Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

GRAHAME, Kenneth. Dream Days. London and New York: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902. 8vo (202 x 149mm.) Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (some loss to spine ends and extremities). Note: rare in the dust-jacket.

GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Golden Age. London and New York: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1900. 8vo (203 x 150mm.) Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, captioned tissue-guards. (Mild toning, occasional light spotting to rear leaves.) Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust-jacket (some fading to spine). Note: rare in the dust-jacket.

MILLAR, H.R. (illustrator). The Golden Fairy Book. Comprising Stories by Moritz Jokai, George Sand, M. Lermontov, E. Laboulaye, Xavier Marmier, Souvestre, M.P. Granal, Daniel Dare, Voltaire, Gonzalo Fernandez Francoso, Alexander Dumas. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1894.] First edition, 8vo (198 x 141mm.) Illustrations by H.R. Millar. Original mustard cloth, gilt decoration, g.e. (some finger-marking). Provenance: Car I. Taboris (bookplate to front pastedown).

CLARKE, Harry (illustrator) and L.D’O WALTERS (editor). The Year’s at the Spring, an Anthology of Recent Poetry… with an introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. First edition, 4to (263 x 197mm.) 24 plates by Harry Clarke, 12 coloured. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (slightly chipped spine ends).

TRELAWNY, Maud (illustrator). – Aubrey HOPWOOD. The Bunkum Book: A Topsy Turvy Tale. London & New York, Frederick Warne & Co., 1900. Oblong folio (230 x 299mm.) 30 full-page colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth-backed pictorial boards (lightly rubbed). Note: scarce. Hopwood was a lyricist for musical comedies on the London stage. In 1886, with Henry Clarke, he wrote the lyrics for the musical of Alice in Wonderland- under the guidance of Lewis Carroll.

PRESSED FERNS. – [Mary ANN ARMSTRONG.] New Zealand Ferns. [Dunedin: n.p.: circa 1870’s.] Folio (304 x 252mm.) 56 botanical specimens mounted recto only on stiff card leaves, captioned in manuscript hand, maker’s label to front pastedown in the name ‘C.C. Armstrong’. (Some offsetting to verso, toning.) Contemporary black half morocco (extremities heavily rubbed, hinges weakened and lower cover detached). Note: Mary Ann Armstrong was a British-born botanical fern artist. Her work, while being an example of the 19th century decorative arts, was also exhibited at International and inter-colonial exhibitions in the 1880’s. The blending of the artistic and the scientific is shown in her use of mounted moss as a grounding for her specimens.

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the families of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (347 x 209mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, loosely inserted manuscript pedigree of the ‘Polhill’ family. (Toning, occasional light spotting, blanks creased.) Original green boards, later paper label to spine (rebacked, extremities rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes (‘Sussex Notes and Queries. A Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society’, 17 vols. in 14, 1927-1971, 8vo) (15).

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written administrative ledger and account book for the Rape of Arundel. N.p.:] Sussex: 1655-1663, manuscript, 4to (224 x 156mm.) 126pp. in a partly legible, mostly single hand relating to land contracts and borders with 17pp. bound-in at rear relating to tithes collected and expenditure, 5 blanks leaves to front and 15 to rear, several loose manuscript inserts with one relating to the Duke of Norfolk. (Loss to top corner of first thirty leaves, text affected, some damp-staining and browning, wormholes to first blank leaves.) Original vellum (minor wormholes to upper cover and spine).

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written book of extensive student notes on a course of eighty-eight lectures on anatomy. N.p.:] October 1822, manuscript, 8vo (240 x 202mm.) Comprising 206pp. in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper with an ‘1819’ watermark, written mostly recto with 24pp. to rear written verso too, several blank leaves to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary half calf (light rubbed, minor scuffing to spine). Note: while there’s no mention of a particular teacher or university or medical school, the student does refer to many contemporary teachers of anatomy such as Alexander Monroe, John Hunter, William Cooper, Edward Stanley and Percival Pott as well as medical scientists such as Jenner and Haller. These are comprehensive and detailed notes covering bones, the blood, the liver, the eyes, the brain, the veins, the thorax, the pelvis, as well as numerous case studies of accidents and diseases and their treatments. The notes have an immediacy that suggests they were written quickly, but overall the past tense is used so it’s not likely they were written while attending a live autopsy. Provenance: J. Parsons (ink name and address to initial blank).

MANUSCRIPT. – William IVORY. [A manuscript catalogue for William Ivory’s library at St. Roque House, Edinburgh. N.p.: circa 1862.] 474pp., manuscript, 8vo (313 x 183mm.) 211 leaves listing book titles and authors in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper, recto only, several leaves with annotations verso, 26 leaves blank. (Spotting to first and last leaves.) 18th century calf, t.e.g. (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Note: William Ivory was a lawyer and member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was known for organising plant-finding expeditions and the catalogue contains several pages devoted to botanical books.

LITTLEHAMPTON HARBOUR. Anno Decimo Victoriae Reginae… an Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making and improving of Harbours, Docks and Piers. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1847. Cap. XXVII, pp. 341-346, 8vo (293 x 183mm.) (Toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover. – And a collection of bound-in Acts of Parliament relating to Littlehampton harbour (including ‘An Act to amend the Law relating to the Drainage of Land for Agricultural Purposes, 6th August 1861’ and ‘An Act to amend the Land Drainage Act, 1861, and to make further provision for the drainage of agricultural land, 30th July 1918’, the ‘Pilotage Act, 1913’, the ‘Pilotage Orders Act, 1921’, the ‘Littlehampton Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act, 1927’, the ‘Land Drainage Act, 1918’, and a few items of tipped-in ephemera relating to Littlehampton Harbour). Provenance: G.J. Campbell Solicitors, Littlehampton (gilt name to upper cover).

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes and London: Sussex Press, Baxter and Nichols and Son, 1835. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (319 x 247mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding maps, 54 engraved plates, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text, ‘Subscriber’s Copy’ label to front pastedown. (Spotting to plate margins, light marginal spotting to text.) Maroon half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later black morocco lettering pieces (rebacked). Provenance: Herbert Lawrence (bookplates to front pastdowns). – And a further ten volumes, mostly related to Sussex (including Mark Anthony Lower’s ‘Sussex; Being an Historical, Topographical, and General Description of every Rape, Hundred, River, Town, Borough, Parish, Village, Hamlet, Castle, Monastery, and Gentleman’s Seat in that County’, 1831, 8vo, and Henry Burstow’s ‘Reminiscences of Horsham’, 1911, 8vo, and Robert Phillips’ ‘A Geological, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Borough of Reigate and Surrounding District’, 1885, 8vo, and also W.H. Davenport Adams’ ‘Lighthouses and Lightships’, 1875, 8vo) (12).

PEEL, Jonathan. The Manor of Knowlmere. It’s History and Owners. Preston: George Toulmin & Sons, Limited, 1913. Limited edition, ‘For Private Circulation Only’, 8vo (221 x 138mm.) Half-title, 15 mounted photographic plates, 2 folding genealogies to rear. (Toning, one genealogy browned with marginal chipping.) Original blue cloth, silver gilt lettering to spine (endpapers browned). Provenance: Robert Peel (ink name to front-free endpaper); by descent from the Peel family. – And a further seven volumes (including Joseph Foster’s ‘Pedigrees of the County Families of England: Lancashire’, vol. 1 [only], 1873, 4to, and, edited by George Peel, ‘The Private Letters of Sir Robert Peel’, 1920, and ‘Merrie Conceited Jests, of George Peel & Gentleman, Sometime Student in Oxford’,1809, 4to) (8).

GREAT EXHIBITION. Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which The Exhibition was Divided. London: for the Royal Commission by William Clowes & Sons, 1852. ‘Presentation Copy’, large 8vo (257 x 164mm.) Title, 3 chromolithographed plates. (Browning.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, decorative gilt to spine and covers, g.e. (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Note: ‘Presentation’ copies were given to every exhibitor at the Great Exhibition.

SUSSEX. – Edward HERON-ALLEN. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (307 x 246mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, corner crease to frontispiece ‘B’ and small tear to plate 42.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (some spotting to lower cover, minor finger-marks and small stain to upper cover). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

VIRTUE, George & Co. (publisher). The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Virtue, [1868.] 12 vols., 4to (275 x 179mm.) 68 colour lithographed maps, additional engraved titles, tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt (extremities rubbed, some damp-staining to covers) (12).

BINDINGS. – Walter SCOTT. The Waverley Novels. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877-1879. 48 vols., 8vo (169 x 108mm.) Titles in red and black, half-titles, engraved frontispieces and additional titles, illustrations. (Toning.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt thistles to spine compartments (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Note: complete (48).

BRYCE, David (publisher). – William SHAKESPEARE. The Illustrated Pocket Shakespeare Complete With Glossary... edited by J. Talfourd Blair. Glasgow: David Bryce, [1886.] 8 vols., 32mo (89 x 60mm.) Illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original limp red cloth, gilt lettering to spines, g.e., contained within original folding box (some staining, scuffing) (box).

BRITAIN. – Francis GROSE. The Antiquities of England and Wales. London: Hooper & Wigstead, [1783]-1797. 8 vols., large paper copies, new edition, 4to (341 x 230mm.) Engraved folding map, numerous plates, plans, views and county maps. (Toning, light spotting to title of vol. 4.) Contemporary brown full calf, blind-tooled and gilt borders (five boards detached, lightly rubbed). – And a further six volumes of Grose’s ‘Antiquities’ in large paper editions, [six boards detached] (‘The Antiquities of Scotland’, 2 vols., 1797, 4to, and ‘The Antiquities of Ireland’, 2 vols., 1791, 4to, and ‘Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army’, 2 vols., 1812). Provenance: John Deacon (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (14).