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Click here to subscribePorcacchi, Tommaso, L'Isole piu famose del Mondo, Venice: the heirs of Simone Galignani, 1590, three parts in one volume, folio (30cm x 20.5cm), engraved architectural title, 47 half-page engraved maps by Girolamo Porro, head- and tail-pieces, printer's device at end, rebound brown leather boards, title on spine.
Katie Ponder (British). '5 of Clubs'. Digital print on paper, signed and dated November 2020 in pencil to margin. Sheet size 40 x 29.5cm. Katie Ponder has developed a unique style that is both fresh and contemporary but with references to art deco and with a touch of Gothic inspiration also. Ballet, tarot cards, mythology and patchwork quilts have all been key sources of inspiration behind Katie’s work.Katie’s work is developed digitally but to create a hand made quality she applies different textures from printing, collage and media experiments to create a rich and tactile look to her images. Recently Katie has enjoyed working with silkscreen printing and making limited edition prints.Katie attended Falmouth University where she received a 1st class with honours degree in illustration. On graduating from Falmouth Katie was the winner of the ‘AOI Book Award for New Talent’. In 2017 She was winner of the second prize for ‘Folio Society Book Illustration Competition’ and winner of the ‘House of Illustration People’s Choice Award’. Katie has also been the winner of the ‘Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition’. Currently living in South London with her cat Poppy. Katie can often be found at her desk making pictures, whilst drinking tea, eating vegan snacks and listening to Joni Mitchel. www.katieponderillustration.com. Katie’s list of clients include: Dorling Kindersley, Penguin, Simon and Schuster, Oh Comely Magazine, Glyndebourne, Canterbury Cathedral and her work has been exhibited at Somerset House.Transplant Links Community is a UK registered non-religious and non-political charity that saves the lives of children and adults in the developing world who suffer from life-threatening end stage kidney disease. Offering teaching and advice, and carrying out living kidney transplants, sharing their knowledge with local medical teams in a variety of countries - so that sustainable transplant programmes become a possibility for the future. Please note that there is no buyers premium payable on this sale if bidding on Ewbank's Live, online fee of 6% inc VAT is payable bidding via the-saleroom.com. Added to the hammer price. Ewbank's are also waiving all vendor commission for the charity.
Dan Hillier (British). 'Queen of Hearts', print with hand embellished drawing . Rolled. 59 x 42cm. Dan lives and works in Hackney, London, making art for himself and for exhibitions and galleries, and he has also collaborated with others, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, The Folio Society, rock bands Architects, Royal Blood, The Broken Family Band and Steven James Adams, and recently he created the opening titles to BBC1's major 6-part drama 'Requiem'.Works from Dan's more recent solo shows, 'Ceremony', at Saatchi Gallery, and 'Aeons', at a self-initiated space in London, are available amongst all other work here, made over the last 12 or so years. As well as Saatchi Gallery, Dan's work has also shown in The Louvre, Paris, Turin Natural History Museum, Glastonbury Festival of the Arts and the V&A Museum in London, to name a few sweet spots.Dan has also been invited by the British Council to represent Great Britain at the Giant Creator Show in Beijing, China.Perhaps that's why they call him 'The Ambassador'. Transplant Links Community is a UK registered non-religious and non-political charity that saves the lives of children and adults in the developing world who suffer from life-threatening end stage kidney disease. Offering teaching and advice, and carrying out living kidney transplants, sharing their knowledge with local medical teams in a variety of countries - so that sustainable transplant programmes become a possibility for the future. Please note that there is no buyers premium payable on this sale if bidding on Ewbank's Live, online fee of 6% inc VAT is payable bidding via the-saleroom.com. Added to the hammer price. Ewbank's are also waiving all vendor commission for the charity.
DODINGTON JOHN (Trans). The History of the Government of France Under the Administration of the … Cardinall & Duke of Richlieu (by Charles Vialart). Folio. Rebound half calf, internal browning, mkg. & wear, concludes at "the end of the second part". 1657; also Joseph Berington, The History of the Reign of Henry the Second, quarto, 1790. (2).
Whiteside, D. T. The Preliminary Manuscripts for Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia: 1684-1685, Cambridge: University Press, 1989. Folio, hardback, full cloth with dust-jacket. Contents good, clean, bright; a few light marks to outer edges of text-block; binding good and solid, dust-jacket well-preserved
Fleece Press. Gwen Raverat: Wood Engraver, by Joanna Selborne and Lindsay Newman, Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 1996. One of 260 copies, printed by Simon Lawrence. Folio, bound in quarter-cloth and marbled paper made by Ann Muir, housed in slipcase. Loosely inserted advertisement from Fleece Press. Very well-preserved, clean, bright; very faint scuffs to extremities
Bruno, Guido (Ed.). Bruno Chap Books, Vol.II, No. 3., Lord Alfred Douglas, Salome: A Critique. The Beauty of Unpunctuality, an Essay and Three Poems, New York: September 1915. Folio, 12 pages (some unopened), card covers. Well-preserved, clean, bright; some rust from the staples. Very scarce
Detmold, Edward Julius. Twenty-Four Nature Pictures, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, no date [1919], no title. Folio covers housing 16 loose colour plates with captioned protective tissue-guards. Plates generally good and bright with some pale spotting, a couple of creases. Sold only as a collection of plates
Archer, Thomas. Charles Dickens: A Gossip About His Life, Works and Characters, London: Cassell, no date. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 18 photogravure plates by Frederick Barnard, plus other illustrations within the text. Contents generally good and bright with some pale spotting in places; binding solid with bumping and wear to headcaps/corners
Benjamin West PRA (1738-1820), American-born artist and founder member of the Royal Academy, of which he became the second president (after Joshua Reynolds). His sketchbook. Not inscribed. Blank/unused. Atlas folio (24 inches tall), late-18th century full calf with gilt decoration, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. Contents with some light spotting and occasional dampstaining; a couple of pages becoming loose with creasing/wear, some leaves missing; binding intact and solid but worn with loss to calf and splitting to joints Provenance: By descent. Vendor's late husband was descended on his mother's side from noted artist Benjamin West PRA (American, 1738-1820)
Collection of Phil May books, comprising: Phil May's Sketch-Book: Fifty Cartoons, London: Chatto & Windus, 1895; Phil May's ABC, limited edition numbered 1013 of 1050, London: Leadenhall Press, 1897; The Phil May Folio, London: Thacker, [1904]; Phil May, by James Thorpe, London: Harrap, 1932; Phil May: The Artist and His Wit, by David Cuppleditch, London: Fortune Press, 1981 (5)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Autograph. The War Illustrated, Vol. 6, No.149, 5 March 1943, signed by Churchill in blue ink across the lower section of cover image. Together with a card bearing holograph [printed] signature, headed 10 Downing Street, giving thanks for kind greetings on his eightieth birthday; two blank/unused sheets of note paper, headed Chequers; a copy of Winston Spencer Churchill: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth, London: Cassell, 1954 (dust-jacket with wear/sticker), and The Second World War, in six volumes, London: Folio Society, 2003, in slipcases
Shaw, Rev. Stebbing. The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, in two volumes, London: J. Nichols, 1798-1801. Folio, full contemporary calf, illustrated with numerous engraved plates, bearing armorial bookplate for Ruggles-Brice, with an inscription stating that the books were acquired from Keswick Hall Library, 1936. Bindings badly worn, contents with toning, damp, as found (2)
Collection of books on printing, typography, bibliography. To include Title-Page Borders used in England & Scotland 1485-1640, by McKerrow & Ferguson, London: Bibliographical Society, 1932 (for 1931), bearing bookplate for Robert Elwell, quarto, quarter-cloth with paper boards; Posters & Publicity: Fine Printing and Design, by Sydney R. Jones, London: The Studio, 1926, quarto, gilt embossed blue cloth; The Pentateuch of Printing, by William Blades, London: Elliot Stock, 1891, quarto, gilt red cloth; A Renaissance Alphabet, by Giovan Francesco Cresci, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971, oblong folio, cloth, dust-jacket; Price List of Printing Material and Printers' Machinery, Sheffield: Stephenson, Blake & Co., 1910, quarto, gilt cloth covers; Catalogue of the Edward Clark Library, in two volumes, Edinburgh: Privately Printed for Napier College of Commerce & Technology, 1976 (with original card packaging), octavo, gilt blue cloth, and others, some ex-library (27)
Royal Association / Presentation Copy. [Greville, Frances Evelyn "Daisy"]. An Old English Garden, by the Countess of Warwick, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, sold by Hatchards, 1898. Presentation copy inscribed in black ink on half-title, 'To His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, from the author, Xmas 1898.' Daisy Greville was a society beauty, campaigning socialist and philanthropist who had a number of affairs within the 'Marlborough House Set', most famously with the Prince of Wales (future King Edward VII). The book is an account of Stone Hall and its gardens. Folio, publisher's gilt green cloth, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), illustrated with 19 full-page plates (including frontispiece) plus smaller illustrations within the text, all with protective tissue-guards. Contents generally good, clean, bright; some pale spotting to plates/tissue-guards (some of the tissue-guards with creasing/wear); binding tight and solid with some scuffs/marks to clothProvenance: Vendor's father worked for 40 years at Russell Bank Farm, Upper Longdon, Rugeley, and was given this book as a gift by Wing Commander T. E. H. Grove, D.S.C. (who had himself been given the book by the Prince of Wales)
Cresset Press. Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calendar, illustrated by John Nash, London: The Cresset Press, 1930. Limited edition numbered 34 of 350. Illustrations coloured in the stencil process at Curwen Press. Small folio, quarter-vellum lettered in gilt with cloth covered boards, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed). Contents very good, clean, bright; some toning to rear endleaves; two neat stamps and reference number from County Technical Library; binding tight and solid with some light marks and bumps to corners; some wear to cloth
Wilson, Joyce Lancaster (Ed.). The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson: A Bibliography with Commentary, Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Limited edition numbered 67 of 325, designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Folio, quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt with cloth-covered boards, bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery. Including a loosely inserted advertisement for the work. Very well-preserved, clean, bright
Mixed collection of books, 18th- to 20th-century, to include The Comic Almanack for 1848, illustrated by George Cruikshank, London: David Bogue, 1848, in later blank paper covers; Cinderella...Prepared for the Use of Schools from the Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, 1904, pictorial cloth; Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, by Nimrod, London: Methuen, 1915, red cloth; Samuel Pepys: Citizen and Clothworker, printed by Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford, 1897, paper covers; Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, by Parthey & Pinder, Berolini: Nicolai, 1848, gilt cloth; Alexander Turnbull Library, Bulletin No. 2: Zimmermann's Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook, by Tewsley & Andersen, Wellington: Skinner, 1926, paper covers bound in buckram; Reports of Cases, by Charles Durnford and Edward Hyde East, London: His Majesty's Law-Printers, two folio volumes in full contemporary calf, 1787 and 1796, and others. Condition varied, as found. In three cartons (3)
FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS (ED): THE GOLDEN COCKEREL GREEK ANTHOLOGY, ill Lettice Sandford [London], Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, (206) (74) numbered (15) "Special" copy 20 zinc-engraved ills, mainly full page, uncut, folio, original half black pigskin, pictorial cloth gilt panels, top edges gilt by Zaehnsdorf, prospectus loosely inserted, decorative book plate of Loelia Lindsay, Duchess of Westminster (1902-1993), cloth slip-case + 15 Lettice Sandford intaglio plates "Greek Anthology", all signed by the artist, 2 further inscribed "Proof of one of the special plates", 3 further inscribed "A special plate", image size 240 x 160mm, from the collection of Derek Cottam
ANTHONY BURGESS: COACHING DAYS OF ENGLAND, London, Paul Elek, 1966, 1st edition, oblong, large folio, original cloth, dust wrapper + ROWLAND WATSON: A SCRAPBOOK OF INNS, London, T Werner Laurie, 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper + C W SCOTT-GILES: THE ROAD GOES ON..., London, The Epworth Press, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth + CHARLES R CLEAR: JOHN PALMER (OF BERKELEY) MAIL COACH PIONEER, London, Blandford Press, 1955, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper + T BRADLEY: THE OLD COACHING DAYS IN YORKSHIRE, 1968, facsimile reprint, original cloth, dust wrapper + HUGH MCCAUSLAND: THE ENGLISH CARRIAGE, London, The Batchworth Press, 1948, 1st edition, original cloth, (6)
REV CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON "LEWIS CARROLL": ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND, London, The Folio Society, 2008, (3750), numbered (1629), original blue goatskin gilt, all edges gilt, together with the booklet by Sally Brown "The original Alice", both housed in the original decorative gilt book box, vgc, from the collection of Derek Cottam
EVADNE LASCARIS (PSEUD): THE GOLDEN BED OF KYDNO, trans Powys Mathers, ill Lettice Sandford, [Waltham St Lawrence], Golden Cockerel Press, 1935, (200) (60) numbered (27) and signed by Mathers "Special" copy with additional set of the 12 plates, all signed by Sandford, prospectus loosely inserted, folio, original crushed crimson pictorial morocco gilt, top edges gilt, specially commissioned black cloth solander box, crimson morocco gilt labels, from the collection of Derek Cottam
PAUL VERLAINE: FETES GALANTES, ill Henry W Westel [Boulogne-sur-Seine, Pierre de Tartas], 1981, (425) (290), signed by artist and publisher with 2 double page coloured plates signed by artist, folio, loose as issued, pictorial wraps, vgc, original cloth solander box (slight wear), from the collection of Derek Cottam
GERALD LANDY: THE MILITARY PAINTINGS OF TERENCE CUNEO, London, New Cavendish Books, 1993, 1st edition, oblong, folio, original two-tone cloth, d/w + ROBERT WESTON & ROBERT TAYLOR: THE AIR COMBAT PAINTINGS OF ROBERT TAYLOR, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1999 reprint, oblong, folio, original cloth, d/w + C N BARCLAY: THE HISTORY OF THE 53RD (WELSH) DIVISION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, London, William Clowes, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, glassine d/w (part losses) + J E R WOOD: DETOUR, THE STORY OF OFLAG IVC, London, Falcon Press, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt + CHRISTIAN BRANN: THE LITTLE SHIPS OF DUNKIRK, Cirencester, Collectors Books, 1989, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth, d/w (5)
THOMAS STORY: A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS STORY CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS REMARKABLE CONVINCEMENT OF AND EMBRACING THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH AS HELD BY THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS AND ALSO OF HIS TRAVELS AND LABOURS IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL WITH MANY OTHER OCCURRENCES AND OBSERVATIONS, Newcastle upon Tyne, printed by Isaac Thompson & Co, 1747, 1st edition, 2nd issue, the final leaf of index at end damaged with loss, folio, old calf worn, book plate of Friends Library Kendal on front paste down
EDWARD YOUNG: NIGHT THOUGHTS, ill William Blake, London, Folio Society, 2005 (1020) (1000) 2 vols, numbered (372), folio, original Nigerian goatskin backed decorative blue and silver cloth, together with the commentary volume by Robin Hamlyn, vgc, original cloth solander box, from the collection of Derek Cottam
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