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Click here to subscribeCommercial Bank of Scotland Limited, £1, 2 January 1915, serial number 20/F 35/357, Mackay and Riddell manuscript signatures, obverse with excellent appearance but reverse badly faded and with surface damage, one paper pull resulting in tiny hole, possibly as a result of removal from backing, overall fine PMS CO 56d, Pick S323b £150-£200
Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, specimen £5, 2 January 1919, serial number 13/G 101/1- 13/H 200/200, Mackay signature at left, perforated CANCELLED in signature field at right, manuscript date ‘8.5.19’ and annotations in top margin, several folds, good very fine, scarce PMS CO 57b, Pick S324 £340-£440
National Bank of Scotland Limited, £1, 2 January 1893, serial number A193-130, printed T.Shaw signature on behalf of manager and manuscript signature on behalf of accountant, lightly pressed, one horizontal and vertical fold, good very fine, first date for type, very scarce PMS NA 25 £500-£700
Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, $10, 1 October 1930, serial number F358,507, printed signature of Grayburn and one manuscript signature, handstamps and manuscript signature on obverse and reverse, very good and a scarce early date for this long-lived design TBB B658a, Pick 178 £80-£120
De Nationale Bank der Zuid Afrikaanische Republiek (Beperkt), 1 Pond, 2 June 1894, serial number A-18139, four manuscript signatures, several pinholes and some minor stains at left, but a simply lovely original good fine example of an extremely scarce note, and especially remarkable as it has not been cut and rejoined Pick 48a £3,000-£4,000
6th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry group of WWI medals with associated documents, typed war memoir manuscript, and books. This lot comprises a framed group of medals and badges: Military Medal named to 11972 PTE E. W. FELLOWS. 6/D.C.L.I Defence Medal 1914-15 Star named to 11972 PTE. E.W. FELLOW. D. OF CORN.L.I British War Medal 1914-20 11972 PTE. E.W. FELLOWS. D.C.L.I Victory Medal named to 11972 PTE. E.W. FELLOWS. D.C.L.I. Kings Royal Rifle Corps cap badge with ribbon of the Order of St George Cornwall Regiment cap badge Royal Fusiliers cap badge A group of five miniatures including Military Medal and Cross of St George. Together with Soldier's service and pay book, Certified copy of Attestation, Field Medical Card, and Field Message book. Framed Home Guard Certificate to Edgar William Fellows, framed Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras Air Raid Precautions examination certificate to same. Cardboard medal box with WW2 compliments slip addressed to: Mr E.W. Fellows, 45 Lissenden Mans, London, NW5. Typed manuscript 'C'est La Guerre being the experiences & opinions of a P.B.I.' by E.W. Lows, with Martin Secker compliments and regrets slip Books - A Short History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Devonport, 1929; The Immortal Salient, and a small quantity of maps
Two WWI 1914 Christmas tins: together with an identity tag for ' J Copping RC, ASC 8104', a WWI two sheet manuscript letter on YMCA 'On Active Service with The British Expeditionary Force' letter headed paper dated May 29, 1918 and a WWII single sheet manuscript letter on '16th Infantry of The Fighting First' letter headed paper dated April 2nd 1945.
Handwritten Manuscript giving the account of the Death of Dr Adrian Fortescue, and includes some original photographs. Dr Fortescue was the resident Priest at the Catholic Church in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. He died in Feb. 1923. Please google for more information. Lot also includes 2 x local newspaper cuttings. A very interesting historical item.
Theology. A small quantity of theology, ecclesiology, medieval palaeography and related reference, 20th century, including: The Luther Bible of 1534. Complete Facsimile Edition [cover-title], [Cologne]: Taschen, c.2002, 2 volumes, folio, original cloth; The Rohan Book of Hours, London: Thames and Hudson, 1973, folio, original cloth, slipcase - The Book of Psalms ... With ... Facsimile Reproduction of Eight Illuminated Folios from the Fourteenth Century Manuscript known as Queen Mary's Psalter, London: Haymarket Press, 1930, folio, original boards (repairs to spine-ends), 8 tipped-in colour plates - The Mainz Psalters and Canon Missae 1457-1459 by Sir Irvine Masson, London: for the Bibliographical Society, 1954, large folio, original cloth-backed boards - and approx. 35 others similar (three boxes)
Historical typed letter with Franco-Prussian War interest 1870, four page typed manuscript dated 13 Nov 1970 Hotel du Nord, with looks like an MP visit, with good, interesting content regarding troop movements, visit to hospital at Fort St Julian with 15000 wounded. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Two hand-painted Minton Hollins ceramic tiles, written in manuscript verso 'painted by W B Simpson of 456 West Strand, London', both of geometric patterns surrounding a central figure of a goose amid foliage and a pineapple amongst fruit, each 22.5cm square, with contemporary wooden frames.
Tunbridge Wells. Manuscript vol., c.1810, with c.66 pages, neatly written re. the Tunbridge Wells area with sections entitled The Chapel, Bishop's Down, Physicians, Jousting, Names of Houses, The Theatre, Mereworth, Encampments, Calverly's Plain & others. In a part filled old qtr. morocco 8vo notebook.NB. One vol. only. Condition report:Private Vendor from North ScotlandNo inscriptions or names of author.
POWYS T. S. The Key of the Field. Signed ltd. ed. 35/550. Woodcut frontis by R. A. Garnett. Full page manuscript inscription on the front free endpaper from Powys to Gordon Fraser. Orig. green cloth. No. 1 of the Furnival Books, 1930; also nos. 2, 3 & 4 of the Furnival Books in orig. cloth, each a signed ltd. ed. - H. E. Bates, The Hessian Prisoner, 1930; A. E. Coppard, The Man from Kilsheelan, inscribed to Gordon Fraser by Coppard & Robert Gibbings who provided the frontis, 1930 & Rhys Davies, The Stars, the World & the Women, 1930. (4).
SHAW G. B. The Matter With Ireland. Frontis. Orig. cloth. Pres. inscription from Blanche Patch (Shaw's secretary). 1962; also 4 manuscript & typescript letters to Blanche Patch with autographs of Leslie Howard, Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike & Lewis Casson; & a bundle of other Shaw-related items.
Two leaf manuscripts in wooden bindings bearing labels inscribed "Ancient ola leaf manuscript from Sri Lanka" each approx. 49.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 2.5 cm deepCondition ReportThe covers are not black and white painting, they are printed brown and white and appear to be commercial printings suggesting that the ola leaf sheets are the same, age of the ola leaf is unknown, presumed to be same age as the wooden covers with the printed decoration
Abbot (Charles). Manuscript play:- THE FATAL PREPOSSESSION A TRAGEDY bound with CELADON AND CORNELIA A BALLAD bound with ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF WERTHER, c.90pp cursive script, numerous bound-in and pasted-in correspondence, dedicated to John Oglander, Warden of New College Oxford, bookplate William Anthony Glynn, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, spine ends rubbed, 4to, [c.1785] {E4 Abbot 160}
1714 RISING - PROCLAMATION TO SEIZE THE PRETENDER BY THE LORDS JUSTICES. A PROCLAMATION, ordering the Payment of One hundred thousand Pounds to any Person who shall Seize and Secure the Pretender, in case he shall Land, or attempt to Land in any of His Majesties Dominions. London: Printed by John Baskett, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1714. Broadsheet, 47 x 38cm., small section excised from bottom right corner with loss of a few words of imprint, with old ink manuscript note on back 'Proclamation for Apprehending the Pretender Promising a Reward to any person who apprehends him on hundred thousand poundes, proclaimed 20 Sept. 1714' which has slightly stained the printed text on the front, [ESTC T19571 or T19572; both Rare]
The Boulton’s Trafalgar Medal together with an unusual collection of items belonging to Able Seaman Thomas Fletcher, H.M.S. Defence, including what is believed to be the oldest known ships’ biscuit i. Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, white metal, unnamed, contained in a removable hinged gilt-metal watch-type case, now lacking suspension loop and one glass, some damage to edge affecting inscription, otherwise good very fine ii. Manuscript Booklet, predominantly in Fletcher’s hand, comprising the ‘General Order’ dated H.M.S. Euryalus, 22 October 1805, as published in the London Gazette on 6 November; a list of those killed and wounded at Trafalgar; ‘The Battle of Trafalgar Composed by Joseph Dixon on board His Majesty’s Ship Defence’, a remarkable contemporary poem written by a participant in the battle (Able Seaman Joseph Dixon, from Whitehaven, Cumberland, aged 22, serving on H.M.S. Defence). The victory at Trafalgar inspired a huge mass of patriotic verse and Fletcher clearly appreciated this unusual, and apparently unpublished, poem because he also included it in his journal (see Provenance below). All the British ships are described, some action detailed, and the victory summarised; two further poems celebrate the British naval victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles, 19 February 1807; and despatches describing the victory at Trafalgar; 28 pages, 4to, stitched with string, unbound, some leaves detached, some leaves missing iii. Shaving Box, a naively produced piece of treen, mahogany and oak, 135mm x 80mm x 35mm, name inscribed on cover, with original mercurial gilded mirror, losses to interior, residue of lining paper iv. Ships’ Biscuit, 120mm diameter, portion broken but a remarkable survival, unless otherwise described, condition generally good for age £2,000-£2,600 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, Trafalgar sale, October 2005, Lot 193, by family descent. Fletcher’s autograph journal, October 1804 to January 1807, was offered as the previous lot in the same sale. The remarkable survival of Fletcher’s ships’ biscuit is a reminder of one of the less edifying aspects of life in an eighteenth century warship. Jeffrey Raigersfield, a midshipman in Mediator, noted how it ‘was so light that when you tapped it upon the table, it fell almost into dust, and thereout numerous insects, called weevils, crawled; they were bitter to the taste, and a sure indication that the biscuit had lost its nutritious particles; if, instead of these weevils, large white maggots with black heads made their appearance, then the biscuit was considered to be only in its first state of decay; these maggots were fat and cold to the taste, but not bitter...’ What is purportedly the oldest known ships’ biscuit in the world, circa 1852, is prominently displayed at the Maritime Museum in Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Thomas Fletcher was born in 1779, and was pressed into service as a crewman on H.M.S. Defence (74) in 1803, probably after some experience of the sea during the brief peace of 1801-03 or even earlier. The Defence, launched in 1763, was one of the oldest line-of-battle ships in the navy. Fletcher kept an autograph journal written between October 1804 and January 1807, during which time he was second gunner, then Able Seaman. Defence arrived off Cadiz in late August 1805. The ‘Great Gunes’ were exercised on September 3rd, a ‘general exercize’ was held on the 4th, and on 6th September news was that ‘the french Was Making all Ready to Come Out’. This was a false alarm and the Defence settled down to wait. Fletcher records an exhausting regime of cleaning, repairing sails, mustering, and other preparations for battle. He also records, on 29th September, the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief: ‘At Seven Lord admiral Nelson Joined Us with three Sail of The Line wich maid twenty Nine Sail of the Line with Us besides frigates Sloaps Brigs’. Defence had a crucial place in the cordon around Cadiz: she ‘occupied the station next to the inshore frigates and there were two line-of-battle ships between the fleet and Defence’ (Eyewitness to Trafalgar, p.69). She was therefore the first ship of the line to see the signal at 8 am on 19th October: ‘the frigate In Shore firid Signall gune To Us that the french & Spanish Fleet Was out’. On 21st October Defence was part of the leeward column led by Vice-Admiral Collingwood. She fired her guns at the French Berwick (74) for nearly half an hour. She then fought the San Ildefonso (74) for about an hour before the Spaniard, which had taken about 200 casualties, struck. Defence had 36 killed and wounded, her mainmast was shot through, cut in several places and much of her lower and topmast rigging was shot away. Her gaff was cut in two and her hanging knees and chain plates were much damaged. A thirteen year-old midshipman on Defence told his sister that ‘when we went down we had two Frenchmen and one Spaniard on us at one time. We engag’d them forty six minutes, when the Achilles and Polyphemus came up to our assistance.’ Fletcher provides a terse description of the battle from the point of view of an ordinary sailor serving on one of the lower gun-deck who depended on word of mouth information once the action started: ‘Moderate Breezes & clear Wheather at half past 5 in the morning. The french & Spanish fleet We Saw to Leeward of Us We Maid A Signal Immeditly to Admiral Nelson that The Enemy was close by he answered it Immeditly & maid all the Sail they Could towards them Admiral Nelson Maid A General Signal Saying Boots [??] Britions fooley [??]... Me the Acton Begon Five Minutes past 12 it lasted untell 20 minutes to 5 in the Even[in]g we took 18 Sail Of the Line and one Blowing in the east Maid 19 in number we took Command Of the Shipes that Struck to us at 5 PM”. He goes on to give a detailed account of the difficult aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar: renewed alerts of possible enemy action, the gales that buffeted the fleet, the problems dealing with prisoners and the wounded. Defence and her prize anchored that evening (as the dying Nelson had tried to instruct Collingwood to order the entire British Fleet to do). Both ships survived the gale that followed the battle and San Ildefonso became one of the few trophies saved by the British. On 1st November ‘The Captain thought proper To Read a letter that he Recd From Collingwood Concerning Admiral Nelson Death, the Captain & Officers & Seamen & Merigs [i.e. marines] for there good beheavor During the Acton’. Defence left for Gibraltar on 2nd November and then, after a rendezvous with Collingwood, set sail towards England. Fletcher’s journal tails off on 28th November, before the ship reached Portsmouth, but he returned to it in later years to add two further entries, the final one being: ‘Tuesday Jenary 18: 1807 This Day the Defence Ships Company Received there Midles on this Day for the Acton of the 21 Day of October 1805. Now on bord of the Kent’ A large proportion of the officers and crew of Defence were Scotsmen, and many were discharged to Kent (74) on 24 December 1805. HMS Kent’s crew was paid off on 29 January 1813.
Collection of framed prints, to include a fire insurance 'Proposals' notice from Salop Fire-Office, 1 January 1783, with woodcut trade-mark and manuscript policy holder/number; a Robert Morden map of Leicestershire; a steel-engraving of Stafford; a colour woodcut of Aston Hall; two modern signed prints of Stafford and Leek. Together with a modern unframed map of Medieval Shrewsbury (7)
Frederick Charles Cooper (1810-1880), five watercolours; Mosul from the Eastern Bank of the Tigris,Inscribed ‘Plate 2, to be placed opposite of p.80 of manuscript. Volume I’, overall 27 x 42cm.Village along the Tigris, 22 x 32cm.‘Sheik Adi’ 25 x 35cm‘Encampment near the Bellid Songar? March 28th 1850’20 x 35.5cm.‘Astonishment of Kurds at an opera glass’, 11 x 16.5cm.All unframed
Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds, 2 volumes, 6th edition, Newcastle, 1826, numerous wood-engravings, manuscript note tipped-in at p. 265 in volume I, some light spotting, volume II front hinge breaking, original boards, paper labels to spines, rebacked with original spines relaid, rubbed, 8vo, together with Dobson (Austin). Thomas Bewick and his Pupils, London: Chatto and Windus, 1884, illustrations, original cloth, spine a little toned, 4to, with 3 others: John Jackson, A Treatise on Wood Engraving, 2nd edition, 1861, Gleeson White, English Illustration. 'The Sixties': 1855-70, 1897, and Vera Salomon, Gravelot, 1911Qty: (6)
Hanham (Frederick, editor). Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses, 1st edition, Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846, 62 sheets with mounted grass specimens, a little minor offsetting and spotting to text, contemporary red morocco gilt by Astle & Sons, loss at top right margin of upper cover, a few stains, small folio, together with a scarp album, 1870's-80's, compiled by Charles Moreton, 32 leaves mounted both sides with dried seaweed specimens from Orkney, photographs, prints, letters, cut signatures, plus some loose, the photographs (approximately 30), some with printed and manuscript captions include views of Southampton, Netley, Waterford, Warwick, Orkney, Elgin etc, some toning and light spotting, later inscription at front 'Father's album, seaweed from Orkney Islands which he visited & where he preached the Gospel, S. Morton', original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, plus an album with approximately 60 window-mounted Victorian/Edwardian photographs of shooting parties, sailing boats, fishing, some in and around Ardrishaig, ArgyllshireQty: (3)
* Dutch East Indies. Coupe des cannes a Jawa [Cutting the canes at Java], pen & brown ink and pencil on paper, depicting plantation workers cutting sugar cane and loading it onto a barge, ink manuscript Dutch title at foot, generally lightly toned, sheet size 195 x 260 mm (7.75 x 10.25 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with: Aankomst op plantagie: introductie - brief [Arrival at plantation: letter of introduction], pen & brown ink and watercolour on paper, depicting an indoor scene of a seated man with (possibly) afternoon tea, examining a letter and the guest who has arrived with it, with two plantation workers looking-on, generally lightly toned, minor dampstaining to some edges, ink manuscript Dutch title at foot, with additional ink manuscript "hiernevens ontvangt UE een groote Eeter", possibly meaning "herewith UE meets an important person who likes to eat a lot" where the abbreviation 'UE' could stand for 'Uwe Edele', i.e. 'Your Honour', sheet size 210 x 255 mm (8.25 x 10 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, verso with printed information regarding translations from the Dutch of the ink manuscript wordingQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: From a folder of sketches including studies after George Chinnery, sold at Christie's South Kensington, circa 2010. Apparently both items are on paper produced by Honig, JH & Co. (possibly watermarks). Not examined out of frames.
* Earp (William Henry, 1831/33-1914). Coastal landscape, with fishermen and boats, watercolour on paper, signed lower right, 25.0 x 54.3 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, 49.2 x 79.7 cm, some chips to frame, verso with circular framer's label 'Heawood & Hipwell, Hinckley', together with: Coastal landscape, with figure pulling in a lobster pot, fishermen and boats, and distant shipping, watercolour, heightened with white bodycolour, on paper, signed lower left, lightly faded near left edge, a few pale spots, 23.9 x 53.0 cm mount aperture, moulded gilt frame and glazed, 50.0 x 77.7 cm, some small losses to frame edge, plus: George (Ernest, 1839-1922), Drury Lane [London], 1886, & St. Mary le Bow, Cheapside [London], two colour lithographs on paper, after watercolours by Ernest George, both 33.0 x 24.2 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (46.4 x 37.2 cm), titles in ink manuscript on versosQty: (4)
* Watercolours and drawings. A collection of 115 watercolours and drawings, on paper or thin card, mid 19th-early 20th century, comprising 72 watercolours or wash (some with pencil or pen & ink), 8 pen & ink (some with pencil, one with watercolour), and 35 pencil, some heightened with white bodycolour, several signed or initialled, a few with titles or inscribed on verso, one pencil & watercolour sketch captioned 'Place for embarking Elephants on the Island of "Karativoo" [sic] - (or Amsterdam) - opposite Ceylon, March 22nd 1837', one pencil and wash on paper of Tynemouth lighthouse, mounted on paper (signed and dated in pencil J.W. Carmichael 1864, beneath drawing), mount paper with additional early ink manuscript annotation: 'by J.W. Carmichael of Newcastle on Tyne. Sent to Mr. Davison of Hartlepool, being a reduction of a fine drawing of Tynemouth lighthouse by T.M. Richardson', a few with some creasing or minor edge fraying, occasional mostly minor marks or spots, one with closed edge tear, 3 with losses to lower edge, smallest sheet size 8.6 x 12.5 cm, largest sheet size 37.8 x 30.8 cm, many mounted, plus 26 various prints, including etchings, and two Flemish early to mid 19th century oil on tin interior scenes, one showing an barber-surgeon's shop, with a man attending to a patient's foot, and another man being shaved at a table in the background, some marks and surface scratches with loss, the other depicting an interior with old man seated on a bed with a harp, and girl with a tambourine looking on in the background, a few small scratches with slight loss, both with 19th century auction stencil to verso 34 YC, each 25 x 21.5 cm, contained loosely in a card folderQty: (141)NOTESArtists include: Frederick Adcock, Donald Hughes, Edward C. Booth, A. S. Hartrick (entitled 'On the beach, Rostrevor, and dated '95'), and J. W. Carmichael.
* Charles (1948) Prince of Wales & Diana (1961-1997) Princess of Wales. A large slice of cake icing and marzipan base from one of the 23 official wedding cakes made for the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on Wednesday 29th July 1981, the white icing with a sugared onlay of the Royal Coat-of-Arms coloured in gold, red, blue, and silver, a small silver horseshoe and leaf spray adjacent, some white decorative icing tracery laid on top at head and foot, partly cracked and slight damage to shield of crest and other extremities, approximately 20 x 18 x 4cm, and 800 grams (28 oz) weight, preserved in cling film and supported on a card and tin foil base in an old cake tin with hand-made manuscript paper label signed by M[oyra] Smith taped to lidQty: (4)NOTESThis layer of cake icing was given to Moyra Smith, an employee to the Queen Mother at Clarence House. Moyra began her career at Clarence House in the kitchen before moving on to more general duties on the recommendation of Lady Jean Rankin. Besides the main official five-tier wedding cake, some 22 other wedding cakes were supplied by various manufacturers and this seems likely to have been one sent to Clarence House for the consumption of the Queen Mother's staff. In view of its size, it is most likely that it was either from the side of a cake, or from the top of a single-tier cake. This slice of 40-year-old cake icing was acquired from Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 27 August 2008 (lot 301) when it was sold on behalf of Moyra's family. It appears to be in exactly the same good condition as when originally sold, but we advise against eating it, and the royal letter and bottle of commemorative beer that accompanied the lot are not present. However, included here are printed Ceremonial and Order of Service programmes for the wedding in St Paul's Cathedral, and a memorial Royal Wedding Breakfast programme for Buckingham Palace, all 29 July 1981.
* Clarke (Graham, 1941-). Graham Clarke's Grand Tour, Oxford: Phaidon, 1989, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, pictorial half-title with ink manuscript authorial inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, 4to, plus 5 other books signed by Clarke: One Hundred & Fifty years of Boughton Monchelsea School, 2000; The Watercolours (exhibition programme), 1990; W. Shakespeare Gent., His Actual Nottebooke, 1992 (two signed copies); Goût de Grenouille, 1981, with a collection of other Graham Clarke-related items including, The Hayle Mill Papermakers Song, 1977, (limited edition, 1 of 200 total copies), Notte Todaye, notes for the interested, 1984, printed at the Florian Press, signed by both Clarke and Graham Williams (printer), Graham Clarke, by Clare Sydney, 1986 (two copies), Joe Carpenter & Son, an English Nativity, by Graham Clarke, 1990, 12 calendars illustrated by Clarke (some duplicates, one signed by Clarke), copies of various books with illustrations by Clarke including: 2 copies of Siegfried Sassoon Centenary celebration programme, 1986; 1 copy of North Downs Way, 1999; 14 copies of The Turning of the Year, 1990, also a quantity of Graham Clarke illustrated greetings cards, including 8 signed by Graham and his wife (6 personally inscribed to 'Viv and Paul'), reproductions of watercolours and paintings by Clarke, numerous related posters, prospectuses, exhibition invitations, a Graham Clarke 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle, a vinyl LP copy of William Mathias' This Worlde's Joie, 1976, the cover illustrated by Graham Clarke, and other related ephemera, including Balyn & Balan, 1969, two colour wood and linocut illustrations only (of 23), and two text sheets only (of 18), with woodcut lettering, some light spotting, taken from the limited edition unbound book Balyn & Balan, each window mounted, mount aperture 44.3 x 32.8 cm and smallerQty: (-)
* Derby Porcelain. An illustrated manuscript catalogue of The Clark Collection, mid 20th century, pink-ruled ledger comprising: 80 pages of manuscript in double column and a large number of blank leaves; 4 watercolours of porcelain on Whatman board attached on stubs and 7 watercolours similar mounted on paper and attached on stubs or mounted direct on ledger leaves, most highlighted in gold; 3 further mounted uncoloured pencil drawings; and a number of photographs, receipts (one with the name Mr D. Clark), and newspaper cuttings, variously tipped-in, mounted, or loosely inserted, occasional circular labels written in ink 'Clark Collection', leaf size 37 x 25cm (14.5 x 10ins), original blind-panelled black cloth, lacking spine, lower cover detached, folioQty: (1)NOTESAn interesting ledger documenting pieces of Derby porcelain and other pottery dating mostly from the 18th and early 19th centuries which was in the collection of Mrs Clark, a prolific collector of early porcelain. It documents the physical details of each item, including the maker's mark, as well as, often, where purchased and for what sum. The attractive artwork showcases some of the pieces in the collection.
Manuscript account book. A pocket book of farming accounts & rents etc., 18th century, comprising 62 leaves of accounts dating from 1740s-90s for farming expenses, receipt of rents, and incomes etc. (mostly written to both sides, with few blank pages), some records crossed through, includes entries relating to beekeeping 'an account of my bees swarming & casting for the year 1742, May 22 number 10 swarmed hive 5 bees 4 1/4 stands att number 4. May 26 n.10 cast put in ye bee house to n.3..., an account of my bees swarming & casting &c in the year 1744, June 1 a cast as I think or swarme from no.1 in ye bee house ye bees wde 5 1/2 sent it to Leagrange to ye halfs I think ye swarm flew away before', includes a list of titheable land on the farm, manuscript name to first leaf 'Thos. Hutchinson in Pott's Vinegar House, Goodman's Fields, London', with 7 leaves of manuscript accounts from an early 19th century pocket book loosely inserted, some toning and finger soiling, contemporary vellum with fore-edge flap and brass clasp, soiled and some wear, 8vo (16.2 x 10 cm)Qty: (1)
Exhibition catalogue. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Birmingham Meeting, 1886. Exhibition of Local Products & Industries in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, from 26th August to 2nd October 1886, Official Catalogue, Birmingham: Houghton & Co. Ltd., 1886, folding lithograph plan, numerous wood engraved advertisements throughout including some folding, bookplate of Charles Hart and John L. Marks to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary maroon morocco, gilt decorated spine and panelled decoration to boards with gilt title to upper board, light wear to extremities, 8vo, together with: Auction catalogue, Catalogue of a most superb and valuable collection of engravings & etchings ... form by ... George Smith..., which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 4th March 1861, 78 p., manuscript prices realised throughout, armorial bookplate of Frederick Parr to upper pastedown, contemporary green half calf, printed paper label to upper board, 8vo, and The Baker Collection, Manuscripts of and relating to Admiral Lord Nelson, briefly noted by Sir John Knox Laughton, Knight, with three facsimiles, London: Chiswick Press, 1913, 3 folding monochrome plates, bookplate of John Roland Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary brown quarter morocco, green cloth sides, slim 4toQty: (3)
Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. The Quest, numbers 1-3 (of 6) bound in 1 volume, printed at the Press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, published by Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, November 1894-July 1895, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments by Edmund Hort New, Charles M. Gere, A J. Gaskin and others, occasional light offsetting, light spotting to endpapers, contemporary vellum, a few light stains, 4to, manuscript note at front: 'This edition is limited to 300 copies of which this is number nine, C.N.C.' (Claude Napier-Clavering), together with Vincent Press. Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Written in 1759, Birmingham: Vincent Press, 1898, title and opposite leaf within wood-engraved border, printed in red and black, wood-engraved initials, original limp vellum, cloth ties, 8vo, limited edition of 310 copies, plus Five Ballads about Robin Hood, Birmingham: Vincent Press, 1899, wood-engraved illustrations, initials and ornaments, printed in red and black, bookplate of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis VIII Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946), original limp vellum, cloth ties, 8vo, limited edition of 210 copiesQty: (3)NOTESTomkinson pp. 187 & 175 respectively. The Birmingham Guild of Handicraft Press was founded in 1894 by Arthur Dixon, Montague Fordham and C. Napier-Clavering and originally intended as a scheme of craft classes for slum boys, ceasing publication in 1902. The Vincent Press began in 1898 with the object of reprinting classic works but only produced the two books present here.
Milne (A. A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st deluxe edition, London: Methuen, 1926, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, scarce minor marks or spots, upper outer corner of penultimate printed leaf a trifle creased, pictorial endpapers (some light toning in places), all edges gilt, original red limp leather gilt, somewhat rubbed, extremities worn, spine cocked, 8vo, together with: Ibid., Now We Are Six, 2nd edition, 1927, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, a few minor marks, half-title & imprint page toned, front free endpaper with ink manuscript ownership name, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, some minor marks (mainly to rear cover), extremities rubbed, faded spine with lightly frayed ends, 8vo, plus: Potter (Beatrix), The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne, 1905, colour illustrations throughout, half-title & frontispiece blank reverse each with contemporary ink manuscript inscription, scarce minor finger-soiling, p.77 with small area of paper adhered near top of image (skinned from facing leaf), stitching strained, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown with bookseller's ticket to upper corner, front hinge cracked, original brown boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, spine crudely strengthened with green cloth, some minor marks, front corners rubbed, 16mo, with three other Beatrix Potter first editions: The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909, early issue with notice board in p.14 illustration), and Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes [1917], all defectiveQty: (6)
Rubaiyat. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A.C. Benson, reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, London: Siegle Hill, [1911], colour illustrations within illuminated borders heightened in gold, light spotting front and rear, previous owner inscription, top edge gilt, contemporary purple half morocco, spine lettered in gilt with vine decorations, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Holme (Charles, editor). The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Offices of 'The Studio', 1906, colour illustrations, presentation label to Mr G .L. Leigh, bookplate, floral endpapers (with marginal offsetting), all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt by P. Garrett, upper cover with circular green morocco onlay, with initials G.L.L. (the dedicatee), flower designs and title repeated in gilt, spine and edges a little rubbed, 4toQty: (2)
Hunter (Andrew Alexander, editor). Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889, 1st edition 1890, portrait frontispiece, original cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and slightly faded and soiled, small folio, together with Pruen (Septimus), The Cheltenham Improvement Act, 1852, with Notes, an Appendix... , Cheltenham: W. Paine, 1853, some edge creasing, modern half calf gilt over marbled boards, large 8vo, plus Lee (John, publisher), A New Guide to Cheltenham, and its Environs, 2nd edition, [1837?], engraved vignette to title, 2 folding engraved plans, a few vignettes to text, modern half calf over marbled boards, small 8vo, plus other mostly Cheltenham and Gloucestershire interest including some manuscript and ephemera items, including 23 x Kelly's Directory for Cheltenham, 1930/1975, "Looker-On" Directory for Cheltenham & Gloucester, 1913 & 1916, 3 Sharpe & Fisher trade catalogues (1939), Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Illustrated London News (January to December 1855), etc., various bindings and sizes, some wearQty: (5 shelves)
Watson (Rowan). Western Illuminated Manuscripts, A catalogue of works in the National Art Library from the eleventh to the early twentieth century, with a complete account of the George Reid Collection, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: V&A Publishing, 2011, numerous color illustrations, publishers original red cloth with slipcase, large 4to, together with; Pelekanidis (S.M. Et al), The Treasures Of Mount Athos Illuminated Manuscripts (The Patriarchal Institute For Patristic Studies), 2 volumes, 1st English edition, Greece: Ekdotike Athenon S.A., 1974, numerous color illustrations, patterned endpapers, publishers original gilt & color decorated mock leather in dust jacket and slipcase, folio, and Panayotova (Stella). The Macclesfield Psalter, 1st edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 2008, numerous color illustrations, publishers original gilt decorated cloth in slipcase, 4to, plus other modern illuminated manuscript reference & related including publications by Oxford, Yale and The British Libary, Mostly original cloth in dust jack some original wrappers, VG, Large 4to/8voQty: (2 shelves )
[Walford, Thomas]. The Scientific Tourist Through Ireland, in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of Antiquity, Art, Science & the Picturesque, by an Irish Gentleman, London: for John Booth, [1818], engraved vignette title with small surface loss at foot (affecting date), 7 engravings with aquatint, including frontispiece, two engraved folding maps, letterpress with scarce minor spots or marks, and 3 blank lower outer corners creased with short tears, contemporary quarter cloth, rubbed and faded, a little wear to extremities, 12mo, together with: Cunningham (Allan), The Poems, Letters, and Land of Robert Burns: illustrated by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and other artists, 2 volumes, London: George Virtue, [1840], additional vignette title to each volume, 88 (of 89) engraved plates, including frontispieces, spotting, volume 1 with pictorial bookplate of Jacobus Bromley (with early ink manuscript shelfmark), contemporary green half calf gilt, faded and rubbed with some scuffing, some wear to extremities, 3 joints cracked, 4to, Smith (William), A New and Compendious History, of the County of Warwick, Birmingham: W. Emans, 1830, additional vignette title edge-frayed with minor damp stain to fore-edge, (lacking letterpress title), engraved frontispiece, 58 (of 60) engraved plates (including map), spotting, 1 plate with closed marginal tear just touching plate border, and facing text leaf with long closed tear, pp.3-8 extensively repaired, numbered label to front pastedown, hinges strengthened with black cloth, all edges gilt, contemporary black calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, rebacked with original spine relaid (rubbed), a little rubbed with some light scratches and marks, corners showing, 4to, and three others: A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Berks, by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, [1815?]; Jennings' Landscape Annual or Tourist in Spain for 1837, Biscay and the Castile's; British Military Prints, by Ralph Neville, 1909Qty: (7)
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