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Beano special edition and Dandy comics. UK P&P Group 2 (£20+VAT for the first lot and £4+VAT for subsequent lots)

EARLY POEMS OF WILLIAM MORRIS FIRST EDITION/FIRST IMPRESSION 1914 BOOK

A First Edition Georges Duby & Guy Lobrichon, 'The History of Venice in Painting' book by Abbeville Press. Featuring gilt decoration and printed slip case.

A shelf of vintage and modern books, including 1928 first edition of Prince Charlie and the border land, of predominantly military and war interest.

Art and Photography. Nudes and related. Includes: Hill, Oliver - The Garden of Adonis. London: Philip Allan & Co. 1923, first edition. See images for other titles. (7)

First Edition. Dahl, Roald - Over To You: 10 Stories of Flyers and Flying. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. Original cloth, no dust jacket. (1)

Children's. A. A. Milne. When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., mixed editions but all 1928. Four works, Octavo, original tan leather, pictorial gilt designs to spines, and gilt author's monogram to front boards, all edges gilt, endpapers and text-illustrations by E. H. Shepard. With wear to extremities - including some minor loss to head and tail of spines and corners. House at Pooh Corner having some old damp/water damage to lower portion of boards, which has caused some minor staining internally and some rippling to the pages (see images). Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young both have a small neat former owner signature to upper margin of f.e.p. This is the Deluxe, 'Monogram', edition; issued as a set in 1928. The volumes respectively belong to the seventeenth, seventh, fourth and first editions thus. (4)

Natural History. Coward, T. A. - The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs - first series, 2nd edition, 1925 & second series, third edition, 1926. With; a 1947 reprint set in three volumes. (5)

Children's. Beatrix Potter. Two titles: The Story of Miss Moppet [Concertina Book in Wallet]. London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1906. First edition, with 'Frederick / Warne & Co. / London & / New York' on reverse. Worn at extremities with loss to 'tab' area. With; a pre-1919 The Tailor of Gloucester. (2)

Maps. John Speed's England: a coloured facsimile of the first edition. Part four. Edited by John Arlott. Phoenix House Limited: 1954. In slipcase. (1)

Art. Sherree Valentine Daines: First Impressions. 2007. Four copies - one first edition hardback in dust jacket, another unread in shrink-wrap and two of the Deluxe Limited Editions in the cloth-covered slipcases (both unread in plastic wrap). A nice group. (4)

Children's. Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Not a first edition or one of the early printings - likely a 1905-1910 impression. (1)

Children's. Beatrix Potter. First Edition, Second Impression. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1909. With the signboard illustration on page 14. Original binding, spine detached. (1)

Two Coalport Limited Edition Golden Age Figures -Georgina & Eugenie First Night at the Opera

Coalport Matt Lady Figures First Waltz & Mademoiselle Claudette (limited Edition)

A collection of Exclusive First Edition OO scale Model Buses including E10102, E10203, Dundee Courier 10113, Brylcream Bus 11105 etc (11)

A First Edition of The Angler's Mail Newspaper, Thurs 11 June 1964 and six Editions of Fishing Fri Feb 22 1963 to Fri March 29 1963

STOT21stCplanB Lock Him up And Throw Away The Key  Screen print on art paper Limited edition numbered 10/50 With STOT21stCplanB official stamp  Measures approx. 54cm x 48cm (21" x 19") STOT21stCplanB (sometimes pronounced STOT twenty one with a silent ‘stCplanB’) started out as a zero-ambition noise/alt-country rock band, releasing the nihilistic CDR only LP Satan’s Rat Trap and the Mouse that Wound Up Dead (2004) and the flood/love/disaster themed mini-LP Up To Yer Neck In It (2005), before turning attentions towards visual art disruption.  Describing themselves as Neo-Nothingist Anartists, three years of intense creativity followed, exploring and dealing with notions of “the puerile”, where the duo worked in a multiplicity of mediums from photo-montage, printmaking, painting, to political campaigning, crockery and making fake Banksy's under the name Not Banksy.  In 2008, collaborators THE AQUARIUM L-13 (predecessor to the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop) hosted a fundraising event for Ken Livingstone’s mayoral campaign. STOT21stCplanB declared they would stand against him and put forward their own candidate known only as THE ASSISTANT. Despite designing some fantastic campaign posters they failed to get to the first stage of the elections and in bitter disappointment declared semi-retirement at the end of 2008.  The next 13 years were spent mostly painting landscapes and religious scenes of violence under the name Harry Adams, emerging occasionally for one-off projects, eventually succumbing to popular demand and re-activating the Not Banksy project in 2018.  Making and selling Not Banksy's kept them very busy for several more years, culminating in the publication a memoir: The Not Banksy Book: Lying, Cheating, Stealing and the Death of Art Vol 13, L-13 Press 2021 (aka The Lob-a-Knob Book).

Nick Walker (British, b.1969) Untitled Stencil spray paint in colours on art paper Monogrammed   Framed in black wooden frame Measures approx. 42cm x 29 cm (16 1/2" x 22.11 1/2") Nick Walker (British, b1969) is one of the world’s best known street artists. Born in 1969, he emerged from the infamous and ground-breaking Bristol graffiti scene of the early 1980s. As a forerunner of the British graffiti phenomenon, Nick’s work has become a blueprint for hundreds of emerging artists. His work is constantly evolving and remains innovative, modern and thought-provoking. Nick draws on the energy and imagery of graffiti but he succeeds in combining the freedom the spray can brings, with very controlled and intricate stenciling. The results are highly sophisticated and infinitely desirable. The methods he uses retain their forcefulness and integrity on the traditional medium of canvas. Nick Walker’s instantly recognisable style and humour have gain ed him a worldwide following. In 2008 Nick had sellout shows in LA and London, where collectors queued for over 24 hours to be among the first to get his latest print edition. In 2008, his iconic Moona Lisa sold over ten times its estimated value at auction at Bonhams. Over the years Nick’s work has been accoladed by the media and has attracted headlines worldwide, including the front page of the Independent arts magazine and the Observer’s round up of the year’s biggest events of 2008.

Various Artists First Great Weston, 2008 Limited Edition Collaboration Print Limited edition No. 18 / 40 Signed and numbered to bottom in pencil by each artist (apart from Banksy and Nick Walker) Published by Let Them Hang with blind stamp 50 x 70cm (19.5" x 27.5") Artists who participated: Mau Mau, Dicy, (Graham) Paris, Mr Jago, China Mike, Eco, Mudwig, Ziml, Will Barras, Richt, Darren Groucutt, Xenz, Banksy Nick Walker, What Collective?, Sickboy. This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Billy Childish (British, 1959)  I Am Here to Build Jurrusolom - Poems & artworks Hand painted cover by artist Pencil sketched self portrait of Billy Childish on the first page, signed and dated 04 Limited edition of 4/400  Copyright 2003 Billy Childish Published by The Aquarium for Sex Crimes of The Futcher at Simon Finch Art 30 Sep - 30 Oct 2004 Measures approx. 37cm x 22cm x 1.5cm

MisterAitch (British, b.1967) Untitled Queeny gag Print on canvas Limited edition numbered 1/1  MisterAitch official stamps Measures approx. 48cm x 48m (19" x 19") .  Misteraitch’s (British, b 1967) first verified exhibition was ’Rank’: picturing the social order 1516 – 2009 at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland in 2009, and the most recent exhibition was Hints to Workmen at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland in 2010. Misteraitch is exclusively exhibited in United Kingdom. Misteraitch has at least no solo shows but 3 group shows over the last one years (for more information, see biography). A notable show was Rank - Picturing the social order 1516-2009 at Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, Lancashire in 2009. Another notable show was at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland. Misteraitch has been exhibited with Nina Beier & Marie Lund and Chad McCail.

Steve Lazarides (British, b. 1969) after Banksy Get a move on 320gsm Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl print Limited Edition No. 20 of 200 Signed, numbered & stamped by Steve Lazarides Printed by Magic Max 59 x 42cm (23.5" X 16.5") With certificate of authenticity from Steve Lazarides' private collection. Steve Lazarides is a British-Greek Cypriot publisher, photographer, collector and curator. He has helped popularise street art and underground art. In the 1980s, he started out with a Nikon F-mount camera documenting his surrounding environments as a photography student. He subsequently worked as a photographer for Sleazenation, where he was employed as photography director from 1996 till 2001.  Commissioned by Sleazenation to photograph Banksy's portrait in 1997, he continued to work with the artist, including as the anonymous artist's driver and photographer, before eventually becoming his gallerist. Lazarides and Banksy also launched the 'Pictures on Walls' website in 2001 to promote graffiti art, and widened their scope to work with a larger roster of street artists. He created an in-house print studio, Lazarides Editions, and worked with the artists to create prints to share with the art community.  In 2016, Lazarides began curating his personal photography archive of 100,000 images containing roughly 12,000 photographs he took whilst documenting the career of Banksy, and self-published them as two books, Banksy Captured Volume I & Volume II. Lazarides self-distributed the first and second editions of the two volumes, resulting in sales of over 5,000 copies within a month, at the end of 2019. Banksy Captured Volume II, features further photography and commentary, and was published in March 2021. Volume Two includes reportage from Banksy's 2006 Los Angeles exhibition "Barely Legal", images of the artist's unauthorised installation inside London's Natural History Museum during 2004. Banksy Captured Volume I & Volume II were both self-published via Lazarides' Laz Emporium venture. This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End: from the personal collection of Vivian Stanshall, assorted items relating to the 1980 film starring Trevor Howard, comprising a large number of black and photographic stills and other photos, a copy of the accompanying vinyl album (Virgin / Charisma CHC 83), a cassette copy of the same, a 'Special Jury Prize' certificate, issued by the 4th Oxford International Film Festival 1980, and the Eel Pie book, first edition. This lot, along with all others in the sale, has been consigned for sale by Vivian's son, Rupert. Please see the following article on our website for further background.https://www.dawsonsauctions.co.uk/news-item/dawsons-announce-sale-of-selected-items-from-the-collection-of-vivian-stanshall/?pc=16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Stanshall

JOHN MASEFIELD AND EDWARD SEAGO: TRIBUTE TO BALLET, London, Collins, 1938, First edition.Limited edition, number 5/100 (only 94 copies were actually produced for commercial sale), signed by both Masefield and Seago.Fading and wear to spine, lacking original slipcase.

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, original brown pictorial boards, unopened and uncut, paper spine label with very light crease and small spot, otherwise fine, preserved in hand-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Roberts A42a.], 4to, Florence, privately printed, 1928.

Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in the original monthly parts, 8 parts in 7, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), p.213 correctly numbered, lacking the "Advertiser" from the last 3/4 parts, several others wanting but with substitutes provided from other issues, original blue printed wrappers, the last 3/4 parts with covers substituted from earlier parts with the part numbering and dates neatly altered, preserved in modern custom chemise and crimson morocco slip-case with pull-off top, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1859. *** "Exceeded in scarcity only by Pickwick and Sketches by Boz" (Eckel) and being the final collaboration between Dickens and his illustrator Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), the novel first appeared in the weekly journal "All the Year Round" from 3rd April to 26th November 1859. 

India.- Terry (Edward) A Voyage to East-India, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map and 3 plates, M3 headline and pagination trimmed, a few early ink annotations, contemporary sheep, slightly scuffed, [Wing T782], 8vo, Printed by T.W. for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, 1655.*** An excellent copy. Terry spent three years in India as chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

James (M.R.) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition, frontispiece and 3 plates by James McBryde, 16pp. advertisements at end, ink ownership name on front free endpapers, some scattered spotting to early pp., original cloth, yapp edges, spine browned, chip to spine tail, an excellent example, [Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, 1973, pp.100-105; Tymn 3-125], 8vo, 1904.

Leroux (Gaston) The Phantom of the Opera, first English edition, 6pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1910 at rear, very occasional spotting, pencil inscription "File Copy" and ink inscription "please return to Curtis Brown" to front free endpaper (a little chipped), hinges cracked but firm, original black cloth lettered and decorated in white, spine rubbed, spine ends chipped, some splitting to head and foot of upper joint, corners a little worn, light marking to upper cover, 8vo, Mills and Boon, Limited, 1911.*** Leroux's classic gothic mystery novel, in the rare black cloth. Copies are usually found in either red or black cloth bindings with the latter seemingly far more rare though without any established priority. Albert Curtis Brown (1866-1945) was a prominent literary agent who worked closed with Mills and Boon during this period.

Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) De summo pontifice Christi in terris vicario, eiusque officio & potestate, first edition, collation: *8 A-T8 V4, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials and tail-piece, errata to final verso, title with library ink stamps and small paper labels at foot (the latter obscuring majority of final line of imprint), some worming to inner margins (mostly at beginning and end, including title), final f. with small blue ink numbers in upper margin and couple of very small wormholes within text with loss of a couple of letters (without loss of sense), occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, early ink manuscript initials 'VTR' within circles to upper cover, spine soiled, with small hole and large printed library label, lacking ties, 8vo (141 x 97mm.), Louvain, John Fowler, 1569.  *** Rare copy at auction of the first edition of this treatise on the office of the papacy, written by the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. It was published after his death in 1558. John Fowler (1537-1578), English Catholic scholar and printer at Louvain and Douai.Literature: Adams P1746. 

Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light toning to upper edge and spine, one or two very minor nicks to upper edge, otherwise a fine copy, 8vo, 1962.

Wodehouse (P.G.) William Tell Told Again, first edition, first issue, the dedication copy, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Biddy from P.G. Wodehouse, Dec 25 1904" on front free endpaper, with "O'Sullivan" ownership stamp on pastedown, cut newspaper clipping from December 8th 1904 tipped onto front free endpaper, frontispiece and 15 plates by Philip Dadd, light spotting to endpapers, damp-staining affecting first few pages, and occasionally to some plates or captioned tissue guards, some marginal toning and foxing, marginal tissue repairs to pp.17/18, 29/30, and tissue guard and plate VI, original pictorial cloth, light rubbing to extremities, lightly faded and damp-stained, [McIlvaine A5a], 4to, 1904.*** The dedication copy of this rare early Wodehouse work.For years, the dedicatee Biddy O'Sullivan remained a mystery to the Wodehouse community, and it was not until 2006 that she was identified by Norman Murphy as the then three-year-old daughter of Denis O’Sullivan (1869–1908), an actor and singer who was a friend of Wodehouse in the early 1900s.Altogether a unique Wodehousian item, dedicated to the young Biddy on Christmas day.   

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression, map endpapers, illustrations, frontispiece and 3 colour plates, very light toning to endpapers and very faint spotting on half-title and occasionally throughout, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine ends neatly repaired, extremities a little rubbed and frayed, light surface toning and marking, still overall an excellent copy, [Hammond A3a], 8vo, 1937 [but 1938]. *** See previous lot for publication details. 

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Cain; A Mystery, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and one plate, ex-library with bookplates and small ink-stamp to title, both plates and few other ff., occasional very light spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked but majority of spine lacking, small paper label to upper cover, rubbed, B. Johnson, 1823; Heaven and Earth, A Mystery, ex-library with ink-stamp to upper wrapper and a few ff. and ink reference to foot of Dramatis Personae f., a touch frayed at lower corner, some soiling, original wrappers bound in, later half morocco, blind-stamp to upper cover, extremities rubbed, Benbow, 1824; and others by the same, many rare editions, including the first American edition of the Deformed Transformed (1824), 8vo & 12mo (14)

Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, first edition, second issue (with November in colophon), collation: a-z8 A-K8 aa-zz8, lacking final 2ff. (blanks), titles in Greek and Roman type, text in Greek type, titles with woodcut basilisk devices, woodcut initials and head-pieces, woodcut printer's device to colophon verso, manuscript decorative borders in red to titles, and likewise manuscript single rule border with line numbers in red throughout, ink ownership inscription to first title and notes to colophon and endpapers in early hands, some minor soiling, later calf, spine and joints worn, 16mo (113 x 70mm), Paris, Robert Estienne, [November,] 1546.*** First edition, second issue, of Estienne's Greek New Testament. Literature: Adams B1657; Mortimer, French, 74; Renouard, Estienne, 65:2; Schreiber 90; Darlow & Moule 4616.

Byroniana.- [Colton (Charles Caleb)] Remarks Critical and Moral on the Talents of Lord Byron, and the Tendencies of Don Juan, first edition, half-title, small embossed library stamp to title, uncut in original plain wrappers with ms title in ink to upper cover, uncut, sewn as issued, covers slightly soiled and frayed, later tied into library cloth covers, 8vo, Printed for the Author, 1819.*** Rare. WorldCat locates copies at Cambridge and National Library of Scotland only.

Newton (Sir Isaac) Optical lectures read in the publick schools of the University of Cambridge, first edition, 13 engraved folding plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detahced, lower joint cracked but holding, extremities worn, [Wallis 190], 8vo, Francis Frayham, 1728.*** Perhaps the rarest Newton imprint, publishing Newton’s lectures on Opticks while lecturing at Cambridge in 1669; the publication of this English translation precedes that of the Latin original. The substance of these lectures anticipate the contents of the 1704 Opticks. Provenance: Richard ?Pooler [ink inscription to title head and front endpaper]

Judaica.- Herzl (Theodor) A Jewish State. An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question, first edition in English, translated by Sylvie d'Avigdor, half-title, ink stamps to title and scattered elsewhere, browning and spotting to peripheral leaves, front free endpaper loose and brittle, contemporary half cloth, rubbed, housed within a morocco-backed clam-shell cloth box, 8vo, David Nutt, 1896.*** Rare: the first edition in English, far scarcer at auction than the German original printed the same year. Herzl's Zionist manifesto, has been seen as as one the most important works of modern Jewish history. 

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first edition of the Bible printed in St. Petersburg, engraved title bordered by nine lush cartouches with allegorical images, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, engraved illustration at head of Genesis depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, numerous woodcut decorations and initials, text leaves within typographic borders, first few ff. washed and cleaned, some marginal water-staining, mostly to last two dozen leaves, contemporary calf, upper cover blind-stamped central oval with imperial two-headed eagle with three crowns, framed with olive branches and flowers, lower cover with vignette of a floral motif, spine titled in gilt and with raised bands, marbled endpapers, faded gilt edges, rubbed, head of spine and one section restored (leather added, not recently), folio (408 x 258mm.), St. Petersburg, V Tipografii Alexandro-Nevskogo Monastyria, 1751.*** The first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible", the collective name for the translation of the Bible into Church Slavonic, published during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The text was based on the translations to Church Slavonic done in Ostrog in 1570s (which resulted in the production of the Ostrog Bible in 1580) and Moscow in 1660s (Bible printed in 1663 in Moscow). The edition here was officially the third Bible, produced for Orthodox Christians of Russia.  It first appeared in print in 1751 in St. Petersburg after more than 10 years of preparation. The print-run was quickly sold out and was followed by 11 editions during the eighteenth century. Provenance: 18th century signature in ink: “M., Ushakov " on title verso. On the front cover, over the two-headed eagle the image of an anchor is scratched. These two signs of ownership might suggest some association to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817) the famous naval officer of 1780-1810s, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Wilson, of Hertfordshire (Mrs. Mary) The Ladies Complete Cookery; or, Family Pocket Companion, first and only edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occasional ink scribbles or marking, title repaired without loss of text (touching one letter), O5 very small hole within text, with loss of 2 letters verso, but no loss of sense of text, repaired tear at foot of final f. without loss of text, the odd very short marginal tear, spotted, some staining, including the odd instance of ink, lightly browned, new endpapers, modern half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, [Maclean p.152], large 12mo, Printed for the authoress, and sold by J. Roson, No. 54. St. Martins le Grand, [c.1770].  *** Rare first and only edition. This is the only copy we can trace at auction (last sold Dominic Winter, 3rd September, 2006, lot 201, £1782.). It is not found in the majority of the standard bibliographies. Provenance: 'Ann Tindall' (contemporary ink signature to head of title); John L. Marks, 'Chippendale', Earlswood (modern bookplate to front pastedown). 

Charity School Binder.- Blake (William) The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or a Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the ease of carrying of it on, first edition, drop-head title, 4 engraved plates, one with ink '17' to upper corner, lacking petition leaf and final blank, previous owner's ink signature to verso of one plate, faint staining to C2 & C3, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary black morocco, probably by the Charity School Binder, g.e., central gilt lozenge and panel, surrounded by flowers, leaves, vases, parrots head tool, 4 raised spine bands, richly gilt spine, small loss to spine foot, stab marks to fore-edges where ties were, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, [1670]. *** The binding of this example is very similar to the example in Maggs cat. 1075 item 75. With the 4 plates, entitled "Father Time", "Charity", "Front elevation of the School" and "Butterflies". Copies frequently lack one or more plate since they were used as receipts and "hung up in the School-house". William Blake of Covent Garden, was a woollen draper, the son of Francis Blake of Highgate, and founder and house-keeper of the Ladies Charity School on Highgate Hill.Provenance: Early ink signature of Hannah Pettifer. Ink signature of David Davies, dated 1799.

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression, map endpapers, illustrations, frontispiece and 3 colour plates, small ownership inscription on front free endpapers, original cloth, boards lightly bowed, small strip of fading to extremities, otherwise excellent, dust-jacket, some chips and nicks to extremities, light patch of spotting to upper panel, light spotting to flaps and fore-edge, [Hammond A3a], 8vo, 1937 [but 1938]. *** Rare in jacket.The second impression was the first version of the book to be illustrated in colour: the first impression had two plates only, both of which were uncoloured. A total of 2,300 copies were printed, and some 400 held at the binder's London warehouse were destroyed during the Blitz in November 1940. 

Brewing.- Watkins (George) The Complete English Brewer; or, the Whole Art and Mystery of Brewing, in all its Various Branches, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers renewed, later half calf over orange marbled boards, spine with later (but sympathetic) blind-stamped decoration, gilt horizontal rules and red morocco label, head of spine little worn, rubbed, [Maclean p.149], large 12mo, Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespeare's Head, in Paternoster Row, [c.1770]. *** A very good copy of this rare edition at auction. First published as The Compleat English Brewer in 1767. 

Macedonia.- Justinus (Marcus Junianus) Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias, collation: a8 b-l6, 67 ff. (of 68, lacking initial blank), 55 lines, Roman type, final ‘Registrum’ f., initials in red or blue, the first with a marginal flourish in purple ink, a few very small wormholes (mostly in margins), occasional spotting or light staining, ?washed, modern green calf, spine in compartments and with gilt title, little stained and marked, folio (305 x 203mm.), [Venice], [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis & Albertinus Rubeus Vercellensis], [after 1487 [-?c.1498]].  *** A wide-margined copy of this rare edition at auction of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus; his history of the Kings of Macedonian Empire. Literature: BMC V, 420; Goff J-621; HC 9655; BSB-Ink I-670; GW M15648; ISTC ij00618500.  

Economics.- Smith (Adam) An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 4 vol., occasional light spotting, minor loss to bottom corners of vol. 1 Q3 and vol. 4 R4, otherwise a bright and clean copy, contemporary half calf, red morocco spine labels, rubbed in places, 8vo, Basel, J.J. Tourneisen, J.J. Le Grand, 1791. *** Scarce Swiss printing, in English, of Smith's landmark work, and the first edition to be printed outside of the United Kingdom. Provenance: J.J. Ekman Göyeborg (ownership stamp to front free endpapers).

Bible, Czech. Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular (ie Bohemian), collation: a–g10 h8 i–z A10 B8 C–Z AA BB10 CC8 aa–ll10 mm [*8], 585 leaves only (of 610), double column, 46-7 lines to a page, initial-letters and paragraph-marks supplied in red or yellow, aa1v large initial hand-coloured in red, green and blue, Register printed in red and black, lacking the first quire, b6 and 9, c5 and 6, d3 and 4, e8-10, f1, r10 and mm8, and 3ff. of the register (II, VII and VIII), c4 only partially preserved, about ten other leaves with cut-out or restored margins with some loss of text, many other leaves with marginal repairs or restoration but without loss of text, ee7 torn in text, some headlines shaved, many leaves browned and with stains, some early ink marginalia, later ink annotations on blank leaves at beginning and pencil annotations on some blank leaves regarding missing leaves,19th century sheep, gilt spine laid down, decorative endpapers, edges stained red, a large number of blank paper leaves bound in, modern calf-edged cloth slip-case, Super-Chancery folio (308 x 201mm.), Prague, Jan Pytlik, [Jan] Severin, Johann von Stoerchen, and Mathias vom Weissen Loewen, August 1488.*** First edition of the complete Czech Bible, and the first Bible printed in any Slavonic language. A year earlier in Prague, an anonymous press using a different font had printed a Czech Psalter (GW M36725); in Pilsen, ca. 1475-1476, an anonymous press had produced two editions of the New Testament in Czech, one folio (GW M45676, two copies) and one quarto (GW 45679: one copy, one fragment of 20 leaves).The incunable literature has misleadingly translated the last two publishers' names into German, but in the colophon their names are in Czech, i.e. “Johann von Störchen” is “Jan od apuow”, the equivalent of modern Jan Apek. The colophon explains the status of the financial backers of this historic and very expensive production: "Those eminent men and citizens Master John Pytlík, Master Severyn the Merchant, Alderman for this year, Master John of the Stork, and Master Mathias of the White Lion.First printed translations of the Bible: 1466 German; 1471 Italian; 1477 Dutch (NT) OT in 1525; 1478 Catalan; 1488 Bohemian (cf Czech 1579); 1498 French.Rarity: About 90 copies are believed to exist, most of which are incomplete. GW records 77 copies and fragments in institutions. Apart from this example, only 2 other copies (both incomplete) have appeared auction in the 20th century.Provenance: Dr. Joseph Liboslaw Ziegler (1782-1846), decanus in Chrudim (stamp); Sotheby’s London 17 March 1958 (£80 to Maggs).Literature: Goff B-620; GW 4323; ISTC ib00620000; BMC III 808 (IB.51405); BSB-Ink B-501; Bod-inc B-340E.

Astrology.- Scevolini (Domenico) Discorso...nel quale con le auttorita cosi de gentili, come de catolici si dimostra l'astrologia giudiciaria esser verissima & utilissima, first edition, collation: A-F4 G6, woodcut head-pieces and historiated initials, final f. blank, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, 19th century marbled boards, rubbed, small 4to (202 x 142mm.), Venice, Giordano Ziletti, 1565.  *** Rare copy at auction of this work on the influence of the stars on the fate of man, 'in which by the authority alike of Gentiles and Catholics it is shown that the judicial astrology is most true and most useful, condemning those who abuse it and impose necessity on human actions.' (Thorndike VI, pp.124-126). Literature: Houzeau & Lancaster I, 4893; Riccardi I, S 432; EDIT 16 CNCE 41109. 

[Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, third issue, half-title, most leaves with corners or margins repaired, original drab wrappers (laid down and repaired) bound in, ex-library copy with ink stamp to several leaves, loosely inserted facsimile of Byron's famous letter to the editor of Galignani's Messenger in which he denies authorship of The Vampyre, some light staining and soiling, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.*** The circumstances surrounding the birth of this work and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein during a night of ghost-story telling with Byron and friends, is well documented. This third issue, without Byron's name on the title, with the preliminaries reset to 23 lines and with the word "almost" in last line of p.36 missing the first letter.

Herbal.- Parkinson (John) Theatricum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, an Herball of a Large Extent, first edition, hand-coloured engraved title and over 2000 woodcut botanical illustrations in the text, additional printed title, lacks ?preliminary leaf (20 only of 22pp., ?blank), text 3I3 (supplied in manuscript) and index and errata at end, engraved title small tear with loss, trimmed, laid down and with a later border (partially removed), printed title timmed and laid down, hand-coloured engraved plate from another work bound in among preliminary ff., tears in 2Y4, 3I4 (with small loss), 4Q2 and 6G6, other smaller tears in numerous margins, browned, some foxing, new endpapers, modern morocco, gilt spine, pencil note on lower pastedown "1978 - This Book rebound in Oxford - RI & MW", [Blanche Henrey 286; STC 19302], folio, by Tho. Cotes, 1640; sold not subject to return.*** "Parkinson's second work, which occupied him for many years, was Theatrum botanicum (1640), with more than 1700 pages. This described some 3800 plants and showed his extensive reading of the period's authorities; of particular value was the almost entire incorporation of Caspar Bauhin's Pinax, for its synonyms. Parkinson divided plants into seventeen ‘tribes’, based partly on their medicinal qualities and partly on habitat. William How in 1655 roundly accused him of plagiarizing the work of Matthias L'Obel, but Parkinson had acknowledged his debt to him, and as one historian wrote, 'He has taken very little, for the simple reason that very little was worth taking' (Raven, 268). Certainly John Ray did not despise the work, for he termed it 'the most full and comprehensive book of that subject extant' (Raven, 272), and frequently quoted from it." - Oxford DNB.Provenance: Roger Warner (1913-2008), antiques dealer and collector.

De Quincey (Thomas) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, first edition in book form, lacking half-title and advertisement leaf at end, bookplate to front pastedown, the odd spot, modern dark blue calf by Hatchards, g.e., slightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, 12mo, Taylor and Hessey, 1822. *** “The most famous account of drug addiction in English literature.” - Norman.

Southey (Robert).- Cottonian binding.- [Mailles (Jacques de)] The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests, and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard, 2 vol., first edition, translated by Sarah Coleridge, half-titles, vol.1 with ownership signature of Katharine Southey at foot of half-title and with cut signature of her father Robert Southey at foot of title, some foxing, contemporary Cottonian binding of brown patterned cloth, paper spine labels slightly rubbed and chipped, 8vo, 1825.*** Many of Southey's books are bound in this fashion, executed by his daughters or female friends using coloured cotton prints over the original worn boards. They filled a room in his house which became known as the "Cottonian Library". This copy with the added bonus of bearing Southey's and his daughter's signature. A pencil note in a later hand on front free endpaper reads "Bought at Lairbeck Cottage Keswick after the death of Katharine Southey, August 1864."

Byroniana.- Battaglia (Alessandro) Sopra il Risorgimento della Grecia, first edition, errata slip at end with 2 ms addenda, broken, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine ends worn, uncut, 8vo, J. Booth, 1827.*** The dedication of this rare work, published in London, is to Lady Byron and Ada Byron (later Lovelace). Provenance: Nottingham Public Library (ink stamp to title verso and small embossed stamp to title); acquired from Alan G. Thomas, bookseller, with his cataloguing slip loosely inserted, dated May 1958 and the book priced at 30/-; Sir Francis Boileau from Lord Nugent's Library (pencil note on front pastedown and referred to in Thomas' note).

Blake (William).- Hayley (William) The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, 4 vol. in 3 including supplement, second edition, 5 engraved portraits and plates, 4 engraved by William Blake after others and one engraved by Caroline Watson, engraved tail-piece designed and engraved by Blake, second state of the "Weatherhouse" engraving as usual (only a few copies known of the first state), vol.3 a little browned, engraved bookplate of Mrs. Gosling, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners a little worn, joints split, [Bentley 468], Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803-06 § Blair (Robert) The Grave, a Poem, engraved portrait of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T.Phillips and engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, tissue guards, list of subscribers, some light marginal soiling but generally a good clean copy, tissue guards a little browned, original blind-stamped black cloth, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Bentley 435E], T.Bensley for R. Ackermann, 1813 [but John Camden Hotten, 1870]; The Grave...transposed into Rhyme, by G.W.Bulkley, first edition of this version, signed and dated by Bulkley and with extensive ink manuscript corrections by him to the first four lines and a few others, book-label of J.O.Edwards, old blue cloth, cockled and lightly stained, spine faded, 1833, 4to & 8vo (5)

Foscolo (Ugo) Vera storia di due amanti infelici, ossia Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, 2 parts in 1, first edition, divisional title, engraved medallion portrait frontispiece, ink note front endpaper and ownership inscription final leaf part 1, foxing, upper hinge weak, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt but ends worn with portions chipped, wear to upper joint, 16mo, [Bologna], [Jacopo Marsigli], 1799.*** The extremely rare first edition of Foscolo's masterpiece, which is considered the first Italian epistolary novel - here in the 'Austrian' issue known as '1799A', printed during the Austrian occupation of Bologna. 

Ballard (J. G.) The Drowned World, first English [and first hardback] edition, very faint spotting to fore-edge, original boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jacket, light toning to edges, spine ends a little chipped, one or two faint foxing marks to lower panel, 8vo, 1962.

Architecture.- Middleton (Charles) The Architect and Builder's Miscellany, or Pocket Library..., first edition, 60 charming etched plates and plans, many with aquatint, all but a few with early hand-colouring, ink ownership inscription front endpaper verso, contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco spine label, upper joint split at head, lower cracked but holding, scuffed, [Berlin Kat. 2310; Not in Abbey], 8vo, for the author, sold by J. Debrett et al., 1799.*** Delightful architectural pattern book with unusual plates by a pupil of James Paine, from primitive huts to grand mansions. The designs include Gothic cottages, Regency villas, Chinese and Turkish garden buildings.

Blake (William) The Book of Thel, second Muir facsimile, number 5 of 50 copies, 8 hand-coloured plates printed in green, with signed note of limitation by William Muir mounted on front free endpaper and signed "Number 5" slip on front pastedown, slight staining to head of first leaf (Thel's Motto) from slip pasted to previous leaf, modern half red calf, upper cover lettered in gilt, wormhole to head of upper joint, [Bentley 249B], 4to, Edmonton, William Muir, 1920.*** Muir's note states, "This Book is copied from a very richly coloured Original which was lent to me by Mr.Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly in 1887. I now issue this edition of fifty copies through Messrs. Quaritch of Grafton Street. London August 1920. Wm. Muir". This second edition was coloured after Copy J in the Houghton Library.

Waugh (Evelyn) Decline and Fall, first edition, first printing with ""Martin Gaythorne-Brodie"" and ""Kevin Saunderson"" unchanged on pp.168-9, frontispiece, very faint and occasional foxing marks, original cloth, near-fine, dust-jacket, usual fading to spine and extremities, a few nicks to edges, light surface marking to title label on upper panel but still overall a sharp and unrestored example, 8vo, 1928. *** An excellent example of Waugh's first novel, scarce in the dust-jacket.

Bio-Bibliography of Englishmen.- Pitts (John) Relationum historicarum de rebus Anglicis, Vol.1 [all published], first edition, title printed in red and black and with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final blank, title with small piece cut from upper blank corner, 6H4 lower corner torn just within text without loss, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip in compartments (with some loss at ends; later but to style brown leather label loosely inserted), rubbed and marked, thick 4to, Paris, Rolin Thierry Rolin Thierry & Sébastien Cramoisy, 1619. *** One of the earliest bio-bibliographies of Englishmen. It is divided into four parts: English writers; Kings; Bishops; and 'Apostolic men'. Three further parts remained in manuscript. The work concludes with a section listing Pitts' manuscript sources and an index. Pitts (1560-1616) was an English Roman Catholic scholar, who was a professor at the English College in Rheims, confessor and almoner to the Duchess of Cleves, and after her death Dean of Liverdun, where he died. Provenance: Sir Thomas Shirley (c.1590-1654), antiquary and Catholic recusant, for which he was heavily fined (ink signature to title); Henry Johnson (ink signature to upper corner of a2).