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Travel, Turkey. Hill (Aaron, Gent.), A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire In all its Branches, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold, by John Mayo, 1709, black-ruled title-page reinforced at gutter, lacking portrait frontispiece, pp: [viii], xxvii, [viii], 339, 6 engraved and etched plate with accompanying explanatory letter-press leaves, 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, folio in 4s (34.5 x 23.5cm)  Provenance: Sarah Cholmley, March ye 8th: 1709 (Cholmondeley?), contemporary original female ownership manuscript inscription to ffep.

[Du Choul (Guillaume)], Discorso sopra la castrametatione, et disciplina militare de Romani [...], Composto per il S. Guglielmo Choul [...], Con i Bagni, & essercitij antichi de Greci, & Romani [...], À Lione [i.e. Lyon]: Appresso Guglielmo Rovillio, 1556, collating a-o⁴, A-E⁴, ❧⁴, lacking the folding table, woodcut printer's armorial device on title-page, some ornamental letters, b1's is coloured, presumably by a later hand, bas relief headers and ornamental tail-pieces, in-text illustrations of the Roman army and classical antiquities, a broad margined copy, the title-page with marginal repaired worm trails, lower-margin with a constant worm hole, becoming more apparent by the end and developing into inner-marginal worming, but never affecting text, some soiling and dust in places, never affecting legibility, the second part with varying degrees of staining to the lower-margin, never touching text or any illustrations, contemporary parchment over boards, some worn losses to the binding, including the spine's contemporary manuscript lettering, the lower-edge of the text block with contemporary MS lettered short-title for shelving: Discorso s. la Ca***., recto pastedown with two distinct shelf numberings: A.3. & B.l.5., further inscribed fine tall copy, with which we agree, and Quaritch Cat no 347 [...], 4to (33 x 23cm) Provenance: Sir Compton Domvile, 1st Baronet (c.1775-1857), of Templeogue and Santry House, Irish MP and Governor of the County of Dublin; his fragmentary armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Local Interest. [Cox (Thomas)], Nottinghamshire, [from Magna Britannia et Hibernia], [In the Savoy: Eliz. Nutt, 1720], double-column, engraved folding county map, engraved distance table, 207pp, ffep and blank preliminaries loosening/loose, contemporary calf, split, recto pastedown with contemporaneous 18th c ink manuscript contents, 4to  Provenance: George Cresswell Bond (1863-1939), of Lenton Hall, Nottingham; armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Classics. [Aeschylus], [...] Aeschyli Tragoediae [...], two-volume set, Glasguæ: In Aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus Foulis, 1746, parallel ancient Greek and Latin text, some contemporaneous manuscript annotation and glosses, browned and some markings, contemporary, split, worn losses, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [Gaskell 71], idem., Porson (Richard, editor) & Dindorf (Wilhelm, editor), Aeschyli Tragœdiæ, Londini: Apud Black, Young & Young, 1827, contemporary olive polished calf, sunned spine bumped with some loss, marbled edges and endpapers, Sold by W. Heath, Lincoln's Inn Fields, his contemporary ticket to recto pastedown, 12mo, (3)  Provenance: 1st: St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, Kent, former Benedictine abbey; their bookplates to pastedown, spines with shelf numbering. 2nd: Coombe/Coll: Div: Pet: [Peterhouse]/Cantab: [Cambridge]/Nov. 1842, recto blank with ink MS ownership inscription.

Leicestershire. The Dadlington manor account or memoranda ledger, dated 1757-1783, probably kept by the lord of the manor William Hurst of Hinckley Castle, hosier and later High Sheriff of the county (1778), or his manorial steward/agent in his employ, approx. [214]ff of manuscript in various hands, some tipped-in MS receipts and further ephemera in places, the contents include miscellaneous mercantile accounts, partial inventories, but mostly agreements and payments of a somewhat parochial nature, comprising a part-inventory of textiles, the 1757 fine of William Hurst's for undisclosed reasons, harlequin food wines and spirits, Bros. Grundy 3 Bottles Port [&] 20 Oranges, a few accounts for sending orders to Mr Robert Wright of Nottingham, labouring accounts, one n.d. for the Overseers of the Highways including 4s 3d for load gravel, 6d for drink,  4 soldiers at 2s 6d, ale for 3 labourers 2d, the Bill at Monthly meeting 1s, strike lime 5s 10d, carriage of 850 Bricks 2s 2d, 1700 Bricks £1 2s 8d, the aforementioned Highway Bill again at 1s, etc., an agreement viz. building work between William Hurst of Hinckley and Samuel Robinson of Nuneaton, dated July 22 1758 and signed by both parties, 3pp on the antiquities of Dadlington, Higham and Stoke, some rents and enclosures, a handful of receipts and recipes, mostly medicinal, etc.,  almost every leaf archive repaired to varying degrees, however, almost always marginal and never affecting the legibility of text and without apparent loss, later parchment over boards, contemporary to the archive repairs, and preserving fragments of the original vellum binding on each cover, the spine lettered and dated 1759-1776 (though some material within the account is of both an earlier and later date), slipcase, foolscap (42 x 18cm)

Royal Navy: Admiral Lord Nelson's Brother-in-Law and the Royal Navy in Malta. Dryden (John) & Beauclerk (Lady Diana, illustrator), The Fables, an interesting association copy, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. Edwards, 1797, half-title, illustrated with 9 plates engraved by Bartolozzi and others after Beauclerk, former staining to verso of plates, mostly not affecting the image to recto, further in-text vignettes, fragmentary contemporary Neoclassical calf spine and lower-cover only, the latter's board defective, the extant binding with some losses, tatty and fragmentary marbled endpapers with signs of former damp, etc., folio (37 x 27cm) Provenance: ?1) George Matcham (1753-1833), brother-in-law of Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte KB (1758-1805), East India Company civil servant and traveller; verso of endpaper with his ink manuscript ownership inscription: George Matcham Esq:re, the book enclosing a loosely-inserted letter cover, inscribed Miss Matcham. 2) Dr John Gray, MD (1768-1827), surgeon to the Royal Navy in Malta, presumably at the hospital pro tempore on Christopher Street, Valletta, and later of the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire, presented by him to 3) Dr John Snipe (d. 1805), physician of the Mediterranean fleet, who was later sent by Nelson to Messina, Sicily, to procure lemon juice for the fleet to keep scurvy at bay. Verso of half-title inscribed in ink MS: Presented by Mr Gray to his friend Dr Snipe/in the Island of Malta on the ninth day of/July 1804 previous to his leaving that Island for/England. The title-page also bearing Snipe's MS ownership inscription: J. Snipe. M.D.

Numismatics. Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge: Catalogue of Coins and Medals, including the Collection of Greek and Roman Coins, Alexandrian and other Egyptian Coins, &c. Formed by the late H. Martyn Kennard, Esq. of Lowndes Square, S.W. The Collection formed by the Most Rev. William Markham, 1719-1807, Archbishop of York, and augmented by his descendants, especially by his son George Markham, Dean of York [...], English Tokens [...] Anglo-Saxon Coins [...], [sold] 20th December, 1916, and following Day [...], [London]: Dryden Press, 1916, 50pp, original wrappers, loosely-inserted correspondence relating to the auction, 8vo Provenance: R.G. Ridgway, Riverview House, Waterford, Ireland; pencilled ownership inscription on title-page and with loosely-inserted manuscript correspondence and printed ephemera related to the sale and his bids for Irish tokens.

Local Interest. A vellum manuscript assignment of land, dated 3 Sept:r 1664, between Thomas Hankin and the Southwell Manor Court, signed on behalf of the lord of the manor, the Archbishop of York Richard Sterne, by William Clay, registrar of Southwell Minster, docketed to verso, one marginal loss and the deed with some minor hold losses across the sheet, but without loss of sense, 31 x 50.5cm, and an 18th letterpress leaf with a named-view engraving of the archbishop's palace at Southwell, 32 x 23cm (2)

The East India Company. Three manuscript letters from East India House to the bank Messrs. Cobb & Co., Margate, regarding the wreck of the Hindostan (1796 Indiaman), dated 21st May 1803, 26th November 1803 & 7th July 1810, each letter written by a different clerk concerning the salvaging of 100 bales of wool and the costs of disbursement, each docketed from the desk of each of the separate clerks at the East India Office, two bearing the EIC's armorial red wax seal, the one lacking holed but not without loss of MS, foolscap, (3) Condition evident from images.

Alison Uttley (1884-1976), children's author and book illustrator, her sketchbook, n.d. [1911-24; when resident at The Old Vicarage, Knutsford], 10 landscape watercolours and pencil drawings on Whatman's drawing paper, original Winsor & Newton cloth binding, recto pastedown inscribed: Alice Uttley, The Old Vicarage, Knutsford, [Cheshire], oblong 8vo, another, smaller and uninscribed, but the compositions' titles are lettered in a conforming hand to the latter, 18 watercolour and charcoal en plein air landscapes, original conforming binding, oblong, 12mo, and two sketchbooks of her husband's, James Arthur Uttley (1883-1930), the first of which is dated August 1911, the year he married the then Alice Taylor, who used the first leaf of the sketchbook, to draw, sign, title and date a named-view of Clovelly, [Devon], mixed original bindings and sizes, & a disbound 19th c commonplace manuscript book, 4to, (5)

A Victorian lady's drawing-room album, mixed dates, approx. [35]ff, illustrated with 11 topographical watercolours, some sepia, including named-views in Sicily, Yorkshire views of  Scarborough, Hartlepool, [Stainborough Castle at] Wentworth Castle, others, and a loosely-inserted watercolour sketch of Rochester Castle, Kent, 2 marine 'herbarium' samples of pressed seaweeds, cut chromolithographs of seashells, cut-paper fuchsia, topographical and other mixed media prints, manuscript including Lines/during a Thunder Storm/W.M.C./York 14 March 1848, further prose and verse, etc., contemporary pictorial embossed calf, disbound, 4to, another, mid-19th c, A Token of Friendship and Sincere Regard; Presented by G. Georges, to Ann Kirk, dated from 1845, approx. [53]ff, mostly inscribed to one side only, typically glosses of and original prose and verse, as well as an 'illuminated' leaf The Momentous Question, dated December 16th 1846, some pen-and-ink or watercolour illustrations, mixed media prints, etc., contemporary green roan gilt over cloth, chipped and rubbed, 4to, (2)

World War Two, RAF Middle East. 1041953 LAC Walter 'Wally' Sharpe, approx. 75 manuscript letters, dated 1944-45, all addressed to to his parents, Mr & Mrs Sharpe, 38, Worral Avenue, Arnold, Nottingham, while he was overseas on active service, a handful of the letters are from his contemporaries also serving in the armed forces, the nature of the correspondence is typical, but does include occasional vignettes of domestic life in Palestine and the Holy Land at the time, three or four are illustrated with pen-and-ink cartoons or vignettes, mostly passed and stamped by RAF Censor 152, also a 1943 Christmas menu from when stationed at Downham Market, Norfolk, an Xmas 1944 Greetings of the Season 'letter' from Royal Air Force Middle East, a defective copy of the Palestine Illustrated News, Special D-Day Edition, Vol. XII No. 238, Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 6, 1944, a contemporary herbarium, Souvenir of Jerusalem, n.d., with 10 b/w named-views, an album of souvenir photographic prints of local topography and approx. 30 photograph snapshots of Egypt, Suez and his comrades, a later album of photographic prints and postcards of Rome, etc

Medical. [Gabelkover (Oswald)], The Boock of Physicke (sic), [...] Most of them selected, and approved remedyes (sic), for all corporall (sic) diseases, and sicknesses [...], first English edition of Nützlich artzneybuch für alle des menschlichen leibes anliegen und gebrechen, Dorte (i.e. Dordrecht): Imprinted by Isaack Caen, 1599, signatures [π1] (i.e. title-page), F1, Y2 & [Y5] supplied in facsimile, lacking the index, otherwise textually complete, however, the last four leaves are tattier than the rest of the text block, with some loss of letters, the final leaf [Kk5] repaired and with more developed losses, the remaining original text block, though perfectly legible, is affected by varying levels of brown toning, former staining and former damp, additionally signatures [Z6] has two burnt holes, one just touching text and both off-setting on the corresponding leaf, and [Bb6] with a tatty, chipped fore-margin, contemporary English minor and infrequent manuscript notation, later 20th c pastiche calf, rubbed and worn, the upper-cover split and just holding, folio (27.5 x 20cm), [NLM/Durling 1737; Wellcome I, 2488; STC 11513]

Travel. A 19th c Italian Grand Tour journal, approx. [100]ff of English manuscript, left-handed and mostly written to verso only, [5]ff lacking from the start of the narrative, typical comments on topography and some sites of Classical Antiquity, including Naples, early 19th c quarter-calf over papered boards, 8vo

A 19th c lady's commonplace book, Agnes Robina McGeorge, n.d. [c. 1830], approx. [200]ff of manuscript extracts from belles-lettres, sermons and contemporary periodicals, mostly prose, but with some verse, contemporary sheep over board, blind-ruled, split, disbound and now chipped, 8vo, & a map, Betts's Tour through Europe. London: John Betts, n.d. [c. 1840], hand-coloured engraving over 24 sheets, laid on linen, 63 x 69cm, original publisher's cloth boards, from which now disbound, 8vo, (2)

Victorian Humour. An album of illustrated limericks, H.M. Ford, n.d. [second-half 19th c], [8]ff of manuscript illustrated with watercolour caricatures, a handful of further leaves blank, some inner-gutter or marginal repairs, some movement and/or loose, leaves with chipped edges, contemporary pictorial papered boards, repaired, 4to

Local Interest, Methodism in Georgian Nottinghamshire. Joseph Raynor of Mansfield, civil engineer and an ardent Methodist, his commonplace book, dated from October 1804, [53]ff of ink manuscript, mostly transcriptions and thoughts of a religious nature, including references to the Holy Bible, there is however an odd account of the 'Happy Death' of a soldier, John Birks, who died at Mansfield on 3rd October 1804, who, having left his regiment on furlough, drew his pay and spent most of it on the stagecoach to Mansfield, where he was not afraid to die, glad that he saw the face of a Methodist - which he wouldn't have done at the army camp, the verso with some multiplication tables and mathematics, contemporary calf over marbled boards, perished, loosening contents, later 19th century printed yellow book label of his descendant: Thos. Alex. Rayner, 4to

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852). Prize Models for the Wellington Monument, the report of the judges, 1857, 184-190ff of manuscript on foolscap, 4 pasted illustrations and 1 loose, the record lists ten prize winners, identified by their number and motto only, from which it may be concluded that there were over eighty entries in total, there follows a highly detailed description and critique of the winning and runner-up memorials, taking into account their compatibility with the environment of St Paul's Cathedral, one presumes that none of these entries were adopted, the 7 leaves along with a precis and a slightly later engraving by J.T. Wood of The Wellington Tomb in the Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, (8)

Herbert (Edward, Lord of Cherbury), The Life and Raigne (sic) of King Henry the Eighth, first edition, London: Printed by E.G for Thomas Whitaker, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard, 1649, cut-out engraved portrait from frontispiece and later tipped-on a new leaf, black-ruled red and black title-page, black-ruled contents, decorative woodcut headers, foliate initials and tail-pieces, pp collating: A⁵, B-R⁴, S-X⁶, Y⁸, Z¹⁰, 2A-N⁴, 2O-Y⁶, 2Z⁴, 3A-Z⁴, 4A-C⁴, 4D⁵, 20th c quarter tan morocco, preserving fragments of contemporary speckled calf and 18th c marbled boards and gilt-lettered red morocco piece, contemporary red-speckled edges, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, folio (28 x 19.5cm), [Wing H1504], Fiddes (Richard, DD), The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, first edition, London: Printed for John Barber, 1724, black-ruled title-page with woodcut vignette, 7 full-page plates as called for, of which the portrait frontispiece engraved by George Vertue is repaired, and extra-illustrated? with a folding prospect of Christ Church, Oxon, engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, now repaired, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, refreshed endpapers, folio (35.5 x 24cm), [&] Hall (Edward), Henry VIII, copy no. 99/500, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, sunned spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, (4)  Provenance: 1st: 1) [...] Ex dono Geo: Mason, partial 17th c ownership inscription on title-page. 2) R.H. Shuttleworth, late 18th c ownership inscription on later 'frontis' leaf, presumably the commissioner of the initial repair/rebind. 2nd: Reverend Wolley Jolland (1745-1831), the 'Lincolnshire Hermit' and Vicar of Louth (1780-1831); his ink manuscript ownership inscription to title, above another later and indistinct.

Photographically Extra-Illustrated. Guthrie (Thomas, DD), The Gospel in Ezekiel, tipped-in albumen portrait of the author and inscribed by him in autograph, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1856, finely bound by H. Bowie of Edinburgh, blind-stamped, in full brown morocco gilt over boards, slightly rubbed, all edges gilt, 8vo  Provenance: 1) Miss Bannatyne with C. Welsh's kindest regards [...], January 20th 1857, recto blank with manuscript presentation inscription. 2) James Fitz Gerlad Bannatyne (1835-1915), of Haldon House, near Exeter, Devon, and Fanningtown Castle, County Limerick, Ireland; armorial bookplate with MS library shelf numbering to recto pastedown.

Tennessee Williams (American playwright and screenwriter, 1911-1983), his autograph, the signature and manuscript dated 1978 and inscribed on an earlier theatre programme, "The Rose Tattoo", at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney, [Australia], February, 1956, [6]ff, original wrappers, 4to

An Indian Mughal illuminated manuscript leaf, 19th c or earlier, painted in gouache with a tiger hunt on lined brown paper, picked-out in gilt, the borders enclosing calligraphic script, further text to mounted, the leaf 22.5 x 14.5cm, an Indian printed and illuminated leaf from a book, second-half 19th c, in the earlier Mughal taste, mounted, the leaf 26 x 17cm, two 19th c Islamic manuscript leaves, text recto and verso, 19 x 12cm, etc., (5)

Virgil, P. Virgilii Maronis opera, ?first Elzevir edition, Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1634, engraved title-page (i.e. *1) trimmed and laid on a blank leaf, now loose, *2 onwards attached though some fore-edges somewhat uneven, contemporary vellum over limp boards, late 18th/early 19th c English manuscript ownership inscription: William L. Dalrymple, 12mo, [&] Delille (Abbé Jacques), Les Jardins, poème, Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1782, half-title, engraved plate and title-page vignette, contemporary French calf gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: Charles Goddard, 8vo, (2)

Woolf (Virginia), three association copies from the library of one of her biographers, including Three Guineas, first edition, London: The Hogarth Press, 1938, half-title, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell, repaired at the spine and all four flap folds, slightly soiled and chipped, yellow cloth as issued, 8vo, the further two works both Hogarth Press imprints and each with their original dustjackets designed by the author's sister Vanessa Bell, the Bloomsbury Group artist, The Captain's Death Bed, and Other Essays, first edition, 1950, [&] Woolf (Leonard, editor), A Writer's Diary, first edition, seventh impression, 1975, interleaved with loosely-inserted manuscript notes, 8vo, (3)  Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard, author of 'The Unknown Virginia Woolf ' (first published 1978).

New Zealand. Account of a Voyage from Gravesend to Auckland, 1881-1882, probably chronicled by William Bennett (b. 1836), formerly of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, [73]ff of pencil MS, [9]ff excised from the rear, having taken leave of his friends the author departs for Gravesend, via the Spalding train to London, while in the capital for a few days he and his mother played the tourist, 'to Madam Tussauds + saw collection of waxworks in which I did not feel very much interested', 'went into a Barbers [...] and had a 'Clip' Shampoo + Shave. Going a bit further I had 2 teeth broken + the nerves destroyed so as to prevent the tooth-ache. We then proceeded to the Monument of London + went to the top of it', Crystal Palace, Alexander Palace for an organ recital, 'to the British Museum. After going over various parts we went into the Jewel Room where there is a policeman + waiter. The 'Bobby' was very communicative + gave us a deal of information respecting the different jewels. Amongst them is one called the Duke of Portland's Vase [...]. The P.C. was so very civil and obliging that I have him 6d. [On returning to their rooms, via the Foundling Hospital they] 'had a "Siesta" (i.e. an afternoon sleep)'. Having departed for NZ on the SS Lusitania ('a noble looking vessel') the Channel crossing was 'very rough + many of the passengers are still very green'. Eventually having reached the Bay of Naples, at 5.30am 'a great many people were stirring in order to see the reflection of Mt. Vesuvius' before going ashore to Naples. The voyage was far from pleasant sailing, with inclement weather and recorded fights in steerage, but there are numerous nautical observations and descriptions of a raffle, further amusements, food and life onboard, before disembarking at Melbourne for a few days, - even noting having bought a violin book (for the author fiddles, mentioning it several times in places), - before the final leg, on a different vessel to Auckland, NZ, some leaves with lists and further notes, contemporary black faux leather ruled notebook, split with some movement, oblong 8vo, along with a 20th c manuscript transcript, the pastedown acting as a preface: I salvaged a notebook, rejected by a charity shop, in 1986. I have now transposed its entire contents, without alteration, in order to make it more easily readable, wrappers, 4to, loosely-inserted ephemera, including a defective copy of a Pinchbeck baptismal certificate for a Bennett, dated May 1st 1836, the same parish from which our author sets out etc., and an unassociated early 20th c friendship album, Elsie Kirk, February 27th 1909, partially-inscribed with typical sentiment, one leaf illustrated with a still life watercolour of a poppy, contemporary black calf, rubbed, all edges gilt, foliate endpapers, 8vo, (3)

Cookery. Raffald (Elizabeth), The Experienced English Housekeeper, ninth edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1784, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking plates, disbound, contemporary sheep boards, chipped and scuffed, 8vo Provenance: Frances Vickers, Her Book, Northampton, & Joseph Vickers', his Book, recto pastedown and ffep with contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscriptions, probably conjugal.

Commines (Philippe de) & [Sauvage (Denis), editor], Les mémoires de Messire Philippe de Commines [...], Avec la vie de messire Angelo Catho, archevêque de Vienne: Auqel ce present livre est dedié. Paris: Chez Claude Micard, au clos Bruneau, à l'enseigne de la Chaire, Rouen: De l'Imprimerie de George l'Oyselet, 1576, woodcut title-page, foliated initials, signatures collating: a³, 2a⁶, b-z⁸ A-Z ⁸, Aa-Ss⁸, including the verso blank, [B8] chipped fore-margin just touching marginal notation, [O8] with a similar if smaller chip, ditto Dd but smaller at centre lower-margin, Ff1 thinned corner margin, later early 19th c English russia, blind-panelled boards now detached, worn spine, red-stained edges, probably contemporary, marbled endpapers contemporary to rebind, 16mo  Provenance: 1) probably Richard Windwood (1609-1688), of Quainton, Buckinghamshire, MP for Windsor during the Long Parliament (1641-1648); indistinct ink manuscript ownership inscription on title-page, dated 1655. 2) possibly Henry Drury (1778-1841), classical scholar, Harrow master, bibliophile and Roxburghe Club member; ffep with dated presentation inscription: To Gell;/from/HD/1813. 

A Victorian lady's photographically-illustrated drawing-room album, Kate Davies, May 21st 1874, [54]ff of colour paper, some leaves embossed, typically inscribed with manuscript prose and verse, mostly glosses from belles-lettres, illustrated with 4 annotated views of the Swiss Alps dated 1880, 3 annotated views of Torquay and a Devon country house, a view of Caswell Bay, Mumbles, Wales, within a 'herbarium' border of dried and pressed seaweeds, presumably Welsh, a leaf of 7 Welsh topographical views, another leaf with views of Balmoral and Abergeldie Castles, an untitled but probable view of the Niagara Falls, America, "Falls near Braemar" , further albumen prints of Cologne and York Cathedrals, Landseer paintings, etc., one herbarium leaf and other herbarium borders in places, etc., contemporary green morocco gilt over boards, blocked and tooled, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, retailer's ticket to recto pastedown: Latrobe, Bookseller &c, Bristol, 4to

Crime & Punishment. [Carter (Samuel)], The Law of Executions, first edition, London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs; for Robert Battersby, 1706, black-ruled title-page, occasional Gothic Black Letter, [xvi], 323, [1] (blank), [18] (index), [2] (publisher's advert), toned, broad lower-margin unevenly cropped, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, now split with some rubbed losses, the Law Library of Los Angeles County's copy, title and two text leaves with their perforated stamp, pastedown with their labels and endpapers with their ink stamp, 8vo, [provincial printing] The Genuine Account of the Trial of Eugene Aram, For the Murder of Daniel Clark, Late of Knaresborough, in the County of York [...], third edition, York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington, Newcastle upon Tyne: Re-printed by Order for the Proprietor, 1759, [ii], 42pp, foxed, occasional chipped or uneven edges, but without any loss of text, with [7]pp of later manuscript and periodical clippings, c. 1830, early 19th c calf over papered boards, perished and disbound, verso of title with manuscript ownership inscription: J. Campbell Burroughs/Southampton, title-page verso and last leaf (i.e. F1) with small, ?private Selbourne Library stamps, 8vo, [provincial printing] Paul (Sir George Onesiphorus), Proceedings of the Grand Juries, Magistrates, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the County of Gloucester, on Designing & Executing a General Reform in the Construction and Regulation of the Prisons of the Said County, third edition, Gloucester: Printed by D. Walker, et al., 1808, [iii]-viii, [9]-87, lacking half-title, in-keeping 20th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, title lower-margin with former library stamp, not affecting letters, 8vo, [&] Townsend (William C), Modern State Trials, volume I only, 1850, 20th c morocco over cloth, some wear, etc., 8vo, (4)

A mid-19th c lady's commonplace book, Sarah Smith (née Jackson), dated 1845-1872, [12]ff only of manuscript on colour paper, typically prose and verse passages from belles-lettres, a few leaves with letterpress poetry by Charles Crocker, finely bound in contemporary roan, blocked in gilt and blind, rubbed, all edges gilt, 8vo, a 19th c album of topographical watercolours, dated 1861, 10 en plair views, including Wellington Suspension Bridge, Aberdeenshire, Peveril Point, Swanage, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth, disbound, oblong foolscap, a Victorian album of aristocrat's writing paper crests and monograms, n.d., [19]ff only illustrated with watercolour vignettes incorporating the 'scraps', mostly from titled ladies, contemporary morocco, chipped, disbound, oblong 8vo, an early 20th c friendship album, Mabel Dorothy Nock, Christmas 1912, typically inscribed, 9 mixed media illustrations of varying ability, some of which are caricatures, contemporary limp cloth, movement, oblong 8vo, another, similar, various dates and inscriptions, original cloth, oblong 8vo, (5)

Tourism and Topography in Georgian England. Seven gentleman-tourist's manuscript travel narratives, dated 1771-1783, ink manuscript on foolscap paper, contemporaneously paginated in four sections, 1) 1771 tour to Scotland, 111pp; 2) 1778 trip from London, presumably where the author is based, to Portsmouth, pp 1-42, 1780 Scotland pp 43-54, 1781 London to Chichester pp 95-113; 3) 1777 journey to Scotland; 4) 1783 London to Devon pp 1-18, & n.d. extract of a journey from London, incomplete, but including passages on Peterborough, pp 19-28, each travel narrative in the manner of a letter, yet without any indication of recipient or author, and with typical topographical and antiquarian observation, some remarks on the various country seats and houses, when mentioned, and their owners, occasional tit-bits of gossip, etc., one loosely-inserted [2]ff quite in a conforming hand and not absent from the sense of previous accounts, slightly later quarter-calf over papered boards, almost certainly early 19th c, split and loose covers, some losses of calf spine, text block with movement but holding, folio (33.9 x 21.6cm)

Three framed French manuscript lease deeds in connection with the leases and ownership of properties; one dated 17th May 1401 regarding a house in Gimbelon, Geneva indistinctly signed, 66.5cm wide, 36cm high (frame); the second lease dated 19th September 1772, 46cm wide, 33cm high (frame), the third single framed lease dated 21 October 1776, 28cm wide, 33.5cm high (frame)Qty: 3

Manuscript. Local interest. A small selection of hand-written periodicals/magazines titled: 'The M.S.S.'. A total of six issues, circa 1894. Produced in Carnforth with two addresses given: 38, Lancaster Rd. & 5, Oxford Street. The editors and contributors appear under pseudonyms such as Junius, Signa, Sernet, Ponto, Ignotus, etc. Several issues with illustrations including real-photographs of local scenes and a few pen & ink/watercolour sketches. See images for samples of contents. Together with; five original conveyance/abstract of title documents - three of local interest (Carnforth/Lancashire), the other two concerning Norfolk and York respectively.

Manuscript Novel. No author or date. Presumed 19th century. Titled: Silverlake. Consisting of 11 chapters over 113 pages. With 6 charming original full-page hand-coloured illustrations, plus head-pieces for each chapter. Small Quarto format (approx. 23cm x 19cm). Leather spine over marbled paper boards, worn. Inner-hinges weak/split. Contents in good order with the colouring of the illustrations still bright. (1)

Googe (Barnaby) A Prophecie Lately Transcribed from an Old Manuscript...Predicting the Rising, Meridian, and Falling condition of the States of the United Provinces, first edition, a little browned, ink inscription on final leaf slightly trimmed, later half russia, rebacked, corners worn, [Wing G1271], 4to, Printed by J.C. for R. Robinson, 1672.*** A rhyming prophesy with interpretation, relating to the Netherlands, with references to Surinam and Amboina in the Dutch West and East Indies.Provenance: James Boswell [probably James Boswell the Younger, 1778-1822] (ink signature on rear pastedown, dated 1812).

Ricraft (Josiah) A Survey of Englands Champions, and Truths faithfull Patriots, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folded at edges and becoming loose, 21 engraved portraits, title trimmed at foot obscuring publication date, ?lacking additional title, trimmed occasionally affecting printed side-notes, A4 & A5 with marginal paper defects and neat repairs, occasional faint spotting, off-setting, previous owner's ink and pencil notes to early blanks, manuscript list tipped to frontispiece verso, later crushed morocco, g.e., richly decorated in gilt and blind, small 8vo, by R. Austin, and are to be sold by J.H., [1647, but 1649]. *** Provenance: Bookplates of John Townley; Thomas Brooke F.S.A. and Fairfax of Cameron.  This copy collates as the second edition, but appears to have had a copy of the first edition title-page trimmed and inserted at a later date. 

Owen (Lewis) The Unmasking of All popish Monks, Friers, and Jesuits, or, A Treatise of their Genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state, M4 with small paper defect to fore-edge, by J.H. for George Gibs, 1628; bound before, Worke, More Works, and a Little More Worke for a Masses. Priest., by William Jones, 1628; bound before, [Forbes (Patrick)] Eubulus, or a dialogue, Aberdeen, by Edward Raban, 1627, together 3 works bound as 1 vol., woodcut initials and headpieces, front pastedown partially removed, upper hinge broken, contemporary vellum, slightly splayed, lacking ties, title in manuscript to spine, a little rubbed, 4to.

Medicine.- Cooke (James) Mellificium Chirurgiæ: or, the Marrow of Chirurgery. An Anatomical Treatise, engraved portrait frontispiece, 11 plates (9 folding), one with short tear, a3 with short tear into text, tender fore-edges with a little fraying occasionally touching text, manuscript notes to endpapers, blanks and frontispiece verso, bookplate, contemporary calf, short splits to spine extremities but holding firm, a little rubbed, [Welcome II, p.386], 4to, by T. Hodgkin, for William Marshall, 1685.

Leybourn (William) The Compleat Surveyor, containing the whole Art of Surveying of Land, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, previous owner's marginal ink note to title, woodcut diagrams, engraved initials and headpieces, worming at gutter not affecting text, marginal manuscript notes (F2, 2G4 (verso) & 2M4), manuscript diagram to final blank, L3 with small hole in text, 2F4 with loss to corner not affecting text, scattered spotting and staining, ex-Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors with their bookplate, modern endpapers, near contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed and worn, rubbing to corners and extremities, folio, by R. and W. Leybourn, for G. Sawbridge, 1657.

Africa.- Lobo (Jeronimo) A Short Relation of the River Nile, Of its Source and Current, first edition in English, imprimatur leaf at beginning and final blank present, 2ff. dedicatory epistle supplied from a smaller copy, marginal browning and light water-staining, contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed, spine faded, [Wing L2733], 8vo, Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1669.*** Account of a Jesuit missionary's travels in Ethiopia from 1625 to 1633; originally written in Portuguese it was translated from the manuscript by Sir Peter Wyche for the Royal Society. It includes descriptions of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, Arab shipping, Prester John, "the famous Unicorne", and palm trees.

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains, translated by Sir Thomas North, 2 parts in 1, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut medallion portraits within cartouches, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, bookplate of Bradby Hall, endpapers a little marginally toned, some near contemporary and later annotations in ink and pencil, occasional paper flaws, contemporary calf, blind-stamped with coat-of-arms, gilt, portion of early manuscript on vellum used as binder's waste, recornered and rebacked preserving original spine strip, joints and corners rubbed, [STC 20070], Printed by George Miller, and are to be sold by Robert Allott, folio, 1631.

Weever (John) Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adjacent, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, both with expert repairs to corners, woodcut illustrations (some full-page), engraved initials and headpieces, early blank with manuscript notes remargined and recornered, scattered faint spotting, one or two ff. with small loss to corners or edges with expert restoration, 2G5 with tiny rust-hole to fore-edge, 2V6 with tear to top edge and neat repair, 2X2 with short tear to top corner, later panelled calf rebacked, g.e., a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Lowndes II, 2876], folio, Thomas Harper, 1631. *** Complete with the final index, which is often lacking. 

Meager (Leonard) The English Gardener: or a Sure guide to young Planters and Gardeners, first edition, 24 engraved plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, early ink ownership signature to title, occasional manuscript notes, marginal spotting and staining, bookplate, short tears to free endpapers, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, remnants of paper label to spine, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Henrey 240], 4to,  for P. Parker, 1670.

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES NORTHCOTE R.A. (BRITISH 1746-1831), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS DAVID GARRICK `THE PROLOGUE PORTRAIT' Oil on canvas 77 x 63cm (30¼ x 24¾ in.)Provenance: (Possibly), Mrs Piozzi, Streatham Park, Surrey Sale, George Squibb, on the premises, 8 May 1816, first day's sale, lot 63, 183 gns. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814) By descent to Miss Burney. Sale, Christie's, London, 31 March 1922, lot 31, as 'Sir J. Reynolds', 609 gns. to Weston. S.R. Hibbard, London Sale, Christie's, London, 9 March 1923, lot 132, as 'Sir J. Reynolds', 787 gns. Sir James Roberts Bt. (1848-1935), The Hall, Fairlight. Sale, Christie's, London, 20 March 1936, lot 75, (with incorrect exhibition history), 267 gns. J. Mitchell, London. Sale, Christie's, London, 24 November 1972, lot 140, as 'Sir Joshua Reynolds', (with incorrect exhibition history). Sale, Christie's, London, Property of the Late Geoffrey and the Hon. Carole Lawson, Stilemans, Surrey, 13 November 2019, lot 216. Literature: (Possibly) A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, I, pp. 347-348, with incorrect exhibition history. (Possibly) W. Armstrong, Reynolds, London, 1900, p. 207, as 'a replica of the Duke of Bedford's painting' D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: a complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 211, no. 705e, as 'possibly Northcote'. Exhibited: (Possibly) London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Old Masters and deceased masters of the British School, 1877, no. 124. This portrait of the theatre manager, playwright and actor, David Garrick (1717-79), is a copy of 'The Prologue Portrait' (c. 1776) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). It shows Garrick with a manuscript inscribed 'Prologue' in large cursive script, an allusion to his lauded practice of writing prologues to plays staged at Drury Lane. The actor stage-manager's prologues became famous, and Garrick would deliver them in the style of a virtuoso orator priming his audience. The original painting was acquired by the 3rd Duke of Dorset in 1780, and has been at Knole, Kent, from at least 30 August of that year when it was seen by Horace Walpole in the Chamber of Poets (NT 129936). The painting offered here is probably by James Northcote (1746-1831), who was a pupil of Reynolds from 1771, lodging with him for five years. Northcote probably made several copies of this popular subject (Mannings, p. 211). On the 17 April 1776, he wrote to his brother, Samuel: 'I have made some more copies which I shall send down when I leave London, particularly one of Garrick which is vastly like. This I will not sell under ten guineas as the original will be in the Exhibition (ibid.). The Reynolds painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776 (no. 241). There are at least four other copies known including one formerly at Woburn Abbey, supposedly painted for the Duke of Bedford. In 1900, what is possibly the copy offered here, was described by the art historian, Sir Walter Armstrong, as 'a replica of the Duke of Bedford's painting' (Armstrong, p. 207). The other copies are: an untraced version, possibly painted for either Bennet Langton or Topham Beauclerk; an oval example in the Garrick Club, London and one in the Royal Collection (RCIN 406432). Condition Report: Canvas relined on later stretcher which is providing good support. There are shallow horizontal creases across the surface, but these are only visible in raking light. There is a fine surface craquelure. Under UV light there are some broad areas of retouching mostly in the background areas and on his coat, most towards the left edge. Apart from a line on his left eyebrow, the face appears untouched as the hands. It has a layer of discoloured varnish. Condition Report Disclaimer

BENJAMIN VAN DE GUCHT (BRITISH 1753-1794) PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK Oil on canvas, feigned oval Signed and dated '1768' (middle left) 55.5 x 44cm (21¾ x 17¼ in.) Provenance: (Possibly) the estate of David Garrick and left to his friend Bartleman Sale, Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1981, lot 61 R. & J. Jones, London Mr Reauvier Mrs Marsden Sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 'The Paula Peyraud Collection, 6 May 2009, lot 104. Sold Stair Galleries, New York, 30 April 2016, lot 417. Benjamin van der Gucht (1753-1794) was a close friend of David Garrick and painted him on multiple occasions. His posthumous auction `The Property of The Late David Garrick', by Mr. Christie, 23 June 1823, included lot 7, 'V.D. Gucht Portrait of a Gentleman, and Portrait of an old Lady in oils'. The artist was the thirty-second child of the engraver Gerard van der Gucht and studied at St Martins and the Royal Academy. An accomplished painter he was also a successful art dealer and restorer, building an art gallery in Upper Brook Street in 1776. Van der Gucht specialised in painting theatrical scenes and portraits of actors and received significant patronage from the great actor and stage manager (indeed, he once went on a buying trip for Garrick and his wife in Holland and Paris). This portrait is an oval rendition of a threequarter length portrait painted in 1764 by Pompeo Batoni (1708-87), held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1845.61). Garrick travelled to Italy in 1763-1765 and like many that went on the Grand Tour had his portrait painted by Batoni as a gift for Richard Kaye in exchange for an antique gem that Kaye had found at the Baths of Caracalla. Garrick is holding an illustrated edition of Terence's 'Comedies' (1736) open at the page showing masks for the Andria copied from a manuscript in the Vatican Library Transcending his modest provincial origins, David Garrick (1717- 1779), the high-spirited, ambitious lad from Lichfield morphed into a theatrical icon, dominating the London stage as a naturalistic and engaging actor for three decades. Later, as the commanding manager of Drury Lane, Garrick was at the epicentre of theatrical debates and cultural politics. Besides his dramatic genius and versatility as an actor, what made Garrick exceptional was the extraordinary scope of his artistic and literary achievements, his professional and social status, and his international celebrity. A theatrical superstar who elevated the art of acting and professionalised the English stage, Garrick was also a talented dramatist poet, artistic patron and collector. After his magnificent state internment in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Edmund Burke's epitaph encapsulated Garrick's cosmopolitanism, literary talents, and lifelong devotion to Shakespeare: 'Shakespeare was the chosen object of his study: in his action, and in his declamation he expressed all the fire, the enthusiasm, the energy, the facility, the endless variety of that great poet. Like him he was equally happy in the tragic and comic style. He entered into the true spirit of the poets, because he was himself a poet, and wrote many pieces with elegance and spirit. He raised the character of his profession to the rank of a liberal art, not only by his talents, but by the regularity and probity of his life and the elegance of his manners.'[1] Key to his success, Garrick possessed a genius for self-promotion and a mastery of image-making which set him apart from his contemporaries. His features widely disseminated in multiple mediums, thus amplifying his cultural pre-eminence, posthumous reputation and arguably birthing modern celebrity culture 

Breviary. An impressive large folio manuscript Breviary, Italian, mid 17th-century, comprising 187 leaves in total (173 on vellum and final 14 leaves on paper), large scale Latin text written in black script, Psalm One with large illuminated initial 'B' with cherub and flowers, numerous other capital initials in red or blue ink, with few other black initial letters with additional decoration also in black ink, 51 pages with Gregorian Chants; Psalter, folios I to CXVI, Propers thereafter, later index of Psalms and Propers to final leaf, with an additional Salve Regina in chant form written in a different hand before index, partial Breviary after Psalms including some but not all Proper of the Season (includes segments of Christmastide, Lent, Ascentiontide, Whitsuntide, Corpus Christi), some but not all Proper of the Saints and Common of the Saints (including St Peter, Conversion of St Paul, All Saints, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Common of One Martyr, Common of Confessors, Common of the Dedication of a Church), occasional near-contemporary and later corrections to text, sewing to initial gathering a little weak and few leaves sprung, dust-soiling and few marks mostly to margins, light wear to some leaves and few repairs, contemporary sheep over wooden boards with brass bosses, decorations and corner-pieces, lacking leather straps to board edges, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed and some wear, large folio (60 x 41 cm)Sold not subject to return.QTY: (1)

Payne (John, translator). The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, 3 volumes, London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1901, half-titles, partly unopened, occasional light spotting, crimson morocco gilt bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, contemporary crimson half morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, limited edition of an unspecified number, this copy unnumbered, together with 4 others: The Bakhtyar Nama: A Persian Romance, Translated from a manuscript text by Sir William Ouseley, edited, with introduction and notes by W. A. Clouston, privately printed, 1883, limited edition of 300, The Book of Sindibad... edited by W. A. Clouston, 1884, limited edition of 300, A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil and Urdu... edited by W. A. Clouston, 1889, limited edition of 300, plus The Gulistanor Rose Garden, by Musle-Hudeen Sheik Saadi, translated from the original by Francis Gladwin, Boston, 1865 QTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches..., London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1751, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, few woodcut head and tailpieces, red-ruled borders throughout, occasional light toning and scattered spotting, verso of front free endpaper with 19th-century inscription 'This book which belonged originally to the Princess of Wales, and was used by the Members of the Royal Family in the Chapel of St. James', was bought of Mr. Bohn at Canterbury in June 1874, by Robert Jenkins, M. A. Rector and Vicar of Lyminge and Honorary Canon of Canturbury - June, 1874, and given by him to Helen Constable Jenkins Easter-Monday (March 29th) 1880', book label of Church of St. Mary and St. Eadburg, Lyminge, with manuscript annotation at head and foot of label 'Robert Charles Jenkins Rector and Vicar of the ... and Hon. Canon of Canterbury', front free blank bearing the ownership signature of Lilian G. Henshaw, February 16th 1926, and tipped-in card inscribed 'This Bible belongs to Lilian Henshaw, sale of H. Rigden 1928', all edges gilt, contemporary dark brown/black morocco, gilt decorated spine and roll border to boards, spine compartments with gilt monogram of George II (1683-1760), with his royal armorial bearings to centre of each board, 'St. James's Chapel 1752' in gilt to upper board, upper joint lightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)

Spanish Illuminated Manuscript Certificate of Nobility. A Spanish Carta Executoria de Hidalguia for Capitan Christoval Monte Bernardo of Seville, dated 7th August 1618, manuscript on vellum, 112 leaves, with two full-page illuminations in gold and colours, the first being an elaborate decorative coat of arms bearing the motto Por la Gracia de Dios, and a second full-page illumination in gold colours depicting the Annunciation, with a scene of Christian soldiers on horseback defeating the infidel, with decorative outer border and four oval portraits of Saints to outer corners (Saint Christopher, Saint Francis, Saint Anna, and Saint Blaise), ten large illuminated initials in gold and colours (one with portrait of a gentleman), the main text written in brown ink, 34 lines to each page, entirely red-ruled throughout, red silk tissue-guard to each of the full-page illuminations at front of volume, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, original red velvet over wooden boards, and old printed auction catalogue description pasted above, thick folio (31 x 21 cm), contained in early 20th-century red calf-backed drop-over book boxQTY: (1)NOTE:A handsome illuminated manuscript certificate of nobility issued at the Royal Chancellery at Granada on behalf of the Monte Bernardo family of Seville, on behalf of 'Gonzalo Monte Bernardo e y Christoval Monte Bernardo e el Capitan Martin Monte Bernardo hermanos vecinos de la... cuidad de Sevilla e y Andres...'.

[Pepys, Samuel]. Braybrooke (Richard Griffin, Baron). The History of Audley End. To which are appended Notices of the Town and Parish of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex, 1st edition, London: Samuel Bentley, 1836, engraved frontispiece, portrait of Braybrooke, 2 maps, and 16 plates, with other illustrations, extra-illustrated with an additional 45 portraits and engravings, some early, some coloured and many folding, plus two manuscript documents, the first signed by both Charles II and Samuel Pepys, the second an autograph letter signed by Samuel Pepys, window-mounted opposite pages 87 & 104, autograph presentation note from the author to Reverend Joseph Hunter FSA, 24 April 1847, tipped on to front flyleaf, with a later note at foot indicating it was then purchased at the sale of Hunter’s books in December 1861, additionally signed above the note (?John Doller, 1861), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 20th-century red polished calf by Bayntun Rivière, large paper copy, 4to (310 x 245 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Rev. Joseph Hunter, 1783-1861, (presentation note from the author); ?John Doller (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The two Pepys letters included are:Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703), English diarist and naval administrator. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘S. Pepys’, Derby House, 18 February 1673/4, to Mr Brereton, concerning the Navy’s ships and the numbers of men, borne and mustered, taking issue with his weekly accounts, ‘… I have hitherto observed such an irregularity in one of your weekly accounts as I never met withal from any other hand…’, with a postscript to add new observations about the numbers of men borne and mustered on board the St David and the Dunkirk, giving details of the discrepancies, 2 pages, folioWilliam Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS (1631-1680) was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664. He was chairman of the Committee of Accounts, better known as the Brooke House Committee, in 1667-1670. In that capacity he clashed repeatedly with Samuel Pepys, whose description of Brereton in his Second Diary, or Brooke House Journal, although no doubt biased, is the best portrait we have of the man.Charles II (1630-1685), King of Great Britain & Ireland, 1660-1685 and Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703), English diarist and naval administrator. Document Signed, ‘Charles R’ and ‘S. Pepys’, Whitehall, 10 January 1673/4, a manuscript warrant in a secretarial hand, addressed to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, appointing George Bowen, late boatswain of the ship Anne, to be boatswain of the ship Rupert, repairs to blank left margin, 1 page, folioSamuel Pepys visited the 17th-century country house Audley End and described it his diary entry for 8 October 1667: ‘At last, rose, and up, and broke our fast, and then took coach, and away, and at Newport did call on Mr. Lowther, and he and his friend, and the master of the house, their friend, where they were, a gentleman, did presently get a-horseback and overtook us, and went with us to Audley-End, and did go along with us all over the house and garden: and mighty merry we were. The house indeed do appear very fine, but not so fine as it hath heretofore to me; particularly the ceilings are not so good as I always took them to be, being nothing so well wrought as my Lord Chancellor’s are; and though the figure of the house without be very extraordinary good, yet the stayre-case is exceeding poor; and a great many pictures, and not one good one in the house but one of Harry the Eighth, done by Holben; and not one good suit of hangings in all the house, but all most ancient things, such as I would not give the hanging-up of in my house; and the other furniture, beds and other things, accordingly.’

Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Rhetorica Nova, Italy, 1st November 1491 [finit feliciter K[a]l Nove[m]brib[u]s 1490], manuscript on vellum, 153 leaves of text in dark brown ink (with 8 blank vellum leaves at front and 20 blank leaves at end, first vellum leaf verso with early ownership name in ink 'reddantur Hannibali Merswein 1541', second blank leaf recto with four paragraphs of contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink, and 8th blank leaf verso with a further three paragraphs of contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink, and further annotations to the first five pages of the text, all apparently by the same hand), 21 lines per page with occasional marginal notes, four five-line illuminated initials in gold, red, blue and light brown (to the four main books of the text), numerous three-line initials in red and blue (or red and pale brown) with pen flourishes, paragraph marks in red or blue, initial strokes in red, old (early 20th century) printed auction catalogue description tipped-in to front endpaper, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, edges stained blue, fine 18th century Italian gilt-decorated red full morocco, spine with three raised bands and dark green title label, a little rubbed to extremities, 8vo (14 x 10 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A fine late 15th century Italian humanist manuscript of Cicero's Rhetorica Nova, as it was known during the medieval period. Cicero's authorship of this text is today disputed.

Bell (John, editor). British Theatre, 30 volumes, London: Bunney and Gold, 1791-1799, two engraved frontispieces and title page to each play, many volumes with dedications; some with preface and advertisements, all with dramatis personae for performances at the Drury Lane and/or Covent Garden theatres, engraved armorial bookplate of Clonbrock to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform green straight-grain morocco, gilt lettering and ruled spines, gilt turn-ins, corners slightly bumped, contemporary manuscript ink inscription to upper board of volume 28, 12moQTY: (30)NOTE:Provenance: 1st Baron Clonbrock, County Galway, Ireland (bookplate).

Ellis (Henry). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate, in the Suburbs of London, London: J. Nichols, 1798, extra-illustrated and expanded into three volumes, including autograph items of Lord Burleigh, John Wilkes, David Garrick, Horace Walpole and the author Henry Ellis (2) including one about the book’s scarcity, autograph signatures of Robert Vyner, Robert Aske, Thomas Bloodworth and John Hobby together on a slip of paper, plus approximately 330 engravings, comprising portraits, views, and antiquities, etc., plus 2 original drawings, printed items and extracts including a scare David Garrick playbill, etc., some occasional spotting or browning, red morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, top edges gilt, late 19th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some edge and corner wear, 4to (280 x 210 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: John Bullock (author’s autograph letter signed to Mr Bullock, Guildford, 29 September 1859: ‘… You quite astonish me to find a copy of the History of Shoreditch (illustrated too) at Guildford. There were but two hundred and fifty copies printed: and I believe the largest portion of them were lost in Mr [John] Nichols’s Fire [February 1808]; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).The autograph items include:Cecil (William, 1520-1598), 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550-1553 and 1558-1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Document Signed, ‘W. Burghley’, 8 May 1594, being a warrant, in a clerk’s hand but signed by William [Cecil], Lord Burghley, instructing his former secretary Vincent Skinner, now Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, to issue £100 to Sir Roger Williams for his ambassadorial mission to Henri IV of France, as the queen’s warrant has not yet been signed, dated 8 May 1594; annotated by Skinner with instructions to Mr Taylor, one of the tellers, to pay the amount, and that that this warrant would be replaced with a further order, whereupon this warrant is to be cancelled, dated 13 May 1594, a little spotting, old bookseller’s brief printed catalogue entry pasted to lower left blank margin, one page, folio [tipped in opposite p. 23]For William Cecil (1520-1597), Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer, see ODNB.Sir Roger Williams (1539/40-1595), soldier and author, was a flamboyant Welshman who fought on the continent from 1557, between 1574 and 1577 in the Spanish army of Flanders (where he may have served as an intelligence agent on behalf of Sir Francis Walsingham). Williams spent the Armada year, 1588, in England. He helped to prepare the English militia to do battle with the Spanish (whose military methods he knew so well) and was second in command, to Essex, of the cavalry of the army gathered at Tilbury. Elizabeth had always tolerated rather than liked Williams, but in 1594 he was finally granted a life pension of £300 a year. In that year and in 1595 he was sent as special ambassador to Henri IV. These appointments reflect his special expertise in French affairs and friendship with the French king, but also perhaps a growing acceptance of him by Elizabeth—and probably most of all the influence at court of his patron, Essex. Williams died of fever on 12 December 1595 after a four-day illness, with Essex at his side. His extensive ODNB entry endorses the speculation that he might have served as the model for Fluellen, the fiery yet witty, consummate Welsh professional soldier in Shakespeare’s Henry V.Vincent Skinner (c. 1540-1616) entered Trinity College in Cambridge in 1557 and Lincoln’s Inn in 1565, occupied administrative positions in Lincolnshire between 1575 and 1583. He may already have been in Burghley’s service in 1571, when he was elected MP for Truro, the first of his eight parliamentary seats. A puritan, he was serving as Burghley’s secretary by at least 1578. Skinner left Burghley’s personal service in 1593, when he became auditor of the receipt, by that time the principal office in the lower Exchequer. His career after this date was an unhappy one, and he died intestate at a debtor’s prison on 28 February 1616 (History of Parliament).Burghley’s inability to obtain proper authorisation for this payment can be explained by the queen’s itinerary: on 7 May 1594 Elizabeth arrived at Lambeth Palace, where she remained until departing for Wimbledon, the house of Burghley’s son Sir Thomas Cecil, on 11 May. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington: The Elizabethan court day by day – 1594.Wilkes (John, 1725-1797), English radical journalist and politician, magistrate, essayist and soldier, Lord Mayor of London 1774-75. Document Signed, ‘John Wilkes’, 12 July 1775, concerning blood money in settlement of £40 for the assault and robbery by Charles Whittle of William Watlington in the Parish of St Leonard’s Shoreditch, 6 May 1774, on vellum, countersigned by Sergeant Glynn (recorder), some soiling, one page, docketed, 230 x 310 mm [window-mounted as a double-page between pages 4 & 5]Garrick (David, 1717-1779), English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘D.G.’, no place, no date, c. 1770s, to the actors [at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane], in full: ’Gentlemen, I have long seen and felt the great evil you complained of – it came with double weight upon me this season but as I resolv’d to quit the direction of your theatre I gave up all thoughts of finding out a remedy for it. - As I most sincerely wish you well, if you can point out to me any justifiable method of serving you, I will do that for you, which I have hitherto delay’d to do for the proprietors’, several deletions and corrections, endorsed in Garrick’s hand, ‘My letter to your performers’, 1 page, 4to [opposite page 141]Walpole (Horatio, 1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. Unsigned autograph manuscript note, no date, ‘I cannot call on your Ladyship this evening, nor go to the Duchess of Montrose, as I have just now been sent for to the Pavilions; but I shall be very glad of the honour of seeing your Ladyship tomorrow morning.’ [window-mounted beneath an engraved portrait opposite p. 11]The two drawings are: ‘View taken in the fields between Shoreditch and Hackney’ by O. N., no date, late 18th century, monochrome watercolour en grisaille, titled and initialled to lower margin, 205 x 300 mm [opposite p. 100]; ‘Balme House, Finsbury Fields’, by C. H. M., no date, early 19th century, pen and ink and sepia watercolour wash, titled and initialled to lower margin, 150 x 180 mm, [opposite p. 124].Portraits include: The Author (a private plate lithographed by H. Corbould), 9 plates of Jane Shore (including one by Bartolozzi), Charles I, and St. Agnes (mezzotints by J. Smith); Garrick as Romeo, etched by T. Paurland, 1851 (only 20 copies executed); The Rev. Arthur Biford (Jeremy Collier's coadjutor in his work on the Immorality of the English Stage); Richard Gough, FSA (private plate); Foster Powell, the Pedestrian, etc.Engravings include: Both Views of Lunardi's Balloon Ascent from the Artillery Ground (with his Autograph); Original print of the performance of Topham, the Strong Man, 1757; and several others.

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Poetical and Dramatic Works, founded on the author's latest edition of 1834 with many additional pieces now first included and with a collection of various readings, 4 volumes, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877, Large Paper copy, half-titles, manuscript note by the printer Robert Roberts to verso of half-title to first volume states '24 copies only on Whatman's Paper: this is no three R.R.', printed armorial bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym to front pastedown of each volume, untrimmed, original quarter japanese vellum, printed paper spine label to each volume, a trifle dusty and some light marks, board outer edges with some surface wear, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Horatio Noble Pym, or Horace Pym (1844-1896), solicitor, book collector and editor of the journal of Quaker writer Caroline Fox, Memories of Old Friends, published in 1881. Pym has added a pencil note to the front pastedown of the first volume: '£4-4 from publisher & printer in 1879. Only 24 copies thus printed - Rare'.

* Dickens Family. A bound collection of Autograph Letters and related, being the correspondence from the family of Charles Dickens to Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens ('Plorn'), the youngest son of the novelist who was living in Australia, 1868-1902, comprising 44 items including a cheque signed by Charles Dickens, 25 September 1868, drawn on a Coutts & Company pre-printed form and completed in manuscript, to pay A. J. Dickens at Melbourne £200; 37 Autograph Letters from his mother Catherine Dickens (11), his aunt Georgina Hogarth (8), his sister Mary (4), sister Kate (1), brother Alfred (2), brother Henry (2), sister-in-law Jessie (3), etc., a total of approximately 180 pages, mostly 8vo; a telegram, a Christmas card from Georgina, a carte-de-visite photograph of Dickens as a young man [1852, medallion albumen print from a daguerreotype] and the printed will of Charles Dickens, 5 pp.; some occasional browning, soiling and fold tears and repairs to letters, all neatly inlaid and interleaved with neatly typed transcriptions, 9 letters with envelopes preserved (stamps removed), the letters arranged chronologically, 5 leaves of preliminary manuscript matter in a neat calligraphic hand, written in red and black ink to rectos only and including title, a brief biography of Charles Dickens and details of his children and estate, red morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle to front pastedown (evidence of earlier bookplate of another owner removed), all eges gilt, early 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some marginal browning and spine slightly darkened, large 8vo (267 x 188 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance, W. A Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Charles and Catherine Dickens had ten children, the youngest being Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852-1902). Plorn (short for Plornishmaroonitgoonter, so nicknamed by his father) left England in September 1868 for Australia, joining his brother Alfred Tennyson, who was already established there as a successful sheep farmer. The cheque from his father at the front of the volume was given to him when he went to Australia. In 1890 Plorn represented Wilcannia in the New South Wales Parliament, but resigned shortly afterwards. He then received an appointment as Rabbit Inspector for the Government of New South Wales, and subsequently was the Officer of the Lands Department in charge of the Moree district, where he died after an illness of some months.

Newcourt (Richard). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London, 2 volumes, London: Benj. Motte, 1708-10, half-title discarded, 3 engraved plates (of 4, includes 2 double-page plates) and folding engraved map, without portrait frontispiece, browning and some spotting mostly to text leaves, two additional leaves of manuscript index at rear of volume 2, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, 20th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, folio, together with:Ogborne (Elizabeth). The History of Essex, from the earliest period to the present time..., London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, 1814, engraved title, 11 engraved plates and numerous vignette illustrations, one folding plan, some browning, occasional damp-stains, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, 20th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to, plus another copy of the same edition bound in modern full red morocco,Cromwell (Thomas). History and Description of the Ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, in Essex, 2 volumes, London: Robert Jennings & Swinborne and Walter, Colchester, 1825, 25 engraved plates including frontispieces, 2 maps (including 1 double-page and 1 folding), 1 folding plate of facsimile manuscript, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, 20th-century dark blue half morocco gilt, spines faded, 8vo, Bonney (Henry Kaye). Historic Notices in reference to Fotheringhay, Oundle: Printed by and for T. Bell; and for Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, London; and Archibald Constable, and Co, Edinburgh, 1821, engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, occasional light offsetting and minor spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, 20th-century calf, 8vo,Chancellor (Frederic). The Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex..., London: Printed for the Author, 1890, numerous lithograph plates, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, near contemporary terracotta brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, extremities slightly rubbed and scuffed, large 4to, Tanner (Thomas and Nasmith, James). Notitia Monastica; or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers, formerly in England and Wales..., now reprinted with many additions, Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, by Joan Archdeacon, for John Nichols, 1787, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates or armorials, small library ink stamp of Leeds Reference Library to title, some offsetting, occasional spotting, bookplates to pastedowns, modern brown half morocco, folio,Carr (John). Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807..., London: Mathews and Leigh, 1809, uncoloured folding aquatint frontispiece and 11 uncoloured aquatint plates, edges untrimmed, original boards, joints split and some wear, 4to (Abbey, Scenery 488), plus other British topography related (mostly Essex related), including Lewis (Samuel). A Topographical Dictionary of England..., volume 5 only (of 5), 3rd edition, London: S. Lewis and Co., 1835, 116 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, modern cloth, 4to, Wright (Thomas). Virtue's picturesque Beauties of Great Britain..., 1831; Barrett (C. R. B.). Essex: Highways, Byways, and Waterways, 2 volumes, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892; Victoria County Histories of Essex and Sussex, etc.QTY: (56)

Fore-Edge Paintings. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish, his Gentleman Usher. And Metrical Visions, from the Original Autograph Manuscript. With notes and other illustrations, by Samuel Weller Singer, 2 volumes, Chiswick: From the Press of C. Whittingham; for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, London, 1825, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume and 6 plates, occasional offsetting and minor spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns (with evidence of outline adhesive from earlier bookplate previously removed), all edges gilt with double fore-edge painting to each depicting Christ Church, Oxford, and Hampton Court main entrance (to volume one) and Windsor Castle and the Tower of London (to volume two), contemporary dark blue morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Burton (Thomas). Diary of Thomas Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: now first published from the original published autograph manuscript. With an introduction, containing an account of the Parliament of 1654; from the journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq. M.P., also now first printed. Edited and illustrated with notes historical and biographical by John Towill Rutt, 4 volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1828, half-titles, enraged frontispiece to first volume, facsimile frontispiece to second and third volumes, bookplate of Frances Richardson Currer to front pastedown of each volume, errata leaf and 2 pp publisher's advertisement at rear of fourth volume, contemporary uniform olive green polished full calf, gilt-decorated spines, with morocco labels, a little rubbed and some marks, 8v0, together withLodge (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures of the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, 12 volumes bound in six, London: printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835, numerous engraved portraits, titles, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform gilt-decorated red full morocco, spines elaborately gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, plus others similar, including Harriet Martineau, Introduction to the History of the Peace from 1800 to 1815 & The History of England during the Thirty Year's Peace: 1816-1846, 3 volumes bound in two, London: Charles Knight, 1849-51, contemporary tan full polished calf gilt, Remains of the late John Tweddell Fellow of Trinity-College Cambridge, 1815, John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 2 volumes, 1813, Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby 1813, etcQTY: (34)

Heraldry Manuscript. A bound collection of heraldic tracts including pedigrees showing the relationship between the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth and other Knights of the Garter, late 16th Century, 250 leaves manuscript on paper, with 17th-century additions, folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) inscribed with the name or signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand, some pages blank, early pagination with pages numbered 109-616, some other foliation and partial renumbering in modern pencil, some dust-soiling, late 18th-century armorial bookplate of (?)’T.S.M.’ by J[ames] Kirk to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, beneath and William H. Robinson’s Bibliotheca Phillippica bookseller’s ticket below that, old pencil inscription at head of pastedown indicating the volume was ex Bibliotheca Heberiana and Phillippica, uncut, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, ‘MS. Heraldic Pedigrees of Earl of Essex & C.’, inscribed beneath in old ink, ‘olim Ld Somers nup Sir Jos. Jekyll’, small paper shelf-mark numbers at foot, [Phillipps MS] ‘8196’ and ‘228’, slightly soiled, some edge wear to boards, folio (305 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: ?Edward Dyer (1543-1607) and family (signature/inscription); John Somers (1651-1716); Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738); (?)T.S.M. (bookplate); Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), (Phillipps MS 8196 spine label); William H. Robinson, booksellers; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old brief 4-page manuscript index is loosely inserted, evidently written before pp. 1-108 were separated and ‘lost’. These missing leaves are identified as ‘Calendar of the Dorse of the Close Rolls 1 H. A.; Fines 1 H. A.; Table to these after many blank leaves’.There can be little doubt that this set of pedigrees was executed for the Earl of Essex for some special purpose. Folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) bears the signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand. Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607), the poet, had as a patron Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, father of Robert, the second Earl. Thus Robert and Dyer must have been on intimate terms, which would account for the manuscript being in the possession of the Dyer family in the seventeenth century.

Berry (William). County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families of the County of Hants; collected from the Heraldic Visitations and other authentic manuscripts in the British Museum, and in the possession of Private individuals, and from the information of the present resident families, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1833, half-title, wood engraved armorials to genealogies, bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring, Bt., and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear, folio, together with:Bysshe (Edward). A Visitation of the County of Essex. Begun A.D. MDCLXIIII., Finished A.D. MDCLXVIII, edited by J. J. Howard, London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1888, half-title, wood engraved armorial frontispiece and one plate, with 'List of Disclaimers and Pedigrees' not present in ordinary copies, interleaved with blank leaves throughout, ink stamp to upper outer corner of half-title and page 63, advertisement leaf regarding this work tipped-in to front free endpaper and with related manuscript note signed by R[obert]. Hovenden dated November 10 1888, upper pastedown with armorial bookplates of Robert Hovenden, W. Harry Rylands and cancelled bookplate of Essex Archaeological Society, all edge gilt, contemporary red morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, large 8vo, (one of six copies printed), Burke (John Bernard). A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain, 4 volumes, 1st & 2nd series, London: Colburn and Co., 1852-55, 96 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispieces), 69 engraved plates of armorials, bookplate of the Constitutional Club Library to upper pastedowns, some hinges cracked, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco by J. Larkins, gilt emblem of the Constitutional Club at foot of spines, some wear to joints and extremities, 8vo, plus Sloane-Evans (William Sloane). A Grammar of British Heraldry, consisting of Blazon and Marshalling; with an introduction of the Rise and Progress of Symbols and Ensigns, 2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1854, hand-coloured lithograph portrait frontispiece, additional lithograph title printed in red and black (bound facing page 25), and 23 lithograph armorial plates, occasional light spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, modern calf, 8voQTY: (7)