Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FRANCIS, Dick. Come to Grief. London: Michael Joseph, 1995. First edition, signed by Dick Francis, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (bumped at top of spine). Note: the inscription reads: 'Michael and Monica, we will surely miss seeing you both so often here on Grand Cayman's, but Mary and I send you our love and very best wishes, and hope it won't be long before our paths cross once again'. Provenance: 'Michael and Monica' (gift inscribed to on the half-title). - And a further nine volumes, all signed (10).

PRIVATE PRESS. - Eleanor FARJEON. A Sussex Alphabet. Sussex, Flansham: The Pear Tree Press, 1939. Limited edition, this being number 221(?) of 220 copies only, 4to (286 x 213mm.) 11 lino-cut illustrations in colour by Sheila M. Thompson. (Toning, stamps verso title-page.) Later grey cloth boards (lightly bumped, reference number to spine). Provenance: West Sussex County Library (labels to pastedowns). - And a further twelve volumes published by private presses (including Thomas More's 'Utopia', published by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1929, 4to) (13).

BUDGEN, Richard. The Passage of the Hurricane, from the Sea-side at Bexhill in Sussex, to Newingden-Level, the Twentieth Day of May 1729, between Nine and Ten in the Evening. London: John Senex, 1730. First edition, 4to (213 x 129mm.) Original card wrappers bound-in, manuscript titling to upper cover. (Toning, stamps to title and verso and margins of some leaves.) 20th century green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown and stamps to margins). - And a further four volumes relating to Sussex (including 'A Tour to Worthing, or, Idle Hours Not Idly Spent, containing A Slight Sketch of the Country, Anecdotes, &c', 1805, 8vo) (5).

CRUIKSHANK, Robert (illustrator). Brighton!! A Comic Sketch. London: William Kidd, 1830. First edition, 12mo (160 x 99mm.) Four wood-engraved illustrations. (Toning, 2 leaves lacking to rear.) Original printed paper wrappers, string-bound (upper cover detached). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (label and stamp verso upper cover). - And a further fourteen volumes relating to Sussex (including [Edward Berens'] 'The Smuggler. A Tale', 1823, 12mo, and 'C.D.''s 'Mrs. Wiggens's Trip to Sea, July 1842', 1843, 8vo) (15).

[BROWN, Thomas.] Brighton, Or, The Steyne. A Satirical Novel. London: for the Author, 1818. 3 vols., second edition, 12mo (194 x 111mm.) Half-titles. (Light spotting throughout, stamps verso titles, occasional minor soiling.) 20th century green half morocco (endpapers replaced, reference labels to base of spines). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplates to front pastedowns, stamps verso title-pages). - And a further thirteen volumes, mostly private press editions (including E.B. Browning's 'Sonnets From the Portuguese', 1897, small 4to, and Robert Gibbings' 'The 7th Man, A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands', 1930, 8vo) (14).

ILLUMINATED LEAF. [A 15th century illuminated manuscript leaf in Latin]. Single leaf (123 x 100mm.) Brown ink on vellum, 6 initials, 3 line-end decorations, and a rectangular margin of foliate decoration in blue, green, red and yellow and with salmon-pink borders. (Mild toning.) Mounted and framed under glass in a faux-wood frame.

ILLUMINATED LEAF. [A late 15th century illuminated leaf in Latin]. Single leaf (158 x 103mm.) A woodcut leaf displayed recto and verso with hunting scenes to the margin, 22 lines of text with 10 single-line illuminated initials in red and blue and 1 double-line decorative piece, and verso 8 illuminated initials. (Minor spotting to margins.) Mounted and framed under glass in a faux-wood frame.

LEWIS, C.S. The Last Battle. London: The Bodley Head, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo (196 x 132mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by Pauline Baynes. (Minor spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within.) Original blue cloth (sunned to spine ends, lightly bumped), dust-jacket (minor loss to spine ends, chipping to extremities). - And a further six volumes by C.S. Lewis (reprints, comprising 'The Chronicles of Narnia', 1956-1963, 8vo) (7).

DUCAREL, Andrew Coltee. The History and Antiquities of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lambeth, from Its Foundation to the Present Time. London: for J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1785. Number XXVII of 'Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica', 4to (251 x 194mm.) 10 engraved plates, including 4 portraits, 4 views and 2 plans. (Toning, occasional browning.) Contemporary calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spine (rebacked with original spine laid-down, some loss to spine panel, rubbing to all extremities, endpapers replaced). - And a further volume relating to London ('Croydon Inclosure', 1899, 8vo) (2).

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850. First edition, 4to (316 x 261mm.) Half-title, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 44 lithographic plates, including 2 hand-coloured and 2 double-paged, index and 'Corrigenda' to rear. (Browning and spotting to plate margins and verso and to preliminaries- which are loosening, initial blank replaced.) Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Charles Hickman (gift inscribed to verso the dedication); J.H. Raymond de Jersey (ink name to initial blank).

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (307 x 236mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Light browning, scattered spotting.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (finger-marks, minor soiling to covers). Provenance: Hewitt Pitt (ink inscribed to by the author on the half-title); Norman Douglas Simpson (bookplate to front pastedown).

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (307 x 236mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Light browning, labels to pastedowns and stamps verso the title-page, scattered spotting.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (minor soiling to covers, small area of loss to cloth of lower cover). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to the front pastedown).

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (344 x 215mm.) Numerous hand-coloured crests. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal tear with loss to p.209, repairs to half-title.) Near contemporary black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities).

EYRE, George and William SPOTTISWOODE (publisher). Metropolitan Police. General Orders and Regulations. Revised, Amended, and Consolidated. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1873. 4to (329 x 203mm.) Numerous printed bound-in amendments and updates. (Toning, some annotation ink to margins.) Near contemporary full calf, lettering in gilt to upper cover, black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, rubbed to extremities, scuffing to covers, endpapers replaced). Note: the Metropolitan Police force was established in 1829. Provenance: Charles Murdoch (ink name inscribed to title-page). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey.

MANUSCRIPT. - Ina Mary WEBB. [A diary written by a student at boarding-school. Bedford: N.p.:] January-July 1902, 59pp., manuscript, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single legible and tightly written hand on lined paper detailing the daily activities of Ina and her friend's lives at Howard College, Bedford, numerous blank leaves to rear. (Toning, some offsetting of ink.) Original maroon buckram (sunned to spine, inner hinge weakening). Note: in addition to the daily whirl of school activities, Ina and her best friend Flossie have agreed to each keep a diary of their year at school. There are many certainties in their world, every hour is filled with improving lessons in needlework, music, Shakespeare and painting and any spare time is spent playing games of salta, whist and ping-pong. There is barely any time for reflection but occasionally Jamesian details seep through ('Mr Mott came to dinner. He had Harry Royce's umbrella with him'), occasionally the regressive drama of teenage life is expressed ('I went to bed at 8pm, found I wasn't well (how awful). I felt very much like dying, but got on alright'). On the 22nd of July the diary suddenly ends: 'Flossie's father was ill and she had been sent for so I helped her dress'. Maybe they both stopped writing their diaries after this news. Or, maybe, Ina stopped because, ever practical, she knew that on the 25th July, 'we go home'.

KIRBY, William F. European Butterflies and Moths. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. 4to (275 x 203mm.) 62 lithographed plates, all hand-coloured but 1. (Toning, spotting to first and last leaves). Near contemporary red half calf over burgundy buckram boards (spotting to covers, rubbed to extremities). - And a further three volumes (including part 1 of 'Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal' edited by E. Sibly, [circa 1798], 4to) (4).

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (308 x 232mm.) Half-title, 4pp. 'Subscribers', 42 aquatint plates engraved by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured map, 1 folding plate and 1 double-paged, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning, occasional minor spotting especially to plate margins, 9 of the plates are facsimiles including 1 folding and 1 double-paged, front blank replaced and rear blank lacking.) 20th century brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, bumped and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Alex E. Murray (ink inscribed to half-title and title page); West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and stamps to title-page).

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1850. First edition, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Half-title, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 44 lithographed plates, including 2 hand-coloured and 2 double-paged. (Toning, occasional chipping or small, marginal tears, minor marginal soiling to first few leaves, lacking blanks, ink number on title and stamp verso.) 20th century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards (rubbing with surface loss to spine, extremities rubbed and marks to lower cover, endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).

RALEIGH, Walter. The History of the World, in Five Books. London: J.J. and P. Knapton, G. Conyers et al., 1733. Seventh edition, folio (359 x 218mm.) (Lacking portrait frontispiece, lacking all plates and maps, facsimile title-page.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. - And a further eight volumes ('The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments' with commentary by Adam Clarke, 1817-1825, 8 vols., large 8vo). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (9).