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Books: ten books by Arthur Ransome, all with original green fabric covers (none with dust jackets): 'Swallows and Amazons' Webb first illustrated edition, 1931; 'Winter Holiday', 1933; 'Coot Club', 1934; 'Secret Water', 1939; 'Big Six', 1940; 'Peter Duck', two copies, one 1932 and one 1953; 'We didn't mean to go to sea', 1937; and 'Missee Lee', 1941; along with quantity of books about Ransome (quantity)
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Books: four by Arthur Ransome, all with dust wrappers: 'Swallows and Amazons', Jonathan Cape, illus. by author and Nancy Blackett, 1939; 'Great Northern', Jonathan Cape, 1947 (first edition); 'The Picts and the Martyrs', Jonathan Cape, first edition 1943; 'Pigeon Post' first illustrated edition 1936, illus. Nancy Blackett (four)
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Sir William Quiller Orchardson R.A., 1832-1910, the market girl from the lido, signed, oil on canvas, 59.6x101cm.; 23 1/2 x 39 3/4in. Late in April 1870 Orchardson leisurely embarked for Italy, reaching Venice by early April and taking rooms within the Casa Benetzki on the Grand Canal. He had intended to devote himself to painting in Venice but found the light too vivid and instead chose to make sketches and absorb the atmosphere of faded elegance. He took the ill-advised decision to swim every day in the canals, always casting his hat into the water first before leaping in head first after it. He employed the exclusive services of a young gondolier to ferry him through Venice's waterways and to follow him as he swam through the waters, 'one of those invaluable servants you find once or twice in a lifetime among the Latin races, but never, in ten lives, among the Teutons. Everything conceivable that an Englishman in Venice could require, Antonio sought and found.' The handsome gondolier was also something of a romantic hero having risked all by offering himself for a blood transfusion (extremely risky and rarely attempted in those days) to save his fiancee after she contracted smallpox. 'He forced his way to the girl's bedside, took her in his arms where she lay, and never relaxed his hold for a day and a night, until the feeble spark of life was nourished back to the beginnings of flame.' (Walter Armstrong, The Art of William Quiller Orchardson, 1895, p. 27). Whilst Orchardson was in Venice he witnessed the girl's seemingly miraculous recovery and marriage to Antonio and was greatly touched by the heroism of the valiant gondolier and his love for his beautiful young wife. Undoubtedly Antonio and his fiancee were the stimuli for A Market Girl from the Lido which was probably painted immediately after Orchardson's return to London. Orchardson's time in Venice had been a disappointing one, plagued by illness and conditions that he found to be against any possibility of painting. However he returned to London committed to paint several images of Venetian life including On the Grand Canal of 1871, The Venetian Fruit Seller painted in 1874 (Sotheby's, Hopetoun House,19 April 2004, lot 8), and Moonlight on the Lagoons of 1875. Provenance Mrs Richard Johnson, by 1887 Exhibited London, Royal Academy 1870, no. 298; Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 383 Literature James Stanley Little, 'The Life & Work of William Q. Orchardson Royal Academician', Christmas edition of Art Journal, 1897, p. 21
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VITA SACKVILLE-WEST and STEPHEN TENNANT. A signed letter from Vita to Stephen and a poem written by Stephen the letter reads: I am sorry about our projected luncheon on Feb 8th but of course if u are gone to Paris before then it can't be helped. I would love you to spend a night here before u go could u come Friday Jan 28 or Friday Feb 4th? Do if u can. I have got some apple logs from an old apple tree blown down in the recent gales-and they smell like incense on the fire-and they might remind u of Catholic churches in Venice as well as of apple orchards in England-and so we could sit and talk about Italy and England and Spain and North Africa with Northern winter winds blowing around us and the scent of incense in our nostrils-and poetry in our hearts Your Lovin V on Sissinghurst Castle headed paper. The eight line poem is written opposite the title page within; SACKVILLE-WEST (V) ANOTHER WORLD THAN THIS first edition with d.j and given to Stephen from Vita on December 12th 1945; with a 5th edition PEPITA also given to Stephen from Vita.
![A Staffordshire Pottery Figure "Bloomers", circa 1860], as a lady wearing a broad rimmed feather plumed hat, holding a black](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2669547/99-63-10041_468x382.jpg)
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A Staffordshire Pottery Figure "Bloomers", circa 1860], as a lady wearing a broad rimmed feather plumed hat, holding a black bag and yellow umbrella, the base inscribed "Bloomers" in gilt, 24cm high; and [Another "The Blind Fiddler"], wearing tricorn hat, and performing a gig, 21.5cm (2) *Amelia Bloomer (1818-1898) was born in Homer, New York. In 1840 she married Dexter C Bloomer and became the first woman to publish a paper solely for women, entitled “The Lily: A Monthly Journal devoted to Temperance and Literature”. In the May edition 1851 she advised readers that they should adopt the dress of Mrs Elisabeth Smith Millar, the daughter of the famous abolitionist Gerrit Smith. Letters poured into the paper by women asking how to make the dress and bloomerism was born. The invention of bloomers caused a storm across the world in ladies fashions in the early 1850’s, the figures that the potteries produced did not portray her but were inspired by many musicals and waltzes that were produced as “bloomer-mania” spread across the country. There were many productions, including “I Want to be a Bloomer”. See Harding (A&N): Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Schiffer Books, fig 1313.
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Sir Terry Frost R.A. 1915-2003 the lorca suite Eleven poems by Federico Garcia Lorca illustrated with eleven etchings by Terry Frost each signed and numbered 4/75 each etching 56x37.5cm.; 22x14.75in. To be sold together with: RED YELLOW and BLUE numbered twice T15; signed and dated 77 on the reverse watercolour and gouache unframed 57x38cm.; 22.5x15in. Published by Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books October 1989 in an edition of seventy-five. The first fifteen included an original drawing/watercolour. Held in a calf-skin leather solander box designed by the artist.
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YOUNG (EDWARD). The Complaint, and Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, first edition illustrated by WILLIAM BLAKE, 41 copper engravings, without the 'Explanation of the Engraving' at the end (frequently lacking), a few edges cropped, contemporary calf, gilt, extremities rubbed, small holes at joints, large 4to, (41 x 32cms) by R Noble for R Edwards, 1797.. *** This is William Blake's most ambitious work to date on which he spent over two years and made over 500 drawings. It is also Blake's first large scale commercial commission ***
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Collection of catalogues to include Airfix First, second edition (some graffiti), third, fourth, fifth (x2), and sixth editions (all mint), a 1968 price list (minor graffiti), a Revell 10th Anniversary catalogue, a Revell Series 5 catalogue, a Frog 1966 catalogue, a Frog 1968 sheet and a 1964 sheet, an Auto-Models mail order catalogue 4th edition and a Gamages 1964-1965 catalogue (Part Illus.)
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A pair of William III Britannia standard silver trefid spoons with ovoid beaded rat tail bowls by Jonathan Downes London 1698 18.5cm long The clear maker’s mark of Jonathan Downes on these spoons is according to Jackson’s revised edition first entered at the London assay office in 1702 some four years later
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, Rev. 'Lewis Carroll.' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ninth thousand, London 1867 plus thirtieth thousand, London 1872, plus Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, first edition, London 1872 plus The Hunting of the Snark, first edition, London 1876. All worn original cloth, 8vo. (4)
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Potter, Beatrix. the Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, London 1908 plus The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, London 1903 plus The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, first edition, London 1909. All paper covered boards with picture onlays and damaged spine strips, plus others by the author. (9)
![[Sassoon, Siegfried & Graves, Robert] Darton, F.J. Harvey. From Surtees to Sassoon. Some English Contrasts (1838 - 1928), fi](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10140/2670333/341-63-10140_468x382.jpg)
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[Sassoon, Siegfried & Graves, Robert] Darton, F.J. Harvey. From Surtees to Sassoon. Some English Contrasts (1838 - 1928), first edition, London 1931. Dust wrapper, slip case, presentation inscription on the ffep from the author to the publisher, Morley Kennerley. Loosely inserted is a postcard from Robert Graves concerning the book and complaining of an unfavourable comparison with Sassoon "He writes often in the manner..... (Page 161) and a postcard from Darton to Kennerley commenting on this. Also two letters from Sassoon, one each to Darton and Kennerley regarding the book. This includes two sides of requested changes to the proofs, "I mention these trivialities because G's book has caused me endless annoyance.... Also two later letters from Sassoon to Kennerley discussing his Collected Poems. There is also an unsigned and unfinished draft letter from Darton to Graves (see illustration).
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Hoyle, Edmond. A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, sixth edition, London 1746, bound with A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille, second edition, London 1756, bound with A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet, second edition, London 1746, bound with A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon, first edition, London 1745. Calf, boards detached, 8vo.
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Robert Taylor. "Spitfire First edition print Signed in pencil in the lower margin by Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnson. 39cm x 51cm Framed and glazed plus David Shepherd "Immortal Hero Limited edition print 41/950 Signed by the artist in the lower margin 70cm x 75cm Framed and glazed Plus nine other related pictures. (10)
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