Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 'People's Edition', small 8vo (181 x 115mm.) Illustrations by John Tenniel, 3pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting throughout.) Original green pictorial cloth (slight fading to spine, light rubbing). - And a further eleven volumes (including Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1897, small 8vo, and Guy Boothby's 'The Fascination of the King', 1897, 8vo) (12).

NISTER, Ernest and E.P. DUTTON (publishers). Peeps into Fairy Land, a Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co., [1896.] 6 colour pop-up dioramas. (Lacking front-free endpaper, 1 pop-up detached from hinges, marginal tear to last leaf, occasional finger-marking.) Original pictorial cloth-backed boards (rubbing to extremities, upper hinge weakened).

GROLIER SOCIETY, The (publisher). Beaux and Belles of England. London: The Grolier Society, [1900.] 29 vols., 'Edition de Luxe' limited to 1000 copies, 8vo (223 x 142mm.) Colour frontispieces, numerous plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting.) Near contemporary crimson morocco, decorative gilt to upper covers and spines, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (sunning to spines, light rubbing). Provenance: Phyllis Bryant ('Book Society' bookplate with ink ownership name to front pastedowns) (29).

MARSH & MILLER (publisher). The Zoological Keepsake; or, Zoology, and The Garden and Museum of the Zoological Society for the Year 1830. London: Marsh and Miller, [1829.] 12mo (152 x 89mm.) Wood-engraved frontispiece and 21 plates, 1 double-paged, 7 illustrations in the text. (Occasional browning.) Original salmon-pink silk, pictorial and black lettering to covers and spine, g.e. (spine faded, some loss to cloth of lower cover and rubbing to upper cover). Note: scarce. Provenance: Thomas Forster (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further thirteen miscellaneous volumes (including Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' in Jones's 'Diamond Classics' series, 1826, 16mo) (14).

DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. First edition in book form, early issue. 16 plates by Hablot K. Browne with tissue-guards. (Spotting to plate margins, lacking half-title.) [Bound with:] 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'. London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1860]. 24 plates by George Cruikshank. (Spotting to plate margins, toning.) 8vo (213 x 133mm.) Near contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Note: the word 'affectionately' misspelt on p.134, p.213 has been corrected, list of plates leaf unsigned. - And a further five volumes by Charles Dickens, [circa 1860] (6).

BURTON, Robert F. (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. London: H.S. Nichols & Co., 1894. 12 vols., library edition, 8vo (249 x 153mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original black cloth with large Moorish gilt design to upper covers, t.e.g. (lightly bumped, minor abrasion to lower cover of vol. 9). Provenance: H.W.A. Harrison (bookplates to the front pastedowns). - And a further six volumes (18).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Geoffrey CHAUCER. The Canterbury Tales. London: Folio Society, 2010. Limited facsimile edition, this being number 821 of 1980 copies, 4to (309 x 185mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in facsimile by Eric Gill, including a companion volume with an essay by Peter Holliday. Original black morocco, pictorial gilt to upper cover, g.e., contained within the black cloth-covered solander box (slight fading to upper cover of box and with a minor mark).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - John LE CARRÉ. [The Karla Trilogy.] London: Folio Society, 2009-2010. 3 vols., 8vo (233 x 151.) Illustrations by Tim Laing. Original pictorial grey cloth, slipcases (3).

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Alfred Russel WALLACE. The Malay Archipelago. London: Folio Society, 2017. 2 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original pictorial cloth, slipcase (occasional minor scuffing). - And a further related volume (Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species', 2013, 8vo (3).

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Dante ALIGHIERI. Paradiso… translated by Henry Francis Cary. London: Folio Society, 2009. Large 8vo (320 x 218mm.) Numerous colour illustrations after Giovanni di Paolo. (Faint spotting to half-title.) Original blue half morocco over silk moiré-covered boards, slipcase. - And a further five volumes published by the Folio Society (including Dante's 'Purgatorio', 2007, large 8vo, and Goethe's 'Faust', 2005, large 8vo, and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', 2003, large 8vo, and William Blake's 'Jerusalem', 2007, large 8vo) (6).

BEWICK, Thomas (engraver). - James COOK. [Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World. Newcastle: M. Brown, 1790?] 1 vol. only (of 2), 8vo (262 x 212mm.) 3 half-titles with engraved vignettes, 13 engraved plates by Thomas Bewick and others. (Lacking title-page and all leaves after p.794, last twenty leaves with text loss, first 'Preface' leaf with large tear and text loss.) 20th century full calf, red morocco lettering piece (endpapers replaced). - And a further volume (George Ridpath's 'The Border-History of England and Scotland', 1776, 8vo) (2).

AFRICA. - Albert R. COOK. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, limited to 750 copies only, 4to (247 x 183mm.) Photographic plates, 2 folding maps. (Toning.) Original green cloth (extremities bumped, minor damp-spots). - And a further twenty miscellaneous volumes (including T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 1936, 4to, and E.L. Grant Watson's 'The Leaves Return', 1947, 4to) (21).

SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black and white lithographed caricatures of local dignitaries and officials, 2pp. 'Index To Cartoons'. (Browning and spotting to first and last leaves.) Near contemporary green buckram, gilt lettering to upper cover (wear to spine ends, rubbed). Note: the 'Brightonian' was a weekly Brighton newspaper that had an unnamed caricature of a local official in every edition. They were mostly drawn by 'Sea Salt'.

BENSON, A.C. and Lawrence WEAVER and E.V. LUCAS (editors). The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. 2 vols., limited to 1500 copies, inscribed by Queen Mary to Queen Helen of Greece and Denmark, 4to (251 x 193mm.) 92 plates, some in colour, duplicate paper spine labels tipped-in at the end of each volume, loosely inserted portrait card signed 'Aunt Mary, 1948'. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed boards with Mary's gilt monogram to upper covers (front hinge weakened to vol. 1). Note: the inscription reads 'For dear Sitta from Aunt Mary, Christmas 1933'. Provenance: Queen Mary (gift inscribed from her to Queen Helen in ink on the front-free endpaper); Queen Helen (gift inscribed to and name-plates on the front pastedowns). - And a further related item also owned by Queen Helen and housed in specially made vellum portfolios (Louisa F. Pesel's 'Stitches from Old English [-Eastern] Embroideries', nos. 1-2 (of 3), [1912-1913], 8vo) (4).

ALDIN, Cecil (illustrator). - Charles DICKENS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1910. 2 vols., 4to (277 x 183mm.) Colour frontispieces and 22 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text. (Spotting to preliminaries of vol. 2 and intermittently, two leaves with marginal loss.) Original cloth-backed boards, pictorial gilt to upper covers (some fraying to spine ends, some discolouring to edges). Provenance: by descent from the Aldin family (2).

JOSEPHINE BAKER. La Revue des Folies Bergère. Paris: Art Editions, 1923-1931. 4to (306 x 235mm.) 9 souvenir programmes with original card wrappers, some embossed, numerous colour and black and white photographic illustrations, some double-paged. (Toning.) Original plum mock-morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities).

DETMOLD, Edward J. (illustrator). - Maurice MAETERLINCK. The Life of the Bee… translated by Alfred Sutro. London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1912. 4to (278 x 225mm.) 13 mounted colour plates. (Toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original pictorial cloth (light finger-mark to lower cover).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1912.] New edition, 4to (283 x 221mm.) 50 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham with captioned tissue-guards, uncoloured illustrations. (Mild toning, lacking half-title, endpapers replaced.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt (slight fading to spine, minor mark to lower cover).

MUSIC-HALL. - Harry Gabriel PELISSIER and Arthur DAVENPORT. The Follies Picture Book. London: Morton & Burt Ltd., [1910.] Oblong 4to (258 x 361mm.) Illustrations by C. Geoffrey Holme. (1 leaf loose, toning, minor corner creasing.) Original pictorial card covers (small corner loss and marginal tears to covers, toning). Note: scarce. 'H.G.' Pélissier, theatrical producer and composer set up 'Pélissier's Follies' where his troupe did the circuit of seaside piers and concert halls before the First World War. They eventually established their satirical 'potted-plays' at venues in London and Manchester, but Pélissier himself died in 1913, aged 39, of alcoholism.