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AFTER LIONEL EDWARDS, R.L. "The Fernie" (Sheepthorns) with Lord Stalbridge M.F.H. riding in the foreground, reproduction in colours, with blind stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild, publised by Eyre and Spottiswoode, with significant fading, Pl. 13 x 19 1/4in

After William Russell Flint- Beach scene, publ. by The Cavendish Collection; reproduction print in colours, numbered 840/850 in pencil and bear's publishers' blind stamp, 27x35cm: together with mixed quantity of later reproduction prints, etc., (a lot), (in one box)

A George III oak longcase clock, pagoda top with blind fret frieze, square brass dial with black Roman numerals and Arabic five minute divisions, enclosed by cast spandrels, calendar aperture, inscribed 'Will. Snow, Otley, No. 334', mahogany crossbanded arched door enclosed by mahogany quarter columns, base with shaped bracket feet, 8 day movement striking on a bell, dial 28cm, 216cm high overall

A George III mahogany Pembroke table, oval top with two fall leaves, one real and one blind end drawer, outlined with boxwood stringing, square tapered supports, brass sockets and casters, 86cm x 98cm (maximum)

An early 17thC oak joined chest, the top with a moulded edge over a front panel with blind strapwork moulding, two inset panels and nulled lower frieze, on trestle end supports, 41" wide.

Charles J. Payne "Snaffles". "Once upon a time" sporting and WWI vignettes, colour print, signed in pencil in margin, blind trade guild stamp, image size, 13=" x 19<".

David Shepherd. Plough Team, reproduction colour print, signed in pencil, blind guild stamp, 8>" x 15=".

David Shepherd. Plough horses, reproduction colour print, signed in pencil, blind trade guild stamp, 8=" x 15=".

An Aesthetic movement gilt brass table clock, with pierced and blind cast frame in the oriental manner enclosing a 3=" enamel dial with Arabic numerals, 8" wide, 10" high.

Reproduction mahogany sideboard, having two drawers flanked by cupboards and Roman key blind fret decoration, 90cm high, 153cm wide, 56cm deep.

AFTER SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, 'The Four Sisters Chazelet', reproduction in colours published circa 1957 by Frost and Reid, pencil signed in the margin, and with FATG blind stamp, 17 1/2" x 24".

A Mahogany Bowfront Display Cabinet, having a gadrooned cornice and carved frieze over two astragal-glazed doors and glazed sides, enclosing three glass shelves, with blind-fretted decoration to the base, on carved cabriole legs with claw feet, 183cm by 136cm by 48cm

A Large Mahogany Cylinder Desk, having a fret-pierced three-quarter gallery over a panelled fall enclosing an interior fitted with pigeon-holes and drawers over a leather-panelled slide with wells, the base having nine sunk-panelled drawers about the kneehole, between blind-fretted pilasters, on ogee bracket feet, 120cm by 137cm by 78cm

A George IV yew-wood and elm Windsor chair, circa 1820 the seat with blind sockets, the turned legs with crinolin stretcher, together with a Regency ash and elm Windsor chair, the pierced splat with 'Prince of Wales' feathers, the splayed legs with H-shaped stretcher; together with a 19th century spindleback armchair (2)

A George III mahogany chest, the moulded rectangular top above two short and three long graduated drawers, blind fretwork carved canted corners, on ogee bracket feet (2) 93cm wide, 80.5cm high, 45cm deep

A GOOD GEORGIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK the brass faced dome top movement by ADAM JOHNSTON, DOWN PATRICK with applied pierced mounts, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture. Set within a swan neck and urn finial pediment hood over column sides, blind fretwork, plain case with fluted column sides, the base with canted corners. 7ft 8ins high.

A CHIPPENDALE DESIGN MAHOGANY DISPLAY CABINET with blind fret carving and a pair of astragal glazed doors and supported on delicate column legs. 2ft 5ins wide.

BUTLER Samuel Hudibras, a poem ... New edition, 2 volumes, 12 hand coloured engravings by Clark (including. A frontis. to each vol.), contemporary full red straight grain morocco, borders with gilt and blind tooling, spines decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., offsetting from the plates, 8vo., London: Akerman , &c., 1822 [2] Note: Tooley 142

COUCH Jonathan A history of the fishes ... 1st edition, 4 volumes, 252 coloured plates, original gilt and blind stamped cloth, rubbed at joints, some occasional slight offsetting from the plates, 8vo., London: Groombridge, 1862-65 [4] Note: Nissen ZBI 979

DONOVAN E. The naturalist's repository, or miscellany of exotic natural history, exhibiting rare and beautiful specimens of foreign birds, insects, shells, quadrupeds, fishes, and marine productions ... 1st edition, 5 volumes in 2, 180 hand coloured plates, several plates mis-numbered, full green morocco, the covers with blind tooled borders, the spines decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., lower cover of vol. 2 with small scuff mark, some slight offsetting from the plates, 8vo., London: for the author and Simpkin & Marshall, 1834 [2] Note: Nissen ZBI 259

FOXE John Actes and monuments of these latter and perilous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have bene wrought and practised by the Romishe prelates, speciallye in this realme of England and Scotlande ... 1st edition, Black Letter, doublepage wood cut of the burnings in front of Windsor Castle and 47 other woodcuts in the text, 19th century full morocco, panelled in blind, lacking titlepage and all save two prelims. with letters from Archbishop Beckett before H1 [i.e. f. 56], pp. 1029 removed, corners torn in about a dozen leaves (with some loss of text), some single worm holes and patches of water staining, some folio or page numbers cropped, sold with all faults, 4to., John Day, 1563. Note: STC 11222

[GRANT E.] Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady between the years 1773 and 1807 ... 2nd edition, contemporary beige morocco, the covers elaborately decorated with gilt and blind tooling, central crowned monogram on each cover a.e.g., pink paper linings, small 8vo., London: Longman, etc. 1807. [WILLIAMS William] The Journal of Llewellin Penrose: a seaman ... 4 volumes, uniformly bound with the above, 8vo., 1815 and 40 other leather bound volumes. [47]

MORRIS Revd. F.O. A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds ... 2nd edition, 3 volumes, 233 coloured plates (i.e. 232 + the extra plate 17* for the Lesser Kestrel), publisher's gilt and blind stamped cloth, slight cracking of the inner joints, 4to., London: Bell, 1875 [3]

OMEROD George The history of the county palatine and city of Chester ... 1st edition, 3 volumes, 48 engraved plates including 2 hand coloured reproductions of painted glass windows heightened with gold and 2 hand coloured maps (with 1 doublepage), with numerous costs of arms in the text hand painted and heightened with gold, contemporary diced calf, covers boarded with gilt filets and decorations in blind and gilt, spines decorated in gilt and blind in compartments, a.e.g., upper cover detached from vol. 1 and lower cover from vol. 3, some offsetting and spotting from prints, folio on large paper, London: Lackington, 1819 and 3 others [6]

PERCY Thomas Bishop Percy's folio manuscript: ballads and romances [vol. 4 Loose and humorous songs]; edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall ... 4 volumes, full pebble grain morocco, ruled in blind, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, shelf labels of Battle Abbey, 4to., large paper, London: Trubner, 1867 [4] Note: Limited to 65 copies

SWIFT Jonathan The works ... with notes, and A life of the author, by Walter Scott ... 19 volumes, engraved port. frontis. to vol. 1, contemporary light tan calf decorated in blind and gilt, vol. 1 neatly rebacked, some foxing and discolouration throughout, 8vo., Edinburgh: Constable, 1814 [19]

Chesney (Lt-Col. F.R.). The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by Order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by Geographical and Historical Notices of the Regions Situated between the Rivers Nile and Indus, 2 vols., [all published and without the rare slipcase containing fourteen folding maps], 1850, half-titles present, forty-nine tinted litho. plts. incl. one folding, lacks two leaves of preface in vol. 1 (supplied in photocopy), ex-lib copy with indelible ink stamp to verso of each title, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, worn on spines, thick 8vo, together with Andrew (W.P.), Memoir of the Euphrates Valley Route to India; with Official Correspondence, 1857, half-title present, two folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, soiled and worn, 8vo. General Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872), was a major influence on the expansion of the British Empire in the 19th century. In 1829 he made a tour of inspection in Egypt and Syria during the course of which he was able to prove that from an engineering point of view, and contrary to the conclusions reached earlier by Napoleon's surveyors, the construction of a Suez Canal was perfectly feasible. It was on the strength of Chesney's Report that Dr. Lesseps later built the canal and it was Lesseps himself who styled Chesney the 'Father of the Suez Canal', in 1869. (3)

Ferrario (Giulio). Descrizione della Palestina o Storia del Vangelo, Milan, 1831, folding eng. map, single page plan, thirty fine aquas. and six uncol. plts., all correct as list, contemp. blind-stamped and gilt dec. green morocco, minor wear to extrems., tall 8vo (1)

Forster (Rev. Charles). The Historical Geography of Arabia; Or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: A Memoir, and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently Discovered in Hadramaut, 2 vols., 1844, folding eng. map contained in rear pocket of each, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spines, 8vo, together with Kay (Henry Cassels), Yaman, its Early Mediaeval History, by Najm Ad-Din Omarah Al-Hakami, also the Abridged History of its Dynasties, by Ibm Khaldun, and an Account of the Karmathians of Yaman, by Abu Abd Allah Baha Ad-Din Al-Janadi, 1892, some underscoring and ms. notes to margins, folding map and ms. notes contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth, rubbed and soiled, plus Parkinson (J.C.), The Ocean Telegraph to India. A Narrative and a Diary, 1870, col. litho. frontis., two tinted litho. plts., two ports., folding chart and three diags., all correct as list, orig. cloth gilt, faded on spine and frayed at head and foot, all 8vo, and others (one shelf)

Harris (Major W. Cornwallis). The History of Aethopia, Described, during Eighteen Months' Residence of a British Embassy at the Christian Court of Shoa, 3 vols., 2nd ed., 1844, half-titles present, tinted litho. frontis. to vols. 1 & 2, fine hand-col. litho. frontis. to vol. 3, chromo. litho. dedication leaf to vol. 1, one folding eng. map, 32pp. pubs. cat. at rear of vol. 3, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to prelims., orig. blind stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., (rear hinge of vol. 1 partly split), 8vo (3)

Henty (G.A.). The March to Magdala, 1st ed., 1868, half-title present, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed, and a little worn at extrems., 8vo. The author's second published book, a non-fiction account of Sir Robert Napier's 1867 expedition to rescue British Diplomats imprisoned in Abyssinia. Dartt p.96. (1)

Manstein (Christoph Hermann von, General). Memoirs of Russia, Historical, Political, and Military, from the Year MDCCXXVII, to MDCCXLIV. A Period Comprehending many Remarkable Events. In Particular the Walls of Russia with Turky and Sweden. With a Supplement, containing a Summary Account of the State of the Military, the Marine, the Commerce, etc., of that Great Empire, 1770, ten folding eng. maps, recent antique-style blind-panelled calf, with red morocco label to spine, 4to (1)

London Interiors Grand National Exhibition of the Religious, Royal, and Civic Solemnities, Public Amusements, Scientific Meetings, and Commercial Scenes of the British Capital, Publ. for the Proprietorsm by Joseph Mead, [c.1850], 2 parts in 1, addi. engr. title-page, seventy-five engr. plts., some foxing, orig. red cloth sides, blocked in gilt and blind, marked, recent calf spine, red leather label, a.e.g., 4to. (1)

Pyne (J.B.). Lake Scenery of England. Drawn on Stone by T. Picken, pub. Day & Son, [1859], chromolitho. title page and twenty-four tinted litho. plts. (complete), some minor scattered spotting, gutta-percha perished and a few leaves loose, a.e.g., orig. blind-stamped and gilt dec. green cloth (minor paint splash at foot of spine), 4to, together with Whitaker (T.D.), The History and Antiquities of Craven in the West Riding of the County of York, Atlas only, [1805], ornamental title, folding map, forty-nine eng. plts. and tinted aquas., orig. linen-backed boards, a little rubbed and marked, slim 4to, plus Gastineau (Henry), Wales Illustrated (North), 1830, vign. title, eighty-eight steel eng. views on forty-four leaves, contemp. diced calf, rubbed and a little worn on spine, 4to, and two others (5)

[Cannon, Richard]. Historical Record of the Fourteenth, Or, the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1845, pub. 1845, two col. litho. plts., some minor scattered spotting, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, worn at head and foot of spine, together with Smith (Henry Stooks), An Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Eighty-Fifth, Bucks Volunteers, the King's Light Infantry Regiment, from 1800-1850, pub. 1851, commercial ads. at rear, including A Short Notice of an Improved New Truss and other Surgical and Mechanical Aids, Manufactured by Thomas Eagland, pub. Leeds, 1851, 8pp., both orig. red cloth gilt, a little worn at head and foot of spines, slim 8vo, plus Wright (Captain P.L.), The First Buckinghamshire Batallion, 1914-1919, pub. 1920, b & w illusts. from photos., folding maps and plans (one contained in rear pocket), orig. cloth gilt, plus The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle. The Record of the 43rd, 52nd, 4th, 5th, and 1st Buckinghamshire Batallions in the Second German War, 4 vols., Aldershot, 1949-54, b & w illusts. from photos., folding battle plans, etc., orig. cloth gilt, all 8vo, and others of military interest (approx. 50)

Bible [Polyglot]. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, textus archetypos versionesque praecipuas ab Ecclesia Antiquitus receptas necnon versiones recentiores Anglicanam, Germanicam, Italicam, Gallicam, et Hispanicam, complectentia. Accedunt prolegomena in textuum archetyporum, versionumque antiquarum crisin literalem auctore Samuele Lee ..., Samuel Bagster, 1831, indelible ink stamp to verso of title (with show-through), a.e.g., orig. blind panelled and stamped plum morocco gilt, rubbed at extrems., thick folio. Darlowe & Moule 1456. Bagster printed a polyglot Bible in 1822, but the whole edition was destroyed by fire, with the exception of 23 copies of the New Testament in French, Italian, Spanish and German. This polyglot, the most inclusive since the London Polyglot, contains the Old and New Testaments in eight languages; with the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Syriac New Testament added in an Appendix. No Apocrypha. (1)

Bibles. Tyndale's Old Testament, being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and Jonah..., in a Modern-Spelling Edition and with an Introduction by David Daniell, pub. Yale University Press, 1992, together with Tyndale's New Testament, Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale in 1534, in a Modern-Spelling Edition..., pub. Yale University Press, 1989, orig. cloth in d.j.s., both contained together in slipcase, 4to, with The Holy Bible, an Exact Reprint in Roman Type, Page for Page of the Authorized Version Published in the Year 1611 with an Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard, pub. Oxford University Press, 1985, a.e.g., orig. blind panelled calf, large 8vo, contained in book box (limited ed. 178/250), and The New Testament in English Translated by John Wycliffe MCCCLXXXII, Revised by John Purvey MCCCLXXXVIII, Sexcentenary Edition, First Exact Facsimile of the First English Bible with an Introduction by Donald L. Blake from Rawlinson 259 MSS. in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 1986, a.e.g., orig. morocco, small 4to, contained in slipcase, plus two others similar and together with twenty-four other recent Bible studies reference books, majority orig. cloth in d.j.s (29)

Alexander (William). Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, printed for John Murray, 1814, fifty fine hand-col. aquatint plts., ink library stamps to title verso, blind embossed library stamp to lower corners of each plt. (just touching image), few minor marks and light marginal finger soilig, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, 20th c. half morocco gilt, library classification numbers applied to spine, 4to (1)

Arnold (Thomas). History of Rome, 3 vols., new ed., 1857, together with History of the Later Roman Commonwealth, from the end of the Second Punic War to the Death of Julius Caesar..., 2 vols., new ed., 1857, owner's ink stamp to title page of each, uniform contemp. navy calf gilt, morocco labels to spines, 8vo, with Morrice (Rev. James), The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse, 2 vols., 1809, a.e.g., contemp. blind panelled diced calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus two others (9)

[Cookery]. The Housekeeper's Receipt Book, or, the Repository of Domestic Knowledge; containing a Complete System of Housekeeping, Formed on Principles of Experience and Economy, and Adapted to General Use, 1812, eng. frontis. and one woodcut plt. (before p.1), some spotting and marks, mainly to margins, contemp. tree calf gilt, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, together with The Jewish Manual; or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette, edited by a lady, 1846, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., inner joints cracked, plus Sayer (Alexis), The Modern Housewife or Menagere. Comprising nearly One Thousand Receipts for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of every Meal of the Day ..., 11th thou., 1850, port. frontis., wood eng. dedication leaf, modern cloth, all 8vo, with others related (15)

Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, 1662, port. frontis., remargined, lower fore-margins of text block damp-rotted, not affecting text, contemp. half calf, joints split, folio, together with Theodoriti Episcopi Cyri et Evagrii Scholastici Historia Ecclesiastica, Moguntiae, 1679, vign. title, contents somewhat browned, contemp. blind-panelled calf, worn on spine, folio, plus An Illustration of the Holy Scriptures, by Notes and Explications on the Old and New Testament, 3 vols., 1759-60, a few engs. loosely inserted, contemp. blind-panelled calf, some wear to spines, thick folio, and others, mostly 18th & 19th c. large format theology (12)

Glass (Salomon). Philologiae Sacrae, qua Totius Sacro Sanctae Veteris & Novi Testamenti Scripturae, tum Stylus & Literatura, tum Sensus & Genuinae Interpretationis Ratio Expenditur, Libri Quinque..., pub. Amsterdam, 1711, eng. port. frontis., title printed in red & black, one eng. headpiece, contemp. blind panelled vellum, dust soiled, 4to, together with Rambach (Johann Jacob), Collegium Historiae Ecclesiasticae Veteris Testamenti, oder ausfŸhrlicher und grŸndlicher Discurs Ÿber die Kirchen-Historie..., pub. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1737, title printed in red & black, contemp. sheep, worn to extrems., 4to, with Bible (Latin), Biblia Sacra ex Sebastiani Castellionis Interpretatione Eiusque Postrema Recognitione Praecipue in usum Studiosae Juventutis Denuo Evulgata..., pub. Lipsiae, 1750, eng. port. frontis., contemp. half sheep, joints and extrems. worn, thick 8vo, and Pearson (Rev. Hugh), Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, Late Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William in Bengal..., 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1819, eng. frontis. to each, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, plus eight other 19th/20th c. theology reference & related (13)

Album of Taste and Fashion and Book of Commercial and General Information, George Hennelle, [1877], comprising the Golden Guide to London, seventy-two pages, with wood engr. illusts., followed by hundreds of classified adverts for photographers, fine art dealers, musical instruments and publications, shipping companies, champagne and cognac dealers, and plans of London theatres, some of the adverts. including orig. mounted photographs, champagne and cognac labels in colours, etc., orig. green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, a.e.g., folio. (1)

Audsley (W. & G.). The Prisoner of Chillon. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W. and G. Audsley, Printed & Published by Day & Son, 1865, text surrounded by ornately illuminated borders, richly chromolithographed by W. R. Tymms, printed on rectas only, orig. purple cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt to a central lozenge design, with red and blue cut-out paper onlays, spine lettered in gilt, lower cover blocked in blind, a.e.g., slightly loose in case, still fine (and stunning), folio. McLean, Design, p.133 "richly polychromatic, and richly muddled in its mixture of decorative styles, the total effect bring most attractive". See p.221 for binding. (1)

Audsley (W. & G.). The Sermon on the Mount. Illuminated by W. and G. Audsley. Illustrated by Charles Rolt, [Day & Son, 1861], frontis and twenty-six pages, chromolithographed in cols. and gold by W. R. Tymms, each page mounted on thick card, within a double-line red rule, orig. brown cloth, with col. and chromolithographed cut-out paper onlays, blocked in gilt, lower cover in blind, a.e.g., now a little rubbed at extremities, folio. McLean, Design, p.133. McLean, Cloth, p.71. (1)

Barnard (George). The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours, 7th thousand, Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861, twenty-six plts., including thenty-four printed by the Leighton Bros. Chromatic Process and two tinted lithos, orig. blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt to a flower and leaf design, lower cover blocked in blind, a.e.g., together with a new edition of the same work, George Routledge & Sons, 1871, with the same illusts., orig. green cloth, blocked as above, a.e.g., good bright copies, large 8vo. The later printing is inscribed "Henry Doulton Esq. with the Author's best respects", and has the bookplates of Sir Henry Doulton, and of H. Lewis Doulton. McLean, Design, p.192 ".... a most interesting manual of what could be achieved at that time by colour printing". McLean described two plates as "among the most improbable examples of colour printing of the whole century". (2)

Blackie & Son (publishers). The Sheepfold and the Common, or, Within and Without, 2 vols., 1861, eng. frontis. and addn. title to each, eng. plts., Blackie's library labels to pastedowns, orig. blind-stamped and gilt dec. cloth (John Leighton signed bindings), minor rubbing, square 8vo, together with Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), Poetical Works, Illustrated, 1856, wood eng. illusts., hinges slightly cracked, a.e.g., orig. cloth richly gilt (by John Leighton), a little rubbed and nicked at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Thomson (James), The Seasons, 1859, wood eng. illusts., orig. gilt dec. cloth in bright condition, all 8vo, plus other poetry and literature, all orig. Victorian cloth bindings in good condition (3 shelves)

Bond (A. L.). Three Gems in One Setting, Ward, Lock & Tyler, [c.1860], eighteen stiff card leaves, printed on rectos only, borders and decorations chromolithographed in cols. and gold, green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, sunken panel on the upper cover with red paper onlay, blocked in gilt, a.e.g., 8vo, together with eleven other illuminated books, by Albert H. Warren, Lewis Gruner, Owen Jones, and others, various bindings, includ. two Hayday gift book bindings. (12)

Cathedral bindings. The Holy Bible, containi8ng the Old and New Testaments; and The Book of Common Prayer; together 2 vols., Oxford, 1829-33, bound in contemp. black roan by James Barrit, blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, contained in the orig. pull-off roan box blocked in blind on all surfaces with a "Cathedral" block, signed "Barritt, London", together with three other religious works in embossed Cathedral or similar bindings, 12mo. See Maggs Cat.1075, Bookbinding, item 299, for an identical Barrit box. (4)

Catlow (Agnes and Maria E.). Sketching Rambles; Or, Nature in the Alps and Apennines, 2 vols., [1861], half-titles present, col. litho. frontis. to each, eighteen tinted litho. plts., single adleaf at rear of vol. 2, orig. blind-stamped cloth, gilt dec. spines, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

Dyer (Thomas H.). Pompeii photographs. The Ruins of Pompeii, a series of eighteen photographic views ..., 1st ed., 1867, eighteen mounted albumen prints, some minor spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed and minor fraying to foot of spine, 4to, together with Robinson (J.C.), Italian Sculpture of the Middle Ages and Period of the Revival of Art, 1862, eleven mounted albumen prints, black and white plts., some minor spotting, lib. blind-stamp to title, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. brown morocco prize binding, rubbed, tall 8vo. According to Gernsheim the number of photographs in the latter work varies between 3 and 12. (2)

Evans (Edmund, printer). The Art Album. Sixteen Facsimiles of Water-Colour Drawings, by George Cattermole, T. Sidney Cooper, Edward Duncan, John Gilbert, William Hunt, et al., W. Kent and Co., 1861, sixteen col. plts., engr. and printed by Edmund Evans, orig. purple cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, with central countersunk cutout paper onlay on the upper cover, recased, faded to blue, clightly rubbed, a.e.g. McLean, Design, p.184 "The case of the cloth edition is an exceptionally fine example of Victorian publishers binding design". McLean, Cloth, p.54. (1)

Fulton (Robert). The Illustrated Book of Pigeons. With Standards for Judging. Edited by Lewis Wright, Cassell, Petter, [etc.], [c.1875], fifty chromo. plts. after J. W. Ludlow, wood engrs. in the text, orig. brown cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt and black, lower cover blocked in blind, 4to. (1)

Grundy (William Morris, photographer). Sunshine in the Country, a Book of Rural Poetry, 1st ed., 1861, twenty mounted albumen prints, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine faded, slightly frayed at extrems., together with Howitt (William and Mary), Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, the Photographic Illustrations by Bedford, Sedgfield, Wilson, Fenton, and others, 1st and 2nd series, 1862-64, twenty-seven & twenty-six mounted albumen prints, spotting throughout, a.e.g., orig. gilt and blind-stamped dec. cloth with mounted circular albumen print to upper covers, rubbed, minor fraying at head and foot of spines, 8vo (3)

Humphreys (Henry Noel). Parables of Our Lord, Longman & Co., 1847, sixteen stiff card leaves, richly chromolithographed in colours and gold, with a single leaf of printed descriptive text at the end, orig. black papier-mache binding, with a small central scene illustrating the parable of the sower, black roan spine with blind-blocked lettering, a.e.g., some leaves loose, but the fragile binding in excellent condition, small 8vo. McLean, Design p.99 et seq. McLean, Paper, p.51. One of the earliest of the papier-mache bindings. (1)

Humphreys (Henry Noel). Parables of Our Lord, Longman & Co., 1847, sixteen stiff card leaves, richly chromolithographed in colours and gold, without the printed leaf of text at the end, orig. black papier mache bindings, with a small central scene illustrating the parable of the sower, black roan spine with blind-blocked lettering, a.e.g., spine now slightly rubbed but the sides in excellent condition, small 8vo. McLean, Design, p.99 et esq. McLean, Paper, p.51. (1)

Humphreys (Henry Noel). The Miracles of Our Lord, Longman & Co., 1848, sixteen stiff card leaves, richly chromolithographed in colours and gold, with two leaves of printed descriptive text, and an advert leaf for Noel Humphries' illuminated works, at the end, orig. black papier-mache binding, each cover with six small oval scenes depicting Christ performing miracles, black roan spine with blind-blocked lettering, a.e.g., spine just chipped at head, otherwise excellent, small 8vo. McLean, Design, pp.104-105. McLean, Paper, p.53. (1)

Jones (Owen). The Sermon on the Mount, Longman, 1844, thirty-two stiff card pages, the text surrounded by col. borders chromolithographed in green, red, blue, black and gold, with a single chromolithographed illust. finished by hand, slight browning, orig. brown calf by Hayday, embossed in blind, with cut-out vellum panels on front and back titled calligraphically by hand, vellum panels and joints slightly rubbed, a.e.g., small 8vo. McLean, Design, pp.86 and 224. (1)

Jones (Owen). The Prism of Imagination, by the Baroness de Calabrella, Longman, Brown, [etc.], 1844, decorative borders printed in col. around every page of text, and a series of illuminated chromolithographed title pages in the "Alhambra" style by Owen Jones, slight browning, orig. brown morocco, blocked in gilt and blind, a little rubbed, a.e.g., 8vo. McLean, Design, p.88. A scarce secular gift book. (1)

Lockwood (M.S. and Glaister, E.). Art Embroidery. A Treatise on the Revived Practice of Decorative Needlework, Marcus Ward, 1878, nineteen plts. printed in cols., wood engrs. in the text, orig. brown cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, slightly rubbed at extremities, a.e.g., 4to. (1)