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Lot 4278A
Richard & The Rev. William Yates: 'An illustration of the monastic history and antiquities of the town and abbey of St. Edmund's Bury : with views of the most considerable monasterial remains.', London, 1805, 1st edition, 15 engraved plates as called for, including the stained glass panel of St. Edmund's Head, East & West views of the Abbey Gate, plan of Abbey Church, Norman Tower, St. Petronilla's Hospital, Seals & Stone Carvings etc, list of subscribers, 4to, contemporary half calf worn, upper joint with external tape reinforcement
Lot 4021
A collection of twenty nine titles relating to Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, Bloomsbury Group, Hogarth Press etc., including Ernest Jones: 'Sigmund Freud Life and Work', 3 volumes, Irving Stone: 'The Passions of the Mind A Novel of Sigmund Freud', NY, Doubleday, 1971, limited edition, signed by author & numbered (33/500), original cloth, slipcase, Roger Fry: 'The Artist and Psycho-Analysis', Hogarth Press, 1924, 1st edition, Hogarth Essays No.2, original pictorial wraps, four others published by 'The Hogarth Press and the Institute for Psycho-Analysis', in green cloth gilt, Ralph Steadman: 'Sigmund Freud', London, Paddington Press, 1979, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by Steadman, etc etc (29)
Lot 4295
Gawdy Hall Estate, near Redenhall/Harleston, South Norfolk, ledger titled "Gawdy Hall Estate Journal" to front cover, 12 pages of manuscript accounts entries re rent, farm rent, rates, cottage rents, service of cow, repairs, stone, royalties etc, folio, contemporary cloth, plus 14 large folding coloured maps of the estate, from 1938 sale particulars/sale catalogue, for sale by H.G. Apthorpe (15)
Lot 4132
A manuscript recipe book, manuscript receipts in several different hands, circa late 17th/early 18th Century onwards, 277 m/s numbered pages (but about 170 pages completed with manuscript recipes), circa late 17th/early 18th Century calf binding (very worn), top board detached (but present), spine gilt in compartments, worn morocco gilt title label to spine "Cordial Waters & Surrups", various medical and cookery recipes, including Aqua Mirabilis, Cherry Water, "The Hott Surfett Water", "An Approved Water to heal ye Lungs & to allay ye heat of a ffeavour & to help one of a consumption if it be not too far gone - Take ye liver of a lamb, and a piece of ye shoulder of the lamb and ye livers of 2 black rabbitts and the lungs of a ffox, and 2 sheeps hearts, a young red cock, half a pound of cap dates, half a pound of blow currants...cut your cock in pieces and croak the bones in pieces stone your dates and pith them...then pound your dates raisins currants in a mortar and then distill all those in a rosewater still, and when they are distilled put to them 2 pounds of browne sugar candy to sweeten it. Let the party drink of it six spoonfulls at a time every two hours for a month together cold. If the ffox lungs be dried you must coat them to powder before ye putt them into your still", to make preservative water, to make Dr Stephen his water, "Snail or Worms Water very good against a Hectick ffeavour...", "The Wind Water", "To Make Swallow Water - Take 50 or 60 Swallows when they are ready to ffly out of the nests, the more swallows you have ye better will your water be, crush them to a pap in a mortar ffeathers and all then add to them two ounces of castor in powder...Midsummer is the choisest time to make it...", the first 35 pages of m/s entries appear to be circa late 17th/early18th Century and in the same hand, these being for waters/syrups/cordials of a medical remedy nature, the following leaves of entries appear to be 18th and 19th Century, in different hands, and mainly cookery recipes, "Mary Frances Salmon 1813" in m/s pen & ink inside front coverNB - leaves at front loose (leaves preceding manuscript page numbered 34)
Lot 4108
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), and his circle, a collection of autograph letters signed, Cartes des Visites, Cabinet Cards, autograph fragments, clipped signatures, original sketches etc, relating to Charles Dickens, the foremost novelist of the 19th Century, and his extensive circle of friends and associates, which encompassed many eminent and influential figures of the Victorian age, including fellow writers, artists, illustrators, poets, social reformers etc, 50+ individual items, comprising Charles John Huffam Dickens 'Boz' (1812-1870), clipped signature, corner mounted onto card, printed biography to card mount, plus CdV by the London Stereographic & Photographic Company, circa 1860s, with facsimile signature at foot; John Leech (1817-1864), humourous artist, illustrator of 'Pickwick' after Seymour's death, personal friend of Dickens who contributed illustrations to all the 'Christmas Books', and sole illustrator of 'A Christmas Carol', Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs Taylor, 1 page 8vo, Brunswick Square, London, 6 March 1858, thanking her for a gift of music of a quality "which improves upon acquaintance. I value it highly", corner mounted to card backing, typed description to mount, plus an original pencil drawing by Leech, tipped onto card mount, together with original envelope and autograph note signed dated 1833, making Leech 16 years of age at the time, possibly to his college friend?; Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English novelist and playwright, contributed to 'Household Words' from 1855, collaborated with Dickens in 'The Lazy tour of Two Idle Apprentices' and 'A Message from the Sea', wrote, with Dickens, 'No Thoroughfare', 1867, by which time he had become a close friend of, and a strong influence upon, Dickens, his later novels include 'Armadale' and 'The Moonstone', autograph envelope signed, addressed to Mr C. Thomas at Messrs Robson & sons, printers, postally cancelled 18th July 1879, tiped onto card mount, plus CdV of Wilkie Collins, by Charles Watkins photographers circa 1860s; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), novelist, his most famous books being 'Vanity Fair', 'The Newcomes', 'The Virginians' etc, his reputation enhanced by the later 'Pendennis'. Dickens and he met in 'Pickwick' days, when Dickens was in search of an illustrator, and Thackeray always remembered offering him some drawings, "which, strange to say, he did not find suitable". In 1858 the pair quarelled over a critical comment on Thackeray by Edmund Yates, published in 'Town Talk'. Thackeray tried to get Yates removed from the Garrick CLub; Dickens defended Yates, and the two literary giants remained estranged until a wekk before Thackeray's death. Dickens was deeply shocked by the death, and paid warm tribute to Thackeray's genius, learning and humour. Autograph Note Signed by Thackeray, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath, plus CdV of Thackeray by Herbert Watkins of Regent Street London; George Cruikshank (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist, commissioned to illustrate 'Sketches by Boz', and later 'Oliver Twist', as well as 'Joseph Grimaldi' and 'The Mudfog Papers'. In 1847 Cruikshank published 'The Bottle', in 1848 'The Drunkard's Children', and his magnum opus 'The Worship of Bacchus' in 1862. Despite his fanaticism as a teetotaller, and his strange claims to have written 'Oliver Twist' and originated 'Pickwick', Dickens admired him and remained friendly with him. George Cruikshank Autograph Letter Signed, dated 24th September 1869, to Mr Hill, 263 Hampstead Road headed paper, 8vo leaf, folded, tipped onto card mount, typed biography to card mount. Plus a Cruikshank Autograph note Signed, tipped onto card, undated, approx size 18 x 11cm, plus autograph memo signed by R.J. Chillingworth addressed to "Geo. Cruikshank Esq Hampstead Road N.W.", 8th September 1874, 2 sides of m/s; Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz' (1815-1882), painter and illustrator, first illustration for Dickens for 'Sunday under Three Heads', 1836, followed by 'Pickwick', continued to illustrate for Dickens for 23 years, ten of the novels being illustrated by him in etching or wood engraving, 'A Tale of Two Cities' being the last book for which he drew, his drawings notable for grotesquerie and strong characterisation. Autograph Letter Signed, August 4th 1875, headed Brunswick House, Marine Parade, Hastings, 8 lines plus signature, to W. Marshall, 17.5 x 11.5cm, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath; Marcus Stone (1840-1921), son of Frank Stone, with whom Dickens was warm friends, virtually Dicken's adopted son after Frank Stone's death in 1859, often spending weeks at Dickens' home, provide frontispieces for some volumes in the cheap edition before illustrating 'Our Mutual Friend'. By 1870, when Dickens was searching for an illustrator for Edwin Drood, Stone was enjoying considerable success with his paintings and no longer worked as an illustrator, Autograph Letter Signed from Stone to the young daughter of Dr. Doran, January 8th 1867, ipped onto card mount, with portrait engraving of Stone and transcript of letter, plus mounted Victorian photograph of Stone (approx 9 x 6cm), plus another ALS from Stone to Dr. Doran, January 31st 1867, tipped onto card leaf, with transcript; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 'L.E.L' (1802-1838), poetess, member of LAdy Blessington's circle, she was frequently at Gore House at the time when Dickens visited there, died mysteriously of poisoning in West Africa in 1838, unsigned autograph fragment, 7 lines, [nd], laid down and repaired, annotated in another hand above as a piece of her manuscript "Illustrations of Walter Scott's Female Characters", with printed transcript beneath; John Fraser (1812-1876), one of Dickens's closest friends, ALS dated 1855; Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), friend of Dickens's from Devonshire Terrace days, ALS, CdV by John Watkins, In Remembrance cabinet card published by Mendelssohn together with corresponding printed in memoriam pamphlet, 1873; Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), English philanthropist, friend of Charles Dickens, signed fragment of Autograph Letter plus CdV by London Stereoscopic Company; Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) CdV; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) CdV; Washington Irving (1783-1859), author, man of letters, friend and in regular correspondence with Dickens c.1840-42, clipped signature; George Watson Pratt (1830-1861?), American Librettist, ALS addressed to Berger, last page mentions "I anticipate much pleasure in seeing you, Barker and Dickens again. I have not heard a word from Barker or Dickens - the next time you meet them please apply the following wishes to them...[there follows a list of supposedly humorous insults!]"; Alfred Crowquill [i.e. Alfred Henry Forrester], (1804-1872), ALS, mounted on card next to mounted 19th Century portrait engraving of Crowquill, transcript of letter loose in sleeve; William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), ALS dated 1845, plus engraved portrait illustration; Richard Bentley (1794-1871), publisher who collaborated with Dickens, ALS dated 1853; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), friend of Dickens, founded Guild of Literature of Art with Dickens, fragment of an ALS; Thomas Talfourd (1795-1854), letter front signed; Leonardo Cattermole, son of George Cattermole, humorous pen & ink sketch, signed, Luke Fildes (1843-1927), ALS dated 1894 to Archibold Grove; Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857), ALS, autograph letter front + 2 CdV's; R.H. Barham [Thomas Ingoldsby] (1788-1845), ALS; ALS from Blanchard Jerrold to William Hall (of Chapman & Hall publishers), concerning his proposed biography of George Cruikshank; Mark Lemon (1809-1870), autograph ten lines of a poem, signed; plus CdV's of Charles Fechter & Daniel Maclise; plus seven photographic sheets of specimens of designs registered in England & America, unresearched, possibly a Dickens connection
Lot 4040
Andrea Badenoch: 'Mortal', 1998, 1st edition, signed; Reginald Hill, 3 titles: 'Born Guilty', 1995, 1st edition, 'Killing the Lawyers', 1997, 1st edition, 'Arms and the Women', 2000, 1st edition, signed; Robert Goddard, 4 titles: 'Blood Count', 2011, 1st edition, signed, 'Found Wanting', 2008, 1st edition, 'Never Go Back', 2006, 1st edition, 'Set in Stone', 1999, 1st edition, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (8)
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Lot 4347
'Grand Panorama of London: from the River Thames', London, Charles Evans, [1847], engraved panoramic view of the North bank of the Thames from Western Stone Wharf/Houses of Parliament, Westminster, to East India Docks/Isle of Dogs, then crossing river to South bank of Thames, from Greenwich to Deptford, ending at Royal Victualling Office, concertina folded continuous engraved panoramic view, approx 14 x 553cm (over 18 feet in width unfolded), some areas of wear/toning, two joints tape repaired, ex Kensington Public Libraries (old markings), 34 concertina leaves, inkstamps verso, no other library markings, no title page, folding into rebound half calf gilt binding
Lot 2063
Two Victorian silver fancy link bracelets, Scottish design silver stone set brooch by W Johnson & Sons, Birmingham 1968, gilt multi chain link bracelet, with 9ct gold T bar, gold expanding link bracelet, stamped 9ct, pair of gold circular earrings, Victorian silver brooch and pair of jet cross earrings
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