Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

THEATRE. - Charlotte LENNOX. The Sister: A Comedy. London: for J. Dodsley, 1769. (Some browning.) [Bound with:] [Elizabeth GRIFFITH]. The School for Rakes: A Comedy. London: for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769. (Browning, hand-written list of the plays on the front-free endpaper.) [Bound with:] [Arthur MURPHY]. The Way To Keep Him. London: for P. Vaillant, 1765. (Browning). [Bound with:] William WYCHERLY. The Plain Dealer: A Comedy. London: for W. Griffin, 1767. (Browning.) [Bound with:] [Jonathan SWIFT, 'Isaac Bickerstaff']. The Hypocrite: A Comedy. London: W. Griffin, 1769. (Browning.) [Bound with:] [Thomas KING]. Wit's Last Stake, a Farce. London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1769. Second edition. (Browning.) [Bound with:]. [Charles DIBDIN]. The Padlock: A Comic Opera. London: for W. Griffin, [n.d. but circa 1780]. (Browning, some spotting.) 7 works in 1 vol., 8vo (207 x 126mm.) Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: James Loch of Drylan (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further volume of plays (including 'Zingis' by Alexander Dow, 1769, 8vo) (2).

COOKERY. - Elizabeth RAFFALD. The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c… consisting of Several Hundred Original Receipts, most of which have Never Appeared in Print. Manchester: G. Bancks, 1798. New edition. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. (Spotting throughout, browning, small tear to one leaf.) [Bound with:] The Family Physician, containing some of the Most Approved Receipts and Opinions. Manchester: G. Bancks, 1798. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss to one or two leaves.) 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo (208 x 118mm.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities).

COOKERY. - W.A. HENDERSON. The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook… to which is added the Complete Art of Carving. London: J. Stratford, 1807. Fourteenth edition, 8vo (205 x 118mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 10 plates (1 folding). (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss to C2, loss with text affected to Cc1.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering to the spine, gilt lettering (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

TRAVEL. - Thomas STEVENS. Around the World on a Bicycle. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. 2 vols., first editions, 8vo (218 x 133mm.) Chromolithograph frontispiece of the author on a bicycle and a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Toning, corner creasing to a few leaves at rear of first volume.) Original pictorial cloth (bumped to upper cover of volume 2, rubbing to extremities). Note: volume 1 is subtitled 'From San Francisco to Teheran' and volume 2 is 'From Teheran to Yokohama'. Stevens rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as the Penny Farthing. He was expelled from Afghanistan, refused entry into Siberia but finally estimated that he had travelled 13,500 miles. He was the first person to cycle the globe on a bicycle. The bicycle itself was preserved by the Pope Company. However, in the 1940's it was donated as scrap metal to help the war effort (2).

KENT. - Paul AMSINCK. Tunbridge Wells, and Its Neighbourhood, illustrated in a series of Etchings and Historical Descriptions. London: William Miller, 1810. Large 4to (341 x 273mm.) 40 engraved plates, many full page, tipped-in plate on front-free endpaper. (Spotting, sometimes heavy, stamps on every plate.) Contemporary red morocco over marbled paper covers, paper label onlaid (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplates to the pastedowns). - And a further eleven volumes relating to Kent and Sussex towns (including 'The Tunbridge Wells Guide', 1796, 8vo) (12).

MURRAY, John (publisher). A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt. London: John Murray, 1875. Fifth edition, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) 5 folding maps, numerous illustrations, 76pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear dated 1877-1878. (Front and rear endpapers loose, lacking half-title, toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (soiling, rubbing.) - And a quantity of travel guides (including C.B. Black's 'Guide to the South of France, the Pyrenees and the North of Italy', 1873, 8vo) (a quantity).

POETRY. - [William COOMBE]. The Diaboliad… dedicated to the Worst Man in his Majesty's Dominions. London: for G. Kearsly, 1777. Second edition. (Toning, corner loss to three leaves, some contemporary annotation.) [Bound with:] The Diaboliad, a Poem… dedicated to the Worst Woman in his Majesty's Dominions. London: J. Bew, 1778. (Browning, some spotting.) Second edition, 4to (257 x 203mm.) Disbound. Note: this poem is a satire and full of personal, bitter attacks. It was William Coombe's first literary success in London. - And four further 18th century poems (including Henry James Pye's 'Faringdon Hill', 1774, 4to) (5).

ETCHING. - LAURIE and WHITTLE (publishers). Six Well Known Views Near London, for the Use of those who Delight in Drawing. London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794. (165 x 193mm.) 6 etched plates of London. (Browning to margins.) Sown thread to left margin. Note: rare. Each plate contains two vignettes, one in outline.

SUSSEX. - [William TELL]. Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston. Lewes: for W. Lee, 1795. First edition, 8vo signed in 4s, (212 x 122mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, stamps and ink annotation to title.) 19th century calf-backed marbled-paper covers (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (bookplates to endpapers, stamps). - And sixteen further volumes relating to Sussex (including 'Calendar of Documents Relating to the Abbey of Robertsbridge Co: Sussex', 1873, 4to) (17).

SUSSEX. [A collection of bound ephemera relating to the election of a new Member of Parliament for Lewes in 1816. Lewes: Lee and Baxter, 1816.] Folio, (77 x 112mm to 327 x 208mm.) 38 electoral leaflets (2 hand-written), comprising poems, letters, adverts and political propaganda relating to the period February-March 1816. (Occasional creasing, browning, circular stamps to most pieces.) Later green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Note: bound in chronological order, the leaflets trace the events from when Thomas Read Kemp resigned as M.P. for Lewes and it was expected that the successor would be J. Scarlett. However, a riot of indignation ensues when Mr. Scarlett's friend, John Shelley, also decides to stand. The subsequent leafleteering is satirical, often funny ('WANTED IMMEDIATELY, an ORATOR, to speak the sentiments of a 'perfectly independent Cock-Fighter, and Bull-Baiter, a person of small stature, and adapted to the Pocket, will be preferred'), while also reflecting wider issues around religious tolerance. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to the front pastedown).

SUSSEX. - L.F. SALZMANN. The History of the Parish of Hailsham. Lewes: Farncombe & Company, 1901. First edition, 8vo (214 x 138mm.) Folding map as frontispiece, 1 folding genealogy, 13 plates. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning, stamps verso of the title.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (bumped to spine ends, label remains to base of spine). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplates to the pastedowns). - And a further thirty-six volumes relating to Battle and Battle Abbey (including the Duchess of Cleveland's 'The Battle Abbey Roll', 3 vols., 1889, 8vo) (37).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia: Or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland and the Islands Adjacent; from the Earliest Antiquity. London: for John Stockdale, 1806. 3 vols. only, second edition, folio (429 x 247mm.) 41 folding maps, 2 single sheet maps, 70 plates, 8 folding plates including 1 folding genealogy. (Occasional browning, spotting to margins and verso of plates.) Near contemporary brown half-morocco (rebacked, endpapers replaced, rubbing to all extremities. Note: volume 2, 3, and 4 only. Provenance: George Herbert (ink name to initial blanks); Worthing Public Library (bookplates to front pastedowns).

MOZLEY, Charles (illustrator). - Geoffrey CHAUCER. The Canterbury Tales, translated by Nevill Cogill. [N.p: n.d. but circa 1983-1986.] 8 parts in 4 vols., elephant folio (588 x 415mm.) Numerous tinted and black and white lithographed plates by Charles Mozley. Unstitched as issued within card wrappers, contained within four cloth portfolios with ties. Note: includes The Prologue and The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Summoner's Tale and The Clerk's Tale, The Merchant's Tale and The Shipman's Tale, The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale (4).

WOODBURN, Samuel. Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits. London: for the Proprietor, by George Jones, 1816. Vol. 2 (of 2), large laper copy, folio (428 x 275mm.) 106 engraved portraits, 1 folding. (Moderate spotting throughout, damp-staining to lower margins of most leaves.) Original straight-grain red morocco, stamped in gilt and blind to both covers, five raised bands to the spine, gilt lettering to the second and third compartments, elaborate repeating design to the rest, g.e. (rubbing to extremities).

HORSE-RACING. British Sports and Sportsmen, Racing, compiled and edited by 'The Sportsman'. London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, 1920. Limited edition, this being number 518 of 1000 copies, folio, (369 x 262mm.) 25 photogravure plates with tissue-guards, numerous illustrations within text. (Mild toning.) Original red morocco, five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to the second and fourth compartments, repeating gilt design to the rest, g.e. (rubbing to spine ends, slight sunning to spine).

ARCHITECTURE. - Frederick NASH. A Series of Views, Interior and Exterior, of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, at Windsor; with Illustrative Plates Explanatory of its Architecture and Ornaments. London: Frederick Nash, 1805. Limited edition, this being one of 250 copies, folio (679 x 495mm.) Title with vignette, 10pp. of introductory text, engraved plan within text, 8 loose-leaf engraved plates, 2 of which are proofs, most with tissue-guards. (A closed tear to one page of text, browning and some chipping to the right margin of most plates.) Original blue card wrappers, paper label to upper cover (spine lacking, worn).

BURNE-JONES, Edward. The Beginning of the World, Twenty-Five Pictures. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. First edition, 4to (299 x 218mm.) 25 wood-engraved illustrations. (Browning to preliminaries.) Original cloth-backed green paper-covered boards (sunning to boards, stain to top of spine).

MUSIC. - The BEATLES. The Beatles Anthology. London: Cassell & Co., 2000. First edition, first impression, 4to (339 x 244mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original black cloth, silver gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, dust-jacket (slight crease to spine ends). - And six further volumes relating to the Beatles (including 'The Beatles, Ten Years That Shook the World', 2004, 4to) (7).

TALLIS, John. - Peter JACKSON (introduction). Tallis London Street Views 1838-1840. Bury St. Edmonds: London Topographical Society, 2002. Second revised edition, oblong 4to (195 x 271mm.) Numerous illustrations, with CD to rear. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (bookplates to pastedowns). - And eight further volumes, four relating to London topography (including 'The London Panoramas of Robert Barker and Thomas Girtin circa 1800', 1968, 4to) (9).