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*Vanity fair cartoons. Approx. 65 col. litho. caricatures by Spy, Ape, etc., incl. statesmen, legal, clerical, royal, etc., folio (approx. 70)

The Boy's Own Paper. approx. 400. orig. issues, c. 1892-1939, num. b&w illusts. and ads. etc., all bound in orig. printed wrappers, occn. wear, mainly to spines (mostly in good condition), slim folio, together with The Girl's Own Paper (later Women's Magazine), approx. 200. orig. issues, c. 1925-41 (but including November 1906-October 1907, October 1913-September 1914 & October 1919-September 1920), b&w illusts. and ads., etc., all orig. printed wrappers, a little rubbed and occn. minor wear (generally in very good condition), slim folio (approx. 600)

The Illustrated London News. Vols. 30, 31, & 32, January 1857-June 1858, num. b&w wood eng. plts. and illusts., including many full page, some double-page and several col. plts., large folding b&w wood eng. plt. of The Queen Opening Parliament (December 12, 1857), all orig. gilt-dec. green cloth, rubbed and some light damp marking to covers (generally in good condition), folio Contents appear complete. (3)

The Sphere. An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, vols. I-II, IV-X & XII-XIV, bound in 13, January-September 1900, January 1901-September 1902 & January 1903-September 1903, numerous b&w illusts., a.e.g., all orig. pubs. gilt-dec. maroon cloth, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., large folio Includes coverage of the Boer War. (13)

*Music. A good autograph album of approx. one hundred composers, musicians and performing artists, c. 1920s-40s, mostly German and Continental figures, the majority signed on plain card and corner-mounted on fourteen leaves, many autographs on the verso of Rudolf Beuthner's name cards, names include Richard Strauss, S. Rachmaninoff, Paul Hindemith, Fritz Kreisler, Adolf Busch, B. Huberman, Eugenie Burkhardt (pencil), Erich Kleiber, Lauritz Melchior, Max von Schillings, Kurt Gerron, Fritz Kortner, Alfred Jerger, Alexander Kipnis, Dusolina Giannini, W.L. Horowitz (pencil), Elisabeth Schumann, Bruno Walter, Artur Schnabel, W. Furtwangler, Ludwig Wullner, Else Bassermann, Albert Bassermann, Wilhelm Kempff, Frederic Lamond, Sigrid Onegin, Jarmila Novotna, Edwin Fischer, Thomas Beecham, ?Gerhart Hauptmann, Eduard Erdmann, Gregor ?Piatigorsky and ?Simon Schlusnus, orig. cloth, a little frayed at extremities, oblong folio (1)

*Wilhelm II (Deutscher Kaiser, 1859-1941). Two military commissions printed in German, for Ernst Sokolowski, the first promoting to the rank of Hauptmann, 14 September 1893, the second to the rank of Major in Feldartillerie, 15th September 1904, each 3pp, signed by the Kaiser, plus two related earlier commissions for Sokolowski raising him to the rank of 1st Lieutenant (1889) and 2nd Lieutenant (1879), each 1p, all with embossed official stamp, folio (4)

*Charles I. A list headed 'Creations of Nobilitie' giving the dates of creation of Baronetcies and Marquessates in the 18th to 21st Regnal Years of Charles I, [1642-1646], a near contemp. manuscript copy, names include Thomas Leigh, Christopher Hatton, Ralph Hopton, Henry Percy, etc., 4 pp., folio, together with other misc. ephemera including a 19th c. Commonplace Book with a fair copy of Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a music certificate signed by George, Duke of Kent, various French letters from the late 18th and early 19th c., etc. (12)

Transportation & Convicts. Bound collection of nine separate Parliamentary reports for 1847, covering Convict Discipline and transportation, including reports and schedules from Australia (New South Wales) on convicts transported there, also reports from Van Diemens land, listing the names of convicts, the ship that transported them, and those who have since been executed for offences, returns of prisoners with their names, age, date of reception and deaths while on board the hulks at Woolwich, Portsmouth and Gosport, etc., modern lib. buckram. sl. rubbed, folio (9)

Bacon (Francis, Viscount Verulam). The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh, 1641, without port. frontis., woodcut title trimmed along leading edge with a little loss of marginal ornament, woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, contemp. sprinkled calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, small folio, together with Machiavelli (Niccolo), The Works, printed for R. Clavel et al, 1595, early ms. names to title-page, 18th c. calf, gilt dec. spine with contrasting leather labels, rubbed with wear to spine ends and upper joint, small folio (2)

Barnard (George). Switzerland, Scenes and Incidents of Travel in the Bernese Oberland, 1843, twenty-seven lithos. on twenty-five plts., incl. title, occn. light marginal foxing, first three leaves loose, orig. qtr. morocco, spine rubbed and sl. worn at ends, covers faded and damp-mottled, upper cover gilt titled, folio (1)

Bible. English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, and with ye Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesties Speciall Command, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, Cambridge, 1638, bound with The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, Cambridge, 1638, bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into English Metre, by Th. Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, Cambridge, 1638, geng. general title with early hand-col., all three works with text within red ruled border, lower outer corner sl. water-stained throughout, not affecting text, a number of leaf edges almost imperceptibly repaired with archival tissue, endpapers renewed, a.e.g., contemp. calf, lavishly gilt dec., rebacked, preserving orig. spine, and expert repairs to board edges and corners, folio Herbert 520. Refurbishment of binding described by the restorer, Anthony Gardner, in a manuscript note on verso of front free endpaper, and his detailed invoice loosely inserted. See illustration on rear cover of this catalogue. (1)

[Diderot, Denis and D'Alembert], Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Méchaniques, avec Leur Explication, Cinquieme Livraison, Paris, 1768, title-page with faint marginal staining, 266 copper eng. plts., some double-page or folding, contemp. speckled calf gilt, rebacked preserving most of orig. spine, new spine label, folio (1)

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans, Compared Together, by that Grave Learned Philosopher & Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea , trans. Sir Thomas North, 1676, eng. frontis. and explanatory leaf a little dusty and frayed, and both with loss to one corner repaired, explanatory leaf rehinged, title-page printed in black and red, engs. to text, some marginal water-staining to final leaves, hinges repaired and free endpapers renewed, bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort, contemp. calf, rebacked, with orig. spine label laid down, folio (1)

Raphael Sanzio (da Urbino). Raphael's Lodges [so-titled on spine], [Paris, 1825], fifty-two single-page lithos. by Gottfried Engelmann after Raphael's Vatican frescos, tissue guards, wide margins, occn. foxing, contemp. roan-backed cloth, spine worn with loss at head, covers faded and damp-mottled, folio Unusual English issue published by W.A. Read in conjunction with H.C. de Courval, with oval embossed stamp to lower margin of each plate. Engelmann (1788-1839) introduced lithography to France in 1814, having learned the technique in Munich from its inventor Senefelder. Englemann, in collaboration with his son, invented chromolithography in 1837. The engravings that comprise this important work are amongst the first lithographies of the history of art and are the first French lithographies to illustrate the Bible. (1)

Beza (Theodore). Codex Theodori Bezae Cantabrigiensis Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta Complectens Quadratis Literis Graeco-Latinus, ed. Thomas Kipling, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1793, wide-margined copy, occn. minor marks to margins (generally a clean copy), contemp. blindstamped and gilt-panelled full calf, later reback, outer corners renewed, rubbed and scuffed, and some wear to extrems., large folio Special type was cut for this edition to match the style of the manuscript. The Codex Bezae, 'the very crown of the Cambridge Press' and one of the treasures of Cambridge University Library, is one of the earliest sources of the New Testament. (2)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, imprinted by Robert Barker, 1634, black letter text, 59 lines per column, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, lacks general woodcut title and all before A3, some soiling and stains at front, NT woodcut title present, lacks all after 5S5 (Romans 11:33), final few leaves a little frayed with minor loss to lower outer corner of last leaf (affecting a few letters), light waterstain at rear, contemp. reversed calf, heavily rubbed and some wear, covers detached, thick folio Herbert 487. The fourth distinct folio edition of the King James's version. (1)

Bible [English]. The Bible, That Is, The Holy Scriptures Contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages, imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1592, lacks all before A1 (title & prelims.), separate title with dec. woodcut border to second part of Old Testament (Psalmes to Malachi), New Testament title dated 1591 with dec. woodcut border, few woodcut illusts., initials & tailpieces, leaf 4M3 torn with loss, some staining and portions of text excised to leaves I1, 5J6 & 5K1, upper outer corners to leaves 5N2-5N4 repaired with slight loss, few other pages torn with slight loss, 20th c. blind panelled sheep, small folio Colophon dated 1592. Herbert 210. (1)

Davenant (Sir William). The Works... Now Published out of the Author's Originall Copies, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1673, eng. port. by Faithorne, 4-page catalogue of books printed for John Starkey at the end, slight soiling, some text browned, contemp. calf, rubbed, edges worn, rebacked, orig. leather label retained, folio Wing D 320. First collected edition. (1)

Goldsmith (Oliver, and Thomas Parnell). Poems, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1795, five wood-eng. plts. and eight vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick, some light soiling and browning, contemp. half red morocco, marbled board sides, rubbed, 4to, together with Goldsmith (Oliver), The Poetical Works. With Remarks... and Illustrative Engravings by Mr Alkin [sic] from Drawings taken upon the Spot. By R.H. Newell, 1820, eng. dedication leaf with vign., six aquatint plts. by S. Alken after Newell, some foxing, trivial marginal worming, name on title-page, recent half calf, 4to, plus four others, incl. The Works [and the Second Part of the Works] of Abraham Cowley, 1684, and a defective copy of Clement Edmonds' "Observations upon Caesars Commentaries", 1604, folio et infra (6)

Layer (Christopher). The Whole Proceeding upon the Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King, Printed by S. Buckley, 1722, the licence leaf present, bound with A Report from the Committee Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to Examine Christopher Layer, and Others, ... Together with the Appendixes, containing Examinations, Letters, and other Papers referred to in the said Report, Printed for Jacob Tonson, [etc.], 1722, the licence leaf present, and Several Examinations Taken before one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; together with Two Letters, Printed for Jacob Tonson, [etc.], 1723, the licence leaf present; and other individually-published Declarations and Reports relating to Layer's trial and examination, all published 1723, contemp. calf, patches of leather peeled from each board, label defective, folio Layer went to Rome in 1721, and unfolded to the Pretender a plot to seize the Tower, the Mint, the Bank, and other public buildings, and to secure the Royal Family and murder ministers. (1)

Locke (John). The Works of John Locke, 3 vols., printed for John Churchill, 1714, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1 (with signature of Thomas Berney to verso), inner joints strengthened, contemp. blind panelled calf, rebacked with blue morocco title labels, folio Armorial bookplate of Thomas Berney, Bracon Ash, Norfolk to each volume. (3)

Milles (Thomas). The Catalogue of Honor, or Tresury of True Nobility Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine, printed by William Jaggard, 1610, eng. title by Renold Elstracke, costume engs. and armorials to text, numerous decorative woodcut & criblé initials, errata leaf at rear, lacks leaf A2 (as often) and Gg6, Hh1, Hh6, and Ii1, piece excised from Sss4, with early ms. note mounted on top, bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron, modern half morocco, folio STC 17926 and Moule LXXVII. (1)

Morland (Samuel). The History of the Evangelical Churches in the Valleys of Piemont. Containing a Most Exact Geographical Description of the Place, and a Faithfull Account of the Doctrine, Life, and Persecutions of the Ancient Inhabitants together, with a Most Naked and Punctual Relation of the Late Bloudy Massacre, 1655, 1st ed., 1658, lacks port frontis., loss to upper portion of title (lined to verso, loss repaired and ink library stamps to both sides), folding eng. map (torn & repaired to verso), numerous eng. illusts. to text, few pages torn and repaired, edges trimmed, 20th c. half calf in slipcase, folio Wing M2779. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Prance (Miles). A True Narrative and Discovery of Several Very Remarkable Passages relating to the Horrid Popish Plot , 1679, port. frontis. and licence leaf, marginallia to last leaf, slim disbound folio, together with Hickes (George), Ravillac Redivivus: Being a Narrative of the Late Tryal of Mr. James Mitchel, A Conventicle Preacher, who was Executed the 18th of January last, for an Attempt which he made on the Sacred Person of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews. To which is Annexed, an Account of the Tryal of Thomas Weir, who was Executed for Adultery, Incest and Bestiality, in a letter from a Scottish to an English gentleman, 2nd ed., augmented & enlarged, 1682, 54pp., ink stamp to lower margin of last leaf, disbound folio, with Trials, The Arraignment Tryal and Condemnation of Stephen Colledge for High-Treason, in Conspiring the Death of the King, the Levying of War, and the Subversion of the Government, 1681, licence leaf, 102pp., disbound folio, with The Tryal of Laurence Braddon and Hugh Speke, 1684, 78pp., disbound folio, and Latch (Jean), Plusieurs Tres-Bons Cases, Com ils Estoyent Adjudgees es Rois Premiers ans du Raign du seu Roy Charles le Premier en la Court de Bank le Roy, 1662, title torn with slight loss and lined to verso, modern half morocco, folio, plus one other related (6)

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books, Whereunto is Added in this Edition, the Life and Trial of the Author, 1677, eng. port. frontis., title printed in red & black, six double-page eng. maps and two double-page eng. battle plans (loosely contained at rear of volume), small worm hole to lower margin throughout vol., contemp. calf, old reback with red morocco title label, joints worn and generally rubbed & scuffed, folio This volume was formerly the property of C.H. Petter, Managing Director of Shapland & Petter, the highly regarded furniture manufacturers active from the 1870s to 1924, based in Barnstable, Devonshire. Wing R167. (1)

Willemin (Nicolas Xavier). Choix de Costumes Civils et Militaires des Peuples de L'Antiquité, leurs Instruments de Musique, leurs Meubles, et les Décorations Intérieures de leurs Maisons, d'après les Monumens Antiques, 2 vols., 1798-1802, eng. titles and 178 plts. (plus two duplicates), occn. spotting, and vol.1 with minor water-staining to lower margins of some plts., contemp. calf gilt, heavily rubbed and worn, vol.1 lacking spine, folio (2)

*Handel (George Frederic). XXIV Overtures for Violins, &c. in Eight Parts as they were Perform'd at the King's Theatre (1st & 2nd sets), together with Six Overtures for Violins, &c. in Eight Parts from the Oritorios, Ninth/Tenth Collections, 5 vols., 3rd/2nd ed., printed for I. Walsh in Catherine Street, in The Strand, [c. 1760], containing sixty Overtures, plus music for the Celebrated Water Musick, & Musick for the Royal Fireworks, each vol. engraved throughout, contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, with handwritten paper label to upper cover of each vol., some wear to spines and edges, joints cracked, and some loss to head and foot of spines, folio See Smith, and/or a descriptive catalogue (1960) p. 299. Various editions of Handel's Overtures were issued by Walsh in the mid-18th c., The Third Edition is often found bound with the Fifth/Eighth Collections, and Ninth/Tenth Collections in various issues, forming sets of up to Sixty-Five Overtures in total. The present copy consists of the Sixty Overtures, plus the music for Handel's Water Music & Royal Fireworks. (5)

Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). No. 1, 2, 3 of Grand Symphonies, selected and adapted for a German flute, two violins, two tenors, bass & double bass , by J. B. Cimador, n.d., c. 1800, seven orig. parts (complete), eng. throughout, partly uncut, some spotting and soiling, contemp. qtr. morocco, all upper covers def., together with a complete edition of original music composed for piano forte, vol. 1 only [of 5], published Preston, n.d., c. 1820, eng. general title and titles to each of five books, piano parts only, eng. throughout, some spotting, inner hinges cracked, contemp. half morocco, worn, plus Mozart's Six Grand Symphonies, newly adapted for the piano forte, with accompaniments for a flute, violin and Violoncello, by Muzio Clementi, 4 vols. (complete), pub. R. Cocks, n.d., c. 1830, some spotting, contemp. half roan, worn, all folio (12)

Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). Dom Giovanni, Grand Opera ... arrangée pour le Piano-Forte avec un Violon obligé par Charles Zulehner, 2 vols., Hamburg, Jean Auguste Böhme, [c. 1800], 54 + 52 pp., & 23 + 23 + 13 + 20. + 20. pp., respectively, engraved throughout, early owner's ink inscription of Arthur Acland to foot of title of first vol., early 19th c. half green morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to spines and edges, folio The volume for the violin part includes additional arrangements from the Marriage of Figaro and Clemenza di Tito. (2)

*Parrini (Pietro). Gran Sonata per Pian-Forte esprinente la Battaglia d'Austerlitz, c. 1833, 50. pp. of manuscript music, several blank leaves at end, handwritten title in ink to front blank, a.e.g., contemp. sheep gilt, rubbed and marked, small 4to, together with Arne (Thomas), The Musick in the Masque of Comus, written by Milton, printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in The Strand, n.d., late 18th c., apparently imperfect at end (finishes on page 46), bound with several other printed songs, etc., including Arne's Overture in Artaxeres, contemp. calf backed boards, worn, folio (2)

Baudry (Paul). Peintures Décoratives du Grand Foyer de l'Opera par Paul Baudry, Notices par Edmond Avout, Paris, Armand Guérinet, n.d., c. 1876, twenty-one (of 24) sepia photogravures, loosely contained in orig. red boards, gilt, rubbed and soiled, slim folio, together with Hynais (V.), Enfants, pub. Armand Guérinet, n.d., c. 1887, title and nineteen uncol. plts., loosely contained in orig. cloth-backed red boards, rubbed and some soiling, slim folio, plus Speltz (Alexander), Das Farbige Ornament aller historischen stile, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1914-23, separate booklet of printed text to each, sixty mounted col. plts. to each vol. (180. col. plts. in total), some heightened with gold, loose as issued in orig. cloth backed portfolios, rubbed and soiled, bookplate of the Art Workers Guild to front pastedown, and introductory booklet of each vol., folio, and two others similar, including Fischbach's Textile Ornaments, a Selection of the Best Plates, n.d., c. 1900, containing approx. 100. col. plts. only (many lacking), loose in contemp. cloth-backed boards, with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and some wear (7)

Crane (Louise). China in Sign and Symbol, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1926, num. col. and b&w plts., incl. some after photos., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, together with Clayton (Michael), The Collectors Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, 2nd ed., pub. Antique Collectors' Club, 1985, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus two other Antique Collectors Club publications (Starting to Collect Silver by John Luddington & Bronze Sculpture of 'Les Animaliers' Reference and Price Guide, by Jane Horswell, pub. 1984/71 respec.), and other various art and antiques reference, including L. Schmidt, Posters 1900, pub. Berghaus Verlag, 1976, num. col. plts., orig. cloth backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, frayed to joints, large folio (15)

Delaunay (Sonia). 27 Tableaux Vivants, Extraits de textes de Guillaume Apollinaire, Poème de Blaise Cendrars, Introduction de Jacques Damase, Milan, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1969, twenty-seven hand-col. pochoir full-page illusts., bound concertina-style, orig. blue cloth boards, small folio (1)

Ede (H.S.). A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, Heinemann, 1930, col. and b&w plts. and illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt in worn and chipped d.j., orig. slipcase (some wear), folio Limited edition 208/350. on hand-made paper. (1)

Hamerton (Philip Gilbert). Landscape, pub. Seeley & Co., 1885, fifty etched and engraved plts. after Samuel Palmer, Turner, Corot, Linnell, Cox, etc., inc. orig. etchings by Aldred Dawson, Stephen Parrish, Lalanne, F. Slocombe, Joseph Pennell, and others, untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. white vellum, some minor marks and light discol. to spine, thick folio Large Paper copy, limited edition 47/525. (1)

Hayter (Stanley William, illust.). Samuel Beckett, Still, Milan, 1974, three colour etchings by S.W. Hayter, each signed and numbered, facsimile and printed text on hand-made paper, loosely cont. in orig. printed wrappers with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 46/133, this being one of 30. copies with an additional suite of signed etchings, printed in monochrome, bound in. Black & Moorhead, 259-261. (1)

Laporte (John). Etchings of rural scenes and subjects, pub. W. Baynes & Son, 1824, thirty-three fine hand-col. soft ground etchings on twenty-six sheets, (plt. of Sutton in Surrey also with aquatint), without letterpress, later cloth, slim folio The volume includes views in Kent, Hertfordshire, Cumbria, Surrey, Middlesex and Caernarvonshire. Rare, no location found. (1)

Melotti (Fausto, illust.). Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Milan, 1976, seven uncoloured etchings by Fausto Melotti, each signed and numbered, facsimile and printed text (signed by Ezra Pound), printed on hand-made paper, loosely cont. in orig. wrappers with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 54/136. (1)

Melotti (Fausto, illust.). Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Milan, 1976, seven uncoloured etchings by Fausto Melotti, each signed and numbered, facsimile and printed text (signed by Ezra Pound), hand-made paper, loosely cont. in orig. wrappers with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 1/136, this being one of 30. copies with an additional suite of etchings on Japan, on large format paper, contained in separate portfolio. (2)

Moore (Henry). Catalogue of Graphic Work 1931-1972 / 1973-1975, 2 vols., Geneva, Gérald Cramer, 1973-76, col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, slipcases, folio, together with Hedgecoe (John), Henry Moore, Nelson, 1968, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, slipcase, folio (3)

Richards (Ceri, illust.). Vernon watkins, Elegiac Sonnet, Milan, 1970, two colour lithographs by Ceri Richards, each signed, dated and numbered, facsimile and printed text, signed by the author, loose in orig. wrappers, with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 19/130, with an extra suite of the lithographs, printed on large format japon nacré, each signed, dated and numbered in pencil, cont. in separate cloth-backed portfolio. Sanesi 63-64. (2)

Richards (Ceri, illust.). Vernon Watkins, Elegiac Sonnet, Milan, 1970, two colour lithographs by Ceri Richards, each signed, dated and numbered, facsimile and printed text, signed by the author, loose in orig. wrappers, with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 89/130. Sanesi 63-64. (1)

Ruprich-Robert (V.). Flore Ornementale, Essai sur la composition de l'ornement, Paris, 1866, eng. title, approx. 150pp. of introductory text, and 151 uncol. eng. plts. of art nouveau-style floral ornament , eng. title a little spotted and with a few closed tears to fore-margin, loose in modern card box with printed paper label to upper cover, folio (1)

Sandon (John). The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, vol. 1, 1751-1851, pub. Antique Collectors' Club, 1993, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Bradley (H.G.), Ceramics of Derbyshire, 1750-1975. An Illustrated Guide, pub. 1978, previous owner's inscription on title, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Watson (Oliver), British Studio Pottery. The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, 1990, num. col. and b & w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, with other ceramics reference, mostly in d.j.s (60)

The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vols. 18, 20, 21, 27, 29 & 36, 1900-1906, num. col. and b & w illusts., first 4 vols. bound in pubs. orig. gilt dec. cloth, vols. 29 & 36 bound in similar green cloth, all a little rubbed on spines, together with The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art, 1908 & 1914, num. col. and b & w illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, plus two others related, all folio (10)

Trade Catalogue. Harrods Ltd. (Knightsbridge), Price List, 1904, 1556 pp., col. plts., extensively wood engraved illusts. throughout of everything from food, furniture, lights, carpets, clothes, etc., etc., adverts to front and rear, inner hinges weak, orig. morocco gilt, spine crudely strengthened, 4to, together with another trade catalogue for The Association of Diamond Merchants, Jewellers and Silversmiths 1905, lacking some leaves but profusely illustrated, orig. cloth gilt, worn, folio (2)

Trade Catalogue. (Dennis) Ruabon Coal & Coke Co. Ltd., 1897, 53 of 54 b&w plts., each showing various ornamental details, incl. tiles, bricks, chimney tops, moulded jambs, cornices, balustrading, finials, garden vases, kerbing etc., some minor ink corrections, a few plts. frayed and detached, one plt. with small excision, orig. dec. boards, worn and soiled, folio Sold not subject to return. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Arundell del Re, with wood engravings by Eric Gill, printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint5 Lawrence in Berkshire England, 1927, printed on vellum throughout, initials supplied in red and blue, wood engraved illusts. and border decorations throughout, incl. five full-page illusts., patterned endpapers, a.e.g., orig. full tan morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt-panelled, lettered direct in second compartment, blind fillets either side of raised bands continued onto returns and culminating in a trio of stylised ivy leaves, sl. markings to lower cover, upper cover gilt tooled with design by Gill depicting two figures sitting under a tree, leather and brass clasps, folio Chanticleer 50. Gill 279. Franklin, Private presses, pp.142-144. One of only six copies printed on vellum (of a total edition of 225 copies), this numbered 5, and signed by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings. The first of the three most important productions of the Golden Cockerel Press (the others being The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels). Eric Gill's illustrations are a tour-de-force of imaginative design. (1)

Hassall (John, and Aldin, Cecil). Two Well Worn Shoe Stories, pub. Sands & Co., 1899, col. illusts. throughout, some finger soiling, orig. linen-backed pict. boards, soiled and some wear to extrems., oblong folio, together with Marzials (Theo and Crane, Walter), Pan Pipes. A Book of Old Songs, newly arranged, 1st ed., 1883, col. illusts. throughout, decorated e.p.s, orig. linen-backed pict. boards, soiled and a little worn at edges, oblong 4to, with other similar late 19th c./early 20th c. children's and illustrated books (25)

Tarrant (Margaret W., illust.). Joan in Flowerland, 1st ed., Frederick Warne, 1935, sixteen col. plts., name stamp on reverse of frontis., b & w vigns., pict. endpapers, orig. cloth, spine sl. faded, d.j. chipped at edges, with sl. loss to spine ends, faded, sm. 4to, together with Hendschel (Albert), Aus A. Hendschel's Skizzenbuch, pub. Frankfurt, [1886], thirty b & w plts. tipped- in on thick card, dec. endpapers, a.e.g., orig. black and gilt-stamped cloth, spine and upper cover damp-spotted, folio (2)

Dore (Gustave). The Dore Gallery ... with Memoir of Dore, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress, by Edmund Ollier, n.d., c. 1870, num. full-page wood engs., some minor scattered spotting, mainly to tissue guards, a.e.g., handsome contemp. blind-stamped and gilt-panelled crimson morocco, a little rubbed and minor wear to corners, thick 4to, together with The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, vols. 1-4, December 1869-December 1871, num. wood engs., a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. crimson qtr. morocco, minor wear to extrems., folio, plus other misc. large-format books, mostly 19th c. (2 cartons)

Emanuel (Frank L.). Etching and Etchings. A Guide to Technique and to Print Collecting, 1930, foreword by W. Russell Flint, num. b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together with Darton (F.J. Harvey), Modern Book-Illustration in Great Britain & America, Studio Special Winter Number, 1931, col. and b & w illusts., some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth gilt, folio, plus other misc. art ref. (2 cartons)

Forester (C.S.). Flying Colours, including A Ship of the Line, 1st ed., 1938, orig. cloth in soiled and chipped d.j., 8vo, together with Poems from the Desert. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army, with a foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, 1944, etched frontis. by Stephen Gooden, signed and dated in pencil, t.e.g., orig. quarter morocco gilt, slim 8vo, (limited edition 61/110, signed by Montgomery), plus More Adventures of Rupert, pub. Daily Express, [1953], num. col. illusts., orig. pict. stiff wrappers, minor wear to extrems., slim 4to, and other children's books and annuals incl. Noddy, Muffin the Mule, etc., and The Chicks' Own Annual, 6 vols., 1924 & 1927-31, num. illusts., orig. linen-backed pict. glazed boards, slim folio (a carton)

Furniss (Harry). P & O Sketches in Pen and Ink, n.d., c. 1900, num. b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, oblong 4to, together with French (James Weir), Modern Power Generators. Steam, Electric and Internal-Combustion and their Application to Present-Day Requirements, 2 vols., 1908, sectional models (one damaged) and b & w illusts. to text, orig. dec. cloth (by Talwyn Morris), a little rubbed and soiled, folio, plusBeard (Charles R.), A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware formed by Mr Frederic John Nettlefold, together with a Short History of the Firm of R.W. Martin and Brothers of Southall, privately printed, 1936, port. frontis., photogravure plts., ex-lib. copy with indelible ink stamp to verso of each plt., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine, folio, with other misc. books (a carton)

Humphreys (H. Noel). Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers, pub. Henry Sotheran, 1870, num. b&w plts., a.e.g., contemp. half dark green morocco, rubbed and scuffed to corners, folio, together with Cartwright (Julia), Christ & His Mother in Italian Art, with an introduction by Robert Eyton, 1897, num. photogravure plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, contained in orig. limp cloth portfolio, folio, Limited edition 226/256, signed by the printers, plus Bryan (Michael), Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, 5 vols., new ed., revised and enlarged by George C. Williamson, 1909-10, t.e.g., orig. two-tone cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 4to, and vols. 1-4 & 6-8 only of Benezit's Dictionnaire des Peintres, 1966, plus a few recent book auction catalogues, including The Library of William Foyle, parts I-III, July 2000. (a carton)

Turner (Rev. R.). A New and Easy Introduction to Universal Geography; in a Series of Letters to a Youth at School, 8th ed., 1797, lacks map frontis., twenty-three eng. maps & plts. (of 25, some maps hand-col.), contemp. sheep, joints broken, rubbed & scuffed, 12mo, together with Blumenbach (Joh. Fried.), Abbildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstande, 4 parts in 1, Gottingen, 1796, numerous eng. plts., damp staining to title, orig. boards, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, with Madox (Thomas), Formulare Anglicanum, or, a Collection of Ancient Charters, 1st ed., 1702, title printed in red & black, modern marbled boards, folio, and Spelman (Sir Henry), The English Works of Sir Hery Spelman, 2nd ed., 1727, eng. port. frontis., initial leaves detached, contemp. calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, worn, folio, plus other misc. 17th to 19th c. antiquarian (a carton)

Lodge (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 12 vols., 1835, num. eng. ports., contemp. half morocco, gilt dec. spines, some wear, small folio, together with [Hughes, Thomas], Tom Brown at Oxford, 3 vols., 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1861, orig. cloth gilt, worn on spines, 8vo, plus Engelmann (Geo. J.), Labor Among Primitive Peoples. Showing the Development of the Obstetric Science of To-day... , 3rd ed., revised, St. Louis, 1884, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian and late 19th publications, incl. Bohn's Standard Library series (3 shelves)

Travel and overseas history, including Egyptian Irrigation, by Sir W. Willcocks & J. I. Craig, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1913, Report of the Mission to Lake Tama 1920-1921, by G. W. Grabham & R. P. Black, Cairo, Government Press, 1925, The Geography and Geology of South-Eastern Egypt, by John Ball, Cairo, Government Press, 1912, the first work bound in orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, the second and third works bound in orig. green cloth-backed boards, some wear (mostly to last vol.), 4to/folio, together with other similar Egyptian Reports, approx. 40. issues of the Journal of African History, 1960s-70s, approx. 35 issues of Tanganyaka Notes and Records, 1950s-60s, and a quantity of paperback editions of works in French and Spanish, on the history of early European civilisations, mostly early to mid 20th c. (3 shelves)

Nicholson (William, Bishop of Gloucester), David's Harp Strung and Tuned: Or, an easie analysis of the Book of Psalms, 1662, title page soiled and frayed at edges, some spotting throughout, contemp. calf, broken on spine, folio, together with Sandys Travailes: Containing a History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire , 6th ed., 1658, addn. eng. title, folding map (trimmed and relaid), engs. to text, two or three leaves supplied in old manuscript facsimile, contemp. blind panelled calf, crudely rebacked, folio, plus other misc. books incl. antiquarian, plus 20th c. history, literature and illustrated works, etc. (3 shelves)

Kentfield (Edwin, of Brighton). The Game of Billiards: Scientifically Explained, and Practically Set Forth, in a Series of Novel and Extraordinary but Equally Practical Strokes , 5th ed., 1850, double page uncol. litho. frontis., ninety-three single page diags., scattered minor spotting, contemp. half morocco with gilt lettered spine label and upper cover, rubbed, folio (1)