LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN. The Comet. Issue for May 1912, No. 9. The publisher's pre-production copy containing original manuscript text in red & black with some illuminated initials, together with original drawings, watercolours & etchings. Folio. Well worn card wrappers. Artists represented incl. P. F. Gethin, P. Bulcock, S. A. Gammell, B. (Bernard) Meninsky (head & shoulders pencil portrait of a girl), J. Rimmer (a "Gallery" of 20 caricature portraits presumably by John A. Rimmer, 1888-1968), W. R. Ellis etc.
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WARRAND DUNCAN (Compiler). 2 large folio ledgers containing copious information of historical & antiquarian interest re. Invernesshire, the Highlands, the clans & Northern families (incl. Forbes of Culloden). Extensive manuscript notes & summaries, transcripts of documents, tipped in original 18th century documents, pasted-in manuscript & typescript information, etc. A mass of information, mainly under appropriate headings, which will certainly repay future study.
MOORE THOMAS. The Ferns of Great Britain & Ireland, edited by John Lindley, nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. 51 nature-printed col. plates, a further 34 monochrome plates of ferns from another work loosely slipped in. Folio. Rebound half green morocco incorporating orig. brds., some repairs noted to early & late leaves. Bradbury & Evans, 1855.
DUFF H. R., of Muirtown. Manuscript account & commonplace book with some cuttings & loose ephemera occupying the first 24pp of an otherwise largely blank folio volume. c.1814; with military commission (signd. by William IV) & various letters etc., & 2 later scrapbooks with views, cartoons etc., Warrand family, 1860s.
McNAB FRANCIS. Australia. 6 detailed manuscript letters, each a folded folio sheet "ship letter" of varying legibility (some written crossed across the paper) to his mother & family in Saltcoats, one of which gives his address as c/o Messrs Dunlop McNab & Coy., Melbourne, Port Phillip. Also another from Thomas McNab, another ex. Philadelphia & 2 others. C. early 1840s.
A QUANTITY OF LIMITED EDITION AND SIMILAR ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS including 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' Milton's Hymn with illustrations by William Blake; 'Art and the Spiritual Life' by J.G. Lubbock, Twelve-by-Eight press, 1967; 'The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Library', volume II, edited by E.V. Lucas, 1924, number 162 of 1500 copies; and a quantity of similar editions (31 volumes and a folio case of correspondence) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: 'Salmacis and Hermaphroditus' a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont, edited by Gwyn Jones, with 10 engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright, Golden Cockerel Press, 1951, 10 wood engravings printed in colour, including title vignette (8 full-page), 2 colour wood engraved head-pieces, untrimmed, original quarter crushed blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, over green cloth, with matching slipcase, small folio, limited edition 36 of 80 especially-bound copies, signed by the editor and artistProvenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
A collection of 7 vintage 20th century Folio books to include Elizabeth R, Scotts Last Expedition, Rural Rides by William Corbett, The Boer War, England under the Tudors by Thomas Pakenham, The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood. Collection comes with 5 editions of the Slang and its Analogies.
A GROUP OF THREE WOODEN MEASURING/SURVEYING INSTRUMENTSIncluding a folding rule by Aston and Mander, London, early 20th century and earlierComprising a thirty-six inch brass mounted folding ruler with brass hinge and end pieces, divided for inches and stamped ASTON & MANDER MAKERS, 25 OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO, LONDON; an unusual brass mounted hinged distance caliper measure with brass locking lever and tips to each leg and incorporating pivoted notched cross-piece for locking the arms open at calibrated distances of 12, 24, 30, 33 and 40 inches to centre; a plumb square incorporating vertical reference line and aperture cut for a plumb bob, together with a mahogany folding portable folio stand opening to reveal central upright fitted with a pivoted stay beneath pairs of arms incorporating further end uprights and width extensions, (4).The caliper 91.5cm (36ins) long closed; the portable folio stand 23cm (9ins) long closed.
[Folio Society] Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of The Earth illustrated Grahame Baker 2001, The Tiger in the Smoke 2013 and Traitor’s Purse 2015 both by Margery Allingham, The Spy’s Bedside Book Edited by Graham & Hugh Greene 2006, Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene, Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood, The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, The Singing Sands and The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, The Folio Book of Short Stories (Henry James, D.H. Lawrence etc), all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] Scott's Last Expedition to the South Pole, Homer's Odyssey with lithographs by Elisabeth Frink 1974, Beowulf lithographs by Virgil Burnett 1973, Travels of Marco Polo, Queen Victoria; Our Life in the Highlands, The Gunpowder Plot 1973, Trial of Joan of Arc, Life of Alexander The Great, The Tudor Venturers, The Great Rebellion, Kings of Britain, The Bayeux Tapestry, The Hundred Years War etc, all but one in slipcases (21)
[Folio Society] Robert Graves Claudius The God and I, Claudius 1994-5 illustrated by Neil Packer, T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom 2000 and Revolt in the Desert, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Edmund Blunden Undertones of War 1989, The Long Weekend by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge 2009, Mass-Observation: Britain in the Second World War, The Siege of Delhi and The Relief of Lucknow by William Forbes-Mitchell, all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy with drawings by Feliks Topolski 1978, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady illustrated by Robin Jacques 1994, Vanity Fair by W.M Thackerary illustrated Roland Pym 1996, Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore 2009, Tom Jones by Fielding, Dumas, Sheridan Le Fanu, Trollope and Thomas Hardy, all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] The First Colonists Hakluyt's Voyages to North America 1986, Peter Whitfield Mapping The World A History of Exploration, Egypt Revealed Artist-Travellers in an Antique Land 1997, The Rosetta Stone The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs, C.W. Ceram's Gods, Graves and Scholars story of Archaeology, Historical Mysteries, Julius Caesar, The Spanish Armada and The Spanish Inquisition, Third Crusade, Siege and Fall of Troy plus three others, all in slipcases (14)
The Baronial Halls and Picturesque Edifices of England from Drawings by J.D. Harding, C. Cattermole, S. Prout etc the text by S.C. Hall embellished with numerous engravings on wood published Chapman & Hall 1848 in 2 volumes bound in half leather with gilt spines, Some of the Old Halls & Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk by the Late Edward Willins Architect 1890 with 50 plates in gilt lettered cloth, Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire by Lefroy with Etchings & Vignettes 1883, Cowdray & Easebourne Priory in the County of Sussex by Sir William H. St. John Hope 1919 limited to 400 copies (signed presentation copy) in half vellum, Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries by William Bliss Sanders, Architect with 30 illustrations 1894 folio in gilt cloth (6)
[Folio Society] The Prince & The Pauper by Mark Twain with coloured plates, Huckleberry Finn with wood engravings by Harry Brockway 1993, Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book illustrated by Detmold 1994, The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Lynch 1995 bound in silk, Lewis Carroll’s Alice illustrated by Tenniel in two volumes, Legends of King Arthur 2000, Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 1986, Robin Hood, A is for Ox and The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, all in slipcases (11)
[Folio Society] Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist being five volumes illustrated by Charles Keeping in illustrated cloth, Charles Dickens Bleak House with the original illustrations by "Phiz" and introduction by Peter Ackroyd, Christmas Books published 1988 with drawings by Keeping, Dickens' London with engravings by Cruikshank with a copy of My Early Times by Dickens, last four in slipcases (9)
[Folio Society] Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles with lino-cuts by Edward Bawden 1987 and The Lost World 1977, Ghost Stories & other Horrid Tales 1997, Crime Stories from The Strand (including Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie) 1991, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 1997, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson The Body-Snatcher & Other Stories illustrated by Michael Forman 2007, H.G. Wells Short Stories 1990 and Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes, all in slipcases (9)
[Folio Society] A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe, Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains from his Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1991, English Journey by J.B. Priestley 1997, Rides Around Britain by John Byng, Akenfield Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe, England Their England, The Earth, A Gardener's Year, all in slipcases (8)
The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period by Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards published Country Life 1924 - 1927 first edition in 3 volumes fully illustrated & with colour plates folio volumes in gilt lettered cloth and original colour illustrated dust-wrappers (3)
[Folio Society] Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim 2012, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 2012, Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh The Loved One illustrated Beryl Cook, John Mortimer’s Rumpole 1994, The Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson, Cream of Noel Coward, The Best of Dorothy Parker 1995, Arnold Bennett The Old Wives’ Tale, Bill Bryson, Mitford etc, all in slipcases (13)
[Folio Society] Bronte Novels 1964-1970 in seven volumes illustrated with colour lithographs, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with woodcuts by Edna Whyte 1966 in two volumes, Dickens' London with engravings by Cruikshank, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle with drawings by Paul Hogarth, Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood 1972, T.S. Eliot Four Quartets 1968, Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream and As you Like it (five volumes) and other folio, all in slipcases (21)
Early English Furniture & Woodwork by Herbert Cescinsky & Ernest R. Gribble published Waverley 1922 in 2 volumes (bound in one) fully illustrated folio in gilt lettered cloth, The Cabinet Maker & compete house furnisher July-December 1907 and January-December 1910 illustrated many in colour both bound in cloth backed boards, Wood Carving by Leland 1922, English Chairs 1951, Cabinet-Makers Guide, Wood-Carving 1891 etc (10)
[Folio Society] Folio 60 A Bibliography 1947-2006, Shakespeare’s Life and World 2004, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Benjamin Franklin, The Berlin Diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov, Aubrey’s Brief Lives 1975, The Grand Quarrel being Selections from the Civil War, The Double-Cross System by Masterman, William Russell Special Correspondent of The Times others by Prince Youssoupoff, Erskine Childers etc, all in slipcases (16)
The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794) by Arthur T. Bolton published Country Life 1922 in 2 folio volumes first edition fully illustrated and volume 2 with colour frontispiece and bound in gilt lettered cloth with raised gilt medallion portraits on front covers, The Work of Robert Adam by Geoffrey Beard 1978 first edition with 60 colour plates & 181 black & white illustrations this being one of 150 specially bound & signed copies (3)
The Art & Craft of Garden Making by Thomas Mawson published Batsford (1926) fifth edition with plates in colour, half-tone, line drawings and plans etc, folio in original cloth and Garden Ornament by Gertrude Jekyll and Christopher Hussey published County Life 1927 second edition illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions folio in original gilt cloth (2)
The English Interior A Review of the Decoration of English Homes from Tudor Times to the XIXth Century by Arthur Stratton Architect, published Batsford (1920) with many plates and illustrations, folio in gilt lettered cloth, The Decoration & Furniture of English Mansions during the 17th & 18th Centuries by Francis Lenygon 1909 with mounted plates in original cloth, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century by Herbert Cescinsky illustrated from drawings by the author and photos published Waverley (c.1910) in 3 volumes bound in half leather with raised bands and gilt titles (5)
[Folio Society] The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin Edited with Preface by Jan Morris, The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World from writings of W.M. Rossetti 1995 with illustrations and gilt decorated cover, Travels of a Victorian Photographer Francis Frith, The Nude, Leonardo Da Vinci, Civilisation being three volumes by Kenneth Clark, Folio Society 100 Greatest Paintings and 100 Greatest Portraits, all in slipcases (8)
[Folio Society] Trafalgar An Eyewitness History 2005, Nelson and Emma 1994, The Great Fire of London and The Great Plague, Restoration London Everyday Life in London 1660-1670, Big Chief Elizabeth 2011, Elizabeth I The Word of a Prince, Jubilee Years 1887-1897, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Selections from the Chronicles of England, Scotland & Ireland plus two volumes of A History of England and two others, all in slipcases (14)
Folio Society. The Arabian Nights, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 6 volumes, 2003, illustrations by Kay Nielsen, volume 1-3 slipcase label slight creased, all original cloth in slipcases, volumes 4-6 'as new' in original plastic wrap, A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, 2014, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, 6th printing, 2004, The Fables of Aesop, illustrated by Edward J. Detmold, 5th printing, 2002, Aeneid, by Virgil, 1993, together with 21 further volumes of Folio Society fiction & poetry, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8voQty: (31)
Pugin (Augustus). Specimens of the Architecture of Normandy, from the XIth to the XVIth Century, London: Blackie & Son, 1874, additional engraved title and numerous plates, light scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 4to, together with: King (Edward). Munimenta Antiqua; or, observations on antient castles. Including remarks on the whole progress of architecture, ecclesiastical, as well as military, in Great Britain..., 3 vols., 1799-1804, frontispieces lacking and numerous plates removed, some text leaves detached, contemporary calf, some boards detached, worn, folio, together with other miscellaneous books etc. including volumes 4 & 6 of Morris's British Birds (lacking some plates), volume 3 only of Omerod's History of Chester 1819 (plates removed), an early 19th century album containing a small selection of watercolour views, studies and pencil drawings etc., and a 19th century naive oil painting on tin of a man on horseback capturing a tiger (26.5 x 22.5 cm)Qty: (a carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

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