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A good collection of illustrated books ranging from the early - mid 20th century (16 books), generally in good condition and beliebed to be complete to include the following titles:The Story of Nelson and Wellington, Illustrated, Published by W & R Chambers Limited - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, With many illustrations in colour and black and white by Helen Stratton, Published by Blackie & Son Limited - Animal Stories from Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, Published by MacMillan and Co Limited - Boys' and Girls' Book for 1937, A Daily Express Publication ? containing a Rupert the Bear story - Girls' Crystal Annual 1948, Issued from The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London - Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore, With coloured illustrations specially prepared for this work: Landscapes by Charles E Brittan; Figure subjects by Charles E Brock, Published by Boots the Chemists - Mother Goose's Nursery Tales with illustrations by Charles Folkard, Edited by L Edna Walter, Published by A & C Black Ltd - The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders with twelve colour plates and 300 illustrations, Edited by Harry Golding, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - The Wonder Book of Ships with eight colour plates and nearly 100 illustrations, Nineteenth edition, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - The Wonder Book of Animals, Over 200 photographs and specially-prepared drawings, 8 full colour plates, Twenty first edition, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - Children's Stories from Russian Fairy Tales and Legends, Translated and adapted by Seraphima Pulman, Illustrated by Arthur A Dixon and edited by Capt Vredenburg - The Adventures of Robin Hood with 16 plates in colour, 100 illustrations and text based on the First National Pictures Technicolor Production "The Adventures of Robin Hood", Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, Published by J Coker & Co Ltd - The Golden Age by Kenneth Graham with Nineteen Illustrations by R J Enraght-Moony, Published by John Lane (London and New York) and Bell & Cockburn (Toronto), MCMXV - Herbert Strang's Annual, 13th Year, Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press London, MCMXXI - A Book of Boys' Stories, Published by Blackie & Son Limited, Book Production War Economy Standard.

A pair of books to include a 'Mirth A Miscellany Of Wit & Humour' edited by Henry J Byron, Published by Tinsley Brothers of 8 Catherine Street, 1878 together with 'Games of Patience for One or More Players' by Miss Whitmore Jones, Illustrated, Published by L Upcott Gill, 170 Strand, WC, believed to possibly be a first edition (2).

Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix first edition, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows first edition, Enzo Ferrari, Harrius Potter Philosopher's Stone (Latin)

Mad Magazines, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, first English edition, circa 1959; together with 4 others.

leather clad suitcase & another suitcase containing various books to include Britannia Vol The First or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, 1939 edition; The Sunday Home; Youens's Ballroom Guide, etc

Fowles, John, A Maggot; together with The Collector, P.G. Wodehouse's The Clicking of Cuthbert, Stella Gibbons' Conference at Cold Comfort Farm; Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags; and Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners (6)Condition report: The Collector – 1963 first edition.

Two boxes of assorted volumes to include First Edition Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, various other signed copies, 19th century prayer and religious books, bindings etcCondition report: The Hobbit – fourth edition, 1978.

Hobson (R. L.). The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, London: Benn Brothers, Limited, 1923. 4to, original brown pigskin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, all plates as called for, wear to head of spine, rear inner hinge cracked, tips rubbed (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, number 249 of 256 copies on English hand-made paper, bound in pigskin, signed by the author, and with an extra colour plate; there were also 27 copies on Japanese vellum, a first trade impression of 1500 copies, and a second of 500 copies.

Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing out of this World of them all. The Text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the Year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style. With an Introduction by Professor Rhys, London: Dent, 1893-4. 3 volumes, 4to, bound in 1895 by R. Riviere and Son in blue crushed morocco, elaborate Art Nouveau floral decoration gilt to spines and front covers, publisher’s device gilt to rear covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, xc 290, [4] 291-664, [5] 665-990 [2] pp., photogravure frontispieces to volumes 1 and 3, 18 line-block plates (including frontispiece to volume 2; 4 double-page), line-block text-illustrations, decorative borders, chapter-headings and tailpieces throughout, colophon leaf, original wrappers bound in at rear, offsetting from plates, volume 3 partly unopened (qty: 3) Footnote: First Beardsley edition, superior issue printed on Dutch handmade paper, number 30 of 300 copies thus.Condition report: Morocco on spines very slightly faded; a few trivial scuffs to volume 1 front board; volume 3 front board lower fore corner very slightly bumped. Bindings signed.

Jacobs (Joseph). English Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten, London: David Nutt, 1890. Large 8vo, bound in 1898 by Riviere & Son in light brown crushed morocco, spine and covers gilt overall with olive-branch devices, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, additional pictorial title-page, half-title, 8 wood-engraved plates (including a duplicate of the frontispiece), advertisement leaf, pictorial colophon leaf, wood-engraved headpieces and vignettes throughout, paper covering from original boards and spine bound in at rear, very small abrasion to foot of rear joint (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, deluxe issue, number 33 of 80 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author, illustrator and publisher on the limitation page, this copy with a laid-in autograph letter signed from the illustrator.Condition report: Very good condition. No cracks to the hinges or notable wear to the join. Some light fading. One small tear to the back near bottom of the spine.

Jacobs (Joseph). More English Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten, London: David Nutt, 1894. Large 8vo, bound in 1894 by Riviere & Son in light brown crushed morocco, spine and covers gilt overall with olive-branch devices, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, additional pictorial title-page (printed in blue), half-title, 16 wood-engraved plates (including a duplicate of each plate), pictorial colophon leaf (printed in blue), wood-engraved vignettes throughout, paper spine and front panel from the original boards and dust jacket bound in at rear, bump to head of rear board (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, deluxe issue, number 22 of 160 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author, illustrator and publisher on the limitation page.

Jacobs (Joseph). Indian Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten, London: David Nutt, 1892. Large 8vo, bound in 1898 by Riviere & Son in light brown crushed morocco, spine and covers gilt overall with olive-branch devices, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, additional pictorial title-page (printed in pink), half-title, 18 wood-engraved plates (including a duplicate of each plate), pictorial colophon leaf (printed in pink), wood-engraved headpieces, vignettes and initials throughout, paper spine and front panel apparently from the original boards bound in at rear (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, deluxe issue, number 22 of 160 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page.Condition report: Binding only, good condition. No cracks to the hinges or joints. No notable fading. Wear noted at the corners of the boards.

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, by Austin Dobson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1892. 4to, bound in 1893 by Riviere & Son in tan crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments, covers gilt with elaborate outer frames enclosing central Pegasus vignettes, gilt inner dentelles incorporating a Vitruvian scroll, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, woodcut additional title-page, half-title, 26 etched plates on japon, etched vignettes, headpieces and initials throughout (all on india paper, mounted), original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, large-paper issue, number 10 of 450 copies signed by Dobson on the limitation page, this copy additionally signed by the artist on the title-page.Condition report: Binding only. Good condition. No cracks to the hinges or joints. No notable fading. Wear noted at the corners of the boards.

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. With a Preface by Austin Dobson, London: Macmillan & Co, 1890. Large 8vo, bound in 1892 by Riviere & Son in tan crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments, covers gilt with elaborate outer frames enclosing central arabesques, gilt inner dentelles incorporating a Vitruvian scroll, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations throughout, original cloth covers and dust jacket bound in at rear (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition thus, large-paper issue, this copy signed by the artist on the title-page.

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Coridon’s Song and Other Verses. From Various Sources. With … an Introduction by Austin Dobson, London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Large 8vo, bound in 1895 by Riviere & Son in mid-brown crushed morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet border gilt to covers, gilt inner dentelles incorporating a Vitruvian scroll, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, half-title, frontispiece, full-page illustrations throughout (counted in the pagination), occasional offsetting, sections of the original cloth covers and dust jackets for the large-paper and ordinary-paper editions bound in at rear (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition, large-paper issue, one of 152 copies, this copy signed by the artist on the title-page.Condition report: Binding only. Good condition. No cracks to the hinges or joints. No notable fading. Wear noted at the corners of the boards.

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Cranford, by Mrs. Gaskell. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Large 8vo, bound in 1892 by Riviere & Son in tan crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments, covers gilt with elaborate outer frames enclosing central arabesques, gilt inner dentelles incorporating a Vitruvian scroll, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, half-title, original cloth covers and dust jacket bound in at rear (qty: 1)Footnote: First edition thus, large-paper issue, this copy signed by the artist on the title-page.Condition report: Binding only, good condition. No cracks to the hinges or joints. No notable fading. Wear noted at the corners of the boards. Slightly scuffed.

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Undine. By De La Motte Fouqué. Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney, London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to, original pictorial vellum, 15 tipped-in colour plates, silk ties, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding marked, spine abraded, plate 5 tissue-guard creased, plate 6 (p. 24) incorrectly bound with duplicate tissue-guard for plate 9 (p. 40), browning to text-leaf adjacent to each plate,Dulac (Edmond, illustrator). Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. 4to, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 48 tipped-in colour plates (of 50: lacking frontispiece and plate 43), rear tie perished,Du Maurier (George). Trilby. A Novel, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. Large 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece, plate and tailpieces by the author printed in red,Thomson (Hugh). The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 4to, original pictorial vellum richly gilt with additional decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 22 tipped-in colour plates (of 25: lacking the plates facing pp. facing pp. 18, 48 and 140), ties perished (qty: 4)Footnote: Rackham: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 270 of 1000 copies signed by the artist.Dulac: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 6 of 350 copies signed by the artist.Du Maurier: limited edition, number 600 of 600 copies.Thomson: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 67 of 350 copies signed by the artist.

Shakespeare (William). A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell. Edited with an Introduction by Israel Gollancz, London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1895. 4to, original white buckram over bevelled boards, title and Art Nouveau decoration gilt to front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with an additional suite of 12 wood-engravings on india paper, mounted (comprising duplicates of the frontispiece, title-page, 9 plates and the tailpiece; requisite number unknown), partly unopened, tear to duplicate plate facing p. 31, Wyndham (Richard). A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. A Series of Dry-Points. With an Introduction and Brief descriptions by Sacheverell Sitwell, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. Folio, original yellow half vellum, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved additional title-page, 24 engraved plates, with original slipcase (sunned and worn),Lawrence (John). John Clare. The Shepherd’s Calendar, London: Paradine, 1978. 4to, original quarter cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in woodcut headpieces, laid-in tissue-guards, original slipcase, Krutch (Joseph Wood). Edgar Allan Poe. A Study in Genius, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 8vo, original vellum-backed patterned boards, edges untrimmed, 12 halftone photograph plates, unopened,Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The Chase by William Somerville. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1735, with a Memoir of the Author, London: George Redway, 1896. 4to, original quarter vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed on japon,and one other (Arthur Rackham, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1911, browned, frontispiece tissue-guard loose, not collated) (qty: 6)Footnote: Shakespeare: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 4 of 50 copies on hand-made paper.Wyndham: first edition, number 325 of 350 copies only, printed on Zanders hand-made paper.Lawrence: first edition thus, number 218 of 400 copies (numbered 101-500) signed by the artist and printer.Krutch: first edition, number 111 of 140 copies on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author, from the total edition of 150 copies.

Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield). Novels and Tales. Hughenden Edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882. 11 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon half calf,Montaigne (Michel de). Essays of Montaigne. Translated by Charles Cotton … Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, London: privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1923. 5 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco, gilt spines, Shakespeare (William). Dramatic Works. The Text of the First Edition, number 422 of 550 copies only, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1883. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, etched plates,and 5 uniformly bound works by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the lot not collated and sold as fine bindings (qty: 27)

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Book entitled 'The Wolves The First Eighty Years' by Percy M Young 1st Edition 1959. Excellent Condition. Complete with three cards, team photo 56/7 from the Daily Express, team picture issued by Jimmy Mullen Sports Shop and a signed picture of Jimmy Mullen. Also eight season tickets books ranging between 67-68 to 92-93. Good

Juvenile.- Maupertuy (Jean-Baptiste Drouet de, translator) Elemens Historiques, Ou Méthode Courte Et Facile Pour Aprendre L'Histoire Aux Enfans, 2 vol., first edition in French, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, armorial stamp to lower corners of titles, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, bookplates of the Danish historian Aage Fasmer Blomberg, contemporary calf, gilt, covers with rampant lion crest centre-pieces, spines in compartments, rubbed, 12mo, Paris, André Cailleau, 1730.⁂ Translation of Rudimenta Historica, Sive Brevis, facilisque methodus Juventutem Orthodoxam notitia Historica imbuendi, Augsburg, 1726-1727.

NO RESERVE Influence on Ulysses.- Dujardin (Édouard) Les lauriers sont coupés, first edition, one of 400 copies on vélin anglais mécanique, in an edition of 420 copies, half-title with justification, etched portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche, remains of a label to upper margin of half-title, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, spine creased and little darkened, lightly spotted and browned, 8vo, Paris, Librairie de la Revue Indépendante, 1888.⁂ Hailed as the first notable 'stream of conciousness' novel and acknowledged by Joyce as a prime influence on Ulysses. The story was first published the preceding year in the Revue Indépendante. It follows the thoughts of Daniel Prince, a naive student, who becomes enamoured by the actress Lea D'Arsay, a woman only interested in his money. As the plot develops Prince daydreams of eloping with D'Arsay and one evening at her apartment just before they are about to take an evening stroll Prince falls asleep and dreams of his past, his parents and the first girl he fell in love with. The novel derives its name from a children's song, Nous n'irons plus au bois ('We'll to the woods no more') and symbolises the withering of a laurel tree as the beginning of regrowth.

Marx (Karl) Kapital: Kritika Politicke Ekonomie, first Czech edition, hinges a little weak, ?original cloth, lettered in gilt,spine faded, a few small bumps and nicks, 8vo, Prague, 1913.

Cassirer (Ernst) Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen, 3 vol., first edition, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, Berlin, 1923-29.

NO RESERVE Drake Brookshaw (Percy) Archive of dust-jackets, proofs, newspaper & magazine clippings, some original pencil sketches, selection of dust-jackets and illustrations tipped-in or pasted into albums, many newspaper and magazine clippings loosely housed in large envelopes, includes a small selection of photographs showing sculpture, small volume containing a few pencil sketches, c.1930-60's § Stern (G. B.) Bernadette, first edition, inscribed to Brookshaw by the author, illustrations by Brookshaw, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipping to corners and extremities, small hole to lower cover, 1960; and 16 others illustrated by Brookshaw, most in dust-jackets, v.s. (small qty.)

Mysticism.- Boehme (Jacob) Aurora, that is, the Day-Spring. Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient... that is the Root or Mother of Philosophie, Astrologie & Theologie..., first edition in English, initial leaf bearing verses from the books of Revelations, Isaiah, and Matthew and engraved frontispiece by Hollar bound after E4, b4 errata f., lacking A3 and F1&4, contemporary ink pen trials, a few repaired tears with minor loss, stained and spotted, lightly browned throughout, 19th century half calf, covers detached, spine creased and with ends worn, [Wing B3397], small 4to, by John Streater, for Giles Calvert, 1656. sold not subject to return.⁂ First English translation of the most important work by this famed mystic; being the publication which brought about his expulsion from Dresden. Rare at auction. Provenance: Godfrey Pearson; William Sale (contemporary ink inscriptions).

Kuwait.- Shamlan (Saif Marzuq) Tārīkh al-ghaws. 'alá al-lu'lu' fī al-Kuwayt wa-al-Khalīj al-'Arabī[Pearling in the Arabian Gulf: a Kuwaiti memoir], 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation inscription in arabic from author to front endpaper, additional colour title, vol. 1 folding map, marginal tear and tape repair to verso, vol. 2 folding colour diagram, photographic illustrations and plates, some colour, original cloth, gilt, corners and extremities lightly scuffed, 8vo, 1975-78.⁂ Presentation inscription is dedicated to Dr. Peter Clark, who later translated the work into English under the title as given in English above, in 2000. The inscription reads, 'It gives me great pleasure as author of this to present it to Mr Peter Clark, in appreciation, and as a memento of the diwaniya [reception] this year. With Greetings, 10 May 1998. The Author, Saif Marzuq Shamlan'. The author, born 1926 to a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl-merchants and seafarers, evokes the last decades of the pearling industry after 1900, basing his account on personal recollections as well as documentary and oral sources, including divers, ships masters and peal merchants, with numerous illustrations of sailing vessels, divers, crew and members of his own family.

Europe.- [Bethel (Slingsby)] The Interest of princes and states, first edition, initial blank, 2 advertisement ff. at end, F4 short tear at head within text, but without loss, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary ink marginalia, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, leather lifting from boards, worn at head and outer edge, rubbed, [Wing B2064], 8vo, Printed for John Wickins at the White-Hart against St Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1680.⁂ First edition of this work composed by Bethel during his travels. In it he advocates freedom of trade and liberty of conscience. Provenance: George Mulgrave (contemporary ink signature to title and his marginalia).

Scottish Union.- Defoe (Daniel) The History of the union of Great Britain, first edition, woodcut royal arms to title, title soiled, some soiling and staining, mostly marginal, spotting in places, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 4528; Hanson 983; Moore 161], folio, Edinburgh, Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1709.

NO RESERVE Customs & Tariffs.- Edgar (William) Vectigalium Systema: or, A Complete View of that Part of the Revenue of Great Britain, commonly known as Customs, first edition, folding table, all ff. within single- or double-lined woodcut border, woodcut initial, scattered spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, contemporary morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed and scuffed,[Goldsmiths', 5143; Hanson, 2042], 8vo, by John Baskett, 1714.

Defoe (Daniel) The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, first edition, later (C19th?) plate inserted at title as frontispiece, printer's device to title and advertisement at rear, 5 leaves of advertisements, ink ownership inscription to title and rear pastedown, lacking folding map, some browning, spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners and covers worn, 8vo, for W. Taylor, 1719.

Hobbes (Thomas) A True Ecclesiastical History, from Moses, to the Time of Martin Luther, first edition, title and front free endpaper detached, 16pp. advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Foxon R264.5], 8vo, for E. Curll, 1722.

Bailey (Nathan) An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, fourth edition, scattered faint spotting and finger-soiling, bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, slight bumping to spine extremities, 8vo, 1728.⁂ First published in 1721, this became the most popular dictionary of the eighteenth century, and reached its 20th edition in 1763.

Ireland.- Swift (Jonathan) The Hibernian Patriot: being a collection of the Drapiers Letters to the People of Ireland, concerning Mr. Woods Brass Half Pence, first London edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional light staining, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with later (but to style) red and black leather labels, joints split, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Teerink-Scouten 22], 8vo, Printed at Dublin. London: reprinted and sold by A. Moor, 1730.

Morant (Philip) The History and Antiquities of the most ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex, first edition, list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece, folding plan and 7 plates, one folding with small tear, ink ownership inscription to title, preface leaf working loose, some foxing, the odd marginal tear, occasional small worm hole, not affecting text, later half morocco, lightly rubbed, t.e.g., folio, printed by W. Bowyer, 1748.⁂ Subscribers include George Vertue and Dr Richard Mead.

[Addison (Joseph)] The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, 4 vol., 3 engraved plates, 7 other plates, bookplates to front pastedowns, vol. 1 lacking 3Z2 (?blank), spotting, contemporary calf, spines gilt with morocco labels (vol. 4 lacking upper label), vol. 1 sympathetically rebacked with original backstrip laid down, vol. 3 with leather repair to lower joint at spine foot, some joints beginning to crack or a little rubbed, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761 § Sharpe (John) The History of the Kings of England and the Modern History of William of Malmesbury, first edition, half-title, list of subscribers (creased), some spotting and foxing, including to title, contemporary calf, upper joint cracked, slightly rubbed, g.e., 1815 § Shakespeare (William) The Works, 41 vol., including a commentary by R. Ridley, occasional spotting, original cloth, some spines lightly sunned, a few covers with small marks, c.1935-50, v.s. (46)

NO RESERVE Tait (John) The Cave of Morar, The Man of Sorrows, first edition, woodcut head-piece, lacking half-title, last page coming loose, lacking covers, remains of calf spine to back-strip, for T. Davies, 1774.

Shorthand.- Taylor (Samuel) An E.s.s.a.y intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography, or short hand writing, first edition, engraved title, list of subscribers, signed by the author to prove authenticity at end of list, 11 engraved plates, later pencil notes in shorthand, extensive in places, occasional spotting, hinges strengthened, front pastedown with charming engraved label of Joseph Shovel Bookbinder with Prince of Wales feather at head, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rebacked, spine gilt and with morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, [not in Alston], 8vo, Printed for the Author, 1786.⁂ With this work Samuel Taylor introduced the first English shorthand system to be used all over the English-speaking world. Interestingly, the list of subscribers is overwhelmingly made up of lawyers.

NO RESERVE Necker (Jacques) An Essay on the True Principles of Executive Power in Great States, first English edition, 2 vol., ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, scattered spotting, endpapers lightly toned, contemporary calf, quite rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped, vol. 2 lacking spine label, vol. 1 upper joint starting, printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792; and c.45 others, 18th and 19th century, most political, v.s. (c.45)

Ancient Greece.- Sparta.- Drummond (Sir William) A review of the governments of Sparta and Athens, first and only edition, presentation copy from the author, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, black leather label to spine, upper joint splitting, but holding, head of spine little chipped, corners little worn, rubbed, a wide-margined copy, tall 8vo, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and sold by G. Nicol, 1794.⁂ The author's inscription reads 'C.M. 1794, A Present from the Author'. Provenance: Lady Charlotte Murray (presentation inscription and bookplate). Drummond was an active member of the Dilettanti Society, which by this time was an important patron of classical archaeology.

NO RESERVE Mountaineering.- Catlow (Agnes and Maria E.) Sketching Rambles; or, Nature in the Alps and Apennines, 2 vol., first edition, 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces, 18 tinted lithographs, scattered faint spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt,. minor bumping to spine extremities, 8vo, [1861].

NO RESERVE Scott (Sir Walter) [The Waverley Novels], 74 vol. [a complete set of all titles including the various 'Tales' series], all first editions but for 'Waverley' (eighth edition), 'Guy Mannering' (fourth edition), 'The Antiquary' (second edition) and 'Rob Roy' (second edition), most with half-titles, occasional light foxing but generally very clean, a few leaves of 'Quentin Durward' becoming loose, near uniform contemporary half calf, rubbed, some spines a little worn, 12mo, Edinburgh, 1821-17-16-32.⁂ The author's great series of historical novels, which were the most popular and widely read novels in Europe during the nineteenth century.

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Timbuctoo. A Poem which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, M.DCCC.XXIX , first edition, first issue, contained within 'Prolusiones Academicae Praemis Annuis dignatae et in curia Cantabriginsi', polished calf, gilt, by Riviere & Son, joints rubbed, g.e., [Hayward 245; Tinker 2059; Wise 3], 8vo, Cambridge, John Smith, 1829.⁂ Tennyson was too shy to read the poem in the Senate House as was customary for the winner of the prize, asking Charles Merivale to take his place.

NO RESERVE Australia.- Leigh (W. H.) Reconnoitering Voyages, Travels & Adventures in the New Colonies of South Australia, first edition, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 6 plates, occasional spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, sunned spine, backstrip beginning to split at upper joint, small loss and fraying to spine extremities, 8vo, 1839.

Mountaineering.- Hillary (Edmund) High Adventure, first edition, signed by author, frontispiece and plates, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, lightly sunned spine, very slight creasing to top edge, scattered very faint spotting, 1955 § Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, early reprint, signed by Hillary on half-title, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 2 dust-jackets, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1954; and another, Everest, 8vo & 4to (3)

NO RESERVE Brisbane (Albert) Social Destiny of Man: Or, Association and Reorganisation of Industry, first edition, 2 engraved plates, library stamp to pastedown, adhesive remains, also to front free endpaper, occasional light soiling, library cloth, blind-stamped, rubbed and discoloured, spine-ends chipped with some loss, 1840 § Douglas (Thomas, Earl of Selkirk) Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, with a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of Emigration, first edition, half-title, ink ownership inscription to title, some light spotting and foxing, contemporary boards, lightly soiled, manuscript 'Lord Selkirk' to spine, ends chipped, joints starting, 1805; and 27 others, 19th century, social history and economics, v.s. (29)

NO RESERVE [Kierkegaard (Søren)] ''Vigilius Haufniensis''. Begrebet Angest. [The Concept of Anxiety], first edition, bookplate to pastedown, some leaves guarded at front and rear, original wrappers bound in, including spine with printed paper label, later boards, rubbed, t.e.g., Copenhagen, 8vo, 1844.⁂ One of the rarest Kierkegaard first editions, which sets the terms for his existential psychology.

NO RESERVE Lace.- Beggs (Thomas) The Student's Vigils, first edition, ex-library with bookplate, final pastedown not pasted down, original 'laciographic' boards by W. Taylor of Nottingham, upper cover detached, small loss to spine extremities, browned, rubbed edges, 8vo, 1844.⁂ Rare with only 3 copies on WorldCat at the British Library, Yale University and the University of South Carolina. In very rare lace style printed boards, with 'W. Taylor, Laciographic Printer Nottingham' to upper cover.

NO RESERVE Kierkegaard (Søren) Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand. [Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits], first edition, 3 parts in 1, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked, with original back-strip laid down, Copenhagen, 1847; [Kierkegaard (Søren)] ''Victor Eremita''. Enten-Eller. [Either-Or], second edition, 2 parts in 1, ink inscription and stamp to free endpapers, strengthened hinges, contemporary cloth, joints cracked, Copenhagen, 1849, some light foxing; and a collection of Kierkegaard's papers, 8vo (3)

Ruskin (John) Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds, first edition, lacking advertisement leaf at end, ink signature "G.Buckle" to head of title, title and final leaf a little browned, modern boards, 1851; Gold: a Dialogue connected with the subject of "Munera pulveris", edited by H.Buxton Forman, limited edition, original boards, uncut, spine worn, [Todd 208e], 1891; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, lacking front free endpaper, original embossed cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, 1849; Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, vol.1-5 only (of 9) bound from the original parts, contemporary half morocco, original printed wrappers bound in, rubbed, 1871-75; Lectures on Landscape delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871, one of 150 copies with proofs on india paper, occasional spotting, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, Orpington & London, 1897 § Collingwood (W.G.) The Life and Work of John Ruskin, 2 vol., one of 320 copies on hand-made paper, original parchment-backed boards, uncut, 1893 § Wise (T.J., editor) A Complete Bibliography of...John Ruskin, 2 vol., facsimile reprint, original cloth, dust-jacket, Folkestone & London, 1974, some with plates and illustrations, rubbed; and c.20 others by or about Ruskin, v.s. (c.30)

Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in book form, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, contemporary half calf, rebacked, with original back-strip laid down, 1853; Nicholas Nickleby, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, etched portrait frontispiece and 39 plates by Browne, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, spine-label chipped affecting a letter of text, 1854, scattered spotting and occasional foxing, some light damp-staining, lightly rubbed, extremities bumped; and another, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' bound with 'Barnaby Rudge', 4to and 8vo (3)

Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, first edition in book form, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, 1857; David Copperfield, first edition in book form, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional title and 37 plates only (of 38) by Browne, occasional damp staining, the odd chip and tear, some repaired with tape, affecting text on p.17, 1850; ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, scattered spotting and occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, rebacked, with original back-strip laid down, lightly rubbed, extremities bumped; and 'Dombey & Son', first edition in book form, 8vo (3)

Cossack Tales.- Gogol (Nikolai Vasilievich) Taras Bulba, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, initial blank, portrait frontispiece, 32pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original burgundy cloth, gilt, Russian Imperial arms to upper cover, spine faded and stained, a few spots, rubbed at extremities, [not in Wolff], 8vo, John and Robert Maxwell, [1887]. ⁂ Rare. The first English language appearance was in 1860 as Cossack Tales, followed by this American standalone edition in 1886. The sheets from the American edition were sent to England for the first British edition in 1887.

Binyon (Laurence) and others. Primavera: Poems by Four Authors, first edition, half-title with design by Selwyn Image, original grey wrappers, design from half-title repeated on upper wrapper, piece missing from foot of spine, joints split, preserved in modern buckram portfolio with bookplates of Simon & Judith Nowell-Smith, Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1890; and a H.C. Beeching, from the same collection, 8vo (2)⁂ Binyon contributes four poems, this being his first book appearance, preceded only by his St Paul's prize poems. The others are by Stephen Phillips, Manmohan Ghose and A.S. Cripps.

Socialism.- Utopia.- Morris (William) News from Nowhere: or, An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from a Utopian Romance, first edition in book form, some foxing at ends, including title, occasional spotting, original dark blue cloth, spine gilt, marked, a good copy, 8vo, Reeves & Turner, 1891.

NO RESERVE Economics.- Marshall (Alfred) Elements of Economics of Industry, first edition, book-labels to pastedowns, bookplate of Theodore Marburg, his pencil signature to front free endpaper, some cracking at gutter, endpapers toned, original cloth, lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, slight shelf-lean, 1892; and 15 other works by or relating to Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons, v.s. (16)

NO RESERVE Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August, editor) Beiträge zur Geldtheorie, first edition, ink ownership inscription partially erased from title, original wrappers, chipped and torn at extremities with some loss, tape residue to spine, Vienna, 1933 § Haberler (Gottfried) Der Sinn der Indexzahlen, first edition, original wrappers, lightly toned, ink ownership inscription of 'Erich Roll' to upper cover, some chipping to extremities, small loss to spine head and foot, joints starting, Tübingen, 1927; and c.45 others, German, most economics, v.s. (c.45)

NO RESERVE Economics.- Anscombe (G. E. M., translator) Philosophical Investigations, first English edition, English and German text, ink inscription to pastedown, contemporary cloth, lightly rubbed, corners bumped, rebacked, preserving original back-strip, 1953 § Howard (Ronald A.) Dynamic Programming and Markov Processes, book-label to pastedown, original cloth, blind-stamped with MIT crest, dust-jacket, some finger-soiling, spine faded, small chips to head and foot, 1960; and c.100 others, most economics related, v.s. (c.100)

Management Science.- Gilbreth (Frank B.) Motion Study. A Method of Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman, first edition, advertisements at rear, New York, 1911; Motion Study for the Handicapped, first English edition, light spotting, 1920, photographic illustrations, original cloth, spines dulled, rubbing to extremities; and 2 others, Emerson and Gantt on scientific management, 8vo (4)

NO RESERVE Rostand (Edmond) Cyrano de Bergerac. A Play in five acts, first edition in English, half-title with advertisements verso, little foxing to half-title, endpapers lightly browned / foxed, largely unopened, original two-tone green cloth, covers damp-stained, scarce, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1898.