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Lot 2375

The Turner Bicentenary Medallic First Day Cover, a silver medal to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the birth of J.M.W. Turner, struck by John Pinches, together with four other medallic covers to include 1973 European Comunity Six Become Nine, 1977 The First Solo Flight Across The Atlantic, 1976 Day of the Concorde and 1975 Commemoration of the Apollo-Soyuz Space Mission. (5)

Lot 2099

United Kingdom, a large collection of miscellaneous coins to include 1965 Elizabeth II nine coin specimen sets x2, Britain's First Decimal Coins wallets x12, Coins of Ireland eight coin sets x4, The Great British 1983 Coin Collection, 1984 BUNC Scottish £1, 1977 Silver Jubilee crown, Churchill crowns, loose half crowns, florins and sixpences etc.

Lot 2433

World, a collection of mainly silver proof coins to include Australian Kookabura $1 x3 and Turtle $2, United States of America silver $1 x2, Great Britain, The First Scheduled Flight of Concorde x4, South Africa 2017 silver Krugerrand and India 1900 one rupee etc., housed in a black leather coin case, having a hinged lid and fall front. (32 coins)

Lot 2369

World, a collection of coins, medals and covers, to include Coinage of Great Britain and Northern Ireland proof sets for 1970, 1971 and 1980, Turks and Caicos Islands 1980 silver proof piedfort 10 crowns, The 1974 Coinage Of The British Virgin Islands proof set, The American Bicentennial Medallic First day Cover x2, Great Britons Medallic First Day Covers and The United Nations Peace medal For 1974 etc.

Lot 2193

United Kingdom, Royal Mint, 1993 three coin set to include a piedfort one pound, DNA double helix two pound and Give Women the Vote fifty pence, cased, together with various other commemorative and other coins to include Europe 1992/1993 commemorative silver proof fifty pence special issue no. 330, 1962 nine coin set in frame, 1988 States of Jersey Parish of Trinity sterling frosted silver one pound and Britains First Decimal Coin sets etc.

Lot 73

YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED 'PEACH TREES' BOWL QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG MARK, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 清 乾隆款 黃地綠彩桃樹紋碗 thinly potted with deep rounded sides raised on straight foot, incised on the body with birds in flight between fruiting peach trees issuing from rockwork, the decoration enamelled in green against a yellow ground extending into the interior, the countersunk base with a six-character Qianlong mark in aubergineDimensions:12.6cm diameterProvenance:Provenance: By descent- Private Scottish collection, Harrietfield, Kelso; previously from the family estate bought in 1847, Newton Don, Kelso.Newton Don lies in the lowland hills near Kelso, overlooking the Eden Water, a tributary of the Tweed. It owes its name to the Don family who first acquired the former manorial lands of Newton around 1648. Sir Alexander Don inherited the estate and baronetcy in 1776 and over the next forty years the family brought about significant change. The Dons sought to expand the pleasure grounds and to create a secluded, fashionable, country seat and by 1800, a visitor described the estate as a ‘remarkably pretty, cheerful place’. Between 1817 and 1820 renowned English architect Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) made considerable alterations to the eighteenth-century house, for which Robert Adam had prepared the original plans. Unfortunately, the transformation had strained the family coffers to such an extent that the estate was sold in 1847. Harrietfield was the farmhouse of the Newton Don estate home farm. It may have been built after the marriage of Lady Harriet Cunningham to Alexander Don in 1778, hence the name.Note: Note: Compare to similar examples with the same design from the Qing dynasty but different periods, including a Kangxi prototype illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, col. pl. 197; one with Yongzheng mark and period, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 12 October 2021, lot 47; one Jiaqing mark and period, sold at Sotheby's New York, 11 September 2012, lot 31.

Lot 72

FAMILLE ROSE 'IMMORTALS' BOWL QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG MARK, 19TH CENTURY 清 乾隆款 粉彩海屋添籌圖碗 delicately potted with steep sides rising from a short straight foot, finely painted with two female deities on a raft against tempestuous waves, the reverse with a pagoda rising from waves amidst auspicious clouds and rocky hills, the base inscribed with a six-character Qianlong mark in iron-redDimensions:13.1cm diameterProvenance:Provenance: By descent- Private Scottish collection, Harrietfield, Kelso; previously from the family estate bought in 1847, Newton Don, Kelso.Newton Don lies in the lowland hills near Kelso, overlooking the Eden Water, a tributary of the Tweed. It owes its name to the Don family who first acquired the former manorial lands of Newton around 1648. Sir Alexander Don inherited the estate and baronetcy in 1776 and over the next forty years the family brought about significant change. The Dons sought to expand the pleasure grounds and to create a secluded, fashionable, country seat and by 1800, a visitor described the estate as a ‘remarkably pretty, cheerful place’. Between 1817 and 1820 renowned English architect Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) made considerable alterations to the eighteenth-century house, for which Robert Adam had prepared the original plans. Unfortunately, the transformation had strained the family coffers to such an extent that the estate was sold in 1847. Harrietfield was the farmhouse of the Newton Don estate home farm. It may have been built after the marriage of Lady Harriet Cunningham to Alexander Don in 1778, hence the name.

Lot 35

BRONZE SEATED BUDDHA MING DYNASTY, DATED TO 1573AD 明 '萬曆元年十月內郭普軻劉妙蓮'刻款 銅胎髹漆座佛 cast seated in dhyanasana on a lotus throne, hands in dhyana mudra, wears a robe with floral hems falling in naturalistic folds around the arms and legs and open at the chest, the face has a serene expression with eyes downcast, with elongated ears, the hair is dressed in curls surrounding the ushnisha, the back of the lotus throne engraved with twelve characters, meaning 'October of the first year during the Wanli reign, (donated by) Guo Puke (and) Liu Miaolian'Dimensions:21cm high; 1844gProvenance:Provenance: Private Taiwanese collectionNote: Note: Since the early stage when Buddism entered China and bronze votive figures were being produced, it was not uncommon to dedicate secular donors' names, or the makers, or at times the makers were the donors, to religious figures. This would help gain merit in return for good karma for the named individuals. Compare to a rare inscribed gilt-bronze figure of Avalokitesvara, Sui dynasty, made and donated by the 'disciple Ruen Ci', sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 30 November 2022, lot 41. Some figures bore combinations of inscriptions revealing the name of the donor, date, maker, location of the figure being made, and location or temple it would be presented. In the current example of a bronze Buddha, the inscriptions show two donors, seemingly one male (Guo Puke) and the other female (Liu Miaolian). The remaining inscriptions entail a date, either the date the piece was made or the date being devoted. It is in October of the first year during the Wanli reign, corresponding to 1573AD. Also compare to a very rare gilt-bronze figure of Avalokitesvara, Ming dynasty, Xuande period, dated to 1435AD, inscribed with the donor's name Huang Fu, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 07 April 2011, lot 2839. Another related example of a massive stone carving Buddha, dated by inscription to the 21st year of the Jiajing reign corresponding to 1542AD, was offered in Bonhams, 7 November 2019, lot54.

Lot 67

CANTON CARVED TORTOISESHELL CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 玳瑁雕閣樓人物紋圓蓋盒 the cover delicately carved in relief with small figures and pavilions encircled by foliage and bamboo edges, the base and sides further carved in low reliefDimensions:8cm diameter Provenance:Provenance: By descent- Private Scottish collection, Harrietfield, Kelso; previously from the family estate bought in 1847, Newton Don, Kelso.Newton Don lies in the lowland hills near Kelso, overlooking the Eden Water, a tributary of the Tweed. It owes its name to the Don family who first acquired the former manorial lands of Newton around 1648. Sir Alexander Don inherited the estate and baronetcy in 1776 and over the next forty years the family brought about significant change. The Dons sought to expand the pleasure grounds and to create a secluded, fashionable, country seat and by 1800, a visitor described the estate as a ‘remarkably pretty, cheerful place’. Between 1817 and 1820 renowned English architect Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) made considerable alterations to the eighteenth-century house, for which Robert Adam had prepared the original plans. Unfortunately, the transformation had strained the family coffers to such an extent that the estate was sold in 1847. Harrietfield was the farmhouse of the Newton Don estate home farm. It may have been built after the marriage of Lady Harriet Cunningham to Alexander Don in 1778, hence the name.

Lot 122

RARE SMALL BLUE AND WHITE 'FOUR IMMORTALS' JAR MING DYNASTY, JIAJING MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 明嘉靖 青花雙圈「大明嘉靖年製」六字楷書款 青花蓬頭四仙圖瓜棱小罐 the quatrefoil lobed body sensitively moulded rising from a recessed base to a short straight rim, painted in vibrant underglaze-blue with a continuous scene of four Daoist immortals, including Li Tieguai leaning on his staff holding a double-gourd, Liu Haichan in joyous dance with his three-legged toad, together with Hanshan and Shide, amongst pine trees and rockwork, all beneath a ruyi lappet border, the base inscribed with a six-character Jiajing mark within a double-circle Dimensions:12.2cm highProvenance:Provenance: Private Scottish collection, North Berwick, has been collecting Asian ceramics for 25 years.Acquired from Solveig and Anita Gray Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art Gallery, London, 9 December 1998. With an original receipt no. 988 and a declaration of antiquity 'Invoice G988', both dated.Three circular paper labels from Solveig and Anita Gray attached on the jar, of which two on the base, the other in the interior of the mouth, all bearing the gallery's inventory number 'Z51', corresponding to the receipt. Another smaller circular label on the base inscribed '38', is the current owner's inventory number.Note: Note: The Jiajing Emperor (reign 1521-1567) started to pay excessive attention to his Daoist pursuits while ignoring imperial duties from the twenty-first year of his reign. According to the historical record Jiangxi Sheng Da zhi (Annals of Jiangxi), 'Volume of Ceramics', Jiajing Emperor commissioned many ceramic wares infused with the Daoist subject matter. This jar is a testimony of his Daoist obsession. The Daoist immortals depicted on this jar are Li Tieguai, one of the Eight Immortals; Liu Haichan, the God of Wealth; Hanshan and Shide, who are also known together as the Hehe Erxian Twins. It is rare to have them four depicted together. An ink and colour on silk scroll painting, painted by an imperial painter in the Ming Court Shang Xi (ca. 15th century), depicting these four immortals on crashing waves focusing on the God of Longevity in flight in the centre, now in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum number Gu Hua 故畫3689. This scroll painting is painted in meticulous brush craftsmanship, whereas the depiction on the present jar takes on a freer style, aptly applied to the subject matter of Pengtou Sixian (Four Unkempt Immortals), and cleverly captures the liveliness, freedom from the secular judgement, and the nonchalant manner of the immortals.A highly comparable example of a blue and white 'four immortals' quatre-lobed jar, dated to the Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 16 September 2009, lot 189. The same jar was subsequently offered at Poly Beijing, 6 December 2011, lot 4938, then sold at the same saleroom, 28 July 2022, lot 5623.

Lot 593

Five Royal Mail First Day Cover albums with First Day Covers and presentation packs up to 2015.

Lot 138

Group of five mid-18th and later drinking glasses, the first with flared bowl engraved with fruiting vine above double knopped airtwist stem, 18.5cm high, a small wine glass with bell-shaped bowl above airtwist stem, a facet-cut wine glass on baluster stem, a conical notch cut example and another, probably 20th century, with conical bowl above baluster airtwist stem, on spreading foot (5) 

Lot 140

Four drinking glasses, two in the mid 18th century-style, the first with flared bowl and tear inclusions above airtwist stem, the second with green tint with opaque twist stem, 17.7cm high, another of thick walled knopped construction and a 19th century drinking glass with honeycomb moulded bowl, on baluster airtwist stem (4) 

Lot 150

Two 19th century pan-topped rummers, the first larger example with ribbed tapering bowl, knopped stem and spreading foot, from the Professor & Mrs P H Plesch Collection, 16cm high, the second similar with tapering panelled bowl (2) 

Lot 204

Quantity of First Day Covers and stamps 

Lot 283

9ct gold Great Western Railways 15 years first aid efficiency medal on suspender, with two metal bars, gross weight approximately 13.2g, medal weight approx. 6.8g

Lot 334

After Franz Xaver Winterhalter Print "The First of May", scene with Queen victoria, Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington, mid/late 19th Century monochrome engraving, in circular gilt frame, together with "The Royal Group", print within circular gilt frame (2)

Lot 2620

A Victorian urn shaped 18ct gold and enamel watch and chain, previously owned by contralto Dame Clara Butt, the dial with black Roman numerals and decorative gold hands, the movement having a cylinder escapement, the engraved urn shaped case inset with enamel decoration, the case and inner cuvee stamped K18 for 18ct gold and numbered 25024 and engraved Clara Butt from C.D. Sept 1891, along with the casemaker's initials R.F., inset within with a photographic portrait of a young girl, with gold chain, diameter 26mm, total weight ca. 26.80gms including chain.Dame Clara Butt DBE, (1 February 1872 - 23 January 1936) was a popular English dramatic singer with an exceptional contralto voice. She joined the Royal College of Music on a scholarship in January 1890 and in 1894 studied in Paris having been sponsored by Queen Victoria, of whom she became a favourite. Dame Clara worked with many of the periods finest musicians, composers and singers including Britain's leading composer of the era Edward Elgar who composed Sea Pictures with her in mind as the soloist. In 1900 she married the baritone Kennerley Rumford and in 1920 was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to charity during the First World War. Dame Clara died at her home in North Stoke in January 1936.Ref Leonard, Maurice, Hope and Glory, a life of Dame Clara Butt. Pub. Brighton, Victorian Secrets 2012.

Lot 2735

Omega Speedmaster 125, a 1970s gentleman's stainless steel chronograph chronometer wristwatch the black dial with subsidiary 12 and 24 hour dials with continuous seconds, date aperture, Tachymetre to the outer aspect and signed Omega Speedmaster 125, Automatic Chronometer, with stainless steel baton hands, the case embossed to the back with the Speedmaster logo, with integral bracelet with Omega clasp, diameter 42mm.The Omega 125 was designed by Omega to celebrate their 125th anniversary, being the world's first chronometer certified automatic chronograph watch fitted and with the specifically designed Omega calibre 1041 movement.

Lot 2217

A Victorian silver three-piece tea service of Chinese influence, makers John Tapley & Co, London 1851, (two items clearly marked, the other rubbed), engraved crest of an armour wearing Dexter Arm holding a crucifix and three gathered arrows. The unusual lidded jug with a finial of a lion dog/Chi ly kylin/ Qilin to top, comprising a teapot, hot water jug and a milk/ cream jug, both jugs with gilded interiors.1120gms 36ozs approximately. (Ivory Exemption Number: Teapot-KXU354GS- Hotwater Jug-CC62DR8Y)* John S. Tapley entered his first mark on 7th December 1833. Trading with his sons William Tapley and George Tapley as John Tapley & Co, manufacturing silversmiths, he appears to have moved to 4 Horse Shoe Court, Ludgate Hill, in 1835 alongside the newly rebuilt premises of Rundell, Bridge & Co the Royal Goldsmiths of 32 Ludgate Hill.

Lot 2227

Three various silver berry spoons; George II, George III and Victorian, makers J. King, London 1741, Jas Jones London 1769 and H.J. Lias & Son, London 1870 the first with engraved shaft in the form of a thistle, 20.1cm (52gms), the second with frilled edge to bowl, 21.1cm long (56.2gms), the third of fiddle shape with foliate engraving to shaft, 14.6cm long, 23gms.

Lot 2330

A set of four silver commemorative medals struck for the 50th Anniversary of the 'Railways Act 1921', limited edition S777 of 1000 with certificate and case, also a silver medal commemorating Man's First Moon Landing, 200gms, 6.4ozs.

Lot 239

A 2011 Gretsch Custom Shop George Harrison 'Tribute' Duo-Jet electric guitar, model number G6128-GHT, the single cutaway body with a black finish and chrome hardware, complete with tweed fitted case, certificate, book, CD, plectrum etcDescribed by Harrison as his 'first good guitar', this model was used, extensively, live and appeared on the recordings of 'Please Please Me', 'I Saw Her Standing There' and 'Twist and Shout' before being retired in 1963. It also appeared on the cover of his solo album 'Cloud Nine'.Condition ReportThis guitar was an accurate recreation of George's and as such the body has scratches, chips and knocks and the metalwork is rusted and corroded.

Lot 7006

Rigby Graham & Gillian Hall (edited): 'Cacophony', Leicester College of Printing, 1967-1970, 8 issues, No.'s 2-9 (including final issue No. 9, lacking only No.1 which was limited to only 15 copies), wonderfully illustrated throughout by Rigby Graham et al, all with numerous illustrations including original coloured prints (linocuts, screenprints, lithographs etc), each issue approx. 110pp, private press content including on Hafod, Gregynog, Pandora, Brewhouse, St. Anthony, plus poetry etc, other artists featured including Gillian Hall, James Freckingham, Margaret McCord, Keith Dormand, Margaret Thornley, Kevin Cuthbertson et al, all 4to, volumes 2, 4-9 original cloth backed pictorial wraps, volume 3 bound in cloth and gilt titled to spine. A very scarce near complete set, Cacophony No.2 being one of only 56 complete copies produced, the first issue being extremely elusive, as it was a pilot trial and was not for retail, only 15 complete copies being produced and remaining the possession of the production team. (8)

Lot 7200

Margaret Oliphant: 'Salem Chapel [Chronicles of Carlingford]', London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1863, 1st edition, Double Decker. Vol. I, [vi] + 362. Vol II, [vi] + 354. Vol. I is stamped to half title "Presented by the Publishers". Half bound in rich red morocco with gilt ruling on marbledboards, spine gilt decorated in six compartments, raised bands gilt, titles in gilt compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry Lloyd Gibbs to front pastedowns. Thelate 19th Century bindings in fine condition - no bumping and only the smallest loss ofgilt to some of the raised bands, gilt titles bright. Hinges intact, text blockstight. Very minor sporadic foxing but else leaves clean. The 'Chronicles ofCarlingford' were published in Blackwood's Magazine between 1862 and 1865, andsubsequently published as a series of seven books in the Trollope manner. 'Salem Chapel' wasthe 4th in the series. A rare set of first editions of a novel that is very scarcein any contemporary edition or binding. (2)

Lot 7256

(India, Punjab), two albums containing 50+ circa mid 20th Century photographs of Punjab school miniature paintings depicting various Gods, Maharajah and Sikh rulers, the albums compiled by R.P. Srivastava, scholar and author on Punjab painting, photos loosely corner mounted, all card leaves of albums with corresponding manuscript notes/captions by Srivastava, images various sizes, first album (manuscript numbered "3" on cover) containing 30 images in total, of which 11 small size approx 6 x 6cm, 1 large image approx 15 x 11cm, remaining 17 images approx 9 x 11cm; second album (manuscript numbered "4" on cover), containing 23 images each approx 11 x 9cm. A scarce record of Punjab miniature paintings, with many of the original 18th & 19th Century paintings having been lost (2)

Lot 7299

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, HENRI L.. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: Wherein is Contained Many useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry,... Also the Most Approved Practice of the English Farmers in the Old Methods of Husbandry. .... London: C.Hitch and L.Hawes, 1762. Second Edition. 6 plates of agricultural implements, of which 4 folding as called for, folding table at p. 232 and vignette head and tail pieces, title printed in red and black, xxiv, 489, [7] pp (errata, directions and index.), 4to, contemporary full polished calf gilt; together with SHERER, JOHN. Rural Life, Described and Illustrated in the Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, Their Treatment in Health and Disease... Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling and a Complete System of Modern Veterinary Practice.. ill. Edward Landseer. London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. , [1868]. First Edition, all the plates present and collating thus:- [ii],being the additional engraved vignette title, the frontispiece,,[ii], xvi, 1016pp, and a further 84 illus. on 64 plates., including some by Edward Landseer. Contemporary half calg gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip (2)

Lot 7156

(Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualist), Ivan Cooke (edited): 'Thy Kingdom Come... A Presentation of the Whence, Why, and Whither of Man: A Record of Messages received from One of the White Brotherhood, believed to have been known on Earth as Arthur Conan Doyle.', London, Wright & Brown, ND [1933], xviii, 383pp, 2 black & white plates from photographs depicting Conan Doyle + folding colour plate "Spheres of Spiritual Life and Consciousness According to A.C.D.", all as called for, original blue cloth gilt (minimal bumping/wear to corners & head/foot of spine, else a beautifully crisp, clean, square & tight copy), with a worn but what must be an extremely scarce example of the dust wrapper housed in packet (detached in 3 parts, chipped with small part edge losses, backstrip of wrapper toned/darkened, but generally complete). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), was ambivalent about his famous literary creation detective Sherlock Holmes, and had a long interest in the mystical and spiritual side of life, which took a number of twists and turns; involved such luminaries as Harry Houdini; and resulted in nearly two dozen books on Spiritualism and related topics between 1918 and 1930. Doyle died in July 1930. For 18 months thereafter, he appeared in a number of fully monitored and documented séances. The medium was Grace Cooke; the wisdom disseminated by Doyle from the other side via automatic writing was recorded by Cooke’s husband Ivan in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Book of the Beyond (this is the third iteration of the writings, the first being Thy Kingdom Come in December 1933, the second being The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle in 1956). A very scarce title, particularly in such a wonderful condition

Lot 7181

Mrs Isabella Beeton: 'The Book of Household Management', London, Times Newspapers & Jonathan Cape, 1968 limited edition facsimile of the 1861 first edition (27/1000), numbered, colour frontis, title and colour plates as called for, original faux leather gilt, top edge gilt

Lot 7141

Thea von Harbou: 'Metropolis', London, Reader's Library, September 1927, 1st edition, 4th printing, 250pp, small 8vo, original publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, pictorial dust wrapper (slightly worn, some chips and small part losses, but else generally complete and without restoration). Verso of title page states that the first edition, first print run was 100,000 copies in February 1927, followed by three print runs of 50,000 copies each in March, May and September 1927 respectively, this being a September 1927 4th printing copy, with 'Metropolis' mentioned in the list of Readers Library books at front and on rear flap of dust jacket. Landmark Science-Fiction and Fantasy story set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, sustained by the existence of an underground society of labourers. The pictorial dust wrapper by Aubrey Hammond depicts a classic green robot figure against expressionist skyscrapers with the blurb "the book sensation of Europe". Written in conjunction with the film directed by Von Harbou's husband Fritz Lang. The dust jacket was designed by Aubrey Hammond who gained notoriety for his London Underground posters.

Lot 7227

DAVIS, CHARLES H: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead.' Putnam's, 1894. Folio. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition with 187pp and 99 plates. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition.This copy is NOT the usual Ex Library one. The 99 plates are from originals from the Louvre and Turin Papyri. A second having been issued in the following year. Very scarce

Lot 7048

(Pre Raphaelites), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (illustrator); William Allingham: 'Flower Pieces and Other Poems', London, Reeves & Turner, 1888, 1st edition, x,194pp, original quarter Japanese vellum gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard + 1 otherillustration as called for, some light foxing to the first and last few pages, D.G. Rosetti frontispiece ‘The Maids of Elfin-Mere’ with light foxing to borders of the page but illustration itself clean and clear. The second Rossetti illustration is completely cleanand unaffected. Two round marks on front cover, spine a little mottled, text block tight, overall a very good copy. William Allingham (1824-89) was anIrish poet and man of letters who was on terms of close friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti,the Pre-Raphaelite artist. His second volume of verse – ‘Day and Night Songs’[1854] – firstcontained the poem ‘The Maids of Elfin-Mere’ with a woodcut by Rossetti which the latter wasunhappy with, feeling that his own inexperience at drawing on wood for engraving, and theineptitude of the Brothers Dalziel in carrying out the engraving, had resulted in something hecould not put his name to. Yet that same illustration became a seminal work of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The engraving appeared again the following year when ‘Songs’ wasrevised and enlarged as ‘The Music Master’ and was reprinted in this volume in whichAllingham is keen to emphasise that ‘the limited number of copies now published are in norespect inferior to those which appeared in the first edition’. This First Edition of a later collection an affordable way to collect what Burne-Jones described as, on first seeing it in 1856, ‘the most beautiful drawing for an illustration I have ever seen’. It also contains another Rossetti illustration - 'The Queen's Page' - facing p.189. Houfe, p. 284. Reid, pp. 30-5. White, p. 160.

Lot 7067

Michael Bond; Peggy Fortnum (illustrated): 'A Bear Called Paddington'm London, Collins, 1959, 2nd printing, numerous b/w ills in text throughout by Peggy Fortnum as called for, original cloth, spine lettered in silver. The first book in the Paddington series

Lot 7269

(Scotland), BEATTIE, WILLIAM. Caledonia Illustrated in a Series of Views .... ill. W.H.Bartlett and T.Allom. London: Virtue, 1840. New Edition, 2 volumes, Volume 1. [x], [1], 2-200pp. Folding map, vignette title page and 73 plates. Volume 2. [vi], [1], 2-172pp. Frontis, vignette title page and a further 94 engraved plates. Some waterstaining. 4to, full contemporary suede worn, vol 1 rebacked in calf (not recent); together with CARDONNEL, Adam De. Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland.... London: Edwards, 1788. First Edition, large paper 4to format copy, 99 etched plates, 19th Century full suede leather, later rebacked (3)

Lot 7289

A collection of Norfolk and East Anglia interest titles, including Walter Rye, 2 titles: 'The First Register Book of the Parish of Lammas and Little Hautbois', Norwich, 1905, 75pp, original cloth backed printed paper covered boards. Scarce, plus First Register Old Buckenham, 1902, same binding (spine worn); J.W. Norie: 'The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion', L, J.W. Norie & Co, Chartsellers to the Admiralty and East India Company, 1829, engraved frontispiece depicting lighthouses, beacons and lightships, including Cromer and Lowestoft, 372pp, manuscript ownership signatures at front Henry Kettle Winterton Norfolk 1837 & Benjamin Kettle Winterton Norfolk 1845, oblong, original cloth (worn); A.M. Wilson: 'Friends of Yesterday', L, A.H. Bullen, 1903, 1st edition, appears to be a satire/fictitious account of rural life in Norfolk & Suffolk, frontis + 16 b/w ills. from photographs, original cloth gilt (worn); John Kirkpatrick: 'History of the Religious Orders and Communities, and of the Hospitals and Castle, of Norwich', Yarmouth, Sloman, 1845, intro. Dawson Turner, some m/s notes at front, rebacked retaining original cloth gilt; W.A. Cutting: 'Gleanings about Gayton', Norwich, 1889, 267pp, old cloth backed boards; C.M. Hoare: 'Records of a Norfolk Village, Being Notes on the History of the Parish of Sidestrand', 1914, 5 b/w plates from photos as called for, orig. printed paper covered boards (worn); 'Domesday Book...Fac-Simile of the Part Relating to Norfolk', 1862, 343pp, large 4to, old cloth gilt (worn); 3 booklets by T.H. Swales reprinted from Norfolk Archaeology on Norfolk Manorial Lords, Suppression of Monasteries, Dissolution, 1950's-60's; plus Bryant's Norfolk Churches 4 vols Hundreds of Diss, Brothercross, Taverham, Shropham; plus 2 others (17)

Lot 7208

Wood, Ellen, Mrs. Henry: 'East Lynne', London, Richard Bentley, 1861, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Triple Decker. All three volumes dated '1861': First Edition. Vol. I, 320. Vol. II, 323.Vol. III, 305. Plain late 19th Century quarter black leather with black water grained boards, gilt ruled titles to spines, all page edges speckled red, pale yellow endpapers, no half titles,as called for. Rubbing and wear to top and bottom of spines and some spine scuffing. Innerhinges all intact and text blocks tight. Foxing almost entirely restricted to first and last fewpages in all volumes. Otherwise, the pages are clean and fresh. No stickers, inscriptions or othermarkings. Originally serialised in 'The New Monthly Magazine' between January 1860 andSeptember 1861, then issued as here on 19 September 1861. A classic Victorian SensationNovel bestseller, although the genre-defining line "Gone! And never called me mother!" doesnot appear in the book, but from later stage adaptations. Genuinely rare [not just scarce] withfull first edition status to all three volumes. Sadleir 3333; Wolff 7269 (3)

Lot 7250

(Mountaineering, Climbing), a collection of approximately 50 mountaineering titles, including F. Spencer Chapman: 'Helvellyn to Himalaya. Including an Account of the First Ascent of Chomolhari', London, Chatto & Windus, 1940, 1st edition, frontis + 47 plates as called for, original cloth, dust wrapper; G.R. de Beer: 'Early Travellers in the Alps', L, Siggwick & Jackson, 1930, 1st edition, 50 plates + folding map & ills. in text as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; Paul Bauer: 'Himalayan Campaign. The German Attack on Kengchenjunga', Basil Blackwell, 1937, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, d/w; H.W. Tilman: 'Nepal Himalaya', C.U.P., 1952, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus numerous others including Everest, Lhotse, Nanda Devi, Annapurna, Nanga Parbat, K2, Karakoram; J. Morris 'Living with Lepchas. A Book about the Sikkim Himalayas', 1938 1st edition; Tyndall 'The Glaciers of the Alps', 1896; Reinhold Messner, Gaston Rebuffat, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Joe Simpson signed copy of 'Touching the Void'; Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cairngorms, Antarctica etc (Approx. 50)

Lot 7133

Yoko Ono: 'Grapefruit. A book of instructions. Introduction by John Lennon.', London, Peter Owen, 1970. 'First British Commonwealth Edition', being the first English language edition, 14 cms square, b/w ills. by John Lennon. Original cloth. Dust jacket, slightly worn but with no loss, not price-clipped. An early example of conceptual art

Lot 7120

Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell trilogy, all signed UK first editions published London, Fourth Estate, all generally fine/fine in unclipped wrappers, comprising 'Wolf Hall', 2009, signed piece mounted to title page, 'Bring Up the Bodies', 2012, signed piece mounted to title page, 'The Mirror & the Light', 2020, signed to limitation page at front. Signed first editions of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed trilogy of historical novels charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the first two in the series having won the Booker Prize in their respective years. (3)

Lot 7064

John Hassall: 'The Old Nursery Stories and Rhymes.', Blackie, [1904], 1st edition, 4to. Full- and part-page colour illustrations throughout. Original pictorial cloth. A very good copy. First edition. Scarce.

Lot 7203

Wilkie Collins: 'Mr Wray's Cash-Box; or, the mask and the mystery. A Christmas Sketch.', illustrated John Everett Millais, London, Richard Bentley, 1852, 1st edition, viii,171pp + [4]pp publisher's catalogue at end. All details [except for binding] correspond exactly todescription of first edition in the Bibliography of Collins by Parrish and Miller, and to Wolff1367 [Sadleir did not have a copy], including the ads to the rear. The binding is presumablyrecent and virtually pristine. Fine three quarter tan morocco over marbled paper covered boards by Stikeman & Co., spines gilt ruled in compartments, raised bands, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner hinges all intact, text blocks tight. Frontispiece by Millais still has its tissue guard. Pages all very clean with only the most occasional mild spot of foxing and just a touch of browning to page edges, no previous owner marks. The Millais frontispiece is believed to be his first ever book illustration and this early work by Collins is now very scarce.

Lot 7117

Stan Barstow, The Vic Brown trilogy, all UK first editions published London, Michael Joseph, all original cloth, all in unclipped dust wrappers, comprising: 'A Kind of Loving', 1960, 'The Watchers on the Shore', 1966, 'The Right True End', 1976. The Vic Brown trilogy describes the travails of a young draughtsman in a working class West Yorkshire town in the early sixties and his search for truth, love and escape. 'A Kind of Loving' adapted into a 1962 British new wave drama film of the same name, directed by John Schlesinger (3)

Lot 7199

William H.G. Kingston: 'The Circassian Chief', London, Richard Bentley, 1843, 1st edition, 3 volumes, triple decker, Vol. I, vi + 338. Vol. II, [iv] + 300. Vol. III, [iv] + 280. Bound fully in caramel diced Russia; backstrips with wide gilt decorated flattened bands, giltlettered maroon morocco label in second and fourth compartments, remainder gilt panelled withdouble gilt rules, and filled with gilt volutes, fleurons and draw handles; sides panelled withtriple gilt fillet, small rosettes at corners, gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins, marbledendpapers, purple silk markers. All page edges gilt. Kingston's first published novel in firstedition. Rare (not just scarce) in any contemporary edition or binding - we have never seenanother. [Wolff 3841]. Gilt bright, extremities almost pristine, hinges intact, text blocks tight,and clean unfoxed pages. Half titles discarded, but otherwise a lovely set. (3)

Lot 7157

Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', London, George Newnes, 1902, 1st edition, 1st issue with "you" for "your" on p.13, line 3, frontispiece + 15 plates by Sidney Paget as called for, lacks front free end paper and half title, original pictorial scarlet cloth (slightly bumped and rubbed at extremities, else generally VGC), hound blocked in black to front cover, gilt decorated and lettered to front cover and spine, design signed A.G.J. in gilt to front cover. A first edition, first issue copy of the third of the four crime novels by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, an iconic and definitive book widely considered as the best of the four Holmes novels, a Haycraft Queen cornerstone.

Lot 7122

H.E. Bates: 'A Breath of French Air', London, Michael Joseph, 1959, 1st edition, signed by author to title page, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Broom Lynne. Condition: book tight, clean and unbumped, no previous ownership names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC. Light edge wear to jacket and slight rubbing to jacket front, otherwise, a fine copy - dust wrapper without chips or tears, clean andbright, 12s6d price intact to inside front flap. The second novel in the Larkin series, Pop Larkin and hisfamily of seven, all born without the benefit of clergy, step outside their rural paradise intoanother world. Armed with plenty of tax-free cash, their Rolls-Royce and a little French, theytake their first holiday abroad. Their intensely English but wholly unconventional reactions tolife in France, especially its ideas on love and food, are in that same vein of slightly Rabelaisianpicaresque slap-stick that delighted readers and viewers of 'The Darling Buds of May', now[2021] remade for television by Simon Nye as 'The Larkins'.

Lot 7175

(Cookery), a circa early 19th Century manuscript receipt book, paper watermarked 1807, ownership inscription at head of first leaf "Elizabeth Crockett Rye-Hill 1812", 200+ pages of m/s cookery recipes, including white catsup; pickled salmon; potted shrimps and herrings; "Hamburgh Pickle"; veal cutlets; "to dress a hare with cream"; "to collar an eel"; stewed pigeons; mock turtle; scalloped eggs; oyster patties; stewed carp; "to boil a Turbot which never fails"; "to Ragout a crest of Veal"; Spanish Creams; blancmange; sillabub; honey-comb cream; Macaronie; "To make Capillaire"; plus many others various puddings, cakes, biscuits, cheesecakes, toffee, "Good treacle beer", gingerbread, pies, dumplings, various wines, jams, marmalades, jelly, "Raspberry Ice", butter, cream, cheeses, etc etc; plus some domestic receipts at end including "to prevent clothes catching fire"; "rusty knives"; "tin kettles leak", to make blacking, clean glass decanters, to stop a leak in a cask, etc etc, recipe for potted shrimp “To pot Shrimps. To one quart of shrimps, take 2 ounces of butter, put it in a small pan, with salt, pounded mace, Cayenne, and nutmeg, to your taste, put it on the fire ‘till it melts, then pour in the shrimps, and stir them over the fire ‘till quite hot through, then take half of them out, and pound them in a mortar, when pounded mix part of them with the whole ones, and the remainder spread at the top of the pot, to make a smooth surface for the butter to be poured on. Mrs Lloyd”, 6 page manuscript index of receipts at front, contemporary half calf (worn), approx size 24 x 20cm

Lot 7046

Oscar Wilde; Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator): 'Salome: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen Drawings By Aubrey Beardsley', London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907, first edition thus, 16 full page plates by Aubrey Beardsley, all in his characteristic Decadent style, and all as called for, xx, [4], 66, [2] adverts, includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera, original publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and titles with elaborate floral decoration to front cover, designed by Beardsley. This is the First Edition to contain all Beardsley's erotic plates, with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia, previous editions having been censored. Cover design is clean and bright except for one 2 cm x 1 cm 'smudge' at the bottom right corner. The spine is also bright, but has some mild wear at the extremities. Hinges are intact and the text block is sound. Internally, neat earlier 20th Century inscription to first blank, a little mainly marginal toning to some pages, but else generally all leaves & illustrations are clean and without foxing. A lovely, fresh copy.

Lot 7222

(Holy Bible, Bishops' Bible, "Treacle Bible"), a Holy Bible, 1575, a/f, lacks general title page, separate wood engraved title page with decorative borders for New Testament 'The Newe Testament of our Sauiour Iesus Christ.', 1575 printed date at top, 'God Saue the Queene.' at foot, lacking some leaves at front and first several leaves present a/f with closed tears, chips, small part losses, imprint near front of Richard Jugge at end of Collects, Pentateuch/first five books of Old Testament ff1-102; wood engraved decorative separate title page "The seconde part of the Bible conteining these bookes following... [Joshua - Job]', dated 1575 at top, ff1-151; blank leaf with some manuscript 19th Century family history; wood engraved decorative title page "The thirde parte of the Bible, conteining these Bookes... [Psalter - Malachi]', dated 1575 at top, ff1-156, (lacking leaf?), ff2-103 (ends Machabees); New Testament title page, ff2-136,[2], "Imprinted at London in the yere of our redemption MDLXXV and finished the XXIIII day of Nouember. God saue the Queene.'; seprate wood engraved title page "The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meter by Thomas Sternhold, J. Hopkins and others...Imprinted at London by Iohn Day...1575", wood engraved decorative border, ff.iv, pp.9-200, a/f, sold with all faults not subject to return, small folio (approx. 29x20cm), contemporary calf boards (detached but present, very worn), metal corners and central metal lozenges to boards, later calf backstrip. The Bishops’ Bible is often referred to as the “Treacle Bible” because of its translation of Jeremiah 8:22, “Is there not tryacle at Gilead?” (also Jere. 46:11 Ezek. 27:27). The word “treacle” was used in early English vocabulary to refer to a “cure-all” or to “molasses.” It had been used previously in Beck’s revision of the Thomas Matthew Bible in 1549. The King James Bible translated the verse, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”

Lot 7170

Blaise Pascal: 'Monsieur Pascall's Thoughts, Meditations, and Prayers, Touching Matters Moral and Divine', translated from the French by Joseph Walker, London, Jacob Tonson, 1688, first edition in English, title within double-rule border, dedication page/A3 part excised at head, mainly light waterstaining throughout, slightly more prominent to earlier and later leaves, old half vellum, marbled paper covered boards, calf gilt title label to spine, [Wing P-645; cf. PMM 152 (first edition)]. Rare first English edition of Pascal's famous defence of Christianity, published posthumously from papers found after the philosopher's death. Pascal's Pensées "has been the subject of endless controversy, as has Pascal's purpose and standpoint in writing them . . . It is, however, a book for which the enquiring mind has had solid reason to be grateful from its first imperfect publication to the present day." (PMM)

Lot 7094

Seven modern first editions, comprising Umberto Eco: 'The Name of the Rose', L, Secker & Warburg, 1983, 1st UK edition, author's multi award winning debut novel, one of the best selling books ever published, having sold over 50 million copies worldwide; Kingsley Amis: 'The Anti-Death League', London, Victor Gollancz, 1966, 1st edition; Philip Roth: 'The Ghost Writer', L, Cape, 1979, 1st UK edition; Bruce Chatwin: 'The Viceroy of Ouidah', L, Cape, 1980, 1st edition; Joseph O'Neill, 2 titles: 'Netherland', L, 4th Estate, 2008, 1st edition, 'The Dog', L, 4th Estate, 2014, 1st edition; Tomothy Mo: 'Pure', L, Turnaround Books, 2012, 1st edition, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (7)

Lot 7116

Margaret Thatcher, 4 titles, all signed first UK editions, first impressions, all published London, Harper Collins, all original cloth gilt, all in unclipped dust wrappers: 'The Downing Street Years', 1993, signed in blue ink to title page, 'The Path to Power', 1995, signed in blue ink to blank leaf between half title and title page, 'The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher', edited Robin Harris, 1997, signed in blue ink to title page, 'Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World', 2002, signed in blue ink to title page. All in collectable condition (near fine to fine), internally no previous ownership names/inscriptions, wrappers all with prices intact, the UK first edition of 'Collected Speeches' being a particularly scarce title to find signed (4)

Lot 7107

Ian Fleming: 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London, Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (18s price intact), together with a 1965 first Book Club edition of the same title, and a 1962 1st Book Club edition of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', both original cloth, both in unclipped dust wrappers (3)

Lot 7168

(Women's Rights, Feminism, Suffrage, Social Reform), John Stuart Mill: 'The Subjection of Women', London, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1869, 1st edition, iv,188pp, ex Repton School library, 19th Century inkstamp and later de-accession inkstamp to title page, no other lib. markings, original cloth gilt (worn), pencil ownership signature to FFEP of John Henry Gurney Senior (1819-1890), English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician of the prominent Quaker family, the Gurneys of Norfolk. J.H. Gurney Senior was the son of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), banker, Quaker minister, humanitarian and philanthropist of Earlham Hall, Norwich, and the nephew of Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 1780-1845), the famous prison reformer, social reformer & philanthropist. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the "Angel of Prisons". She was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. Fry kept extensive diaries in which the need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual exploitation is explicit. Joseph John Gurney joined his sister Elizabeth Fry in her attempt to end capital punishment and institute improvements in prisons, together they visited prisons all over Great Britain to gather evidence of the horrible conditions in them to present to Parliament. They published their findings in a book entitled Prisons in Scotland and the North of England. Gurney campaigned against slavery during trips to North America and the West Indies from 1837-1840, he also continued to promote the abolition of capital punishment and advocated total abstinence from alcohol. A first edition and interesting association copy of one of the great statements of the equality of the sexes, recognized as an early contribution in the feminist canon: "among campaigners for women's suffrage. it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women's movement" (ODNB). Mill had long been a women's rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Hardy (1807-1858), a passionate advocate for equality.

Lot 7151

Hilary Mantel, 5 titles, all published London, Fourth Estate, all original cloth, dust wrappers, comprising the Thomas Cromwell trilogy: 'Wolf Hall', 2009, 4th impression, d/w spine sunned, 'Bring Up the Bodies', 2012, 1st edition (fine/fine), 'The Mirror & the Light', 2020, 1st edition (fine/fine), 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories', 2014, 1st edition, signed title page of another first edition copy of the same title loosely inserted (fine/fine), 'Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books', 2020 (fine/fine) (5)

Lot 7113

[Sylvia Plath], written pseudonymously as Victoria Lucas: 'The Bell Jar', London, William Heinemann, 1964, 2nd edition, part of the Contemporary Fiction series, this being the only edition besides the first to bear Sylvia Plath's pseudonym Victoria Lucas, original green cloth lettered in silver to spine (minimal foxing to outer edges of textblock, else internally leaves clean/VGC, no previous ownership names/signatures, cloth VGC, silver lettering bright), dust wrapper (striking black, white and mauve geometric design by Dodie Masterman, some slight fading/dusting to mauve and white elements, but else no tears, generally VGC). Semi autobiographical novel which reveals Plath's own struggle with mental illness - both the author and the protagonist occupy a small area between genius and madness. Plath committed suicide a month after the book was published in the UK in 1963. The second edition was publshed in the Heinemann Contemporary Fiction Collection & uses the Authors original pseudonym, Victoria Lucas; this was later changed under the guidance of her husband, the Poet Ted Hughes & her mother to her real name, Sylvia Plath in the trade edition published two years later by Faber in 1966 (not published in the US until 1971)

Lot 7026

Cecil Beaton: 'The Book of Beauty', London, Duckworth, 1930, 1st edition, 27 portrait plates from collotype phtographs by Beaton depicting beautiful women of the period, including aristocrats and socialites, several of which part of the avant garde/bohemian circle dubbed "The Bright Young Things" or "Bright Young People" by the tabloid press of the time, plus colour frontispiece from the author's drawing of Queen Alexandra and 100 line drawings in the text as called for, xii,67pp, portraits include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard, Anna May Wong, Georgina Curzon, Norma Shearer, Lillie Langtry, Gladys Cooper, Lady Diana Cooper etc, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper (part loss at head of spine and head of front panel, small part loss foot of spine and some other small part losses, closed tears, etc., but generally a fairly complete example of a very scarce dustwrapper, 25/- price intact to inside front flap). Very scarce first edition copy in dust wrapper of the first book by the famed British fashion, portrait and war photographer, interior designer, painter and costume designer Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)

Lot 7050

(Pre Raphaelites), Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ill.): 'Goblin Market and Other Poems', London & Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1862, 1st edition, viii,192pp, recased in light blue cloth covers, dark blue cloth spine, gilt leather title label, replacement white endpapers, 19th Century ownership inscription in pencil on FFEP. Binding a little dull and bumped to corners. Internally relatively clean and free from foxing prelims. with very slight water stain to tops of pages (not affecting woodcuts). Overall a very good rebound first dditioncopy of Rossetti’s first volume of poetry. The title poem, ‘Goblin Market’, has intrigued readersever since publication. Ostensibly a children’s poem, it is full of remarkable, sensual imagerywhich to the modern eye can only be interpreted as intensely sexual. This is reinforced by thetwo woodcuts contributed to the volume by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – on the titlepage and the facing page: ‘Golden head by golden head’ in particular has a characteristic Pre-Raphaelite sensuality. (D. G. Rossetti also designed the original covers in blue cloth with giltdecoration and titles). A rare book, including two of D. G. Rossetti’s excursions intobook illustration. Houfe, p. 284. De Beaumont No. 342 in Goldman pp. 26, 81, 134. White, p. 117, 161, 162. Reid, p. 46. VBD, pp.222, 226.

Lot 7124

Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (18s price intact), 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning', London, Andre Deutsch, 1969, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (price clipped, else VGC), 'A Moment of War', London, Viking, 1991, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (price clipped, spine slightly faded, else VGC). A first edition set of Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, his most significant literary contribution (3)

Lot 7132

John Lennon, two titles, both first editions published London, Jonathan Cape: 'In His Own Write', 1964, 'A Spaniard in the Works', 1965, each original pictorial laminated boards (2)

Lot 7272

MOULE, THOMAS. Great Britain Illustrated: A Series of Views from Drawings By William Westall, A.R.A. Engraved By, and Under the Direction of Edward Finden with Descriptions By Thomas Moule. . ill. William Westall. London: Charles Tilt, 1830. First Edition. 118 fine steel engraved views on 59 plates as called for, viii, 118,[4]pp blank. additional .vignette title page, large paper copy measuring 26.75 x 20.25cms, 4to, old half calf gilt

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