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Click here to subscribeDr Neal-Good King Wenceslas, pictured by Arthur Gaskin with introduction by William Morris, published Birmingham, Messrs Cornish 13rs & New Street 1895, First Edition book plate for Alfred Armitage Bethune Baker signed and dated from Edith to Alfred Xmas 1894, together with letter from Edith to Alfred
Two Lowestoft saucers, painted in underglaze blue, the first with a boldly drawn garden pavilion in panelled feather border, the second painted in inky cobalt with two buildings on an island with vegetation in cross hatched border, 13 & 12cm diam, c1790 Literature: A trio of the same pattern as the first saucer in the present lot is illustrated Godden (Geoffrey A), Lowestoft Porcelains Revised Edition, 1985, plt 222. ++The first saucer with 1cm hairline crack descending from the rim at 11 o'clock which is hardly noticeable and does not detract. The second saucer with a few very light glaze scratches which again do not detract
Poetry - First Editions. Richard Murphy 'The Battle of Aughrim' 1968, signed to title page, good in dust jacket; Sylvia Plath 'Collected Poems' 1981; Edith Sitwell 'Street Songs', dust jacket, 1942; Robert Frost 'A Witness Tree' 1943; Frances Cornford 'Collected Poems' 1954; also MORISON (Stanley) Talbot Baines Reed, limited edition (500) CUP 1960, and 5 others (11)
Children's. GREENAWAY (Kate) Marigold Garden, first edition, London: George Routledge and Sons circa 1885, 4to, vignette half title, slight marginal discolouration, p53 with 5inch stain to outer margin, otherwise good, pictorial covers; CRANE (Walter) A Flower Wedding, London: Cassell & Co 1905, edges uncut, pictorial cloth; The Work of Walter Crane with Notes by the Artist, London: J S Virtue & Co 1898, plates and illustrations, green cloth gilt (3)
MILNE (A A) Now We Are Six, first edition, London: Methuen and Co 1927, 8vo, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, pictorial red cloth gilt in tatty wrapper; The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen and Co 1928, 8vo, illustrations by E H Shepard, pictorial pink cloth gilt in torn wrapper; When We Were Very Young, twenty sixth edition, London: Methuen and Co 1934, 8vo, illustrations by E H Shepard, pictorial blue cloth in wrapper (discoloured spine) (3)
GREENAWAY (Kate) Illustrator The Pied Piper of Hamelin, first edition, London: George Routledge and Sons [1888], 4to, coloured illustrations, spotting to pages, pictorial boards; UPTON (Florence K) The Adventures of Borbee and the Wisp, London: Longmans, Green & Co 1908, 4to, coloured illustrations throughout, slight discolouration, pictorial boards (rubbed); The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls, London: Longmans, Green & Co [1895], occasional spotting, coloured illustrations, pictorial boards, slightly rubbed (3)
MILNE (A A) Russian language edition of Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, New York 1967, illustrations, yellow cloth in pictorial wrapper; Once Upon a Time, London no date, illustrations by Charles Robinson, paper wrapper; It's Too Late Now, The Autobiography of a Writer, London 1939, paper wrapper; STRACHEY (Lytton) Ermyntrude and Esmeralda, Anthony Blond 1969, 4to, illustrations throughout by Erte, pink cloth gilt with pictorial wrapper; Rhyme and Rhythm, Blaydon: The School Press 1941, hand coloured etched plates, full grained binding and another (6)
HAXTHAUSEN (Baron von) Transcaucasia. Sketches of the Nations and Races between the Black Sea and the Caspian, first edition, London 1854, 8vo, map and coloured plates, speckled calf gilt, spine worn; SEYMOUR (H D) Russia on the Black Sea, London: John Murray 1855, 8vo, frontispiece and map, worn and discoloured cloth (2)
Literature - Bindings. WILDE (Oscar) Sebastian Melmoth, first edition, London: Arthur L Humphreys 1904, 8vo, teg, edges untrimmed, half morocco gilt; MARLOW (Christopher and George Chapman) Hero and Leander, Chiswick: C Whittingham 1821, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, aeg, decorative full calf gilt, spine faded; TURNBULL (W) Editor The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, London: John Russell Smith 1858, 8vo, aeg decorative morocco gilt binding signed P R D (3)
Literature. DICKENS (Charles) The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans 1846, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, occasional spotting, red cloth gilt (discoloured and nicked); COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) The Poetical Works, 3 volumes, London: William Pickering 1835-36, 8vo, vignette titles, full calf gilt (worn and blackened) (4)
Celtic - History. Collection of volumes including BEDDOE (John) The Races of Britain, first edition, Bristol 1885; On the Stature and Bulk of Man in the British Isles, first edition, London 1870, presentation copy; RIPLEY (William Z) The Races of Europe, first edition, London: Kegan Paul 1900; ROLLESTON (T) Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, second edition, London: Harrap 1922; HUBERT (H) The Rise of the Celts, London 1987, reprint in dust wrapper, etc, condition varies (17)
Birds - Natural History. WITHERBY (H et al) The Handbook of British Birds, five volumes, first edition, London: Witherby 1938-41, illustrations, dust wrappers; PIKE (Oliver G) Home Life in Bird-Land, first edition, London: Religious Tract Society 1905, illustrations; HOSKING (Eric) An Eye for a Bird, first edition, London: Hutchinson 1970, illustrations, dust wrapper; PETERSON (R and J FISHER) Wild America, first edition, London: Collins 1956, illustrations, dust wrapper; YEATES (G K) Bird Haunts in Southern England, first edition, London: Faber and Faber 1947, illustrated, etc, condition varies (25)
Mervyn Peake. Letters from a Lost Uncle, first edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1948, yellow pictorial cloth in dust wrapper; Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1946, 4to, illustrations, yellow cloth in torn wrapper; Quest for Sita by Maurice Collis, London: Faber and Faber 1946, 4to, illustrations, teg others untrimmed, limited edition of 500 copies, pictorial blue cloth with discoloured and partially torn dust wrapper (3)
JAMES (M R) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, second impression; More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition 1911 (cover rather marked, some spotting); A Warning to the Curious, first edition 1925 (rather grubby, spine strengthened); The Five Jars, 1927; Collected Ghost Stories, 1934, and another (6)
Poetry. LARKIN (Philip) The Whitsun Weddings; The North Ship; High Windows, first editions; GRAVES (Robert) Poems 1965-1968, first edition 1968; CORNFORD (Frances) Collected Poems, first edition 1954; SMITH (Stevie) Not Waving but Drowning, first edition 1957; DOUGLAS (Norman) Some Limericks, Boston 1942, No.510 of 1000 copies, paper wrappers, faded spine and three others, all in dust wrappers mainly in fair to good condition (10)
Wood Engraving. The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat, first edition 1959; Reynolds Stone Engravings, 1977; English Wood Engraving 1900-1950 by Thomas Balston, 1951; Women Engravers by Patricia Jaffe 1988, inscribed by the author; MACCARTHY (Fiona) Eric Gill, 1989, two copies, all in dust wrappers (6)
Various - Bibliography. SEREBRIAKOFF (Victor) Hyperbolic Acid, Heron's Quill 1977, illustrations throughout, pictorial paper binding; ARNOLD (Arnold) Pictures and Stories from Forgotten Children's Books, 4to, New York 1969, woodcut illustrations throughout, author's autograph inscription to first free end paper; MCLEAN (Ruari) Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, second edition, London 1972; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick, London 1866 reissued by Singing Tree Press 1968, together with a supplement edition London 1868 reissued 1968, red cloth gilt etc (13)
KIPLING (Rudyard) Songs of the Sea, 1927, signed limited edition no 16 of 150, illustrated by Donald Maxwell; Under the Deodars, Indian Railway Edition 1888; The Story of the Gadsbys, 1st Indian Railway edition 1888; other first editions - Many Inventions 1893, Sea Warfare 1916, Letters of Travel 1920, From Sea to Sea 1900; with others (14)
Engraving and Graphic Arts. GRANT (Col M H) A Dictionary of British Etchers, 1953, second impression; SALOMONS (Vera) Eisen, 1917 teg others untrimmed; HILL (Dr) Mr. Gillray the Caricaturist, 1965; IVINS (W) Prints and Visual Communication, first edition, 1953, IMAGE Journal, nos 1-4, 6-8; MOTIF, nos 1-12
Cambridgeshire. BOSTON (LUCY M) Memory in a House, first edition, London 1973, cloth gilt in paper wrapper (2 copies); GRAY (Arthur) Cambridge Revisited, W Heffer and Sons 1921, engraved illustrations, folding plans, green cloth gilt in paper wrapper (discoloured); CASE (Thomas A) Memoirs of a Kings College Chorister, second edition, 1899, illustrations, author's autograph inscription, cloth gilt (worn spine); Granta Limericks Compiled for May Week 1925 by Angus MacPhail and Ian Dalrymple, paper bound, and 3 others (8)
POTOCKI JOSEPH Sport in Somaliland being an Account of a hunting Trip to that Region .... London, Rowland Ward Ltd 1900, (385mm x 305mm), half title frontispiece, title page in red and black, eighteen plates mounted on India paper, fifty eight illustrations, original white binding with imitation snakeskin end papers, first edition, number 144 of 200 copies, signed by the publisher Rowland Ward, one of the greatest African hunting books
A George III teapot and stand by Patrick Robertson, Edinburgh 1767-1768, the inverted pear shaped teapot with rococo chased scroll, shell and floral head design, two vacant cartouches, the domed cover with bud finial and semi spiral border, the silver handle with leaf thumb piece and carved horn insulators, with bold fluted curved spout, on simple stepped foot rim, the stand of shaped circular form with simple chased floral and shell detail border, raised on three C scroll hoof feet (2) teapot 19cm high 24oz; stand 19cm diameter 8oz Note: Both pieces are struck with the more unusual gothic N with dot to centre of the date letter, a variety recorded in 'Jacksons Silver and Gold marks' CJ Jackson, first edition 1905. Reference: For illustration of both varieties of this date letter see 'Jacksons Silver & Gold Marks, of England, Scotland & Ireland' (revised edition) I Pickford p549
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