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Click here to subscribeNO 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 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.
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
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.
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
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)The Battle of Marathon. A Poem Written in Early Youth... Printed for her Father in 1820 and Now Reprinted in Type-facsimile. With an Introduction by H. Buxton Forman, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES ON PAPER, some foxing, crushed half morocco gilt by Myers & Co., gilt lettered spine with floral tool at each end, large 8vo, For Private Distribution Only, 1891; The Seraphim, and Other Poems, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'E.J. Smith from H. S Boyd Esqre' on front free endpaper, a little staining in some corners, contemporary green morocco, elaborately gilt with large urn device at centre of covers, spine chipped, upper cover detached, Saunders & Otley, 1838; Poems, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, light soiling throughout, without advertisements, green half morocco gilt by Tout, gilt panelled spines with raised bands, Edward Moxon, 1844; Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end, occasional spotting, lacking front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, spine ends frayed, Chapman & Hall, 1851; Poems, 2 vol., third edition, contemporary half calf gilt, spines rubbed, Chapman & Hall, 1853; [AND ROBERT BROWNING] Two Poems [title on wrappers], FIRST EDITION, later brown half morocco gilt, preserving publisher's wrappers, spine faded, Chapman & Hall, 1854; Poems, 3 vol., fourth edition, half-titles, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spines gilt, Chapman & Hall, 1856; Aurora Leigh, FIRST EDITION, , half-titles, publisher's green cloth, soiled, spine ends frayed, front hinge split, Chapman & Hall, 1857; Poems Before Congress, FIRST EDITION, slight browning at edges, publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine darkened and slightly frayed, Chapman & Hall, 1860; Last Poems, FIRST EDITION, lightly browned, first 3 leaves detached, publisher's blind-stamped light blue cloth, spine gilt, slightly soiled, new endpapers, Chapman & Hall, 1862 8vo (14)Footnotes:Provenance: The Seraphim, Hugh Stuart Boyd, mentor to the young Elizabeth Barrett Browning, presentation inscription to Ellen Jane Smith on his behalf. Two Poems, Maurice Buxton Foreman, bookplate. Maurice has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father and T.J. Wise's literary counterfeit schemes, which included the use of the format of (presumably) the present copy of Two Poems for their forgeries.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
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'found' on page 75, line 15, and no misalignment on pages 12, 24 & 149, without half title (as issued) and publisher's catalogue, slight soiling to title and in margins, tall untrimmed copy in green calf gilt by Riviere, gilt panelled spine with brown morocco labels and floral tools, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g. [Barnes A2; Hayward 238], 8vo (188 x 105mm.), James Duncan, 1826Footnotes:First issue of the twenty-year-old poet's second book, written three years earlier. Although it did not receive much critical attention at the time, 'the essays allow Browning to demonstrate her status as a highly educated, ambitious female writer from the very beginning of her career' (Lehigh University website, 'Jane Austen & the Rise of Feminism: Women Writers As Agents of Change', online exhibition). This was her first published work, preceded only by the privately printed The Battle of Marathon.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
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Prometheus Bound. Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus. And Miscellaneous Poems by the Translator, FIRST EDITION, half-title with short tear, contemporary manuscript note tipped-in to front paste-down, publisher's dark blue patterned cloth, slightly marked, spine slightly faded and paper label browned [Barnes A3], 12mo, A. J. Valpy, 1833Footnotes:Browning's third book, especially scarce in the original cloth.Provenance: James Stevens Cox.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
[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)]Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, bound without publisher's advertisements and Calcutta Review notice, slight soiling, some small areas of restoration in blank margins and numerous other nicks and tears repaired (those to first leaf of text in volume 1 and last leaf in volume 2 slightly affecting text), green straight-grained morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, sides with triple gilt rule borders, gilt panelled spines with repeated floral tool and raised bands, t.e.g, others untrimmed [Grolier English 83; Sadleir 346; Smith 2], 8vo (195 x 114mm.), Smith Elder, 1847Footnotes:'I AM NO BIRD; AND NO NET ENSNARES ME; I AM A FREE HUMAN BEING WITH AN INDEPENDENT WILL' - FIRST EDITION OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S MASTERPIECE, HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL AND ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.Witten in a ground-breaking first person narrative style, Charlotte Brontë's powerful novel, was something completely new in Victorian fiction, dealing with topics such as class, sexuality, religion, and feminism, its eponymous heroine a woman confronting men on equal terms.This copy has all the flaws listed in Smith except for those on p.244 and 307 in volume three.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
[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)]Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, volume 2, p.304 with page number and error in line 1 corrected, 3pp. advertisement for the third edition of Jane Eyre at end of volume 3, bound without half-titles and 16pp. catalogue at end of volume 1, later half calf, red and brown gilt lettered spine labels [Sadleir 348; Smith 5], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1849Footnotes:'If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed...They do not read them in a true light; they misapprehend them, both for good and evil. Their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend' (Charlotte Brontë in Shirley). Her second published novel, and her only historical one, was set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression of 1811-12.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
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Hospitals, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the day of publication to 'Geo. Godwin Esq. in gratitude for the services he has rendered to the cause of good sanitary construction, Florence Nightingale, London, Dec. 14 1863' on title, third edition, 13 folding engraved plans and maps, 3 folding tables, publisher's cloth, hinges separated, lower joint splitting, small losses to head and foot of spine (some portions retained), paper label on spine [cf. Garrison & Morton 1611, citing first edition of 1859], 4to, Longman, 1863Footnotes:As editor of The Builder, George Godwin (1813-1888) expanded its scope to include sanitation, social issues, and other subjects. He wrote on slums and promoted the use of public baths, wash-houses, charitable housing trusts, and pavilion-styled hospitals. His architectural works, centred around Kensington and Chelsea, include The Boltons, Elm Park Gardens, and St. Luke's Kensington. The 1863 edition of Notes on Hospitals was 'massively augmented and rewritten that it is effectively a new book' (Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform, 2012, p.79).Provenance: George Godwin, presentation inscription; James O'Byrne, bookplate, presumably the Liverpool-based architect (1835-1897) whose library was sold at Christie's on 22 July 1987.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
TRANSGENDER - BINDING[LILI ELBE] Man into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. The True Story of the Miraculous Transformation of the Danish Painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre). Edited by Niels Hoyer [Ernest Harthen], first English edition, translated from the German by H.J. Stenning, introduction by H.J. Stenning, 25 photographic plates (on 22 sheets), light spotting, modern full morocco gilt with design of the transgender pride flag in blue, pink and white morocco on sides, gilt roll-tool decorative border at fore-edges, spine tooled in gilt, 8vo, Jarrolds, 1933Footnotes:FINELY BOUND TO THE DESIGN OF THE TRANSGENDER PRIDE FLAG in blue, pink and white morocco, the classic account of Danish artist Einar Wegener's pioneering journey from 'man into woman', undertaken in the early 1930s.Lili Elbe's story was filmed as The Danish Girl (2015), for which Eddie Redmayne won an Academy Award playing the title role.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
NEURATH (MARIE)Railways Under London, 'Library Edition', illustrated throughout in colour, including double-page title, map and full-page illustrations and cross-sections depicting all aspects of the design and functioning of the tube system, publisher's orange buckram with git emblem of the front of a tube train on upper cover, dust-jacket replicating the design of the 1948 boards (slight fading to spine and part of cover), 4to, Max Parrish, [1964]Footnotes:A fine copy of this rare 'Isotype' work on all aspects of the design and functioning of the Tube system, by the pioneering German graphic designer, physicist and social scientist, Marie Neurath. Ostensibly aimed at children, the book's vibrant illustrations and cross-sections help to explain how the trains, escalators and lifts work, how platforms are built for speed and how the tunnel system fits together. Issued as part of the series 'A Parrish Colour Book for Older Children', this 1964 Library Edition seems as scarce as the 1948 original, with no copies of any edition seemingly available to buy.Born Marie Reidemeister, Neurath met her future husband Otto at art school in the 1920s, and the two moved first to Vienna and then the Hague, where they sought to develop their utopian vision of an enlightened society educated through an illustrated encyclopaedia. It was in 1935 that Marie coined the acronym Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), to represent a visual language for the public communication of historical and statistical information. When Germany invaded Holland in 1940, the couple fled to London, married the following year, and set up the Isotype Institute in Oxford. One of the couple's most important projects was to advise on the redevelopment of the slums of Bilston, near Wolverhampton, and supply Isotype charts. Otto was adamant that plans should be exhibited to the potential residents, a radical idea at the time, and when he died unexpectedly in 1945, Marie went back to help fulfil his vision, which was ultimately realised only in part. Marie continued the work of the Isotype Institute, publishing Otto's writings, completing other projects he had started, and producing many revolutionary children's books using the Isotype system. Only recently has she received due recognition as the main driving force of the couple, 2019 seeing an explosion of interest including an exhibition at the House of Illustration, Marie Neurath: Picturing Science, which highlighted the children's books.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
GREENAWAY (KATE)Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children, first edition, first issue, colour illustrations, faintly soiled, publisher's cloth-backed green glazed pictorial boards, corners rubbed, DUST-JACKET, loss to spine panel, corners and folds [Schuster & Engen 201.1f], 4to, George Routledge, [1878]Footnotes:The first book both written and illustrated by Greenaway.Provenance: Theodore Reginald Anstey (1875-1944), gift inscription from his godmother S. Wadd on verso of front free endpaper dated 6 November 1879.Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas SchusterLots 27-51Thomas Schuster's interest in Kate Greenaway was kindled in the mid-1980s. In buying every Greenaway he could lay his hands on - both for his bookselling business and for his private collection - he noticed differences in binding, publisher, paper stock, etc., and decided to publish a book on the artist. Initially this was to record solely his own collection, but encouraged by Justin Schiller and after discussion with Rodney Engen, Schuster decided to collaborate with the latter and produce a catalogue raisonné of printed Kate Greenaway. Their study appeared in 1986.Kate Greenaway's first full-length illustrated book, Under the Window, was published in 1879 and immediately triggered the 'Greenaway vogue' as it was known. Some 70,000 copies were sold in England alone, and a further 30,000 in French and German editions. Within months of publication, it was pirated and spawned a network of copycat and spinoff items, although Greenaway and her printer-publisher Edmund Evans rode the wave of popularity and issued myriad books in varying formats and styles - with great commercial success.By the 1890s, however, Greenaway had become disillusioned by the shameless imitation and exploitation of her style, and she tried to establish herself as a fine artist with gallery exhibitions. Limited success here, combined with a turbulent relationship with John Ruskin, left her a victim of faded popularity and frustrated ambitions. Her disappointment turned to illness, and she died aged fifty-five in 1901.Today the Greenway child - angelic, round-faced, and in a long muslin gown and bonnet - has come to symbolise childhood innocence, and remains instantly recognisable.(Adapted from Schuster's 'Preface' and Engen's 'Myth of Kate Greenaway', in their Printed Kate Greenaway: a Catalogue Raisonné, 1986)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
COBBE (FRANCES POWER)Why Women Desire the Franchise, FIRST EDITION, 12pp., modern calf-backed boards, Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Spottiswoode & Co., 1869; together with a carte-de-visite size portrait by Philip Crellin, albumen print, signed by Frances Cobbe below the image--Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage [contributers include Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett, Frances Cobbe and Baraba Bodichon], disbound, National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1879, the last 2 with library stamps of the University of Bristol at foot of title-pages and at end--MILL (JOHN STUART) Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women's Suffrage, held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871, 8pp., library blind-stamp on title, slight creasing and fraying at edges, modern boards, Edinburgh, John Lindsay, for the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1873; The Subjection of Women, second edition, half-title with library stamp of St. Joseph's, Bishop's Stortford, ownership signatures of Frank Randall (one dated 1885), publisher's bind-stamped cloth, edges rubbed, Longmans, Green, 1869--DILKE (Mrs. ASHTON) Women's Suffrage, stereotyped edition, stamp of the Women's Institute on title-page, later cloth, publisher's wrappers (slightly chipped) and adverts bound in, Swan Sonnenschein, [1885]--BALFOUR (ARTHUR JAMES) Speech in the House of Commons on Women's Suffrage [1892], 7pp., stapled as issued, Central Society for Women's Suffrage, [c.1903], 8vo (7)Footnotes:A group of pamphlets and books on suffrage, including the elusive first edition of Why Women Desire the Franchise by the Victorian writer, feminist and social reformer Frances Cobbe. Born in Ireland, she was involved with the Married Women's Property Committee and the formulation of the 1866 petition, and was a founding member of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1867. Included in the lot is a signed carte-de-visite portrait of Cobbe.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
DUVAL (EMILY AND NORAH)BAILLIE-WEAVER (GERTRUDE) The Life of Emily Davison. An Outline by G[ertrude] Colmore', FIRST EDITION, EMILY DUVAL'S COPY, inscribed on verso of portrait frontispiece 'Emily D. Duval/ Given to her by Mrs Green/ Dec. 17th. 1913', publisher's printed wrappers (detached), small 8vo, The Women's Press, 1913--HIGGINSON (THOMAS WENTWORTH) Common Sense About Women, signature on title-page of Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (1850-1898, atheist and freethought writer), inscribed on half-title 'The Countess of Buchan, from W.H. Eyre. Jan. 1. 1884' and 'Winson Green Prison/ Birmingham 1912. March/ Emily D. Duval', publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine detached, lacking lower cover and front free endpaper, W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1882--MORRIS (WILLIAM) News from Nowhere, eleventh impression, inscribed on front paste-down 'To Norah Duval in Aylesbury Prison from [?] 7/5/12' and with the signatures of 24 female prisoners on the rear endpapers (free endpaper detached), publisher's cloth, stained, spine label defective, Longmans, 1910, 8vo; and 2 others believed to have been read by Emily Duval in prison, one signed by her (5)Footnotes:DUVAL FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPIES. The first edition of Gertrude Colmore's brief biography of Emily Wilding Davison is rare: three copies are listed on Library Hub and none on WorldCat. Colmore's real name was Gertrude Baillie-Weaver, and as well as founding the National Council for Animals' Welfare, she contributed articles to The Suffragette and Votes for Women, wrote fiction including Suffragette Sally and was a member of the Women's Freedom League.The second volume was used by Emily Duval during one of her several prison sentences, this one six months in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, given for window smashing in Regent Street. There she went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed before being sent to a nursing home and subsequently released. In addition to the inscriptions, the half-title also has a newspaper clipping pasted in concerning the 'breakdown' of James Scott, the governor of Holloway Prison who was forced to retire on health grounds ('the Suffragist prisoners... had caused him much worry and anxiety').Whilst Emily was in Winson prison, her 21 year old daughter Norah, owner of the third volume (which is signed by 24 fellow suffragette prisoners), was serving her four month sentence in Aylesbury, where she too went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed.Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 1987, lot 244 (part).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
FAWCETT (MILLICENT GARRETT)Political Economy for Beginners, FIRST EDITION, half-title, occasional soiling, pencil scribblings and erasures on front endpapers, publisher's blind-stamped cloth ('Macmillan's School Class Books'), rubbed, recased, small 8vo, Macmillan, 1870Footnotes:Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett's immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. In 2018 Fawcett came top in a BBC Radio 4 poll for the most influential woman of the past 100 years; she also became the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square, at the unveiling of which Theresa May acknowledged: 'I would not be standing here today as Prime Minister, no female MPs would have taken their seats in Parliament, none of us would have the rights we now enjoy, were it not for one truly great woman: Dame Millicent Garret [sic] Fawcett'.Provenance: John Skelton Downes (awarded matriculation prize, Amersham Hall School, 1873), several ownership signatures and scribbles.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
FAWCETT (MILLICENT GARRETT)Women's Suffrage. A Short History of a Great Movement, FIRST EDITION, some browning to free endpapers, publisher's green pictorial cloth, 12mo, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1912This 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
FLEMING (IAN)From Russia With Love, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SECRETARY, 'To Una who will at last get to the end! from Ian Fleming' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, upper cover stamped with gun and rose design in silver and metallic red, dust-jacket (spine soiled with small losses at ends, joints worn) [Gilbert Aa (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1957]Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS REAL LIFE 'MISS MONEYPENNY', Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No.Una started work, in 1948, at the Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times, where she was soon appointed as secretary to Ian Fleming, for whom she continued to work throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming 'always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself'. He would write the Bond novels during his annual stays at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, thereafter sending the manuscript to Una for typing up. In 1958 she was shown with Fleming in a photograph taken for the Daily Express. The character in Dr. No named after Una is Mary Trueblood, secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station, a position echoing that of Una to Fleming. Mary however met a gruesome end, stabbed to death. Recalling a visit to Una made in 2008 the writer Adam Thorpe noted that 'The fictional Mary Trueblood has many features in common with her real-life namesake; she's described in Dr No (1958) as 'elegant' (three times), 'pretty' and a 'good-looker'' (TLS, April 2008).Provenance: Una Trueblood (1930-2020). Fleming's continued admiration for Una is reflected in a letter (retained by the family) written to her, on 23 December 1963, from Fleming's current secretary in which she states 'I know that he [Fleming] would like to see you. Even now on occasions I hear 'Una would not have made that mistake!...'; by family descent to current vendor.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
FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, upper cover stamped design of a skull in gold and blind, dust-jacket (spine soiled with small losses to head and foot) [Gilbert A7a], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1959]Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS REAL LIFE 'MISS MONEYPENNY' 'WHO WROTE THE WHOLE THING!', Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No.Una started work, in 1948, at Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times where she was soon appointed as secretary to Ian Fleming, for whom he worked throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming 'always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself'. He would write the Bond novels during his annual stays at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, thereafter sending the manuscript to Una for typing up. This important role is recognised in Fleming's warm inscription in this copy. The character in Dr. No named after Una is Mary Trueblood, secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station, a position echoing that of Una to Fleming. Mary however met a gruesome end, stabbed to death. Recalling a visit to Una made in 2008 the writer Adam Thorpe noted that 'The fictional Mary Trueblood has many features in common with her real-life namesake; she's described in Dr No (1958) as 'elegant' (three times), 'pretty' and a 'good-looker' (TLS, April 2008).Provenance: Una Trueblood (1930-2020). Fleming's continued admiration for Una is reflected in a letter (retained by the family) written to her, on 23 December 1963, from Fleming's current secretary in which she states 'I know that he [Fleming] would like to see you. Even now on occasions I hear 'Una would not have made that mistake!...'; by family descent to current vendor.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
HAYEK (FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON)Hermann Heinrich Gossen: eine Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Schrift, paper toned, publisher's wrappers, soiled, short tear touching rule border of upper cover, split at extremities of spine, small unidentified Japanese red printed chop in upper left corner of upper cover, 8vo, Berlin, Prager, 1928Footnotes:Rare early pamphlet by Hayek on the Prussian economist Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), who was the first to postulate the principle of diminishing marginal utility. Issued in the series Bio-bibliographische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften, the pamphlet is not recorded by Cody & Ostrem, but appears to be a separately printed edition of Hayek's introduction to Gossen's 1927 work Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen Verkehrs und der daraus fliessenden Regeln für menschliches Handeln (Cody & Ostrem E-1). It appeared a year before Hayek's first book, Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie, first published in English as Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle in 1933.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
MUSICBEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) [Symphonies 1-4 in 3 vol.], FIRST GERMAN EDITIONS, engraved throughout, comprising: Ire. Grande simphonie en ut majeur (C dur)... Oeuvre XXI Partition, title and pp.3-108 (as issued), [Kinsky-Halm 55], plate no. 1953 [1822]; IIme. Grande simphonie en Rè majeur (D dur)... Oeuvre XXXVI Partition, title and pp.1-162 [Kinsky-Halm 91], plate no. 1959 [1822]; Sinfonia eroica composta per festiggare il sovenire di un grand'uomo dedicata a sua Altezza Serenissima il Principe di Lobkowitz... Op. 55. No. III... Partizione, title, dedication and pp.1-231, title with slight adhesion and tear at foot of gutter [Kinsky-Halm 131], Bonna e Colonia presso N. Simrock, plate number 1973 [1822]; 4me. Grande simphonie en si b majeur (B dur) composée et dediée a Monsr. Le Comte d'Oppersdorf... Op. 60. Partition, second issue with '4me.', title and pp. 1-195, [Kinsky-Halm 145], plate no. 2078 [1823], together 4 works in 3 vol., blank leaves following title where called for, occasional cropping of page numbers and one headline, titles soiled, third and fourth with slight adhesion signs, slightly later green half calf, spines worn and repaired with loss of 2 of the 6 red morocco labels, large 8vo, Bonn & Cologne, N. Simrock, [1822-1823]Footnotes:First German and first authorised editions of the full scores of Beethoven's first four symphonies, including the Eroica. The scores had previously only been published in Cianchettini & Sperati's 1809 volume of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Although this is very rare in its original form, it became available again in 1975 as a facsimile reprint of the 1809 edition, whilst the Simrock editions remained out of print until much more recently. Although Beethoven had not been involved in the editing, these editions saw the introduction of the metronome markings which he had specified in 1817. They also served as a template for the first Beethoven complete edition, issued by Breitkopf and Hartel in 1862.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
HAYEK (FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON)Profits, Interest and Investment: and Other Essays on the Theory on Industrial Fluctuations, FIRST EDITION, half-title, occasional light spotting, some passages underlined in pencil, with notes in the margins of 3 pages in Japanese, publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket (soiled, slightly frayed at spine extremities [Cody & Ostrem B-4], 8vo, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1939Footnotes:Hayek's fourth major book, in the rare dust-jacket.Provenance: Japanese chop signature on title-page. Several passages in the text are underlined, with notes in Japanese, including on p.23 besides a paragraph concerning railroads, shipbuilding and engineering, and another on p.149 making note of James Wilson, first editor of the Economist.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
KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD)A Tract on Monetary Reform, FIRST EDITION, half-title, a few small spots, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (ag toning, spine slightly darkened, frayed at upper edges, 4 small stain spots on upper cover), 8vo, Macmillan, 1923This 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
LAWRENCE (D.H.)Lady Chatterley's Lover, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 302 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, untrimmed in publisher's boards with Phoenix device on upper cover, paper spine label, upper fore-corners bumped and spine extremities slightly turned but otherwise a fine copy [Roberts A42a], large 8vo, [Florence, Giuseppe Orioli], Privately Printed, 1928This 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
MILNE (A.A.)Winnie-the-Pooh, NUMBER 241 OF 300 COPIES, SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE, original pictorial red morocco gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, g.e., original slipcase, 1976; idem, FIRST EDITION, a few small handling smudges, very small snick to fore-edge of a few pages, early pencil ownership inscription ('Xmas 1926') on front free endpaper, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 1926, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, 8vo, Methuen (2)Footnotes:The first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, together with a copy of the deluxe limited edition, signed by Christopher Milne [Christopher Robin, of course], published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book.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
NESBIT (EDITH)Oswald Bastable and Others, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HER HUSBAND, inscribed 'To Hubert Bland in memory of 28 years from his wife E. Nesbit Bland, Nov. 10. 1905', 22 plates (including frontispiece and title, one torn, one with small piece of blank margin cut away), rubbed, Wells, Gardner, 1906; The Wouldbegoods, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'E. Nesbit Bland. Please do not take this book. You can buy one for 4/6. Dymchurch' and, in a different ink 'This was written in the book when I let my house, because tenants used to steal the books!' inside upper cover, 17 plates (of 18), lacks front free endpaper, binding very worn with losses to spine, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901; Nine Unlikely Tales for Children, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Iris Bland. Her Book. Sep. 2. 1901. E. Nesbit' on the front free endpaper (possibly the dedication copy, ?the printed dedication 'Iridi Meae hoc est cor meum' a play on word of Nesbit's daughter Iris Mary', contents loose and lacking several plates, covers detached, lacks most of spine, worn, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901; Harding's Luck, THE AUTHOR'S COPY INSCRIBED 'E. Nesbit Bland. Dymchurch' on the front free endpaper, 11 plates only (of 16, one leaf loose), one word on p. 199 struck through and replaced in the margin, binding very worn, lower cover detached, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, [1910]; Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism 1883-1908, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCIRBED TO HER DAUGHTER, 'Iris Philips from the author with love 1908' on the front free endpaper, publisher's quarter cloth, The Fabian Society, 1908, all but the last mentioned publisher's cloth, very worn, 8vo; and approximately 75 other volumes from the library of Edith Nesbit and family, including c. 20 with Nesbit's ownership inscription and 12 with her bookplate, a few inscribed to her from other authors (Rose Macaulay, Alfred Sutro, Dorothea Deakin, etc.), others with ownership inscription or bookplate of Hubert Bland, or their children Iris and John; a stack of uncut page proofs of Nesbit's 'The Rainbow and the Rose' (1905), and sets of 'The Neolith', and other odd volumes, sold as association copies (quantity)Footnotes:A collection of books from the library of Edith Nesbit, of which six written and inscribed by her to members of her family, others by other authors with her ownership inscription (signed various as 'E. Nesbit', 'E. Nesbit Bland' or 'E. Bland', etc., some giving her address) or bookplate, and several with the ownership inscription or bookplate of her husband, the Fabian and journalist Hubert Bland. Other include the dedicatee's copy of Bland's Letters to a Daughter with the ownership inscription of Rosamund Bland, a copy of Harrison G. Rhodes' Charles Edward inscribed by Edith to Rosamund (29 January, 1907), an edition of poems by William Blake inscribed by Edith to Hubert (25 April 1883 with a pen, ink and gouache illustration of a skull and ivy), and several sets of The Neolith to which Edith contributed and helped to edit.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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:A FINE SIGNED COPY OF THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.Provenance: Signed for Jenny, the vendor's ten year old daughter, at the Edinburgh Literary Festival in 1999. At the same event Rowling signed two copies of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (see adjacent lots). An image of Jenny holding the book at the Festival is viewable on our website.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
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