Gorringes Book Sale - Tuesday 12th April 2022

° ° Hope, Thomas - Costume of the Ancients, 2nd edition, 2 vols in 1, 4to, later blind stamped leather gilt, 300 engraved plates, London, 1812 ....

° ° Gilpin, William - Observations on the Western Parts of England relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, 8vo, burr calf, with 18 tinted plates, ...

° ° Socialism. - Utopia - Morris, William - News From Nowhere: or, An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from a Utopian Romance, 1st edition in bo...

° ° Swinburne, Algernon Charles - Songs Before Sunrise, 8vo, calf, F.S. Ellis, London, 1871 ...[more]

° ° Lamb, Charles & Mary - Tales from Shakespear [sic] designed for the use of Young Persons, 2vols, 2nd edition, 12mo, diced Russia calf, with 20...

° ° Melville, James, Sir - Memoires de Jaques Melvil, 12mo, vellum with yapp edges , Adrian Moetjens, bound with Bohun, Edmund - Le Caractere de ...

° ° Suckling, John, Sir - Works. ‘’Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of All Incomparable Pieces…..’’, 3rd edition, 5 parts in 1 vol, 8vo, rebound ca...

° ° Singer, Charles Joseph - The Earliest Chemical Industries, one of 1000 copies, illustrated by Stephen Gooden, folio, red cloth, with tipped in...

° ° Bewick, Thomas - Bewick Gleanings, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to, large paper copy, one of 200 signed by the editor, Julia Boyd, contemporary black mo...

° ° Bewick, Thomas - Fables of Aesop and Others, 2nd edition, with facsimile thumbprint, numbered 64, 8vo, blue calf gilt bordered, Newcastle, 182...

° ° Hey, Rebecca - The Moral of Flowers, 1st edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt, with 24 tissue guarded hand-coloured engravings, Longma...

° ° Vergilius Maro, Publius, - The Eclogues of Vergil, an English Version, illustrated by Samuel Palmer, with 14 plates, including 5 original etch...

° ° Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir - British Fresh-Water Fish, 4to, original green cloth, with 12 coloured plates, foxed throughout, Hutchison & Co...

° ° Collins, Maurice - Quest for Sita, one of 500, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 4to, buckram, Faber & Faber, London, 1946 ...[more]

° ° Morris, William - 3 works - Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey, 8vo, original half cloth, hand-made paper, Longmans & Co., London...

° ° Tallis, John & Co., - History and Description of the Crystal Palace, 3 vols in 2, morocco gilt by John Waterer, tear to frontis repaired, Lond...

° ° Lydekker, Richard (editor) - The Royal Natural History, 1st edition, 6 vols, 4to, half green morocco, with 66 chromolithographs, Frederick War...

° ° Chiswick Press - 19 Works - Classics, including Cowper, William - Poems, 2 vols, 1821; Butler, Samuel - Hudibras, 2 vols, 1818; Goldsmith, Oli...

° ° Hulme, Frederick Edward - Familiar Wild Flowers. Series 1-5, 5 vols, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, with 200 coloured plates, Cassell & Co, L...

° ° Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 4th edition, 8vo, cloth, Leonard Smithers, London, 1898 ...[more]

° ° Gay, John - Fables, 2 parts in 1, 12mo, calf, illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, T. Longman et al, London, 1796 and a further edition...

° ° Sugden, Alan Victor and Edmondson, John Ludlam - A History of English Wallpaper, 4to, original buckram, in slightly torn d/j, with 70 mounted ...

° ° Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, - Le Siecle de Louis XIV, 1st edition, 2vols, 12mo, calf, C.F. Henning, Berlin, 1751Note: Under the pseud...

° ° Buswell, John - An Historical Account of the Knights of The Most Noble Order of the Garter, 8vo, rebound half calf, marbled boards, leaves int...

° ° Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated by Herman Bicknell, 4to, cloth gilt, with 3 coloured plates, Trubner & Co; London, 1875...

° ° Wagner, Richard - The Ring of the Niblung, first 2 vol. set, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, translated...

° ° The Bible in English, 4to, calf, lacking first page of The Communion, bound with The Psalmes, The New Testament, The Whole Booke of Psalmes an...

° ° Counsell, George - The London New Art of Midwiry: or, the Midwife’s Sure Guide, 12mo, calf, with 2 engraved plates, W. Anderson, London, 175 ...

° ° Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne - Works. - ‘’Novels of the Sisters Bronte.’’ - 12 vols, the Thornton edition, edited by Temple Scott, illust...

° ° Bell, Adrian - Corduroy. Silver Ley. The Cherry Tree, 1st edition, 8vo, cloth with unclipped d/j, signed with presentation inscription, ‘’I am...

° ° Sackville-West, Vita - The Edwardians, 1st edition, with authors presentation inscription, dated, Sisinghurst, June 26th 1949, 8vo, original o...

° ° Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie, 1st edition, with reference to the fire at the piano works at p.272, original green cloth boards, in unclippe...

° ° Tolkien, J.R.R - Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring, 11th impression, 1961, The Two Towers, 10th impression, 1963 and The Return o...

° ° Dickens, Charles - The Personal History of David Copperfield, illustrated with 20 tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds, 4to, original red...

° ° Surtees, Robert Smith - Mr Jorrocks’ Lectors, one of 350, signed and illustrated with 25 tipped-in colour plates by G. Denholm Armour, 4to, br...

° ° Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - Poems of Passion and Pleasure, de luxe issue, one of 500, signed by the poet and the illustrator, Dudley Tenant, with 2...

° ° Early Eighteenth Century Manuscript Cookery. 'Eliz. Wood Her Booke. 1708'. 96pp. used (of 270), in a closely written hand, a contemp. panelled...

° ° Christie, Agatha - Towards Zero, 1st edition, 8vo, cloth, in torn, unclipped d/j, ownership inscription to front fly leaf, The Crime Club, Lon...

° ° Christie, Agatha - 12 works - Partners in Crime, with torn d/j, with loss to spine and lower rear panel, nd, [1929], Death on the Nile, 2nd im...

° ° Walpole, Horace - The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, edited by Peter Cunningham, 9 vols, 8vo, tree calf, Henry G. Bohn, London, 18...

° ° Sheridan, Richard Brinsley - The School for Scandal,de luxe edition, one of 350, signed and illustrated with 25 tipped-in colour plates by H...

° ° Sales prospectus for 3a, Palace Green, Kensington Palace Gardens, London, 2 vols, text by Jacquey Visick, 4to, green crushed morocco by Zaehnd...

° ° Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice... with a preface by George Sainsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson; dark blue / green publisher's clot...

° ° Austen, Jane - Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, comprising: Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasi...

° ° Hardy, Thomas - Macmillan's Pocket Hardy. 24 vols. (? ex26). the novels/short stories with the Wessex map; publisher's maroon limp gilt decora...

° ° Potter, Beatrix - The Roly-Poly Pudding. First Edition (1st issue), coloured pictorial title, 18 full page coloured and num. text illus., half...

° ° Daniel, William Barker - Rural Sports, 3 vols, 8vo, calf gilt line ruled, spotted throughout, London, 1807 ...[more]

° ° Lewis, George. Artist - A Series of Groups Illustrating….the People of France and Germany, 4to, quarter calf, with dedication and 52 plates on...

° ° Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Medland after Stothard, parts 1 & 2 only in 2 vols, 8vo, half calf, with 2 frontises, 2 engrav...

° ° Ireland, John - Hogarth Illustrated, 1st edition, 3 vols, 8vo, calf, with 3 portraits, 3 engraved titles and 122 plates, spines and boards chi...

Kipling, Rudyard - Sea and Sussex, one of 500 signed by the author, illustrated with 24 mounted colour plates by Donald Maxwell, 4to, quarter vell...

° ° Modern signed 1st editions: Oliver, Jamie, - The Naked Chef, with d/j, 1999; Cartland, Barbara - Scapbook, paperback, 2005; Rushdie, Salman - ...

° ° Modern signed 1st edition - Lyn, Dame Vera - Some Sunny Day, with d/j, 2009 ...[more]