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Click here to subscribeColeridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, nd., 20 tipped in plates by Willy Pogany, publisher`s decorative leather binding with ship and gilt albatross to upper board; Byron (Lord), The Prisoner of Chillon, Illuminated by W. & G. Hudson, 1865, 20 chromolitho. plates, decorative cloth (re-backed and cornered in morocco); Tennyson (Alfred), Elaine, 1877, folio, illustrated by Gustave Dore, cloth; with three others (6)
Newcastle (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of) The Worlds Olio, 1655, small folio in fours, lacking leaf 01, later half calf; id., A True Relation of the Birth, Breeding and Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1814, preface by Sir Egerton Brydges, lacks portrait, private press, half morocco (2)
Wanklyn (Joan) Guns at the Wood, A Record of St. John`s Wood Barracks, 1972, oblong folio, signed and numbered ltd. edition, dust wrapper; Hunt (Leslie C.), The Prisoners` Progress, nd, cloth; Lowe (W.D.), War History of the 18th (S.) Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1920, folding map, cloth; with a quantity of others (qty)
Stephenson (Robert) & Swanwick (Fred`k) Plan and Section of an Intended Branch Railway from the Midland Railway, in the Parish of Wath upon Dearne in the West Riding of the County of York, to the City of Lincoln, 1844, oblong folio, maps, plans and sections, printed wraps (upper wrap detached with loss)
Camden (William) Britannia: or A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, 1722, 2 vols., folio, portrait frontis, Saxon map, plates of coins, lacking county maps, calf (joints cracked, board detached); Wilson (John M.), The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870, 2 vols., engraved plates, maps, half calf (rubbed); Dulcken (H.W.), The Illustrated History of England .., nd., 2 vols., half calf (6)
Westmorland Reports County of Westmorland Epiphany, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas Quarter Sessions, 1838-1858, 1859-1875, 2 vols, bound folios, calf (rubbed); Reports of the Commissioners ... to Inquire Concerning Charities and Education .. Westmorland, 1839, folio, half calf (defective spine) (3)
Mortimer (J.R.) Forty Years` Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, 1905, small folio. frontis, folding plan, plates, quarter morocco, (spine worn, upper board detached); Payne-Gallwey (Ralph), The Crossbow .., 1958, dust wrapper; Clark (J.D.G.), Excavations at Star Carr, 1978, dust wrapper; with a large quantity of others (qty)
Walker (J.W.) Wakefield, Its History and People, 1939, 2 vols., plates, cloth; Radford (George), Yorkshire by the Sea, 1891, folio in fours, numbered ltd. edition, plates as called for, cloth; Roth (H. Ling), The Genesis of Banking in Halifax, 1914, folding pedigree, 44 plates of bank notes as called for, cloth; Fletcher (J.S.), The History of the St. Leger Stakes, nd., colour and plain plates, cloth (5)
Allen (Thomas) A New and Complete History of the County of York, 1829, 3 vols., 4to., engraved titles and plates as called for, half morocco (rubbed); Purey-Cust (A.P.), The Heraldry of York Minster: A Key to the History of its Builders and Benefactors, 1890, 2 vols., folio in fours, colour plates as called for, half calf; Wildridge (T. Tindall), Northumbria, A Repository of Antiquities, 1888, frontis, cloth-backed boards; with a small quantity of others (qty)
Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or an Account of ... Experiments on ...Grasses, and other Plants, 1816, folio, 35 sets of seed samples, 123 mounted botanical specimens as called for, [note, six pages are blank as though designed to hold a botanical specimen but 123 specimens are present], half calf
Blore (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of of the County of Rutland, nd., [1811], Vol I Part II, large folio, 11 plates, half calf (very worn, boards detached); Evelyn (John) Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees, 1670 [1669], with Pomona and Kal. Hortense, (lacks X3, X4 detached and torn), worn calf (2)
Manuscript Notebooks Comyn (Wm.N.), `An Inventory of My Furniture, Plate, Linnen, China**, taken by myself in my Houses Nos 13, 14, 17 Norfolk St. Strand and No 12 Pall Mall`, July 1822, contemporary half calf (worn); Rushout (Anne), A notebook containing poetry, prose, watercolour drawings, etc., nd., bookplate states that the writer was daughter of Lord Northwick and died in 1849, quarter calf (worn); A folio notebook containing poetry and music, nd., indistinct name on pastedown with address of Ordnance Department, Karachi, half calf (worn) (3)
Du Cange (Charles du Fresne) Glossarium ad Scriptores mediae et infimae Latinatis, 1733-36, 6 vols., folio, portrait frontis., engraved title, title vignettes, 10 numismatic plates, vellum; Carpentier (D.P.), Glossarium Novum ad Scriptores medii aevi ..., Supplementum, 1766, 4 vols., folio, title vignettes, 12 plates, vellum (10)
Blackstone (William) Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803, 4 vols., frontis., calf (worn, some boards detached; Brown (James Baldwin), Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist, 1818, 4to., frontis, plate, calf (worn); Dibdin (Tho. Frognall), An Introduction to the ... Greek and Latin Classics, 1808, 2 vols., folding frontis, later cloth (worn); with a small quantity of others including two volumes of the ILN and a folio album of architectural photographs (qty)
Scott (Walter) Rokeby; A Poem, 1813, calf; with a quantity of others (qty); Nash (Paul W.) Folio 50, A Bibliography of the Folio Society, 1947-1996, 1997, cloth, slipcase; Milne (A.A.), The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, cloth; Coram (Dudley), Aston Martin, The Story of a Sports Car, 1957, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others (qty)
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE in two parts, the interior of the upper half fitted adjustable shelves enclosed by Gothic arched astragal doors, the lower half with two long folio drawers, ornate brass handles and cupboards below, 96" high, 63" wide (for restoration) (see illustration).
BARON DE COSSON (1846-1929). Le Cabinet d` Armes de Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Duc de Dino. Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1901. Folio (450 x 312mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, 23 photogravure plates by Paul Dujardin, a few tinted (some light, mainly marginal, spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum-backed paper boards, uncut (rubbed and lightly stained). Provenance: Richard Williams (armorial bookplate); Dennis J. Ward (ex-libris sticker). NUMBER 25 OF 200 COPIES. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
BEARDMORE, John. A Catalogue with Illustrations of the Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour at Uplands, Near Fareham, Hampshire. London: T. and W. Boone, 1844. Folio (396 x 265mm). Lithographed frontispiece and 16 plates by Day & Haghe after E. Fudge and J. Beardmore (some spotting and mainly marginal staining). Modern green half morocco gilt. With a presentation slip pasted onto the new front pastedown reading "Christopher Richardson Esq, from John Beardmore, Sept 10, 1858." This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
CRONAU, Rudolf. Geschichte der Solinger Klingenindustrie. Stuttgart: Commissionsverlag von Gebrüder Kröner, 1885. Folio (365 x 275mm). Additional tinted pictorial title, title printed in red and black, plates. Original calf decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (part of spine lacking, another section detaching, extremities rubbed). This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
FORRER, R. Die Schwerter und Schweitknäufe der Sammlung Carl von Schwerzenbach - Bregenz. Mit einer Geschichte von Schwert und Dolch. Leipzig: Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1905. Folio (395 x 294mm). 60 plates, illustrations. Original tan cloth gilt (lower upper joints torn). Provenance: Harold L. Peterson 1922-1978 (bookplate). With 3 other books of related interest including Waffen-Sammlung Kuppelmayr (Munich, c.1895) and C. A. Ossbahr`s Kongl. Lifrustkammaren (Stockholm, 1897). (4) This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
HELM, Franz. Armamentarium Principale oder Kriegsmunition und Artilleren Buch. Frankfurt: Johann Ammon, 1625. Folio (302 x 195mm). Title within elaborate pictorial and figural border with bird`s-eye-view of Amberg in upper section, engraved armorial at head of dedication, head-pieces and initials, with the 4 rare engraved plates at the end, 30 illustrations in the text, a few nearly full-page (inconspicuous repairs to title, some light browning and spotting). Contemporary vellum (a little bowed, lacking ties). Provenance: faint early inscription on title; some faint annotation. FIRST EDITION. Cockle 690 (with no collation); Graesse I:222 (citing a copy lacking the 4 plates); Jahns p.995; Rumpf 1106. The numbering of the illustrations in this work is eccentric. The text illustrations are numbered 1 - 9, 11 - 12, 14 and 16 - 33; the (often missing) plates at the end are numbered 32, 33, 34 and 35. However, the pagination in the present copy is continuous and the catchwords consistent throughout: the work is, therefore, apparently complete. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
JOUBERT, Felix. Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms & Armour Formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott. [Glasgow: David Robertson & Co.], 1924. 3 volumes, folio (460 x 323mm). Titles printed in red and black, 107 tinted photogravure plates (a few light marginal stains). Original half vellum gilt, uncut (inner hinges of vol. I splitting, covers scuffed). Provenance: Anne S. K. Brown (label). NUMBER 76 OF 100 COPIES "PRODUCED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION." PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper of vol. I inscribed, "To A. A. Dunbar-Brandon, with all good wishes from R. L. Scott." This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
JUBINAL, Michael Louis Achille (1810-75). La Armeria Real, ou Collection des Principales Pièces de la Galerie d` Armes Anciennes de Madrid. Paris: au bureau des anciennes Tapisseries histories, [n.d., c.1839]. 3 volumes in 2 including Supplement, folio (472 x 320mm) [Supplement 530 x 340mm]. Half titles, titles in lithographed architectural borders, 125 lithographed plates by Gaspard Sensi, including 44 in the Supplement, illustrations and decorations (some spotting and staining, more pronounced to the Supplement, Supplement with some marginal loss and browning). Contemporary red morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, corners a little bumped). Colas 1574; Lipperheide 2410. This work was originally issued in parts and is difficult to find complete with Supplement. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
MACQUOID, Percy. A History of English Furniture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1938. 4 volumes, folio (370 x 275mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, coloured plates by Shirley Slocombe, half tone illustrations (a few tears and repairs). Contemporary half vellum, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
MEYRICK, Samuel Rush & Joseph SKELTON. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick ... at Goodrich Court. London: J. Skelton, 1830. 2 volumes, folio (377 x 270mm). 2 frontispieces, additional engraved titles, portrait and 150 engraved plates (some spotting and staining). Finely-bound in 19th-century red half morocco gilt by Howell of Liverpool, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Bramley B. Kent (ex-libris sticker and signature on half title). This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
MEYRICK, Samuel Rush (1783-1848). A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. London: Robert Jennings, 1824. 3 volumes, folio (380 x 275mm). Half title, additional titles with wood-engraved vignettes, 80 plates, most hand-coloured aquatints (occasional light spotting and staining). Finely-bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt by Howell of Liverpool, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Messenger (ex-libris sticker). FIRST EDITION. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
SPITZER, Frederic (?1815-90), and others. La Collection Spitzer. Catalogue des Objets d` Art et de Haute Curiosite Antiques, du Moyen Age & de la Renaissance Composant l` importante et précieuse Collection Spitzer. Paris: Maison Quantin, Librairie Centrale, 1890-92 [1893]. 7 volumes including Sale Catalogue, folio (495 x 345mm) [Catalogue 387 x 284mm]. Half titles, titles printed in red and black, 341 photogravure plates, many tinted or coloured, wood-engraved illustrations (occasional light spotting or staining). Finely-bound in uniform early 20th-century dark blue crushed morocco gilt by Birdsall & Son of Northampton, covers with gilt ruled, tooled and blind borders, spines gilt in compartments, dentelles, gilt edges (a few scuff marks, mainly to joints, corners lightly bumped). NUMBER 32 OF 600 COPIES "SUR PAPIER VELIN." Volume VI of this monumental work is devoted to arms and armour. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
* Brangwyn (Frank, 1867-1956 ). Frank Brangwyn and His Work, by Walter Shaw-Sparrow, 1st eds., 1910, two etchings, both signed in pencil (A Canal in Venice, & A Grey Day), mounted colour plates, numerous b&w plts., etc., untrimmed, orig. printed wrappers, a few marks to edges and spine chipped with a little loss at foot, folio. Limited edition 83/160. (1)
* Whistler (James Abbott MacNeill, 1834-1903). Fulham, 1879 (Kennedy 182), etching, second state (of 2), published by the Fine Art Society in 1879 , trimmed to plate mark, plate size 13.2 x 20.2cm (5.25 x 8ins), together with another small etching, possibly by Whistler, but unrecorded by Kennedy, depicting some lightly sketched seated figures beside a river, with rowing boat nearby, and several windows of a building behind, plate size 8.2 x 12.3cm (3.25 x 4.8ins) with margins, plus other various etchings by Whistler, including a reprinted issue of The Little Putney, No. 1 (Kennedy 179), with some soiling and vertical crease across the image, six small-format etchings reprinted from original plates by the Folio Society, c. 1965 (3 copies of A Sketch on the Embankment, Kennedy 260, 2 copies of Boats, Dortrecht, Kennedy 244, & 1 copy of Little Dortrecht, Kennedy 243), and several other reproductive etchings after Whistler (14)
Erni (Hans, 1909-). Homere, Odyssee, 3 vols. pub. Andre Gonin, Lausanne, 1958, 112 col. lithos. by Hans Erni, incl. 26 full-page, limited edition of 126/186, signed by publisher and artist and translated into French by Victor Berard, each vol. loose in orig. pictorial wrappers, held within dec. chemise with vellum gilt spine, and matching slipcases, with joints weak or partly broken to first vol., lightly rubbed, folio. A sumptuous publication, with over sixty colour illustrations including twenty-seven plates and dozens of letter ornaments and chapter headings. Hans Erni`s illustrations for this most famous of all of the tales of Greek mythology manages to combine a classical style together with a subtle eroticism. (3)
Bishop (James). The Painted Picture Play-Book, Illustrated with nearly Three Hundred Coloured Pictures, and an Explanatory Verse to each, the Engravings by Various Eminent Artists, Dean and Son, [1855], hand-col. engs. throughout, printed on one side of the page only (facing versos and rectos), frontis. with contemp. ms. inscription on reverse, occn. minor spotting and a few short edge-tears, green endpapers printed with pubs. ads., printed orange ad. slip tipped-in on front free endpaper, hinges split, stitching partially broken and contents becoming loose, orig. cloth-backed col. printed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and soiled, corners showing, slim folio (1)
Nister (Ernest, pub.). What the Children Like, with an Introduction by F.E. Weatherly, c.1895, five double-page chromo. pop-ups, all intact, except fourth pop-up with calf's rein broken (without loss) and final pop-up with one of the deer's antlers creased and re-attached on verso, vigns. to text, a couple of text leaves detached (one of which is frayed with loss to blank fore-margin), patterned endpapers, free endpapers browned, orig. cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, some rubbing and staining, small hole in spine, corners showing, slim folio (1)
Tom Thumb's Folio; or a New Play-thing for Little Giants. To which is prefixed, an Abstract of the Life of Mr. Thumb, and an Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he Perfomed, together with Some Anecdotes Respecting Grumbo the Great Giant, [n.p.], c.1780s, eight letterpress woodcuts, water-stained throughout, orig. printed wrappers, soiled, frayed at edges, spine crudely repaired with old stitching, 100 x 60 mm (4 x 2.5 ins). Untraced; probably a pirated edition. (1)
Ardizzone (Edward). Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, 1st ed., pub. OUP, 1936, coloured lithographed illustrations, one or two light spots, original pictorial boards, joints and edges rubbed, d.j., rubbed with marginal tears and losses, folio. With a photocopied letter from Adrian Cooper, confirming he was the model for 'Little Tim' in the red polo jersey, which was the school uniform for Arnold House School, London, and that his father was an artist friend of Ardizzone in the 1930's. (1)
* Tute (George William, R.E., R.W.A., born 1933). A set of illustrations for Country Matters by Duff Hart-Davis, pub. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, together twenty-four pen & ink illustrations on paper (complete), of birds, animals, farming pursuits, deer stalking, etc., twelve illustrating the months of the year (head-pieces), full-page illusts. approx. 210 x 150 mm (8 x 6 ins), head-pieces approx. 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 ins)^, together with a copy of the book in which the illustrations appear, orig. boards in d.j.. George Tute is a printmaker, wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at Blackpool School of Art, at the Royal Academy School (under Sir Henry Rushbury), where he won silver and bronze medals for mural painting, and the Courtauld Institute. Tute taught at the York School of Art and then at the University of the West of England where he became Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers and was the first Chairman of the revived Society of Wood Engravers. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Kew Gardens and Newport Art Gallery. He has undertaken many projects as a freelance book illustrator, mainly working with wood engraving and he has worked several times for the Folio Society. He has also worked for the Readers Digest Association, Batsford and Penguin. Work by George Tute is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. (25)
Film Weekly. The National Guide to Films, 131 orig. issues, March 20, 1937 - September 16, 1939, num. sepia and b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, 4to, contained in six modern plastic lever-arch files, together with a further 19 orig. issues, 1936-37, contained in two modern plastic files, plus Screen Pictorial. Britain's Only Film Monthly, 15 orig. issues (including two Summer Annuals and one Winter Annual), 1937-39, num. sepia illusts. and ads., orig. col. pict. wrappers, contained in modern plastic file, and 2 orig. issues of The Cinema, nos. 4108, 4359, 1939 & 1940, and Kinematograph Weekly, no. 1760, 1941, num. col. and b & w illusts., ads. etc., orig. printed wrappers, folio (9)
Life, approx. 125 orig. weekly issues, 1939-45, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, ads., etc., orig. printed wrappers, folio, mostly VG, together with Weekly Illustrated, approx. 40 orig. issues, 1936-39, contained in two modern plastic lever-arch files, and a further file containing a mixed collection of approx. 30 orig. issues of Picture Post and Illustrated, c. 1940-41, and Woman's Day. Great New Colour Weekly for Women, nos. 1-65 [all published?], March 22, 1958 - June 13, 1959, contained in three modern plastic files (-)
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