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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 12th impression, 1962; The Two Towers, 10th impression, 1963; The Return of the King, 9th impression, 1962, folding map at end of each, presentation inscriptions, top edge red, original cloth, price-clipped dust jackets, spines and extremities a little rubbed and toned, a few tears, 8vo, with others, mainly P.G. Wodehouse including 1st editions The Clicking of Cuthbert, 1922, Divots (1st US edition), 1927, Enter PSmith, 1935 and Lord Emsworth and Others, 1937, without jackets, varying condition (Qty: 32)
Chapman (George). Foil Practice; with a Review of the Art of Fencing, according to the theories of La Boe?ssie?re, Hamon, Gomard, and Grisier. For the use of Military Classes, Instructors in the Army, and Others, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1861, half-title, 4 lithograph plates (one folding and frayed to fore-edge margin), bound with Ibid. , Notes and Observations on the Art of Fencing. A Sequel to 'Foil Practice.', Part 1, No. 1 [all published], London: Clowes, Charing Cross, 1864, 2 lithograph plates, occasional light spotting, front free endpaper inscribed 'To Colonel Gordon Maynard Ives with the Author's Respects, Jan 7 1878', upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Colonel Gordon-Ives, C.B., contemporary red half morocco, joints cracked and weak, worn, cup ring mark to upper board, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.56. Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives (1837-1907) was born in London, the son of Jeremiah Robert Ives and Emma Maynard. He married Amy Violet B. Pullin in 1880 and later married Millicent Grace Villiers in 1897, both at St. George Hanover Square, London. He gained the rank of Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
* Sitwell (Edith, 1887-1964). A series of 18 letters, six in the third person, to her insurance brokers, largely relating to jewellery purchases, 1954-1964, all to the Atlas Insurance Company, some to named individuals, together with five letters written on her behalf by secretaries, and a valuation certificate from Cameo Corner, 1958, a total of 38 pages, small 4to (Qty: 23)NOTES'... When the Manager was so kind as to insure Dame Edith's Jewellery some time ago, amongst the items was a Renaissance pendant, consisting of a Queen's Head carved out of a garnet, with a gold crown, and surrounded by branches with flowers of white enamel with centres of rubies. (To this subsequently added a brooch - value £65, I think, if I remember rightly, from Cameo Corner. ...The whole jewel was inadequately priced at the moment. Dame Edith's secretary, Miss Salter, took it the other day, to be valued at Messrs. Philipps, the antique jewellers, of New Bond Street, and they said that although it was impossible, really, to price it, as it is a work of art, they would sell it for £600. ...' '.. a deep blue, square-oblong aquamarine ring, purchased for £160. '... my sable-dyed Rolinsky coat, bought by me for £82. 19s. '... I have just (with my Guinness prize) bought two new rings from Cameo Corner ... the amount I shall pay for these will be either £175 or £180. '... One ring is an amethyst surrounded by diamonds, the other a ring of small pearls with a few tiny diamonds interspersed. ... Incidentally, I changed the amethyst ring, and the pearl ring that I bought last autumn, for a topaz & pearl ring, and three half hoop pearl rings. These came to £25 less than the others, but I shall, when I have been televised, get another ring which will increase that sum. etc. etc. ...' Edith Sitwell was well-known for her extravagant taste in jewellery, and this correspondence shows how seriously she took the question of valuing her new purchases, very many of them from Cameo Corner in Museum Street, London. Dame Edith (who, as ever, insists that she should be properly identified as 'Dame' or 'D.B.E.'), describes the individual purchases in her letters, and is most particular to ensure that she has full insurance cover when travelling abroad. The letters reveal not only an enthusiastic collector but a remarkably business-like personality. The letters are variously written from Renishaw Hall, The Sesame and Imperial Club, and Chicago, and all bear the received-stamp of the Leeds branch of the insurers, some being annotated with financial calculations in pencil.
* Bookplates & labels. A collection of 30 bookplates, ownership labels & business cards, etc., 18th & 19th century, including bookplates for Hookham's Circulating Library, New Bond Street, [London]; Halifax Garrison Library, Patron, The Right Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie; A. Crocker, Schoolmaster, Ilminster; Worcester Library, Instituted, 1790; and a masonic bookplate for William Pearce of Birmingham; book ownership labels including: William Rhodes of Derby, 3rd April, 1730; Mr Bill's Library of Bath; Joseph Wood, Deanrow; John Rutherfurd of Edgerston; and a red morocco label for James Sanders, 1817; and business cards & advertising labels including: James Newby, Hat Manufacturer, Dorking, Surrey, c.1790; Peter White, Hat Maker of 81 Newgate Street, London; Academy for Boarding & Day Pupils, No. 1 New Meeting Street, Birmingham, conducted by Wm. Tolley Junr.; Mackay's best Viginia, No. 7. Wych Street, Drury Lane, [London], c.1800; Ruled by T. Pearson's Ruling Machine, c.1790; William Sharp, Paper Manufacturer, Abbey Mills, Romsey; R. Collinson, Printer, Bookseller, Bookbinder & Stationer, Market Place, Mansfield, all contained together in modern ring binder folder (Qty: a folder)
Bristol. A collection of 24 broadsides, tracts and pamphlets relating to Bristol, 18th & 19th century, including: Bristol Institution, for the Promotion of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Founded February 29, 1820. Sixth Exhibition of Pictures, Opened August 15th, 1831, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office, 1831, [2],10pp., some dampstains, original printed wrappers torn at spine edge and loose, slim 4to; Catalogue of the First Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, held by Permission of the Committee, at the Institution, Park Street, 1832, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, 1832, 12pp., some browning to corners and margins, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, at the Institution, Park Street, 1833, Bristol: Printed by Mills & Son, [1833], 12pp., two small holes to title and few short closed tears to margins, some soiling and dampstaining, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; An Act for the better Preserving the Navigation of the Rivers Avon and Froome, and for Cleansing, Paving and Inlightning the Streets of the City of Bristol, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and Executrix of Thomas Newcombe, 1700, [2], 379-396pp., some toning, slim disbound folio; Theatre Royal, Bristol. This present Monday the 14th of Oct. 1805, will be presented, Shakespeare's Historical Tragedy, of King Richard III..., [Bristol]: Catherine Routh, Printer, 18, Bridge Street, [1805], broadside laid-down onto card, browned, 23.5 x 17.5 cm; Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company, memorandum in connection with obtaining incorporation by Act of Parliament, 1823, 4pp., disbound folio, plus 18 other Bristol related, etc., contained together in modern ring binder folder (Qty: a folder)

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