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Click here to subscribeCraig (Edward Gordon).- Souvenir: Acis and Galate as produced by Martin Shaw and Gordon Craig 3 copies 19 plates including 2 portraits the remainder costume designs by Edward Gordon Craig original wrappers one an excellent copy apart from slight rust marks from the staples one slightly frayed at edges title added to backstrip by hand one with acorn device with the initials DC added to upper cover slightly frayed upper cover loose folio 1902.
Lawrence (Frederick and Emmeline Pethick editors. 238 issues in 5 vol. plates illustrations original half morocco over decorative buckram and contemporary cloth rubbed 4to & folio October 1907 - September 1912. ***Numerous articles by Christabel Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst Evelyn Sharp Mary E. Gawthorpe J. Chrystal Macmillan and others..
[Churchill (Sir W.S.)] The British Gazette No.1-8 [a complete set] a little browned creased where previously folded and with a few marginal tears but generally a good set 5th-13th May 1926; and a duplicate of issue No.8; and an “Emergency Edition” of The Morning Post of 14th May 1926 together in modern cloth portfolio with ties morocco label on upper cover folio(9)
Trollope (Anthony) The Fixed Period 1997; Sir Harry Hotspur 1992; Nina Balatka 1996 § Dickens (Charles) [Works] 17 vol. v.d. § Austen (Jane) Works all the above with illustrations mostly original cloth with slip-cases Folio Society; and a quantity of others local history and topography Watford & Abbots Langley v.s. (14 boxes)
Verne (Jules) Mistress Branican first edition catalogued marked FX some foxing [1891]; P`tit-Bonhomme first edition catalogued marked GU [1893]; Mirifiques Aventures de Maitre Antifer first edition catalogued marked HF some foxing plates browned [1894] plates the first two original pictorial cloth worn at spine and corners the last contemporary morocco-backed cloth all damp-affected g.e. Paris folio(3)
Scrap Book collection of numerous engravings mezzotints and original drawings a number of Guernsey some illustrations in colour contemporary ownership inscription to front paste-down `Edward Le Maistre Allez love of Bredthafft Allez Les Cauichers Guernsey` contemporary half leather over marbled boards joints cracked hinges reinforced folio [c.1840].
Bakst.Designs... for the Sleeping Princess number 144 of 1000 copies portrait of Bakst by Picasso mounted colour plates captioned tissue guards very slight water-staining to inner margin at head of title traces of glue on front endpapers original vellum-backed cloth t.e.g. others uncut soiled and stained folio 1923.
Flaxman (John) The Iliad of Homer 1805 The Odyssey of Homer 1805 Compositions from the Works Days & Theogony of Hesiod 1816 and Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus 1817 4 works in 1 vol. engraved titles and 39 34 36 and 36 engraved plates respectively foxed contemporary morocco gilt g.e. new labels extremities rubbed upper board detached folio
Diderot (Denis) and Jean le Rond d`Alembert. Encyc architectural sections only comprising Architecture proprement dite 38 plates 13 folding lacking plate 37 depicting furnishings; Coupe des Pierres 5 plates; Moulin 4 plates; and Maçonnerie 14 plates; Theatres: 31 plates 7 folding; and Machines de Theatre: 49 plates 41 double or folding with letterpress descriptions loose in contemporary boards folio [Paris 1776].
Dominguin-Toros y Toreros illustrations by Pablo Picasso original pictorial cloth soiled spine dulled original pictorial slipcase soiled 1961 § Canton (F. J. Sanchez) Los Dibujos de Goya 2 vol. plates some mounted original cloth-backed boards slightly rubbed and soiled cloth a little frayed Madrid 1954; and 2 others art and architecture folio & 4to(5)
Richardson (George) A Book of Ceilings composed in first edition printed in English and French list of subscribers with engraved dedication and 48 plates 6 with contemporary hand-colouring 1 double-page title mounted on guard text foxed marginal soiling to some plates contemporary calf worn covers detached lacking spine [Abbey Life 56; Berlin Kat. 3995; Harris 735] folio for the Author 1776.
Logan Clans of the Scottish Highlands 1845 2 vol. additional chromolithographed armorial titles dedication printed in black and gold list of subscribers 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after McIan a few trimmed modern red morocco with original pictorial cloth gilt laid on covers g.e. rubbed [Tooley 323; cf.Abbey Life 426 first edition] folio Ackermann & Co. 1845-1847.
Harris Game Wild Animals of Southern Africa first state hand-coloured lithographed vignette additional title 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates lithographed illustrations list of subscribers c.10 plates with paper browned a few with a short marginal tear occasional offsetting a few minor marks but plates generally in good condition marginal tear to text f. p.94 contemporary red crushed half morocco spine gilt spine slightly faded corners worn rubbed [Mendelssohn I p.688; Tooley 247; Abbey Travel 335; Nissen ZBI 1843; Schwerdt I p.231] folio 1840. ***`One of the most important and valuable works on South African fauna` (Mendelssohn). .
Mayer (Luigi) View in Egypt 1804 second edition 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates tissue guards a few minor marginal spots or finger-marks otherwise plates in good clean condition with bright colouring modern half calf spine gilt and with red morocco label [Abbey Travel 369; Blackmer 1097; Colas 2018] folio 1804. ***Includes the Great Pyramid the Sphinx and Cairo..
Atkinson (James) Sketches in Afghaunistan tinted lithographed pictorial title and 25 plates lithographed dedication f. of plate explanations short tear to upper margin of title some browning to a few plates occassional spotting or foxing mostly marginal a few marginal water-stains later half calf corners worn rubbed [Tooley 73; Abbey Travel 508] a good copy folio Henry Graves and Company [1842]. ***Atkinson a doctor by training and an accomplished Persian scholar had accompanied the army of the Indus on its march to Kabul and returned to Bengal in 1841. The publishers issued Hart`s Characters and Costumes of Afghaunistan the following year (1843) as a companion volume to this work..
Bonne (Rigobert) Atlas Moderne 1771 engraved pictorial title table of contents advertisement 2 double-page plates of globes and spheres (1 partially hand-coloured) and 74 double-page maps hand-coloured in outline occasional light foxing or spotting a few small stains but maps generally in good condition contemporary half calf spine gilt rather worn but holding firm folio Paris chez Lattré et Delalain [1771].
Moleville Hereditary StatesHouse of Austria titles and text in English and French 50 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates offsetting onto text ff. a few small marginal stains or marks to plates else with good bright colouring first title lightly soiled contemporary red morocco gilt rebacked preserving original backstrip slight loss to this at foot repair to lower corner of upper cover some loss rubbed and marked [Abbey Travel 71; Colas 2112] folio Wm. Miller 1804 [but T. M`Lean 1818].
Charlet Decoration Moderne dans le Textile title in red and black 20 colour pochoir plates 1 with marginal ink finger-print and 1 with marginal ink spots occasional light soiling mostly marginal loose as issued in original half cloth portfolio ribbon ties spine ends and corners frayed folio Paris Massin [1925].
Pozzo Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum part 1 only (of 2) first edition text in Latin and Italian 2 titles with large woodcut ornaments 102 full-page illustrations (all but 1 numbered) occasional soiling some marginal foxing a few stains modern half calf [Berlin Kat 4725] folio Rome typis Joannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi apud S. Angelum Custodem 1693. ***Provenance: presentation inscription to first title `ex dono. George Hayter` ?Sir George Hayter portrait and historical painter..
Vitruvius Pollio Den Danske Vitruvius... 2 vol. first edition text in Danish French and German engraved frontispiece and 281 plates and plans some folding a few trimmed closely occasionally just within platemark some water-staining mostly marginal heavier in vol.2 encroaching within platemarks at upper corners and occasionally elsewhere contemporary calf spine in compartments richly gilt and each with a black and citron morocco label restoration to covers rubbed [Cicognara 4115] folio Copenhagen Ernst Heinrich Berlings 1746-49.
Fashion.- La Mode Illustrée 48 (of 50) hand-coloured engraved plates a few ff. loose contemporary morocco-backed boards corners worn rubbed 1871 § Revue de la Mode 48 hand-coloured engraved plates later calf-backed marbled boards spine faded rubbed 1887 § The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons vol.XV 59 hand-coloured engraved plates some offsetting occasional spotting contemporary half calf gilt rubbed 1838; and another German Fashion folio et infra sold not subject to return.(4) ***A fine selection of fashion plates..
modes [Modes 1889-1890] 130 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates a few with creases or browned a few minor marginal tears but generally in good condition with bright fresh colouring contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards rubbed and scuffed folio [Paris] [L.Michau & Cie. for La Couturière] 1889.
Willughby (Francis) The Ornithology...1678 edited by John Ray 3 parts in 1 first edition in English title in red and black 80 fine engraved plates 2 tables title with ink stamp and ink ownership inscriptions `Bethell Robinson` (scored through) and `Tho. Blythe Robinson 1837` plate 77 trimmed closely at outer edge just touching very small part of 1 image repaired tear to outer edge of plate 88 just affecting small part of image but with no loss lower corner of this plate creased others in good crisp and clean condition a few small marginal worm holes or traces to outer margins of the first c.200 text ff. antique style mottled calf-backed old marbled boards vellum corners boards faded and rubbed [Nissen 991; Wing W2879] folio A.C. for John Martyn 1678. ***`one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time` (Wood). It contains the first systematic classification of birds of the world. For the English edition Ray corrected the text and augmented it with three new treatises on falconry songbirds and the art of fowling..
Cowper. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies second edition engraved title-vignette engraved frontispiece and 115 plates on 114 sheets 2 folding a couple of repairs some soiling and water-staining mostly marginal but sometimes affecting upper edge of plates library number and ink stamp "Directors Room" on dedication leaf modern half calf over marbled boards folio Leiden and London 1737.
[Boyle] (Roger, Earl of Orrery). A treatise of the Art of War, First Edition, engraved frontispiece by A. De Blois, upper corner torn away and repaired with blank, 6 folding engraved plates, gilt stamp at the head of the text, last leaf soiled and chipped at upper edge, nineteenth century half calf, spine defective, [Wing 0499], folio, by T. N. For Henry Herringman, 1677
Hunting - Burnand (Sir Francis Cowley). The Fox’s Frolic, coloured plates by Harry B. Nielson, original cloth-backed chromolithographed boards, oblong, folio, [c.1910]; Hold Hard! Hounds, Please! original cloth, gilt, 1924 - and 7 others on Hunting including the 4to studio edition of Alken prints (9)
Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Third Edition, 4 vols., working copy with three seventeenth century documents and occasional cuttings bound in, folding engraved map of the county (loose, with tear repaired), 129 views, plates, pedigrees and maps, occasional spotting and dampstaining, endpaper holed from adhesion of map, contemporary half roan, worn, some joints weak, folio, 1861-70 (4) The earliest manuscript is inserted beside the relevant pedigree and relates to rent for the farm at Winfrith and Roger Clavell of Smedmore, it is signed by Brigett Clavell, April 17th [16]66. The two others are more formal, legal documents relating to Humphrey Weld of Lulworth Castle, both dated 1674
Sold on the Instructions of the Governing Body of Rugby School Shakespeare (William). Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio ... The Fourth Edition; Fourth Folio, lacks portrait, two later manuscript notes on the title, and the oval stamp of the Arnold Library Rugby, the first gathering possibly inserted, with the fore-margin of the title slightly shorter, TT3 and TT4 also inserted and with shorter margins, small holes or rustholes in B4 and ZZ1, paper flaws in B6 and F3, all slightly affecting the text, 19th century tree calf, extremities of spine worn, upper joint cracing, bookplate of Rugby School, and stamped W*I*W inside the front cover, [Wing S2915; Pforzheimer 911], folio, (360 x 225mm), for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1685 The Fourth Folio Edition includes Pericles and the six spurious plays, and was printed on larger sheets than the earlier folios. This copy has the variant setting of the title page omitting Chiswell’s name. Provenance: Presented by Mathew Holbecke Bloxam, DR, to Rugby School Library in 1884 and inscribed thus on the front endpaper. Also with Bloxam’s notes saying that the book came from Lawford Hall, the property of Theodosius Boughton, Bart., in the eighteenth century.
Atlas with the majority of the maps from the Theatre of Empire of Great Britain, containing a total of 41 double-page engraved with contemporary hand-colouring, all but two by John Speed, but including John Seller’s world map (worn at edges with loss) and Blaeu’s Cornubia, all cut down and mounted, a few with loss at upper corners and nicks to the outer borders, some with margins strengthened at verso, light soiling throughout, some creasing at folds, other minor defects, later calf, rebacked, gilt panelled spine, folio, [c.1610 or later] with a protective wooden box; sold as an atlas, not subject to return. The atlas includes: Seller (J) Novissima totius terranum, tear, loss at edges including the border of the left-hand sphere; Speed (J) Barkshire, tears repaired, loss to upper corners of border; Bedfordshire, nick to border; Chester, light dampstaining to upper corner, loss to other corner of border; Cambridgeshire, cropped at edges, loss to upper corner of border; Blaeu (J) Cornubia; Speed (J) Cumberland, loss to upper corner of border; Darbieshire, corner of border chipped; Devonshire; Durham; Essex; Gloucestershire; Hantshire; Herefordshire; Hartfordshire; Huntingdon; Kent; Lancaster, loss of border; Leicester; Lycolne; Midle-sex; Monmouth; Isle of Man; Norfolk; Northumberland; Nottingham; Oxfordshire; Rutland; Shropshyre; Somerset-shire, stain to lower corner; Stafford; Suffolke; Surrey; Sussex; Warwick; Westmorland; Wilshire; Worcestershire; Wight Island; North and East Riding of Yorkshire; Yorkshire; Holy Island, Farne Islands and Channel Islands
Hunting - Shaw Stewart (Niel). Album of 56 original pen and ink drawings of hunting scenes, possibly of the Cottesmore Hunt, many with more than one to the page, tipped in at the corners to an album, some signed or initialled and all dated, half roan, gilt with initials ‘N.S.S.’ on covers, stained, oblong folio, c.1911-1917
Maddox (Willes). Views of Lansdown Tower Bath. The favourite Edifice of the late William Beckford, Presentation Copy signed ‘Harbury Pargeter with the Author’s Compts.’ on the endpaper, ornamental coloured title with fine coloured views of the Tower, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, and an additional lithographed plate of suggested additions to the Tower tipped in, 6 lithographed illustrations, with printed slip about Beckford’s tomb, original half roan, rubbed, inner hinge weak, [Abbey: Scenery 420], folio, 1844
Bradford (Rev. William). Sketches of the Country, Character and Costume in Portugal and Spain, made during the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army in 1808 and 1809, pub. John Booth, 1810, bound with, Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal, 2 vols bound as one, 2nd. ed., 1810, eng. frontis., title page and contents list, fifty-three aquatint eng. plts. with orig. hand colouring (correct as list), book plate of Arthur Kelly to front paste down, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt, bumped and frayed at extrems., folio. Abbey Travel 135, Tooley R.V., English Books with Coloured Plates, 107. Large paper copy. (1)
Clayborn (Thomas). Tweede Scheeps-Togt, Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy Onder den Hr. Hendrik Middleton, Generaal, pub. Pieter Vander Aa, Leiden, 1706, title page with decorative engraved allegorical vignette, two engraved folding maps on one sheet (as published), three leaves of text, modern half leatherette, slim upright folio. The maps are:-”De Moluccos en andere Speceri-Eilanden in D”Oost-Indien” and “d”Engelze Volkplanting in Virginie door Johan Smith bezogt en verder uytgeset. (1)
Flamsteed (John). Atlas Coelestis, 1753, eng. portrait frontis., title page with eng. allegorical illusts., German library stamp to lower margin, dedication and nine pages of text, twenty-seven double page eng. decorative star charts, some maps trimmed to just inside plate mark, very occ. slight spotting, contemp. Cambridge style panelled calf, gilt spine with raised bands and morocco title label, rubbed with some surface marks, minor wear to foot of spine, folio (550 x 380mm) An exceptionally good copy with fine clean and dark impressions. (1)
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