* James VI and I, King of Scotland (1567-1625) and of England (1603-1625). Document Signed, ‘James R.’, as King of Scotland, ), Linlithgow, 27 October 1595, granting a safe-conduct for William Chisholm (Bishop of Vaison), visiting Scotland for the sake of his health, 28 lines on one page, seal, silked, split along left side of centrefold, contemporary endorsement on verso, folio (390 x 280 mm), together with:Henry IV, King of France (1589-1610). Letter Signed with autograph subscription, 'Votre bon frere cousyn et ancyen allye Henry', Paris, 8 February 1603, to James VI, 7 lines on one page, addressed on verso, papered seal, silked, scorch mark from seal, repaired in right outer margin, large 4to (345 x 430 mm), plusChisholm (William, d. 1629). Autograph Document Signed, Vaison, 24 February 1623, one page with integral blank leaf and endorsement, 'Ane declaration of my L[or]d of Vaison', papered seal, silked, some browning and patches of discolouration on both leaves, folioGuise (Charles de, 1524-1574), Cardinal of Lorraine. Letter Signed, Reims, 23 June 1566, to the Treasurer of [Mary] Queen of Scots, half page with integral blank leaf, some spotting, silked, folioQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Item 905 in an unidentified old (Maggs?) bookseller’s catalogue (printed description); Christie’s London, The Library of William Foyle, 13 July 2000, lot 316. James VI authorises 'William Chisholme, brother germane to oure Lieut. Sir James Chisholme of Cromlix to return and remain in Scotland for one year after his arrivall within oure said realme without any pane trouble molestation or danger', and Henry IV asks that the Bishop of Vaison may be favourably received in Scotland. William Chisholm's declaration refers to the settlement of a financial matter with his nephew, James Chisholm, and the Cardinal of Lorraine orders a payment to be made to the Bishop of Dunblane [i.e. William Chisholm II, uncle of William Chisholm III, Bishop of Vaison]. William Chisholm III (d. 1629), the subject of the first letter, belonged to a distinguished family of Scottish ecclesiastics. He succeeded his uncle by special papal licence as Bishop of Vaison in 1584, and an influential group of catholics in Scotland schemed to have him made a cardinal in order to represent James VI's interests at Rome. James however repudiated their efforts, and Chisholm remained at Vaison. His uncle, William Chisholm II, was, as Bishop of Dunblane, used by Mary, Queen of Scots as her envoy to the Pope to obtain leave for her marriage with Darnley in 1565, and to France in 1567 to inform the court of her marriage to Bothwell. Exiled from Scotland on her abdication, he was appointed Bishop of Vaison in 1570.
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Hazlitt (W. Carew). A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744, fourth edition, now first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged, with the notes of all the commentators and new notes by W. Carew Hazlitt, 15 volumes, London: Reeves & Turner, 1874-76, occasional woodcut illustrations, half-titles present, wide margins, marbled endpapers, with gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, near-contemporary uniform half calf (by Morrell, London), gilt decorated spines, with dark green and brown spine labels, lightly rubbed, 8vo QTY: (15)NOTE:One of 10 sets on large and thick paper (according to pencil note at front of first volume).
Schoelcher (Victor). The Life of Handel, one volume in four, London: Trübner and Co., 1857, extra-illustrated with some 340 engraved portraits, and views etc. and three tipped-in autograph letters signed from the author, bound with Messiah: An Oratorio. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Set to Music by Mr. Handel, London: Printed for the Administrator of J. Watts: and sold by T. Lowndes [1768], 16 pp., bound with Commemoration of Handel. First Performance, London: Printed by H. Reynell, 1784, 22 pp., bound with Grand Musical Festival, in Westminster-Abbey. Second Performance, June the 3d, 1786, London: Printed by H. Reynell, [1786], 31 pp., occasional light damp-stains to few leaves and plates within volumes, minor offsetting and scattered spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey mostly to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, early 20th-century dark brown morocco, with gilt decoration, spines slightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The additional plates include portraits of famous composers, such as Gluck, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mozart, etc., views of theatres and opera houses in England and Germany, original playbills, portraits of singers, actors, actresses and playwrights.
Jackson (Catherine Charlotte, Lady). The French Court and Society, Reign of Louis XVI and First Empire, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1881, extra illustrated with addition of numerous engraved portraits from contemporary sources, some in colour, bookplates of W. A. Foyle, all edges gilt, modern tan crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, with interlocking panels of gilt fillets, silk doublures and green leather pastedowns, volume 1 with an inset oval watercolour miniature of a lady of court, 8voQTY: (2)
![Churchill (Charles). [Poems], 2 volumes, 1st collected edition, London: G. Kearsley, J. Coote, W. Flexney [et al.], 1764-65,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/a2b3356d-436d-4cb7-bc66-b0f5011026e0/468x382.jpg)
Churchill (Charles). [Poems], 2 volumes, 1st collected edition, London: G. Kearsley, J. Coote, W. Flexney [et al.], 1764-65, without half-titles and general volume titles, containing 15 works, each separately paginated (including 8 1st editions), author's signature to title-pages of Gotham part III and The Times, some damp-staining in volume 2, contemporary calf, rebacked with contrasting morocco labels, 4to, together with:Dalrymple (John). Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. From the Dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea-battle off La Hogue, 2 volumes, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, J. Bell and J. Balfour, 1771, occasional light spotting, armorial bookplate of William Danby to upper pastedowns (bookplate to first volume torn with loss), signature of W. Danby to front free endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 4to,Stanhope (Eugenia). Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: together with several other pieces on various subjects, 4 volumes, 5th edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1774, half-titles to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, contemporary calf, morocco title label to each, some joints lightly cracked, head and foot of spines rubbed, 8vo,Uvedale (Thomas). The Memoirs of Philip de Comines: Containing the History of Lewis XI and Charles VIII of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to which Princes he was Secretary: as also the History of Edward IV and Henry VII of England..., 2 volumes, London: John Phillips, 1712, front free endpapers with the signature of Will. Plumer (one dated 1715), contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, Cowper (William). Poems, 2 volumes, 6th edition, London: J. Johnson, 1794, contemporary marbled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo, Ramsay (David). Military Memoirs of Great Britain: or, A History of the War, 1755-1763, Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1779, engraved title and dedication leaf, 12 engraved portrait plates (including frontispiece), occasional spotting, bookplate of Alexander S. Finlay to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, recent morocco title label to spine, 8vo, plus other 18th-century antiquarianQTY: (28)
Dickens (Charles). Sketches by Boz illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people. With forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, complete, 1st 1-volume edition, first issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1839, advertisement leaf following title dated May 15, 1839, all plates before page 120 without the Chapman & Hall imprint, page 526 with 'reeled before', half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title, and 38 etched plates by George Cruikshank, bookplate of Alexander Stone to front endpaper, pale spotting to endpapers, top edge gilt, 20th century crushed red half morocco, small mark to spine, 8vo, together with Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall 1865, half-titles, additional title, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, occasional light spotting, bookplate of J. Barnes, Brighton, later blue half morocco, spine faded to green with gilt decoration, 8vo, plus Borrow (George). Lavengro; the scholar - the gypsy - the priest, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1851, half-titles, portrait frontispiece to volume I, small marginal water stain to a few leaves front and rear of each volume, bookplates of Alexander Stone, top edge gilt, near-contemporary dark green half morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, with No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Being the extra Christmas number of All the Year Round, conducted by Charles Dickens, for Christmas, 1867 (in original wrappers and bound-in later crimson half morocco by Riviere & Son) QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Alexander Stone (1907-1998, Scottish bibliophile); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Eckel pp. 14-15 Smith, Original Cloth, p16, note 4 (Sketches by Boz). 'When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839... In May 1839, Chapman & Hall published these complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank's illustrations' (Smith).
Tipping (H. Avray). English Homes, 9 volumes, London: Country Life, 1921-37, Early Tudor volume one and Late Stuart volume one reprints, remainder first editions, frontispiece to each volume, illustrations after photographs throughout, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, original blue cloth gilt, folio QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
* Liber Amicorum of Richard Tate. Compiled while a student at the University of Copenhagen, April to October 1648, 112 leaves including blanks, a total of 41 leaves (50 pages) with manuscript inscriptions, signed ownership inscription to front pastedown, 'Amicorum, Fautorumque Danorum Album, R Tatij' [Album of the Danish friends and patrons of R[ichard] Tate], later pencil note beneath, ‘to the care of the Rector of Kirby Misperton, Pickering, Yorkshire’, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle (detached), contemporary vellum with yapp edges, embossed ownership name in capitals of Richard Tatius and Latin date 1648 to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, oblong 8vo (108 x 140 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Richard Tate (c. 1625-1680), ownership inscription and embossed name to upper cover. Inserted in the volume is a note of c. 1920 that this is one of two books – ‘the other is in the church chest’ – given to Archdeacon [Willliam Henry] Hutchings, rector of Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire from 1884 to [19]19 ‘concerning the Rev Richard Tate rector of Kirby Misperton in the 16th century. They are interesting and should be kept in the church chest’. Tate was in fact never rector of Kirby, but did serve there as schoolmaster from 1661. W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The volume contains brief messages from the faculty of Copenhagen University, the staff of colleges at Roskilde and Køge, five bishops and the incumbents of churches in the city of Copenhagen. Most signatories identify themselves by their office but when they fail to do, Tate had added that information in his distinctive hand.Among the signatories is Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), a Danish physician and polymath and founder of the Wormian Museum, who taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine; Thomas Bang (1600-1661), professor of Hebrew and then of theology, and in his later years Keeper of the Royal Library; the bishops of Aalborg, Lund (Skåne), Ribe, Viborg and Zealand, and Thomas Lindeman, the German pastor at Copenhagen. Almost all the contributors display their erudition by heading their entry with a biblical or classical quotation in Latin, Greek, Hebrew or Arabic.The inscriptions are generally flattering of Tate’s character and learning, and some describe him as a candidate of philosophy and theology. Tate maintained the book during the first ten months of 1648, and almost from the beginning the signatories express good wishes for his safe return to England. Unless he made several journeys home, it should perhaps be assumed that Tate spent what was perhaps his last year in Denmark collecting the signatures.On 1 September 1648 Thomas Bang wrote introducing himself to John Selden (1584–1654, lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar). The letter was to be carried by Richard Tate, a student of sound learning, an Englishman ‘but hitherto a Dane by residence, and by breeding in liberal studies’; he assures Selden will not regret any favour shown to Tate, to whom any reply can be entrusted. The entries in Tate’s Liber show little space for a journey to England and back in the September of 1648. Bang wrote again to Selden on 2 May 1652, expressing Tate’s desire again to be his messenger, to which he has agreed on account of Tate’s ‘irreproachable life among them’ (Seaton).If the identification in Alumni is correct, Richard Tate matriculated at King's Cambridge in 1640, received a BA in 1645 and an MA from Magdalene in 1649, and was licensed as a schoolmaster at Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire (to which the book was presented under the misapprehension that he had been its rector) on 2 August 1661. He was ordained priest by archbishop Accepted Frewen on 17 August 1662, licensed to preach as curate on 23 September and on 14 November inducted as rector of Bilton, just outside York; he was buried there on 1 May 1680. Tate was the father of Matthew Tate (1662-1759), who served several livings in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire. The origins of the family have not been established.See Ethel Seaton, ‘John Selden in contact with Scandinavia’; Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 12 (1937-1945), 261-71.
Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of London: Being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of the Capitol..., 6 volumes (including supplement), London: Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, 1792-1811, engraved titles to volumes 1-5, engraved dedication leaf, 4 engraved maps (1 folding), 74 engraved and etched plates and plans (including some uncoloured aquatint plates, 6 folding and 3 hand-coloured), few folding pedigrees, occasional damp-stains, some spotting occasional light browning and offsetting, recent endpapers, contemporary diced calf, each volume neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spines and maroon morocco title labels, 4to, together with:Dale (Samuel). The History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, Topographical, Dynastical and Political. First Collected by Silas Taylor alias Domville, Gent. Keeper of the King's Stores there; and now much Enlarged in all its Parts with Notes and Observations Relating to Natural History, London: C. Davis and T. Green, 1730, additional mounted engraved portrait frontispiece by Virtue dated 1737, 14 engraved plates (including 3 double-page), some spotting and browning, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, modern brown half morocco, 4to,Newcourt (Richard). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London, 2 volumes, London: Benj. Motte, 1708-10, half-title to volume 2 only, 4 engraved plates (3 double-page), folding engraved map, without portrait frontispiece, old 'FH Museum Britannicum' and 'Duplicate B. M. 1818' ink stamps to verso of titles and leaf at rear, occasional spotting and browning, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt decoration, joints splitting and some wear, folioQTY: (9)
Froude (James Anthony). History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, 12 volumes, mixed editions, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, and others, 1862-70, half-titles, first few leaves of volume I detaching, bookplates of James Fairweather Low (1825-1901), Seaview, Monifieth, later tree calf by Riviere, spines with crimson and green labels and richly gilt-decorated, a few compartments and spine ends slightly rubbed 8vo QTY: (12)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.
Mill (John Stuart). Considerations on Representative Government, second edition, London: Parker & Son, and Bourn, 1861, bound with Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, second edition, with additions, London: John W. Parker & Son, 1859, & Utilitarianism, reprinted from 'Fraser's Magazine', London: Parker & Son, and Bourn, 1863, viii, 347pp, 58pp., and [iii], 95pp, some spotting to endpapers, with a few light spots to first title, together with Principles of Political Economy, 2 volumes, fifth edition, 1862, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, 2 volumes, fifth edition, 1862, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, 1st edition, 1865, and Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philososophical, and Historical, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1859-67, small printed black owners mark to lower corner of rear endpaper of each volume, some spotting to endpapers, marbled edges and endpapers, modern bookplate of Alexander Stone to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform polished full calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting red and brown gilt-lettered spine labels, a little rubbed and some marks to joints and edges, second volume of Political Economy, with short split to head of upper and lower joint, 8voQTY: (9)
Froude (James Anthony). History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth, 12 volumes, 3rd edition, revised, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1862-70, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate fo W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform crimson full calf, gilt-decorated spines with green morocco labels and light brown morocco volume numbers, a little rubbed to extremities, generally a handsome set, 8vo, together withCampbell (John Lord). The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV, 8 volumes, 1st edition (except first three volumes, 2nd edition), London: John Murray, 1846-69, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate fo W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, slightly later uniform brown half-calf (by Riviere & Son for H. Sutheran), gilt-decorated spines with contrasting red and light brown morocco labels, lightly rubbed to extremities, plus other English history, including Macaulay, History of England, 5 volumes, 1857-61, Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot, edited with additional notes, by William Smith, 8 volumes, 1862, (Tomline Prize, Eton, mid-summer 1870), and J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People, 4 volumes, 1892-94, all bound in contemporary full or half calf (Gibbon bound by Jenkin & Cecil, and Green bound by Bickers & Son), all 8voQTY: (37)
Pennant (Thomas). Some Account of London, bound in 6 volumes, 4th edition, 1805, extra-illustrated containing just over 1000 plates, maps and plans (mostly 19th-century, including engravings, etchings, lithographs and few uncoloured aquatints), with 69 watercolour studies of memorial stones and tablets etc. (signed Gosden), text and many plates mounted, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, bookplate to upper pastedowns removed, near-contemporary diced calf, gilt decorative roll borders to boards, centre of each board with gilt armorial of Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1785-1851) bearing the motto 'sub tegmine fagi', gilt decorated turn-ins, each volume rebacked with modern contrasting morocco labels, corners refurbished, large 4to (35.5 x 30 cm)QTY: (6)NOTE:Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy F.R.S., F.L.S. (1785-1851) was the eldest son of Mark Beaufoy the astronomer. He owned a vinegar distillery, was a Member of Parliament for Hackney Wick, and founded four scholarships at Cambridge. He also gave £10,000 to the City of London School and established ragged schools in Lambeth. Sometime after his death, his substantial library of approximately 25,000 volumes was sold at auction by Christie's, London on June 7-10, 15-17, 1909 (2033 lots), and a further portion by Puttick and Simpson, London, 13-14 May 1912 (644 lots). Beaufoy's copies of the first four folios of Shakespeare were auctioned separately by Christie's on July 16 1912. His collection of London traders, tavern, and coffee-house tokens was donated to the Corporation of London.
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[LA FEUILLADE, François Aubusson de]. Journal de l'expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade, pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire. Lyon: Chez Jean Thioly, 1669, [8], 198, [2] pp., woodcut printer's device to title-page, several woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking the engraved folding plan of the fortifications of Candia, (20 x 28.5 cm), marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, later crushed dark green full morocco (by Ramage), with gilt figure of a Cretan girl to upper cover and Turkish sultan to lower cover, with binder's blindstamped monogram to foot of each (a handwritten note in ink to verso of front endpaper by the binder, states 'Here is a lady, armed only with her beauty, subduing the armed Turk. C. E. Stewart. London May 1919'), spine lightly rubbed and a little dulled, 12mo, together with Arnaud (Francois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'). Sargines. Nouvelle par M. D'Arnaud, Paris: [Didot?], 1781, [2], 130pp., Top edge gilt, late 19th or early 20th-century, gilt-decorated, straight-grained, plum full Morocco with gilt motifs to upper and lower cover of a Knight at Arms and an undressed lady to upper and lower cover, each with binders, blind stamped, monogram of CE Stewart to foot of each, with manuscript inscription to front blank by the binder in ink “I have decorated this copy of Sergines, 1781 with the Knight at Arms returning to his dear Ladye. CE Stewart. Nice. 18. December 1924”, a little rubbed and scuffed to extremities, 12moQTY: (2)NOTE:La Feuillade: Blackmer 859; Goldsmith, BMC STC French E-575; WorldCat (3 copies); not in Atabey or Barbier.Rare first edition of a journal of an expedition to Candia (Crete), commanded by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade (1625-1691), to assist the Venetians during the long siege of Candia (1645-1669) by the Ottoman Turks. De la Feuillade had already fought the Ottoman forces at the Battle of St. Gothard in 1664 and volunteered to help. With assistance from Pope Clement IX he equipped 500 men at his own expense. The work gives an account of the Cretan war and also contains some valuable information on the Greek Orthodox Church.
![Bacon (Francis). Historia vitae et mortis Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio, Amsterdam: Joannes van Revesteyn, 1663, 201, [47] pp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/57c51397-ebf3-49fa-9900-b0f501101acf/468x382.jpg)
Bacon (Francis). Historia vitae et mortis Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio, Amsterdam: Joannes van Revesteyn, 1663, 201, [47] pp., bound with Phaenomena universi sive historia naturalis & experimentalis de ventis, Amsterdam: Henricus Wetstein, [14], 99, [13] pp., title printed in red and black, bound with De Sapientia Veterum, new edition, Amsterdam: Henricus Wetstein, 1696, 117, [2] pp., a little soiling and marginal damp staining to first work, title near detached, all uncut, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, contemporary blue-grey boards with plain spine lettered in manuscript, some soiling and wear, joints cracked, 12mo (143 x 78 mm), preserved in a red half morocco gilt chemise with yapp edges and matching marbled slipcaseQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Gibson 151, 112 & 93 respectively. An unusual survival of uncut copies in contemporary boards.
![Elzevir Press. De Imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius... , Leiden: Elzevir, 1631, [12], 299, [17], [4] pp., wo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/e429bc5a-8cf0-4cfe-a5a6-b0f5011017b1/468x382.jpg)
Elzevir Press. De Imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius... , Leiden: Elzevir, 1631, [12], 299, [17], [4] pp., wood-engraved title-page and full-page woodcut on page 100 of the Annil or glastum plant, 2 final blanks present, some browning and occasional heavy, old damp staining, lower blank outer corner of P3 torn with loss not affecting text, uncut, bookplates of 'Ex Bibliotheca Elzeviriana Jacobi Broun Craven Kirkvallensis' and burgundy morocco gilt of W. A. Foyle, original blue-grey boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, 24mo (120 x 67 mm), preserved in red half morocco gilt chemise with yapp edges and marbled slipcase, a little rubbedQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Archdeacon James Brown Craven (1850-1924), was not a native of Kirkwall, Orkney but lived on the islands from 1876 until his death (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Willems 354 (note, one of two editions published the same year). A very rare survival in original boards of this work by Joannes de Laet which the author describes as the first single descriptive monograph on the whole Indian Empire to be published.
Mill (John Stuart). The Subjection of Women, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, half-title, modern bookplate of Alexander Stone to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf gilt, red morocco title label, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Dissertations and Discussions. Political, Philosophical and Historical, reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews, 2 volumes, London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859, contemporary gift inscription in black ink to head of front blank in volume one, early 20th-century calf gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, covers marked, spines lightly faded, 8vo, withA System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation, 2 volumes, 4th edition, London: John W. Parker, 1856, a few light spots to preliminary and rear leaves, contemporary calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels, 8vo, withPacke (Michael St. John). The Life of John Stuart Mill, London: Secker and Warburg, 1954, black and white illustrations throughout, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, modern blue crushed morocco gilt, 8voQTY: (6)NOTE:'The last of [Mill's] great political tracts' (ODNB) for the first work.
Baskerville Press. Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto, 4 volumes, Birmingham: Da' Torchj di G. Baskerville: Per P. Molini Librajo dell' Accademia Reale, e G. Molini, 1773, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, 45 engraved plates (of 46, lacking plate to face stanza 10), title page to first volume with early ownership signature Helena OGrady to upper margin, some light dust-soiling, few marks, contemporary marbled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with red morocco labels, light wear to extremities, joints to volume 4 repaired, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Gaskell 48. Handsome copy.
Bouchot (Henri). The Book: its Printers, Illustrators and Binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. With a treatise on the art of collecting and describing early printed books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places. Edited by H. Grevel, Extra-Illustrated copy, expanded to 3 volumes, London: H. Grevel & Co., 1890, 172 monochrome illustrations to text (as issued), additional manuscript title to each volume inserted, in black ink with light blue wash (first volume retains the original printed title), and approximately 350 additional illustrations, including title pages, woodcuts, portraits, sample pages, printer's devises, colour reproductions of bindings and illuminated manuscripts (mostly in chromolithography), etc., dating from the 15th, 16th,17th,18th and 19th century, marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, contemporary three-quarter red crushed morocco gilt, a little rubbed to joints and outer corners, large 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An exceptionally fine and carefully re-presented copy of Bouchot's classic work, significantly enhanced by the addition of 350 additional examples of early printing.A short typewritten description of the volume list the various types of illustrations added to this copy: 'about 87 old engraved portraits, about 35 other portraits, about 62 engraved title pages or other leaves from original old books, about 51 printer's devices from original books, about 60 original engravings and woodcuts from old books, about 14 reproductions of bindings, about 6 reproductions from illuminated manuscripts, about 34 other illustrations'. One of the earliest specimens is an early woodcut or xylographic illustration printed in brown, possibly depicting the Three Wise Men, inscribed in a 17th-century hand in brown ink to verso 'Mom Britium Mediolanensis' (a reference to the Italian humanist Boninus Mombritius (circa 1424-1502), who edited a number of early texts including the Santuarium seu Vitae Sanctorum).Early woodcut and engraved portraits include Lorenzo Coster by Larmessin after Van Campen. An engraved portrait of Burchiello by Ascanio Lucani, engraved portrait of Sebastian Brant, Pico della Mirandola by De Bry (1650), Maximilian of Austria by De Jode after Lucas van Leyden, circa 1620, woodcut colophon portrait John Day (1562), engraved portrait of Nicolaus Bruyant by Pontius after Van Dyck.Engraved title pages include De Ortu et Progressu Artis Typographicae (1639), the title page to the libro secondo of Reucelli's Imprese Illustri, a leaf from an incunable German hand-coloured illustrated bible, the title page to Abbot Rupert's Commentariorum in Evangelium Johannis, (Birkman, 1533, Sabelicus, Historie Vinitiane, Venice 1554, Drexelius, Rosae Selectissimarum Virtutum, Antwerp, 1636, Andreas de Novo Castro, Primum scriptum Sententiarum, Paris: Jean Granion, 1512, Arthur Lake's sermon preached at Paul's Crosse, London: William Stansby, 1629, Thomas Taylor, The Parable of the Sower, 3rd edition, 1634
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Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Charles Dickens and Gad's Hill Place. [Autograph] Correspondence between Charles Dickens, The Rev. Joseph Hindle and W. H. Wills, 1856-1857, with Introductory Essay by F. J. Harvey Darton and Original Drawings by Alicia Darrington, comprising an Autograph Letter Signed from Charles Dickens, Tavistock House, 17 March 1856, to the Reverend Joseph Hindle, ‘As I have now completed the purchase of Gad’s Hill Place…’, and asking that future rents due be paid to W. H. Wills at the Household Words Office, one page, 8vo, together with seven autograph letters signed by W. H. Wills (his assistant) to Hindle, London, 7 February 1856 to 19 March 1857, 9 pages, 8vo, and four by Hindle, 12 February 1856 to 17 March 1857, 4 pages, 8vo (3 of Hindle's letters written on the versos of those by Wills), the letters individually tipped into window mounts and interleaved with neat typed transcriptions on paper, and also including a portrait frontispiece of Dickens (head and shoulders) in watercolour, 140 x 105 mm, and 4 drawings of Gad's Hill Place in pen and ink and wash, 140 x 190 mm, all signed by Alicia Darrington, a calligraphic title in red and black with gilt ornaments, and an introductory essay by F. J. Harvey Darton, 6 pages, typed to rectos only, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, all edges gilt, early 20th-century gilt-decorated red morocco by Charles Sawyer, the upper cover with central gilt tool of Dickens's lion emblem and initials, the lower cover with central gilt tool of his signature, covers partly sunned, 4to (230 x 295 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). The record of the final arrangements for Dickens's purchase of Gad's Hill Place, outside Rochester, Kent. 'The spot and the very house are literally “a dream of my childhood”’, as he wrote to Wills in February 1855, on discovering that it was for sale. The first letters of this polite and cordial correspondence concern Hindle's tenancy, Wills conveying Dickens consent to Hindle remaining there until Lady Day, 1857, and asserting that 'Mr Dickens has no wish whatever to allow any active operations that would intrude upon, or disturb you to be begun until entirely given up possession'. Dickens's letter announces that his purchase is complete, requesting Hindle to pay rent to Wills, who sends Hindle a receipt for £51-6-8 for half a year's rent less income tax. Subsequently the correspondence turns to fixtures which Dickens will inspect and value, including fireplaces, grates and a kitchen range, to the visit of a builder 'to take dimensions' for repairs, and to final arrangements for Hindle's hay and wine. Gad's Hill Place was built in 1779 by Alderman Stevens, a brewer of Rochester. It then became the property of the Rev. James Lynn, whose duties later took him to Cumberland; and in 1855 was rented by the Rev. Joseph Hindle. Dickens had seen the house as a child, when walking with his father from Chatham. His father is said to have pointed it out to him as the spot where he might one day live himself if only he worked hard enough. After protracted negotiations with the seller, Dickens paid £1,790 for the house and, the repairs complete, moved in during the summer of 1857. It was to be his country residence until his death. William Henry (‘Harry’) Wills was engaged as Dickens's assistant on Household Words in 1849, and was entrusted with all his private business arrangements.
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[Cole, Mrs Henry Warwick]. A Lady's Tour Round Monte Rosa: with visits to the Italian valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta, and Cogne. In a series of excursions in the years 1850-56-58, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Lonbgmans and Roberts, 1859, half-title, title with hand-coloured rose vignette, folding map with outline colour, 4 chromolithograph plates after George Barnard, wood-engraved illustrations, bound without the 24 pp. publisher's catalogue, some light spotting to last few leaves, light marginal offsetting from map, small faded contemporary presentation inscription to half-title, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, attractively bound in crimson full morocco gilt by Carss, Glasgow, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Neate C88. 'Mrs. Cole was the wife of A. C. member Henry Warwick Cole, whom she accompanied on the tours described in her book, which was illustrated by George Barnard (c. 1807-90). Barnard was one of the first Alpine artists to draw mountains with any degree of accuracy, and also one of the earliest members of the A. C. to travel widely in the Alps.' (Neate).
Greene (Robert). Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit; bought with a Million of Repentance. With a Preface, Critical & Biographical: by Sir Egerton Brydges, [Ickham]: printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, by Johnson and Warwick, 1813, title in red and black with mounted wood engraved vignette, mounted wood engraved vignette to following limitation leaf, occasional light spotting, colour armorial bookplate of Joseph Walter King Eyton (1820-1872) and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown (also with rubbed white label adhered below), all edges gilt, mid 19th-century mustard yellow morocco by Hayday, gilt panelled and decorated, gilt decorated turn-ins, joints and extremities rubbed, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Joseph Walter King Eyton (1820 -1872) and W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates). Limited edition of 61 copies printed. The first work in quarto printed at the Lee Priory Press.Joseph Walter King Eyton (1820 -1872), of Birmingham, Leamington and of 27 Elsham Road Kensington, was the fifth son of the the Reverend John Eyton, Rector of Wellington in Shropshire, and Anna Maria, sole daughter and heir of Edmund Joseph Plowden of Plowden Hall in Shropshire. The Rev. Robert William Eyton, Rector of Ryton in Shropshire, and author of The Antiquities of Shropshire was his brother. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, on the Council of which he served, he brought together a large collection of books which was dispersed in eleven sales at Sotheby's from 1842-48.
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French Manuscript Prayer Book. Meditations Christien [sic], Rouen, 16th century, 76 vellum leaves including initial and final blank and title, rubricated manuscript in French with calligraphic 2- or 3-line initials in red throughout, first page of text begins, 'Meditations Christiennes sur toutes les heures de la passion de nostre benoist sauveur et redempteur Jesuchrist...', a few with minor shaving at fore-edges, later neat 12-line ink inscription in Latin titled 'Creationis' to final text leaf verso, a little dust-soiling at front and rear, gauffered edges, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle to front pastedown, 19th-century vellum gilt with red morocco spine labels (title label chipped), small 8vo (140 x 93 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
Bumpus Binding. The Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G. First Earl Sandwich, by F. R. Harris, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1912, photogravure portrait frontispieces and monochrome portrait plates, front pastedowns with ownership signature 'Alex. Keiller of Morven 1916, rebound 1916', bookplate of Alexander Stone to front free endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary light brown morocco by J. & E. Bumpus Ltd., elaborately decorated to covers incorporating onlay roundels and borders to spine compartments and border onlays to boards, gilt armorial of the Earl of Sandwich to centre of upper boards, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Alexander Keiller FSA, FGS (1889-1955) was born at Binrock House, Dundee and was the heir to the family marmalade business, James Keiller & Son which was established in Dundee in 1797. He is particularly remembered as an archaeologist, pioneering aerial photographer, businessman and philanthropist. He worked on the prehistoric sites at Windmill Hill and Avebury, Wiltshire and helped to ensure their preservation. He also founded the Morven Institute of Archaeological Research at Avebury, now the Alexander Keiller Museum.
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Manuscript Commonplace Book. Excerpta ex auctis Graecis & Excepta ex auctis Latinis [so titled to spines], compiled by Thomas Tarne and Edward Wilkinson, 2 volumes, circa 1640-1710, 273 pages of manuscript text in brown ink to first volume (Auctis Graecis, including some blank leaves), 259 pages of manuscript text in brown ink to second volume (Auctis Latinis, including four unnumbered pages at front), 10 stipple engraved portraits (five to each volume) of classical authors (Xenophon, Demosthenes, Lycurgus, Lysander and Alcibiades, Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Hippocrates and Leonidas) by J. Chapman added at a later date (with imprint London, Published by J. Wilkes, 1807-09), including two portraits coloured, the first volume bears a title to head of first (unnumbered) page of manuscript 'Apopthegmata sparsis collecta', and has a shaped or geometric title (bearing the date 1640) at the first numbered page 'Quaedam ex Authoribus Graecis notatu dignissima excepta et in Locos sibi pprios digesta', the final leaf of this volume bears the names of the presumed compilers Thomas Tarne and Edward Wilkinson, index to each volume at end, pencil notes at front of each volume indicating that the volumes were given by 'Eric and Edward Trevor-Jones, Downside 1914 to A. J. Ellison of the same', 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of William Lee Esq. pasted to front endpaper of each volume, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, early 20th century brown crushed half morocco (by E. Greenhill), endpapers renewed, spines lettered in gilt, square 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: William Lee (1688-1754), judge; Eric and Edward Trever-Jones, Downside Abbey, by 1914; by whom gifted to A. J. Ellison, Downside Abbey (pencil note); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Sir William Lee was appointed Latin secretary to King George I in 1718, and ten years later was named attorney-general to Frederick Prince of Wales. In 1727 he was elected to Parliament for Chipping Wycombe through his family's interest, and served until he was appointed a puisne justice of the King's Bench in 1730. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1737, succeeding his friend and colleague Lord Hardwicke. Lee served as Lord Chief Justice until his death, and was praised for his ability and impartiality as a judge. His court ruled that women who paid parish rates were entitled to vote in elections of parish officers. Lee presided at several of the treason trials of Jacobite rebels held by the special commission at Southwark in 1746.A substantial collection of maxims, aphorisms and other quotations from classical authors arranged under headings, mostly in Latin and Greek, with an occasional entry or note in English. The headings include: (from the volume of Greek authors) De Deo, De Temperantia & Intemperantia, De Adversitate & Prosperitate, De Doctrina & Ignorantia, De Anima, De Arrogantia & Modestia, De Contentatione & Avaritia, De Liberalitate & Beneficiis, De Somno & Vigilia, De Humanitate & Crudelitate, De Lingua & Multiloquio, De Adolescentia & Senectute, as well as transcriptions of Augustini Mascardi, Dissertationes Romanae de Afffectibus and Prolusiones Ethicae, Famianus Strada de Bello Belgico, Quintiliani, Oratoriae Institutiones, Seneca, and Alexander Neville (1544-1614), Ketto, Lucan's Pharsalia, with the notes of Thomas Farnaby (this text bearing the date April 18, 1644), Nicolai Causini de Eloquentia, plus a few theological notes in English, apparently taken from sermons given in Exeter in 1687 and 1688, according to the entries; (second volume) De Temperantia, De Fama & Infamia, De Forma & Deformatate, De Stultitia, De Doctrina, De Ignorantia, De Scriptione & Stylo, De Vertute, De Vitio, De Arrogantia & Modestia, De Fortitudine & Extremis, De Liberalitate & Beneficiis, De Labore, De Severitate & Lenitate, De Pace & Bello, De Concordia, De Amore & Odio, De Perfidia, De Castitate & Lascivia, De Infantia & Pueritia, De Aeducatione, De Parentibus & Liberis, De Vita, De Morte, De Rege, De Authoritate, De Mulieribus, De Philosophia, De Poetis, De Musica, De Re-publica, De Patria & Exilio followed by transcriptions of Suetonius, Historiae dated April 17 1644.
Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, carefully revised with notes by F.S.A The life of the poet and critical essays on the plays by William Watkiss Lloyd M.R.S.I, 10 volumes, London; Bell and Daulby, 1856, wood-engraved title page vignettes to each volume, portrait frontispiece to first volume, bookplate of Alexander Stone to front pastedown of each volume, all edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco by M.M. Holloway, gilt lettering and tooling to spines, gilt ruled boards, minimal rubbing to joints and extremities, 8vo, together with:Hazlitt (W. Carew). Shakespeare Jest-Books; reprints of the early and very rare Jest-Books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare, 3 volumes, London: Woolis & Sotherland, 1864, top edge gilt-decorated burgundy morocco bookplate of W.A Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to frontpaste down of each volume, top edge gilt, later blue half levant (by Riviere), gilt extra, 8vo, plus Lee (Sidney). A life of William Shakespeare (Illustrated Library Edition), London; Smith, Elder, & CO., 1899, illustrated with 159 engraved plates and illustrations, with an additional manuscript title page to each volume, and manuscript index to rear of second volume, the additional title pages read: enlarged into two volumes and further illustrated by the insertion of one hundred and fifty-nine, engraved and other plates (including 30 portraits of the poet, of persons, views, & connected with his life & works, together with an addendum, being recent Shakespearian Discoveries by CW Wallace, Ph.D., and the Troon History of the Stratford Bust by Mrs. C. Stopes, Conway House, Erdington, 1919) additional illustrations (mostly 19th century), including some early 17th century engravings (Robert L.d. Dudley Earle of Leicester, Gualterus Devereus COM. SXCI Essexiae, small map of Warwickshire c.1600, etc.), gilt-decorated, red morrocco book plate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, contemporary Arts & Crafts style, crushed brown half morocco gilt, spine gilt lettered and decorated in compartments, large 8voQTY: (15)
Fellowes (William Dorset). Historical Sketches of Charles the First, Cromwell, Charles the Second, and the principal personages of that period; including the King's Trial and Execution..., London: J. Murray, 1828, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, 48 lithograph plates (including 1 folding and 4 double-page), occasional toning and scattered spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown (paper skinning to front marbled pastedown where previous bookplate removed), all edges gilt, late 19th/ early 20th-century red morocco by Riviere, elaborate gilt decoration to spine and gilt border to boards, gilt decorated turn-ins, 4to, together with:Kingston (Richard). A True History of the Several Designs and Conspiracies, against His Majesties Sacred Person and Government; as they were continually carry'd on from 1688 till 1697..., London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Abel Roper, 1698, initial blank (A1) present, browning and spotting throughout, contemporary mottled calf, upper board detached and lower, worn, 8vo, (Wing K615),[Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of]. The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI. King of Scotland. Now first published, Edinburgh: A. Millar, 1766, toning and scattered spotting throughout, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown (light paper skinning to front marbled pastedown where previous bookplate removed), early 19th-century calf gilt, black morocco label to spine, 12mo,Dalrymple (David, editor). Memorials and Letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of James the First. Published from the originals, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1766, repaired closed tear to final leaf, minor dust-soiling mostly to first and last few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, late 19th/early 20th-century half calf, black morocco title label to spine, slight wear to spine and corners, small 8vo, plus two others, [Disraeli, Isaac]. An Inquiry into the Literary and Political Character of James the First, London: John Murray, 1816, and Payne-Gallwey (Ralph). A History of The George Worn on the Scaffold by Charles I, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, both volumes with bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownsQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
Disraeli (Benjamin). Beaconsfield's Novels and Tales, 11 volumes, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878-81, bookplate of Alexander Stone to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, early 20th-century green half morocco gilt by Bayntun, spines faded to brown, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:The Works, 11 volumes, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900, vignette titles, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, early 20th-century red half morocco gilt for Henry Sotheran, spines lightly faded, 8voQTY: (22)NOTE:Provenance: Alexander Stone (bookplate, first work); Andrew Carnegie (bookplate, second work).
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Radcliffe (Ann, 1764-1823). St Alban’s Abbey. A Metrical Romance [in Ten Cantos] by Mrs. Radcliffe, Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho, contemporary manuscript copy, circa 1830, [332] pages including title and 31 pages of notes in the same neat hand at rear, paper watermarked 1827, 4 watercolours and 2 pen and ink drawings (initialled E. A. M. M.) bound in, later marginal pencil marks, a few leaves browned, later ownership gift inscription and version of Thomas More’s Prayer for Good Humour (‘Give us a good digestion Lord and also something to digest…’) to modern front flyleaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, 20th-century navy morocco gilt by H. Harley, small 4to (200 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Alfred Ellison (gift inscription from C. Liddell, 30 October 1943); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Ann Radcliffe is best known for her Gothic novels, especially The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. After her death her books influenced authors such as Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe and The Brontë Sisters. Her poetry, however, is less well known and little attention seems to have been paid to this ‘Metrical Tale’ which was first published after her death as part of her Posthumous Works, [with a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Noon Talfourd], 4 volumes, (London: Henry Colburn, 1826). The poem deals mainly with the War of the Roses and the Battle of St Albans, but the first Canto is devoted to the Abbey itself, its history and its present state. The transcriber of this fair copy is unidentified but the text conforms to the one published across volumes 3 & 4 of the Posthumous Works. The references for the Notes at the end are the same but the wording in the manuscript varies with the printed version and is often briefer.
Conrad (Joseph). Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad, London: First Edition Club, 1926, 12 booklets printed by Curwen Press for the First Edition Club, including an Introduction and some Notes by G. Jean-Aubry, complete, all original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, and contained in original cloth-backed patterned portfolio boards, with pockets, spine somewhat faded, small 4to, (limited edition of 220 copies, with a handwritten note presenting the set of booklets to W. A. Foyle, bookseller & patron of the arts, by A. J . A. Symons of the First Edition Club, loosely inserted), together with:Symons (A. J. A.), Frederick Baron Corvo. Read at the Four Hundred and Eighteenth Meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes held at the Royal Adelaide Gallery on the Twenty-Third Day of October, MCMXXVI, London: Curwen Press, 1927, inscribed by the author on half-title 'For a Good Fellow from an Odd Volume', original printed wrappers, some spotting and toning, square 8vo, (limited edition, 57/199 copies, presented to W. A. Foyle by A. A. Symons), plusSymons (A. J. A.). The Quest for Corvo. An Experiment in Biography, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Co., 1934, author's signed presentation inscription for W. A. Foyle to front free endpaper, 'this tribute to memories of many years, very cordially from his friend the author', dated 1934, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8voSymons (A. J. A.), Emin, The Governor of Equitoria, London: The Fleuron, 1928, author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, 'for Foyle Pasha [W. A. Foyle], very cordially from the author', original cloth-backed patterned boards, 8vo, plus other books about books, poetry, etc. with presentation inscriptions for members of the Foyle familyQTY: (14)
![Maidment (James). A Book of Scotish Pasquils & c., Edinburgh: 1827, [iii]-xxx, 80 pp., bound with A Second Book of Scotti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/072d9a95-1f74-49ae-936c-b0c2011fb1aa/8ec1543d-5e45-47d6-92a5-b0f501105c07/468x382.jpg)
Maidment (James). A Book of Scotish Pasquils & c., Edinburgh: 1827, [iii]-xxx, 80 pp., bound with A Second Book of Scottish Pasquils & c., Edinburgh: 1828, [iii]-xxi, 102 pp., woodcut vignette to each title, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary full calf by Clarke & Bedford, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, covers with gilt double-rule, board edges gilt-decorated, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy from Sir Walter Scott to J. H. Markland, with an autograph letter bound in at front of volume, from Walter Scott to J. H. Markland, dated Edinburgh, 19 December 1828, in which Scott describes the book, and refers also to his own Bride of Lammermoor. Additionally inscribed by the owner to front blank and to verso of first title 'J. H. Markland, the gift of Sir Walter Scott, 1828. In MS. Letter.'The first volume was printed in an edition of only 60 copies.
* Shakespeare (William, 1564-1616). The ‘Chandos’ Portrait of William Shakespeare, after John Taylor, early-mid 19th century, oil on canvas, oval head and shoulders portrait of the playwright within feigned oval, some small surface marks and craquelure overall, re-lined, old Christie's auction stencil S22RE to stretcher, 65 x 49.5 cm (25 5/8 x 19 1/2 ins), framed (87 x 71 cm), with engraved title plaque to lower edge, verso with remains of late 19th century printed exhibition label for 'The Tudor, New Gallery' annotated in manuscript 'Shakespeare' and lent by 'The Earl of War[wick]'QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.A copy of the famous Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, formerly in the Earl of Warwick's Shakespeare collection at Warwick Castle.The only portrait of Shakespeare that has a good claim to have been painted from life, the Chandos picture is thought to have been painted by John Taylor (circa 1580-1653) between 1600 and 1610. It is listed as the first work in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, having been given to the Gallery on its foundation in 1856, and it is named after the 3rd Duke of Chandos, who formerly owned the painting.The Earl of Warwick referred to on the exhibition label is the bibliophile, collector, and Shakespeare enthusiast George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893). Greville, a Tory MP, spent much of the years between 1852 and 1870 assembling at Warwick Castle an impressive collection of books, manuscripts and paintings relating to Shakespeare. He was a frequent customer of the Shakespearean scholar and collector James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889), one of the pre-eminent bibliographer-booksellers of Shakespeare of his day. Halliwell-Phillipps co-founded the Shakespeare Society when he was only 22, and he later sold to the British Museum the then second known copy of the 1603 Hamlet and a mortgage deed signed by the playwright himself. The Folger Shakespeare Library purchased the Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library in 1897; the transaction was Henry Folger’s first major purchase of a collection. The exhibition label on the back of the present work would appear to refer to the 1890 Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor at The New Gallery in Regent Street. Number 392 in this exhibition was a half-length portrait of Shakespeare belonging to the Earl of Warwick, although this painting showed the playwright 'half-length, to right, black doublet, lace ruff and cuffs, right hand on hip, left hand holding gloves: on background, shield of arms ... '.
Evelyn (John). Silva: or, A Discourse on Forest Trees.., New Edition, 2 volumes, York: A. Ward for J. Dodsley; 1786, 42 engraved plates (including one folding) and 2 folding tables, together with:Evelyn (John). Memoirs, illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn..., edited by William Bray 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1819, engraved portrait frontispieces, folding genealogy of Evelyn family, three portrait engravings plus 6 engravings, andEvelyn (John). The Miscellaneous Writings..., now first collected, with occasional notes, by William Upcott, London: Henry Colburn, 1825, engraved frontispiece and 3 engravings, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie to front pastedown to each volume of every work, some spotting throughout, all edges gilt, handsome 20th-century uniform green straight-grain morocco by Clarke & Bedford, gilt decorated spines, gilt border to boards, elaborate gilt turn-ins, slight wear to bands and corners, 4toQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Andrew Carnegie (bookplate).Henrey 138 (Evelyn's Silva).Silva was a highly influential book and the first important publication in England on forest trees. This edition "contains an enormous amount of information concerning the cultivation of the various kinds of forest trees, and the uses of their timber, together with facts and anecdotes obtained from books, both classical and contemporary. The work was a success from the start. Its publication gave a great stimulus to planting in Britain..., No other work on arboriculture exerted a greater influence on forestry in this country than Evelyn's Sylva” (Henrey, p.107-8).
Rowe (Nicholas). The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakepear's Style, 1st edition, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-street [1714], [viii],63,[1]pp, first issue with 'the Heart' (page 18, line 3), 'This trickling show'r of Teats' (page 19, line 17), and publisher's notice at end of last leaf of text, dated 'Jan. 28. 1713-14', some light browning, modern half-calf, spine lettered in gilt, together with:The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, 1st edition, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleetstreet, 1715, title, two (of 4) leaves of preface, lacking pages iii-vi, A2-3, prologue leaf trimmed with loss of blank outer fore-margin, 66pp, plus final leaf of Epilogue, modern half-calf over marbled boards, both small 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:First edition by the playwright and Shakespeare editor Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718). Jane Shore was first produced at Drury Lane in February 1714 and ran for 19 nights with Anne Oldfield as Jane Shore, Robert Wilks as Dumont, and Colley Sibber as the Duke of Gloucester.
* English School. Portrait of Charles Dickens as a young man, 1840, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of the young author seated in a chair, with flowing crimped curls, wearing a black coat and white waistcoat, with white collar and frilled shirt, seated sideways, his hands clasped together and his left arm resting on the back of the chair, his face turned forward to engage the viewer, some overall craquelure, a few minor surface marks, re-lined, 76.5 x 63.5 cm (30 1/8 x 25 ins), period gilt moulded frame (97 x 83.5 cm), with the sitter's name in contemporary black ink capitals to the lower slip, and later plaque to lower edge of frame 'Charles Dickens (As a Young Man) 1840 by Daniel Maclise, RA', verso of frame with white chalk mark SS913 (possibly Christie's)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.An early portrait of Charles Dickens attributed, according to the frame plaque, to the portraitist Daniel Maclise (1806-1870). Maclise painted several portraits of Dickens and his family, the most famous being the full-length oil of 1839 in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 1172), which was used as the frontispiece for Nicholas Nickleby when it was first published later that year. He and the author were great friends, and Maclise contributed illustrations for The Old Curiosity Shop and several of the Christmas books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Battle of Life.We have been unable to find the present work mentioned in any listing of the known portraits of Dickens. It is unusual in showing the author with his hair parted on the left, rather than on the right. Dickens is known to have been first photographed in 1841 at Richard Beard's establishment, soon after Beard had opened England's first daguerreotype studio. This early photographic image of Dickens, now sadly lost, would likely have shown a clean-shaven man of twenty-nine with flowing hair parted on the left, since most daguerreotype processes produced a reversed image. It is not impossible to suppose, therefore, that this portrait might have been copied from that early image of the author.
Fore-edge Paintings. Poems by William Cowper, 2 volumes, London: Jones & Company, 1823, half-titles to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title to first volume (light spotting and offsetting), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt with fore-edge paintings depicting a scene of Medmenham Abbey by the River Thames, Buckinghamshire and Hurley Manor House by the river, contemporary gilt decorated olive green morocco, 16mo in 8s (9 x 5 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
Rabelais (François). Master Francis Rabelais. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux, 2 volumes, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892, half-titles, portrait frontispiece to volume I, 14 plates by Louis Chalon, light spotting to fore edges, bookplates of Raphael Bauer (1864-1947, German banker), top edge gilt, later crimson half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with satyr head and quiver and flaming torch tools in compartments, 4to, limited edition 916/1000 together with The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, 2 volumes, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, half-titles, titles printed in red and black, illustrations by Louis Chalon, Raphael Bauer bookplates, top edge gilt, uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf, 4to, plus 3 others: The Nights of Straparola, now first translated into English by W. G. Waters, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, 2 volumes, 1894, limited edition of 1000 (this copy unnumbered), The Novellino of Masuccio, 2 volumes, 1895 (limited edition 960/1000), and The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, 1897 (limited edition 72/600), all uniformly boundQTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.
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Miniature Books. Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615), Padua: Tipogr. Salmin, 1896 [ie.1897], portrait frontispiece, contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt lightly rubbed, 20 x 13 mm, contained within a later silk-lined book box together with: Le Petit Colifichet Annee, Paris, 1821, 8 full page engravings, title-page with closed tear to fore-edge, corners curled throughout, original red morocco gilt, 30 x 20 mm, plus, Schloss's English Bijou Almanack for 1839 poetically illustrated by L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], London: Pub. by the Proprietors, [1838], 6 engraved plates, all edges gilt, original black morocco gilt with gilt lettered oval leather onlays to front and back, matching black morocco slipcase, 20 x 14 mm, together with miniature magnifying glass (lacking handle), contained together within original morocco covered box, andMiniature notebook with fore-edge painting, later 20th century, blank notebook, fore-edge painting depicting riverscape with church spire, original sheep, 20 x 20 mm, contained within an earlier velvet boxQTY: (4)NOTE:Bondy p.95 (for the first work)
New Bon Ton Magazine; or, Telescope of the Times, 3 volumes (of 6), May 1818-October 1819, containing issues 1-3, 5, 7-18 bound in three volumes, lacking issues 4 and 6 to first volume, 14 hand- coloured caricature plates, (no colour plate present to issue number 1 and 8), some scattered spotting and marks, one or two plates with closed tears, contemporary uniform straight-grained red half morocco, gilt decorated spines, 8vo QTY: (3)NOTE:Sold as a periodical, not subject to return
Keble (John). The Christian Year: thought in verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the year, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford: printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C. and J. Rivington, 1827, xii, 201pp and viii, 200, plus errata leaf at end, half-titles present to each volume, endpaper to first volume removed, some spotting to endpapers of second volume, ownership signature of John Drinkwater dated 1920 to half-title of each volume, small printed ownership ticket of Samuel Day Hopkinson to half-tile of first volume, gilt ownership bookplate of John Drinkwater to half-title of first volume and front pastedown of second volume, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, original grey drab boards, with paper label to spine of each volume, a little rubbed and some marks to spines, housed in modern protective brown crushed morocco-backed book box (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), 8vo, together with Newman (John Henry). Lectures on Justification, second edition, London: printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington, & J. H. Parker, Oxford, 1840, & Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being A Reply to a Pamphlet, entitled “What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?”, 1st edition, London: Longman, Green, Roberts & Green, 1864, xi, 453 pp., and iv, 430, 127 pp. respectively, marbled endpapers, first work with gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, second title with gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper, and old photographic portrait of the author mounted to front pastedown, together with five (of six) volumes of Newman’s Parochial Sermons, mixed editions, 1837-57 (lacking volume IV), all uniformly bound in contemporary polished calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting dark blue and red spine labels, a little rubbed and some marks to spines, 8voQTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance (Christian Year): Samuel Day Hopkinson; John Drinkwater; Michael Ernest Sadler, University College, Oxford (bookplate loosely inserted); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).With an autograph note by the author to the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron, dated Hensley Vicarage, Aug. 26. 1855, in which Mr Keble presents his compliments to the Lord Chief Baron, & hopes that the inclosed of the entry of Mr Lovell's Burial will answer the purpose.A fine copy of Keble's influential collection of devotional verses, published anonymously in an edition of 500 copies. The most significant proponent of the Oxford Movement, a combination of romantic sentiment and High Church ideals was the poetic blockbuster of the 19th century, going through 158 editions before its copyright expired in 1873.
Elzevir Press. De Imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius, Leiden: Elzevir, 1631, engraved title, engraved illustration, a little minor spotting, bookplates and ink stamp at front, contemporary vellum, light soiling, 12mo, together with Somner (William). Julii Caesaris Portus Iccius Illustratus: sive 1. Gulielmi Somneri ad chiffletii librum de Porto Iccio, responsio; nunc primum ex MS. edita. 2. Carolo du Fresne dissertio de Porta Iccio. Tractatum utrumque Latine vertit, & nova dissertatione auxit Edmundis Gibson, 1st edition, Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1694, folding engraved map, a little marginal fraying and dust-soiling, manuscript initials to last leaf and bookplate of William Borlase (1696-1772, antiquary, naturalist and geologist), additional bookplate of Rev. Prebendary Hedgeland, later calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Menestrier (P. F. C.). La Nouvelle Methode Raisonee du Blason, pour l'apprendre d'une maniere aises, reduite en lecops, par demandes & par responses, Lyon: Jacques Lions, 1718, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 32 hand-coloured plates, illustrations, some coloured, ink annotations to table and final leaf verso, occasional water stains, previous owner signature of John Woodward, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, modern calf, spine faded, 8vo, with Solitudo Norbertina, sive Exercitia Spiritualia, by Friedrich Herlet, 1694QTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates for the two last titles); Willems 354 for first title; Wing S4666 for the second.
Goldsmith (Oliver). The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith, new edition, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for F. J. Du Roveray, 1800, 6 engraved plates, publisher's advert leaf at rear, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Lord Kinnaird and 20th-century bookplate of John Porter, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt, 8vo (22.8 x 14 cm), together with:Thomson (James). The Works of Mr. James Thomson, with his last corrections and improvements, to which is prefixed, The Life of the Author, by Patrick Murdoch, 3 volumes, London: R. Baldwin, J. Nichols and Son [et al], 1803, 12 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece to volume 1, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, 20th-century marbled half calf, gilt decorated spines to morocco labels, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo,Hunt (Leigh). A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1848, wood engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1848, occasional light spotting, autograph letter signed by Leigh Hunt tipped-in to front free endpaper, addressed to the publisher Henry Colburn referring to poems Hunt wanted published, armorial bookplate Horace Noble Pym to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo,Northcote (James). One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected, 1st and 2nd series, London: Geo. Lawford, and John Murray, 1828-33, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, numerous wood engraved illustrations, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary calf by Pickering & Co., gilt decorated spines with green morocco labels (gilt rubbed), extremities rubbed, 8vo,Le Sage (Alain René). The adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana, newly translated from the French of A.R. Lesage, by Martin Smart, 4 volumes, London: Richard Phillips, 1807, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates (including frontispieces), bookplate of William Brackenburn to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, 20th-century mottled calf by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, joints slightly rubbed, 12mo,Ossian. The Poems of Ossian, Translated by James Macpherson, 3 volumes, London: William Miller, John Murray and John Harding, 1805, 12 engraved plates (including portrait frontispiece to volume 1), occasional light spotting, bookplate of Alexander Stone to upper pastedowns and front blank flyleaves, all edges gilt, mid 19th-century maroon morocco by Carss & Co. of Glasgow, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, plus other 19th-century publications in full and half leather decorative bindingsQTY: (31)
Janet (Louis, publisher). Sagas, Légendes des bordes du Rhin, orné de 8 gravures sur acier, d'après les dessins des peintres de l'Ecole de Dusseldorf, 1st edition, Paris: Louis Janet, circa 1830, half-title, colour aquatint frontispiece, and 14 fine colour aquatint views, each heightened with gum arabic, and tipped-on to brown paper, all 14 plates with handwritten caption in ink, marbled endpapers with gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, later red half morocco gilt (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), 8vo (an attractive copy), together with an album of Swiss Costumes, circa 1830, 33 hand-coloured aquatint plates of reginal costumes of Switzerland, including Zurich, Berne, Oberhasli, Lucerne, Enflibuch, Canton d'Ury, Unterwalden, Appenzell, Geneve, etc., bound without text, first and last plate with some light overall toning, marbled endpapers with gilt-decorated burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, later three-quarter red morocco gilt (by Bayntun Riviere), small 4to QTY: (2)
Bridges (S. E., and J. Hazlewood). England's Helicon. A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, first published at the close of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, third edition, to which is added a biographical and critical introduction, London: printed by T. Bensley for Robert Triphook, 1812, [xix], xl,248 pp., wide margins, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated red morocco label of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, fine late 19th or early 20th century three-quarter crushed red morocco (by J. Lammins), spine richly gilt, large 8vo (Large Paper copy), together withKempe (Alfred John, editor). The Loseley Manuscripts. Manuscripts, and other rare documents, illustrative of some of the more minute particulars of English History, Biography, and Manners, from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I preserved in the muniment room of James Moremolyneux esq. at Loseley House in Surrey, now first edited, with notes, by Alfred John Kempe, esq. F.S.A., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, three single-page facsimile plates, armorial bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, and gilt-decorated burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed and scuffed to joints and extremities, 8vo, plusGoldsmid (Edmund, editor). Collectanea Adamantaea, II, VII, XVIII (2 volumes), XXI & XXII (Kempes Nine Daies Wonder, Lucina sine Concubitu, A History of Amulets by Martin Frederick Blumler, 2 volumes, Pathomachia: or, The Battell of Affections & A Charitable Remonstrance addressed to the Wives and Maidens of France, touching their Dissolute Adornments), six works bound in one, Edinburgh: privately printed, 1884-87, titles printed in red and black, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, armorial bookplate of Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799-1869), 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister to front pastedown, contemporary half vellum gilt, with maroon spine labels, 8vo, and five others related: Thomas Wright, The Political Songs of England, from the reign of John to that of Edward II (Bibliotheca Curiosa), revised by Edmund Goldsmid, four volumes bound in two, Edinburgh: privately printed, 1884, Robert Bell, Early Ballads illustrative of history, traditions, and customs; also Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, London: George Bell & Sons, 1885, Joe Miller's Jests or The Wits Vade-mecum, 1739 [London: reprinted circa 1865], and John Addington Symonds, Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama, new edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900, (bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead), all bound in full or half morocco or calf, 8voQTY: (8)
Hunt (Leigh). The Indicator, and the Companion; a miscellany for the fields and the fireside, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: published for Henry Colburn, 1834, half-titles (with advertisements to verso), portrait frontispiece to volume I, a little minor spotting, first few leaves in volume I toned, top edge gilt, later brown half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo, together with Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1946, half-titles, red ink shelf number stamp at front of volume I, bookplates of Horatio Pym (1844-1896, book collector), later tan half calf gilt by Mansell (gilt decoration to lower two compartments of volume II spine partially wormed), 8vo, plus three other 1st editions by the author: Captain Sword and Captain Pen. A Poem, 1835, Men, Women, and Books; A selection of sketches, essays, and critical mmemoirs from his uncollected prose writings, 2 volumes, 1847, and The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, 3 volumes, 1850 QTY: (10)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Horatio Noble Pym (bookplates).
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Illuminated Manuscript. Dies Irae, [England, mid 19th century], finely illuminated manuscript on rectos of 22 leaves, comprising the first leaf in red and black without illumination with a quotation from 2 Peter 3, a large illuminated monogram, 'H.S.M.', 19 illuminated leaves containing the text of Dies Irae, the final leaf with pen and ink decorations to recto and verso including the monogram 'WCL' and the motto 'Prospice, prospice', the whole interleaved with laid paper leaves (watermarked J. Whatman, 1846), gilt-gauffered edges, contemporary blue velvet over boards with decorative gilt bosses and clasp, gilt-decorated vellum doublures, the upper pastedown with burgundy bookplate of W. A. Foyle, frayed along upper joint with a little wear to spine ends and lower joint, small 4to (200 x 162 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Presumably the book was illuminated by W.C.L. for H.S.M. (or other permutations of these initials) as they appear in the monograms.
Baker (George). The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, 2 volumes, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, and John Rodwell, 1822-41, 39 engraved plates (including portrait frontispiece to first volume), some offsetting, browning and scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary calf, gilt borders to boards and with gilt armorial of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790-1860) of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire to centre of each, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spines, some fading to boards, folioQTY: (2)
The Quarterly Review. 52 volumes, a run, volumes 1-52, London: John Murray, 1809-1834, bookplate of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard to front pastedown to first volume, slight spotting throughout, contemporary uniform half calf, gilt decorated spines, joints a little rubbed, volumes 48 and 49 with some loss to spine and rear boards detached, 8voQTY: (52)NOTE:Provenance: Edmund Pollexfen Bastard (bookplate)Edmund Pollexfen Bastard of Kitley House (1784 -1835) was a British MP and a member of the Devonshire Bastard family, one of the oldest landed families in the area.Founded in 1809 as a response to the Edinburgh Review by a small group of intellectuals and writers including Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, John Wilson Croker and George Canning, the Quarterly Review was famous for its scathing literary reviews—including the April 1818 article by John Wilson Croker that allegedly “snuffed out” the poet John Keats (according to a mocking stanza in Byron's Don Juan), and the same critic's January 1818 review of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: "Our readers will guess from this summary, what a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity this work presents".
* Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703) and the Navy Board. A series of 27 documents signed by Pepys as Clerk of the Acts of the Navy, together with documents signed by William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (38), Admiral Sir John Mennes (48), Sir Jeremy Smith (16) and other members of the Navy Board, Navy Office, 29 January 1668/9 to 18 December 1669, 126 documents in total, the majority with several signatures, addressed to Edward Gregory, Clerk of the Cheque and Storekeeper, and other officers at the Yards in Chatham, the majority endorsed on verso by recipient, together approximately 85 pages, folio, skilfully tipped into boards (some cropped, occasional wear to margins, holing and discolouration), arranged chronologically in three folio volumes, early 20th-century crushed blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the upper and lower covers stamped with Pepys' emblem of 'S.P.' around two crossed anchors intertwined with rope, surmounted by his motto, border gilt fillets, the spines gilt in six compartments, lettered in three, gilt ruled turn-ins, gilt edges, folio (352 x 270 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (Christie’s London, 13 July 2000, lot 330).A series of administrative documents giving a picture of the workings of the Navy Board in 1669 under Samuel Pepys' control. Pepys was made Clerk of the Acts of the Navy on 23 June 1660 at the age of 27. He filled the role with considerable distinction at a time when the administration of the Navy was being modernised; a contemporary account declares him the most useful minister ever to have occupied his position. The period 1668-70 was an important one for the Navy Board and Pepys with the disasters of the Second Dutch War leaving the Board open to Parliamentary investigation of its numerous abuses; Pepys became the Board's chief defender, in particular in a magnificent performance before the House of Commons on 5 March 1669. From 1669 he was to be effectively in charge of the Navy.The other signatories of the documents in this collection naturally feature prominently in Pepys' diaries: William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620?-1684) was a friend of both Pepys and John Evelyn; a mathematician and translator of Descartes, he was the first President of the Royal Society. Admiral Sir John Mennes (1599-1671) was Comptroller of the Navy and a minor poet; Pepys' diaries describe him as excellent company, but are scathing about his failing abilities in his post, describing him as one of those who 'sit and do nothing'. Admiral Sir Jeremy Smith (d. 1675) was a commissioner of the Navy from 1669 as Comptroller of Victualling.Pepys' failing eyesight caused him to give up his diaries during the course of the year covered by these documents, on 31 May 1669.
Haldane (Richard Burdon). The Pathway to Reality, being the Gifford Lectures..., 1902-1903, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1903, autograph letter by the author addressed to 'My dear Mayne', tipped-in to front of first volume, contemporary half-calf, gilt decorated spines, one spine label to second label missing, 8vo, together with Woolnoth (Thomas). Facts & Faces, being an enquiry into the connection between linear and mental portraiture, with a dissertation on personal and relative beauty, 2nd edition, London: published by the author, 1854, engraved plates, some light scattered spotting, all edges gilt, near-contemporary half calf over marbled boards, large octavo, plusBabbitt (Edwin D.). The Principles of Light and Color, 2nd edition, New Jersey: published by the author at the College of Fine Forces, 1896, colour plates and monochrome illustrations to text, top edge gilt, near-contemporary full morocco, spines somewhat faded, and others various, including Percy Lubbock, The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, 2 volumes, 1865-70, Herbert Spencer, Works, 19 volumes, 1861-1907, Fischel & Von Boehn, Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century, 4 volumes, 1927, and Fairholt, Tobacco: its history & associations, 1876 QTY: (24)
Collier (John Payne, editor). The Works of Edmund Spenser edited by J. Payne Collier F.S.A., 5 volumes, London: Bickers & Son, 1873, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, titles printed in red and black, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt-decorated maroon uniform full morocco (by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge), with gilt armorial of Trinity College, Cambridge to center of each cover with the motto Virtus Vera Nobilitas, one or two minor marks, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Handsome set.
Dépôt général de la guerre. Mémorial topographique et militaire, rédigé au dépôt général de la guerre; imprimé par ordre du ministre, 6 volumes, 1st [and only] edition, Paris: Imprimerie de la République, [1802-05], 26 folding engraved maps, plans, diagrams and tables, including one of the Battle of Leuthen in 1757, one of the Black Forest, and one of Swabia, title to each volume with wood-engraved vignette, and ink library number to head of each title, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Suchtelen to front pastedown of first volume, a few minor marks, contemporary uniform red half morocco gilt, one or two spines a little discoloured, lightly rubbed, 8vo QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Count Piotr Sukhtelen (1751-1836), a military engineer who joined the Russian service in 1783, and served for Russia over more than half a century. He became a lieutenant-general in the Russian army, was a hero of the War of 1812 against Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and later Russian ambassador at Sweden. A true bibliomaniac, his enormous library was acquired by the Russian government in 1836, being delivered by warship to St. Petersburg.Rare. Divided into three topographical parts and three historical parts, this set of volumes provides detailed information on military topography and reconnaissance, including surveys of the Tyrol and Black Forest, as well as a history of the Dépôt Général de la Guerre, and a list of the best available published maps of the various parts of Europe.The Dépôt Général de la Guerre, which was in charge of military mapping for the French army, published this Mémorial around the same time as plans were afoot to create a training school for military engineers, dedicated to geodesic surveying, field surveys, and cartography, which became known as the Ecole des ingenieurs-geographes, created in 1809.“Que la terre soit, d’après Descartes et Leibnitz, un petit soleil encroûté, ou, selon Buffon, une éclaboussure de notre soleil, peu importe aux militaires. Lorsque, défenseurs ou conquérans, bravant les fatigues et les dangers, ils s’élèvent sur ces plateaux, ces cols, ces noeuds de monts agglomérés (...) peu leur importe de connaître les brillantes théories par lesquelles le génie borné de l’homme a voulu expliquer la formation de ces grandes masses qui participent à l’immensité.” (Introduction to volume V)
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[Pape, Libertus de]. Summaria Cronologia Insignis Ecclesiae Parchensis Ordinis Praemonstratensis sitae prope muros oppidi Lovaniensis ex archivo dictae Ecclesiae in ordinem redacta per F. L. D. P. S. T. L. ejustdem Ecclesiae Canoneum professum, 1st and only edition, Leuven: Petri Sasseni, 1662, title with woodcut device, title repaired, some browning and spotting throughout, later annotations to front endpaper verso, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, upper cover warped, some soiling, contained in a later half maroon morocco slipcase, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle (bookplate).First and only edition of the history of the Premonstratensian Park Abbey at Heverlee, near Leuven in Belgium.
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[Barham, Richard Harris, 'Thomas Ingoldsby']. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels, series 1-3, 1st edition (volumes 1 & 2, 2nd edition for volume 3), London: Richard Bentley, 1840-47, half-titles for volumes 2 & 3, engraved titles, 19 plates mostly by John Leech and George Cruikshank, p. 96 in volume 1 with small marginal repair, some light toning to first two volumes, crimson morocco gilt bookplates of W A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later blue half morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, 8vo, together with Sue (Eugene). The Wandering Jew, 3 volumes, 1st edition in English, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844-45, frontispiece to each, numerous wood-engraved plates, occasional light offsetting, bookplates of Alexander Stone (1907-1998, Scottish bibliophile), top edge gilt, later maroon half morocco by The Times Book Club, plus Smith (Albert). The Wassail-Bowl, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1843, half-titles, plates and illustrations by John Leech, original cloth covers and spines bound-in at rear, a few light spots, burgundy morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, top edge gilt, later maroon full morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, spines slightly faded, 8vo, together with others leatherbound including Richard Savage. A Romance of Real Life, by Charles Whitehead, 3 volumes, 1844, Saint James's: or the Court of Queen Anne, by William Harrison Ainsworth, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1844 (extra-illustrated), plus others by Frank Smedley, George Reynolds, Ann Rolfe et alQTY: (31)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).
* Seward (William). Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries. Illustrated by Engravings, 4 volumes, Fourth edition: considerably enlarged, and newly arranged and digested, London: printed for D. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1798, numerous engraved plates, extra-illustrated with 130 17th and 18th century additional engraved portraits (including several views) by George Vertue, Van der Gucht, and others, including a fine coloured mezzotint portrait of Stanislaus Augustus Kind of Poland, 1792, Schenk's James II, early portraits of John Huss, Melanchthon, Calvin, and other Reformers, the Chevalier Bayard, William Harvey, Descartes, Rousseau, etc., inlaid to uniform size, early ownership signature of C. A. S. Wetenhall to front pastedown of each volume, and bookplates of F. E. Dinshaw, and W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, all edges gilt, some inner hinges a little tender, contemporary plum straight grained full morocco (by C. Smith, Soho, with his ticket to verso of front endpaper of the first volume), gilt decorated spines, boards with triple gilt outer border and gilt thistle motif to corners, rubbed and somewhat scuffed to joints and edges, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:William Seward (1747-1799) was a close friend of the Thrales and of Doctor Johnson. His entertaining collection of literary and historical anecdotes was first published in 1795.
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Essex (Robert, third Earl of, 1591-1646). Broadsides on the Death of Robert 3rd Earl of Essex. 1646 [so titled on spine], London: various printers, 1646, a bound volume of five broadside elegies, comprising: 1) A Funerall Elegy upon the most Honored upon Earth ... of Essex and Ewe ..., Written by him who doth with much grief here Speak of brave Essex, Englands Phenix Peere, Josiah Ricraft of London Merchant, illustrated with engraved portrait; 2) An Elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux, late Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Parliaments Forces ..., illustrated with engraved skeletal effigy on tomb; 3) A Funerall Elegy upon the most Honored upon Earth .. of Essex and Ewe ..., by Henry Mill; 4) The Life and Death of the right Honourable, Robert, Earl of Essex ..., illustrated with woodcut tomb bearing armorials; 5) A Funerall Monument: or the manner of the Herse of the most Renowned Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Ewe ..., illustrated with engraving of the imagined funeral hearse, plus a woodcut of the horse-drawn catafalque (taken from another title), and one other partial broadside (upper portion only): An Elegie Offered Up to the Memory of his Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe (with engraved portrait), the first five listed each with black mourning border, all laid or tipped onto 19th century backing paper and bound together, some wear to each broadside (no.s 4 & 5 previously repaired), 3 blanks leaves at front, and 8 at rear (including flyleaves), woodcut bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 19th century red half morocco, rubbed, some skinning to lower rear corner, gilt-lettered spine, slim folio, (binding size 45 31 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882) was a British politician, antiquary and genealogist and a descendant of Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, a title previously held by Robert Devereux until his death in 1646 (bookplate); W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). The full titles (and their imprints) included are: 1) A Funerall Elegy upon the most Honored upon Earth, and now glorious in Heaven, His Excellency Robert Devereux Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartly Bourchier and Lovaine, late Generall of England / London Printed in the year one thousand six hundred forty and six In which, Septembers fourteenth day deceased noble Essex. Are to be sold by John Hancock, in Popes head Ally neer the Royall Exchange. 2) An Elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux, late Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Parliaments Forces, who deceased the thirteene day of Sept. 1646 / London, Printed by John Hammond. 3) A Funerall Elegy upon the most Honored upon Earth, and now glorious in Heaven, His Excellency Robert Devereux Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartly Bourchier and Lovaine, late Generall of England / London Printed by John Macock for William Ley, and are to be sold at his shop at Pauls Chaine. 1646. 4) The Life and Death of the right Honourable, Robert, Earl of Essex, the Noble Branch of his thrice Noble Father / London, Printed for J. Pots in the great Old-Baily, neer the Sessions-House. 1646. 5) A Funerall Monument: or the manner of the Herse of the most Renowned Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, l. Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, Englands late Lord Generall, who deceased Septemb.14.1646. With a briefe Recitement of his valour and fidelity in the Kingdomes just Cause against the Enemies of Religion, Parliament and Kingdome, whose Funerall is to be solemnized on Tuesday the 13. of October, 1646 / Printed for J. Hancock in Popes-head Alley, 1646. Woodcut taken from: The True Mannor and Forme of the Proceeding to the Funerall of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, London: printed for Henry Seale, 1646. Part broadside: An Elegie Offered Up to the Memory of his Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late Generall of the Parliaments Forces. Thomason Tracts: 1] 669:f.10.(81.), 2] 669:f.10.(83.), 3] 669:f.10.(95.) (but 'His Excellency" missing from their title), 4] probably 669:f.10.(93.), 5] 669:f.10.(89.), plus: 6] taken from E:360.(1.), 7] possibly 669:f.10.(82.) by Thomas Philipot.Wing: 1] R1429, 2] E475, 3] M2056, 4] L2018, 5] F2537, plus: 6] T2758A, 7] P1995?
Wright (Thomas). The History and Topography of the County of Essex, 2 volumes bound in 10, London: George Virtue, 1831-35, Extra Illustrated containing approximately 1273 plates and original illustrations (including the original plates and folding map, plus Suckling's Antiquities of Suffolk, 1845, Views of Churches, Castles, Mansions, monuments, Seals, Antiquities, &c., of which 423 are original drawings coloured in sepia, many mounted), two original engraved titles, additional letterpress title to each bearing the wood engraved armorial of William Boyne F. S. A. (dated 1860), with place and date at foot of each 'Chelsea, 1865', manuscript explanatory leaves to first volume and manuscript plate lists at front of each volume, occasional light toning and scattered spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, late 19th-century brown half morocco, elaborate gilt decorated spines, 4to QTY: (10)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The first volume includes an explanatory leaf regarding the composition of the set, written by William Boyne (1815-1893), 'I cannot learn positively who made the drawings in this book, but I have been told that they were principally done by Mr. Thomas Johnson son of the Lord Mayor in 1841. Mr Johnson lived at Upminster near Hornchurch..., he died in 1861. I bought the collection by auction at Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, [as 2 volumes and drawings in 9 portfolios]. Since the purchase I have had most of the pencil drawings coloured with sepia, the artist dying before the whole were completed. I have also added many other illustrations, as well as arranged the whole series, which were a complete confusion. Chelsea July 1865, Wm. Boyne'. The explanation continues 'A Collection of the History of Essex by Thomas Wright, as now arranged in 10 volumes. The plates are amongst the illustrations; as well as Suckling's Memorials of Essex; and all the additional plates'.William Boyne F.S.A. (1815 -1893) of Leeds was a collector of books particularly relating to Yorkshire and a noted numismatist. He was the author of The Yorkshire Library: a bibliographical account of books on topography ... relating to the County of York, published London, 1869 and Tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales and Ireland, published London, 1858 and several other books regarding tokens and coins. Part of his library was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 12 March 1867, his books & book prints on 26 November 1868 and Yorkshire library on 11 December 1873.
Richardson (Samuel). The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison. Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family to which are prefixed, a biographical account of that author, and observations on his writings. By Anna Letitia Barbauld, 6 volumes, London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1804, two folding hand-coloured aquatint plates (frontispiece to volumes 2 and 3), two stipple engraved portraits, and one sepia aquatint frontispiece (volume 4), neat contemporary ownership inscription to head of title to first volume of Joseph Andrews, Shaw Place dated 1804, contemporary uniform red half-morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, spines somewhat dulled, 8voQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Joseph Andrews (1768-1822) of Shaw Place (now Shaw House), Berkshire. Andrews was unmarried and is thought to have had a homosexual relationship with his servant, companion, and friend William Kidman.Tinker 1747.
Higgins (Godfrey). The Celtic Druids; or, An Attempt to Shew, that the Druids were the Priest of Oriental Colonies who Emigrated from India, and were the introducers of the first or Cadmean system of letters, and the builders of Stone Henge, of Carnac, and of other cyclopean works in Asia and Europe, 1st edition, London: Roland Hunter, and Ridgway and Sons, 1829, additional lithographed vignette title, single-page map and 46 plates and plans (including 4 double-page), 7 lithographic illustrations to text, all on India paper, several woodcut vignettes to text, additional title with upper outer corner repaired, wide margins, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 20th-century brown crushed half morocco gilt, some minor marks to extremities, large 4to, together withDavies (Edward). Celtic Researches, on the origin, traditions & language of the Ancient Britons; with some introductory sketches, on Primitive Society. By Edward Davies, Curate of Olveston, Gloucestershire, 1st edition, London: printed for the author, 1804, list of subscribers, two engraved illustrations, wide margins, marbled endpapers, contemporary polished full calf gilt, rubbed and upper board with some surface scrapes, 8vo, plusCampbell (J. F.). The Celtic Dragon Myth, with the Jest of Fraoch and the Dragon translated with an introduction by George Henderson, illustrations in colour by Rachel Ainlie Grant Duff, five colour plates including frontispiece, gilt-decorated red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, attractive contemporary polished green full calf, gilt decorated spine, a few minor marks, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Cox III p.462; Lowndes II, p.596 (Davies).
Hunt (Leigh). Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets, illustrative of those first requisites of the art; with markings of the best passages, critical notices of the writers, and an essay in answer to the question "What is Poetry?", 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844, engraved portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with some 30 plates, printed list of plates, dated 1898 inserted after contents leaves, some offsetting from plates, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (two small abrasions from previous bookplate), top edge gilt, later green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spine faded to brown, 8vo, together with Wit and Humour, selected from the English Poets; with an illustrative essay and critical comments, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 37 plates, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue bound at rear, some light offsetting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, and William Edward Hollis, top edge gilt, uniformly bound by Riviere, spine faded, 8vo, together with 3 other 1st editions by the author: The Town; its Memorable Characters and Events, 2 volumes, 1848, Men, Women, and Books; 2 volumes, 1847, and The Old Court Suburb; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical and Anecdotal, 2 volumes, 1855, all extra-illustrrated and uniformly bound by Riviere and Son QTY: (8)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).
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