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PRINTING. - The Gill Sans-Serif Family. Leyland, Lancashire: The Mould Type Foundry, [circa 1928.] 4to (277 x 208mm.) Numerous examples of the Gill Sans-Serif typeface. (Toning.) Original card covers, green lettering to upper cover. Note: scarce. Eric Gill was commissioned by Stanley Morison, executive of Monotype, to develop further Gill's initial designs for a typeface. Morrison hoped that it would become a competitor to the German Sans-Serif types being created at the time. Gill's clean and modern design was launched by Monotype in 1928 and soon became popular in poster and advertising design, as well as on the covers of Penguin Books. - And a further six booklets and prospectuses relating to printing (including another Sans Serif design, 'Granby', published by 'Stephenson, Blake & Co.', [circa 1930], 4to) (7).

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LOT 3172

LONDON. - John STOW. A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Present State and Government of those Cities. London: for W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton et al., 1754. 2 vols., sixth edition, folio (421 x 260mm.) Titles in red and black, 67 engraved plates (of 132), including 10 folding plates and 16 double-paged, illustrations in the text, 'An Alphabetical List of all the Streets' and a 7pp. index to rear of volume 2. (Lacking maps, marginal spotting, occasional browning, p. 659 from volume two cut out from inner margin, occasional creasing.) Contemporary brown diced morocco, blind-tooled with gilt ruling, lettering to spine, e.g. (neatly rebacked, some fading to covers).

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LOT 3173

ESCOFET, José. The Auricula. London: Stephanie Hoppen, [1990]. Limited edition, this being number 166 of 500 copies, folio (522 x 392mm.) Title, list of subscribers, 12 loose colour plates signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, 2 loose plates of text by Brenda Hyatt. (Small mark to title.) Original brown cloth-covered solander box, gilt label mounted to upper panel.

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LOT 3174

MACQUOID, Percy and Ralph EDWARDS. The Dictionary of English Furniture, from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period. London: Country Life, 1924-1927. 3 vols., folio (407 x 268mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, 51 colour plates. (Occasional spotting, toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper covers and spines (some fading to covers of volume 3 and a mark to its spine), dust-jackets with mounted colour plate to upper panels (lacking dust-jacket to volume 3, small tears, minor chipping). - And a further seven related volumes (Percy Macquoid's 'History of English Furniture', 1938, 4 vols., folio) (10).

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LOT 3176

WOOD, Thomas. An Institute of the Laws of England in their Natural Order, according to Common Use. [London] In the Savoy: Henry Lintot, Thomas Osborne, Daniel Browne et al., 1745. Seventh edition, folio (345 x 206mm.) (Browning, moderate spotting.) 20th Century half brown morocco over cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced).

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LOT 3177

CIPRIANI, Giovanni Battista and F. BARTOLOZZI. Cipriani and Bartolozzi's Drawing-Book of the Human Figure. London: Edward Orme, 1805. New edition, oblong folio (263 x 368mm.) 20 stipple-engraved plates by Bartolozzi after designs by Cipriani, including title. (Browning and spotting to thirteen plates, marginally so to others.) Original morocco backed boards, mounted paper label to upper cover (upper cover detached, rubbing).

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LOT 3178

FLAXMAN, John. Compositions… from the Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri, containing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Oblong folio (283 x 441mm.) Title, additional engraved title, 110 plates by Flaxman. (Title loose, some loss to initial blank, 1 plate loose, light to moderate spotting throughout, toning.) Original green morocco backed cloth (worn). Provenance: Artists' Society (bookplate of 'Bye-laws' to front pastedown, stamp to title). - And two further volumes illustrated by John Flaxman (including 'The Odyssey of Homer', 1805, oblong folio, and 'The Theogony Works & Days & the Days of Hesiod', engraved by William Blake, 1817, oblong folio) (3).

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LOT 3179

PINELLI, Bartolomeo. Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi. Rome: Giovanni Scudellari, 1817. Oblong 4to (158 x 211mm.) Engraved title, 50 engraved plates of Roman costume. (Damp-stained throughout, colouring to margins of preliminaries, crease to rear blank.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities).

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LOT 3180

ARCHITECTURE. - Victor DELASSAUX and John ELLIOTT. Street Architecture, a series of Shop Fronts and Facades, Characteristic of and Adapted to Different Branches of Commerce. London: John Weale, 1855. Folio (370 x 265.) Title, additional engraved title and 21 engraved plates, tissue-guards. (Large tear to additional title, pencil drawing on title and one tissue-guard, browning, spotting to margins, lacking blanks.) Original covers (lacking spine and lower cover). - And a further volume ('Fairlands's Miscellaneous Drawing Book', published by Ackermann, [circa 1838], oblong 4to) (2).

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LOT 3181

THEOLOGY. - John LAMB. An Historical Account of the Thirty-Nine Articles from the First Promulgation of them in MDLIII to their Final Establishment in MDLXXI. London, Oxford and Cambridge: University Press, 1829. 4to (333 x 235mm.) (Leaves loose.) Original boards (worn). - And a further nineteen volumes (including H. Hammond's 'A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon all the Books of the New Testament', 1681, folio) (20).

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LOT 3183

HOUGHTON, William. British Freshwater Fishes. London: William Mackenzie, [1879.] 1 vol. (only). Folio (364 x 265mm.) 20 coloured lithographed plates by A.F. Lydon, tissue-guards, illustrations in the text. (1 plate loose, toning, spotting to half-title, crease to front-free endpaper.) Original gilt and black decorative cloth, e.g. (rubbing to extremities, fading to spine).

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LOT 3184

GRIGSON, Geoffrey and Handasyde BUCHANAN. Thornton's Temple of Flora with Plates Faithfully Reproduced from the Original Engravings. London: Collins, 1951. Folio (433 x 350mm.) 12 captioned colour plates with tissue-guards, 24 in collotype black and white, botanical notes by William T. Stearn. (Occasional spotting, and to fore-edge.) Original beige cloth-backed paper-covered boards, two morocco labels to spine, mounted calligraphic paper label to upper cover, dust-jacket with the same paper label mounted to upper panel (some chipping and rubbing to extremities).

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LOT 3185

BOLTON, Arthur T. The Architecture of Robert and James Adams. London: Country Life, 1922. 2 vols., first edition, folio (388 x 262mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerus uncoloured illustrations. (Toning, tearing and sticking to pp.xii-xiii of volume 2.) Original green cloth, gilt design to upper covers (bumped to spine ends, minor soiling).

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LOT 3186

DECORATIVE ARTS. - W. & W. G. SUTHERLAND. The Art of Graining & Imitating Woods. [Manchester:] W. & W.G. Sutherland, 1900. Second edition, folio (474 x 334mm.) Title, 34pp. text, 15 colour plates in rear pocket. (Lacking 5 plates, minor chipping to some plate margins, toning.) Original decorative cloth (rubbing, minor soiling). Note: scarce. Provenance: Peter Farlow (stamp to front pastedown). - And a related volume (A. Desaint's 'Décoration de Bois et Marbres', 1986, folio) (2).

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LOT 3187

DUTCH GOLDEN AGE. - A. BREDIUS. Jan Steen. Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema, [1927.] Folio (491 x 380mm.) 100 photogravure plates from the works of Jan Steen, captioned tissue-guards, text in Dutch in double-columns. (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original art nouveau decorative vellum, blind-stamped and gilt design by C.A. Lion Cachet, t.e.g. (spots of browning).

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LOT 3190

JUDAICA. - Zeew RABAN (illustrator). The Song of Songs. Berlin: Hasefer, 1923. Folio (332 x 223mm.) 26 mounted chromolithographic plates with text opposite in English with decorative borders, the Hebrew text within the plate, tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original black morocco- backed green morocco boards with a roundel of silver gilt doves circling the title in Hebrew letters to the upper cover, within trailing gilt borders and inlaid vignette of lions to lower cover (minor rubbing to extremities, lacking slip-case).

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LOT 3192

SCOTT, Walter. [The Works]. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1877. The 'Handy Volume'. 31 vols., (only), small 8vo (160 x 77mm.) (Browning, toning.) Original pictorial paper-covered boards (3 volumes lacking spines and with boards detached, some loss to spine panels, rubbing to extremities), housed in a wooden two-tier case. Note: comprises 24 'Waverley' novels and 7 volumes of Scott's poetical works (31).

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LOT 3194

NATURAL HISTORY. - J.P. MACLEAN. Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1880. Second edition, 8vo (196 x 125mm.) 3 plates, illustrations in the text, 4pp. publisher's advertisements to the rear. (Toning.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt and titling to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends). - And a further thirty-three volumes on natural history (including Frank E. Beddard's 'Animal Coloration', 1892, 8vo) (34).

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LOT 3195

SMITH, William (editor). A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. London: John Murray, 1877. 4 vols., 8vo (224 x 137mm.) (Toning, spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary red half morocco boards, gilt lettering to spines (rubbing and some wear to extremities). - And a further five volumes edited by William Smith (including 'A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities', 2 vols., 1875, 8vo) (9).

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LOT 3196

AYRTON, Michael. - William GOLDING. The Hot Gates. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, 8vo (218 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth (bumped to extremities), in a Michael Ayrton designed dust-jacket (creasing to spine ends). - And a small archive of material relating to Michael Ayrton (including 'A Question of Mirrors', 1975, disbound). Note: 'A Question of Mirrors' is a photocopy of a transcript of a television broadcast relating to Ayrton's lifelong interest in mirrors and mirrors in art. The transcript contains a reference to the year 1975, suggesting that Ayrton was working on this project at the time of his death, in November of that year. The archive also contains eighteen volumes that were illustrated by Ayrton, or have Ayrton-illustrated dust-jackets. There are also numerous photographs of his artworks and miscellaneous material containing reference to him and an unpublished 'Catalogue of Art' complied by Ayrton collector, and actor, Andrew Burt. This catalogue lists 316 items of Ayrton's work, with colour photographic illustrations and the auction price paid.

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