A Leicestershire Gentleman's Private Library of Books

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John FarleighD.H. Lawrence, The Man Who Died: Heinemann, 1935 wood engravings in red and black, 28cm x 21cm, with dust wrapper.

Richard Bright, Travels From Vienna Through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814; Edinburg...

John Throsby, Select Views in Leicestershire, in two vols,Leicester 1789-90, together with The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town of Leic...

Henry Moore, Shelter Sketch Book, facsimile signature and dated October 1940 [Editions Poetry, London], cloth; and Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook,...

Christopher Sandeman, Thyme and Bergamot, Dropmore Press, London, 1947, with wood engravings by John O'Connor, from a numbered edition of 550, clo...

Benjamin Britten, The Rape of Lucretia; A Symposium by Benjamin Britten, Ronald Duncan, John Piper et al The Bodley Head; reproductions after John...

John NashJohn Lewis, John Nash The Painter as Illustrator, Pendomer Press 1978, signed by the author, from a numbered edition of 150 copies, toget...

Edward BawdenDouglas Percy Bliss, Edward Bawden, Pendomer Press [1979] from a numbered edition of 200 copies, together with an original colour lit...

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C.R.W. Nevinson, Sir John Lavery, Paul Nash and Eric KenningtonBritish Artists at the Front, in four parts, bound as one, Country Life 1918, with ...

William ShakespeareShakespeare's The Tradegie of King Lear, Shakespeare Head Press, London 1927, from a numbered edition of 100 copies on Kelmsco...

William Manning, The Glow-Worm, Frank T. Sabin, 1896, from a numbered edition of 112, signed by Charles Whittingham, and with a personalized inscr...

Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Faber & Faber, September 1931, with illustrations by Barnett Freedman, signed by the author and...

Barnett FreedmanReal Farmhouse Cheeses, a pamphlet [circa.1939], with tinted lithographs, damaged; and Jonathan Mayne, Barnett Freedman, from the ...

Martin ArmstrongSt. Hercules and other stories, Curwen Press [1927], with illustrations by Paul Nash from a numbered edition 310 copies, cloth bac...

William Somerset Maugham,Cakes and Ale, Heinemann [1953], frontispiece and illustrations by Graham Sutherland, signed by the author and artist, fr...

George ThornleyDaphnis & Chloe, Golden Cockerel Press, 1923, from a numbered edition of 450 copies, andChanticleer, a bibliography of the Golden C...

Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings et al Sermons by Artists, Golden Cockerel Press 1934, from a numbered edition of 300, andL.A.G. Strong, The ...

John PiperJohn Hadfield (Ed), Elizabethan Love Songs, Cupid Press 1955, illustrated by John Piper, a numbered edition of 650 copies, signed by the...

Hugh Casson, Red Lacquer Days, an illustrated journal describing a recent visit to Peking, Lion & Unicorn Press, 1956, from an edition of 200, and...

Norman Jewson, By Chance I Did Rove, privately printed, 1973, with dust wrapper; Claudius Hollyband and Peter Erondell, The Elizabethan Home Disco...

Benedictines of Stanbrook, The Stanbrook Abbey Press Ninety-two years of its history, Worcester 1970, from an edition of 450; Leo John De Freitas,...

Lot 22

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[W.R. Leatherby, et al], Ernest Gimson, His Life and Work, Shakespeare Head Press, 1924, from a numbered edition corrected to 550.

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T.R. Potter, Charnwood Forest with Illustrations, London, Nottingham and Leicester [1842], complete with hand-coloured map, 4to, tooled green Moro...

Herbert Furst, The Wood Cut, an annual, No.1, 1927, Fleuron Limited; binding paper designed and engraved on wood by Paul Nash, with dust wrapper; ...

John Piper, Brighton Aquatints, twelve original aquatints of modern Brighton with short descriptions by the artist, and an introduction by Lord Al...

Michael AyrtonJohn Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Sylvan Press, 1945, illustrations by Michael Ayrton, unnumbered with dust wrapper, enclosing a c...

Alister Kershaw, Accent & Hazard, Stramur-Press, Paris, 1951, First Edition of sixty-five, colour etchings by David Strachan, signed by the author...

Graham Sutherland, Sketchbook June/July, 1971, facsimile reprint, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Limited, No.E43/200, and signed by the artist, in ...

Henry Moore, Sketchbook 1926, facsimile edition, Ganymed/Fischer, London 1976, No.174 from an edition of 325, signed in a bookcase.

[Thucydides] The Funeral Oration of Pericles, translated by E.H. Blakeney, Dropmore Press, 1948, frontispiece by John O'Connor from a numbered edi...

Arnold Bennett, Elsie And The Child, Curwen Press for Cassell & Co Limited, 1929, pochoir plates by E. McKnight Cauffer, from a numbered edition o...

The Revelation of St. John the Divine, with twelve drawings by Frances Clayton, Faber & Faber, 1931; William Blake, Selected Poems, illustrated by...

Derek Deadman, Enthusiasm and Laughter, Leicestershire Private Presses; Books, Broadsheets and Ephemera, The Landseer Press, Leicester, 2008, with...

Major Guy Paget, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, Leicester 1931, with dust wrapper; and The History of the Althorp and Pytchley Hunt, 1634-19...

Fishpaste (Postcard Review of Art and Letters), being a complete set, Pandora Press Jan 1967-Aug 1968, each issue consists of a single postcard ap...

Arthur RackhamWashington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, London 1928, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 4to tooled pictorial, calf.

David HockneyWallace Stevens, The Man With The Blue Guitar, Petersberg Press, [1977], illustrations by David Hockney, small 4to.

Edward Burrett, A Full Point: A typographer remembers, Penmiel Press, 1976, from a numbered edition of 125 copies, signed by the author, in a slip...

Arnold Glimcher and Mark Glimcher, Je Suis Le Cashier; Sketchbooks of Picasso, Thames & Hudson, 1986, in a slip case; and other art books, (2 boxe...

Patience Hempson (Ed), The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, Dent & Sons Limited, 1959; and Reynolds Stone Engravings, with an appreciation by K...

Clare Leighton, The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, Second Impression, January 1934, with full page wood engravings, green cloth s...

Penelope Hughes-Stanton, The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Private Libraries Association 1991, together with other Private Libraries As...

Leicester-LeicestershireS.H. Skillington, A History of Leicester; Edgar Backus, 1923 from a numbered edition of 550; Charles James Billson, Leices...

William White, History Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire, Sheffield 1846, restored calf, and Francis and John White, History Directory and...

Charles Simpson, The Harboro Country, Bodley Head Limited, 1927, 4to cloth; T.F. Dale, Fox-hunting in the Shires, London 1903, cloth; John Hawkes...

LeicesterCatalogue of the Leicester Commemoration Exhibition 1897, 4to Morocco calf; Leicestershire and some Neighbouring Records: Historical Biog...

LeicesterThomas North, A Chronicle of the Church of St. Martin in Leicester, London and Leicester 1866, cloth; James Thompson, The History of Leic...

LeicesterJohn and Thomas Spencer, (Ed), Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, in three vols, Leicester and London 1891, 1893, and 1895, cl...

L.S. LowryThe Paintings of L.S. Lowry, Oils and Watercolours; An Introduction and Notes by Mervyn Levy, Jupiter Books London 1975; a specially bou...

Alphonse Lamartine, Graziella, Nonesuch Press 1929, Illustrated by Jacquiere, cloth in a slip case; Paul A. Bennett, The Typophiles, A Memorial Ke...

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W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest, Random House, New York, 1944, illustrated by McKnight Kauffer, in a slip case; Davi...

Henry MooreJulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, Munich 1971, with dust wrapper in a slip case; David Finn, Sculpture and Environment, London 1977, with...

Graham SutherlandDouglas Cooper, The Work of Graham Sutherland, reprinted 1962, in a slip case; Roberto Tassi and Edward Quinn, Graham Sutherland ...

Modern British ArtNikos Stangos (Ed) David Hockney by David Hockney, reprinted 1977; David Hockney, That's The Way I See It, 1993; Barbara Hepwort...

John PiperOrde Levinson, Quality and Experiment; The Prints of John Piper, A Catalogue Raisonne, 1923-91, London 1996;Richard Ingrams & John Piper...

Arts and CraftsMary Comino, Gimson and The Barnsleys, Wonderful Furniture of a Common Place Kind, London 1980, signed by the author, other titles ...

Paul NashPaul Nash Outline, An Autobiography and Other Writings, Faber & Faber, 1949; Alexander Postan, The Complete Graphic Work of Paul Nash, Lo...

Bernard LeachBeyond East and West, Faber & Faber, 1978, and a collection of books on British Ceramics.

Lt.-Col. G.E. Bouskell-Wade, There is an Honour, Likewise ..... The Story of the 154 (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, R.A., Edgar Backus,...

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