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Classics. Fine Bindings: Homer & Pope (Alexander, translator), The Iliad, Adorned with Plates, six volume set, London: Printed for F.J. Du Roveray, 1813, divisional titles, engraved frontispieces and plates, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, green endpapers, neat reference library bookplates to verso and recto pastedowns only, 8vo; Wells (Edward, DD), A Treatise of Ancient and Present Geography, fifth edition, London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for R. Wilkin, et al, 1738, frontispiece engraved by Robert Spofforth, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, 8vo; Xenophon & Hudson (Thomas, editor), [Cyropaedia], Xenophontis de Cyri institutione libri octo, first edition thus, Oxonii: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1727, frontispiece engraved by George Vertue, folding engraved map of the Persian Empire, contemporary speckled calf boards, rebacked, contemporary red speckled edges, 4to, (8)  Provenance: 3rd: Earl Cornwallis; early 19th c armorial bookplate.

Fine Binding. Quillet (Claudius/Claude, Abbé) & Rowe (Nicholas, translator), Callipædia. A Poem, In Four Books. With Some Other Pieces. To which is Prefix'd, Mr Bayle's Account of His Life, first edition thus, [issued with] Cobb (Samuel, translator), An Epistle to Eudoxus, [&] idem, A Panegyrical Elegy On the Death of Gassendus, The Celebrated Astronomer and Philosopher. Inscrib'd to the Reverend Mr. Flamsteed, of Greenwich, London: Printed for E. Sanger, and E. Curll 1712, allegorical frontispiece engraved by Michael Vandergucht, general and divisional title-pages, publisher's advertisement leaf to verso, finely bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt to a cottage roof design, possibly a presentation binding, covers detached, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo Provenance: Robert Hayhurst (1929-2016), bibliophile; his pictorial bookplate to pastedown.

Architecture. Campbell (Colen, Architect), Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings both Publick (sic) and Private in Great Britain, with Variety of New Designs [...] either from the Buildings themselves, or the Original Designs of the Architects, three volume set, first edition, London: Sold by the Author, 1715, 1717, & 1725, subscriber' volume I: engraved title-page and dedication leaf (i.e. plates 1 & 2), 10pp, plates 3-100, including 11 which are double-page elevations over 2 plates, also, plate 20's broad fore-margin is chipped, smaller chip to the upper-margin of plate 67, it and plates 68-70 have small water stains to portions of their upper-margins, plate 96 fore-margin with small chip and faint & dormant worm trail, none of these come close to affecting or touching the images or their platemarks, volume II: engraved title-page (i.e. plate 1), 8pp, plates plates 2-100, including 13 which are double-page elevations over 2 plates & 3 longer elevations over 4 plates, plate 93 is incorrectly numbered 94, plates 83 has a small margin chip and 97 a small marginal tear, again none of these come close to affecting or touching the images or their platemarks, volume III: 12pp, plates 3-100, including 21 which are double-page elevations or plans over 2 plates, lacking plates 1-2, plates 90 & 90 and 91 & 92 are transposed by the binder, letterpress pp. 1-6 with discreet inner-margin water stain, not affecting letters, pp. 7-8 a trifle tatty, the majority of each volume's leaves are bright and clean, however some are toned/browned to varying degrees, additionally some fore-margins have slight spatters from the edges being speckled, however none of this affects or detracts from the rich impressions of the plates as this is a particularly broad-margined copy, contemporary/contemporaneous tan calf boards, rolled in blind with a foliate pattern, scuffed and rubbed, rebacked, recornered and repaired to style in tan calf gilt by the Wyvern Bindery, with gilt-lettered red morocco pieces, slightly speckled edges, custom made 20th c tan cloth clamshell boxes by the aforementioned bindery, with gilt-lettered backs and fleece-lined, folio (52 x 37cm), [Harris 97 & 99; Archer 32.1 & 33.1; Fowler 76], (3)  Provenance: 1) Richard Prime (1784-1866), of Walberton Park, West Sussex, Conservative MP for Western Sussex (1847-54); armorial bookplates to pastedown; 2) Tony Hickman, 20th c architect; 3) Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire; pictorial bookplates to pastedown. Campbell's monumental work promoting the virtues of neo-Palladianism and featuring many of the great houses of England

Shakespeare's Contemporaries. Beaumont (Francis) & Fletcher (John), Comedies and Tragedies [...], first edition of the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio, London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons (sic), and for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes (sic) in St Pauls Church-yard, 1647, lacking the engraved allegorical frontispiece, black-ruled letterpress title-page, black-ruled double-column, decorative devices, collating: *², a-c⁴, d-e², f⁴, g², B-K⁴, L², ²A-S⁴, ³A-X⁴, ⁴A-I⁴, ⁵A-R⁴, ⁵S⁶, ⁵T-X⁴, ⁶A-K⁴, ⁶L⁶, ⁷A-C⁴, ⁷D², ⁷E-F⁴, ⁸A-C⁴, ⁸*D², ⁸D-F⁴, of which the letterpress title is repaired and supplied in manuscript facsimile in places, leaves c2, g2, B1, F2, L1, ²G3, ²H4 & ⁵H3 are repaired in places, ³E4 is defective - with loss to lower-right verso, ⁵E1 & ⁵E3 are also defective, though their loss is slight, ³N2 has an ink stain yet remains perfectly legible, and ⁸F4 (i.e. the final leaf) is tatty and creased, the whole contents with occasional tatty, slightly torn &/or chipped leaves in places throughout, contemporary speckled calf over boards, ruled in blind, upper-cover split and just holding, corners rubbed or bumped, enclosing foliate spandrels, seven compartment spine divided by raised bands, enclosing a gilt-lettered red morocco piece in the second, folio (32 x 22.5cm) Provenance: 1) Thomæ; contemporary ?ownership ink manuscript inscription to [c4]; 2) Anthony Dalle; contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription to [²S4]; 3) the Leveson-Gower family of Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, multi-generational marks of ownership, comprising La. Ja. Leveson inscription to title, Sir John Leveson Gower of Trentham in Stafford Shire Baronet Jacobean armorial bookplate to verso of title-page, The Marquis of Stafford bookplate to pastedown, ditto later cypher bookplate of the Duke of Sutherland, dated 1892.

Folio Society. Lang (Andrew, editor), four Fairy Books, all first editions thus, comprising Blue, fourth impression, Green, second impression, Yellow, second impression, & Crimson, first impression, 2006, 2010, 2010, & 2011 respectively, frontispieces and plates after various illustrators, original publisher's pictorial cloth bindings, each in their respective colours with the top edges stained accordingly, slipcases en suite, 8vo; Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Grimm's Fairy Tales, first edition, eleventh impression thus, 1996, original pictorial blue cloth, blue top edge, slipcase en suite, 8vo; Heath Robinson (William, illustrator), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, ninth impression, 2001, original cloth and slipcase, 8vo; others, including White's The Once and Future King, third impression thus, 2004, pictorial cloth, slipcase, 8vo, the remaining all in their original bindings and slipcases as issued, (14)

Americana. Modern Firsts: Engel (Marian), Bear, first UK edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, original publisher's dustjacket over black cloth boards, 8vo; Vonnegut (Kurt, Jr.), Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, first edition, Book Club Edition, [New York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1969, half-title, original dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, with a photograph of the author by Bossi, front turn-in price-clipped, rear turn-in numbered 1923, publisher's blue cloth, top-edge cut, 8vo; idem, Slapstick!, or Lonesome No More!, first edition, third impression, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1976, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, grey cloth, top-edge cut, 8vo; Burroughs (William), The Ticket That Exploded, first UK edition, London: Calder and Boyars, 1968, original pictorial dustjacket, slight wear, over cloth 8vo; idem, The Soft Machine, first UK edition, ex-library copy, 1968, dj, hb, 8vo; Baldwin (James), Blues for Mister Charlie, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1965, original dustjacket over cloth boards, 8vo; DeLillo (Don), Running Dog, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Lidia Ferrara, cloth over papered boards, 8vo; Burns (John Horne), The Gallery, first edition, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947, original dj, chipped, torn and worn, over cloth, 8vo; Barthelme (Donald), Sixty Stories, first edition, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 198, original dj over grey cloth boards, slight wear, 8vo; Exley (Frederick), A Fan's Notes, first UK edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970, original pictorial dustjacket designed by James Spanfeller, over grey cloth boards, 8vo; other authors, including Paul Metcalf, Joan Didion, Martin Amis, etc., (13) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Botany. Anderson (James, editor), The New Practical Gardener, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1874], illustrated with 27 chromolithographed plates, 5 of which are double-page, contemporary red quarter-calf gilt over cloth, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership inscription: Edward Mills, The Oak Gardens, Ledsham, [West Yorkshire], 4to; Thornton (R.J.), Elements of Botany, two volume set, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, as prizes in the Royal Botanical Lottery, by J. Whiting, 1812, half-title to volume I only, illustrated with plates engraved by Miller after Eves, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in calf, 8vo; Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, First Series only, London: Cassell, n.d. [1878], colour plates, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, lacking ffep, bookplate, 8vo; Withering's British Plants, eleventh edition, 1863, monochrome plates, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, 12mo in 6s; Barett's Flowers and Festivals, second edition, 1873, hand-coloured plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; nine various numbers of The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Reports, mixed dates from 1913-1932, illustrated, some original wrappers, some lacking, 8vo, (15)

Ball (Richard Francis) & Gilbey (Tresham), The Essex Fox Hounds, with notes upon hunting in Essex, first edition, London: Printed for the Authors, 1896, monochrome frontispiece and plates, original red cloth boards, pictorial gilt, rebacked, 8vo; Daniel (Rev. William B.), Rural Sports, volume I (complete in its own right), first edition, [London]: Published by Bunny & Gold, n..d. [1801], engraved title-page, plates, 20th c calf over boards, morocco lettering pieces, 4to; Robertson (H.R.), Life on the Upper Thames, London: Virtue, Spalding, and Co., 1875, half-title, wood-engraved plates, in-text vignettes, some foxed spots, finely bound by Ramage, signed, in contemporary blue morocco over bevelled boards, gilt tooled, blocked and ruled with fish and fishing hooks in oval reserves, fleurons and fillets, rubbed in places, the corners gently bumped, starting to split, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to; De Broke (Lord Willoughby, editor) & Armour (G.D., illustrator), The Sport of Our Ancestors [...], first edition, London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1921, tipped-in plates, contemporary Hatchards green half-morocco, pictorial gilt, signed, tired, top edge gilt, 8vo; [Apperley (Charles James)], The Life of John Mytton, Esq [...], London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1893, illustrated with 16 colour plates after Alken & Rawlins, 20th c red half-morocco over marbled boards, 8vo; Tristram (W. Outram), Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, illustrated plates by Hugh Thomson, contemporary fine binding of red half-morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, signed, top edge gilt, 8vo, (6)

Modern Firsts. Grass (Günter) & Manheim (Ralph, translator), The Tin Drum, first English edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1959, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, browned and chipped portions, but OK, brown cloth, top edge stained red as issued, 8vo; idem., two further first English editions, Dog Years, [&] Local Anaesthetic, both Secker & Warburg imprints, 1965 & 1970, only the latter with its original dustjacket, 8vo; Spark (Muriel), The Bachelors, first edition, Macmillan, 1960, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Victor Reinganum, somewhat tatty, red cloth, 8vo; Durrell (Lawrence), Mountolive, first edition, second impression, Faber and Faber, 1958, original pictorial dustjacket, somewhat tatty, orange cloth, 8vo; Howard (Elizabeth Jane), Something In Disguise, first edition, Jonathan Cape, 1969, original dustjacket designed by Bryan Rowell, chipped and soiled, cloth, 8vo; Maxwell (Gavin), Raven Seek Thy Brother, signed and dedicated by the author, first edition, Longmans, 1968, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth boards, 8vo; Taylor's The Gods Are Not Mocked, first edition, second impression, 1968, dj, hb, 8vo; Maggie Gee; etc., (11)

Illustrated Books. Shakespeare (William) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), A Midsummer Night's Dream, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, 1908, tipped-in colour plates, original publisher's cloth, prize bookplate to ffep, 8vo; Barrie (J.M.) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c. 1920], colour plates, green cloth, 8vo; others, including William Wyllie, Kenneth Grahame, etc., (7)

Children's Books. Blyton (Enid), The Green Goblin Book, ffep signed by the author, first edition, London: George Newnes, Limited, n.d. [1935], half-title, colour frontispiece, monochrome in-text illustrations, original variant publisher's plain green dustjacket, with some light wear and minor chips, over original green cloth, 8vo

Illustrated and Children's Books. Heath Robinson (William), Bill The Minder, first edition, London: Contable & Co. Ltd., 1912, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome pictorial title-page, further illustrations and vignettes, later bound in green quarter-calf gilt over cloth, marbled slipcase, 8vo; Basile (Giambattista), Strange (E.F., editor), & Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Stories from The Pentamerone, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911, colour plates, some loose/loosening, original publisher's red cloth, 4to; Goldsmith (Oliver) & Hankey (W. Lee, illustrator), The Deserted Village, first edition thus, copy no. 21/250 signed and numbered by the illustrator, London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909, tipped-in colour plates, top edge gilt, others uncut, original publisher's vellum over boards, pictorial gilt, lacking ties, 4to; Barrie (J.M.) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), Quality Street, first edition thus, Hodder & Stoughton, 1901, tipped-in colour plates, further b/w illustrations, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, 4to; Goethe & Pogány, Faust, London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [c. 1920], colour plates, original cloth, 8vo; Detmold's Arabian Nights, Folio Society, 1999, original pictorial cloth, slipcase, 8vo; Babies' Classics, 1904, lacking ffep, 4to; other illustrators, including Edmund Dulac, Francis Bedford, Charles Folkard, Kate Greenaway; four pop-up books, early 20th c and later; etc., (24)

French Revolution. Lofft (Capel), Remarks on the Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, Concerning the Revolution in France, and on the Proceeding in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event, first edition, London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1790, [ii], 100, [1]pp, first two leaves with discreet library blind-stamps, later institutional green cloth, pastedowns and endpapers with library stamp and label, 8vo

Americana. Twain (Mark), thirteen illustrated editions, comprising eleven Chatto & Windus imprints: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first edition, second state, title-page dated 1884, publisher's catalogue dated May, 1886; Tom Sawyer Abroad, first UK edition, 1894; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1885; Life on the Mississippi, first edition, 1883; The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress, 1881; The American Claimant, first UK edition, 1892; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, first UK edition, 1893, lacking ffep; Mark Twain's Library of Humour, first UK edition, 1888, defective spine; A Tramp Abroad, first UK edition, 1880; two copies of A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1890; with two George Routledge and Sons imprints: The Gilded Age, 1883; & Roughing It and the Innocents at Home, 1883, each in the original publisher's red pictorial cloth as issued, mixed degrees of wear, 8vo, (13)  Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Lee (Harper), To Kill A Mockingbird, first UK edition, London: Heinemann, 1960, first and last six leaves toned to various degrees and with similarly varied foxing, but very good and legible, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Renato Fratini, toned portions and some chipped losses, now preserved under a later sleeve, over publisher's cloth boards, creased spine and one or two bumps, 8vo

The Inklings. Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings, first edition, first impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955, folding map bound-in at rear, third variant of text on page 49, i.e. damaged text with signature mark '4' present, second variant of text on page 281, i.e. the gap is closed and reads 'Men', original pictorial dustjacket, being the first variant with trilogy titles, without review quotes, and as such printed in July 1954, dj itself rubbed in places, worn, with chips or minor tears, some scratches, spine slightly faded, over publisher's red cloth, with minor wear, top edge stained red only, ffep with contemporary ownership inscription dated 1955, 8vo

Hervey (The Late Reverend Jams, Rector of Weston-Favell in Northamptonshire), The Works, six volume set, London: s.n., 1771, general and some divisional titles, uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt-lettered red morocco pieces, 12mo; & Volney [(Constantin François de Chassebœuf, Comte de)], The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, first English edition, London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792, tatty and scuffed title-page, engraved full-page and folding plates, in-keeping 20th c calf over marbled papered boards, preserving a fragment of the contemporary calf spine, 8vo, (7)

Americana. Reed (Ishmael), four signed first editions, Mumbo Jumbo, [New York]: Doubleday, 1972, autographed title-page, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, sunned spine, some wear, over black cloth boards, 8vo; The Last Days of Louisiana Red, New York: Random House, 1974, half-title with author's manuscript dedication, publisher's dustjacket, sunned spine, some wear, over red cloth boards, 8vo; Flight to Canada, New York: Random House, 1976, half-title, dedicated and autographed dedication leaf, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Mike Stromberg, some wear, over two-tone cloth boards, 8vo; Shrovetide in Old New Orleans, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978, half-title, title-page with author's autograph and manuscript dedication, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Jacqueline Schuman, some wear, over two-tone cloth boards, 8vo; idem, another first edition, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, unsigned, London: Allison & Busby, 1971, original printed photographic dustjacket, yellow cloth, 8vo, (5)  Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham; association copies dedicated to him.

Americana. McKnight Kauffer (E., illustrator), Shakespeare in Harlem, first edition, second impression, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, May 1945, half-title, original publisher's two-tone cloth, 8vo; Vechten (Carl Van), N***er Heaven, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, half-title, original publisher's brown cloth only, 8vo; DuBose Heyward, Porgy, first edition, second impression, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925, half-title, publisher's orange cloth only, 8vo; idem, Mamba's Daughter, 1929, publisher's green cloth, 8vo; Gaines (Ernest J.), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1973, variant publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo; Himes (Chester), Black on Black, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1975, dj, hb, 8vo; etc., (7) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Travel. Whymper (Edward), Scrambles Amongst The Alps in the Years 1860-69, first edition, London: John Murray, 1871, half-title, illustrated with 23 full-page plates and 5 folding maps as called for, in-text illustrations, some splits within the block but holding, original publisher's green cloth gilt over slightly bevelled boards, some wear, 4to; Cycling: Jefferson (Robert L.) & Evans (Harry, illustrator), Through a Continent on Wheels, only edition, London: Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., Leicester: Printed by W. Watts, [1898], illustrated, pictorial and other adverts, original cloth over pictorial boards, 8vo; Wenyon (Charles), Across Siberia on the Great Post-Road, first edition, London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896, folding map, plates and in-text illustrations, lacking ffep, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Dufferin and Ava (The Dowager Marchioness of), My Russian and Turkish Journals, first edition, London: John Murray, 1916, plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Conway's Alps, 1905, plates, original cloth, 8vo, (5)

Books, Architecture & Design. America: Engelbrecht (Lloyd C.) & (June-Marie F.), Henry C. Trost: Architect of the Southwest, El Paso Public Library Association, 1981, double-column, illustrated, original dustjacket, somewhat discoloured, slight wear, over terracotta cloth, oblong 4to; others, including Houses of the Hamptons, 2013, dj, hb, 4to; Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi & Alabama, 1989, dj, hb, 4to; Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, 1993, dj, hb, 4to; etc., principally hardbacks with their respective dustjackets, mixed sizes, further architecture, design and art, including Jones (Barbara), The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition, The Architectural Press, 1951, illustrated, original publisher's cloth only, 4to; Normand (Charles) & Cordingley (R.A., editor), A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, London: John Tiranti & Co., 1936, original publisher's dustjacket, somewhat tatty, over cloth and boards, folio (38 x 25.5cm); Americana/American Counterculture: Whole Earth Epilog: access to tools, First Edition, September 1974, triple-column, in-text illustrations, original wrappers, folio; Piranesi's Prisons, Dover, 1973, original wrapper, folio (37.5 x 28cm); Sheppard (F.H.W., editor), Survey of London, Volume XLI only: Southern Kensington: Brompton, 1983, dj, cloth, 4to; Gibbs-Smith (C.H.), Balloons, London: The Ariel Press, 1956, colour plates, original wrappers, chipped, folio (40.5 x 30cm);  Redouté's Roses, The Ariel Press, 1975, colour plates, wrappers, folio (40.5 x 30cm); etc., (41) Provenance: Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire.

Books & Ephemera. Nichols (John, FSA), The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, volume IV: part II only (Sparkenhoe Hundred), London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1811, plates, original boards, worn, uncut, folio; stamps: an all world mint and used collection on leaves, mainly early 20th c, in two SG Simplex Junior binders, 30 British television 8 x 10" black and white publicity photographs and another smaller format, mid 20th c and Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, First Complete Edition, Volumes I and II, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1965, (5)

Leicestershire. Nichols (John, FSA), The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, volume I, two parts, first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Printer to The Society of Antiquaries, 1795, full-page plates, tables and genealogy, bound with the scarce essay by Crabbe (Rev. George, Rector of Muston), The Natural History of The Vale of Belvoir, n.d. [1790], [9]ff and 2 engraved plates, and a later 19th/20th c [3]pp MS index, 19th/20th c brown quarter-calf gilt over green cloth boards, light wear, folio (50.5 x 33cm); Johnson (Mrs. T. Fielding), Glimpses of Ancient Leicester, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891, half-title with contemporary presentation inscription, later 20th c tan calf over cloth boards, 4to, (2)  Provenance: 1st: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon DBE, FBA, FSA (1906-1978), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford (1962-1973); presented to her as a mark of gratitude, 21st October, 1939, for her excavations of the Roman forum and Jewry Wall of Leicester, loosely-inserted MS [2]ff presentation subscription.

Americana. Signed Books: Paretsky (Sara), Killing Orders, ffep signed by the author, first UK edition, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986, original publisher's dustjacket, light creases, spine slightly faded, some stable tears to verso, red cloth boards, 8vo; crime fiction: Ellroy (James), American Tabloid, ffep signed by the author, first UK edition, London: Century, 1995, pictorial dustjacket, black cloth, 8vo; idem, The Black Dahlia, signed and dedicated, Arrow, 1993, pb, 8vo; Mason (Bobbie Ann), In Country, signed and dedicated title-page, first edition thus, New York: Harper & Row, 1986, paperback, 8vo; Updike (John), Recent Poems 1986-1990, signed, first edition thus, limited edition copy no. 246/350, Helsinki: Eurographica, June 1990, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Ford (Richard), Independence Day, signed and dedicated by the author, first UK edition, Harvill, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo; another signed Richard Ford novel; Larry Brown's Dirty Work, dj, hb, 8vo; Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison, dj, hb, 8vo; other authors, all signed, including Don DeLillo John Irving, Hilton Obenzinger, Barry Hannah, Andre Dubus, Kevin McDermott, Robert Kroetsch, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky, etc., (29)  Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Children's & Juvenile Books. Portraits and Characters of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror to George the Third, Parts I & II, London: J. Harris and Son, 1823, [bound with] Wonders! Descriptive of Some of the Most Remarkable of Nature and Art, London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1821, three separate title-pages with hand-coloured engraved vignettes, collating: 17, [1] (advert); [ii], 17; [ii], [16]pp, illustrated with hand-coloured engravings, some finger marking in places, contemporary calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt, 8vo; Hack (Maria), Harry Beaufoy [...], first edition, London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1821, frontispiece, original publisher's red roan over marbled boards, upper-cover loose, 24mo; chapbook: Anon, True Stories of Cottagers. The Railroad Boy, London: Joseph Masters, 1852, frontispiece and in-text vignettes, original wrappers, 24mo; etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (9)

Derbyshire. Rayner (Samuel), The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall: Illustrated by Thirty-two Highly Finished Drawings; with an Account of the Hall in its Present State, association copy, first edition, large paper subscriber's copy with proof illustrations, Derby: Published by Robert Moseley, London: Weale, Architectural Library, et al, 1836, [xii], 53, [1]pp, illustrated with 32 proof state named-view lithographs, each printed on India paper and subsequently press-rolled onto leaves, mostly of medieval architecture, the prelims somewhat foxed, the plates - mostly their leaves - more so, the leaf of plate 24 creased, finely bound in contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over moiré silk boards, gilt-lettered spine and upper-cover, gently rubbed, the upper-cover with slight sunned portion, all edges gilt and gauffered, folio (41.5 x 33cm)  Provenance: 1) George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, landowner and sometime MP, bibliophile and Dante scholar; his subscriber's copy and later presented by him to; 2) Sir James Lacaita, KCMG (1813-1895), Anglo-Italian politician, man-of-letters and a fellow authority on Dante, with whom Vernon co-operated in his own edition of the Inferno (London, 1858-65); ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription: Sir James Lacaita from his sincere friend Vernon, Sudbury Hall, Derby, 13. Nov:r 1861; thence by descent to his son: 3) Charles Lacaita (1853-1933), of Selham, Sussex, botanist and Liberal MP; his and his wife Mary's engraved bookplate to pastedown.

Travel. Forrest (John, FRGS) & Angas (G.F., illustrator), Explorations in Australia, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875, frontispiece, illustrated with 8 full-page plates and 5 folding maps with hand-coloured delineation as called for, original publisher's green cloth gilt over pictorial boards, some shelf wear, 8vo

Romani. Lucas (Joseph), The Yetholm History of the Gypsies. Dedicated to Queen Esther Faa-Blyth, first edition, Kelso: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, 1882, half-title, photographically-illustrated portrait frontispiece of the gypsy Queen Esther, dedication leaf inscribed and signed by Sir Arthur Sutherland of Hethpool House, Kirknewton, Northumberland (1867-1953), original publisher's red cloth, stained, the contents fine, 8vo; Stables (Gordon), Leaves from the Log of a Gentleman Gipsy: In Wayside Camp and Caravan, first edition, London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [c. 1890], illustrated, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Bennett's Gipsy Queen, n.d., original red cloth, 8vo; Rehfisch (Farnham, editor), Gypsies, Tinkers and other Travellers, Academic Press, 1975, dj, hb, 8vo; others, various (7)

Travel. Prior (James, Esq., RN), Voyage Along The Eastern Coast of Africa, to Mosambique (sic; Mozambique), Johanna, and Quiloa (sic; Kilwa); to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus Frigate, [bound with] Voyage in the Indian Seas, in the Nisus Frigate, to the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Bourbon, France, and Seychelles; to Madras; and the Isles of Java, St. Paul, and Amsterdam. During the Years 1810 and 1811, first editions, London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1819 & 1820, [iii]-[vi], 114pp, illustrated with a folding map and 1 plate; iv, 114, [2]pp (advertisement leaf), illustrated with a fold map frontispiece and 3 plates, sporadic and unobtrusive foxing in places, uncut, later bound in panelled calf over bevelled boards by the Iplsey Bindery, stamped, 8vo; [Japan] Hearn (Lafcadio), Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, first edition, London: Gay and Bird, 1895, original publisher's red cloth gilt, spine somewhat discoloured, head with slight split, but stable, uncut, ffep inscribed: G. Burne-Jones, 1904, 8vo; [India] Raven-Hill (Leonard), An Indian Sketch-Book: Impressions of the East and Great Durbar, London: "Punch" Office, 1903, illustrated, split with some movement, original publisher's cloth boards, loosely-inserted watercolour of a contemporary girl, 4to, (3)

Topography. Derbyshire: Hedinger (J.M.), A Short Description of Castleton, in Derbyshire; its Natural Curiosities, and Mineral Productions, sixteenth edition, Stockport: Printed by J. Lomax, and Sold by S. Needham, Castleton, 1820, wood-engraved frontispiece of The Peak Cavern, 37pp, verso of frontispiece with library stamp, not visible recto, 20th c institutional binding of blue morocco over cloth boards, ffeps with their stamps and label, 12mo; Bailey (Thomas), Annals of Nottinghamshire, four volume set, first edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., n.d. [1853], full-page and folding plates, in-text illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, some wear, 4to; Joynes (Lucy), Original Rhymes, Accompanying an Historical Chart of the Borough of Nottingham, Nottingham: Printed for, and Sold by the Authoress, BY R. Allen, 1844, folding frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Ward & Lock's (Late Shaw's) Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Nottingham and Its Environs London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d., plates and adverts, one leaf supplied in facsimile, plan apparently lacking, otherwise unexamined, 20th c calf over marbled boards, split, 12mo, (7)

The Inklings. Williams (Charles), The House of the Octopus, first edition, London: Edinburgh House Press, 1945, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket, price-clipped, over green cloth, 8vo; idem., The Descent of the Dove, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, red cloth only, 8vo; idem., Flecker of Dean Close, first edition, London: The Canterbury Press, 1946, dj, worn, chipped and creased, over grey cloth boards, 8vo; idem., Collected Plays, first edition thus, Oxford University Press, 1963, publisher's dj, some tears, over blue cloth, 8vo; Hadfield (Alice Mary), An Introduction to Charles Williams, London: Robert Hale Limited, 1959, original publisher's dustjacket, price-clipped, sunned spine, over blue cloth, 8vo; Tolkien (J.R.R.), Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Oxford University Press, 1963, original wrappers, 8vo; idem., The Silmarillion, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977, original publisher's dustjacket over cloth, spine sunned, 8vo; idem., Smith of Wootton Major, first edition, 1967, original pictorial hardback boards, worn and somewhat twisted, 8vo; idem., The Letters, first edition, 1981, dj over brown cloth, spine sunned, 8vo; idem., Mr Bliss, first American edition, Boston, 1983, dj, somewhat sunned, over cloth, oblong 8vo; & Gibb (Jocelyn, editor), Light on C.S. Lewis, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965, dj over cloth boards, 8vo, (13)

Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Practical Receipts [...], To which is added a Short Account of Wines, ?first edition, London: Printed for J. Booth, n.d. [c. 1815-20], xviii, 350, [10]pp (publisher's catalogue), in-text table settings, original publisher's sheep over boards, upper-cover lettered in gilt, chipped and worn, but holding, MS ownership inscription to pastedown, 8vo; Anon, Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886, original cloth, 8vo; & Medical: Stevenson (William, Physician at Wells), A Successful Method of Treating the Gout by Blistering. With an Introduction, Consisting of Miscellaneous Matter, first edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1779, xl, 41-170, [1]pp (errata leaf), ex-library copy, stamps to prelims and final two leaves, later 19th c half-calf over marbled boards, label to upper-cover, 8vo, (3)

Antiquarian Books, two shelves, 18th c and later, including [Sherer (Moyle)], Recollections of The Peninsula, first edition, London: Longman, et al, 1823, contemporary diced calf, 8vo; Simcox (George Augustus), A History of Latin Literature, two volume set, London: Longmans, 1883, contemporary Merchant Taylor's School prize binding of scarlet calf, gilt armorial supralibros, marbled endpapers, 8vo; another five leather prize bindings, including Washington Irving; Roman Catholic Missal, 1862, contemporary vellum over boards, 8vo; a 19th c volume, later turned into a novelty disguise book box, 8vo; volumes of Tennyson, decorative blue cloth gilt, 8vo; two 18th c harlequin volumes of Gibbon; Captain Marryat; etc., mixed bindings and sizes

Roxburghe Club. Locke (John), Directions Concerning Education: Being the First Draft of His Thoughts Concerning Education Now Printed from Additional MS. 38771 in The British Museum, with an Introduction by Frederic George Kenyon, first edition thus, Oxford: Printed for Presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 1933, half-title, rubricated title-page, frontispiece, [viii], 84pp, prelims with some light foxed spots, original brown morocco over red cloth, slight wear, lettered in gilt direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to Provenance: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-1921), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30); Roxburghe Club member no. 187 and one of his own personal copies (of 2) of the sole book he presented to the bibliophile's club (no. 198), though his name is not printed in red on the membership leaf in this copy.

Post-Incunabula. Kaysersberg (Johann Geiler von), Otther (Jacob, editor), & Rhenanus (Beatus), Navicula sive speculu[m] fatuo[rum], Prestantissimi sacarum literarum Doctoris Joannis Geyler Keyserbergii Concionatoris Argentinen. a Jacobo Othero collecta. Compendiosa vitæ eiusdem descriptio, per Beatum Rhenanum Selestatinum. Ad Narragoniam, first edition, s.l., s.n., n.d. [?Strasbourg, dated 1509 & 1510; pastedown with booksellers' listings, where they suggest a date of 1513], 2 woodcuts, Gothic letter, collates: [26], [252], [6]ff; i.e. 1-2⁸, 3⁴, 4⁶, A⁴, B-C⁸, D⁴, E-F⁸, G⁴, H-I⁸, K⁴, L⁸, M⁴, N-O⁸, P⁴, Q⁸, R⁴, S-T⁸, U-X⁴, Y⁸, Z-²A⁴, ²B⁸, ²C⁴, ²D⁸, ²E-F⁴, ²G-H⁸, ²I⁴, ²K⁸, ²L-M⁴, ²N-O⁸, ²P-Q⁴, ²R-S⁸, a⁶, contemporaneous manuscript on A1-2, E4, G3-4, title-page lower gutter starting to split, some pages irregularly trimmed, with some edges uncut, some toning in places, occasional foxed spot, a handful of small repaired tears to fore-margins only, wormhole/holes to fore-margin throughout, both points of condition never affecting text, the fore-edge with traces of contemporaneous 16th c ink lettering, 19th c vellum over boards, lettered in gilt, title and colophon leaves with Croydon Public Libraries stamps, somewhat erased on the former, 4to The scarce first edition of Johann Geiler von Kaiserberg's thirty-seven sermons, influenced by Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools), in which he comments and satirises the follies and vices of his day. This edition precedes the 1511 edition, better known for its greater number of woodcuts.

Bibliography & Miscellaneous Antiquarianism. Nicolson (William, late Bishop of Carlisle), The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries [...], third edition, London: Printed for G. Strahan, et al, 1736,  xviii, 272; 18; [xx], 148; xvi, 118pp, title-page with two small library stamps, other discreet ones in places, 20th c red morocco over cloth, contemporary red-stained edges, folio (35 x 24cm); Heraldry: Robson (Thomas), The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings, three volume set, first edition, Sunderland: Printed for the Author by Turner & Marwood, 1830, engraved title-pages, lacking volume I frontispiece, 68 plates, 20th c green morocco over cloth gilt, spines with library numbering in direct gilt, pastedowns with removed labels, 4to; Magic: Ennemoser (Joseph), Geschichte der Magie, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1844, British Museum copy, their ownership and duplicate stamps, later with another library, their stamps and morocco over cloth binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo; A Descriptive Catalogue of Books Relating to Nottinghamshire in the Library of James Ward, [with] Supplementary Catalogue, each inscribed and dedicated by Ward, first editions, Nottingham: Privately Printed, 1892 & 1898, supplement with half-title, frontispiece, and a singular library stamp to pastedown, original burgundy morocco over cloth, gilt, mixed wear and some losses, top edges gilt, others uncut, 8vo; Sims (Rupert, compiler), Bibliotheca Staffordiensis, large paper copy no. 61/100, Lichfield: Printed for the Compiler by A.C. Lomax, 1894, original publisher's red cloth, 4to; Americana: Jamieson (Melvill Allan), Medals Awarded to North American Chiefs 1714-1922 [...], one of 300 copies, Spink & Son Ltd., 1936, original wrappers, later library red cloth, 8vo; Numismatics: Hildebrand (B.E.), Monnaies Anglosaxonnes du Cabinet Royal de Stockholm, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Fils, 1846, coin plates and folding map with library blind-stamps, their cloth binding and some further stamps, 4to; Transactions of the Cambridge Camden Society, Cambridge: John W. Parker, University Printer, 1841, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, 4to; Foster's Some Feudal Coat of Arms, 1902, illustrated, original blue cloth, 8vo; Liverpool, (14)

[Dickens (Charles)], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People, The Second Series: Complete in One Volume, first edition thus, London: John Macrone, 1837, etched frontispiece and title-page, further letterpress title, 10 etched plates as called for, finely bound in 19th c brown morocco over boards, gilt, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; Butler (Samuel), Hudibras [...], To this Edition is added, Annotations to the Third Part, with a Compleat (sic) Index to the whole; never before Printed, first edition thus, London: Printed for George Sawbridge, 1712, general and divisional titles, full-page and folding engraved plates, contemporary blind-ruled calf boards and speckled red edges, rebacked to style in calf gilt, probably by J. Henderson, morocco lettering piece, 8vo; Strutt (Joseph) & Hone (William, editor), The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Sons, 1834, in-text illustrations, contemporary polished calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Combe (William) & Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator), Doctor Syntax's Three Tours, London: Chatto and Windus, n.d. [c. 1890], double-column, colour plates, 20th c blue half-calf over marbled boards by J. Henderson, signed, uncut, 8vo; further literature and history, various leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes, (9)

Illustrated Books. Gaskell (Catherine Milnes) & Atkinson (Maud Tindal, illustrator), Lady Ann's Fairy Tales, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, by Grant Richards Limited, 1914, 12 colour plates, of which 'The Airs of Heaven' is torn, original publisher's cloth gilt, speckled, top-edge gilt, 4to; Heath Robinson (William, illustrator), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, first edition, second impression, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917, tipped-in colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial red cloth, 4to; Barker (Cicely Mary, illustrator), Summer Song with Music, from "Flower Fairies of the Summer", first edition, London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d. [1926], tipped-in colour plates, original cloth over pictorial boards, 4to; & Macnab's Fairy Gossip, first edition, 1936, torn loss to ffep, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, chipped and repaired, over blue cloth, uncut, 8vo, (4)

Americana. Mailer (Norman), The Deer Park, signed by the author, first UK edition, first impression, London: Allan Wingate, January 1957, original publisher's dustjacket, some very minor chips and general handling wear, over blue cloth boards, 8vo; An American Dream, signed by the author, first edition, New York: The Dial Press, 1965, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, some wear, over publisher's blue cloth boards, top edge cut, others uncut, 8vo; Harlot's Ghost, ffep signed and dedicated by the author, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1991, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket, slightly sunned spine, over blue cloth, 8vo; further 9 works by Norman Mailer unsigned, including Barbary Shore, first UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1952, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, etc., all in their original publisher's bindings, mixed sizes, (12) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Travel & Exploration. Caribbean, Jamaica & Haiti: Lorne (The Marquis of), A Trip to the Tropics and Home through America, second edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1867, lithographed frontispiece and title-page, original publisher's green cloth over boards, rebacked, later endpapers, 8vo; China & Tibet: Farrer (Reginald), The Rainbow Bridge, first edition, third impression, London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926, b/w plates and folding map, original blue cloth, uncut, 8vo; Bryant (William Cullen, editor), Picturesque America, two volume set, New York: D. Appleton and Company, n.d. [c. 1890], plates and in-text illustrations, finely bound in original publisher's brown morocco over boards, blocked in blind, tooled and lettered in gilt, some wear, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to;  America: Townshend (Frank), Ten Thousand Miles of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, first edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1869, frontispiece and title-page vignette, 20th c tan leather over bevelled boards, lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Leslie (Lionel A.D.), Wilderness Trails in Three Continents [...], With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, first edition, London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1931, illustrated, original publisher's green cloth boards, rebacked in later 20th c green leather, 8vo; South Africa: Lagden (Sir Godfrey, KCMG), The Basutos: The Mountaineers & Their Country, two volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1909, half-titles, plates, original publsiher's cloth boards, reabcked, 8vo; Bernatzik (Hugo Adolf) & Ogilvie (Vivian, translator), Gari-Gari: The Call of the African Wilderness, first English edition, London: Constable & Co Limited, 1936, frontispiece, b/w plates and folding map, original publisher's dustjacket, not clipped, over cloth boards, 8vo; Darwin (Charles), Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology [...], London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1891, half-title, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Ruskin (John), The Stones of Venice. Volume the Second: The Sea-Stories, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, Middle Rectory crested bookplate [Earls Bridgewater, Shropshire], 8vo; Polynesia: Paton (Maggie Whitecross), Letters and Sketches from The New Hebrides, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894, illustrated, original green cloth, 8vo; French Central Africa, 1907, illustrated, later faux morocco over mauré boards, 8vo, (13)

Calvin (John) & Norton (Thomas, translator), The Institution of Christian Religion [...], fourth English edition, London: Imprinted [...] by Thomas Vautrollier for William Norton, 1578, title-page with printer's device, final leaf with mask and printer's monogram, tables in double-column, original front blank, [xvi], 634, [107]ff; i.e. signatures collating: *⁸, ²*⁸, A-⁴Z⁸, ⁵A⁶, passages underlined or marked in places in a contemporary or contemporaneous hand, title-page somewhat tatty, with slight shaved loss to the opening 'THE' and washed contemporary or contemporaneous manuscript, first four leaves with small worm trail to lower margin, signatures 2P-3K with minor worm holes through lower-right margin, never affecting letters, final leaf (i.e. ⁵A6) transposed and rebound in between ⁴Z8 & ⁵A1, the final three leaves repaired, running title occasionally affected by shaving, but never drastic nor with loss of sense, some toning and minor marks in places, infrequent and occasional creases and very slight chips, bound in 20th c polished calf gilt by J. Henderson, stamped, five-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fifth, sunned back, bands somewhat rubbed, 8vo Provenance: 1) Sam. Walker, 1793 ~; ink MS inscription to verso of front original blank; 2) nearly 300 years old. J.H., 19th c title-page inscription.

O'Brian (Patrick), H.M.S. Surprise, A Jack Aubrey Novel, first edition, first impression, London: Collins, 1973, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, spine faded, preserved under a wrapper, original brown cloth boards, 8vo

War & Other Poetry. Brooke (Rupert), 1914, and other poems, first edition, first impression, London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, Printed at The Complete Press, West Norwood, 1915, half-title, portrait frontispiece after the photograph by Sherril & Schell with tissue-guard as issued, original publisher's blue cloth boards, no dustjacket as issued (Ahearn, Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values, 2011), lettered paper spine label slightly chipped, top edge cut, others uncut, ffep with contemporary owner's visitors card: Roger Clark, Street, Somerset, 8vo; Malleson (Miles) & Morrell (Philip, MP), Cranks and Commonsense: An Essay of To-day, first edition, London: Hendersons, 1916, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson), Battle, first edition, London: Elkin Mathews, 1916, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Oxford Poetry 1916 [&] 1923, two annual anthologies, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1916 & 1923, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; & Brooke (Rupert) & Keynes (Geoffrey), Democracy and The Arts, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946, frontispiece, dj, hb, 8vo, (6)

Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Hobbit, second edition, sixteenth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1966, half-title with contemporary inscription, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, 8vo; Fermor (Patrick Leigh), A Time of Gifts, first edition, John Murray, 1977, original pictorial dustjacket designed by John Craxton, worn with losses, blue cloth, 8vo; Jazz Age Poetry: Rowland (Helen) & Speakman (Harold, illustrator), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, first edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, et al, 1915, monochrome illustrations, pictorial binding, 8vo; Communism: People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR: Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites", Moscow, 1938, parallel Russian and English title-pages, original cloth over boards, 8vo; Searle (Ronald), Souls in Torment, first edition, 1953, worn pictorial dustjacket, 4to; idem, Merry England, etc., [&] Paris Sketchbook, dj, hb, 4to; Allbury (A.G.), Bamboo and Bushido, first edition, 1955, dustjacket designed by Ronald Searle, some wear, black cloth, 8vo; Sassoon (Siegfried), Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920, first edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, title-page vignette designed by Reynolds Stone, original publisher's dustjacket, chipped, over red cloth, 8vo; Nancy Mitford

Topography. Geology: Phillips (John, FRS), The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire, Subscribers' Edition, first edition, London: John Murray, 1853, illustrated with 36 lithographed plates &/or plans as called for, contemporary quarter tan-morocco over marbled boards, edges and endpapers marbled en suite, 8vo; Hargrove (Ely), The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, fifth edition, York: Wilson, Spence and Mawman, 1798, frontispiece, hand-coloured folding map, monochrome plates, 20th c brown leather over marbled boards, uncut, 12mo in 6s; Coleridge (Hartley), Lives of Illustrious Worthies of Yorkshire, first edition, Hull: Printed and Published by Joseph Noble, 1835, plates, original publisher's green cloth and their ticket to pastedown, uncut, 8vo; Shropshire: Hartshorne (Rev. Charles), Salopia Antiqua, first edition, Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1841, additional chromolithographed title-page, letterpress title rubricated, 8 plates, in-text illustrations, initials and decorative pieces, late 20th c mottled calf, 8vo; Leighton (Rev. William Allport), Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury, 1372-1603, large paper copy, s.l., s.n., n.d. [Shrewsbury: Adnitt & Naunton, 1880], bookplates: Michael Cecil de Courcy Peele, and Plash Hall, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, 4to; Lancashire: Shaw (J.G.), History and Traditions of Darwen and its People, first edition, Blackburn: J. and G. Toulmin, 1889, half-title, folding frontispiece, plates, loosely-inserted mourning card, presumably for the book's dedicatee: The Late Jeremy Hunt, 20th c faux leather binding, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; Evans (John), The Juvenile Tourist, second edition, London: Albion Press Printed, Published by James Cundee, frontispiece, defective map, contemporary mottled sheep boards, rebacked, later endpapers, 12mo; [Brathwait (Richard)], Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys of the North of England, fourth edition, London: W. Stuart, 1776, parallel Latin and English text, lacking plates, late 20th c dark brown leather, uncut, 8vo; & Latimer (John), The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers in the City of Bristol, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1903, illustrated, original armorial blue calf gilt binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (9)

Polar Exploration. Nansen (Fridtjof), The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896/ "Farthest North": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Frame 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey [...], two volume set, first edition, London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898, volume I with half-title, folding map, 1 colour plate, further monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial green cloth binding over slightly bevelled boards, a clean and fresh copy, all edges gilt, 8vo, (2)

Americana. O'Connor (Flannery), The Violent Bear It Away, first UK edition, London: Longmans, 1960, half-title, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over orange cloth, 8vo; idem, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, first UK edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1968, half-title, lacking ffep, original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (2) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Marchantius (Jacobus), Opuscula Pastoralia, two parts in one, first edition thus, Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1642-43, letterpress half-title, engraved allegorical title-pages, double-column, complete, collating: [x], 402, [4]; [viii], 271, [5], 20pp; i.e. *⁴, A-³D⁴, ³E³; *⁴, A-²O⁴, bound in contemporary South German pigskin over wooden boards, blocked and tooled in blind, the centre of each cover with a saint in an oval laureate reserve, graduating double-fillet and foliate borders, four-compartment spine of raised bands, the second lettered in contemporary manuscript, restrained by chased fore-margin clasps, both monogrammed: P.N., all edges stained red, title-page with contemporaneous inscription, final leaf with discreet 19th/20th c ex-lib stamp, 4to

Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first impression, Bloomsbury, 1998, half-title, ex-library, split at title-page and rear endpaper, but holding, original publisher's pictorial boards only, split and bumped, institutional stamp to pastedown and label to title-page verso, 8vo; idem, another two copies of the Bloomsbury first edition, third impression, 1998, half-title, stable split at title-page, original publisher's dustjacket  designed by Cliff Wright, with wear and creases, ditto boards, slight twist, & fifth impression, 1998, half-title, dj spine gently sunned, former owner's label to ffep, 8vo, (3)

Americana. Portis (Charles), True Grit, first edition, New York: Simon Schuster, 1968, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Davis, some tears and chips, blue cloth, 8vo; Jackson (Shirley), Come Along with Me, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1969, dj, hb, 8vo; Malamud (Bernard), Pictures of Fidelman, first edition, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969, pictorial dustjacket designed by Catherine Smolich, cloth board, 8vo; McCarthy (Cormac), All the Pretty Horses, first UK edition, [London]: Picador, 1993, dj, hb, 8vo; idem, No Country For Old Men, first UK edition, Picador, 2005, dj, hb, 8vo; Rice (Anne), Interview with the Vampire, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, publisher's cloth over papered boards only, 8vo; McCullers (Carson), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, first edition thus, London: Readers Union, 1954, dj, hb, 8vo; Johnson (B.S.), The Unfortunates, Picador, 1999, loose in gatherings as issued, publisher's box, 8vo; Kesey (Ken), Sometimes a Great Notion, first UK edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1966, cloth boards only, 8vo; four John Hawkes UK first editions, all Chatto & Windus imprints, mixed dates, original dustjackets over cloth boards, 8vo; four Ring Lardner first editions, including First and Last, 1934, dj, hb, 8vo; Gass's Omensetter's Luck, first UK edition, 1967, dj, hb, 8vo; Irving's World According to Garp, first UK edition, 1978, dj, hb, 8vo; James Purdy; William Gaddis; etc., (28)Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Bible and Biblical Criticism; Extensively Annotated and Interleaved by an East Anglian Cleric in the Late 17th/Early 18th Century. The Westminster Assembly of Divines & Puritanism: [Downame (John, attributed editor), et al], Annotations Upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament; wherein The Truth is Explained, Doubts Resolved, Parallelled, and Various Readings observed. By the Joynt-Labour of certain Learned Divines, there unto appointed, and therein employed, As is expressed in the Preface, first edition, London: Printed by John Legatt and John Raworth, 1645, black-ruled title-page, double-column, wood-engraved decorative head and tail-pieces, extensively annotated in the later 17th/18th c by the Rev. Richard Nesling (1670-1734), principally interleaved with approx. [454]ff of manuscript glosses and commentary, particularly denser through the New Testament, and more so the the Psalms than the Old Testament, further interleaved leaves bound-in in advance of marginalia and commentary, yet blank, letterpress leaves' margins annotated throughout, title-page, preliminary letterpress and annotated leaves water-stained and tatty, with creased corners, of which the title and one annotated leaf are detached, the remaining contents brighter, but also affected by creased corners and a degree of tattiness that becomes gradually lighter, letterpress fore-edges worn &/or chipped with some loss of words and probably sense, fragmentary contemporary calf binding, split yet just holding, worn and with some losses, folio (34 x 23cm) Provenance: 1) The Reverend Richard Nesling (1670-1734), born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, proceeding to BA & MA at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and returning to his native county for ordination within the Diocese of Norwich, his appointment as schoolmaster at King's Lynn Free School (presumably his alma mater), preacher and vicar at Houghton. Later rector of Hessett and then Beyton, both near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; his ownership inscription to ffep, his autograph manuscript glosses and notes, and loosely-inserted 19th/early 20th c inscribed card. 2) Long undisturbed at a Stowmarket solicitor's office, until 30 years ago when the vendor's aunt, an employee, was asked to find a home for it; before then '[...] it was used in legal proceedings but was considered that it was no longer needed [...].'

Coward (Noel), Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce in Three Acts, first edition, first impression, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1942, half-title, prelims somewhat foxed, marginal elsewhere, original publisher's dustjacket, worn and now preserved under a wrapper, blue cloth boards, 8vo

Wells (Edward, Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire), An Historical Geography of the New Testament in Two Parts, first edition, London: Printed by W. Botham, et al, 1708, frontispiece, black-ruled general and divisional titles, 2 folding maps and 14 engraved named-view plates &/or plans, three-quarters of the first part with a graduating worm trail, just affecting the lower margin and as such never touching letters, contemporary panelled calf boards, rebacked and recornered by the W.H.Smith & Son Ltd. bindery, stamped, upper-cover black in gilt with a 20th c monogram, ffep with 20th c MS presentation inscription, 8vo; & Macaulay (Lord) & Weguelin (J.R., illustrator), Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897, frontispiece and in-text vignettes, contemporary Durham School full calf prize binding, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, conforming presentation plate to recto blank, 8vo, (2)

Scotland & Bibliography. Sibbald (James), Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To which is added a Glossary, four volume set, first edition thus, Edinburgh: Printed for J. Sibbald, et al, 1802, volume I with Prospectus of the First Complete Edition of the Works of William Dunbar, 3pp, and a 5pp review of Sibbald's Scottish Poetry bound-in, contemporary calf, some wear, 8vo in 4s; Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran, 1770, half-title, contemporary calf, the upper-cover detached and with a repaired gutter at ffep, the rest rubbed and worn, 12mo; Bannatyne (George) & Ritchie (William Tod, editor), The Bannatyne Manuscript, four volume set, mixed editions, Edinburgh & London: Scottish Text Society, 1928-1933, original gilt-lettered roan over green cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, loosely-inserted envelope of errata slips, 8vo; idem., another copy of volume I, 1934, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Laing's and Carew Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, two volume set, 1895, half-titles, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copies, 8vo; Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, second edition, 1900, original cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copy, 8vo; Henley's Burns, 1898, original wrappers, 8vo; Carter (John) & Pollard (Graham), An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, association copy, first edition, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934, original cloth only, 8vo; & Hanson's Government and the Press, 1695-1763, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1936, original dustjacket, some chips, cloth boards, 4to, (16)  Provenance: 1st: 1) Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), antiquarian and bibliophile, founding member of the Roxburghe Club (member no. 11); his gilt-embossed armorial bookplate to volumes I & III-IV only; 2) William Tod Ritchie, Scottish bibliographer; his early 20th c ownership inscriptions. 2nd: 1) J. Wilson, Professor of Phrenology, early-mid 19th c macabre bookplate; 2) George Graham, 19th c book label. 8th: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-1921), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30), and Roxburghe Club member no. 187; loosely-inserted typed copy of a letter excusing himself from a Roxburghe Club meeting at Lord Aldenham's house (to whom the letter is addressed) and proceeding to refute Carter's & Pollard's accusations of forgery against Thomas James Wise, book collector and fellow Roxburghe member.

Aesop, The Fables of Æsop, With a Life of the Author, two volume set, first edition thus, London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793, engraved title-pages with vignettes, illustrated with 110 plates, finely bound in later 19th c polished tan calf gilt by Morrell, stamped, morocco pieces, the spines somewhat faded, boards with light markings and wear, some joints of volume I slightly starting to split, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (2)

Anon, The Dead Letter Office; and a Tale for the English Farmer's Fire-side, two volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co, by C. Baldwin, n.d. [1811], lacking half-titles (if called for?), volume I title-page cropped with loss of the first word of the title (i.e. THE), [iv], 262, [2]pp (publisher's advert); [iv], 251, [4]pp (publisher's advert), vol. II quire M loose but attached, contemporary calf over marbled boards, some surface wear, with corners bumped &/or split, but good and holding, uncut, 12mo, (2)  Scarce. Attributed at times to the female authors Mrs. E.G. Bayfield, Mrs. E.M. Foster, or J.H. James.  Provenance: the Westropp family of Long Melford, Sufffolk; contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscription to volume II title, clipped-erasure from volume I, their shelf-numbering to both volumes' spines and recto pastedowns.

Americana. Crime Fiction: Chandler (Raymond), The High Window, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, August 1945, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket, clipped, over blue cloth; idem, The Brasher Doubloon, first edition thus, second impression overall, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, the half-title, title, and cloth binding still lettered The High Window as per, original movie printed dustjacket, price-clipped, 8vo; idem, Spanish Blood, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Hoffman, black cloth, 8vo; idem, The Second Chandler Omnibus, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962, original dustjacket designed by Patricia Davey, cloth, 8vo; others, including Farewell, My Lovely, third impression, June 1946, dj, cloth, 8vo; etc., (7)  Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Travel. Nansen (Fridtjof) & Archer (William, translator), Eskimo Life, first English edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893, half-title, 16 full-page plates as called, in-text illustrations, 24pp publisher's catalogue bound at rear, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial gilt, slight wear, uncut, 8vo; Kallmorgen (Friedrich), In's Land der Mitternachtssonne: Tagebuch eines Malers, Karlsruhe: Kunstdruckerei Künstlerbund, n.d. [1899], lithograph printed facsimile of the Impressionist artist's sketchbook, contemporary publisher's red cloth gilt, oblong folio (31 x 42.5cm); Naylor (R.A.), Letters on Sweden and Norway, first edition thus, [Warrington]: Printed for Private Circulation Only, [by Bowker Brothers], [June 1887], photographically-illustrated with three portraits by Parkinson of Warrington, original pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo; Goodman (E.J.) & Lange (Paul, illustrator), New Ground in Norway, first edition, 1896, original publisher's cloth, pictorial gilt, 8vo; etc., (5)

Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, signed by the illustrator Cliff Wright, first de luxe edition, Bloomsbury, 1999, half-title, original publisher's decorative blue cloth, pictorial inset, lettered in gilt, some surface wear, all edges gilt, silk marker starting to fray at its end, 8vo

Modern Firsts. Calvino (Italo) & Weaver (William, translator), Invisible Cities, first English edition, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Arnold Skolnick, minor wear, now preserved under a wrapper, grey cloth, 8vo; Nabokov (Vladimir), PniN, first edition, fourth impression, London: Heinemann, 1969, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Faczynski, black cloth, 8vo; Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, third edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, half-title, original red cloth only, 8vo; Olsen (Tillie), Tell Me A Riddle, first UK edition, Faber, 1964, OK ex-library copy, dj, hb, 8vo; Whitman (Walt), Drum-Taps, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1915, half-title, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, square 8vo; Vale (Edmund), Roc: A Dog's-Eye View of War, first edition, London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930, original cloth, 8vo; Wright's Lawd Today, first edition, London: Anthony Blond, 1965, dj, hb, 8vo; Sinclair's White Chappell, first trade edition, Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987, dj, hb, loosely-inserted prospectus, 8vo; Kenneth Grahame; Jules Verne, (10) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.