Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. First edition, second impression, 8vo (210 x 139mm.) 4 uncoloured plates by James McBryde, tissue-guard to frontispiece. (Light spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, bookplate residue to pastedowns.) Original cloth (browning to extremities). Provenance: Colin Morris (monogram to front-free endpaper).

PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah. Haxby's Circus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition, 8vo (192 x 121mm.) (Toning, bookplate and offsetting to front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (some loss to spine ends, browning). Note: scarce. A novel of circus life by the Australian author and co-founder of the Australian Communist Party.

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins and Harper Collins, 1949-2016. 96 vols., including 56 first editions, 8vo (222 x 151mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth (volume 71 is a softback), dust-jackets (volumes 13, 17 and 21 lacking dust-jackets, twenty volumes price-clipped, mainly earlier, occasional rubbing, some names inscribed). Note: a run of ninety-six New Naturalists comprising volumes 1, 3-8, 11-38, 40-80, 82-85, 87-89, 91, 93-94, 101, 104, 109, 111-112, 114, 118, 125, 127, 132. First edition volumes are numbers 6, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 31, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57, 59, 61-69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 77-80, 82-85, 87-89, 91, 93, 94, 101, 109, 111, 112, 114, 118, 125, 127 and 132. Volume number 70, 'Orkney', is a first edition, second state. - And a further twenty volumes related to the New Naturalist (including a 10 volume box-set of facsimile copies of volumes 1-10, six New Naturalist Monographs, and two reference works: Peter Marren and Robert Gillmor's 'Art of the New Naturalists', 2009, 4to, and Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe's 'Collecting the New Naturalist', 2015, 4to, and two duplicate copies) (116).

WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London and New York: Samuel French Ltd., [circa 1910]. 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Browning, minor spotting, some underlining and annotation in red ink.) Original card covers (sunned to extremities). Note: issue no. 1 of the 'Dramatic Works of Oscar Wilde'. Provenance: M. Bainbrigge (ink name to upper cover); Questor's Dramatic Library (paper label tipped-in verso of upper cover).

HOUSMAN, Laurence (illustrator). - Christina ROSSETTI. Goblin Market. London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. 8vo (182 x 99mm.) Wood-engraved title with tissue-guard, 12 plates, numerous illustrations by Housman. (Toning, contemporary gift inscription to the initial blank.) Original green cloth with decorative gilt from a design by Housman, e.g. (faintly bumped to spine ends).

BOSSCHÈRE, Jean de (illustrator). The Love Books of Ovid… translated out of the Latin by J. Lewis May. London: John Lane, Bodley Head Ltd., 1925. Limited edition, this being number 498 of 3000 copies, 4to (241 x 148mm.) 24 plates, some with tissue-guards. Original cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine (bumped to spine ends, stain to lower cover). - And a further five illustrated volumes (including Boccaccio's 'The Decameron', illustrated by Louis Chalon, 2 vols., 1903, 8vo) (6).

GENEALOGY. - Frederic MADDEN, B. BANDINEL and J.B. NICHOLS. Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son., 1834. 8 vols. in 4, 8vo (238 x 147mm.) 2 fold-out plans. (Toning, 1 loosening leaf in volume 3.) Contemporary calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth compartments of the spines, elaborate gilt to the rest (rubbing to extremities, some surface loss to the marbled paper). Provenance: John Dondeswell (bookplate to the front pastedowns); Pull Court Library (small labels to front pastedowns) (4).

BIBLE, In Latin. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Sixti Quinti Pontificis Maximi IV… Recognita, atque in lucem edita. Lyon: Philip Borde, L. Arnaud, Petri Borde, 1669. 8vo (168 x 104mm.) OT in two parts, general title, additional engraved title. (Browning, the general title mistakenly bound-in at start of book 2.) Near contemporary full calf, decorative blind-tooling to covers (lacking two compartments of spine panel, rubbing). Provenance: Charles Ustick (name inscribed with elaborate inscription to two blank leaves at rear); Reginald Pole (bookplate to the front pastedown and name inscribed on front blank); Alexander Pole (gift inscribed from his father on the front-free endpaper). - And a further volume ('The Book of Common Prayer', 1772, 8vo) (2).

ALLEINE, Richard. The Godly Mans Portion and Sanctuary, Being a Second Part of Vindiciae Pietatis. [London], 1663. (Repair to title, title loosening, browning, spotting, minor soiling.) [Bound with:] Heaven Opened. [London: 1666.] (Lacking general title, browning, minor soiling.) 8vo (161 x 99mm.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, surface rubbing and to extremities). Note: scarce. A non-conformist work that was the second part of the author's 'Vindiciae Pietatis', the first part of which was published without a license in 1660. 'Heaven Opened' is the third part. Provenance: Ann Foster (ink name to initial blank). - And a further seven antiquarian volumes (including John Wesley's 'The New Testament with an Analysis of the Several Books and Chapters', 1790, 8vo) (8).

COOKERY. - Isabella BEETON. Beeton's Every-day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1890]. Entirely New Edition, revised and greatly enlarged, 8vo (194 x 124mm.) Folding chromolithographed frontispiece, numerous coloured and uncoloured plates, advertisements. (Toning, spotting and hand-written notes verso frontispiece, mounted cooking instructions to front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial cloth (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Ethel' (gift inscribed on half-title). - And a further six volumes related to cookery and household management (including the 8th Alexis Soyer's 'The Modern Housewife or Ménagere', 1849, 8vo) (7).

[CONDER, Francis Roubiliac.] Personal Recollections of English Engineers, and the Introduction of the Railway System into the United Kingdom. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1868. First edition, 8vo (223 x 133mm.) (Spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original green cloth, steam engine in gilt to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked with original spine laid-down (minor damp-spotting to lower cover). Provenance: Claude Reignier Conder, soldier, explorer and antiquarian (name inscribed to half-title). - And a further nineteen volumes of miscellaneous non-fiction (including T. Howard Somervell's 'After Everest', 1936, 8vo) (20).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - Andrew LANG. The Olive Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. First edition, 8vo (182 x 118mm.) Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, 7 colour plates, numerous uncoloured plates by Henry Ford. (Inner joint weakening, minor spotting to preliminaries, small tears to tissue-guard.) Original pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, e.g. (some wear to spine ends). Provenance: C.N.H. Lock (pencil name to front-free endpaper). - And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1883, 8vo) (12).

ANTARCTIC. - Frank WILD. Shackleton's Last Voyage, the Story of 'The Quest'… from the Official Journal and Private Diary Kept by Dr. A.H. Macklin. London, New York etc.: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1923. First edition, 8vo (233 x 153mm.) Colour frontispiece, 50 plates from photographs. (Spotting to preliminaries, occasional mild spotting within, and to fore-edge.) Original blue pictorial cloth with 'The Quest' in black, white and gilt to upper cover (mark to lower cover). Provenance: Tridgely Dillingworth (ink name to front-free endpaper).

POLAR EXPLORATION. - Robert Falcon SCOTT. The Voyage of The 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. 2 vols., second impression, signed by Ernest Shackleton on the half-title, 8vo (238 x 157mm.) 2 photogravure frontispieces with tissue-guards, 12 colour plates based on watercolour paintings by E.A. Wilson, 5 double-paged plates, numerous plates, 5 maps, including 2 folding in rear pockets, publisher's slip tipped-in to volume 1. (Some spotting to the folding maps, spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within text.) Original blue cloth with gilt medallions to upper covers, gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing to extremities, some fading to cloth and to gilt lettering of volume 1). Note: the inscription reads: 'With kind regards from E. Shackleton in remembrance of Dundee 1906'. Dundee, known for its shipbuilding, is where the 'Discovery' was designed and built. The ship returned to Dundee in 1986 where it has since been a tourist attraction. It's also possible that the inscription refers to Shackleton's unsuccessful bid, in 1906, to become M.P. for Dundee.

LAWRENCE, David Herbert. [Lady Chatterley's Lover. Paris: Edward Titus, 1929.] Second Authorised edition limited to 3000 copies, 8vo (193 x 138mm.) With the introduction 'My Skirmish With Jolly Rodger'. (Lacking title-page, browning.) Original card wrappers with Phoenix design to upper cover (lacking spine, tape repair). Note: with 6oFrs to upper cover and 'Lecram Press' to lower cover. Provenance: H.E. Goopy (pencil name to preliminary). - And two further volumes relating to D.H. Lawrence (including a proof copy with pencil annotation of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', [1960], 8vo) (3).

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, first printing, 8vo (189 x 118mm.) (Toning, small stain to corner of front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth, the eye motif to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (spine ends bumped, rubbing to lower extremities), dust-jacket (browning and chipping to extremities). Note: the dust-jacket with the price of 15s on the inner flap. Provenance: London Press Exchange, the advertising agency that did work for the government during WW2, before merging with the American agency, Leo Burnett (bookplate to the front-free endpaper).

TRAVEL. - Patrick Leigh FERMOR. Mani. London: John Murray, 1958. First edition, second printing, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Frontispiece by John Craxton, numerous photographic illustrations by Joan Eyres Monsell. (Toning.) Original red cloth, gilt vignette to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket with the 'Book Society Choice' paper wraparound (price-clipped, minor rubbing to spine ends). - And two further volumes by Fermor (a first printing of 'Mani', 1958, 8vo and a first printing of 'Roumeli', 1966, 8vo) (3).

POETRY. - Ted HUGHES. Collected Animal Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. 4 vols., signed by Ted Hughes, 8vo (198 x 123mm.) Numerous illustrations by Chris Riddell. Original black cloth, dust-jackets, slip-case (light spotting to inner panels of slip-case). Note: signed by Hughes on the half-title of volume 1, 'The Iron Wolf'. - And a further six illustrated volumes (including Richard Adams's 'Watership Down', 1976, 8vo) (10).

GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius. London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First edition, 8vo (214 x 133mm.) Folding genealogical chart to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine (some discolouring to covers). Provenance: K.W. Woollcombe-Boyce (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further nine literary volumes (including Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited', 1945, 8vo) (10).