Miscellaneous - Local Interest, The Imperial Album of Matlock and Neighbourhood, illustrated, (1); others, similar, Chesterfield, Chatsworth & Haddon Hall, (2); The Nottingham Magazine, November 1885 to April 1886, bound as one, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Children's Books, early-mid 20th century Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd imprints, (7); Bannerman's Little Black Mingo; Geology/Mineralogy, Oxford University PhD thesis, two volumes, 1981, 4to, (2); Folio Society, six various titles, 8vo, (6); 19th century London, social history, various; 19th century theatre, stage and drama, various; music; Gilbert White; Old English Wood- Carving Patterns, illustrations, folio; bibliography and book catalogues; American Folk Art; early 19th century and later leather, part-leather, and decorative cloth bindings, various, mixed sizes; loose ephemera, including carte de visite portrait photographs; etc., [5 boxes]
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Miscellaneous – Raby (Julian, editor), The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume XV: Glass, The Nour Foundation, 2007, dustjacket over cloth, slipcased, folio, (1); Cookery, Roberts (Emma), A New System of Domestic Cookery […], London: John Murray, 1840, original cloth, 8vo, (1); early 19th century and later books, including post-Regency children’s, various; Charles Dickens: A Gossip about his Life, Works, and Characters […], six-part set, London: Cassell & Company, [n.d., 1880], cloth over papered boards, folio, (6); Country Life, volume XII, 1912, original cloth, folio, (1); The Antiquarian Horological Society Journal, volumes I-III, facsimile reprints, cloth, 4to, (3); Pictures from “Punch”, 4to, (4); Japanese book; literature, verse and literature; etc., [approx. 50]
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Miscellaneous – The Enlightenment, De Gébelin [(Antoine Court)], Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde modern, nine volumes, mixed editions and imprints, Paris, 1782-1787, later institutional buckram, some stamps, 4to, (9); Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, [De Verdy du Vernois (Adrien-Marie-François) & De Tott (Baron François)], Essais de géographie, de politique et d'histoire, sur les possessions de l'empereur des Turcs en Europe […], Neuchâtel: De l’Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, 1784, fold-out geneaological table, 20th century red leather, 8vo, (1); Provincial Printing, Brookes General Gazetteer of Geographical Dictionary […], two-volume set, Newcastle upon Tyne: K. Anderson, 1807 & 1808, illustrated with maps, contemporary calf, 8vo, (2); Bindings, eight odd volumes of Pearson's Magazine, 1900-1912, uniformly bound in contemorary three-quarter morocco by Townsend, stamped, 4to, (8); Platts (The Rev. I.), The Book of Curiosities […], London: The Caxton Press, [n.d., c. 1820], contemporary calf, 8vo, (1); The Spectator, 1797, volumes 1-3, 5, & 8 only, contemporary mottled calf gilt, 8vo, (5); Victorian Family Bible, folio, (1); Automobilia, motoring and cars, (7); late 19th century and early 20th century cloth bindings, including Dumas, Charlotte Brontë; hunting, including Robert Smith Surtees; etc., [approx. 60]
Miscellaneous Fiction and Non-Fiction – Crime, Freeman (R. Austin), three titles: For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, September 1934, fragmentary original wrapper laid on green cloth, 8vo, [&] A Certain Dr. Thorndyke, London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, May 1944, pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, [&] The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke […], first edition, fourth impression, London: Hodder & Stoughton, September 1932, original publisher’s cloth, 8vo, (3); Sayers (Dorothy L., editor), two titles: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, third impression (first cheap edition overall), London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, May 1930, original publisher’s black cloth, [&] […] Second Series, sixth impression, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1948, original publisher’s blue cloth, 8vo, (2); further thrillers; Cookery, Hendy (illustrator), Gourmet’s Book of Food and Drink, With Decorations in Colour, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1933, original decorative boards, 8vo, (1); Shakespeare, various; a couple of Victorian and later leather, part-leather, and part-vellum decorative bindings; Edwardian and later decorative pictorial bindings, various; further decorative cloth bindings; Chums 1939, 4to, (1); H.G. Wells, (6); Ingoldsby Legends; sailing; etc., [approx. 50]
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Modern First & Others - Walpole (Hugh), John Cornelius [...], first edition, one of the 175 large paper copies signed by the author, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, July 1937, finely bound in full morocco by Hatchards, stamped, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (1); two more of Walpole's novels, Judith Paris and Rogue Herries, ?the Special Signature issues, leather bindings, 8vo, (2); Riviere Binding, [Von Arnim (Elizabeth)], Elizabeth and her German Garden, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902, finely bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son, stamped, the spine lettered in the second compartment and tooled in gilt with flowers in the remainder, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1); Frankau (Gilbert), The Poetical Works, 1901-1920, two-volume set, first edition, copy no. 42/310 of the Edition de Luxe signed by the author, London: Chatto & Windus, 1923, printed on hand-made paper, volume I with portrait frontispiece, contemporary vellum over boards, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, (2); War Poetry, [Mason (Arthur Telford)], The Book of Artemas, three-volume set, London: W. Westall & Co., 1918-19, original pictorial cloth, volume I owned by Captain Eric Evan Spicer (1894-1918), of the 1st/4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusileers), youngest son of Sir Evan Spicer, killed exactly two months after this book was inscribed to him from his father, 8vo, (3); Lyndon (Roderick), Another Point of View, first edition, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907, three-quarter morocco over cloth binding by Hatchards, stamped, top-edge gilt, others uncut, Golden Age pictorial-armorial bookplate of Frederick "Fritz" Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (1867-1935), soldier and senior royal courtier, 8vo, (1); [Housman (Laurence)], An Englishwoman's Love Letters, first edition, London: John Murray 1900, contemporary vellum, yapped edges, top-edge gilt, others uncut, decorative foliate endpapers, 8vo, (1), [11]
![Music - Handel (Mr [George Frideric]), Messiah, An Oratorio in Score, As it was Originally Perform'd, Composed by [...] Hande](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f09b207-1d82-4f0a-9189-aed900cda020/ab6b8b0d-161f-452d-8807-aee1012541ae/468x382.jpg)
Music - Handel (Mr [George Frideric]), Messiah, An Oratorio in Score, As it was Originally Perform'd, Composed by [...] Handel, To which are added His additional Alterations, first edition, ?third issue, London: Printed by Messrs. Randall & Abell Successors to the late Mr J. Walsh [...], [n.d., c. 1767], copperplate-printed, pp: [vi], 188, 35, [1] (blank), a complete and respectable copy, some pencil annotations, repaired title leaf, a few other marginal repairs in places, page 111/112 torn but without loss, scuffs, grime, and a handful of corner creases elsewhere throughout, early 19th century quarter reverse-calf over marbled boards, refreshed 20th century endpapers, folio (37cm x 27cm), [1]Here the list of subscribers before its reset state: "Mr" not "Dr" Samuel Arnold, ditto for Samuel Howard; "Pindar" not "Pinder"; John Perkins, Organist of "Findon" rather than "Finedon; while the order under H is Heaton, Howkins, Holden, Howard, Hague, Hudson, & Hurdis. Provenance: Robert Loxley, of Sheffield; his early 19th century gilt-lettered morocco book label to upper-cover.
Music - The Beatles Monthly Book, Nos. 8-10, 14-30, March 1964-January 1966, original wrappers, 8vo, (20); other associated publications and ephemera, including The True Story, The Beatles in America, Lucky Stars, The Beatles Book, Beatles on Broadway, The Beatles at Carnegie Hall, others, (10); Rubber Soul LP record (damaged), original pictorial sleeve en suite, (1); other un-associated records, classical, [collection]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Pogány (Willy, illustrator) & Rolleston (T.W.), The Tale of Lohengrin: Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner, London: G.G. Harrap & Co., London, [n.d., 1913], illustrated throughout, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt and blind, pictorial endpapers, 4to, (1); Cruikshank (George, illustrator) & À Beckett (Gilbert Abbott, editor), George Cruikshank's Table-Book, first edition, London: Published at The Punch Office, 1845, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page, further full-page plates and in-text illustrations, bound in polished calf gilt by Tout, stamped, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); other illustrators, J.R.R. Tolkien & Frank Brangwyn RA, (2); Ladybird Books, (4); Dick Turpin, (1), [9]
Private Presses - a collection of early 20th century and later prospectuses and ephemera, also illustrative of well-known wood-engravers and illustrators of the 20th century, comprising: The Golden Cockerel Press: prospectus, Mallarme’s L'après-midi d'un faune, translated by Aldous Huxley, illustrated after drawings by John Buckland Wright, 1956, as well as two copies of the prospectus for Cockalorum, 1948, their 1948 annual prospectus, (4); The Whittington Press: prospectuses, various, dated from 1983-1990, (4), and Matrix, Some Brief Guidelines for Contributors & Compositors, 1987, (1); The Nonesuch Press: off-print from Miscellaneous Poems by Marvell, 1923, and two copies of their 1928 & one of their 1930 prospectuses, (4); Illustrated Invitation, Paul Nash, 1889-1946: Memorial Exhibition, (1); September Press: Alphabets by Eric Gill, To be published in October 1987 by Christopher Skelton, (1); Fine Press Book Fair: Catalogue of Fine Press Exhibitors, Oxford, 13 October 1990, (1); Drawings by Richard Kennedy for A Boy at the Hogarth Press, 1972, (1); The Old Stile Press; Incline Press; etc., [qty]
Private Presses – Fraser (Eric, illustrator) & Martin (Frank, illustrator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, four-volume set, third impression thus, The Folio Society, 1973, original gilt-lettered vellum over decorative boards, top-edge red, slipcase en suite, 8vo, (4); further Folio Society volumes, including seven Jane Austen titles, Anthony Trollope, further fiction and non-fiction, etc., (27); Nonesuch Press Shakespeare, three volumes only (of 4), 1953, 8vo, (3); another Nonesuch title, (1); Cobden Sanderson, (1), [50]
Textiles, Fashion & Costume - Sample Book, Americana IV, 1945, Book 2/Printed Dress Rayons, 99 tipped-in colourful fabric samples, original black cloth, crown folio (38.5cm x 29.5cm), (1); The Ladies' Self Instructor in Millinery and Mantua Making, Embroidery [...], Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, Philadelphia: J. & J.L. Gihon, 1853, original publisher's cloth, 12mo in 6s, (1); The Boudoir: An Illustrated Magazine for Gentlewomen, Vol. I No. 3, February 1904, illustrated with various advertisements, original upper-cover wrapper only, 4to, (1); further publications and ephemera, similar; a 1930/40s French upholstery sample book, 4to, (1); etc
The Neo-Romantics and the Brideshead Generation - Waugh (Evelyn), Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, And Other Sad Stories, first edition, first impression, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1936, frontispiece, original marbled cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Lewis (Cecil), Sagittarius Rising, first edition, fifth impression, London: Peter Davies, October 1937, pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1); Christie (Agatha), Death on the Niles, first paperback edition, The Albatross Crime Club, 1939, dustjacket over pictorial wrappers, 8vo, (1); further Agatha Christie, (3); Whistler (Rex, illustrator), The New Keepsake, first edition, London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, pictorial dustjacket over pictorial cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences, first edition, London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932, pictorial dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, (1); Stein (Gertrude), Paris France, first edition, London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1940, pictorial dustjacket, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Nancy Mitford first editions, (4); The Week-End Book, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924, pictorial dustjacket, cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [33]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Theology, Divinity, & Liturgy – Author’s Copy, Subsequent Presentation Copy, Lee (The Rev. Frederick George), A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms, with Numerous Illustrations on Wood, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877, contemporary morocco pictorial gilt over marbled boards by Wyman & Sons, London, W.C., their ticket to verso, 8vo, (1); Catholic Missal, Missale Romanum […], [Tournai], 1894, printed in red and black in ruled double-columns, anachronistic Medieval-design wood-engravings, finely bound in red morocco gilt, all edges, marbled endpapers, 4to, (1); Blunt’s Annotated Common Prayer, London: Rivingtons, 1876, contemporary armorial calf gilt (worn), 4to, (1); Pearson on the Creed, fourth edition of Burton’s edition, Oxford: University Press, 1857, Eton inscription, finely bound by Hayday, stamped, in contemporary polished calf gilt, 8vo, (1); Wilberforce on the Incarnation, third edition, London: John Murray, 1850, contemporary divinity calf, 8vo, (1); Sermons, or Homilies, Appointed to be read in Churches […], London: The Prayer-Book and Homily Society, 1833, contemporary diced grey calf, 4to, (1); Trench’s Studies in the Gospels, fifth edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1886, contemporary black divinity calf, 8vo, (1); James on the Collects, ninth edition, 1840, morocco (rubbed), 12mo, (1), [8] Provenance: 1st: The Reverend George (1832-1902), the author, his copy later presented to M. Charles Hettier of Caen; the author’s armorial bookplate and later tipped-in ink MS. presentation label to recto pastedown, and further tipped-in correspondence and ephemera.
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Theology, Divinity, & Liturgy - De Favoral, Les Plaisantes journées [...], Paris: Jean Corozet, 1644, title-page woodcut of the Sacred Heart, contemporary calf (worn, chipped), marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Wheatley (Charles), A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England [...], seventh edition, London: J. Nourse, 1741, black-ruled title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorative head- and tail-pieces, in-keeping 20th century calf, preserving an 18th century Chippendale armorial bookplate, 8vo, (1); Brady's & Tate's New Version of the Psalms [...], London: Richard Hett, 1774, enclosing 2 pages of original ink MS. verse, repaired contemporary calf, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England [...], twenty-first edition, London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al., 1757, frontispiece, rebacked contemporary mottled calf, 8vo, (1); The New Week's Preparation For the Lord's Supper, third edition, London, [n.d., c. 1750], engraved copperplate-printed frontispiece and title, contemporary reverse calf (worn, chipped), 12mo, (1), [5] Provenance: 2nd & 3rd: the Gibson family, 18th century and later bookplates, book labels, or ink MS. ownership inscriptions.
Theology, Divinity, & Liturgy - Sparrow (Anthony): A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiastical; With other Publick (sic) Records of the Church of England [...], second edition, London: Printed for Robert Cutler and Joseph Clarke, 1671, some Gothic Blackletter printing, engraved frontispiece, divisional titles, [A1]-A2, B-[Ll4], [Aaa1]-[Ooo4], signature Ii3 incorrectly signed Gg3, rebacked contemporary panelled calf, institutional stamp to title-page foot, 4to, (1); A Rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer of the Church of England, with His Caution to his Diocese against False Doctrines, London: Printed for Robert Pawlet, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street, 1676, additional engraved title-page, divisional title-page with engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel, 3 portrait engravings of Anglican divines, lacking signatures [N5-6], otherwise collating [A3]-N5, [N8]-[**11], 20th century divinity calf, 12mo, (1), [2]
Topography - Lysons: (The Rev. Daniel) & (Samuel), Magna Britannia, three volumes, comprising II, Cambridgeshire, and the County of Palatine of Chester, III, Cornwall, & VI, Devonshire, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810, 1814, & 1822, illustrated with monochrome and a handful of coloured fold-out and full-page plates, uniformly bound in contemporaneous quarter-calf over cloth (Devonshire upper-cover detached), marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, [3]Provenance: George Binks, early 19th century book label to each recto pastedown.
Topography and Genealogy – Yorkshire, Hargrove (E.), The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Waters, fifth edition, York: Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1798, fold-out map, frontispiece and plates, 18th century style 20th century sheep, 12mo in 6s, (1); Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1892, rebound, 4to, (1); Pevsners, various counties, editions, and dates, cloth only, (8); Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1965, 4to, (1); Lodge’s Genealogy of the British Peerage, seventh edition, 1840, later cloth, 8vo, (1); Fairbairn’s Crests, reprint; Year Book and Guide to South Africa, 1950, pictorial boards, 8vo, (1); Oxford University Calendar, 1924, 8vo, (1); Arnold’s Oxford and Cambridge; Gwynn’s Cities of Ireland; etc., [approx. 30]
Travel and the Orient - Stark (Freya), The Valleys of Assassins, and Other Persian Travels, first edition, London: John Murray, 1934, dustjacket over green cloth, cartographic endpapers designed by Hawes, 8vo, (1); Najafi (Najmeh), Persia in My Heart [...], first English edition, London: Victori Gollancz Ltd, 1954, dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); Lawrence (T.E.), Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph, first trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, original cloth, 4to, (1); Lewis (Norman), A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Indo-China, first edition, [London]: Jonathan Cape and the Book Society, July 1951, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); [Japan], Waley (Arthur, translator), The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon, first edition thus, 1928, dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); Tagore (Rabindranath), Gitanjali (Song Offerings) [...], 1919, blue cloth, 8vo; atlas; Fitzroy Maclean; further travel and exploration; etc., [17] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
The English Church in The Civil War and The Cromwellian Protectorate - Ley (John, Minister of Great Budworth in Cheshire), a sammelband of six works in one: The Fury of Warre (sic), and Folly of Sinne (sic), (As an Incentive to it) declared and applyed (sic) [...], A Sermon Preached [...] before the Honourable House of Commons [...], April 26 1643, first edition, London: Printed by G.M. for Christopher Meredith [...], 1643, pp: [x], 74; [&] A Monitor of Mortalitie (sic), In two [funeral] Sermons [...], first edition, London: G.M. for Christopher Meredith [...], 1643, pp: [viii], 46, [2] (blank); [x], 26; [&] Philadelphus (Theophilus, pseud.), Exceptions Many and Just Against two Injurious Petitions [...] against Tithes [...], first edition, Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Tho: Robinson, 1653, pp: [xx], 43, [1] (blank); [&] General Reasons, Grounded on Piety, Charity, Justice and Equitie (sic), against the defaulcation (sic) of a fift (sic) part of the Ministers Maintenance [...], first edition, London: Edward Brewster [...], 1655, pp: [xx], 27, [1] (blank); 16, [1] (Postcript), [3] (blank); [&] [Episcopal Ordination], A Petition Humbly presented to his Highnesse (sic) Oliver Lord Protector Of the Common wealth of England [...], first edition, London: Printed for Edward Brewster, 1655, pp: [vi], 31, [1] (blank), disbound, calf upper-cover only, 4to, [1]Provenance: The Reverend Benjamin Arthur Marshall (1804-1874), ink MS inscription to recto pastedown: "I value this Book simply from association. Great Budworth [Ley's living] was my first Curacy, August 1835. B.A. Marshall."
A 19th century common place book, Gleanings Both Wise & Otherwise Being the Common Place Book of Frank Toothill 1886, in MS with verse, poetry and transcriptions, Calais Church; Stonehenge; Lichens and Mosses; Turner's Boyhood; Aphorisms; Marine Architecture; various pen and ink drawings and caricatures, Tommy and the Macheen (sic), others, morrocco bound, tooled and gilt ownership initials FT
A collection of 6 early-mid 20th century friendship albums, each book inscribed in ink MS with sentiments, illustrated with watercolour &/or pen-and-ink drawings, sketches, cartoons and caricatures, some printed illustrations, 4to or oblong 12mo, (6); Postcards, Oxford and its university, colour postcards tipped-in a cloth-backed book, 8vo, (1), [7]
An early Victorian Essex businessman’s notebook, inscribed in ink and pencil MS. with drafts or copies of letters, some business accounts, expenditure, etc., as well as names and residences of the local gentry and clergy, various dates in the 1840s, contemporary vellum over boards (soiled), the pastedowns an 1845 almanac, marbled edges, 16mo, (1); Miniature Baxter Cabinet Prints, a collection of 20, c. 1849, mostly of an early Queen Victoria, her family, and royal residences, pasted into a slightly later 19th century leather album, square 16mo, (1); a post-Regency lady’s pocket commonplace and friendship book, inscribed with ink MS verse and prose, illustrated with prints, etc., contemporary binding (disbound, loosening), 16mo, (1); Renshaw’s Friendship’s Tribute for 1855, chromolithographed frontispiece and title-page, further engravings, the contents uninscribed, original maroon wrap, (1); Edwardian- George V accounts manuscript book, (1), [5]
An early Victorian scrap album, enclosing tipped-in contemporary ephemera viz. boating and rowing in and around Nottingham, including Colwick Water, the Trent regatta, etc., further typical illustrations of colour scraps, topographical and Old Master engravings, some caricatural book illustrations, etc., contemporary green half-morocco gilt over cloth, marbled endpapers, folio, (1); a mid-19th century lady’s drawing-room commonplace album, dated 1858, artfully inscribed in ink MS. with verse and prose, illustrated with original watercolour and pencil illustrations, including an Italian Grand Tour named-view landscape in the Bay of Naples, typical tipped-in mixed media prints and ephemera, contemporary decorative blind-stamped roan (lacking spine), restrained by an unlocked clasp, 4to, (1); another, similar, including a named-view watercolour sketch of the Hermitage at Frogmore, [Windosr Castle], contemporary green roan over tartan papered boards, 4to, (1); (1); a mid-Victorian and later album of newspaper clippings, 4to, (1); 20th century scrapbooks of European ephemera, mostly hotels and transport, (3), [7]
Crime and Punishment - Police History - Social Commentary - an archive of Victorian and Edwardian arrest warrants, Borough of Leicester, printed and inscribed in ink MS, including Warrant on Disobedience of Summons...that on 19th day of June 1880 Elizabeth Taylor did unlawfully assault and beat Mary Smith...signed by Mayor, John Bennett; Warrant for Assault on a Constable....Robert Collins 15th September 1892; John William Bertram, Book keeper ...then being servant to Alouicious Cooke and others did receive into his possesion the sum of nine poundsnine shillings for and on account of his said masters and did fraudulently and feloniously embezzle the same..seventeenth day of January 1872; others, assault, abandonment of family; allowing a premises to be used for habitual prostitution; obstructions and nuisances in the street; others (20)
Education and Teaching in Early-Mid 20th Century Greater London - R. Harold Morris, a master at Upper Hornsey Road L.C.C. Senior Boys' School and later deputy headmaster of Archway County Secondary School for Boys, Hornsey Rise, comprising the Programmes and Guides of the Second, Third and Fourth Annual Upper Hornsey Road School Journeys, Isle of Wight (Ryde) June & July 1929 & 1930, then Hastings July 1931, each account lithograph-printed and illustrated with b/w and sepia snapshots of the schoolboys and their masters, activities, and British topography, original cloth, 8vo, (3); Binding, The Archway County Secondary School Boys, Presented to R. H. Morris, Deputy Headmaster on his Retirement, Dec. 1956, the 'book bound in leather by Mr. K. Kenmare (of the Archway staff), and bearing the school badge and title. The book contained copies of the school magazine and the signatures of all the boys and staff of the school’, taken from a clipping of the Hornsey Journal (4.1.57) tipped-in the presentation volume with some further ephemera, inscribed in manuscript ink throughout, contemporary citron morocco, the covers blocked in gilt with the school arms, gilt-lettered onlays, blue-stained edges, 8vo, (1), [4]
Local Interest - a George III and later ink manuscript rental book, the Charley Rental, the property of the Bosworth family, Leicestershire, 86ff (just under half the volume), inscribed and tabulated from 23rd December, 1816, with the tenants' names, their land, the rental value and disbursement, infrequent remarks, the MS. culminating in its sale in August 1860, contemporary reverse calf, the upper-cover with a gilt-lettered and tooled morocco piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, folio (33.5cm x 21.5cm), [1]
Local Interest, Breweriana - T.L. Bradley, Midland Brewery, New Basford, Nottingham - three manuscript volumes of their accounts, comprising the Nominal Ledger, inscribed from October 1930 to April 1941, (1); the Wages Book/Steam Motor Drivers, No. 1, 1914-1919, (1); another, miscellaneous, including expenditure of the Loscoe officer, Derbyshire, (1), mixed contemporary part-leather bindings, folios, [3]
Local Interest, Methodism in Georgian Nottinghamshire - Joseph Raynor of Mansfield, civil engineer and an ardent Methodist, his ink manuscript commonplace book, 106pp inscribed from October 1804 onwards, mostly transcriptions and thoughts of a religious nature, including references to the Holy Bible, there is however an odd account of the 'Happy Death' of a soldier, John Birks, who died at Mansfield on 3rd October 1804, who, having left his regiment on furlough, drew his pay and spent most of it on the stagecoach to Mansfield, where he was not afraid not to die, glad that he saw the face of a Methodist - which he wouldn't have done at the army camp, the verso with some multiplication tables and mathematics, contemporary calf over marbled boards (perished, loosening contents), later 19th century printed yellow book label: Thos. Alex. Rayner, 4to, [1]
Miscellaneous Manuscripts – a Victorian office muniments archive, the ledger folio enclosing MS. notes, schedules of deeds and annuities, etc., various dates and formats tipped-in, approx. three-quarters of the volume filled, contemporary reverse calf over boards, folio, (1); Scotland, Business and Commerce, Private Letter Book No. 1, MS. and later typed, dated from October 1886 to December 1950, contemporary reverse calf over marbled boards, 4to, (1); Food & Drink, 4pp of early cocktail and other wine-based drink recipes, the remaining 1919 dated ledger vacant, cloth over boards, small folio, (1); a mid-Victorian and later stock and accounts book, 1849-1860, contemporary papered boards, 4to, (1); Textiles, 20th century purchase book of bolts, threads, etc., small folio, (1); day book; vacant ledgers; etc., [10]
Miscellaneous Manuscripts - Essex, The Finances of an early Victorian Surgeon, an ink MS accounts book, compiled by Robert William Quennell (1799-1849), of Hart’s Hall, Hornchurch, Essex, with dated transactions from 1st January, 1831, to 30th December, 1839, mostly with tradesmen being based in south-east Essex (Upminster, Romford, Ockenden, etc), various entries including: 1835 Oct. 20th ‘Began taking the Times newspaper [subscription] £3 – 18s – 0d per annum’ and 1835, August 4th; ‘sold out £200 of 3% consols which made £179 – 10s – 0d ‘to pay for an action brought against me by a rascal of which transaction papers will be found in my drawer’, as well as his conservative taste in wine, at the end, an account of the dates of birth and full-names of the owner’s four children, from which it was possible to establish the identity of the book’s compiler, red-ruled contents, contemporary polished calf, covers blind-rolled, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); a mid-Victorian country house visitors’ book, believed to have come from a Herefordshire weekend party circa 1862 (loosely-inserted note), partially-filled, comprising 17 autograph signatures, including the Duke of Bedford and George Russell, the Duchesses of Manchester and Montrose, the Marquess of Clanricarde, further members of the British aristocracy, the Bishop of Rochester, and European/Russian noblemen Count Bernstorff and Prince Boris Galitzin, contemporary green morocco gilt, all-edges gilt, moiré endpapers, 8vo, (1); a late 19th century literary-antiquarian’s commonplace book of ballads, rhymes, sayings and songs, principally transcribed in MS, but a few tipped-in scraps of print, disbound, 4to, (1); Jones (Maurice), No Easy Answer, Bournemouth, 1953, 52ff of autograph MS, the narrative history of The Arts and man’s relation to them, inscribed in pen-and-ink, mixed media illustrations by the author throughout, original cloth, 4to, (1), [4]
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Palaeography, and Biblioclasm – Twickenham pre-Alexander Pope – a Charles II ink MS single-page letter, addressed to The Reverend Dr Richard Meggott (Meggot; c. 1633 -1692), Dean of Winchester and Canon of Windsor (as royal chaplain in ordinary), “at his house in Windsor Castle”, the foot of the epistle is damaged and partly missing (eliding the writer’s signature), an aide or clerk is the presumed author, it concerns the value of the parsonage of Twittenham (i.e. Twickenham, Middlesex), about which the good Dean had clearly been interested; on the reckoning of the (then) recent past, when it had been assessed jointly with Isleworth, Twickenham had returned the lesser amount at £80, going on to explain that there were 637 acres of tithable land returning 3d per acre; a note on the reverse gives the date 1682, 29cm x 19cm, (1); a 15th Medieval hand-scrivened vellum land inspeximus fragment, including a red stylized marginal manicule and keywords underlined in red, 13cm x 18.5cm, (1); a George III ink MS on paper poem, ‘The Difference between Today and Tomorrow’, comprising ten heroic couplets gloomily comparing the delights of living (‘today’) with the obloquy of death (‘tomorrow’), dated at the foot ‘wrote in the year 1770/by me ε’ϑ’on’ [sic], 13.5cm x 15.7cm, (1); a set of 15 English anachronistic woodcuts, taken from a book, [n.d., 17th/18th century], each tableau numbered and titled in Roman and Gothic Black Letter, mounted on one sheet, (1); others, 19 Swiss wood-engravings, 1787, mounted on one sheet, (1), [5]
The Poor Laws - an early Victorian rate book, An Assessment for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish of Brabourne in the County of Kent and for the purposes chargeable thereon according to Law, made 8th day of July 1838....in ink MS with names of owners/occupiers, number of votes and rating information, c.1838-41
Two late 19th/early scrapbook albums, illustrated with Edwardian and 1920s society beauties, presumably taken from Tatler, Grand Tour Classical and Old Master pictures, etc., contemporary quarter-calf over boards (some wear, chipped, etc), 4to, (2); Stamps, a 20th century stock book, sparsely-filled with loosely-inserted world stamps (c. 1960); philately publications, (2); a Victorian papier-mâché and mother-of-pearl marquetry rounded rectangular blotter, c. 1860; two early 20th century studio portrait photographs, mixed frames; further photograph frame; draughts and bridge; armorial plaque; early 20th century and later European banknotes; etc., [collection] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Vernacular Furniture in Late Georgian Wales – a post-Regency carpenter-joiner’s manuscript accounts book, by John Jones, dated from 1827 to 1840 and inscribed in ink MS in an earlier George III printed almanac, ‘The Daily Journal/or, The Gentleman’s and Tradesman’s Complete Annual Accompt-Book […], London: Printed only for R. Baldwin, 1761’, Jones’s entries mainly relate to Bridgend/Ynyscynon (Aberdare), including one to a coal owner David Williams, Pen-y-Bont (1809-1863); typical charges, spice cupboard 3/- (15p), five chairs 7/6d (37.5p), round stand 8/- (40p) and a mill wheel at £5-15s-0d ( £5 – 75p); etc., contemporary green limp vellum (perished spine, cover creased, chipped, &/or split), 8vo in 4s, [1]
World War Two, RAF, Aden Command – 133982 Flight Officer C.H. Meads, 621 Squadron, an attaché case archive collection of ephemera and photographs, including Meads’ officer’s identity card, partial pay and allowances book for 1944, mixed sizes of b/w photographs of fellow RAF personnel, some portraits and informal snapshots, scenes of native domestic life in Aden and Somaliland, a few aerial pictures from reconnaissance missions, etc; pencil annotated flight map; some banknotes and currency; RAF Moncton pennant; etc., [collection]
Actor, Matt Dillon signed 10x8 colour photograph. Dillon made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), the three S. E. Hinton book adaptations Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), The Outsiders (1983) and The Flamingo Kid (1984). From the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), To Die For (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), In and Out (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Wild Things (1998). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Cricketers autograph book - Lords signed inside by 5 players. Includes Gary Sobers, John Murray, Alex Lees, Doug Padgett and Craig White. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Vintage 1950s film star signed book from the Savoy Hotel in London. Signatures inside include Gracie Fields, Cornel Wilde, Clifton Webb and more. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Young Winston In house Brochure. A film by Carl Foreman and Richard Attenborough starring Robert Shaw as Lord Randolph Churchill and Anne Bancroft as Lady Jennie Churchill. Young Winston is a 1972 British biographical adventure drama war film covering the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, based in particular on his 1930 book, My Early Life. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Shelley Checkered Pattern 11124/6 part tea set:This pattern number was entered into the pattern book in early 1919, an exact date is not known as the pattern book was not consistently dated at that time. The cup shape is the Bute shape, the design on the ware is shown in the pattern book as ‘Dice Border’. 16 pieces (16)
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