Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CHINA. - William Raymond GINGELL (translator). The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B.C. 1121, as Prescribed in the 'Institutes of the Chow Dynasty Strung as Pearls'… being an Abridgement of the Chow le Classic… by Hoo Peih Seang. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1852. Small 4to (247 x 176mm.) Errata slip. (Some minor finger-marks.) Original yellow cloth (wear to top of spine, minor soiling to covers). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

TASMANIA. - James Lester BURKE (editor). The Adventures of Martin Cash… comprising a faithful account of his exploits while a bushranger under arms in Tasmania. Australia, Hobart Town: Printed at the 'Mercury' Steam Press Office, 1870. First edition, 8vo (205 x 128mm.) Original paper wrapper with title, additional title-page. Contemporary red morocco with triple fillet borders, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeating gilt decoration, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: John Leveson Douglas Stewart (bookplate to the front pastedown, second bookplate to front endpaper); The West Horsley Place Collection.

WILSON, Henry. The History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. 2 vols. only (of 3). Vol. 1, fourth edition; vol. 2, second edition, 8vo (232 x 139mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries, toning to margins.) Original green cloth, gilt titling to upper covers and spines (bumped to extremities, marks to lower cover of vol. 1). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

ANDREWS, William. Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain. London: George Redway, 1887. First edition, limited edition of 400 copies this number 51, 8vo (212 x 167mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, 2 engraved plates. Original cloth with bevelled edges, gilt borders, t.e.g (softened to spine ends). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

HARMAN, Thomas. A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called Vagabonds. London: T. Bensley, 1814. 100 copies printed, 4to (251 x 190mm.) Numerous woodcut reproductions. (Occasional spotting.) Later red half-morocco (some rubbing, spine darkened). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

[WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy]. 'Bernard BLACKMANTLE'. The English Spy… an Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous: Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-26. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (235 x 137mm.) 71 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Cruikshank, including frontispiece, 1 wood-engraved plate and numerous illustrations. (Browning and some damp-staining to several leaves in vol. 1; damp-staining to margins of vol. 2 title and several leaves of browning). Late 19th century brown half-morocco by J. Leighton, red and black lettering pieces to spine (fading and soiling to the cloth and split to upper cover of cloth of vol. 1). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

[CRUIKSHANK, George]. A Pop-Gun… fired off by George Cruikshank In Defence of The British Volunteers of 1803, Against the Uncivil Attack Upon that Body by General W. Napier. London: Published for the author by W. Kent & Co., [N.d. but 1860]. Presentation signature by George Cruikshank to the title-page, first edition, 8vo (221 x 127mm.) Numerous illustrations. [Bound with:] Walter Bagehot. 'Count Your Enemies and Economise Your Expenditure', 1862, first edition, 8vo. [Bound with:] Sir John Pakington. 'State of the Navy', signed by author, first edition, 1859, 8vo, and fifteen more similar tracts relating to defence spending, some signed. Contemporary red half-morocco (rubbing to extremities). - And a related volume on 'Tracts on Military Organisation and Education'. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

MILLINGEN, J.G. The History of Duelling. London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (211 x 130mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary half-calf, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth compartments, the others with elaborate repeat decoration in gilt (rubbing and some scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

[GRUYTRODE, Jabocus de.] Lavacrum Conscientie [Ex Verissimis Sanctorum Patrum Scriptis Fideliter Compilatum. N.p.: n.d. but circa 1506]. 8vo (199 x 140mm.) Half-title. (Lacking title-page, occasional damp-staining, small worm-hole affecting text to all leaves.) 19th century boards (slightly soiled, upper joint splitting). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

BYRON. - [Caroline LAMB.] Verses from Glenarvon: to which is Prefixed The Original Introduction. London: printed for Henry Colburn, 1819. Signed by the author Caroline Lamb to half-title, 8vo (183 x 112mm.) 3 engraved plates, 1p. tipped-in a.l.s. by Lamb to front free endpaper, original watercolour portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb to preliminary blank attributed to Eliza Jones. (Minor marginal browning and occasional light soiling.) Contemporary straight-grain morocco, g.e. (worn, upper cover detached). Note: when the novel 'Glenarvon' was published, it was an open secret that this was written by Lady Caroline Lamb and was widely understood to fictionalise the account of her affair with Lord Byron. Byron responded to the novel 'I read Glenarvon too by Caro Lamb… God damn!' and whether it was a kiss-and-tell or more likely a 'f*** and publish'. Lady Caroline was known to have called Byron 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Provenance: Miss Eliza Jones (inscription stating that it was purchased at her library sale and the portrait is in her hand); Stainforth (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

BALLADS. Bishop Perry's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances…. edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall. London: N. Trubner & Co., 1867-1868. 4 vols. (3 vols. and 1 volume 'Loose and Humorous Songs'), large 8vo (239 x 161mm.) (Occasional spotting). Near contemporary full brown morocco, tooled in black with floral gilt to corners, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

BONAPARTE, Lucien. Charlemagne ou L'Eglise Delivree… Poéme Épique. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme et Brown, 1814. 2 vols., 4to (271 x 209mm.) (Mild toning.) Later cat's paw half-calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rubbed to extremities, some fading to covers). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection.

MONTAGU, Mary Wortley [The Works]. London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1803. 5 vols., 8vo (167 x 96mm.) Frontispiece, plates, folding facsimiles. (Several loose leaves, browning.) Contemporary purple morocco, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (bumped to extremities, some fading). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - and 13 others, mostly leather-bound (14).

VICARS, Sir Arthur. Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810. Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, 1897. 8vo (251 x 149mm.) (Browning and spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original red buckram with Ulster King of Arms in gilt to the upper cover, bevelled edges, gilt titles to spine (some sunning to spine). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (presentation inscription in ink to the front endpaper 'The Earl of Crewe, with Ulster's deep regard, January 1898' and bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And seven other volumes of related interest (8).

GRILLION'S CLUB. - Portraits of Members of the Grillion's Club. London: Privately printed, December 1864. 2 vols., folio (535 x 365mm.) Frontispiece, 128 engraved portraits of the members, including Earl Canning, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Russell and Lord Elgin. (Creases to the initial blank of both volumes, spotting to all preliminaries and to most plate margins.) Contemporary brown morocco with gilt borders, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (some scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection.

THE ROXBURGHE CLUB. - Rabbi Moses ARRAGEL (translator). Bible… Translated from the Hebrew into Castilian. Madrid: privately printed for presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1918. 2 vols., folio (427 x 286mm.) Numerous colour plates, tissue-guards. (Toning to margins, some insect damage to margins of preliminaries, spotting to fore-edges.) Original brown morocco blocked in blind with elaborate geometric design (rubbing to all extremities, soiling to margins, some give to inner hinge of vol. 1). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

[PRIOR, Matthew]. Poems on Several Occasions. London: printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barber, 1718. First edition, folio (468 x 280mm.) Engraved frontispiece and title-page with engraved vignette after Louis Charon, list of subscribers, numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces and initials. (Spotting to margins, corner creasing to leaves.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, extremities somewhat scuffed). - And one more volume (John Keats's 'Hyperion', facsimile, 1905, folio). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

[FIELDING, Henry, and Elizabeth CANNING. A collections of tracts, pamphlets and period cartoons relating to the trial of Elizabeth Canning.] Folio (365 x 228mm.) Includes: 'The Trial of Elizabeth Canning, Spinster, for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury', London: John Clarke, 1754, with mezzotint folding frontispiece; 'An Address to the Liverymen of the City of London, from Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Knt…relating to his conduct in the cases of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires', London: James Hodges, 1754, mezzotint frontispiece; 'A Liveryman's Reply to Sir Crisp Gascoyne's Address…', London: W. Reeve, 1754; 'A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning' by Henry Fielding, London: A Millar, 1753; 'The Story of Elizabeth Canning considered by Dr.Hill', mezzotint frontispiece, London: M. Cooper, 1753; 'Virtue Triumphant, or, Elizabeth Canning in America being a Circumstantial Narrative of her Adventures', Boston & London: printed for J. Cooke, 1757; and 12 more tracts relating to the trial and its aftermath. (Some tracts octavo with each page window-mounted onto the folio leaf, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf, blind and gilt borders, gilt turn-ins, (split to spine panel). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

BULLART, Isaac. Academie des Sciences et des Arts… Contentant les Vies, & les Eloge Historiques des Hommes Illustres. Brussells: Se Vendent Chez Francois Foppens, 1682. Vol. 2 only (of 2), folio (336 x 205mm.) Titles in red and black with engraved vignette, profusely illustrated with engraved portraits (including Rene Descartes, Albert Durer, Holbein, Breugel, Dante, and Ronsard), initials and engraved head and tail-pieces. (Some damp-staining.) Contemporary calf with gilt crest to upper cover (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.