Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

AUSTEN, Jane. [Collected Novels.] London: Richard Bentley, 1886-1892. 6 vols., New Edition, 8vo (179 x 118mm.) 6 engraved frontispieces, tissue-guards (marginal damp-staining to ‘Mansfield Park’ and ‘Lady Susan’ frontispieces, toning.) Contemporary brown half calf by Bickers & Son over marbled paper-covered boards, brown and tan morocco lettering pieces to spines (minor rubbing to extremities, staining to edge of lower cover of ‘Northanger Abbey’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’) (6).

BINDINGS. – William SHAKESPEARE. [The Works.] London: Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press, 1931-1932. 3 vols., 8vo (184 x 115mm.) 3 frontispieces, tissue-guards. (Toning, crease to title of ‘Tragedies’.) Near contemporary full tree calf, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further five volumes (including, bound by Riviere, Helen Gardner’s ‘Art Through the Ages’, [1959], 8vo, and, both in full tree calf, ‘The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer’, 1913, 8vo, and ‘The Poetical Works of Longfellow’, 1925, 8vo) (8).

MUSIC. – William GARDINER. Music and Friends; or, Pleasant Recollections of a Dilettante. London: Longman, Orme et al., 1838-1853. 3 vols., 8vo (212 x 132mm.) Engraved leaves of musical scores. (Toning, browning and spotting to vol. 3.) Contemporary half calf to vols. 1 and 2, original blue blind-stamped cloth to vol. 3 (extremities rubbed and covers scuffed, upper joint splitting to vol. 3). Note: an English composer and diarist but primarily known for his influence in bringing Beethoven’s music to England. In the flight from Bonn at the advance of French troops in 1793, a chaplain, Abbe Döbler, fled to Leicester with the score of Beethoven’s Violin Trio in E flat in his violin case. William Gardiner met Döbler in Leicester and a private performance of the work occurred in a house three years before its publication in London. Provenance: John Chanter (bookplates to front pastedowns of vols. 1 and 2). – And a further four volumes related to music (including W.T. Parke’s ‘Musical Memoirs; Comprising an Account of the General State of Music in England’, 2 vols. in 1, 1830, 8vo, and Kreissle von Hellborn’s ‘The Life of Franz Schubert’, 2 vols., 1869, 8vo, and L.A.C. Bombet’s ‘The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna. Followed by the Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio’, 1817, 8vo) (7).

BINDINGS. – Charles DICKENS. [The Works.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1868-1870. 26 vols., ‘Library Edition’, 8vo (190 x 115mm.) Half-titles, engraved frontispieces to each volume, numerous plates. (Mild toning.) Contemporary brown full calf, double fillet gilt borders, brown and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (lightly rubbed extremities, minor scuffing). Provenance: Ken Phillips, dated ‘March 1872’ (ink name inscribed to half-titles) (26).

HUNT, Leigh. The Indicator. London: Joseph Appleyard, 1822. 8vo (212 x 127mm.) Pagination in two parts, 4pp. ‘Index’ and 2pp. ‘Index’ to each part. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary green half calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed). Note: comprises all 76 issues of Hunt’s literary periodical which ran from October 13th 1819 until March 21st 1821. – And a further fourteen volumes (including Henry Penruddocke Wyndham’s ‘Wiltshire, Extracted From Domesday Book’, 1788, 8vo, and ‘The Oarman’s and Angler’s Map of the River Thames’, 1897, and ‘Bennet’s Map of the River Thames, from Oxford to Gravesend’, [1900]) (15).

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Justini ex Trogi Pompeii Historiis externis libri XXXXIIII. Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1551. Small 8vo (119 x 70mm.) Engraved printer’s device to title, 40pp. ‘Index’ and appendix to rear. (Title and a1-e3 with marginal damp-stain with some text affected, tear to l3, minor marginal wormholes to rear leaves.) 17th century calf (covers and extremities rubbed, minor loss). Provenance: P. Bouden (ink name to title).

GRAFTON, Richard. Grafton’s Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, newely corrected and augmented, to thys present yere of our Lord 1572. [London: Richard Tottell, 1572.] 8vo (138 x 89mm.) Title, woodcut initials, tables. (Lacking several leaves, including the illustration at Ee5v, 2 leaves to rear loose, last leaf Hh8, hole in E1, some manuscript annotation to margins, corner loss to title, occasional spotting.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (worn). Note: the first pocket edition of Grafton’s chronicle was published in 1563. Based on John Harding’s 15th century text, Grafton compiled it while in prison. The pocket editions were published by Grafton’s son-in-law, Richard Tottel. Provenance: John Ishel [?] (contemporary ink name to title).

WESTERMAN, Percy F. A Watch Dog of the North Sea. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1916. First edition, 8vo (199 x 141mm.) 6 colour plates. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (some loss to upper edges, slightly dust-soiled). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket. – And a further twelve illustrated volumes (including Jules Verne’s ‘The Moon-Voyage… containing ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ and ‘Round the Moon’’, [1880?], 8vo, and ‘The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais’, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 2 vols., [1921], 8vo) (13).

BARNES, Julian. Arthur and George. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Limited edition, this being number 10 of 150 signed copies quarter-bound in cloth, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Original russet red cloth-backed paper-covered boards, slipcase.

RUSHDIE, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. London: Granta Books, 1990. Limited edition, this being number 32 of 251 copies signed by the author, 8vo (214 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards (slight fade to spine).

O’BRIEN, Edna. The Country Girls. London: Hutchinson, 1960. First edition, 8vo (196 x 121mm.) (Some spotting to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine ends rubbed). Note: the author’s first novel.

BANKS, Ian M. Consider Phlebas. London: Macmillan, 1987. First edition, 8vo (216 x 131mm.) (Toning.) Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket (slight rub to extremities). Note: the first in Banks’ ‘Culture’ series.

SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. London: The Bodley Head, 1967. First U.K. edition, oblong 4to (227 x 249mm.) Illustrations and text by Sendak. (Mild toning, contemporary gift inscription verso front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial boards (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (price-clipped, closed tear to upper panel and tear at top of spine, marginal damp-stain and verso).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Henrik IBSEN. Peer Gynt, a Dramatic Poem. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. First trade edition, signed by Arthur Rackham to the title-page, 4to (248 x 189mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Original brown cloth (lightly bumped extremities), dust-jacket (some loss at top of spine, extremities chipped).

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrator). – Alexander POPE. The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 4to (256 x 189mm.) Half-title, 7 plates and 2 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, tissue-guard. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, rear endpaper with 2-inch archival tape repair.) Original turquoise cloth, blocked in gilt to design by Beardsley.

WILDE, Oscar. The Sphinx. London and New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1920. Limited edition, this being one of 1000 copies only, 4to (298 x 217mm.) Title in black and turquoise, 10 colour pochoir plates by Alastair, captioned tissue-guards, 2 further plates to front and rear, 13 decorated initials. (Mild toning, frontispiece loosening.) Original pictorial buckram, t.e.g. (minor finger-mark to lower cover).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – C.S. EVANS (editor). Cinderella. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, 4to (252 x 185mm.) Tipped-in frontispiece, tissue-guard, decorative title in three colours, 3 double-paged colour plates, numerous silhouette illustrations. (Toning, name partially erased from half-title.) Original pictorial boards (light spotting), dust-jacket (some chafing to edges).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – C.S. EVANS. The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920. 4to (248 x 181mm.) 1 tipped-in plate, numerous silhouette illustrations by Rackham. (Toning, slight spotting to fore-edge.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (toning to spine panel, slight chipping to spine ends).

RAVILIOUS, Eric (illustrator). The Gallimaufry. A New Magazine of the Students of the R.C.A. which will appear for this once only… edited by D.P. Bliss, assisted by A.E. Christopherson. London: Royal College of Art, June 1925. Title-page vignette and woodcut frontispiece by Ravilious, numerous other woodcuts by Douglas Bliss, Enid Marx and others, including three by Edward Bawden with hand-colouring. (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers designed by Ravilious (minor finger-marking to lower cover). [Bound with:] Edward BAWDEN (illustrator). The Mandrake: A Magazine of the Students of the Royal College of Art. London: Royal College of Art, May 1926-May 1927. 2 vols. [of 2], signed by the editor Cecilia A. Dunbar-Kilburn and by Edward I. Halliday, limited edition one of 200 copies only, numerous woodcut illustrations by Bawden, Bliss, Holmes and Halliday et al., some with hand-colouring including 1 double-paged. (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers designed by Edward Bawden (toned to edges). 8vo (253 x 168mm. and 247 x 173mm.) Near contemporary green cloth, black morocco lettering piece (discolouring to covers). Note: all three magazines put together in the Common Room of the R.C.A. where they were taught design between 1924-25 by Paul Nash. Nash later recalled of this period: ‘I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions’.