3316. See Atabey 119 (first edition) and Blackmer 154 (second edition). A rare edition of one of the earliest and best accounts of the Ottoman Empire. (1)

Hamilton (Francis, formerly Buchanan). An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1819, half title, 7 engraved plates and maps only (of 8, lacking plate 4 of Himalaya Mountains), manuscript annotation to p.1, some ink underlining and ticks, occasional spotting and dampstaining, some inkstains, later half calf, a few light stains, 4to. Surgeon to the Governor General of India, Lord Wellesley from 1803-04, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) was also a geographer and zoologist, and founded a zoo in Calcutta that was to become the Calcutta Alipore Zoo. He also undertook a major survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company, describing many new plant and fish species. (1)

Grover (Rev. H.M. Grover). A Voice from Stonehenge, part 1 [all published], 1847, one b & w plt., manuscript annotations to free endpaper and annotation by the antiquary Canon John Edward Jackson to half-title, disbound 8vo, together with a 4pp. ALS from Rev. Henry Clutterbuck (cousin of the author Rev. H.M. Grover) to Canon Jackson dated Aug 11th 1877 relating to the gift of the volume and suggested visit to the roman pavement at Whatley. Scarce. (1)

Jekyll (Gertrude). Wood and Garden, 1899; Home and Garden, 1900, 1st eds., b & w plates, some spotting, previous owner signatures, original cloth, Home and Garden spine split with loss, faded, together with Wall and Water Gardens, 3rd ed., [1910] and two notes by Jekyll, one manuscript regarding cut Lent Hellebores and how best to keep them in water; the other a typed note on headed paper, dated July 1900 and signed by Jekyll, regretting through ill health being unable to let someone see her garden on a particular day, and that “Perhaps you will kindly tell your friends if you should hear any one mentioning the subject, that my garden does not for the future admit any but my own old friends” (5)

Ronalds (Alfred). The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, with Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect; and a few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing, 9th ed., 1883, twenty hand-col. eng. plts., incl. frontis., correct as list, near-contemp. manuscript presentation inscription to half-title dated 1893, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed to extrems., together with Walton (Izaak, and Cotton, Charles), The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation, ed. John Major, pub. John C. Nimmo, 1889, eight etched plates by A. H. Tourrier, b&w wood eng. illusts. to text, owner’s bookplate of Keith Needham to front blank before half-title, t.e.g., contemp. dark green half morocco, a little rubbed and some marks, upper joint partly splitting at foot, 8vo (2)

* Kent & Sussex. A mixed collection of approx. 450 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, including examples by Westall, Finden, Dugdale, Adlard, Shepherd, Sparrow and Bartlett, various sizes and condition, together with, Oulton (W. C.), Picture of Margate and its Vicinity, 1820, engraved map, dec. title page and half title and nineteen uncoloured engraved plates, contents shaken and disbound, foredges frayed, slight spotting and staining throughout, near contemp. manuscript annotations to front paste down and and prelims., contemp. dec. boards, stained and soiled and near detached, lacking spine, 8vo, with, Moss (W. G.), The History and Antiquities of the Town and Port of Hastings, 1824, engraved frontis., title and half title, folding eng. town plan of Hastings and seventeen b & w eng. plates, text block broken, lacking boards and spine, 8vo (approx.450)

Autographs - A collection of clipped signatures, including Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91), founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party; Daniel O`Connell (1775-1847), Irish political leader and campaigner for Catholic Emancipation; Queen Victoria (1819-1901); Jesse Collings (1831-1920), Mayor of Birmingham, Liberal M.P. and advocate of educational and land reform; Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916); and others; also a manuscript letter by Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914), dated 1895, inviting a friend to lunch.

Johnston, Edward. Manuscript & Inscriptional Letters for Schools and Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen, fourth impression, Pitman, London 1920. Sixteen plates including five by A.E[ric] R. Gill, in card case. Best Bid

MINIATURES. Churchill, Sir Winston. King George VI. The Prime Minister`s Broadcast, February 7, 1952, St. Onge, Worcester 1952. Full crimson leather gilt, 6cm x 4cm; The Queen`s Message Broadcast on Coronation Day, 2 June, 1952, limited edition 434/500, The Hand and Flower Press 1953. Full blue leather gilt, 6cm x 4cm; The Form and Order of Service...[for] the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, St. Onge, Worcester 1953. Full crimson leather gilt, 7cm x 5cm; and a further nine small books, including an album of manuscript verse and original illustrations, (12).

Four: 1914-15 star (8153 Vol C H G Nida, Bombay Vol Rif); BWM and Victory (Lieut, RAF), Defence Medal (un-named as issued to Warden ARP), GVF. Most attractively framed with photo of recipient; Bombay VR title, RFC cap badge; MGC badge; 2 ARP badges, RAF 1st type cap badge and pair eagle cuff badges. A second frame displays pr RFC collars, RAF collars and buttons, and recipient’s ID bracelet. A futher frame shows 4 Bombay Volunteer Rifles buttons, 2 MGC titles and “M” title, and a khaki embroidered “Motor Machine/Guns” cloth patch (25th MMG Bty, Calcutta Volunteers Middle East Oct 1916-Aug 1917). A framed Commission to Charles Henry George Nida, RAF, 1st April 1918 as Lieut; with recipient’s goggles, tie, photo of Nida in RFC uniform; a manuscript exercise book “Engines. Book 2” with some drawn diagrams (cover part detached); various photocopies of service documents and an interesting duplicated chapter from his autobiography- “Chapter Ten - Flying Corps Escapades” in which he describes his learning to fly and the death of his friend through a flying accident in Egypt. Note: Charles Henry George Nida, born Paris 1895 to an English mother and French father. The family later moved to Streatham and in 1912 Nida went to India as a travelling salesman for a clothing firm. At the outbreak of WWI he Volunteered for service with the Bombay Volunteer Rifles and went with them aboard HMIS Hardinge in an attempt to intercept the German ship Emden. The Bombay V Rifles became the Bombay Motorised Machine Gun Corps and he took a commission as Lieutenant. In 1917 he transferred to the RFC and trained as a Pilot at the 23rd Training Squadron based at Alexandria. He saw service fighting the Turks before being stationed with No 8 Sqdrn in France. He left the RAF in 1920 to become a journalist. During WWII he became a Warden in the ARP in Edgeware. He died in 1985.

A rare and very early Roman Catholic missal, a hand illuminated manuscript on vellum in latin, set within a 19th Century leather binding, bound by Birdsalls Northampton.

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846). Romeo and Juliet. Pen and ink drawing. Manuscript extract from Shakespeare’s play, in Haydon’s hand, on the verso. 23 x 18.5cm (9 x 7 1/4 in). Standing male nude figure study, with inset study of an arm. Pen and ink drawing. Signed in ink at lower right. 22.5 x 18cm (8 7/8 x 7 in). Sir William Allan PRSA (1782-1850). Pencil drawing inscribed The Regent Murray shot by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh. Signed with initials at upper right, the sheet addressed to Madame Dufresne in Paris, and postmarked 1825, on the verso. 20 x 25cm (8 x 9 3/4 in); and with 3 portrait studies of male heads, 2 in pencil, 1 in charcoal, by various hands, all unframed (6). These 6 drawings, and the following 2 lots, were extracted from an album originally belonging to Elizabeth Dufresne, a neighbour of Sir David Wilkie in Rathbone Place, London, whose circle of mainly Scottish friends included William Allan. She modelled as the mother in Wilkie’s famous work, The Blind Fiddler. Benjamin Haydon was also associated with this group, as was the French emigré artist, Dufresne, whose marriage to Liz was short-lived, ending with her departure for France. Haydon wrote affectionately of her and this period of their association in his autobiography, where he even refers to them reading Shakespeare together. “Liz was as interesting a girl as you would wish to see and very likely to make a strong impression on any one who knew her: however, I kept clear, and she ultimately married the Frenchman”. It is probable the three portraits included in this lot are of related figures, and two have been tentatively identified as Wilkie and William Hazlitt.

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) after William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Sonnett addressed to B.R. Haydon by W. Wordsworth - Dec 27, 1815. Manuscript transcript in Haydon’s hand, of the poem High is our calling, Friend!, headed as above, with a drawing of a hand below. Pen and ink on wove paper. Unframed 18 x 11.5cm (7 x 4 1/2 in). This sonnet was one of three dedicated by Wordsworth to Haydon. It was originally written on December 21st, 1815, and Haydon later wrote in his autobiography, “Now, reader! was not this glorious?” During this period, he was also the recipient of four poems by Keats and one by Elizabeth Browning, amongst others. This transcript by Haydon, written within days of receiving the original (present whereabouts unknown), was found in an album belonging to his friend Elizabeth Dufresne (see preceding lots). The hand represented below may be Wordsworth’s, as Haydon drew it on other occasions, or his own. Or possibly simply the hand of ‘Creative Art’.

Sydney A. Pitcher . Gloucester Cathedral, The Great East Window. 35 detailed photographs . In plain brown wrapper, with manuscript title pasted on, 19th century. With further prints and photographs of British churches.

* Dixon (Charles Edward, 1872-1934). Britannia sailing through Cowes Roads, with many yachts and other vessels dressed overall, 1933, monochrome watercolour, signed and dated in lower left-hand corner, 184 x 216mm (7.25 x 7.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed. With an interesting provenance described in a faint manuscript note on headed paper (browned and laid down): ‘At the close of the 1933 season, Sir Phillip Hunloke, the King’s Sailing Master, desired to present H.M. King George V with a large picture of Britannia sailing through Cowes Roads and commissioned Charles Dixon RA in the matter. The arrangement made was that Dixon should in the first instance paint a black and white sketch of the proposed picture on approval for His Majesty. This is the sketch in question and the interesting point is that it has been handled by H.M. King George V, Sir Phillip Hunloke and Charles Dixon, all of whom are now dead, purchased the sketch from Dixon, who was a great friend of mine, in 1934. Ainsworth Gilbert’. J. A. Gilbert, OBE, was Honorary Secretary of the Island Sailing Club from 1927-1934. Charles Dixon is recognised as one of the world’s most gifted maritime artists. He exhibited at the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Academy of Arts from 1889, and had works shown there most years until his death. His work is highly sought after today and can be found in many national museums, galleries, and private and corporate collections in the UK, North America and Australia. (1)

* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Study of Pine Trees, pencil drawing, heightened with bodycolour, on cream paper, 342 x 248mm (13.5 x 9.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed. Manuscript label on the verso of the frame reads: ‘Bought Aug. 1956 from Mr Telford of Grasmere who bought it at the sale of John Ruskin’s effects at Brantwood, Keswick’. (1)

* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Caricature studies, pen & ink title-page for an album, with ‘Album 1836 Baden’ lettered on an open book in the centre, within an oval of vigns. of muses, putti, St. John the Baptist, a jester and donkey, etc., lettered in manuscript on mount ‘“Baden, 17th. December 1836 One o‘clock (Morning)”‘, framed and glazed. As a boy and then a young man Ruskin was taken on numerous tours of Europe by his parents, travelling extensively in Switzerland, France, and Italy, as well as Germany, a custom which he was to repeat throughout his life. (1)

* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900, circle of). The Matterhorn from near Zermatt, pastel, black charcoal, and pencil, heightened with bodycolour, of the Matterhorn, with a cottage and figures in the foreground, including a peasant woman collecting water from a stream, indistinct pencilled initials to lower right-hand corner, 357 x 507mm (14 x 20ins), mounted, framed and glazed. Inscribed in manuscript on the verso of the frame: ‘Bought July 1956 of Mr. Telford of Grasmere who bought at the sale of effects at Brantwood pictures and sketches some by John Ruskin. J.A. Holland’. Ruskin’s affinity with Alpine scenery in general, and the Matterhorn in particular, is well documented. In one respect he was an Alpine pioneer, not as a climber, but as one who encouraged a widespread love and understanding of Alpine scenery. He was the first to draw the Matterhorn accurately, and apparently the first to photograph it too. When, in 1844, Ruskin made his first sketch of the majestic mountain which he then supposed to be the Matterhorn, it was some thirteen years before the founding of the Alpine Club in London, around thirteen years before any serious attempt was made to climb the Matterhorn, and twenty-one years before its summit was gained by Edward Whymper. Ruskin’s painstakingly precise, yet romantically atmospheric, images of the Matterhorn were to spawn a host of paintings of the great mountain amongst his circle, students and followers. (1)

Two 19th Century manuscript volumes, one with copies of letters to General Board of Health, etc, regarding Cholera and The Potato Disease and other with copy of letter to Earl of Eglington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the Potato Disease, from Joseph Jones, 3rd September 1852

TAM, A Third of a Century with the High Peak Harriers, pub Buxton 1892, no 43, The Bloodstock Breeder`s Review, 1959, Back Page Racing, Hunter Chase Point to Point 1968 and a manuscript book of Veterinary Medicines/Remedies 1911 (5)

Gregory I (the Great, Saint the greater part of two bifolia, from Homilia XXII, manuscript on vellum, written in dark brown ink, in a handsome caroline hand, double column, 41 or 42 lines, with part of another at head, one 3-line initial `T` in red, traces of other large red initials on recto of first ff., removed from bookbindings, defective at head and side, with loss of text, extensive worming especially in inner margins, several others holes, rectos of first ff. badly rubbed with text almost wholly obliterated, c. 400 x 275 mm., North Italy, [mid-twelfth century].

section only, manuscript, 19pp., decoration at beg section only, manuscript, 19pp., decoration at beginning and title, traces of gilding, some tears and cracking, extensively browned, later limp leather, 97 x 147mm., [North Africa and Mediterranean, perhaps early medieval]

Breviary, Bifolium 14th cent decorated manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 28 lines, written in black ink in 2 sizes of a gothic liturgical hand, 1 page largely take up with the first half of the hymn `Te Deum laudamus...`, with music on a 4-line stave, large initial `P` in red and blue with marginal decoration, other small initials in red or blue, some with marginal decoration, several small holes, some soiling, c. 128 x 195 mm., [France (?), early fourteenth century] § Breviary, single f., decorated manuscript on vellum, double column, 31 lines, written in black ink in a fine gothic liturgical hand, 3 2-line gilt initials on blue background, and 2 in blue on red, with marginal decoration, rubricated, slight soiling, c. 160 x 112 mm., [France, early fifteenth century](2)