MAPPENWERKE / SAMMLUNGENKölner Kunstmarkt 71 1971Mappenwerk mit 26 OrGraphiken in unterschiedlichen Techniken auf verschiedenen Papieren, jeweils lose in Umschlag, mit einer Schallplatte, einem Doppelblatt mit Inhaltsverzeichnis und Impressum sowie Begleitheft, in OrKassette. 25 Blatt signiert (Graphik von Barry Le Va nicht signiert). Nr. 209 von 273 Exemplaren (GA 300). Edition Verein progressiver deutscher Kunsthändler, Köln. Kassette ca. 46,5 x 33,5 x 3,7 cm.(Kassette mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.)Enthält Arbeiten von G. Baselitz, B. und H. Becher, A. Bonalumi, K. P. Brehmer, J. Geccelli, R. Girke, H. Goepfert, N. Graves, A. Höckelmann, D. Krieg, T. Kuwayama, A. Lechner, B. Le Va, B. Luginbühl, R. Martinez, R. Mields, L. v. Monkiewitsch, W. Petrick, M. Pistoletto, J. Schmettau, J. Seery, G. Spadari, L. Stark, A. Turner, S. Wewerka und R. Wittenborn sowie eine Schallplatte von den Rolling Stones.
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(Cumberland, Richard): Arundel, oder der Sieg des Edelmuths, ein Roman vom Verfasser des Westindiers. Aus dem Englischen. 2 Bde. Leipzig: J. B. G. Fleischer 1790-91. 16 x 10 cm. VIII, 440 SS.; 1 Bl., 416 SS., 1 Bl. HLdr. mit Rs. (Etwas berieben und bestoßen. Spiegel und Vorsätze leimschattig, stellenweise gebräunt und altersfleckig.)Holzmann/Boh. I, 3166. Vgl. Halkett/Laing I, 149 ("The observer"). Lowndes I, 568 (engl. Originalausgabe). - Erste seltene deutsche Ausgabe. Die engl. Originalausgabe erschien ein Jahr zuvor. R. Cumberland (1732-1811) ist vor allem als Dramatiker bekannt geworden, insbesondere mit dem auf dem Titel genannten Schauspiel in 5 Akten: "Der Westindier" (engl. Titel: "The observer"). - Laut Einlieferer wohl aus dem Vorbesitz der Freifrau von Labes, verw. Fredersdorf, der Großmutter Achim von Arnims, wohnhaft auf Ruppin, Schloss Zernikow, das Friedrich der Große ihrem ersten Mann, seinem 'Kammerdiener' geschenkt hatte.
Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando furioso. 4 Bde. Paris: P. Plassan 1795. 22,5 x 14 cm. Mit 1 gest. Porträtfrontispiz und 92 gest. Kupfertafeln aus 2 verschiedenen Folgen. 1 w. Bl., LXXIX, 360 SS.; 452; 448; 452 SS. Marmorierte Kalblederbände mit 2 Rs., reicher Rv., goldgepr. Deckelbordüre, Kanten- und Innenkantenvergoldung.(Berieben und vereinzelt leicht beschabt. Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Die Kupfer meist im w. Rand stockfleckig. Geringe Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren. Stellenweise stockfleckig.)Brunet I, 438. Cohen/R. 98. Graesse I, 200. Vgl. Fürstenberg 88. Vgl. Sander 45. - Enthält sowohl die Folge von 46 Kupfern aus der Baskerville-Ausgabe von 1773 nach Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Greuze, Monnet und Moreau als auch die 46 Kupfer der Pariser Ausgabe von 1775-83 nach Cochin (diese in Abdrucken mit den Künstlernamen und der Kapitelbezeichnung).
Sheridan, Francis: Geschichte der Miß Sidney Bidulph aus ihrem eignen Tagebuche gezogen und itzt zum erstenmale bekannt gemacht. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. 2. Aufl. 5 Bde. in 3. Lpz.: Weidmanns Erben 1770-75. 17,5 x 11 cm HLdr. m. Rs. und wenig Rv.(Etwas berieben und R. gering aufgehellt. Wenig altersfleckig.)Holzm.-Boh. II, 6449. - Der Übersetzer ist nicht bekannt. - Laut Auskunft des Vorbesitzers aus der Bibliothek der Freifrau von Labes auf Schloss Zernowitz (Ruppin), der Großmutter Achim von Arnims. - Von S. Richardsons Romanen beeinflusster sentimentaler, viel gelesener, Moderoman.
LOB DER GRAPHIKEin Symposion über das gedruckte Blatt, seine Eigenart und seine Herstellung. Heidelberg: W. Rothe Verlag 1963. 25,0 x 16,5 cm. 118 SS., 1 Bl. Mit 6 sign. u. num. OrGraphiken. Ln. m. Rs. u. Rt.(Einband stockfleckig; Inhalt sehr sauber; Graphiken frisch.)Eines von 100 Ex. der VA. - Enthält: 1)Farbholzschnitt von H. Kreutz; 2) Kupferstich von H. von Pilgrim; 3) Radierung von R. Sackenheim; 4) Farblithographie von G. Kirchberger; 5) Farbserigraphie von K.-F. Dahmen; 6) Farbradierung von K. Jürgen-Fischer. -Sämtliche Blätter sind von den Künstlern nummeriert und signiert.
Thucelius (Leucht, Christian Leonhard; pseud.): Austria S. R. Imperii conjux. Das ist: Des Heil. Röm. Reichs mit dem ... Herzoglichen Ertz-Hause Oesterreich Beständige Ehe ... in ... Augspurg auf das allerherllichste und prächtigste vollzogen (und) Augusti Corona Augustissima Augustae Coronata. Das ist: Die Krone aller Prinzessinnen auf Erden, nemlich ... Frau Eleonora Magdalena Theresia ... so als Römische Kayserin ... gesalbet. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd. Augsburg: J. J. Schönig für Kroniger & Göbel 1690. 29,8 x 18,5 cm. Mit 2 gest. Front. von J. U. Krauss nach J. A. Thelott und 10 gest. Porträts von L. Heckenauer. 2 Bll., 82; 28 SS. HPgt. (Berieben. Ein Pergamenteckbezug des Vorderdeckels verloren. Berieben und leicht fleckig. Hinteres Rückengelenk mit 2 Durchbrüchen. S. 3 des ersten Teils knittrig. Papier etwas gewellt. 1 Porträt mit kleinem hinterlegten Einriss. Leicht gebräunt.)Hollstein XIII, 75, 189 und XIX, 144, 529 & 152, 1438. Thieme/Becker XXI, 441 und XXXII, 592. - Die Porträts auch unter dem hier ebenfalls beigebundenen Titel „Eigentliche Abbildungen beeder Römm. Kayserl. wie auch der Röm. Königl. Majestäten“ erschienen.
MAPPENWERKE / SAMMLUNGENKölner Kunstmarkt 70 1970Mappenwerk mit 27 OrGraphiken in unterschiedlichen Techniken auf verschiedenen Papieren, jeweils lose in Umschlag, zusammen mit Doppelblatt mit Inhaltsverzeichnis und Impressum sowie Begleitheft in OrKassette. Jeweils signiert bzw. monogrammiert. Nr. 161 on 250 Exemplaren (GA 275). Edition Verein progressiver deutscher Kunsthändler, Köln. Kassette 46,5 x 33,5 x 3 cm.(Kassette mit leichten Kratzspuren.)Enthält Arbeiten von K. F. Bohrmann, V. Bonato, C. Böhmler, A. Cote, K. Danby, G. Gasiorowski, B. Gironcoli, J. Grützke, E. Hauser, J. Henneman, H. E. Kalinowski, W. Knaupp, F. König, F. Kriwet, N. Krushenick, G. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, H. Mack, Palermo, A. R. Penck, O. Piene, S. Polke, G. Richter, R. Schwarz, L. Stafford, Cy Twombly und H. P. Zimmermann.
Nicolai, Friedrich: Geschichte eines dicken Mannes worin drey Heurathen und drey Körbe nebst viel Liebe. 2 Bde. Berlin u. Stettin: F. Nicolai 1794.16,5 x 10 cm. Mit gest. Textvign. und 3 Kupfertafeln von J. W. Meil. 284 SS. + 239 SS., 1 nn S. (Druckfehler), 2 Bll. ("Nachschrift"). Pp. mit Rs. und etwas Rv. (Berieben und bestoßen. Stellenweise etwas feuchtfleckig; beide Titel verso mit Besitzerstempel "R. Gr. Veltheim" durchschlagend.)VD18 90958381. Rümann 816. Holzm. - Boh. II, 6680; Borst, 721; Hayn/Got. II, 582. - Erste Ausgabe auf besserem Papier mit diesen 3 Kupfern komplett. " ... darin eine fesselnde Darstellung des damaligen akademischen Lebens" (Hayn/G.). In der Nachschrift die Erklärung wie dieses Buch durch eine Wette des Autoren mit seinem Freund Johann Joachim Christoph Bode entstanden ist. Steht in der Tradition von Sternes Tristam Shandy - Beilage: Nicolai, Friedrich: Leben und Meinungen Sempronius Gundibert's eines deutschen Philosophen. Berlin u. Stettin: 1798.16,5 x 10,5 cm. Mit gest. Front. 342 SS., 1 Bl. Ähnlicher Pp. mit Rs. und etwas Rv. - Borst 822. Brieger 1851. Goed. IV,1, 503, 34. - Erste Ausgabe. - Richtet sich gegen Kant, der daraufhin im selben Jahr mit "Über die Buchmacherei" antwortet.
ENKEVORT, ADRIAN VON (1603 Diest - 1663 Ledeč nad Sázavou)Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift. Regensburg, 1. April 1635. 1 Doppelblatt (1 beschriebene Seite). 32,6 x 20,5 cm.(An den Rändern und im Bereich der Signatur etwas fleckig.)In italienischer Sprache. Vermutlich an Piccolomini. Über den Gefängnisausbruch des schwedischen Feldmarschalls Johann Philipp Cratz und mit weiteren interessanten Kriegsnachrichten: „[...] m'assicuro che V. E. havera gia inteso come il Cratz e scampato della sua priggionia fuora di Vienna, donde mi vienne ordine avio che passando in queste parti io faccia ogni diligenza possibile per chiapparlo non sara stato tanto matto havendo l'Ungaria cosi vicina venirse in qua. La Gemina va avanti e non troppo bene per quelli che si l'erano imaginati meglio io credo che il Schaffgutz sia gia giudicato all suo disavantaggio. E venuto ordine di S. M. R. che il Sgre ducca Julio Enrico sia ancora messo alla Gemina, ha suplicato di poter primo mandare a Vienna dimandare la gracia che non ricevi quella vergogna il trattare con Sassonia dubito che la cosa di Spyra et Coborgh le ritarderanno. Il. Sr. Conte di Thön maggior dhomo maggiore e passato di questa vita a una altra. Quello che si passava non mancavo di avisare V. E., alla quale faccio humilissima reverenza [...]“.
HELHESTENTidsskrift for Kunst. Hrsg. von R. Dahlmann Olsen. 1. und 2. Jahrgang. 12 Hefte in 10; in 2 Bdn. (alles Erschienene). Kopenhagen: Athenaeum 1941-44. 23,5 x 17,5 cm. Mit zahlr. OrGraphiken und Abbildungen. Pp. mit Buntpapierbezügen und Rs. Eingeb. OrUmschläge. (Leichte Bereibungen, Rücken etwas vergilbt. Vereinzelt etwas angestaubt und gebrauchsfleckig.)Vollständiges Exemplar der seltenen Zeitschrift mit Originalgraphiken von Asger Jorn, Else Alfeldt, Ejler Bille, Sv. Engelund, Svavar Gudnason, Henry Heerup, Hjorth Nielsen, Egill Jacobsen, Harald Leth, Vilh. Lundstrøm, Egon Matthiesen, Richard Mortensen, Olivia Holm Møller, Carl-Henning Pedersen, William Scharff, Dan Sterup Hansen und anderen.
TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'ART ABSTRAITIntroduction de Léon Degand. Propos recueillis par Julien Alvard et R. V. Gindertael. (Paris): Éd. Art d'aujourd'hui 1952. 23,8 x 19,7 cm. Mit zahlr. fotogr. Abb., dav. 34 ganzseit. Porträts von Serge Vandercam. 295 SS., 1 Bl. + 30 Tafeln (dav. 27 in farbigem Pochoir). OrBrosch. mit OrKartonumschlag und bedrucktem OrPergamin-Schutzumschlag.(Pergaminumschlag stark beschädigt. Bindung teilweise leicht gelockert)Eines von 1500 Ex. (GA 1550). - Vgl. Bolliger IV, 302 (VA mit 1 OrGouache von Bozzolini). - "Bedeutender Querschnitt durch die abstrakte Kunst im Jahr 1952 in 32 representativen Abhandlungen über 32 Künstler. Jede Abhandlung umfasst Kurzbiographie, Interview, 1 Portraitfoto, mehrere Abb. [...] Abhandlungen u.a. über Arp, Bozzolini, Calder, S. Delaunay, C. Doméla, Gabo, Herbin, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pevsner, Poliakoff, N. de Staël, Vasarély" (Bolliger).
Phaedrus, Augustus Libertus: Fabularum Aesopicarum libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nasauii David Hoogstratanus. Amsterdam: Fr. Halma 1701. 25,8 x 19 cm. Mit Kupfertitel von Goerée nach Boutats, gest. Titelvign., 38 gest. Kopf- und Schlussvign., 9 gest. Initialen sowie 18 Kupfertafeln von Jan van Vianen (ohne Porträtkupfer). 15 Bll., 160 SS., 42 Bll. Ldr. mit Rt. und Rv.(Rücken komplett erneuert. Deckel etwas berieben und bestoßen. Spiegel und Vorsätze und leimschattig, gering gebräunt. Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk in brauner Tinte. S. 103/104 durch sauberes, hs. Faksimile ersetzt. S. 123/124 mit Einriss. Das Porträt des Prinzen von Nassau fehlt.)Graesse V, 252. Cohen/R. 797 f. Ebert 16589. Sander 1543. Landwehr, Fabeln 247. Bodemann 94.1. - Prachtausgabe der 94 Phädrus-Fabeln nach Aesop. „Très belle édition, bien illustrée“ (Graesse). Im Anhang mit fünf Fabelbearbeitungen des Polyhistors Marquard Gude (1635-1689). – „Der von seinem Herausgeber, dem Rotterdamer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer David Fransz van Hoogstraaten (1658-1724) äußerst kostbar gestaltete Band ist dem nassauischen Prinzen Johann Wilhelm Friso (1687-1711) gewidmet (hier jedoch ohne dessen Faltporträt). Aufwendig ist sowohl die Textredaktion als auch die Bildausstattung“ (Kat. Wolfenbüttel Fabula docet 1983, Nr. 42). - Die schönen Kupfertafeln des Jan van Vianen (1660-1703) mit je sechs Darstellungen in Medaillonform zu den einzelnen Fabeln.
Tasso, Torquato: La Gerusalemme liberata. Seconda edizione coi rami della edizione di Monsieur. 2 Bde. Paris: Didot l'aîné 1785/86. 30 x 22,5 cm. Mit 1 gest. Front. v. St. Aubin n. C. N. Cochin und 40 gest. Kupfertafeln von Dambrun, Duclos, St. Aubin u. a. n. Cochin. 4 Bll., 331 SS.; 3 Bll., 334 SS. Rotes Maroquin mit 2 grünen Rs., Aufteilung der Rückenfelder durch eingelegte grüne Lederstreifen, goldgepr. Deckelfileten und goldgepr. Deckel-, Kanten- und Innenkantenbordüren; Buchbinderschildchen von Bradel.(Gelenke und Kanten berieben. Vorderdeckel von Bd. I mit kleinen Kratzpuren. Innen papierbedingt teils gebräunt und altersfleckig; S. 289-292 und S. 305-320 stark gebräunt. Durchgehend im w. Rand leicht fleckig.)Cohen/R. 976 f. - Die Auflage dieser 2. Edition betrug 200 Exemplare. - Der ansprechende Einband stammt von Pierre-Jean Bradel. - „Im Jahre 1784 war es dem beinahe Siebzigjährigen vergönnt, noch eine ganz große Arbeit zu geben. Vielleicht war es kein Zufall, daß er, ebenso wie dreizehn Jahre vorher der alte Gravelot, hier für Tassos ‚La Gerusalemme liberata‘ wählte. Diese große Illustration des alten Meisters bedeutet eine ganz erstaunliche Kraftprobe.“ (Fürstenberg 88).
ROSWITHA QUADFLIEGNOVALIS: Fabeln. Hamburg: Raamin-Presse 1979. Mit 8 Holzstich-Illustrationen von R. Quadflieg. 22 SS., 1 Bl. Schwarzes OrOasenziegenleder mit Blindprägung nach den Holzstichen der Künstlerin (Chr. Zwang, Hamburg).Nr. 92 von 150 deutschsprachigen und nummerierten Ex. (GA 185) auf Büttenkarton. - 10. Druck der Raamin-Presse. – Spindler 71, 10.
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892 Bloemfontein - 1973 Bournemouth)Eigenhändig adressierter Briefumschlag. Oxford, 18. März 1920 (Poststempel). 10,9 x 13,3 cm.(Etwas gebräunt. Rückseite des Umschlags durch Brieföffnung gering beschädigt. Auf der Rückseite zudem zwei einfache Kreiszeichnungen in schwarzer Tinte.)Adressiert an „Miss Duncan / Somerville College / Oxford“. Die Adresse teilweise durchgestrichen und von anderer Hand darunter korrigiert. - John Ronald Reuel Tolkiens Roman „Der Herr der Ringe“ zählt zu den erfolgreichsten Büchern des 20. Jahrhunderts und gilt als wegweisend für die moderne Fantasy-Literatur. Handschriftliche Dokumente sind wegen seiner charakteristischen Handschrift bei Sammlern sehr beliebt.
OTTO NÜCKELTHOMAS MANN: Der kleine Herr Friedemann. München: Phantasus-Verlag 1920. 24,5 x 17,5 cm. Mit 11 ganzseitigen OrBleischnitten (10 davon in d. Paginierung) und 4 kolor. Initialen von Otto Nückel. 4 Bll., 58 SS., 3 Bll. OrHPgt.(Minimal bestoßen und R. etwas fleckig.)Nr. 156 von 150 Ex. der Folge 51-200 (GA 220), von Thomas Mann und Otto Nückel im Impressum signiert. - Phantasus-Drucke, zweiter Druck. - Bürgin I, 1 a. Potempa E 4, 2. - Auf handgeschöpftem Bütten gedruckt und nicht beschnitten. Die Überzugspapiere der Deckel nach einem Holzschnitt Nückels hergestellt.
Platen(-Hallermünde), August Graf von. 3 Werke (davon zwei in ersten Ausgaben). 1826-1838. 1) Die verhängnisvolle Gabel. Ein Lustspiel in 5 Akten. Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta 1826. 21,5 x 12 cm. 88 SS., 1 Bl. Broschur. - Goed. VIII, 688, 26. Borst 1505. Redenbacher 33. - Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe mit dem Druckfehler-Blatt zum Schluss. (Berieben und bestoßen. Stockfleckig.)2) Die Abassiden. Ein Gedicht in neun Gesängen. Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta 1835. 16 x 10,3 cm. X, 145 (r. 144) SS. Pp. mit Rv. - Goed. VIII, 692, 42 a. Borst 1763. Redenbacher 21. - Erste Buchausgabe, vorher 1834 Vesta Taschenbuch für 1834. (Beschabt und bestoßen. Stellenweise l. stockfleckig.)3) Der romantische Oedipus. Ein Lustspiel in fünf Akten. (2. Aufl.). Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta 1838. 18,3 x 10,6 cm. 106 SS. Ln. mit Blindpr. und goldgepr. Rt. - Goed. VIII, 691, 35. (Leichte Bereibungen. Stockfleckig.)
Lenau, Nicolaus. Konvolut von 3 lyrischen Erstausgaben (davon 1 mit Widmung). 1832-42. 1) Gedichte. Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta 1832.VIII, 272 SS. Pp. mit Rs. - Brieger 1574. Borst 1663. - Mit e. Widmung auf einem beiliegenden Vorsatzblatt an seinen Freund Reinhold Köstlin "zum Andenken N. Niembsch" (d. i. Lenau). (Berieben und bestoßen. Stellenweise feuchtfleckig.)2) Savonarola. Ein Gedicht. Stuttgart u. Tübingen: Cotta 1837. 17 x 10,5 cm. 2 Bll., 266 SS. Pp. - Borst 1840. (Berieben, R. verblasst. Gering feuchtfleckig.) 3) Die Albigenser. Freie Dichtungen. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta 1842. 16,5 x 10,5 cm. VI, 253 SS., 2 Bll. (Anzeigen). Marmorierter Pp. - Borst 2034. (Berieben u. bestoßen. Vortitel mit Stempel. Vorbl. mit Abklatsch, etwas angestaubt. Stellenweise feuchtfl.)
'Mars and Venus' - an antique European painting, oil on paper, attached to a board, more than a century old. Several creases, the signature 'R. Versani' and the inscription that appears on the back of the painting were added later and are not related to the painting itself, which is indeed antique, presented in a beautiful old original frame, Dimensions: 42x30 cm, Frame dimensions: 52X40.5 cm, (defects to the frame / photographed). Period: 19th century
Gordimer (Nadine) The Conservationist, 1974; A Sport of Nature, 1987; A Guest of Honour, jacket with price crossed through in biro, tear to jacket repaired with paper verso, 1971, first editions, signed by the author on titles, original boards, dust-jackets, one or two nicks, otherwise excellent or fine copies; and 6 others, including a signed copy of Burger's Daughter, 8vo (9)
Ballard (J. G.) The Crystal World, first American edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, slight creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, New York, 1966; Concrete Island, first American edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, New York, 1974; The Atrocity Exhibition, new revised edition, signed by the author, illustrations, original wrappers, San Francisco, CA, 1990; and 3 others, American editions of Ballard's work, 8vo (6)
Soul and Motown 7" Singles, approximately 200 releases from Four Tops, Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Temptations, R Dean Taylor, Booker T, Equals, Harold Melvin, Rufus Thomas, The Tamms, Clereance Carter, Freda Payne, Bill Withers, James Brown, Al Green, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd and Aretha Franklin, to name a few.
Four Georgian Bristol blue glass decanters and stoppers, comprising a pair of club shaped decanters each with a painted gilt label for Holland and Rum with lozenge-shaped stoppers with the initials R and H approx 24 cms h, two unmatched club shaped decanters each with painted gilt labels for Rum and Brandy, one with a mother of pearl and pewter stopper and the other with a lozenge-shaped stopper with the initials B, approx 26 and 24 cms respectively. This lot includes a Georgian Bristol blue stirrup cup in the form of a boot, circa 1800, approx 9.5 cms h.
Five Georgian Bristol blue glass decanters and stoppers, comprising a pair of club shaped decanters, each with a painted gilt label for Hollands (Dutch Gin) and Rum with lozenge-shaped stoppers with the initials H and R approx 24 cms (af). Two club shaped decanters each with a painted gilt label for Brandy and Rum with lozenge-shaped stoppers and an unusual rhombus-shaped decanter with a painted gilt label for Hollands (Dutch Gin), with a flat-topped stopper. Condition ReportThe rum bottle has a clean break across the neck.
Matchbox Models of Yesteryear a mixed group of Early issues to include (1)Y4 Sentinel Steam Wagon - dark blue normal metal wheels (2) 2x Y6 A.E.C Lorry - dark grey (3) Y7 Leyland Van "W&R Jacob" Crimped tyres. (3) Y8 Bullnose Morris. Conditions appear Excellent to Near Mint in generally Fair to Good boxes. (5)
Austen, Jane The Novels Edited by R. Brimley Johnson with Illustrations by William C. Cooke and Ornaments by F. C. Tilney. London: J. M. Dent and Company, 1893-4. 10 volumes, 8vo (17 x 10.5cm), contemporary maroon half calf, stag and flower devices gilt to spine compartments, contrasting green morocco labels, gilt floral pattern to sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, letterpress series-title and decorative title-page to each work, 31 photogravure plates (4 to volume 1, 3 to each of the remaining volumes), spines rubbed, front inner hinges slightly tender, annotations to front free endpapers, faint odour of wood-smoke
Scrap and photograph albums Collection of albums, early 19th century and later Photograph album containing two early photographs, possibly salted paper prints from calotype negatives, c.1860, one depicting a pointed arch bridge over a river in a wooded landscape (17.5 x 14.8cm), another depicting a church with features including a porch with a crow-stepped gable (15.2 x 12.4cm), together with approx. 45 albumen-print photographs mainly of Aberdeenshire, Deeside, most signed in the negative by John Valentine or George Washington Wilson;Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1800-1810, also including: The Praises of Aberdeen, sung by a Wandering Bard, viz. Logan Loveit, printed for the author, 8th October 1807 (printed broadside); ‘The Ladies Diary' (manuscript verse on 2 sheets); pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war; Explanation of the Beautiful View of Messina, in Sicily … now exhibiting in the great Rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: J. Adlard, [1811) (printed broadside, creased); and similar;Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1810-20, in poor condition with much material loose, contents including: ‘Fanaticism, account of a sutee. By an eye witness. Burdwan, Nov 27th 1820’, manuscript, 2 pp.; several manuscript poems; hand-coloured etched caricatures including R. Dighton, ‘The Specious Orator’, 1794, ‘Poor John Bull, The Free Born Englishman, J. Bairburn, 1819’; stipple-engraved portraits of French statesmen and notables of the Napoleonic era.Together with: 5 other albums including: album of lithographs and etchings, mid-19th century, including William Heath, ‘We Have the Exhibition to Examine’, various costume prints, genre scenes, landscapes, etc. many hand-coloured; 2 photograph albums; Jerusalem tourist album of photogravures and flower cuttings; Straloch estate manuscript notebook, 1896-1930; and a folder of prints and watercolours, 19th century From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.
Baskerville, John (printer) Book of Common Prayer Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761. 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), contemporary red morocco, spine compartments tooled in gilt to saltire pattern, covers panelled in gilt with various concentric decorative rolls and coronet cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signatures a-c4 B-2L8 2M4 (lacking a1 or a2, possibly a half-title or blank; quire U with 7 leaves only but catchwords all aligning), spine slightly faded, old ink-staining to front board, 19th-century chromolithographic prayer slips tipped to verso of title-page, bookplate of William Ramsay of the University of Glasgow;Bodoni, Giambattista (printer). Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato. Parma: nel regal palazzo co' tipi Bodoniani, 4to (29 x 20.6cm), [24] iv [2] 76 [2] iv [2] 100 [4], contemporary straight-grain blue morocco ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookplate (T. D. C. Graham);Burnet, Gilbert. The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given on the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. London: by J. Grover, for R. Royston, 1677. First edition, folio (31 x 18.6cm), near-contemporary red morocco gilt, half-title with engraved portrait verso, 3 other engraved portraits (one a plate, the rest in the text), addenda and errata leaves, bookplate (Edward Cheney)(3) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Occult Cheiro's Private Arcana of Astrology c.1929 or later. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only, 15 volumes numbered 1-10 (including 3a, 4a, 5a, 9a, 10a), 4to (26 x 20cm), original pictorial yellow wrappers, staple-bound along top edges, diagrams in text, printed signatures of ‘Cheiro’ and the editor R. H. T. Naylor to wrappers and title-pages, staples rusted, volume 1 wrappers nicked, volume 3 lacking one staple (of 3) and contents now loose, worming to volume 4 An extremely rare astrological course-book attributed to one of the leading society occultists during the spiritualist heyday of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ‘Cheiro’ is now believed to be the alias of William John Warner (1866-1936), an Irish journalist of apparently humble origins, despite his claims of noble descent and adoption of various aristocratic titles. Having been introduced to London society by Arthur Balfour, he became a celebrity fortune-teller consulted by figures ranging from Edward VII to Oscar Wilde, whose story 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' concerns a rogue chiromantist. He published several hugely successful books on chiromancy, a novel, and a book of poetry. A notice on the title-page of each volume reads: ‘Issued as absolutely private and confidential instruction. Courses issued under similar titles and names are spurious; note is genuine without the signature of “Cheiro” countersigned by the Editor’. The current year in the appendix to the tenth volume, ‘On Time Standards’, is cited as 1929.
Medicine, mostly obstetric Five works Thornton, Robert John. A New Family Herbal… London: Richard Phillips, 1810. 8vo, woodcuts by Bewick in text, contemporary half calf, joints split;Leake, John. Practical Observations on the Child-Bed Fever. London: R. Baldwin, 1775. Third edition, 8vo, modern cloth;Madge, Henry. The Diseases of the Foetus in Utero. London: Henry Renshaw, 1854. 12mo, withdrawn library stamp to title-page, original purple cloth;Banks, William Mitchell. On the Wolffian Bodies of the Foetus and their Remains in the Adult. Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1864. 8vo, withdrawn library stamp to title-page, green cloth;McKerron, R.G. Pregnancy, Labour and Child-Bed with Ovarian Tumour. London: Rebman, Limited, 1903. 8vo, original cloth (5)
Cruikshank, George and Thomas Rowlandson, illustrators Thirteen books Egan, Pierce. Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. 8vo, hand-coloured plates by Cruikshank, crushed green morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands; Blanchard, Laman, editor. George Cruikshank's Omnibus. London: Tilt and Bouge, 1842. 8vo, plates, crushed dark-green morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands; “Doctor Syntax”. The Life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London: T. Tegg, 1815. 8vo, hand-coloured plates by Cruikshank, crushed red morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands; A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, editor. George Cruikshank's Table-Book. London: the Punch Office, 1845. 8vo, plates by Cruikshank, crushed green morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands; Lessons in Thrift. London: Thomas Boys, 1820. 8vo, hand-coloured plates by Cruikshank, brown morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands; “J.Y.A.” Tales of Other Days. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. 8vo, plates by Cruikshank, speckled calf gilt with gilt-tooled spine in bands and red morocco gilt labels; Points of Humour… London: C. Baldwin, 1823. 8vo, plates by Cruikshank, brown crushed morocco gilt; Fouqué, Lamotte. Peter Schlemihl. London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824. 12mo, plates by Cruikshank, later half morocco gilt; [Inglis, Henry David]. Scenes from the Life of Edward Lascelles. Dublin: W. Curry Jun. and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 12mo, illustrations by Cruikshank, later calf gilt; [Egan, Pierce, imitation of]. Real Life in London. London: Jones & Co., 26th May 1821-22. 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured plates, original boards; [Engelbach, Lewis]. Naples and the Campagna Felice. London: R. Ackermann, 1815. 8vo, hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson, crushed dark-green morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands (13) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
French armorial bindings Three works Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, Paul Philippe. Histoire du roi Henri le grand … revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur. Paris: par la Compagnie, 1767. 2 volumes in 1, 12mo (16.4 x 9cm), [12] 260, [2] 310 [4] pp., contemporary red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, covers with gilt arms of Marie Thérèse de Savoie, comtesse d'Artois (identified in a pencilled note as those of her sister the comtesse de Provence, wife of Louis XVIII), blue endpapers, all edges gilt;Bacon, Francis. Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral. Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752. 8vo (18.5 x 11cm), 214 [2] pp., contemporary green morocco, floral devices gilt to spine compartments, covers elaborately gilt with broad roll-tool border incorporating coronets and volutes enclosing large coat of arms with French marquis's coronet and two lions rampants regardants, all edges gilt, bookplate of Thomas Maitland of Dundrennan (inscribed ‘To G. F. M. from T. M.’);Rosinus, Johannes. Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum … Editio postrema, emendatior. Geneva: Pierre et Jacques Chouet, 1640. 4to (23.2 x 15.5cm), [32] 1063 [138] pp., contemporary morocco richly gilt with fleur-de-lis tools and arms of the house of Orléans to covers, 2 folding woodcut plates , woodcuts in text, binding slightly worn, upper fore corner of front board restored, light damp-staining, occasional worming to lower margins The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Don Quixote de la Mancha Translated from the Spanish. Embellished with Engravings from Pictures painted by Robert Smirke, Esq. R. A. London; for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818. First edition, large-paper copy, 4 volumes, 4to (27.6 x 22cm), contemporary diced russia, spines gilt in compartments, five-fillet borders gilt to covers, all edges gilt, 48 engraved plates and 8 engraved head- and tailpieces, all on india paper, mounted, mezzotint frontispiece (not mentioned in list of plates), engraved bookplates, 19th-century ownership inscription to volume 1 endpaper The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Cruikshank, George, and others A collection of finely bound volumes Cruikshank. Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System, of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. London, 1827. Oblong 4to, half blue crushed morocco gilt;Idem. [Mornings and More Mornings at Bow Street.] 4to, comprising engraved proofs before letters, on India paper, contemporary tan morocco gilt;Idem. [Life of Grimaldi] Small 4to containing plates only by Cruikshank, with a hand-coloured portrait, decorative red morocco gilt by Bedford;Idem. The Humourist. [London:] J. Robins & Co., 1819. Oblong 8vo, containing forty hand-coloured etchings by Cruikshank, red morocco gilt by Riviere;Ainsworth, William Harrison. Rookwood, a romance. London: J. Macrone, 1836. Oblong 4to, set of 12 etchings, red morocco gilt by Riviere;Grimm, M.M. German Popular Stories… London: C. Baldwyn, 1823. Oblong folio, proof plates by Cruikshank, handsome blue morocco gilt by Riviere;Seymour, R. “Phiz”. [Plates to] The Davenports, or three roads in life. London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.] Oblong folio, comprising proof plates, some foxing, green half morocco gilt;[Maxwell. History of the Irish Rebellion.] Oblong 4to containing 21 artist's proofs by Cruikshank, without text, red morocco gilt by Riviere, a presentation copy from Cruikshank with his signed carte de visite dated May 24th 1862;and one other (Cruikshank's John Gilpin) (9) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Bosworth, William The Chast and Lost Lovers Lively shadowed in the Persons of Arcadius and Sepha, and Illustrated with the severall Stories of Haemon and Antigone, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and Sappho, Delithason and Verista: being a description of severall Lovers smiling with delight, and with hopes fresh as their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of their Affections, and covered with Blood and Horror in the Conclusion. To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to Aurora. Digested into three Poems. London: by F. L. for Laurence Blaiklock, 1651. First edition, first issue, 8vo (15.8 x 9cm), 18th-century calf, [16] 127 pp., type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initials, front board detached, title-page slightly marked and with two ownership inscriptions including ‘T Park’ (possibly Thomas Park, antiquary and bibliographer of poetry, 1758/9-1834), old marginal repairs to B1 and C8, B2 with lower fore corner restored with loss of text (several lines completed in manuscript, probably 18th century). Housed in a custom red cloth solander box [Wing B3799] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The author's only known work, published posthumously. The epistle dedicatory by ‘R. C.' describes the book as ‘the work of a young Gentleman of 19 years of age, who had he lived, might have been as well the Wonder as the Delight of the Arts’. It was later reissued with a cancel title-page dated 1653.
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Surtees, R. S. [Finely bound set of his sporting novels] Handley Cross; Hawbuck Grange; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; "Ask Mamma"; "Plain or Ringlets?"; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-[undated]-53-58-60-65. Later editions of Handley Cross and Hawbuck Grange, first editions of the remaining titles, 6 works, 8vo (21.8 x 14cm), later red crushed full morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, spines lavishly gilt in compartments with pointillé arabesques, covers tooled in gilt with concentric dogtooth and fillet rolls enclosing curvilinear central panels with elaborate pointillé arabesque decoration to spandrels, each corner with onlaid green morocco roundel containing gilt hunting motif (fox's head, hound's head, riding crop and post-horn), japon doublures, all edges gilt, Hawbuck Grange with 8 uncoloured etched plates by Phiz, the remaining works with hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech (each work with all listed plates present, respectively, 17, 13, 13, 13 and 24), “Plain or Ringlets?” with additional hand-coloured vignette title-page, Hawbuck Grange and "Plain or Ringlets?" with original cloth spine and cover bound in at rear, remaining volumes with original wrappers bound in, Hawbuck Grange with small abrasion to rear cover, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour spine misdated 1863 (6) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
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Indian Rebellion of 1857 3 works Ball, Charles. The History of the Indian Mutiny… London, [n.d.] 2 volumes, royal 8vo, contemporary green half calf, foxing; The History of the Indian Revolt. London: W. and R. Chambers, 1859. 8vo, hand-coloured map, and 3 further maps, modern calf retaining remnants of earlier spine; Kaye, John William. A History of the Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858. London: W.H. Allen, 1870. 2 volumes, fifth edition, contemporary half calf (5)
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe R.A., R.E., A.R.C.A., O.B.E. (British 1901-1978) Printer's souvenir album of Tunnicliffe's illustrated calendar for Wadkin Ltd of Leicester, 1947 Folio (38.5 x 26cm), black thick-paper wrappers, string-bound, manuscript title-label to front wrapper, contents all mounted or tipped to black thick-paper leaves and comprising: 4 colour scraperboard prints (making up the complete calendar, with 3 months to a leaf), each signed by Tunnicliffe; 10 autograph letters and 1 typed letter signed by Tunnicliffe, all to the printers and concerning the production of the calendar; the leaves for July-September and October-December each in 6 successive states; calligraphic manuscript introduction and captions including the signature of the compiler, one Charles Bramley of Humberstone, Leicester.Together with 2 similar Wadkin Ltd souvenir albums of illustrated calendars, respectively by Rowland Hilder R.I., O.B.E. (1905-1993) for 1948, and Leonard R. Squirrell R.W.S., R.E. (1893-1979) for 1949, the Hilder album in 2 volumes and containing 3 autograph letters from Hilder, proof plates, and similar, the Squirrell album containing some 10 autograph letters signed from Squirrell, proof plates, and similar, a few items in both the Hilder and Squirrell albums now loose Wadkin Ltd were a firm of woodworking machinery engineers established in Leicester in 1897 and operating as an independent business until their absorption by Nottingham firm A. L. Dalton in 2010. The three calendars commemorated by these albums appear to have been conceived in part to showcase the firm's reprographic technology, the introduction to the Tunnicliffe album explaining that: ‘This attractive production forms an example of the satisfying result which can be obtained when a discriminating man of business commissions at artist of repute to help him. Having agreed to break away from photographic reproductions it was decided by Mr J. Holland Goddard, the governing director of the firm, after discussion with Mr H. Beeston, publicity manager, to commission an artist of front rank to make four drawings of subjects which would bear some reference to “wood”: wood denotes the countryside so the choice of Mr C. F. Tunnicliffe was inevitable as the wide range of his accomplishment in that sphere was acknowledged’.
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[Johnston, Sir Archibald, Lord Wariston] The Protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland and of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Borrowes, Ministers and Commoners. Subscribers of the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29. of November 1638. Glasgow: George Anderson, 1638. First edition, 4to, A-B4, [15] pp. (final page blank), c.1900 tan crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, woodcut demon vignette to title-page, woodcut headpiece and factotum to A2, type-ornament tailpiece to B4, small worm-track to foot of gutter [STC 22047: this is one of this copies with ‘quire A erroneously perfected’ with the outer form of the corrected issue STC 22047.5, so that the A2 r. has the catchword ‘intruded’ but A2 v. begins ‘of’] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman First and only edition of the earliest known book or pamphlet to be printed in Glasgow. The printer George Anderson had previously worked in Edinburgh before being invited to Glasgow by the town council in 1638. Sir Archibald Johnston, co-author of the National Covenant with William Henderson, visited Glasgow in July 1638 in order to obtain support from the the principal of the university and other leading figures in the city.
Radical War of 1820 'An original autograph letter from Andrew Hardie to his Relations Sept. 5th 1820. Written in Stirling Castle three days before his execution for high treason' [cover-title]. Single bifolium written on all four sides, 30.5 x 18.5cm, tipped to a card window-mount in early-20th-century maroon morocco presentation album by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine and covers decoratively panelled in gilt and blind, front cover with majuscule lettering in gilt and various foliate and floral stamps in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, the album also containing 10 leaves of calligraphic manuscript on japon with decorative initials in opaque red and green watercolour, the text comprising a historical introduction headed ‘The “Radical War of 1820”’, ‘An Elegy to the Memory of R. Baird & Andrew Hardie who were executed for High Treason at Stirling, September 8th, 1820. Printed and published by John Muir, Glasgow, 1820', and a transcription of the letter, housed in a custom red cloth fleece-lined solander box. Pale mottling to covers of album, letter spotted, a few holes and a little thinning along folds Charles J. Sawyer, Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts No. LXV, 1922 (with printed catalogue description laid in); The Library of a Scottish Gentleman. An intriguing survival of unascertainable authenticity but undoubted value. Andrew Hardie (1792-1820), an unemployed weaver from Glasgow, was one of three men executed for their roles in the so-called Radical Uprising of April 1820, a week of strikes and civil unrest across central Scotland, organised as a response to the worsening economic situation which followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Hardie was second-in-command of a small group of men intending to march on the Carron ironworks in Falkirk. At nearby Bonnymuir the group encountered soldiers from the Kilsyth Yeomanry and 10th Hussars and a bloody skirmish ensued, after which Hardie was arrested and taken to Stirling Castle, where he was executed in September along with the leader of the Carron expedition John Baird, a Peninsular War veteran.The document in this album in fact contains two letters by Hardie, the first addressed to ‘My Dear Relations’ and signed Andrew Hardie, Stirling Castle, 5 Sept 1820, the second to ‘My Dear Young Cousins’ signed ‘Andrew Hardie’ but with different letterforms for each of the capitals. In them Hardie places his trust in God and everlasting life, exhorts his family to pious observance, forgives those who have wronged him, defends his actions as motivated by ‘the good of my suffering country'. The first letter contains a postscript accusing ‘Mr Hardie Justice of the peace from Glasgow and Mr Nicol Hugh Baird Civiel Engineire at Kelven-head private in the Kilsyth Yeomanery Cavalery’ of perjury against him, signed ‘Andrew Hardie’ in the same style as the letter itself.The letter to ‘My Dear Relations’ was printed along with a letter from Hardie to his sweetheart Margaret on an undated Edinburgh broadside, a copy of which survives at the National Library of Scotland (shelfmark Ry.III.a.2(11)). Stirling Archives acquired in 2020 a manuscript copy of the ‘My Dear Relations’ letter, written in a non-cursive hand entirely different from that of the present letter. It is therefore a possibility that copies of Hardie's final letters to his family and any other acquaintances were circulated in print and in manuscript after his execution, and in the absence of a specimen of his handwriting established as his own, the authenticity of the present letter as Hardie's autograph cannot de declared with certainty. An 1833 report on literacy rates among Scottish mill workers reported that 96% could read and 53% could write, so it is possible than any surviving letters from Hardie were in any case dictated (R. A. Houston, Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity, 1985, p. 2).
Gregynog Press Substantial collection of letters to William McCance, controller of the press, 1930-3 including numerous draft responses by McCance, and various associated documents, approx. 200 separate items in total, typed and manuscript, most on stationery with the author's corporate or personal letterhead, pencilled catalogue numbers to upper left corners throughout, a few items annotated or with sketched letterforms by McCance. Authors include:Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981), artist and wood-engraver at the Gregynog Press. 10 letters of which 1 to 'Naomi' (probably Naomi Mitchison) the rest to McCance, on various events and disagreements at the press, including remarks about other figures in the private press movement, the letters long and slightly rambling, with little punctuation, most written in pencil, some retaining original stamped envelope, e.g. 'They [the Gregynog board of directors] are furious with you … for having consulted experts or anyone without their consent in other words they dislike being shown up as fools … They all rave about [Eric Gill's] Four Gospels down here. I think its a pigs breakfast … DJ [Dora Jones?] again said at the board meeting how he objected to the Kessler Hamlet fussy he called it “but of course thats just a personall [sic] opinion”. I dont think hes taken the trouble to study it for more than 10 minutes no they all think they are safe with Gill and the Gospels and think it so cheap at 8 guineas';Stanley Morison (1888-1967), typographer. 28 letters, all on Monotype Corporation stationery, in a warm and jocular tone, filled with polysyllabic humour and containing discussion of business matters (e.g. preparation of typefaces for the press, Gill italic and Perpetua italic, etc.) interspersed with constructive criticism and advice regarding Gregynog presswork, lyrical disquisitions on the craft and philosophy of printing, ironic anti-Welsh sentiment ('I think that you and I, as non-Cambrians, may learn something from the incident'), etc. Together with 4 draft letters from McCance to Morison;R. A. Maynard, McCance's predecessor as controller of the Gregynog Press. 5 letters, arranging the hand-over, to McCance, praising McCance's productions at Gregynog (on Esope, ‘Did you, I wonder, manage the engravings without damping on that very soft sized paper. A technical detail this, but I’m interested'; and Comus, ‘a stunning book’), commiserating over disagreements with the directors of the press (‘I was sorry to hear of the contretemps over your Esope colophon. Twas inevitable! You'll get tons of it, as I did … Don't make it a life or death business - as I did. A grave mistake - the Welsh only understand talkie talkie: work doesn't count'; ‘What you say of Wales and Welsh would be illuminating did I not know the blighters so well. In my day the chief sauce [sic] of unpleasant and unexpected surprises was T. W. H. but I can see that the good work is being carried on by others. I can give you no comfort: you will never eliminate the background to your labours’);Major W. J. Burdon Evans, director of the Gregynog Press. 48 letters, concerning McCance's appointment, contractual, administrative and financial matters, press matters including leather samples and the disappointment of Miss Davies with McCance's designs for an edition of Benedicite by Ralph Vaughan Williams, McCance's resignation, etc., the letters ranging from business-like to peremptory in tone. Together with 13 draft letters from McCance to Evans, concerning the day-to-day running of the press, with strong disagreements evident: 'We have again gone into the matter [of changing from quarterly to monthly salaries] and perhaps it is that we are not so much off the rails as running on different lines, you on the Cambrian Railway we on the L.M.S.'; ‘My position, ill defined at the beginning, has become more more one of responsibility without adequate control' (issues raised including unauthorised access to the press's office safe); ‘I submit, however, that the design was both original and distinctive, being well proportioned and effectively adapted to its purpose’ (a response to criticism of his design for Benedicite); ‘I do not wish to belittle the function of the bindery but I should like to point out that its importance is secondary to the actual printing …' (a lengthy draft letter recapitulating disagreements with the Directors esp. focus of attention and resources on the bindery); a discussion of Blair Hughes Stanton's work on an edition of White's Selborne; the appointment of McCance's successor.Dora E. Yates (1879-1974), Romani scholar. 11 letters, concerning the production and design of Gregynog's XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk Tales (1931), Yates contributing the foreword;Thomas Jones (1870-1955), director of the Gregynog Press. 11 letters on various press matters (e.g. 'I was looking at the Esope, Singing Caravan and Erewhon leathers yesterday. Together they have an accumulatively depressing appearance to me');Dora Herbert Jones (1890-1974), secretary of the Gregynog Press, 3 letters, on press matters including a request for a selection of engravings by Agnes Miller Parker for exhibition during a visit to Gregynog by George Bernard Shaw.And from others including Gwendoline E. Davies (1882-1951), co-founder director of the Gregynog Press, 4 letters; J. Barcham Green, paper maker, 2 letters (with a draft letter from McCance to Barcham); Francis Meynell, director of the Nonesuch Press, 4 letters (with a draft letter from McCance to Meynell), J. G. Wilson (1876-1963) managing director of booksellers John & Edward Bumpus Ltd, 6 letters; Hugh Blaker (1873-1936), artist and connoisseur; and more.The associated documents including: 2 carbon copies of a report on the work of press by W. J. Burdon Evans (each 6 ff., foolscap leaves, rectos only, headings comprising ‘Work in hand’, ‘Work in Prospect’, ‘Policy’, ‘Welsh Books’, ‘Costings’ and ‘Generally’, remarks include ‘Eric Gill is not satisfied but the Monotype people hope to supply in November’); 4 copies of William McCance's employment contract (one typed, the rest carbons); a manuscript booklet largely in an unidentified hand, 11 pp., include draft schedule for work at the press, ‘Plan of development through apprentices’, ‘Structural alterations’ including a workshop diagram notes on typefaces in stock, etc., approx. 10 ff. further notes. Mrs Margaret McCance, second wife of William McCance. A voluminous archive shedding light on the personalities and day-to-day functioning of one of the great private presses during its interwar heyday, providing an in-depth and often richly comic insight into the harried tenure of William McCance as controller of the press, with informative business correspondence interspersed with philosophical reflections, indiscreet gossip, and splenetic rants from several correspondents, some of whom might on present evidence be justifiably described as unsung belle-lettrists. William McCance (1890-1974) was a Scottish artist notable as an exponent of the Vorticist style developed by Wyndham Lewis. Succeeding R. A. Maynard in 1930 and remaining in post until 1933, assisted by his his wife, the wood-engraver Agnes Miller Parker, he appears to have quickly found himself out of sympathy with the directors of the press and resentful of their excessive interference. See further: Kathleen Ladizesky, ‘Aspects of the Gregynog Press 1930-33', The Private Library, Third Series, 7:2, 1984.
Annan, T. & R., and Sons - William Stewart, editor University of Glasgow, Old and New Glasgow: T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1891. Folio, number 138 of 350 copies, title-page with photogravure, 34 views and 42 leaves of portraits also in photogravure, original blue cloth gilt, some rubbing and wear to joints The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Balgowan Larder Book Manuscript record of menus consumed, dated 1809-1812 From the estate of Thomas Graham of Balgowan, later lord Lynedoch, comprising 91 manuscript pp. listing items ‘received into the larder’, ‘dinners’ eaten and whom the family dined with An enlightening manuscript revealing the food eaten on a daily basis by Thomas Graham of Balgowan and his family. On the 1st October 1809, the household received “A hind ¼r of beef weighing 6 stone, 1 sheep, 10 ½ per ? killed, 2 hares, 6 brace of partridges [and] 1 rabbit”, which (excluding the large amount of beef) provided five dinners, including “Broth, mutton chops, roast hare, roast partridges, celery”. A feast was provided for General Graham's birthday on the 19th October, complete with blancmange.
Banking and Trade A collection Tooke, Thomas. Considerations on the State of the Currency. London: John Murray, 1726;Hamilton, Robert. An Inquiry concerning the Rise and Progress, the redemption and present state and the Management of the National Debt of Great Britain. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes, 1813;Comyn, Robert Buckley. A Treatise on the Law of Usury. London: R. Pheney, 1817;Joplin, T. Views on the Subject of Corn and Currency. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826;Graham, James. Corn and Currency; in an address to the Land Owners. London: James Ridgway, 1826;Mushet, Robert. An Attempt to Explain from Facts the effect of the Issues of the Bank of England upon its own Interests, Public Credit and Country Banks. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826;Parnell, Sir Henry. Observations on Paper Money, Banking, and Overtrading… London: James Ridgway, 1827;Dunlop, Alexander. A Treatise on the Law of Scotland Relative to the Poor. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1828;“Friends of Commerce”. A Caution to Bankers, Merchants and Manufacturers, against a series of commercial frauds… Edinburgh, 1831;‘A British Merchant’. Hints on Wages, the Corn Laws, High and Low Prices, Paper-Money and Banking… London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832. Inscribed with the author's compliments;Vansommer, James. Tables, exhibiting the various fluctuations in Three Per Cent. Consols… London: printed for the author and sold by A.H. Baily, 1834;and 15 others, 8vo, mostly in original boards with a few in half calf (26)
Lego - Collection of boxed & unboxed Lego sets featuring 15 x Speed Champion sets (Nissan GT-R Nismo, Jaguar F1 & Jaguar Pace, Toyota GR Supra, 1985 Audi Sport Quattro S1, etc) 3 x boxed Life On Mars sets (7310, 7312 & 7311), 2 x Studios sets (1356 & 1354), 6 x boxed Racers Sets (8470, 4585, 8468, etc), boxed Legoland MTron 6877 set & 1 x Creator virtual Lego world, boxed gd overall
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