Single-Owner Collections

ART REFERENCE. - Barbara NOVAK. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Nineteenth-Century American painting. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1986. 4to (294 x 242mm). Numerous illustrations, many colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And approximately seventy-five others of art reference interest (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - E. BÉNÉZIT. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs… nouvelle edition. Paris: Gründ, 1999. 14 vols., 8vo (240 x 156mm). Original red cloth. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - Kenneth M. GUICHARD. British Etchers 1850-1940. London: Robin Garton, 1981. Second edition, large 4to (331 x 264mm). Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket (faded). - And nineteen others, the majority relating to prints (20). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - L.G.G. RAMSEY. Montague Dawson R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1970. Limited 'Special Revised' edition of 65 specially bound copies, this copy number 63, large 4to (285 x 218mm). Plates, some coloured. Contemporary red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. - And nine others (including four from F. Lewis, three on marine painters and one on military painters) (10). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - Roy STRONG. The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture. London & New York: 1969. 4to (316 x 250mm). Numerous illustrations, many colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And thirteen others, all on portraiture (14). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - Sally MITCHELL. The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1985. Large 4to (275 x 215mm). Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket (faded). - And forty others, all relating to animals or hunting in art (41). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - Stephen SARTIN. A Dictionary of British Narrative Painters. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., 1978. 8vo (286 x 215mm). Numerous black and white plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And fifty-one of others of art reference interest, the majority relating to British art (52). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ART REFERENCE. - THE PUBLIC CATALOGUE FOUNDATION (publishers). Oil Paintings in Public Ownership. [London: 2004, 2005, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008]. 6 vols. only, 4to (289 x 229mm). Numerous colour illustrations. Original wrappers (4 vols.) or cloth with dust-jacket (2 vols.) (6). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

ARTS & CRAFTS. - H. Halliday SPARLING. The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-craftsman. London: 1924. 8vo (227 x 158mm). Portrait frontispiece, plates. (Some spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (browned). - And thirty-two others, mostly relating to William Morris or the Arts and Crafts movement (33). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

AUCTION CATALOGUES. The Elton John Collection. Sotheby's: 1988. 4 vols., 8vo (272 x 210mm). Numerous illustrations, many colour. Original wrappers, all contained within a single slipcase. - And a quantity of other auction catalogues, mostly Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY & BOOK-COLLECTING. - A.T. HAZEN & J.P. KIRBY. A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press. Folkestone & London: 1973. 4to (247 x 182mm). Original cloth, dust-jacket (lightly bumped, backstrip slightly faded). - And seventy-seven others relating to books and book collecting (78). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

EUROPEAN ART & ANTIQUES. - Comte François de SALVERTE. Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe Siecle. Leurs Oeuvres et Leurs Marques Cinquième Édition Revue et Augmentée. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1962. 4to (274 x 217mm). Tipped-in frontispiece, numerous full-page illustrations. Original cloth (lightly bumped, spine slightly faded). - And nineteen others of related interest (20). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

FAKES & FORGERIES. - Riccardo NOBILI. The Gentle Art of Faking. London: 1922. 8vo (207 x 150mm). Frontispiece. (Some spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (slightly soiled). - And twenty-seven others on fakes and forgeries (28). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. By Authority of the Royal Commission. London: Spicer Brothers and W. Clowes & Sons, 1851. First edition, vols. I-III (without the two supplemental vols.), large 8vo (256 x 172mm). Engraved additional title, 1 folding hand-coloured lithographic map, numerous plates (a few coloured, a few folding), illustrations. (Clean tear and creasing to the map). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, glazed endpapers, gilt edges (soiled and bumped, inner hinges weak or split) (3). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

INTERIOR DESIGN. - Charles Saumarez SMITH. Eighteenth-Century Decoration. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 4to (255 x 250mm). Illustrations, some colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly faded). - And eleven others of related interest (12). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

LUTYENS, Edwin. - Sir Lawrence WEAVER. Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens. London & New York: 1925. Third impression, folio (395 x 270mm). Numerous illustrations. (Some browning.) Original buckram, t.e.g. (faded and bumped). - And seven others on Lutyens or by Weaver (8). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

STUDIO SPECIAL NUMBERS. - M.C. SALAMAN. The Studio Special Spring Number 1930, The New Woodcut. London & New York: [1930]. 4to (290 x 202mm). Numerous illustrations. (Some spotting to first and last few leaves.) Original cloth (slightly bumped), dust-jacket (torn with some loss). - And seven other 'Special Numbers' of The Studio, on diverse subjects (8). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

TIPPING, H. Avray. English Homes. London: 1929-1921. Various editions, 4 vols. only, folio (391 x 265mm). Numerous illustrations. Original cloth (one spine chipped to head with some loss, others faded and bumped), one with dust-jacket (torn with loss). Note: comprises period II vol. I; period III vol. I; period IV vol. I and period V vol. I (4). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

[DAY, Richard. A Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in our time. N.p. but London: n.d. but circa 1578-1590]. Small 4to inlaid to larger 4to sheets (157 x 94mm). Gothic and Roman type, text pages within elaborate woodcut borders composed from several historiated and ornamental blocks, including a 'Dance of Death' series loosely based on Holbein, 'extra-illustrated' at the beginning with a late Victorian pen and ink copy of the woodcut of Queen Elizabeth I at prayer, and at the end with a similar copy of the title border showing Jesse's dream. (Lacking all before E1, S1, S4, and all after mm3, numerous neat repairs, about 12 leaves repaired with loss to margins or text). Contemporary limp vellum. STC 6428-6431. Provenance: F.A. Blaydes (signature and inscription); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.