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Click here to subscribeAUTHOR SIGNED: George CRUIKSHANK'S Table-Book, with 12 steel plates & 116 wood engravings, 1869, The title page Inscribed "to Thomas Barlow Esq. with the regards of George Cruikshank. March 23rd. 1876". Original publisher's cloth gilt, aeg. VG; De La Mare, Walter: Stuff and Nonsense and So On. Constable, 1927, #247/275. Signed Limited edn, cloth backed boards, spine little faded. (2)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Willy POGANY (ill): 1- Wagner: Tannhäuser: a Dramatic Poem. Harrap (1911), LIMITED EDITION #458 OF 525 Copies, SIGNED by Pogany. 16 mounted colour plates, plus the small mounted frontispiece. 4to. Original full Suede leather covers with gilt decoration, pictorial endpapers & top edges gilt; 2- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Harrap, no date, c1920.. With 16 colour plates. Publishers gilt pictorial full leather, little rubbed. (2)
Arthur RACKHAM (ill): 1- The Ring Of The Niblung: The Rhinegold And The Valkyrie Plus: Siegfried And The Twilight Of The Gods (Two volumes in One). Heinemann, 1939, 1st. Edn. Thus. 4to. 48 colour plates; 2- Ibsen- PEER GYNT. Harrap, 1936, 1st. Edn; 3- Swinburne- The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. Heinemann, 1918, 1st. Edn (2 copies); 4- The Ingoldsby Legends. Dent, 1898, 1st. Edn. & 1908 (2 copies); 5- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1925); 6- A Dish of Apples. (1921); 7- The Allies Fairy Book. (1916); 8- Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring". NY, 1979; 9- The Peradventures of Private Pagett. 1911; 10- Latimore & Haskell: Arthur Rackham a Bibliography. Los Angeles, 1936, Limited edition, #325 of 550 copies; 11- Riall, R: New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham. 1994, 1st; 12- Hudson, D: Arthur Rackham. His life and work. 1960, 1st. DW. (14)
Edmund DULAC (ill): 1- Quiller- Couch: The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. From the Old French. Hodder & Stoughton, c1910, 1st. 30 colour plates; 2- Stawell, Mrs: My Days With the Fairies, c1920; 3- Fairy-Book, c1916; 4- Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, c1915; 5- Märchen von Brüder Grimm, Munich, 1913; 6- Hughey, A C: Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations, A Bibliography, Maryland, 1995. (6)
ILLUSTRATED: W. Heath-Robinson (ill): 1- Shakespeare’s A Midsummer-Night's dream. Constable, 1914, 1st. Edn. With Dust Jacket. 4to. 12 tipped-in colour plates plus 22 others. Tears to DW, otherwise VG; 2- A song of the English by R Kipling. 4to. With 15 plates. Original pictorial boards; spine darkened. PLUS: Loosely inserted 4pp "National Bands" a speech by Kipling; Edmund DULAC (ill): 1- Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, nd (1916). 1st. Edn. 4to. With 15 tipped-in colour plates. Original pictorial boards & pictorial endpapers. Recased & restored; 2- Picture book for the French Red Cross. Nd (1915), 1st. Edn. 4to. All plates present. Original pictorial boards, recased with new endpapers; LYND WARD: 1- Wild Pilgrimage, A novel in Woodcuts. NY, 1932, 1st. Edn. 4to. DW (with tears), VG; 2- God's Man, A novel in Woodcuts. J Cape, 1930, 1st. Edn. Original pictorial boards; 3- Madman’s Drum, A novel in Woodcuts. J Cape, 1930, 1st. Edn. Original pictorial boards; Plus 2 others. (9)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Jessie M KING (ill): 1- How Cinderella Was Able To Go To The Ball. Foulis, nd (1924), 1st. Edn. Tipped in colour plates & others. Original pictorial boards, little rubbed; 2- The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris. J Lane, 1904, 1st. Edn. Original red pictorial boards gilt, teg. Spine faded. (2)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
ILLUSTRATED: Rowlandson, T; W Comble: The Tour of Dr. Syntax. [Ackermann, 1812]. With 30 coloured aquatint plates. Cont. half leather; some offsetting; Leech, John: Follies of the Year: A Series of Coloured Etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844-1864, no date. Coloured title page plus 21 coloured plates. Oblong 4to. Original leather backed pictorial covers gilt, aeg. Recased with new endpapers; one plate frayed at the edges; Surtees: Handley Cross. Bradbury & Evans, 1854, 1st. Edn. With 17 colour plates by J Leech. Cont. half leather; some offsetting. (3)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
KAY NIELSEN (ill): 1- Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Hodder and Stoughton, nd (1924), 1st. Edn. 4to. With 12 tipped-in colour plates & numerous other illustrations (some full page).Original gilt pictorial cloth and pictorial endpapers, recased; 2- Quiller-Couch: In Powder and Crinoline, Old fairy tales. Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1913), 1st. Edn. With 25 tipped-in colour plates. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, teg, rubbed & faded; recased with the original spine and new endpapers; 3- Romer Wilson: Red Magic, collection of the world's best fairy tales. J. Cape, 1930, 1st. Edn. With 8 colour plates & 50 full page illustrations. Original boards. (3)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
ILLUSTRATED: Grego, J. Rowlandson the Caricaturist. A selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, 2 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1880, illustrations, some spotting, With a 3pp. autograph letter from the author pasted to front endpaper of vol.1 & a 2pp one pasted to front endpaper of vol.2. 4to. Cont. half leather; rubbed; Smith, CJ: Historical and literary curiosities, consisting of fac-similes of original documents.. Bohn, 1840, 1st. Edn. 4to. With numerous plates (some folding and some hand coloured). Cont. half leather; rubbed; The Works of Mr. Hogarth Moralized. J. Goodwin, no date, c1824; Shaw, Henry: Details of Elizabethan Architecture. W Pickering, 1839. (Front blank signed by M Digby Wyatt, 1865). 4to. With plates, including some in colour. 4to. Cont. half leather, rubbed; damp staining; A/F; & The Originals from Punch. Mr John Leech's Sketches in Oil. (6)
Children’s Illustrated: Mabel Lucie ATTWELL: Peter Pan & Wendy: Five different editions, 1925-1981; TAGORE, A (ill): Bengal Fairy Tales. John Lane, 1920, 1st. Edn. Thus. 4to. Covers rubbed and with small tear to side of spine; DULAC, E (ill); Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, c1915. Two copies; Plus: Studio Vista, 1976, 1st. Edn. DW. 4to. VG+/Fine. BRANGWYN, F (ill): Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Foulis, 1920, 1st. Edn. Thus. 15 colour plates. 4to; POGANY, W (ill): Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Harrap, no date, c1913. With 16 colour plates. Full leather, rubbed, spine torn & with cellotape repair. (11)
CHILDRENS’ BOOKS: Worzel Gummidge, 1936, 1st. edn; Frank C. Pape (ill): 52 Stories of Classic Heroes. C1918. Pictorial boards gilt; G+; CRANE, Walter (ill): The Baby's Own Aesop, 1887; Plus: Stories of Robin Hood & his merry men; Legends from River & Mountain. 1896, 1st. edn; Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books: 8 volumes, Nos. 1-8. C1930s-1940s; Potter, S: Squawky. Heinemann 1964, 1st. edn. DW; Theaker, H G (ill): The Water-Babies. 24 colour plates. [The Sunshine Colour Book Series], c1930; Plus six others. (qty.)
Frank L Baum: OZ Books- 1- The Wonder city of OZ, Reilly & Lee co. Chicago, 1940, 1st. Edn. DW ($1.50) (with tears, some loss and front flap detached). Very bright and clean, an almost fine copy; 2- The Magical Mimics in OZ. Reilly & Lee co. Chicago, 1946, 1st. Edn. DW (with a few chips). Very bright and clean, an almost fine copy; 3- Kabumpo in Oz, Reilly & Lee co. Chicago, 1922, 1st. Edn. Poor copy- A/F; Plus: Oscar WILDE: 1- The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Duckworth, 1913, 1st. Edn. Thus. 4to. With 12 tipped-in colour plates, 4to. Original boards and pictorial endpapers. Covers faded and stained, internally clean; 2- Salome: A Tragedy in One Act. John Lane, 1906, 1st. Edn. Pictorial boards, little rubbed (5)
LEWIS CARROLL: Alice's adventures in wonderland- 1- Margaret W Tarrant (ill). With 48 colour plates. Ward, Lock, n.d. (1916) & (1918), 1st. & 2nd. Edns; 2- Millicent Sowerby (ill). Chatto & Windus, 1907; 3- The Sunshine series. With 16 colour plates. Ward, Lock, n.d. (1929); 4- John Tenniel (ill). 1917, Pictorial boards & 1942, Full leather with slipcase; PLUS: Wood, J P: THE SNARK WAS A BOOJUM; A Life of Lewis. NY, 1966, 1st. Edn. DW. VG; & Through the Looking-Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Macmillan, 1927; & TWO other Lewis Carroll related boos. (10)
BINDING, Large quantity, including: Mavor, W: A Complete System of Natural History, Dublin, 1802, 1st. Edn. With 44 copper plates. Cont. full treecalf; A'Beckett: The Comic History of England, two volumes bound in one. 1847-8. With hand coloured plates. Cont. half leather; little rubbed; Tasso, T; Wiffen. J.H.: Jerusalem Delivered, in three volumes. 1826. Full morocco gilt, with embossed decoration and all edges gilt; Bloomfield, R: The Farmer's boy 1811; Wild Flowers.. 1816; Rural Tales, 1803; T. Bewick (ill): The Blossoms of morality. 1814; The looking-glass for the mind. 1814; Etc. Good collection of mostly full leather bound volumes. (qty.)
FINE BINDING, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY: John Leech, his life and works by W P Frith. 2 vols. With an extra c60 plates, many hand coloured. Bound by Henry Young, Liverpool, in full red morocco with gilt decoration to upper covers and spines, gilt inner dentelles and top edges gilt. A lovely set. (2)
JARDINE, William (Edit): The Naturalist's Library, 19 Volumes: Entomology: 6 vols; Ichthyology: 6 Vols + 2 duplicates; Birds of Africa: 2 Vols; & Animals: 3 Vols. With numerous hand coloured plates. Mixed bindings, look complete, but not collated. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return (19)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Morris, F O: A History of British Birds. Only 7 of 8 volumes (lacking vol. 2). Groombridge, nd, C1880, All 311 colour plates present. Publishers pictorial cloth gilt, teg; Martyn, T: Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations.. White, 1788,1st. Edn. PP: vi, (ii) adverts, 72 + 38 hand coloured plates. Cont. full treecalf, with later spine & new endpapers. VG; BEWICK, T (3 works): Select Fables. Newcastle, Hodgson, 1820. Fully illustrated. Later cloth; few tears, no loss; A General History of Quadrupeds. 1800, 4th. Edn. Full panelled calf gilt; rubbed & hinges cracked; 2 pages with tear & repair; Select Fables of Aesop and others, in three parts. Longmans, nd (1878). Fully illustrated. Leather backed boards, rubbed; Plus 2 others. (13)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
CURTIS, William: The Botanical Magazine, or flower-garden displayed, volumes: 1-28, bound in 14. Fry & Couchman, 1787-1808. With 1184 hand coloured plates. Later half leather & marbled boards (the binding matches Sowerby's English Botany). Very good and clean. (14)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Smith, J E & J Sowerby (ill): English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants, volumes 1-7. Richard Taylor, vol.1 no date, rest, 1835-38, 2nd. Edn. With 982 hand coloured plates (numbered 1-1407). Cont. half leather & marbled boards. Very good and clean. (7)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
EDWARDS, Sydenham: The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. Volume 1 only. J Ridgway, 1815, with 133 Hand coloured Plates (12 folding). PP: xi, (I)b, 9-291 leaves, i.e. 566 pages+ (iii) index. Half polished calf & new endpapers.From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
CURTIS, William: Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London. One volume only, bound in three with a title page in volume one only. Printed and sold by the author, 1777. Elephant folio (47 x 29cm), with a total of 270 hand-coloured plates only, of 432 in the complete work. Later half leather with new endpapers, two armorial bookplates to the pastedown of each volume. A few tears (without loss), and a couple of pinholes. The Subscribers' list bound upside down. A/F; SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES. (3)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
BUTTERFLIES: HUMPHREYS. H N. & WESTWOOD, J O: British Butterflies and their transformations. W Smith, 1848. PP: 137, (I) index + 42 Hand coloured Plates (complete). 4to. Original cloth gilt; recased; Berge`s Schmetterlings-Buch (Butterflies). Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1870, with 50 colour plates. 4to. Pictorial cloth, torn. (2)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
SPORTS, ETC: Strutt, J: Glig Gamena Angel Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. Bensley, 1810, 2nd. Edn. With numerous plates. Large 4to. Half leather, rubbed; Howitt, W: The rural life of England, in 2 vols. Longman, et al, 1838, 1st. Edns. With illustrations. Original blind stamped green cloth; slightly rubbed; Good set; WALTON & COTTON: The complete angler. 1861. With plates and illustrations. Cont. full calf gilt, aeg; Somervile, W; The chase; to which is annexed Field sports. 1817. With engraved plates and illustrations. Cont. full polished calf. (5)
[KING, William]: The art of cookery, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and Others. B Lintott, no date (1708), PP: (viii) including half title, 160. Cont. full calf; rubbed; Trusler, J: The Historian's Guide. Dublin, 1773, Worm holes to the publisher's catalogue; Heylyn, Peter: A Help to English History.. 1709, Full calf & later spine & endpapers; Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae. Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1772. 307pp. Cont. full tree calf, little rubbed; Holbein, H (ill): The dance of death, 33 plates engraved by W Hollar. 1816. Marbled boards; rubbed. Frontis and title page damp stained; The young woman's companion; or frugal housewife. Manchester, 1813; & The young man's best companion. Manchester, 1825, frontis, vignette, plus ten plates (one folding). Cont. full calf. Tear to the fold of the folding plate. (7)
COOKERY: Harrison, Mrs. Sarah: The House-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook. C & R Ware, 1760, 7th. Edn. With 20 plates. Rebound by Paul Delrue in full goatskin, with 5 raised bands & gilt tooling and new endpapers. Very nice copy; Glasse, Mrs: The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy, J. Johnson, 1803, new edn. PP: xl, 419. Cont. full tree calf and later spine; [Smith, E]: The compleat housewife; or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. 1730, 4th. Edn. With six folding plates; Skuses' Complete Confectioner, a Practical Guide to the Art of Sugar Boiling in All Its Branches. No date, c1890. PP: 187 + 31 pages of adverts, including endpapers. Original boards; rubbed and with cuts; inner hinges cracked; Moxon, Elizabeth: English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts.. Leeds, T Wright, 1785, 12th. Edn. With 6 plates (one torn), plus a folding plate, but only part present, and one plate with most of it missing. A/F; [William Kitchiner]: The Cook's Oracle; 1822, 4th. Edn; [William Kitchiner]: The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life By Food Clothes Air Exercise Wine Sleep &c.1822, 4th. Edn; & [Mrs Rundell]: New System of Domestic Cookery.. Murray, 1816, (8)
COOKERY: [Smith, E]: The compleat housewife; or, Accomplish’d gentlewoman's companion. 1742, 11th. Edn. With a frontis plus six folding plates (three with frayed edges and small loss). Cont. full calf. Rubbed; The Family Magazine: in two parts. Part I: House keeping & cookery, together with the art of making English Wines; Part II: Body of Physick. J Osborn, 1741, 1st. Edn. With three title pages, PP: xiv, (ii), 123, (iii) Index; (ii), 324. Cont. full calf; rubbed; Glasse, Mrs: The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, T Longman, et al, 1796. PP: xxxii, 418, xxxiii - xl, 419, (Errata) Complete, but some mis-binding. Later leather backed marbled boards & new endpapers. Title page torn and repaired, with small loss; Farley, John: The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant. J Scatcherd, 1801, 10th. Edn. With a frontis portrait plus 12 plates on 6 pages. Cont. full calf; [William Kitchiner]: The Cook's Oracle. 1829, New Edn; & The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life By Food Clothes Air Exercise Wine Sleep &c.1822, 3rd. Edn. (6)
Willis, Browne: 1- A Survey of the Cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford and Peterborough. Gosling, 1730; 2- A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol. Gosling, 1727. Both works with folding plates. Cont. full speckled calf; rubbed & torn. (2)
POPE, A: 1- THE DUNCIAD. An heroic poem. To Dr. Jonathan Swift.. L Gilliver, 1736. With a frontis plate. 263pp. Cont. full leather; 2- An essay on man. Strahan, 1786; Douce, Francis: Illustrations of Shakspeare, and Ancient manners.. In 2 vols. Longman.. 1807, first & only edn. 9 wood engraved plates plus text illustrations. Cont. full ribbed leather, The bookplate of R A Butler; [Swift, J]: A Tale of a Tub. 1739; The Union: or Select Scots and English Poems, 1753; Somervile, W: The Chase; 1753; Thomson, J: The seasons. Perth, 1793; & Richardson, S: Pamela. No date, c1832. (9)
HUNTING: Large collection, including: Combe, W: The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, 3 vols, 1855. With hand coloured plates. Original boards. G+; A third of a century with the High Peak Harriers. 1892. Limited edn. #17. Full morocco gilt; Plus another copy: #74; original boards; Hunting songs, Ballad. 1834. Coloured frontis plus 12 plates. Cont. leather backed boards; rubbed; Surtees: Six Leather bound Hunting books with colour plates. C1880's; Plus: Five, in original boards; Beckford, P: Thoughts on Hunting, 3 edns: 1802-1820; Etc. (qty.)
MEDICAL: Salmon, W: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis or the New London Dispensatory in VI books. Dawks for Chiswell, et al, 1707, PP: (viii), 877, (iii). Cont. full calf and later spine; Sprengell, C. F: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, and the Sentences of Celsus, with Explanations and References to the most considerable Writers in Physick and Philosophy both Ancient and Modern. 1708, 1st. Edn. With a frontis plus a portrait. PP: xiv, 349, (i)b, (xxvi) Index. Recent full calf. G+; Kitchiner, W: The Economy of the Eyes.. 1824, 1st. Edn. With a folding frontis (torn, but no loss). Plain boards, long inscription to front blank; Fordyce, G (2 works in one vol.): A Treatise on the Digestion of Food. J Johnson, 1791, 1st. Edn. 204pp; Bound With: Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation. J Johnson, 1771, 2nd. Edn. With 3 plates. Later full polished calf. The title of the first work torn with small loss; former owner's name to both title pages; Tears and repairs to few pages in the second work; Smith, N: The Descriptive Atlas of Anatomy. 1880,1st. edn; Culpepper, N: The English Physician Enlarged. 1799; Plus another edn. A/F; Parmentie, M: Observations on such nutritive vegetables, 1783, 1stl’ Buchan, W: Domestic Medicine. 1792; Butler's Medicine Chest Directory, 1832. (10)
GRIFFIN (RICHARD, Baron BRAYBROOKE): The History of Audley End... Town and Parish of Saffron Walden. Samuel Bentley, 1836, first edition, large paper copy. With engraved title, portrait, 2 double page maps, 15 plates Plus wood engraved head & tail-pieces. Recent rebound in plain cloth and new endpaper. Tear & small loss to the extra engraved title page; occasional foxing.
HUSBANDRY, Etc: GAMBADO: An Academy for Grown Horsemen Containing The Completest Instructions For Walking, Trotting, Cantering &c. 1808, 3rd. Edn. With 12 plates; BOUND WITH: Annals of Horsemanship. 1808. With 17 Plates. Folio, Light damp stain to bottom corners of the plates; one plate trimmed and another with a tear to the corner and small loss (well away from the image); Tusser, T: Five hundred points of good husbandry.. Together with a book of huswifery. 1812; Lord-Mayor of London: A present for an apprentice: or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and estate, Two editions: 1759 & 1774; Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property. Reprinted. 1767. Three parts. C19 half leather. G+; Warner, F: A full & plain account of the GOUT. Dublin, J Williams, 1769;Bonnycastle, J: Introduction to Astronomy. 1803; Plus: The racing calendar for the year 1831. (8)
ESSEX: Morant, P: The History & Antiquities of the County of Essex, Two Volumes. T. Osborne; etc. 1768 & 1763. With numerous maps and plates, many folding. Folio, cont. full calf; Excursions in the county of Essex. In Two volumes. Longman, et al, 1818-19, 1st. Edns. Near cont. half leather. VG; White, W: History, gazetteer, & directory of the county of ESSEX. 1863, 2nd edn. As usual, Lacking the map. Cont. full leather, rebacked; County biography: or the lives of… in Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk. Witham & Maldon, for P Youngman, 1825, 1st. Edn. With 68 portraits. Cont. half leather, rubbed. (6)
Trade Catalogues: Chance Bros. & Co., (Glass Makers of Birmingham): Patterns of Ornamental Quarries & Borders from the Glass works of Chance Brothers. T Underwood, 1853, with 21 plates of Quarry Plus 6 colour plates; Archibald Kenrick & Sons, Iron founders, West Bromwich, Staff. Manufacturers of kitchen furniture, etc. no date, c1862. Fully illustrated, the first 12 are in blue. Later leather backed marbled boards; Ferbusson Taylor: 57 auction catalogues, Dec. 1885 to Dec. 1892, all bound in one volume; Burnet and Co. (Artistic and theatrical Drapers): Thirty Original Sketches For Fancy Costumes drawn by R L Boocke. B Burnet, 1894. 80pp Original cloth backed pictorial boards. (4)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
RIVERS: Crowquill, Alfred: A Guide to the Watering Places. Harwood, no date (1839). PP: 50, (x) adverts, with a frontis plus 16 plates. Later cloth backed marbled boards; Progress and Commerce, 1894: Rivers of the North. 4to. 264pp, illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt. Inner hinges cracked; JEFFREYS, John: A new map of all the rivers of England & Wales, traced from the springs into the sea, Sept 14, 176? Hand coloured, linen backed and folding (125 x 120 cm). Rare. (3)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
BOOK OF TRADES: 1- 1839, 5th. Edn. 386pp, complete with a frontis, engraved title page plus 18 plates; 2- SPCK, no date. With illustrations in the text. Cloth boards; 3- or Library of the useful arts. 2 volumes; Vol.1- 1806, 3rd. Edn. Complete with 23 hand coloured plates; Vol.2- Crosby, no date, With 24 plates (one extra); 4- Or Circle of the Useful Arts, 1836. With 13 plates; a few stains and small tears; 5- or Library of the useful arts. 1806, part one only with 20 plates only, Defective copy, A/F; Plus: LITTLE JACK OF ALL TRADES; Harvey & Darton, 1823. With 15 Plates. (7)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
ART, Etc: Masters & Houston: Psychedelic Art. 1968, 1st. Edn. DW. 4to. Tear & repair to dw, VG; Tolmer, A: Mise En Page, Theory & practice of Lay-out. Studio, 1931, 1st. Edn. With 16 plates, 4to. Original boards, rubbed & with loss to head of spine. Inner hinges cracked. One plate with a tear (no loss); Steinberg, Saul (5 works): The art of living; The Passport; The New World; The Labyrinth. All 1st. edns, last two with DW; Plus 3 others. (10)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Mixed collection, including: Picard, B: Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, one volume only of seven. Paris, Rollin, 1741, With numerous plates, some full page & double page, page 304 with part cut out, hence A/F; two atlases, & two others. (5)
ICHTHYOLOGY- A collection of Twenty tracts on FISH: Nine presented/Signed by their author collected in this volume by Jonathan Couch (who contributed four of the tracts), plus Five Autograph letters Signed. Other authors include: J S Henslow (inscribed); William Houghton x2 (inscribed); A Gunther x4 (2 inscribed); J Couch x4 (1 inscribed); R Sheret, 1846; William Jardine (signed, plus a letter to Couch); R Dyce; j Swan (inscribed); A Hancock + a letter to Couch; etc. With 8 plates. Some of the tracts: A new method of curing Salmon, Ling, Cod, Haddocks, 26pp; Regulations for the guidance of the fishermen of Great Britain and France, by Couch; Etc. Later half leather, J Couch’s nameplate, inscriptions and notes to endpapers.From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
MINING: Smith, Thomas: The Miner's Guide, being a description and illustration of a chart of sections of the principal mines of coal and ironstone in the counties of Stafford, Salop, Warwick and Durham. Sold by C Tilt, 1836. PP: 207+Errata+ 6 Plates (one hand coloured). Later full leather; Title, dedication & last two pages of the index are professionally strengthened.From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
VICTORIA: An anecdotal memoir. J Bennett, 1839, 5th. Edn. Extra Illustrated copy, with 18 plates, including an original pencil sketch by Princess Victoria, facing page 19. Cont. full morocco with gilt decoration, gilt inner dentelles & aeg. VGFrom the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
Charles DICKENS: 1- Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853, first edition, first issue, with Typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6, 'elgble'; p.209, line 23, 'chair' instead of 'hair; and p.275, line 22, 'counsinship' instead of 'cousinship'; and "picter' p. 529, line 32. 5 line errata on page Xvi. Half title present. With 40 engraved illustrations by H.K. Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Including clear early impressions of the 'dark' plates. Cont. half leather; rubbed. G+; 2- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, 1839, 1st. Edn. Early issue. With a frontis portrait plus 39 plates by Phiz. Cont. half leather, rubbed; 3- Mr. Pickwick. Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds. Hodder & Stoughton, no date, (1910). Limited edition #254 of 350, SIGNED by Reynolds, Folio, Original full vellum and TEG, lacking the ties, Covers a little warped and discoloured; 4- Phiz and Dickens as they appeared to Edgar Browne, with original illustrations by Halblot K. Browne. James Nisbet, 1913. Limited edition #124 of 175, SIGNED by Edgar Browne, Folio, Original full white cloth TEG, Rubbed and with small tears; 5- Smith, W E: Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: A Biographical Catalogue, TWO Volumes. Los Angeles, 1982-83, 1st. Edns. DWs and Slipcase. 4to. VG+; 6- Eckel, J C: The first editions of the writings of Charles Dickens, their points and values. Two copies, 1913, the first English edn; & NY, 1932, revised & enlarged. Both numbered limited editions; 7- The Nonesuch Dickens. 1937, 1st. Edn; 8- Characters from Dickens. 115 cigarette cards (105 small & 10 large); PLUS: Characters from Thackeray: 25 small cigarette cards. C1915; Plus: Four early editions of Dickens works, Leather bound. (13)
Antiquarian: John Milton: 1- Milton's Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Doré, edited with notes and a life of Milton by Robert Vaughan. Cassell, Petter and Galpin, no date, c1890. With 50 Plates by Dore. Large Folio, Original full leather gilt and all edges gilt. Covers rubbed; 2- Paradise Lost, In Two volumes. Rivington, et al, 1790, 9th. Edn. With a frontis portrait plus 12 plates. Ex-Libra, with two small stamps to title pages only. Cont. full leather, rubbed and hinges cracked; PLUS: THACKERAY, W M: The Newcomes; Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, with illustrations on steel & wood by Richard Doyle, in two volumes. Bradbury and Evans, 1854-55, 1st. Edns. Original cloth; foxing to the plates; And three others. (8)
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