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FOLIO SOCIETY.  9 various vols. in slip cases & A Folio Notebook.  (10).Condition report:No previous owners inscriptions or stickers. Light wear to slip cases, but books clean and good condition 

FOLIO SOCIETY.  9 various vols. in slip cases.Condition report:No previous owners inscriptions or stickers. Light wear to slip cases, but books clean and good condition. 

DORÉ GUSTAVE (Illus).  Vivien by Alfred Tennyson, bound with Guinevere by Alfred Tennyson. 18 eng. plates. Folio. Orig. dec. red cloth gilt. 1867.

DORÉ GUSTAVE (Illus).  Enid by Alfred Tennyson. 9 eng. plates (frontis plate det. but present). Folio. Orig. dec. green cloth gilt, internal foxing & spotting. 1868.

DORÉ GUSTAVE (Illus).  Die Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments ... von D. Martin Luther. 2 vols. Many eng. plates. Folio. Orig. embossed red cloth gilt, some rubbing & wear, internal browning & spotting. Stuttgart, n.d. but c.1870's.

DORÉ GUSTAVE (Illus).   Thomas Hood. 8 eng. plates. Folio. Well worn orig. blue cloth gilt. 1870; also The History of Don Quixote, illus. by Gustave Doré, plates & illus., quarto, worn half calf, Cassell, n.d. 

FOLIO SOCIETY.  8 vols. in slip cases incl. Kenneth Clark & Richard Fortey.Condition report: In Xanadu - Title and contents page very creased/crumpled.No previous owners inscriptions or stickers. Light wear to slip cases, but books clean and good condition except for 'In Xanadu'. 

CADELL T. & DAVIES W. (Pubs).  Britannia Depicta, Part III, Cheshire. 13 eng. views. Oblong folio. Chipped orig. prntd. brown paper wrappers. 1810.

French Manuscript Volume, late 17th cent. Les Milles et Une Lettres contenant plusiers Descriptions Singular et Coutumes de divers pays ... d`Histoire, de Geographie, ... de Morale, de Politiques, de Litterature, de Critique ... de Compositions, de Tableaux, de Sujets de Tragedies ... autres Poemes. The 1st letter commences "De M. D. L. R. a Mons. Truill, Paris". 98 folio leaves of differing sizes, some recycled paper plus a loose inserted quarto continuation. Folio. Soiled vellum. 1688 - 1700. "M. D. L. R". - Francois Duc de Rouchefoucauld (1613 - 1680). Contains a mass of information on many subjects (indexed in the inside column of each page) re. the countries of Europe and beyond.

HAWORTH CHAS. (Illus).  Bits of Old Blackburn. Plates after drawings by Haworth. Oblong folio. Orig. brown cloth gilt. Blackburn, 1889.

FINLAY MICHAEL.  The Mining & Related Tokens of West Cumberland. Signed ltd. ed. 302/500. Illus. Folio. Orig. dark cloth in d.w. 2006; also 6 unrelated vols.  (7).

HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMM.  The Manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle Preserved at Castle Howard. Rebound cloth. 1897; also 7 folio typescript vols. re. Howard Family documents deposited at Durham, some in brown cloth, ex lib., 1968-1970.  (8).

ANTIQUARIAN SOC. OF NEWCASTLE (Pubs).  Chorographia or A Survey of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1649. Title vignette. 43pp. Folio. Worn cloth backed green brds. Newcastle, 1813.

CRUTTWELL REV. C.  The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson DD,  Fifty-Eight Years Lord Bishop of Sodor & Man. 2 vols. in one. 2 eng, port. frontis. Folio. Calf, some defects to back, red morocco ownership label of Sarah Rippon. Bath, 1782.

STORY THOMAS.  A Journal of the Life ... & Embracing the Principals of Truth as Held by the People Called Quakers, & also of His Travels & Labours ... with Many Other Occurrences & Observations. Folio. Rebacked old calf. Newcastle, 1747.

SEWEL WILLIAM.  The History of the Rise, Increase & Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. Folio. Old panelled calf, splitting & wear. 1722.

BESSE JOSEPH.  A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers ... from the Time of Their Being First Distinguished by that Name in the Year 1650 to ... 1689. 2 vols. Folio. Calf, neatly rebacked. 1753.

FOX GEORGE.  A Collection of Many Select & Christian Epistles, Letters & Testimonies Written on Sundry Occasions. The Second Volume. Folio. Calf, rebacked. 1698.

FOX GEORGE.  Gospel-Truth Demonstrated in a Collection of Doctrinal Books ... Containing Principals ... Held Among the People Called Quakers. 1090pp. Folio. Old worn calf. Woodbrooke Library from the Library of the Late J. W. Rowntree, 1706.

FOX GEORGE.  A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experience & Labour of Love. Vol. 1 (all published?). Folio. Worn calf with old repairs & splitting, damage to title & prelims. 1694. The title is laid down on a double column black letter leaf fo.CLXIIII ex Tomus Operum Origenis Adamantii, 1512.Condition:Poor condition. Front board partially detached. Pagination wrong, very haphazard. Goes from 203 - 104, 105, then 206 - 287, then 188 - 199 and 201-632 (cannot be guaranteed to be complete although main body of text seems to be present, albeit wrongly numbered). Underlining etc. on page 285, in puce ink. Possibly missing part of Fourth Table of Epistles at end and further pages. No endpapers at back. Inscribed inside back board. As images. 

FOLIO  SOCIETY.  The Campaigns of Wellington. 3 vols. in slip case.

Manchester, Lancashire, etc.  9 quarto & folio vols., various.

* BILLY CONNOLLY CBE (SCOTTISH b. 1942),SET OF SIX SIGNED PRINTS FROM 'BORN ON A RAINY DAY' SERIESlimited edition giclee print on paper, each signed and numbered 96/295, comprising of Wooly Ruff (framed), The Three Teds, The Sausage Tree, Malkie's Day Off, Purgatory, and Rebel Without a Swordsheet size 57cm x 77cm each, overall size (framed) 65cm x 86cmUnframed (5), contained in boxed folio with certificates of authenticity, framed (1).

Gardening. [Ellman (John, editor)], The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge [...], first edition, Lewes: Sussex Agricultural Press: Printed and Published by J. Baxter, 1830, illustrated, contemporary green quarter-roan over marbled boards, 8vo, Miller (Philip, F.R.S.), The Abridgment of the Gardeners Dictionary [...], sixth edition, London: Printed for the Author, et al., 1771, frontispiece and folding plates, rebacked calf, 4to, two annuals of the Cottage Gardener, volumes I & V, 1849 & 1856, mixed bindings, 4to, [Marnock (Robert, editor)], Gardeners' and Land Stewards' Journal, 1845, disbound, folio, (5).

History and Antiquarianism. Approx. 30 volumes, including [Gordon (George)], The History of our National Debts and Taxes [...], Part II only, London: M. Cooper, n.d. [?1751/52], repaired later papered boards, 8vo, Fleetwood's Chronicon Preciosum, London: T. Osborne, 1745, original calf, some losses, 8vo, Lowth (Robert), The Life of William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, third edition, author's presentation inscription, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1777, original calf with faults, 8vo, Granger's Biographical History of England, two volumes, London: T. Davies, 1769, reinforced gutter, rebacked calf, 4to, Biographica Britannica, volume IV only, London: W. Meadows, et al., 1757, rebacked and repaired calf, folio, Gundy's Strangers Guide to Hampton Court Palace, London: George C. Bell, 1855, repaired contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, Letters of the Prince de Ligne, two volumes bound as one, London: W. Flint, et al., 1809, rebacked calf, 8vo, others early 19th century and later, comprising Brand's Popular Antiquities, Camden Society, The Gentleman's Magazine, etc.

Jonson (Benjamin "Ben"), The Works, volume I only (of 3), 2 parts, second edition, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, 1640, lacking all before A3, including the engraved portrait frontispiece and architectural title-page, but extra-illustrated with another cropped and mounted frontispiece from the same edition to verso of ffep, divisional titles, woodcut historiated initials and foliate headers, some marginal chips, final leaf [T6] repaired, further extra-illustrations to recto pastedown, verso pastedown with tipped-in ephemera and booksellers' tickets, 20th century but in-keeping polished calf, covers blind-ruled with a double-fillet borders, six-compartment spine divided by raised bands, folio.

Literature. Thirty-one volumes, including Thomson (James), The Poetical Works, volume I only, Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1784, extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, 20th century blue cloth, folio, others comprising Dyer's Poems, London: J. Dodsley, 1770, rebacked calf, 8vo, [Percy (Thomas)], The Song of Solomon, Newly Translated from the Original Hebrew, London: 1764, repaired title-page and final leaf, 20th century calf over original marbled boards, 8vo, Cowper's Poems, two-volume set, second edition, London: J. Johnson, 1786, rebacked contemporary calf, 8vo, five editions of Bloomfield, various dates, morocco, vellum, calf and other bindings, mixed sizes, two sammeblands of 18th/19th plays, further works by Burns, Crabbe, etc, (31).

The Complete Farmer: or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry in all its branches [...], By a Society of Gentlemen, Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce, fourth edition, London: Printed for T. Longman, et al., n.d. [1793], printed in double-columns, [720]pp, 35 plates, occasional marginal stains, otherwise a crisp and clean copy, rebacked original publisher's boards, uncut edges, folio.

Trade & Commerce. A Book of Values of Merchandize (sic) Imported, According to which, Excize [i.e. Excise] is to be paid by the First Buyer, [?issued and bound with] An Additional Act for the Better Improvement and Advancing the Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost [...], London: Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1657, black-ruled title-pages with the Commonwealth arms, the first title printed in Roman type, the other Gothic Black Letter, pp: [ii], 19-61; [ii], 16, stitched, later, 20th century black-lettered parchment over papered boards, folio, An Additional Book of Rates of Goods and Merchandizes (sic) Usually Imported [...], with Rules, Orders and Regulations [...], London: John Baskett, 1725, half-title, black-ruled title-page, pp: [iv], 153-179, 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, folio, (2).  Provenance: 1st: Ex Libris Fairfax of Cameron, recto pastedown.

Agricultural & Country Auctions. Messrs. Paxton and Holiday, Old Woodstock Farm, Woodstock, [Oxfordshire], A Catalogue of 7 Capital Cart Horses and Colts, 14 Head of Shorthorn Diary Cattle, [...], Sold by Direction of the Exors. of the late Mr. Robert Rowles, October 6th, 1899, 12pp, original wrappers, 8vo, idem, Islip, Oxon: A Ctalogue of the Valuable Stock-in-Trade of a Builder and Carpenter, 31 Oak, Ash & Elm Trees, 2 Timber Carriages, 5 Builder's Carts, 2 Spring Pony Carts [...], Feb. 11th & 12th, 1895, 18pp, 8vo, Messrs. Drivers, Jonas & Co., Particulars of the "Addington Estate", with "Addington House" and Three Rich Dairy Farms, in the Vale of Aylesbury, [Buckinghamshire], 6th June, 1921, 20pp, b/w illustrations of the country house and interior, original wrappers, worn, folio, [&] Messrs. Tattersall, October 3rd, 1910, 4pp catalogue of a horse auction, folio, (4).

Agriculture. Evans and Ruffy's Farmers' Journal, and Agricultural Advertizer, approx. 13 numbers, mostly 1816, various states and conditions, folio, American Farmer, Baltimore, Vol. II, Num. 13, June 23, 1820, 4to, a sammelband of periodicals, calf over marbled boards, 4to, a late 19th century scrap album of newspaper cuttings, cloth, folio, others, including The Penny Magazine, The Gardeners' Chronicle, etc.

Agriculture. Poor Richard's Almanack, and Farmer's Calendar For 1849. With a Veterinary Tablet. With Illustrations. London: Printed and Published by A. Ryle & Co., original blue pictorial wrappers, 12mo, Moore's Almanack Improved; or, Wills's Farmer and Countryman's Calendar, 1826, Printed by C. and C. Whittingham, contemporary wrappers, later stitched repair, 12mo, Thorley's Farmer's Almanack and Diary for 1931, 1932, 1949 & 1950, original pictorial wrappers as issued, 12mo, Goulding's Useful Book for Farmers 1884, original boards, disbound, 12mo, The Farmer's Almanac and Calendar for 1877, interleaved, original cloth, 12mo, Nash (William Thomas), The Farming Account Book, Royston: Printed and Published by S. & J. Warren, 1851, printed on blue paper, uninscribed, original publisher's cloth, folio, Letts's Farm Expenses Book, n.d. [late 19th century], uninscribed, original red cloth, advertising, etc., (20).

Botany. A late Victorian herbarium of approx. 73 wild grasses, collected, preserved and annotated by O.B. Rickards, Agricultural College, Downton, 1886, and further inscribed Collected Midsummer 1886, the collection over 72 leaves and annotated in English and Latin with their Linnaean taxonomy in black and red inks respectively, contemporary green roan over cloth, the upper-cover lettered in gilt Grasses, folio.

[Collier (Jeremy)], et al., The Great Historical, Geographical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane (sic) History [...], two volumes bound as one, London: Printed for Henry Rhodes, et al., 1694, black-ruled title-pages printed in black and red, subscribers triple-column printed, the text double-column printed, the first sixth of which has occasional contemporary ink manuscript annotations and marginalia, contemporary calf, disbound, folio.

 [Xenophon], [Opera]/Xenophontis (viri armorú & literarú laude celeberrimi) qvæ extant opera, second edition thus, s.l. [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus [i.e. Henry Estienne], 1581, Greek printing, with Latin prelims and commentary, title-page with printer's device, further ornamental headers and footers, historiated and foliate initials, the annotations printed in double-columns, complete in itself, but lacking the second Latin part, collating pp: [xii], 584, 76, signatures: ¶⁶, a-z⁸, aa-nn⁸, oo⁴, A-L⁴, chi⁴, interleaved with an 18th century English MS leaf at [H4]-I1, upper-half stained and growing fainter as the book progresses, however with no loss of legibility and otherwise a fresh copy, last signature tatty and with faint marginal worm trail, English calf binding of c. 1780, upper-cover split but holding, lower-cover better, rubbed, scuffed losses, light bumps to spine, and bumped corners, folio.Provenance: George Heath, 18th century ink MS ownership inscription to recto pastedown, but not the same hand as the MS leaf. Possibly The Reverend George Heath, D.D., F.R.S. (1745-1822), Head Master of Eton (1792-1802) and Canon of Windsor (1800-22).

Agriculture. Drawings and Plans of the Lawes Testimonial Laboratory, Rothamsted, Herts., [London]: F. Dangerfield, Lith[ographer], n.d. [c. 1860], 2 tinted lithograph plates and 2 lithograph floor plans, each with some slight and stable marginal tears, upper-left margin of plates stained but not affecting images, plans toned, original red cloth over printed paper wrappers, loosely-inserted in a contemporaneous plum moiré silk folio, oblong royal folio (37cm x 54cm).

Art. Mongez (Antoine), Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camees, de la Galerie de Florence, et du Palais Pitti, four-volume set, mixed Parisian imprints, Paris: Lacombe, [&] L. J. Masquellier, 1789-1807, volumes I & II with engraved frontispieces, 193 engraved plates, a handful torn, some sporadic spotting, toning, and soiling here and there, uniformly bound in early 19th century French morocco, probably Parisian, gilt-rolled borders of anthemions, shelfwear, some corners bumped, scuffed, and lightly chipped, elephant folio (52cm x 45cm), (4).  N.B. Volume I pastedown inscribed in pencil manuscript, '4 vols original proofs before the letters, picked by the celebrated Denon'.  Provenance: the Seymour family of Thrumpton Hall, near Nottingham.

Atlas historique ou Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la Geographie ancienne & moderne, volumes II (second part) & VI only, Amsterdam: Chez l'Honoré & Châtelain, 1719, volume VI with title only, unexamined text only, lacking all maps, volume VI includes sections on North America, South America, and Africa, contemporary calf, worn, chipped and rubbed, medium folio (46.5cm x 30cm), Bartholomew's Survey Atlas of England and Wales, second edition, 1939, folio, further atlases, maps, and some carto-bibliography, etc., (15).

Botany & Gardening. Von Marilaun (Anton Kerner) & Oliver (F.W., translator), The Natural History of Plants, two-volume set, first edition thus, London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1904, illustrated, original publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt in the Art Nouveau taste, 8vo, Shepherd (J.C.) & Jellicoe (G.A.), Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925, photogravure plates and in-text illustrations, Sir Anthony Minoprio’s copy (1900-1988; British architect), ffep with ink MS inscription, loosely-inserted ALS from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), original green cloth boards, later rebacked in green leather, medium folio (45cm x 33cm), Nicholson (George, editor), The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, four-volume set, London: L. Upcott Gill, n.d. [c. 1880], in-text monochrome illustrations, contemporary cloth, 4to, etc., (10).

Botany, Orchids. Hunt (Francis P.) & Grierson (Mary A., illustrator), Orchidaceae, signed by the author and illustrator, copy no. 450/600, The Bourton Press, 1973, printed in Monotype Baskerville on Inveresk paper, 144pp, 40 colour plates, original vellum over boards by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-lettered back, all edges gilt, red cloth slipcase en suite, medium folio (47cm x 36.5cm). A particularly fresh, clean copy. The slipcase with some rubbed shelf wear.

Darton (William), 38 Maps. The Union Atlas, Containing New and Improved Maps Of all the Empire, Kingdoms, and States in the Known World; Designed as Companion to the various Gazetteers and Books of Geography now in Use. The whole clearly Engraved by Artists of Eminence, and carefully Coloured; Including Maps of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece, London: Printed by W. Darton, 1812, engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress contents leaf, complete with thirty-eight engraved and hand-coloured maps, each margin numbered in ink MS, some marginal grime and soiling, France with a small ink blemish South America defective with a burnt hole, the blemish following through and affecting Arabia, original marbled boards, corners bumped and chipped, upper-cover with chipped paper title label, spine perished, upper-cover loose, contents split with a little movement but holding, doodling inscriptions on pastedowns, crown folio (40.5 x 33cm). Provenance: Frances Finchett, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription on title-page.

Drayton (Michael), Poly-Olbion, A Chorographicall (sic) Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, second edition, but first edition thus with its second part, London: Printed for John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622, lacking frontispiece and all maps, title-page and explanatory frontispiece leaf repaired, some internal gutter repairs, split and with movements, very occasional contemporaneous ink MS annotations, sadly affected by former cropping, late 19th century brown half-morocco gilt over marbled boards, preserving an 18th century Chippendale armorial bookplate: J.B. Barrett, folio.

Early Lithography. Nicholson (Francis), Lithographic Impressions from Sketches of British Scenery, sole edition, London: Published by Rodwell & Martin, 1821, 33 lithograph named-view topographical plates printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, bound with a further 2 plates printed by Hullmandel but not after Nicholson, foxing in places to some of the plates, a few with stains but not affecting the image, contemporary quarter-calf over boards, worn, rubbed and chipped, perished spine, the upper-cover split at the gutter, the lower-cover with some movement, royal folio (50cm x 35cm).

Folio Society. Approx. 33 volumes, mostly non-fiction, decorative bindings, mostly 4to and 8vo

Folio Society. Approx. 105 volumes, various titles, including classic literature and other fiction, poetry, the Greek myths, history, some art history, original decorative pictorial bindings, mostly slipcased en suite and 8vo

Guattani (Giuseppe Antonio), I piu? celebri quadri delle diverse scuole italiane riuniti nell'Appartamento Borgia del Vaticano, first edition, Roma: Stamperia de Romanis, 1820, 41 line-engraved plates by Giuseppe Craffonara, each with accompanying letterpress leaves, some foxing in places, contemporaneous English red quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed with some loss, folio, Paton (J. Noel, R.S.A, illustrator), The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, For the Members of the Royal Association of the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1860, original publisher's green cloth gilt, folio, Maclise (Daniel, R.A.), The Story of The Norman Conquest, Art-Union of London, 1866, split with some slight movement, original green cloth gilt, oblong folio, (3).  Provenance: 1st: George Philips, early 19th century armorial bookplate.

Harding (James Duffield, illustrator), Sketches of Home and Abroad, London: Charles Tilt, n.d. [1836], tinted lithograph title, dedication leaf, and 51 tinted lithographed plates, named within the plate, the margins titled in pencil by a contemporaneous hand, the contents with alternating foxing throughout, loosely-inserted naive Grand Tour named-view of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, titled in ink manuscript and executed in body colour, original green morocco over floral relief cloth boards, elephant folio (56cm x 38cm). Provenance: the Seymour family of Thrumpton Hall, near Nottingham.

Husbandry. Low (David), The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, two volumes bound as one, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1842, text only, lacking all plates, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, all-edges gilt, lacking ffep, medium folio (43.5cm x 34cm), A Compleat (sic) Book of Husbandry, first edition, London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton et al., lacking frontispiece, 13 plates only, contemporary calf over boards, crown folio (42cm x 27cm), Bartlet (J., Surgeon), Pharmacopœia Hippiatrica: or, the Gentleman Farrier's Repository, second edition, Eton: T. Pote, 1766, ends within index, unexamined prior, sheep upper-cover only, 8vo, Clater's Every Man His Own Farrier, twenty-eighth edition, London: Cradock & Co., 1843, frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 12mo, (4).  Provenance: 1st: John Waldie (1781-1862), administrator of Hendersyde Park, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland; contemporaneous ink MS. presentation inscription, as well as his armorial bookplate to pastedown. 3rd: George Preston, Bradmore, Nottinghamshire; contemporary ink MS. ownership inscription to pastedown.

Ireland. O’Connell (Daniel, M.P.), A Memoir On Ireland, Native and Saxon, Dublin: Duffy, 1869, original publisher’s green cloth, damp-stained upper-cover but not affecting text, unopened in places, 8vo, Edgeworth (Maria), Castle Rackrent, fifth edition, London: J. Johnson, 1810, disbound contemporary quarter-calf, contemporaneous ink MS. ownership inscription: Emma Bladburne, 1819, 12mo, The Orrery Papers, two-volume set, first edition, 1903, original green cloth, 8vo, Duffy (Sir Charles), Young Ireland, second edition, 1880, original cloth, ffep loose, 8vo, Hayden (Mary) & Moonan (George), Short History of the Irish People, New and Revised Edition, Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d., dj over cloth, 8vo, Wright (Thomas), The History of Ireland, two-volume set, London: J. & F. Tallis, n.d., map and plates, black roan gilt over boards, 4to, MacNeill (Eoin), Phases of Irish History, 1937, 8vo, Vanishing Irish, second impression, 1955, dj, hb, 8vo, Somerville & Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., ?first edition, eleventh impression, 1902, 8vo, Folio Society, 20th century works on Irish topography and country houses. Dublin, etc., (32).

Law Statutes. [The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large, which at anie time heeretofore have beene extent in print, since Magna Charta, untill the XXIX. yeere of the reigne of our most gratious sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth], volume I only (Henry III to Henry VIII), London: Printed [by H. Denham and H. Middleton?] for Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1587], Gothic black-letter printing, Mannerist woodcut headers, footers, vignettes, and historaited initials, lacking title-page and all before signature A, otherwise complete: 1043pp, [1] (colophon); A-[Ii]?, [Kk?], Ll-[Eeee]?, [Ffff?], occasional small wormhole, not affecting the text's readability, some ink manuscript marginalia and annotations in places viz. the law and its application to Ludlow, but very infrequent and brief, mid 18th century calf, blind-rolled borders, six-compartment spine, gilt-lettered piece within the second compartment, folio in 8s. Provenance: 1) An. 1593 March 26. Reg. Eliza. 35. The guift (sic) of William Norton of London Stationer, to the Towne (sic) of Ludlow in the countie (sic) of Salop [...]; printed Elizabethan/Jacobean bequest label preserved on later pastedown; 2) Ludlow Corporation, 1752, their dated gilt-lettered and tooled morocco label to upper-cover.

Law. Dalton (Michael) & Nelson (William), The Country Justice [...], [and] Appendix [...], In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, et al., 1727, black-ruled title-page, contemporary panelled calf, folio, Keble (Joseph), The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs and Sections or Numbers, from Magna Charta Until this Time [...], London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: et al., [1684], defective title and onwards until signature C, unexamined thereafter, contemporary reverse calf over boards, gnawed, chipped, with losses, folio, [William III to Queen Anne], A Supplement to the Statutes at Large, London: Printed by Charles Bill, et al., 1706, black-letter printing, contemporary reverse calf, folio, [George II/George Public General Acts], Anno Regni Georgii III., 1754-1760, London: Thomas Baskett, 1760, black-letter printing, black-ruled title-page with the Royal Arms, some foliated initials, contemporary reverse calf over vellum boards, folio, [George II Public General Acts, 26th May to 1st December, 1757-58], lacking overall title, bound en suite to the latter, upper-cover joints almost perished, folio, (5).  Provenance: Ludlow Corporation, their inscriptions and/or labels. Each volume with a degree of damage.

Miscellaneous. [Behn (Aphra)], Love-Letters from a Nobleman to His Sister; Mix'd with the History of their Adventures, [third edition, London: Printed for Daniel Brown, et al., 1708], three-parts in one as issued with continuous register, lacking overall title-page [A], lacking signatures [G7-H8] and everything following Kk, [M8] & O torn with no loss of text, calf (tired, faults), 8vo, Primatt (William), Accentus redivivi: or, A Defence of an Accented Pronunciation of Greek Prose […], sole edition, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, For the Author; and sold by T. Osborne, et al., 1764, contemporary calf, chipped losses, back split and loosening, 8vo, The Monthly Repository, volume IV: January to December, 1804, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Brown’s Mathematical Tables, fourth edition, Edinburgh, 1826, contemporary sheep (disbound), 8vo, The Works of Hogarth, two volumes, n.d., disbound, 8vo, Leigh’s New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales, 1837, contemporary green roan gilt (split at front gutter), 12mo in 6s, The Remains of Henry Kirke White, Glasgow, 1825, contemporary black calf, 12mo in 6s, Peregrine Pickle, Cooke’s edition, four-volume set, n.d., contemporary calf, 12mo, Holy Bibles, six volumes, including D’Oyly’s and Mant’s edition, various imprints and dates, leather and part-leather bindings, folio & 4to, further bindings, etc., (32).

Miscellaneous. The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, volume I only (but complete in itself), London: Henry Coburn, 1828, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, in imitation of straight-grained morocco, title-page with the ink manuscript ownership inscription of and the pastedown with the armorial bookplate of: Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th Baronet (1812-1862), of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, 8vo, Prescott’s Works, twelve volumes, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, n.d. [c. 1870], uniformly bound in contemporary half-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, six titles by Prescott, smaller, Ainsworth’s Novels, 8-volume set, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868, uniformly bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards by Seton & Mackenzie [of Edinburgh], signed, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 8vo, The Lombard Street Edition of the Novels of Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, two-volume set, London: The Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1932, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection, Connoisseur Edition, Issued for Private Circulation, copy no. 354, 1900, issued in 10 parts, some divisional wrappers perished, original publisher’s cloth over pictorial boards, small folio, eight novels of Lever, London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-73, uniformly bound in contemporary green half-morocco gilt over boards, 8vo, Ruskin (John): The Seven Lamps of Architecture, sixth edition, Orpington: George Allen, 1889, illustrated, contemporary full leather prize binding, 4to, & six harlequin volumes of his Works, the Library Edition, London: George Allen, 1904, original cloth, ex-lib with stamps, 8vo, [Adam Murimuth], Adami Murimuthensis Chronica, Londini: Sumptibus Societatis, 1846, original publisher’s boards (rubbed, chipped), rebacked in cloth, 8vo, Riviere Binding, Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome, n.d. [c. 1875], finely bound in Renaissance Revival red morocco gilt (bumped & chipped, tired), small 4to, The Private Journal of Madame Campan, London: Henry Colburn, 1825, half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Bishop Burnet’s History of the Reign of King James the Second, Oxford: at the University Pres, 1852, disbound Harrow prize binding of diced calf gilt, 8vo, Provincial York Imprint, Murray’s power of Religion on the Mind, seventeenth edition, York: Thomas Wilson and Sons, 1820, disbound contemporary calf, 12mo, The Antiquary & the Antiquarian Magazines, nineteen various issues, part-leather, publisher’s boards, and cloth bindings, 4to & 8vo, further 18th century and later leather and part-leather bindings, various, etc., (approx. 65).

Natural History. Moore’s British Ferns […], London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866, colour plates, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Swaysland (W.), Familiar Wild Birds, with Coloured Plates, Series 1-4, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883-[?90], contemporary quarter-calf over moiré boards, 8vo, The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, two-volume set, London: Charles Knight & Co., n.d. [c. 1865], printed in triple-columns, chromolithograph frontispieces, b/w in-text illustrations, contemporary green quarter-roan gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges, crown folio (36cm x 27cm), Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, First Series only, n.d. [c. 1875], original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Dixon’s Rarer Birds, etc., (9).

Roberts (David, illustrator), Picturesque Sketches in Spain, Taken During ye Years 1832 & 1833, London: Hodgson & Graves, 1837, 26 tinted lithographs as called for, each titled within the plate, Plate II with torn margin, all with varying degrees of foxing throughout, at times affecting the plates, advertisement leaf loose, original green morocco over moiré boards, rubbed, some bumps, gilt-lettered spine and upper-cover, elephant folio (55cm x 37cm), [Abbey Travel 152]. Provenance: 1) Mary Jane ****, Feb. 25. 1859; ink manuscript ownership inscription to endpaper; 2) the Seymour family of Thrumpton Hall, near Nottingham.

Strype (John), The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, The First Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth [...], London: Printed by John Wyat, 1711, black-ruled title-page printed in black and red, portrait frontispiece engraved by George Vertue, folding plate, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, split and chipped in places, all edges red, refreshed endpapers, folio.  Provenance: 1) Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805-1888), Warwickshire antiquary and archaeologist, his book label to each pastedown. 2) By bequest to his alma mater, The Rugby School Library, their armorial bookplates to each pastedown.

The Bassandyne Bible, the First Bible Printed in Scotland, Geneva Version. The Newe (sic) Testament [...]/Conferred diligently with the Greke (sic), and best approved translations with divers languages, At Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Bassandyne, 1576, [bound with, as posthumously issued] [The Old Testament, Alexander Arbuthnet, 1579], printed in parallel columns, NT title-page centred by the arms of Scotland, NT collates A-X?, Y²; signatures X onwards with dormant world trails at lower-left gutter/lower-margin, its fore margins repaired, but without loss of marginal notes, upper-right damp-stained throughout yet not affecting legibility of text; OT defective, lacking all before a1, a1 to [b4] repaired, unexamined thereafter, contemporary calf boards repaired and relaid on morocco, traces of blind-tooling and of previous metal mounts, morocco reback with gilt-lettered label, dated foot, crown folio in 6s (32.5cm x 22.5cm), [Herbert 158].

The Dropmore Press. Hassall (W.O., editor), The Holkham Bible Picture Book, copy no. 95/100, signed and numbered by Hassall, London, 1954, printed in 14 point Monotype Walbaum on Arnold & Foster hand-made vellum paper, finely bound in original red niger morocco over boards, the upper-cover blocked in blind with a Medieval Perpendicular Gothic arch, six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, fourth and sixth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, crown folio (36.1cm x 27cm).

The Knowsley Hall Copy. Rittershausen (Nicolaus), Genealogiæ Imperatorum [...], third edition, Tubingæ [i.e. Tübingen]: Impensis Johannis Georgii Cottæ, 1664, title-page printed in black and red, with woodcut printer's device, the printed pedigrees uniquely interleaved with manuscript genealogies of English families, a few with armorial bearings, some 'cartulary' transcripts of earlier indentures, annotated and transcribed by various English hands of mixed dates, though all attributed to the Rouge Croix Pursuivant in the 1843 Sothebys' catalogue, early 19th century English russia gilt, upper-cover detached and with worm trail, lower-cover sturdy if rubbed, spine chipped and rubbed, gilt turn-ins, all edges, gilt, marbled endpapers, folio.  Provenance: 1) William Radclyffe (1770-1828), Rouge Croix Pursuivant, College of Arms, his armorial bookplate to verso of ffep. 2) William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick of Attingham Park, Shropshire (1773-1842), ink MS inscription 'Purchased by Bohn May 1 1843 at Ld Berwick's Sale/Lot 954 - 2.2. - for me Derby/Knowsley. 3) Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851), armorial bookplate to pastedown, further inscriptions including the volume's place in the library Private Library/West Division/East Bookcase/Shelf 1 No. *.

Travel and Ethnography, Africa. Smith (Andrew, M.D.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, Invertebrate text volume only, first edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1849, contemporary green half-morocco over cloth boards, rebacked preserving gilt armorial crest, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, contemporary bookseller's ticket to recto pastedown: Thos. Page, Brighton, 4to, Fitzpatrick (Sir Percy), Jock of the Bushveld, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1907, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, tired, with faults, 8vo, Mozambique, Mackay (Wallis), The Prisoner of Chiloane; or, with the Portugese in South-East Africa, first edition, London: Trischer and Co., 1890, original red cloth, 8vo, Boer War, [Robins (William)], The Truth About the Transvaal [...], third edition, London: Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited, 1900, bound in contemporary cloth by Birdsall & Son, signed, and preserving original wrappers, armorial bookplate by H. Soane/1899 to recto pastedown: Sir George John Armytage, [6th] Baronet, F.S.A. (1842-1918), to recto pastedown, 8vo, Joy Adamson, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer, Laurens van der Post, Hogarth Press imprint,Transvaal Boers, South Africa and Zulus, Rhodesia, Moorhead's Nile, Folio Society, etc., (approx. 40)