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L.S. Lowry R.A. (British 1887-1976) "Crowd Around a Cricket Sight Board" Numbered 345/850 in pencil in the margin, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, limited edition colour print.30.5 x 78cm (framed 51.5 x 99cm)The print is in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The print is ornately framed and glazed.

L.S. Lowry R.A. (British 1887-1976) "Sketches", figure with a pram, boy on a trolley, and a larger study of a figure with a pram, three prints Published by Adam Collection Ltd, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, from an edition of 850, the original drawings in the collection of Mr and Mrs Andras Kalman, London, printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds, limited edition prints.each approximately 9.5cm x 12cm (3.75in x 4.75in)Qty: 3* This print is usually sold with "Group of Children".The prints are all in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The prints are all framed together and glazed. The original frame has some minor knocks and losses.

Trevor Grimshaw (British 1947-2001) "Reflected Fence" Signed and numbered 104/150 in pencil in the margin, published by Christie's Contemporary Art, with their blind stamp, silkscreen on BFK Rives paper.50 x 36cm (framed 58.5 x 44.5cm)Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.The print is in very good, original condition. There are one or two spots of foxing in the margins. The print is ornately reframed and glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.

Trevor Grimshaw (British 1947-2001) "Monoliths" Signed and numbered 142/150 in pencil in the margin, published by Christie's Contemporary Art, with their blind stamp, silkscreen on BFK Rives paper.55 x 40cm (framed 75 x 59cm)Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.The print is in very good, original condition. There is a faint mark in the upper right-hand corner of the sheet. The print is ornately reframed and glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.

L.S. Lowry R.A. (British 1887-1976) "The Notice Board" Signed in pencil in the margin, from the edition of 500, with the Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, published by Adam Collection Ltd in 1975, printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd, limited edition colour print.43 x 52cm (framed 59 x 68cm)Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.The print is in good, original condition. The colours have faded across the print and there is some very light time staining and browning around the edges of the paper near the mount board. The print is framed and glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.

Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic on blue paper speckled with gold, 164 leaves (plus two later endleaves at each end), containing five parts in one volume, single column, predominantly in Arabic with a few verses in Farsi, nine lines in total, comprising two lines of black thuluth outlined in gold at top and bottom, with six lines black naskh separated by a further line of gold thuluth outlined in black, five illuminated polychrome headings opening each new section of poetry, catchwords, leaves ruled in blue and orange, some contemporary annotations to margins in nasta'liq, small scattered early worm-holes, some leaves repaired along outer margins particularly along lower edge of leaves, not affecting text, a few ex-libris stamps, contemporary blind-stamped calf, inlaid leather central medallions and corner-pieces, edges painted with orange and yellow floral decorations, rebacked and outer edges repaired, old worm-holes, 8vo (217 x 112mm.), Safavid Persia (probably Isfahan), [second quarter of 16th century].⁂ A visually stunning Persian codex, and notable that the poetry is in Arabic. There are five different sections in this volume, each being either a divan, mathnavi or ghazal - various poetic forms typically taken from Persian literature and very rarely seen in the Arabic language. Although no exact comparison has been found, the text bears a striking resemblance to sufi poet Al-Busiri's collection of poems dedicated to Prophet Muhammad entitled Qasa'ida al-Burda. Though scarce, this text was popular among sufis and was adapted by other poets. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, have an adapted version of the poem here, first compiled in the thirteenth century (their W.581.25B., dated 1366 AD).The style and layout of these leaves is reminiscent of Qur'ans produced in Shirazi workshops in the mid-sixteenth century (cf. those in Christie's, 26 April 2012, lot 46, and 27 April 2017, lot 96). They have the same larger calligraphic panels of text above, below and in the middle of the central naskh sections, in which the script employs alternating colours, usually in blue and gold. The striking difference, however, is in the present manuscript's use of unusual blue paper, and this sets this codex apart from its peers.

Reissner (Adam) Ierusalem vetustissima illa et celeberrima totius mundi civitas, ex sacris literis et approbaris Historicis ad unguem descripta, first Latin edition, collation: A6 A-Z a-z Aa-Hh6 Ii4 Kk6, double-page woodcut bird's eye view of Jerusalem, woodcut illustrations, small repaired tear to final leaf of index, not affecting text, sig Gg and Hh misbound, some foxing and browning, contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, with religious scenes in borders and date stamped '1565', original brass clasps and corner-pieces, preserved in modern suede-lined morocco drop-back box, folio (303 x 181mm.), Frankfurt, Georg Raben, Sigmund Feyerabend & heirs of Weigand Han, 1563.⁂ A superb, unsophisticated copy of the first Latin edition of this important and finely illustrated history of the city of Jerusalem before its destruction, which was published in the same year as the original German edition. This version was never completed and comprises the translation of only the first volume of the original German. Reissner (1496-1575) studied at the University of Heidelberg, taught theology at Strasburg and worked as a chronicler in his hometown of Mindelheim. The abundant illustrations include the wonderful panoramic view and 43 woodcuts by Virgil Solis depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments as well as views of cities and buildings.Provenance: from the library of a Franciscan convent in Vienna (with engraved bookplate and inscription on title dated 1654).Literature: VD 16 R1058; Röhricht 708.

Gregynog Press.- Lamentations of Jeremiah (The), one of 250 copies, Baskerville italic type printed in black and blue, wood-engraved illustrations, title and initial letters designed and engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton, pages slightly toned, original publisher's blind-stamped blue morocco, some marks, corners very slightly bumped, folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1933.

Thucydides. The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated by Thomas Nicolls, first edition in English, black letter, title within elaborate historiated woodcut border with royal arms at head, historiated and decorative woodcut initials, with the rare errata leaf at end, often missing, lacking Z1&6 (both provided in facsimile), wormed, mostly marginally, but some within text (this mostly small holes), decreasing in severity as the work proceeds, water-stained, heavier in places towards end (see in particular sigs. 2I&K), occasional spotting, 19th century blind-stamped calf, gilt, central episcopal arms to covers, spine in compartments, rubbed and little scuffed, [STC 24056], small folio, [by William Tylle], 25th July, 1550.⁂ One of the earliest printed translations of Greek literature into English. Thucydides recounts the 5th-century B.C. war between Athens and Sparta and analyses the political and moral policies that fueled the combat.Provenance: Robert Savile (ink signature and 'Delicta Juventutis mea, & ignorantias meas ne memineris domine' to recto and verso (here dated 1570) of title). Probably a member of the prominent Lincolnshire family of the same name.

Birds.- Audubon (John James) The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., re-issued by J. W. Audubon, 500 hand-coloured lithograph plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others, tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams, occasional light off-setting, the odd scattered spot, contemporary morocco, ornately blind-stamped, extremities rubbed, g.e., [Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; Zimmer p.22], 8vo, New York, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1861.⁂ ?Third octavo edition. After completing the double-elephant folio edition at great expense in England, Audubon returned to the United States to produce a more profitable octavo version (originally with the Philadelphia firm of Bowen), and added 65 new images to the original plate count of the double-elephant folio.

Riley (Dominic, binder).- Rosenbloom (Megan) Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, in a designer binding by Dominic Riley of brown goatskin, with light brown goatskin joints and doublures, light brown pigskin flyleaves, edges decorated with acrylic, silk-sewn headbands, tooled in silver and glow-in-the dark foil on cover and doublures; protective clamshell box with suedelle pads, title label tooled in blind on box spine label in the boustrophedon style (as the ox turns), 8vo (binding 216 x144mm.), New York, 2020.⁂ A striking and intriguing binding on a macabre subject. The binder himself said: "This is a puzzle book, that is, both Megan's work and mine. The human figures on the covers are the wellknown image of the chalk outline of the CSI dead body. They are cut up in the manner of animal butchery. The cryptic lines at top conceal the title. Whilst most of the tooling is done with silver, the bodies' outline and the individual letters of the title are tooled with glow-in-the-dark foil. On the doublures, the figures slip down the boards, while the title is tooled again, this time backwards on the leather, which is revealed right-reading on the suede. The box spine title is a further puzzle to be solved."

Marx (Karl) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, vol. 1 only [all published in Marx's lifetime], second improved edition, without half-title and final advertisement f., bound in dark brown goatskin by K.H. Neumann, spine with five raised bands and lettered in silver, matching goatskin doublures, signed with stamp at foot of rear turn-in, marbled endpapers, chemise of suede-lined dark brown goatskin with yapp edges, spine ruled in blind, upper panel titled in silver and with onlay of repeating red-tinted photographic portrait of Marx, housed in a matching suede-lined goatskin drop-back box, 8vo, Hamburg, 1872.⁂ Revised by the author from the first edition of 1867, with the addition of a 10pp. afterword. Only one volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime, with volumes two and three prepared by Engels from Marx's notes after his death.

Melville (Herman).- Beale (Thomas) The Natural History of the Sperm Whale...to Which is Added, a Sketch of a South Sea Whaling Voyage, second edition, without adverts, frontispiece and 2 plates, ex-library copy with stamps and markings, ownership name to endpapers, original blind-stamped mauve cloth, spine faded, corners bumped, 8vo, 1839⁂ Scarce in original cloth. This expanded edition is the first to contain the account of the whaling voyage, and also has the distinction of being the main technical source for Melville's Moby Dick.

Surgery.- Vigo (Giovanni da) The most excelent worckes of Chirurgery...traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and unknowen symples, belongyng unto the arte, second edition in English, black letter, text in two columns, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, [par.]3-6, 2F4 and final 16 leaves (including final blank) supplied from another, shorter copy, skilful restoration to title, including small loss to border at upper corner restored in manuscript, a few marginal repairs, just touching text to G3, a few tears into text neatly repaired (repair obscuring some text to U5), Y3-4 & 2C5 repaired with loss to a few letters, the odd small stain, obscuring a couple of letters to I1, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, water-staining, some light browning, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, neatly rebacked and recornered, preserving original spine, brass catches (lacking clasps), rubbing to spine ends and joints, endpapers renewed but with most of original pastedown with contemporary ink inscription preserved, [STC 24721; cf. G&M 5559.1], Edwarde Whytchurch, 1550.⁂ Vigo's surgical compilation, first published in 1514. "The first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis" (G&M).The English translation by Bartholomew Traheron first appeared in 1543.

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, second edition, second issue with "fifth thousand" on title, half-title, folding lithograph diagram, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated January 1860 at end, hinges broken, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, overall a sharp, near-fine copy, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Freeman 376], 8vo, 1860.⁂ The first edition had a print run of only 1250 copies and was sold out in a day. The book was republished in a printing of only 3000 copies literally within days of the first issuance. Darwin himself considered this edition "little more than a reprint of the first edition".A very nice and completely unsophisticated copy of "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" and "the most important biological work ever written" (Horblit, Freeman).

δ Hicks (Chris, binder).- Betjeman (John) Metro-land, one of 220 copies signed by the author and artist, text printed in red on tissue leaves, 15 colour lithograph plates by Glynn Boyd Harte, email correspondence with the binder loosely inserted, bound in red goatskin with chimney, sloping roof and three dimensional bay window to form a typical "Metro-land" house, by Chris Hicks, inlaid windows with fabric curtains revealing patterned wallpaper, signed and dated "CLH 89" in blind twice on lower cover, preserved in a custom yellow cloth drop-back box (corners little rubbed), c.295 x 235mm., Warren Editions, 1977.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Binding.- Bodoni.- Tasso (Torquato) Aminta, Favola Boschereccia, ora per la prima volta alla sua vera lezione ridotta, first Bodoni edition, one of only 50 copies on velin paper "Carta d'Anonnay", engraved portrait vignette and engraved coat-of-arms, later dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, by Thouvenin, outer broad border of arabesques and stylized flowers and acanthus leaves, in the four corners of the sides large pointille squares enclosing quatrefoil ornaments, inner narrow border of palmettes blind-tooled, large inner fan-shaped pointille corner pieces composed of arabesques, acanthus and leafy tools, in centres a large ornament with corresponding tools, spine with 5 raised double bands, the second compartment lettered in gilt, the others gilt with leafy tools on pointille background, doublures and endleaves of pink watered silk surrounded by gilt borders, g.e., preserved in silk-lined cloth drop-back box, [Brooks 379], 4to (binding 303 x 225mm.), Parma, Impresso co'caratteri Bodoniani, 1789.⁂ A magnificent copy of this celebrated typographic masterpiece. Brunet cites this as "une des plus belles éditions" produced by the legendary printer-typographer. Dedicated to the Marchesa Donna Anna Malaspina della Bastia with a poem of Vincenzo Monti, printed in Bodoni's elegant italics, underneath her engraved coat of arms and with a preface by the Abate Pierantonio Serassi. While it was subsequently reprinted in 1792 with a frontispiece bearing the original printing date of 1789, this example is identifiable as the first issue (with the small signature number on p. 13 of the preface, and the correct "novi lumi" on p. 38).The sumptuous binding, executed c.1830, is by Joseph Thouvenin l'Aîné. Born in 1791, the son of a bookseller, he learned bookbinding from 1802-1813. He started to work with Bozerian and had acquired great competence by 1806. He set up on his own in 1813, apparently to learn the gilding which Bozérian Jeune had been unwilling to teach him. His submission of 11 bindings at the Exhibition of 1819 was rewarded with an honourable mention while at that of 1823, he gained a silver medal. He became one of, if not the most respected and sought-after binders of the period but died in his binding prime in 1834.

*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** Edwards of Halifax (binder).- [Walpole (Horace)] "Onuphrio Muralto". The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story, first Bodoni edition, translated by William Marshal, large paper copy, ruled in red throughout, engraved frontispiece in 2 states bound either side of half-title, occasional slight foxing, contemporary calf by Edwards of Halifax, covers with central panel of tree calf within gilt frame of Greek key, this within a double framework of blind Etruscanesque tools and further gilt framework, the spine with beautifully gilt tooled compartments between double raised bands gilt stippled and ruled, gilt board edges and turn-ins, watered silk endpapers, with a fine fore-edge painting of Countess Weir Bridge on the River Exe, expert repair to upper joint, lower joint cracking, extremities slightly rubbed and spine gilt a little dulled, preserved in modern padded cloth drop-back box, [Diehl, Bookbinding I 170; Weber, Fore-edge Paintings, 26-44, 140], 8vo, Parma, Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, 1791.⁂ A stunning copy. Both the binding and the fore-edge painting on this copy exactly match the descriptions given on the copy once in the collection of Mrs G.J. Guthrie Nicholson of Newport, Rhode Island. The collection was dispersed by the Parke-Bernet Galleries in their famous auction sale of November 8-9, 1948 and was considered to be one of the finest and most important collections of Fore-edge paintings in the Americas.

*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.*** Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, original boards with skull design in gilt and blind, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped, exceptionally minor creasing to spine ends, otherwise a very fine copy, 8vo, 1959. 

Annotated.- Greek.- Hederich (Benjamin) Lexicon manuale graecum, triple column, inter-leaved with early 19th century ink notes in Greek and Latin in triple column, title with those parts that were printed in red inked in, a few instances of ink staining, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, 20th century brown half morocco, gilt and blind-stamped decorative spine in compartments, little rubbed at extremities, 4to, H. Woodfall for W. Innys [& others], 1755.⁂ Provenance: Rickman Godlee (book label to verso of title).

Bible, Hebrew.- [The Old Testament], 4 vol. in 8, collation: I: [pi]1, I-648, I-88 (with blanks 398 & 648); II: I-568 (with blank 568); III: I-608 (with blanks 605-8); IV: I-308, 314, 32-658 (with blanks I86-8, and 654-7, but lacking final blank 658), four titles within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut cartouches, 1 title strengthened with tape at inner gutter, vol. IV small printing flaw to 341r and small tear to 623, just touching headline, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 1 vol. text block neatly split in two, 17th century blind-stamped calf, later small labels (or remains of) to spines, a few covers detached, worn, but serviceable, 16mo (c.111 x 75mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1566.⁂ A rare appearance at auction of a complete set of Plantin's first Hebrew Bible. The type was cast after the matrices of Daniel van Bomberghen, obtained by his nephew Cornelius van Bomberghen, who was Plantin's business partner. The 4to, 8vo, and 16mo editions were all printed in the same year. The text is based on Bomberg's second Rabbinic Bible, printed in Venice in 1524-25. The set is composed of the Pentateuch (Chamisha Chumshei Torah), the Writings (Ketuvim), Earlier Prophets, and Later Prophets. Literature: Adams B1229; Darlow & Moule 5099 (note).

Fore-edge painting.- Bible, English.- The Bible designed to be read as literature, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, with a fore-edge painting of Bethlehem signed 'KH' beneath the gilt, tan morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt, spine in compartments, blind-stamped foliage extensions to raised bands on covers, covers with single filet border, spine uniformly faded, the odd light mark, g.e., 8vo (binding 232 x 160mm.), William Heinemann, [c.1950].

Binding.- Printed in 150 languages.- Oratio Dominica CL linguis versa, first edition, edited by J.J. Marcel, every page within typographic border printed in red, title with imperial arms of Napoleon, wide margins, contemporary English straight-grain purple morocco, gilt, bound for George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough with his arms on covers, g.e., joints slightly rubbed, 4to, Paris, Typis Imperialibus, 1805.⁂ An exceptional copy of a typographic tour de force. This luxurious polyglot Lord's Prayer is a spectacular display of the types from Napoleon's newly refurbished Imprimerie Impérial, printed only weeks after his coronation and including many non-Latin types he had confiscated from the Propaganda Fide in Rome, celebrating Napoleon as Emperor and suggesting with all its languages that his influence should spread over the entire world. This copy is appropriately bound in luxurious Empire or Regency style gold- and blind-tooled morocco for the Duke of Marlborough. It presents 150 numbered renditions of the Lord's Prayer, each in a different language (or sometimes more than one variant of a single language), set in a wide variety of types, including Hebrew, Samaritan, Arabic (including variants for Persian, Turkish and other languages), Manchu, Chinese (followed by a transliteration below printed musical notes to indicate the tones), Estrangela Syriac, Armenian, Greek, Irish, Cyrillic (both the civil - Grazhdanskii - and Old Slavonic styles), Coptic and Ethiopic (for both Geez and Amharic).Provenance: Earl Spencer (arms on covers); Charles Barclay (bookplate).

Foulis Press.- Homer. Iliados [&] Odysseias [graece], edited by Jacob Moor and George Muirhead, together 4 vol., Greek text with Latin dedication, preface and index, with all half-titles but without the general title as usual, faint traces of old ink signature to titles (partly erased), occasional light spotting and some soiling to upper margins but generally a good clean copy, Odyssey vol.2 with marginal tears to 2q2 & 4g (the first repaired), armorial bookplate of G.H.Lindsay, contemporary polished calf with roll-tooled border in blind, spines gilt, a little rubbed and marked with a few scuffs, splits to joints, vol.1 rebacked preserving old gilt spine, other spine ends a little worn or repaired, [Gaskell 319], folio, Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-58.⁂ The magnum opus of the press, for which it was awarded the Silver Medal of the Select Society of Edinburgh in both 1756 and 1757. The Foulis brothers had the Greek font cut by Alexander Wilson, and its setting in the Homer shows it to splendid effect.

Middle East.- Buckingham (James Silk) Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Baghdad by Mount Zagros ..., first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, folding engraved map, wood-engraved illustrations, scattered faint spotting, near contemporary crushed morocco, g.e., gilt borders, G.W. to centre boards, dentelles in blind, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1829.

Judaica.- Galiatovsky (Ioannikiy) [Messia pravdivy [The Truthful Messiah, Jesus Christ Son of God], first edition, [18], 429, [5]ff., additional preface dedicated to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, woodcut title with coat-of-arms on verso, 7 woodcut head-pieces and 3 tail-pieces, woodcut of conversation of Christ with a Samaritan on p.278, some repairs to leaves, mostly marginal, some soiling and staining, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked, covers repaired and with new clasps, 4to, Kyiv, Press of the Pecherskaia Lavra, 1669.⁂ First edition of an important book, dealing with some of the social and religious polemics of the day. In 1666 a member of the Jewish community in Turkey, Sabbatai Zevi, proclaimed himself the Messiah and claimed he would lead the Jewish people to salvation. Zevi went to Jerusalem and claimed to be its king - as a result he was arrested by the Sultan and put in jail. In jail he converted to Islam, but soon afterwards was executed. The Sabbatean heresy was for a time extremely popular amongst the Jewish community in Ukraine and was the inspiration for this anti-Jewish polemic, 'The truthful Messiah', which has been called the first anti-semitic book in the Russian-Ukrainian tradition, summing up all the then current negative stereotypes of the Jews.The book is written in the form of dialogue between a Jew and a Christian, in the Ukrainian language - it was later translated into Polish in 1672 with the financial assistance of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich who reportedly admired it.No copy traced at auction.

A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHEST OF TWO SHORT AND THREE GRADED LONG DRAWERS BELOW THE BLIND FRET CARVED CORNICE AND ON BRACKET FEET. W 102 x D 53 x 113cms.

A GEORGE III AND LATER MAHOGANY GAINSBOROUGH CHAIR WITH GOTHIC BLIND FRET CARVING TO THE ARMS AND LEGS

JAMES HICKS (1866-1936), DUBLIN, A MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT DISPLAY CABINET, THE CENTRAL SWAN NECK PEDIMENT FLANKED BY FOLIATE BRACKETS ABOVE THE FOUR ASTRAGAL GLAZED DOORS, THE BASE WITH A PIERCED APRON AND ON BLIND FRET CARVED SQUARE SECTION LEGS TAPERING TO SPADE FEET. W 167 x D 53 x H 226cms.

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976), "DEAL BEACH SKETCH" lithograph, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, published by Venture Prints Ltd. signed in biro, with blind stamp, 18cm x 25cm, Note: This is a print of the preparatory sketch for The Beach at Deal

A Late 17th/ Early 18th Century Walnut and Marquetry Longcase Clock, by James Clowes of London, the hood with a blind fret above  glazed door and ebonised columns above a long trunk door with marquetry inlaid with flowers and a bird with an oval window, the base with conforming inlay, the 10” square brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, to the eight day two train five pillar movement striking on a bell, 198cm high James Clowes is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in around 1643 in Astbury, Cheshire, older brother of John and son to James Clowes senior, a nail maker of Odd Rode. James Clowes became a Free Brother of The Clockmakers Company in 1671 - the same year as Thomas Tompion, Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Joseph Windmills. In 1673 he was working at St. Giles in the Fields and then At. Ann s Blackfriars in 1675 when he married Mary Winckley of Biddulph, Staffordshire (at Barthomley in Cheshire). He is believed to have married again to a Jane Coulton in 1680 who was still alive in 1686. James Clowes signed the Clockmakers Company oath of allegiance in 1697 and paid quarterage up until 1705 when he is thought to have died.

A late 19th century mahogany mantel clock, with Roman numerals, twin winding holes, eight day movement, arched case with blind fret, 25cm high, c.1890

Blues/Rock and Roll 12" albums. Big Bill Broonzy; 'Last Session Part 3' (CLP 1562, 1961), Magic Slim & The Teardrops; 'Grand Slam' (R 2618, 1982), Chuck Berry; 'The Chess Years' (Gatefold, NOT2LP178, 2013), Jimmy Wetherspoon; 'There's Good Rockin' Tonight' (688 005 ZL, 1969), Reverend Gary Davis; '1935-1949' (L-1023, 1970), Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee; 'Back Country Blues' (52165, 1963), Blind Terry Darby; 'Bootleggin' Ain't Good No More' (BPLP 1001), Eddie Boyd and His Blues Band featuring Peter Green; 'Eddie Boy and His Blues Band' (CCR 1002, 1982). (8)The overall condition is generally G/VG.

The Beatles. 'White Album' PCS 7067, No.0458502, 'The Beatles' blind stamp to front, scratched to good disc, tape repairs to posters, edgeware and nibbles to gatefold, 1970.

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), 'Oblique Forms' from Twelve Lithographs, signed and numbered 24/60 in pencil, lithograph, Curwen Press blind stamp, artist's initials watermark, full sheet, image 55 x 72.5 cm, sheet 58 x 81 cm, unframedOverall in very good condition and has been stored between two pieces of cardboard. Top and left edges remain uncut, some minor creases to the bottom edge of the paper. Signs of previous mounting tape on top corners of the verso. Cream coloured paper with CP blindstamp.

L.S. Lowry (1887 - 1976), 'Station Approach', a limited edition print signed in pencil, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, image 40 x 50.5 cm, framed and mounted, frame 64 x 74.5 cmRegent Studios of Leamington Spa label versoNot inspected out of the frame. Looks to be in good condition - good colour.

L.S. Lowry (1887 - 1976), 'The Harbour', limited edition print signed in pencil, published 1972 by Venture Prints, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, image 40.5 x 55.5 cm, in original frame, frame 64 x 78 cmRegent Studios of Leamington Spa label versoNot inspected out of the frame. Looks to be in good condition. Good colour.

Régence-KommodeHöhe: 85 cm.Breite: 129 cm.Tiefe: 65 cm.Frankreich, 18. Jahrhundert.Eichenholzkorpus, furniert. In teils à jour gearbeiteten Bronzesabots die stehenden gekanteten Beine mit darüberliegendem Korpus mit fünf Schüben. Diese mit reichen Ormolu-Handhaben und dazwischenliegenden, à jour gearbeiteten Louis XV-Schlüsselschildern, wobei das obere Schlüsselschild blind gearbeitet ist und zwischen den beiden oberen Schüben liegt, diese flankiert von Espagnoletten. Überkragende, profilierte, den Zügen des Möbels folgende Marmordeckplatte in rot-weiß geädertem Marmor. Ein Schlüssel vorhanden. (1371193) (13)Régence commodeHeight: 85 cm. Width: 129 cm. Depth: 65 cm.France, 18th century.Oak structure, veneered. The structure with five drawers is supported on canted legs in bronze sabots, some of them à jour.

A Bush Model DAC 10 Wireless Receiver with dual-tone bakelite case, bearing 'Property Of British Wireless For The Blind Fund' transfer by the push buttons; and a Maestro 3-band bakelite set with inset profile dial and speaker grille (2)

Morant (Philip). The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, 2 volumes, (incorporating the second edition of The History and Antiquities of the most ancient Town and Borough of Colchester), London: T. Osborne et al., 1768, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED AND EXTENDED TO 5 VOLUMES, plus a Manuscript Index, 1908, the contents mounted on large paper, the whole being lavishly extended with hundreds of extra illustrations of varying sizes, containing approximately 36 maps, some coloured, including examples by or after Christopher Saxton, Johannes Blaeu, Jan Jannson, John Chapman and Peter Andre, Philip Lea, Thomas Dix, Ordnance Survey, Richard Blome and Robert Morden, plus approximately 20 watercolours and drawings and 750 prints including portraits and views, coloured aquatints by Havell and Merigot, other coloured plates by Alken and Daniell, mezzotints by J. Smith, C. Turner, J. Faber and McArdell, lithographs, stipple etchings, line engravings, india proofs, woodcuts, facsimiles, etc., the five text volumes with additional printed title-pages for this unique copy dated 1908, the manuscript Index volume comprising 24 leaves (plus 18 blank), completed alphabetically in a very neat hand on rectos only, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to all front pastedowns, early 20th-century red crushed levant full morocco gilt by Morrell, inner dentelles gilt, wide and richly roll-tooled panels in gold and blind, gilt-decorated spines with raised bands, Index volume bound in red crushed levant half morocco gilt to match, all with some slight rubbing and a few scuff marks, some darkening from old scorch marks to lowest raised bands and foot of spines and board edges, a little wear and some strengthening to tailcaps, folio (560 x 385 mm)QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).A truly sumptuous and very handsome imperial folio set of this major county history. The contents are largely in very clean and good condition and the whole has been assembled with fastidious care. Sadly, there is no evidence as to who it was done by or who owned it before William Foyle.The maps include those by Christopher Saxton, Johannes Blaeu, Jan Jannson, Emanuel Bowen (7), John Norden and W. Kip, C & J Greenwood, Philip Lea, John Rocque, Henry Overton, Robert Morden, Richard Blome, Thomas Kitchin, John Cary, James Pigot, J. Roper and Thomas Dix, plus a large-scale 25-sheet map by John Chapman & Peter Andre (220 x 285 cm), and a 4-sheet county map by Colonel Mudge (OS maps), and a large-scale county map by C. & J. Greenwood.There are watercolour views of Woodford by W. H. Bartlett, 1832, (330 x 495 mm); St Botolph's Priory by G. F. Phillips, 1807; Mr Trott's Farm near Romford by J. C. Nattes; Great Canfield by A. Barfield, 1844; large sepia wash drawing of Nether Hall [by Laporte]; large plan of Colchester Barracks by J. Parkyns, 1806; unsigned views of Waltham Abbey, Tilty Abbey, Thaxted (pencil), Southend (2), South Bemfleet (sepia), House of Mrs Masson at Hornchurch; plus portraits of Lady Anne Lucas by T. Athow, Thomas Littleton and Sir Thomas Hervey (fine copy).Among the numerous portraits are approximately 14 mezzotints of Oliver Cromwell (trimmed to oval), George Capel, Earl of Essex, James I, Duke of Albemarle, Admiral Sir George Pocock, Samuel Bosanquet (relined; not in Index), Bishop Compton, Lady Fairfax (small), John Knight and family, Thomas Wood, Edward Bright, Henry Vane, John Morley and Thomas Lane.

Saint Placidus (c. 515- c. 550). I tre libri della vita di S. Placido monaco, et martire, et de' compagni suoi, composta da Gordiano Discepolo di S. Benedetto, et per D. Gio. Battista da Crema monaco Camaldolese di Latino tradotta nella comune lingua volgare, a contemplatione delle Riverende Monache di S. Parigio in Treviso osservantissime, [?Venice], 15 August 1562, 119 leaves manuscript on thick paper, plus approximately 40 blank leaves, written in a neat hand with foliation throughout, occasional spotting, Palazzo Pitti exhibition note in pencil and paper ticket with manuscript inscription, ‘Principe Diego Pignatelli Angio’ to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey beneath, gilt-gauffered edges (some gathers starting), contemporary Venetian red morocco gilt over wooden boards with bevelled edges, roll-tooled borders, the central panel decorated in gilt with leafy tools to centre-and-corner design, the ground of the centre and corners filled with gold dots, one tooled leather clasp (three others missing), some worm holes and edge wear, spine tooled in blind with leather label and gilt hatching to raised bands, slight wear at head and foot of spine, 4to (225 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Diego Pignatelli Aragona (paper ticket); Palazzo Pitti exhibition, Florence, 1922, no. 262 (pencil note); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old auction catalogue description loosely inserted in the book notes: ‘For similar bindings with the decoration partly dotted, cf. Tessier sale at Munich, 21 May 1900, lot 560, a binding dated 1575 with the name of one of the Donato family, and lot 187 in a sale at Hoepli's, Milan, 3 May 1928. Pitti Exhibition, 1922, no. 262.’Along with Saint Maur, Saint Placid is one of the earliest and closest followers of Saint Benedict. This biography recounts Placid’s life in three books, from birth to his martyrdom and includes lamentations and praises for him. Originally written in Latin by Gordianus this Italian translation was printed at least twice, the earliest edition noted being published in Venice by Fratelli Guerri in 1583.The Passio S. Placidi, written by 'Gordianus', is really the work of Peter the Deacon, a monk of Monte Cassino in the twelfth century. The writer confused Saint Placidus with the earlier Placitus, who was martyred in Sicily under Diocletian. Having thus made St. Placidus a martyr, he proceeds to account for this by attributing his martyrdom (anachronistically) to Saracen invaders from Spain, understandable if Peter the Deacon was writing in the aftermath of the Moslem invasions of Sicily. The translator, Giovanni Battista da Crema , born Giovanni Battista Gentili (flourished 1521-1560), was a Camaldolese monk. The earliest printed translation Vita di S. Placido monaco, et martire, diuisa in tre libri ... Tradotta di Latino in lingua volgare, dal R. P. D. Gio. Battista da Crema ... Nuouamente posta in luce dal R. Padre D. Sebastiano da Fabriano, was published in Venice in 1583.

Chinese Export School. Album of Chinese rice paper paintings, circa 1830's, 51 fine paintings in watercolour and bodycolour on rice (pith) paper, some heightened with gold, comprising an Emperor, Empress, 8 single (mostly female) figures, 14 butterflies and flowers (including three still lifes of flowers in a chinese basket), 2 trades (porcelain seller and fisherman), 1 crab and frog, 6 rice fields and farming scenes, 8 large chinese boats, 6 scenes of chinese tortures, and four on dried leaves (3 junks and one of flowers), some minor short tears to edges of the sheets, with occasional small loss (generally in very good condition), sheet corners with glue residue visible, original green endpapers, with maroon morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, fine contemporary maroon straight- grained full morocco, spine fully gilt (with later matching gilt morocco label 'Chinese paintings'), sides elaborately decorated with blind panelling and corner ornaments within a gilt rolled border, chased brass clasp, 4to (25 x 19 cm)QTY: (1)

Lewis (John). The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the first printer in England. In which is given an account of the rise and progress of the Art of Pryntyng in England, during his time, till 1493. Collected by John Lewis, Minister of Mergate in Kent, London: [no printer], 1737, engraved frontispiece portrait after Bagford, xxii, 156 pp., plus errata leaf at end, followed by two woodcut plates showing Caxton's watermarks, light offsetting from engraved frontispiece to titlepage, later bibliographical notes in pencil and brown ink to verso of front endpaper and recto of blank leaf, marbled endpapers,with bookplates of Charles J. Crawfurd, Sir Henry Cinliffe, and W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown and front endpaper, all edges gilt, later brown full morocco (by Riviere), ruled in blind with arabesque lozenge blind-stamped to centre of each cover, both morocco spine labels lacking, extremities very lightly rubbed, 8vo (213 x 127 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: C. J. Crawfurd (armorial bookplate); Henry Cunliffe, Vicar of Shifnal, Shropshire (bookplate, and bibliographical notes in Cunliffe's hand to front endpapers); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); Christie's, The Library of William Foyle, Part III: English Literature and Manuscripts, Travel Books, 12 July 2000, lot 521.150 copies only printed of this work (Lowndes). First edition of the first full-length biography of William Caxton, by the antiquary John Lewis (1675-1747), following on from Conyers Middleton's Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England (Cambridge, 1735). The main text was reprinted in Dibdin's edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities, 4 volumes (1810-19) . Both Lowndes and Brunet note that only 150 copies were printed: "150 copes printed with a fictitious portrait of Caxton - 12 copies were printed small octavo for presents to the author's friends, who assisted him in the work." (Lowndes).

Angus (William). The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales, In a collection of Select Views, [London]: W. Angus, 1787, engraved title and 63 engraved plates, occasional light spotting, offsetting to facing leaves of text, recent endpapers with modern bookplate of David Graham to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt and blind decorated spine, oblong 4to QTY: (1)

Digges (Sir Dudley). The Compleat Ambassador: or two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious Memory; comprised in letters of negotation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her Resident in France. Together with the Answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein as in a clear Mirror, maybe seeing the Faces of the two Courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of State, not at all mentioned in any history, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1655, [16], 232, 231-414, 419-434, 439-441, [7] pp., ([pi]4, a4, B-Iii4, Kkk2, c3, with signature Ggg1 missigned Hhh1), engraved frontispiece by William Faithorne ([pi]1), somewhat close-trimmed to lower margin (just touching platemark to the left), title-page printed in red and black, Yy3 repaired to lower outer corner, without loss, burgundy morocco gilt plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, with modern blind-ruled reback to match, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R22010; Wing D1453.

James I. Basilikon d?ron. Or His Maiesties Instructions to his Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince, London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Iohn Norton, according to the copie printed at Edenburgh, 1603, [38], 128, 149-154, [2] pp., without initial blank, blank leaves )(8 and L4 present, first two words of title in Greek characters, woodcut armorial to title (McKerrow 273[beta]), occasional light damp staining to margins (mostly to initial leaves), minor worm-tracing to foremargins of a few leaves, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 19th-century calf, rebacked with blind decorated spine, lacking title label, spine rubbed, board corners worn, 8vo, together with: [Weldon, Anthony]. The Court and Character of King James. Written and taken by Sir A: W: being an eye, and eare witnesses, London: Printed by R.I. and are to be sold by John Wright, 1650, [8], 197, [1] pp., without portrait frontispiece, browning and spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, upper hinge split, contemporary sheep, rebacked and repaired to upper edge of front board, some wear, small 8vo,[Sparke, Michael]. Truth brought to Light: or, The History of the first 14 years of King James I. In four parts..., London: Richard Baldwin, 1692, additional engraved title, without initial explanation leaf of additional title and portrait, each part with separate dated title page and pagination, browning and spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, lower free endpaper laid down and lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, upper joint repaired, worn, 8vo [Dalrymple, David, editor]. Memorials and Letters relating to the History of Britain in the Reign of James the First. Published from the Originals, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1762, browning to margins of first and last leaves, armorial bookplate of Edward Shipperdson to upper pastedown and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, without title label, rubbed, small 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey.1. ESTC S107536; STC 14350.This famous work was originally printed privately in Edinburgh in 1599 (seven copies only). The first public edition, also published in Edinburgh, and simultaneously with the accession of King James to the throne of England, was used as the basis for this 1603 London issue. James I here instructs his son on various matters including marriage, God, and unacceptable pastimes, such as football, tennis and archery.'For albeit I graunt it to bee most requisite for a King to exercise his engine, which surely with idlenesse will rust and become blunt; yet certainlie bodily exercises and games are verie commendable, as well for banishing of idlenesse (the mother of all vice) as for making his bodie able and durable for travel, which is verie neccessarie for a King, But from this count I debarre al rough and violent exercises, as the foot-ball; meeter for laming, then making able the users thereof: as likewise such tumbling trickes as onely serve for Comedians and Balladines, to winner their bread with. But the exercises that I would have you to use (although but moderatlie, not for making a craft of them) are running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch or tennis, archerie, palle maillé, and such like other faire and pleasant field games. And the honourablest and most commendable games that yee can use, are on horseback: for it becommeth a Prince best of anie man, to be fair and good horseman...' (pp. 121-22).2. ESTC R209127; Thomason E.1338[1]; Wing W1273.3. ESTC R34585; Goldsmiths’ 2954; Wing S4818C (3rd part of volume referenced as Wing A148A).4. ESTC T67789; Gaskell 405.

Book of Hours, in French with Latin cues. Illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Normandy (probably Fécamp or perhaps Rouen), early(?) 15th century], ii + 87 + ii leaves, 86 x 67 mm, ff. 27v, 86v blank; apparently COMPLETE with a cancelled blank at the end, mainly in quires of 6 leaves (f. 27 apparently a single leaf inserted to supply a missed passage of text, linked to the appropriate place on f. 28r with a red cross), the binding too tight for completely confident collation, but there are no obvious gaps in the text, and there is no evidence that anything ever followed the final leaf, which has a blank verso; ruled in ink for 13 lines per page (16 in the calendar), the ruled space 70 × 50 mm; written in gothic textura script (slightly larger and more formal for the Latin, slightly smaller and more rounded for the French), 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa, each hour except Lauds with BLUE AND GOLD PUZZLE INITIALS with red and blue flourishing, the first text page with an illuminated border, 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa; the margins rather closely cropped, occasionally affecting the border and extremities of the flourished decoration, some offsetting, general thumbing and wear but overall in sound condition and fully legible, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, gilt-gauffered edges, sewn on three bands and bound in 19th-century limp brown leather, blind-tooled with a lattice pattern, housed in a filigree openwork hinged book-box ornamented with 31 polished or cut coloured stonesQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance:Probably produced for use at Fécamp, on the coast of Normany about 40 miles / 60km north-west of Rouen: the calendar includes ‘la dedicace de fescamp’ (15 June), and the rare ‘laurens de eu’ (14 November; i.e. Lawrence, archbishop of Dublin, who died and was buried in 1180 at Eu, also on the Normandy coast, about 50 miles / 80km north-east of Fécamp), as well as several Rouen feasts, including the translation of the relics (3 December), ‘goudart’ (i.e. Gildard) (8 June), the translation of Romanus (17 June), Evodius (7 July, 8 October), Ouen (24 August), and Mellonius (22 October).The first flyleaf has an added 15th-century prayer in Latin, preceded by instructions in French (‘L’en doit avant que l’en die l’oroison ensuivant faire une croix devant sa poitrine …’), signed “Th. Th.” (f. 1v)W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); perhaps acquired in the 1940s, as there is a newspaper clipping dated 1945 loosely inserted.Text:Calendar (f. 2r); Hours of the Virgin, in French, each text with a brief incipit in Latin, with Matins (f. 14r), Lauds (f. 31r), Prime (f. 49v), Terce (f. 57v), Sext (f. 62v), None (f. 66r), Vespers (f. 72v), and Compline (f. 80r). The liturgical Use is similar to, but not the same as, that of Paris. The antiphon and capitulum at Prime and None, (by which many Uses can be distinguished from one another), are: Benedicta tu; Felix namque; Post Partum; and Gaude Maria.Books of Hours in French are extremely rare. Virginia Reinburg (French Books of Hours, Cambridge, 2012, p. 96), knew of only six, all except one of them in an institutional collection: (i) Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 509; (ii) Huntington Library, HM 1129; (iii) Houghton Library, MS Richardson 7; (iv and v) Paris, BnF, MS fr. 1874 and fr. 13167; and (vi) offered by Les Enluminures in their Catalogue 2, 1993, no. 10. To these can be added British Library, Harley MS 2952. No others are recorded in the Schoenberg database.

Major (John). Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angli[a]e q[uam] Scoti[a]e, 1st edition, [Paris], Vendundatur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [Colophon], Ex Officina Ascensiana ad Idus Aprilis, 1521, title with the Ascensius printing-house woodcut device, woodcut arms of Scotland to title verso (title re-margined at gutter and lower margin, presumably supplied from another copy), woodcut criblé initials, g5 with repaired marginal tears affecting shoulder note to verso, some light toning to signature i, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, Bernard Quaritch description tipped-in at front, all edges gilt, late 19th-century brown full morocco gilt by Cape, ruled in blind, covers with central arabesque in gilt and floral corner-pieces, joints and edges a little rubbed, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Morris-Yates Thompson copy. Book label of Wiliam Morris, Kelmscott House (Peterson D10.1); bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson, inscribed '195, n.e.e. Quaritch, c. 1901'; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); The Library of William Foyle, Part III, Christie's, 12 July 2000, lot 371.Adams M-228; Renouard Ascensius III, p. 62; Shaaber M-31.First edition of Major's celebrated history of Greater Britain, in which the separate histories of England and Scotland are brought together, suggesting that Scotland would have much to gain from a union with England. He provides an important early eulogy of the legend of Robin Hood and Little John, and one of the earliest recorded mentions of Stonehenge. According to Anthony a Wood, 'Written in a Sorbonic and barbarous style, yet very truly and with great liberty of spirit ...' (Athenae Oxonienses). John Major, or Mair (1469-1550) was born in Haddington, near Edinburgh but moved to Paris where, after receiving his degree in 1494, he built his reputation as a theological scholar and teacher. Amongst his contemporaries in Paris at this time were Erasmus, Francois Rabelais, and Reginald Pole, and he was well enough known to be mentioned ironically in Rabelais's Gargantua as the author of a treatise on black puddings. In 1518 he returned to Scotland to become Principal of the University of Glasgow, and in 1533 was made Provost of St Salvator's College in the University of St Andrews, where his students included George Buchanan and John Knox.

[Bunbury, Henry William]. An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling and Tumbling... by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice, 3rd edition, London: printed by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by W. Dickinson after Henry Bunbury, plate opposite p. 21 lower corner repaired, bound with Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Author of the Academy for Grown Horsemen; Together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius, and now first published by the editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen, London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 17 stipple-engraved plates after H. Bunbury, plate opposite p. 67 close-trimmed and laid down on later paper, occasional light offsetting and a few minor spots, faded previous owner inscription of Sir Percival Marling (3rd Baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936) to first work title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later fine crimson full straight-grained morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, covers with border rolls in gilt and blind, spine lettered with horseriding tools in gilt to compartments, folio, 34.5 x 26 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Percival Marling (3rd baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936), Stanley Park, Gloucestershire (inscription to first title); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Paris (Matthew). Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, Verbatím Recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri..., Editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum..., Editore Willielmo Wats..., 2 parts in one, London: Richard Hodgkinson, 1640, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red & black, separate title-page to second part dated 1639, light toning and occasional scattered spotting, upper pastedown bearing the signature 'Joh. Mart. Silberrad 1730' and with the armorial bookplate of Edmund George Lamb and his signature written below, contemporary vellum with blind arabesque to centre of each board, neatly rebacked preserving majority of original spine, later brown morocco title label, lacking ties, folio (334 x 225 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: 'Joh. Mart. Silberrad' (inscription, dated 1730); Edmund George Lamb (bookplate and inscription).STC 19210.

Haslewood (Joseph, editor). Mirror for Magistrates, In Five Parts, 3 volumes, London: Lackington, Allen & Co. & Longman, Rees, Hurst, Orme and Brown, 1815, armorial bookplate of Bibliotheca Lindesiana and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, antique-style blind-stamped calf with gilt arms of the Kinnear family to both covers of each volume, some edge wear, rebacked with morocco gilt spines to match, original contrasting leather labels preserved, 4to, together withD'Urfey (Thomas, editor), Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy; Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New, 6 volumes, 1719-1720, reprinted circa 1880, large paper copies with wide margins, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, original purple straight-grained half morocco gilt over cloth, small 4to, plusLangland (William), The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman in Three Parallel Texts, together with Richard the Redeless, edited with Preface, Notes, and a Glossary, by Walter W. Skeat, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, all edges gilt, early 20th-century golden brown crushed levant morocco, gilt-panelled backs and pastedowns, 8voQTY: (11)NOTE:Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Missal (Augsburg Use). Missale secundum ritum Augustensis ecclesie diligenter emendatum & locupletatum: ac in meliorem ordinem q[u]e antehac digestum, [Dillingen: Sebald Mayer], 1555, [28], 471 leaves (of 472), lacking final blank ooo6 (as often), woodcut illustrations throughout by Matthias Gerung, including main title with the arms of Bishop Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, the Bishop’s vestments and Christ holding a chalice to receive his blood, at bottom five patron saints of Augsburg (Afra, Dionysius, Hilaria, Narcissus and Digna), to verso a full-page woodcut of the Virgin and Child with Saints Ulrich and Afra (dated 1555 to upper right corner), full-page woodcut facing the beginning of the main text of the Missal (with artist's monogram at foot), containing a central scene of the Adoration of the Sacrament of the Altar by the Apostles, Evangelists and Doctors, set within an architectural border with the Coronation of the Virgin and Saints at top, and in the bottom socle a small rectangular woodcut of the Last Supper, 10 full-page woodcut decorated part-titles using the same border, each with a different woodcut scene at the foot, numerous woodcut initials throughout, including two large ornate sets (measuring 93 x 75 mm and 63 x 54 mm), smaller initials (33 x 31 mm), and approximately 61 small woodcut illustrations, text printed in red and black in 4 different sizes of gothic type in two columns (except the prologue, calendar, verse to priests and colophon), 34 pages of printed music on red staves within vertical double rules, metal-cut calligraphic initials in red, the canon quire printed on vellum, with full-page crucifixion woodcut, large historiated initial, and paschal lamb roundel, title close-trimmed at head, folios 166-168, 390, 392-394, 460-461, and 463-463 with paper repairs to lower margins (not affecting text), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old printed auction catalogue description tipped in to front endpaper (dated 30/X/1980, Sotheby's), 20th century antique-style blind-ruled full pigskin, with clasps, thick folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Brunet III, 1766; Dodgson II, 218.14; Hollstein X, 73-77; VD-16 M-556; Weale-Bohatta 109.A celebrated masterpiece of illustrated liturgical printing, and the greatest technical and artistic production of Sebald Mayer, Dillingen’s first printer, as well as the most significant achievement of the artist Matthias Gerung in the medium of woodcut. This famous Missal according to the Augsburg ritual, whose bishopric was once the richest in Christian Europe, was printed by order of Bishop Otto Truchsess von Waldburg-Trauchburg and completed two months before the Peace of Augsburg on 25 September 1555 between Catholics and Lutherans, signed by Ferdinand I and the Germanic Electors. Otto Truchsess von Waldburg-Trauchburg (1514-1573) founded a university in 1549 in the Bavarian town of Dillingen in order to contribute to the development of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Germany. At the same time he provided it with the most valuable propaganda tool: in 1550 he brought in from Ingolstadt the printer and typographer Sebald Mayer, who continued to practice his art there until 1576.

Brooke (Ralph). A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere 1622. Together with their Armes, Wiues and Children; the times of their Deaths and Burials, with many of their memorable actions. Collected by Ralph Brooke, Esquire, Yorke-Herauld, and by him inlarged, with amendment of diuers faults, committed by the printer, in the time of its authors sickness, [London: William Stansby], 1622, title within elaborate architectural woodcut border, numerous woodcut coats of arms, woodcut initials, contemporary annotations by Thomas Delay and possibly others, his ownership signature in several places, occasional light toning, further later ownership name of W. Sharpe to lower margin of title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey (offset to endpaper), all edges gilt, later calf, covers with centre foliate design in blind, morocco label to spine, edges a little rubbed and scuffed, small folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S126175; STC (2nd edition) 3833. The first edition was published in 1619 bearing 'to this present yeere 1619' on the title.

America. James II. Treaty of Peace, Good Correspondence & Neutrality in America, between the most Serene and Mighty Prince James II ... and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV. The Most Christian King: concluded the 6/16th Day of Novemb. 1686, 1st edition, London: printed by Thomas Newcomb in the Savoy, 1686, 19, [1] pp. (A-B4, C2), title within double-ruled border, woodcut initial, title and last leaf with very light soiling, untrimmed, 20th century blind-ruled ful calf with gilt morocco label to spine, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Sabin 96532; Wing J393. European Americana 686/73; ESTC R477000. The rarer of the two imprints with the date in Arabic numerals.First edition of the Whitehall Treaty, and the first treaty to be issued by James II, indicative of his conciliatory attitude towards the French. This treaty states that although France and England might be at war in Europe, there should be peace and neutrality in the American colonies. It provided for unmolested fishing rights, fur and Indian trading in each others territories, and forbade the aiding of pirates, and of Indian tribes ("barbarous or wild Indians") in dispute with subjects of the other nation. The treaty was of particular importance for the West Indies and for the Hudson Bay area.

Campbell (Patrick). Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America. In the Years 1791 and 1792. In which is given an account of the manners and customs of the Indians, and the present war between them and the Federal States, the mode of life and system of farming among the new settlers of both Canadas, New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; interspersed with anecdotes of people, observations on the soil, natural productions, and political situation of these countries, 1st edition, Edinburgh: printed for the author, 1793, half title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (partly hand-coloured), two engraved plates (one folding), folding table, some light spotting and toning, all edges gilt, later elaborate straight-grained maroon morocco, covers panelled in blind with central arabesque and corner foliated pieces in gilt, border roll in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (joints slighlly rubbed), contained in cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.ESTC N13837; Howes C101; Sabin 10264.'A curious and entertaining book' (Sabin) containing much first-hand information on Canada's First Nations. A Scottish farmer and merchant, Campbell claims to have sailed from Greenock in July 1791 with the intention of exploring for its own sake. Landing at St. John's, he travelled on through New Brunswick, Frederick Town, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Niagara, Grand River, Genesee County, the Mowhawk River, Albany, New York and New Jersey.

[Mason, George Henry, attributed]. The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings: with explanations in English and French, London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1801 [but 1822], 22 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, one or two short closed marginal tears to plates, some offsetting to letterpress (and partially on to frontispiece), previous owner inscription to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson straight-grained full morocco, covers with anthemion and acanthus gilt and blind roll borders, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a little faded and rubbed at ends and corners, folio, 35.5 x 25.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh House.Abbey Travel 532.Reprint edition by Thomas M'Lean, with the plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1822'. Bound at the rear is a statement leaf from M'Lean, dated 1821 stating that the Costumes series originally published by William Miller had become his property, and unsubscribed copies of this work could be bought for three and a half Guineas.

Defoe (Daniel). A New Voyage round the World, by a course never sailed before. Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders, 2 parts in one volume, 1st edition, London: A. Bettesworth & W. Mears, 1725, engraved frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plates, early 19th-century ink ownership signature of Elizabeth Jane Wathen to title, light soiling and spotting throughout, bookplates of Henry Yates Thompson and W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 20th-century blind-panelled antique-style full calf, black morocco spine label, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Henry Yates Thompson (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Moore 469; Goldsmiths' 6348; Hill, p. 82 ('imaginary voyage').

Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes: The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616, The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, & The Workes of Benjamin Johnson, The second Volume. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse. London: Printed for Richard Meighen, 1631– 1640 [i.e., 1641], The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, volume 1: [12], 1015 pp. (¶6, A-Pppp6, Qqqq4), engraved allegorical title by William Hole (a good strong impression), with engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbery in the County of Warwick Baronet (dated 1709) pasted to verso, woodcut title for Every Man out of his Humour at page 73 in first state, woodcut initials, E6 (page 59-60) thinned with small vertical hairline tears without loss, Xx6 (page 527-528) with minor loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, Yy2 (page 531-532) with loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to Mmm4 (page 692) and numerous early marginal marks in brown ink (some in pencil) between pages 683 and 760 (the text of Catiline), front and rear pastedowns from an Latin incunable text, contemporary ink ownership signature of John Newdigate to front endpaper, with annotation adjacent 'Trin Coll' and numeral '359,6', engraved armorial bokplate of Sr Roger Newdigate Bart to front pastedown, and adjacent later printed bookplate of Lillian Barbour Bennett, all edges red with manuscript library shelfmark to fore-edge 'B : I : PL : 359', contemporary blind-panelled and blind-decorated full calf, with remains of original ties, rubbed and some wear to edges, volume 2: general printed title with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 339), the individual plays each with separate printed title, except Christmas His Masque with drop-title, the printed titles to three plays listed on the main title (Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 374), woodcut initials and headpieces, a few minor marks, front endpaper loose, early (late 17th or early 18th century) ownership signature to front pastedown 'J Perfect's Book', volume 3: engraved portrait of the author [A1], engraved titlepage bearing the imprint of Richard Bishop and Andrew Crooke, a few marks and minor dampstains, volumes 2 and 3 bound in matching late 17th or early 18th century blind-panelled full calf, rubbed and some wear to edges, outer corners renewed, all three volumes with later (20th century) antique-style uniform calf gilt reback, folio QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance (volume one): John Newdigate (1600 – 29 November 1642), English politician and poet, second child and eldest son of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire and his wife Anne. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 6 November 1618, aged 18 and was a student of Gray's Inn and of the Inner Temple in 1620 (ownership signature to first volume); Sir Richard Newdigate (1644-1710), of Arbery in the county of Warwick, 2nd Baronet (engraved bookplate dated 1709 to verso of title to first volume); Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806), 5th baronet of Harefield (in Middlesex) and Arbury (in Warwickshire), English antiquary, and founder of the Newdigate Prize at Oxford University (bookplate to front pastedown of first volume).STC 14751 & 14754; ESTC S126501 & S111824; Greg III, pp. 1070 & 1076; Grolier/English 35; Pforzheimer 559 & 560.The first collected edition of Jonson's plays, masques, entertainments and non-dramatic poetry, second in importance only to Shakespeare’s folios in 17th century English drama. The publication of a collected "Workes" in folio, its title-page adorned with classical motifs, was a typically audacious move by Jonson, especially because he included in it nine plays written for the commercial theatre. In his first folio Jonson presents his stage plays as serious works of literature, a crucial step in establishing the literary credentials of the public theatre, often dismissed as ephemeral at the time; one contemporary responded to the publication with a distich: "Pray tell me Ben, where does the mystery lurk/What others call a play, you call a work?" Jonson's 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, and the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1647. When Heminges and Condell came to prepare the Shakespeare First Folio, Jonson himself provided commendatory verses. Shakespeare's name appears twice in Jonson's folio, listed among the principal players for Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus.Two further folio collections of Jonson's works were issued in 1640-41. The first, printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections and emendations; it has thus sometimes been termed the second edition of the first folio. The second volume was edited by Jonson's literary executor Sir Kenelm Digby, and published by Richard Meighen, in co-operation with Chetwinde. That volume contained later works, most of them unpublished or uncollected previously—seven plays (including the three printed in 1631), two of them incomplete, and fifteen masques, plus miscellaneous pieces. In the Digby/Meighen volume—identified on its title page as the 'Second Volume' of Jonson's works—the varying dates (1631, 1640, 1641) in some of the texts, and what has been called "irregularity in contents and arrangement in different copies," have caused significant confusion.

Pennant (Thomas). Some Account of London, 2nd edition, London: Robert Faulder, 1791, Extra-Illustrated, engraved frontispiece and title, folding engraved city plan, 55 engraved and etched plates including two folding (42 of which not called for in Upcott), toning and some scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Thomas Gillibrand of Chorley, all edges gilt, 19th-century speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original blind and gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco labels, 4to (Upcott p.641-642), together with:Pennant (Thomas). The Journey from Chester to London, 1st edition, London: B. White, 1782, engraved title and 22 plates, light toning and occasional scattered spotting, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to (Upcott p.71),Pennant (Thomas). The Antiquities of London: comprising views and historical descriptions of its Principal Buildings; also anecdotes of Eminent Persons connected therein, London: J. Coxhead, 1814, 55 engraved plates including frontispiece, burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, scratch to upper board and joints lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)

Capgrave (John). [Nova legenda Anglie, 1st edition, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February, 1516], black letter text, 44 lines and headline in double column, without catchwords, full-page woodcut of Saints in Glory [Hodnett 237] on the first page, repeated on the verso and the penultimate page, full-page cut of the royal arms on verso of folio A6 of preliminaries, and Caxton's large device on last page, woodcut criblé initials, upper marginal repairs to first 9 leaves including piece torn from top of Ai affecting the woodcut on both pages, narrow worm-track with careful repairs slightly affecting text through first 29 folios, upper corner of A2 (Prologus) neatly replaced with piece from another copy with the large decorative initial 'S' neatly inked en grisaille, following folios A3 & A4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy (peppered wormholes and old ink underscoring), skilful circular repair (from another copy) to second column of folio 171, a few scattered discrete and mostly marginal repairs including to folios 96, 120, 168, 182 and 269, lacks blank ll6 (between folios 192 and 193), scattered old ink marginal marks, some old mostly marginal dampstaining, heavier browning from damp to upper margins of last few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century diced tan russia, blind-stamped decorated spine with gilt lettering, some edge wear, covers detached, folio (280 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Collation: A, A-X, a-z, &, aa-ll [-blank ll6]; 341 leaves, 6 leaves unnumbered; i-cccxxxiiii, last folio unnumbered.STC 4601; Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde, pp. 82-83.This Catalogus of the lives of 168 saints is based on the work of John of Tynemouth (died 1290?). It was attributed in the middle of the 16th century to John Capgrave (1393-1464) by the antiquaries John Leland and John Bale, but that has since proved to be unfounded (cf. P. J. Lucas, 'John Capgrave and the Nova legenda Anglie: A Survey', The Library, 5th series, XXV, 1970, pp.1-10). None of the manuscripts or early printed editions of the work names an author. Its alphabetical, rather than chronological, arrangement made this one of the most useful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde.Rare. Copies are often found lacking the woodcut illustrations, all of which are present in this copy, as well as the life of Thomas à Becket (folios 283-93), which was suppressed.