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Godwin (William) Lives of the Necromancers, first edition, bound without advertisements at end, contemporary half-calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1834.

Binding.- Scrope (William) The Art of Deer Stalking, first edition, additional pictorial title (dated 1839), frontispiece and 10 lithograph plates, light foxing and browning, including to additional title and plates, ink ownership inscription front endpaper, half morocco, spine gilt, two small instances of wear to spine, extremities lightly scuffed, 1838 § Voltaire. Candide, illustrations by Étienne Calo, illustrations with hand-colouring, 7 etched plates at rear, full green morocco, spine gilt, a little toned, presentation card slipcase, 1945 § Brontë (Emily) Wuthering Heights, translated by Henri Picard, colour illustrations by Jacques Camus, half morocco, spine a little toned, 1948; and 55 others bound in leather, v.s. (58)

Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 39 etched plates, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1839; David Copperfield, first edition, etched frontispiece and additional etched title, 38 plates, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1850; 8vo (2).

Britain.- An account of the constitution and present state of Great Britain, together with a view of its trade, policy, and interest, respecting other nations, & of the principal curiosities of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title and 7 plates, publisher's advertisement at end, ink ownership inscription dated 1762 to front free endpaper, small hole to N4, affecting a couple letters, occasional very light foxing, hinges cracked but covers holding firm, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, joints split with small loss along upper joint, [Roscoe J1 (1)], 12mo, for J Newbery, [1759].

James (Henry) The Princess of Casamassima, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol. 2 and 3, vol. 1 and 3 ink stamp to title, very occasional spotting, vol. 1 upper hinge beginning to crack at head, vol. 2 bookplate, lower hinge starting to crack, original blue/green cloth, vol. 2 spine lightly toned, tears along joints and suggestion of label having been removed from upper cover, each vol. house in protective cloth wraparound slipcase, presentation slip case with morocco spines, single stain and light wear to spine ends, [Edel & Laurence A29; Sadleir 1282; Wolff 3576], 8vo, London & New York, Macmillan and Co., 1886.⁂ Despite the faults mentioned, a very good copy of the first of James' 'political novels', of which 750 copies were printed in the first edition. 1886.

Britain.- The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Description of the British Islands, 3 vol. only (of 4, lacking atlas vol.) first edition, additional pictorial titles, 66 double-page colour maps, some spotting, contemporary red half morocco, gilt armorial crest to covers, spines gilt, joints and extremities a little rubbed, g.e., 4to, [1868].

NO RESERVE Tagore (Rabindranath) The Crescent Moon, first American edition, second impression, colour frontispiece and plates, New York, 1913; Songs of Kabir, first American edition, New York, 1915; The Post Office, New York, 1914; Gitanjali, previous owner's ink inscription, frontispiece, Nov. 1913, advertisements at end, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities ; and another on Tagore, 8vo (5)

Maxwell (William) They Came Like Swallows, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust-jacket spine lightly sunned, lower flap creased with tear along upper joint, very slight shelf-lean, New York, 1937 § Balmer (Edwin) and Philip Wylie. After Worlds Collide, the odd spot, spine ends bumped, dust-jacket with small loss to spine ends, Philadelphia & New York, [1944], some very light marginal toning, original cloth, dust-jackets with a few small chips and tears to extremities; and c.250 others, most literature, including a copy of The Constant Gardener with a bookplate signed by le Carré to title, v.s. (c.250)

Beresford (J. D.) The Hampdenshire Wonder, first edition, light spotting to initial pages, including title, original cloth, second state, spine mottled, dust-jacket, priced at 6/- on spine, some light surface soiling, mainly to spine, joints and folds, overall a sharp copy, 1911.

Bunting (Basil) Poems: 1950, one of a thousand copies, first edition, preface by Dallam Flynn, presentation inscription from Ezra Pound to front endpaper, ink annotation to rear endpaper (possibly in same hand), original printed wrappers, a little browned at spine and edge, 8vo, Galvestone (TX), The Cleaners Press, 1950.⁂ Inscription reads 'Marcella. 19 Dec 57'. Most probably addressed to Marcella Spann Booth, an Texan English literature scholar with whom Pound had a long correspondence and friendly relationship.

Christie (Agatha) The Secret of Chimneys, first edition, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, later morocco, gilt, lightly sunned spine, 8vo, 1925.

Disch (Thomas M.) On the Wings of Song, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1979; Under Compulsion, signed by the author, A.N.s. by the author to Janet Freer loosely inserted, 1968 § Disch (Thomas M., editor) The Ruins of Earth, signed by the editor, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1973, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to head and foot, otherwise excellent; and another, similar, 8vo (4)

NO RESERVE Francis (Dick) Odds Against, first edition, signed by author, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small tear to spine head, slight creasing to top edge, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1965.

Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis. Roman Prelozila Marie Dolejsi, first Czech edition, black and white photographic illustrations, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, spine and cover edges slightly toned, 8vo, Prague, 1927.⁂ This is the only edition which is illustrated with 66 still frames from the 1927 film directed by Harbou's husband, Fritz Lamb.

Joyce (James) Dublin-Noveller [Dubliners], first Swedish edition, original pictorial wrappers, light creasing to spine, short split to foot of upper joint, light rubbing to extremities, Stockholm, 1931 § Colum (Mary & Padraic) Our Friend James Joyce, first English edition, publisher's file copy with ink stamp to front pastedown and upper panel, original boards, dust-jacket, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1959; and another by Joyce, 8vo (3)

Kerouac (Jack) På Drift [On the Road], first Swedish edition, jacket with very short tear to head of lower joint with light creasing, some light rubbing to extremities, Stockholm, 1959 § Salinger (J. D.) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, first English edition, jacket with very light sunning to spine, light rubbing, 1963, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 others, American literature, 8vo (6)

Lawrence (D.H.) The White Peacock, first English edition, first issue, with pp. 227-230 tipped-in, endpapers browned, original cloth, first state, with publisher's device to lower cover, spine lightly sunned, ends and joints lightly rubbed, some minor surface wear to covers, 8vo, 1911.

Lawrence (Margery H.) The Unforgetting Heart, first edition, the dedication copy with signed presentation inscription "For Dale, from Margery, Xmas 1963" on dedication p., lacking front free endpaper, light edge spotting, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, vertical crease to upper panel, light rubbing to extremities, chip to foot of upper joint, an excellent copy, 8vo, 1963.⁂ The dedication copy of Lawrence's scarce novel, a supernatural historical romance. The recipient of this dedication and this copy is Dale Hope Parkinson.

Mailer (Norman) Barbary Shore, first English edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1952 § Roth (Philip) A Philip Roth Reader, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, original wrappers, light sunning to spine spine chipped at foot, New York, 1980; and 3 others, American literature, 8vo (5)

Walpole (Hugh) All Souls' Night, "Dominions Edition" ink stamp to title verso, ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, slight shelf-lean, rubbing to cloth at foot, jacket with light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, rubbed, 1933 § Merritt (Abe) Burn Witch Burn, browning to endpapers, jacket price-clipped, spotting to lower panel, 1955 § Bloch (Robert) Psycho 2, signed presentation inscription from the author, jacket with light sunning to spine, light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1982, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 2 others, horror, 8vo (5)

Burnett (Frances Hodgson) The Secret Garden, first edition, illustrated by Charles Robinson, 8 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 6pp. of advertisements at rear, occasional spotting, contemporary half green morocco, 1911 § [Watkins-Pitchford (Denys)] "B.B", The Little Grey Men, first edition, black and white illustrations by the author, very small amounts of faint spotting, original cloth, dust-jacket, lower panel (and flap) detached, spine defective, chipper at folds, 1942 § Kempson (F. Claude) The Sad End of Erica's Blackamoor, black and white illustrations, endpapers browned, hinges weak, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities a little rubbed, 1903; and 3 others, including a water-colour on card depicting Winnie-the-Pooh, v.s. (6)

NO RESERVE Clarke (Harry).- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery and Imagination, first edition, 24 plates by Harry Clarke, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1919.

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue with the six line colophon, fifth line reading "Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren and Co.", cut signature of the author laid down to half-title, illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, blind-stamped, dust-jacket, first state, with no ISBN number on lower panel, price clipped, light sunning to spine, light surface scuffing to upper panel, spine ends a little bumped and creased, overall excellent, 8vo, 1964.

NO RESERVE de Brunhoff (Jean) Babar's Travels, 1935; Babar the King, 1936, first English edition, illustrations, occasional faint marginal finger-soiling, slight creasing to front free endpaper of the first, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, (2).

Doyle (Richard) The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown, Jones and Robinson, first edition, illustrations, title with ink inscription to head and lightly soiled, some foxing, 1854; A Journal kept...in the year 1840, second edition, mounted frontispiece portrait, additional pictorial title (both foxed and loose), illustrations, 1886 § Caldecott (Randolph) "Graphic Pictures", colour illustrations, 1898 § Newbolt (Henry) Drake's Drum and other Songs of the Sea, tipped-in colour plates by A.D.McCormick, tissue guards, [1914], all original cloth, most pictorial, rubbed, the first recased & with new endpapers and stain to upper cover; and 9 others including 6 Peter Parley Annuals, v.s. (13)

Harris (Joel Chandler) Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, first edition, third state with "presumptuous" in final line on p.9 and 8pp. advertisements at end including reviews of the book, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and 7 plates by Frederick S.Church and James H.Moser, one or two spots, one gathering becoming loose, original pictorial dark green cloth, gilt, floral endpapers, spine and corners a little rubbed but upper cover clean and bright, 12mo, New York, 1881.⁂ A very good copy of this American children's classic.

Milne (A. A.) Now We are Six, first edition, half-title, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to spine foot, short tear to lower cover, rubbed, lightly sunned spine, chipping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1927.

Stevenson (Robert Louis) A Child's Garden of Verses, first edition, first issue, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, boards slightly mottled, 8vo, 1885.⁂ A good copy of the first issue of this classic book of poetry for children; with the apostrophe on spine like the number 7, "of" on spine in smaller type, and no mention of Two Series in list of other works by the author.

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha, 2 vol., first Nonesuch edition, one of a limited edition, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, vol 1. ink ownership inscription front endpaper, vol. 1 lacking final 2 (?) leaves of text (last p.498), text block split at vol. 1 pp.ix-1 and vol. 2 pp.2-3 (spine firm), vol. 2 a few instances of light marginal spotting or soiling, original calf with red morocco labels to spines, vol. 1 lightly sunned, vol 2. a couple of small dark stains (ink?) to upper cover, some light damp-staining, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, The Nonesuch Press, [1930].⁂ This edition is based on the 1743 seventh edition of the English translation by Peter Motteux, first published 1700-3. Motteux's translation was widely admired for its lucidity and wit throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The illustrator, E. McKnight Kauffer, is best known for his modernist poster art, the style of which is visible in his illustrations here.

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Baye (Joseph de, Baron) The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, first edition, 17 plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and slightly stained, split to lower joint, 1893 § Fox (Sir Cyril) Offa's Dyke, 1955 § Apted (M.) & others. Ancient Monuments and their Interpretation, London & Chichester, 177 § Carver (M., editor) In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz, Woodbridge, 1993, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets; and 15 others, British archaeology, v.s. (19)

Darwin (Charles) O Vzniku Druhu, first Czech edition of 'On the Origin of Species', folding plate, later cloth, extremities very lightly scuffed, Prague, 8vo, 1914.⁂ First Czech translation of Darwin's landmark "Origin of Species" which predates the Latvian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Slovenian translations by several years. The translator, Prof. F. Klapáilek was a prominent entomologist, founding member and the first chairman of the Czech Entomological Society.

Koudelka (Josef).- Photography.- Beranová (Libuse) Diskutujeme o morálce dneska, first edition, 13 photographic plates by Koudelka, of which 3 double-page, original white blind-stamped cloth, dust-jacket, some light discolouration to lower panel top edge, spine ends and corners a little bumped, oblong 4to, Prague, Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury, 1965.⁂ First and only edition of this first work, a scarce photobook by the renowned Czech-French photographer Josef Koudelka (b.1938).

Jackson (John) Chronological Antiquities, 3 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, Advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, browned, ex-library copy with labels, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, for the Author, 1752 § Clarac (Comte de) Description des Antiques du Musée Royal, original wrappers, rubbed and stained, spine worn, wrappers almost detached, Paris, 1820 § Lanzi (Ab. Luigi) Saggio di Lingua Etrusca e di Altre Antiche d'Italia, 3 vol., second edition, later half vellum, Florence, 1824-25 § Gsell (S.) Les Monuments Antiques de l'Algérie, 2 vol., photographic plates, illustrations, a few leaves in vol.1 bound upside down, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, Paris, 1901, all rubbed; and 7 others on antiquities, 4to & 8vo (16)

NO RESERVE Way (Thomas R.) Mr Whistler's Lithographs: the Catalogue, first edition, browned endpapers, 23 newspaper clippings relating to Whistler's death loosely inserted, original vellum-backed boards, slight bumping to corners, 1896 § Whistler (James McNeill) Catalogue of an Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points, New York, Frederick Keppel & Co., original paper wrappers, n.d.⁂ Including clippings from the New York Times; the New York Tribune and Sunday Tribune; the New York Herald; the Sunday New York Sun and; Harpers Weekly.

NO RESERVE Forestry.- Pontey (William) The Forest Pruner; or, Timber Owner's Assistant, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 7 plates, 3 folding and hand-coloured, scattered faint spotting, tiny marginal worming G1-H2, with 'The Rotten Reviewers' bound at end, later half-calf, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 8vo, Huddersfield, for the Author, by T. Smart, [1805].

NO RESERVE Weston (Richard) The English Flora. Flora Anglicana, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, additional titles in Latin, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, contemporary calf, expert restoration to spine ends, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, for the Author, 1775-80.

NO RESERVE Arctic.- Sabine (Edward, editor) The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle, first edition, half-title, engraved arms to general title and head of first page of each 'issue', without errata slip, endpapers, half-title and final text verso foxed, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, original boards, upper cover detached, spine and corners worn, some chipping, rubbed, [Sabin 55714; Arctic Bibliography 12547], 4to, John Murray, 1821.⁂ 'A weekly newspaper established by Parry's crew in 1819-20, 'to enliven the tedious and inactive months of winter in the Arctic region' (Sabin).

Electricity.- Romas (Jacques de) Mémoire sur les moyens de se garantir de la foudre dans les maisons; suivi D'une Lettre sur l'invention du Cerf-volant électrique, half-title, lacking folding frontispiece and plate, 3 woodcut headpieces, pastedowns and free endpapers with inscriptions in ink and pencil, some contemporary, scattered light spotting, some browning and damp-staining, contemporary vellum, spine with five raised bands and calf label with gilt lettering, rubbed and soiled, Bordeaux, Bergeret & Pissot, 1776; and 20 others, French, v.s. (21)⁂ First and only edition of this rare work on the lightning rod. The appendix reprints a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Romas, dated July 1754.

NO RESERVE Sciences.- Physics.- Bohr (Niels), H.A. Kramers and J.C. Slater. The quantum theory of radiation, first edition, in The Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, sixth series, Vol. 47, No.281, pp.785-802, general title with library stamps, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed, Taylor & Francis, 1924 § Crick (Francis) and Watson (James) Structure of small viruses, in Nature, Vol.177, No,. 4506, pp.473-475, library ink stamp to general title and labels to rear pastedowns, later library half cloth, lower joint split, but holding, rubbed, London, Macmillan and Co., 1956; and 6 others, most The Philosophical Magazine of the early 1920s, v.s. (8)

Sexual Health.- Stopes (Marie) Married Love, A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties, first edition, 2 charts, ink-stamps to pastedown, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional very light spotting and finger-soiling, some cracking at gutter, original blind-stamped cloth, small stain to lower cover, extremities lightly rubbed, spine a little sunned, A. C. Fifield, 4to, 1918.⁂ One of the first books to openly discuss birth control. Married Love was considered too controversial by a series of publishers between 1914 and 1918, accepted by Fifield & Co on the condition that the publication be funded by Humphrey Roe, Stopes' future second husband. It was an instant success, the first edition of 2000 copies selling out within two weeks.

Locke, Boyle & Newton.- Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique, vol.2 and 8 only, the first with Locke's review of Robert Boyle's De Specificorum Remediorum cum corpusculari Philosophia concordia (pp.263-277) and John Locke's Methode Nouvelle de Dresser des Recueils, Communique par l'Auteur (pp.315-340), the second with Locke's Extrait d'un Livre Anglois qui n'est pas encore publie, intitule Essai Philosophique concernant l'Entendement (pp. 49-142) and his review of Newton's Naturalis Philosophiae Principia Mathematica (pp.436-450), uniform later half cloth, 12mo, Amsterdam, chez Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, & van Someren, 1686 and 1688 (2)⁂ The first volume includes Locke's first significant scholarly publication. The second volume contains the first publication of any version of Locke's Essay concerning Humane Understanding as well as the first published review of Newton's magnum opus. See J. R. Milton's article "Locke's Publications in the Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique" in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19(3) 2011: 451-472, identifying volume 2 here as from edition C, and volume 8 from edition i, the latter thus a true first edition of the publication.

Economics.- Marx (Karl) Kapitál: Kritika Politické Ekonomie, first Czech edition, ink ownership inscription to title, light foxing to title and dedication, occasional light spotting, twentieth century half cloth, 8vo, Prague, 1913.

Economics.- Mises (Ludwig) Grundprobleme der Nationalökonomie, first edition, ink stamp to half-title, twentieth century half leather, 8vo, 1933.⁂ First published in English in 1960 with the title 'Epistemological Problems of Economics'.

Robert Mylne's copy.- Whitlocke (Sir Bulstrode) Memorials of the English affairs: or, An historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration, first edition, double column, woodcut decorative initials, some staining, spotting and finger-marking, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with later dark green leather label, upper cover detached, lower cover detaching, spine and corners worn, crackled, [Wing W1986], folio, Printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1682.⁂ Provenance: 'Ex Libris Roberti Mylne scriba a Geo: Mossman Empt Athena Oxoniensis Vol : 2. Ro. Mylne' (inscription to title). Robert Mylne (1643-1747) Scottish satirical writer and antiquary, best known for his bitter squibs against the whigs. He also devoted much time to copying manuscripts of antiquarian and historical interest. George Crawfurd in the preface to his History of the Shire of Renfrew, acknowledges his indebtedness to the 'vast collections of public records' belonging to Mylne, adding he was known to be 'a person well known to be indefatigable in the study of Scots antiquities.'

NO RESERVE Language.- Bachmair (John James) A complete German grammar. In two parts, 2 parts in 1, engraved folding plate of 'The German writing characters', tear in plate, without loss, first few ff. little soiled, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, upper joint split, but holding firm, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed, printed for the author by J. Haberkorn and Co., 1751 § Giral del Pino (Hipólito San Joseph) A new Spanish grammar; or, the elements of the Spanish language, new edition, spotted, contemporary sheep, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, covers detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, Printed for F. Wingate, 1792; and 27 others, 18th & 19th century English & Continental grammars & dictionaries, v.s. (29) ⁂ The first mentioned is rare, with ESTC recording three copies, and WorldCat adding three more. Provenance: Spetchley Park.

NO RESERVE Juveniles.- Hogarth (William).- Trusler (John) Hogarth moralized. Being a complete edition of Hogarth's works...Calculated to improve the Minds of Youth, and, convey Instruction, under the Mask of Entertainment, first edition, printed on thick paper, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional vignette title and illustrations, a few full-page, lacking letterpress title, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary tree calf, gilt, joints splitting, but holding firm, Sold by S. Hooper...and Mrs. Hogarth, 1768 § Somerville (Elizabeth) The Villge maid; or, Burton's moral stories for the instruction and amusement of youth...to which are added Plain Tales, 2 parts in 1, half-title, engraved frontispiece, M4&5 holed with loss of text, N5&6 paper flaw and staining, with loss of text, stained, lightly browned, contemporary cloth-backed boards, For Vernor and Hood...and sold by E. Newbery, 1801; and 3 others, 19th century English, v.s. (5)

THE TAMWORTH HERALD - WAR YEAR EDITION, an Archive of the Tamworth Herald Newspaper covering 1941, articles include petty racketeering and theft with offenders named as well as the first reports of POW's and individuals killed or missing in action, local issues continued to make up the majority of the Editorial. The newspapers are bound in one album, editions contain between 6-10 pages (3-5 sheets), foxing throughout and some editions have creases and minor tears, the album binding is worn

David Schneuer: a silvered framed coloured lithograph entitled "First Meeting", limited edition, signed & numbered in pencil 28/250 - Gallery label and details verso - 27cm X 22cm

Bryan Ingham (1936-1997) - 'Vellan', inscribed with the title and the artist's name on an old exhibition label verso, limited edition etching, 3/16, black and brown sepia etching, 8.25" x 7.752, overall size including the artist's original mount and box type frame, 13" x 14"-** Provenance with The Ashgate Gallery, (Elizabeth Naydler) Wagon Yard, Downing Street, Farnham, Surrey-** The artist was born in Preston and raised in Yorkshire's Calder Valley, he studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London and accepted a post-graduate place at The Royal College of Art, he was a close contemporary of David Hockney. His early talent was greatly appreciated by his director Carel Weight. It was at The Royal Society of Artist's that he made his first acquaintance with etching and was later to become one of the most notable etchers of the second half of the 20th century establishing a studio in Fournier Street, which is off Brick lane, he taught part time at Maidestone College of Art and enjoyed the company of Quentin Crisp, he was also a life model there at the time. He later settled on the Lizard in Cornwall and taught etching at Falmouth Art School and Farnham Art College until five years before his death. The Ashgate Gallery which was run by Elizabeth Naydler put on one-man shows by a number of the best known artists of the period, such as John and Jean Bratby, Elizabeth Frink, Julian Trevelyan, Mary Fedden, Sandra Blow, Peter Blake, Sonia Lawson and Willi Soukop. July 1962 The gallery mounted an important and pioneering exhibition entitled 'British Sculpture Today', with work by twenty three leading sculptors, including Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and others. A copy of Elizabeth Naydler's arbitrary dates 18th August 2006 can be obtained upon request

Nelson Mandela - Coins and Medals - A Nelson Mandela, Mint of Norway 24ct gold set of three commemorative medallions, presidential set, a long walk to freedom, inauguration speech, 10th May 1994, the union buildings, Pretoria, The first democratic South African general election, 27th April 1994, each 7.08g, limited edition 0263/1500, issued 2013, boxed.

Rare Royal Mint/Royal Mail 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup Isle of Man 50p coin First Day Cover,limited edition of 495. 

Morris, Francis Orpen: A history of British birds. Second Edition. 6 Bde. London: Bell & Sons 1870. 25 x 17 cm. Mit 365 kol. Hz. (60; 61; 56; 63; 65; 60), davon jeweils einer als Frontispiz. OrLn. mit goldgepr. illustr. Rt., blindgepr. Deckeleinfassung und goldgepr. Deckelillustration.(Einbände mit teils geklebten Defekten und angebrochenen Gelenken; Vorsätze erneuert, fliegende Vorsatzblätter nur etwa zu einem Drittel vorhanden. Innen leichte Altersspuren. Titelbll. mit hs. Besitzvermerk). Vgl. Anker 346; Nissen IVB 645. - Umfangreiches und populäres Sammelwerk, das seit seiner Erstausgabe (1850-57) durch zahlreiche Auflagen hindurch um einige Tafeln erweitert wurde. Die Tafelzählung hier wie so oft widersprüchlich. Laut Tafelverzeichnis komplett mit 365 Tafeln. Die Bibliographien sprechen von nur 357 Tafeln. - "A good feature of the work is the many figures of British birds shown on its hand-coloured plates, for which the woodblocks were originally engraved by the printer of the first edition, B. Fawcett, largely from drawings by Richard Alington." (Anker).

HOLLOWAY JINGLESJOHN (NACY A., editor) Holloway Jingles. Written in Holloway prison during March and April, 1912. Collected and Edited by N.A. John, Glasgow, FIRST EDITION, signature of C[onstance] L[ouise] Collier on title, half-title, stitched with the original white, purple and green ribbon in pictorial printed wrappers with 2 views of a prison cell, edges frayed, covers near detached with tears to spine, 8vo, Glasgow, W.S.P.U., [1912]Footnotes:RARE ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO ONE OF THE HOLLOWAY PRISONERS convicted following the organised window-smashing which took place in London in March 1912. Only one copy of the pamphlet has been traced in auction records, as part of a lot sold in 1983, whilst WorldCat lists just six copies, three on each side of the Atlantic.The poems, along with the sketches for the front cover, were smuggled out of Holloway by two of the prisoners, one of whom was Nancy John, a member of the Glasgow section of the WSPU who edited the anthology: 'Miss John, one of our best speakers, bewailed the fact that she hadn't even hit the window, and yet she got two months' (unpublished memoir of Helen Crawfurd, Agnes Macdonald Collection, Edinburgh Central Libraries). The sixteen contributors include Emily Davison (the final piece, 'L'Envoi'), and 'Laura Grey' (Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie, 1889-1914), who went on hunger strike whilst serving her six months' sentence, and was forcibly fed. She was subsequently awarded a hunger strike medal, but it is thought she had became addicted to veronal, which was used to ease pain caused by force feeding, and she took her own life two years later, at the age of twenty-five.Another of the prisoners in Holloway was Constance Louisa Collier, who would have been 58 in 1912, and to whom this copy belonged. Collier is recorded as having been a 1911 census 'resister', declaring 'As I have no parliamentary vote because women are not persons - I decline to fill in the census paper which is for the enumeration of the persons in the country. C.L. Collier' (reprinted in Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census, Manchester University Press, 2014). Provenance: C.L. Collier, signature dated August 1912 on half-title; Rev. Frederick Hankinson (1875-1960); Reginald Andrew Couzens (b.1904); thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LYTTON (CONSTANCE)Prisons & Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster, FIRST EDITION, portraits of the author in both guises, 16pp. publisher's catalogue, publisher's purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst on upper cover, spine slightly faded, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1914Footnotes:First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress 'Jane Warton'.Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, to give her her full name, was the grand-daughter of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and although her family was very influential, she rejected completely her background and joined the WSPU. She was arrested four times, and under the name of Constance Lytton she was given preferential treatment and privileges; she was not forcilbly fed when she went on hunger strike, and was soon released. However, when she went to Liverpool under the name of 'Jane Warton', she was arrested, forcibly fed, and her health was permanently damaged.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PANKHURST (EMMELINE)Three autograph letters signed ('E. Pankhurst') to Agnes Harben ('Dear Mrs Harben'), the first thanking her for the 'pretty 'sitting up' jacket', 2 pages, 8vo (175 x 114mm.), 9 Pembridge Gardens, W., 'Wednesday'; the second commenting on the 'difficulties' at The Herald with the appointment of Mr Chesterton and hoping they are over '...without any sacrifice of W S interests... He appears to be a confirmed anti & to belong to a group of politicians who do all they can to injure the movement!...', ending '...I have been intending to write to congratulate you on the H of C protest...', one page, letterhead with roundel of the WSPU, 4to (258 x 202mm.), Woking, 'Sunday'; the third thanking her for offering to take in her women on their release from prison ('...let me know how many you can put up...') and rejoicing at Mrs Drummonds release ('...so wonderfully well considering the usage she had the night of her arrest...'), one page, on WSPU notepaper headed 'Votes for Women', 4to (260 x 203mm.), Lincoln's Inn House, Kingsway, W.C., 30 January 1913; with a printed facsimile typed letter signed on WSPU headed paper addressed 'Dear Friend', outlining the policies of the WSPU on the outbreak of war, temporarily suspending militant activities and urging women to support the war effort ('...It will be the future task of women, and only they can perform it, to ensure that the present world tragedy... shall not be repeated...'), 3 pages on a bifolium, 4to (265 x 210mm.), Kingsway, W.C., 12 August 1914; and a copy of Mrs Pankhurst's pamphlet The Importance of the Vote, seventh edition, original wrappers, dust-staining and rust marks, 8vo (215 x 137mm.), The Woman's Press, 1908 (5)Footnotes:'I HAVE BEEN INTENDING TO WRITE TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON THE H OF C PROTEST': Emmeline Pankhurst's letters of thanks to the founder of the United Suffragists.Agnes Harben (1879-1961) and her husband Henry Devenish Harben (1874-1967) were notable supporters of women's suffrage. Whilst not participating in militant action herself, she was an active fundraiser and organiser and provided a home for newly-released hunger-strikers, leading the philosopher C.E.M. Joad to remark 'When the county called, as the county still did, it was embarrassed to find haggard-looking young women in dressing-gowns and djibbahs reclining on sofas in the Newlands drawing-room talking unashamedly about their prison experiences... it required all the tact of Harben and his socially very competent wife to oil the wheels of tea-table intercourse'. In February 1914 she founded the United Suffragists to bring together the militant and non-militant sides of the cause. The pamphlet included in this lot, published by The Woman's Press, contains 'A Lecture delivered in the Portman Rooms, on Tuesday March 24th, 1908' by Emmeline Pankhurst.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PANKHURST (EMMELINE)My Own Story, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece and plates, publisher's cloth, slightly soiled, corners bumped, Eveleigh Nash, 1914--STRACHEY (RAY) 'The Cause'. A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain, FIRST EDITION, plates, some spotting, publisher's brown cloth, slightly shaken, spine faded, remnants of Boots label on upper cover, G. Bell & Sons, 1928 --PETHICK-LAWRENCE (FREDERICK W.) Women's Fight for the Vote, FIRST EDITION, with 142pp., damp-stain to inner margins of first few leaves, publisher's blue pictorial wrappers, faded, stained and worn with loss at corners, The Women's Press, [1910]--DOWSON (MRS AUBREY) The Women's Suffrage Cookery Book, lacking p.43/44, p.63/64 cut down, chipped and loose, ownership inscription dated January 1910, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, worn, corners defective, 4to, Women's Printing Society, [c.1909]--The Truth About My Friends, parlour game, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or 'truth' (one of them being ''My sympathies are with the suffragettes'), below which the participants have signed their name, front hinge slit, publisher's cloth, faded and with the lettering and design crudely inked in, Dow & Lester, [c.1910]--GROSS (EDWARD AUGUSTUS) and HOMER JOSEPH DODGE. Manual for Women Voters. Constitutional Government of the United States..., slightly browned, pencil notes on blank leaf at end, publisher's blue cloth, faded and rubbed at edges and spine, [New York, Federal Trade Information Service], 1922--WRIGHT (ALMROTH E.) The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage, publisher's blue cloth, Constable, 1913, 8vo; and 7 others (14)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PANKHURST (SYLVIA)The Suffragette, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, errata leaf and numerous photographic plates, publisher's purple cloth with gilt Suffragette portcullis design on upper cover, spine faded, single slight score mark from front to rear cover but a bright copy, 8vo, Gay & Hancock, 1911Footnotes:First London edition of Sylvia Pankhurst's own history of the WSPU campaign, published in the same year as the New York edition from American sheets.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

'PANKO' - PLAYING CARDS'Panko or Votes for Women. The Great Card Game. Suffragists v. Anti-Suffragists' [complete pack of 48 pictorial playing cards], pictures by E. T. Reed of 'Punch', printed in black, red, purple and green, versos with purple on white geometric design, in original card slip case within outer printed box, lacking bottom panel of box only, worn and marked, 97 x 72mm., London, Peter Gurney Ltd., c.1909Footnotes:'GAOL! GAOL! GAOL!' – 'PANKO OR VOTES FOR WOMEN': A complete set of the uncommon un-numbered edition.This is generally thought to be an earlier variant of the game, although no firm precedent has been established. It is identical to other variations but printed without the red and green numbers in the opposing corners. A version with the versos in blue rather than purple is also known. The rule sheet for this set (not present) also differs in that it would have had a list of twelve rules and no extended explanation of the points system. It was first advertised in Votes for Women in December 1909 and suffragette and diarist Mary Blathwayt is known to have given a set of Panko to her mother for Christmas that year.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, second or third edition, lower section of title-page restored with loss of imprint, modern calf-backed cloth, gilt lettered spine [ESTC T6723 or T140074], 8vo, [J. Johnson, 1792 or 1796]Footnotes:Second or third edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work on feminism, education and human rights. The loss of the lower section of the title-page makes it impossible to determine if this is the second edition of 1792, with the author's revised dedication to Talleyrand but the same pagination as the first edition, or the 1796 third edition, which was the same as the second but with the title-page amended.Provenance: Gilbert Coleridge, 1900, signature at head of title-page, and manuscript purchase note (also speculating on the edition) on the restored section below.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TIGHE (MARY)Manuscript notebook titled 'Sonnets', on the first leaf, containing some 140 poems, written in ink in a fine closely written hand, including poems from 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.' and later works, beginning with 'Composed on the White Sands near Arklow', 'Written at Scarborough 1799', 'Written in Autumn 1795', 'Written in the Church yard at Malvern', 'Addressed to the Ladies of Llangollen Vale', 'Written for Angela 1802', 'The Vartree', 'A Faithfull Friend is the Medicine of Life', 'To the Memory of Margaret Tighe', 'Verses written in Solitude', her long ballads 'Cluen – An Elegy' and 'Bryan Byrne of Glenmalure' and ending with translations from Horace, Catullus and Petrarch, etc., with numerous amendments and additions, index, inscribed in pencil on flyleaf in another hand 'from The Library/ Rosanagh/ Co. Wicklow' with light pencil markings throughout, 396 numbered pages, one extra half leaf tipped in, bookplate of Henry Tighe, marbled endpapers, contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, rubbed, small nick in spine, upper cover soiled at corner, g.e., 16mo (118 x 94mm.), [n.p.], c.1806Footnotes:'OH THOU! WHOM NE'ER MY CONSTANT HEART/ ONE MOMENT HATH FORGOT/ THO' FATE SEVERE HAS BID US PART/ YET STILL FORGET ME NOT': A rediscovered notebook from the poet who inspired Keats.Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810) '...was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. With remarkable vitality and virtuosity, her poetry engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical, and commanded the attention and respect of her contemporaries....These poems demonstrate the technical virtuosity with which Tighe movingly wrote about the tensions between love and loss, duty and desire, the spiritual and the sensuous, loyalty and betrayal, nation and family, the Irish and the British, and much more, while struggling with debilitating illness...' (Paula R. Feldman & Brian C. Cooney, The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe, 2016, p.1). The majority of the poems in our volume are included in 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.', an illustrated manuscript in two volumes dedicated and presented to her husband (and cousin) Henry Tighe, now held in the National Library of Ireland as part of the Hamilton of Hamworth Papers (MS 49, 155/2). These volumes were copied out by the poet sometime between 1803 and June 1808 and incorporate fair copies of her poems written at Brompton, London, where she spent the winter of 1804 to the summer of 1805 with beautifully drawn calligraphic headings and pen and ink vignettes. This manuscript is seen, until now, as the most authoritative text for most of Tighe's shorter poems: 'She carefully chose their arrangement; for example, she grouped all of her sonnets together, and she did not use strict chronology. Some of her extant poems were absent, but these omissions may have been a result of her not having them immediately at hand... Poems composed very late in her life are also not included...' (Feldman & Cooney, p.17). It may be that she used our volume as a source for the 'Verses' and, rather than the poems being not available to her, she made the editorial decision to leave them out.Much of the content tallies with that of the 'Verses' but with notable differences in the order. The first thirty or so poems follow the same order as the 'Sonnets' section of Volume I but 'Written on the acquittal of Hardy' is included before 'Addressed to the Ladies of Llangollen Vale', thus causing a change to the numbering. In the final version of 'Verses' she moves the Hardy poem to Volume II. Whilst the 'Verses' include 113 poems, our manuscript has around 140, and includes additional material from what bibliographers Feldman and Cooney call her 'Late Poems & Fugitive Verse', such as 'Eclipse', 'In Memory of Margaret Tighe taken from us June 7th 1804' and 'Verses written in Solitude'. She ends our manuscript by showing off her extensive classical education encouraged by her mother Theodosia Tighe (Methodist leader, friend of John Wesley, and co-founder of the Dublin House of Refuge) with translations from Horace, Catullus and Petrarch. The Tighes were living in times of great upheaval in Ireland and much of her work is highly political – included here her long ballad 'Bryan Byrne' which was based on real people and events.Our manuscript appears to be a working document with many amendments and neat crossings out – a half leaf with three additional verses has been bound into the poem 'Bryan Byrne' for example. In several places the poet has made corrections to our manuscript which made their way into the finished NLI manuscript (in 'Adorea' she replaces 'soothed and enraptured' with 'soothed or enraptured' for example – and in 'Pleasure', her note on the Senegal River has been much amended). In addition, some poems are lacking the titles that would be included in the final version. There would thus seem to be new material here which would bear much further research.Tighe published only one work in her lifetime, Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, which was put out in a private edition of fifty copies for the benefit of family and friends in 1805. However, whilst having many admirers amongst her literary circle (including Thomas Moore, Joseph Cooper Walker and the Ladies of Llangollen) it was the posthumous publication of Psyche, with Other Poems, in 1811 and in several later editions, that made her name widely known and established her literary reputation. Whilst she became to be seen as '...an exemplar of patiently (and picturesquely) long-suffering femininity...' (Pam Perkins, ODNB), Tighe's work was an influence on several better-known writers such as John Keats, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and Felicia Hemans. After a hiatus in the twentieth century, her poems are once again enjoying recognition and it was only recently, in 2012, that her novel Selena was finally published for the first time. Tighe is now 'recognised as a great romantic-era woman poet of the sublime, who offered a complex, sophisticated, and aesthetically rich portrait of female sense and sensibility in her work' (Harriet Kramer Linkin, DIB). There is no volume matching the description of ours listed in the definitive Bibliography of Manuscript Sources in the latest Collected Poetry, so it could therefore be supposed that ours is a hitherto unknown, or at least rediscovered manuscript. The National Library of Ireland, Dublin holds the greater proportion of her extant manuscript works in the form of notebooks and fair copies of her poems, including 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.'. The family destroyed her journals after her death, but other manuscript material can be found in various commonplace books held elsewhere. Provenance: Henry Tighe (1771-1836) of Rosanna, Co. Wicklow (bookplate); thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com