Catalogue Two Hundred - A Celebratory Miscellany

1 ALDINE PRESS. LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus. [Pharsalia.] Civilis Belli. [In ten books. Edited by Aldus Manutius] Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri Mense Iulio, 1515 £750 160 x 90mm., 140 leaves including a1 fly title & s4 colophon with woodcut anchor device on verso. A handsome & characteristic production with spaced capital initial letters on each line, set in Griffo's revolutionary cursive letter which Manutius had introduced in 1501. Slight browning of first & final leaves and a few other minor marks, but well preserved in later (17thC?) vellum, yapp edges, with manuscript title at head of backstrip; old ms. note at head of endpaper, 'libro rare... stampato pochissime copie.' Arguably scarcer than the 1502 first Aldine edition of this epic poem. Based on Simon Bevilaqua's 1493 edition and edited by Aldus from Marc' Antonio Morosini's manuscript. Adams L 1564; Ahmanson-Murphy 135; Renouard 72:6. 2 ANACREON. [Greek title]. Anakreontos, kai allon tinon lurikon poieton mele. Anacreontis et Aliorum aliquot poetarum Odæ. In easdem Henr. Stephani Observationes. Eædem Latinæ. Apud. Guil. Lyricorum Morelium, in Graecis typographum Regium, & Rob. Stephanum. Typis Regiis, Paris, 1556. [with] Anacretonis Teii Antiquvissimi poetae Lyrici Odae, ab Helia Andrea Latinae factae, ad Clariss. Virum Petrum Montauerum Consiliarium, & Bibliothecarium Regius. Lutetiae [Paris], Apud Robertum Stephanum, & Guil Morelium, 1556 £1,750 2 works bound together, 160 x 108mm., pp.122;54; copper engraved title-devices, head-pieces & initials, those to first work expertly illuminated in colours & gold; some light browning but well preserved with good margins, neat old reinforcements to lower margin of two leaves; handsome contemporary crimson morocco with gilt floral border on sides, expertly rebacked in style, backstrip elaborately decorated in six sections, presumably when inscribed to 'Arthur Wellesley Pike, Christs Hospital, The gift of his Papa 1 Jan. 1863', on endpaper; remains of early pictorial ex libris, later small armorial & subsequent bookplate of Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms. The first Greek edition of Anacreon (now known to be by several authors in the style of Anacreon whose actual work survives in fragments only), appeared in 1554 and was the first publication under his own name of Robert's brother, Henri Estienne. Its appearance 'virtually caused a poetic revolution, not only in France, but also in Italy and Germany’ (Schreiber). The Latin version by Elias Andreas first appeared in 1555. Though separately printed, these Robert Estienne editions are often found bound together. 3 ANGUS, William. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales. In a Collection of Select Views Engraved by W. Angus. From Pictures and Drawings by the most Eminent Artists, With Descriptions of each View. W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings, Islington, 1787-1815 £350 FIRST EDITION, landscape folio (205 x 260mm), engraved title, letterpress contents leaf and 63 plates, each with accompanying letterpress description; some light spotting & off-setting, first 8 plates with 'tide-mark' waterstain across one corner, but generally well preserved in old half calf, marbled sides, rebacked with morocco label. Published in parts by subscription, originally with 48 plates, this enlarged edition of 1815 adds a further 15 views. Engraved by William Angus after drawings by Frederick Ponsonby Bessborough, Paul Sandby, Robert Adam, Thomas Malton, Samuel Howitt, Humphry Repton, William Watts, Charles Tomkins & others. Cox III 17

Mark Arman entered our lives shortly after the issue of catalogue 21, our first to specialise in fine printing. An artist & printmaker (having retired from HMRC) he made books which explored his love of type & ornament (and produced some striking fleuron catalogue covers for us). Like Francis Meynell his typographic skills & enthusiasm made a winning combination and his books quickly went out of print. We were able to alert him to the tragic break-up of Cowells' printshop (at the end of Silent Street) and also the 19thC printers H.G. Crisp in Saxmundham (where we now have a small bookshop). On both occasions he went home to Thaxted with groaning springs and quantities of rescued type & equipment, and proceeded to tell the tale in the books that followed. When his failing sight forced him to stop printing, I purchased his remaining stock of the wonderful broadside type specimens which adorned his books, a collection of which we offer below. The Workshop Press archive of original lino-cuts, proofs, &c., is also for sale; full details available on request. (See Matrix 10).

4 ARMAN, Mark. Fourteen Broadsheet Type Specimens printed letterpress on tinted Abbey Mill & Grosvenor Chater paper at The Workshop Press, Thaxted, [1980s.] £75 A fine collection of the beautifully designed & hand-printed specimens which (in folded form) were such an important feature of the Workshop Press books (here offered unfolded); including the 4pp. 4to. specimen produced for Matrix 9. The collection comprises: Albertus (295 x 210mm) on orange card with Fanfare ornaments. Berthold Wolpe Design, Albertus (400 x 280mm) on grey Abbey Mill with woodcut. Arabesque & Moresque (265 x 375mm) 4pp. insert (here unfolded) for Matrix 9. Figgins Shaded (205 x 145mm) on brown light card with Victorian ornaments. Figgins Shaded (300 x 210mm) in black & blue on Abbey Mill grey paper. The Floral Ornament c.1900 (375 x 255mm) in brown on Goatskin Parchment. Fry's Ornamented (400 x 270mm) in blue & black on blue Abbey Mill laid. The Garland Ornament (450 x 250mm) in brown on Goatskin Parchment. Imprint Shadow (295 x 205mm) on brown card. Old English Text (295 x 210mm) in black & red with woodcut initial on cream laid. Old Face Open (430 x 240mm) in brown on cream Goatskin Parchment. Perpetua (490 x 330mm) in brown & green on Abbey Mill Greenfield. Verona (420 x 330mm) on Abbey Mill Greenfield. A Specimen of Types (450 x 290mm) 10 historic display faces in red & black on Abbey Mill grey laid with red woodcut border.

EARLY IPSWICH PUBLICATION 5 BALE, John. Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum, hoc est, Angliae, Cambriae, ac Scotiae Summariu[m].. Excusumque suit Gippeswici [Ipswich] in Anglia per Ioannem Overton [but printed by Dirk van der Straten, Wesel] 1548 £2,500 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(24), fol.255; large title woodcut, two vignettes & initials throughout; title lightly soiled & mounted, neatly repairing minor loss to blank inner margin, recent endleaves, otherwise a very well preserved copy in attractive 18thC ? calf, gilt, double morocco labels; ex libris Sir James Graham Bt., Portland Place. Born, 21 Nov., 1495, at South Cove, near Dunwich, Bale was educated at the Carmelite convent in Norwich and Jesus Coll., Cambridge, beoming the last Prior of the Ipswich Carmelite House in 1533. Converted to Protestantism by Thomas, Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk, he caused a scandal 'that I might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took to wife the faithful Dorothy'. Rector of Thorndon in 1534, the first of his plays appeared in 1538, earning the patronage of the Earl of Essex. This History of English Literature, his major work, was long thought an early Ipswich printing, but is actually the work of Dirk van der Straten of Wesel commisioned during one of Bale's several periods of continental exile, though he returned to England after the accession of protestant Edward VI in 1547. STC 1295; Copsey: BPS 97; SA 30. 6 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Early Work. With a prefatory note by H.C. Marillier. [with] The Later Work. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1899, 1901. £950 FIRST EDITION in deluxe version limited to 120 copies on Japanese Vellum, 2vols., lg.4to., pp.(8)18; frontispiece portrait & 157 plates, each with accompanying caption leaf; pp.(12) +173 plates with caption leaves; slight edge-browning, otherwise well preserved in original cream buckram, gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut; sides rather soiled & marked, backstrips uniformly darkened with slight wear at head & tail. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, CUTTINGS & BEARDSLEY'S SUPPRESSED COVER DESIGN 7 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (Art Editor) HARLAND, Henry (Editor) The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. [In thirteen volumes, complete.] Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894/97 £850 FIRST EDITION, 13vols., each c.270pp., illustrated throughout; Yellow Book Advertisements & Publishers' Catalogues at end of each vol. as found in original issues; vols. III & VIII marked 'Second Edition' at foot of upper cover; several backstrips a little faded or darkened, some corners bumped but overall a good set of a periodical only found in uniformly bright yellow bindings in the collected edition. A wonderful celebration of Nineties literary & artistic talent and decadence. Laid in to this set are: Contemporary press reviews from Pall Mall Gazette & the famously pompous Times article noting its 'combination of English rowdyism with French lubricity'; One page autograph letter, signed, from Dollie Radford, a contributor of three poems, on 'Lested Lodge, Well Walk, Hampstead N.W.' headed notepaper; Beardsley's suppresed cover design for Volume V, taken from the prospectus thereof; 2 page autograph letter, signed, from Ella D'Arcy, a regular contributor & assistant editor, to Alfred Harmsworth, offering an article for the Daily Mail on the now-defunct Yellow Book, dated Oct.1st [18]97, on 19 Park Side, Albert Gate, S.W. headed notepaper. '...I was assistant editor during the three years of its existence...' She later confessed to Katharine Mix: 'I helped as I could, but I never was really an editor.' A Study in Yellow, p.190. 8 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights... The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and Imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year 1485... With an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. J.M. Dent & Co., 1893. £2,500 FIRST EDITION, No.218 of 300 deluxe sets on Van Gelder Dutch hand-made paper; 3vol., lg.8vo., pp.xc,290(2); (4)(291-)664; (4)(665-)990 + colophon leaf; cover design, 16 full-page & 4 double-page illustrations, 43 borders, 288 chapter headings, initial letters, and ornaments (many repeated); full-page plates on French handmade etching paper, the photogravure frontispieces on mounted India paper, and title device & initial letters rubricated in this deluxe version. End-papers spotted, otherwise a very good uncut set in original brown silk, gilt; backstrips lightly rubbed with minor fraying at heads & tails, but a sound set bound from the original parts in the publisher's silk binding rarely found on the deluxe edition (the vellum version having been recommended for subscribers to the deluxe edition). Based on Caxton's text with his introduction & preface from the edition of 1485, this was Beardsley's first major commission. Dent was reputedly rendered speechless by the quality of his trial drawing 'The Achieving of the Sangreal'; 'his first masterpiece', according to Weintraub. Working to a very tight schedule for the monthly publication of each part, Beardsley produced drawings of great originality which combined the medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelites with the his own eccentric Japanese-influenced style, and made his reputation. 'A monument of decorative book illustration.' John Lewis in The Twentieth Century Book. Lasner 22.

THE EPITOME OF 1890's LITERATURE & CULTURE 9 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey [Art Editor] SYMONS, Arthur [Editor] The Savoy. An Illustrated Monthly. [January to December, 1896] Leonard Smithers, 1896. £1,100 8 issues in 3 volumes (all published), 4to., pp.(2)170(2),206(including adverts.); 110,100,92; 100,96,101; wrappers & title-page designs by Aubrey Beardsley and full-page illustrations throughout from drawings and paintings by Beardsley, Shannon, Conder, Pennell, Oury, Rothenstein, Sandys, Beerbohm, Rossetti, &c.; one title torn without loss, intermittent spotting throughout, largely marginal, otherwise a very good uncut set in original blue cloth, pictorially blocked in gold, original pictorial wrappers bound in; extremities rubbed and slight wear at head & tails of backstrips but a sound and handsome set. Smithers had asked Arthur Symons to form and edit The Savoy as a quarterly with Beardsley as art editor. After two numbers it became a monthly, featuring literary contributions from the editors and a roll-call of '90s talent including Yeats, Dowson, Ellis, Image, Gosse & Beerbohm. But it was not a financial success publication ceased at the end of the year. The final number was written by Symons and illustrated solely by Beardsley. AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM BEAUFORT TO CAPT. SMYTH 10 BEAUFORT, Sir Francis. FRIENDLY, Alfred. Beaufort of the Admiralty. The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort 1774-1857. Hutchinson, 1977 £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.363; various illustrations & charts; very good in dust-wrapper. After an eventful early naval career in the Napoleonic Wars, Beaufort eventually became head of the Hydrographic Office, perfecting the Admiralty chart. He also helped to found the Royal Geographic Society with the help of his close friend Captain W.H. ('Mediterranean') Smyth, 'an outstanding sailor-scientist'. Laid in is a two-page autograph letter, signed, from the Admiralty, dated Sept. 15/ [18]31 from Beaufort to Smyth: 'I shall adopt with pleasure your proposal about the island of Cerigo [Kythira]..as soon as I get a proof - I was in hopes of saving a part of your labours... Undoubtedly you shall have six copies of any chart, plan or view that you execute for the office as soon as they are engraved...'

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 11 BEAUMONT, Cyril. A Bibliography of Dancing. The Dancing Times Ltd., 1929 £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,228; original buckram over bevelled boards, backstrip faded & sides a little cockled as our final endpapers. Inscribed 'For Edwin Evans. Who has patiently watched this book grow slowly from 1922. With every good wish from his friend Cyril W. Beaumont. 5 July, 1929.' Music critic Edwin Evans was an early champion of Debussy and the Russian composers, most notably those associated with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Music critic of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1912-23 and for Daily Mail from 1933, he was elected President of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1938. 12 BLAKE, William. The Gates of Paradise. For Children. For the Sexes. [In four volumes including] Introductory volume by Geoffrey Keynes with Blake's preliminary sketches [two facsimile volumes & plate volume]. The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1968 £550 4 volumes, copy 'M' of 26 copies 'reserved for those who have made the publication of the book possible, the Trustees...and the Publishers' with an additional volume of extra plates & an original copper plate with negative; a fine set in full tan calf & buckram (the plate volume), preserved in original custom-made slip-case.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER 13 BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Farmer's Boy; A rural poem. Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, 1800. [with] Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs: Printed for Vernor and Hood... and Longman and Rees... By T. Bensley, 1800/02 £550 FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER copies of both works; 4to., (285 x 225mm.); pp.(4)xvi,102 + advert, leaf; 9 wood-engraved vignettes 'attributed to Thomas Bewick, but...I believe them to be by Anderson.' Hugo 143. Pp.xi(3)105; mezzotint portrait frontispiece & 11 vignette wood-engravings after designs by Thurston, engraved by Bewick according to Hugo (182), but ascribed to his pupil Charlton Nesbit by Cranbrook & Hadfield (2); corner of two sections browned (singed?), otherwise very good copies of the most deluxe version, well printed by Bensley on thick Whatman wove paper; contemporary polished calf, gilt, double morocco labels; some time rebacked preserving old backstrip, corners repaired. Rural Tales is inscribed on verso of half-title, 'From the Author to Mr Gedge, Bury, Jan 11, 1802.' With an autograph letter, signed, of the same date, from Bloomfield to Peter Gedge, the Bury printer & publisher of the Bury Post, presenting this 'Copy of the new Coll. of poems. I have received a very kind letter from the Hon. C.J. Fox, and one from Dr Drake in high commendation of the pieces. I mention this, because I am convinced that you participate in my good fortune, and feel an anxious desire to promote my reputation...' A note on front fly-leaf records the passage of this volume through five generations of the Gedge family until sold to us by the family in November 1994. Now offered for sale for the first time. BENSLEY PRINTED 14 BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Farmer's Boy; A rural poem. Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, 1800. £110 FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE, 4to.; pp.(4)xvi,102; frontispiece & 9 wood-engraved vignettes 'attributed to Thomas Bewick, but...I believe them to be by Anderson.' Hugo 143. Intermittent light spotting but a good copy in handsome contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled on sides, backstrip elaborately gilt, crimson morocco label, well printed by Bensley on thick Whatman wove paper dated 1794. Edited by Capel Lofft whose patronage propelled the Suffolk poet to the heart of London's literary society. Bloomfield's first & most celebrated work became one of the great best-sellers of the Romantic period with sales of some 26,000 copies in three years. Haywood 212. Cranbrook & Hadfield 1. JH.

INSCRIBED BY CRICKETERS, AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS 15 BLUNDEN, Edmund Cricket Country. Collins, 1944 £120 FIRST EDITION, pp.224; a good copy in lightly rubbed dust-wrapper. End-papers signed by: Edmund Blunden, D[ouglas] R. Jardine, Mark Bonham Carter, Andrew Shirley, Michael Hornby, Ian G. Harrap, Clifford Bax, P[elham] F. [Plum] Warner, W.A. Collins, R.C. Robertson-Glasgow, Kenneth Lindley, Laurence Meynell, A.H. Buck, John Hadfield & eight others as yet undeciphered; a few light splash marks. Evidently signed for John Hadfield at one of the publishers' eleven cricket matches at which the fanatical Blunden regularly opened with Rupert Hart-Davis. As the Guardian obituary later recorded, Blunden 'loved cricket... and played it ardently and very badly'.

WITH INSCRIBED GALLEY PROOF 16 BLUNDEN, Edmund. English Poems. Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1925 £85 FIRST EDITION, pp.127; slight spotting but a good uncut copy in original buckram, paper label (spare at end). John Hadfield's copy with three-sheet galley proof of Blunden's verse 'Random Tributes to British Painters', contributed to the Saturday Book which Hadfield edited; corrected in E.B.'s hand and inscribed 'Dear John, I was unwell for many days or you would have had this before. Best thanks and most amiable regards to you both. Edmund. Hall Mill, Long Melford. 9 iv 66.'

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 17 BLUNDEN, Edmund. Favourite Studies in English Literature. Lectures given at Keio University in 1948 and 1950. Printed by The Hokuseido Press. Keio University Special Publication, Tokyo, Japan, 1950 £35 FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)99; half-tone frontispiece portrait; a very good copy in original cloth. Inscribed to 'Derek Hudson from his old neighbour of the Fellows Quadrangle, and obliged friend, Edmund Blunden. National Liberal Club 20 Novr.1950.' Blunden was a Fellow at Merton Coll., Oxford, in the 1930s before returning to Japan with the British liason mission in 1947.

INSCRIBED FOR JOHN HADFIELD 18 BLUNDEN, Edmund. Shells by a Stream. New poems. Macmillan & Co., 1945 £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,60; very good in original green cloth. Inscribed 'In John Hadfield's copy with gratitude for a day certainly of rain but as well of cheerfulness & 'good talk'. Aug. 6, 1951 Edmund Blunden' JH has pencilled notes of four poems on rear endpaper, probably to be included in his 'Saturday Book'.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR - 1/26 COPIES 19 BREUIL, Abbé Henri. Anibib & Omandumba and other Erongo sites. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press, France, 1960 £280 FIRST EDITION, folio, copy M of 26, signed by the author, reserved for the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Abbé Breuil and the Trianon Press; pp.(8)39; frontis., 3 maps, 72 collotype figures & 80 hand-stencilled colour plates (two double-page); fine in original leather-backed buckram, uncut; card slip-case. Printed on pure rag paper, one of 146 deluxe copies (& 800 in the standard un-numbered edition). This copy additionally inscribed by the author to Mary Laing at the Trianon Press. PETER BAYNE'S COPY OF THE FIRST BRONTE 20 BRONTE. BELL, Currer, Ellis, And Acton. [pseud. Charlotte, Emily & Anne BRONTE] Poems by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell. Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [1848] £2,200 FIRST EDITION, second issue, pp.iv,165(1) + 4-line errata slip, advert. leaf & 8pp. Smith Elder catalogue dated July 1850. Wise 2. A good untrimmed copy in original green cloth with blind-stamped acanthus-leaf border & central lyre device on sides, backstrip lettered in gold with blind bands; backstrip darkened to tan and a little rubbed at head & tail but generally well preserved. Inscribed at head of title 'Ex Libris Peter Bayne L.L.D.' and by his daughter 'Clotilda Marson'. In March, 1846, Charlotte Bronte paid Aylott and Jones their estimate of £31.10s to publish this volume which they had printed by John Hasler. A further £5 was sent a few weeks later to complete the cost of printing when she also suggested that £10 should be spent on advertising. Of the 1000 copies printed it is alleged that only 39 copies were sold or given away in this first state. Following the success of Jane Eyre, the remaing sheets were bought by Smith, Elder, who reissued the book in 1848 with a new title-page (still dated 1846), a four-line errata slip, and advert. leaf for Jane Eyre (3rd edition), Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (2nd ed.) which appeared in 1847/48. By 1853 Smith Elder had sold only 279 copies and a further 126 copies by 1855. In 1857 another 450 were bound up to coincide with the publication of Gaskell's Life of Bronte. Copies of this second issue are found with Smith, Elder catalogues dated 1846, 1848 & 1850 (as here), confirming the small size of each batch of sheets sent to the binders as a result of the poor sales. This copy belonged to journalist & author Peter Bayne whose essays on the Brontes first appeared in the 'Literary World' and were then collected in 'Two Great Englishwomen: Mrs Browning and Charlotte Bronte, with an Essay of Poetry', 1881. His extensive pencilled side-lining has been annotated in pencil by his daughter Clotilda, 'Papa's mark I think', in several instances. Clotilda married Charles Latimer Marson in June, 1890, and accompanied him to Adelaide. The death of their son John is also noted against Emily's poem 'Remembrance': 'Killed in action J.C.M. 1915 Aug.8, Gallipoli'. The one ink annotation, 'For shame! Desist from such uncharitable conjectures!' against the penultimate verse of Charlotte's 'Mementos', is presumably also by Clotilda though in a rather cramped version of her hand. 21 BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. MALLARME, Stéphane. L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. Eclogue. [J.B.W. Editions, Mouton & Co., La Haye, printed 1936, issued 1956] '1935' £1,600 Copy 'S' of 25 lettered copies from a total edition of 50; pp.(10), 4 collotype plates reproducing wash drawings by John Buckland Wright; printed in Bodoni on hand-made paper; original full vellum, gilt lettered on backstrip with JBW vignette gold-blocked on upper cover, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; with accompanying portfolio of five copper engravings and a 2pp. letterpress 'Note on the John Buckland Wright Edition....' by Mary Buckland Wright. Light waterstain at head of binding, otherwise a very good uncut copy in original slip-case (a little marked but sound). Printed under the supervision of Henri Friedlander before the war and intended to be the third publication of 'J.W.B. Editions'. The sheets remained in Holland until 1947 when they were sent to London. Buckland Wright reworked the illustrations for the rest of his life, and the book was not published until after his death in 1954. Sandford's Golden Cockerel Press published an edition with Aldous Huxley's English translation in the same year. Reid A73.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 22 BUNSTON, Anna. Mingled Wine. Longmans, Green and Co., 1909 £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,117 + advert. leaf; a good copy in lightly rubbed original cloth; inscribed to Anita Bartle Brackenbury 'With the writer's best wishes for the drinking of it - "Sound the onset - / Chance the last award!" A. de B.' with authorial correction to one poem and extensive characteristic pencilled marks of approval by the recipient who has signed front fly-leaf with characteristic flourish. The poet signs her married initials A[nna] de B[ary]. See note at item 112. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 23 BUNSTON, Anna (Mrs. De Bary) Songs of God and Man. Herbert & Daniel, 1912 £30 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,68(4) adverts; a good copy in lightly faded original buckram-backed boards, paper labels (spine label chipped); inscribed to 'Anita [Bartle] with best Christmas Wishes Richard & Anna de Bary.' A little pencilled marginalia by the recipient. See note at item 112. 24 [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. £950 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii(8)184; with the half-title; some spotting of first & final leaves and light soiling of title & half-title but generally well preserved with large margins; contemporary calf, morocco label & head of backstrip sometime expertly renewed, short split in upper hinge but reinforced & secure; old ownership signatures of Mary Cecil & Anne Campbell. Burke's first work of importance winning praise from Johnson, Hume & Reynolds, while Kant describes Burke as 'the foremost author [in] the empirical exposition of aesthetic judgments'. 'His enduring achievement was to have tackled a difficult subject in a fashion accessible to any educated reader.' DNB. Todd 5a, 500 copies printed.

EX LIBRIS RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 25 BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that event. J. Dodsley, 1790. £1,800 FIRST EDITION,pp.iv,356; intermittent light browning but generally well preserved in later half brown morocco, marbled sides, lettered in gold 'By [for?] Sotheran & Co. 36 Piccadilly London'; with the bookplate of statesman & dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan, for many years Burke's sparring partner in the Commons. After his epic speech at the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 'Gibbon asserted that Sheridan sank back into Burke's arms after uttering the concluding words, ‘My lords, I have done.’ Macaulay repeated this story with embellishments, writing that ‘Sheridan contrived, with a knowledge of stage effect which his father might have envied, to sink back, as if exhausted, into the arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration’. (William Fraser Rae in DNB.) Todd 53d; Printing & the Mind of Man 380; Rothschild 522. 26 [BURKE, Edmund] A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer. Printed for M. Cooper, 1756 £650 FIRST EDITION, pp.(4)106(2)blank; light browning of first & final leaves, otherwise well preserved with good margins; rebound in morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gold along backstrip, by Sydney M. Cockerell of Douglas Cockerell & Son in 1959 (original invoice laid in). Todd 3a. Burke's 'first widely noticed appearance in print. A Vindication of Natural Society was a riposte to the writings of Lord Bolingbroke, published posthumously three years before... Posing as a supporter of Bolingbroke's rational reductionism he argued that it could be employed as well in matters of government as of religion... The history of civilized society was one of tyranny and slaughter. ‘Dreams of Society’ and ‘Visions of Religion’ should be abandoned together and we should ‘vindicate ourselves into perfect Liberty'. The Vindication was an artful work of demolition.' Paul Langford in ODNB. Ironically Godwin was to attribute the first anarchist writing to Burke. 'Most of the above arguments may be found much more at large in Burke's Vindication of Natural Society; a treatise in which the evils of the existing political institutions are displayed with incomparable force of reasoning and lustre of eloquence.' This copy sold by Arnold Muirhead when at Peter Murray Hill with invoice & two brief letters from him laid in. 'How nice of you... to be extravagant and to order from my first catalogue... You may be interested to know that Harvard cabled for the Burke inter alia yesterday, so you were only just in time...'. 27 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. £315 First Edition thus, one of 98 deluxe copies, folio, 310 x 190mm, pp.138(6); illustrations in line & colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); specially bound in quarter leather with a separate folder containing four signed giclée prints and a 24pp. illustrated select bibliography, Lord's List, containing details of 58 of his publications; all contained within matching slip-case. ONE OF TEN EXEMPLARY COPIES IN DESIGNER BINDING 28 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. £680 First Edition thus, no.6 of 10 'exemplary' copies in designer binding by Chris Hicks from the edition of 98 deluxe copies, folio, 310 x 190mm, pp.138(6); illustrations in line & colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); special designer binding by Chris Hicks in quarter full leather with onlaid chess board design, gilt pawn & gilt lettering on backstrip; contained within centre opening double mirror-lined solander box with green morocco trim; with separate folder of four signed giclée prints and a 24pp. illustrated select bibliography, 'Lord's List', containing details of 58 of his publications. The giclée prints include one for 'The Wasp in a Wig' a suppressed chapter which does not appear in the book. We are also able to offer the standard (330 copies at £98) & deluxe (98 copies at £315) versions.

UNPUBLISHED AUTHOR'S TYPESCRIPT 29 CATCHPOLE, Margaret. BOOTH, John. The Truth About Margaret Catchpole. Unpublished author's original typescript. 1911 £85 4to., 36 leaf typescript essay of c10,000 words, written 'as an Act of Justice to a Woman's Memory'. Booth quotes extensively from the Ipswich Journals of 1797 - 1800, manuscript material in the Ipswich Museum, and Cobbold's subsequent account & the Press reactions thereto in 1845. Cobbold's version is also compared with contemporary accounts & transciptions of the original trial. Tom Cook, proprietor of the College Gateway Bookshop from 1943 to 1982, has inscribed the cover sheet: 'Partly Rubbish. M.C. was born at Hoo. There was no Will Laud (or any other male admirer) in her life. T.E. Cook.'

MOVING SLAVE TRADE TESTAMENT 30 CHEVINGTON PRESS. WAKEFIELD, D.R. Resistance is Useless. Portraits of Slaves from The British West Indies. The Chevington Press, 2004. £1,850 FIRST EDITION, no.46 of 50 copies, signed by the author/artist; folio (400 x 290mm.); Sixteen coloured etched portraits & captions with letterpress text, together with screen-printed coloured title leaf & letterpress half-title, preface & colophon leaves; fine in morocco-backed decorated boards, lettered in gold on backstrip; preserved in matching cloth slip-case. Text printed by hand on an Albion press, the etchings pulled on a 19thC star wheel rolling press, on R.W.S. hand-made by Barcham Green. A remarkable tour-de-force of great poignancy & beauty by artist Bob Wakefield, best known for his etchings of fish, whose early career was spent at Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. 'Of the millions of Africans transported to the Americas, precious little of a personal nature remains to testify to their existence... This collection of etchings is a sympathetic endeavour to add faces to the names whether their origins be reasonable, irrational, bizarre, or accidental.' from the author's preface.

INSCRIBED TO JOHN HADFIELD 31 CHURCH, Richard. The Lamp. J.M. Dent, 1946 £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.96; very good in dust-wrapper (a little chipped at head of spine fold); inscribed 'To John Hadfield, a propos des neiges d'autan? from Richard Church. Oct. 1946.' 32 CLARE, John. Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. Printed for Taylor and Hessey... and E. Drury, Stamford, 1820. £750 FIRST EDITION, pp.xxxii,222 (10) adverts.; a very good copy of Clare's first work, bound without the half-title but with the 5 leaves of publisher's adverts. at end, in modern half calf, marbled sides, morocco label. 1000 copies were printed and quickly sold out, Clare attracting a level of popularity in London society which he was never to regain. Hayward 236, miscounts the advert. leaves as 'four leaves L4-L8'. LETTER FROM COCKERELL TO EVAN GILL 33 COCKERELL, Sydney Carlyle. MEYNELL, Viola [Editor] Friends of a Lifetime. Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Jonathan Cape, 1940 [with] The Best of Friends. Further Letters... Selected and Edited by Viola Meynell. Rupert Hart-Davis 1956 £110 FIRST EDITIONS, 2vol., pp.384 + 16 plates; 308 + 8 plates; good copies in lightly worn dust-wrappers. Ex Libris Evan Gill with autograph letter, signed, in original envelope, from Cockerell to Gill, dated 14 March 1958, from 21 Kew Gardens Road: '...The jottings from Eric's diary reminded me of a very happy holiday... if they are complete he fails to mention that two ladies were of the party: - Florence Kingsford who later in the year became my wife, and Katharine Adams, the bookbinder, who appears so often in 'The Best of Friends'. Also laid in is a typescript copy of a letter from SC to Eric Gill (so annotated in ms. by Evan Gill); 'Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 28th Sept. 1936. Dear Gill, I have read your two letters in 'The Times' with the strongest interest and approval. At last we have stamps which we need not be ashamed of putting on a letter to a foreigner.' Cuttings of various SC letters to The Times laid in, together with his Times obituary. 34 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems on various subjects. Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796. £1,800 FIRST EDITION, 16mo., pp.xvi,188 + errata & advert. leaves; a few light creases & marks, faint marginal browning, but a good copy of Coleridge's first published verse collection; bound without the half-title in modern full polished calf, gilt-lettered & ruled. Opening with the 'Monody on the Death of Chatterton' and concluding with the discursive stream-of-consciousness 'Religious Musings A Desultory Poem, written on Christmas Eve’, in which the spirits of Milton, Newton, Priestley & David Hartley are invoked. The 36 Effusions include four by Lamb and one part-written by Southey. Coleridge's seven-page preface introduces many ideas of formative influence on the Romantic Movement and its reverence for emotion recollected in tranquillity. Wise 8; Hayward 206. 35 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems. Rest Fenner, 1817. £900 FIRST EDITION, pp.(4)x(2)errata leaf,303; intermittent light foxing and occasional marginal marks, otherwise a very good unsophisticated copy with the advert. leaf & half-title, in original boards, uncut, remains of paper label; head & tail of backstrip paper worn away, hinges broken; preserved in calf-backed marbled solander box, morocco label. Originally planned for publication with Biographia Literaria and thus signed 'Vol. II' throughout, this collection first prints the better known final version of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' with STC's accompanying prose gloss, and the great odes 'Dejection' and 'France'. Tinker 697. Wise 45. 36 COWELL, W.S. ARTMONSKY, Ruth. Do you want it good or do you want it Tuesday? The halcyon days of W.S. Cowell Ltd., Printers. Artmonsky Arts, 2011. £16 FIRST EDITION, 500 copies printed, oblong 8vo, (175 x 215mm), pp.106, 91 colour & 17 monochrome illustrations. New in original decorated card wrappers. A handsome account of one of the foremost 20thC printers of children's & illustrated books. Edward Ardizzone's Tim books, Barbar, Orlando, the Puffin Picture Books, John Lewis's Handbooks of Printing Types and Illustration, David Gentleman and the Limited Editions Club are just some of the series examined in detail. Geoffrey Smith & Noel Carrington contrubte essays on Autolithography and Cowell's 'Plasticowell' plastic film lithography. 37 COWELL, W.S. BRUNHOFF, Jean de. Babar the King. Second English Edition. [Printed by W.S. Cowell, Ipswich] Methuen, 1937 £85 Folio (355 x 260), pp.48; printed in colours throughout, the text reproduced from the author's manuscript; a very nice copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Following the instant success of the Babar series in France, Methuen secured the UK rights and needed 'a printer capable of handling the considerable technical challenges of reproducing the wonderfully vibrant colour images...' Cowells rose to the challenge... 'Their litho manager would make trips to Paris in order to bring back the litho pulls personally, to ensure that they had not dried out before being put down on the plates at Ipswich. Both the author and publisher expressed delight with the proofs...' Spurred by their success Cowells went on to produce the celebrated series of litho children's books by Ardizzone & Kathleen Hale, amongst others, for which they are now remembered.' Artmonsky. THE REDSTONE - SCARFE - ALBEMARLE COPY 38 CRABBE, George. The Life of George Crabbe by his son. With an introduction by Edmund Blunden. The Cresset Press, 1947 £35 Pp.xxviii,286; a good copy in original blue buckram, gilt, dust-wrappr rubbed. Inscribed to 'Elsie G. Redstone from L[ilian] J. R[edstone] Dec. 1949.' Then to 'Diana [Lady] Albemarle from N[orman S[carfe] August 1980. I'm sorry it isn't the World's Classics edition, which has a much better Introduction [by E.M. Forster]; and I will keep an eye open for a copy: meanwhile this really is a third copy, a present, once, fropm Lilian Redstone [Woodbridge Librarian & Historian] to her sister.'

PRESENTATION COPY WITH SIGNED LETTERS & PROOF PLATE 39 CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Henry Irving. J.M. Dent and Sons, 1930 £350 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,252; colour frontispiece & 21 monochrome plates; very good in original buckram; inscribed 'To John Hadfield with every good wish, Edward Craig Sep.25, 1930.' Together with two typed letters, signed, from Craig (Poste Restante, Marly-Le-Roi, (Seine-et-Oise), France) to John Hadfield, Dept. C., J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. '8th August, 1930... I have just received a new batch of press-cuttings, including several notices of the forthcoming book. I am very glad that it is getting a good advance press, but I feel it is a mistake to let the papers refer to it as a 'Life' of Henry Irving - because it is not a Life, and people who expect it to be a complete biography will be disappointed and annoyed, on reading it, to find that it is no such thing...' '10th August, 1930. Thank you very much for sending me the prints of the plaque, which I am returning at once... I enclose two altered prints, and suggest (if you think well of it) you have a block made from each, and use both, though not together. Then, if anyone complains that 'it isn't a bit like Irving,' you can say, 'Oh, you've seen the wrong one - there are two'!...' One print, amended with ink & china white, is also laid in. In the event it seems neither design was used in the book.

40 CULPEPER, Nicholas. Culpeper's last Legacy: Left and bequeathed to his Dearest Wife, for the Publick Good. Being The Choycest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his Breast, and resolved never to be publish'd till after his Death...with an Addition of two hundred,Choyce Receipts, lately found, never publish'd before... The Fifth Impression... Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul's Church Yard... 1677 £750 Pp.(8)276(12)Table; (2)60(14)contents & adverts.; engraved frontispiece portrait; lacking final advert. leaf, otherwise well preserved in old calf, repaired at foot of gilt backstrip, worn but serviceable; ownership inscription of 'Wm. Edwards, Devizes, Ap[ri]l 5, 1750' on verso of frontis. Nine Books, each with separate title, are followed by three further works: Treatise of the Anatomy of the Reins & Bladder; Anatomy of the Brain & Nerves; The Eyes Anatomized; each with separate title, 'Printed for Nath. Brooke, 1676', here first collected according to the hyperbolic title. In fact Wing identifies three 'Fifth' editions published by Blagrave & Brooke together in 1671, Brooke alone in 1676, and this version by Blagrave alone in 1677, Wing C7521B - Keynes only in UK, UCLA & Harvard only in USA.

PRESENTATION COPY TO BASIL WRIGHT 41 DAY LEWIS, Cecil. Word over All. Jonathan Cape, 1943. £65 2nd. impression; p.52; a good copy in original buff cloth; inscribed by the author to the 'Night Mail' film director 'Basil Wright with love from Cecil.' feb. / 44'. 42 DENT, J.M & Hugh R. The House of Dent 1888 - 1938 Being the Memoirs of J.M. Dent with additional chapters covering the last 16 years by Hugh R. Dent. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938 £45 FIRST EDITION of this enlarged version in deluxe presentation binding, signed, 'Hugh R. Dent 20.x.38'; pp.xviii,334; 16 plates; very good in original deluxe morocco-backed cloth, lettered & ruled in gold, top edge gilt; seating plan & menu for 50th Anniversary dinner at Stationers' Hall, laid in, together with typed letter announcing the death of F.J. Martin Dent and signed note to John Hadfield from Elizabeth Newlands at Dent's, 'It is indeed kind of you to undertake Martin's obituary for The Bookseller...' EXEMPLARY LARGE PAPER COPY IN MAGNIFICENT DRESS 43 DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography. [In three volumes.] Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and Co., 1817. £3,500 FIRST & ONLY EDITION, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES with the extra plates; Royal 4to. (280 x 190mm); 3vol., pp.(6)vi(2)ccxxv(1),410(2); (4)535(3); (4)544(4); errata leaves in each volume & imprint leaf at end of vol.3; 37 engraved plates (as listed) plus the portrait frontispiece and Veronesi's 'Presentation at the Temple' in vol.I as called for in LP sets. The additional 'Portrait of Los Rios' is not present in vol.III but is clearly an extra-illustration in the copies where located by Windle, thus neither called for nor worthy to be included; folding facsimile woodcut & many wood-engraved illustrations in text (many on india paper mounted), one vignette printed in two colours, several in red, specimen of gold printing on red with printed binder's slip, original tissue guards; occasional light spotting of plates (chiefly marginal) but a fine set of this deluxe production in the best format on high quality paper; magnificent full crimson morocco, gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, by F[rancis] Bedford; ex libris John Porter. Arguably the most ambitious of Dibdin's works; 'a bibliographer's classic that marks the beginning of the general recognition of bibliomania as a plaything for wealth'. Dibdin states that £4500 was spent on its production, the composition alone amounting to six guineas a sheet. Hart 186; Jackson 40; Isaac 172; Windle & Pippin A28.

AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY 44 DICKENS, Charles. FORSYTE, Charles [pseud. Gordon PHILO] The Decoding of Edwin Drood. Victor Gollancz, 1980 £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.222; facsimile frontispiece; very good in dust-wrapper. Long ironic inscription from the author to his friend from college days in Oxford 1939/41; 'To my old friend Claude Cox Master Antiquarian Bookseller of Suffolk. I have much pleasure in presenting this very rare (in fact not been published yet) first edition of a classic book, copy in very good condition apart from some premature ageing that will probably occur at the hands of the Post Office by the time it reaches Saxmundham...' Typed letter, signed, from the author, together with various reviews and related articles, laid in. A detailed analysis of the various attempts at completing Dickens' last novel, followed by the author's own, decidedly convincing, version.

45 DOBSON, Austin. A Complete Collection of his Works in Verse and Prose, all but two in first edition, including many deluxe editions, privately printed pieces, signed and presentation copies (some with letters), variant issues and bindings. Also a representative selection of his editions of other authors, nearly all titles including the first printing of Dobson's edition. 1873-1960 £4,500 c300 books & pamphlets including: 5 bibliographies; 73 works in verse by AD; 55 works in prose; 101 books edited or with contributions by Dobson; 31 anthologies; many limited & signed editions, presentation copies, an author's copy inscribed, with note, to his son Alban and other manuscript material & ephemera. Published during a period of innovation & luxury in book design with fancy bindings and illustration by the leading figures in this golden age, including Thomson, Caldecott, Greenaway & Railton. One of the most popular poets of his day, Austin Dobson (1840-1921) was also an accomplished biographer and scholar. In the vanguard of a new band of poets reviving old French verse forms like the ballade, rondeau & villanelle, his wide scholarship and love for the English 18thC. added discipline and vigour to what might have been merely charming exercises. Tennyson encouraged him to study Horace, whose Latin stoicism gave a depth to Dobson's poetry, which at its best - The Ballad of Beau Brocade, Proverbs in Porcelain, or A Revolutionary Relic, has stood the test of time. Dobson’s special affinity for the 18thC. shines through his prose writings - biographies, essays and ‘vignettes’ - all founded on deep knowledge and painstaking research. His choice of subjects - Hogarth, Steele, Fanny Burney and Bewick among them - shows how wide his sympathies were, and reveal for us a host of minor celebrities, old customs and out-of-the-way publications. ‘Lady Mary Coke’, ‘St. James’s Park’ or ‘An Old London Bookseller’ (on Newbery, the publisher of books for children) are vivid & detailed portraits, while ‘A Day at Strawberry Hill’ affords much original insight into his still unsurpassed biography of Horace Walpole. Much in demand as editor of his favourite authors , Dobson contributed many scholarly introductions as well as a wealth of bibliographical detail. A full listing of the collection is available on request. 46 DONNE, John. The Poetical Works of Dr John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, London. With the Life of the Author [by Izaak Walton. In three volumes.] Edinburg: at the Apollo Press, by the Martins. 1779 £350 3vols., bound in one, 24mo. (125 x 75mm), pp.165; 168; 192; vols. I & II with additional collective titles; occasional slight browning but a good set of this well printed edition in contemporary calf, rubbed & worn at extremities but sound, sometime rehinged & endpapers renewed; preserved in buckram solander box. Vol. I: Walton's Life (of 1640), Satires & Epithalamions; vol. II: Songs, Sonnets, Divine Poems, and Epigrams; vol. III: Elegies, Funeral Elegies, Letters &c.; also issued with frontispiece portrait & engraved titles by John Bell in London as vols. 23-25 of his Poets of Great Britain series. First collected & published by his son in 1633, the fifth edition of 1669 added two elegies 'which a sense of propriety had hitherto excluded', and Tonson's sixth edition of 1719 follows this with minor corrections. There followed a gap of sixty years until Bell's edition in which, 'the poems were grouped in an eccentric fashion and the text a reprint of [the edition of] 1719.' Grierson, Poems of Donne, 1912. Keynes 86.

CAMBRIDGE PRINTER TO IPSWICH PRINTER 47 DREYFUS, John. The Survival of Baskerville's Punches. Privately Printed by the University Printer for Friends in Printing & Publishing Cambridge Christmas 1949 £135 FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies (of which 30 for the USA); pp.viii,37 + colophon; five plates & facsimiles and large folding specimen in pocket at end; a very good copy in original green buckram-backed marbled boards; inscribed by the printer to 'S.F. Watson historian of Ipswich printing [& manager of Cowells, printers] from Brooke Crutchley'; with Watson's ex libris. 'The friends for whom this book has been printed are not all expected to be interested in type-founding; but technicalities figure little in the story which follows - a story which has been written out of interest in the reasons for the survival of the punches and in the uses made of the type.

PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO NAUM GABO 48 DUCHAMP, Marcel. LEBEL, Robert. Marcel Duchamp. With chapters by Marcel Duchamp, André Breton & H.P. Roché. Translation by George Heard Hamilton. Grove Press, New York, 1959. £3,500 First Edition in English, folio, pp.(6)192; 48 photographs & 122 plates (6 colour tip-ins); dust-wrapper lacks small pieces from head & tail of spine, bottom of backstrip bumped, otherwise well preserved in original card slip-case. Inscribed by Duchamp, 'Cher Gabo, de 1923 à nos jours et quelles journées! Affectueusement Marcel 1960'. In their Realistic Manifesto, Moscow, 1920, Naum Gabo and his brother Antoine Pevsner first coined the term 'kinetic art' of which the earliest instance was perhaps Marcel Duchamp's 1913 sculpture, Bicycle Wheel. Antoine moved to Paris soon after and was joined by Gabo after he secured Diaghilev's commission to design sets & costumes for La Chatte, which opened in Monte Carlo in 1927 with music by Sauget and Balanchine's choreography. See note at item 71.

'pour Mary / the only Mary / ange gardieu de ce livre / affectueusement / Marcel Duchamp' 49 DUCHAMP, Marcel. LEBEL, Robert. Sur Marcel Duchamp. avec des textes de André Breton & H.P. Roché. Edition Trianon, Paris, 1959 £12,000 FIRST EDITION, limited to 137 signed copies, this being copy M of '17 exemplaires numérotés A à Q, destinés à l'Auteur, à l'Artiste, à l'Editeur et aux collaborateurs de cet ouvrage.'; signed by Lebel & Duchamp and additionally inscribed in red 'pour Mary / the only Mary / ange gardieu de ce livre / affectueusement / Marcel Duchamp'; 4to., pp.(8)192; illustrations in line, monochrome & colour throughout; frontispiece 'en phototypie et pochoir'; a fine copy, uncut & unsewn in original pictorial printed card & glacine wrapper; original folding case including velvet-mounted metal plate & self-portrait in silhouette '121-M [signed] Marcel dechiravit'; hinged card with photo-montage on each side; hinged 3D perspex 'Grand Verre' window with background photographic garden view and Duchamp sculpture installations in foreground with added hand-colouring by Duchamp, inscribed at foot, 'Marcel coloriavit pour [Mary] Laing'; blue enamelled metal sign, 'EAU & GAZ a tous les étages', initialled 'M.D.' mounted on front of silk-covered case. 50 DU MAURIER, Daphne. Golden Lads. A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their Friends. Victor Gollancz, 1975. £180 FIRST EDITION, pp.288; colour & half-tone plates; very good in dust-wrapper. Author's Compliments slip laid in with three contemporary reviews and two-page typed letter regarding Bacon portraits at Gorhambury, &c., signed (as Daphne Browning) & dated September 21st, 1975, from Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall. Heavily corrected manuscript draft reply enthusing over 'dear Anthony' to Dear Lady Browning from N. King, also laid in. 51 DU MAURIER, Daphne. Vanishing Cornwall. Photographs by Christian Browning. Victor Gollancz, 1967. £150 Pp.210; illustrated throughout; a good copy in bruised dust-wrapper. Inscribed 'To Mrs King, who loves Gorhambury as I love Cornwall, with respect and thanks, Daphne du Maurier, June, 1973. 52 DU MAURIER, Daphne. The Winding Stair. Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall. Victor Gollancz, 1976. £180 FIRST EDITION, pp.254; colour & half-tone plates; very good in lightly bruised dust-wrapper. Inscribed, 'To Mrs King in gratitude for her help and for Verulam House. Sincerely, Daphne du Maurier.' Two-page typed letter conveying more detailed thanks to Mrs King for her researches, signed (as Daphne Browning) & dated October 21st, 1975, from Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall.

WHITTINGHAM PRINTED 53 EDWARD VI. Copies of Seven Original Letters from King Edward VI. To his welbeloved Sarvaunt Barnabe Fizpatrike, One of the Gentlemen of his Prevy Chamber. Printed [by Charles Whittingham] 1856 £350 4to., 270 x 210mm, pp.24; slight spotting but a nice copy with large margins in contemporary full crimson morocco, gilt-lettered, large armorial at centre within ruled borders, gilt backstrip & inner dentelles, all edges gilt; slight scuff on lower cover but well preserved; ownership signature of 'Edith FitzPatrick, Dresden'. Richard FitzPatrick, Lord Ossory, who owned the letters, allowed Horace Walpole to print an edition of 200 copies at Strawberry Hill in 1772 to be shared 50:50, though his printer Thomas Kirkgate appears to have run off a few 'extras' for himself. The Right Hon. J.W. FitzPatrick commissioned this Whittingham-printed edition, 'carefully printed from the Original Letters, the former edition on collation being found to contain many errors. The Advertisement written by Horace Walpole, and the Notes by the Rev. W. Cole, so far as they have been found correct, are retained in the present Edition.' Extremely scarce; no copy listed on Copac; WorldCat locates Dublin, Minneapolis & Heidelberg Univ., Ohio copies only.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS - BODLEIAN COPY ONLY 54 ETIQUETTE. M., R.H. Interesting Observations to a Young Married Woman from her Mother; with Appropriate Admonitions, intended to promote and perpetuate domestic happiness. Including a limited tour to His Majesty's northern realms, pourtraying the fascinating regularities of a highland landscape. Printed for the Authoress [for 'Private Disposal'], by C. Smith, 1826. £1,650 FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.(14)128; nine original watercolour vignette chapter headings; light foxing throughout, head margin of title repaired (an ownership or presentation inscription presumably having been removed), otherwise well preserved in original full navy sheepskin, lettered in gold with gilt arms on sides of the Duchess of Kent (mother of Queen Victoria) to whom the work is dedicated. Contemporary ex libris of Seton of Mounie, presumably Alexander Seton (1814-52). Modern label of Peter Summers F.S.A. (of Kingswood School, Bath) with letters dating from 1965/6, from librarians at Windsor, Bodley, Cambridge & BM, responding to his investigations into authorship & provenance. Howard Nixon notes: 'I have been unable to trace another copy of the small book in your possession... [so] it is very difficult to say whether your copy actually belonged to the Duchess of Kent... The presence of the water-colour drawings certainly suggests that this was a special copy...' Robert Mackworth-Young at Windsor Castle is unable to trace a copy in the library there...'the only definite information that I can contribute is negative, namely that the water-colour drawings are not by Queen Victoria. They do not, I am afraid, resemble her work at all.' B.P. Robinson at the Bodleian adds: 'Lady Longford tells us that there exists in the Royal Archives a list of books used by the Duchess of Kent for the education of Princess Victoria, but she does not remember any such title in the list.... [she] feels that the onlty chance of discovering it lies in a long and painstaking examination of the various keepsake albums &c. at Windsor.' We have been able to locate just one other copy of this work, at the Bodleian. It is identically bound and also features the hand-coloured vignettes. No copy located in WorldCat. It seems likely that the author was close to the Court of Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace. A preliminary note, signed 'Private Disposal', records: 'The Authoress respectfully mentions the loss of Family Inheritance, and consequent pecuniary hardships to her mother and herself. The Elevated Circle with whom they formerly had the honour to associate, have kindly condescended to encourage her humble acquirements, with a view of obtaining a small competency.' The inclusion of a chapter on the attractions of Highland landscape not only reflects the current craze for the picturesque but remarkably anticipates by nearly twenty years the future Queen's love for Scotland.

A CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY WOOD-ENGRAVING 55 EVANS, George Ewart. Ask the Fellows who cut the Hay. Introduction by Alun Howkins. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway Anthony Christmas David Gentleman Miriam Macgregor Howard Phipps Peter Reddick & George Tute. Ploughman's Parrot Press, 1999. £350 One of 56 special copies, as previous item but specially bound in morocco-backed decorated boards with slip-case in matching decorated paper and a separate portfolio of proofs of the wood-engravings, each numbered & signed by the artist. An excellent edition entirely deserving of this deluxe treatment. We can also offer the standard edition in buckram-backed boards (280 copies) at £150. 56 [EVELYN, Mary] Mundus Muliebris: or, the Ladies Dressing-Room unlock'd, And her Toilette spread. In Burlesque. Together With the Fop-Dictionary, Compiled for the Use of the Fair Sex. Printed for R. Bentley, 1690 £3,500 FIRST EDITION, first issue with Covent Garden unhyphenated in imprint and 'Maryland' for Marryland at head of B1; sm.4to., pp.(8)22; A-C1-4, D1-3 (i.e. lacks final blank); slight browning as usual but a very good large copy, the bottom margins left untrimmed; modern (c1950) half-calf, marbled sides, lettered in gold along backstrip, by Maltby, Oxford; ex libris Arnold Muirhead with his Reynolds Stone oval label in brown and pencilled note, 'Keynes 99. 1sted 1st issue Wing E 3521'. Daughter of the diarist, Mary Evelyn was famously learned and devout, well-read and accomplished in music, dancing, French & Italian. Dismissing the theatre and cards as a waste of time, she nevertheless read 'all the best Romances, & moderne Poemes'. Evelyn gives an moving account of her accomplishments in his Diary, and was distraught at the 'unexpressable losse' of her death from smallpox in 1685 at the age of nineteen. He provides a six-page preface to his daughter's verse satire on the extravagance of modern French fashions in women's clothing, accoutrements, and behaviour. 'The Fop-Dictionary or, an Alphabetical Catalogue of the Hard and Foreign Names, and Terms of the Art Cosmetick, &c.' (with separate title), is a glossary of French words for styles of dress and modes of fashion. Wing E 3521; Keynes, John Evelyn (2nd.Ed., 1968), pp. 215-221.

PRINTER'S COPIES 57 FANFARE PRESS. BURTON, Basil. At the sign of the Bible & Anchor. Being a short history of St Martin's Lane. [printed at the Fanfare Press, London, 1930] £55 FIRST EDITION limited to 250 copies; pp.38 + colophon; six plate & facsimiles from the Crace collection in the BM; a very good uncut copy in original marbled cloth of this handsome production on handmade paper. Inscribed by the propietor of the Fanfare Press to his chief compositor: 'To H.J. T[urton] from E[rnest] I[ngham].

58 FANFARE PRESS. LOWINSKY, Ruth. Lovely Food. A Cookery Notebook. With table decorations invented & drawn by Thomas Lowinsky. [with] More Lovely Food... The Nonesuch Press, 1931/35 £95 FIRST EDITIONS, 2vols. (vol.1 no.135 of 500 deluxe copies on handmade paper), pp.(14)127; (12)169; very good in dust-wrappers (that on vol.2 adhering to glazed boards; vol.1 uncut in two-tone cloth, gilt); each vol. inscribed 'To A.J. T[urton] from E[rnest] I[ngham'. 'Ingham was an imaginative and flexible young printer, equally eager to instruct and to learn... His sense of style was shown in the intelligent variety of his equipment and in the choice of his staff. I learned from him as much as I taught...' Francis Meynell in 'My Lives'. PRINTER'S COPY 59 FANFARE PRESS. MATTHEWS, Kenneth. A Moral Tale or the Three temptations of Ignatius Snodgrass and how he overcame them. Title-page illustration by Denis Tegetmeier. Printed under the direction of Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press, Christmas, 1935 £65 FIRST EDITION, no.55 of 60 copies; pp.8 + colophon; title drawing in grey; beautifully printed on handmade paper in Gill's recently released Joanna type; fine in crimson silk, lettered in gold, glacine wrapper; uncut. Inscribed 'To A.J. Turton. This is a little book we enjoyed doing together. Thank-you for your help. Ernest Ingham.'

PRINTER'S COPY 60 FANFARE PRESS. TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. In Memoriam. The Nonesuch Press, 1933. £65 No.544 of 2000 copies; sm.folio, pp.xxii(2)145 + colophon; a beautiful production printed by the Fanfare Press in Poliphilus & Blado on Van Gelder mould-made paper; uncut in original Italian paper decorated boards, paper label, & slip-case; light spotting of first & final blanks, otherwise very good. Edited with an introduction by John Sparrow. Dreyfus 91. Inscribed 'To H.J. Turton who supervised the work in the Composing Room from Ernest Ingham.' 61 FELL TYPES. MORISON, Stanley. The Roman Italic & Black Letter Bequeathed to The University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell Oxford at the University Press, 1950 £85 FIRST EDITION, 100 copies printed on Millbourn handmade paper by Charles Batey as a keepsake for the friends of the Press; pp.41 + imprimatur leaf; 12pp. of type specimens & 7pp. woodcut initials, ornaments & music type of the 17th & 18th centuries; a very good uncut copy of this handsome showing in original printed boards & matching dust-wrapper (slightly frayed). Incorporates a revision of Morison's essay from the broadsides issued by the Press in 1930, a postscript by Batey and the extract from Fell's will which asks that 'all founts of letter bought with my money... be added to the stock... of the Press in the said University.' Batey pays tribute to Horace Hart's monumental undertaking from 1900 'of testing and setting forth the history of no fewer than 7,632 rusty punches and 2,906 disordered matrices.' Appleton 181.

HALF A DOZEN COPIES PROOFED FOR WORKING PURPOSES ONLY 62 FELL TYPES. MORISON, Stanley. A Specimen of the Roman Italic Black Letter Greek Exotic & other Typographical Material Bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell d.1686 [Printed at The University Press, Oxford, 1933] £250 4to., pp.21(3) blank; a fine uncut copy in original grey wrappers of this beautiful production of great rarity; printed on hand-made paper with the University Arms watermark; paper label of the OUP Technical Library which was dispersed after printing at the Clarendon Press ceased and the print shop was closed in 1989. Half a dozen copies were proofed for working purposes. Revisions were made in 1936, and in 1949 Morison noted that it '...consists so far of 24pp. has been proofed several times during the past fifteen years...' Appleton 97a.

Reciting FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam from memory was a party piece that doubtless stood my father in good stead when punting with friends on the Cherwell in his Wadham days, or entertaining the Officers' Mess at HQ Strike Command, RAF Oldenburg or Eglin Airforce Base, FLA. When he moved to Suffolk and I followed him, first to Dallinghoo (a stone's throw from Boulge & Bredfield) then Woodbridge, we could hardly resist building up a FitzGerald collection. My own interest was further stimulated by the involvement of William Pickering in the publication Fitz's early works. 'A Letter from Woodbridge', with an introductory essay by Claude, was produced in 1994 when we reached cat.100 (a few copies left), and I am now preparing for sale a full listing of the collection from which the following have been selected.

63 FITZGERALD, Edward. CALDERON. Six Dramas of Calderon. Freely translated by Edward FitzGerald. William Pickering, 1853. £180 FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.viii,273 + errata leaf; a very good copy in original cloth, slight splits at head of hinges but sound. Printed for the author by John Childs of Bungay, this was the third & last of FitzGerald's works to be published by Pickering who went bankrupt as it was coming out. 'Everyone seems to think me very silly for bringing it out under Pickering's broken banner,' Fitz. wrote to Cowell, '...but I was too tired of the business to hunt for another publisher.' In the event 'unfavourable notices in the Athenaeum and The Leader...disconcerted him, and he called in all the unsold copies, with the result that the book is now excessively rare.' Prideaux pp.6-11. Keynes p.66.

64 [FITZGERALD, Edward] CRABBE, George. Readings in Crabbe. 'Tales of the Hall.' Bernard Quaritch, 1882. £165 First issue of this enlarged edition; 200 copies printed; pp.xiv,(2)blank242, printed noted pasted in at end; title a little browned, otherwise well preserved in original red cloth, backstrip faded to tan, lettered 'Readings in Crabbe' in gold. 'Brothers' on final page of the introductory essay has been crossed through and 'Borderers' substituted in (FitzGerald's?) manuscript on facing blank. A review of Crabbe's Tales of the Hall in The Literary Chronicle, No.8, June 10, 1819, laid in; ex libris S.F. Watson. First printed for FitzGerald in 1879 in an impression of 350 copies with a single leaf introductory note. 200 copies of an enlarged introduction were printed by Billing for this reissue of which this is the extremely scarce first version, most copies being further augmented the following year. Prideaux pp.46/7.

EDWARD FITZGERALD'S COPY 65 FITZGERALD, Edward. RUSSELL, Arthur T. Memorials of the Life and Works of Thomas Fuller. William Pickering, 1844. £450 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,347; title & half-title in red & black, printed by Whittingham with various ornaments throughout; engraved frontispiece foxed, but a good uncut copy of an uncommon book in original brown cloth, paper label (defective), rubbed & a little worn at extremities, backstrip faded, but sound. Keynes p.88. Best known by his contemporaries for his hymn-writing, Russell shared Pickering's ambitions for the regeneration of the established Church of England. This was Edward FitzGerald's copy with his pencilled signature on fly-leaf & notes on final pastedown. Further inscribed [by Fitz's friend Edward Byles Cowell?] 'Given to me by John Loder, Woodbridge, to whom E.F.G. gave many of his books. E.C. 27/1/94. (See E.F.G. pencil notes inside end cover.)' Press notice of Loder's death (7th Nov. 1917) pasted in at front.

INSCRIBED BY FITZ. TO MISS [MARY] LYNN 66 FITZGERALD, Edward. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Ballads. Bradbury & Evans, 1857 £350 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,159; title vignette in line; a very good copy in contemporary binder's cloth, lettered in gold. Inscribed to his friend from childhood, 'Miss [Mary] Lynn - with Edward FitzGerald's kind Regards, - Monday Nov. 25th 1861.' This verse collection includes 'The Ballad of Bouillebaisse' of which Fitz. had written (Nov. 15 [18]52) to his great friend, 'Now you are gone out [of] England, I can feel something of what I should feel if you were dead: I sit in this seedy place and read over Bouillabaise [sic] till I cry again. This really is so: and is poor work:' Thackeray had sailed to Boston on Oct. 30th for a six month lecture tour. Terhune records several references to Mary Lynn in the letters, George Crabbe Jnr. was a mutual friend. 67 [FORD, James] A Memoir of Thomas Green, Esquire, of Ipswich; with A Critique on his Writings, and an Account of his Family and Connections. Printed by John Raw, Ipswich, 1825 £235 FIRST EDITION, 100 copies printed; 4to., pp.82; engraved frontis. portrait by Worthington and several wood-engraved vignettes; frontis. spotted but a very good copy of this handsome production on heavy paper; uncut in original blue calf-backed marbled boards (rubbed & worn at extremities), modern label. Printed for private distribution 'to the more immediate and intimate Friends of the Deceased', Ford thanks John Mitford of Benhall for his help and Mrs Biddell of Playford for her verse tribute. Inherited wealth facilitated a life of travel & minor literary accomplishments but Green's Diary of a Lover of Literature is of lasting value for his critique of 'the books he read from day to day... varied by vivid descriptions of scenery in the Isle of Wight and Wales'. ODNB. Copsey Suffolk Writers I.297. 68 FREEMASONRY. The Principles and Practice of the most ancient and honourable society of Free and Accepted Masons: Together with the Duties enforced in several Charges, &c. Selected from the best Authors. Printed and Sold by the Editor, 1786. £450 FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)viii,184; leaf E3 torn without loss, minor loss from margins of three leaves, minor ink marks on fore-edge of two sections, but generally well preserved in full 19thC. blind-ruled maroon calf, a little rubbed but sound. The final 10pp. of this scarce account comprise ’A correct list of the country lodges, under the constitution of England’, arranged by county. ESTC lists just BL, Cambridge & Bodley copies in the UK, McMaster only in the US. 69 FRIEND, Donald. An Alphabet of Owls et cetera. With a Text suitable for all Children, Grown-ups, Non-Readers, Ornamental Hermits, Et Alia. Gryphon Books, 1981. £450 FIRST EDITION, no.116 of 150 copies signed by Friend; folio, pp.[32]; pictorial title & 27 large scraperboard designs by Friend, printed on heavy Bemboka hand-made paper with text in sepia by Jim Walker at The Croft Press; a very good copy of this magnum opus in original black buckram with large pictorial morocco label, uncut; full of good things, mostly antipodean. 70 FRY, Edmund and STEELE, Isaac. A Specimen of Printing Types, by Fry and Steele..., bound with: Specimen of Metal Cast Ornaments, curiously adjusted to paper, by Edmund Fry and Isaac Steele, Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type Street, London. Printed by T. Rickaby, 1794. £3,500 Two works bound together. I. Type Specimen: 102 leaves including title & two advertisement leaves, all printed on rectos only; marginal tear in one leaf (well clear of text), a few edges singed, but generally well preserved and uncut with large margins. Mosley 118 locates 5 copies varying from 102 to108 leaves and the Cambridge copy of '84 leaves with the stubs of 17 leaves' which (like this copy) was bound up with the Specimen of Ornaments. A very good copy of this extremely scarce specimen which incorporates a large range of book & display fonts, Greeks, Hebrews & 17 other exotics; nine miniatures include Fry's Diamond ('the smallest Letter in the World. It gets in considerably more than the famous Dutch Diamond'); leaf of ship ornaments & 30 leaves of flowers, fancy rules and other ornaments with several fine full-page displays evidently assembled by Hazard of Bath (one dated 1793). II. Ornament Specimen: title, advert. & 15 specimen leaves of various sized ornaments numbered 1-89 but LACKING second leaf (ornaments 11-24) and 7 further devices cut from 6 leaves; printed on rectos only, well preserved, uncut with large margins. Ornament 85 is the Foundry device with cursive 'F&S' on pedestal within leaf arch, repeated on title with variant 'EF'monogram; ESTC records a further variant of 'FAC'. Mosley 119 locates 12 copies varying from 19 to 28 leaves. The two items bound together in modern boards. Graham Williams has been a customer from the early days. I think we were first introduced by Iain Bain at a Printing Historical Society meeting. He is a keen collector of wood-engraving and his Florin Press produced some fine books which we were pleased to stock. In recent years I made several visits to the wonderful house & garden created with his wife Nina in the Weald of Kent, as they sought to reduce their extensive library. The necessity of moving from this idyllic setting was a regular theme of our lunchtime conversation and eventually I was summoned for the final time. 'Please come this week, we are on the move!' It was not good timing, I was in the midst of emptying a house in Belgravia and a couple of weeks' respite would have been good. 'Nina wants to sell some of her father's books, several with important inscriptions.' As one of the most important sculptors of the last century, Naum Gabo's library was not something I could pass up, and, as promised, an appropriately personal inscription from Marcel Duchamp was a prize worth heading once more unto the A12 & Dartford Crossing.... A full listing of books from the library of Naum Gabo will be available on request.

PRESENTATION COPY 71 GABO. DREIER, Katherine S. Western Art and the New Era. An Introduction to Modern Art. Brentano's, New York, 1923. £250 FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.xii,139; colour frontispiece & 60 illustrations in text; original decorated cloth, slightly soiled; lettered 'DRIER' [sic] in crayon along backstrip by the artist Naum Gabo. Inscribed 'For dear Gabo and Miriam - with the one desire than an enlarged edition of this book might appear so that those two great Masters in Sculpture Gabo and [Antoine] Pevsner [Gabo's elder brother] might be included and publicly show my deep appreciation of their contribution to the new Forms of Beauty in Art. Katherine S. Dreier.' Additional ms. note by Gabo: 'May 16th. 1938. This book are [sic] the lectures given 1920-21 for the Forum of Cooper Union [for the Advancement of Science and Art], New York.' Artist and collector Katherine Dreier founded the Société Anonyme, with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, to support and promote new modernist artists by arranging exhibitions to introduce their work and develop their reputations with galleries and collectors. She ran the Société Anonyme’s small gallery, curated exhibitions, wrote essays and gave lectures in support of modern art. Dreier was also an accomplished painter with two of her paintings in the legendary Armory Show of 1913. 72 GABO. GUGGENHEIM, Peggy [Editor] Art of this Century. Objects - Drawings - Photographs Paintings - Sculpture - Collages 1910 to 1942. Art of This Century, New York, 1942. £650 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.156 + colophon; illustrations in half-tone throughout; a good copy in original yellow cloth with Max Ernst design on upper cover; head & tail of backstrip lightly worn. From the library of Naum Gabo, who with his brother Antoine Pevsner occupies pp.89-91; their Realistic Manifesto is reproduced on p.138: 'We liberate ourselves from the errors of the Egyptians who for thousands of years pretended that the element of art could only be of a static rhythm... We state that the elements of art are founded on a dynamic rhythm.' Surprisingly uncommon; many of the 2500 copies printed presumably remained unsold and were pulped.

PRESENTATION COPY 73 GABO. SWEENEY, James Johnson. Joan Miro. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941. £40 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.88; 70 plates (4 colour); a good copy in original boards (edges worn but sound) & frayed pictorial dust-wrapper (minor loss at head & tail). Inscribed 'for Miriam and Gabo, all warmest wishes'; with Sweeney's complex monogrammatic signature. The first monograph on Miro, published to coincide with the MOMA exhibition of Nov. 1941 to January '42. Includes: list of exhibitions, holdings in America, books illustrated by, & a bibliography. 74 GABO, Naum. FORGE, Andrew. An Appreciation of Naum Gabo. With a foreword by Sir Norman Reid. The Florin Press, 1985. £15 FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies; pp.45 + colophon; frontispiece & 10 tipped-in plates with tissue guards, 5 in colour; new in crimson silk, lettered in gold, glacine wrapper; the last book to be printed letterpress by Bernard Roberts at the Stockwell Press. Published at £25, we are able to offer the remaining copies at reduced price.

TO MY OLD FRIEND GABO 75 GABO, Naum. RICHTER, Hans. Hans Richter. Introduction by Sir Herbert Read. Autobiographical text by the Artist. Editions du Griffon, Switzerland, 1965 £110 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.132; 145 illustrations (16 in colour); very good in original cloth (lower corners bumped) & pictorial dust-wrapper. Part of Marcel Joray's collection, 'Plastic Arts of the Twentieth Century'. Inscribed 'To my old friend Gabo. Hans R. [19]65' 76 GABO, Naum. SALMON, André. Art Russe Moderne. Préface par Andre Salmon. Editions Laville, Paris, 1928 £600 FIRST EDITION, folio, pp.93 + imprint; coloured lithograph after Annenkoff on upper cover & 121 monochrome plates of the work of forty-one contemporary Russian artists, the majority exiled in Paris; a few corners creased at end, otherwise a well preserved copy of this scarce & ephemeral account in original pictorial wrappers (edges bruised & a little frayed). From the library of Naum Gabo who had joined his brother Antoine in Paris in 1914. 77 GIBBINGS, Robert. Iorana! A Tahitian Journal. With wood-engravings by the Author. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 1932 £110 FIRST EDITION, no.28 of 385 copies; pp.(12)157; forty full-page & smaller wood-engravings; a very good copy of this handsome production by The Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.] on Van Gelder cream wove which effectively shows Gibbings' bold engravings; uncut in original cloth-backed decorated boards and slip-case with printed label; original subscription card laid in; the UK edition of 1500 copies appeared the following month. Commissioned to provide illustrations for a book on Tahiti by James Norman Hall, Gibbings also provided the text when Hall failed to deliver and this became the first book entirely written & illustrated by him. Kirkus 2.

IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM GIBBINGS ON GILL & OTHERS 78 GIBBINGS, Robert. BALSTON, Thomas. The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings. Art and Technics, 1949. £180 FIRST EDITION, pp.111; 73pp. of wood-engravings; a good copy in slightly frayed pictorial dust-wrapper. With 4pp. autograph letter, signed, from Gibbings to 'Mr Kysela', on headed '91 Warwick Road...' notepaper, dated 25.2.52. '...I wonder if you've come across the little book of my collected engravings published by Art & Technics with introduction by Balston... Yes I knew Eric Gill well, a very charming gentle man & a delightful collaborator. He was a superb craftsman... I think I am right that he learnt wood-engraving from Noel Rooke who also taught me. Indeed almost every practising engraver in England to-day derives directly or indirectly from the teaching of Rooke. As to Gill as an artist I am a little more doubtful. His work is superbly decorative but there is very little original content in it. When in France last year I had occasion several times to visit their museum of Historic Art in which are shown a magnificent collection of plaster casts from the carvings on medieval churches. It seemed to me to contain the source of almost everything Gill did in stone... Only the other day I disposed of the last proof of the last engraving I did on copper. As far as I remember I only illustrated one book in this way, 'The Circle of the Seasons'...

EDWARD GIBBON'S COPY 79 GIBBON, Edward. DEMOSTHENES & CICERO. Philippiques de Démosthéne, et Catilinaires de Ciceron; traduites Par Monsieur l'Abbé D'Olivet, de l'Academie Françoise. Troisième édition, revûe & augmentée. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Gandouin, 1744 £1,500 Pp.427(5) approbation + advert.; a very good copy, handsomely bound in contemporary speckled calf, backstrip elaborately gilt in six sections with double morocco labels, red edges; spade shield (first state) bookplate of 'Edward Gibbon Esq.' (by R.B. Hughes of London - fl.1770-90) and also Gibbon's 'primitive' typographic 'E. GIBBON' label. Keynes, Gibbon's Library, p.109, records presence of label & plate (1st state), listed in Bentinck Street catalogue of 1777 & Sotheby's sale catalogue of Dec. 1934, (lot 159, sold to Sotheran). An early acquisition by Gibbon, subsequently part of his library at Lausanne which William Beckford famously bought in toto 'to have something to read'. Beckford gave the library to Gibbon's physician, Dr Frederic Schöll (d. 1835) and after passing through several hands in the following century it was finally dispersed by Sotheby's in December, 1934.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 80 GOULD, Gerald. The Journey. Odes and Sonnets. W. Collins Sons & Co., 1920 £18 FIRST EDITION, pp.94; a good uncut copy in lightly dust-soiled original cloth-backed boards. Inscribed 'To Anita Bartle from Gerald Gould', with her characteristic pencilled marginal symbols & ms. notes at end. See note at item 112.

PRESENTATION COPY 81 GRAHAM, Gabriela Cunninghame. The Christ of Toro and other stories. Eveleigh Nash, 1908. £65 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,275; a good copy in original green cloth, rubbed and a little worn at extremities. This posthumously published collection of short stories and translations was edited, with a preface, by her husband, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, who inscribed this copy to Anita Bartle, June 1913. 'I am glad you have a love [for] this book, R.B. Cunninghame Graham.' 'Born in Chile of a French father and Spanish mother, Gabriela Maria de la Balmondière was a poet, water-colourist, botanist & mystic...' See DNB for an account of their romantic union. The discovery of the remaining archive of Loyd Haberly's Seven Acres Press was perhaps the most magical moment of my bookselling career. I had spent an idyllic country childhood in Long Crendon where the Rhodes Scholar had made his home in the 'thirties having been taken under the wing of Mrs Lucie Durnford and her ward, Agatha Walker. Their house, Seven Acres, was just up the hill from 2 Burts Lane, where I grew up with Tuppence the spaniel cross (& just round the corner from Ruth Eggleton, the landlord's daughter at the Golden Cross with her golden plaits - where is she now I wonder?). So we had always looked out for the somewhat idiosyncratic productions of Haberly's Press. When the author's archive for his wonderful Medieval English Paving Tiles (Shakespeare Head Press, 1937) came up at Sotheby's (subsequently sold to Bodley where it belonged), I was able to contact the vendor, Patrick Durnford, who had inherited Stoney Down in Dorset, the house that Haberly had designed for his grandmother in homage to Seven Acres in Long Crendon. He kindly invited me down and, ushered into an attic spanning the main house, I found myself in Haberly's studio, apparently preserved almost as a shrine and virtually undisturbed since his return to America nearly fifty years before. The press & types had gone, but the 'bindery' was neatly laid out with sewn sections, printed sheets, cases awaiting contents, books in packages, trial sheets, bundles of Italian woodblock-printed fancy papers. Two crates contained most of Haberly's woodcuts & engraved blocks from the beginning of the Press. Manuscripts, unpublished verse, correspondence; all was neatly stacked or filed; the whole scene seemingly awaiting the arrival of the printer/binder/poet after breakfast with Agatha & Mrs D. to resume work folding and binding his latest book, 'Echo'. Was I interested in any of this material? Reader, I bought the lot. The manuscripts and original blocks remain for a future project, but most of the unbound books have been bound & sold. Various trial sheets and other ephemera remain, of which a sample is offered below; please ask for full details.

82 HABERLY, Loyd. (Pages from) The Crowning Year and other poems. 4pp. prospectus. Stoney Down Press, Corfe Mullen, Dorset 1937 £15 Single sheet, french-folded to provide 4pp: (amended) title-page, two specimen pages & details of publication; circular title vignette of Stoney Down House; printed in Paradiso type with red titling & green initials on Batchelor's oak-leaf hand-made paper. Haberly's 'only Dorset book... and the last book I built abroad. While binding it I was busied with preparations for a course of lectures on English monastic crafts which I had engaged to deliver in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the 1939 Harvard Summer School.'

ONLY SEVEN OR EIGHT COPIES ISSUED 83 [HABERLY, Loyd.] Echo and other poems. [Printed by the author at the Seven Acres Press Long Crendon Buckinghamshire: 1935.] £85 FIRST EDITION limited to 75 copies, sm.4to., (215 x170mm) pp.(4)87(7)index of first lines & colophon; title and initials throughout from woodcuts, printed in red & green, text in red & black Caslon Old Style on Kelmscott handmade paper; newly bound in tan calf-backed boards, morocco label & decorated paper sides from Haberly's original stock; uncut but top edge of three gatherings have been gilded by Haberly. The final production from Seven Acres at Long Crendon, Haberly having already become director of the Gregynog Press. He later recalled that 'of 75 copies printed only seven or eight were issued...' Nash A26. 84 HABERLY, Loyd. Poems. Seven Acres Press, 1930 £65 FIRST EDITION limited to 120 copies ('sixty-five were issued'); pp.(4)210(12)index & colophon; woodcut initials printed in red, green & black; red & green woodcut dedication to Robert Bridges; printed in 18pt Caslon old-face on Kelmscott handmade paper. This was the most substantial publication of the Press & was followed by a trade edition published by the Oxford University Press in 1931. Haberly recalls several amusing episodes resulting from the presentation & sale of copies to the likes of Robert Bridges, Emery Walker, Maurice Baring & Bernard Shaw who was astonished that it could be sold for the considerable sum of 15 pounds. Fine & uncut as sewn by Haberly & newly bound in leather-backed decorated boards. Haberly 10. Nash A12.

FIRST BOOK OF THE PRESS 85 [HABERLY, Loyd. Editor.] Verses on Mans Mortalitie. With an other of the Hope of his Resurrection. Reprinted with woodcuts by L.H. The Seven Acres Press Long Crendon, Bucks. 1925. £75 c150 copies printed; pp.(27); 36 vignette woodcuts by Haberly; light spotting throughout, otherwise a good uncut copy, silk tied, in original batik wrappers (frayed at edges with some loss at fold & head); woodcut lettered label. An anonymous 17thC poem reprinted from the 1628 edition of Michael Spark's Crums of Comfort. Haberly recalled printing 'around 150 copies' of this first venture into 'book-building'; 'all were sold'. The variety of the woodcut blocks shows Haberly experimenting with different techniques & styles; 'I was using little engraving chisels and gouges to cut on boxwood blocks the amateurish illustrations for my trial-run production.' 86 HABERLY, Loyd. The copper coloured cupid or The cutting of the cake. The second book of Oregon's Orpheus: twelve poems made to match as many months. Seven Acres: Long Crendon Buckinghamshire, 1931 £55 FIRST EDITION limited to 155 copies ('75 have been issued'), (232 x 165mm). pp(8)32; printed in red, black & green in Caslon old-face on Kelmscott handmade paper with 36 woodcut illustrations; a fine uncut copy sewn by Haberly & now bound in original style of parchment-backed blue/grey boards with lettering blocked on upper cover using original block. One of Haberly's most pleasingly decorated books. Actually the first issued of the Oregon's Orpheus series. Haberly 11; Nash A13. 87 HABERLY, Loyd. A new balade or songe of the Lambes Feast. [Seven Acres Press, 1928]. £65 125 copies printed ('57 issued' according to LH), pp.(4)9 + colophon leaf; woodcut title printed in 3 colours as are woodcut initials throughout; 4 wood-engraved illustrations; printed in 18pt Verona on handmade paper. A fine uncut copy of this attractive edition reprinted from a ballad sheet of 1624 with a note on the author, Henrick Niclaes. Sewn by Haberly & bound in leather-backed decorated boards using the original stock of the Press. Haberly 8 (Ransom 9); Nash A8.

John Hadfield's name crops up repeatedly in this catalogue. We first met in the mid-eighties soon after I moved to Woodbridge whither he had retired from Barham Manor. He had become a regular customer and when 20 quarto volumes of 18thC verse, which he had thinned from his library and sent to Sotheby's, were offered in one lot and sold for a song, he decided to send future thinnings to us. As is often the way, his death and then that of his wife brought us back to his delightful Regency house in Quay street. Finally, his bookish great-niece sent us several crates of books, selected from the treasures he had left her, for which she was unable to find a home.

AUTHOR'S COPY - SPECIALLY BOUND 88 [HADFIELD, John.] Festival of Britain. Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Cambridge, 1951. £40 Pp.224; 782 items + index; a very good copy, specially bound for the author in blue morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gold along backstrip. Organised by John Hadfield with a wealth of expert advisors on various aspects of book design, &c. 89 HAFOD PRESS. FROISSART, Sir John. The Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. Newly translated from the best French Editions, with Variations and Additions from many celebrated Manuscripts, by Thomas Johnes. [In four volumes.] [with] Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Froissart: To which is added, Some account of the manuscript of his chronicle in the Elizabethian Library at Breslau, and A Complete Index. By Thomas Johnes. At The Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1803/10 £450 5vols. 4to., pp.xxiv,835; xxvi,744; xx,656; xx,692; (4)221(3) List of Plates & advert; large engraved Hafod Press title vignettes and sixty engraved plates (as listed); occasional light browning, marginal repair to one title, but a very good set of Johnes' magnum opus in handsome contemporary diced calf, gilt; short cracks in several hinges (one unobtrusive repair) but boards securely held on cords; Fenwick family bookplate. Dr John Blatchly, headmaster, chemist, local historian, bibliophile and indefatiguable author & journalist, has been a friend since we took over Tom Cook's College Gateway Bookshop in 1982. Apart from his custom and generosity in sharing the many branches of his scholarship, and continual recommendation of the shop to everyone with whom he comes into contact, his kindness in recent years has extended to delivering several fine libraries to Claude Cox Books. The collections of Joan Corder FSA, Suffolk heraldic historian and Brian North Lee, the pre-eminent historian of the bookplate, came to us via John. As the friend & literary executor of Joan Hassall, Brian North Lee inherited a significant archive of her work which I now have. Visitors to Cartebluna Gallery have seen a selection of signed proof wood-engravings and a full listing of proofs, books, letters and other ephemera is in preparation.

AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER 90 HASSALL, Christopher. The Parcel. [Printed for Christopher Hassall and Geoffrey Keynes by Brooke Crutchley at the University Press Cambridge] 1957 £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.x,73 + colophon; original green cloth-backed marbled boards; inscribed by the author to his sister: 'Slightly shop-soiled copy, a belated Christmas present, With lots of love, from [Chris]Topher. Jan 2, '58.' Actor, poet & dramatist, Hassall is now best remembered for his musical collaborations with Ivor Novello, libretti for Walton, Bliss & Arnold, and translations for Bartok & others. He also wrote acclaimed biographies of Rupert Brooke and Edward Marsh whose protegé he had been. Joan Hassall was devoted to her younger brother; much affected by his relatively early death, she was to outlive him by 25 years.

EDITOR'S COPY WITH SIGNED PROOF ENGRAVINGS 91 HASSALL, Joan. Dearest Joana. A selection of Joan Hassall's lifetime letters and art. Edited by Brian North Lee. With an introduction by John Dreyfus. [In two volumes.] Printed in Denby Dale at The Fleece Press, 2001. £580 FIRST EDITION limited to 300 sets, this one of forty specials bound in quarter vellum with an additional 8-page section containing 15 extra wood engravings. An additional four proof wood engravings, all signed by pencil by the artist, have been laid in this copy. From the collection of Brian North Lee. EDITOR'S COPY WITH SIGNED PROOF ENGRAVINGS 92 HASSALL, Joan. LEE, Brian North [Editor] Dearest Joana. A selection of Joan Hassall's lifetime letters and art. Edited by Brian North Lee. With an introduction by John Dreyfus. [In two volumes.] Printed in Denby Dale at The Fleece Press, 2001. £350 FIRST EDITION limited to 300 sets; 2vols., pp.300(3); 'over 60 engravings, all but three printed from the wood, and around 60 line drawings and colour plates either tipped-in or printed as inserted sections, mostly full-page'. Brian North Lee, a close friend of many years' standing, contributes a substantial biographical introduction, and John Dreyfus recalls his experiences of working with Joan. Bound in quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper labels & cloth slip-case. A fine tribute beautifully put together. Fully subscribed before publication. From the library of the Editor with two additional proof wood-engravings, signed by Joan Hassall, laid in. PROOF WOOD ENGRAVINGS, SIGNED 93 HASSALL, Joan [Illustrator] WEBB, Mary. Fifty-One Poems. Hitherto unpublished in Book Form. With Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall. Jonathan Cape, 1946 £110 FIRST EDITION, pp.63; 26 vignette wood engravings; a good copy in lightly soiled pictorial dust-wrapper (edges a little worn); from the library of Brian North Lee with six proof wood-engravings from the artist's studio laid in, one captioned & signed in pencil 'On the Wild Hill Joan Hassall'. Chambers 19. 94 H[AY], W[illiam]? HERALDIC MANUSCRIPT. A Collection of the Coat-Armours of Diverse of the Nobility and Gentry of England, &c. disposed under their proper Heads, or respective Bearings. Extracted from Books containing such Ensigns of Honour: from Funeral Monuments, Escutcheons, Seals and other such-like Authorities. By W.H. [mid.18thC.] £950 Folio (400 x 160mm); pp.(6)556 incorporating 100pp. index (some blanks, mainly versos, throughout); a few light water stains but well preserved in contemporary vellum, a little soiled & marked. A detailed manuscript, close written in a neat hand, comprising a systematic named ordinary of arms with list of sources, mostly printed, but a manuscript authority is also cited - Genealogies written in 1590 supposedly by a member of the Hay family '& now in ye possession of R.L. Chambers'. Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. to Joan Corder in 1965, with their catalogue note suggesting William Hay, 1695-1755, political writer & poet and from 1753 Keeper of the Records in the Tower, as a plausible identity for the compiler. From the collection of the late Joan Corder.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR 95 HOLCROFT, Thomas. HAZLITT, William. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Written by himself. Continued to the time of his death from his diary notes & other papers by William Hazlitt and now newly edited with introduction and notes by Elbridge Colby. In two volumes. Constable, 1925 £55 FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.lxii,319; x,346; 10 plates & facsimiles; a good set of this attractive production in brown buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut; dust-wrappers worn with slight loss. Presentation card laid in to E. Rimbault Dibdin, Esq., 'In grateful appreciation of assistance rendered and with the kindest wishes of the author. Elbridge Colby.' 'One of the two most interesting autobiographies in the English Language' according to Tom Moore, this is the first separate edition since the original of 1818 'and by far the most complete and logical text ever published'.

FROM PHILIP BROKE OF NACTON 96 HUET, M. [Pierre Daniel] Huetiana, ou Pensées Diverses de M. Huet, Eveque D'Avranches. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée de la Description en vers Latins du Voyage de l'Auteur en Suede. A Amsterdam, Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1723 £85 12mo., pp.xx(8)450(2) publisher's catalogue; intermittent browning but well preserved in contemporary calf, backstrip gilt in compartments, morocco label; extremities a little rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription of 'Thos. Hewett. The Gift of my Dear & Honour's Kinsman Phillip [sic] Broke Esq. of Nacton in Suffolk.' Broke, grandfather of Sir Philip Broke of the Shannon, was the second son of Sir Robert Broke and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hewett of Waresley, Hunts., to whom Thomas Hewett was presumably related.The prolific Huet was tutor to the Dauphin in 1670 and elected to the Academie Française in 1674. First published the previous year, this miscellany of 140 philosophical essays also includes 48pp of Latin verse, concluding with the Voyage to Sweden. 97 HUME, Allan MARSHALL, C.H.T. The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. [In three volumes.] Published by A.O. Hume and C.H.T. Marshall, Calcutta, 1879-81. £850 FIRST EDITION, 3vol., pp.(8)279; (4)264; (4)438,vi; 144 fine chromolithograph plates printed by F. Waller in London after W. Foster, E. Neale, M. Herbert, Stanley Wilson & others; some marginal water stains on plates, but generally well preserved in handsome half crimson morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut, lettered in gold, five raised bands, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Compiled with contributions and notes from a network of over 200 correspondents, Hume delegated the colour printing to Marshall while sending specific notes on the colours of soft parts and other instructions to the artists. But Hume was so disappointed with the accuracy of much of their work that he included additional notes on the plates in the book. The 'Father of Indian Ornithology', Hume was a political reformer and founder of the Indian National Congress Party which subsequently led the movement for indepenedence. Estimating it would cost £4000 to publish, Hume retired from the Indian Civil Service on 1 January 1882 following the completion of his magnum opus. 98 HUTTON, Len. Cricket is my life. With a Foreword by Thomas Moult. With 22 Illustrations. Hutchinson, [1949] £220 FIRST EDITION, pp.232; 22 half-tone illustrations; a good copy in original green cloth. Signed 'For John Hadfield 8.6.49' (just before the 1st Test vs New Zealand at Headingley) by nearly 100 people from the literary & cricketing worlds, including: Peter Fleming, Alan Ross, Neville Cardus, Michael Joseph, Rose Macaulay, A.A. Milne, 'Plum' Warner, R.C. Sherriff, Violet Bonham Carter, Christina Foyle, Brigid Brophy, W.A. Deedes, R.C. Robertson-Glasgow. 99 JOCKEY CLUB. An Answer to three scurrilous pamphlets, entitled The Jockey Club. By a Member of the Jockey Club. The second edition. Printed for J.S. Jordan, [bound with] The British Constitution Invulnerable. Animadversions on a late publication, entitled The Jockey Club. Printed for S.M. Bishop [& others] [1792] £750 Pp.119; (4)126; slight spotting of first & final leaves but well preserved in modern crimson leather-backed buckram. The victims of Charles Pigott's notorious attack on the decadent aristocracy in 'The Jockey Club' are defended, person by person, in the first pamphlet, while the second adopts a more philosophical approach in considering, 'Moral and Political Virtue; Law; Libels; The System [&] Political Liberty'. The first was reprinted twice but ESTC lists only this edition of the latter which is decidedly scarce; BL & All Souls only in UK; Huntington, Harvard, Congress & American Philosophical Soc. in US.

FORE-EDGE PAINTING 100 KEATS, John. The Poetical Works. A new edition. Edward Moxon, 1851 £135 Cr.8vo., 160 x 95mm; pp.viii,301; engraved frontis. portrait after Severn; a good copy in handsome contemporary green morocco, decorated in gold & blind, all edges gilt concelaing fore-edge painting of Church St., Hampstead, c1820; inscribed 'To Charles Kitchin with the best wishes of his affectionate Uncle G.W. Kitchin. Twyford 16 Dec. 1861.'; fin-de-siécle bookplate of George Kitchin. A surprisingly uncommon edition presumably due to poor sales and Keats' relative mid-century obscurity before the revival spurred by Monckton Milnes' appraisal which first appeared in 1854. 101 KINCAID, Captain J[ohn] Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands, from 1809 to 1815. T. and W. Boone, 1830 £220 FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,351 + errata; intermittent light spotting throughout, but well preserved in contemporary half calf, marbled sides; rubbed but sound; early ownership signature of Spencer Smith. An important primary source; 'Kincaid witnessed some of the bloodiest episodes of the war, none more so than Badajoz, where the 95th was hurled at the massive forbidding walls more than 40 times in a vain attempt to pass the breaches.' Ian Fletcher, introducing the 1998 facsimile edition. With the following two books Simon Lawrence entered with a bang the world of fine book production in which he has played a prominent role ever since. The first book to bear his Fleece Press imprint appeared in1984 and we have been delighted to sell all he has produced ever since. His skill at printing from the block has been evident from the start and in recent years he has also perfected the production of beautifully designed books with tipped-in plates on an heroic scale (for a private press). I won't say we have grown old gracefully together, but I certainly count myself most fortunate to have known Simon and his work for nigh on thirty-five years. A full listing of our stock of Fleece Press books is available on request.

102 LAWRENCE, Simon [Editor] S.T.E. Lawrence. Boxwood blockmaker. Wood engravings collected in honour of his eightieth birthday. [Printed at The Whittington Press for Simon Lawrence, Wakefield, 1980] £350 FIRST EDITION, no.100 of 250 copies; pp.(16); frontispiece in sepia by Leo Wyatt and 37 other full-page wood-engravings printed on rectos only; a very good copy in original boards & slip-case of this handsome array of the high state of wood engraving in the UK just as the Whittington & Fleece Presses were setting out on 30-year journeys to great success. George Mackley contributes a appreciation of block-maker Stanley Lawrence and his grandson Simon a note on the distinguished cast assembled for this tribute from 38 leading wood engravers including Gertrude Hermes, Reynolds Stone, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Agnes Miller Parker, Dorothea Braby, David Gentleman, Joan Hassall, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, Simon Brett, Peter Reddick & Simon King whose copy this was.

103 LAWRENCE, Simon [Editor] 45 wood-engravers. with an Introduction by John Lawrence. [Printed at The Whittington Press for Simon Lawrence, Wakefield, 1982] £300 FIRST EDITION, no.251 of 350 copies; pp.(18); frontispiece by Margaret Wells and 45 other full-page & vignette wood-engravings (including colophon vignette); printed on rectos only with captions in sepia; slight bump to one corner, otherwise a very good copy in original buckram-backed marbled boards & slip-case (faded at fore-edge) of this handsome sequel to 'Boxwood Blockmaker', featuring many of the upcoming generation whose work has graced many a private press book over the last thirty years.

FROM THE POET TO HIS WIFE 104 LAY, Cecil. Grotesques and Arabesques. Martin Secker, 1928. £85 FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)48; bound for the author in full calf, gilt, with his pencilled note to his wife: 'Ipswich, March 30th, Dear Joan I have paid for these, they were 15/- the two. Yrs. Cecil - Best calf -' Inscribed, 'Dear Joan, Aldringham Feb. 20th [19]28. on p.1 and 'Yrs Cecil.' at end. A second scrap of paper with Lay's 8-line pencilled quotation from Vaughan, is laid in by his poem 'Suicide'. An early work by the Aldringham artist and poet who had met Joan Chadburn (then living in the nearby village of Middleton) after his breakdown in 1921, marrying in 1932.

INSCRIBED AUTHOR'S PROOF 105 [LE CARRE, John. [pseud. David Cornwell] The Honourable Schoolboy. [Author's Proof Copy.] Hodder and Stoughton, 1977 £120 FIRST EDITION proof copy; pp.532; original plain card wrappers with dust-jacket (frayed at head) incorporating circular yellow sticker: ' *Literary Guild Main Choice.... *Record paperback price paid for U.K. rights....*Simultaneous world publication on September 8th'; title crumpled by portrait of Le Carre pasted to verso; dedication leaf inscribed, 'Dear Mrs Zeitler, Thank you for your letter. The Express even got that part wrong - but anywhere [sic.], here by chance is a proof copy of T.H.S. which I have left over, sp you are welcome to it! Best wishes, John le Carre.' The second novel of the Karla trilogy. 106 LEE, Brian North. WYATT, Leo. Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt. Introduced by Will Carter. The Fleece Press, 1988. £300 FIRST EDITION limited to 300 copies, this one of 30 copies specially bound with seven additional tipped-in copper-engraved bookplates; pp.75; 16 copper & 67 wood engravings, all but one printed from the block in six single colours; tipped-in portrait of the artist at work & 3 other photographic plates by Colin Cuthbert; a fine copy of this excellent study in deluxe morocco-backed pastepaper boards, paper label & slip-case. BNL's informed & sensitive account is augmented by checklists of Wyatt's work on wood & copper.

FROM THE AUTHOR 107 LE GALLIENNE, Richard. SMERDON, Geoffrey & WHITTINGTON-EGAN, Richard. The Quest of the Golden Boy. The Life and Letters of Richard Le Gallienne. The Unicorn Press, 1960 £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.xxiv,580; 28 illustrations in half-tone a very good copy in repaired pictorial dust-wrapper. Inscribed to 'C.W.C[ox] from G.T. S[merdon]' and further signed on title, together with post-card and publisher's invoice (at author's discount); to my father from his life-long friend from college days together at Oxford in 1939/41. 108 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. HORACE. Odes and Epodes. In the original Latin and in English translation selected and edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Accompanied by Reproductions of Pages from Earlier Editions. With a bibliographical note by John T. Winterich. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at The Thistle Press, New York, 1961 £75 No.1300 of 1500 sets; 2vols, cr.8vo. & folio, pp.xxiv,394 + colophon; 10 + 25 leaves of facsimiles from 1482 to 1910; a very good set in original canvas-backed marbled boards, glacine wrappers & slip-case.

ONE OF SIX SETS 109 LIVRE d'ARTISTE. CRUM EWING, Arabella. De Avibus. Twelve Proverbs Concerning Birds. [Twenty-four coloured etchings with etched half-title, title & colophon leaves. Produced and Printed by Arabella Crum Ewing, Edinburgh, 1995] £1,500 Limited to Six Copies; landscape folio, 360 x 420mm, 3 text leaves & 24 plates, half-title on Nepalese hand-made tissue, title, colophon & coloured etchings on heavy Banks Cream mould-made paper; a fine set in original solander box, printed label. 'Witty, poetic images inspired by twelve medieval proverbs about bird-catching, following the rhythm of the seasons'. For pictures & full details of this and other work by Arabella, please visit her website: www.cartebluna.co.uk or visit her Gallery at 3 Albion Street, Saxmundham, where a selection of our Private Press books may also be found.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PROOF LAID IN 110 LUBBOCK, J.G. Life Force. Original hand-coloured prints and text... [Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.] Bertram Rota, 2009 £500 Edition limited to 30 copies (27 for sale) numbered & signed by the author/artist, this one of 13 regular copies; lg.4to., (360 x 280mm) pp.(32); nine prints (one double-page, five single & three half-page) from copper plates, worked by etching, deep etching, aquatint and engraving with colours applied by hand in intaglio and relief, and completed with watercolour. Printed in red, black & grey on heavy Somerset mould-made paper; bound in morocco-backed gold-blocked with stag beetle design on upper cover and preserved in Compton marbled paper slip-case. With a proof version of the stag beetle plate with extensive watercolour additions, signed by the artist, laid in. 'The thoughts and images record home lands and waters and all that they still sustain for the enhancement of life at three score years and thirty three'. A remarkable achievement by the redoubtable nonagerian whose first 'final' book appeared nearly a decade ago! Though his editions have now become very small, Joe Lubbock still produces work of great energy and enthusiasm. A fine livre d'artiste. Please ask for details of other books & original prints by Joe Lubbock in stock.

111 MERCURIALIS, Hieronymus. De Arte Gymnastica. Libris Sex. Apud Iuntas [Giuntas], Venice, 1601. £1,250 4to., pp.(16)308 [really 326] (28) blank & index; numerous errors in pagination/foliation but collates perfect; 25 fine full-page woodcuts & 1 text vignette, depicting bathing, dining, boxing, discus, weight-lifting, balancing, wrestling, &c.; neat repairs to foot of title (whence ownership mark has been exised?) and corner of one leaf (well clear of text), otherwise a very clean copy in contemporary speckled calf, backstrip gilt with morocco label; short cracks in hinges but strong & attractive; 18thC 'Atkinson' ex libris and later ownership signature of 'Rinnington Wilson, Edinburgh 1849. First published in 1569, this is the fourth edition. 'Important for the study of gymnastics among the ancients and the training of athletes for fighting in the Colosseum.' Adams M1320; Wellcome I 4224.

Anita Brackenbury neé Bartle seems to have been blessed with beauty within & without. Painted by Sir William Orpen, who gave his portrait 'Anita' as a wedding present when she married Aloysius Brackenbury in 1906, she had already won the heart of Everard Meynell, to whom she was briefly engaged, and also his mother, Alice, her God-mother. According to Adrian Glew's account of the Tate archive of her papers, not all the authors who inscribed their work to her were similarly smitten. Apparently she used her 'This is My Birthday' column in the Daily Chronicle to solicit autographs and presentation copies from many of the celebrities of her day. But this did not lessen the pleasure of 'getting to know her' from the many inscribed books inherited by her daughter Consuelo, of Woodbridge Road, Ipswich.

'...my early hopes and promises unfulfilled' 112 [MEYNELL, Alice.] THOMPSON, A.C. Preludes. With illustrations and ornaments by Elizabeth Thompson. Henry King & Co., 1875 £450 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,84 + 'Author's Errata' slip; six full-page illustrations line with original tissue guards, tail-pieces; a sound copy in lightly marked original decorated cloth, gilt, a little worn at extremities, by Burn & Co., with their ticket. Inscribed by the author to her god-daughter Anita Bartle: 'Every good wish to my dearest Anita with this copy of my early hopes and promises unfulfilled. Alice Meynell 1904'. Her first work, (published two years before she married Wilfrid Meynell), illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth (the artist Lady Elizabeth Butler, 1850–1933, whose husband was Sir William Francis Butler). Though warmly praised by Ruskin who singled out the sonnet 'Renunciation' for its beauty and delicacy, it received little public notice. Hayward 289.

113 MEYNELL, Alice. Selected Poems. Newly chosen [by Francis Meynell] from Collected Poems 1921 Last Poems 1923 Preludes 1875. The Nonesuch Press, 1965. £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.64; very good in original card covers with Reynolds Stone device printed in red. Inscribed to 'John Hadfield from Francis Meynell.' The only 'paper-back' of the Press.

'THE FIRST COPY '' - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 114 MEYNELL, Everard. Giovanni Bellini. George Newnes, [1906] £35 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xx + 64 half-tone plates; rather dilapidated but complete in original linen-backed printed boards, rubbed & worn but serviceable. Inscribed by the author, 'The first copy, for Anita with Everard's love. March, 1906.

INSCRIBED TO THE AUTHOR'S UNCLE 115 MEYNELL, Everard. The Life of Francis Thompson. Burns & Oates Ltd. 1913 £35 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,361; frontispiece & 12 plates & facsimiles; original buckram, gilt, a little marked & rubbed but sound. Inscribed 'To Samuel Tuke Meynell from his devoted nephew Everard Meynell Christmas 1913'. Cutting on J.L. Garvin's talk on Thompson to the Poets Club: 'The Laureate of Pain', laid in. Having become a destitute opium addict, Thompson was 'discovered' after sending his poetry to the magazine Merrie England in 1888. He was rescued from the verge of starvation and self-destruction by the editors, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell who, recognizing the value of his work, gave him a home and arranged for publication of his first book Poems in 1893.

B.L., YALE & HARVARD ONLY 116 MILNES, Richard Monckton. The Earl and the Duchess, A Dialogue, Translated and Adapted from De Musset's Proverbe, 'Il faut q'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée,' expressly for Representation at Nuneham, in July, 1850; and dedicated to Frances, Countess of Waldegrave. [Privately printed by Harrison and Son] 1851. £120 ONLY EDITION, pp.16; a fine copy in original printed pink wrappers. Evidently privately printed for the author, WorldCat locates copies in British Library, Harvard & Yale only. Lady Waldegrave moved to Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, after her marriage to George Harcourt in 1847. 'Her parties at Nuneham were the liveliest of the time... she delighted in private theatricals.' Sir William Gregory, Autobiography. A dramatic dialogue was evidently written for a single performance, the author and Lady Waldegrave playing the two parts. Pope-Hennessey refers to the occasion and a 'printed version' in 'Monckton Milnes: The Years of Promise' (p.302). See note at item 181. FIRST BOOK OF THE PRESS - WITH ALS 117 MOTTRAM, R.H. GRAHAM, Rigby [Illustrator] Twelve Poems. With a dedicatory poem by Edmund Blunden & illustrations by Rigby Graham. Daedalus Press, 1968 £25 FIRST EDITION, no.66 of 300 copies signed by the author (+12 specials), pp.(20) + colophon; frontispiece & half-page illustration in line by Graham; very good in printed wrappers. Close-written autograph card dated 19.2.1968, to Roderic Cave from Juliet Standing presenting this first publication of the Daedalus Press. 118 NASH, John. The Wood-engravings of John Nash. A Catalogue of the wood-engravings, early lithographs, etchings and engravings on metal. Compiled by Jeremy Greenwood. The Wood Lea Press, Liverpool, 1987. £110 FIRST EDITION limited to 750 copies; folio, pp.149 + colophon; 144 engravings (of which 77 are book illustrations), three lithographs & eight etchings, all reproduced full-size; a fine copy of this handsome production in original cloth-backed patterned paper boards & matching slip-case. John O'Connor contributes an introduction. 119 OFFICINA BODONI. BODONI, Giambattista. Manuale Tipografico 1788. Facsimile a cura di Giovanni Mardersteig. [Officina Bodoni] Verona, 1968. £1,250 226 copies printed, this copy W. of 26 'in memory of Enrico Mattioli and not for sale'; lg.4to., pp.xliv + colophon; 200-leaf facsimile printed on rectos only with alternating medium & italic faces separately numbered in Roman & Arabic numerals; a separate 28-leaf 'Serie de'Caratteri Greci di Giambatists Bodoni 1788' follows. With a 20pp. introduction by Mardersteig, Bodoni's 6pp. 'Prefazione al Saggio Tipografico' of 1771, and 3pp. index to the specimen. Printed on Cernobbio mould-made paper; a fine copy in original stained Linson boards, paper label & cloth-slip-case, of this consummate tribute by the greatest Italian printer of the 20thC to the 18thC master printer & designer of types who was his inspiration. Mardersteig 156. 120 OFFICINA BODONI. MARDERSTEIG, Hans. The Officini Bodoni. The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work. [With twelve full-page woodcuts by Frans Masereel and various tip-ins & specimen leaves. Printed in Verona at the Officina Bodoni.] Editiones Officinae Bodoni. At The Sign of the Pegasus, Paris, New York, 1929 £550 FIRST EDITION, folio, no.214 of 500 copies on Lafuma Rag Paper with seven specimen leaves or sections printed at the hand-press on handmade paper; 12 full-page woodcuts by Masereel and five other mounted illustrations, two pages of devices in red & blue; a little shaken and rather spotted & browned throughout with offsetting from the woodcuts & specimens; original cream linen, blocked in gold, and worn dust-wrapper. A Catalogue Raisonée of the first six years of the Press, including Masereel's wonderful series of woodcuts illustrating 'How a book is made at the Officina', with Mardersteig's captions on facing pages. Mardersteig 32.

1924 LETTER FROM MARDERSTEIG LAID IN 121 OFFICINA BODONI. SHAKESPEARE. Songs from Shakespeare's Plays. [Edited with a postscript by Brian Deakin. Officina Bodoni] Verona, 1974. £350 No.76 of 200 copies in English (+ 100 for Italy); pp.(50); printed in Mardersteig's Dante Italic (slightly modified) on Pescia hand-made paper with initials in red; a fine copy in original green morocco-backed Elizabethan-style jacquard cloth; acetate wrapper & slip-case; with the 4pp. prospectus. Mardersteig 185. Also laid in is a typed letter, signed, from the early days of the Press in Montagnola di Lugano, Switzerland, dated June 1924, announcing Shakespeare's Tempest, to be 'printed by hand-press with the original types of the Italian materprinter Bodoni, to make use of which the Bodoni Press has received from the Italian Government the sold and exclusive rights.' signed 'Mardersteig' in ink at foot. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, DIRECTOR & CAST 122 ONDAATJE, Michael. The English Patient. Bloomsbury, 1997 £350 Pp.(10)307(3); a very good copy in the dust-wrapper. First published in 1992, this edition published as tie-in with Anthony Minghella's film version, the dust-wrapper with film stills. Inscribed for Liz Calder, Ondaatje's editor at Bloomsbury, by Minghella, Saul Zaentz (producer), Ralph Fiennes, Ondaatje, Kristin Scott Thomas and Julian Wadham; together with signed note by the recipient recalling her visit to the film set in Tunisia. 'The film of... The English Patient was the harmonious outcome of an unusually close collaboration between author and screenwriter/director. Anthony Minghella read the book, put it aside and then wrote his screenplay without further reference to the book. However he did discuss the screenplay with Ondaatje in some detail as it took shape. They remained great friends until Minghella's tragically early death...' A collection of Modern First Editions from the library of publisher Liz Calder, including many signed & inscribed copies, will be included in our next catalogue. 123 PELICAN PRESS. McARTHUR, Molly. [aka Florence HARRISON] Tribute. To my Father W.A. McArthur 1857 - 1923. [Wood-engravings & Poems.] The Pelican Press, 2 Carmelite Street, [1924] £75 No.92 of 250 copies, signed by the author/artist; lg.8vo., pp.37; 36 wood-engraved illustrations & decorations of various sizes; well preserved in slightly rubbed original cloth-backed printed boards. Meynell's first use at Pelican of Rudolf Koch's Art Deco Neuland display type, particularly suited to the bold black illustrations. It appears with similar success in the Nonesuch Press Genesis, with Paul Nash woodcuts, which Oliver Simon printed at Curwen for Meynell later in the year (Dreyfus p.28). Rogerson, Pelical Press 98. 124 PENMIEL PRESS. BURRETT, Edward. Adieu... broadsheet poster designed & printed by Edward Burrett. Penmiel Press, 1988. £25 Broadsheet, c500 x 330mm, signed; no limitation stated but perhaps 75 copies printed in black & sepia on tinted Barcham Green handmade paper with abstract design by Clarke Hutton. A celebratory & poignant farewell to his friends, 'having had a happy and fruitful life in the world of printing design', for distribution after his death, which Edward Burrett anticipated by more than seven years! The potted autobiography contains a nice 'typo' which the printer challenges us to find. 'Show a good man his error & he turns it to virtue.' 125 PENMIEL PRESS. LINCOLN, Abraham. Thought for Today [and Tomorrow]. Penmiel Press, Esher, 1991. £25 Broadsheet, 510 x 345mm, 50 copies printed in red & black on Saunders mould-made pure rag paper; large wood-engraving by Diana Bloomfield. A splendid piece of typographic design & printing.

PRESENTATION COPY WITH INTERESTING LETTER ON BROTHER CADFAEL 126 PETERS, Ellis. [pseud. Edith PARGETER] Monk's-Hood. The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. William Morrow, New York, 1981. £135 FIRST US EDITION, pp.224; very good in lightly bruised pictorial dust-wrapper; bookplates of J.K. Pettit to whom this copy is inscribed 'With very best wishes to Joyce Pettit, from 'Ellis Peters'. Edith Pargeter August 1981.' Laid in is closely written 3pp. autograph note-card, signed, to 'Dear Joyce' discussing, inter alia, Weston Park, Longnor Hall, Acton Round and other Midlands houses. 'Chirk and Erdigg I know. Both are fascinating, but Erdigg especially is out of this world. The director of its restoration has written a splendid book about it, and about the Yorke family.... Brother Cadfael continues to monopolise me. He is quite popular it seems, an Italian publisher has bought all the books so far, one has just come out in Spanish in Argentina, for Latin America, and one is even going out in Japanese! Our country is still largely unspoiled, chiefly in the west, where Wales and the hills begin. Telford, I'm afraid, is a mistake.... very best wishes from Ellis and myself, Yours, Edith.' PHILIP MORANT'S COPY 127 PETYT, William. The Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted; or, A Discourse Proving by Records and the best Historians, that the Commons of England were ever an Essential part of Parliament. Printed for F. Smith, T. Bassett, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and S. Heyrick, 1680 £220 FIRST EDITION, pp.(2)75(9)184; with the 8pp. Epistle Dedicatory (to Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex) which seems to have been omitted from many copies, here bound after the preface; leaf I8 (blank) has been removed as usual Edges browned, corner torn from final leaf (well clear of text), otherwise well preserved in modern half calf, buckram sides, of the Royal Institution Library ('Disposed of... 5 Apr. 1963'); long manuscript note on fly-leaf and further 11-line annotation at foot of p.6, by Philip Morant (1700-70) the Essex historian, with pencilled note to this effect on endpaper by the Colchester bookseller Tony Doncaster. Wing P1945. 128 PIPER, John. Harlech Castle. Coloured screenprint, 611 x 460mm, numbered & signed by the Artist. Kelpra Studio for Marlborough Fine Art, 1989 £1,500 No.67 from an edition of 70 prints on Velin Arches 300gsm hand-made cartridge paper, signed by the artist; a very good copy of one of Piper's most celebrated screenprints; mounted & framed; purchased from Goldmark in 2000. Levinson 414. 129 PIPER, John. Kilpeck, Herefordshire: the Norman South Door. from A Retrospect of Churches. Two-colour stone lithograph, 726 x 517mm, numbered & signed by the Artist. Curwen Studio for Marlborough Fine Art, 1964 £950 No.44 from an edition of 70 prints on Barcham Green 285gsm hand-made cartridge paper, signed by the artist; well preserved in mount & frame; purchased from Marlborough in 1983. Levinson 122. 130 PIPER, John. Travel Notes: Devil's Bridge Waterfalls. Coloured screenprint, 747 x 509mm, numbered & signed by the Artist. Kelpra Studio for Marlborough Fine Art, 1967 £950 No.19 from an edition of 70 prints on J. Barcham Green 233lbs hand-made cartridge paper, signed by the artist; well preserved in mount & frame having been purchased new from Marlborough in 1983. Levinson 179. 131 PIPER, John. INGRAMS, Richard. Piper's Places. John Piper in England & Wales. Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1983. £45 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.184; 144 illustrations, the majority in colour; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper of this excellent survey of Piper's topographical work. 132 PIPER, John. LEVINSON, Orde. 'Quality and Experiment': the Prints of John Piper. A Catalogue Raisonne. Lund Humphries, 1996 £110 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.192; 8 plates & 433 illustrations in colour; various half-tone plates; very good in the dust-wrapper. 'The first catalogue of Piper's entire graphic work [which] completes the record started by Levinson's 1987 catalogue of Piper's prints'. 133 PIPER, John. LEVINSON, Orde. John Piper. The Complete Graphic Works. A Catalogue Raisonne 1923 - 1983. Etchings and Aquatints, Wood Engravings, Lithographs and Screenprints. Faber, 1987 £110 FIRST EDITION, folio, pp.141; 218 colour & 194 monochrome illustrations; very good in the dust-wrapper. 134 PIPER, John. POWERS, Alan [& others] Piper in Print. Books, Dustwrappers, Periodicals & Ephemera. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010 £110 FIRST EDITION limited to 440 copies; folio (310 x 230mm), pp.164; c 250 illustrations, mostly in colour; new in pictorial boards. Commentary by Hugh Fowler-Wright and essays by: Alan Powers on Britten, Piper & Aldeburgh; David Heathcote on Shell Guides & John Betjeman; Annamarie Stapleton on Piper's Textiles; Rigby Graham on Piper's Wood Engravings; and 'a comprehensive Checklist of all known printed items and a Bibliography'. A beautiful production, now out of print. 135 PIPER, John. POWERS, Alan [& others] Piper in Print. Books, Dustwrappers, Periodicals & Ephemera. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010 £296 FIRST EDITION limited to 440 copies, this one of 96 specials in quarter leather, 'with a folder containing facsimiles of rare examples of Piper ephemera including posters and booklets, the whole contained in a printed slipcase'. Folio (310 x 230mm), pp.164; c 250 illustrations, mostly in colour. Commentary by Hugh Fowler-Wright and essays by: Alan Powers on Britten, Piper & Aldeburgh; David Heathcote on Shell Guides & John Betjeman; Annamarie Stapleton on Piper's Textiles; Rigby Graham on Piper's Wood Engravings; and 'a comprehensive Checklist of all known printed items and a Bibliography'. A beautiful production.

DESIGNER BINDING 136 PIPER, John. SPARROW, John. Santa Maria della Salute. A poem by John Sparrow with illustrations by John Piper. [Designs and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1975 £650 FIRST EDITION large folio (580 x 390mm), no.145 of 200 copies, signed by author & artist; pp.(4) + two-colour collotype plate; large title-page illustration & decoration in ochre by Piper; printed in 24pt. Palatino on J. Barcham Green mould-made wove paper; fine in accomplished Designer Binding using black & brown silks, gilt-ruled, to portray the Venetian church in dramatic silhouette. Carter 127.

137 PIPER, John. THOMAS, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances. Illustrated by John Piper. Edited and with an introduction by Walford Davies. Gwasg Gregynog, 1984 £950 Folio, no.51 of 250 copies (& 18 specials); pp.xiv,59 + colophon; eight colour lithographic plates (seven double-page) printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press; printed in Monotype Bembo on Saunders pure rag paper; original morocco-backed fabric-covered boards, lettered in gold, designed by James Brockman; a very good copy in slip-case, original prospectus & presentation slip laid in.

138 PIPER, John. THOMAS, R.S. The Mountains. Illustrated with ten drawings by John Piper engraved on the wood by Reynolds Stone with a Descriptive Note by John Piper. Chilmark Press, New York, 1968. £280 FIRST EDITION, 4to., no.LXXX of 110 deluxe copies, signed by the author, artist & engraver, and with an extra set of the ten engravings; pp.44(6)colophon & 10 extra leaves, each with tipped-in captioned proof engraving; ten wood-engraved plates; a very good uncut copy of this handsome evocation of Snowdonia in original deluxe morocco-backed cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, & matching slip-case; printed by Will & Sebastian Carter in Zapf's Palatino on Wookey Hole mould-made paper. WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED AQUATINT 139 PIPER, John. WOODS, S. John. John Piper. Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954. Arranged and with an introduction by S. John Woods. Faber & Faber, 1955 £1,250 FIRST EDITION, no.38 of 50 copies with the aquatint frontispiece hand-coloured by Piper, signed by artist & author; lg.4to., pp.160; aquatint & four lithographs specially drawn for this book, 24 colour & 217 monochrome illustrations; a very good copy in original buclram & dust-wrapper (small loss from spine panel); slip-case a little worn but serviceable. 148 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members of Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: [Taken before Nicholas Corsellis, High Sheriff for the said county] June 26th, 1747. Candidates. The Hon. Richard Savage Nassau, Esq.; Charles Gray, Esq; John Olmius, Esq; Robert Thornton, Esq. Col. John Charles Tufnell, Richard Hart Davis, Esq. [Printed for J. Kendall, Colchester] 1747 £85 Pp.[3-]52, with blank leaves for notes at end; bound WITHOUT A1 TITLE, otherwise well preserved in modern half calf, morocco label. Contemporary manuscript notes on first & final pages & several blank leaves. 141 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 5th and 6th of May, 1807, before William Smith Esq., Mayor. Candidates Robert Thornton, Esq. Col. John Charles Tufnell, Richard Hart Davis, Esq. Printed and Sold by W. Keymer, Colchester, [1807] £150 Pp.28, with blank interleaving for notes of voting with a few pencilled entries; small blank corner torn from head of title but otherwise well preserved in modern half calf, morocco label. Copac gives only Senate House Library, London, facsimile copy. 142 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken On Tuesday the 16th Day of June, 1818, before Edward Clay, Esq., Mayor. Candidates. James Beckford Wildman, Esq. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. Peter Wright, Esq. Printed and Sold by W. Keymer, Colchester, 1818 £280 Pp.27, pencilled note of result at end; a very good copy in modern half calf, morocco label, of this extremely scarce item which we have been unable to locate in Copac, British Library or World Cat. 143 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken On Tuesday the 6th of October, 1812, and Five following Days, (Sunday excepted); before John Bridge, Esq. Mayor. Candidates. Robert Thornton, Hart Davis, Daniel Whittle Harvey. [bound with] The Poll for a Member to serve in Parliament... (In the room of Hart Davis, Esq. who has accepted the Stewardship of he Chiltern Hundreds), taken... the 16th, 17th, and 18th of Febrary, 1818, before Edward Clay, Esq., Mayor. Candidates. James Beckford Wildman, Esq. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. Printed and Sold by W. Keymer, Colchester, 1812, 1818 £250 `Two works bound together, pp.43; 16; with blank interleaving and extensive contemporary manuscript notes; well preserved in re-backed contemporary half calf, marbled sides, morocco label on upper cover. Copac gives only Senate House Library, London, a facsimile copy, of the latter and BL, Cambridge, Oxford & Senate House for the former. 144 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken On Thursday the 9th of March, 1820, and Five following days... before Francis Tillett Abell, Esq., Mayor. Candidates. James Beckford Wildman, Esq. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. Sir Henry Russell, Bart. Printed and Sold by Swinborne and Walter, Colchester, 1820 £120 Pp.43, blank interleaved with a few pencilled notes; well preserved in contemporary half calf, morocco label on upper cover, neat modern re-back with crimson morocco label. Copac locates British Library, Bodleian & Senate House copies only. 145 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken on Tuesday, December 11th, 1832, and following day, before Edward Clay, Esq., Mayor. Candidates. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. William Mayhew, Esq. Richard Sanderson, Esq. Printed and Sold by Swinborne, Walter, and Taylor, Colchester, 1832 £180 Pp.26 + summary leaf and contemporary blank interleaving; a very good copy in contemporary half calf, marbled sides, rubbed but sound. Inscribed 'With the Publishers respectful Comp[limen]ts' on fly-leaf. Copac gives only Senate House Library, London, facsimile copy. 146 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for a Member to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Colchester: taken on Wednesday March 30,1831, and 7 following days... before William Smith, Esq., Mayor. Candidates. Sir William Curtis, Bart. William Mayhew, Esq. Printed and Sold by Swinborne, Walter, & Taylor, Colchester, 1831 £90 Pp.32, small split in gutter margin throughout without loss, otherwise well preserved in modern half calf, morocco label. Extensive ink annotation, mostly deleting electors who did not vote and pencilled calculations and note on final page: 'There is a person in this Room who is for Mayhew (Gilson)'. Both Colchester & Needham Market list Gilsons among their electors. 'There is a person in this Room who is for Mayhew (Gilson)' 147 POLL BOOK. COLCHESTER. The Poll for the election of Town Councillors for the Borough of Colchester: taken December 26th, 1835. Roger Nunn, Esq. M.D. Mayor. Printed by John Taylor, Jun., Colchester, 1835 £120 Pp.34; a little browned & with central vertical crease, fore-edge cut very close but without loss; preserved in modern half calf, marble sides, morocco label. No copy located in Copac. 148 POLL BOOK. ESSEX. The Poll for a Knight of the Shire for the County of Essex, taken at Chelmsford, On Wednesday the 31st January, 1810, and fourteen following days... Candidates, John Archer Houblon, Esq. and Montagu Burgoyne, Esq. Printed by Meggy, Chalk, and Stanes, and sold by them; Keymer, Colchester [& others] 1810 £180 Pp.88, blank interleaved but without annotation; a very good copy in contemporary tree calf, morocco label; ex libris Saml. Leightonhouse and Ormond Blyth. Extremely scarce; Copac locates Bodleian copy only. 149 POLL BOOK. MALDON. The Poll for Members of Parliament, for the Borough of Maldon: As taken on Wednesday, June the seventh, 1826, and fourteen following days... Before The Worshipful the Mayor, Christopher Comyns Parker, Esq. and published by his authority. Printed by O.H. Youngman, Maldon, 1826 £120 Pp.90; a very good copy in modern half calf, marbl;ed sides, morocco label; contemporary ownership signature of J.S. Barnes at head of title. Copac locates British Library, Bodleian & Senate House copies only. George Winn polled 1747 votes, Thomas Lennard, 1454, and Quintin Dick 1401. Although we carry a small stock of new titles, mainly in our specialities like Suffolk & Typography, our core business has always been in books collected on grounds of rarity, age or beauty. Just occasionally the lure of the bargain bulk buy is too strong to resist. It's not just monetary appeal but also the monopoly position afforded by owning the remaining, say, 50 to 200 copies of an edition. When Gerd Fleishmann published the following fascinating study we were one of a handful of UK dealers not only to order it but also go back for more. So when his sales had pretty much dried up he asked me to take the remaining copies for a modest sum. We met in a lay-by just outside Harwich, before he boarded the ferry back to Germany. Transferring multiple packages of 10 copies each from his boot to mine, we must clearly have seemed to be up to no good. In truth not much good has come of the deal economically speaking; we still have several packages but sell a few copies each year....

150 POSTERS. FLEISCHMANN, Gerd. Irish Country Posters. Foreword by Hildegard Hamm-Brücher. Deutsches Plakat Museum, Essen, 1982. £10 FIRST EDITION, pp.224, illustrations throughout, some in colour; printed laminated card covers; text in English & German. A study of poster printing with wood types as developed in the 19thC and still surviving in 1980s provincial Ireland. We hold the remaining stocks of this book - trade terms available.

151 RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. CARTER, Sebastian. The Rampant Lions Press. A narrative catalogue. Sebastian Carter, Cambridge, 2013 £250 FIRST EDITION, one of 40 numbered special copies, signed by the author, with additional cloth-backed marbled sides portfolio of sample pages, prospectuses & sections from books, together with a booklet of ten type facsimiles & impressions from original blocks; 4to., pp.207; 130 monochrome illustrations & 16 colour plates (each with multiple images); new in original blue cloth, gilt; the whole contained within custom-made slip-case. An excellent bibliography with detailed commentary on the 84 years of the Press from 1924 to the final publication in 2008. 152 RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. CARTER, Sebastian. The Rampant Lions Press. A narrative catalogue. Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2013 £45 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.207; 130 monochrome illustrations & 16 colour plates (each with multiple images); new in original blue cloth, gilt. A history of the Press in 321 books, with introductory essays on the four eras of the Press from 1924 to the final publication in 2008. With full bibliographical details and appendices on: Pressmarks; Types & Papers; Publicity material; Further reading.

WILL CARTER'S COPY 153 RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. RYLANDS, George. Croaked the Raven 'One NO more' [with] 'The Raven himself is hoarse'. Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1988/90 £40 2 vols., 450 & 150 copies respectively; ; pp.(4)16 + colophon; (4)12; printed by Will Carter in Bembo on Zerkall mould-made paper, titles in black & brown; fine copies in original printed wrappers of these anthologies of expressions of negation in literature, including 4pp. of 'Samuel Johnson's Negatives'. George 'Dadie' Rylands (1902-99) was a writer, theatre director & Fellow of King's for most of his adult life. Friend of the Woolfs and occasional helper at their Hogarth Press as a young man, he recalled 'being the despair of Leonard Woolf through his inability to keep inky fingermarks off the front label.' Carter 210 & 227. Printed by Will Carter with his book label in the first volume. The first volume was offered for sale, but not the latter which is now decidedly uncommon. 154 RAVILIOUS, Eric. GREENWOOD, Jeremy. Ravilious Engravings. A Complete Catalogue. Compiled by Jeremy Greenwood with an introduction by John Craig. Wood Lea Press, 2008 £155 FIRST EDITION limited to 700 copies, folio (350 x 250mm), pp.264; Ravilious' complete output of over 400 engravings are all reproduced full-size; many additional illustrations; new in cloth-backed boards with Ravilious pattern paper on sides, slip-case. An important new work, significantly enlarged from the Lion & Unicorn Press edition, thoroughly researched and beautifully printed on 150gsm Regency Classica paper. Published at £175 and now out of print, we are able to offer a few remaining copies at reduced price. 155 RAVILIOUS, Eric. GREENWOOD, Jeremy. Ravilious Engravings. A Complete Catalogue. Compiled by Jeremy Greenwood with an introduction by John Craig. Wood Lea Press, 2008 £650 FIRST EDITION, one of 55 deluxe copies with additional folder containing a previously unpublished photograph of Ravilious, aged 23, and three wood engravings printed from the original blocks: 'Jack of Hearts', 'Elm Angel' & large cockerel device for the Golden Cockerel Press Spring List of 1933; as new in deluxe leather-backed Ravilious pattern paper boards & drop-back grey cloth box with spine titling. Fully subscribed before publication. 156 RAVILIOUS. WHITE, Gilbert. The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne. Selected and Edited by H.J. Massingham with wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious. [In two volumes.] The Nonesuch Press, 1938. £750 LIMITED EDITION of 850 sets (this inscribed 'out of series'); 2vol., pp.xxxii, 311; 356; pictorial titles & 42 wood-engraved head-pieces & decorations by Ravilious; two maps (one folding); slight uniform fading to backtrips otherwise a good uncut set of this celebrated edition in original grey cloth, gilt, top edges gilt on the rough; preserved in original marbled slip-case (edges worn but serviceable). Dreyfus 114.

PRESENTATION COPY 157 RHYS, Ernest. Song of the Sun. [Poems.] J.M. Dent, 1937 £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.x,44; frontsipiece; a very good copy in original buff boards and slightly frayed dust-wrapper. Inscribed to 'John Hadfield [then working as an editor at Dent] from his old friend & fellow-writer Ernest Rhys. 25/4/37.' The last published work of the founding editor of the Everyman's Library. In 1906 he persuaded J. M. Dent, for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitious Everyman project. Aiming to publish 1000 titles, issued ten at a time, the target was eventually reached in 1956, ten years after Rhys died. 158 RIMBAUD, Arthur. MEYERSTEIN, E.H.W. [Translator] Rimbaud's Le Bateau Ivre. Done into English rime with a version in Latin hexameters. Printed by Metcalfe & Cooper, for the Translator, 1948. £65 No.60 of 150 copies; 4to., pp.11; printed blue wrappers a little creased & marked. Inscribed to 'Percy & Barbara Muir, with sincere greetings for Christmas and 1949 from the translator.' Printed for private circulation and extremely scarce if not as celebrated as Samuel Beckett's version.

ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY IN CAROLINA 159 ROPER, Moses. A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery. Fifth Edition. Harvey and Darton, 1843 £220 12mo., pp.122(2)table; engraved frontis. portrait with facsimile signature & 3 woodcut illustrations; contemporary ownership signatures of George & Samuel Fairhead, Tunstall, Suffolk, with the latters graffiti on p.51; some light soiling but generally well preserved in original cloth (faded & marked) newly recased and endpapers renewed. An important early account of the evils of the American slave-trade with graphic accounts of the tortures and general maltreatment to which slaves were subjected. The Table at end gives a chilling statistical analysis of the high proportion of slaves in the total population; also nos. of 'Free Coloured Persons', Blacks, Whites and total areas of each state. First published in 1837, this fifth edition completed the 'twenty-fourth thousand' but like many best-sellers has not survived in large numbers. Copac lists 9 surviving copies of the first four editions, but only the Bodley copy of this fifth edition. 160 RUSSIA. STOCKDALE, John [Publisher] Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by upwards of Seventy Richly Colopured Engravings... Printed by T. Bensley... for John Stockdale, 1811. £1,250 Folio, (350 x 250mm); extra engraved hand-coloured pictorial title, letterpress titles, contents & introduction leaves in English & French; dedication leaf and 72 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates numbered 1-70 + 5* & 20*, all but 14 with accompanying leaf of letterpress in English & French (as issued); occasional faint foxing, one section heavily spotted (plates 29-33), otherwise well preserved in handsome contemporary full morocco, decorated in gold & blind on sides & six compartments of backstrip, all edges gilt; ownership signature of 'Thomas Tyson Junr. Empingham, Rutland, 1820'. Printed by Bensley on 'Edmeads & Co. 1809' paper. An important record of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great; 'the subjects are partly selected from Müller's interesting Description of all the Nations of the Russian Empire [i.e Johann Gottlieb Georgi, 'Déscription de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie', Müller, St. Petersburg, 1776-77], and partly from the invaluable Travels of Professor Pallas. The engravings are coloured with the greatest correctness; and in... [the accompanying text], recourse has been had to the labours of Müller, Pallas, Coxe, Fisher, [&] Krackeninikof...' Based on Harding's edition of 1803, the plates of which Stockdale evidently took over. Abbey, Travel 246; Hardie p.153.

RAMS SKULL PRESS 161 SCOTT, Major John [later SCOTT-WARING] An Epistle from Oberea, Queen of Otaheite, to Joseph Banks, Esq. Translated by T.Q.Z. Esq. Professor of the Otaheite Language in Dublin....And enriched with Historical and Explanatory Notes. With Decorations by Ray Crooke [printed silk screen on Thursday Island. The letterpress by R.G. Edwards at] The Rams Skull Press, Ferntree Gully [Victoria] 1955. £220 No.236 of 250 copies, signed by the artist; 4to., pp.21 + colophon; seven suitably voluptuous half-page & vignette illustrations in black & grey on an ochre ground; a very good copy of this scarce item in original cloth, decorated with tapa design. Inscribed 'review copy for 'Private Library' retail price 30/-'; earning honourable mention in Roderick Cave's round-up of recent private press books, '...only 250 copies of this remarkable book have been produced'. PL 2.5.81. Crooke reproduces the original title-page of the fourth edition, 1774, of this famous satire at the expense of the great naturalist Joseph Banks whose amorous adventures during shore-leave on Tahiti became notorious back home. The poet creates an Ovidian epistle imagining Banks' dalliance with the Queen of Tahiti during Cook’s first voyage. The extensive notes are taken from Hawkesworth’s account of the voyage. Originally attributed to Richard Porson or Gerald FitzGerald, but now thought to be the work of John Scott (1747-1819), later Scott-Waring, at this time an obscure soldier in the East India Company’s Bengal army. ANNOTATED COPY 162 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824 £1,500 FIRST EDITION, pp.x(4)contents & advert./errata leaf,415; faint marginal waterstain on first & final sections but a very good large copy in contemporary grained calf, sometime neatly rebacked, probably by Cooke of Warwick. Ex libris Stoneleigh Abbey with sepia printed heraldic bookplate of Chandos Leigh (1791-1850), poet & author, first Baron Leigh of the second creation. Leigh's circle included Byron, John Cam Hobhouse & Sheridan; his father's tutor was Isaac Hunt, father of Leigh Hunt. This copy is annotated throughout, mostly with under- & side-lining but also with several alternative readings from Shelley's original manuscript. Published in June 1824, Mary Shelley's selection included sixty-five unpublished poems and five translations. Her preface confronts Shelley’s ill repute head on: 'His fearless enthusiasm in the cause which he considered the most sacred upon earth, the improvement of the moral and physical state of mankind, was the chief cause why he, like other illustrious reformers, was pursued by hatred and calumny.' In seeking to rehabilitate his reputation she was singularly succesful. Shelley’s immorality, destructiveness, and incomprehensibility were legendary and he was largely unread. The Posthumous Poems prompted a surge of interest while making his work at once more accessible and admirable. Mary was shocked to learn on July 23rd of Sir Timothy Shelley's fury at its publication. He threatened to terminate her allowance unless she withdrew it from circulation, stopped publication of the prose, and promised to publish nothing by our about Shelley during his own lifetime. But 300 copies had been sold, far more than of any of the poems. Tinker 1904; Wise 70. 163 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, in twelve cantos. Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818. £850 FIRST EDITION, second issue with correctly dated title; pp.xxii(2)270 + errata leaf; occasional faint spotting but a good copy; bound without the half-title, but with dedication leaf & fly-title with Pindar quotation in Greek, in attractive modern half tan calf, marbled sides, morocco label. 'Originally called ‘Laon and Cythna’ (a few copies were printed under this title in 1817), and wisely altered before publication - [it] may be described as a poet's impassioned vision of the French revolution and the succeeding reaction.' Richard Garnett. Ashley Library 5:67-68; Tinker 1895. 164 SIMON KING PRESS. A Complete collection of the illustrated books of the Press. Following the sad closure of Simon King's Press we have purchased the small remaining stock. We have duplicate copies of several titles but for the others an order for the complete collection (items 165-173) will take precedence. £450

165 SIMON KING PRESS. BRIDGES, Robert. London Snow. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King.] The Simon King Press, 1988. £20 No.40 of 150 copies, signed by the artist/printer; hand printed in 14pt Bodoni on Basingwerk parchment; pp.(8); large title engraving & press device on colophon in blue and full-page engraving in black; fine in original marbled wrappers, paper label. 166 SIMON KING PRESS. BROOKE, Rupert. The Great Lover. Illustrated by Simon King. Simon King Press, 1995. £25 Limited to 100 copies, sm.4to., (225 x 165mm), pp.(12) large title vignette & full-page wood engraving by Simon King, printed from the wood on Basingwerk Cartridge, the text hand-set & printed in 14pt Bodoni; marbled wrappers, printed label & glacine wrapper. The last work in Simon King's pamphlet poems series. 167 SIMON KING PRESS. BROWNING, Robert. Home Thoughts from Abroad. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King. [Simon King Press] 1984. £25 Limited to 250 numbered copies; pp.(8); title & colophon vignettes & full-page wood-engraving in black; a fine copy in original printed wrappers. The first of Simon King's single poem pamphlet series. 168 SIMON KING PRESS. HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Pied Beauty. A selection of poems. [Illustrated with linocuts by Simon King.] Simon King Press, 1994. £125 FIRST EDITION limited to100 numbered copies, this one of 25 specially bound by Alan Wood at the Gregynog Bindery in quarter blue morocco lettered in gold, paste paper boards; folio (330 x 230mm), pp.(22), four full-page linocut illustrations of great strength and beauty; printed in 18pt Baskerville on 176gsm Mohawk paper. A handsome presentation of ten Hopkins poems. 169 SIMON KING PRESS. KEATS, John. To Autumn. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King. [Simon King Press] Beetham, 1985. £25 No.93 of 150 copies; pp.(8); title vignette & press device on colophon printed in red, full-page wood-engraving in black; a fine copy in original yellow printed wrappers. 170 SIMON KING PRESS. MEREDITH, George. Three Poems. [Illustrated with six wood-engravings by Simon King.] Simon King Press, 1999. £165 Limited to 50 copies (& 15 specials), folio (342 x 226mm.); pp.34; one quarter-page and five full-page wood-engravings; printed in Baskerville on Mohawk paper; bound by Designer Bookbinder David Sellars in quarter green morocco, lettered in gold, paste paper sides (designed by Victoria Hall). Wonderful large wood-engravings of great strength & beauty, printed from the wood by the artist with delicacy & precision; illustrating Love in the Valley. The Orchard and the Heath, and The Lark Ascending, which have proved apt inspiration for one of the most accomplished contemporary wood-engravers in his most ambitious production. 171 SIMON KING PRESS. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Ode to the West Wind. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King.] Simon King Press, 1992. £25 No.42 of 150 copies; hand printed in Bodoni on Basingwerk parchment; pp.(10); large title engraving & press device in red, full-page engraving in black; fine in original printed wrappers. A handsome production with beautiful white-line engraving by Simon King. The fifth in his single poems series. 172 SIMON KING PRESS. SWIFT, Jonathan. Baucis and Philemon. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King. [Simon King Press] Beetham, 1983. £30 Sm.4to., limited to 150 numbered copies; pp.(6)16 + colophon; title & colophon vignettes & four full-page white-line engravings by Simon King; fine in printed yellow stiff wrappers. The first book of the Press; hand-printed on an Albion press in Bodoni on Basingwerk parchment. 173 SIMON KING PRESS. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Garden of Proserpine. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Simon King.] Simon King Press, 1990. £25 No.35 of 150 copies, signed by the artist/printer; hand printed in 14pt Bodoni on Basingwerk parchment; pp.(12); large title engraving & press device in green, full-page engraving in black; fine in original printed wrappers. A fine production with beautiful white-line engraving by Simon King. The fourth in his single poems series. For many years Alan Parsons was a regular monthly visitor to the shop. He would arrive on a Thursday morning with a trolley full of books for our perusal. And while we perused he would trawl the Ipswich charity shops in the primary hope of adding to his extensive lighthouse book collection. A native of Harwich, which has boasted a pair of lighthouses since the 18thC., his collection was much enlarged by the acquisition of that of G.H. Sweeting from which we have selected his fine copy of Smeaton, acquired from Quaritch for £22.10s in 1962. A full listing of the lighthouse collection will be avaialable on request.

174 SMEATON, James. Narrative of the Building and a description of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with stone: to which is subjoined An Appendix, giving some account of The Lighthouse on the Spurn Point, built upon a sand [sic]. The Second Edition. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. £1,350 Elephant Folio, 570 x 375mm; pp.xiv,198; large title engraving, 3 maps, 20 engraved plans & views; light foxing on title, endpapers crumpled, but a very good uncut copy with large margins in modern (not recent) calf-backed boards; armorial bookplate of William Palmer (later Palmer-Morewood) of Ladbroke Hall, Warwickshire, presumably leaving his library when the Hall was sold by Rowland Palmer-Morewood in 1918. Quaritch invoice of 22.11.62, to G.H. Sweeting for £22 10s, laid in. First published 1791, the posthumous reissue of 1793 claimed to be corrected but in fact simply omitted the errata slips; this 1813 'Second Edition' again issues the original sheets with an amended title-page. Printed for Smeaton on Whatman paper 'of the best fabric' which 'he, willing to shew himself a patron of the work... gave me at the same price I must have paid for the coarse...', in a format large enough to display the engravings unfolded. His fears that despite the small edition sales might be insufficient to recoup his costs seem to have been proved right by the two posthumous re-issues of the original sheets. Often regarded as the 'father of civil engineering', Smeaton pioneered the use of 'hydraulic lime mortar' which would set under water, and developed a technique of dovetailed granite blocks in the building of the lighthouse which remained in use until 1877 when the underlying rock had begun to erode.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION 175 SMILES, Samuel. Self-Help; with illustrations of Character and Conduct. John Murray, 1859 £950 FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,343(4)adverts; some light spotting of first & final leaves, otherwise very well preserved in original maroon blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gold, by Edmonds & Remnants with their ticket; slight wear at head & tail of backstrip. One of the great 19thC bestsellers, initially rejected by Routledge and only published by Murray at the author's expense. It sold 20,000 copies within a year & 270,000 by the end of the century having been translated into most languages. The origins of his most famous work lay in a speech given by Smiles for the Mutual Improvement Society in March,1845, published as The Education of the Working Classes. Few copies of this first edition seem to have survived in decent condition and only the PMM copy (PMM 532) has been offered at auction in the last 30 years.

A PRESENT FROM THE AUTHOR 176 SPILSBURY, William Holden. Lincoln's Inn its ancient and modern buildings with an account of the Library. William Pickering, 1850. £65 FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,324; wood-engraved frontispiece & vignettes; la good uncut copy in original blue blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gold; rebacked with original backstrip retained, new endpapers; ex libris Bernard Warrington. Presentation slip for 'Chas. B. Dalton, Lambeth Rectory a present from the Author', pasted in. Porter 569, 1000 copies printed; Keynes p.90.

REGIMENTAL LIFE ON ST HELENA IN THE TIME OF NAPOLEON 177 ST HELENA REGIMENT. Manuscript 'Return of Regimental Courts Martial held in the St. Helena Regiment... [being the actual manuscript record kept on St Helena of each crime and sentence of the courts martial between July 3rd 1814 and March 15th 1819.] James's Town, St Helena, 1814-19. £2,500 Folio, 365 x 240mm., 78 leaves with fore-margins indexed, 44 of which contain entries; original half sheep, marbled sides. very worn but internally well preserved. Dept. of Trade Export License taken out by Maggs Bros., dated 16.7.76, laid in. The savagery of the regimen is evident from the very first entry: 'On complaint of Sergt. Hollowell for irregular behaviour', 200 lashes sentenced & delivered with 8 days hard labour & rights suspended[?]. By far the most common offence is drunkenness which generally merits the standard 200 lashes whether the miscreant is on or absent from parade. Private Richard Burn received the same sentence on Sept. 7th, 1814, for being 'Drunk at Funeral Parade', while Bugler John Brown got 400 lashes, sentenced & received, for 'Stealing a pair of Shoes at High Peak camp & thereby bringing a discredit on the Corps'. Col. Wright was more forgiving of Private Bott who was acquitted of the charge of 'Quitting his guard without leave', on what evidence we know not. An extraordinary relic to have survived from the time of Napoleon's captivity. Napoleon was held on St. Helena from October 1815 until his death in May, 1821. Very few early punishment record books seem to have survived. We can trace no other volume relating to any of the regiments who served on St Helena. Included with the manuscript is a copy of the enlarged second edition of Arnold Chaplin's. 'A St. Helena Who's Who', Humphreys, 1919. Pp.xii,257; 22 half-tone plates; a good uncut copy of this deluxe production on hand-made paper; original maroon cloth a little marked & rubbed. SIGNED BY MURDOCH & STONE 178 STONE, Reynolds [Illustrator] MURDOCH, Iris. A Year of Birds. Poems by Iris Murdoch. Engravings by Reynolds Stone. Compton Press, 1978 £135 FIRST EDITION, no.286 of 350 copies, signed by the author & illustrator; pp.(32); title vignette & 12 half-page wood-engravings by Stone; very good in original buckram-backed marbled boards.

DESIGNER'S COPY 179 STONE, Reynolds. WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Boxwood. Twenty-one Engravings by Reynolds Stone. Illustrated in verse by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Chatto and Windus, 1960. £25 First Edition thus, pp.48; 21 engravings & 2 vignettes by Stone, very good in original gilt-blocked brown cloth. Printed in Mardersteig's Monotype Dante at the Curwen Press; enlarged by the addition of five engravings and poems to the Monotype limited edition of 1957. Designed by RM.

'Gay contest between the Picture and the Word ' 180 STONE, Reynolds. WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Boxwood. Sixteen engravings by Reynolds Stone illustrated in verse by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The Monotype Corporation, 1957. £75 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies; pp.(4)37(2); 16 engravings & 3 vignettes by Stone, here first printed in book form, with an introduction by Beatrice Warde. Very good in original boards, gilt, glacine wrapper. The first use in Great Britain of Mardersteig's Monotype Dante. Inscribed 'To Frank E. Dubrey this gay contest between the Picture and the Word is sent in gratitude for the memorable afternoon of April 23 1959 by Beatrice Warde', in her beautiful italic hand. The recipient was Director of Scottish Studios & Engravers Ltd. The discovery of the following pamphlet was one of the rewards of a day spent rummaging through dozens of boxes of damp, dusty and largely worthless 'reading copies' of standard works in Edwardian editions long past their sell-by date. Housed in a tiny cottage in darkest West Suffolk, the books had been 'stored' in semi-derelict conditions, without benefit of heat or light, and I was feeling pretty derelict myself by the end of the day. But once they had adorned the shelves of Baron Strachie at Sutton Court, Lord Carlingford & Frances, Lady Waldegrave, at Nuneham Park (see also item 116). The pretty books and obvious stars had gone elsewhere but amongst the nondescript nestled a few of the obscure treasures which so enrich the life of the country bookseller.

181 [STRACHEY, Sir Edward?] An Account of Oxford In the Twenty-first Century. Reprinted from an original m.s. in the possession of the Editor. Shrimpton and Son, Oxford, 1878. £750 FIRST EDITION, pp.12; original printed wrappers a little browned. A gently satirical account of the university & its procedures with several acute predictions amongst the fantasy elements. Evidently printed for the author, probably Sir Edward Strachey, politician & landowner, (now perhaps best remembered for his 1895 edition of Lear's Nonsense Songs & Stories), from whose library it came. A second copy, also purchased by us from Strachey's library, is now At Claremont College, California, but we can trace no other. 'I gave orders over-night to the sleep superintendent of the hotel at which I lodged in London to have me moved by the noiseless lift into a train that would reach Oxford about 9.30. I then took a sufficient quantity of compressed food to last me till the following evening, and retired to rest... I engaged a closed windowless car...called a Ruskin [its] purpose being to enable people to drive through the town without seeing its streets or buildings until they arrived at a certain bridge, from whence...a first view of Oxford was best taken.... Looking over Magdalen Bridge the first building on the right hand side is Magdalen College, with its tower and chapel. The tower is about a hundred feet high, and well proportioned; but to my mind much injured in appearance by the sewage arrangement at the top. The sewage from this end of town is by an entirely new process pumped to the roof of the tower, and then by a series of evaporating pans given off in the form of vapour...' More fun is had at the expense of University government, diurnal examinations, students' dependence on alcohol, the luxurious life-style at All Souls, and 'Keble College (derivation of name unknown), where farmers receive an agricultural education.' INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 182 SULLIVAN, Barry. Fibre. Faber and Faber, 1946 £15 FIRST EDITION, pp.246; a good copy in slightly marked original cloth. Inscribed 'For Anita Brackenbury both friend and gad-fly to writers. Affectionately Barry Sullivan. December 1946.' The squadron in the story is a real one, and the events described in Chapters VI and XI are close to fact. All the rest is invented', author's note. 2pp. ALS from Eleanor Wary (?), Dartmouth, Aug 6, returning the book: 'I enjoyed reading Fibre, but would have been glad if it had not been so sad.' 183 [SYNGE, Edward] A Gentleman's Religion: In Three Parts. The Fourth Edition. Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1710 £110 12mo., pp.(6)301(5)adverts.; a very good copy in contemporary blind-ruled calf, morocco label; early ownership signature of Sir Frederick Rogers Bart., at head of title, with his armorial bookplate. First published 1698, Synge's 28pp. Appendix was evidently written in answer to Toland's Christianity not Mysterious of 1696. Sharing his rationalism and deism to some extent, Synge challenged the suggestion that religion possessed no mysteries, believing that mystery in religion must exist, even if we are unable to understand its nature. With William King, Berkeley, and Francis Hutcheson, Synge discussed the problem of innate perception, using the analogy of a blind man's understanding of shape and form. 184 TANNER, Heather. TANNER, Robin [Illustrator] A Country Book of Days. The Old Stile Press, 1986 £135 FIRST EDITION, no.85 of 200 copies, signed by author & artist on half-title; 4to., pp.59(3); 30 full-page illustrations after drawings by Robin Tanner; a very good uncut copy in original morocco-backed decorated boards & slip-case; set in 16pt Poliphilus & Blado at the Whittington Press, printed on Zerkall mould-made; the last book printed by Nicholas McDowall at Blackheath before the removal of the Press to Wales.

185 TAYLOR, Arthur. Papers in Relation to The Antient Topography of the Eastern Counties of Britain, and on the... Roman Itinerary. Williams and Norgate, 1869. £45 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.viii,106(2); original brown cloth by Westleys with their ticket; a little frayed at head but sound; inscribed 'From The Author' with the recipient's pencilled note (p.24) on his correspondence with Taylor regarding the Veneti. Taylor queries the account of Richard of Cirencester which E.B. Mayer was to prove a forgery in his introduction to the Rolls Series Speculum Historiale, published later in 1869. SB 370.

RICHARD BENTLEY TO HIS SON GEORGE 186 TAYLOR, Jeremy. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying. W. Pickering, 1845. £65 Pp.xxiv,262; monumental title border; title & half-title in red & black; a very good copy in contemporary diced calf, gilt, morocco label, all edges gilt; extremities rubbed, upper hinge reinforced. Inscribed on fly-leaf 'For my dear George with [overwritten] from his affectionate Father Richard Bentley. May 1847.' George Bentley had joined his father's eminent firm of publishers in 1845 but did not become an active partner until the 1850s. Keynes p.91*. 187 TERN PRESS. JONES, R. Gerallt. Bardsey. A fortnight's journal translated from the original Welsh by the author. [linocut] prints by Nicholas Parry. Tern Press, 1976 £95 FIRST EDITION, no.34 of 50 deluxe copies, signed by author & artist/printer; 4to., pp.(64) + colophon; two-colour frontispiece & 14 other large linocut illustrations by the printer; hand-printed in 18pt Univers on Medway hand-made paper; uncut in original full maroon pigskin, lettered in gold; a little rubbed at extremities. 188 THEOCRITUS. GRIBBLE, Vivien [Illustrator] Sixe Idyllia chosen out of the Sicilian Poet Theocritus, and translated into English verse. With eight etchings by Anthony Gross and with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon. Clover Hill Editions, Chilmark Press, New York, 1971 £220 No.92 of 270 copies (& 135 specials); lg.4to., pp.xv(3)54 + colophon; eight etchings (seven full-page) by Anthony Gross; printed in Palatino on Barcham Green hand-made paper by Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press; a very good copy in original buckram-backed marbled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut; matching slip-case a little rubbed at edges. PRESENTATION COPY 189 THIMM, Carl A. A complete bibliography of The Art of Fence, comprising that of the sword & of the bayonet, duelling, &c... Franz Thimm & Co., 1891 £120 FIRST EDITION, cr.8vo., pp.xvi,261(3)adverts.; a very good copy in original half parchment, crimson cloth sides, top edge gilt, others uncut; inscribed to 'Dr Bonavia with the author's best wishes. Carl A. Thimm May 19, 1891.'

SIGNED PROOF ENGRAVING LAID IN 190 TOURNOUR, Sister Margaret. GRAY, Thomas. Elegy written in a country churchyard. With wood engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour. Black Cygnet Press, Durham, 2003. £55 FIRST EDITION limited to 100 copies, 4to., pp.(12); frontispiece & two vignette engravings printed from the wood on Zerkall mould made paper at the Tragara Press; new in Cockerell marbled wrappers. With an additional proof engraving, captioned, initialled & dated by the artist, laid in. 191 TRACY, Walter. Westerham Press Desk Diary 1955 and short list of type faces and borders. Westerham Press, [1954] £65 Pp.(12) prelims & specimens, (c130pp.) diary; well preserved in original green buckram. From the library of Walter Tracy, Typographer & Type Development Manager for Linotype; printed one week per double-page opening, there are multiple entries on most openings, mostly for meetings: '12.45 lunch Wolpe - call Faber'; 'Lunch James Shand - Etoile'; Double Crown Club Meeting listing 12 distinguished members; 'To Antwerp - Plantin centenary'; then on Oct. 14th: 'To New York'. 192 WADSWORTH, Edward. CORK, Richard. The Graphic Work of Edward Wadsworth. [With an extended essay by Richard Cork & Complete catalogue of Wadsworth's graphic work by Jeremy Greenwood.] The Wood Lea Press, 2002. £95 FIRST EDITION, folio, limited to 450 copies (& 50 specials); pp.112; 109 illustrations in colour & 50 black-and-white; one of 11 out-of-series copies of the special edition in original blue buckam but without the additional engraving. A complete illustrated catalogue of Wadsworth's graphic work comprising over 50 woodcuts, 5 lithographs, 2 etchings & 23 coloured engravings on copper. A beautiful production and authoritative catalogue raisonné. Published at £115. 193 [WALKER, Clement. pseud. Theodorus Verax] Relations and Observations. Historicall and Politick, upon the Parliament, begun Anno Dom. 1640. Divided into II. Books: 1. The Mystery of the two Iunto's, Presbyterian and Independent. 2. The History of Independency. Together with An Appendix, touching the proceedings of the Independent faction in Scotland. Printed in the Yeare 1648 [bound with] Anarchia Anglicana: or, The History of Independency. The Second Part... Printed in the Yeare 1649. [bound with] The High Court of Justice or Cromwell's New Slaughter House in England... Printed Anno Domini 1651. In the second Yeare of the States Liberty and the Peoples Slavery. [bound with] The History of Independency. The Fourth and last Part... By T.M. a Lover of his King and Country. Printed for H. Brome... and H. Marsh, 1660 £280 4to., pp.(6)174(2)18; (12)264; 71(1); (8)124; printed in red & black, prelims of last part dust-soiled, tear in one leaf repaired without loss, a few head margins cut close, but generally well preserved in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Early ownership signature of 'Tho[mas] Glemham' at head of first title, subsequent book-label of Kimbolton Castle, home of the Montagu family. Wing W334A, W317, W325, [W331 entry cancelled see] M81B. 'Walker [first] argued that the increasing polarization of parliament between ‘Presbyterians’ and ‘Independents’ was a sham to enable the leaders of the factions to divide offices and patronage between them. However, by May 1648 Walker was convinced that it was the radical Independents who were responsible for the illegalities being perpetrated by parliament. In part one of The History of Independency he argued that the army and its allies in the Commons were obstructing a settlement with the king, aiming at achieving power for themselves. His case against the Independents was further developed in Anarchie Anglicana, or, The History of Independency, the Second Part (1649), which focused largely on the events of the previous year. A third part of the series, entitled The High Court of Justice, or, Cromwells New Slaughter House in England, appeared in 1651.' David Underdown in ODNB. 194 WELLS, Margaret. GREENWOOD, Jeremy. The Complete wood-engravings and linocuts. With a memoir by Maggie McCune. The Wood Lea Press, Woodbridge, 2000. £62 FIRST EDITION limited to 300 copies; folio; pp.73 + colophon; 10 illustrations in colour and a complete showing of Margaret Wells' 61 wood-engravings, 31 linocuts & 1 woodcut, most in their original size. A handsome production in cloth-backed decorated boards and slip-case. A student at Glasgow School of Art, Wells joined Leon Underwood's Brook Green School at Hammersmith in 1933 and the two became firm friends. The Fleece Press produced a selection of her work in 1985 and an article on her appeared in Matrix 14. This complete catalogue shows her range & accomplishment for the first time. Uniform with the Wood Lea Press editions of Paul & John Nash of which we are also able to supply copies.

PRESENTATION COPY 195 WHISTLER, Laurence. To celebrate her living. [Poems]. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967. £25 FIRST EDITION, pp.125; frontispiece; very good in bruised dust-wrapper. Inscribed 'For John [Hadfield] from Laurence [Whistler] 4 March 1970 when planning another little venture.' The second of three books on Whistler's engraved glass, published by John Hadfield's Cupid Press, appeared in 1972.

INSCRIBED TO JOHN HADFIELD 196 WHISTLER, Laurence. Triad. [One hundred and fifty copies hand-set and printed on a hand-press... fep, 6.xii.90] 1990 £25 Privately Printed in Bembo & Castellar types on Zerkall mould-made paper, for the New Year, 1991, pp.(6) + colophon; well preserved in lightly creased pictorial wrapper. Inscribed 'For John Hadfield from Laurence Whistler with affectionate greeting. New Year 1991'. 197 WHISTLER, Laurence. WHISTLER, Rex [Illustrator] The World's Room. The Collected Poems. With decorations by Rex Whistler. Heinemann, 1949. £35 FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,210; 21 vignettes on tinted ground, endpaper & dust-wrapper decoration by Rex Whistler; a very good copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper; inscribed 'for John Hadfield from Laurence Whistler.' My first encounter with John Randle and the Whittington Press was at the annual June Book Fair jamboree, the PBFA version of which was then held in Bloomsbury. It must have been the Summer of 1977 because the Press had just produced The Diary of Edward Thomas (an excellent text, well produced except for the too-tight slip-case!) John had set up an (Albion?) hand-press at the fair and was producing commemorative posters of some kind with characteristic panache. I was transported back to school lunch-breaks at MCS Printing Soc. and resolved that if I could not produce such handsome work, there was nevertheless much pleasure to be had from buying & selling it. Over nearly forty years we have handled most of the books of the Press, including many sets of the inestimable Matrix, and recently exhibited our current holdings of books, posters & ephemera at Cartebluna Gallery, details of which are available on request.

198 WHITTINGTON PRESS. CLARE, John. A Cottage Evening from John Clare's Shepherds Calendar. [Poster with large illustration by Hellmuth Weissenborn.] The Whittington Press, 1978 £75 765 x 560mm., one of 35 copies, signed by printer & artist; 'set in Caslon type & printed on a Columbian Press on Velin Arches paper for the Whittington Summer Show, 2nd September 1978. Linocut illustration (175 x 200mm) of cottage hearth with hanging pot, log-basket & hatchet, kettle, tea-pot & rocking-horse, printed in russet; edges bruised but generally well preserved. Four lines of verse in roman & italic: 'The shutter closd the lamp alight / The faggot chopt and blazing bright / The shepherd from his labour free / Dancing his childern on his knee'. 199 WHITTINGTON PRESS. CONNORS, Sandy. Busy as a Bee. Recipes & labels for the Kitchen Garden. [With wood-engravings, some hand-coloured, by the author.] Whittington Press, 2002. £165 FIRST EDITION, 'Press Copy' additionally signed by the printer & publisher John Randle on endpaper; one of 55 deluxe copies with additional set of proof engravings and 'a decorated seed-saving envelope' in separate folder & matching slip-case; signed by the author but un-numbered; pp.(40); 15 wood-engravings (7 hand-coloured); printed sepia in Caslon on Silurian mould-made paper; a fine copy in cloth-backed & -edged patterned paper boards, paper label. A charming collection of country recipes for jams, jellies, preserves & marmalade. 200 WHITTINGTON PRESS. RANDLE, John & Rosalind [Editors] MATRIX. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Nos.1 - 21 [with] Index to Matrix 1-21 compiled by David Butcher. Whittington Press, 1981-2003 £2,500 22 vols., in editions from 350 to 925 copies (the index limited to 550 copies); from c70 to 200pp each; profusely illustrated in various mediums with many inserts & facsimiles; a very good set in original stiff printed wrappers with the original printings of nos. 1 & 2; various prospectuses laid in as issued. Fifteen issues are preserved in well made blue cloth-covered clamshell boxes, gilt-lettered along spine. We are also able to provide many individual issues; details available on request.

RARE NOVEL PROMOTING IMPROVED EDUCATION FOR WOMEN AND SLAVES 201 WHYTE, Alexander. [Barrister At Law] Velina. A moral tale. In two volumes. Printed for William Miller, 1812. £2,200 FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.(6)216; xix(1)196(4)adverts.; with half-title & errata leaf in vol.I, vol.II with Whyte's preface, two advert. leaves of 'Books recently published by William Miller' but bound without half-title; intermittent marginal soiling throughout but generally well preserved with large margins; uncut in contemporary half calf, drab (original?) boards, rather rubbed & worn but sound with backstrips unobtrusively refurbished; ticket of 'J. Caldwell, Stationer and Bookseller 20 Blandford Street Manchester-square'. From the Strachey family library at Sutton Court whither it may have arrived with Jane (mother of Lytton) who married Richard Strachey in 1859. Her father's distinguished career in India was rewarded with the Governorship of Jamaica in 1866. Evidently Whyte's sole work, written while 'recovering from a severe fever, which had long afflicted me, and compelled me to leave Jamaica... The observations which I had made during seven years' residence... convinced me that some plan of instruction for the negroes, was not only expedient, but a matter of imperious necessity.' An important contribution to the anti-slavery movement prompted by the plantation revolts which followed the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Whyte emphasizes, on pragmatic as much as moral grounds, the futility of appeals from the pulpit and Sunday School without more humane treatment by the planters and a thorough programme of education for the slaves. 'A few candid and enlightened inquirers... have discovered the real causes of the mischief; viz. the vicious economy of the planters, and lamentable ignorance which pervades the slaves. Without a single principle of duty impressed on their minds; kept in obedience by no consideration, but the dread of the lash, is it to be wondered at, that they should be the easy dupes of foreign spies, domestic traitors, imposters, and fanatics?... A total reform must take place in the economy of the planters; the elements of education must be taught; and a slight sacrifice must be made [with] longer and more frequent intermission of labour; the saving, nothing less than the preservation of more than 300,000 slaves.' Whyte sought a wider audience by promoting his proposal for plantation schools along the lines of those 'recently established in England... by Dr Bell and Mr Lancaster' through the vehicle of a philosophical romance rather than 'a dry treatise on education'. But his work seems not to have sold and is now extremely scarce. The author's liberal credentials are further in evidence in the portrayal of his eponymous heroine whose intellectual development & education are key elements of the first part of the novel, while her independence of mind & spirit are essential to the plot's development. BM copy (N.1476) only in Copac & NSTC [W1797]; Cornell & UCLA only in the US; Block 263 cites BM copy; Garside & Schöwerling - 1812: 65; not in Sadleir or Wolff.