* Jones (Daniel, 1912-1993). Original manuscript score of several songs for Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, circa 1953-54, 8 pages of autograph manuscript music and lyrics for songs included in the original radio production of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, first broadcast on the BBC third programme on the 25th January 1954, black ink on printed paper with musical stave, with annotations in pencil to margins, including 'Dent Thursday am', the various songs numbered in blue ink from 74153 to 74166, a few marks and occasional minor soiling, sheet size 310 x 245 mm (12.25 x 9.7 ins), contained in old brown manilla envelope with typewritten note to one side 'UNDER MILK WOOD - Dylan Thomas 74153 - 74166'Qty: (1)NOTESThe songs included here are: Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail, Childrens' Game, Polly Garter's Song, and Mr. Waldo's Song. The 4 songs are divided in the manuscript into 7 parts, each with a page number indicated. A milestone of radio broadcasting, Under Milk Wood, first performed on 25th January 1954, was a 'play for voices' which revealed the hidden lives and dreams of a small Welsh village, Llareggub, in rich poetic and burlesque language and music. The composer Daniel Jones was a friend from boyhood of Dylan Thomas, as charted in his memoir My Friend Dylan Thomas (1977). During the Second World War, Jones had worked at Bletchley Park as a Captain in the Russian-Japanese section. Dylan Thomas never heard the BBC Radio premier (which famously included his friend Richard Burton as the narrator), dying of alcohol poisoning in New York on 9th November 1953 at the age of just 39. The first edition of Under Milk Wood consisting of 101 pages, includes a preface as well as 8 pages of musical score, all of which were provided by Daniel Jones.
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Garrett (Frank, binder). Illuminated Retirement Address to the Right Honorable Sir John Dorington Bart, 1908, calligraphic manuscript address in black and red ink on vellum, with some words and initials illuminated in liquid gold, presented by Gloucestershire County Council, at a meeting on 13 April 1908, addressed to the retiring Chairman of the Council, Sir John Dorington, 14 vellum leaves, with manuscript on 7 leaves (remaining leaves blank at front and rear), and including numerous signatures of members of the Council, all edges gilt, contemporary crushed maroon morocco by Frank Garrett of Birmingham, signed in gilt by the binder to rear turn-in, covers with gilt single fillet border, inner panel filled with Tudor rose tool and entwining foliate tendrils with trefoil dots, and matching central circular motif enclosing the initials 'J.E.D.' in gilt on a green morocco onlay, triple gilt fillets on turn-ins, slim 8voQty: (1)
Chivers (Cedric). Of the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis as translated out of Latin by Richard Whytford... re-edited into modern English with an historical introduction by Wilfrid Raynal, O.S.B., illustrations and designs by W. Russell Flint, Chatto & Windus, 1908, mounted colour plates, owner's blindstamp to front blank 'From the Library of Dana C. Bradford', top edge gilt, vellum doubluers with gilt-ruled turn-ins, binder's gilt stamp to rear turn-in, contemporary vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, with design to upper cover of 4 kneeling saints within a decorative surround in gold and colours, in the manner of a medieval illuminated manuscript, and similar elongated panel in gold and colours to spine, incorporating the figure of a bishop, generally in very good, clean condition, with later fleece-lined light brown cloth slipcaseQty: (1)
Greenaway (Kate & Crane, Walter). The Quiver of Love, a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern, 1st edition, 1876, 8 chromolithographed plates by Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway, mounted within decorative borders, additional lithographed title, frontispiece blank reverse with ink manuscript inscription dated 1919, half-title & final 2 leaves spotted, stitching strained, all edges gilt, original decorative blue cloth gilt, a few marks (mainly to rear cover), extremities somewhat rubbed, spine toned, 8vo, together with: Greenaway (Kate, illustrator), Under the Window, Pictures and Rhymes for Children, 1st edition, 1st issue, [1878], half-title with colour vignette, pictorial title with no printer's ornaments either side of "Edmund Evans" and with imprint on verso, page 14 with "End of Contents", colour illustrations throughout, occasional finger-soiling, scarce light spotting, blue-black endpapers, cloth-backed pictorial boards, a trifle rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, slim 4to, plus: Ibid., The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, 1st edition, London: Chatto and Windus, [1886], colour frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations (lightly offset), a few spots at front, blue endpapers, hinges cracked after endpapers, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, mark to front cover, slim 8vo, and 3 other Kate Greenaway, including Kate Pictures from originals presented by her to John Ruskin and other personal friends, 1921, plus The Princess Nobody, by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Richard Doyle, [1884]Qty: (8)
Humphreys (Henry Noel). Parables of our Lord, 1847, & The Miracles of our Lord, 1848, 16 thick card leaves to each, richly chromo-illuminated in gold and colours, margins lightly toned with some pale spotting, 2 leaves of printed notes to rear of second volume (dampstained and spotted), Parables final leaf with mark to lower margin, Miracles title a trifle finger-soiled, and preliminary blank with ink manuscript inscription dated 1871, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, both with gutta-percha perished, loose in original moulded papier maché boards, dust-soiled with hairline cracks, rear cover to Parables lower outer corner chipped, Miracles front cover chipped, black morocco embossed spines (rubbed), with embossed lettering to each, both 8voQty: (2)NOTESMcLean, Design (2nd edition), pp.99-105; McLean, Bindings in Paper, pp.51 & 53. '... one of the first of the so-called "papier-mache" bindings, contrived to look like carved ebony ... the result was splendidly gothic and impressive ... Noel Humphreys' designs ... are very warm and natural, in comparison with the more intellectual abstractions of Owen Jones'.
Jones (Owen). The Preacher, Illuminated by Owen Jones, Longman, 1849, chromolithographed throughout in colours and gold, spotted, early ink manuscript inscription to preliminary blank, marbled endpapers, hinges cracked after endpapers, all edges gilt, original "carved" wooden binding by Remnant & Edmonds, achieved by "burning in the pattern" on to wooden boards, resulting in a high-relief binding, designed by Owen Jones, black morocco spine (ends frayed) with embossed lettering, gilt-decorated edges and turn-ins, rubbed and lightly dust-soiled, rear cover lower outer corner chipped, front cover with single wormhole to upper edge, tall 8voQty: (1)NOTESMcLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings, p.31, also Design (2nd edition), pp.93-95. This is the only book cover known to have been produced by this process.
Old Bourne Press. The Elf. A Sequence of Seasons, by James Guthrie, 4 volumes, London: W.H. Broome at the Old Bourne Press, Spring 1902-Winter 1904, colour and monochrome illustrations by James Guthrie, colour endpapers, 4 pp. 'To Our Subscribers' printed note regarding the Summer issue loosely inserted in Summer issue, Winter issue unopened, original linen-backed decorative boards, a few small stains, Autumn issue titled on spine in red manuscript, 8voQty: (4)NOTESTomkinson p. 138. Each a limited edition of 250 copies, Summer issue unnumbered.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding. 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, Engraved & Printed by André & Sleigh Ltd, Bushey, Herts, no date, [1911], plates, illustrations and initials printed in gold and colours, on cream japan vellum paper, text printed in red and black, all edges gilt, maroon silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt, original full vellum, inside gilt dentelles, upper cover with fine pictorial design in gilt of a peacock in a branch with sunburst, and elaborate decorative floral border, heightened with green, red and mauve, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, original fretwork clasps, each studded with three red amethysts, rear cover with large floral decorations to each corner in gilt, in excellent condition, housed in protective fleece-lined drop-over maroon cloth bookbox, 4to (binding measures 31 x 22.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESMagnificent decorative binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Without publisher's imprint or limitation leaf. This copy may be from the deluxe issue of 25 copies on japan vellum, issued by Siegle, Hill & Co in 1911. Francis Sangorski famously designed this richly elaborate peacock binding for the Rubaiyat for Sotheran's. The standard edition copies of this work were issued in a limited edition of 550 numbered copies, but are not hand-coloured to the upper cover (as in this copy), and do not feature the padded silk endpapers or decorated clasps.
PATERSON WILLIAM. The Case of Mr William Paterson in Relation to His Claim on the Equivalent as the Same is Stated in a Petition given in by Himself ... to the Honourable Court of Exchequer (ref. his claim on the equivalent payment in respect of his involvement with the Darien Scheme). 7 leaves. Folio, close cropped with some loss but rare. Rebound qtr. calf with marbled brd. & title label. Edinburgh, 1708; also a bound folio vol. of Acts &c Relateing to the Equivalent, bound Acts with blank interleaves & containing manuscript transcriptions of (1) Act concerning the Payment of the Sums out of the Equivalent to the African Company, (2) a copy of The Charter of the Equivalent Company & (3) a copy of The Charter of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Well worn old reverse calf, early 18th cent., & one other vol., Life of Paterson (3).
PINKERTON JOHN. An Enquiry into the History of Scotland. 2 vols. Fldg. eng. maps. Laid in manuscript leaves of notes. 1894; also Scotland Delineated or A Geographical Description of Every Shire in Scotland, fldg. eng. map, hand col. in outline, eng. county maps (as called for), rebound qtr. calf, marbled brds., Edinburgh, 1799. (3).
H.M.S.O. Report ... Commissioners for the Improvement of Live Stock & Agriculture with Special Reference to ... the Crofters' Holdings. Folio blue cloth. Edinburgh, 1910; also inscribed copy of The Past & Present Position of the Skye Crofters by Macdonald, c.1903 (foxing) with manuscript letter & 12 others re. crofting & farming. (14).
Ricardo (David). On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation, 2nd edition, John Murray 1819, printed title, preface and contents list, index and two pages of publisher's advertisement bound at rear, some spotting throughout, ex-library with ink stamps to front pastedown and title with the cancelled bookplate of Bedford College, partially uncut, near-contemporary quarter cloth with manuscript title label to spine, old adhesion scaring at base of spine, bumped and worn at extremities, 8voQty: (1)NOTESKress C. 401.
Trussell (John, 1575-1648). A manuscript transcription of extracts from John Trussell's Continuation of the Collection of the History of England, possibly in the author's hand, circa 1640s, 10 pages of handwritten manuscript on 6 folio leaves, written in a small neat 17th century hand on laid paper, four words struck through on the first page, the text consisting of an epitome or précis of Trussell's history of the English kings Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III, modern blanks at front and rear, marbled endpapers, 20th century sprinkled half calf (by Riviere & Son), with two red morocco gilt spine labels, a few minor marks, slim folio (30 x 18.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESManuscript attributed to John Trussell of Winchester (historian, poet and Mayor of Winchester in 1624 and 1633). A 20th century typewritten slip of paper inserted into this volume reads 'A manuscript of six leaves attributed to the seventeenth century historical writer John Trussell (fl. 1620-1642), being a transcript of extracts from his Continuation of Samuel Daniel's History of England.' Trussell's Continuation of the Collection of the History of England: beginning where Samuel Daniell Esquire ended... was first published in 1636. This manuscript extract may have been circulated amongst a small circle of educated readers prior to or during the English Civil War.
* Court Rolls: Hensall Court, Yorkshire, 1600-1623 & 1626, 1633, 1635 & 1639, manuscript on two rolls of stitched vellum membranes, each court is conducted by Robert Somerscales, then from 1602, William Richard, and opens with a prescription giving the date of its holding, then a list of the sworn panel of jury men, then often a list of men who owe suit at court but are in default, with their fines indicated above their names, usually 4d or 6d, plus records of land conveyances, with some precise descriptions and scattered references to the old manorial strip system of farming, fines include one relating to a feud between Charles Salmon and Lord of the Manor of Hethensall, Alan Percy, succeeded in 1619 by Jaslin Percy, whereby Salmon is accused of various offences including cutting and uprooting woodland and digging up the dividing baulk between his Lord's lands and another, leading to Salmon's lands being seized and a heavy fine being paid, etc., the earlier court rolls for 1600-23 on 16 stitched vellum membranes, the other for courts on 5 stitched membranes, each measuring approximately 60-80 cm in length x 28 cm wide, some soiling, occasional rubbing of text with loss of legibility, a few scattered holes and tearsQty: (2)NOTESHensall is a village now in North Yorkshire in an area known as the Humberhead Levels. An old 15-page photocopy of a typed summary of the Rolls plus a few other related photocopies is included with the lot.Note: This lot is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules 1959, 1963 and 1967, administered by The Historical Manuscripts Commission at The National Archives on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. Accordingly the purchasers of the documents lie under an obligation to notify the Secretary of the Commission of their acquisition and to provide details of where they will be kept. They may in no circumstances be removed from England and Wales without the prior consent of the Master of the Rolls.
* Victorian Letters Patent. A commission by letters patent for John Bearnes of Lincolns Inn for the Queen's Counsel Learned in the Law, 10 July 1837, manuscript on vellum with printed red rules and decorative black borders, pendant brown Great Seal of William IV in tin skippet, appended by slightly frayed red threads, overall 51 x 72 cmQty: (1)NOTESThis was produced in the second month of Queen Victoria's reign and before the Great Seal with her visage had been made.
Leland (John, c.1503-1552). An undocumented and largely complete manuscript copy of Leland’s Itinerary, 19th century, a total of 1,772 pages written in ink in a legible, scribal hand, with upwards of 1200 words of annotations in the hand of John Gough Nichols (1806-1873, English printer and antiquary), a total of 86 pages apparently missing (see below), page edges smoke-marked with no loss of text or legibility, smartly bound in 4 recent blue cloth volumes with titled spines (retaining one original cover retained in volume 4), 4toQty: (4)NOTESThe volumes are bound as follows: Volume 1: 398 pages Leland / Vol I written in pencil by John Gough Nichols on one of the blank pages. Nichols has also annotated a few of the pages either on the text itself (rectos) or on the blank versos (43 words). pp. 1-47 present (page 1 headed Leland Itinerary); pp. 48-85 missing; pp. 86-268 present; pp. 269-438 present - p. 269 headed Leland Itinerary / Vol II. Volume 2: 378 pages Leland / Vol II written in pencil by Nichols on one of the blank pages. pp. 1-120 present; pp. 121-180 (blank pages); pp. 181-438 present; “The End of the Fourth Volume of Mr Leland’s Itinerary”. This volume also has a separate sheet of notes written in both J. G. Nichols’ hand (24 words), as well as the scribal hand. Volume 3: 317 pages Leland / Vol III written in pencil by Nichols on one of the blank pages. Bound in before the first page of the handwritten manuscript is a portion of John Bowyer Nichols [J. G. Nichols’ father] and son’s 1838 publication Cornwall (England: County) which includes pp. 241-304, the first part (Appendix VI) of which is titled William of Worcester’s Itinerary. Between pp. 256 and 292 is Appendix VII ‘The Itinerary of John Leland / So far as relates to Cornwall’ which has been heavily annotated in brown ink by John Gough Nichols. Two pages of autograph notes by Nichols can be found bound in between pp. 270-271 and pp. 272-273. The third part of the printed text (Appendix VIII) is titled Drayton’s Poly-Olbion Cornwall. The first page of the scribal hand begins at page 461. Nichols’ annotations run to approximately 839 words, with a further 170 minor alterations also in his hand. pp. 461- 559 present; pp. 560-599 missing; pp. 600-659 present (the page following 659 returns to page 1 and is headed Leland Itinerary / Vol the Vth), pp. 1–160 present. Volume 4: 680 pages This volume begins on p. 161 and follows on from the previous volume; pp. 161-252 present (p. 253 headed Leland’s Itinerary Vol VI); pp. 253-842 present, (page 842 being the end of the entire Itinerary); pp. 843-859 blank pages previously paginated. The detached inside back cover has also been written on by Nichols (48 words) and bound in at the end of the scribal text. There are many pages (both recto and verso) with pencil annotations (c.100 words) by John Gough Nichols. The verso of page 670 has a passage of notes in his hand (85 words in brown ink) and a separate small sheet placed between pages 361 and 362 (a further 43 words also in ink): a total of 266 words. Although several transcriptions of Leland’s Itinerary were made in the 16th century, notably in 1576 by the historian John Stow (1525-1605), it was only published in 1710-12 by the English diarist and antiquarian Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), with successive editions appearing in 1744/45 and 1768/70. After a lapse of more than a century, Lucy Toulmin Smith (1838-1911) published a new edition of the full Itinerary between 1906 and 1910. The present manuscript, acquired by the current owner in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, represents what can only be determined as an unrealised attempt to publish the Itinerary some time before 1873 (the year of John Gough Nichols’ death) and thus provide what would have been the only 19th-century publication of Leland’s most famous and important work. There is no mention of the manuscript in Memoires of the late John Gough Nichols FSA (1874), nor in the annotated catalogues of the library and manuscripts sold off by Sotheby’s in 1874, and now held by the British Library.
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[Manuscript Poetry]. Four volumes of manuscript poetry, 19th century, comprising: 1. 'Elfe. No. 1, February, 1838', including poems titled 'Chorus of Fairies', 'The Fairies' Lullaby', etc., 16 leaves (loose in bifolia), text in black ink, illustrated with 6 original pencil sketches of fairies and other scenes, contemporary gold-sprinkled glazed purple boards, surface-crack to spine, 8vo (18.8 x 11.6 cm), 2. 'Septentriones. A Christmas Vision', c.1850, 8 leaves, text in black ink, calligraphic title-page and headings ('Introduction', 'Alice', 'Ann', 'Louie', 'Rosa', 'The Children') in gold and colours, white moiré cloth doublures, gilt turn-ins, contemporary maroon morocco richly gilt, cover-title 'Dedicated (without permission) to A.A.L.R. and their Sisters' stamped in gilt, extremities rubbed, 8vo (17.3 x 11.1 cm), 3. Commonplace book of R. Haws of Lynstead, Kent, 1804, 30 leaves + numerous blanks, text in brown ink in a neat italic hand with fine calligraphic titles, including 'The Faithful Negro' (otherwise untraced; line 4: 'Good massa like me and me serve him fair'), 'The Superannuated Horse to his Master' (published in Samuel Jackson Pratt, Pity's Gift, 1798), Thomas Campbell's 'The Exile of Erin', William Cowper's 'The Negro's Complaint', Amelia Opie's 'The Orphan Boy's Tale', and similar, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers pitted, 8vo (15.9 x 8.8 cm), 4. '"Coeur de Lion" by W. H. Sampson', c.1850, apparently unpublished poem on Richard the Lionheart in 189 quatrains, approx. 30 leaves, manuscript corrections, contemporary half skiver, spine defective, 8vo (15.3 x 10 cm), together with 2 manuscript commonplace books: 'Selections from private thoughts on religion and other subjects connected with it, extracted from the Diary of the Revd Thomas Adam, late Rector of Wintringham, 1828' (12 leaves, manuscript floral cornerpieces, contemporary black half roan, 16mo); 'Collection of Poems, etc.' [spine-title], c.1850 (38 leaves, written in neat roman-style script, contemporary half roan, worn, 8vo)Qty: (6)
Scrap Albums. An early 20th century scrap album, possibly compiled by Dorothy Amy Netherwood, c.1911-1917, containing 10 watercolour drawings, 4 pencil sketches, 1 sketch in pen & coloured inks, 3 in pen & black ink, and one (of HMS Dreadnought) in graphite & grey/black watercolour, most signed and dated (in different hands), several heightened with bodycolour, some with (often partly erased) pencil scribbles, plus a few chromolithographs, etc., original green straight-grained morocco, rubbed and somewhat marked, oblong 8vo, together with: A scrap album, possibly compiled by 'M.G.W.', mostly 1830-1848, containing approx. 22 drawings in watercolour, wash, pen & ink, and/or pencil, some heightened with bodycolour, plus 10 miniature Baxter's Patent Oil prints, 12 engravings, 2 botanical paper collages, 1 highly coloured aquatint, and 2 hand-coloured lithographs, etc., original maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, rear cover stained, 4to, with: Album, c.1860s-1880s, compiled by Eliza Mary Weatherall, signed and dated 1st September 1861 on preliminary blank, comprising: gilt-stamped title page (gutter strengthened on verso), one pen & black ink sketch, and two watercolours (one of a harbour scene believed to be after J.M.W. Turner), with approx. 42 pages of ink manuscript poems and verses, in different hands, original dark green morocco gilt, rubbed and faded, some wear to extremities, 4toQty: (3)
* Warwickshire. A survey of Certaine houses and Land heretofore belonging to the late dissolved Monastery with the rights members and appurtenances thereof lying and being within Kenelworth alias Killingworth in the County of Warrwickshire, entered 12 August 1650, contemporary manuscript fair copy on rectos of 16 laid paper leaves, property owner names include Francis Yardley (now Mary Yardley), Elizabeth Grainer, John Norton, Martha Phipps, Zachary Taylor, with an abstract at end for the Earls of Monmouth, and the name William Webb as Surveyor General, a little soiling and closed tear to final leaf with old tape repairs to verso, final leaf verso a little frayed and soiled, tied at upper margin, 43 x 31 cmQty: (1)
* West Indies. Manuscript application for funds and assistance in promoting a voyage to the West Indies, mid 18th century, five pages written in an unidentified hand on five separate leaves paginated from an earlier volume (non-consecutive), watermarked with a fleur de lis and GR surmounted by a crown, and countermark IV, red rule border to each page, folioQty: (1)NOTESThe writer opens his request with an account of the support given by Fernidand and Isabella to Columbus, and continues to describe his intention to lay claim to and work a gold mine, which he describes as "there was never a mine of gold in the world promising do great abundance". Included are two pages of "an estimate of the (costs) of 4 ships and 2 barques with their victualls and their ... for a voyage to Guiana in the West Indies", with a full priced listing of all the necessities, including the "charge of victualling for 425 men, £3966.13s.4d", "for the finding and buying of two flyboats or other ships of 200 tunns each shipp ... £2,000", "the charge of furnishing 4 chestes for 4 chirurgions (approx.(?) the rate of 25£, the chest) with drugges and other ... for the curing of the sick and wounded ... £100", "the whole charge for as much as I can suddenly call to mind ... £9,593.6s.8d", and concludes that if they wish to discuss any matters or question the amounts, they should do so with "Sir William St. John by word of mouth".
Dodsley (Robert). The Oeconomy of Human Life, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English Gentleman now residing in China to the Earl of E**, London: Printed by T. Rickaby, for E. Harding, 1798, engraved portrait frontispiece, stipple engraved vignette illustrations throughout, front free endpaper excised, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated borders to boards, black morocco title label, upper joint and head & foot of spine worn, 12mo, together with: Ibid., The King and the Miller of Mansfield. A Dramatick Tale, London: Printed for the Author, 1737, light dust-soiling and scattered spotting, later vellum, slim 8vo in 4s, Arden (Thomas), The lamentable and true tragedie of M. Arden, of Feversham, in Kent, who was most wickedlye murdered, by the means of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for the love she bare to one mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins, Blackwill and Shagbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed, The great malice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the unsatiable desire of filthie lust, and the shamefull end of all murderers. With a preface; in which some reasons are offered, in favour of its being the earliest dramatic work of Shakespear now remaining..., London: Printed for Edward White, dwelling at the lyttle North Dore of Paule's Church, at the Sign of the Gun. 1592. And re-printed verbatim by J. & J. March, for Stephen Doorne, 1770, title in red & black repaired to gutter and fore-edge margins, dust-soiling and spotting mostly to few & last leaves, light damp stains, all edges gilt, 19th century dark green half morocco, slim 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian and later reference, including The Complete Works of Lord Byron, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1831, a defective copy of Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1761 and The History of the town of Newark, by William Dickinson, Newark: M. Hage, 1816, etc.Qty: (a small carton)
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[Foxe, John]. [Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, vol. 2 only (portion), London: Printed by Humphrey Lownes for the Company of Stationers, 1610], portion of volume 2 comprising pp.745-1952, [20] only, woodcut illustrations, some leaves torn & excised with loss, soiling and staining, few leaves detached, contemporary calf, covers and leather detached, torn with loss, worn, folio (ESTC S123056; STC 11227), together with: Bible [English], The Oxford Family-Bible; or, Christian's compleat library. Containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testament, at large; together with the Apocrypha. With notes theological, moral, critical, and explanatory... by the Rev. Charles Stanhope, D.D. Rector of Brinkworth, in Wilts. Assisted by a Society of Gentlemen of the University of Oxford, London: Printed for the authors, 1779, numerous engraved plates, first and last leaves frayed and slightly torn to margins (last two leaves detached), some dust-soiling and occasional spotting, lacking free endpapers, contemporary marbled calf, spine torn with loss, boards detached, with hand-stitched fabric dust jacket, 4to, Mant (Richard), The Order for the visitation of the sick, from the Book of Common Prayer..., 4th edition, London: F.C. & J.Rivington, 1821, volume interspersed with manuscript notes in the hand of John Meade (signature & date 1836 to front pastedown) and few related printed leaves from other works, contemporary boards, extremities worn, 8vo, and a poor copy of A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim, 2 parts in one, 5th edition, 1679, and few other antiquarianQty: (a carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.
Stephens (James). The Insurrection in Dublin, 1st edition, Dublin and London, Maunsel & Co. Ltd., 1916, 16 page publisher's list at rear, dated September 1916, a few spots at front and rear of volume, ownership signature of Dermot O'C. Grubb, dated Feb, 1940 to front endpaper, original black cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat soiled, with fraying to head and foot of spine, together with: Grubb (Isabel). J. Ernest Grubb of Carrick-on-Suir, Dublin & Cork, Talbot Press, 1928, portrait frontispiece, a little marginal spotting, original green cloth in slightly frayed dust wrapper, plus: Mitchel (John). Jail Journal; or, Five Years in British Prisons, Author's Edition, Glasgow, Cameron, Ferguson & Company, circa 1880s, top edge gilt, original green cloth, a little rubbed and some marks, and other mostly early 20th century literature, but including An Authentic Account of the Wreck "Royal Charter" Steam Clipper, on her passage from Australia to Liverpool, October 26th, 1859..., by A.& J.K., Dublin, 1860, Ancient Stone Crosses of England, by Alfred Rimmer, 1875, The Glamour of Dublin, by D.L. Kay, Talbot Press, 1918, Quaker history, illustrated books, literature and poetry, etc., mostly cloth bound, generally rubbed and some marks, mainly 8vo, with some personal manuscript correspondence, Christmas and greetings cards relating to Dermot Grubb and familyQty: (6 shelves )NOTESEx libris Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), Poet, Critic and Polemicist, and Dermot Grubb (1920-1996), Prison Governor and Reformer.
Middlesex. Rocque (John), A Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey in four Sheets, 1757, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, title repeated in French, mileage scale, compass rose and a decorative cartouche showing a surveyor using a waywiser, some wear and splits to the linen along old folds, edged in green silk (frayed), 520 x 685 mm, retaining the boards of a contemporary marbled card slipcase with near-contemporary ink manuscript title to the upper coverQty: (1)
Bowen (Emanuel & Owen John). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd..., fourth edition, Thomas Bowles, 1753, printed title with two near-contemporary manuscript ownership signatures, 8 pages of tables, 271 (lacking page 129) uncoloured engraved strip road maps and county maps, printed back to back, slight worming to foredge but not affecting the printed image, bookplate of Revd. James Burnell, upper hinge cracked, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, worn at extremities, 8voQty: (1)NOTESChubb CLIVa.
Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, Sept 1st. 1787, calligraphic title with two later manuscript ownership signatures, advertisement and dedication, 47 (complete) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, each with a page of descriptive text and tissue guard, near-contemporary manuscript number to verso and recto of each map, slight spotting to tissue guards, index and list of subscribers bound at rear, near-contemporary manuscript contents list on the verso of the front blank and the first free endpaper, joints and hinges weak, contemporary calf gilt with a contrasting red morocco label to spine, slight wear, 4toQty: (1)NOTESChubb CCLX. This copy with a slightly odd pagination, with the maps of the northern counties first and the southwestern counties last.
Chamberlain (Henry). A New and Compleat History of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent; from the earliest accounts, to the year 1770, London: J. Cooke, [1770], engraved frontispiece and 64 plates, folding plan of London, folding engraved map of twenty miles around London (torn with loss), repaired closed tears to frontispiece, title and few other plates etc., some other short closed tears mostly to plate margins, occasional light dust-soiling and spotting, contemporary reversed calf, red morocco title label to spine, joints split at head & foot, some wear to extremities, folio, together with: Bentham (James), The History and Antiquities of the Conventual and Cathedral Church of Ely, from the Foundation of the Monastery, A.D. 673, to the Year 1771, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Cambridge: Printed at the University Press by J. Bentham, 1771, engraved folding frontispiece, 47 engraved views & plans on 45 plates (7 folding; plates 48-50 engraved on a single folding sheet), front blank with early 19th century manuscript note, later pencil note 'Heber - Phillipps copy', 20th century bookplate of Katharine Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine and morocco title label (worn with loss), joints split, rubbed and worn, 4to, and other miscellaneous books including Cary's New Itinerary, 11th edition, 1828 and A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited by William Smith, 1842Qty: (8)
Stonehenge - Charleton (Walter). Chorea Gigantum, or, the most Famous Antiquity of Great-Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, Standing on Salisbury Plain, Restored to the Danes, 1st edition, London: Henry Herringham, 1663, [14],64pp., preliminary imprimatur leaf not present, title in red & black with early manuscript annotations including ownership signature & date of John Hewell August 20th, 1763 (dust-soiled), one woodcut plate only (of two, close-trimmed at fore-edge border), verso of B4 inscribed 'John Hewell living in White Horse Street, Stepney near the School House, August the 22,1763', some cropping to running titles, recent endpapers, modern limp vellum, slim 4to, together with: Wood (John), Choir Gaure, Vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a Letter to The Right Honourable Edward Late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. By John Wood, Architect, 1st edition, Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1747, without frontispiece and all plates, closed tear to title & A2, dust-soiled to first & last leaf, scattered spotting, 20th century half sheep, 8voQty: (2)NOTESMacdonald, Dryden 8ai; Wing C3665. This work is a reply to Inigo Jones's "The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain", which argued that Stonehenge had been built by the Romans. The main text is preceded by two poems addressed to Charleton by Robert Howard and John Dryden respectively. The poem by Dryden is the first printing of his poem, "To my Honour'd Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works; and more particularly this of Stone-heng, by him restored to the true founders", which appears on b2r/v. Alterations were made to Dryden's verses as the book was going through the press and this copy is in the final corrected state. Dr. Walter Charleton (1619-1707) was a scholar and physician to Charles I.
Aesop. Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists..., Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, engraved frontispiece (verso with various inscriptions including 'To Miss Cartwright from the author ... 1811'), engraved vignette to title, 14 engraved plates, few head & tailpieces, front free endpaper detached, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine without title label, rubbed and some wear, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, 8vo, together with: Dodsley (Robert), Miscellanies, 2 volumes, London: J. Dodsley, 1777, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette to two part titles, occasional light spotting, contemporary gilt & blind decorated calf, spines lightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, Ibid., The Oeconomy of Human Life. Translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discover'd. In a letter from an English Gentleman now residing in China, to the Earl of **, 1st edition, London: M. Cooper, 1751, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached, gilt decorated spine with defective title label, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, some wear, 8vo, Ibid., A Muse in Livery: or, the footman's miscellany, London: Printed for the author, 1732, contemporary calf, joints cracked, gilt decorated spine, lacking title label, slim 8vo, [Dodsley, Robert, edit.], A Collection of Poems in six Volumes. By several hands, 6 volumes, London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Dodsley, 1766, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title, bookplate of Mr Hart Cotton to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, joints cracked, title labels lacking (except for volume 6), spines and extremities rubbed, 8vo, Dodsley (Robert), The King and the Miller of Mansfield. A Dramatick Tale, London: Printed for the Author, 1787, half-title, bound with Ibid., Sir John Cockle at Court. Being the sequel of the King and the Miller of Mansfield. A Dramatick Tale, London: R. Dodsley, 1738, half-title, contemporary speckled calf, lower board detached, lacking spine, 8vo, and two others relatedQty: (14)
Bates (Ely). Rural Philosophy: or reflections on knowledge, virtues, and happiness; chiefly in reference to a life of retirement in the country, London: Longman & Ress, 1803, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, joints slightly cracked, board corners worn, 8vo, together with: Edwards (George), The true original scheme of human economy, applied to the completion of the different interests, and preservation, of the British Empire, or, Heads proposing the establishment of the third, the British dispensation, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the author by S. Hodgson, 1808, early manuscript annotation to title, modern cloth, 8vo, Aikin (Arthur), An Address, delivered on the 27th of May, 1817, at the annual distribution, by the hands of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, &c. &c. President. Of the rewards adjudged by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, London: Printed by T. Woodfall, 1817, scattered spotting and light dust-soiling, ring mark to title & following leaf, modern cloth-backed boards, slim 8vo, Wylie (Alexander), Labour, leisure and luxury, a contribution to present practical political economy, new edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1887, front blank inscribed by the author to Samuel Smith M.P., bookplate of Andrew A. Miller to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, slim 8vo, Richardson (Thomas, publisher), The true and affecting history of Henrietta Belgrave, a woman born only for calamities: being an unhappy daughter, a wretched wife, and an unfortunate mother, Derby: Thomas Richardson, [1830?], folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (repaired to fore-edge), toning and scattered spotting, original printed wrappers bound-in (lined to verso), modern terracotta morocco, worn at head of boards, spine faded, slim 12mo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian including few bound 19th century pamphletsQty: (13)
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Bible [English - Dr Blayney's 'Standard' Bible]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University: and sold by R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder, in Paternoster Row, London; and by W. Jackson, in Oxford, 1769, general & New Testament titles present, Apocrypha present, 5P4 torn to fore-margin at foot, manuscript initials at foot of final leaf of index, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... together with the Psalter of Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University: and sold by R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder, in Paternoster Row, London; and by W. Jackson, in Oxford, 1769, occasional minor toning and spotting, some light dust- & finger-soiling mostly to lower outer corners of fore-margins, contemporary reversed calf, loss to morocco title label to spine, upper board detached and lower joint cracked, worn at head & foot of spine and to board corners, 4to (27.5 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 1196; Darlow & Moule 887. This and the folio Oxford edition of the same year are known as the Oxford "Standard" editions, being a revision of the Authorised version by Benjamin Blayney following the lines of Paris’s Cambridge edition of 1762. According to the editor's Report the quarto was finished first, the folio being afterwards printed from the same type, differently disposed. The example in the collection cited by Herbert/Darlow & Moule refers to the copy having 'a MS. note by Josiah Pratt (1768–1844, English clergyman) states that 'a great part of the folio edition of 1769 having been destroyed at Woodmason's fire, a copy of that edition is scarcely to be purchased at any price. A copy of this edition is also very rarely to be met with; sometimes it may be found with a New Testament of later date substituted for that of 1769'.
* Illuminated Leaf. Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours, Northern France, circa 1500, manuscript in black ink on a single vellum leaf, 18 lines of text, written in a lettre bâtarde hand, 3-line initial in white, infilled with a rose, and 11 single-line initials in liquid gold on blue or red grounds (5 to the recto and 6 to verso), line fillers in matching gold on blue or red backgrounds, text on recto enclosed within full geometric panel border, composed of blue and gold acanthus, coloured flowers (roses, daisies and bluebells) and in the lower border, 2 large cockerels, the decoration on white and gold grounds, leaf size 147 x 104 mm, tab-mounted in cream card window-mountQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, South Gloucestershire, England. The text is from the sixth of the Seven Penitential Psalms: Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corribias me. Miserere mei Domine, quoniam infirmus sum, sana me Domine quoniam conturbata sunt ossa mea (Lord rebuke me not in thy fury, nor chastise me in thy wrath. Have mercy on me Lord, because I am weak, heal me Lord, because all my bones be troubled).
Follower of Lam Qua, a pair of Chinese School portraits of a woman, 19th centuryEach of a young woman seated at a table and holding a manuscript, arranged in opposing poses and wearing traditional robes, oil on canvas, unsigned, in plain hardwood frames, 52cm x 38cm (relined and re-stretched).(2)Footnote: Footnote:The Chinese portrait painter Lam Qua (active circa 1825-1860), was a student of George Chinnery and became renowned for the countenances of Western merchants but also the Chinese Hong merchants who traded with them. This fine pair follow the tradition of Western style portraiture and are thought to be depictions of the same woman, possibly a concubine. An inspection of the canvas reveals they have been relined and restretched, so likely contemporaneous with Lam Qua himself, and they bear a striking resemblance to a portrait of the fourth concubine of Hexing (Wo Hing), currently in the Brighton Royal Pavilion Museum, UK.Condition report: Both canvasses relined and re-stretched. Original canvas likely 19th century or earlier and not 20th century as originally catalogued. Faint cracklure overall both. Some retouching visible under UV in places on both.
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TROTSKY L.D. (1879-1940)Stalin edited by Y. G. Felshtinsky: 2 V. Benson: Chalidze, 1985. Vol. 1. - 323 p.; Vol. 2. 303 p.; 21x13, 5 cm. In font publishing covers.First edition in Russian.The second volume was not completed by reason of the murder of the author. The book was prepared for publication by the Russian historian Y.G. Felshtinsky well known in the foreign countries basing on Trotsky’s manuscript, being kept in the Boston archive of the author.The biography appeared in the USSR in 1990 becoming a bestseller.
Corelli, Arcangelo. Opera Prima, XII Sonatas of three parts for two Violins and a Bass, with A Through Bass for ye Organ Harpsichord or Arch Lute, London: Walsh, [c.1740], nos. 364, 365, 366, 367, the four parts bound as one (four separate title pages). Small folio, half-calf with marbled boards, engraved frontispiece portrait. Contents very good, clean, bright; manuscript numbering to opening leaves; binding worn. Together with Handel's Celebrated Overtures, London: Preston, [c.1811], small folio, half-calf; Six Duets for Two Violins, composed & dedicated to Wilson Braddyll Esq. by Ignace Pleyel, London: Clementi, [c.1805], small folio, half-calf, as found with boards detached; Anna, A Favourite Scotch Air, by Jan Ladislav Dussek, London: W. Mitchell, n.d., unbound; two bound volumes of miscellaneous sheet music, c.1840, including Rossini and Mozart, quarto, half-calf, as found with boards detached (6)
![[Robins, Benjamin]. Observations on the Present Convention with Spain, London: T. Cooper, 1739. Octavo, pages misnumbered but](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/c3b02be4-690c-4132-9912-ad3d01537c4b/468x382.jpg)
[Robins, Benjamin]. Observations on the Present Convention with Spain, London: T. Cooper, 1739. Octavo, pages misnumbered but text and collation follows complete, half-title, woodcut vignette, headpiece and capital, bound in later blue paper boards, ownership plate on front pastedown, loosely inserted manuscript note on the text, loosely inserted Bernard Quaritch invoice (buyer details removed). Contents very good, clean, bright, one red mark on p.3
A small scrapbook, c.1830, featuring manuscript questionnaire/game relating to personality and appearance (eyes, figure, passion, conversation, desires and so on), 'A Peep into Futurity' manuscript fortune-telling game (predicting romance/marriage based on the choosing on playing cards), and various scraps (topographical steel engravings, toy theatre lithographs), 39 leaves, most bearing text or clippings, bound in embossed floral cloth. Together with a 'Royal Album' of clipped signatures, some indistinct, predominantly members of the Toller, Gillespie, Bockett and Bell families; a presentation copy of 30 Years with GBS, inscribed by Blanche Patch (author and secretary to George Bernard Shaw), London: Gollancz, 1951, binding obliterated by parcel tape, and a small collection of miscellaneous Player's cigarette cards (4)
Five loose manuscript leaves, 1830s, presumably copied from contemporary magazines and similar publications, including a copy of a poem, 'Charade', by Lord Nugent, 'The dawning of hope and the pledge of young love...'; a note dated 25 January 1830, Hadlow, 'It is perhaps the privilege of woman only to extract the sting of grief from others...'; three lists of personality traits and characteristics, including 'Mr De Ville's opinion of C's character, July 16th 1832' (5)
Cole, John. A curious manuscript account, almost comedic (perhaps intentionally) in style, concerning the theatrical exploits of John Cole (1792-1848), disastrous bookseller, publisher and antiquary. In Answer to a Question, Why Did You Choose Selim for your first appearance? [c.1814]. 'One evening in the beginning of the month of October, 1812, Mr Rt B [Robert Birdsall] and J.C. [John Cole] being in the shop of Mr B. Bookseller, Drapery, Northampton, he, J.C. broke out with these words, while sewing copy books: "Die all, die nobly, die like demi gods." and "Where yon blue field scarce meets our streaming eyes", Mr Robert Birdsall repeated the same. They then proposed a speech night twice a week in the house where this scene recurred...The theatre was a bed-room, and the door shut & locked immediately the actors had entered the Theatre: although only Mr R.B. was present at this opening, J.C. was not in possession of himself during the delivery of this address...In the concluding scene am sorry to mention that Macbeth cut Macduff in the wrist - not theatrically or dramatically sorry - but sorry am I. Alexander's robe dropped during this exhibition...Dr Brown's Tragedy of "Barbarossa" arrived at Mr B's shop to be bound; it had as its frontispiece, a portrait of Master Betty in Selim...' [it goes on to describe John Cole learning the soliloquy, seeking permission from Mr Simms in Leamington to perform the role, and eventually performing the piece on stage in Northampton]. The author of the manuscript is anonymous, but has to be Cole himself; he is frequently referred to in the third person, but the performance is described in the first person (and the whole thing is an answer to a question posed to Cole). Octavo, quarter-calf with marbled boards, complete in 50 numbered pages, contents clean and bright, loss to corner of p.43 (not affecting text), boards detached
Terra Nova Expedition. A scrapbook album compiled by W. P. Granville, electrical engineer, which includes two autograph letters signed by Sir George Simpson, meteorologist for Captain Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913, the first letter on British Antarctic Expedition Terra Nova R.Y.S. letterhead, 'at sea', 27 November 1910, 'Dear Mr Granville, the small case of balloons reached us safely in Christchurch. I thought it best not to open it before absolutely necessary, but I have no doubt that the balloons will be in good condition. We are now really on our way south although we call at Duneden tomorrow to take 100 ton of coal on board. We have had a splendid passage so far and we are a real happy party. Everyone has the highest hopes of a successful expedition and I am sure that there will be a lot of good scientific work done. Please let me again thank you most heartily for all the valuable help you and your firm have given us . Yours very sincerely, George C. Simpson'; the second letter is on 68 Wilson Street, Derby letterhead, 7 June 1912, 'Dear Mr Granville, I expect to be in London at the beginning of next week and intend to call on you to thank you for the balloons and to tell you about the work done with them. You will be glad to hear that they were absolutely splendid and gave me no trouble at all. I have a great deal to do in London and may not be able to call on Monday & Tuesday, but I will not leave England before seeing you. Yours very truly, George C. Simpson', the letters are accompanied by two mounted photographs (albumen or similar) showing experiments with a balloon during the expedition, each measuring 118mm by 82mm [Simpson constructed one of the continent's first weather stations, conducting balloon experiments to test the atmosphere and determine how altitude affects temperature]. The album includes a variety of other material of varying subject matter and date, including a letter from Willoughby Smith, electrical engineer, on Wharf Road letterhead, 23 May 1873, instructing Granville to 'embark on board the "Great Eastern" to assist in the laying of the cable between Ireland and Newfoundland', and to receive further instructions from a Mr Laws [the SS Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was used to lay the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866]; advertisements and contemporary newspaper clippings relating to 'Granville's Electric Log', manufactured by Elliott Brothers; newspaper clippings relating to the development of submarine cable and wireless; two pencil drawings by Granville depicting Bawi Island, Zanzibar, 1879, and Placentia Newfoundland, 1873; clippings relating to Granville as Chairman of the London Congregational Union, including a printed address given on 2 November 1915; an albumen print taken by Granville, together with a printed article reproducing his photograph in The Sketch, 28 August 1895, 'swinging a man on to the rock', relating to the laying of cable for the Fastnet Lighthouse, Ireland, plus other clippings from printed works reproducing Granville's photographs; clippings of Vesper Hymn sheet music, written & composed by Granville and Colchester; five original photographs, including Kelvin Lodge, Browning Avenue and Bournemouth Gardens, 1924, and other material on a total of 37 pages, the album being partially-filled. Together with two sparsely-filled scrapbooks recording the electioneering and campaigning of Henry Granville Hamshar, 1932-39, including printed flyers, ephemera, newspaper clippings and notes, and a manuscript book of religious verse kept by Margaret M. Hamshar, 1903 (4)Provenance: Granville family, by descent
Miscellaneous collection of books, to include Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, by Hester Lynch Piozzi, in two volumes, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, octavo, rebacked calf, armorial bookplates for John Lord Sheffield, Sheffield Place, Sussex; Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, by Hesther Lynch Piozzi, second edition, London: T. Cadell, 1786, rebacked calf; The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, edited by Oswald G. Knapp, London: John Lane, 1914, rebacked half-calf with original spine laid down, bookplate for Arthur G. Rippey, Denver; The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack, 11 issues bound as one, London: Company of Stationers, 1801-1811, worn calf binding; The Complete Angler, by Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton, second Bagster edition, London: Samuel Bagster, 1815, damaged half-calf; Dr. Goldsmith's Roman History, second edition, London: Owen, 1779, later half-calf; The Union and Parish Officers' Pocket Almanac and Guide for 1846, London: Charles Knight, featuring manuscript notes within memoranda, gilt leather wallet binding; Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, A New Impression, London: Chatto & Windus, 1934, lacking dust-jacket, and others, sold with all faults (16)
Brindley Family / Staffordshire History Interest. A small archive comprising: a manuscript letter addressed to Mr James Brindley, Farmer, Wilmington, Delaware, dated 2 February 1829, from John Brindley of Alton Mills near Cheadle in Staffordshire, concerning the Brindley estate, its value and its heirs, single folded sheet, postmarked with remnants of wax seal; a manuscript letter relating to the Bill family of Farley Hall in Alton, Staffordshire, addressed to Rev John Bill, dated 20 April 1801, from his brother Charles Bill, in which a member of the Brindley family is mentioned, 'I thank you for your account of Rennie, who is a great favourite with John Ward. I think Matt. Brindley's plan a very good one, altho' Rennie has set his face ag.t. it - the Canal Co. have a right to take part of [indistinct] Meadow, which he won't part with unless he is forced - I think it will be a troublesome job to get past the wire mill works.', no address or postmark, single folded sheet (four pages); an amateur watercolour of a cottage, inscribed verso, 'George Finney's new House, in Farley, in the Parish of Alton & County of Stafford, Old England, built a.D. 1849', 13cm by 20.5cm; James Brindley and the Early Engineers, by Samuel Smiles, London: John Murray, 1864, octavo, full contemporary calf lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers and page edges, and several smaller publications and booklets on James Brindley
Morris, William. A Book of Verse, colour facsimile of manuscript, Ilkley: The Scolar Press, 1980, numbered 3 of 62 copies bound in vellum (from a total edition of 325 copies). Quarto, full vellum with elaborate gilt decoration, all edges gilt. Excellent condition, clean, bright. Housed with accompanying booklet in green cloth solander box, some very faint rubbing to cloth
Irish Interest. Smedley, Edward. Erin: A Geographical and Descriptive Poem, two parts bound as one, London: Hamblin & Seyfang, 1810. Quarto, contemporary half-calf with paper covered boards blind-embossed with heraldic device, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled page edges, silk bookmark, hand-coloured map of Ireland as frontispiece, five etched plates set within text (including that used on title), smaller woodcut motifs within text. Contents generally good and bright with pale spots/stains and light creasing in a few places (including title); binding square and solid with some splitting to joints and slight wear/loss at headcaps/extremities. Together with The Irish Tourist, by A. Atkinson, Dublin: Thomas Courtney, 1815, octavo, contemporary half-calf, internally good and bright, binding worn, upper board detached, contemporary manuscript note to verso of fold on title, 'This work contains several errors of the press, which are unavoidably refer'd for correction to the judgement of the reader'. Scarce (2)
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Burnet, [Gilbert]. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, first edition, in two volumes, London: Thomas Ward, Downing & Woodfall, 1724-34, unique with more than 200 18th- and 19th-century engraved portraits bound in, editor's manuscript note on verso of title to second volume. Folio, half-calf with marbled boards and morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright; bindings tight and square with some rubbing and light wear, slight splitting to joints (2)
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