Leighton (Clare, 1898-1989). The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, written and engraved by Clare Leighton, 1st edition, Collins, 1933, 12 wood engraved plates, printed from the original blocks, sheet size 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 ins), bound in original green cloth gilt, faded to extreme edges and minor fraying to extreme foot of spine, with repaired dustwrapper, oblong folio, together with a copy of the 1992 re-issue of the same work by the Sumach Press, with an afterword by Patricia Jaffe The Farmer's Year was the first book Clare Leighton wrote, engraved and designed, including the 12 full-page designs, the title vignette and tail-pieces to each of the 12 chapters. The artist wrote that the experience of making the work gave her 'a delicious sense of complete oneness'. (2)
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Fabric samples. A trade volume of fabric samples, English, early 19th century, approximately 60 leaves, with varying numbers of printed cotton fabric samples (mostly between four and six) mounted with adhesive to rectos and versos (a few blank leaves and some swatches missing), many samples monotone and duotone, recto of ledger leaves printed to upper margin 'Printed and published by Shaw and Sons, 137 and 138, Fetter-lane, London', some spotting, some leaves detached and frayed, original reversed calf, worn, lacking spine and label to upper cover, covers detached, folio, together with six portions of pink and cream Toile de Jouy fabric, four after Jean-Baptiste Huet's 'Les Losanges', matching mounts and glazed frames (7)
A large collection of Victorian and Edward VII addressed envelopes, a pencil drawing probably of Mary Adcock, a gilt tooled Victorian leather folio 'Gems of Photographic Art', empty, a collection of forms of service, late 19th/early 20th century, including Southampton, a few woodblock prints and other items (qty).
GERARD, John - The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes : new edition very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, with upwards of 2750 botanical woodcuts in the text - full calf rebacked, folio, lacks the engraved title-page, the dedication leaf, and the final 5 leaves of the text (supplied in manuscript), third edition, 1636.
BIRKIN, Lieut.Col. R.L - History of the 3rd Regiment Imperial Yeomanry, 28-1-00 to 6-8-02 : illust, maps, cloth a little worn, oblong folio, (possibly lacking a frontispiece folding map before the title-page),1905. With - Thompson, Colonel C.W, Seventh (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards : illust, maps, org. half morocco, 4to, 1913.(2)
![CLEMENT, of Alexandria - [Greek title], Clementis Alexandrini Opera, Quae Extant : 2 vols, full calf rebacked, folio, Oxford,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/38798e61-9ed1-4fe6-9839-a9e8015d730a/ac4ec7e0-33ab-4d0a-8795-a9ec00fa9e20/468x382.jpg)
![CAMDEN'S Britannia : [Gibson edition], 44 folding county maps, 6 other maps, 9 plates of coins, calf worn, folio, short tears](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/38798e61-9ed1-4fe6-9839-a9e8015d730a/57b530b5-689f-4699-a6ab-a9ec00fb7634/468x382.jpg)
![ROBERTS, David - Sketches in Egypt & Nubia : [with] Sketches in the Holy Land : 2 vols, colour plates, org. half morocco, ele](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/38798e61-9ed1-4fe6-9839-a9e8015d730a/839023d5-5803-418a-aa43-a9ec00fbb33f/468x382.jpg)
EUROPEAN TOUR : A massive album containing well over one hundred watercolour sketches of three separate tours in Europe in 1904-05, oblong folio, cont. half morocco worn on the spine. *Note includes watercolours of Alpes-Maritimes, Cap d'Ail, Borigo, Eze, Gothenburg, Swedish Lakes, Baltic Islands, Bellagio, Pallanza, Locarno, etc, etc.
![BACON, Francis - [ Works ] : Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vicecomitis Sancti Albani, Magni Angliae Cancellarii, Op](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/38798e61-9ed1-4fe6-9839-a9e8015d730a/febcad85-8b49-4a1b-b358-a9ec00fab5d5/468x382.jpg)
SHAW, P.J - An Old York Church, All Hallows in North Street. Its Mediaeval Stained Glass and Architecture : plates inc. colour, org.white pictorial buckram, folio, limited 500 copies, 1908. *Note very fine copy. With - Lockwood, Henry F & Cates, Adolphus H, The History and Antiquities of the Fortifications to the City of York : fold plan, 12 plates, org. boards, 4to, author's presentation copy, 1834.(2)
![Local Interest - The Ferns of Derbyshire, Illustrated from Nature [...], Bemrose & Sons, London [n.d., 1877], illustrated](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6b29b9c9-e055-458d-9837-aa01011b2b26/2b44b49f-e313-4fd4-a4f9-aa020090784a/468x382.jpg)
Local Interest - The Ferns of Derbyshire, Illustrated from Nature [...], Bemrose & Sons, London [n.d., 1877], illustrated with 24 full-page chromolithographic plates and a title-page printed with fern specimens, line engravings accompanying text, pictorial green cloth gilt, as issued, 8vo; further 19th century Derbyshire natural history works, including botany, geology and ornithology, various; Robinson (Joseph Barlow), Derbyshire Gatherings [...], J.R. Smith, London 1866, illustrated with full-page plates, contemporary pictorial red cloth, all edges gilt, small folio; Sheldon (J.P.), Through Staffordshire Stiles and Derbyshire Dales: A Tour of the Dove and the Manifold Valleys, Illustrated with Twelve Drawings by Edward Roper, Frank Murray, Derby 1894, pictorial red cloth as issued, 4to; Baker (Ernest A.), Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak and the Neighbourhood, With Forty-Three Photographs and Two Maps, John Heywood, London [n.d., c. 1905], pictorial blue buckram as issued, 8vo; Derbyshire fishing, Dovedale; Peak District; ballads; topography; etc
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