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Lot 263
Payne (John, translator). The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, 3 volumes, London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1901, half-titles, partly unopened, occasional light spotting, crimson morocco gilt bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, contemporary crimson half morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, limited edition of an unspecified number, this copy unnumbered, together with 4 others: The Bakhtyar Nama: A Persian Romance, Translated from a manuscript text by Sir William Ouseley, edited, with introduction and notes by W. A. Clouston, privately printed, 1883, limited edition of 300, The Book of Sindibad... edited by W. A. Clouston, 1884, limited edition of 300, A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil and Urdu... edited by W. A. Clouston, 1889, limited edition of 300, plus The Gulistanor Rose Garden, by Musle-Hudeen Sheik Saadi, translated from the original by Francis Gladwin, Boston, 1865 QTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).
Lot 217
Riviere Bindings. Burke (Edmund) by John Morley, Containing One Hundred Illustrations, London: Macmillan & Co, Limited, 1902, cancelled title page, frontispiece and plates list, extra-illustrated with 19th-century portraits, bookplate of Alexander Stone to front pastedown, entire work (including the 8vo text and all the additional illustrations) window-mounted to larger sheets, top edge gilt, early 20th-century red morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt embossed coat of arms to front boards of John Doyle Fry (1840-1907), elaborate gilt decorated spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, super royal octavo (26.5 x 18.5 mm), together with:Jennings (Louis J.). Field Paths and Green Lanes..., Country Walks, Chiefly In Surrey And Sussex, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1877, extra-illustrated with 60 views, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Riviere, elaborate gilt decorated spine, spine evenly faded to brown, 6mo, plus La Bruyere (Jean De). The "Characters"..., Rendered Into English by Henri Van Laun, London: John C. Nimmo, 1885, 24 etchings, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary crimson morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt decorated spine, gilt floral motifs and borders to boards, elaborate gilt turn-ins, 8vo, plus Drury (Henricus, editor). Arundines Cami Sive Musarum Cantabigiensium Lusus Canori, 1st edition, Cantabrigiae: Veneunt Apud J. Et. J. J. Deighton, 1841, red-ruled outer borders throughout, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown all edges gilt, grazing to front pastedown from removal of old bookplate, 20th-century crimson morocco by Riviere, elaborate gilt decorated spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, 8voDonson (Austin). Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 6 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1894, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, extra-illustrated with numerous portraits and views, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, errata tipped-in to volume 2 list of illustrations, top edge gilt, early 20th-century blue morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt motifs and lettering to spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, 8voLamb (Charles). A Memoir, London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1866, frontispiece, 38 additional illustrations, slight spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, grazing to front pastedown from removal of old bookplate, all edges gilt, contemporary tan calf by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt decorated spine with crimson morocco title label, elaborate gilt turn-ins, 8vo, Stanhope (Philip Dormer). The Letters... Edited by Lord Mahon, 5 volumes, London and Philidelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892, engraved frontispiece, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, tan calf by Riviere & Son, gilt spines with red and green morocco title labels, gilt turn-ins, 8voand 7 others similar including Maxwell (W. H). History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798..., 1st edition, London: Baily, Brothers, Cornhill, 1845, Hebrew Tales. New Edition, Translated by Hyman Hurwitz, Edinburgh: Stirling, Kenny, & Co, 1863, bookplate of Alexander Stone to front pastedown, Bashkirtseff (Marie). The Journal... Translated, With An Introduction By Mathilde Blind, 2 volumes, London: Castell & Company, 1890, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, The Letters of Queen Victoria..., between the years 1837 and 1861..., 3 volumes, London: John Murray, 1907, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to front pastedown of each volume, all bound in brown or blue morocco gilt by Riviere, mostly large 8vo QTY: (16)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate) except first work: John Doyle Fry, 1840-1907 (armorial stamp) and Alexander Stone (bookplate).
Lot 139
Denham (Major Dixon, Captain Hugh Clapperton, and Walter Oudney). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London: John Murray, 1828, engraved frontispiece to each volume, 15 engraved plates and maps, including three large folding maps and plans, several wood engravings to text, contemporary owner's presentation inscription ' T. G. Parry from his friend Leyceser on leaving Eton, 1832, April 10' to front blank of first volume, marbled edges and endpapers, some light scattered spotting, mainly to plates, contemporary gilt-decorated blue full polished calf, 8vo, together with[Christyn, Jean-Baptiste]. Les Delices des Paris-Bays au description generale de ses dix-sept Provinces, de ses principales Villes & de ses lieux les plus renommez, 1st edition, Brussels: Francois Foppens, 1697, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map (close-trimmed to lower margin), 25 folding engraved plates and town plans, one or two plates with closed tears, generally without loss, front endpaper torn out (no longer present), near-contemporary sprinkled calf, 12mo, plus othersQTY: (9)
Lot 17
Spanish Illuminated Manuscript Certificate of Nobility. A Spanish Carta Executoria de Hidalguia for Capitan Christoval Monte Bernardo of Seville, dated 7th August 1618, manuscript on vellum, 112 leaves, with two full-page illuminations in gold and colours, the first being an elaborate decorative coat of arms bearing the motto Por la Gracia de Dios, and a second full-page illumination in gold colours depicting the Annunciation, with a scene of Christian soldiers on horseback defeating the infidel, with decorative outer border and four oval portraits of Saints to outer corners (Saint Christopher, Saint Francis, Saint Anna, and Saint Blaise), ten large illuminated initials in gold and colours (one with portrait of a gentleman), the main text written in brown ink, 34 lines to each page, entirely red-ruled throughout, red silk tissue-guard to each of the full-page illuminations at front of volume, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, original red velvet over wooden boards, and old printed auction catalogue description pasted above, thick folio (31 x 21 cm), contained in early 20th-century red calf-backed drop-over book boxQTY: (1)NOTE:A handsome illuminated manuscript certificate of nobility issued at the Royal Chancellery at Granada on behalf of the Monte Bernardo family of Seville, on behalf of 'Gonzalo Monte Bernardo e y Christoval Monte Bernardo e el Capitan Martin Monte Bernardo hermanos vecinos de la... cuidad de Sevilla e y Andres...'.
![[Pepys, Samuel]. Braybrooke (Richard Griffin, Baron). The History of Audley End. To which are appended Notices of the Town an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/2a2ba9fb-3045-4cf5-9ad0-b0f501101bce/468x382.jpg)
Lot 28
[Pepys, Samuel]. Braybrooke (Richard Griffin, Baron). The History of Audley End. To which are appended Notices of the Town and Parish of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex, 1st edition, London: Samuel Bentley, 1836, engraved frontispiece, portrait of Braybrooke, 2 maps, and 16 plates, with other illustrations, extra-illustrated with an additional 45 portraits and engravings, some early, some coloured and many folding, plus two manuscript documents, the first signed by both Charles II and Samuel Pepys, the second an autograph letter signed by Samuel Pepys, window-mounted opposite pages 87 & 104, autograph presentation note from the author to Reverend Joseph Hunter FSA, 24 April 1847, tipped on to front flyleaf, with a later note at foot indicating it was then purchased at the sale of Hunter’s books in December 1861, additionally signed above the note (?John Doller, 1861), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 20th-century red polished calf by Bayntun Rivière, large paper copy, 4to (310 x 245 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Rev. Joseph Hunter, 1783-1861, (presentation note from the author); ?John Doller (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The two Pepys letters included are:Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703), English diarist and naval administrator. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘S. Pepys’, Derby House, 18 February 1673/4, to Mr Brereton, concerning the Navy’s ships and the numbers of men, borne and mustered, taking issue with his weekly accounts, ‘… I have hitherto observed such an irregularity in one of your weekly accounts as I never met withal from any other hand…’, with a postscript to add new observations about the numbers of men borne and mustered on board the St David and the Dunkirk, giving details of the discrepancies, 2 pages, folioWilliam Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS (1631-1680) was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664. He was chairman of the Committee of Accounts, better known as the Brooke House Committee, in 1667-1670. In that capacity he clashed repeatedly with Samuel Pepys, whose description of Brereton in his Second Diary, or Brooke House Journal, although no doubt biased, is the best portrait we have of the man.Charles II (1630-1685), King of Great Britain & Ireland, 1660-1685 and Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703), English diarist and naval administrator. Document Signed, ‘Charles R’ and ‘S. Pepys’, Whitehall, 10 January 1673/4, a manuscript warrant in a secretarial hand, addressed to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, appointing George Bowen, late boatswain of the ship Anne, to be boatswain of the ship Rupert, repairs to blank left margin, 1 page, folioSamuel Pepys visited the 17th-century country house Audley End and described it his diary entry for 8 October 1667: ‘At last, rose, and up, and broke our fast, and then took coach, and away, and at Newport did call on Mr. Lowther, and he and his friend, and the master of the house, their friend, where they were, a gentleman, did presently get a-horseback and overtook us, and went with us to Audley-End, and did go along with us all over the house and garden: and mighty merry we were. The house indeed do appear very fine, but not so fine as it hath heretofore to me; particularly the ceilings are not so good as I always took them to be, being nothing so well wrought as my Lord Chancellor’s are; and though the figure of the house without be very extraordinary good, yet the stayre-case is exceeding poor; and a great many pictures, and not one good one in the house but one of Harry the Eighth, done by Holben; and not one good suit of hangings in all the house, but all most ancient things, such as I would not give the hanging-up of in my house; and the other furniture, beds and other things, accordingly.’
Lot 71
Stedman (Charles). The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War, Volume One (of 2) only, 1st edition, London: printed for the author, 1794, seven folding engraved maps and plans of battles and military positions, the first folding plan (Bunkers Hill) with several closed tears and some scattered toning, but without loss, other plates with some offsetting from adjacent text leaf, some portions of text with light spotting or marginal toning, 19th-century armorial bookplate fo Grantham to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled full calf, re-backed with original spine laid down, stamped in gilt to upper cover Newby Hall, rubbed and some wear to extremities, spine somewhat darkened, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Sabin 91057; Howes S-914; Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred, 89. 'The finest collection of plans assembled by an eyewitness.' (Reese).The engraved plans present are A Plan of the Action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th. of June 1775, Sketch of General grants position on Long Island, A Topographical Map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington, A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the command of General Sr. William Howe, K. B. In New York and East New Jersey, Plan of the Position which the Army under Lt. Genl. Burgoine took at Saratoga on the 10th of September 1777, Plan of the Attack of the Forts Clinton & Montgomery, upon Hudson River... on the 6th of Octr. 1777, and Sketch of Fayette's Position at Barren Hill. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
Lot 43
Wren (Christopher). Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, viz. of Matthew, Bishop of Ely, Christopher, Dean of Windsor, etc. but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren... compiled by his son Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General of the Royal Buildings, President of the Royal Society, &c. &c. in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records; on religion, politicks, anatomy, mathematicks, architecture, antiquities; and most branches of polite literature; Compiled, by his son Christopher; now published by his grandson, Stephen Wren, Esq; with the care of Joseph Ames, F.R.S...., 1st edition, London: Printed for T. Osborn, and R. Dodsley, 1750, mezzotint portrait frontispiece of Christopher Wren by John Faber (trimmed to plate mark and relined on contemporary laid paper), title page printed in red and black, dedication with large armorial crest, list of subscribers, 14 engraved plates (including 3 portraits) and 7 folding engraved plans (including a map of London and its environs) with two additional tipped-in engravings by Samuel Ward: Magnetica Magnalia (frontispiece to The Wonders of the Load-Stone, or, the load-stone newly reduc’t into a divine and morall use, London: 1640) at page 227, and The Monument, The figure of y Columne Erected for ye Perpetual Memory of ye most famous City of London that was almost wast by fire in ye Prodigious year 1666 at page 322, plus an annotated contemporary pen and brown ink drawing of Roman urns at page 267, the other additional plates include prospects and interiors of St Pauls, a view of St Peter's Cathedral Westminster (trimmed and laid on contemporary paper),some closed tears to folds, occasional light spotting to plates, appendix, index and bookbinder instructions bound at rear, rough-trimmed edges, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, modern sprinkled half calf over marbled boards, lower outer corners showing, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Harris, British Architectural Books 949; Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection II, 97; ESTC T145737.The rare first edition of one of the earliest biographies of the celebrated English architect Sir Christopher Wren, compiled by his son and grandson. This copy extra-illustrated with 11 additional engravings and an annotated original drawing illustrating two Roman urns discovered when the foundations of St. Pauls were being laid.
![Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Rhetorica Nova, Italy, 1st November 1491 [finit feliciter K[a]l Nove[m]brib[u]s 1490], manuscript on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/2ac49c74-cc50-4724-b871-b0f5010ffb5f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5
Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Rhetorica Nova, Italy, 1st November 1491 [finit feliciter K[a]l Nove[m]brib[u]s 1490], manuscript on vellum, 153 leaves of text in dark brown ink (with 8 blank vellum leaves at front and 20 blank leaves at end, first vellum leaf verso with early ownership name in ink 'reddantur Hannibali Merswein 1541', second blank leaf recto with four paragraphs of contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink, and 8th blank leaf verso with a further three paragraphs of contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink, and further annotations to the first five pages of the text, all apparently by the same hand), 21 lines per page with occasional marginal notes, four five-line illuminated initials in gold, red, blue and light brown (to the four main books of the text), numerous three-line initials in red and blue (or red and pale brown) with pen flourishes, paragraph marks in red or blue, initial strokes in red, old (early 20th century) printed auction catalogue description tipped-in to front endpaper, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, edges stained blue, fine 18th century Italian gilt-decorated red full morocco, spine with three raised bands and dark green title label, a little rubbed to extremities, 8vo (14 x 10 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A fine late 15th century Italian humanist manuscript of Cicero's Rhetorica Nova, as it was known during the medieval period. Cicero's authorship of this text is today disputed.
Lot 13
Ellis (Henry). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate, in the Suburbs of London, London: J. Nichols, 1798, extra-illustrated and expanded into three volumes, including autograph items of Lord Burleigh, John Wilkes, David Garrick, Horace Walpole and the author Henry Ellis (2) including one about the book’s scarcity, autograph signatures of Robert Vyner, Robert Aske, Thomas Bloodworth and John Hobby together on a slip of paper, plus approximately 330 engravings, comprising portraits, views, and antiquities, etc., plus 2 original drawings, printed items and extracts including a scare David Garrick playbill, etc., some occasional spotting or browning, red morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, top edges gilt, late 19th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some edge and corner wear, 4to (280 x 210 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: John Bullock (author’s autograph letter signed to Mr Bullock, Guildford, 29 September 1859: ‘… You quite astonish me to find a copy of the History of Shoreditch (illustrated too) at Guildford. There were but two hundred and fifty copies printed: and I believe the largest portion of them were lost in Mr [John] Nichols’s Fire [February 1808]; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).The autograph items include:Cecil (William, 1520-1598), 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550-1553 and 1558-1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Document Signed, ‘W. Burghley’, 8 May 1594, being a warrant, in a clerk’s hand but signed by William [Cecil], Lord Burghley, instructing his former secretary Vincent Skinner, now Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, to issue £100 to Sir Roger Williams for his ambassadorial mission to Henri IV of France, as the queen’s warrant has not yet been signed, dated 8 May 1594; annotated by Skinner with instructions to Mr Taylor, one of the tellers, to pay the amount, and that that this warrant would be replaced with a further order, whereupon this warrant is to be cancelled, dated 13 May 1594, a little spotting, old bookseller’s brief printed catalogue entry pasted to lower left blank margin, one page, folio [tipped in opposite p. 23]For William Cecil (1520-1597), Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer, see ODNB.Sir Roger Williams (1539/40-1595), soldier and author, was a flamboyant Welshman who fought on the continent from 1557, between 1574 and 1577 in the Spanish army of Flanders (where he may have served as an intelligence agent on behalf of Sir Francis Walsingham). Williams spent the Armada year, 1588, in England. He helped to prepare the English militia to do battle with the Spanish (whose military methods he knew so well) and was second in command, to Essex, of the cavalry of the army gathered at Tilbury. Elizabeth had always tolerated rather than liked Williams, but in 1594 he was finally granted a life pension of £300 a year. In that year and in 1595 he was sent as special ambassador to Henri IV. These appointments reflect his special expertise in French affairs and friendship with the French king, but also perhaps a growing acceptance of him by Elizabeth—and probably most of all the influence at court of his patron, Essex. Williams died of fever on 12 December 1595 after a four-day illness, with Essex at his side. His extensive ODNB entry endorses the speculation that he might have served as the model for Fluellen, the fiery yet witty, consummate Welsh professional soldier in Shakespeare’s Henry V.Vincent Skinner (c. 1540-1616) entered Trinity College in Cambridge in 1557 and Lincoln’s Inn in 1565, occupied administrative positions in Lincolnshire between 1575 and 1583. He may already have been in Burghley’s service in 1571, when he was elected MP for Truro, the first of his eight parliamentary seats. A puritan, he was serving as Burghley’s secretary by at least 1578. Skinner left Burghley’s personal service in 1593, when he became auditor of the receipt, by that time the principal office in the lower Exchequer. His career after this date was an unhappy one, and he died intestate at a debtor’s prison on 28 February 1616 (History of Parliament).Burghley’s inability to obtain proper authorisation for this payment can be explained by the queen’s itinerary: on 7 May 1594 Elizabeth arrived at Lambeth Palace, where she remained until departing for Wimbledon, the house of Burghley’s son Sir Thomas Cecil, on 11 May. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington: The Elizabethan court day by day – 1594.Wilkes (John, 1725-1797), English radical journalist and politician, magistrate, essayist and soldier, Lord Mayor of London 1774-75. Document Signed, ‘John Wilkes’, 12 July 1775, concerning blood money in settlement of £40 for the assault and robbery by Charles Whittle of William Watlington in the Parish of St Leonard’s Shoreditch, 6 May 1774, on vellum, countersigned by Sergeant Glynn (recorder), some soiling, one page, docketed, 230 x 310 mm [window-mounted as a double-page between pages 4 & 5]Garrick (David, 1717-1779), English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘D.G.’, no place, no date, c. 1770s, to the actors [at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane], in full: ’Gentlemen, I have long seen and felt the great evil you complained of – it came with double weight upon me this season but as I resolv’d to quit the direction of your theatre I gave up all thoughts of finding out a remedy for it. - As I most sincerely wish you well, if you can point out to me any justifiable method of serving you, I will do that for you, which I have hitherto delay’d to do for the proprietors’, several deletions and corrections, endorsed in Garrick’s hand, ‘My letter to your performers’, 1 page, 4to [opposite page 141]Walpole (Horatio, 1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. Unsigned autograph manuscript note, no date, ‘I cannot call on your Ladyship this evening, nor go to the Duchess of Montrose, as I have just now been sent for to the Pavilions; but I shall be very glad of the honour of seeing your Ladyship tomorrow morning.’ [window-mounted beneath an engraved portrait opposite p. 11]The two drawings are: ‘View taken in the fields between Shoreditch and Hackney’ by O. N., no date, late 18th century, monochrome watercolour en grisaille, titled and initialled to lower margin, 205 x 300 mm [opposite p. 100]; ‘Balme House, Finsbury Fields’, by C. H. M., no date, early 19th century, pen and ink and sepia watercolour wash, titled and initialled to lower margin, 150 x 180 mm, [opposite p. 124].Portraits include: The Author (a private plate lithographed by H. Corbould), 9 plates of Jane Shore (including one by Bartolozzi), Charles I, and St. Agnes (mezzotints by J. Smith); Garrick as Romeo, etched by T. Paurland, 1851 (only 20 copies executed); The Rev. Arthur Biford (Jeremy Collier's coadjutor in his work on the Immorality of the English Stage); Richard Gough, FSA (private plate); Foster Powell, the Pedestrian, etc.Engravings include: Both Views of Lunardi's Balloon Ascent from the Artillery Ground (with his Autograph); Original print of the performance of Topham, the Strong Man, 1757; and several others.
Lot 211
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Poetical and Dramatic Works, founded on the author's latest edition of 1834 with many additional pieces now first included and with a collection of various readings, 4 volumes, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877, Large Paper copy, half-titles, manuscript note by the printer Robert Roberts to verso of half-title to first volume states '24 copies only on Whatman's Paper: this is no three R.R.', printed armorial bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym to front pastedown of each volume, untrimmed, original quarter japanese vellum, printed paper spine label to each volume, a trifle dusty and some light marks, board outer edges with some surface wear, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Horatio Noble Pym, or Horace Pym (1844-1896), solicitor, book collector and editor of the journal of Quaker writer Caroline Fox, Memories of Old Friends, published in 1881. Pym has added a pencil note to the front pastedown of the first volume: '£4-4 from publisher & printer in 1879. Only 24 copies thus printed - Rare'.
Lot 63
Fenn (John, editor). Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. By various persons of rank or consequence; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that turbulent and bloody, but hitherto dark, period of our history...[continued to include Edward V and Henry VII], 5 volumes, 1st edition (except first volume, 2nd edition, with additions and corrections), London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Vol. V - John Murray), 1787-1823, additional engraved vignette title to each volume, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece to volume I - IV, lithographic portrait frontispiece to volume V, then 34 plates of facsimiles, and 34 (?) numbered plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with additional coloured engraved plates, including folding map of England and Wales, hand-coloured in outline, pencil inscription to verso of front endpaper of first volume 'Duke of York's Copy', and each volume with ownership inscription to verso to front endpaper 'Liverpool, Kirkham Abbey', dated February 1907, gilt-decorated burgundy bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, marbled endpapers, contemporary uniform full calf with inset tree calf panel to each board, later rebacks with contrasting red and black gilt spine labels, some marginal spotting to plates, rubbed and some marks to edges, 4toQTY: (5)NOTE:ESTC N10150 & T149304.Generally known as the Paston Letters, this work, which includes the much-later fifth volume of 1823, represents an important source for the social and political history of England in the early Tudor period. The editor John Fenn published a selection in two volumes in 1787, and a further two volumes in 1789. The fifth volume was prepared for publication by him, but only posthumously published in 1823 by his nephew William Frere.
Lot 247
Waters (W. G., translator). The Nights of Straparola, 2 volumes, & The Novellino of Masuccio, 2 volumes, now first translated into English by W. G. Waters, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, A.R.W.S., London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1894 & 1895, printed on japanese vellum, photogravure plates by E. R. Hughes, with tissue-guard to each, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Ernest G. Mocatta to front pastedown of each volume, and gilt-decorated burgundy morocco plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper of each volume, top edge gilt, contemporary mustard crushed full morocco (by Zaehnsdorf, dated 1896), gilt ruled outer borders to each cover, gilt spine with raised bands, a few minor marks and spines lightly dulled, 4to, limited edition of 210 copies printed on Japanese Vellum, this copy number 205 (Masuccio printed in an edition of 210 copies, this copy numbered 121), together withThe Facetiae or Jocose Tales of Poddio now first translated into English with the Latin text (Petite Collection Elzevirienne), 2 volumes, Paris: Isadore Liseux, 1879, half-titles, titles printed in red and black, original printed wrappers bound in, gilt-decorated burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near-contemporary red crushed half morocco (by Bumpus), gilt decorated spines, minimally rubbed to foot of upper joint of the first volume (generally a fine copy), 8vo, plus[Smyth, Amelia Gillespie]. Olympia Morata, her times, life, and writings, arranged from contemporary and other authorities, 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1834, wood-engraved plates, light spotting to endpapers, pencil inscription to verso of front endpaper 'from Sir Theodore Martin's Library', top edge gilt, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, later light brown half morocco (by Maclehose, Glasgow), minimally rubbed to extremities, 8vo, and two other related works: The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen now first done into English prose and verse by John Payne, 6 volumes, London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and private circulation only, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, contemporary uniform three-quarter brown crushed morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints, with upper cover to second volume detached, and upper cover to first volume near-detached, square octavo (Large Paper copy), and Teh Pecorone of Sir Giovanni now first translated into English by W. G. Waters, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, A.R.W.S., London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897, text printed on japanese vellum, patterned silk doublures, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated green crushed full morocco (unsigned), a few light marks and spine somewhat toned, 4to, limited edition of 110 copies, this copy numbered 44QTY: (14)
Lot 286
Sparrow (Walter Shaw). British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922, colour and monochrome illustrations, occasional minor spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A, Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, upper cover with circular scene of a leaping horse and rider onlaid in multi-coloured morocco, within an elaborate gilt border with hunting motifs to corners, spine gilt with hunting motifs to compartments, 4to, together with Bosschere (Jean de, illustrator). The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius, translated out of Latin by William Adlington, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1923, colour and monochrome illustrations, 4 pp. advertisements at rear, top edge gilt, contemporary black morocco gilt by William F. Matthews, cover with design onlaid in burgundy and cream morocco with gilt dots, 8vo, limited edition 1073/3000, plus Gosse (Philip). The History of Piracy, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932, maps and illustrations, some light spotting, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, top edge gilt, dark green full morocco bound for the First Editions Club by H. T. Wood, London, covers with ship design in gilt, spine a little faded, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 2 others: The Confessions of S. Augustine, 1909, bound in vellum with small colour onlay of St. Augustine to upper cover and spine, and The Book of Common Prayer, circa 1963, rebound in polychrome morocco gilt in slipcaseQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).
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Morris (Francis Orpen). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 volumes (including volume of facsimile autographs), circa 1880, chromolithograph additional titles, 228 chromolithograph plates (lacking plate of Windsor Castle to first volume), letterpress titles to each volume except volume 4, scattered spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated red morocco with gilt embossed armorials to upper and lower boards, leather to facsimile signature volume in slightly differing colour leather (terracotta red/brown) and lightly rubbed to spine, 4toQTY: (7)
Lot 234
Pardoe (Julia). Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France in the seventeenth century, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, The Court and Reign of Francis the First, 3 volumes, & The Life of Marie de Medicis, 3 volumes, together 9 volumes, 1847-90, engraved frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, illustrations and folding facsimile letters, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, later blue half morocco gilt by Bickers & Son, spines faded to green, 8vo, together with Williams (H. Noel). Madame de Montespan, London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903, half-title colour frontispiece, 16 photogravures, extra-illustrated with 33 plates, a few colour, slight marginal toning, morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, later maroon half morocco by Bayntun, Bath, upper joint and small areas of front cover rubbed, 4to, plus Madame du Barry, London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904, 16 photogravure plates, morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, all edges gilt, later crimson half morocco gilt by Bumpus, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 4to, with 8 others including History of the Reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, by Eyre Evans Crowe, 2 volumes, 1854, Madame de Pompadour, by H. Noel Williams, 1902, Memoirs of Count Lavalette, 1894, limited edition 49/125, The Secret Memoirs of the Duc de Roquelaure, 4 volumes, privately printed in an edition of 1000, 1896, and The Favourites of Henry of Navarre, by Le Petit Homme Rouge, 1910 QTY: (26)
Lot 223
Oliphant (Margaret). The Literary History of England in the end of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 3 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., 1882, Extra-illustrated with numerous engraved portrait plates, occasional light spotting, bookplate of F. E. Dinshaw and red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, near contemporary calf by Riviere and Son, gilt decoration to spines with contrasting morocco labels, lightly scuffed, 8vo, together with:Hood (Thomas). The Works ... Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, 7 volumes, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1862-63, photographic portrait frontispiece to first volume, near-contemporary calf by Bickers and Son, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Wilson (John). The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh, 4 volumes, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855, English and Latin titles to each volume, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century half calf by Henderson and Bisset, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Brown (John). Horae Subsecivae, 3 volumes, new edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897, engraved portrait frontispieces to volumes 1 and 3, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century half calf by Henderson and Bisset, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Tennyson (Alfred). Poems, 2 volumes, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, monochrome frontispieces, bookplate of Alexander Stone to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary green morocco, gilt decorated spines (faded to brown and slightly faded), 8vo (Large Paper limited edition 24/50), plus others in 20th-century half morocco bindings, all 8voQTY: (30)
Lot 136
Burton (Thomas). Diary of Thomas Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: now first published from the original published autograph manuscript. With an introduction, containing an account of the Parliament of 1654; from the journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq. M.P., also now first printed. Edited and illustrated with notes historical and biographical by John Towill Rutt, 4 volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1828, half-titles, enraged frontispiece to first volume, facsimile frontispiece to second and third volumes, bookplate of Frances Richardson Currer to front pastedown of each volume, errata leaf and 2 pp publisher's advertisement at rear of fourth volume, contemporary uniform olive green polished full calf, gilt-decorated spines, with morocco labels, a little rubbed and some marks, 8v0, together withLodge (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures of the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, 12 volumes bound in six, London: printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835, numerous engraved portraits, titles, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform gilt-decorated red full morocco, spines elaborately gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, plus others similar, including Harriet Martineau, Introduction to the History of the Peace from 1800 to 1815 & The History of England during the Thirty Year's Peace: 1816-1846, 3 volumes bound in two, London: Charles Knight, 1849-51, contemporary tan full polished calf gilt, Remains of the late John Tweddell Fellow of Trinity-College Cambridge, 1815, John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 2 volumes, 1813, Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby 1813, etcQTY: (34)
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Heraldry Manuscript. A bound collection of heraldic tracts including pedigrees showing the relationship between the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth and other Knights of the Garter, late 16th Century, 250 leaves manuscript on paper, with 17th-century additions, folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) inscribed with the name or signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand, some pages blank, early pagination with pages numbered 109-616, some other foliation and partial renumbering in modern pencil, some dust-soiling, late 18th-century armorial bookplate of (?)’T.S.M.’ by J[ames] Kirk to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, beneath and William H. Robinson’s Bibliotheca Phillippica bookseller’s ticket below that, old pencil inscription at head of pastedown indicating the volume was ex Bibliotheca Heberiana and Phillippica, uncut, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, ‘MS. Heraldic Pedigrees of Earl of Essex & C.’, inscribed beneath in old ink, ‘olim Ld Somers nup Sir Jos. Jekyll’, small paper shelf-mark numbers at foot, [Phillipps MS] ‘8196’ and ‘228’, slightly soiled, some edge wear to boards, folio (305 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: ?Edward Dyer (1543-1607) and family (signature/inscription); John Somers (1651-1716); Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738); (?)T.S.M. (bookplate); Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), (Phillipps MS 8196 spine label); William H. Robinson, booksellers; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old brief 4-page manuscript index is loosely inserted, evidently written before pp. 1-108 were separated and ‘lost’. These missing leaves are identified as ‘Calendar of the Dorse of the Close Rolls 1 H. A.; Fines 1 H. A.; Table to these after many blank leaves’.There can be little doubt that this set of pedigrees was executed for the Earl of Essex for some special purpose. Folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) bears the signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand. Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607), the poet, had as a patron Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, father of Robert, the second Earl. Thus Robert and Dyer must have been on intimate terms, which would account for the manuscript being in the possession of the Dyer family in the seventeenth century.
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* Essex Deeds. A group of 6 vellum deeds relating to lands at Tillingham, Great Tey, etc., 1462/1520, plus a fragment of a bond dated at Tillingham [Essex] from the reign of Edward III, comprising:Defeasance of a settlement (grant by feoffees), 12 May 1462, Thomas Barbur of Great Dunmow and John Lundon of Great Dunmow to John Mydlyng of Great Dunmowe, esquire, and his wife Isabel and their heirs in tail, reversion to the next heirs of John Mydlyng; 1) all their lands and tenements, rents and services called Merkys, Dregers, Cokes [and] Clerkyshook in the vills and fields of Mayland, Bradwell [on Sea] and Tillingham. 2) a mill called Waryngesmelle in the vill of Dunmow, which they lately had by the grant of John Mydlyng, to be void if John Mydlyng causes the tenements called Northmerk, Wyotes, Carters, Brownjones and Perye in Tillingham to be received at the true value of 20 marks [£13 6s 8d]; Witnesses: Henry Bolowe, John Barker, John Bolowe, John Chercheman, Thomas Lundon; at Dunmow; two red wax seals, one showing a crowned letter LGrant for life, 8 April 1505, James Hobart, knight, and Thomas London of Great Tey, feoffees for their lives (with John Stansted of Little Tey, John Braham, esquire and Robert Clerke of Nayland) to the right heirs of John Stansted and the performance of his will, to Robert Stansted the younger of Little Tey, son of John Stansted; the life estate of the grantors in lands and tenements, rents and services called Esgoris and Twetteloppis in Great Tey, late John Stansted; John Wade and John Smyth of Sible Hedingham appointed attorneys to deliver seisin; Given at Great Teye; endorsed (in English); the witnesses being in the great chamber at the castle of Hedingham when Sir James Hobart knight did a-seal this deed indented, and did deliver the one part unto the within-writ Robert Stansted, and the other part unto Edward Davenant the day within writ; first my lord the Earl of Oxford, Sir William Waldegrave, Sir Robert Tyrell, Sir Robert Lovell, knights, Robert Rowchester, John Aspelon, John Danyell, Thomas Tyrell, Walter Wynfeld, William Paston, Edward Peyton, Harry Ratclif, Edward Wyseman, esquires, Robert Forde of Hadlow, William Saunes and Harry Spenser, gentlemen, and many other gentlemen, etc; the witnesses being at Esgorys in Much Tey when Thomas London did a-seal the same and when the estate was made by this deed indented; first William Horell, John Webbe, William Smyth, Robert Cobold, John Wade, John Smyth, Thomas Audele of Sible Hedingham, Richard Stansted, William Peverell, Thomas Peverell of Much Tey, Robert Knyght of Creppyng [?], Thomas Chapman, p…, and many othersConveyance (bargain and sale) for £40, 20 September 1518, Thomas Bonham of Stanway, gentleman, to Thomas Motam of Great Tey, yeoman; lands and tenements, rents and services called Evysgores and Twyttiloppis lying in the town of Great Tey, which Robert Stansted the elder now holds and occupies; provision for the payment of the consideration in instalments Fragment of a defeasance of a bond, Sunday after St Dunstan … Edward III, c. 1360, John Lexeden and his wife Florence, daughter of Richard atte Merke, with Adam Midlyng of Tillingham; Recites: bond in £40, John Lexeden to Adam Midlyng, to bring the bond to Tillingham church next Easter and … To be void if John Lexeden and his wife Florence come to the king’s court at Westminster to acknowledge all [the lands] in the vill of Tillngham, after the death of her father Richard atte Merke, to be the right of [Adam Midlyng] …; and if Florence is found to be of tender age at any of the aforesaid terms, …; otherwise the bond is to remain in force, Given at Tillingham; plus a feoffment (1516) with red wax seal, a grant (1518) with 3 red wax seals, and a conveyance (1549) with fragments of two red wax sealsQTY: (7)
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* Bacon (Francis). Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon... , written during the Reign of King James the First... , the whole being Illustrated by an Historical Introduction and some Observations, and dispos'd according to the Series of Time, [edited by Robert Stephens], 1st edition, London: Benjamin Tooke, 1702, title within double-ruled border, errata/advert leaf at rear, lacks dedication leaf [A2], title a little spotted and preceding flyleaf near detached, armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Seabright and red morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, contemporary speckled calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands and title label, rubbed and slight edge wear, 4to, together with:Waller (Edmond), Poems, &c. Written upon several occasions, and to several persons: The Seventh Edition with several additions, never before printed, London: printed by T.W. for the Assignes of H.H... J. Tonson and T. Bennet, 1705, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light browning, marbled endpapers with bookplate of H. Buxton Forman (with his pencil initials and date 29 April 1895 to flyleaf), leather monogram book label of Charles C. Kalfleisch and engraved bookplate of Robert S. Pirie, all edges gilt, old black morocco gilt with gilt-ruled panelled borders enclosing central rectangles with corner-pieces and gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, rubbed, 8vo, plus Collier (Jeremy), A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument, 3rd edition, London: printed for S. Keble... R. Sare & H. Hindmarsh, 1698, some spotting and browning, title a little ink stained, contemporary calf, some edge wear, modern antique-style calf reback, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:1) Gibson 245; Pforzheimer 34. Lacks the dedication leaf, as often: it was cancelled due to the death of William III before the publication of the work. 2) The binding of this work appears to be a remboitage, in which a text other than that originally present has been inserted: the headbands are fresh, the book is not quite proportionate to the corners, and the gilt lettering is superimposed upon some earlier blind impressions. This sophistication may well be the work of the accomplice of T.J. Wise. 3) Wing C5265.
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* Essex Deeds. A group of 20 Elizabethan vellum deeds relating to Essex, c. 1560-1600, including recoveries, leases, bargain and sales, final concords and grants etc., relating to Saxtead, Boreham and Westham, Dunmow, Harlow and Latton, Kelvedon, Felstead, etc., condition varied but generally with some soiling and damp staining, a few seals present, plus a paper document with the rare signature of the Marquis of Winchester, c. 1586, in Latin, with a report about Christopher Whitehead, one of the messengers of the Queen's Majesty's most honourable chamber of high allowance, riding in haste by the command of the Right Hon. the Lord High Treasurer of England from his home in London into Essex to Mr Beven, etc., one page, 4to, plus a letter from w[alter Devereux, first earl of Essex (1539-1576), at the court, to an un-named correspondent (address panel cut away), his kinsman, 14 December 1575, the collection contained in a modern red half morocco gilt book box, 29 x 24 cmQTY: (22)
Lot 224
Greville (Henry). Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville, edited by the Viscountess Enfield, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1883-84, extra-illustrated with engraved portraits throughout, ALS from Viscountess Enfield bound-in at front, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, early 20th-century navy blue half morocco gilt by Riviere, a few light nicks to extremities, 8vo, together with:Sala (George Augustus). The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, written by himself, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London: Cassell and Company, 1895, portrait frontispieces, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, 20th-century red half morocco gilt,8vo, withJekyll (Joseph). Correspondence of Mr. Joseph Jekyll with his sister-in-law, Lady Gertrude Sloane Stanley, 1818-1838, London: John Murray 1894, portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved portraits, armorial bookplate of a William Morris and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, bookplate of F. E. Dinshaw to front free endpaper recto, top edge gilt, early 20th-century dark blue full morocco gilt by H. Wood, extremities lightly scuffed, 8vo, plusThoresby (Ralph). Letters of Eminent Men; The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, 4 volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1830-32, portrait frontispiece to the first volume of the diary, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, early 20th-century blue half morocco gilt by Rivere & Son, spine lightly faded, 8vo, with 34 other leatherbound volumes QTY: (43)NOTE:Provenance: Andrew Carnegie (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
Lot 118
Spence (Joseph). Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men..., one volume in two, London: W. H. Carpenter, 1820, extra-illustrated containing over 220 window mounted engraved plates (mostly portraits), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th-century light green straight-grain morocco, with gilt decoration, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Astle (Thomas). The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, 2nd edition, London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1803, engraved portrait frontispiece (browned), 32 engraved plates of script (few folding and some hand-coloured), some toning and light spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, modern black morocco, gilt decorated spine, 4to,Walpole (Horace). A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of their Works, 5 volumes, new edition, London: John Scott, 1806, 150 engraved plates (including frontispieces), armorial bookplate of E. H. Greene of Hinxton Cambsh to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Saintsbury (George). A Scrap Book [A Second Scrap Book; A Last Scarp Book], 3 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922-24, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th-century half calf by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, burgundy morocco labels to spines, second volume with small scrape mark at head of spine, 4to (limited signed large paper editions, first & second volumes limited to 300 copies and third volume to 250 copies),Wise (Thomas J.). Verses, London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883, front blank free endpaper inscribed 'William J. Kingsland. With kindest regards from his friend Thos. J. Wise 23/1.87', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th-century half calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco labels, slim 8vo, plus other literature and book/library history related including Slang and its Analogues Past and Present, by John Farmer and W. Henley, 7 volumes, revised edition, Printed for Subscribers, 1909; Phillipps Studies no. 1-5 by A. N. L. Munby, 5 volumes in two, Cambridge: University Press, 1951-60; At the Library Table by Adrian Joline, Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1910; Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen, 3 volumes, mixed editions, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1877-92, etc.QTY: (39)
Lot 91
Walton (Izaac). The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson, 2 volumes, new edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1805, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to both volumes, Extra Illustrated containing a total of 33 engraved plates (mostly portraits), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, late 19th-century turquoise green straight-grain morocco, gilt decorated spines, boards with gilt and blind borders, 8vo, together with:Walton (Izaac). The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. To which is now first added, love and Truth. With Notes, and the Life of the Author, by Thomas Zouch, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, York: Payne and Foss, J. Mawman, and Wilson and Sons, York, 1817, 7 engraved portrait plates including frontispieces and one folding plate, some offsetting and occasional spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, early 20th-century marbled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, upper joints slightly cracked, joints rubbed, lightly faded to covers, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
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Lot 209
[Hazlitt, William Carew]. Fugitive Tracts written in verse which illustrate the condition of Religious and Political feeling in England and the state of society there during two centuries, 2 volumes (1st & 2nd series, 1493-1600), [London: Chiswick Press]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1875, half-title to each, with inscription to half-title of first volume 'To Mr Basil M. Pickering with the friendly regards of H. Huth', few illustrations to text, front pastedowns with adhesive residue where bookplate previously attached and with red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey applied, upper hinges slightly cracked, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary red morocco by F. Bedford, elaborate gilt decoration to spines, joints lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).One of fifty copies printed. The work was edited by W. C. Hazlitt with a preface by Henry Huth.
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