Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ARCHITECTURE. - A. Welby PUGIN. A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts, their Antiquity, Use, and Symbolic Signification. London: Charles Dolman, 1851. First edition, 4to (254 x 192mm.) 14 plates after drawings by the author. (Toning, frontispiece loose, faint spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine (bumped to extremities). Provenance: Mary Lygon (name in ink to front pastedown). - And a related volume 'Details of Ancient Timber Houses of the 15th and 16th Centuries…', 1836, 4to) (2).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues… London: Robert Barker, 1634. Black letter, engraved title, initials and ornaments, head and tail-pieces, with Apocyphra, engraved NT title. (Lacking general title, some loss and a tear to the NT title, browning, minor soiling) [Bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalmes. [N.p.:] By the printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633. Title with engraved decorative border. (Lacking leaves to rear, small tears, creases, one gathering loosening.) [Bound with:] The Book of Common Prayer. London: Robert Barker, 1632. Engraved initials, head and tail-pieces. (Lacking general title, dated by colophon to rear, first leaf loose, chipping to margins.) 4to (217 x 158mm). Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, lower cover loosening). Provenance: John Barker (ink name to verso of title of 'Book of Common Prayer') [Herbert, 489].

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues and with Former Translations Diligently Compared. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1621. With apocrypha, black letter, engraved titles for OT and NT, initials, ornaments, collates A1-Sss8. (Lacking general title, browning, minor soiling, occasional annotation, many ink names verso of engraved title and to A2 and A3, some lost to Sss8.) [Bound with:] Two Right and Profitable Concordances. London: Norton and Bill, 1622. 4to (216 x 154mm.) With genealogies and map, collates A1-E3. (Map with considerable loss.) 19th century green half-morocco boards (rubbing to extremities, endpapers replaced). [Herbert, 379].

SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen: the Shepheards Calendar together with The Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, Edm. Spenser collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. [London:] by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611. Folio (270 x 179mm). General title with figurative woodcut borders, dedication to Queen Elizabeth I, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, separate title for the 'Second Part of the Faerie Queene' dated 1609, FQ ends at Hh3, with 'Two Cantos of Mutabilitie' dated 1609 at rear with running pagination, and with 'A Letter of the Authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this work...', woodcut initials and ornaments, separate title for 'The Shepheards Calender' dated 1611, initials and ornaments for every month, and 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe' with separate title and other poems, and with 'Prothalamion', 'Four Hymnes', 'Daphnaida', 'Complaints Containing...' and 'The Teares...', and 'The Fate of the Butterfly' all with separate titles dated 1611; and translations of Du Bellay, 'Vergil's Gnat' and Petrarch's 'Vision'. (With hand-written notes to initial blank, browning to title, minor soiling to margins, marginal damp-stain O3-O6, two rear blanks replaced.) 19th century brown half-morocco (inner joint broken, minor rubbing). Note: stanza 1 at B3r begins 'Youg knight' and the R3r catchword is 'she'; the FQ [STC 23083.3], 'A Letter of the Authors…' [STC 23086.3], 'Shepheards Calender' [STC 23093.5]. Provenance: Tho. Carnithan (ink name to first text leaf of FQ); Joyce Cary, novelist, (ink name verso of front free endpaper).

INCUNABULA. - BIBLE, In Latin. Incipit epl'a sancti Hieronym ad Paulinu[m]. Venice: Franciscus de Hailbrun and Nicolaus de Frankfordian, 1476. Folio (275 x 193mm.) Headline, 51 lines, double-column, initial of prologue with intricate ornamental penwork in red, blue and green, the rest with Lombard initials in red and blue, signatures a-h[10], i-l[12], m-s[10], t-v[12], x-y[10], 1-6[10],, 7-10[12], 11-13[10], 14[12], 15-17[10],18[12], A[10], B-C[12], dated to colophon at 18[12]. (Collates complete but for last leaf of the table at rear, C11, replaced in facsimile, occasional marginal worming, contemporary annotation in Latin and inscription to initial blank, marginal leaf repair to v12 and initial blank, rear leaves C8-C10 with damp-stain, small paper infill to C10, rear blank replaced, pencil note of previous collation by Bernard A. Quaritch to rear pastedown.) 17th century calf, blind-stamped, four raised bands to the spine, gilt lettering to the second compartment, bronze corners and clasps (worming to spine ends, lacking metal bosses to covers). Note: the annotation in Latin is occasional but sometimes lively, 'Oh Bone Deus' and may also reflect the life of a previous owner in monastic orders ('Credo firmiter vidi: cognoui tetigi et penitui Notate des Hoc defectu est Cannis').

BIBLE, In English. [Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. N.p. but London: Robert Barker, n.d. but 1611]. First edition, first issue ('he'). Apocrypha only [lacking the Old and New Testament]. Folio, (420 x 269mm.) Black letter, double-column, 103 leaves, engraved 5-line decorative initials, ornaments, 59 lines per leaf, italicised annotation within borders, signatures Jjjj5-Ccccc6. (Lacking one leaf Jjjj4, damp-staining Jjjj5-Nnnn2, thereafter to margins, minor soiling, loss to corner of Oooo4 affecting 2 lines, repair to last leaf Ccccc6 and corner loss.) Old boards rebacked in calf (heavily rubbed). Note: Herbert 309 notes that the 1611, 1613, 1617, 1634 and 1640 editions of the King James Bible closely resemble one another and that the 'intricate typographical differences are discussed at length' in Francis Fry's book, 'Description of the Great Bible 1539 and the Six editions…(1865). Fry distinguishes the editions by comparing the decorative initials, referencing plate 47 with 43, 44, 45. Enclosed within this edition of the 'Apocrypha' are photocopies of these relevant pages from the Fry book. The 'Apocrypha' was not considered to be inspired scripture and so was often bound separately, especially after the Protestant Reformation. The publisher's, for their part, were keen to publish the Bible without this intersectional part because it was cheaper to do so. Provenance: William Ireton Stewart (name in ink to front board).

BIBLE, In English. Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties Special command. London: 1683. General title, additional engraved title and initials, NT title, 6pp. of vellum leaves bound in with hand-written family entries from 1760 to 1942. (Paper margin reinforcement to A1-A6, browning, occasional spotting, front and rear blanks replaced.) [Bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalms. London: for the company of Stationers, 1679. (Spotting to rear leaves). Folio (368 x 224mm.) 19th century diced morocco with blind-tooled design to covers, five raised bands with gilt titling to second compartment, metal clasps and bosses, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Sarah and Thomas Maddison (first entry in ink to the vellum leaves), and thence by descent to John Edgar.

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. [A collection of thirteen issues from parliamentary journals]. London: Francis Coles, John Hammond, Robert Ibbitson, J.C., Francis Leach, 1641-1660. 4to (186 x 137mm.) Engraved wood-cut of parliament, decorative initials. (Paper repair to one issue.) Disbound. Note: includes A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament from the 10th October unto the 17th, 1642, number 18; A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament from the last of February to the seventh of March, 1641, number 6; A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament from the 28th March 1642 to the fourth of April, number 12; A Perfect Diurnall of Some Passages and Proceedings Of, and in relation to, the Armies in England and Ireland… from Monday January 28th to Monday February 4th, 1649, number 8; The True Diurnal Occurrences or, the heads of the Proceedings of Both Houses in Parliament from the 31st January to the Seventh of February, 1642, number 4; Perfect Occurrences of Every Daie Journall in Parliament… from Friday July 20th to Friday July 27th 1649, number 134; Perfect Occurrences of Every Daie Journall of the Parliaments, armies proceeding: and other moderate intelligence from Friday October 5th to Friday October 12th, 1649, number 145; Speciall Passages and Certain Informations from Severall places… from Tuesday 1st November to Tuesday 8th November, 1642, number 13; Several Proceedings in Parliament from Thursday the 4th December to Thursday 11th December, 1651, number 115; Mercurius Politicus comprising the form of foreign intelligence…from Thursday March 8th to Thursday March 15th, 1660, number 611; A Continuation of Certain Speciall and Remarkable Passages from both Houses of Parliament… from Friday the 23rd September till Thursday 29th September, 1642, number 10. Special Passages and Certain Informations from Severall places… from Tuesday 18th October to Tuesday 25th October, 1642, number 11. Mercurius Politicus… from Thursday July 4th to Thursday July 11th, 1650, number 5 (13).

BINDINGS. - Henry Noel HUMPHREYS. The Coinage of the British Empire. London: David Bogue, 1855. 4to (238 x 163mm.) 24 plates, 12 chromolithographed. (Some offsetting.) Original elaborate Bois Durci binding with the Royal Coat of Arms, foliate designs to corners, g.e. (some wear to spine ends, gutta-percha perished and all leaves now loosely inserted).

BINDINGS. - Cecil DEEDES. Royal and Loyal Sufferers. London: F.E. Robinson & Co., 1903. Limited edition, this being number 349 of 350 copies, 8vo (178 x 106mm.) Frontispiece. (Browning, some spotting to pastedowns.) Contemporary black morocco with triple and double fillet gilt rectangles surrounding an inlaid red morocco centrepiece with elaborate gilt fleuron and tendril scrolling to both covers. - And three more volumes published by F.E. Robinson in similar bindings (including Peter Barwick's 'The Life of Dr. John Barwick', 8vo) (4).

RECIPES. - Duncan MACDONALD. The New London Family Cook: or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide. London: J. Robins, [n.d. but circa 1800.] 8vo (210 x 127mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 10 engraved plates. (Some browning and occasional soiling.) Contemporary speckled calf (upper cover detached, spine worn).

CALLIMACHUS. Hymni, Epigrammata, et Fragmenta ex Recensione Theodori J. G.F. Graevii. Utrecht: Franciscum Halmam and G. Vande Water, 1697. Vol. 1 only (of 2), 8vo (192 x 112mm.) Additional engraved title with red border, title in red and black with engraved printer's device, 6 engraved plates of Greek gods, text in Greek with Latin translation, head and tail-pieces, 4 indices to rear, note to binder. (Browning, spotting until p.150, ink ownership notes on front free endpaper.) Contemporary calf (wear with some loss to spine, rubbed). Note: the second volume, not present here, contains the notes and commentaries of German scholar Ezechiel Spanheim on Callimachus. Provenance: Thomas Cherry (bookplate to front free endpaper).

MARKHAM, Gervase. Markham's Master-piece Revived; containing all Knowledge belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leach, touching the Curing of all Diseases in Horses… to which is added by way of an Appendix. London: John Richardson, 1694. Fifteenth edition, 4to (186 x 143mm.) 4 parts in 1, additional woodcut title, 4 woodcut plates. (Lacking the folding plate, small hole to p.82, heavily browned and spotted throughout.) Contemporary calf (rubbing to extremities).

BIBLE, In Latin. [Old Testament. N.p.: n.d. but 1525.] 12mo (116 x 68mm.) Rubricated initials, 1 in blue, 2 with decorative fluerons, containing most of the historical books of the OT. (Lacking title, damp-staining VVv4-BBbb, minor soiling.) Original vellum with yapp edges, lettering in red ink to spine, leather ties (cracking to the vellum, one tie missing). Note: containing the books of Samuel, the Chronicles, Ezra, Tobias, Judith, Esther and Job.

HOBBES, Thomas. Tripos, in Three Discourses: the First Humane Nature… the Second, de Corpore Politico… the Third, of Liberty and Necessity. London: for Matthew Gilliflower, Henry Rogers, 1684. Third edition, 8vo (166 x 101mm.) Title in black with red borders, letter-press title for each part, 3pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Ink annotation to margin of B8 and to initial blank, marginal damp-stain to some leaves.) Original spine with later boards, black morocco lettering piece to spine (loss to spine ends, lacking front free endpaper).

BAXTER, Richard. A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the True Principles of Government for the Healing of Mistakes and Resolving the Doubts that Most Engender England at this time. London: Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1659. First edition, 8vo (164 x 101mm.) Decorative initial and head-piece, 9pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Small tear to A6, browning and some spotting throughout.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (front board detached, initial blank and A1-A5 bound to front board, some loss to lettering piece, crude glue repairs to spine). Note: scarce. As a Puritan minister, Baxter's works incited political and theological debate, but this was his most controversial work. He repudiated it himself in 1670 and in 1683 the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a book-burning that included the works of Milton and Hobbes.

BINDING. - [Thomas, BRODRICK]. Historia Sacra: or, the Holy History Giving an Exact and Comprehensive Account of all the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England after a New and Curious Method with their Various Etymologies and Appellations. London: John Wyat, 1705. First edition, 8vo (193 x 113mm.) Title in red and black, 33 engraved plates. (Some spotting and browning throughout.) Near contemporary black morocco with double fillet gilt borders and intricate scrolling gilt fleurons outside the borders, ornate gilt design within, gilt turn-ins, six raised bands with gilt lettering to the second compartment, gilt acorns to the rest.

[DE MEDIOLANO, Joannes. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni: Or, the Schoole of Salernes Regiment of Health, containing Most Judicious Directions and Instructions for the Preservation, Guide and Government of Man's Life. N.p. but London: B. Alsop, n.d. but 1649]. 4to (174 x 124mm.) Black letter, engraved initials and ornaments. (Lacking initial blank and title, A-A4, also lacking H1-L4, rear leaves with considerable loss, text affected, loss to front leaves, text less affected, browning, soiling, contemporary ink annotation to several leaves.) Contemporary calf (boards detached, worn).

TOPOGRAPHY. Russia Seu Moscovia Itemque Tartaria. Leiden: Elzevier, 1630. 12mo (108 x 48mm.) Engraved title. (Small corner loss to title.) Original vellum with yapp edges, spine with ink lettering (minor loss, soiling). Provenance: G. Wheeler (name to front pastedown).