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Click here to subscribeFolio Society . The Fatal Shore..., by Robert Hughes, 3rd printing, 2001, Impossible Journeys, by Mathew Lyons, 2009, Five Days In London, May 1940, 2011, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, 1993, My Family and other Animals, by Gerald Durrell, 2006, as new in original plastic wrap, together with 118 further Folio Society publications, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo (Qty: 123)
Cottafavi ( Gaetano ). Raccolta delle Principale Vedute di Roma e suoi contorni , Tommaso Cuccioni, Rome, [1858], engraved pictorial title with some dust soiling, panoramic plan of Rome, sixty-two uncoloured engraved topographical views, booksellers paper label to front pastedown, hinges and joints weak, contemporary cloth gilt, lacking spine worn and frayed at extremities, oblong folio, together with an untitled volume of chromolithographic plates of illuminated pages from books of the middle ages, each tipped on to card, gutta percha perished, contents shaken and loose, contemporary blind-stamped calf with borders in relief, spine crudely rebacked, heavily worn and rubbed, large folio (Qty: 2)
Chambers (Ephraim), Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ... the Second Edition, corrected and amended; with some Additions, 2 volumes, London: D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth [and others], 1738, 21 engraved plates including frontispiece (12 folding), folding type specimen, title-pages in red and black, variable generally light spotting and browning, closed tear in volume 2 signature 5Ccc1 and folding plate XIV (facing volume 2 signature 7P1), short closed handling tear to inner fold of type specimen, contemporary bookplates and ownership inscription ('George Jeffery') to title-pages, contemporary calf, joint cracked, rubbed and worn, folio (40 x 24 cm), together with: Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language [edition title at head: Harrison's Edition, with his Life of the Author], London: Harrison and Co., 1786, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page in red and black, variable generally light spotting and browning, small tear in lower margins of quires 9F-9U, spill-burn in 10A2 affecting one word recto, inner hinges strengthened, 19th-century half calf, rubbed, corners worn, folio (42.8 x 26.2 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESCourtney & Smith pp. 57-8 (Johnson); ESTC T136232 (Chambers), T116651 (Johnson: four copies in UK libraries); cf. PMM 171 (Chambers), 201 (Johnson).
Williamson (George C.) . Life And Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A., 1918, title page signed & dated by the author, monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting & marginal toning, publishers original quarter vellum, boards & spine lightly rubbed & marked, large 4to, plus 9 hand written letters including some by A. Jaffe, limited edition of 400 copies, together with Crutwell (Maud) , Luca & Andrea Della Robbia and their successors, 1902, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slight rubbed, large 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th century illustrated literature, history & art reference, mostly original cloth, some gilt decorated, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Bookbinding Reference. A collection of books relating to bookbinding technique, restoration & conservation, 20th century publications, including: The Craftsman's Guide to Edge Decoration by John Mitchell, 1st edition, Five Oaks, West Sussex: Standing Press Ltd., 1993, title signed by the author, monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed printed boards, slim folio; The Craftsman's Guide Series, An Introduction to Gold Finishing by John Mitchell, 1st edition, Five Oaks, West Sussex: Standing Press Ltd., 1995, monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed printed boards, slim folio; The Restoration of Leather Bindings, by Bernard C. Middleton, 1st edition, Chicago: American Library Association, 1972, monochrome illustrations, author's signature to verso of frontispiece, original printed limp boards, 4to; Modern Bookbinding... by Alex J. Vaughan, 1st edition, Leicester: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd., 1929, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, 8vo; Bookbinding, and the Care of Books... by Douglas Cockerell, 4th edition, London: Pitman, 1927, monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo; Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, by Matt T. Roberts & Don Etherington, 1st edition, Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 4to, and others similar, including few pamphlets (Qty: 65)
Jüngken (Johann Helfrich ). Corpus pharmaceutico-chymico-medicum universale, sive concordantia pharmaceuticorum compositorum discordans, 3rd edition, Frankfurt: Reinhard E. Moller for Frideric D. Knoch, 1723, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, contemporary mottled sheep, gilt decorated spine, joints split at head & foot, worn at head of spine and board corners, folio (Qty: 1)
Bindings. Missale Romanum, Antwerp, Plantin, 1765. Large 4to.; Missale Romanum, Antwerp, 1837. Folio. Both printed in red and black, bound in cont. elaborate full red morocco gilt IHS on sides (2)/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: 273:First title endpapers soiled. Pages 283-381 stained at outer edges. Date should read 1765 not 1785.
Chardin (Sir John) Journal du Voyage…en Perse et Aux Indes Orientales. Premiere Partie (all published). First Edition, 1686. Folio, cont calf. Engraved title, portrait, folding map and 14 folding plates (one torn)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: 280:Clean internally, good.
Chatto (William Andrew) John Careless. The Old English Squire, 1821. Small folio, orig. boards (spine repaired) in green cloth folder and green morocco slipcase (spine faded). 24 hand coloured plates/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: 344:Plates clean. Some offsetting onto text. Uncut edges slightly soiled.
Drake (Edward Cavendish) A New Universal Collection…Voyages and Travels, 1770. Folio, cont. calf. Engraved frontispiece, folding map and 8 single page maps, 54 plates/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: 367:Binding rubbed. Head of spine chipped. Text, plates and maps generally clean.
Triggs (H I) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland, Subscriber's copy, 1902. Half brown morocco gilt (spine faded); The Art of Garden Design in Italy, 1906. Orig. cloth (spine faded) - Latham (C) The Gardens of Italy, 2 vols., 1905. Orig. cloth. All folio. Illustrations (4)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Swinburne (Henry) Travels in the Two Sicilies, 2 vols., 1783 -85. Elephant folio, cont. calf (very worn). Signed on titles "Henry Joseph Swinburne". Titles, numerous engravings, portraits, views etc., mounted. (2) Henry Swinburne, Catholic travel writer (1743 - 1803)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Dimensions:1st book: 60cm wide (aproximately) x 76cm high (approximately)2nd book: 58cm high (aproximately) x 76cm high (approximately)
Solleysel (Jacques, Sieur de) Hope, Sir William, trans. The Compleat Horseman, 3 parts in one (misbound), Edinburgh 1696. Folio, cont. calf (rubbed, spine worn). Engraved portrait, 2 additional titles, folding plates. Bookplate of Robert Berkeley of Spetchley in the County of Worcester 1900/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Columbus, Ferdinand - The History of the Life and Actions of Adm. Christopher Colombus, and his Discovery of the West Indies, call'd the New World, now in possession of his Catholick Majesty... pp.(2), 499-628 (including part title) from Vol.II of an 18th century edition of Churchill's Voyages; 20th century calf backed marbled boards, gilt ruled and panelled spine with black label, tall folio
Columbus, Ferdinand - The History of the Life and Actions of Adm. Christopher Colombus, and his Discovery of the West Indies, call'd the New World, now in possession of his Catholick Majesty ..., pp.(2), 559-688 (including part title) from vol. II of an 18th century edition of Churchill's Voyages; 20th century leather backed paper boards, gilt lettered on spine folio
Greaves, John - Pyramidographia: or, a Description of the Pyramids in Aegypt ..., pp.625-674 (including part title) from Vol.II of an 18th century edition of Churchill's Voyages; 8 engraved text illus. continued as: Greaves, John - A Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius ... pp.675-720 (including part title), 4 text illus; continued as: Borri, Christopher - An Account of Cochin-China ... pp.721-765 (including drophead title); 20th century calf backed marbled boards, gilt panelled spine lettered direct, tall folio
Angelo, Michael and Carli, Denis De - A Curious and Exact Account of a Voyage to Congo, in the years 1666, and 1667, pp.(553)-589 (including part title) from vol. I of Churchill's Voyages (?2nd edition, 1732), continued as Merolla da Sorrento, Jerom - A Voyage to Congo, and several other Countries chiefly in Southern-Africk, pp.(591)-686 (including part title) from vol.I of Churchill's Voyages (?2nd edition, 1732); 20th century marbled boards, gilt spine label, folio
Careri, John Francis Gemelli - A Voyage round the World, Part III, containing the most remarkable things he saw in Indostan, pp.185-272 (including drophead title) from vol. IV of Churchill's Voyages (?first edition, 1704); continued as: Part IV containing the most remarkable things he saw in China, pp.273-395 of the some volume (including drophead title), 3 large and folded processional plates, 20th century cloth, gilt lettered on spine, folio
Baudier, Michael - The History of the Court of the King of China ... pp.(1)-24 (including part title) from vol.II of Churchill's Voyages (?3rd edition, 1744), continued as: Barnardine (of Escalanta) - An Account of the Empire of China ... with the Provinces and States subject to that Extensive Empire ... pp.(25)-94 (including part title) of the same volume, engraved map (by Moll), 20th century half calf and marbled boards, gilt panelled spine with red label, folio
British ... - British Sportrs and Sportsmen, Sportsmen of the Past, 2 vols, folio, one of 1000, original full morocco, Sports and Sportsmen Ltd, London [n.d.], together with a collection of 13 other works relating to shooting and fishing including Sparrow, Walter - Angling in British Art, qto, cloth, foxed, spine sunned, London 1923
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales, translated by Neville Coghill and profusely illustrated by the illustrator and graphic designer Charles Mozley, an unsewn bi-folio Atlas Folio set. A limited edition of 1000 sets were produced of which less than 200 complete sets survive. Privately commissioned by John Deuss printed on handmade paper, Westerham Press and Pennington Fine Art Lithographers of London. Each set comprises eight tales cased in four gilt titled cloth covers with quarter cloth spines tied by matching ribbons. Each cover is 590 mm (23.5 inches) tall and 420 mm (16.5 inches) wide.Volume 1 - The Prologue and The Wife of BathVolume 2 - The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's TaleVolume 3 - The Merchant's Tale and The Shipman's TaleVolume 4 - The Summoner's Tale and The Clerk's Tale
Stevenson, Thomas George - Edinburgh in the Olden Times Displayed ...., one of 350, folio, with 63 plates, spine and boards scuffed, front inner joint split, Edinburgh 1880 with Drummond, James - Old Edinburgh, one of 50 L.p. copies, lacking a number of plates, Edinburgh and London 1879 (2) (both sold w.a.f.)
Fairbairns, Arnold, Portfolio of English Cathedrals. The Photochrom Company [individual titles Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [c.1904]. Folio, 33 parts bound in one volume, half leather; with a large quantity of others including Howard's Royal Encyclopedia; Lodge's British History (3 vols); History of Clare College (2 vols); Don John (2 vols) etc (qty)
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