Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - Noel STREATFEILD. Harlequinade. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943. First edition, 8vo (239 x 185mm.) Numerous illustrations by Clarke Hutton. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial yellow cloth (minor soiling to lower cover). Provenance: Pru Illingworth (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And thirty-three more children's books (including J.M. Barrie's 'Peter and Wendy' illustrated by F.D. Bedford, [n.d. but circa 1930's], 8vo) (34).

RAILWAYS. - George BEHREND. Pullman in Europe. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1962. First edition, 8vo (215 x 136mm.) Numerous illustrations and tables. (Faint crease to the preliminaries.) Original brown cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (some browning to rear panel). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to trains and railways (a quantity).

HADFIELD, Charles, and Gordon BIDDLE. The Canals of North West England. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1970. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (price-clipped). - And a quantity of others on waterways and railways including some duplicates (a quantity).

THE STUDIO. - Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors). The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1977. 259 vols., 4to (244 x 179mm to 289 x 204mm.) Plates and illustrations, many coloured or tinted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Brangwyn, William Nicholson, Robert Anning Bell, Joseph Pennell, Mortimer Menpes and many others. (Toning to margins, occasional creasing, stamps throughout.) Early 20th century red half-morocco (203), modern red cloth (31), original green cloth (20) or early 20th century brown half-calf with green lettering pieces to the spine (5) (wear to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: a complete run of 160 volumes of 'The Studio' from its inception in 1863 to its end in 1963. It then became absorbed into 'Studio International' and a run of 27 volumes of this from 1964 until 1977 are included. Also a run of 55 volumes of 'Studio Specials' from 1893-1941 and 'The Royal Academy', 1904, and 'Art in England', 1908, 'Winter Numbers', 1898-1900, 'Art Revival in Austria', 1906, 'Art at the New Gallery and Paris Salon, 1899', 'General Index, volumes 22-42' and some duplicate volumes. The collection includes the 5 Whistler lithographs with 'Gants de Suede', 'The Long Gallery' and 'La Robe Rouge' being without library stamps and a duplicate of vol. III contains an additional 2 Whistler lithographs, 'Gants de Suede' and 'The Long Gallery' also without library stamps. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (259).

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the third. London: John Murray, 1816. Second issue, first variant, 8vo (222 x 139mm.) (Browning throughout and occasional spotting.) Original card wrappers (creasing to edges). Provenance: Mary Byron (name inscribed in ink to half-title). Note: Mary Byron (née Pole) was the wife of Lord Byron's cousin, George Anson Byron. After Byron's death in 1824, George Anson succeeded the poet and became the 7th Baron Byron.

[BAEDEKER, Karl]. The Traveller's Manual of Conversations in English, German, French, Italian and Dutch. Koblenz: Charles Baedeker, 1840. Second edition, 8vo (137 x 91mm.) (Moderate spotting.) Original boards, onlaid titled paper label to upper cover and spine (some wear to spine ends). Provenance: Mary Morant (ink inscription to front pastedown).

ANTARCTICA. - Frank WILD. Shackleton's Last Voyage… the Story of 'The Quest'. London, New York, etc: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1923. First edition, 8vo (231 x 154mm.) Coloured frontispiece, 50 plates from photographs. (Occasional moderate spotting.) Original blue cloth with pictorial image of 'The Quest' in black, white and gilt to upper cover (slight fading to spine, small split to cloth at base of spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Mabel Gordon Dill (inscription in ink to the front-free endpaper).

BOTANY. - John HUTCHINSON. A Botanist in Southern Africa. London: P.R. Gawthorn Ltd., 1946. First edition, signed by the author to front-free endpaper, 8vo (248 x 147mm.) Numerous plates and maps, including a folding family 'tree' of South African plants. (Toning to margins). Original green buckram (some fading), dust-jacket (chipping, some loss to spine ends).

ASTRONOMY. - Richard A. PROCTOR. The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery and Physical Condition. Manchester: Alfred Brothers, 1873. First edition, 8vo (188 x 188mm.) Tipped-in albumen-print frontispiece and 1 more albumen-print, both by Rutherfurd, 22 engraved plates only. (Lacking 3 plates and the third albumen-print, occasional spotting, rubbing to the pastedowns.) Original red cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, bumped to spine ends). Provenance: David and Patricia Cory (name-plate to rear pastedown). - And a related volume (James Nasmyth and James Carpenter's 'The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World and a Satellite', 1885, 8vo).

BEAUMONT, Worby. Motor Vehicles and Motors…Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (272 x 189mm.) Numerous illustrations, drawings and folding plates. (Some loss to tissue-guard of frontispiece, occasional spotting throughout.) Original brown cloth (light rubbing to extremities).

FAULKNER, William. Notes on a Horsethief. Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950. Limited edition of 975 copies, this number 28, signed by the author, 8vo (232 x 141mm.). (Some toning to page ends.) Original green cloth, silver stamped design to upper cover, illustrated endpapers by Elizabeth Calvert (rubbing to extremities).

CHAPBOOKS. - [William] DARTON Senior. A Present For a Little Girl. London: printed for Harvey and Darton, 1820. Engraved colour vignette to title-page, 3 full-page, 27 further colour engraved illustrations, 1p. of advertisements to rear. [Bound with:] James Pedder's 'The Yellow Shoe Strings; or, the Good Effects of Obedience to Parents', 3 plates, 1 folding, 1p. of ads to rear [n.d. but circa 1820]. [Bound with:] Mary Elliott's 'William's Secret', 1 folding plate, 1 colour tinted, 4pp. of ads to rear 1809. [Bound with:] Mary Belson's 'Industry and Idleness', 1 folding frontispiece, 4pp. of ads to rear. 4 works in 1 vol., 12mo (149 x 88mm.) (Occasional spotting, browning, a tear along fold of 'William's Secret' frontispiece.) Modern blue calf. - And one related volume (Andrew Tuer's 'Old London Street Cries', 1885, 12mo) (2).

[GRIMALDI, Stacey.] A Suit of Armour For Youth. London: by the Proprietor and R. Ackermann, [n.d. but 1824]. First edition, 12mo (172 x 98mm.) Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and additional title, 11 hand-coloured plates with overslip flaps and tissue-guards, and 1 more hand-coloured plate. (Frontispiece and title shaved to upper edge without loss, surface tears to front pastedown, repeated name stamp and ink inscription to front-free endpaper.) Original cloth blocked in gilt to upper cover.

"STEADMAN, Ralph. Dogs Bodies. London: Abelard Schuman, 1970. First edition, signed by the illustrator to title-page, 8vo (227 x 169mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning to margins). Card wrappers (browned to spine). Provenance: ""Natalie"" (presentation inscription signed by author 'To Natalie, who I think has trodden in something, with much love, Ralph Steadman, Oct 70')."

PLUTARCH. Plutarch's Lives, translated from the Greek by Several Hands. London: Jacob Tonson, 1711. 5 vols., 8vo (180 x 112mm.) 5 frontispieces and 48 engraved plates of Roman emperors. (Small closed tears to frontispiece of volume three, browning, some areas of damp-staining.) Mid-19th century half-calf over marbled paper boards, six compartments to the spines with raised bands, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the second and third compartments (rubbing, replaced endpapers, some loss to spine ends and the black lettering pieces). - And seven more volumes relating to ancient history (including 'Quini Horatii Flacci Opera', 1804, 8vo) (12).

EROTICA. Les Faveurs et les Disgraces de L'Amour, ou les Amans Heureux, Trompez et Malheureux. Haye: chez Jean Neaulme, 1721. 2 vols., 12mo (160 x 92mm.) Titles in red and black, 38 engraved plates. (Browning, small loss to rear blank of vol. 1, closed hole to rear blank of vol. 2, marginal worm damage to rear leaves, emblematic bookplates to front pastedowns.) Contemporary calf with six compartments to the spines, red morocco lettering pieces to the second and third compartment of vol. 2, gilt design to the rest (vol. 1 lacking the lettering pieces to spine, some loss to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: scarce. Copac records this edition as being in 2 volumes. The 1731 edition was issued in 3 volumes.

MANUSCRIPT. - Samuel SEYER. [An autobiographical manuscript written in ink covering the life of Bristol historian, schoolmaster and cleric Samuel Seyer. N.p.:] 1793-1801. Approximately 265pp., 4to (204 x 157mm.) A clearly written account of Samuel Seyer's life and family. (Occasional browning.) Contemporary limp calf (some surface rubbing and minor loss to spine). Note: the manuscript describes Seyer's upbringing in Gloucestershire, pastoral duties, his unhappy time at Oxford, a reference to Edmund Burke, the school he ran with day-scholars and borders, the flogging ('such are the pleasures of keeping a school'), recording all miscarriages and infant mortalities, the precarious lives of female relatives and friends, a reference to the Jacobites, the riots on Bristol Bridge and the full story of Sir William Desse (dancing master to the Royals) unmasked as a 'swindler', culminating in the night of the rebellion of the boys at his school intent on shooting him ('but only in the legs') due to the suffering and harsh discipline they endured. Samuel Seyer published a translation of Vida's 'The Game of Chess', works on Latin syntax and the principles of Christianity and two further works on the history and topography of Bristol.

SARRATT, J.H. A Treatise on the Game of Chess. London: William Miller, 1808. 2 vols., 8vo (209 x 124mm.) (?Lacking half-titles, preliminary leaf loosening to volume one.) Original mottled calf (missing lettering piece to spine of volume two, rubbing, surface wear to volume two). Note: known as 'the Professor of chess' J.H. Sarratt was a pupil of Verdoni and became renowned as a player and teacher in London in the early 19th century, and the first great English writer on chess (2).

[COLLIER, John.] 'T. BOBBIN'. [The Passions, Humourously Delineated. London: Edward Orme, 1810.] Oblong 4to (207 x 227mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved decorative dedication page, 25 engraved plates. (Light browning, occasional spotting, minor soiling.) Contemporary marbled-paper wrappers (disbound).