Kelmscott Press. Poems by the Way. Written by William Morris, limited edition, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1891, printed with Golden type on Flower (1) paper, woodcut border and initials, printer's device to contents leaf and colophon, side- and shoulder notes and some lines in red, original blue stiff vellum, wear along top edges of spine and boards, silk ties slightly frayed, one torn but extant, 4to Peterson A2. Rare variant blue vellum binding. 'Cockerell, calling at Kelmscott House on 5 November [1891], observed "several copies of Poems by the Way on the dining room table with covers stained red, yellow, blue & green"' (Peterson); no other such copies traced in auction records. (1)
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*Hamilton (Emma, 1765-1815). Autograph letter unsigned, '12 T P', postmarked 18 July 1814, to her admirer Colonel Sir Richard Puleston, staying at Duke's Hotel, Jermyn Street, a brief note stating that she cannot visit him but that he can visit her, 'I shall not be able for some days in the next week to go there so perhaps you will call on me some morning. God bless you', one page with autographed address leaf, postmark Unpaid stamp, seal tear with blank paper loss, a little dust-soiling, 8vo This letter was written while Lady Hamilton and her thirteen-year-old daughter were living at 12 Temple Place, a sponging house within the rules of the King's Bench. As Emma points out in the letter, she was allowed to receive visitors but not allowed out herself. She had been arrested five days earlier, on 13 July, and forced out of her Bond Street apartments. In the ensuing days her remaining worldly goods at Bond Street were all sold off by order of the Sheriff in order to pay her creditors: 'two of Nelson's sea chests, the remains of Hamilton's rare books, Horatia's doll's bed, a four-poster mahogany bed, a piano, her writing desk, dressing table, Grecian couch; all her glass and china; her valuables - her diamond watch, a gold box presented to Nelson in 1802; and even all her books and magazines' (Julie Peakman, Emma Hamilton, 2005, p. 159). (1)
*Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963). Autograph letter signed, 'C.S. Lewis', Magdalen College, Ox[for]d, 10 September 1942, in reply [to Dorothy Dudley Short], 'Since you asked for a reply you must have one. But it isn't exactly an easy letter, is it? You don't believe in God but think it no bad idea to be damned for His Glory. You are very indolent and run all the societies in the neighbourhood. Was the "haze of smoke" pretty thick at 5 A.M.? - a bad time for writing letters: the pen may do anything! I can find no common ground, except of course tobacco. Not cocktails, I fear. (Nasty mixtures invented for ladies in order that those with the palates of children may enjoy the pleasure of alcohol. Sitting in pubs I can manage v well. I have sat in a London pub and been stood a drink by a female astronomer). You see - truth will out - I'm dreadfully "intellectual" - in the older sense of the word. To me the only question is whether Christianity should happen to be objectively true: like the multiplication table. I question whether that was quite a point for you - at 5 A.M. In fact you'd find me a most crushing bore in real life. I couldn't begin to understand (what everyone else in the world does understand) why it is so dreadful to be "respectab[le]" and live in the suburbs. In fact as the song says "Who damned Suburbia?/"I" said Superbia./Who felt elation/At the damnation./"I" said The New Statesman and Nation... ', concluding that he does not mind if his name is used in a book if it would please her 'though I can't for the life of me imagine why it should. I hope this letter doesn't sound rude. You see I only wrote because you asked me, and ain't got nothing to say. Good luck', ruled paper, a little soiled and creased with minor marginal fraying, punch hole upper right affecting place written and one word to verso, 2 pp., oblong 8vo (11.5 x 20cm) See footnote to lot 881. (1)
Cook (James, & James King). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785, engraved title vignettes, 24 engraved plates and charts, many folding, folding letterpress table, water-damage to rear of volume 2 to substantial loss of text in final 14 leaves and partial loss of image in one plate, leaves 3O2-3 loose, engraved armorial bookplate to volume 1, contemporary tan quarter calf, twin morocco labels, vellum tips, rubbed and worn, volume 2 labels perished and rear board detached, 4to (29.8 x 21.7 cm) Beddie 1552, Hill 361, Sabin 16250. Second and best edition; the folio atlas was issued separately. (3)
Kent (Nathaniel). Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property, 1st edition, for J. Dodsley, 1775, bound with: [Lewis, John], Uniting and Monopolizing Farms, plainly proved disadvantageous to the Land-Owners, and highly prejudicial to the Public, by a Gentleman in the Country, 1st edition, for M. Hingeston, 1767, 2 works in 1 volume, 10 engraved folding plates to Kent's work, Lewis's work comprising 32 pp., Kent title page inscribed 'The ingenious Author's present to R. Marsham' in a contemporary hand, ownership inscription 'R. Marsham' to Lewis title, frequent annotations in same hand to margins and rear endpapers, later bookplate of one Robert Marsham with family motto 'quod adest', contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label, slightly rubbed, small hole to front joint, 8vo, together with: Rapin (Ren‚), Rapin of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. English'd by Mr. Gardiner, 1st edition in English, by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintott, [1706], engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved folding plates, gift inscription dated 1803 to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, a fine copy, 8vo, Monk (John), An Agricultural Dictionary, 3 volumes, 1st edition, by G. Woodfall for the author, 1794, folding table, contemporary tree calf, green morocco labels, a bright set, 8vo, [Young, Arthur], Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry, 2nd edition, corrected, printed for T. Becket, 1773, bound without half-title, contemporary tree calf, slightly rubbed, lacking spine label, clean loss of headcap, 8vo, [Young, Arthur], The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, printed for W. Strahan [and others], 1771, half-titles, bound without the 14 folding plates, large engraved bookplates of John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), contemporary polished tan calf, richly gilt spines, extremities slightly rubbed, joints partially split but firm, 8vo, volume 1 lacking a spine label, 8vo Kress 7125 (Kent), 6466 (Lewis), B2795 (Monk), 6988 (Young, Rural Oeconomy), 6832 (Young, The Farmer's Letters); Foxon G11 and Henrey 1253 for Rapin. Provenance (first item): ownership inscriptions and annotations of pioneering English naturalist Robert Marsham (1708-1797); the bookplate is later and likely belongs to his son or grandson, who were both also called Robert. ESTC traces six copies only of the anonymous pamphlet (attributed to Ipswich farmer John Lewis) which is bound with Nathaniel Kent's work. (8)
Graves (Robert). I Claudius, 1st edition, 1934, folding genealogical table at rear, partial printed wraparound 'Chosen by the Book Society' and publisher's review slip giving the date of publication as May 4th loosely inserted, original black cloth gilt, some light discolouration, in original pictorial dustwrapper, designed by John Aldridge, with price of 8 shillings to front inner flap, spine lightly discoloured, with vertical tear at foot, chipped at head and foot spine, with minor loss, and shorter closed tear to inner rear flap (without loss), 8vo (1)
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