Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

INDIA. Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway including… Pondicherry, Travancore State, Peralam-Karaikkal and the Cochin State Railways. Madras: Hoe & Co., at the ‘Premier’ Press, 1913. 8vo (214 x 138mm.) Folding photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, folding colour map in pocket to rear, errata leaf dated 1915. (Toning, scattered spotting and browning, some leaves loosening, text-block partially cracked at errata leaf.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt and oval paper illustration mounted to upper cover (extremities lightly rubbed, slightly frayed to joints). Provenance: Kokil & Co., Bombay (stamp to initial blank). – And a further seventeen volumes related to India (including George F. Atkinson’s ‘Curry & Rice’, 1911, 4to, and R. Montgomery Martin’s ‘The Indian Empire Illustrated’, 43 issues, vols. 1-45 [lacking 40 and 43], [1858-1861], 8vo) (18).

POSTAN, M.M. (editor). The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Cambridge: at the University, 1966-1989. 8 vols. in 10, mixed editions, 8vo (228 x 145mm.) (Toning.) Original cloth, dust-jackets (toning, bumped to extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to front pastedowns and stamps verso the titles). – And a further fifteen volumes (25).

SOWERBY, John Edward. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants… edited by John T. Boswell. London: George Bell & Sons., 1873-1877. 11 vols. (only, lacking vol. 12). 8vo (259 x 160mm.) Half-titles, 1824 hand-coloured lithographed plates. (Toning.) 20th century green cloth, gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (stamps verso title-pages, label to front pastedown of volume I) (11).

GOULD, Robert Freke. The History of Freemasonry, It’s Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [circa 1895]. 3 vols., 4to (282 x 216mm.) 36 colour plates with tissue-guards, 2 plates of ‘Seals’ and several folding charts. (Mild toning.) Original black morocco over blue cloth boards, Masonic design in gilt to upper covers, g.e. (extremities heavily rubbed, reference labels to spines). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to front pastedown, stamps verso titles). – And a further seventeen volumes (including James Robinson Planchié’s ‘A Cyclopaedia of Costume’, 2 vols., 1876, 8vo, and Cyril Field’s ‘Britain’s Sea Soldiers, A History of the Royal Marines’, 2 vols., 1924, and the related volume ‘Britain’s Sea Soldiers, A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919’, 1927, 4to, and ‘The Encyclopedia of Mormonism’, 4 vols., 1992, large 8vo) (20).

LETCHFORD, Albert (illustrator). – Richard Francis BURTON (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… edited by Leonard C. Smithers. London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., ‘The Library Edition’, 13 vols. 8vo (257 x 153mm.) Plates after Albert Letchford, including a set of loose-leaf 70 Artist Proof plates signed in pencil by Albert Letchford. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original black cloth, decorative gilt, t.e.g., black cloth portfolio (some wear to spine ends, insect-damage to the portfolio, lacking ties). Note: this being the Royal Octavo ‘Small Size’ A.P. edition of the plates.

OCCULT. – Alice A. BAILEY. A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple. New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1951. 8vo (227 x 149mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (some fading). – And a further twenty-six volumes by Alice Bailey (including ‘The Reappearance of Christ’, 1948, 8vo, and ‘The Consciousness of the Atom’, 1934, 8vo) (27).

[SMOLLET, Tobias.] The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. London: Peter Davies, 1925. Limited edition, this being number 24 of 500 copies, 4to (292 x 224mm.) Numerous colour illustrations by Vera Willoughby. (Toning, endpapers browned.) Original decorative boards, dust-jacket (loss to extremities, some creasing). – And a quantity of approximately eighty-five further volumes, mainly books about illustrators and illustration (a quantity).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. – John ARNOLD. The Fanfrolico Press. Middlesex, Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2009. Limited edition, being one of only 900 copies, 8vo (270 x 180mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth. – And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes, mainly relating to bibliography and book reference (a quantity).

MCLEAN, Ruari (editor). Motif, a Journal of the Visual Arts. London: Shenval Press Ltd., 1958. No. 1. 4to (300 x 238mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards (browned to margins, extremities rubbed). Note: a periodical that ran for thirteen issues between 1958 and 1967. – And a quantity of approximately ninety further miscellaneous volumes (a quantity).

BOOK REFERENCE. – Katherine Golden BITTING. Gastronomic Bibliography. California, San Francisco, 1981. Limited edition, this being number 217 of 500 copies of the facsimile edition, 8vo (246 x 180mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of approximately seventy volumes relating to book reference and bibliography (a quantity).

BOOK REFERENCE. – Michael SADLER. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Folkestone and London: Dawsons, 1974. Reprint, 8vo (218 x 135mm.) (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of miscellaneous books (quantity).

GRAPHIC NOVELS. – John WAGNER and Carlos EZQUERRA. Judge Dredd. The Complete Case Files. Oxford: Rebellion, 2007-2008. 12 vols., mixed impressions, 8vo (258 x 186mm.) Numerous illustrations by Ezquerra, Mike Mahon, Ian Gibson and others. (Mild toning.) Original card covers. – And a further four volumes by John Wager and Carlos Ezquerra (‘Strontium Dog’, 4 vols., 2007-2008, 8vo, and 29 issues of the Manga magazine ‘Akira’, 13 written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo, 29 issues, Vol. 1. No. 1- Vol. 1-No.33, 8vo) (45).

ORIGINAL ARTWORK. – John Ross MACDONALD. Find a Victim. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1958. Reprint, to include the original artwork for the covers of this book, 8vo (177 x 111mm.) (Browning.) Original card covers designed by Boldeno (creasing to spine). Note: this novel was the 5th in the Lew Archer detective series. It was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. – And a further four pieces of original artwork for book cover designs (including the hardback of Peter Hartley’s ‘Escape to Captivity’ painted by ‘J.A.’ and unused work for Lloyd C. Douglas’ ‘The Robe’ and for Nigel Morland’s ‘Strangely She Died’ and the original work for the hardback of Arthur Catherall’s ‘Vibrant Brass’, to include the book) (5).

ORIGINAL ARTWORK. – Renwick of OTLEY (publisher). Our Boys’ Tip Top. London: Renwick of Otley, [1947.] First edition, including the original artwork for the covers of this book, 4to (243 x 180mm.) Original cloth-backed pictorial covers (lightly rubbed). – And a further eighteen pieces of original artwork, mainly for children’s books (including another ‘Our Boys’ Tip Top’ design by E. Kearon and ‘Our Kiddies Tip Top’ design by E.M. Overnell, another ‘Our Kiddies Tip Top’ design by Cora E.M. Paterson and another in the same series [unknown], a work by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnston ‘The Wizard’s Apprentice’, another work, framed, by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnston for their book ‘Dean’s Gift Book of Nursery Rhymes’, [1965], including the book, two works by Eric Kincaid for ‘Playland’, nos. 128 and 209, and original work on card for Dean & Sons ‘ABC’ [circa 1960], and three works by Roger Hall, including for Kathleen Farrell’s ‘When Love Is Diagnosed’ and for Iris Bromige’s ‘The House of Conflict’) (19).

ORIGINAL ARTWORK. – [Raymond H. SAWKINS]. ‘Colin Forbes’. The Snow Leopard. London: Pan Books, 1976. Reprint, includes the original artwork by Eric Tenney for the covers of this book, 8vo (177 x 111mm.) (Toning.) Original card covers designed by Eric Tenney (creasing to spine). Note: first published by William Collins in 1975. – And a further two pieces of original artwork for two sci-fi book cover designs (Richard Saxon’s ‘The Stars Came Down’ and ‘Path into the Unknown, the Best of Soviet Sci-Fi’ with cover design by W.F. Philips) (3).

SHAKESPEARE, William. – John Moyr SMITH (illustrator). A Midsommer Nights Dreame. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1892. Limited edition, this being number 182 of 375 copies signed by the illustrator, folio (383 x 274mm.) Half-title, 15 tinted engraved plates by John Moyr Smith, tissue-guards. (Toning and light spotting to plate margins, occasional minor soiling.) Original blue cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (rubbing to extremities, spine ends worn, fading and marks to covers). Note: John Moyr Smith was a Scottish architect and artist who designed tiles for Minton, including tiles depicting scenes from Shakespeare. Provenance: L. Harrington (typed name-plate to front-free endpaper).

TWAIN, Mark and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age. London: George Routledge and Sons., 1883. 8vo (185 x 121mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Moderate spotting throughout.) Original red pictorial cloth (minor finger-marking to lower cover). Note: the novel that gave the era its name and the only novel that Twain wrote with a collaborator. – And a further thirty-three volumes by or about Mark Twain (including ‘A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur’, 1889, 8vo, and ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’, 1904, 8vo) (34).

ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. London: Arthur Barker, 1979. First hardback edition, 8vo (213 x 129mm.) (Toning, lacking initial blank, hinges cracked, covers weakened.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (corners rubbed, stained to lower panel). Note: the first issue was in paperback. Provenance: Leicestershire Libraries (stamp verso title-page). – And a further eleven volumes of fiction (including John Steinbeck’s ‘The Moon is Down’, 1942, 8vo, and William Gibson’s ‘Virtual Light’, 1993, 8vo) (12).

[LEWIS, Angelo J.] ‘Professor HOFFMANN’. Home Gymnastics, for Young and Old. London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1892. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) 2 folding lithographed plates, numerous illustrations in the text. (Browning, light spotting verso the plates, address in pencil verso frontispiece.) Original green pictorial cloth (minor stain to lower cover, light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: P.T. Broadway (stamp verso the frontispiece). – And a further thirty-one miscellaneous volumes (including ‘Arnold Meckel Presents Hindu Dancers of Seraikella’, [circa 1920], 4to, and Mortimer Menpes’ ‘The People of India’, 1910, 4to) (32).