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Lot 75

Middlemarch by George Elliot Hardback Book with Slipcase 1972 edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 76

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Hardback Book with Slipcase 1971 edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 77

Magellan's Voyage A Narrative Account of the First Navigation translated by R A Skelton Hardback Book with Slipcase 1975 edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 78

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Practical Seizure of H M S Bounty its Causes and Consequences Hardback Book with Slipcase 1976 edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 79

Therese Raquin translated by Leonard Tancock 1969 Hardback Book with Slipcase edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 80

Richard III The Great Debate edited by Paul Kendall 1966 Hardback Book with Slipcase Second Edition published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 151

A Journal of Terror edited by Sidney Scott Hardback Book with Slipcase 1955 edition unknown published by The Folio Society some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 101

Edgar Allan Poe: 'Tales of Mystery & Imagination', illustrated Michael Ayrton, Folio Society, 1957, 10 full page monotype plates by Ayrton as called for, original cloth silvered, dust wrapper; Wilkie Collins, 2 titles: 'Tales of Suspense', illustrated Anne Scott, Folio Society, 1954, double page lithograph illustrated title page + 8 litho plates by Scott as called for, original cloth silvered, dust wrapper, 'The Woman in White', illustrated Lynton Lamb, FS, 1956, 12 lithograph plates by Lamb as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; plus 5 others same series Folio Society 1950's illustrated 1st editions in dust wrappers, including two with Derrick Harris wood engravings and dust wrappers designed by him, Maupassant 'Bel Ami' with 11 lithograph plates by Alistair Grant as called for, etc (8)

Lot 128

Philip A.S. Phillips: ''Paul de Lamerie - Citizen & Goldsmith of London, His Life and Work'', Holland Press, 1968, limited edition (500), folio, original cloth, dust wrapper

Lot 54

Folio Society, collection of 45+ titles including Cicero "Orations" in original shrink wrap; J.E. Gordon "Structures" in original shrink wrap; Joyce " Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; Victorian Trilogy by Asa Briggs, 3 volumes in original shrink wrap; Richard Fortey "Life" in original shrink wrap, etc (45+)

Lot 95

Suffolk, The Real Estate...of the Late Sir Thomas Henry Tacon, 1922 sale catalogue, 750 acres, situate in the parishes of Rishangles, Southolt, Worlingworth, Monk Soham, Stradbroke, Laxfield, Brundish, Wilby, Weybread, Swilland & Grundisburgh, 4 large folding plans in rear pocket, [26]pp, folio, original printed wraps

Lot 97

The "Alnesbourne Priory" Estate, Ipswich, Suffolk, sale catalogue 1938, large folding plan + 8 illustrations from photos on 4 full page plates as called for, 317 acres including Alnesbury Priory House, 17,[1]pp, folio, original stitched printed wraps, mounted photo illustration to top wrap; together with sale particulars Berrishall and Ivywell Farms, Burstall, Suffolk, 1948, large folding plan + 7 ills. from photos on 3 full page plates, orig. printed wraps; Claydon Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk, sale particulars 1929, large folding plan, 8pp, orig. printed wraps (3)

Lot 622

'NEW FOREST BUCKHOUNDS' Flora and Fauna, Big Bugs, little bugs and other bugs. A folio of amusing colour sporting prints

Lot 757

A FOLIO OF NINETEEN SPORTING PRINTS to include football, racing, snooker, rowing and golf subjects, a number of signed prints including: Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Emile Heskey, Ryan Giggs, Diego Maradona, Steve Redgrave, Linford Christie, Matthew Pinscent, Malcolm MacDonald, Nick Faldo, Lester Piggott, Jimmy White, Colin Montgomery, Bernhard Langer, Ronny O'Sullivan, Dennis Law, Wayne Rooney, Nat Lofthouse, Tom Finney, Eusebio, Paul Gascoigne, Andrew Flintoff, Jimmy GreavesNote: these signed prints are offered without guarantee or warranty

Lot 103

NO RESERVE Coleridge family copy.- Suicer (Johann Kaspar) Thesaurus ecclesiasticus, e patribus Graecis ordine alphabetico, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, general title in red and black, titles with engraved printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some mostly marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, lightly soiled, folio, Amsterdam, Wetsten & Smith, 1728.⁂ Still considered a work of great erudition. Provenance: 'John Duke Coleridge, from his loving Father & Mother, for his birthday, Dec. 3, 1860, with their prayers for his health & happiness' (ink inscription to front free endpaper of vol.1). John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894) English lawyer, judge, politician and great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Lot 130

*** Please be aware that the description of this lot has changed ***[Burton (Robert)] "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, seventh edition, engraved allegorical title by C. Le Blon, woodcut decorations and initials, half-title with "Argument of the Frontispiece" bound after title, V2 with tiny marginal rust hole, 3M5 with marginal paper defect not affecting text, marginal damp-staining and neat restoration to 4Q2, scattered faint spotting, nineteenth-century russia, rebacked with morocco, upper cover detached, rubbing to corners and extremities, [Wing B6183], folio, for H. Cripps, 1660.

Lot 131

NO RESERVE Law.- Le premier [-second] part de les reports del' cases en ley, 2 parts in 2 vol., black letter, part 1 initial approbation f., woodcut decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, part 1 modern half calf, part 2 contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in modern calf to match part 1, spines in compartments and with red and green labels, contemporary calf, some water-staining, rubbed, [Wing P3213B & R1088A], folio, Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft, 1679.

Lot 132

NO RESERVE Law.- Barlow (Theodore) The Justice of Peace: A Treatise Containing the Power and Duty of that Magistrate ..., lightly browned endpapers, bookplate, contemporary calf, expert restoration to spine ends, a little rubbed, folio, Savoy [London], 1745.

Lot 137

Locke (John) The Works ..., 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved dedication, scattered spotting, vol. 2 with tiny wormhole to gutter, one or two pencil annotations, contemporary calf, rebacked, arms of Trinity College Dublin to boards, a little rubbed, folio, 1751.

Lot 140

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, first edition in 1 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, occasional marginal damp-staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio, for Harrison and Co., 1786.

Lot 168

Zionism.- Frankel (Isidore) & M. Graubert. The Hazohar: New Registration in the Union of Zionist Revisionists in Great Britain Called "Hazohar", duplicated typescipt signed by Frankel and Graubert, 9pp., stapled, last f. loose, folds, slightly browned, folio, [c. 1940].⁂ Founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky this typescript provides a short history of the movement and calls for a Jewish state, "A Jewish State in its historical boundaries with the whole of Jerusalem as its capital."

Lot 172

Folio Society.- Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) The Complete Novels, 7 vol., original green silk, very lightly rubbed, spines slightly sunned, green silk slip-case with gilt lettering to side, rubbed at extremities, 1991 § Shakespeare (William) The Complete Plays, 8 vol., original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 2 slip-cases, gilt, one with small soiling to side, 1997, wood engraved illustrations; and 35 others, Folio Society, 8vo (50)

Lot 213

Architecture.- Félibien des Avaux (Jean-François) Description de la Nouvelle Eglise de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides, first edition, with initial blank, approbation leaf (P1) bound at end with folding engraved plan by Loisel attached (shaved at edges), woodcut ornaments, small ink stamp to title, engraved bookplate of Bibliotheca Reuterholmiana printed in red and dated 1713 in manuscript, modern bookplate of Evert Strokirk, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, corners worn, spine ends chipped, 12mo, Paris, [printed by Antoine Chrétien], 1702.⁂ Rare first edition of this description of the new church for the Invalides designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Félibien's illustrated folio Description de l'Eglise Royal des Invalides was published when the church was consecrated in 1706, at the same time this work was reissued by Quillau with a second part. WorldCat lists only 3 copies of this 1702 edition.Nils Esbjörnson Reuterholm (1676-1756), governor of Dalarna in Sweden 1732-39 and of Örebro 1739-56, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from the year of its foundation in 1739.

Lot 214

Overton (Henry) & J.Hoole, publishers. Britannia Illustrata, of Views of all the Palaces...and other Publick Buildings of England, 1724; View's of all the Cathedrall Churchs of England and Wales, n.d.; Views, of...Versailles, 1725, together 3 works in 1 vol., first editions, engraved throughout, each with title and 29 plates, some signed B.Cole or J.Harris, the last plate of Versailles hand-coloured, stab-holes, a little soiled, one or two minor marginal tears repaired, one plate of Cathedrals torn & repaired, this and following plate also trimmed and crudely reinforced at fore-margin, modern half calf, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, oblong folio, H.Overton & J.Hoole⁂ Three rare suites of views. Britannia Illustrata includes an interesting view of 'The New Building at Cambridge in Perspective' signed "J.Clark sc. 1724" showing the Senate House facing a matching building to house the library which was never built, and 'A Prospect of Westminster Hall' is a copy of the engraving of the interior showing rows of bookstalls. Other images are copied from Kip's Britannia Illustrata. The Versailles views are the source of the more common set of engravings first published by Bowles in 1726 and reissued several times.

Lot 221

Architecture & Design.- Wendingen, 10 odd issues, illustrations and decorations, original pictorial wrappers stitched with raffia, rubbed, some a little frayed at edges, No.6 1924 rather worn and lacking raffia (loose), Amsterdam, 1918-24 § Leclerc & Cie. (René) L'Artisan Pratique, colour plates of colour samples etc., illustrations, stapled in original printed wrappers, Paris, October 1933 § Seifried & Schwab, Atelier fur Raumkunst. Die Neue Bauschreiner Mappe, trade catalogue, 80 plates of doors, panelling, shutters etc., some a little frayed at edges, loose as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio with ties, Swiss architect's stamp on inside board, lacking lower flap, rebacked, Karlsruhe, [c.1920], 4to & oblong folio (12)⁂ The first includes issues on East Asian art, posters, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Eileen Gray.

Lot 239

Trade Catalogues.- Valspar, New York. [Catalogue of Paints & Varnishes], limited edition "counter book", 46pp., most with mounted samples of paints, enamels, and varnishes for houses, boats, cars etc., a few missing, acetate guards (some frayed), a little browned, original ring-bound pictorial cloth, lacking rings, loose, rubbed, Valentine & Company, [New York], [1930s] § Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Glass Paints, Varnishes and Brushes: Their History, Manufacture and Use, colour samples and illustrations, 3 leaves loose and frayed at edges, a little stained at end, original cloth, rubbed, Pittsburgh, 1923, oblong folio & 4to (2)⁂ Valspar originated as a paint dealership in 1806 in Boston, becoming manufacturers under the name Valentine & Company in 1832. In 1903 the company developed "Valspar", the world's first clear varnish, which became their signature line and led to the advertising slogan "the varnish that won't turn white", even offering a $1000 reward if it did. This catalogue was obviously a shop's sample book, containing a label made out to "Mr.W.G.Frizzell of Albany NY" on the rear pastedown.

Lot 240

NO RESERVE Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de) Elles, number 318 of 1250 copies, membership certificate of the 'Toulouse-Lautrec Circle' and addiitonal mounted plate loosely inserted, 11 tipped-in colour lithograph plates, all numbered in pencil, bookplate, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slip-case, a little bumped and rubbed, folio, 1969.⁂ The additional plate is from an edition of 5000. The membership of the 'Toulouse-Lautrec Circle' was set at 5000 at this time, presumably meaning that a copy of the additional plate was sent to every member.

Lot 242

Wallpapers.- Wallpaper sample book, c.300 samples printed in colours, a few varnished, a few with additional smaller complementary patterns/borders, all numbered and priced on verso, first few papers creased (mostly at edges), one or two with small piece torn off, original cloth fastened with bolts and ties, leather strap to spine as handle, with "D.F.C. 1934-35" stamped on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio, [France], 1934-35.⁂ Displaying a variety of patterns including floral, geometric, abstract, and some imitiation stone, wood, tiles. etc.

Lot 255

Britain.- Cuitt (George) Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time, 73 etchings on 51 plates, tissue-guards, modern half-morocco, folio, 1855.

Lot 258

Cheshire.- Ormerod (George) The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 3 vol., large paper copy, half-titles, hand-coloured engraved double-page map, 46 engraved plates and plans, 3 hand-coloured, illustrations, list of subscribers, occasional faint off-setting, later morocco, gilt, g.e., folio, 1819.

Lot 260

Durham.- Some Account of the Cathedral Church of Durham, 11 engraved plates, 5 folding, 1801; bound before, Some Account of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, 11 engraved plates, 3 folding, n.d., and, Topham (John) Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster, 14 engraved plates, n.d., and, Some Account of the Abbey Church of Bath, 10 engraved plates, n.d., together 4 works bound as 1 vol., damp-staining to bottom corner throughout, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, a little rubbed and faded, bumping and loss to bottom edge, elephant folio.

Lot 261

Kent.- Dart (John) The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, title in red and black, 9pp. engraved arms of subscribers, 41 engraved plates, 4 folding, engraved illustrations, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, folio, J. Cole, J. Hoddle, J. Smith, and A. Johnson, 1726.

Lot 263

Kent.- Hasted (Edward) The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 4 vol., 99 engraved plates, maps and plans, of which 41 folding or double-page, 2 linen-backed, 1 with short tear, engraved head-pieces and illustrations, occasional off-setting, vol. 1 with short manuscript note tipped-in, occasional off-setting and spotting, vol. 4 with one or two marginal damp-stains, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio, 1778-99.

Lot 270

Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 2 vol., second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, list of subscribers, 24 engraved plates and maps, 19 double-page, illustrations, many full-page, previous owner's ink signature to titles, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, folio, for John Osborne and Thomas Longman, 1730.

Lot 272

[Blome (Richard)] The Gentleman's Recreations ... , second edition, without additional engraved title, 74 engraved plates only (of 80), 2 double-sided, 3 folding (one with loss to corner just touching image), illustrations, 2P2 part 1 and 2Y2 and 4D1-4D2 part 2 with large tears and slits affecting text, some repairs, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to title, bookplate, front free endpaper detached, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached, folio, 1710.

Lot 273

NO RESERVE Edwards (Lionel) A Sportsman's Bag, one of 650 copies, 18 colour plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, remnants of dust-jacket loosely inserted, [1926]; The Passing Seasons, 18 colour plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, n.d.; elephant folio & oblong folio (2).

Lot 274

Hunting.- British Hunts and Huntsmen, 4 vol., frontispieces, plates and illustrations, scattered marginal spotting, damp damage to pp.512-513 vol. 4 where pages stuck together, original half-morocco, gilt, g.e., folio, 1908.

Lot 284

NO RESERVE Cooper (Thomas Sidney) Groups of Cattle Drawn from Nature, tinted lithograph frontispiece and 25 lithographs, scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, rubbed and worn, folio, 1839.

Lot 287

NO RESERVE Flowers.- Hunt (P. Francis) & Mary A. Grierson. Orchidaceae, 'out of series' copy from an edition of 600 signed by author and artist, 40 colour plates, original vellum by Zaehnsdorf, g.e., original slipcase, a little rubbed, folio, The Bourton Press, 1973.

Lot 291

Japan.- Conder (Joseph) The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, first edition, 54 plates, of which 14 colour, after Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Kawanabe Kiosui, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, cord binding, a little rubbed, folio, Tokyo, 1891.⁂ The first book in English on Japanese flower-arranging.

Lot 295

Tull (Jethro) The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, first edition, for the Author, 1733, bound before, A Supplement to the Essay on Horse-Hoing Husbandry, second edition, for and by the Author, 1740, together 2 vol. bound as 1, 7 engraved plates, wormhole to bottom margin, scattered spotting, bookplates, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio.

Lot 302

Hamilton (John) Stereography, or, a Compleat Body of Perspective, 2 vol., first and only edition, titles in red & black, engraved head-piece to dedication, list of subscribers, 130 engraved plates, each with preceding blank leaf, some light marginal water-staining, A2 of Table of Contents torn and frayed with some loss to text, contemporary blue paste-paper wrappers, uncut, lined with printer's waste from a French work of 1788 and an unidentified Chinese grammar in French with Chinese characters, rubbed, spines worn and defective, broken, preserved together in modern board slip-case, folio, for the Author, by W. Bowyer, and sold by S. Austen, 1738.⁂ Important treatise on perspective which influenced both Kirby and Malton, and unusually found unbound and intact with the blank leaves of the plate bifolia (intended to be discarded when bound up with the text).

Lot 305

Mercuriale (Girolamo) Praelectiones Pisanae...in epidemicas Hippocratis historias..., first edition, issue with final gathering unsigned, title with large woodcut device, woodcut initials, printed in double column, errata leaf, contemporary ink inscription to title and a few ink annotations to final section (possibly in another hand), stain to upper inner corners (mostly marginal), K3 & 4 browned, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and soiled, some stains, upper cover and first few leaves nibbled at upper outer corner, [Adams M133; Wellcome 4249], folio, Venice, Giunta, 1597.⁂ Collection of lectures given at the University of Pisa on the Epidemiorum of Hippocrates and the plague, with additional lectures on conception, the baths and mineral waters of Pisa, and the medicinal virtues of wine and water. Mercuriale is mostly known for his work on gymnastics and the importance of exercise for health, first published in 1569.

Lot 51

NO RESERVE Gerlach (Martin, editor) Allegorien und Embleme/Allegories and Emblems, 2 vol., mixed set (vol.1 'Allegorien' in German, vol.2 'Emblems' in English), plates, original pictorial half roan, rubbed, vol.2 broken and loose, binding worn, Vienna, 1882 § Flanner (Janet) The Stronger Sex as seen by Vertès, limited edition, tipped-in hand-coloured plates by Vertès, original pictorial cloth, soiled and worn, New York, [1941], folio (3)

Lot 73

Steadman (Ralph) First Folio, number 10 of 10 portofolios, 10 broadsheet poems printed on a variety of papers, each poem limited to 50 copies and signed by the author, all but the first three illustrated and signed by Steadman, with a Christmas card inscribed "Knickers! from Ralph Steadman", original wrappers, some folding, loose in original paper portfolio fastened with cord, upper wrapper titled, numbered and decorated with characteristic splodge in black paint by Steadman, a little rubbed and faded, Steam Press, 1970-72 § Causley (Charles) & Wallace Southam. Timothy Winters, number 50 of 100 copies signed by the poet, composer and artist, original pictorial wrappers by Steadman, 1970 § Poem of the Month Club. 5 broadside poems by George Butler, Peter Porter, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite, and John Fuller, each signed by the author, loose, 1970 § 4 book-themed vibrant colour posters by Margaret Eastoe (later Margaret Gordon), c.510 x 385mm., central fold, one slightly frayed at edges and torn at fold, Society of Young Publishers, [early 1960s]; and a small group of others including a catalogue of 1976 Private Eye auction in aid of the Criminal Libel Fund illustrated by Willie Rushton, and a programme for the Armistice Festival 1988-89 with 3 T.Ls.s. from the President Yehudi Menuhin, folio & 4to (a bundle)⁂ The poets featured in the first are Jane Deverson, Stephen Spender, Allan Hodgkins, Edward Lucie-Smith, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Virginia Lawson, Christopher Logue, Ted Hughes, John Fuller, and Brian Patten.

Lot 80

Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 2 vol. including introductory essay by Peter Holliday, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel edition, number 1,076 of 1,980 copies, illustrations by Eric Gill, original pictorial black morocco, gilt, by G.Lachenmaier, g.e., introduction with frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, together in original cloth drop-back box, spine titled in gilt, small folio, Folio Society, 2010.

Lot 81

Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus & Criseyde, 2 vol. including introductory essays by Barry Windeatt and Roderick Cave, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel edition, number 392 of 1,250 copies, illustrations by Eric Gill, original pictorial black morocco, gilt, by G.Lachenmaier, g.e., introduction with frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, together in original cloth drop-back box, spine titled in gilt, small folio, Folio Society, 2011.

Lot 86

NO RESERVE Incline Press.- Deadman (Derek) & Rigby Graham. A Paper Snowstorm: Toni Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets, number 60 of 200 copies signed by the authors, samples and illustrations, some tipped-in, others by Rigby Graham printed in green and rust, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, with portfolio of original broadsides loose in original wrappers, together in slip-case, Oldham, Incline Press, 2005; and a pamphlet printed by Savage, folio & 8vo (2)

Lot 87

John (Augustus) Fifty-Two Drawings, with an introduction by Lord David Cecil, one of 150 copies signed by John and Cecil, lithograph tipped to half-title, portrait frontispiece and 50 plates, original half-vellum by Zaehnsdorf, small lithograph pasted to upper cover, original slipcase a little rubbed, folio, 1957.-

Lot 92

Steam Press.- Steadman (Ralph) First Folio, number 3 of 10 portfolios, 10 broadsheet poems printed on a variety of papers, each poem limited to 50 copies and signed by the author, all but the first three illustrated and signed by Steadman, with a Christmas card inscribed "Knickers! from Ralph Steadman", original wrappers, some folding, loose in original paper portfolio fastened with cord, upper wrapper titled, numbered and decorated with characteristic splodge in white paint by Steadman, a little rubbed and faded, folio, Steam Press, 1970-72.⁂ The poets featured are Jane Deverson, Stephen Spender, Allan Hodgkins, Edward Lucie-Smith, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Virginia Lawson, Christopher Logue, Ted Hughes, John Fuller, and Brian Patten.

Lot 138

MOORE R. W., of Whitehaven.  Cumberland Coal Mining. 2 folio vols. containing edited typescript & pasted-in cuttings, etc. re. Cumberland coal mining & its history. Folio. Worn limp red morocco. 1903; also Oliver Wood, The Development of the Coal, Iron & Shipbuilding Industries of West Cumberland, 1750-1914, typescript quarto thesis, University of London, 1952.  (3).

Lot 148

WILSON JAMES (Ed).  The Victoria History of Cumberland. 2 vols. Illus. Folio. Red cloth, mkg. & spotting. N.d. & 1905.

Lot 15

FOLIO SOCIETY.  18 various vols. incl. cased sets of Jane Austen & Daphne du Maurier.

Lot 15A

FOLIO SOCIETY.  16 various vols. in slip cases.

Lot 15B

FOLIO SOCIETY.  17 various vols., mainly in slip cases.

Lot 16

KEULEMANS T. & COLDEWAY J.  Feathers to Brush, The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans. Signed ltd. ed. 190/500. Col. plates & other illus. Folio. Half brown morocco. 1982.

Lot 162

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  De Chair Somerset (Ed). Napoleon's Memoirs. 2 vols. Ltd. ed.459/500. Eng. frontis & decs. by John Buckland-Wright. Maps as endpapers. Folio. Green cloth gilt. 1945.

Lot 163

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Russell Flint William.  Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved, An Album of Deplorable Caprices Faithfully Narrated. Ltd. ed. 228/550. Col. frontis & title. Sepia plates & illus. (plate at p23 with creasing & repair). Folio. Qtr. red morocco, marbled brds. in marbled slip case by Mansell. 1955.

Lot 164

FOLIO SOCIETY.  Golden Cockerel Press - The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Ltd. ed. 1740/2750. Wood engs. by Eric Gill. Quarto. Black dec. morocco gilt in solander box with related vol. of Essays by John Dreyfus & Robert Gibbings. 2007.

Lot 18

LILJEFORS BRUNO.  Ute i Markerna. Col. & other illus. Oblong folio. Orig. cloth, some wear. Stockholm, 1922; also K. E. Russow, Bruno Liljefors, An Appreciation, col. & other plates, quarto in taped-on poor d.w., Stockholm, 1929 & 2 other vols.  (4).

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