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Shakespeare (William). The Plays of William Shakspeare..., with Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators. To which are added notes, by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, revised and augmented by Isaac Reed, with a Glossarial Index, 21 volumes, 6th edition, 1813, half-titles, 78 engraved plates (including portrait frontispiece to volume 1), few engraved illustrations, four foling tables, occasional spotting and dampstains, together with Shakspeare Illustrated, by an assemblage of Portraits & Views, appropriated to the whole suite, of that Authors Historical Dramas; to which are added Portraits of Actors, Editors, &c., London: S. & E. Harding, 1793, 150 engraved plates (including frontispiece and title, occasional spotting, with Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare..., and on the English Morris Dance, 2 volumes, 1807, titles in red & black, nine engraved plates (one folding, plate 1 misbound in volume 2), wood engraved illustrations by J. Berryman, some scattered spotting, plus An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words made use of by Shakspeare; calculated to point out the different meanings to which the words are applied, by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, 1790, occasional light spotting and some dampstaining towards rear of volume, each volume with later matching marbled endpapers, uniform contemporary calf with gilt & blind decorated borders to boards, all volumes professionally rebacked (in morocco), with elaborate gilt & blind decorated spines, contrasting morocco labels (numbered 1-25), corners neatly repaired, 8vo A handsome set. (25)

A Chinese Armorial Porcelain Plate, Qianlong, painted in famille rose enamels with the arms of Fazakerley quarterly impaling Lutwyche within a floral cartouche and ropetwist border, the rim with the crest, 23cm diameter; A Similar Plate, painted with the arms of Fawkes quartering Ayscough with Wilkinson in pretence, 22cm diameter; and A Similar Octagonal Plate, painted with arms of Auchmuty either of Scotland or Ireland, 22.5cm (3) See illustration See Howard (David Sanctuary) Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol I, pg.352, 571 and 490 for pieces from the same services Provenance: P B Cooke Collection

Pedigrees, heraldry & genealogy etc.- Bigland (Ralph, herald and cheesemonger, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1712-84) Collection of pedigrees, petitions and notes on heraldry and genealogy, 50 manuscripts and 1 engraved pedigree, folds, browned, tipped-in on stubs, old bookseller's description on front pastedown and pencil inscription "Rodd M.S. 528" and Thomas Phillipps no. 20289, v.s., v.d., bound in early 19th century half calf, label on spine, covers slightly marked, folio, 1593, [17th - 18th centuries].⁂ Includes: (1). manuscript preface for "Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester (Gloucestershire)", 1783; (2). manuscript notice by Bigland as Somerset Herald refuting that there is any such institution called "The Office of Arms" other than the Heralds Office, December 1768; (3). Joseph Edmondson (bap. 1732, d. 1786), Mowbray Herald Extraordinary, herald and coach-painter, "Heraldry... Whereas one Joseph Edmondson... to publish an Alphabetical Description... of the Baronets... is not a Member of ye said Corporation [College of Arms] and that he has not any access to the Library, Records, &c, belonging thereto", [c. 1780s]; (4). manuscript certifying that Richard Hunt is employed by the College of Arms, 1781; Disbursements for Clarenceux's Patent R Bigland Senr, 1774; pedigree of the St John family, [17th century]; (5). pedigree "Extracted out of the ancient evidences of Alan Ayscough..." [Ayscoughs of Skeusby], latest date 1760; (6). pedigree of the Atkyns family of Gloucestershire; (7). pedigree of the Caldwell family, [18th century]; pedigree of the Chadwick family of Lancashire and Dublin, [18th century]; a letter relating to descent from Sir Cuthbert Collingwood, latest date 1747; (8). pedigree of the families of Caldwell and Firebrace, [18th century]; (9). note of the Galway family in a letter sent to Joseph Denison (c. 1726-1806), banker and landowner, May 1764; (10). pedigree of the Mowbray, Howard and Fitzalan families, [late 17th century]; (11). note relating to the descendants of Peter Mews (1619-1706), Bishop of Winchester, [c. 1760s]; (12). note on the church at Fairford, Gloucestershire, [18th century]; (13). note relating to Sir Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy and Earl of Devonshire (1563-1606), soldier and administrator, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I etc.Provenance: Thomas Rodd the younger (1796-1849), probably sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps.

T.E. Lawrence: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (early edition); Rudyard Kipling, All The Mowgli Stories; Florence Ayscough A Chinese Mirror, illustrated by Cecil Aldon; Handley Cross vol.1, Reginald Callender; I'm Nick, A Yorkshire Terrier Story; The Reverenv James Pycroft BA, The Cricket-Field, All The History and Science of The Game of Cricket, published 1868 in leather bindings; and Natural history Rambles of Lane and Field. (7)

Nottingham Interest Deering, Charles MD "Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova or An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham...", George Ayscough and Thomas Willington (1751), folding frontis, numerous plates and folding plates, rebound, contemporary leather laid down on bds, backstrip with raised bands, red pastedown and gilt titles Laird, F C "A Topographical and History Description of Nottinghamshire...", Sherwood, Neely & Jones (1810), engraved plates, frontis offset on title page, some foxing, rebound, contemporary leather laid down, yellow edges "The Date-Book of Nottingham 1750-1879", H Field (1880), contemporary binding, half-leather, Nottingham Coat of Arms to front board White Francis & Co "History, Directory and Gazateer of the County... of Nottingham", printed for the authors (1853), rebound with contemporary blindstamped leather laid down to bds, rebacked, gilt titles White, William "History Gazateer and Directory of Nottinghamshire...", printed for the author (1832), rebound, contemporary leather laid down on bds, rebacked with gilt titles and date White, Francis & John "Nottinghamshire, History, Directory and Gazateer of Nottingham 1844", full-leather, backstrip worn and four other related vols (10)

Waterloo, 1815, Troop Serjeant Major, Chelsea Pensioner, service in North America, TRP. SER. MAJ. R. AYSCOUGH 13TH REG. LIGHT DRAGOON, neatly impressed, with replacement silver suspender and bar, with iron cross pin, the bar very neatly engraved in cursive script Rt AYSCOUGH TRP SERJT MJR 13 LD on each side, some surface pitting, Fine; Rob Ayscough confirmed on roll. Later, by 25th March 1819, a Chelsea Pensioner, where it is recorded that he was born c1774 and had served in Canada (though his name does not seem to appear on the roll).

A studio pottery vase, of hexagonal form with mottled glaze, marked TM possibly for Tony Martin, height 7.5ins, together with a Studio pottery vase, the upper half decorated with black to a grey ground, waisted middle and speckled lower section, marked JH and CP, height 4.5ins and a Duncan Ayscough circular bowl, wood fired with gold leaf to centre, diameter 8.5ins

Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Monthly Intelligencer, 151 vols. bound in 259, a near-complete run, 1731-1886, only lacking 1843 part 2, 1868 part 1 and 1886 part 2, volumes from 1783 onwards each bound in two parts, numerous copper-engraved maps and plates (a few close-trimmed), wood-engraved illustrations, a few repaired tears, some occasional spotting and offsetting, a few leaves loosening, bookplates of the Library of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society at front of each volume, 1731-1834 bound in contemporary brown half calf (each neatly rebacked), 1835 onwards mostly bound in navy half calf (rubbed with some covers detached), together with A List of Plates, Maps &c. Contained in the Gentleman's Magazine, from the Year 1731 to 1813 Inclusive, 1814; General Index to Fifty-Six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, from its Commencement in the Year 1731, to the End of 1786, Compiled by Samuel Ayscough, 2 volumes, 1818, and Index to the Biographical and Obituary Notices in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1780, 3 vols, 1886-91 Contains sixty-four of the required sixty-nine American maps, as listed in David Jolly's 'Maps of America in Periodicals Before 1800', lacking 'An Accurate Map of the West Indies...' and 'A New Map or Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean...' (both in volume 10, 1740), 'A New Chart of the Coast of New England...' (volume 16, 1746), 'South America Drawn from the Best Maps...' (volume 32, 1749) and 'Sketch of the Country Illustrating the Late Engagement in Long Island' (volume 46, 1776). The Gentleman's Magazine, founded by Edward Cave, was a long-standing periodical, running from 1731 to 1922, and includes the first British printing of the US Declaration of Independence (volume 46, 1776), the US Constitution (volume 57, part II, 1787), early works by Samuel Johnson, among other scientific, philosophical, artistic and literary contributions. (265)

AYSCOUGH, REV. SAMUEL, An Index To The Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakespeare pub. Stockdale, 1790, half leather, front board detached

AYSCOUGH, REV. SAMUEL, An Index To The Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakespeare pub. Stockdale, 1790, half leather, front board detached

The Excellent use of Psalmody with a Course of Singing Psalms for Half a Year, by RW, a love of divine Musick, printed by George Ayscough 1734, hand written family histories to FFEP for Hallam, Millor (incomplete)

AYSCOUGH, REV. SAMUEL, An Index To The Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakespeare pub. Stockdale, 1790, half leather, front board detached

A VERY FINE ¾IN. PINK SHAGREEN AND GILT-BRASS FOUR-DRAW VELLUM-COVERED CARD TELESCOPE BY J. AYSCOUGH, LONDON, CIRCA 1750 signed on the fourth draw as per title, parallel main tube with ray skin 'jewels' and delicate pink staining, gilt brass section dividers to green vellum-covered card draws with inked focus lines and dust slides each end -- 14½in. (37cm.) closed; 42in. (107cm.) open, mounted on associated turned wooden Georgian telescope table stand -- 18in. (46cm.) high (2) This telescope represents an expensive commission made at the apex of the pre-achromatic development of the refracting telescope and dates to between 1747 and the maker's death in 1759 at just 40 years of age. James Ayscough (1719-59) was one of the most creative and innovative London telescope opticians in the formative experimental period which led directly to the achromatic doublet objective being patented in 1758 by John Dollond Snr (1703-61). The son of a Wiltshire parson, at 13 he was apprenticed to James Mann II (w.1706-d.1756) and as such was at the forefront of many such achromatic lens trials from their inception by the London barrister Chester Moor Hall. Latterly educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, Ayscough gained his Freedom in 1740 under James Mann II, with whom he was later in partnership between 1743 and 1747. He became an independent maker in 1748 where he was known for quality experimental optical designs and published a fine optical treatise in 1752 entitled A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision, chiefly designed to Illustrate the Use and Advantage of Spectacles. This aroused great jealousy and ire amongst other London opticians for promoting hard green crown glass, being rather expensive to procure and time-consuming to polish. Literature: 1. Gee, B, ed. McConnell, A & Mirrison-Low, A: Francis Watkins and the Dollond Patent Telescope Controversy, Ashgate, pp.41-47; 2. Talbot, S: Shagreen and Fish-skin - on Scientific Instruments, their Cases and Étui c.1700-1800, SIS Bulletin No.123 Dec. 2014, pp.10-27; 3. Louman & Zuidervaart: A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far, Wassenaar, 2013, Nos. 49, 152, 180.

Scottish School (19th Century) Portrait of Sir George Ayscough Armytage Watercolour, and gouache, heightened with gum arabic 22.5cm x 18.5cm

Book Entitled Index to Shakespeare by Reverend Samuel Ayscough Printer 1790

China : History, Customs & Culture. Gorst H. : China, 1899; Little A. : Intimate China, C.1900; Dyer Ball J. : Things Chinese, 1904. Scarce. Bredon J. : The Moon Year, 1927. Scarce. Ayscough F. : A Chinese Mirror, 1925; Steele I. : The I-LI or Book of Chinese Etiquette and Ceremonial, 1966; LI-Che'en T. : Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking, 1936. Col. plates.Scarce. Together with 25+ related titles.

Chinese Biography Miscellany : Ayscough F (Trans.) . : Tu Fu, Autobiogaphy of a Chinese Poet, 1929 & Travels of a Chinese Poet, 1934; Crow K. : Master Kung,(Confucius), 1937; Legge J. : Life and Works of Mencius, 1875; Giles H. : Chinese Biographical Dictionary, 1975; Hummel A. : Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, 1975. Together with two other related titles.

A bronze reflecting telescope by Ayscough, Ludgate Street, London, with a tripod base composed of retractable legs, 44cm high, 45cm long.

A bronze reflecting telescope by Ayscough, Ludgate Street, London, with a tripod base composed of retractable legs, 44cm high, 45cm long.

Stuart Baker - Indian Pigeons & Doves, London 1913 - a leather and cloth bound - The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Ducks and their Allies, Vol 1 - leather and cloth bound and Game Birds of India, Burma & Celon Vol III - Pheasants Bustard - Quail 1930 Condition report (D): Aged scuffs and wear to binding Alexander Adam - A Summary of Geography and History - Their names & Customs ... of the Greeks, London 1824 with maps and Rev Samuel Ayscough - An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words made use of by Shakespeare London 1790 Condition report (D): Bindings scuffed and frayed, one with loose board, some staining to pages of Greek title Major Gerald Burrard - The Modern Shotgun - vol II Herbert Jenkins and 1 Vol Modern Shotgun, blue cloth board Condition report (D): Both frayed edges to binding and stained

Edward Barnard, History Of England together with An Index To The Remarkable Passages And Words Made Use Of By Shakspeare by the Reverend Samuel Ayscough, published London 1790

A Georgian Stick Barometer with engraved brass dial by James Ayscough, London, pineapple finials, the mahogany case with gadroon moulding, 3ft 2in

A 19TH CENTURY ELM `CRYPT` BOX, rectangular with side carrying handles, having twin lift up flaps and central lift off lid, the interior fitted with three opposing rows of compartments, each having a panel front bearing paper labels recording the death of members of the family and descendants of Sir Samuel Armytage 1st baronet of Kirklees who died in 1747, the last entry being Sir George Ayscough Armytage, 7th baronet, Brig: Gen: C.M.G., D.S.O. b.1872 d.1953, 19cm high x 59cm wide x 39cm depth. See illustration

A leather cased wooden bodied telescope by Dollond of London, `day or night` and another similar telescope by Mann & Ayscough

Part leather bound volume `Macaulays Essays`, two volumes `Ayscough`s Shakespeare` and a quantity of various other part leather bound 19th Century books

Deering (Charles). Catalogus Stirpium, &c. Or, a Catalogue of Plants Naturally Growing and Commonly Cultivated in Divers Parts of England, More Especially about Nottingham... 1st edition, Nottingham: G. Ayscough, 1738, additional dedication to William Griffith, part of Dd2 excised, numerous manuscript notes bound-in at end, library stamps, a few spots, library cloth, light stains, 8vo, together with Wepfer (Johan Jacob), Historia Cicutae Aquaticae, Leiden, 1733, title printed in red and black, six engraved plates (five folding), library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Ray (John), Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum... 3rd edition, 1st issue, 1724, 24 engraved plates, a few spots, library cloth, library stamp, 8vo, with Meyrick (William), The New Family Herbal; Or, Domestick Physician, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1790, engraved frontispiece (detached), 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, light offsetting and spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, and Thomas Short`s Medicina Britannica: Or, a Treatise on such Physical Plants... 1746 (5)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Plays, ed. The Howard Staunton, 3 vols., 1858. Illustrated by John Gilbert -- AYSCOUGH, Rev. SAMUEL. An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words. Made use of by Shakespeare. John Stockdale 1790. With 7 other vols., All 8vo., cont. calf. (11)

Piassetsky (P.) Russian travels in Mongolia and Ch 2 vol. original cloth worn 1884 § Cahen (G.) Some early Russo-Chinese relations cloth rubbed Shanghai 1914 § Perry-Ayscough (H.) and others. With the Russians in Mongolia folding map plates original cloth 1914; and others similar 8vo and 4to (18)

A Regency mahogany and inlaid card table, circa 1815, stamped ‘WILINSONS MOORFIELD LONDON PATENT’, the demi-lune shaped top with fluted edge opening to a baize inset, the base with a dual swing action, on four downswept ebony inlaid scrolling supports, on a rectangular base with four downswept legs, brass paw caps and castors, 72,5cm high, 88cm wide, 44cm deep. William and his cousin Thomas Wilkinson operated a successful cabinet making business at 9 & 10 Brokers Row, Moorfields. In 1807 William left to take over the old established firm of Quentin Kaye in Ludgate Hill. In the early to mid 1820s William brought his two sons William Ayscough Wilkinson and Charles Wilkinson into the business, which then changed its name from William Wilkinson, cabinet-maker and upholder, to William Wilkinson & Sons.

AYSCOUGH, Samuel. An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words made use by Shakspeare. London: 1790. 8vo (225 x 130mm.) (Occasional spotting.) 19th century half-calf (slightly scuffed).

SMITH, T. (printer), `The Proceedings of Corpus Christi College, Oxon in The Case of Mr. Ayscough, Vindicated`, London, 1730. 42pp. unbound. tog. with one other. 2

Deering (Charles) - Nottingham Vetus et Nova, or An Historical Account of the Ancient and present State of the Town of Nottingham, pub. Nottingham Ayscough and Willington, 1751, folding eng. fontis, eng. copper plates, some fading inc. one large folding plan, some time staining, full calf, raised spine bands, gt. lettering

A George III mahogany cistern tube stick barometer James Ayscough, London, circa 1755. The arched exposed silvered scale with vernier and signed Ayscough London applied to the straight caddy moulded case with exposed tube and orb shaped cistern cover to the rounded base, 92cm high, B.C. Ref. 12. Illustrated in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETERS Stick or Cistern Tube page 52. James Ayscough is recorded by Banfield as working in London circa 1732-63. The work of Aynscough is described in Goodison, Nicholas English BAROMETERS 1680-1860 Section II Some Important Makers and Retailers page 131 who cites that he was probably primarily a maker of optical instruments but stocked barometers and thermometers. A fine carved mahogany portable stick barometer is in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Deering, Charles. Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova; or An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham, Ayscough, Nottingham 1751. Full mottled calf, folding street plan, folding and other engraved plate illustrations, quarto (rebacked; binding split in two).

Frederickson (A.D.). Ad Orientem, 1st ed., 1890,. half title present, twenty eight hand col. and tinted litho. plts., facsimile of a Japanese voucher, two folding maps, all correct as list, ex lib. copy with ink stamps on title, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, torn on spine, together with Perry Ayscough (H.G.C. and Otter Barry, Captain R.B.), With the Russians in Mongolia, 1st ed., 1914,b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear (a little worn in folds), t.e.g., remainder rough trimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., plus Lattimore (Owen), The Desert Road to Turkestan, 1st ed., Boston, 1929, half title present, b & w illusts. from photos., map endpapers, orig. cloth, lettered in orange, minor wear to head and foot of spine, and other Chinese, Central Asia and Turkestan travel, all 8vo (20)

James Ayscough, London (Barometer maker circa 1745-60), mahogany stick barometer, signed silvered calibrated dial surmounted with a turned half finial, moulded outlines and mahogany ball base, 93cm Note: James Ayscough is listed as working from 33 Ludgate Street near St. Pauls, specialising in spectacles, lenses and microscopes, but also selling barometers, diagonal, standard or portable and was succeeded by his apprentice Joseph Linnell who continued to use the name Ayscough until 1767. An example of his trade card is held in the Science Museum, London and is illustrated Fig. 3 of Banfields Barometer Makers and Retailers

Deering (Charles). Nottingham Vetus et Nova, or An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham, pub. Nottingham, Ayscough & Willington, 1751, folding eng. frontis. attached to title with cloth tape, folds repaired with adhesive tape, extended inner margins to first two leaves, twenty-four copper-eng. plts., some folding incl. one large folding plan, a few minor tears and repairs, a few contemporary ms. annotations, occasional light spotting, recent half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, 4to (1)

Verity-Steele (Queenie) - The Book on Pekingese, sixth edition, illus, pictorial boards, 1930; Mrs Ashton Cross - The Pekinese dog, two copies, 1932; Andrew Soutar - A Chinaman in Sussex Sly Reflections of a Wordly Peke, 1931; Florence Ayscough - The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog, nd, c1927; Annie Coath Dixey - The Lion Dog of Peking, first edition, 1931; ten others the Pekinese breed; together with a watercolour portrait of the late owner's Pekinese dog by Pollyanna Pickering (17)

AYSCOUGH, JAMES. A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision. First and Second Editions, bound together, 1752. 8vo., later full brown morocco. Each with folding engraved frontispiece. With another volume (2).