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Click here to subscribeShakespeare; Charles Knight (edit.): The Works of Shakspere, Imperial Edition with Illustrations on steel. In 2 volumes. Virtue & Co. no date, c1860. Folio, PP810, 778. Cont. half leather; a little rubbed; occasional foxing; PLUS: Charles Knight: A Biography of William Shakspere. Virtue, no date, c1860. Binding Matching the Works (3)
CHAMBERLAIN, Henry, History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, London 1769, folio, calf, rebacked raised bands, new endpapers, frontisplate, 64 plates and two maps, margins of frontisplate repaired, loss of lower margin on one plate, map of London frayed around edges, map of area 20 miles around London is damaged with approx 15% loss (1)Cover secure.Has been re-lined.Pages yellowed.Some foxing and staining/water damage – more so to frontispiece
Lodge, Edmund, Portraits of Illustrious Personages. London, 1821-34. Folio (4 vols). Full leather gilt, 240 plates across 4 vols. Subscriber edition - large paper (ink inscrip.: Copy 4 of Mr Edwards, Halifax) with Whitaker, Thomas, History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven. Leeds: 1878. 4to (bound in 2 vols). Full calf; all plates, pedigrees, as called for in binder's instructions). Third ed., with many additions and corrections; and Gotch, J. Alfred Old Halls and Manor Houses of Northamptonshire, 1936 and Squire's Homes and Old Buildings of Northamptonshire, 1939. Similar half crushed morocco (red and blue), numerous photographic plates.Lodge Vol III with loss of head of spine and detached boards otherwise a solid set in scuffed binding, generally clean internally with some foxing to plates, mostly marginal. Whitaker binding with some scuffing and rubbing, small loss to upper board of I, some occasional, variable foxing and offsetting but otherwise clean internally, tear to pedigree of Clifford of Skipton with no loss. Gotch spines a touch faded, binding with some marking and scuffing, foxing to edges, slight foxing internally but generally clean.
Haines (Joseph) A Satyr against Brandy, first edition, 2pp., drop-head title, a little soiled and creased at edges, [Wing H197], folio, Printed by Jos. Hindmarsh, 1683.⁂ A poem in heroic couplets on the transformation of brandy from a traditional drink of the lower classes to a favourite among reprobates of the higher echelons of society. Haines was a well-known figure of the stage in the late 17th century, first as a dancer (whom Pepys described as "incomparable") and then as an actor and writer/speaker of prologues and epilogues.
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Opera quæ exstant, fine engraved portrait frontispiece and architectural title with portraits of Pallas, Hercules and others, and full-page portrait of Seneca, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, colophon f. with large woodcut printer's device verso, repair to inner margin of half-title verso, one or two small wormholes to lower margins, lightly browned, prize f. from the Collège Mazarin bound in at start, contemporary calf with gilt arms of Cardinal Mazarin to covers, gilt spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, a handsomely printed edition of the works, folio, Antwerp, House of Plantin, 1614.
Textiles.- Koch & Te Kock. Fünfzig Jahre [1880-1930], colour plates and illustrations, light spotting to title, original cloth-backed boards tied with gold cord, upper boards covered with woven patterned carpet incorporating logo and dates, Oelsnitz, [1930] § Tiffany Studios. The...Collection of Notable Antique Oriental Rugs, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 each one of 500 copies, vol.3 one of 1000, printed in green and black, titles with decorative borders (no title in vol.3 but apparently complete), colour frontispieces, plates, browned, vol.1 & 2 original boards, vol.3 original cloth, all t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, New York, [1906-08] § Daubenton (L.J.M.) Mémoire sur le Premier Drap de Laine superfine du Crû de la France, first edition, 16pp., stitched in old wrappers, title in manuscript on upper wrapper, small stain to foot of spine, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1784, oblong folio & 8vo (5) ⁂ The first is a trade catalogue to celebrate the jubilee of one of Germany's leading carpet manufacturers; the last concerns the author's experiments on how to improve the quality of French wool.
Prior (Matthew) To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale, first edition, 2pp., drop-head title, slightly foxed, later marbled wrappers, [Foxon P1088; ESTC locates 3 copies in UK and 2 in USA], folio, Printed for J. Tonson, 1702.⁂ One of three 'idle tales' written by Prior between 1700 and 1710. This tells of two lovers, Celia and Celadon who speak to each other with hypocritically flowery language, but whose thoughts are elsewhere. Each desires something else more than his or her purported love: Celadon wants a place at court; Celia wants Thyrsis, who is hidden under the bed.
Architecture.- Garner (Thomas) & Arthur Stratton, The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, 3 parts, Subscriber's Copy, 192 plates, mainly photographic, occasional light foxing, parts 1 & 2 original cloth-backed boards, rubbed with chipping to extremities, corners a little bumped, part 3 original cloth-backed printed boards portfolio, lacking 1 flap, 1 detached, worn, 1911 § Belcher (John) & Mervyn E. Macartney, Later Renaissance Architecture in England, 2 vol., 170 plates, mainly photographic, contemporary half morocco, upper joints beginning to split but firm, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1901; and a small quantity of others, architecture, folio & 4to (sm. qty)
NO RESERVE Photograph Album.- St. Peter's Church, Clapham.- c.250 mounted or pasted-in photographs collected by the Reverend John Palmer of St Peter's, variously weddings, baptisms, confirmations, choir practice, lessons, outings, camps, bazaars, social clubs, sports, amateur theatricals, portraits, Jubilee celebrations in 1935, novitiates at Cuddesdon in 1933, also Baron de Rutzen's 21st birthday reception at Cambridge, sundry newspaper clippings, some browning and soiling, contemporary half roan, worn at corners and along extremities, folio, [1930s].
Aristotle. Opera quaecunque hactenus extiterunt omnia, 2 parts in 1 vol., edited by Desiderus Erasmus, text in Greek, prefatory material in Latin and Greek, small woodcut device on title, another on verso of final leaf, woodcut diagrams and historiated initials, title stained and with worm traces at foot, elsewhere some spotting and staining, e4&5 loose, contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 19th century calf, gilt, metal clasps, rubbed and scuffed, [Adams A1732], folio,Basel, J.Bebel and M. Isingrinius, 1550.
Gloucestershire.- Lysons (Samuel) A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, one of 12 large paper copies, engraved title page and 111 plates, all but 5 hand-coloured with line and wash borders, plate 84 in 2 states, title-page and first f. foxed, bookplates of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledeclune and Morar, Lindsay Fleming and W.R. Jeudwine to pastedown, contemporary dark blue morocco, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, large folio, T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.⁂ "The plates which I have etched from my own drawings do not pretend to the character of finished engravings, I nevertheless flatter myself that the manner in which they are executed will not be thought wholly inadequate to the subjects. These etchings are sometimes assisted by the roulette." Samuel Lysons.
Tea.- America.- , An Act for permitting tea to be exported to Ireland, and his Majesty's Plantations in America, without paying the Duties charged upon thereupon, Thomas Baskett , 1748 bound with An act for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America, Thomas Baskett, 1748 and a good collection of other acts, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, remains of gilt Royal Arms to upper cover, worn, but holding, folio
Spain & Gibraltar.- Great Britain's Glory. Or, The Stay-at-Home Fleet: Tune of Packington's Pownd, first edition, 4pp., woodcut vignette of a ship to title, second leaf inlaid into an album leaf, disbound, [Foxon G257; ESTC locates BL and Uni of Cincinnati copies only], folio, Printed for A. Moore, 1729.⁂ A poetic attack on the Walpole administration's foreign policy relating to the war with Spain. An Anglo-Dutch fleet had been assembled off Spithead under Admiral Wager as a response to Spain's attack on Gibraltar, but it remained at anchor while peace negotiations remained ongoing. The poem ridicules the large number of visitors to the static ships.
Heraldry.- Le Feron (Jean) Catalogue des noms, surnoms, faits et vies, des connestables, chanceliers, Grands Maistres, admiraux et mareschaux de France, 5 parts in 1, titles with woodcut printer's devices, 2 of which hand-coloured, numerous woodcut arms, many with contemporary hand-colouring, occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary limp vellum, [Adams LParis, F. Morel, 1599-1598; and a water-stained copy of Recueil des Tiltres Qualités, 1654, folio (2)
NO RESERVE Irish Parliament. Acts and Statutes..., black letter, foxed and browned, some edges frayed and chipped, some damp-staining affecting margins, some repaired at end, ex-library copy with ink stamps on title and fly-leaf, manuscript index on fly-leaf, repaired, ink inscription on front free endpaper to the effect that this collection was compiled from Sir John Magill of Gill Hall, Dromore, Co. Down, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, folio, 1692-97.⁂ 28 separate Acts, including: "An Act for the Confirmation of Articles, Made at the Surrender of the City of Limerick"; "An Act for Granting an Additional Duty on Tobacco" etc.
Ireland.- Crossly (Aaron) The Peerage of Ireland: or, an Exact Catalogue of the Present Nobility ..., Dublin, Thomas Hume, 1725 bound before The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, Dublin, Thomas Hume, 1724, 2 vol. bound in 1, previous owner's ink inscription to title, correction inserted by hand (3B2), one or two short marginal tears, occasional faint spotting and soiling, modern calf backed cloth boards preserving contemporary panelled calf covers, folio
Dublin bookseller's refusal of a Knighthood.- [Stevens or Stephens (Rev.)] Chivalry, No Trifle, or, The Knight and his Lady: A Tale, first London edition, 8pp., disbound, [Foxon C154; ESTC locates 5 copies in 4 libraries], folio, Dublin, Printed: London, Reprinted for A. Freeman, 1747.⁂ Poem about the Irish bookseller and printer George Faulkner and his supposed refusal of a knighthood offered to him by Lord Chesterfield during his 8-month tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (August 1745-April 1746)
Advertising.- Scotland's Industrial Souvenir. A Pictorial Description of the Principal Cities & Places of Historical, Industrial, & General..., 2 vol., printed in green & black, black & white illustrations, 64 sheets of chromolithographed advertisements, mostly heightened in gilt, light erasure marks on decorative endpapers, otherwise internally very good, original brown imitation-morocco cloth decorated in black, minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good set, folio, [c.1900]-05.⁂ A wonderful example of chromolithographic advertising, increasingly popular toward the end of the 19th century. Scarce complete
[Gay (John)] An Epistle to the most learned Doctor W--d----d; from a Prude That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd, first edition, 8pp., later wrappers, modern cloth chemise and dark blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case, [Foxon E416; Ashley IX, p.79], folio, Printed by T.W., 1723.⁂ Probably written by John Gay, but certainly one or more of Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot, who had been ridiculing Woodward since 1713. In this bawdy Scriblerian poem, signed "Prudentia" at the end, a spoof astrological prophecy by John Arbuthnot, in which a general metamorphosis of the sexes was predicted, is satirised. Prudentia describes her sudden acquisition of a penis during an operatic performance by the castrato Senesino, and appeals to Dr. Woodward, a well-known physician and collector of fossils, to assist with the removal of the unwanted new member.
Europe.- Mayer (Luigi) Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean Islands, 14 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 71) by William Watts and others after Mayer, disbound, original boards, broken and worn,[Abbey Travel 371; Atabey 789; Blackmer 1100; Koc 177; Tooley 321], folio, by T.Bensley for R.Bowyer, 1810 [plates water-marked 1809]; sold not subject to return.
Prison Reform.- Fraser (Peter) Iniquity Display'd: Or, The Happy Deliverance. A Poem, first edition, 8pp., disbound, [Foxon F231], folio, Printed for the Author, 1729.⁂ Written from a debtor's prison, nothing is really know of Peter Fraser, but his poem was inspired by one of the first attempts in England at prison reform, led by the MP William Oglethorpe, whose close friend Robert Castell had contracted smallpox and died in the notoriously squalid Fleet prison in 1728. Oglethorpe was also later instrumental in the founding of the colony of Georgia.
NO RESERVE Vanity Fair.- The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day... by Jehu Junior, vol.1 only, 48 chromolithographed plates, advertisements, paper guards, original green cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, corners worn, folio, 1869.
Spain.- Carlos II (King of Spain, 1661-1700) Letter signed "Yo el Rey" to Cardinal Lazzaro Pallavicino, in Spanish, 1p. with conjugate blank and paper seal, folio, Madrid, 28th February 1680, sending good wishes for the Holy Nativity, folds, yellowed; and another, a Letter signed by Maria Anna of Austria (1634-96), Queen of Spain, mother of Carlos II, folio (2). ⁂ The premature death of Carlos II, the last of the Hapsburg kings sparked the War of the Spanish Succession.Cardinal Lazzaro Pallavicino (1602/1603-80).
Wriothesley (Thomas, fourth Earl of Southampton, politician, 1608-67) Letter signed to Sir Robert Pye, 1p. with conjugate blank, folio, Southampton House, [London], 7th December 1660, warrant authorising the sum of £100 Bounty be paid "unto Captain James Smith... in respect of his faith full & loyall services performed by him", traces of mounting at edges, folds, slightly browned.⁂ "The hallmarks of Southampton's conduct as lord treasurer were caution, conscientiousness, and incorruptibility. Burnet wrote that 'he was an incorrupt man, and during seven years management of the Treasury he made but an ordinary fortune out of it' (Burnet's History, 1.171). Southampton refused to derive personal benefit from the office, and reached an agreement with the king whereby he received a fixed annual salary of £8000." - Oxford DNB. Sir Robert Pye (bap. 1585, d. 1662), exchequer official to Charles I and Charles II and politician.
[Cooke (Thomas)] The Battle of the Poets. An Heroick Poem, first edition, some light scattered spotting and browning, disbound, folio, J.Roberts, 1725.⁂ First edition of Cooke's most famous work, rare, ESTC lists on 2 copies in the UK (both BL) and 6 in the US. Cooke's poem continued the British Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns which Swift had taken up in The Battle of the Books. Unlike in Swift's poem however Cooke had Pope and other Tory writers defeated by their modern counterparts. Cooke would later go on to criticise Pope's translation of the Iliad, these two attacks ultimately led to Pope including Cooke as one of the dunces in his Dunciad.
JONES (Edward) Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards. London: for the Author 1794, folio, engraved frontispiece and dedication, one engraved harps plate, musical scores bound at end with continuous pagination, modern boards. Note: Jones (1752-1824) was harpist to George, Prince of Wales and upon his accession to the throne in 1820 adopted the title Bardd y Brenin, the King's Bard. "His most important work was in the preservation of traditional Welsh music. He collected and published over 200 traditional melodies. His concern for the protection of Welsh cultural life is also evident in his strong belief in the eisteddfod as a safeguard of Welsh cultural traditions and the purity of the Welsh language." (ODNB); FENTON (Richard) Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, 1903, 4to, signed by Ferrar Fenton to title, inner hinges worn, cloth; An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments... VII - County of Pembroke, HMSO 1925, folio, cloth (3)
RAPIN DE THOYRAS (Paul) The History of England, 2 vols. (of 4), 2nd edition, 1732-33, folio, frontispiece portraits, 4 folding maps, Royal portraits by G. Vertue, worn calf; PINKERTON (John) A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all parts of the World. Vols. I to V only, 1808-09, 4to, engraved plates, spotting and staining, contemporary cloth. Sold not subject to return
WILLIAMS (John) The Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Northern Governments. London 1777, 2 vols. 4to, calf backed boards, rubbed; TEMPLE (Sir William) The Works, in 2 vols., London 1740, folio, portrait, worn calf; other memoirs, biography, history, etc, including Sir Robert Walpole, Sir John Dalrymple; also DEFOE (Daniel) The History of the Union between England and Scotland. London 1786, 4to, portrait, diced calf, cracked joints; few others (condition varies; sold not subject to return)
ALBINUS (Bernard) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body. London: printed by H Woodfall for J & P Knapton 1749, large folio, 28 plates and 12 outline plates, some spotting and dust staining; bound with - A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, 1750, vignette title and 4 (of 7) plates and 4 outline plates; all in worn half morocco
Comic and popular literature, 19th century. Quantity 'Comic Almanack' illustrated by George Cruikshank, bound or loose in parts, all rather dusty and worn; also - TYMMS (W) The Art of Illuminating. Day & Son 1860, small folio, lithographic plates, some dust staining and soiling, limp covers; (quantity)
CRANE, (Walter) Triplets. George Routledge & Sons, 1899, no. 295/750 copies, rubbed vellum backed boards; GALLO (Eleaonora) Peasant Art in Italy. Florence: Guido Giannini & Figlio April 1929, no. 2 of 250 copies, coloured title pages and 33 full page colour plates, oblong folio, oatmeal cloth with cloth bands and painted wooden clips
Illustrated. GIBBINGS (Robert) The Wood Engravings, first edition Dent 1959; REYNOLDS (Frank) Mr Pickwick, Hodder & Stoughton [no date], 4to, tipped in colour plates, signed limited edition (this copy unnumbered), vellum (lacks tie); BELL (Major J) Compendious View of universal History and Literature. 4th edition, 1833, folio, worn binding; few others including local history with plates
Literature, 16th century and later, including a volume of German manuscripts on music by Baumgart (1817-1871), a French atlas of folding battle plans and fortifications, a Continental oblong folio volume of Hogarth steel engravings, and various others including incomplete and odd volumes. Sold not subject to return.
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