Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BINDINGS. - Robert BROWNING. The Poetical Works… London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889. 16 vols., 8vo (167 x 109mm.) 4 engraved frontispieces. (Toning.) Near contemporary tree calf, green and red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (light rubbing, upper cover of vol. 1 weakening). Provenance: Edith M. Browne (gift inscribed to on the initial blanks). - And a further five volumes (including the Oxford edition of 'The Works of Shakespeare', 3 vols., 1952, 8vo) (21).

KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to (231 x 172mm.) Numerous illustrations by the author. (Toning, occasional soiling, tear to p.87, hinges cracked, spotting to pastedowns.) Original red pictorial cloth (fading, wear to spine ends). Note: second state binding. Provenance: John G. Wilson (pencil inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further seven volumes, including three works by Lewis Carroll in facsimile first editions ('Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 1984, 8vo, and two copies of 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1984, 8vo) (8).

BINDING. - Dante ALIGHIERI. The Vision of Dante… translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary. London and New York: J.M. Dent, 1909. 8vo (181 x 109mm.) Extra-illustrated with 10 mounted plates relating to Dante and Italian art. (Toning, occasional browning.) Contemporary vellum with a hand-painted roundel portrait of Dante based on Sandro Botticelli's painting, surrounded by hand-painted floral design in art nouveau style, with ties (endpapers replaced).

MANUSCRIPT. - William Henry Baptist PROBY. [A log-book for Seaton Infant School, Devon, and an Account of the Estates in the Manor of Northleigh, Devon. N.p.: 1876-circa 1920.] 502pp., manuscript, 4to (226 x 184mm.) 19pp. of tabulated index relating to Northleigh, 22pp. concerning the significant events at Seaton Infant School from the years 1876-1880 in a single, legible hand, followed by 137pp. hand-written recto only relating to the history of Northleigh Manor, its estates, rentals, land and lease-holders, compiled by William Henry Baptist Proby, 199pp. blank to rear. (Minor spotting and soiling to first few leaves, toning, occasional spotting.) Original sheep-backed buckram with paper label in manuscript mounted to upper cover (minor loss to label, rubbing, soiling, damp-staining to lower cover). Note: the school log-book records visits, inspections and general attendance (affected by 'mumps' and 'hooping cough' or just 'very deep snow') while 'ordinary progress' is often mentioned. Quoting from the inspector's report we hear that the school is doing 'very fairly in reading, writing and numbers…singing is fair, needlework is very fair' but 'desks of proper construction ought to be provided'. The historical account of Northleigh Manor gives a very detailed account of the lineage of various estates and holdings, the owners and lease-holders, the length of tenure and amounts paid. It covers nearly all the 19th and early 20th century.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. - Alfred NOYES (editor). The Magic Casement, an Anthology of Fairy Poetry. London: Chapman & Hall, [1908.] First edition, 8vo (192 x 138mm.) Introduction and notes by Alfred Noyes, illustrations by Stephen Reid. (Toning.) Original red cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover and spine (slight dulling to spine, spine ends bumped). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (ink name inscribed and stamp to front-free endpaper). - And a further five volumes (including J.H. Dowd's 'Mr Punch Among the Children', 1934, 4to, and A.A. Milne's 'Once On a Time', 1917, 8vo) (6).

MOTOR-RACING. - Laurence POMEROY. The Grand Prix Car. London: Temple Press Ltd., 1956. Volume 2, second impression, 4to (274 x 210mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, folding plates. (Toning.) Original green cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, small tears and damp-staining to margins).

PHOTOGRAPHY. - David BAILEY. Trouble and Strife. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. First edition, signed by David Bailey, 4to (242 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations of Bailey's wife, Marie Helvin, introduction by Brian Clarke. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small mark to upper cover, lightly rubbed). - And a further two volumes by David Bailey, both signed ('NY JS DB 62', 2007, 4to, and 'Pictures that Mark Can Do', 2007, 4to) (3).

COOKERY. - Marco Pierre WHITE. White Heat. London: Pyramid Books, 1990. First edition, signed by Marco Pierre White, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations by Bob Carlos Clarke. (Toning.) Original grey boards, dust-jacket (closed tear to upper panel). - And a further signed volume by Marco Pierre White (the 25th anniversary edition of 'White Heat', 2015, 4to) (2).

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623, from the Chatsworth Copy in the Possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1902. Limited edition, this being number 913 of 1000 copies signed by Sidney Lee. Folio (368 x 228mm.) Introduction by Sidney Lee, list of Subscribers. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary white buckram-backed boards, paper labels mounted to spine (rubbing to extremities).

GEOLOGY. - A. Leith ADAMS. Monograph on the British Fossil Elephants. London: for the Palaeontological Society, 1877-1881. 4to (272 x 202mm.) Numerous lithographed plates, 2 folding maps at rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and to maps and verso plates.) Contemporary burgundy half morocco over buckram covered boards (lower cover detached, rubbing). - And a further seventeen miscellaneous volumes (18).

COTGRAVE, Randle. A French-English Dictionary… with Another in English and French. London: by W.H. for Octarian Pulleyn, 1650. 4to (317 x 202mm.) Title, separate title with architectural border for the 'English-French' section, engraved tailpiece. (Paper repair to title, browning, minor soiling, lacking blanks). Near contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, both covers detached).

[RUBENS, Peter Paul.] Missale Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. Iussu Editum. Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1630. Title in red and black with the Last Supper engraved vignette, double column text in red and black, 10 engraved plates after Rubens and 10 engraved borders, historiated initials in black and red, musical notional in black and red, red tailpieces. (Browning, several leaves with marginal damp-staining, some text affected, marginal paper repairs to Z1-Z4, Aa1-Aa4 and Hh3-Hh5, blanks replaced.) [Bound with:] Missae Propriae Festorum Ordinis Fratrum Minorum. Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1613. Engraved vignette to title, double-column text in red and black, historiated initials in red and black. (Corner damp-stain to title, minor creasing, browning.) 4to (347 x 224mm.) Near contemporary calf (rebacked, heavily rubbed, wear to spine). Provenance: Francis Warneford (bookplate to front pastedown).

MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Butterflies. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860. Large 8vo (252 x 153mm.) 71 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 2 uncoloured plates. (Occasional browning and spotting.) Original green cloth, blind-stamped and with pictorial gilt (minor marks to lower cover). - And a further two copies of the same book, dated 1870 and 1890 (3).

ITALY. - [Ennio QUIRINO.] Sculture del Palazzo della Villa Borghese Detta Pinciana. Rome: Pagliarini, 1796. 2 vols., 8vo (270 x 135mm.) 2 engraved vignettes to titles, 220 engraved plates of Roman statuary, including 29 folding. (38 plates excised, occasional adjacent plate also cut, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown morocco, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (lightly rubbed, endpapers replaced). - And a further 2 volumes relating to art (Eugène Muntz's 'Histoire de L'Art Pendant la Renaissance', 2 vols. (of 3), 1889-1891, 4to) (4).

WELLS, H.G. The Works… Atlantic Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924-1927. 28 vols. Limited 'Atlantic Edition', signed by H.G. Wells, this being number 393 of 620 copies for Great Britain, 8vo (223 x 149mm.) Signed by Wells on the limitation page of volume 1, portrait photogravure frontispiece. (Toning.) Near contemporary burgundy half morocco over red cloth-covered boards, bound by Bayntun of Bath, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. Provenance: Neville Blond, textile industrialist and philanthropist (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further two volumes by H.G. Wells, also bound by Bayntun ('An Experiment in Autobiography', 2 vols., 1934, 8vo) (30).

[SWIFT, Jonathan.] 'Lemuel GULLIVER'. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 8vo (181 x 118mm.) Numerous illustrations by Charles E. Brock. (Toning.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. (minor marks to lower cover). - And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1898, 8vo) (12).

LATHAM, Robert Gordon. A Dictionary of the English Language... founded on that of Samuel Johnson. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. et al., 1866-1870. 2 vols. in 4, 4to (274 x 210mm.) (Toning, spotting to blanks and verso endpapers.) Contemporary red half morocco over buckram (sunning to spines, some fading, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Francis Ricardo (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further sixteen miscellaneous volumes (including a fourth edition of Thomas Wood's 'A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law', 1730, folio, and a second edition of 'Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, Improved and Enlarged by the Late Dr. Thomas Morell', 1823, 4to) (20).

MOTOR-RACING. - Doug NYE and Geoffrey GODDARD. Dick and George, the Seaman-Monkhouse Letters, 1936-1939. London: Palawan Press, 2002. Limited edition, this being number 541 of 1500 copies, large 8vo (288 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further two volumes related to motor-racing (Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón's 'The Brothers Rodriguez', 2009, 4to, and Chris Nixon's 'Kings of the Nurburgring', 2005, 8vo) (3).

MOTOR-RACING. - Alan HENRY. Fifty Years of Ferrari. Somerset: Haynes Publishing, 1997. First edition, signed by Ferrari driver Phil Hill on the half-title, 4to (253 x 250mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twelve volumes related to motor-racing, including three more signed volumes (Alan Wilson's 'Driven by Desire', signed by racing-driver Desiré Wilson, 2011, 8vo, and Peter Redman's 'Goodwood Remembered', signed by the author, 2007, 8vo, and, signed by the owner of Goodwood - the Duke of Richmond - 'The Glory of Goodwood', 1999, 4to) (13).