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Two publications. Amergin: An Enigma of the Forest. Sven Berlin. Published 1978 by David & Charles Limited. Hardback.Jonah's Dream: A Meditation on Fishing. Sven Berlin. Published 1964 by Phoenix House London. First edition. Hardback.

'Terry Frost' Published by Scolar Press 1994, first edition, hardback, with ink drawing and inscription from Terry Frost, further signed by Linda Saunders and David Lewis.Together with Terry Frost ephemera.The Estate of Robert and Shirley Robins

'Barbara Hepworth - Drawings From A Sculptor's Landscape' Hardback, a first edition published by Cory Adams & Mackay Ltd 1966, London, with an introduction by Alan Bowness, signed and inscribed by Barbara Hepworth.Together with various newspaper clippings and articles relating to Barbara Hepworth and other artists.The Estate of Robert and Shirley Robins - Robert Robins was an esteemed hand surgeon and friend of Barbara Hepworth's

'The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69' Edited by Alan Bowness, published Lund Humphried London 1971, first edition, hardback, signed and inscribed by Barbara Hepworth.The Estate of Robert and Shirley Robins - Robert Robins was an esteemed hand surgeon and friend of Barbara Hepworth's

Kerry Goodwin (British, fl.2000) for Moorcroft, The First Collectors, a limited edition vase, figures in an industrial landscape, edition 2/30, impressed and painted signatures to base, dated 2012, 37cm highCondition Report: Some minor paint spotting to the shoulders, which appear to be removable.Good condition

K-Guy, Gold Metallica, 2015.- Limited edition, Signed, five colour hand-pulled screen print on 300gsm art paper, with 2 layers of varnish from the Gold metallic edition, Signed in pencil lower right, numbered 43/44 in pencil and stamped lower left, rolled, 69 x 69cm.*** Kevin Guy, is a London artist whose works are incisive observations and visual comments about life in the twenty-first century. Guy is best known for his memorial shrine installation In Loving Memory of The Boom Economy which was strategically created outside London's Bank of England, as a commentary on the global downturn.Condition Report: mint condition.

[Addison, Steele et al.]The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [The Tatler], Volumes I - IV.Charles Lillie. 1713-1711, four volumes, large octavo, uncut, contemporary half vellum bindings with worn marbled boards, spine lettering faded [not collated].[Johnson (Samuel)], The Idler,J. Newbery, 1761, first collected edition, duodecimo, two volumes, [8], 294, [6], 285, [3] pages, volume I G6 bound before G5, G8 before G7, calf (non-uniform), re-backed with uniform spines. ESTC T153829. (6)

James I (King of England)The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince, James, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., Printed by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1616 [1620 from colophon], first edition, second issue, folio in sixes, [42], 621 [1] pages, including engraved portrait and additional engraved title, 3F2-3 bound 3F3-2, lacking the blank leaf at 3B4, occasional staining and spotting, some corners creased, a little light underlining in pencil, re-backed calf. ESTC S112082.

Johnson [Captain Charles]A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny .....T. Woodward, 1726-[1728], fourth edition, two volumes, Vol I: [20], 17-443 [i.e. 447] [1] pages, 2 plates (of 4), Vol II, [14], 144, 161-272, 257-413, [3] pages, folding map of America (including Caribbean), name on reverse of map, tanning and staining to pages. In vol II, page number removed from E1 and lower corner of J4 torn (with loss of last letter of catchword), contemporary panelled calf gilt (re-jointed with repairs to heads and tails). ESTC T71966

Lilburn (John)The Legal Fundamentall Liberties of the People of England, Revived, Asserted and Vindicated ....London, 'Printed in the grand yeer of hypocriticall and abominable dissimulation', 1649, first edition, quarto, [4], 75, [1], pages some mispagination but text continuous, age tanning and some staining, (the first edition not found in ESTC, the second edition was supplied with a portrait [see also Thomason E560(14)]). [bound with]Prynne (William), A true and perfect Narrative of What was done, spoken by and between Mr Prynne, the old and newly Forcibly late secluded Members, the Army Officers, and those sitting ...1659, quarto, [2], 94, 85-99, [1] pages, frayed and soiled title mounted at gutter, C3 fore-edge cropped into edge of side notes, some staining, repair to final leaf, [ESTC R937], full calf binding.

More (Sir Thomas, Saint)The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the English Tongue.John Cawood, John Waly and Richard Tottell, 1557, first edition, folio in eights, the Roper family copy with manuscript ownership inscriptions on title page 'William Rooper, the only true (?) owner of' and 'Antony Rooper liber ex dono fratris (or patris)', [34], 88, 89-104 columns, 105-1138, [2], 1139-1458 pages, text and register continuous despite pagination. Title with repaired tear, laid down and silked with pencil drawn border, blank leaves [par.]10 and 2Z6 supplied with later paper, repaired closed tear to e7, abrasion to X2 with some loss of text, repairs to last two leaves, hinge gaping between fly-leaf and title page, binding rubbed with bumped top corner, armorial bookplate, all edges gilt, blindstamped morocco binding by Ramage. Gibson 73, ESTC S115047.[William Rooper or Roper (1496-1578) was Thomas More's son-in-law and had lived in his household for 16 years. When this copy was sold in 2006 at a London auction, the description described William and Antony as brothers. Subsequent research by David Stather suggests that the book passed from William to his son Antony (ex dono patris rather than fratris) and then to William Roper (later Sir William), grandson of the first William].

[Bligh (William)]A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny ....George Nichol, 1792, first edition, quarto, [2], 264 pages, seven (of eight) plates, lacking preliminaries, one chart repaired with significant loss, another chart trimmed to border, portrait laid down, dust marking and staining, title page worn and torn without loss, marginal tears, bookplate (Charles Robinson) and several ownership inscriptions (John William Hudson and Sir Titus Salt) to front endpapers, minor annotation to title page and lower margin of p.208, full calf binding (re-backed retaining backstrip, bumped). ESTC T52638

North Briton[Wilkes (John)] et al., The North Briton. Numbers I - CXIII, CXV - CXXX, June 5th, 1762 to December 29, 1764, G. Kearsly then E. Sumpter, first editions except number CXXX which is a second edition, 702, 709-812 pages, folio, bookplate of the Earl of Chichester, contemporary calf, re-backed retaining original gilt-tooled backstrip. Bound periodical, lacking number CXIV, leaves 255/6 and 261/2 bound 256/5 and 262/1, small stab hole in some fore-edges, some of the issues have evidence of folding before binding, foxing in places, cracking to original backstrip (now secure). ESTC P3072 and P5961

Boccaccio (Giovanni)The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, The first Refiner of Italian Prose: containing A Hundred curious Novels. By Seven Honourable Ladies and Three Noble Gentlemen, Framed in Ten Days. Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan at Amen Corner. 1684, fifth edition, much corrected and amended, folio in fours, portrait frontis, [16], 208, 221-483, [1] pages, irregular pagination but text continuous, title page laid down and restored, tears to H4, K2, N4, O4, R2, Z5 and 2Q4 without loss of text, tear to lower part of L1 with some loss of text, pages age toned with some spotting and marginal worming, top edge of binding a little sun shaded. all edges gilt, modern half calf. ESTC R2136.A second copy, with trimmed margins and several leaves replaced by facsimiles. (2)

[Saint Jerome] [Erasmus]Tomus Nonus Operum Divi Hieronymi Eusebii Stridonensis complectens commentarios in Matthaeum & Marcum ..., Basle: Joannem Frobenium, 1526, the ninth volume of Erasmus' first edition, folio in sixes, 126, 131-246, 245-257, [1] folios, 59, [1] pages latin text, irregular foliation but text and registers continuous, early annotation, hinge gaping before title page, foxing and tanning, worming to pastedowns and adjacent leaves, contemporary panelled binding with gilt device to boards (re-backed retaining majority of back-strip) and stamp of F. Fasting of Rio de Janeiro to pastedown.[see also lot 107]

Sidney (Sir Philip)The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the eighth time published, with some new Additions. With the supplement of a Defect in the third part of this history, by Sir W.A. Knight. Whereunto is now added a sixth Booke, by R.B. of Lincolnes Inne.Simon Waterson and R. Young, 1633, eighth edition, folio in sixes, [6], 624 pages, lacking first blank leaf, sixth book with separate title page (within pagination), title page worn and cropped at head with name in manuscript, E6 torn without loss, tear to gutter margin of O3-4 with slight loss of text, a few marginal tears, occasional spotting, damp staining to leaves at rear of book with wear to edges of last few leaves, significant loss to head margin of final leaf including loss of upper border line, re-backed calf binding. ESTC S117293;With one other (2)

Voyages - South SeaCooke (Edward, Capt.), A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World. Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710 and 1711 ...Printed by H.M. for B. Lintot et al., 1712, first edition, [24], 456, [12] pages, twenty plates comprising folding map frontis (with glue stained reinforced edge), a folding plan of Cusco (partially reinforced) a facsimile folding map of northern South America and seventeen single page plates (repaired tear to plate at page 323), staining to pages, early annotation to title and page one, pannelled calf (re-backed and re-cornered). ESTC T145982;Rogers (Woodes, Capt.), A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Sea, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and finish'd in 1711 ....Printed for Andrew Bell and Bernard Lintot, 1718, second edition corrected, xix, [1], 428, 57, [7] pages, four folding maps of the Pacific Coast but lacking the world map frontis, pages a little age tanned with staining in several places, modern calf binding with gilt panels and raised bands. ESTC T131767[The two earliest accounts of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, believed to be the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe]

[Ward (Edward)]The London-Spy. Compleat in Eighteen-Parts, by the Author of the Trip to Jamaica. J. How, 1703, first edition in book form, [4], 240, 247-437, [1] pages, irregular pagination but register and text continuous, tear to fore edge of F6 without loss of text, age tanning to a few pages but generally VG, modern full calf binding by Maclehose. (spine a little dry). ESTC T119938 (first volume).

[Whitelocke (Sir Bulstrode)] or [Fiennes (Nathaniel)]Monarchy Asserted, To be the best, most Ancient and legall form of Government, in a conference had at Whitehall, with Oliver late Lord Protector & a Committee of Parliament .... Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwind, 1660, first edition (Chetwind var.), small octavo, [8], 112 pages (first leaf a blank), narrow margins, particularly gutter margin, foxing to prelims., modern antique style sprinkled calf. ESTC R222574;Howell (James), Proedria Basilike: A Discourse Concerning the Precedency of Kings: Wherin the Reasons and Arguments of the Three Greatest Monarks of Christendom .....Printed by Ja. Cottrel for Sam Speed and Chr. Eccleston, 1664, folio, [14], 219, [1] pages, three portrait plates of Monarchy and fourth plate of the author (with small hole), one plate believed to be part of the preliminary collation as ESTC gives [16] pages and calls for three plates ex pagination but names four portraits, repaired tear and name to title, some soiling and wear, closed tear to head of 3D2 and 3J1, smudged annotation to margin of M2 and 2A1, gutter gaping at end of book with loosening and gutter tearing of 3L1-2, bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron, heavily restored worn calf. ESTC R21017. (2)

WitchcraftA Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the County of Suffolk; on the Tenth day of March, 1664. Before Sir Matthew Hale Kt. then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer. Printed for William Shrewsbury, 1682, first edition, small octavo, [4], 59, [1] pages, repaired title page, some light waterstaining, modern sprinkled calf. ESTC R37899[Provenance: Sotheby's Robert Lenkiewicz sale, Nov 2003]

WitchcraftGlanvill (Joseph), Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions. In two parts. The First treating of their Possibility; the Second of their Real Existence. By Joseph Glanvil .... With two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish Witches; done into English by A. Horneck, D.D. Printed for S.L. ... sold by Anth. Baskervile, 1689, third edition, 597, [1] pages, text illustrations with full page illustration within pagination, may lack a plate or frontis, (see ESTC and description of third edition issued by others), ink splashes on four pages, tear to lower margin of 2H1 (not affecting text), small hole in 2L8, full calf, recently re-backed, modern endpapers. ESTC R234101Aubrey (John), Miscellanies upon the Following Subjects, I. Day-Fatality, II. Local-Fatality, III. Ostenta. IV. Omens, V. Dreams, VI. Apparitions ........ XXII. The Discovery of Two Murders by an Apparition.A. Bettesworth et al., 1721, second edition with large additions, [2], x, [4], 236 pages plus engraved frontis (located at end of preliminaries in other copies), preliminary gather (A) detached from binding, age tanning and staining, some marginal tears, one word corrected, bookplate, half calf. ESTC T89806Law (Rev. Robert), Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that fell out Within this Island of Brittain from 1628 to 1684. Edited from the MS by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.Edinburgh: Archibal Constable, 1818, quarto, frontis, (iii) - cxiv, 277, [1] pages, bookplate of Aberdeen Soc. of Advocates with their stamp to title verso, offsetting from frontis to title, staining to edges of endpapers (from binding), half calf; Anon., From Authentic Documents. A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, who were burned at the Gallowgreen of Paisley. Paisley, John Millar, 1809, duodecimo in sixes, 200 pages, armorial bookplate, re-backed sheep binding;with one other. (5)

WitchcraftGlanvill (Joseph), Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions. In two parts. The First treating of their Possiblity. The Second of their Real Existence. By Joseph Glanvil ....Printed by Thomas Newcomb for S. Lownds at his shop by the Savoy Gate, 1682, second edition, seven parts, each with separate title page but with continuous register A-U8, X4, 2A-3D8, 3E4, engraved frontis and engraved title, full page illustration on 3E3r, X4 is a blank, 3E4r an errata, lower corner of S3 torn with loss of catchword, a few headlines partially cropped, staining within gathering 2E, minor marginal tears to K3, P3, X2, 2B8, re-backed contemporary calf. ESTC R233939

WitchcraftHutchinson (Francis), An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact ..... R. Knaplock and D. Midwinter, 1718, first edition, [iii-xv], [5], 270, [2] pages, including final advert leaf, lacks half title, some worming in text; single hole from I2 to M7, two holes from M8 to O4, extending on to 1cm track then back to single hole at Q7, more significant tracking from S3 (p. 261) to end, tanning/staining to margins, corner creasing to some leaves, modern quarter calf binding. ESTC T99484

WitchcraftScot (Reginald), The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected .... Imprinted by William Brome, 1584, first edition, small quarto in eights, [26], 560, [16] pages, two double sided plates between pages 352 and 353, folding engraved plate (lined) at p.401. Lacking a8. Good quality facsimile replacement of title, B6, L2-6, R1, R4-5, R8, T1, T8, V1-4, V6-7 and S6-8, (the final facsimile page with a British Museum stamp), manuscript title before facsimile printed title and before Book XIII. Stain to upper gutter margin at centre of book, pencil marking, modern calf binding. ESTC S116888

WitchcraftScot (Reginald), The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and all Infernal Spirits or Familiars, are but Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions ...., In Sixteen Books, .... Whereunto is added An excellent Discourse of the Nature and Substance of Devils of Spirits ......in Two Books: the First by the Aforesaid author: The Second now added in this third edition, as Succedaneous to the former, and conducing to the compleating of the Whole Work ...:Printed for A. Clark, to be sold by Dixy Page, 1665, third edition, small folio in eights, [18], 292, [12], [2], 72 pages, lacking final contents leaf, no half title called for in ESTC (or present here) but descriptions of other copies have described lack of half title?, 3F3 cropped into titles, names to title leaf, 'read this' in early hand to page 240, a few sporadic foxing spots, some with small holes, modern full panelled calf binding. ESTC R39108

WomanVives [Juan Luis], A Very Fruteful and Pleasant Booke called the Instruction of a Christen Woman, made first in latyne .....Henry Wykes, 1557 [1567 conjectured by STC], small quarto, collates A6, B - 2N4, A1 to B4 and 2N3 supplied in good facsimile, early marginal annotation in places throughout, several marginal repairs (more extensive to final leaf with loss to recto catchword), pages age tanned with occasional staining, contemporary calf (rebacked). ESTC S125566;[Brathwaite] Brathwait (Richard), The English Gentleman and English Gentlewoman ... with A Ladies Love Lecture and a Supplement ... entitled The Turtles Triumph. Printed by John Dawson, 1641, third edition, folio in fours, engraved general title, folding plate before supplement (repaired tears), lacks explanation of frontis, library blindstamp to engraved title and next three leaves, worming within text area in places, B4 torn without loss of text, repairs to engraved title page and following four leaves, re-backed calf. ESTC R10286;Dyke's [Oswald], The Royal Marriage. King Lemuel's Lesson of 1. Chastity, 2. Temperence, 3. Charity, ..... 9. Marriage ......Printed for the author .., 1722, engraved frontis, xxiii, [1], 368 pages, some annotation and lines in margins, age tanning, small hole in L8, contemporary panelled calf (worn). ESTC T124597;With four others. (7)

York Justice[Montgomery (James)], Prison Amusements and Other Trifles: Principally written during Nine Months of Confinement in the Castle of York. By Paul Positive.J. Johnson, 1797, first edition, viii, 200 pages of verse, a couple of page numbers punctured, completion of footnote in ?contemporary ink, a few pencil marks, light age tanning, bookplates of Simon and Judith Nowell-Smith, cloth-backed marbled boards. ESTC T106186;York Assizes, Reports and Pleas of Assises at Yorke. Held before severall Judges in that Circuit ... Printed by Ja. Flesher for W. Lee, D. Pakeman and G. Bedell, 1651, small octavo, [24], 158 pages, Law library stamp to title pages, age tanning throughout, a few spots, several marginal tears, modern leather binding;[Knipe (William)], Criminal Chronology of York Castle; with a Register of the Criminals Capitally Convicted and Executed at the County Assizes ....York: Burdekin, 1867, viii, 254, [6], 255-260 pages, some fore-edge staining, occasional foxing, edges dust marked, original cloth;With two others. (5)

Cavendish (George)]The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, The Great Cardinall of England, Containing his Life and Death ...William Sheares, 1641, first edition, small quarto, [12], 60, 57-118 pages, portrait frontis, text continuous despite pagination, three pages of manuscript notes to blank leaves before frontis (late 17th/early 18th cent.), stitch holes in gutter margin, minor age tanning, ink mark to lower part of title page and frontis, couple of foxing spots to title page, modern full calf binding. ESTC R223198

Church of EnglandConstitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall, Treated upon by the Bishop of London, President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury, and the rest of the Bishops and Clergie of the said Province ....Robert Barker, 1604, small quarto, A-Y4, first and last leaves are blank, the last blank supplied, top edge of headlines cropped in places, notes in early hand to both sides of first blank A1, some minor early underlining of text, armorial bookplate, all edges gilt, full calf with blind-stamped borders. ESTC S101546Church of England, Articles Agreed Upon by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the Whole Clergie, In the Convocation holden in London in the yeer 1562 ......Robert Barker, 1638, small quarto, [2], 6, [22] pages, lacking the first blank leaf, head margin clopped to headline in places, a few stains to title and final page, title reinforced at head, signed manuscript declaration to title verso by John Rogers, parson of Croghlin (Cumberland) who confirms that on Sunday 24th March, 1660 [?1661] at afternoon prayer, he read all of the Articles in 'this booke' and declared his assent to the Articles. The memorandum is also signed by three witnesses 25th March 1661, quarter vellum. ESTC S125374;L'Estrange (Hamon), The Alliance of Divine Offices Exhibiting all the Liturgies of the Church of England since the Reformation ..., Charles Brome, 1690, second edition, folio in fours, [16], 264, 275-313, [1], 325-348, 337-339, [1] pages, text continuous despite pagination, general age tanning, occasional spot stains, small hole in 2H2, several marginal tears, worn sprinkled calf. With one other (4)

Coke (Edwardo) [Sir Edward]The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. Or, A Commentary upon Littleton ..., William Rawlins et al, 1684, ninth corrected edition, folio in fours, portrait frontis, engraved plate, folding table (tear to fold), previous owner's inscription to head of title page (partially excised and repaired), with two red wax seals, contemporary calf (wear to joints, some restoration). ESTC R473;idem, The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ..., Thomas Basset, 1681, sixth edition, folio in fours, portrait frontis, two armorial bookplates, contemporary calf (some restoration). ESTC R24771;idem, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ..., A. Crooke, W. Leake et al., 1669, fourth edition, folio in fours, portrait frontis. ESTC R26617 [bound with]idem, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ..., A. Crooke, W. Leake et al., 1669, fourth edition, folio in fours, portrait frontis, contemporary calf (re-backed retaining most of original backstrip, modern spine label) ESTC R35651;With one other (4)[Sold not collated]

Crime and PovertyHunt (Henry), Investigation at Ilchester Gaol, in the County of Somerset, into the Conduct of William Bridle, the Gaoler ....Thomas Dolby, 1821, first edition, viii, 7, [1], 8, 271, [5] pages, frontis and five plates, some worm tracks to early part of book, a small number of ink corrections, lightly worn half calf;With twenty-nine others on crime, prisons, the Police, Poor Laws and London's 'Street-Folk'. (30)

[Defoe (Daniel)]The History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: in Two Parts ....T. Warner, 1727, second edition, [8], 408 pages, frontis, small hole in Z2 affecting text, small annotations to front endpaper and title page, light staining in places, re-backed calf. ESTC T70348, Moore 480;With three others by the author. (4) [Defoe (Daniel)], A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man, 1703, [and] A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman, 1705, two volumes, first editions, [24], 479, [1]; LACKING PORTRAITStaining, title dust marked, a few marginal tears without loss of text.The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1722. [not collated]

Dugdale (William)The Baronage of England, or An Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility ....Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Abel Roper, John Martin and Henry Herringman, 1675-6, first edition, three volumes in two, folio in fours, [12], 476, 497-790, [2]; [8], 312, 361-488, [4] pages, five folding pedigrees in volume I (one bound upside down with tear to fold), Vol. I - small hole in 2P1 and 4F4. Tear without loss to 2Z4. Vol II - small hole in B4, 3B3 and 3F2, tear without loss to D3, 2Q3, 2R4, 3R2 and 3S1, final leaf (3S2) is laid down with some ink marks and some loss to lower margin, a little light staining (Q2, 2J2 etc.), marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate, early mottled calf gilt (re-backed retaining majority of the backstrips which are now splitting and chipping, lacking top compartment labels). [ESTC R16723 and ESTC R225614];With eleven eighteenth century volumes on Baronage and Peerage, leather bound. (13)The Peerage of England ... 1712-11, two vols in three.The Peerage of England ... 1714, two volumes, with 1711 volume II part II.The English Baronetage ..., 1741, four volumes in five.

Holinshed (Raphael)The Laste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, with their descriptions. Conteyning The Chronicles of England, from William Conquerour to this present tyme. Imprinted for John Harrison (from facsimile title), 1577, folio in eights, the second volume of the illustrated first edition with woodcuts throughout, modern full calf binding. A recently restored copy with facsimile replacement of the title page and preliminary leaf (on three leaves), t2, t8, R8, S1-3 and last three leaves of index, significant repairs to t3-7 and N1 of index with loss of text, wear to upper corners in places. ESTC S121346

WW2 9 Signed Escape to Danger Hardback book by Flt Lt Paul Brickhill and Conrad Norton. Signed on title page by Ken Rees, Jimmy James, Jack Lyon, Walter Morison, Neil Stebbings, Frank Stone, Alan E Bryett, Leonard Hall and one other. First Edition, Fifth Impression. 341 Pages. Book is Wrapped in Black Cloth. Good condition EstAll 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

Guy Gibson's 627 Squadron Ground Crew Member Signed Alan B Webb 1st Edition Hardback Book Titled at First Sight. Published in 1991. 244 Pages. Spine and Dust-jacket showing signs of ageAll 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

Wing Commander C N CARPENTER (29236) RAF Signed Book Flying Years by C H Keith Special Edition Hardback Book 1937 Signed by Wing Cmdr Carpenter RAF on the first page and dated 1938 published by John Hamilton Ltd (The Aviation Book Club) some ageingAll 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

Signed Book Mustang Aces of the Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces and the RAF by Jerry Scutts 1995 First Edition Softback Book Signed by Clyde East on the first page published by Osprey Aerospace (Osprey Publishing) some ageingAll 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

§ JOHN WADSWORTH (BRITISH 1879-1955) EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS AND SKETCHES mixed media (pencil; pen and ink; watercolour; bodycolour) some 150 items in total, on various paper and card stocks, various dimensions, including 10 items signed by Wadsworth, the remaining material unsigned but most attributable either to Wadsworth or an associate on external evidence or stylistic grounds: 1) Signed items: a) Design for a Sun-Dial to be executed in Irish-Green Marble with Brass Fitting (watercolour; with caption); b) Design for an embroidered doyley (watercolour; with caption); c) Design for Wadsworth's personal bookplate (black and gold ink with lilac watercolour; mounted); d) Designs for decorative friezes (on a single sheet, red and black ink heightened with gold, possibly gold leaf); e) Repeating foliate design (sepia ink with pencil); f) Calligraphic Christmas card design ('With best wishes from Mr and Mrs J. W. Wadsworth, Xmas 1910' in black ink, with 'Draycott Le Moors, Stoke on Trent' in pencil); g) Cover design for an edition of Dante (black ink and pencil, annotations verso; together with another design, unsigned but near-identical); h-j) Three watercolour views (a country church; a view in the Colosseum; a crooked tree with cottages; the latter with heavy outlining and shading in black ink);2) Views (watercolours, 13 in total, including wooded landscapes, beach scenes, architectural studies, and boats moored in a harbour);3) Bookplate designs, including two for Leon V. Solon (on 20 sheets, a few containing multiple designs, together with a few printed specimens);4) Lettering specimens and copies of illuminated initials from medieval manuscripts (28 sheets, most with multiple designs);5) Pattern designs after historical fabrics (watercolours, 6 in total, annotated on verso '17th century Italian', 'Italian damask, 17th century', 'Linen, Italian, 16 century', '15 or 16th-century oriental', '16th century Renaissance', 'Velvet, Persian, 17th century');6) Exhibition catalogue or poster designs for the North Staffordshire Art Society (5 in total), together with 3 similar designs for the Catalogue of the Malvern Art Club Exhibition,1928, woodblocks differentially hand-coloured;7) Large collection of assorted designs and sketches, including various floral patterns and motifs, a vase, book illustrations and embellishments (including 4 designs for publisher's devices or colophons: 'FINIS' written within scrolling foliate cartouche; two satyrs embracing beneath text 'THE END'; large sketch of an angel and supplicant with the text 'Carl Hentschel & Co. Photo-engravers' at the head; an allegorical female figure with robe and shield beneath text 'Bemrose & Sons Ltd. Printers, Derby & London'), and numerous female figures, several sketches evidently preparatory (approx. 50 in total);8) 3 engraved Christmas cards from Leon V. Solon addressed in pencil to John Wadsworth (for 1903, 1905 and 1909, spotted); 2 photographs of works by Leon V. Solon (one of Elizabeth I, the other captioned verso 'Le bain des nymphes'), both signed in the negative, mounted and inscribed by Solon to Wadsworth in pencil on mount, heavily spotted; and 1 further engraving inscribed by Solon to Wadsworth in pencil (device for a menu at 'Uplands'?);9) Other items including: a copy of Wadsworth's Designing from Plant Forms, 1910, first edition, original cloth; 1901-2 syllabus for Macclesfield Techincal and Science School and School of Art (8vo, original decorative wrappers, front cover design signed J. W. Wadsworth); dust jackets possibly designed by Wadsworth, etc. This lot includes a typed letter to Phillips auctioneers from C. J. Hancock requesting a catalogue for the sale.Provenance:Provenance: 'The Ceramic Art and Paintings of John and Philip Wadsworth', the auction of their estate, Phillips, Knowle, 8th April 1992, various lots including 55, 89 etc.Note: Note: John William Wadsworth is best remembered as a designer of ceramics, but this extensive collection of material is an engrossing record of his interest in other fields including book decoration, bookplate design and landscape painting, and promises to reward further study. Born in Macclesfield, Wadsworth studied at Stockport School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1901 he was appointed assistant art director to L. V. Solon at Mintons, designing Secessionist ware, and became full art director soon after in 1905. He was art director at Royal Worcester from 1915 until returning to Mintons in 1935, where he remained until his death.

§ DAVID HOCKNEY O.M., C.H., R.A. (BRITISH 1937-) [UNTITLED FAX PRINT], 1999 timed 15/10/99 at 16:40 with printed message and signature, 16 sheets of A4 paper photocopied from a fax, with similar instruction sheet, together with 3 other Hockney items including Prints 1954-1995, Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996 (first edition, 8vo, original wrappers, dust jacket, rare)Provenance:Provenance: David Lay, 27 October 2017, lot 124.

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (BRITISH 1872-1949) AN ALPHABET London: William Heinemann, 1898.original cloth-backed pictorial boards, first edition, trade or 'popular' issue, 4to, all edges dyed red, 26 lithographic plates in coloursNote: Note: There was also a deluxe or 'library' issue printed on Dutch hand-made paper, bound in cloth and with gilt edges, and a few copies printed direct from the woodblocks, hand-coloured by the artist and housed in a vellum portfolio.

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (BRITISH 1872-1949) AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS Words by Rudyard Kipling.London: William Heinemann, 1898.original cloth-backed pictorial boards, first edition, trade or 'popular' issue, 4to, lithographs in colours, 12 full-page advertisement leaf to rear. Together with a copy of London Types, New York 1898 (first US edition)Note: Note: There was also a deluxe or 'library' issue printed on Japanese vellum, and a few copies printed direct from the woodblocks, hand-coloured by the artist and housed in a vellum portfolio.

SIR FRANK BRANGWYN R.A., R.W.S., R.B.A. (BRITISH 1867-1956) COLLECTION OF WORKS 1) The Way of the Cross. An Interpretation. With a Commentary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1936]. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by Brangwyn and Chesterton, folio, original vellum, front cover lettered in gilt, 14 etched plates on tinted ground, slipcase;2) The Girl and the Faun by Eden Phillpotts. London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 350 numbered copies on hand-made paper signed by Brangwyn and Chesterton, 4to, original quarter vellum, 4 colour plates;3) The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn, R.A. A Catalogue Raisonné by W. Gaunt. London: The Studio, 1926. 4to, original quarter vellum, plates;4) The Oils and Murals of Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A. 1867-1956 by Vincent Galloway. Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis, 1962. First edition, one of 500 copies only, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;5) The Water-Colours of Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A. 1867-1956. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1958. First edition, one of 500 copies only, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;6) Prints and Drawings by Frank Brangwyn with some Other Phases of his Art. By Walter Shaw Sparrow. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1919. First edition, original cloth, 4to;7) Frank Brangwyn and his Work. 1910. By Walter Shaw-Sparrow. With the Appendices revised and brought down to 1919 by Frank Brangwyn. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truber & Co. Ltd., 1920. 4to, original cloth;8) A Book of Bridges by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. and Walter Shaw Sparrow. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1915. 4to, original cloth

AUBREY BEARDSLEY (BRITISH 1872-1898) THE BIRTH, LIFE AND ACTS OF KING ARTHUR The Text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year MCCCCLXXXV. Now spelled in Modern Style. With an Introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley. London: J. M. Dent, 1893-4. First edition, one of 1500 copies on ordinary paper, 2 volumes, 4to, original cream cloth, floral Art Nouveau design by Aubrey Beardsley gilt to spines and front covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, half-titles (each with limitation statement verso), photogravure frontispieces (on india paper, mounted as issued), 18 line-block plates (4 double-page), line-block text-illustrations, decorative borders, chapter-headings and tailpieces throughout, colophon leaf to each volume

OWEN JONES (BRITISH 1809-1874) THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT London: Day and Son, Limited, 1865. First edition, later issue, folio, original decorative maroon cloth gilt, recased and relined, date on spine 1865, chromolithographic additional title-page, 111 plates (nearly all chromolithographic; a few tinted only), housed in a custom brown buckram solander box

SIR DAVID YOUNG CAMERON R.A. (BRITISH 1865-1945) D. Y. CAMERON'S ETCHINGS With an Introductory Essay by Frank Rinder. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze and Company, 1908. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 150 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the artist, 4to, original vellum, tipped-in plate (a few loose), bookplate (Frank Gordon Brown);Idem. Etchings of D. Y. Cameron [same work as the preceding, with variant title]. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze and Company, 1908. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original quarter vellum, etched bookplate of James Robertson Cameron tipped in;Idem. The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron by Arthur M. Hind. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1924. 4to, original black pictorial cloth gilt;and 13 others, including: Book of Common Prayer, c.1930, with repoussé silver panel after Holman Hunt's Jesus Light of the World mounted to front cover; Katharine Cameron, The Flowers I Love, undated, original boards with Art Nouveau design gilt to front cover, tipped-in colour plates; Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates, with Sixteen Illustrations by Jessie M. King, 1915; Harry Clarke, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, undated, original cloth, colour plates; Clough Williams-Ellis and John Summerson, Architecture Here and Now, 1934, original cloth, dust jacket; Joseph Nicolson, The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 1777, volume 1 only, with Aubrey Beardsley-designed bookplate of one, Mr Pollitt; Maxfield Parrish, The Arabian Nights, New York, 1921, original black cloth, plates; idem, The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, 1899, original cloth; idem, Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame, c.1900, original cloth; J. C. Rogers, Modern English Furniture, c.1910, original cloth, photographic plates; and 3 similar works; the lot sold as seen, not subject to returnProvenance:Provenance: Dominic Winter Book Auctions, Swindon, 17th May 1996, lot 341.

20TH-CENTURY ART AND DESIGN COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES, LIMITED EDITIONS AND REFERENCE WORKS to include:Marcel Duchamp. The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, [2002]. [Together with:] In the Infinitive. A typotranslation by Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk of Marcel Duchamp's White Box, [2002]. 2 works, each one of 300 copies, 8vo, original boards, housed together as issued in grey cloth slipcase with accompanying bookplate Notes et/and Notations, also one of 300 copies; Andrew Holmes (born 1947). London: Architectural Association, 1986. [Modernism] signed limited edition, number 65 of 1000 copies. Portfolio (12 x 12 inches) of 20 silkscreen prints which when assembled form a print 1525 x 1120 mm, together with a 28-page catalogue printed in colour, housed in folding box with ribbon pull release, titled in white, hand-numbered and autographed to outer box cover.; and approx. 50 others, including: Skelton, Eric Gill, The Engravings, 1993; Grayson Perry, [Exhibition catalogue], Victoria Miro Gallery, 2004, with Grayson Perry tea towel laid in and unopened; Christie's, A Selection from the Barbara Streisand Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts Part I [-II], March 3 [-4] 1994, 2 volumes, original cloth and wrappers, first volume with dust jacket and inscribed 'Dear Christopher, I hope you can make the auction, B. S.', in original slipcase; and other reference books, including Jugendstil, Arts and Crafts and Secession interest

SERGE GLADKY (FRENCH/RUSSIAN 1880-1930) FLEURS Texte et vingt-six planches en couleurs. Paris: Editions "Synth", 1929. First edition, limited to 375 copies, 4to, original wrappers with colour pochoir design to front, 26 colour pochoir plates of abstract designs, similar vignettes to initial blank and title-page, tissue-guards

§ EDWARD BAWDEN C.B.E., R.A. (BRITISH 1903-1989) EDWARD BAWDEN EDITIONED PRINTS [By] Jeremy Greenwood. With an Introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.Woodbridge: The Wood Lea Press, 2005.First edition, deluxe issue, one of 55 copies (of which 50 for sale), oblong quarto, original quarter morocco, colour illustrations throughout. With 12 linocuts by Edward Bawden depicting scenes from Morte d'Arthur, printed by Bawden's son Richard Bawden from Edward's original linocuts on a single sheet of thick wove paper, and with manuscript limitation on verso, the linocuts in grey card chemise as issued and housed together with the book in original blue cloth solander box Provenance:Provenance: The Wood Lea Press, Suffolk, 29th June 2005.

§ PAULA REGO R.A. (BRITISH, PORTUGUESE 1935-) JANE EYRE Introduced by Marina Warner.London: Enitharmon Editions, 2003.First edition, deluxe issue, one of 75 numbered copies signed by Paula Rego and Marina Warner, and including an original lithograph of Jane Eyre by Paula Rego, signed and numbered by Rego in pencil. Folio, original pictorial boards, blue cloth backstrip, colour illustrations throughout (one on folding leaf), original lithograph in cream card portfolio, both housed together in original blue cloth slipcaseNote: Note: The deluxe issue also contained 10 copies hors commerce; the regular issue, without a signed lithograph, comprised 275 copies (of which 25 were hors commerce).

§ JOHN DUNCAN FERGUSSON R.B.A. (SCOTTISH 1874-1961) FISHING BOAT, MOROCCO, c.1899 oil on canvas, 25.5cm (10in), 33cm (13in); together with two accompanying works 'Figures by a Bridge, Morocco' and 'Berber Village, Morocco', both oil on canvas and both 25.5cm (10in), 33cm (13in)Provenance:Provenance: Christie’s Scotland, 8 June 1995, lot 919 (as 'Figures by a Grounded Fishing Boat, Tangier, circa 1897' and sold with 'two others, similar')Note: Fishing Boat, Morocco is an accomplished early work by J. D. Fergusson, which he painted during a trip to North Africa inspired by the travels of the artist Arthur Melville (1855-1904). Fergusson’s recollection of the exact date of his trip was not precise, but it is believed to have been undertaken in 1899. (1) As his biographer, Kirsten Simister, has explained: ‘From a very early stage in his career travel was to provide a crucial spur to his artistic development’ and his first trip abroad is thought to have been to Paris in 1897. (2)Melville, a forerunner of the Glasgow Boys, was an exceptional watercolourist and an intrepid traveller; he spent time in Morocco in 1890 and 1893. Forty years later, Fergusson recalled: ‘I had heard of Melville; he was my first influence. Although I never met him or even saw him, his paintings gave me my first start; his work opened up to me the way to free painting – not merely freedom in the use of paint, but freedom of outlook.’ (3) His wife, the dance pioneer Margaret Morris, continued the story: ‘Fergus, having been much impressed by the wonderful free paintings of Morocco by Arthur Melville of the Glasgow School, decided to go and see for himself the effects of intense light and shadow. He told his family he would certainly not write and had no idea how long he would stay.’ (4)Painted on an easily portable canvas measuring 10 x 13 inches, Fishing Boat, Morocco reveals an example of the bustling scenes which caught Fergusson’s eye during his explorations. His enjoyment of the application of oil paint is clear in the freely executed brushstrokes. A skilful use of highlights, especially of bright red, is combined with a muted palette in which tonal values are explored and hints at the colourist he would become.Fergusson’s pride in his Moroccan works is proven by the fact that they made up the majority of the works he exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists in London between 1901 and 1903. Few are extant, but examples are held by The Fergusson Gallery, Perth (1992.123), University of Stirling (1968.2) and Glasgow Life: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (3163).(1) See Kirsten Simister, Living Paint: J. D. Fergusson 1874-1961, Edinburgh 2001, p.18.(2) Simister, op.cit., p.15.(3) J. D. Fergusson, Modern Scottish Painting, Glasgow 1943, 2015 edition, p.88.(4) Margaret Morris, The Art of J. D. Fergusson: A Biased Biography, Glasgow 1974, 2010 edition, p. 24.

§ JOHN DUNCAN FERGUSSON R.B.A. (SCOTTISH 1874-1961) ROYAN, 1909 oil on board, signed, inscribed and dated versoDimensions:26cm (10 1/4in), 34cm (13 1/2in)Note: Fergusson painted Royan during the exceptional period when he lived in France from 1907 until 1914. More than any other British artist, he played a part in the heady creative circles of Paris’s pre-war art world and whilst there made the works on which his international standing is based.Following sporadic attendances at the Académies Colarossi and Julian in the French capital in the late 1890s, Fergusson began his career in Edinburgh. His first solo exhibition was held at the Baillie Gallery in London in 1905. However, as Alice Strang has explained: ‘An increasing interest in developments in contemporary art in Paris and parallel frustration with the conservatism of the art world in Scotland, an inheritance following his father’s death in 1906 and the start of his relationship with the painter Anne Estelle Rice (1877-1959) in Paris-Plage in 1907, culminated in Fergusson’s decision to move to Paris later that year.’ (1)Fergusson declared ‘Paris is simply a place of freedom’ and established himself in a studio in Montparnasse. (2) First-hand experience of the very latest developments in French art, such as those made by the Fauve artists Henri Matisse, André Derain and Kees van Dongen, had an immediate and dramatic effect upon his work, as can be seen in Royan. This encompasses the bold colour, simplification of form and expressive technique which signalled Fergusson’s progression from the Edwardian sophistication of his earlier work to the forefront of the avant-garde.Royan dates from a key year in Fergusson’s career. In 1909 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale for the first time and moved to the inspiring environment of a new light and orderly studio, in the rue Notre Dame des Champs. Moreover, as Kirsten Simister has written: ‘Fergusson’s artistic confidence and ambition reached an all-time high in 1909 when he was elected a Sociétaire of the Salon d’Automne and given an entire wall for his exhibits.’ (3) Election to this progressive exhibiting society was recognition by Fergusson’s peers of his contribution to the modern movement and he recalled: ‘To me, considering myself a revolutionary, this was a very great honour…it had the effect of confirming my feeling of independence, the greatest thing in the world, not merely in art but in everything.’ (4) Rice received the same honour the following year and together they became key figures in the celebrated group of Anglo-American artists who, for example, founded the cutting-edge journal Rhythm in 1911. After three years of encouragement from Fergusson, his fellow Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe moved to Paris in 1910, where he lived for two years.Simister continues: ‘In both 1909 and 1910 Fergusson, Peploe and Rice spent summer holidays together painting in Royan and nearby Saintonge, on the west coast of France. The sea and harbour inspired a number of small paintings made outdoors, which make use of stronger colour to heighten the emotional impact and mood of the scene…[Some]…indicate a tighter, more structured organisation of composition, a feature which became more pronounced over the years to come.’ (5) Fergusson had long been stimulated by working en plein air, in locations as varied as Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, the Scottish island of Islay and during summer painting trips to France with Peploe from 1904 to 1907. His enjoyment of responding directly and spontaneously to light and weather conditions, as well as to architectural and natural features, is clear in many of the paintings he created outdoors.In 1913, Fergusson left Paris in search of ‘more sun, more colour’ and settled on the Cap d’Antibes. (6) Due to the outbreak of World War One he moved to London, but returned to the French capital for a decade from 1929. World War Two prompted a move to Glasgow, where Fergusson died in 1961.(1) Alice Strang et al, D. Fergusson, Edinburgh 2013, p.16.(2) J. D. Fergusson, Modern Scottish Painting, Glasgow 1943, p.70.(3) Kirsten Simister, Living Paint: J. D. Fergusson 1874-1961, Edinburgh 2001, p. 39.(4) J. D. Fergusson quoted by Margaret Morris in The Art of J. D. Fergusson: A Biased Biography, Glasgow 1974, 2010 edition, p. 53.(5) Simister op.cit., p. 42.(6) J. D. Fergusson, ‘Memories of Peploe’, Scottish Art Review, vol. viii, no.3, 1962, p.31.

Juan Carlos Ferrigno (b. 1960). Jordan's First Victory, artist signed limited edition print number 749/850, with driver signature, 46cm x 54cm.

* Knox (Ian). The Stormont Orchestra, 2nd edition, published for Down's Syndrome Association, 2000, colour print with numerous facsimile signatures of the famous political personages featured in the illustration to white borders, signed and numbered 214/500 by the artist lower right, 40 x 58 cm, framed and glazedQTY: (1)NOTE:The saxophone soloist is President Clinton, among the string section are David Trimble, John Hume, Gerry Adams et al, with Ian Paisley Sr on the bass drum, etc.; and in the audience are those who have contributed to 'The Peace Process' including Bertie Ahern, Nelson Mandela, Mo Mowlam, Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson. The first edition comprised 1,000 signed and numbered copies, likewise with facsimiles of all the autographs except the artist.

Rufus (Quintus Curtius). De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, 1st Giunta edition, Florence: Phillipi Juntae, 1517, woodcut device to final text leaf verso, copious early marginal notations to first few gatherings (sporadic later in volume), marginal light spotting & dust-soiling, hinges tender, 18th-century brown speckled sheep gilt, lacking title label to spine, remnants of label to spine base, rubbed, some wear to joints, 8vo, together with:Heinsius (Daniel). Laus Asini tertia parte auctior : cum alijs festivis opusculis... Leiden: Elzevir, 1629, engraved title, woodcut initials & emblems to text, light dust-soiling & spotting, hinges tender, contemporary limp vellum with old red colouring (faded in parts), small manuscript title to spine head, rubbed, lacking ties, 24moQTY: (2)NOTE:Filippo Giunta (1450-1517), founder of the House of Giunta in Florence. Edited by Lucas Robia.Isaac 13395.

Ovidius Naso (Publius). Metamorphoseon libri XV. Denuo collatis probatissimae fidei exemplaribus quam accuratissime emendati, 3 parts in one, Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringen, 1547, separate title to each part with woodcut device, first title with some light water stains, woodcut initials, first title with colophon to verso of final leaf, second and third titles with woodcut device of a ring to verso of final leaf, with the words 'sine fraude', 453, 431, and 421 pp. respectively, text entirely set in italic, four lines of contemporary manuscript text in brown ink to final leaf of Philomela, and another contemporary inscription in brown ink to verso of final leaf of the third part, contemporary elaborately gilt decorated red full morocco, raised bands to spine, a few small wormholes to foot of spine, 16moQTY: (1)NOTE:Pettegree & Walsby, French Books III & IV, 81339.This edition not in Adams (CO494 for the Gryphius edition of the same year).

Reissner (Adam). Jerusalem, die alte Haubtstat der Juden..., 1st edition, 2 volumes in one, Frankfurt: Georg Raben, Sigmund Feyrabend, Weygand Hanen Erben, 1563, first title printed in red and black, two folding/double-page woodcut plates of Jerusalem both showing identical images, but with differing correct signatures (folding plate strengthened to central fold), double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land, folding woodcut genealogical tree, double-page woodcut map of Holy Land, numerous text woodcuts (including a map), publisher from colophon, without final blank, leaves within gathering 'R' in first volume misbound, one leaf of text in volume 2 (B6) with repaired closed tear, damp staining particularly at front and rear, some browning and spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, without clasps, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:First Latin edition of Reissner's history and description of the city of Jerusalem before its destruction in the year 70/71, published in the same year as the original German edition which was translated by one of his students, Johann Heyden.

Nashe (Thomas, 1567-c.1601). A sammelband of 7 works, 1592-1600, comprising, in order: Nashes Lenten Stuffe, Containing, The Description and first Procreation and Increase of the towne of Great Yarmouth in Norffolke, 1st edition, 1599; Haue with you to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriel Harueys Hunt is vp, 1st edition, 1596; Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Diuell, 1593; Strange Newes, Of the intercepting certaine Letters, and a Conuoy of Verses, as they were going Pruilie to victuall the Low Countries, 1592; The Terrors of the night Or, A Discourse of Apparitions, 1st edition, 1594; [Attributed to John Lyly], Pappe with an hatchet. Alias, A figge for my God sonne, [1589]; A Pleasant Comedie, called Summers last will and Testament, 1600; all first or early edition issues published in London, all edges gilt, early 19th-century gilt-tooled calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, 4to (177 x 123 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Additional material bound in:A small portrait frontispiece of Nashe is mounted as frontispiece before the first title (19th-century reproduction from a 1597 original). At the start of the volume is a 4-page manuscript list of Nashe's works with notices of biographical accounts, written in a neat hand, probably by Robert Reeve, on laid paper with watermark of 'A. Smith'; a later manuscript note tipped in noting an account of Nashe's 2 plays published in the Retrospective Review for April 1828; this article copied in a neat contemporary hand and supplied on 3 part-folding pages at rear; a 4-page manuscript, in the same hand and on the same paper as the first list, giving a list of the volume's contents ('These have been long bound together in the same order'), and details of Nashe's works owned by the King's Library (24 items), the Marquis of Stafford (7 items), the Malone collection ('The Tragedie of Dido... by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nash Gent 1594'), the Garrick collection (Summers Last Will and Testament), the British Museum (6 items as referenced by Beloe's Anecdotes) and a final note by Reeve that 'Nash also wrote a play called "The Isle of Dogs” turned from a comedie into a tragedie. But it does not appear to have been printed.'Provenance: Thomas Smyth (possibly Sir Thomas Smyth of Hill Hall, Essex, c. 1602-1668): early name inscription to second title; Robert Reeve (died 1840), attorney-at law in Lowestoft, Suffolk: ownership inscription to front pastedown: ‘Robert Reeve, Lowestoft’; J[eremiah] J[ames] Colman (1830-1898) and his son Robert James Colman (1861-1946), of the J. & J. Colman mustard business, Norwich, Norfolk: armorial bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper.An extraordinary, and possibly unique, sammelband of rare works by the legendary prose writer Thomas Nashe. The only comparable items identified are a handful of multi-pamphlet volumes offered at auction centred on John Lyly and the Marprelate controversy. This collection of seven works was apparently bound by the former owner Robert Reeve, circa 1820, who notes that the items had been together in this order long since before he owned them. The missing two leaves in the final work are supplied in printed ‘facsimile’ and appear to have been specially set by Reeve at the time of binding; as such these two leaves are probably unique. For more information concerning editions and issue points the standard reference is the 5-volume works edition edited by Ronald B. McKerrow, 1904-10, with extra information obtained from ESTC, STC and Pforzheimer.Thomas Nashe (or Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and pamphleteer. He is often considered the most brilliant and inventive prose writer of Elizabethan England. His subject range was wide as demonstrated in these seven works here. It is thought he collaborated with his friend Christopher Marlowe on Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogs (now lost) and Shakespeare on the Henry VI plays. In pamphlets such as Pierce Penniless he was involved in a defence of the Church of England. He was attracted to the Martin Marprelate controversy by his hatred of puritanism, being employed by the bishops to write against the works of fictional character Martin Marprelate. His lengthy and vicious quarrel with Gabriel Harvey was instrumental in defining English prose style and became so troubling that the authorities closed down the printing presses and issued a life ban on writing to both Harvey and Nash (1599).Nashes Lenten Stuffe (1599) was Nashe’s last work and written after he went on the run from the London authorities following the furore surrounding a performance of his and Ben Jonson’s Isle of Dogs (1597). Have with You to Saffron-Walden was a response to Gabriel Harvey during their lengthy feud. Pierce Penniless contains an attack on both Richard Harvey, the astrologer and the Marinist, who, as part of the Marprelate controversy, had been waging a pamphlet war attacking the episcopacy of the Anglican church. Strange Newes contains Nashe’s fierce response to Harvey’s demolition of the recently deceased writer, Robert Greene. In The Terrors of the Night Nash sceptically considers dreams, nightmares, and apparitions, which he considers born of superstition, melancholy or imagination. Pappe with a hatchet is now believed to have been written by John Lily, though its inclusion here leaves open the idea that Nashe may have had some involvement in it, and besides it is one of the pamphlets in the Marprelate controversy. The last item, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, is Nashe’s only extant solo-authored play, a comedy notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama.For the unabridged description with full details of each individual work please see the virtual catalogues and description on our website.

Guiccardini (Lodovico). La Historia d'Italia... , Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1569, [1568], large printer's woodcut device to title, engraved portrait of the author, table within ornamental borders, separate title and pagination with the same printer's woodcut device and imprint details to second part, 'I quattro ultimi libri dell'historia d'Italia', lacks final blank, some browning throughout, armorial bookplate of John Towneley [1697-1782) and gift name stamp of R.P. Knight to facing flyleaf, later vellum, rubbed and heavily soiled, 4toNOTE:Provenance: Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824). An early edition to include the final four Books, not included in the first edition of 1561.

[Rastell, William]. A Table Collected of the yeres of our Lord God, and of the yeares of the kings of England, from the first yeare of William Conquerour: shewing how the yeares of our Lord God, and the yeares of the Kings of England concurre and agree together, by whiche Table it may be quickly accompted, how many yeares, moneths & dayes be past, since the making of any evidences, instruments, or writings, that have their dates of the yeres of the kinges reignes, and not dates of the yeres of our Lord God. And also it shal be redily seene, in what yeare of our Lord God those evidences, Instruments, or wrytings were made, Imprinted at London by [H. Middleton? for] John Waley, 1571, A-L8, black letter text, large woodcut to verso of title depicting God the Father and the Holy Ghost, and Mary (?) carrying the Cross, minor loss to lower blank fore-margin of title, not affecting text, final leaf of text with printer's imprint: Ex officina Joannis Waley Typographi. Anno a virgineo partu M.D.LXXI Mens. Martii, and woodcut device of a maiden and figure of death, generally a clean copy, with 65 pages of additional manuscript chronology in brown ink at end (from 1577 to 1771), and a further 19 blank leaves, inkstamp of Cornwell House to front endpaper, 18th century full calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of joints, small 8vo (textblock 14 x 8.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 20738; EEBO 0018. An edition of William Rastell's A table collected of the yeres of our Lorde God, and of the yeres of the kynges of England, from the fyrst yere of William Conquerour, first published in 1558. William Rastell (1508-1565), English printer, lawyer and man of letters, who edited the works of his uncle, Thomas More. He rose to the position of treasurer at Lincoln's Inn in 1549 but was forced to go into exile at Leuven by the Protestant policies of Edward VI. He returned to England following the accession of Queen Mary in 1553, going into exile once again in 1563.