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The Vale of Clevedon, Somerset, watercolour, inscribed with title, 26.5 x 35cm, in gilt frame; illustrated in 'The Price Guide to English Watercol...

a collection of MS and engraved music, formerly the property of Miss Wilhelmina Brydone, 2nd Countess of Minto 1806-1853, daughter of Patrick Bryd...

a collection of watercolours and caricatures of colonial life in 1930s and 1940s Tangyanika, unframed, most mounted on card, (22)Condition report:...

collection of portraits of local people, cartoon drawings and artwork, watercolours etc (32)

collection of further artwork, mainly nature drawings, landscapes, sketches etc. of various sizes, some on board (26)

Lot 487

LUDLOW (W A)

Bengal Troops on the Line of March, uncoloured lithographic panorama, 1835, 270cm section only, (now in three parts; stained and worn)

for Major F. R. De Bude, Mooltan, Agra, 1858 to 1870, entries include "Box Wallah Jewahja- £11.8.0." and "Hired mules during Black Mountain Expedi...

Various, mainly post war, with some first or early editions in dust jackets, including Virginia Woolf and Hogarth Press works, and general interes...

Twelve Alphabetik Images in Colour. Clifford Hall Press and David Kindersley Workshop 1983, boxed set of 12 lithographs in colours signed and numb...

The Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscape from Nature, 2nd edition 1823, 4to, with Nicholson family inscription, plates, in original boards, ...

A collection of six titles including De L’Art du Theatre, 1943, inscribed by Craig for his daughter; Henry Irving. Ellen Terry, Portraits, 1899; a...

A collection of 4 titles, all ex libris Norman Scarfe, including Imogen Holst a life (2007), with two letters from Imogen Holst and 3 others relat...

18 vols. including Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914), Blake Books and Supplement, The Gothic Quest and Bibliography, and 13 others (18)

A box of 23 vols. including: DYSON (A) Pictures to Print, numbered edition, half morocco; Illustrators of the Sixties, and 21 others (23)

Lot 496

Bronteana.

A large collection of various Bronte Society Transactions, Conference Papers, Gazettes, Studies etc. and related catalogues (quantity)

Six small 8vo works from the Indian Railway Library series in original paper wrappers, and 2 others (8)

WATERFIELD (Margaret) Corners of Grey Old Gardens, first edition, Foulis 1914, 8vo, tipped in plates, coloured covers by Jessie M King; another co...

The Marlborough Struwwelpeter, no date [1908], illustrated in colour, boards; UPTON (F) The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls, no date, c.1905, oblong...

Lot 500

Bookbinding.

Collection of 13 vols., including: PEARSON (D) For the Love of Bookbinding, 2000; CONROY (T) Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965; MARKS (...

The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer, 2 vols 1902, limited edition, cloth; PETTIGREW (T J) Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 2 vols., 1827, half morocco; JOHN...

The Etchings of Francis Seymour Haden, PRE, 1923, 4to, photogravure plates and others, publisher's cloth, slip case; HOWELL-BAKER (G) Penholm, c.1...

early 20th century, 8vo, concertina bound depicting coloured processional groups of characters, within plain wooden boards; together with eleven c...

surface rather rusty and worn

Mandela The Authorised Portrait, 2006, illustrated, signed by Nelson Mandela

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition 1903, 16mo, neat pencil gift inscription to half title dated 1903, small tear to head of spine but gene...

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, with an Introduction by A. A. Milne. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940, no. 808 of 2020 copie...

The Ingoldsby Legends, first edition 1907, Dent, small 4to, tipped in colour plates, original green cloth, spine slightly faded; ROBINSON (W Heath...

collection of titles, most in dust jackets, including first editions of: BOYD (W) Waiting for Sunrise, 2012, signed; LE CARRE (J) A Delicate Truth...

Lot 510

LEWIS (C S)

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, first edition, 1950, 8vo, some restoration to dust wrapper.edition/impression not stated. small tear to lower...

Lot 511

LEWIS (C S)

Prince Caspian, first edition 1951, 8vo, minor restoration to dust wrapper.light foxing to edges of text.edition/impression not stated. jacket pri...

Various titles with some first editions, including Kidnapped by R L Stevenson, and others by Len Deighton, Evelyn Waugh, Osbert Lancaster, G E Far...

Stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton 1907, 4to, 50 tipped in colour plates with captioned guards, (frontispiece loose), slight sp...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Heinemann 1908, 4to, 40 tipped in colour plates with captioned guards, some light spotting, original cloth in damaged d...

Lot 515

HUGHES (Ted)

Shakespeare's Ovid, Enitharmon Press 1995, 4to, one of 150 copies signed by Hughes, 2 etchings by Christopher Le Brun, cloth; DOYLE (Sir Arthur Co...

Collection of early 20th century 8vo novels in decorative cloth covers by Henty and others; Rupert Bear Books (5); three in pictorial boards by R....

Collection of 10 first editions in dust jackets: Drayneflete Revealed, 1949; The Saracen's Head, 1948; Facades and Faces, 1950; Here, of all Place...

Georg Olms Verlag, 2000, 2 vols. large folio, original decorated boards, slipcase

The Tempest, Heinemann 1926, small 4to, 20 tipped in colour plates, original cloth; Book of Pictures, 1927, small 4to, 44 tipped in colour plates,...

DARWIN (Charles; after) The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, in 4 volume facsimile limited edition, C.I.L. Ltd 1994, one of 1000 copies, half ...

Lot 521

PALMER (Samuel)

The Eclogues of Virgil, An English Version. London: Seeley & Co 1883, folio, uncut, with etchings and illustrations, title in red and black, origi...

Lot 522

ELIOT (T S)

Four Quartets. Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press 1996, large 4to, no. 31 of 200 copies, untrimmed, good in slip case

Miscellany 2, 1988, no. 179/225; A Printer's Dozen, 1993, 4to, no. 177/200, good in slip case; Four Quartets, prospectus 1996; Newsletter and list...

An Address delivered ... to the Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, 1898; The Story of Kormak, 1970; a collection of post-war Morr...

Lot 525

JONES (David)

Anathemata, 2nd edition Faber 1955, damaged dust jacket; In Parenthesis, 4th impression 1955, chipped dust jacket; GRAY (N) The Painted Inscriptio...

Lot 526

FORSTER (E M)

Maurice, 1st edition, 1971; Albergo Empedocle and other writings, advanced proof copy, Liveright 1971, paper wrapper; The Hill of Devi, 1953, repr...

STEVENSON (R L) Poems, 1913, vellum, one of 500 copies; New Arabian Nights, new edition 1889, one of 100 large paper copies, cloth (spotted); ROSS...

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1910, 4to, 50 tipped in colour plates (bound after text), captioned tissue guards, cloth gilt, (frontispiece plat...

Collection of 19th and early 20th century vols., including works by Thackeray, Tennyson and Kipling; also school prizes including Greek texts; lim...

Dean’s Diploma Series No. 87 ‘Round the World ABC’; Bush Songs of Australia for Young and Old, illus. I.R. Outhwaite, pub. Geo. Robertson & Co.; L...

Collection of adventure stories including 4 by Henty (11)

by an Indian Nationalist, c.1910, 8vo, 451pp., no publisher named, with folding map

Lot 534

LAWRENCE (T E)

Revolt in the Desert. Jonathan Cape 1927, limited edition no.63 of 315 copies, uncut in trimmed and slightly damaged dust wrapper, morocco back cl...

Lot 535

LAWRENCE (T E)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, limited edition no.513 of 750 copies, top edges gilt others uncut, original pigskin backed cloth, spine a little fa...

DAY (Rev. Lal Behari) Folk-Tales of Bengal, illustrated by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912, 4to, tipped in colour plates, edition d...

Collection of 13 colour plate illustrated topographical works, all 4to signed limited editions-de-luxe, in original cloth bindings with several by...

WAUGH (E) Black Mischief, reprint American edition, 1946, signed, dust jacket; De CHAIR (Somerset) two vols. Golden Cockerel Press, (one slightly ...

Lot 538A

TOLKIEN (J R R)

TOLKIEN (J R R) Lord of the Rings, single volume edition, 1991, signed on half title by the illustrator Alan Lee, in dust wrapper ...[more]

of mainly early 20th century works, some in dust jackets, including works by - Mary Rowlatt, Tolkowsky, Lieut. Col. Playfair, Murray Harris, Sir A...

Lot 540

KIPLING (R)

Collection of limp leather 8vo Macmillan pocket editions, together 42 vols.

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