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NO RESERVE Herbal.- Hill (John) The useful family herbal. Or, an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues: And of the Drugs, which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries, first edition, 8 engraved plates, c3 short tear without loss of text, some foxing and staining, lightly browned throughout, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in modern calf, gilt, with double black leather labels, corners repaired, covers little marked, [Henrey 823, bis; Hunt 551; Pritzel 4062], 8vo, Printed for W. Johnston, in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, and W. Owen, near Temple-Bar, 1754.⁂ The physician Hill produced the first Linnaean flora of Britain. Provenance: George Bond (engraved armorial bookplate); 'John Thresher, 1806' (inscription to head of A2).

World cuisines.- [Hochheim (Amalia von)] A Handbook of foreign cookery, principally French, German and Danish. Intended as a companion to all English cookery books, second edition, title printed in red and black, occasional pencil marginalia / passage marking, title chipped at lower corner, some spotting and staining, occasional creasing, lightly browned, original green cloth, rebacked in 20th century brown calf, spine in compartments, cloth stained, rubbed, Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1849; and 8 others, world cuisines, v.s. (9)⁂ The first mentioned is rare, with Library Hub / WorldCat recording a BL copy only. It is not found in the standard bibliographies.

Jenks (James) The Complete Cook: teaching the Art of Cookery in all its branches; And to Spread a Table, In a Useful, Substantial and Splendid Manner, At all Seasons in the Year...With an appendix teaching the art of making wine, Mead; Cyder, Shrub, Strong, Cordial and Medical Waters; Brewing Malt Liquot; The Management and Breeding of Poultry and Bees, first edition, tables, a few contemporary juvenile pen trials, H8 and N12 margin at lower corner excised, just touching text, but without loss, the odd short tear, foxing and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, chipped at ends and repaired, 1 lower corner repaired, some creasing, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.245; Cagle 780; Maclean p.75; Oxford pp.97-98], large 12mo, Printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1768.⁂ Scarce. Suggests snail water as a cure for consumption.

NO RESERVE Jennings (James) Two Thousand Five Hundred Practical Recipes in Family Cookery; in which the Whole Art of Preparing Food and Drink for the Human Stomach is Simplified and Explained...With an Introduction on the Duties of Cooks and other Servants, first edition, engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text, 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at end, some spotting / foxing and staining, modern pale calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, [Bitting pp.245-246; Cagle 781; cf. Simon BG 885 (1844 edition)], Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1837; and his Family Cyclopædia (not collated), 12mo & large 8vo (2)

Johnson (Mary) Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal Knowledge, fourth edition, final advertisement f., price trimmed from foot of imprint and new price mounted on lower margin of next f. to show through, C2 very short tear within text at foot, with loss of a letter, H3 section torn from outer margin, with loss of a few letters, but no loss of sense of text, a few very short tears within text, but with no loss, stained, some foxing, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, sympathetically rebacked, corners restored, [Bitting p.247 (note); Oxford p.83 (note); cf. Maclean p.77 (first edition)], 12mo, printed for W. Nicoll in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1766.⁂ Rare. We cannot trace a copy at auction. First published in 1753 as The Young Woman's Companion; or servants-maid assistant.

[Atkyns (Arabella, pseudonym)] The Family magazine...Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery...Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick, 2 parts in 1, first edition, double column, a few woodcut bills of fare within text, pagination for pp.81/82 removed with small stab hole, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, lacking label, foot of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.550; Cagle 673; Maclean p.49; Oxford pp.71-72; Simon BG 658], 8vo, Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball in Paternoster-Row, 1741.⁂ Simon suggests that the author's need for a pseudonym was because she was 'the first woman to dare deal in print with maladies which ladies were not supposed to know anything about'.

[Kettilby (Mary), compiler] A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses, first edition, half-title, final f. blank, foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, some staining, rubbed, [Cagle 789; Maclean pp.79-82; Oxford p.54; Simon BG 904 (note)], 8vo, Printed for Richard Wilkin, at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1714.⁂ Kettilby recommended her book to the clergy, especially those in remote parishes.

NO RESERVE Cocktails.- [Knowles (Frederic Lawrence)] The Cocktail book. A sideboard manual for gentlemen, first English edition, printed in red and black, half-title, spotted, mostly at ends, partly unopened, original red cloth, blind-tooled cocktail glasses pattern and gilt lettering to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, spine faded, some marking and light soiling, 8vo, John Macqueen, 1902.⁂ Scarce in commerce.

La Chapelle (Vincent) The Modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion, fourth edition, 5 (of 6) engraved folding bills of fare (lacking the first), bills of fare 3-5 closely trimmed at head, within border of 5 and affecting text, R5 hole at head with loss of text, some pencil / blue pencil markings, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 20th century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, joints splitting, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.268 (lacking title); Maclean p.85; Oxford p.63 (note)], a rare edition, Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox, on Ludgate-Hill, 1751 § Lémery (Louis) A Treatise of all sorts of foods, both animal and vegetable: also of drinkables, title in red and black, lacking initial imprimatur f., occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, antique style half calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Bitting pp.281-282; Cagle 822; Maclean p.89; Oxford pp.48-49 (note); Simon BG 948], Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1745; and 11 others, defective works by La Chapelle, Verral, Thacker & others., v.s. (13) sold not subject to return.

Lamb (Patrick) Royal cookery: or the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, 'third edition, with considerable additions', 40 engraved bills of fare, all but 2 folding, final advertisement f., foxed, some staining, contemporary calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments, covers stained and marked, [Bitting p.271 (note); Maclean p.88; Oxford pp.52-53 (note); Simon BG 939], 8vo, Printed for E. and R. Nutt; and H. Lintot, at the Cross Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1731; and a defective copy of the first edition, 8vo (2)⁂ The rare reissue of the third edition (1726) with a new title page.

André L. Simon-Eleanor Lowenstein copy.- La Varenne (François Pierre) The French cook prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite or to advance the power of digestion : with the whole skill of pastry work, translated by I.D.G., second edition, engraved frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, frontispiece little chipped and laid down, N12 (final text f.) torn at upper corner with loss of text and laid down, closely trimmed in places, occasionally just touching a headline, signature mark or catchword, some foxing and staining, lightly browned, 20th century dark blue morocco, gilt, upper cover detached, corners worn, rubbed, [Oxford pp.23-24 (note); Wing L625; cf. Cagle 818 (3rd edition)], 12mo, Printed for Charles Adams, at the Talbut neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1654.⁂ Rare; this being the only copy we can trace at auction. ESTC records only 5 copies. La Varenne was a founding father of modern French cuisine. He was the first to introduce bisque and Bechamel sauce to the table and his work contains the first usage of the terms bouquet garni, reductions and mille-feuille. Includes an early form of hollandaise sauce.Provenance: André L. Simon-Eleanor Lowenstein (joint engraved bookplate); Cetus Library, sold Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September, 2011, lot 201.

[M.(W.)] The Queens closet opened. Being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery, &c. Which were presented to the Queen by the most experienc'd persons of the times, 3 parts in 1, tenth edition, initial f. blank, engraved portrait frontispiece of Henrietta Maria, staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original worn backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Simon BG 1239; cf. Oxford pp.26-27 (first edition); Wing M106], 12mo, Printed for J. Philips at the Kings-Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1698.⁂ Rare. ESTC records only four copies (2 Oxford, Folger and Glasgow), and WorldCat adds one further copy (Wellesley). We can trace only one copy at auction (2006).The dedication is signed 'W.M.', leading to the frequent attribution of the work to Walter Montague, English courtier, secret agent and abbot, who took part in the diplomacy that led to the marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria.

Beauvilliers (Antoine B.) L'Art du Cuisinier, 2 vol. and supplement in 2 vol., first edition, second issue (vol.1 title with signature of the widow Beauvilliers at foot and date amended by hand to 1816), half-titles to all parts, 2 titles with engraved vignette of a working kitchen by Jubin, 9 folding engraved plates, supplement lacking final blank, marginal repairs to first 4 ff. of vol.1 and final 4 ff. of supplement, in case of latter affecting 3 letters at foot of p.35 (without loss of sense) and 3 letters of imprint verso of p.38, first plate trimmed at foot, affecting printed scale, some foxing, mostly in vol.2, occasional spotting or light staining, later half calf, spines gilt and with black leather label, corners worn, rubbed, [Bitting p.31; Cagle 66; Simon BG 183 (first issue); Vicaire 77-78 (note)], 8vo, Paris, House of Pilet, 1814 [1816].⁂ According to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin the French restauranteur Beauvilliers 'was the first to have an elegant dining room, handsome well-trained waiters, a fine cellar and a superior kitchen'. This second issue adds a supplement, which includes vinegars and mustards.

Oxford copy.- Marnette (Monsieur) The perfect cook: being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c., second edition in English, 3pp. advertisements at end, lacking engraved frontispiece, title torn and repaired, with minor loss, B1 torn and repaired at head, with loss of headline and 2 lines of text recto, A1 (To the reader), contents ff. A2-6, text ff. B1-3 and most ff. in sig. K lower inner corner repaired, To the reader and A2 with loss of a few letters, other ff. with loss of part or whole of the odd letter, final advertisement f. torn and repaired with loss of several letters, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 20th century polished calf by Lloyd (ink stamp to front endpaper), gilt, spine richly so and with double red morocco labels, little rubbed, g.e., [Cagle 855; Oxford p.28-29 (note); Vicaire 566; Wing M706A], 12mo, Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Black Bear and Star in sr. Pauls Church-Yard, over against the Little North Door, 1686.⁂ The Arnold Whitaker Oxford copy of this great cookery rarity. ESTC lists only one copy (NYPL), and this is the only copy we can trace at auction. The first part is a translation of Le Pastissier françois.

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), wood engraving on paper, Cover for the Prospectus of the Golden Cockerel Press for 1933, 22cm x 17.5cm, mounted, framed and glazed. Printed for the first number of Signature, in a limited edition of 1,000, by CurwenPress, 1935

HUGH MOSS, VICTOR GRAHAM, KA BO TSANG. 'The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle', The J & J Collection, first edition, 2 vol, Weatherhill, 794 pp, approximately 484 colour illustrations, hardcover, cloth and slipcase.From a private Cornish collection.This is a two volume set. Pages are good. Outer case has slight wear and marks. See our website for extra images www.davidlay.co.uk

INDIA Interest. ‘The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India: A Study of Sadhusim, with an account of the Yogis, Sanyasis, Bairagis, and other strange Hindu Sectarians,’ second impression, original pictorial cloth with gilt embossed text to spine, splitting of cloth to rear joint, b&w frontis, plates complete, some light spotting, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1905; Sir PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS. ‘The British Impact on India,’ first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some light spotting to edge of textblock, MacDonald, London, 1952; DADABHAI NAOROGI. ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,’ first edition, original cloth, spotting to edge of text block and front and read first few leaves, Swan, Sonnenshein & Co, London, 1901; EDWARD THOMPSON and G.T. Garrat. ‘Rise and Fulfilment of British Rule in India,’ first edition, unclipped dj, MacMillan and Co, London, 1934; With Ten other books including 2 vols of The Indian Statutory Commission (1930), Music of Hindustan, and Letters of Clive Branson. (14)

Boxed first edition Lammily doll plus a quantity of Lasmmily doll clothing

Nicholas Clerihew Bentley (1907-1978). A Wedding Scene, illustration to The Bridesmaid. Pen and ink with watercolour. Unsigned. 10 x 12cm. Together with 1933 and Still Going Wrong book by JB Morten and illustrated by Nicholas Bentley. First edition published 1932 by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Signed note to Ernest Pearce from Bentley inside. Note the watercolour is the original to the illustration on page 47. (2). Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First edition, published 1837 by Chapman & Hall. With 43 illustrations by Seymour and Phiz. An early issue, none of the plates are titled and the name Veller appears in the frontispiece. Blue boards, black leather spine with gilt decoration.Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

Ian Fleming The Diamond Smugglers First edition, published by The Macmillan Company 1958. Stamp to flyleaf Property of USAF. Blue boards with white decoration in pictorial dustjacket designed by H. Lawrence Hoffman. Together with Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica edited by Marcus Cargill. First edition, second impression, published November 1965 by Andre Deutsch. Orange boards with gold lettering, pictorial dustjacket designed by David Battle. (2). £20-40.Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

AMENDED DESCRIPTION - Evelyn Waugh, novels, to include: 'A Handful of Dust', first edition, published by Chapman & Hall 1934, without dust jacket; 'Vile Bodies', published by Chapman & Hall 1930, first edition, without dust jacket; 'Black Mischief', first edition, published by Chapman & hall 1930, without dust jacket; 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold', published by Chapman & Hall; 'Scoop', published by Chapman & Hall 1933, without dust jacket; 'Men at Arms', published by Chapman & Hall, 1952, first edition, with dust jacket; 'Helena', by published by Chapman & Hall, with, Evelyn Waugh, 'A Little Learning', Chapman and Hall, 1964, with three finely-bound volumes of 'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot. Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

AMENDED DESCRIPTION - Two first editions by Evelyn Waugh. A Tourist in Africa. First edition, 3rd impression, published 1960 by Chapman & Hall. Blue boards with dustjacket. Scott-Kings Modern Europe, first edition published 1947 by Chapman & Hall, blue boards with gold lettering and pictorial dustjacket. (2)Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

Pan Pipes, a book of Old Songs by Theo Marzials, illustrations by Walter Crane. First edition published 1883 by George Routledge. Paper covered pictorial boards with cloth spine. With hand signed letter from Walter Crane attached to inside front cover.Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

Ian Fleming Thrilling Cries. First edition 1963, published by Jonathan Cape. Tipped in erratum slip at p.223. Gift inscription to Roderic Tyler. Pictorial dustjacket with illustration by Paul Davis. Catalogue notes; The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-2012) a dedicated art collector and connoisseur of the bookplate.His files of letters reveal that he was in regular correspondence with many well-known artists and fellow collectors from the 1950s onwards, sharing with them his in-depth knowledge and often exchanging rare prints and other works of art. Of particular note is his collection of works by the Romanticist artist Samuel Palmer many of which were purchased from Carlos Peacock, author of 'Samuel Palmer, The Shoreham Years' who himself acquired a number from AH Palmer, Samuel's son. Also works by well-known 20thcentury artists, some, unusually, accompanied by personal notes or cards. Finally, of course, his extensive collection of bookplates including British and Continental artists and some illustrious libraries.Ewbank's is delighted to have this opportunity to bring Ernest Pearce's lifelong collection to the market. Provenance: The family of Ernest Pearce.

Hornby: A boxed Hornby, OO Gauge, SR N15 Class, Royal Mail Great British Railways, Limited Edition 1026 of 1200, locomotive and tender, R3075. Original box, general wear expected with age. Used condition. Untested for working order. With First Day Cover and Certificate of Authenticity.

STEPHEN MOSS HORTON (CONTEMPORARY) - 'House of Cards', screen print, signed in pencil and numbered 35/275, framed, 74cm x 59cm, frame size 105cm x 88cm, also two other signed limited edition prints, 'First Maiden' and 'Entourage' after the same hand. (3)

Rollin, Fils (publisher) - 'Lettres de Madame Maintenon', published 1752, first edition, the two volumes bound as one, calf boards, bears Sir Dundas Bar of Kerse book plate, 8vo, also Le Moyen de Parvenir, published circa 1732, the two volumes bound as one, calf boards. (2)

Signed Book John Kenneth Galbraith Signed Book Titled 'A China Passage' First Edition Hardback Book, Signed on title page Inscribed by Galbraith to the Provost of Kirkcaldy, also glued to an inside page is a typed letter written and signed by Andre Deutsch (Galbraith's Publisher in London). Included is a gift to Provost Kay recording the addresses given at the Commemorative Symposium Held in June 1973 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith (In Kirkcaldy). Superb Lot. Fantastic signature. Book Showing early signs of age. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

A cook book by Tselemendes, the first Greek chef, by M.I. Saliveros, 10th edition 1951 28,5x21cm. Τσελεμεντές 10η Έκδοση 1951.

Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)Reclining Figure numbered '5/7' (on the top of the base); stamped with foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the side of the base)bronze with a brown patina on a slate base15.2 cm. (6 in.) long (excluding the base)Conceived in 1945Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Thomas Gibson Fine Art, prior to 1997, where acquired byPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedStockholm, Samlaren Gallery, Henry Moore: Skulptur, Teckningar, 1952 (another cast)Stockholm, Akademien, Henry Moore, 1952, cat.no.121 (another cast)LiteratureDavid Sylvester, Henry Moore: Volume 1, Complete Sculpture 1921-1948, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham & London, 1988, p.15, cat.no.246During his long and distinguished career, the 'reclining figure' along with the 'mother and child' were the two subjects that obsessed Henry Moore more than any other. Recent information from the Henry Moore Foundation indicates there are 270 examples of the reclining figure and 140 of the mother and child, perhaps confirming the former as the most significant; certainly the most fundamental. By 1968, Moore admitted this was the case: 'From the very beginning the reclining figure has been my main theme. The first one I made was around 1924, and probably more than half of my sculptures since then have been reclining figures' (John Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, London, Thomas Nelson, 1968, p.151). The origins of that first reclining figure (male and now destroyed) can be traced back to the Toltec-Mayan idol Chacmool. Impressed by a life-sized limestone carving from the eleventh or twelfth century found in Chichen Itza in Mexico, Moore came across a plaster cast of Chacmool on a visit to the Trocadero Museum in Paris in 1925. The curious reclining posture of the figure on its back, with knees drawn up and head twisted to the right fascinated Moore and it became 'undoubtedly the one sculpture which most influenced my early work' (Henry Moore Writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, London, Lund Humphries, 2002, p.98).The present work was conceived at the end of World War II in 1945 as a preparatory study for the 30 inch Hornton stone carving Reclining Figure (1947-49, LH 273, now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art). It was originally modelled in terracotta (whereabouts unknown) with an edition of seven cast in bronze. This was a particularly significant time as the end of conflict meant a renewed availability of metals and Moore was able to break free from the constraints of two dimensions and work more regularly in three. Reclining Figure is therefore one of the first sculptural examples of what the artist had absorbed through his graphic observations of the public sheltering from The Blitz in the London underground. The undulating profile of the sculpture draws on both the example of a body sheltering on the platform floor and the artist's early preoccupations with the naturalistic rendering of bones, rocks and mountainous landscape, as such she can be read as both abstract and human at the same time. Writing of the scaled up carving of the present form, John Russell comments 'After many Reclining Figures in which the central hole was the dominant compositional feature here is one in which, on the contrary, the central area is filled in. Such is the modelling of that area that two complementary movements are set up: one begins below the heart and swings up and away to the left, while the other begins at the bottom of the right thigh and swings up and away to the right. The relationship, here, between the thing seen and the thing imagined is one of the most moving in all Moore's work, in that the spreading and subtly modulated area between heart and knees is continuously alive in terms both of human anatomy and of the landscape-analogy, the sublimations of moorland and bluff, which Moore keeps going at the same time. This is not one of Moore's largest carvings – it is only thirty inches long – but it is one in which social duty is laid aside and the imagination runs free to glorious effect.' (John Russell, Henry Moore, The Penguin Press, London, 1968, p.177).Another example from this edition is in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, U.S.A.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (French, 1891-1915)Firebird (The Russian Ballet) signed 'Gaudier/Brzeska' (on the base)bronze with a brown patina63 cm. (24 3/4 in.) highClay conceived in 1912, this cast from the later bronze edition of 10Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedLondon, Royal Albert Hall, Allied Artists Association, July 1913, cat.no.1212 (another cast)London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Twentieth Century Art: A Review of Modern Movements, 8 May-20 June 1914, cat.no.179 (another cast)London, Leicester Galleries, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, May-June 1918, cat.no.2 (another cast)London, Mercury Gallery, 1987, cat.no.5 (as L'oiseau de Feu, another cast)LiteratureHarold Stanley Ede, Savage Messiah, William Heinemann, London, 1931, pp.156-57Horace Brodsky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Faber and Faber, London, 1932, p.36 (ill., another cast)Mervyn Levy, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, October House, New York, 1965, pl.73 (ill., another cast)Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1978, cat.no.14Evelyn Silber and David Finn, Gaudier-Brzeska, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, cat.no.18 (ill.b&w, another cast)Soon after his move to London from his birthplace and hometown of Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans, France, in 1912, Gaudier-Brzeska received a commission from Julian Lousada, an avid art collector and friend of the artist. Gaudier-Brzeska was to produce a series of work inspired by the Ballet Russe production of Stravinsky's Firebird, which was to be performed in London for the first time from June to August that year. The work depicts the moment when Prince Ivan Tsarevitch, portrayed by dancer Adolph Bolm, captures the eponymous Firebird, portrayed by Tamara Karsavina. Gaudier-Brzeska produced two plaster casts from the original clay sculpture. Lousada was given one of the plasters, and paid £20 for a bronze to be cast from it, the highest price ever paid for a work of Gaudier-Brzeska's during his lifetime. This cast was sadly destroyed by bombing during the Blitz, and ten casts were subsequently produced from the surviving plaster.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOULD (JOHN) AND RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPEThe Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia, 25 original parts, FIRST EDITION, 320 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after Gould and W. Hart, some heightened in gum arabic, publisher's 'Binding Notice' tipped into final part, occasional light spotting to a few plates and endpapers, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards with wood-engraved illustration of a Bird of Paradise on the upper covers, some light spotting [Anker 181; Ferguson 10033; Fine Bird Books p.78; Nissen IVB 373; Wood p.365; Zimmer p.262], folio, Henry Sotheran, 1875-1888Footnotes:FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL 25 PARTS. The last, and one of the most lavish, of Gould's full-scale works, the subjects including birds of paradise, kingfishers, parrots, honey-eaters, pitas, birds of prey, and other species. The last 12 parts were seen through to completion by the ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe after Gould's death in 1881.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

GOULD (JOHN)A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos, 2 original parts (complete), FIRST EDITION, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by H.C. Richter after Richter or Gould, letterpress slip inserted at end, light spotting to several plates, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, light soiling, corners rubbed, old paper label ('Lot 37') pasted on upper cover of Part I [Ferguson 3197; Nissen ZBI 1662; Sauer 11; Wood p.365], folio (560 x 380mm.), Published by the Author, 1 August 1841-1 May 1842Footnotes:Rare first edition in the original parts, as issued without a title page, preliminaries or index. Gould intended to include these in the planned final third part, which was never published. Gould had travelled to Australia with his wife Elizabeth (who tragically died in the month the first part of 'Kangaroos' was published) in 1838, spending eighteen months collecting hundreds of specimens and observing the birds and mammals of the region. On his return he published this work, and, over a period of eight years his Birds of Australia.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

GOULD (JOHN)A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America, 3 original parts (complete), 32 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Gould, and H.C. Richter, list of subscribers, prospectus tipped into first part, without the 'Directions to Binder' slip, occasional light spotting, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, light soiling, spotting to upper cover of Part I [Anker 176; Nissen IVB 376; Great Bird Books p.78; Sauer 13; Zimmer p.257], folio (560 x 380mm.) , Published by the Author, 1 November 1844-1 November 1850Footnotes:First edition of Gould's first monograph on game birds, which he dedicated to the French ornithologist Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, author of American Ornithology. In the preface Gould noted that 'The graceful actions and elegant deportment of these birds [American partridge family] inspired me with a desire to become thoroughly acquainted with the entire group of which they form a part... in the course of my researches I have several times visited most of the public and many of the private collections of Europe, and have besides corresponded with various persons in America: the result is that I have had the pleasure of extending our knowledge of the group from eleven to no less than thirty-five species'.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

PARKINSON (JOHN)Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants or, an Herball of a Large Extract, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating portrait of the author, approximately 2600 woodcut illustrations, additional title, printed title and final leaf of index laid down (a woodcut portrait of the author pasted onto blank verso of additional title, the printed title with old tear neatly repaired), lacking errata leaf (supplied in facsimile) and opening blank, upper corner of pp.537/8 torn away with part loss of pagination numeral, small hole touching letters on 3 leaves, later calf, neatly refurbished and rebacked retaining original spine and later gilt morocco lettering label, new endpapers [ESTC S121875; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 7749], folio (340 x 220mm.), Thomas Cotes, 1640This 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

ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECEAristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; or, The Family Physician... The Twenty-fifth Edition, frontispiece with full-page woodcut illustration recto and verso, 7 woodcut illustrations in the text, catchword cropped on 2 pages (p.123, and p.131), without the folding plate (not called for on ESTC), letterpress advertisement of 'William Grigg, Bookseller and Book-binder' of Exeter pasted inside upper cover, small light stain on pp.81/2, corners turned, contemporary sheep, worn with some losses to spine [OCLC 15877677], 8vo, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1753Footnotes:A SCARCE EDITION. First published in 1684 all early editions are rare, presumably due to the book's risqué subject matter of women's bodies, sex, and pregnancy, which led it to be sold by 'country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The attribution to Aristotle is totally spurious and was probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability; but although it was effectively banned until the mid-twentieth century, the prohibition didn't keep it from circulating. Such enduring popularity was partly due to the practical advice on pregnancy and the care of infants, and partly to its rather sensationalised descriptions of the sexual act and forms of monstrosity. ESTC lists an incomplete copy (Texas) of a twenty-fifth edition with a mutilated title-page as dating from 1753, but also 2 copies (Wellcome, and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library) of the twenty-fifth edition dated 1758, calling for a plate.This copy has an eighteenth century letterpress advertisement for 'William Grigg, Bookseller and Book-binder... over against Broad-Gate, Exeter... Printed by Andrew Brice, in Northgate Street, Exon' pasted inside the upper cover. This advertisement is not listed on ESTC, which does cite two similar advertisements (T167895 and N504282, each one copy only). Noting that Brice died in 1773, and Grigg was first known of in 1765 the date of publication is suggested to be c.1770. As well as selling books Griggs also is said to sell 'Dr. Hooper's Female Pills; Dr. Greenoughh's Tinctures for the Teeth' and other such remedies 'all warranted genuine', perhaps suggestive of the audience at which Aristotle's Master Piece was targeted.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, title within wide woodcut architectural border, with final blank (2A6), [ESTC S90981, citing 3 copies only; Herbert 310, incorrectly calling for 2 preliminary leaves], Robert Barker, 1611; The Booke of Common Prayer, collates [12], 348 (ending with Q6), title within wide woodcut architectural border, single small wormhole to opening 3 leaves [not cited on ESTC], Robert Barker, 1611; The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold..., black letter, title within woodcut ornamental border (shaved just touching border at fore-edge, and trimmed very close to lettering on 2 index leaves at end) [ESTC S116325, citing 2 copies only], Company of Stationers, 1615, together 3 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary English calf gilt, covers with 2-line rule border enclosing panel with elaborate central design and corner-pieces on a semis of seeds, flat spine elaborately tooled, gauffered edges, ties (2 mostly missing), spine with small loss at head and 2 old vertical cracks, small tears to joints, 12moFootnotes:THE EARLIEST SEPARATE EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE KING JAMES' AUTHORISED VERSION, BOUND WITH AN UNRECORDED EDITION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.Provenance: Margaret Gybbon, early ownership name in lower margin of Book of Common Prayer (bound first).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

BILL OF RIGHTSAnno Regni Gulielmi et Mariae... An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of the Crown, extracted from volume of Acts, pp.[2], 187-202, title with woodcut arms, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, early manuscript note at head of title-page (?'Liberty - Subjects)', some browning and staining, small rust hole in Aaa2, without final blank, disbound, stitching loose [ESTC R236544], folio, Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS, 'one of the great constitutional documents of English history' (Oxford Companion to the Law). The result of the long struggle between the Stuart kings and the English Parliament, the bill incorporated the provisions of the Declaration of Rights which had been agreed without the force of law. It assured the Protestant succession to the throne, enshrined the free election of Members of Parliament, and became the foundation on which the government rested after the Glorious Revolution, laying the foundations of modern constitutional monarchy and ultimately providing the basis for the American Bill of Rights.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

DICKENS (CHARLES)A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with title-page dated 1843 and printed in red and blue, the text uncorrected, 'Stave I' on p.[1] and light green endpapers, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 plates after John Leech (one slightly foxed), 4 wood-engravings by W.J. Linton after Leech in the text, 2pp. advertisements at the end, occasional light soiling, publisher's cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, g.e., shaken with a few gatherings working loose, covers and spine dampstained and with much of decoration worn or faded, preserved in solander box [Eckel pp.110-115; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, in The Book Collector, Winter 1961, pp.449-454], 12mo (164 x 100mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1843Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS'S FIRST AND MOST ENDURING CHRISTMAS BOOK. A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, priced at 5s. Dickens initially requested green endpapers but discarded them due to the colour rubbing off. Demand for the book probably grew at such a pace that the stock of yellow endpapers was soon exhausted, necessitating the use of the discarded green endpapers. So although the green endpapers were produced first, the first copies issued had yellow endpapers. William B. Todd concluded that priority was impossible to determine due to the use of different stocks of text and plates, but that priority could be determined by the state of the binding. This copy appears to be his first impression, first issue, first state, with a gap of 14-15mm. between the closest points of the blind-stamping and gold wreath on the upper cover, and the 'D' of 'Dickens' unbroken, but it is hard to be sure due to the condition.Provenance: W. Jones, ownership signature on front paste-down.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

MILTON (JOHN)Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... the Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the Same Author, engraved frontispiece, with final 2 blanks, S. Simmons, 1678; Paradise Regain'd. A Poem... to which is added Samson Agonistes, second edition, license leaf before title, 2 advertisement leaves at end, John Starkey, 1680, 2 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary panelled calf, some loss to extremities of spine, hinges weakened [ESTC R19396, R300; Pforzheimer 719], 8voFootnotes:Provenance: Elizabeth Hawkins, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century ink inscription in upper margin of first title.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)Psyche, or The Legend of Love, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THE PAINTER JAMES BARRY, inscribed on title-page 'To James Barry Esq., from M Tighe 1805', wide margins, title slightly stained at foot, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, sides gilt ruled and panelled, with floral corner-pieces and outer border, agate on-lays to each cover, spine in five separate compartments with raised bands, tooled and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt clasp set with gems, very light rubbing to foot of spine, gilt turn-ins, yellow watered silk endpapers, g.e., housed in a contemporary velvet-lined, gilt-tooled diced russia box, with gilt lettering on spine, rubbed, to joints split [P.R. Feldman and B.C. Cooney, Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe, p. 590, citing this copy], 16mo (250 x 94mm.), [C. Whittingham for James Carpenter], 1805Footnotes:A SEMINAL WORK OF IRISH ROMANTICISM INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN AN EXQUISITE OPULENT CONTEMPORARY BINDING. According to Paula Feldman, joint editor of The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe, the binding is far more ornate than any of the other copies she has examined, and is especially unusual for the addition of the Wedgwood style cameo, ornate metal lock, semi-precious stones, and agate onset, which she believes may have been added by a subsequent owner to the original binding and endpapers especially commissioned by the author.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).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.The decorative on-lay on the upper cover is a copy of a Wedgwood design by John Flaxman of 1776 depicting a procession of putti guiding the bound and draped Cupid and Psyche to their wedding. Here, however, one figure on the far right hand-side has been omitted. The decorative on-lay on the lower board is a cameo of a female figure in profile, possibly the author herself. Although the binding is unsigned, according to Philippa Marks of the British Library, it can be attributed to the workshop of Rodwell, Golden Square, London. In fact, the British Library holds a copy of a work by Juan de Flores (G102030) with a binding signed by Rodwell which is characterised by identical floral corner pieces to those on this book (Law, E., 'Psyche: or the Legend of Love, 1805', Old Kilkenny Review, 65 (2013), p.45).For a manuscript notebook of her poems, see our Women Through History sale on 23rd March 2022, lot 153.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

WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM)DEARDEN (WILLIAM) The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five Cantos, FIRST EDITION, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S COPY, INSCRIBED IN HIS HAND 'W. Wordsworth from the Author' on the half-title, and signed again 'W. Wordsworth' above 'Rydal Mount' (in ?another nineteenth century hand) on the title-page, publisher's plain cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers, covers and front free endpaper dampstained, 8vo, Longman, Rees (etc.) and Halifax, Leyland and Son, 1837Footnotes:WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S COPY FROM RYDAL MOUNT, SIGNED TWICE BY HIM, noting that it had been gifted to him by the author. Yorkshire-born poet William Dearden (1803-1889) was at one time a schoolmaster at Keighley, and a friend of Revd. Patrick and Branwell Brontë (whom he heard read aloud from a draft of Wuthering Heights in a local pub), and doyen of the local literary scene, as the editor of Dearden's Miscellany. In the notes to The Star-seer (p.217) Dearden mentions a 'sacred edifice [which] might vie in situation with the hallowed pile near Rydal Mount', home of course to Wordsworth.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

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)The Works, 8 vol., engraved frontispiece to each play, a few leaves cropped at top, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, with red morocco labels, J. Tonson, 1635 [i.e. 1735]; idem, 4 vol. only, another edition, without general title-pages, contemporary calf gilt, later red morocco spine labels, J. Tonson, 1735; The Works... by Mr Theobald, 8 vol., engraved portrait and frontispieces to each play, modern buckram with red leather spine labels, J. & R. Tonson, 1767, 12mo (20)Footnotes:The first set is one of those with all the general titles dated in error 1635. This edition, which was used for sale at the theatres and for supplying pedlars, has a separate title-page, frontispiece and pagination for each play.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

[LENNOX (CHARLOTTE)]Shakespear Illustrated: or the Novels and Histories, on which the Plays of Shakespear are Founded... by the Female Quixote, FIRST EDITION, titles with woodcut ornament, occasional foxing, contemporary speckled calf gilt panelled spines with modern red and green morocco labels, spine of volume 1 chipped at foot [ESTC T138281 & T139076; Rothschild 1321; Courtney & Nichol Smith p.38], A. Millar, 1753-1754--DAVIES (THOMAS) Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare..., 3 vol., contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and black labels [ESTC T145031], Dublin, S. Price etc., 1784--DODD (WILLIAM) The Beauties of Shakespear... with a General Index, Digesting them under Proper Heads, 2 vol., second edition, contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines with red morocco labels [ESTC T93848], T. Waller, 1757 (8)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

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)Mr William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, [edited by Edward Capell], 10 vol., half-title to each play, contemporary red morocco, sides with triple gilt rule borders, ornate gilt panelled spines with floral and griffin tools and black labels, g.e., spines worn at ends, 8vo, Dryden Leach for J. & R. Tonson, [colophon:] 1768Footnotes:Relatively scarce edition edited by Edward Capell, who was the first person to put together a wholly new edition from all the quarto and folio ones.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

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)The First Collected Edition of the Dramatic Works, facsimile of the first folio of 1623, Theodore Martin's copy, light browning and a little spotting, red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, sides with triple gilt borders and central Shakespearian armorial device, elaborate gilt spine with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., front hinge slightly weak, rubbed at edges, folio, Day & Son, 1866This 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

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of The First Folio Edition... with Introduction and Census by Sidney Lee, 2 vol. including Supplement, number 43 of 1,000 copies signed by Sidney Lee, presentation copy with tipped-in letter from the publisher Henry Frowde on OUP letterhead paper, some staining to endpapers, untrimmed in original reversed calf with ties, red morocco gilt spine labels, Supplement in modern calf-backed boards and housed in velvet-lined solander box with red morocco gilt label, folio, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1902Footnotes:Provenance: Henry Frowde, tipped-in letter sending the book to [George Elmer?] Waterhouse ('Dear Mr Waterhouse/ I am directed by the Delegates of the Press to send for your acceptance copy No. 43 of our Facsimile of the First Folio Shakespeare. Believe me, Yours very truly, Henry Frowde'); Elwin Waterhouse, bookplate.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

HUGO (VICTOR)Actes et paroles. 1870-1871-1872, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half-title 'A Mademoiselle Céline Duboucher', untrimmed in publisher's printed wrappers, corners of wrappers and first few leaves creased and slightly frayed (lower wrapper with slight loss at corners), 8vo, Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872Footnotes:Presentation copy of the third volume of Hugo's collection of political speeches and writings, covering the first three years of his exile.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

HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL)Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare, first edition, one of 1000 copies, chromolithographed decorations throughout, with elaborate border decoration to first page of text, minor spotting and soiling, early ink inscription on first fly-leaf, original black papier-mâché binding with gold paper background, brown oval relief portrait of Shakespeare on upper cover and author's initials on the lower cover, rebacked with blind-stamped titling, gilt dentelles and edges, minor wear, solander box, 4to, Longman, Brown, 1851--[LANDOR (WALTER SAVAGE)] Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, slight spotting, signature of the author loosely inserted, brown morocco by Tout with gilt decoration and tooling to covers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamental decoration and lettering, silk gold and burgundy patterned endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, 8vo, Saunders and Otley, 1834--[INGLEBY (C.M.)] Shakespeare's Century of Praise, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, folding facsimile letter, contemporary manuscript inscription (Cornelius Paine) on first flyleaf and manuscript notes and receipt of purchase tipped in, bookplate of Robert Marceau, red crushed half-morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt lettering and elaborate decoration to spine, g.e., slipcase, 8vo, Trubner and Co., 1874 (3)Footnotes:According to McLean, Victorian Book Design pp. 109-111, the very elaborate coloured title-page decoration can be counted as Noel Humphrey's finest work.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

[MORGANN (MAURICE)]An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, FIRST EDITION, half-title, minor foxing throughout, contemporary calf, later red morocco label on spine, slight wear to edges and spine ends, front cover near detached [ESTC T6248], 8vo, T. Davies, 1777 --[RITSON (JOSEPH)] Remarks, Critical and Illustrative on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakespeare, author's name supplied on title-page, damp-staining to edges of title, occasional spotting and minor offsetting, contemporary tree calf, spine in six compartments with red morocco label, corners bumped, head and foot of spine chipped, hinges starting [ESTC T46740], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1783; The Quip Modest: A Few Words By Way Of Supplement To Remarks Critical And Illustrative, On The Text And Notes Of The Last Edition Of Shakespeare, FIRST EDITION, minor age toning, uncut, stitched as issued, preserved in a half-calf folder with title label [ESTC T5912], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1788--UPTON (JOHN) Critical Observations on Shakespeare, advertisement leaf at end, minor soiling and spotting, inscriptions and bookplates on front pastedown, contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands and gilt rules, later red morocco label [ESTC T57028] 8vo, J. Hawkins, 1746 (4)Footnotes:Provenance: Fourth work, William Lee Hartwell, inscription ('Hartwell Library. Repaired at Aylesbury. September 1837. N. 10/W. A copy presented to the Alten Literary Society Norway, July 1843') and bookplates.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

[MONTAGU (ELIZABETH)]An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, with remarks upon the Misrepresentations of M. de Voltaire, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO ELIZABETH VESEY, inscribed 'Eliz Vesey - gift of the author' on verso of contents leaf, second edition, minor offsetting to title page, slight foxing and age toning, contemporary marbled calf, gilt tooling to covers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, floral gilt decoration and gilt title to spine, g.e., hinges starting, minor wear to covers and corners, 4to, London, 1770Footnotes:Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) was a British author, celebrated salonnière and literary critic who published two works in her life time. The present work was first published in 1769. Alongside other high society women, in the 1750s she founded, led and organised the Blue Stockings Society - a women's movement focussed on female education and mutual cooperation. The addressee of the dedicatory manuscript inscription on the verso of the contents page is Elizabeth Vesey (1715-1791), a close friend of the author and renowned Irish intellectual who, alongside Elizabeth Montagu, founded and fostered the Blue Stockings Society.Provenance: Colonel Vesey, bookplate; William Marchbank, bookplate.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

INDIAANDERSON (JOHN CORBET) To India and Back by the Cape. By a Traveller... Subscriber's Copy, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Joseph Menear from the Author, with very kind regards and best wishes for himself & family, Sutton, Surrey, October 7th, 1875' on the title-pages, list of subscribers, 19 lithographed plates with tissue guards, illustrations in the text including a map hand-coloured in outline, opening gathering working loose, light dampstain to one corner of approx. 10 plates, 3 with short marginal tear, publisher's blue pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., corners worn, some loss to spine [Abbey Travel 524; Mendelssohn IV, p.510], 4to, Croydon, John C. Anderson, 1859Footnotes:Author's presentation copy of his self-published guide book for travellers to India, dedicated to 'widows and orphans of English soldiers who have fallen... upon the plains of Hindostan', and illustrated with fine views including Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Mauritius, Madeira and Tristan da Cunha.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

BURRA (PETER)Association and review copies, literature, poetry, music, drama and periodical works from the library of Peter Burra, including:BURRA (PETER) Baroque and Gothic Sentimentalism, Burra's copy, initialled 'PJSB', Duckworth, 1931; [as editor] Farrago, 6 parts in 2 vol., rare bound issue, initialled 'PJSB', contributors including Evelyn Waugh, Max Beerbohm, Rex Whistler, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Richard Crossman, Goronwy Rees and Edward Burra, publisher's cloth-backed boards, Oxford, Simon Nowell-Smith, 1930-1931; another set, in 6 original parts, including the rare prospectus announcing No. 4, with designs by Oliver Holt, untrimmed in publisher's pictorial wrappers; E.M. Forster: An Appreciation, loose proof sheets, dated in ink '22.10.34' and marked 'URGENT', with editorial annotations; idem, reprinted in: The Novels of E.M. Forster, inscribed 'T[homas] Balston, with good wishes from PJSB'' (Balston was one of Duckworth's directors who championed Burra), Reprinted by kind permission of... The Nineteenth Century and After, November 1934; Van Gogh [Duckworth Great Lives series], Burra's proof copy, 1934; idem, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'To Moo [Burra's mother] with lots of love from Peter'; idem, another copy, inscribed 'To A.S. Hartrick in gratitude for the testimony of a witness, from Peter Burra, March 1934'; Wordsworth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'Nell [Burra's twin sister] with lots of love from Peter, March 1936', Duckworth, 1936--The Lancing Miscellany, 6 issues in 1 vol., includes poems by Burra, initialled 'PJSB' in several places and signed by the publisher Simon Nowell Smith, 1926-1928; idem, 12 loose issues dated 1926-1930, plus June 1937, containing the obituary following Burra's death in a flying accident, this issue spotted--A Book of Lancing Verse, contains 2 poems by Burra, 'The New Birth' (1927) and 'The Wishing Well' (1928), signed by Burra's mother 'Ella, Xmas 1928', 1928--Oxford Poetry 1930, edited by Stephen Spender, contains Burra's poem 'The Season'', initialled 'PJSB', Blackwell, 1930--HOLZMAN (ALBERT) Family Relationships in the Dramas of August von Kotzebue, with Burra's autograph research notes, Princeton University Press, 1935PEARS (PETER) Armenian Holiday August 1965, Pears' diary account of a holiday with Benjamin Britten, sent to Nell Moody [Burra's twin sister] and her husband John Moody, inscribed as a Christmas present on inserted slip 'love from Peter & Ben'', [1965]; Moscow Christmas. December 1966, similarly inscribed on pasted-in slip, sent from The Red House, Aldeburgh, [1966]--The Poems of John Keats, inscribed to Burra by Peter Pears 'P.J.S.B. from Luard Pears', Methuen, 1926; together with books on Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Sibelius, William Byrd, some being signed or association copies FORSTER (E.M.) Abinger Harvest, FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'The Flood in the Office', advance proof copy with publisher's slip, Burra's TLS review from that year pasted in, dust-jacket, Edward Arnold & Co., 1936; The Eternal Moment, first collected edition, signed 'Peter Burra', Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1928; A Passage to India, Everyman edition, contains Burra's essay 'The Novels of E.M. Forster' from 1934 (of which Forster wrote 'I read it with pleasure and pride, for he saw exactly what I was trying to do; it is a great privilege for an author to be analysed so penetratingly, and a rare one'), J.M. Dent & Sons, 1942; and 3 others by Forster signed or initialled by Burra (6)AUDEN (W.H.) Poems, FIRST EDITION, Auden's first published collection of poems, publisher's wrappers, defective, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1931--MANSFIELD (KATHERINE) Bliss, signed by Peter Burra, Constable & Co., 1927—AUSTEN (JANE) Mansfield Park, Burra's signed copy, Oxford, 1926MATHERS (HELEN) Group of 6 works inscribed to the Burra family by the Victorian novelist and Peter Burra's Godmother, Helen Mathers (1853-1920), including 2 editions of Comin' Thro' the RyeTogether with a quantity of other books from Burra's library, including prize copies, journals, periodicals etc., many inscribed by friends, authors, headmasters, tutors etc., various bindings but mostly publisher's cloth or wrappers, a few with dust-jackets, mostly 8vo (quantity)Footnotes:THE REMAINING BOOKS FROM THE WORKING LIBRARY OF PETER BURRA.A collection encompassing Burra's work in the fields of literary criticism and biography, poetry, drama and music, some by or with contributions from Burra himself, including two sets of Burra's Farrago, a first edition of Auden's Poems, 1930, and works on or by Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Van Gogh, Katherine Mansfield, Peter Pears, Helen Mathers and others, many of the volumes either signed by Burra, or inscribed to or by him and members of his family. Included is a copy of the 1937 edition of Marguerite Steen's The Lost One, sent to Burra for a review which was due to be published on 29 April 1937, two days after Burra was killed in the air crash. The book is inscribed by Burra's mother Ella in pencil on the cover 'Peter was reviewing this book when he was killed'. A complete listing is available on request.Provenance: Peter Burra; his sister Nell Moody (née Burra); thence by descent to her godson Dr. Richard Thompson, 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

CHRISTIE (AGATHA)Murder on the Orient Express, FIRST EDITION, light spotting, publisher's orange cloth, spine soiled, some uneven fading, 8vo, Collins for the Crime Club, [1934]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

INDIACRAWFURD (JOHN) Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava, in the Year 1827... With an Appendix, Containing the Description of Fossil Remains, by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift, FIRST EDITION, 5 aquatint plates (3 hand-coloured), 5 lithographed plates, one engraved plan, one large folding engraved map (short tears at fold), wood-engraved illustrations in the text, without half-title, modern half calf, spine tooled in gilt within raised bands, gilt morocco lettering label [Abbey Travel 405], 4to (270 x 202mm.), Henry Colburn, 1829Footnotes:John Crawfurd was sent as an envoy to Burma in 1826 with the aim of establishing a permanent British residency there, and forming good relations with the Court of Ava. Whilst he 'revealed little capacity as a negotiator... the book he wrote about his experiences, published in London in 1829, proved to be of exceptional value' (Howgego, Encyclopaedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850, 2004).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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Great Contemporaries, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To George Lloyd from Winston S. Churchill, October 1937' on the half-title, 21 photographic plates, publisher's blue cloth gilt, some uneven fading [Woods A43(a)], 8vo, Thornton Butterworth, 1937Footnotes:Inscribed to Churchill's friend and political ally Lord Lloyd, whose biographer noted that 'the causes which he championed: the Empire, rearmament, opposition to the India Bill and to Hitler, were all later taken up by Winston Churchill' (John Charmley, Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire, 1987, p.1). Having worked closely on the India Defence League earlier in the 1930s, with the rise of the German threat Lloyd wrote to Churchill in July 1938, 'I am rather unhappy at never seeing you nowadays... I hate being divorced from your mind, policy, and plans', prompting an immediate invitation to stay at Chartwell, whereupon 'as the crisis deepened, the two men came once more into co-operation' (op cit., p.217). Great Contemporaries includes a chapter devoted to T.E. Lawrence, with whom Lloyd was also a close associate and friend.Provenance: George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran (1879-1941), presentation inscription from the author; 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

ELIOT (T.S.)Poems 1909-1925, FIRST EDITION, some foxing, paper flaw/tear at edge of Contents leaf, publisher's dark blue cloth, slight crinkling in 2 places, dust-jacket, rubbed and soiled with some ink staining to spine, split at foot of front fold of jacket, 8vo, Faber & Gwyer, 1926This 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

ELIOT (T.S.)For Lancelot Andrewes. Essay on Style and Order, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS COUSIN ELEANOR HINKLEY, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Eleanor Hinkley from T.S. Eliot affectionately/ 30.iv.29/ (I am not responsible for the Stars, or the wrapper)', publisher's cloth with silver star design stamped on spine and upper cover (spine faded and slightly stained at foot), dust-jacket (tear without loss to front of jacket, split at folds) [Gallup A12b], 8vo, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, 1929Footnotes:'I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STARS, OR THE WRAPPER' - Eliot complains to his cousin and close friend about the book's design, a week before publication.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

ELIOT (T.S.)Triumphal March, No. 35 of the Ariel Poems, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'for Ramon Fernandez from his friend T.S. Eliot' on last page, colour lithograph by E. McKnight Kauffer, publisher's pictorial grey paper wrappers printed in black, folded over blanks and sewn, preserved in specially made solander box with facsimiles of the front cover design on lid and the inscription page inside lid, 8vo, Faber and Faber, [1931]Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY TO RAMON FERNANDEZ, French writer, journalist and literary critic (1894-1944). Fernandez wrote extensively for La nouvelle revue française, and was instrumental in promoting Eliot and other anglophone writers in France with influential articles such as 'Le classicisme de T.S. Eliot'.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