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Folio Society; 'Shakespeare, The Complete Plays', 1997, in eight vols, four in each slip case, together with Mardrus and Mathers 'The book of the Thousand Nights and one Night', four vols in one slip case, together with A quantity of mainly Historical Reference, including four titles by Barbara Tuchman, William Napier 'The War in the Peninsula', T.E.Lawrence 'Revolt in the Desert', Shiver 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', two vols etc., approx 18, most in slip cases (a lot)

Folio Society; A collection of mainly historical reference and military interest, including Voltaire 'The History of Charles XII, Finley 'The World of Odysseus', Hudson 'Nelson and Emma', Reitz 'Commando - A Boer Journal of The Boer War', Rodger 'The Wooden World' etc., approx 27, together with a quantity of assorted titles, including Defoe, Dickens, Short Stories, Poetry etc., approx 34, most in slip cases (a lot)

Railwayana; Butterworth (Edwin); 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway, Drawn from Nature, and on Stone, by A.F. Tait, with a descriptive history by Edwin Butterworth', pub for A.F. Tait, by Bradshaw and Blacklock, 1845, first edition folio, lithograph title and with 19 lithograph plates as called for, plates and text loose but appears complete, foxing and some water staining.

A 1995 McLaren F1 LM launch press pack and a framed McLaren F1 'Order' to 'Build Schedule' 1992-1998 wall chart,the F1 LM press pack issued for the December 7th 1995 launch, comprising grey textured card folder affixed with 'LM' lapel badge, containing a transcript of the speech delivered by Ron Dennis for the F1 LM ('Le Mans') launch, various sheets of technical details, specifications, race successes of the Le Mans GTRs, and four colour publicity images of the F1 LM in Papaya Orange livery, produced in a strictly limited production of five examples in honour of the five F1 GTRs that competed so successfully at the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hour event, further contained in a grey plastic folio with a set of 6 colour slides and a VHS video cassette 'McLaren At LeMans - Pursuit of Perfection'; offered together with a 'Build Sequence Worksheet' chart for the McLaren 'F1 Project', recording build and assembly numbers, shipping dates, engine numbers, paintwork colours, customer names, and other details for the 107 McLaren F1 cars produced between 1992-1998, 31 x 106cm, mounted, framed and glazed. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Folio Society "Winston Churchill" the Second World War - six volumes in slipcases

Two Folio Society books 'Anthology of poetry' & 'Poetic Gems'

A Folio Society three volume set 'British Myths and Legends'

Two Folio Society Books 'The Woman in White' & 'Vanity Fair'

Four assorted Folio Society books

A Folio Society 'Complete Tales of the Unexpected'

A Folio Society six volume set 'Winston Churchill's Second World War'

Two Folio Society editions of 'Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Tales' (no slipcases)

Three assorted Folio Society Books

A Folio Society 'Dickens Christmas Books'

A Folio Society 'Perraults Faiy Tales'

A Folio Society book 'North American Indians'

A Folio Society two volume set 'Clarissa'

A Folio Society book 'Catherine the Great'

Two Folio Society Oscar Wilde books

A Folio Society 'Han's Anderson's Fairy Tales' (no slipcase)

A Folio Society 'Letters to Vicky'

A Folio Society 'Folio Poets Coleridge'

A Folio Society 'Perraults Fairy Tales' (no slipcase'

A Folio Society 'Grimm's Fairytales'

A Folio Society 'The Raj an Eyewitness History'

A 12 Volume Folio Society set 'The History of England'

A Folio Society 'Arabian Nights'

Two Folio Society books 'Scarlet and Black' 'A Dance to the Music of Time'

Three assorted hardback books on Lord Nelson including Folio Society

3x Antiquarisches zu Geographie: Stielers Hand-Atlas, Hundertjahr-Ausgabe 1926/27 mit Namensverzeichnis, K. Miller, Mappaemundi von 1895 u. Weltkarte des Castorius von 1888Stielers Hand-Atlas, 254 Haupt- und Nebenkarten in Kupferstich (auf 108 Taf.), Zehnte Auflage Hundertjahr-Ausgabe, von Grund auf neubearbeitet unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. H. Haack, Folio 40,1 x 27,5 cm, 316 S. (Namenverzeichnis), Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1926/27, im Halbleder; Konrad Miller, Mappaemundi. Die ältesten Weltkarten. Heft 1: Die Weltkarte des Beatus 1776 n. Chr., Stuttgart, Roth'sche Verlagshandlung, 1895, 70 S., im Halbleinen; Konrad Miller, Weltkarte des Castorius, genannt die Peutinger'sche Tafel: in den Farben des Originals, Ravensburg: Otto Maier, 1888, 126 S. eine Karte, im Halbleinen

BELL, Clive (1881-1964). Since Cezanne, London, 1922, 8vo, half tone plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, with a pencil note by Eden and highlighting. With 12 other art reference books, some PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony Eden. (13)BELL, Clive (1881-1964).  Since Cézanne. London: Chatto and Windus, 1922. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Half title, half tone plates (some spotting). Original blue cloth, spine with printed label (label rubbed, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with a pencil note on p.65 (illegible, probably not in Eden's hand, illustrated) and on p.137, in Eden's hand, regarding "young Oxford intellectuals", and with his highlighting throughout. With 12 other related books including Julius Meier-Graefe's Degas (London, 1923, 4to, monochrome plates, original buckram, NUMBER 225 OF 1,000 COPIES), Constantin Antoniade's Trois Figures de la Renaissance. Pierre Arétin. Guichardin. Benvenuto Cellini (Paris, 1937, 8vo, wrappers, NUMBER 141 OF 155 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "A Mr. Anthony Eden, hommage et respectueuse admiration, Antoniade, Genève, Janvier 1938", Austen Chamberlain's Seen in Passing ... Foreword by Lady [Ivy] Chamberlain (London, 1937, 4to, plates, original cloth, the author's wife's PRESENTATION COPY of this account of an architectural travelogue through Europe just before The Second World war, inscribed "Anthony [Eden], [?]from Ivy Chamberlain"), Wilfrid Blunt's The Art of Botanical Illustration (London, 1950, large 8vo, plates, some coloured, attractively bound in full red modern calf gilt by Bayntun Riviere, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Kenneth Clark's Piero della Francesca (London, 1951, folio, plates, some coloured, original red buckram, INSCRIBED in a very small hand [?presumably to Anthony Eden], "With all good wishes from Jane & Kenneth Clark, August 1952"), Huntington Cairns & John Walker's Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1952, folio, full-page coloured illustrations, original dark blue buckram gilt, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For [?illegible word] Eden, with kind regards from his friends at the National Gallery, [signed respectively by:] David Finley [the gallery's first Director], Huntington Cairns, John Walker, Washington, March 5, 1953"), Raymond Nacenta's The Painters and the Artistic Climate of Paris since 1810 (London, 1960, folio, coloured plates, original blue hessian, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "A Lord et Lady Avon, en souvenir de leur visite 'd'avant-première' à l' Exposition des peintures des collections français, Avec les sincères hommages de Ray. Nacenta, Le 27 Juin, 1962"), Catalogue de l' Oeuvre de Georges Braque. Peintures 1936-1941 ([Paris], 1961, 4to, illustrations, some coloured, original coloured decorated hessian boards, ring-bound internally), Henry Maldiney's La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (Paris, "Derrière le Miroir, No. 148," 1964, folio, plates and illustrations by Braque, Chagall, Kandinsky, Miro, Giacometti and others, including 6 original lithographs, some coloured, original pictorial boards) and Denys Sutton's Walter Sickert. A Biography (London, 1976, 4to, plates, cloth, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "For Anthony and Clarissa [Eden], with much affection and gratitude, Denys"). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)

BAKER, Richard (c.1568-1645). A Chronicle of the Kings of England, London, 1674, folio, engraved title, lacking index leaves at the end, later half morocco. With 5 other works in 6 vols. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)BAKER, Richard (c.1568-1645).  A Chronicle of the Kings of England. From the time of the Roman Government, unto the Death of King James ... Whereunto is Added, the Reign of king Charles the First, and The first Thirteen years of his Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second ... All which Additions are revised in this Sixth Impression, and freed from many Errors and Mistakes of the former Editions. London: "Printed for George Sawbridge ... and Thomas Williams," 1674. Folio (347 x 228mm). Additional elaborate engraved architectural and figural title, initials, text printed in double column (variable browning, spotting and staining, a few darker spots, some wormtracks to index with slight loss, lacking index leaf or leaves after Mmmmm4 at the end). 19th-century half morocco gilt by E. Riley, later endpapers (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Trevenen, 1796 (signature at head of engraved title); Sydney Hastings (armorial bookplate, and signature dated 1866 on front free endpaper). With 5 other works in 6 vols., namely [John Stow & Edmund Howe's The Annales, or a General Chronicle of England] (London, [colophon:] "Printed by A. M. for Richard Meighen," 1632, folio, black letter, text printed in double column, lacks all before dedication including title, several leaves torn with loss at the end, contemporary calf, worn, with an early mention of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at the foot of p.811/head of p.812 (affected by fraying, illustrated), included in the paragraph opening, "Our moderne, and present excellent Poets which worthily flourish in their owne workes, and all of them in my owne knowledge lived together in the Queene's raigne [i.e. Elizabeth I] ..."), [John Woodall's The Surgeon's Mate or Military and Domestique Surgery] (London, 1639, lacking all before A3 including title and leaves at the end, a few plates, disbound, defective), Venn and his Mermydons: or, the Linen=Draper Capotted: being a Serious and Seasonable Advice to the Citizens of London, Occasioned by the Indirect Practices used in the late Election of Sheriffs. Written by a Citizen of London (London, 1679, 12-page pamphlet, later boards), John Adams' Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, Alphabetically Digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or Other Division of each County (London, 1690, folio, lacks plate and map, contemporary calf, rubbed) and The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, "Printed by the University-Printers", 1712, 2 vols., 4to, contemporary calf, "pulpit copy" with numerous vellum page-tabs). The lot sold not subject to return. (7)

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823).  The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)

STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas ... including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, London, 1865, folio, 80 hand-coloured engraved maps, half morocco (worn). With a folding map of London (c.1854). (2).STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas Containing Eighty maps, Constructed by Eminent Geographers, and Engraved on Steel, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, F.R.S., the Star Maps by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. and the Plans of London and Paris, with the New Discoveries and Other Improvements to the Latest Date. London: Edward Stanford, 1865. Square folio (454 x 385mm). 80 hand-coloured engraved maps including 6 star charts and plans of London and Paris (one map and one star chart torn without loss, some light spotting and staining). Contemporary black half morocco (worn and stained). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); J. M Gillespie (old signature on title). With Davies' Map of the British Metropolis with Extension to the Crystal Palace [title from wallet] (London, Edward Stanford, [1854 or later], large hand-coloured engraved map in sections mounted on linen, folding into original cloth wallet). (2)

HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). A Century of Ferns, London, 1854, folio, 100 coloured lithographed plates by Fitch, 19th-century half green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION.HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865).  A Century of Ferns; being Figures with Brief Descriptions of One Hundred New, or Rare, or Imperfectly Known Species of Ferns. London: William Pamplin, 1854. Folio (260 x 172mm). Half title, 100 coloured lithographed plates by William Pamplin after Walter Hood Fitch (some very light mainly marginal staining and spotting). 19th-century green half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine with fern motifs stamped in gilt in the compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Given to me by Clarissa [i.e. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Eden] on my birthday the 20th November 1939. She was 19 years old -" (unidentified inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. cf. Nissen BBI 917 (citing also the Second Century of Ferns published in 1861, not included here).

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, [E. & J. Wright, 1807], folio, engraved portrait, contemporary boards (worn). The first facsimile edition of Shakespeare's first folio. With 3 other related works in 12 vols. (13)SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616).  Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. London: "Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623" [but London: E. & J. Wright, 1807]. Folio (385 x 240mm). Engraved portrait on the title, printed in double column (title browned and stained with repairs to corners, some lighter mainly marginal spotting and staining).  Contemporary green calf-backed boards (rubbed, edges worn). Provenance: "This reprint of the 1st folio has been checked and collated throughout. [?]J. Scott" (pencil inscription and signature to front free endpaper); a few pencil annotations to the text. The first facsimile edition of Shakespeare's first folio. With 3 other related works in 12 vols., namely The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. By Mr William Shakespear (London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1734, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, later boards), The Works of Shakespear. In Which the Beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out (Edinburgh, Printed by A. Donaldson, 1771, 8 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, some covers detached, other joints split, rubbed) and Shakspeare's Dramatic Works ... A New Edition (Dublin, 1791, 3 vols., 8vo, edited by Samuel Ayscough, 2 engraved portraits, contemporary calf gilt, worn, one cover detached, another lacking and replaced with a modern board). The lot sold not subject to return. (13) 

EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, London, 1670, folio, engraved illustrations including one full-page, modern half calf. Second edition.EVELYN, John (1620-1706).  Sylva, Or A Discourse of Frest Trees, and the Proagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions ... To which is annexed Pomona; or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider ... Also Kalendarium Hortense; Or, the Gard'ners Almanac; Directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year ... All which several Treatises are in this Second Edition much Inlarged and Improved. London: Printed for Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, 1670 [Kalendarium Hortense dated 1669]. Folio (301 x 185mm).  Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, head-pieces and initials, engraved illustrations including one full-page, errata leaf at end (some mainly light browning, spotting and staining). Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, new endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: D'Arcy Power (old stamp at head of first title). The first edition was printed in 1664. "... Evelyn's most celebrated horticultural work ... The Sylva was written as a protest against the destruction of trees in England which was being carried on by the glass factories and iron furnaces; it succeeded in inducing land-owners to start in on a much needed reforestation program that had a lasting effect on the British economy ... [I]n [Evelyn's] horticultural works we find the public servant and country gentleman combined, in essence the best product of the English way of life" (Hunt). cf. Brunet II, 233; Freeman 1152; Henrey 133; cf. Hunt 296 (citing the first edition of 1664); Keynes 41; cf. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology & Natural Sciences. Catalogue 520 486; Wing E3517.

MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). Adversaria anatomica omnia, Venice, 1762, 6 parts in one volume, folio, 11 engraved plates, later half calf.MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771).  Adversaria anatomica omnia. Archetypis æris tabulis cominianis ab auctore ipso communicatis, & universali accuratissimo indice ornata. Opus nunc vere absolutum, quibus universa humani corporis anatome, & subinde etiam quæ ab hac pendent, res medica, & chirurgica admodum illustrantur. Venice: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1762. 6 parts in one volume, folio (395 x 245mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 11 engraved anatomical plates, one of which folding, vignettes, ornaments and initials, text printed in double column (occasional light spotting and staining to the text but the plates generally very clean and crisp). Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with tan morocco lettering-piece, uncut. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Prof G. J. Cameron with the sender's regards, [illegible signature]" (modern inscription in red ink to half title). The work, whose parts were first published between 1706 and 1719, comprises, in its first part, "... a series of researches on fine anatomy conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi. Morgagni's book actually records a whole succession of discoveries regrading minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals. These represent new contributions to the mechanical interpretation of the structure of the organism, as do the descriptions in the five subsequent Adversaria" (DSB). Blake p.312; cf. Brunet III, 460; Osler 1182; Waller 6669.

MISCELLANY - P. J. OULESS (1817-85). Scenic Beauties of the Island of Jersey, [St. Helier, 1840], folio, 21 lithographed plates, boards. With a quantity of miscellaneous items. Please see the full description. Sold not subject to return. (qty)MISCELLANY - Philip John OULESS (1817-85).  Scenic Beauties of the Island of Jersey. [St. Helier: 1840]. Folio (423 x 273mm). 21 lithographed plates by P. J. Ouless, including a folding panorama, only ([?]of 22, lacking plate 5 on the list, "Death of Major Peirson", lacking title, some quite heavy spotting and staining, although a few plates clean). Original roan-backed marbled paper boards with printed label on upper cover (heavily rubbed and scuffed). With David Roberts' The Holy Land (London, Day & Son, 1855, 3 vols., 4to (290 x 205mm), tinted engraved plates (many loose or detached), contemporary morocco gilt (worn); and a collection of dis-bound plates and charts from Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse's Voyage ... Autour du Monde (Paris, 1797). The lot sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (qty)

STOW, John (1525-1605), SEYMOUR, R. & J. MARCHANT. The History and Survey of ... London and Westminster, London, 1754, 2 vols., 82 engraved plates ([?]only), all FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, modern morocco. With another related but defective work. (3)STOW, John (1525-1605), SEYMOUR, Robert [dates unknown] & J. MARCHANT [dates unknown].  The History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent ... Being an Improvement of Mr Stow's, and other Historical Writers, and Surveys. To which will be added, A New History of the County of Middlesex. London: "Printed for M. Cooper ... and C. Simpson," 1754. 2 volumes, folio (382 x 240mm). Titles printed in red and black, 82 engraved plates and plans ([?]only), all FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, of which 20 folding, engraved illustrations in the text, text printed in double column, initials (variable spotting, staining and browning). Modern full burgundy morocco, spines gilt. With William Maitland's The History of London (London, 1739, folio, engraved plates [uncoloured], many lacking, modern old-style panelled calf gilt. Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). The colouring in the first 2-volume work is fine, and appears to be quite early. We have been unable to locate a detailed collation for this apparently uncommon edition (the British Library does not seem to hold a copy), but the title page calls for "... upwards of an hundred Copper-Plates, by the most eminent Masters," so we can assume that some are lacking. The William Maitland History is also incomplete. For this reason, regrettably, this lot is sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (3)

MISCELLANY - Jean FERNEL (1497-1558). Consiliorum medicinalium liber, Frankfurt, 1585, 8vo, calf. With 12 other books and framed items. Please see the more detailed listing below. The lot sold not subject to return. (13)MISCELLANY - Jean François FERNEL (1497-1558).  Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam plurimis mendis, quibus antea scatebat, repurgatus. Cum indice accurato. Frankfurt: "Apud Joannem Wechelum," 1585. 8vo (155 x 92mm). (Lightly browned and spotted.) [?]Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with 5 raised bands and morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers. Adams F-250; Durling 1475. With 9 other books including Oswald Gabelkouer's [The Boock of Physicke] (Dordecht, 1599, folio, with title and several other leaves supplied in crude modern facsimile, later reverse calf), Hieronymous Fabricus's De integumentis animalium libellus (Königsberg, 1642, 8vo, browned and stained, modern limp vellum) and Nicholas Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, the London Dispensatory (London, 1679, 8vo, contemporary calf) and Peter M. Roget's A Case of Recovery from the Effects of Arsenic ... Read May 7, 1811 ([?]London, [n.d.], 8vo, offprint, modern wrappers); together with 3 framed items of early 19th-century theatrical ephemera, one with a contemporary autograph inscription on the verso. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)

BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022). The Snowman, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978, small folio (300 x 210mm), coloured illustrations by Raymond Briggs, original coloured pictorial paper boards (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). FIRST EDITION.BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022, illustrator).  The Snowman. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Small folio (300 x 210mm). Coloured illustrations by Raymond Briggs. Original coloured pictorial paper boards lettered in black (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of what has since become a modern children's classic, told without text entirely through Brigg's charming, and ultimately poignant, illustrations. It was further popularised by the animated film which has been a regular staple of Christmas television viewing since it was first broadcast in 1982.

POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, London, 1735, folio, later grey paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books. (3)POPE, Alexander (1688-1744).  Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gulliver, 1735. Folio (329 x 210mm). Half title, woodcut ornament on title and on final page, advertisement with head- and tail-piece, initial, 16-pages (lacks advertisements at the end, half title lightly stained and torn at gutter, spot in title, some light staining throughout). Later grey paper boards, older morocco lettering-piece on spine (some wear to head and foot of spine, corners rubbed, lightly scuffed and stained). Provenance: "[?]From K, Christmas 1919" (pencil inscription on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of this epistle which is addressed to Pope's sometime mistress, Martha Blount. The Advertisement states, "The Author being very sensible how particular a Tenderness is due to the Female Sex, and at the same time how little they generally show to each other; declares, upon his Honour, that no one Character is drawn from the Life, in this Epistle. It would otherwise be most improperly inscribed to a Lady, who, of all the Women he knows, is the last that would be entertain'd at the Expence [sic] of Another". Foxon P917; Griffith 361. With [Thomas Hallie Delamayne's] The Senators: or, A Candid Examination into the Merits of the Principal Performers of St. Stephen's Chapel (London, G. Kearsly, 1772, lacks half title, engraved vignette on title, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, upper cover detached, FIRST EDITION) and [William Combe's] The Diaboliad, a Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominion's (London, "MCCLXXVII" [i.e. 1777], blank names filled in by a contemporary hand, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, FIRST EDITION of this infamous anonymously published satire directed at Simon Luttrell, Lord Irnham, also known as the "King of Hell"). (3)

DOVES PRESS - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1913, 4to (233 x 165mm), printed in red and black, contemporary dark blue morocco gilt by the Doves Bindery. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER.DOVES PRESS - William Shakespeare (1564-1616).  The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. Hammersmith [London]: The Doves Press, 1913. 4to (233 x 165mm). Printed in red and black throughout, 4-pages of errata at the end. Contemporary (1921) dark blue crushed morocco by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, the upper cover lettered in gilt with a small foliate device stamped in gilt beneath the title, both covers with 2 single gilt fillet borders and an inner border of interlacing double gilt fillets, gilt edges (joints, corners and top and bottom of spine rubbed). The binding is stamped in gilt on the rear turn-in "The Doves Bindery 19 C-S 21". Provenance: Loosely-inserted is an autograph letter, dated "10/iii", stating, "My dear Wilfred, For some time I have been looking for something which you might like, to give to you more or less to 'commemorate' your recent promotion. Perhaps this is it. I hope that it will give you pleasure and turn you away from office papers once is a while. [?]Baby." We have been unable to identify the writer of the letter or its recipient. LIMITED TO 212 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER. The colophon states: "Printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at The Doves Press, 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, from the Text of the First Folio, first imprinted in 1623, with only such corrections of the Text as are set out opposite [i.e. in the errata]. 200 copies on paper and 12 on vellum. Compositor: William Jenkins. Press-men: H. Gage Cole and Albert Lewis." "Cobden-Sanderson was sixty when he entered into partnership with Emery Walker in founding the Doves Press. Between them ... they evolved a type of superb beauty. Though also based on Jenson, it was somewhat lighter than Morris's Golden Type, a factor that enabled them to use hand-made paper that was less bulky and more suitable for book work. With this type they printed books of austere but great beauty. In contrast to the lavish black ornament of the Kelmscott Press there was no decoration unless one counts an occasional coloured, though undecorated, initial. They relied on faultless presswork, the beauty of the type and the perfect design and balance of their pages" (Thomas Great Books and Book Collectors (1975), p.221). Ransom Private Presses and their Books 36; Tidcombe The Doves Press 32; Tomkinson A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses p.57.

SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824). The Costume of Hindostan, London, 1804, folio, text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary red half roan (rubbed). FIRST EUROPEAN EDITION.SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824).  The Costume of Hindostan, elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions in English and French, taken in the Years 1798 and 1799. London: Published by George Orme, 1804. Folio (360 x 255mm). Text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Scott or T. Vivares after Solvyns (the preface and first plate heavily spotted, some other lighter spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). 19th-century half red roan gilt, marbled endpapers (heavily rubbed in patches, some staining, bumped). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); leaf with [?]stamped coat-of-arms and inscription relating to a Leipzig museum dated 1966 inserted at the front. FIRST EUROPEAN EDITION. "The genesis of the book is a series of Two hundred and Fifty Drawings descriptive of the manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos, by B. Solvyns, the originals of which are in the National Art Library. These were published at Calcutta with the above title in 1799, the plates being etched, and coloured by  hand, and a separate catalogue being issued with descriptive text. From Solvyns' drawings W. Orme ... made a set of sixty water-colour copies (also in the National Art Library), infinitely better drawn than the originals; and Orme's drawings are the originals of the plates in The Costume of Hindostan, in which Solvyns appears as the artist without any acknowledgement being made of the Calcutta publications. The plates are in stipple, and seem to be all by Scott with the exception of four very poor ones by T. Vivares" (Hardie). Abbey Travel 429; Brunet IV, 305; Colas 2765; Hardie English Coloured Books p.132.

ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, Florence, 1691, folio, 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum-backed boards. Second edition.ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others.  Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento sotto la Protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana e Descritte dal Segretario di essa Accademia. Seconda Edizione. Florence: Nella Nuova Stamperia di Gio: Filippo Cecchi, 1691. Folio (351 x 255mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Cosimo III, elaborate woodcut initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces, 75 full-page engraved illustrations (half title and final leaf stained, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, marginal closed tear to one full-page illustration, some creasing). Contemporary vellum-backed [?]later paper boards, spine with remnants of old lettering-piece, new endpapers. The "Accademia del Cimento" was a scientific society established in Florence in 1657. During its short existence, the Saggi was its only published work. Brunet IV, 163 (citing the first edition of 1666, but mentioning the present edition in the note): "Cet ouvrage estimé ..."; Cinti 163; Dibner Heralds 82; Gamba 853; Krivatsy p.25; Riccardi II, 407; Wellcome III, p.23; Wheeler 196.

LACE - Augusta Godin, Baronne LIEDTS (1850-85). Anciennes Dentelles Belges, Anvers, 1889, folio, 185 phototype plates of lace, contemporary dark blue half morocco. FIRST EDITION.LACE - Augusta Godin, Baronne LIEDTS (1850-85). Anciennes Dentelles Belges, formant la Collection de Feue Madame Augusta Bnne. Liedts, et donnée au Musée de Gruuthuus à Bruges. Anvers: Phototypies Jos. Maes, 1889 [but dedication leaf dated 1890]. Folio (555 x 365mm). Title and dedication leaf printed in red and black, portrait of Augusta Godin Liedts, 185 "phototype" plates of lace including 35 supplementary plates at the end (title and dedication leaf lightly stained and spotted, some light mainly marginal staining to plates). Contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, spine with 6 raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Professor Bernard Nevill (1930-2019). FIRST EDITION of this monumental catalogue of Baronne Liedts' renowned collection of lace which, following her untimely death, was donated by her husband to the city of Bruges where it remains to this day on display at the Gruuthusemuseum. Cf. Siegelaub Bibliographia textilia historiæ p.209; Whiting A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors ... Bibliography 1073. RARE.

NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.). The Iliad, London, 1931, small folio, ornaments, original niger morocco. ONE OF 1,450 COPIES. With Francis Meynell's rare printed note relating to this edition loosely-inserted.NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.).  The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Small folio (267 x 155mm). Printed in red and black, ornaments by Rudolf Koch. Original niger morocco gilt, spine with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (inner hinges inconspicuously reinforced, lacks slipcase). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). NUMBER 713 OF 1,450 COPIES. Loosely-inserted is Francis Meynell's rare note relating to this edition, printed on a single sheet, headed: "On First Looking into Pope's Homer". Sometimes The Iliad is sold with the uniform Nonesuch edition of The Odyssey, but the latter is not included here. Dreyfus 72; Nonesuch Century 72.

ETON - R. A. AUSTEN-LEIGH (1872-1961). Bygone Eton, Eton, 1912, 4to, 47 mounted plates, original cream buckram. Inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden on leaving Eton from E.L.C. in token of much regard, Midsummer 1915." With 4 other related books. (5)ETON - Richard Arthur AUSTEN-LEIGH  (1872-1961).  Bygone Eton being a Collection of Historical Views of the Buildings at Eton College with Descriptive Notes ... Second Re-Issue. Eton: Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 1912. Folio (368 x 270mm). Half title, 47 mounted plates. Original cream buckram, spine gilt with black lettering-piece, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light staining). The front free endpaper is inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden on leaving Eton from E.L.C. in token of much regard, Midsummer 1915." We have been unable to establish for certain the identity of "E.L.C." (initials which also appear in a book presented to Eden when he was at Eton in lot 86) although it could be E. L. Churchill, the co-author of the final book in this lot. With 4 other books of related interest, namely Virgil's Opera (London, 1912, 4to, original green-stained armorial vellum, Eton College presentation leaf with woodcut border inscribed to "R. Anthony Eden" by "E. Lyttelton" and dated 1915 inserted at the front, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), List of Etonians who Fought in the Great War MCMIV-MCMXIX (London, 1921, 4to, printed in red and black, with the names of those killed in action printed in red, original hessian-backed paper boards, recording Anthony Eden's older brother John's death on p.81, directly above his own name [see illustration], with various associated supplements loosely-inserted), Thomas Gray's Poems (London, 1935, contemporary armorial vellum gilt, Eton College presentation leaf with woodcut border inscribed to "Simoni Gascoigne Eden" [Anthony Eden's son, killed in action in Burma in 1945] by "Claudius Aurelius Elliott" and dated 1942 inserted at the front) and L. S. R. Byrne & E. L. Churchill's The Eton Book of the River with Some Account of the Thames and the Evolution of Boat-Racing (Eton, 1935, 4to, plates, original tan buckram gilt, old armorial bookplate of Sir Gervase Beckett, Baronet). (5)

Dighton (Richard) A London Nuisance, first edition, the set of 6, etchings with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermarks, wide margins to each, very lightly browned, occasional spotting, a few very minor marginal nicks and splits, later half red morocco, gilt, by Root & Son, titled in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed at edges, rebacked preserving old spine, folio, Thomas McLean, [1835]Provenance:Probably Swann, New York, The Albert Cohen Collection 19th century English Illustrated Books, 15th November, 1990, lot 272 (sold for $770)Sale. Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 7th November 2013, lot 162 (sold for £2,976 incl. premium)

Martin (John) [Paradise Lost: By John Milton], the 24 plates only, from the Imperial Quarto issue, [?]proof impressions printing with some lettering but without publisher's imprint, mezzotints with etching, generally well inked clear impressions, each on thick wove paper without watermarks, platemarks 255 x 350 mm (10 x 13 3/4 in), sheets 278 x 375 mm (10 7/8 x 14 3/4 in), disbound and loose, some sheets with faint marginal damp-stains, scattered browning and surface dirt, binding stitch mark visible to one edge of each sheet, some associated minor stains and abrasion, presented within modern green cloth album, upper cover gilt, oblong folio, [Septimus Prowett, circa 1827]Literature: cf. Campbell & Wees, 1992, nos. 26-49.⁂ The engravings were greeted with outstanding critical acclaim, prompting the release of 4 further editions by the end of 1827. The critic for The Literary Gazette proclaimed: "we know no artist, whose genius so perfectly fitted him being the illustrator of the mighty Milton; and in what we have seen of his conceptions he has more than realised the highest of our hopes. There is a wildness, a grandeur, and a mystery about his designs which are indescribably fine:- the painter is also a poet." [The Literary Gazette, April 2nd 1825].

Ashendene Press.- Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Books fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, [one of 180 copies on paper], printed in red, blue & black in Subiaco type in double column, initials in red & blue designed by Graily Hewitt, bookplate of Alfred Acland, original calf-backed vellum, spine titled in gilt with seven raised bands, uncut, spine very slightly rubbed and faded, a few minor scratches to lower cover, [Hornby XXXII; Franklin p.240], folio, 1923.

Ashendene Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, 2 vol., translated by Thomas Shelton, 2 vol., one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Ptolemy type in double-column, woodcut borders and initials designed by Louise Powell and engraved by W.M.Quick and George H.Ford, original crushed dark green morocco, by W.H.Smith & Son, spines titled in gilt with seven raised bands, uncut, one or two small scuffs, slight rubbing to edges, [Hornby XXXVI; Franklin p.241], folio, Ashendene Press, 1927-28.⁂ The first Ashendene Press book printed in Ptolemy type, designed after Holle's 1482 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia.

Cranach Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, edited by J.Dover Wilson, number 120 of 300 copies on Maillol handmade paper, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red, blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on the Text...' by the editor in original cloth-backed wrappers loose in pocket at end, very light spotting to a few leaves (as often), foxing to rear endpapers, original red crushed morocco, gilt, by Otto Dorfner of Weimar, upper cover with title and small circular cut after Craig in gilt with single gilt fillet border, spine titled in gilt within five raised bands with double rules in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, signed on rear turn-in, lower corner of rear cover slightly bumped, [The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 66], folio, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1930.⁂ A magnificent copy of Edward Gordon Craig's masterpiece and one of only a few copies in the deluxe binding. A German edition was issued the previous year but this English edition contains 6 additional woodcuts by Craig. Having seen the prints ("black figures") made from Craig's wooden figures which he used with his model theatre, Count Harry Kessler commissioned Craig to illustrate an edition of Hamlet. It was to be printed at his private Cranach press using the woodblocks and with specially-designed type. This was in 1912 but work on it was suspended during the First World War and Craig became distracted by other projects so the book was not issued for nearly twenty years. Craig's son, Teddy, went to Weimar to assist the master-printer, Gage Cole, in the printing of the woodblocks: "I was the only person who knew how to get the kind of impression required, showing the delicate side grain of wood and at the same time producing the specially blackened details in certain blocks." Edward Craig. Gordon Craig: The Story of His Life p.326"This is one of the most ambitious and successful books of the Cranach Press, with a fine harmony between the type page and the illustration". (The Artist and the Book, p.52).

Doves Press.- English Bible (The), 5 vol., [one of 500 copies on paper], printed in red and black with initials by Edward Johnston, light foxing to a few preliminary leaves in vol.1 as often, small sticker of Philip C.Duschnes of New York to rear pastedown of vol.5, original limp vellum, by the Doves Bindery, spines titled in gilt, uncut, folio, Doves Press, 1903-05.⁂ A superb set of the only folio printed by Cobden-Sanderson and the magnum opus of the Doves Press, described by Stanley Morison as representing "the finest achievement of modern English printing". Four Centuries of Fine Printing.

Arnison (Chris, binder).- Luttrell Psalter (The), number 623 of 1500 facsimile reprints, colour illustrations, bound in natural goatskin with brass clasps, by Chris Arnison, upper cover blocked with title above panel incorporating dragons, griffins and other ornaments, lower cover with lattice filled with fleurs-de-lys, spine titled in blind with five pairs of double raised bands, g.e., signed at foot of rear turn-in, folio, Folio Society, 2006.

Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], translated by Benjamin Jowett, [one of 260 copies], printed in red and black with text in Ptolemy type, side-notes in Blado Italic, chapter headings designed by Graily Hewitt, initials by Eric Gill, pencil inscription "R.C.M.White April 1931" to front free endpaper, original white pigskin, by the W.H.Smith bindery, spine titled in gilt and with seven raised bands, uncut, some light spotting and very slight rubbing to corners, preserved in publisher's original card box (rubbed and torn), [Hornby XXXVII; Franklin p.242], folio, Ashendene Press, 1930.⁂ Lt. Commander Robert "Robin" White RN (1904-1939), killed on active service when HMS Barham accidentally rammed his ship HMS Duchess off the Mull of Kintyre in December 1939.

Essex House Press.- Ashbee (C.R., editor) The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: being the Weston Subedge Field Account Book for the Final Twenty-Six Years of the Famous Cotswold Games..., out-of-series copy on Essex House paper from an edition limited to 225 of which only 75 copies on Essex House paper, printed in Endeavour type, illustrations by Edmund H.New, original cream buckram, uncut and partly unopened, a little rubbed and soiled (mainly spine), Chipping Campden, Essex House Press, 1904 § Meinhold (William) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known..., translated by Lady Duff Gordon, [one of 300 copies on paper], wood-engraved honeysuckle border by C.Keats after Charles Ricketts, modern vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, [Watry B39], Vale Press, 1903, 4to & small folio (2)

Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones, printed in red and black, illustrations, bound in natural goatskin, by Chris Arnison, upper cover tooled in blind with panel incorporating title and latticework filled with small ornaments, lower cover with lattice panel in outline, spine titled in blind with six pairs of double raised bands, t.e.g, others uncut, signed at foot of rear turn-in, light mottling to lower cover, preserved in cloth drop-back box with opening flaps to sides, folio (c.425 x 290mm.), Folio Society, 2008.

Last (Arthur, binder).- Bodoni.- Thomson (James) The Seasons, [one of 50 large paper copies], occasional light foxing, bound in later brown goatskin, by Arthur Last, covers with inlaid scallop-edged vertical strips of tan and sand goatskin, strips tooled in gilt with row of lozenges outlined and connected by gilt rules, spine titled in gilt, uncut, signed and dated "19 Ω 63" at foot of rear cover, faint scuff to spine, [Brooks 531], folio (c.420 x 270mm, binding c.430 x 280mm.), Parma, Bodoni, 1794.⁂ One of only a few works printed by Bodoni in English. It was issued in 4to and two sizes of folio, the folio edition being much rarer.Arthur Last (1913-79), bookbinder, member of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders, and founder member of Designer Bookbinders. He used an omega, the final or last letter of the Greek alphabet, as his signature.