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Click here to subscribeFive Folio Society volumes: Thomas Hobbes 'Leviathan' (2012); Christopher Hill 'The World Turned Upside Down' (2016); Thomas Paine 'Rights of Man' (2008); 'The Grand Quarrel' (1993); Erasmus 'In Praise of Folly' (2014) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Five Folio Society volumes: Oscar Wilde 'The Selfish Giant and Other Stories' (2017); 'The Arabian Nights', illus. Detmold (2000); Charles and Mary Lamb 'Tales from Shakespeare' (2004); Hollinshed 'Chronicles' (2012); Anthony Burgess 'Shakespeare' (2015) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Six Folio Society volumes: John Betjeman 'Selected Poems' (2005); Gerald Manley Hopkins 'Selected Poems and Prose' (2012); Lyn Davies 'A is for Ox' (2006); Belloc 'Cautionary Tales' (2006); Dylan Thomas 'Under Milk Wood' (2009); 'A Folio Anthology of Poetry' (2018) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Eight Folio Society volumes: Graham Greene 'Brighton Rock' (2015) and 'The Comedians' (2015); Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' (2018); Penelope Fitzgerald 'The Blue Flower' (2015); Josephine Tey 'The Singing Sands' (2014); 'A Treasury of Mark Twain' (2012); Mark Twain 'The Prince and the Pauper' (2013) (with slip cases); Mark Twain 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (2016) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Six Folio Society volumes: Joan Aiken 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase' (2015); 'The Pastons - A Family in the Wars of the Roses' (1981); Duff Cooper 'Talleyrand' (2010); Anthony Trollope 'The Warden' (2014); Ronald Blythe-Folio 'Akenfield' (2002); John Aubrey 'Brief Lives' (1975)(with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Four Folio Society volumes: Andrew Lang 'The Nursery Rhyme Book' (2018); Perrault's 'Fairy Tales' (Fourth printing 2000); Grimm's 'Fairy Tales' (2000); Hans Andersen's 'Fairy Tales' (2000) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Three Folio Society volumes: Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of Species' (2017), 'The Voyage of the Beagle' (2008) and 'The Expressions of the Emotions' (2008) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Six Folio Society volumes: Gilbert Phelps 'A Short History of English Literature' (1962); Henry Mayhew 'London Characters and Crooks' (2010); Robert Burchfield 'The English Language' (2011); 'Dickens in Europe' and 'Dickens in London (both 2010); George Eliot 'Middlemarch' (2018) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Six Folio Society volumes: Boxed set of three 'Chronicles of the Dark Ages' (2008); Pevsner 'The Cathedrals of England', set of three (2005) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
'Handel's Messiah, The Composer's Autograph Manuscript in Facsimile', pub. The British Library 2009; also two Folio Society volumes: Burkholder, Grout & Palisca 'History of Western Music' (2008); 'Music for King Henry - Commentary and Score' (2009)(with slip cases)(3 Vols) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Nine Folio Society volumes: Boxed set Plutarch's 'Lives' Vols I - IV (2011); Tom Holland 'Rubicon - The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic' (2016); Mary Beard 'SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome' (2018); Pliny 'A Self-Portrait' (2010); John Ruskin 'The Stones of Venice' (2001); Cicero 'Orations' (2011) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Eight Folio Society volumes: boxed set Euripides 'The Complete Greek Tragedies' (2011); boxed set Robert Graves 'The Greek Myths' (2003); Aubrey de Selincourt 'The World of Herodotus' (2015) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Seven Folio Society volumes: Richard Holmes 'Tommy' boxed set (2016); Liza Picard 'Restoration London' (2012); Bede 'History of the English Church and People' (2010); Nathaniel Philbrick 'Mayflower' (2019); Stacy Schiff 'Cleopatra'; David McCullough '1776' (2020) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Two Folio Society boxed sets: A L Rowse 'The Elizabethan Age' (2012) (box split top right) (4 Vols); Thomas Babington Macaulay 'The History of England from the Accession of James II' Vols I - V (2009) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Four Folio Society volumes: Desmond Seward 'The Wars of the Roses' (2011) and 'The Last White Rose' (2016); Marc Bloch 'Feudal Society' (2012); T E Lawrence 'Crusader Castles' (2013) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Five Folio Society volumes: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' boxed set of three (2019); Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent of Man' (2012); Richard Fortey 'The Earth - An Intimate History' (2011) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Four Folio Society volumes: Frances Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' (2006); A A Milne 'The House at Pooh Corner' (2018), 'The Complete Poems of Christopher Robin' (2018) and 'The Red House Mystery' (2016) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Five Folio Society volumes: Simon Armitage 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (2008); Cyrano de Bergerac 'Voyages to the Moon and the Sun' (2018); 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' (2013) (with slip cases); 'British Myths and Legends' boxed set of three (2004) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Six Folio Society volumes: John Prebble 'Culloden' and 'Glencoe' (both 2003); Walter Scott 'Waverley' (2011) and 'Rob Roy' (2001) (with slip cases); R A Houston & W W J Knox 'History of Scotland' Vols 1 and 2 (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Four Folio Society volumes: Carola Hicks & Sylvette Le Magner 'The Bayeux Tapestry' (2016); Simone Roux 'Paris in the Middle Ages' (2014); Richard Barber 'The Prince in Splendour' (2017); Helen Castor 'Joan of Arc' (2019) (with slip cases) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Ten Folio Society volumes: Eric Gill 'The Four Gospels' (2018); T H White 'The Once and Future King' (2004); 'The Book of Margery Kempe' (2004); Sir Thomas Browne 'The Voyce of the World' (2007); Hermann Hesse 'Steppenwolf' (2018); Gwen Raverat 'Period Piece - A Cambridge Childhood' (2017); Gilbert White 'Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne' (1995); James Woodforde 'The Diary of a Country Parson' (1996)(with slip cases); Ford Madox Ford 'Parade's End' two volume boxed set (1996) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Folio Society: 'King Henry's Prayer Book', limited facsimile edition, numbered 482 of 980, reproduced from British Library Royal MS 2a xvi, printed by Grafiche Damiani, Bologna and bound in replica silk velvet with metal clasps, presented in original outer buckram case with accompanying Commentary by James P Carley (2009) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Folio Society: 'Beowulf - A Verse Translation' by Seamus Heaney, illus. Rebecca Thorne (2010), quarter bound in leather with cloth sides and slip case (1 Vol) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
THE COSTUME OF YORKSHIRE ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF FORTY ENGRAVINGS… COSTUMES DU COMTE D’YORK… QUARANTE PLANCHES, 1814, London, T Bensley, Ackermann etc. Folio volume in half calf, spine relaid. Hand coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 superb plates after Walker including the famous Plate III The Collier with a steam engine on rails (Est. plus 20% premium)
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) The Complete Works, (Boydell & Company London), large folio of mezzotints and line engravings, some double-page, half red morocco over marbled boards (Est. plus 24% premium inc. VAT)Condition Report: Some mild foxing throughout and stain to one corner of margins, boards torn from binding.
A FOLIO OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTSincluding a set of engravings of Rome, a pair of botanical prints published by W. Curtis, A view of Mr Pope's House, Twickenham, printed for John Bowles; a set of six floral prints after Pierre-Joseph Redoute (a quantity, all unframed)Approximately 50 works in the lot.Various sizes.
(Whittington Press, Edward Bawden), David McKitterick: 'Wallpapers by Edward Bawden printed at the Curwen Press', The Whittington Press, December 1988, limited edition, No. 88 of a total number of 120 copies only, folding colour plate of Bawden's Bird's Nest wallpaper + b/w & colour ills. of various other Bawden wallpapers, b/w ills. from photographs showing rooms decorated with the papers, ix,[3],18,[3]pp, set in 14 point Walbaum and printed on Oxford mould-made paper, folio, original quarter buckram, boards covered in a reproduction of Bawden's Birds Nest wallpaper, housed in original card folder
(Printing, Typography), Stanley Morison (with the assistance of Harry Carter): 'John Fell, the University Types and the Fell Types - The Punches and Matrices Designed for Printing in the Greek, Latin, English and Oriental Languages Bequeathed in 1686 to the University of Oxford by John Fell, D.D.', Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1967, limited edition, one of 1000 copies, portrait frontis + 22 full page ills. and 12 figures in the text of type specimens etc. as called for, xvi,[2],278,[1]pp, folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. An excellent copy of a lavish book, the last to be set entirely by hand at Oxford, and the last by Morison
(Incline Press), Elizabeth Friedlander; Pauline Paucker: 'New Borders, the Working Life of Elizabeth Friedlander', Oldham, Incline Press, 1998, limited edition, (4/325), numbered and signed by Pauline Paucker, numerous mounted and in text colour and b/w illustrations (some folding) of Friedlander's work throughout, including Curwen Press patterned paper samples on pages 40 and 85 to 90, on Zerkall paper, hand bound by Stephen Conway, Elaine Lonsdale and Graham Moss, folio, original half buckram over Curwen patterned paper covered boards designed by Elizabeth Friedlander, printed title label to front cover, three prospectuses and Incline Press promotional leaflet loosely inserted, original slipcase
Clare Leighton, 9 illustrated titles, comprising 'Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle', London, Victor Gollancz, 1935, 1st edition, full page and in text wood engraved ills. throughout, original cloth gilt, together with Sumach Press 1991 edition of the same title, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Farmer's Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry', The Sumach Press, 1992 reissue, oblong folio, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Country Matters', Gollancz, 1937, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, 'Sometime Never', L, Gollancz, 1939, 1st edition, lacks FFEP, orig. cloth lettered in silver, 'Fray Mario', L, Longmans, 1939, 1st edition, tipped in woodcut frontis by Leighton as called for, original cloth gilt, d/w by Clare Leighton, 'The Flowering Hawthorn', L, Peter Davies, 1962, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus a US 1st edition of the same title, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'The Sea and the Jungle', 1930, 1st edition with ills. by Clare Leighton, orig. cloth gilt (9)
(Private Press, Typography, Illustrated), 8 titles, including Melvyn Bragg, Seamus Heaney et al: 'Poems for Alan Hancox', Whittington Press, 1993, limited edition, (48/350), numbered, 4to (29 x 20cm), original quarter cloth gilt, patterned paper covered boards; Miriam Macgregor: 'Country Chaos', Whittington Press, 1980, limited edition (630), illustrated throughout, original spiral bound pictorial card wraps; Frank Berry: 'Bench, Saw & Plane: A Cotswold Apprenticeship', Whittington Press, 1988, limited edition, one of 350 copies only, signed by the author,orig. pictorial card wraps; 'Nine Artists & A Press [Catalogue for an exhibition of the work of nine artists working for the Whittington Press, held at the Fiery Beacon Gallery, 2-17 December 1989]', Whittington Press, 1989, limited edition (950), ills. by Hellmuth Weissenborn, John O'Connor etc, orig. stitched pictorial card wraps; 'Shall we join the Ladies?': Wood Engravings by Women Artists of the Twentieth Century', Oxford, Studio One Gallery, 1979, limited edition, number 430 of 500 copies only, wood engraved ills. (some folding) by Tirzah Garwood, Joan Hassall, Clare Leighton, Enid Marx, Gwen Raverat etc, folio, original cloth gilt; 'Portfolio Three: A Further Collection of Resettings, Specimen Settings & Display Settings Printed By Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, England, 1982', 1982, limited to "about 500 copies", 20 quarto and folio loose sample sheets of printing and display settings carried out by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, between 1975 and 1982, plus 4 leaves photographs of carvings, housed loose as issued together in original card portfolio; 'Cock-A-Hoop. A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press September 1949-December 1961 with a list of Prospectuses 1920-62', Private Libraries Association, 1976, unlimited edition, ills. by Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, John Buckland-Wright et al, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; 'La Belle O'Morphi', Golden Cockerel Press, 1947, limited edition, (234/750), numbered, a/f, waterstaining to covers and leaves throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt (8)
(Sculpture, Greek Mythology), Angelo Fabroni: 'Dissertation sur les statues appartenantes a la fable de Niobé.', Florence, De l'imprimerie de François Moücke, 1779, 1st edition, 19 engraved plates (of which 1 double page by Ferdinand Gregori, this with staining to lower, plate 19 with staining to lower margin just affecting image, some worm damage), 24pp letterpress with engraved vignettes, head & tailpieces preceding plates, folio, contemporary half calf gilt (worn)
(Art History, Sculpture, Architecture), J.B.L.G. Seroux D'Agincourt: 'Histoire de l'art par les monumens : depuis sa decadence au IVe siecle jusqu'a son renouvellement au XVIe', Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1823, vols 1-4, 6 (of 6), 212 engraved plates (of 325), volume 4 with 121 engraved plates (73 architecture, 48 sculpture, mainly Italian), volume 6 with 91 engraved plates Art History including Titian, Raphael, Durer, Da Vinci etc, folio, uniform old half calf worn (5)
Thomas Chippendale: 'The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste...and other ornaments', London, J. Haberkorn for the author and others, 1754, 1st edition, lacking leaves before pp. vii (i.e. half title, title page printed, and engraved dedication), but else complete, with [4]pp list of subscribers (pp. vii-x), 27pp letterpress (being a list of the plates with corresponding descriptions), plus 161 engraved plates as called for (two plates are numbered xxv), some plates with moderate foxing, slightly heavier and with some waterstaining to leaves at end, plate xxiv "Chinese Chairs" with area of surface wear (not affecting illustration itself), else leaves/plates complete and generally VGC commensurate with age, the plates dated 1753, and engraved by engraved by Tobias Müller (fl. 1754-90), Matthew Darly (fl. 1754-1778), Butler Clowes (d. 1782), Isaac I. Taylor (1730-1807), Edward Rooker (1711-1774), Johann Sebastian Müller (1715-1785), William Foster? (d. 1812), James Hulett (d. 1771) and Hemerick, Folio (45.5 x 28 cm), rebacked contemporary reverse calf very worn, part of original leather title label to spine, replenished end papers. Chippendale's breakthrough furniture design book. The Director was the most extensive pattern book to be created by a craftsperson and the first to have a wider audience outside tradesmen. The immense popularity of the 1754 first edition and subsequent reissues increased commissions for Chippendale's firm and cemented his position as one of the most premier 18th-century cabinetmakers. It was The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, first published in 1754, that made his name and reputation. A talented draughtsman, Chippendale completed the drawings himself (many of them now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) that were engraved for printing by Matthias Darly.While a handful of furniture designs had been printed before, The Director was the first publication on such a large scale. The 160 plates were either bound at £1.14 shillings or loose at £1.10 shillingsThe first edition of The Director attracted 308 subscribers, 49 of them members of the gentry, but the majority were fellow craftsmen (including the Affleck family in Philadelphia) who used it to inform their own work.The book was reprinted in two further editions with the third in 1762 including updates to the styles of furniture as neoclassicism became the fashion of the day. All of Chippendale’s known commissions (with the exception of one) date from after the appearance of The Director: clearly the catalogue had its intended effect on stimulating his career.
(Ceramics), Édouard Garnier: 'The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres, With An Historical Introduction', London, John C. Nimmo, 1892, 2 volumes, 50 leaves of chromolithograph plates heightened in gilt as called for, 32pp letterpress, leaves, plates and captioned tissue guards all loose, a few plates with slight staining/soiling, mainly marginal, and a small number with marginal closed tears (not affecting illustrations), (a/f), some contents jumbled, but all plates present and much if not all else appears present original printed pale green wraps for parts II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII & IX loosely inserted, together with 5 other coloured plates depicting Sèvres porcelain + 1 other unrelated coloured engraved plate, contents all housed loose in two contemporary half calf gilt folio volumes (very worn). Some of the most beautiful and precious porcelain of all time was made by the Sevres porcelain factory in France. The plates (produced by Sevres) display some of the best products of this golden age of soft-paste porcelain (2)
Charles Rolt (illustrated): 'The Sermon on the Mount. Illuminated by W. & G. Audsley. Illustrated by Charles Rolt. Chromolithographed by W.R. Tymms', London, Day & Son, [1861], 27 full page chromolithographic plates as called for, folio (35 x 26cm), original publisher's blindstamped cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt
Six assorted children's & illustrated titles, 19th Century Juvenile literature etc, including 'The Instructive picture book: lessons from the geographical distribution of animals, or, the natural history of the quadrupeds which characterise the principle divisions of the globe', Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1860, 60 hand coloured engraved plates as called for, inner joints split, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards worn (34 x 22cm); together with Kate Greenaway (illustrated): 'Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes', L, Frederick Warne, c.1900, colour ills. throughout, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards; S. Louis Giraud: 'Animal Life in Fact, Fancy and Fun', L, Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic, [1939], 1st edition, Bookano "Living" Models series, 6 colour pop-up dobule page ills. as called for (all VGC, intact), oblong 4to, orig. pictorial boards (VGC); Eleanor Vere Boyle (illustrated): 'Beauty and the Beast', L, Sampson Low, [1875], 10 chromolitho full page plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, 4to, orig. pictorial cloth; 'The Young Ladies Journal. An Illustrated Magazine of Fashion, Fancy Work, Family Reading, etc etc', bound volume January-December 1883, No's 973-1,024, 448pp, black & white engraved ills. throughout (some double page), folio, old quarter cloth; René Peyrol: 'Rosa Bonheur Her Life and Work', L, Art Journal, 1889, 3 full page etched plates + wood engraved ills. throughout, 32pp + 16pp ads at end, folio, orig. cloth gilt (6)
J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, vols 1 & 2, 1971, 2nd edition, 6th impression, vol 3 1970, 2nd edition, 5th impression, all with folding maps at end as called for, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers; together with 'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again', L, Folio Society, 2001 reprint, b/w ills by Eric Fraser, original decorative cloth gilt, illustration depicting Smaug to front cover, slipcase (4)
Cecil Beaton: 'Diaries: The Wandering Years 1922-39; The Years Between 1939-44; The Happy Years 1944-48; The Strenuous Years 1948-55; The Restless Years 1955-63; The Parting Years 1963-74.', London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1961-78, 1st edition, 6 volumes, photographic illustrations throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers, volume 1 dust wrapper worn, lower wrap with large part loss; volume 2 d/w slightly worn, small part loss lower edge of top wrap; volume 3 ex library, worn; volume 4 cloth slightly worn, d/w couple small closed tears; volumes 5 & 6 dust wrappers with a couple of small nicks, slight wear at edges, else generally VGC; together with Cecil Beaton: 'Ballet', London, Allan Wingate, 1951, 1st edition, numerous illustrations from photographs throughout, original yellow cloth lettered in silver (VGC), pictorial dust wrapper by Cecil Beaton (foxing/spotting), plus Hugo Vickers (Intro.), 2 titles: 'The Unexpurgated Beaton; Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as they were written', London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, 2nd impression, 2003, 1st edition, 2 volumes, original cloth, dust wrappers; James Danziger: 'Beaton', L, 1980, 1st edition, ills. from photos throughout, folio, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; Cecil Beaton: 'Royal Portraits', L, W & N, 1963, 1st edition, ills. from photographs throughout, folio, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (11)
J.C. Harrison: 'The Game Birds of the British Isles', Ashford Press Publishing, 1989, limited edition, number 28 of 475 copies, 25 full page tissue guarded colour plates as called for, text by Colin Laurie McKelvie, folio, original half morocco gilt, velvet covered boards gilt, all edges gilt, original marbled paper covered slipcase
Rev. William Houghton: 'British Fresh-Water Fishes', London, William Mackenzie, [1879], 2 volumes in 1, title printed in red and black, 41 colour plates by A.F. Lydon as called for, folio, old quarter calf very worn, lacks backstrip, boards detached but present, armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover (1830-1919), English Quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, part of the Peckover Quaker banking family, the Peckover Bank later merging into Gurney, Peckover and Company
Hunting, Field Sports, a collection of 19 titles, including 'British Hunts and Huntsmen - The South-East, East, and Eastern Midlands of England', London, The Biographical Press in conjunction with Sporting Life, 1909, profusely illustrated with photogravures, half tone ills., map etc as called for, folio, original crushed half crimson morocco gilt (slightly worn), all edges gilt, bookplate of Major Clive Behrens (1871-1935), of Swinton Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, husband of Evelina Rothschild (1873-1947); Major Guy Paget: 'The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (1782-1860)', Leicester, Edgar Backus, 1931, signed & inscribed on half title "To Helen Campbell, from her friend the author, Guy Paget", colour & b/w plates, 4to, original cloth gilt; Philip Evered: 'Staghunting with the "Devon and Somerset" 1887-1901: An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer on Exmoor', illustrated H.M. Lomas, L & Exeter, 1902, 74 ills. chiefly from photographs by H.M. Lomas & G.M.C. Luard, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; plus 16 others incl. Cuthbert Bradley "Whipster", G. Denholm Armour (ill.), Lionel Edwards (ill.), Lady Birkett, Lord Willoughby de Broke, Richard Clapham, Captain Pennell-Elmhirst ("Brooksby"), etc. etc. (19)
'Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895', [edited C.W. Alcock, London, Hudson & Kearns: "News of the World" 1895], profusely illustrated with portrait and other ills. from photographs throughout, lacks title and index, folio, contemporary half calf gilt worn, crudely rebacked; together with 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News', March-August 1907, 1124pp, numerous illustrations from photographs and period adverts throughout, folio, contemporary half calf very worn, backstrip part detached and with part loss (2)
The World on Wheels and Roller Skating Record, 'Represents the National Skating Association of Great Britain (Amateur), and the International Professional Roller Skating Association'. Two cloth-bound volumes for 1909 and 1910, beginning with Vol 1, no. 1, May 1909. Profusely illustrated with articles on, and advertisements for rinks, equipment, professional skaters, trick skaters, instructors, fancy costumes, &c. Folio. Supposedly bi-monthly, but with the exception of the first issue in each volume, no wraps bound in and no way of determining date or number of each issue. Volume 1 (1909) has 13 separate paginations, including Supplements (approx 412 pages). Volume 2 (1910), 10 paginations/issues together with 8 issues of 'The Rink Owner and Rink Manager', published from the same office. (approx 348 pages).One entry in COPAC implies an end to publication in 1911. The earliest roller skates known are from 18th-century Europe. These skates were used in theater and musical performances, possibly to simulate ice skating onstage. Ballet and opera of the late 1840s, such as Le prophète, featured roller skating, which helped to make roller skating popular for the first time in 1850s Europe. Roller skating boomed in popularity from 1880 to 1910; roller skates were mass produced and skating in rinks became popular with the general public in Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Specialized types of roller skating appeared in this period, such as figure skating and speed skating. Very Scarce (2)(2)
(Agriculture), [John Worlidge]: 'Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered', London, T. Dring et al, 1675, 2nd edition, engraved frontispiece and printed "Explanation of the Frontispiece" preceding printed general title page, woodcut illustrations, additional printed title pages for 'Kalendarium Rusticum' & 'Dictionarum Rusticum', [36],324,[4]pp, folio, handsomely rebound panelled calf, armorial bookplates of George Paterson of Castle Huntly (1734–1813), and William Allen Potter to front pastedown, ownership signature of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675), English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, to verso of title page. The first book published by Worlidge, one of the first British Agriculturists to discuss the importance of farming as an industry, this being one of the earliest works to consider the crop of turnips
A bound folio volume of assorted mid 19th Century piano forte and similar music, approx. 30 works in one volume, each with separate engraved/litho. title pages, including 'The Sultan's Polka' & 'The Express Galop', each by Chas. D'Albert, each with full page pictorial colour lithograph title page; 'The Soldier's Song', with hand coloured half page pictorial title page, the aforementioned all pub. London, Chappell, others with copper plate engraved title pages etc, folio, contemporary half calf gilt
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