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1. Andrewes (George) A Dictionary of the Slang and Cant Languages: ancient and modern: as used by Adam Tylers, Badgers, Bullies, Bully- Huffs, Bully-Rocks, Bloods [and 33 others] and every class of offenders. Published by George Smeeton, [1809], FIRST EDITION, with a folding hand-coloured engraved plate, the figures by Isaac and the background by George Cruikshank, frontispiece offset onto title-page, browned, pp. [31, 1], 8vo, uncut, original wrappers, sewing gone, spine defective, wrappers loose, sound, preserved in a cloth backed folding box with a large brown lettering piece on the upper cover (Cohn 29) £1,800

Not so much a work of philogical enquiry as a means for the Public to be ‘better able to frustrate [thieves’] designs. An early work of George Cruikshank - Cohn’s Catalogue begins in 1806.

2. (Anon.) A Nautical Poem, entitled The Fame; Respectfully dedicated to the Officers of His Majesty’s Royal Navy and Royal Marine Forces. Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, 1809, FIRST EDITION, lacking half-title, a little browned, some damp-staining in the fore-margins, pp. [iii-] xx, 164, small 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, sound £600

An eulogy of the Senior Service, with plenty of detail, including an Index of Words, Terms, and Nautical Phrases, and an Explanation of the ranks of the Navy, and the anatomy of a ship. The Preface contains a heart-felt plea for the improvement of Naval pay. There are half a dozen copies in US libraries recorded by WorldCat, but in COPAC there is but one, Bodleian Library.

3. Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso. Translated from the Italian ... with Notes: by John Hoole. In Five Volumes. Vol. I [-V]. Second edition. Printed for George Nicol, 1785, 5 vols., with 7 engraved plates, 1 engraved by William Blake, 2 after Angelica Kauffman, some browning, especially the plates, and water-staining in vol. i and at the beginning of vol. ii, pp. [iv], cxxi, 299; [i], 452; [i], 427; [i], 440; [i], 322, vi, [108], 8vo, contemporary half dark blue calf, corners slightly worn, very good (Keynes 96; Bentley & Nurmi 417B; Essick (1991) XII) £450

The Blake plate is here used as the frontispiece to vol. iii, although lettered vol. 3 p. 164. Six is the number of plates called for. Hoole, on the strength of earlier translations known as ‘Tasso’ Hoole, was a friend of Dr. Johnson, and in the Postscript Hoole acknowledges Johnson’s good wishes.

4. (Ballads. Broadsides.) A COLLECTION of 21 Broadside Ballads, including A Godly Ballad of the Just Man, Job. Mainly London, c. 1680- 1820, 5 illustrated with a woodcut, some fragile and a few with repairs or laid down, various sizes £2,500

A Godly Ballad of the Just Man, Job, c.1680, is the earliest piece in the collection (browned, fragile, frayed at edges with slight loss to imprint: library stamp below drophead title), and has 2 Wing numbers, G933I and H2014. The second number is for a double- page broadside, which has the Godly Ballad on the right, with the imprint, and Thomas Hill’s Doleful Dance on the left. The paired ballads are ESTC S117492 and apparently R235553 as well: Job on its own does not have an ESTC number. Broadside ballads were often, if not usually, printed two or more to a sheet, intended to be cut up and each ballad hawked singly. The other ballads in the collection are mainly late 18th and early 19th century, the majority romantic, with an admixture of the tragic, and the macabre. There are 6 political ballads, 1 on the wedding of the Prince Regent (1765), 1 lampooning the Whigs in 1790, and 1 anti-French and specifically anti-republican. A full list is available on request.

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5. Barbaro (Ermolao) [Castigationes Plinianae et Pomponii Melae.] Rome: Impressit Eucharius Argenteus... Octavo Kalendas Decembris, 1492 [and] Idibus Feb. 1493, FIRST EDITION, one leaf with a central wax stain causing a small area of damage (with three letters lost from text on verso), another leaf a bit soiled overall and with a short closed split in blank margin, some light spotting elsewhere but generally clean, fore-edge of first leaf slightly short, small blind stamps to blank margin of first and last leaf,ff. [348], folio (305 x 205 mm), eighteenth-century English red morocco, boards gilt in Harleian style, rebacked in brick-red morocco, lettered in gilt direct and with a narrow paper label above, corners worn, boards a bit scratched, hinges reinforced with cloth tape, library bookplate to front pastedown, good (ISTC ib00100000 [this the Wigan PL copy]; Bod-inc B-046; BMC IV 113; Goff B100) £4,500

The major work of Ermolao Barbaro (or Hermolaus Barbarus, 1453-1493), a collection of annotations on Pliny’s Natural History, also containing notes on Pomponius Mela. ‘Pliny’s first great commentator was Ermolao Barbaro, a philosophy profesor at Padua, who proposed nearly 5,000 corrections in his Castigationes Plinianae (1492-1493)... Working from two printed editions, Barbaro combed Pliny’s text for errors that had accumulated over the centuries. He distinguished between corrections he considered as definitive and those suggesting mere pathways for later philologists. When he corrected the text, he usually relied on ancient manuscripts. But he also followed the authority of other authors... and ultimately offered some guesses suggested by context’ (‘Natural History’ in Grafton, et al., The Classical Tradition). Barbaro’s ‘researches into natural philosophy, particularly the text of Dioscurides, continued during the 1480s and eventually found expression in his Castigationes Plinianae, published in Rome during 1492 and 1493 by Eucharius Silber and immediately saluted as the most authoritative discussion of Pliny’s Historia naturalis available’ (Contemporaries of Erasmus). The first part of the notes on Pliny (filling the majority of the volume) has a separate colophon, dated 1492, while the second part and the notes on Pomponius Mela, which begin a new set of signatures, have their own colophon dated 1493. However, it appears that the parts were always issued together.

6. Beda (Natalis) [Béda (Noël)] Annotationum ... in Jacobum Fabrum Stapulensem libri duo: et in Desiderium Erasmum Roterdamum liber unus ... [colophon:] Cologne: Petet Quentel. 1526, second edition, first and last leaves browned at edges,Ff. [xii], CCXCII, 4to, contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind roll tooled borders on sides, the resultant panel filled with repeated vertical roll tooling, brass clasps and catches (one loosening), rebacked and with several repairs to covers including some loss of surface, calligraphic ownership inscription on verso of last leaf of the Carthusians of Wedderen (the volume possibly bound by them), shelf mark on first page, good (Adams B443) £1,500

‘Béda’s Annotationes against Erasmus and d’Étaples appeared in 1526 ... Erasmus complained about Béda’s attack for several years. More important, he succeeded in having the book withdrawn from sale, although Josse Bade reported that half of the 625 copies he had printed were already dispersed throughout Europe, and a Cologne edition appeared shortly thereafter’ (Contemporaries of Erasmus). Whether this Cologne edition was likewise suppressed does not seem to be recorded, but it is scarcer in libraries than the Paris edition, printed three months earlier.

7. (Bible. New Testament. St. Matthew. Carib.) HENDERSON (Alexander, trans.) The Gospel according to Matthew. (In the Charibbean language). Edinburgh: Thomas Constable, 1847, FIRST EDITION, title-pages in English and Carib, a bit of foxing, mostly at ends, pp. 88, 8vo, original fine-grained cloth, slight wear to head of spine, very good (Darlow and Moule 2394) £750

The first of the Gospels to be translated into Carib (Mark and John followed about half a century later). ‘The Translator was from 1835 to 1846 a B.M.S. missionary at Belize. A small edition was printed at the expence of the church at Edinburgh under the pastoral care of Mr. Christopher Anderson’ (Darlow and Moule). The text is in fact in Garifuna, or Black Carib (formerly known as Carib which is now recognised as the name of a neighbouring language).

COPAC records copies in the BL, NLS and Glasgow University.

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8. (Bible. Psalms and New Testament. Greek.) (in Greek:] Psalterion tou Dauid, kata tous hebdomekonta. [bound with:] Tes Kaines diathekes apanta Novi Testamenti libri omnes [first 4 words in Greek]. Roger Daniel, 1652, 2 works in 1 vol. (Psalms bound first), the Psalms with an engraved portrait of David, both texts, in Greek, in double columns, title-page to Psalms damaged at inner margin (no loss), pp. [i], 134; [i], 525, 12mo, contemporary black morocco, panelled in gilt, spine gilt, joints rubbed and cracked at head, corners worn, the Macclesfield copy with bookplate and blind stamp, copious notes in Greek in pencil on the flyleaves, sound (Darlow & Moule 4690 & 4691 (bound together); ESTC R31273 and R36656) £1,200

The New Testament is a reprint of Buck’s Cambridge edition of 1632. Both the Pslams and the NT are rare in the US according to ESTC.

9. Bonaparte (Napoleon) The Confidential Correspondence of ... with his brother Joseph, Sometime King of Spain. Selected and Translated, with Explanatory Notes, from the ‘Mémoires du Roi Joseph.’ In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. John Murray, 1855, 2 vols., endleaves foxed affecting outer leaves of text, pp. x, 390; vi, 382, 8vo, contemporary green polished calf, spines richly gilt, contrasting lettering pieces, spines slightly faded, minor scuffing, good £110

An Eton leaving present in 1864.

10. (Bonaparte. Broadside.) [drophead title:] HISTORY OF BUONAPARTÉ. Printed by Cox, Son, & Baylis. Published by Hatchard [and others], [1803], large folio broadside (approx. 24 x 19 inches), printed on recto only, with a woodcut profile head of Bonaparte within the title, and below this 3 large woodcut vignettes, text printed in 4 columns, a little fraying to edges, very good £750

An unrelenting exposé of Bonaparte’s ‘hellish barbarity.’ The text ends with the declaration of war between France & Great Britain in May, 1803. It was available singly, for 6d, per Dozen, or per Hundred, but however many were produced, very few survive: the sheer size of it would make it difficult to keep. WorldCat locates a copy in the BL, and one at Harvard. Hatchard at the time was advertising ‘an extensive assortment of patriotic publications’.

But two copies sold 11. [Brontë (Charlotte, Emily and Anne)] Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but really 1848], FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the cancel title-page, but without an errata-slip, pp.[iv], 165, [1], [1](publisher’s advertisements), 8vo, original vertical fine-ribbed olive green cloth by Westleys (Carter’s ‘B’ binding), with ticket, sides with blind stamped palmette border and central lyre ornament, cream chalked endpapers, spine faded, upper joint split, front inner hinge (after end paper) strained and held by 2 (of 4) cords (Hayward 266 (first issue): Smith 1: Wise pp.9-10) £2,000

In May 1846 Aylott and Jones published ‘Poems’ in an edition of 1,000 copies. In June 1847 Charlotte Brontë wrote ‘In the space of a year, our publisher has disposed of but two copies’ (Hayward). After distribution of the work amongst reviewers and acquaintances of the Brontë family, there were 961 copies left which were transferred to Smith, Elder and Company, who, after the success of Jane Eyre, re-issued the book in 1848 with a cancel title-page, retaining the original date.

12. [Browne (Sir Thomas)] Religio Medici. Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1642, with engraved title-page, some browning, rust hole in A7 touching 3 leters, pp. [i], 159, 8vo, [bound with an incomplete copy of Digby’s Observations (see below)], early nineteenth-century red glazed boards (?for William Beckford), corners worn, surface crack in joints but boards firmly attached thanks to vellum strips (under the red glazed paper) at head and foot of spine, book label of Bent Juel- Jensen, later bookplate below this, good (Keynes 2) £4,500

Second unauthorised edition of Browne’s ‘first and most celebrated work’ (Keynes). The two unauthorized editions of 1642 had no typographical title-pages, nor was there one before the fourth authorized edition of 1656. As Keynes points out, if Crooke’s editions were unauthorized, he seems to have been forgiven by Browne, since Crooke continued to publish the authorized editions, and the frontispiece - a striking image - was perpetuated. Digby, in Paris, had received a copy of one of the unauthorized editions and his ‘interest was instantly aroused to such a degree that he wrote his notes

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on the book within a few hours of reading it. [There followed a correspondence between Browne and Digby, but Digby’s] printed Observations were based on the text of 1642’ (loc. cit.). The copy bound in here, the first edition of 1643, lacks its first 2 leaves, the first blank, the second the title-page. The first leaf of the text has a signature clipped from the top: a few contemporary annotations betray a close reading of both texts.

Provenance: the style of the binding is one of those employed by William Beckford. There is no other evidence to corroborate this provenance, but we understand that Bent Juel-Jensen was of the opinion that this is indeed a Beckford binding.

13. Browne (Thomas) Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths ... The fourth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two Discourses the one of Urn-Burial, or Sepulchrall Urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or Network Plantations of the Antients ... Printed for Edward Dod, and are to be sould by Andrew Crook 1658, 3 parts (paginated as 2) in 1 vol., with 2 full-page engravings and 1 smaller one within the text, longitudinal half title to the second part (‘often missing’ - Keynes) ,Yy bound after Zz, the index (Ppp- Qqq) bound at the very end, very slight damp-staining at the foot of the first gathering,pp. [xvi], 118, 135-356, 369-468, [xii], 73, [3], [16], 4to, contemporary Oxford calf with characteristic diagonal blind hatching at the head and tail of spine, early manuscript paper label on spine (blurred), joints a trifle rubbed, very good (Keynes 76 & 94; ESTC R207236) £700

Fourth edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica, second of Hydriopathia and The Garden of Cyrus. An attractive copy. The errata list, new to this reprint, contains some substantial and unobvious corrections, which must be regarded as authorial (pace Robbins).

‘Lewis Carroll’s’ copy 14. Browning (Robert) Dramatis Personae. Chapman and Hall, 1864, FIRST EDITION, half-title and terminal ads. leaf present, pp.[vi], 250, [2], 8vo, original mulberry pebble-grain cloth, blind frames on covers, spine gilt, chocolate endpapers, rather shaken, and a bit worn and faded (Ashley Library I/p.120: Hayward 254: Tinker 422) £600

Inscribed at the head of the title-page: ‘CL Dodgson. Ch.Ch. Oxford.’ But this is not Dodgson’s signature, as is evident at first glance: it is palpably an imitation, cautiously executed, and exhibiting none of the elegance and flow of the genuine article. Dodgson did poses a copy of this book (see Lovett 264), but if this was his, the inscription is not. However, the inscription is not a recent addition, so the book stands as an interesting example of an early attempt to climb onto the ‘Lewis Carroll’ bandwagon. Dramatis Personae was written at the height of Browning’s powers, and contains ‘the finest and most characteristic of his work.’ (Gosse)

15. Browning (Robert) The Ring and the Book. Smith, Elder and Co., 1868-89, FIRST EDITION, integral final advertisement leaf in volume i and blank in volume iii present, faint foxing to a few outer leaves, 8vo, original green cloth, bordered in black, lettered in gilt (Carter ‘A’), slight rubbing, some inner hinges strained, a good set (Tinker 425: Wise pp.27-8) £500

The Ring and the Book was, by some margin, the best-selling of all Browning’s works during his lifetime. The depth of its philosophical, psychological and spiritual insight is a step up from anything Browning produced before or since, and the poem was almost universally hailed as a work of genius, restoring the pioneering reputation among the first rank of English poets which Browning had lost with Sordello nearly thirty years previously.

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16. Browning (Robert) The Poetical Works of. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889-94, 17 vols., engravings with tissue guards as frontispieces to Volumes III ( of the poet in 1835); VII (of the poet in 1859), VIII, X and XVI (of the poet in 1882), 8vo, contemporary half dark green morocco by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, very good £500

The first complete edition, begun in the year that the poet died.

17. Buck (Sir George) The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard The Third. Composed in five Bookes. Printed by W. Wilson, and are to be sold by W.L.H.M. and D.P., 1646, FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, a little browning and spotting, minor worming in lower margins, pp. [iv, including frontispiece], 107, [1], 113-150, [8], folio in 42, contemporary calf, some scuffing and wear to extremities, headcaps defective, bookplate of A.H. Christie, sound (ESTC R19914) £600

‘The work for which Buck is known is The History of King Richard the Third, which, though he began a fair copy in 1619, he left in manuscript in a state of incomplete revision (BL, Cotton Tiberius E. X). His interest in the subject sprang from the fact that his great-grandfather John Buck supported Richard III at Bosworth and was executed and attainted after the battle. This pioneering revisionist study of the king is in five books: the first two detail the events of Richard’s life and reign, the third examines and refutes the accusations against him, the fourth expounds the legality of his title, and the fifth surveys his achievements ... Buck’s scholarly reputation suffered eclipse for centuries because his great-nephew George Buck revised and passed off the work as his own, first making manuscript copies dedicated to various potential patrons, then publishing a drastically shortened version in 1646. He deleted personal and contemporary references... omitted much of the documentation, changed emphasis to make a reasoned defence read more like a harangue, made many careless errors, and rewrote passages in a florid and obscure style’ ODNB( ).

18. Bulteel (John, ed.) The Apophthegmes of the Ancients; taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius, and others. Collected into one volume for the Benefit and Pleasure of the Ingenious. Printed for William Cademan, 1683, FIRST EDITION, lightly spotted, pp. [xvi], 112, 123-335 (text continuous), [3], 8vo, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, slightly rubbed, small chip from head of spine, boards bowing a little and pastedowns lifted, very good (ESTC R2992) £500

The first edition of the last recorded work of John Bulteel (c.1627-c.1692), author and translator, best known in his day for a translation from Racine. This compilation of pithy sayings from antique sources is expectedly influenced by Erasmus’s collection of ‘Apophthegmata’, but Bulteel is not uncritical of his model: ‘Erasmus himself has committed an hundred faults, thorough [sic] his great hast, and because he went about it but by piece-meal, some part at one time, others at another’ (Preface). ESTC locates six copies in the UK and five in theUSA .

19. Burke (Edmund) Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that Event. In a Letter intended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris. Printed for R. Dodsley, 1790, FIRST EDITION, brown stain in upper margin of first few leaves, occasional minor foxing, pp. iv, 356, 8vo, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserving the original red lettering piece, corners a bit worn, signature at head of title of James Douglas Stoddart, armorial bookplate of Stoddart Douglas inside front cover, modern bookplate opposite, good (Todd 53a & 56a; PMM 239) £1,500

‘One of the most brilliant of all polemics ... As the Terror grew, Burke seemed almost to be a prophet. In the eternal debate between the ideal and the practical, the latter had never had a more powerful or moving advocate, nor one whose own ideals were higher’ (PMM). The bibliography of this book is complex, partly due to extensive revisions in proof stage - responding to events - and the very success of the book. It is all set out in minute detail by Todd. This is the true first edition.

20. [Burney (Frances)] Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. In Five Volumes. Volume I [-V]. Printed for T. Payne and Son, and T. Cadell, 1782, FIRST EDITION, 5 vols., A2 in vol. I a cancel, ?wax stain in fore-margin in gathering F in vol. v, just entering the text and offsetting a few letters onto the oposite page, but without loss, bound without the terminal blank in vol. 5, pp. [i], 293; 263; 365;

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328; 398, 12mo, contemporary calf, red lettering piece on spines, numbered in gilt direct, gilt crest in the top compartment and a gilt monogram at the foot, engraved armorial bookplate of John Smyth of Heath [Hall, Yorkshire] inside front covers, and also, in vol. i, the Kelmscott Press-inspired printed book label of H. Harvet Frost, very good (Rothschild 547) £4,000

A really charming copy of Fanny Burney’s second novel. ‘Cecilia was published on 12 June 1782 in an edition of 2000 copies, which quickly sold out. The publishers, Thomas Payne and Thomas Cadell, had paid her £250 for the rights; even though this contract may have been negotiated by Johnson, it was a favourable one for the booksellers, since the first edition enjoyed a quick sale. Cecilia was highly popular in circulating libraries, whose readers seemed to relish its broad canvas, and its often unflattering picture of life in high society. The book contained passages of drama - even melodrama - as well as pathos and humour, but it was Cecilia’s guardians, the snobbish Mr Delville and his proud wife, who brought a note of moral ambiguity and who excited the most interest and admiration’ (ODNB).

21. [Busby (Richard)] Græcæ grammatices rudimenta. In usum Scholæ Regiæ Westmonasteriensis. William Redmayne, 1707, woodcut arms of the school on title-page, small hole in first leaf of text affecting a few letters, ink blots on p. 86, rust hole in S2 and paper flaw in U1 affecting a few letters, front fly-leaf loose, that at the rear missing,pp. [i], 308, [2, ads], 8vo, contemporary calf, blind roll tooled borders on sides with corner ornaments, a little rubbed, spine defective at head, armorial book-plate inside front cover (see below), good (ESTC T129127) £450

The ninth but not the last edition of this Westminster School Greek grammar, attributed to the headmaster Richard Busby (1606-1695), who compiled his grammars ‘with the assistance of his ushers’ (ODNB). It was first published at Cambridge in 1647 and first printed by a Redmayne in 1663. This is a rather charming copy, whose first owner, William Powell, seems to have been an assiduous student with a fondness for writing his name in Greek characters. The book was cherished in the Powell family, if the engraved armorial bookplate of W.T.R. Powell (1815-1878), M.P. for Cardiganshire, is anything to go by. Westminster, Christ Church and Parliament was the traditional family route.

22. Butler (Samuel) Erewhon, or Over the Range. Trübner & Co., 1872, FIRST EDITION, uniformly slightly browned (as usual), pp. viii, 246, 8vo, original terracota cloth, blocked and lettered in black on the upper cover, the twin pairs of black rules continuing over the spine and rear cover, spine lettered in gilt, a trifle worn at extremities, inner hinges strained, good (Hoppé 5) £500

‘This searching and novel utopia was based on a map of an imaginary country inserted into the map of the New Zealand district he had explored ... His imaginary society undoubtedly arose from his close scrutiny of the ethical implications of Darwinism, one of the earliest such considerations. He locates the central point in a ‘Nowhere’ whose citizens are criminalized and punished for contracting and concealing disease, whereas traditional ‘sins’ and moral failings are cheerfully acknowledged and accepted. This highlights the question of whether ‘criminals’ are responsible for their crimes; are the causes of crime not what would now be called ‘genetic’? And if so, is the self-righteousness of pastors and masters justifiable? In the famous chapter ‘Book of the machines’, with its museum of the technological innovations Erewhon had banned, Butler foresaw that technology would become overmastering, and that it would have to be controlled. As in all his best work, his topsy-turvy world produces shock, biting humour, and a provocation to fundamental rethinking’ (ODNB).

23. Butler (Samuel) The Way of all Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, FIRST EDITION, a few scattered spots, including on the edges, last leaf of ads partly adhering to fly-leaf,pp. vi, 424, 12 (ads), 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, top edges gilt, top corners bumped, short tear at foot of upper joint, preserved in a red slip-in case, spine of case faded, armorial bookplate of W.R. Stuart Majendie inside front cover, later bookplate opposite, good (Hoppé 42) £500

A bright copy of Butler’s major novel. ‘Those to whom [Butler] spoke most powerfully were not his coevals in fiction, Hardy and Meredith, nor those who came to modernism via aestheticism and decadence, but Shaw, Graves, Forster, Lawrence, Strachey, Wyndham Lewis, and Joyce, and critics like

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William Empson, heir to his provocative, ingenious, and witty criticism, as well as to men of letters abroad, especially in France’ (ODNB)

24. Camden (William) Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity. By William Camden. Translated from the edition published by the author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest discoveries, by Richard Gough. In three volumes. Illustrated with maps, and other copper-plates. Volume the first [- third].Printed by John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789, FINE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST GOUGH EDITION, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, and a total of 153 maps and plates, the maps fully hand-coloured (i.e. not in outline only), almost all the maps, and many of the plates, double- page or folding, 7 engravings in the text, and 1 folding Table, occasional foxing and browning, map of Cheshire bound in upside down, large folio (43.5 x 27.5 cms), contemporary sprinkled calf, pair of widely spaced gilt fillets on side, small corner ornaments, all vols. rebacked preserving original spines, red and green lettering pieces, armorial bookplates inside front cover of vol. i of John Warren of Handcross Park, and Judge Frederick A. Philbrick (1835-1912), good (Chubb CCLXXI; Fordham, Cary p. 30) £11,500

A magnificent set of what is regarded as the best edition, with the maps beautifully hand-coloured. We have given the total of the maps and plates as a single figure, since some of the plates could be considered maps (are so by Chubb). ‘Gough’s other major publication was the revision of Camden’s Britannia. [He] translated Camden’s entire text anew, a task that took him seven years. The actual printing took a further nine ... It was on the whole ... agreed to be a work of immense value ... He had planned the enterprise since 1773 and collected new material assiduously from that date. As well as visiting every county himself, he called upon a network of antiquarian friends and correspondents to seek out information, check proofs, and offer suggestions. In 1806 it was reprinted in four volumes, with corrections and additions to the first volume only. A third edition was due to be published but was set back by the fire at Nichols’s printing office in 1808, and Gough’s health thereafter declined too rapidly to see the project through. The plates and the notes were left to the Bodleian Library along with Gough’s other papers, and it was hoped that the delegates of Oxford University Press would oversee the publication of the revised edition, but the volumes with the notes and additions still remain in the Bodleian’s manuscript collection, unpublished’ (ODNB).

25. Carlyle (Thomas) The French Revolution: a History. James Fraser, 1837, FIRST EDITION, half titles present, pp.vii, [[i], 404; vii, [i], 422; vii, [i], 448, 8vo, mid-nineteenth century hard grain dark green half morocco, backstrips with gilt dash roll decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remainder gilt panelled with seedhead cruciform decoration and foliate corner pieces; morocco-grain dark green cloth sides, marbled endpapers and edges, binder’s blanks foxed, excellent (PMM 304: Tarr A.8.I) £1,500

According to Tarr, only a thousand copies only of the first edition were printed. Carlyle passionately believed that the French Revolution was a vindication of the ways of God to man, the consequence of abuse of power and neglect of duty. He declared that ‘you have not had for two hundred years any book that came more truly from a man’s heart.’ The work is far from being factual history and indeed has been likened to a prose epic, a work of the romantic imagination.

26. Casas (Bartolomé de las) Popery Truly Display’d in its Bloody Colours: or, a faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled massacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, that hell and malice could invent, committed by the popish Spanish party on the inhabitants of West-India: together with the devastations of several kingdoms in America by fire and sword, for the space

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of forty and two years, from the time of its first discovery by them. Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a bishop there, and an eyewitness of most of these barbarous cruelties; afterward translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French, and now taught to speak modern English. Printed for R. Hewson, 1689, a few spots, pp. [viii], 80, 4to, disbound, good (ESTC R8882; Sabin 11288) £4,000

A translation of selections from de las Casas’ Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. The title claims that this is the first translation into English (or ‘modern English’), but it is in fact the third, earlier translations having appeared in 1583 and 1656. The earlier editions, in their titles (The Spanish Colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies and The Tears of the Indians respectively), may be accounted anti-Spanish, whereas in 1689 it was felt necessary or expedient to make it anti-Papist: notwithstanding which the anonymous translator in his preface states: ‘this summary was not published upon any private Design, sinister ends or affection in favour or prejudice of any particular Nation; but for the publick Emolument and Advantage of all true Christians and moral Men throughout the whole World.’ ESTC locates 6 copies in the UK, 3 of them in the Bodleian, and not in the BL.

27. Cervantes (Miguel de) The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements [sic] of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-Errant ... Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Henry Wilmot ... In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Printed for J. Cooke, [1774] 2 vols., with engraved frontispiece and 10 plates in vol. i, 9 plates in vol. ii, centre of last gathering in vol. ii not caught by sewing and consequently a little proud, a few minor stains here and there, later, but not very recent, fly-leaf in vol. i,pp. 390, [1]; [i], iv, 398, [2, ads and Directions to the Binder], 8vo, contemporary calf, red lettering piece, numbered in gilt direct, crack at head of upper joint of vol. i, slightly rubbed, good (ESTC T87449) £550

This copy has a different list of subscribers in vol. i to the BL copy (scanned in ECCO), and with a final leaf containing an advertisement and directions to the binder in vol. ii not present in the BL copy. ESTC gives BL (x2), Taylorian, and UPenn only. ESTC speculates that the date of this edition is 1769, but in fact it seems to be a variant of the 1774 edition, without a date. The advertisement is for Sydney’s New and Complete History of England, offered bound, unbound, or in parts, ‘Published this Day’, which would seem to corraborate the date.

28. (Chained Binding. Catholic Church. Councils.) MERLINUS (Jacobus, editor) Conciliorum quatuor generalium. Niceni. Constantinopolitani. Ephesini. et Calcedonensis. Tomus Primus... Tomus Secundus. Cologne: ex aedibus Quentelianis, 1530, title-page printed in red and black, a few tiny wormholes to initial leaves (no loss of sense) folio, early pigskin, brass clasps, corner- and centre-pieces, chain mount on top edge of lower board with attached chain, front board with a small printed label in a brass frame, the hardware likely a bit later, the clasp mounts neatly renewed, preserved in a black quarter- morocco drop-back box, very good £8,000

A fine example of a sixteenth-century chained binding, on the second Merlinus edition of the first four Catholic Ecumenical Councils. The first had appeared at Paris in 1524. Merlinus (d.1541) edited Origen in Latin for Badius, adding to that edition an important Apologia pro Origine, and in this book ‘it was Merlin, whose work [was] quickly reprinted twice (Cologne 1530; Paris 1535), who laid the basis for the many republications of the councils, which the Observant Franciscan Peter Crabbe (d. 1554) improved but did not significantly change’ (Fuhrmann, ‘The Pseuod-Isidorian Forgeries’, in Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages, p. 156). ‘It became the basis for all subsequent editions’ (Armstrong, Before Copyright, p. 170).

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29. [Chatterton (Thomas)] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century ... to which are added a Preface, an Introductory Account of the Several Pieces, and a Glossary. Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777, FIRST EDITION, with 1 engraved plate, c4 a cancel as usual (= second state of the edition), a modicum of spotting, pp. xvii, 307, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebarcked, staining to edges of covers and corners slightly worn, engraved armorial bookplate inside front cover of Robert Clutterbuck (Hertfordshire antiquary), good (Rothschild 589; Hayward 188; Ashley X, p. 75; Tinker 622: Glossary is Alston III, 49) £700

First edition of the Rowley poems, one of the most celebrated literary forgeries.

30. Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works of our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, newly printed. To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1. In the Life of Chaucer many things added. 2. The whole work by old copies formed. 3. Sentences and Proverbes noted. 4. The signification of the old and obscure words prooved; also Caracters shewing from what Tongue or Dialect they be derived. 5. The Latine and French, not Englished by Chaucer, translated. 6. The Treatise called Jack Upland, against Frieres: and Chaucers A. B. C. [Second Speght edition]. By Adam Islip. 1602, engraved portrait of Chaucer surrounded by his progeny by John Speed after Hoccleve, title with full woodcut architectural border (McKerrow 232) washed, with minor restorations and traces of the removal of library marks, large woodcut of Chaucer’s arms to the divisional title, woodcut of the Knight with his lance before a Castle at the head of the text, woodcut initials, some large and decorative, text in black letter, double-column, a little staining to F1 and F2, initial blank discarded, errata leaf present, ff. [xxii], 376, [14], folio, old blind-stamped calf, rebacked and the endpapers renewed, red leather label with gilt lettering, good (ESTC S107210; STC 5080; Pforzheimer 178) £6,500

Chaucer’s literary reputation may need no introduction but ‘what strikes us is his extraordinary originality’ and that (with the possible exception of Langland) ‘except Dante, there is no poet of the middle ages of superior faculty and distinction’ (DNB). His collected works were published from 1532 onwards, with various additions. All the early editions are now rare. The editions printed in black letter carry with them the magic of early English printing, partly as a result of the successive use of two related series of woodcuts from the Caxton and de Worde editions of The Tales, to which individual woodcuts were added.

‘This edition was considerably revised mainly with the aid of Francis Thynne. It is the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted, and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght’s first edition. Two hitherto unprinted pieces are inserted’ (Pforzheimer). It is the first to contain a glossary.

31. Chiari (Pietro) L’Uomo d’un altro Mondo o sia Memorie d’un solitario senza nome Scritte da lui medesimo in due linguaggi Chinese, e Russiano E publicate nella nostra lingua dall’Abbate Pietro Chiari. Venice: Domenico Battifoco, 1768, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, engraved frontispiece, some foxing, a few paperflaws, that on I1 causing a couple of lines to print faultily, pp. 256 (including frontispiece, Index, advertisements and Licence), 8vo, uncut in carta rustica, recased, new end-papers, small bookplate removed from inside front cover, good (Gove, The Imaginary Voyage, p. 357) £750

A very rare extra-terrestial view of the world - taking in America and Japan, as well as Europe - by the great Italian playwright, novelist and librettist. The frontispiece shows an exotically attired individual (the lonely nameless one of the title) examining with a magnifying glass a terraqueous globe, almost as large as himself, in landscape with a volcano in the distance. BL only in COPAC, with a different collation, apparently lacking the Index, advertisements and Licence. Reprinted (or re-issued) by Zatta in 1787.

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Inscribed copy 32. Churchill (Sir Winston) The Second World War. Volume I [-VI]. Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1949-54, FIRST UK EDITIONS of vols. ii-vi, Second Edition (reset) of vol. i, with maps and diagrams, 8vo, original cloth and dust jackets, dust jackets faded on the spines and with some tears, with minimal loss, vol. i ‘Inscribed for Mrs. Daly by Winston S. Churchill, 1949’ on the flyleaf, vols. iii-v with mimeographed presentation slips (see Woods A123(b)) £4,500

A personal presentation inscription in the first volume, and the rest of the set intended for the same recipient. One advantage of having the reset second edition is that the type size is uniform throughout. ‘The reduction of the type-size [in the first edition] led to friction between author and publisher. Various friends wrote to Sir Winston with the acid remark that they would be delighted to read his book when they could find a magnifying glass, and Sir Winston passed on equally acerbic comments of his own’ (Woods (Revised edition), pp. 353-54). The US edition appeared earlier but was not Churchill’s final text.

33. Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems on various Occasions. Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottel, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796, FIRST EDITION, bound without the half-title and the advertisements, a little browned around the edges, gathering N (the last) overall browned (as usual), pp. [iii-] xvi, 188, [1, Errata], small 8vo, contemporary mottled calf by Kalthoeber with his ticket, gilt roll tooled Greek key border on sides, flat spine gilt in compartments with a lyre at the centre of each, red lettering piece, joints cracked or cracking but cords firm, a little rubbed, extremities a little worn, contemporary signature at head of title of A. Hurd, inscription on verso of front fly leaf (below Kalthoeber’s ticket) ‘From dear Mrs. Osler. Alice Christiana Smith, Stafford Rectory, Dorchester’, modern bookplate opposite, good (Sterling 185; Wise, Coleridge 8; Hayward 206) £4,000

Apart from the first published act of The Fall of Robespierre, and the prose tracts, this is Coleridge’s first book: and a nice copy in not only a contemporary, but a signed contemporary, binding. Effusions VII, XI, XII, and XII are signed ‘CL’ and are first editions of poems by Charles Lamb. Portions of another poem are by Robert Southey.

34. Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems. Rest Fenner, 1817, FIRST EDITION, with half-title and Errata leaf, minor spotting, smudged ink inscription (dated 1863) at head of title resulting in a stain to the half-title, pp. [iv], x, [ii], 303, [1], 8vo, uncut in the original boards, spine darkened and partly defective, corners worn, preserved in a chemise and cloth folding box, good (Wise 45; Sterling 190; Tinker 697) £1,500

Most of the poems here collected had appeared in some shape or form previously, some ‘in various obscure or perishable journals, &c. some with, some without the writer’s consent; many imperfect, all in correct’ (Preface). ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ had appeared in ‘Lyrical Ballads’ ‘with a widely differing text’ (Wise).

35. Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Biographia Literaria: or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. Vol. I [-II]. [J.M. Gutch, Printer, Bristol, for] Rest Fenner, 1817, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., some foxing (as usual), pp. [iv], 300; [iv], 309, [3, ads], 8vo, uncut in fairly recent calf backed marbled boards, red lettering pieces, numbered in gilt direct, contemporary ownership inscription of Margaret Scott on title, and on half-title of Fanny Scroope dated 1820, a few annotations in the text and on flyleaf, good (Wise 40) £750

One of the most famous of literary autobiographies. Of particular importance are the sections devoted to the poetry of Wordsworth and the publication of Lyrical ballads.

Pinocchio 36. Collodi (C., pseud. for Carlo Lorenzini) The Story of a Puppet, or The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M[ary] A[lice] Murray. Illustrated by C. (sic) Mazzanti. T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title and half-title printed in red and black, numerous illustrations in the text, small splash mark on the frontispiece, one leaf dog-eared, the textblock strained at one point, pp. [viii, including initial blank and frontispiece], 232, small 8vo, original patterned cloth printed in blue, patterned endpapers and edges to match, slightly skewed, the spine a trifle darkened and likewise a narrow strip near at the fore-edge of the upper board and

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a small patch on the lower, the corners minimally worn, with a Christmas 1891 presentation inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf, very good £3,250

The first half of Pinocchio was originally published serially in the children’s magazineGiornale per i Bambini from 1881 to 1883, though initially it did not have a happy ending - Pinocchio was hanged. But his publisher persuaded Collodi (a pseudonym for Carlo Lorenzini) to add a second half, in which The Blue Fairy repeatedly comes to Pinocchio’s rescue, guiding him toward self-awareness and enabling his transformation from puppet to human. Popular in Italy at the time of its publication, the book and its author went on to gain international acclaim when the story was translated into English in 1892, after the author’s death. ‘Almost nothing else in children’s literature equals Pinocchio for wildness of invention’ (Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, which also animadverts on the story’s gradual emasculation, blaming especially the Disney version). This book is very hard to find in really good condition.

Though dated 1892, the book was published for the Christmas market in 1891, and an inscription, such as the one here, is not unheard of. The illustrator’s first name was in fact Enrico: how the error of his initial in the title-page occurred is not known, nor is it often remarked upon.

37. [Colman (George)] The Oxonian in Town. A Comedy, in two acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Dublin: Printed for G. Faulkner [and several others], 1769, FIRST EDITION, a little browned, and some damp-staining in the upper half, blank lower outer corner torn away from A5, pp. [viii], 25, 2], 8vo, modern paper wrappers (a little too enthusiastically glued to the title-page), good (ESTC T43533) £350

A short farce, presented just after Colman took over the running of the Covent Garden Theatre. The Advertisement alludes to the ‘extremely singular’ reception of the play, whose first two performances were well received. At the third, a clamour got up, on account of certain Irish persons thinking they had been slighted, if not the whole of the Irish nation. This probably accounts for the play first being published in Dublin. A London edition appeared the next year. The Oxonian, a student, is more or less a country bumpkin, ready to be fleeced by sharpers in the metropolis: only one of these (out of three) is possibly Irish - M’Shuffle.

38. Combe (William) The Tour[s] of Doctor Syntax: ... In Search of the Picturesque; In Search of Consolation; In Search of a Wife. Illustrated with eighty-one plates by Thomas Rowlandson. [Ninth edition.] Nattali and Bond, 1855, 3 vols., with 80 hand- coloured plates by Rowlandson (see below), a little offsetting occasionally, a few scattered spots, pp. [iv], 272, [8, ads]; [iv], 277; [iv], 279, 8vo, original green ripple-grain cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (ticket in vol. i), sides with an elaborate panel blocked in blind, spines gilt, spines faded, attractive book stamp of T. Barber on the front free end-papers, the name within a wreath, very good £750

This is not the ninth edition and it doesn’t have eighty-one plates - it would have 81 if there were an additional engraved title in vol. ii, but none is called for in the list of plates. The true ninth edition, which is very scarce, appeared 1819-21. The engraved titles here state ‘ninth edition with new plates’, but the printed title make no such claim. There are two issues of this edition, with the date, as here, and without.

39. [Copleston (Edward)] [Tract volume]. Oxford: 1807-11, 5 works in 1 vol., occasional minor foxing, pp. [ii], 17, [iv], 57; [iii-] viii, 187; [ii], 118, [1]; [v], 6-22, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, short cracks in joints, good (Cordeaux and Merry 1832, 1833, 1837 for the Calumnies) £350

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A good collection of Copleston’s early writings, some of his most important. The first piece, Advice to a Young Reviewer, is in a lighter vein, being a satire on the literary critics of the time and containing a mock review of Milton’s L’Allegro (in which the poem is torn to pieces). This is followed by: The Examiner Examined, 1809; A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford, second edition, 1810; A Second Reply, 1810; A Third Reply, 1811. ‘Copleston’s promotion of educational reform, political economy, and Christian apologetics all served an essentially conservative enterprise: to ensure the continued existence of an Anglican ruling élite and the dominance of Anglican institutions. Thus his Three Replies were a defence of Oxford University and a classical education against the charges of the Edinburgh Reviewers (contained in a series of articles by John Playfair, Richard Payne Knight, and Sydney Smith) that the university neglected, to the detriment of the country, the new social sciences as well as the physical sciences’ (ODNB).

40. (Court Martial.) [GREGORY (Richard)] Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Orcq, by order of the Commander in Chief, May 15, 1793, on the conduct of Captain Richard Gregory. [London: 1793], a bit foxed, pp. [iv, initial blank leaf], 36, 8vo, modern boards (ESTC T115395, BL, St. Patrick’s College, and Huntington only) £400

Gregory was sentenced to receive a reprimand in the presence of the Members only, but he was not vouchsafed what particular crime he had been convicted, leading him to resign his commissiion.

41. Dalton (William) Lost Among the Wild Men: being incidents in the life of an old salt. With illustrations. George Routeledge and Sons, 1868, FIRST EDITION, with tinted lithographic frontispiece and additional title-page, the latter including a vignette, pp. xii, 382, [without the 14 pp. of advertisements], 8vo, prize binding of contemporary cherry red calf, by (or for) Rivington’s, gilt ruled borders on sides, arms of Christ’s Hospital blocked in gilt at the centre of the upper cover, spine gilt in compartments, green lettering piece, marbled edges, slightly worn, good £200

The prize label inside the front cover is dated December 1867, so the book was probably published for the Christmas market. Includes adventures in Patagonia. Scarce: 4 copies in COPAC, no others in WorldCat.

42. Des Ecotais (Louis) Memoires of Mr. Des-Ecotais: formerly stiled in the Church of Rome the most venerable Father Cassianus of Paris, priest and preacher of the Order of the Capucins. Or The motives of his conversion ... Printed by W. Godbid, and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt, 1677, FIRST EDITION, additional title-page in French, parallel text in French and English on facing pages with a double pagination, a little browned in places, minor damp-staining at the beginning, pp. [xl], 88, 88, [2], 105, 105, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, Signet Library arms blocked in gilt at the centre of the covers, rebacked, front free endpaper inscribed ‘Authoris Donum, Jul. 27. 1677’, succeeding flyleaf inscribed ‘Carolus Pinckny, Bernâ 1692’, sound (ESTC R204416) £750

The title continues: ‘Divided into two parts. I. That the doctrin of the now Roman church is not grounded neither upon the Holy Scripture; neither upon the belief of the primitive church, or the authority of the Holy Fathers, which is more particularly and more evidently verified in the examination of the belief of Rome concerning the Eucharist. II. That the church of Rome is not the true church; that it doth not enjoy, as absolutely its own, outshutting all other churches, neither the antiquity of the belief, neither the multitude of the people, neither the true and lawful succession of the bishops; that the authority thereof is not infaliible [sic]; and that it is full of errors and corruption’. ESTC records 6 copies in the UK and Union Theological Seminary in the US only. The book was also issed without the French text, which is slightly commoner: Union Theological Seminary and the Clark in the US. The French text appears also to have been available separately (e.g a copy in Cambridge University Library).

43. Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848, FIRST EDITION, bound from the parts, half-title present, front wrapper of II and front and rear wrapper of III bound in, along with a number of advertisements, 40 engraved plates (including frontispiece and additional title-page) foxed and spotted (though less than usual), 2 with repairs to blank fore-edge, pp. xiv, [ii, 8-line errata], 624, (then ads: 2, 2, 7-10, 2, 5-7, [3], 16, 7, [1], 3, [1], 13-14, 4, 2), 8vo, later half dark green roan, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed, spine a bit sunned, monogram bookplate of ‘GR’ to front pastedown, good £650

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Bound, evidently, from a set of mixed-issue parts: p. 324 has ‘Captain’ but p. 426 is missing the ‘if’; the errata leaf has 8 lines and is bound after the contents. Rare to find the half-title and advertisements present in a bound-up copy.

44. Dodgson (Campbell) The Etchings of Charles Meryon. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. The Studio, 1921, with 47 plates, a few spots here and there, pp. vii, 28, folio, original vellum backed grey boards, gilt frame on upper cover and black lettering piece, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., good £60

45. Donne (John) Devotions Vpon Emergent occasions, and severall steps in my sicknesse. Digested into 1. Meditations, upon our humane condition. 2. Expostulations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, upon the severall occasions to him. The fifth Edition.Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. and are to be sold by Richard Royston, 1638, without the frontispiece and final blank, 2 leaves towards the end bound in squint, with the loss of a letter or two to the binder’s knife, 227 (of 228) leaves, 12mo. contemporary calf, triple blind ruled borders on sides, gilt lines forming compartments and a red lettering piece added sometime later, extremities a bit worn, book label inside back cover of Lawrence Strangman, small GOM label inside front cover, bookplate of Robert Pirie (loose, formerly atached to fly leaf, also loose), modern bookplate inside front cover, good (Keynes 40) £1,500

Keynes lists 8 copies, 3 of which (including that in the BL) lack the frontispiece, including the R.S. Pirie copy: his own copy (now in CUL) has 1 leaf in facsimile. ESTC adds the Folger to the tally, while ‘Private Collections’ in the USA probably refers to this copy.

46. Duppa (Richard) Life of and Literary Works of Michel Angelo Buonarroti. [Printed by T. Bensley for] John Murray [and others], 1806, FIRST EDITION, 1 of 200 copies, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 49 outline plates, some large and folding (e.g. The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), 1 of the folding plates with a ragged tear at the main fold, without loss, some of the smaler plates foxed, pp. xi, 224, [23], [104], [1], Errata], [2, ads], 4to, contemporary half calf, rebacked, slightly worn, sound £750

One of Duppa’s most important works. Includes translations of Michelangelo’s verses by Robert Southey, William Roscoe and William Wordsworth.

47. Dyche (Thomas) A New General English Dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. ... Originally begun by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche ... and now finish’d by William Pardon.Printed for Richard Ware, 1735, FIRST EDITION, unpaginated (signatures A4 b4 B-5P4 5Q4(-5Q4)) except for the last 20pp. of ware’s advertisements, 8vo in 4s, contemporary panelled calf, unlettered, gilt arms of a member of the La Tour du Pin family blocked in gilt at the centre of the covers, good (Alston, V, 143; ESTC N41789) £2,250

The scarce first edition. Dyche amied to ‘provide readers with correct spellings rather than derivations or etymologies. This was left unfinished at his death and was completed and published by William Pardon in 1735 as A New General English Dictionary, comprising some 20,000 words. It continued to be reprinted throughout the century, and a French version appeared in 1756’ (ODNB). Contains ‘difficult Words and Techincal Terms’ used in the sciences, hawking, heraldry, painting &c, &c. ESTC records half a dozen copies on either side of the Atalantic. It is not the sort of book one would expect to find French arms on.

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48. Eckartshausen (Carl H. von) Skizzierte Biographien von Verbrechen aus der gemeinen Menschenklassse. Frankfurt and Leipzig: 1794, FIRST EDITION, title-page with a fine engraved vignette (an illustration to one of the stories), a few leaves slightly browned, pp. [ii], 175, small 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, contrasting lettering pieces, corners slightly worn, very good (VD18 10696458) £500

These sketches of criminal life, and crime as a social problem, are an unusual departure for Erckartshausen, ‘The Christian theosopher ... an eminent and influential exponent of early German romanticism. His work in natural philosophy and Christian theosophy was read and discussed by some of the most well-known European writers and poets of his time’ (Entry in The Ritman Library). WorldCat locates 3 copies in Germany, and 1 in Michigan.

49. Eliot (George) Adam Bede. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859, FIRST EDITION, complete with half-titles and advertisements at the end of vol. iii, lightly toned, some spotting, pp. [viii], 325; [viii], 374; [viii], 333, 16 (ads.), 8vo, original tan wavy- grained cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket, sides with elaborate blind blocked borders, spines lettered in gilt, hinges cracking but strong, a bit rubbed and soiled, backstrips slightly darkened, leather booklabel of Estelle Doheny in all three vols., modern bookplate and contemporary ownership inscription to vol. i flyleaf, faint shadow on front board from expert removal of circulating library label, preserved in a cloth folding chemise and blue morocco- backed slipcase (the leather faded unevenly to green), good (Sadleir 812; Wolff 2056) £1,500

The Doheny copy of Eliot’s first novel, scarce in the original binding without substantial repair. ‘Adam Bede at once placed its author in the front rank of contemporary literature. The fact that ... [it] would be the most formidable rival to any later productions induced her to spare no pains in the effort to mantain her standard’ (ODNB).

50. Eliot (George) Romola. Smith, Elder and Co., 1863, FIRST EDITION, first issue in book-form, 3 vols.,12 woodcut illustrations (2 as frontispieces), some offsetting from the plates, a little scattered spotting pp.iv, 336; iv, 333; iv, 292, 8vo, contemporary full ‘Gothic’-style calf by E. Riley, backstrips faded, some slight rubbing, bevelled sides blind panelled with gilt corner ornaments, backstrips with raised bands, black rules, single gilt ornaments in centres of compartments, red morocco title, volume, and publisher labels, double gilt fillet on turn-ins, gilt edges, bookplates of Claude Goldsmid- Montefiore inside front covers, a modern one opposite in vol. i, good (Muir 5; Sadleir 817; Wolff 2061; Parrish pp.17-18) £800

First published in the ‘Cornhill Magazine’ from July 1862 to August 1863. The illustrations bound into this first book issue are from the Cornhill. George Eliot made several substantive changes in proof for this issue, setting copy for which was provided by the Cornhill text. The advertisements usually found at the end of volume two have been discarded. Conforms to Parrish’s copy in respect of title-pages of Vols. I and III.

Dr. Andrew Brown, editor of the Clarendon edition of ‘Romola,’ collated ten separate copies. This copy has the literals common to all ten firsts he recorded, and in common with four, Vol.I has the mis-aligned ‘k’ (p.183, line 6-up), and in common with nine, Vol.II has a missing ‘e’ (p.212, line 17).

51. Eliot (George) The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems. William Blackwood and Sons, 1874, FIRST EDITION, half-title, erratum slip, and 16-page publisher’s catalogue present, text in excellent state, pp.[vi], 242, crown 8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt, spine faded and a little ragged at head, good (Muir 12: Parrish p.36: Tinker 1013) £150

First edition of this collection: most of the poems had appeared in periodicals.

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52. Eliot (George) Daniel Deronda. [4 volumes.] William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bound in four volumes from the parts (‘Books’), with all half-titles and both errata slips present, errata uncorrected, slips advertising next part present except III and IV, without the other advertisements, pp. [iv], 368; [iv], 364; [iv], 394; [iv], 370, 8vo, near contemporary reddish-brown fine grain cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines, with the original wrappers bound in for parts I, III, VI-VII, some front and rear wrappers supplied by means of an approximation, on similar paper and with hand-drawn borders but no text, front hinge of vol. i splitting, good (Baker & Ross A11.1.a; Sadleir 813; Muir p. 13; Parrish p. 39) £600

The first edition of George Eliot’s last novel. Baker & Ross and Sadleir both identify the issue in 8 parts and the issue in 4 volumes as being from the first printing and, advertisement leaves aside, identical, but both also note that no copies of the 4-volume issue have been seen without the Tennyson quotation on p. 336 of Book II corrected, which strongly suggests that copies bound from the parts without advertisements or wrappers can be distinguished from rebound copies of the 4-volume issue.

53. Eliot (George) Impressions of Theophrastus Such. William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, FIRST EDITION, with the ‘Publisher’s Note’ slip tipped in before the half-title, pp. [viii], 357, [3, imprint and 2 pp integral ads], 8vo, original lilac-grey cloth, blocked in black and gilt, the vol. very slightly skewed, spine a little faded and rubbed at head and tail, good (Baker & Ross A12.1.a) £200

The puiblication of the Impressions - a ‘rather heavy and subdued set of ironic character sketches’ - as ODNB has it, was delayed by the death of George Lewes, which is referred to in the Publisher’s Note.

George Eliot and Marian Evans 54. [Eliot (George, translator)] FEUERBACH (Ludwig) The Essence of Christianity. Translated from the Second German Edition, by Marian Evans. John Chapman, 1854 [i.e. 1857?], FIRST EDITION, later issue (see below), pp. xx, 340, 8vo, late nineteenth-century polished calf by Riviere and Son, original cloth covers bound in at end (see below), French fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartment, green lettering piece, the date at the foot given as 1844, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, joints cracked but cords holding, a bit worn at extremities and spine slightly defective at either end (Baker & Ross A2.1.a2) £600

First edition in English, and George Eliot’s second book - a translation like her first - and the only work she ever published with her birth name, Marian Evans, on the title-page. This is apparently the re-issue of c. 1857, since the covers which are bound in at the end belong to the re-issue, with the imprint of the Freethought Publishing Company and the name of the translator given as George Eliot. This copy however does have the half-title (‘Champan’s Quarterly Series. No. VI.’ in Gothic type). The re-issue is not supposed to have the half-title, and since the exemplar here is a millimeter or two shorter than the other leaves it has perhaps been inserted (or invented) at the time of the rebinding. Marian Evans first used the pseudonym George Eliot in a letter to John Blackwood on 4 February 1857.

55. [Eliot (George, translator)] STRAUSS (David Friedrick) The Life of Jesus, critically examined ... Translated from the Fourth German Edition. In threee volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Chapman, Bothers, 1846, FIRST EDITION, with half-titles, and advertisments at the end of vol. iii dated December 20th, 1847 (ads are sometimes found at the end of vol. i), pp. xix, 423; vii, 454; viii, 446, [2, blank], 16 (ads), 8vo, late nineteenth-century polished calf by Riviere and Son, French fillets on sides, spines gilt in compartments, twin green lettering pieces, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, a little wear at extremities, and spine of vol. ii slightly defective at head, top of upper cover of vol. iii scorched a little at top, sound (Baker & Ross A1) £2,500

The first edition in English of this important text, and George Eliot’s first book. ‘At the end of 1843, when Charles Hennell married Rufa Brabant, it was arranged that Mary Ann should take over from Rufa the translation of David Friedrich Strauss’s scholarly investigation of the gospels published in 1835–6, Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined). Mary Ann was the obvious person to take on the task. She was the most learned member of the Bray–Hennell circle, having made a close study of the Bible, first as ardent evangelical, then as historical critic. And she knew German. In 1846 John Chapman published, in three volumes, her translation of this work, which painstakingly investigated the events of Christ’s life as told in all four gospels and found them to be not historical, but mythological - the wished-for fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies’ ODNB( ).

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56. Elstob (Elizabeth) The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, first given in English: with an Apology For the Study of Northern Antiquities. Being very useful towards the understanding our ancient English poets, and other Writers. Printed by W. Bowyer: And Sold by J. Bowyer, and C. King, 1715, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 2 engraved head- pieces, one incorporating a portrait of Caroline of Ansbach (newly become Princess of Wales), 2 engraved initials, the second of which incorporates a portrait of the authoress (reproduced in ODNB), some browning, a few scattered spots and minor stains, pp. [viii], xxxv, 70, 4to, contemporary calf, double gilt fillets on sides, gilt corner pieces, rebacked and re-cornered, good (ESTC T72424; Alston iii 18; Maslen & Lancaster, Bowyer Ledgers, 234) £1,250

‘In 1715 Elizabeth Elstob published her last book, The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue - the first grammar of Old English to be published in English. It is based, principally but not exclusively, on Hickes’s authoritative grammar in the first volume of his Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus (1703) and on the abridged version extracted from it by Edward Thwaites (1711), both of which are written in Latin. She prefaced The Rudiments with a passionate but well-documented apologia for Anglo-Saxon studies, directing her remarks against the indifference towards the subject as evidenced in the writings of Jonathan Swift, who sought to establish a language academy in England on the model of the Académie Française. Though small in size and only partly available in print Elizabeth Elstob’s scholarly œuvre is on a par with the best work produced in Anglo-Saxon studies at the beginning of the eighteenth century’ (ODNB).

This copy has a longish contemporary marginal note in Latin, in a neat hand, disputing Thwaites’s seventh declension.

57. Elys (Edmund) Summum bonum: seu Vera, atq; unica beatitudo hominibus per Christum communicanda, sex dissertationibus aliquatenus explicata. Sold by Henry Fairthorne and John Kersey, 1681, FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, title framed in double rule, minor worming in the inner margins, pp. xii, 92, small 8vo, original calf, rebacked, bookplate of Exeter Cathedral inside front cover, stamp of Frances Erickson on recto of first leaf, sound (ESTC R174969) £750

‘Elys’s prolific writings show the workings of a spirited but eccentric mind. His poetry is inferior, and he records the mockery made of it when he declaimed some verses from his Divine Poems (1658) in hall at Balliol. Other collections of verse include Dia poemata (1655), and Miscellanea (1658). Elys was also a keen if somewhat superficial participant in several of the theological and ecclesiastical controversies of his day. Surprisingly for a clergyman of the established church, he was well disposed towards the Quakers throughout his life and published several pamphlets in their defence’ (ODNB). The text is predeeded by a letter to the author, in praise of the work, by Walter Charlton. Scarce: ESTC locates 3 copies in the UK (not in the BL), and 2 in the US. The ESTC calls the initial leaf a blank, but it has the Imprimatur on the verso.

Exile in Turkey 58. Fabrice (Friedrich Ernst von) The genuine letters of Baron Fabricius, envoy from his Serene Highness the Duke Administrator of Holstein to Charles XII. of Sweden. Comprehending his entire correspondence with the Duke himself, Baron Goertz then Privy-Counsellor to his Serene Highness ... Interspersed throughout, with many singular particulars, secret Transactions, and curious Anecdotes in relation to that Northern hero, during his residence in Turkey. Now faithfully published from the author’s originals (most of them in Cypher) carefully preserved in the Archives of his Serene Highness the Duke of Holstein. Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1761, occasional minor foxing, pp. xxiv, 316, 8vo, contemporary calf, double gilt fillets on either sides of raised bands on spine, red lettering piece, short splits at head of spine, headcaps missing, corners slightly worn, Strathallan bookplate inside front cover, front free endpaper almost loose, good (Atabey 413; ESTC N1859, not in BL, Yale or Harvard; see Blackmer 568 for the French edition) £1,200

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First edition in English (first, German, 1759, in French 1760). ‘Fabrice accompanied Charles XII during his exile in Turkey. They spent the years 1710-14 at Bender in Moldovia, near the Black Sea, after Charles’s defeat by the Russians at Poltava. During his stay at Bender Charles spent all his time trying to enlist Turkish aid against the Russians. Fabrice wrote a series of letters describing their experiences ... These letters owe their publication to Voltaire’ (Blackmer Collection).

59. Fielding (Henry) Amelia. Printed for A. Millar. 1752 [1751], FIRST EDITION, vol.i final blank and vol.ii final leaf (advertisement of ‘The Universal-Register-Office’) absent, a few short handling tears neatly closed, sporadic minor discolouration, 12mo, 20th-century sprinkled calf in careful imitation of period style, dark red and olive green morocco labels on spines, some rubbing, sound (Cross III/p.321: Rothschild 853) £2,000

The success with which Tom Jones had met provided Millar with a promising commercial basis for the publication of Amelia (published December 19th 1751). It was for many years assumed, on circumstantial evidence, that this novel was so successful as to warrant two impressions in quick succession: Dr. Johnson, for example, spoke of the novel as ‘perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.’ But the myth of two ‘editions’ was exploded by Todd in ‘PBSA’ 47, and the ambiguities of the entry in the Strahan Ledgers are explained by D.S. Thomas in ‘The Library’ (ser.5, xviii). As the novel was less successful than Tom Jones, the bibliographical evidence confirms the logical conclusion: that there was but one impression.

The revised edition appeared in Fielding’s collected works of 1762; the two Dublin printings of January 1752 differ from the London edition only in typographical errors.

‘Amelia, like Tom Jones, deals with wider issues than the modification of character. It has to do not merely with Booth and his wife, but with miseries and distresses typical of mid-eighteenth-century London life. No other novel provides such a wide panorama of London society or better conveys an impression of London life in the 1750s.’ (Butt & Carnall)

60. G. (A. P. D) Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume, and Character. Printed [by R. Gilbert] for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1826, FIRST EDITION, with engraved plate of music and 20 hand- colored plates, offsetting from plates (as usual), pp. xxv, [i], 364, 8vo, uncut in the original boards, printed paper label on spine, slightly worn, label darkened and with slight loss at edge (not affecting text), good (Abbey, Travel, 141; Goldsmiths’ 24783) £1,500

A most unflattering portrait of the nation, with the activities of the Roman Catholic church coming in for especial oppobrium. The author, who was also the artist of most of the plates, is known only by his initials. He tells us he spent two periods of residence in the country, from 1793 to 1804, and from 1809 to ‘a recent period.’ Despite the critical nature of his account, he is ‘conscious rather of a partiality for, rather than prejudice against, the Portuguese and their country.’

61. Godwin (William) Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England. In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Edinburgh:Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1817, FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., complete with half-titles, some foxing and browning, pp. xii, 306; [iv] 316; [iv], 367, 8vo, 20th-century cat’s paw calf (according to a pencil note at the end of vol. i, by, A. Smith of Philadelphia), spines gilt, twin red lettering pieces, top edges gilt, crack in upper joint of vol. i, sound (Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1817: 29; Tinker 1084; Wolff 2588; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 398) £1,200

Godwin’s ‘fourth major, and darkest, novel’ (Mark Philp in ODNB), and in fact the work which he thought would be his literary valediction to the world - the burden of the Preface.

62. [Goldsmith (Oliver)] The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to have been written by Himself. Vol. I [-II]. Dublin: Printed for W. and W. Smith [and 9 others], [title-page to vol. ii dated:] 1766, 2 vols., pp. [iv], 188; [i], 188, 12mo, 20th-century mottled calf, French fillets on sides, spines gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces, gilt edges, slight wear to spine, contemporary signature of Eleanore Montgomery on title-page of vol. i, good (ESTC T146177) £1,200

There were two editions published in Dublin in 1766 (the year of the first, Salisbury, edition), one without any date, the other with second vol. dated. Apart from the dating, the two editions are the same,

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and are scarce. Another Irish edition appeared in the same year, purporting to be London printed, but actually produced in Cork. Anticipating criticism of the narrative structure of the work, Goldsmith wrote in the Adertisement, ‘A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.’

63. [Goldsmith (Oliver)] She Stoops to Conquer: or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. A new edition. Printed for E. Newbery, 1786, without the half-tilte, last leaf soiled on verso, it and the preceeding leaf strengthened at inner hinge, pp. [vi], 107, 8vo, stab holes, modern half brown leatherette, sound (Roscoe, A 197 (9); ESTC T2109) £150

The first edition of this famous play was a Newbery publication in 1773. The Elizabeth Newbery ‘New edition’ of 1785 would have counted as the 6th, making this the 7th.

64. (Great Britain. Army. Royal Lancaster Militia.) Standing Orders for the First Regiment of Royal Lancaster Militia. Printed for John Stockdale, 1804, some light spotting, the first leaf of binder’s blanks at the end filled with early manuscript (see below),pp. [viii], 151, [1], [16, binder’s blanks], 8vo, untrimmed in original pink paper boards, green printed label to front, soiled and worn, spine covering defective, front joint nearly split, a little tape residue down the front hinge, but withal not an unattractive object in its original dress, modern bookplate of John A. Brigham, Jr, sound £300

Unrecorded in COPAC or Worldcat, although there is a copy in the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster. The original owner of this copy has filled a blank leaf at the end with ‘Additional Standing Orders’, dated from 17 July to 24 August 1813; one is about inspection of barracks and quarters, with another concerning the keeping of a book listing the married men and careful control of leave to ensure that any women the men go to meet are ‘of respectable connections, & of good Character’.

Vulgar and Provincial 65. [Grose (Francis)] A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. [bound with:] A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of local proverbs, and popular Superstitions. Printed for S. Hooper, 1785 & 1787, FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vols. bound in 1, largely unpaginated, 2 leaves of publisher’s advertisements at end of second work, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt roll tooled border on sides, flat rounded spine richly gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, joints neatly repaired, good (Alston IX 324 & 59) £1,200

‘A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) and A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions (1787) were at the time the largest assemblage of “non-standard” words or meanings, about 9000, omitted from Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary; they drew on his fieldwork as far back as the 1750s ... Burns had “never seen a man of more original observation, anecdote and remark”, and, well equipped by an amiable personality, Grose was as able to collect dialect among the rank and file of the army as to examine the curios of the gentry’ ODNB( ).

66. Haggard (Sir Henry Rider) The Witch’s Head. In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Hurst and Blackett, 1885, FIRST EDITION, somewhat stained and soiled (from handling), pp. [vi], 295, [1]; [vi], 303; [vi], 334, [8, ads], 8vo, original cloth, silver lettering on upper covers and on spine, rebacked, preserving original spines, slightly defective, especially vol. iii, corners worn, ex-library with labels removed from upper cover, revealing the extent to which the cloth has darkened, accession numbers in ink discernable on spines, contemporary inscription of S.H. Cairnie on half titles, blue ink-stamp of the Rosario Book Club on titles, sound (Scott 3; Whatmore F2) £6,000

The scarcest of Rider Haggard’s novels - in any condition. There have only been 4 copies (1 of them, the Sadleir-Martin copy, appearing thrice) at auction in over 30 years, all of them variously discoloured, rubbed, &c. The Witch’s Head is ‘a hotchpotch of manners, morals, autobiographical ruminations, and excursions into the grotesque. When the hero is forced to escape from Britain, Haggard sends him to Africa, and, immediately, the piece takes on a brilliance not evident elsewhere. Now writing from the

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heart, Haggard found his true milieu, and readers were enthralled by this new adventure story set in a strange, uncharted, mesmerizing part of the world’ (ODNB).

67. Hart (Moses) The life of ... shewing his arrival at a Foundling-School, his occupations there, his departure from there to Ackworth School in Yorkshire, from thence to York, where he was put an apprentice to a bread-baker, his hardships during his apprenticeship, and the various vicissitudes he has hitherto encountered. York: Printed by by T. Weightman, 1820, FIRST EDITION, oval woodcut portrait frontispiece, 1 woodcut illustration in the text, minor spotting, pp. [vi, including frontispiece], 51, 12mo, disbound, good £500

The frontispiece shows Hart at the age of 70. His story is one of industry, loyalty and doggedness - and bad masters, accidents, and ill luck: a detailed, and rather terrifying, picture of rural poverty. The only copy recorded in COPAC is at York Minster, none in WorldCat. The booklet was published in the hope of raising some subscription, so that he would not be thrown upon the mercies of ‘parochial minificence’.

68. Hazlitt (William) Characters of Shakespear’s Plays. Printed by C.H. Reynell for R. Hunter, Successor to Mr. Johnson, and C. and J. Ollier, 1817, FIRST EDITION, occasional slight foxing, pp. xxiii, 352, 8vo, mid-nineteenth century tan calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces on spine (the upper one reading ‘Hazlitt’s Works’), good (Keynes 17) £250

‘The first ever economically priced critical survey of all Shakespeare’s works. Although like most Shakespearian critics of the age Hazlitt devoted considerable space to analysing the psychological motivation of the central figures in each drama, the word ‘characters’ in the title did not refer to this. It was the ‘character’—the defining characteristics—of the play itself that Hazlitt set out to capture. He did so by means of stylistic sympathy: as if in imitation of the plays in question, the essay on Hamlet was speculative, that on Macbeth precipitate, on Coriolanus politically confrontational (‘The language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power’), and so on. Characters, dedicated to Charles Lamb, earned Hazlitt £100. The first edition sold out in six weeks’ (Jonathan Bate inODNB ).

69. Hazlitt (William) Lectures on the English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. Taylor and Hessey 1818, FIRST EDITION, bound without the half-title and terminal advertisement leaves, pp.[vi], 331, 8vo, mid-nineteenth century tan calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces on spine (the upper one reading ‘Hazlitt’s Works’), good (Keynes 33) £175

Apart from Shakespeare, Spenser is the only Elizabethan discussed, while Donne and his followers are virtually ignored; and about half the volume is devoted to the eighteenth century, with Pope, Swift, Collins, Thomson, and Gray’s ‘Elegy’ coming in for particular praise (Chatterton, to the annoyance of Keats, was dismissed with the words ‘He did not shew extraordinary powers of genius, but extraordinary precocity. Nor do I believe he would have written better, had he lived’). But it is when he comes to his own contemporaries - the Romantic poets - that Hazlitt is at his most interesting.

70. Hazlitt (William) Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry Institution. Taylor and Hessey, 1819, FIRST EDITION, minor foxing, advertisements at end discarded, B6 is a cancellans (as often), pp.[iv], 343, 8vo, mid-nineteenth century tan calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces on spine (the upper one reading ‘Hazlitt’s Works’), good (Keynes 44) £175

‘Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers (delivered late 1818, published April 1819) began with a distinction between wit and humour, then took on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Restoration comedy, the periodical essay from Addison and Steele to Dr Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith, the English novelists (among whom Hazlitt held Fielding in highest regard), and the paintings of Hogarth. This was the first critical history of English comedy’ (Jonathan Bate in ODNB).

71. [Hazlitt (William)] The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits. Henry Colburn, 1825, FIRST EDITION, a few tears to inner margin of last leaf, not affecting the text, title-page slightly soiled, pp.[iv], 424, 8vo, modern calf backed boards, spine lettered in gilt direct, sound (Keynes 81) £250

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Bentham, Godwin, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Malthus, Jeffrey, Wilberforce, Southey, Tom Moore, Hunt, Lamb, Irving, et al. ‘It is safe to say that these essays are almost the last of Hazlitt’s writings which the student of English literature would surrender’ (CHEL).

72. Heyne (Christian Gottlob) Excursus in Homerum. Accedunt Godofredi Hermanni dissertationes de legibus quibusdam subtilioribus sermonis Homerici. Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1822, a touch of minor spotting, pp. v, [i], 335, [1], 8vo, contemporary biscuit calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, marbled edges and endpapers, small stain to front board, extremities a little bit rubbed and bumped, good £60

The first edition of this collection of notes and short essays on Homer by Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), the German classicist and librarian at Göttingen; it was reportedly gathered and edited by Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, although his name appears nowhere in it.

73. Holland (Elizabeth Gaskell) Poems and Translations. [colophon:] Women’s Printing Society, Limited, [1891], FIRST EDITION, title-page slightly spotted and with a minute tear in the fore- margin, pp. [i, title], 310, 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco, single gilt fillet borders on sides, spine lettered direct, spine faded (but not as far as brown), top edges gilt, others uncut, very good £750

Elizabeth (Eliza) Gaskell was the sister of William Gaskell, husband of the novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, neé Stevenson. Her husband, Charles Holland, was a cousin of the novelist. They were already friends before becoming related by marriage, and for a decade or more Eliza was Elizabeth’s closest confidante and most frequent correspondent. ‘Eliza Gaskell (usually addressed as Lizzie or Lizzy) ... was highly accomplished, widely read and almost as good a classical scholar as her brother, with whom she also shared a keen interest in natural history’ (Jenny Uglow, Elizabeth Gaskell p. 76). The poems here are dated between 1829 and 1890. One is ‘On the marriage of E.C.S. August 30th, 1832’. Another, dated 1889, is ‘To Mrs. Browning’, and yet another on ‘The beacon tower proposed to be erected in memory of Mrs. Browning, 1890’. One poem is an acrostic, spelling out the name of Betsey Taylor; another is an Impromptu, ‘On reading a letter from B.T.’ - the initials being identified in a contemporary pencil note as those of Betsy Taylor. Most of the translations are from German writers.

The book is rare. There is now (only recently) a copy in the BL, and two others in COPAC, the Women’s Library (London Metropolitan), and Manchester. WorldCat adds North Carolina and Baylor (the latter also a recent acquisition). It bears the hallmarks of having been privately printed, and the fact that it was printed by the Women’s Printing Society adds to its interest.

74. Homer. [Iliad. Translated by Lorenzo Valla.] [Brescia:] Baptista Farfengum, impensa vero d. Francisci Lavini, 1497, small dampmark to upper margin in second half, other minor spotting, neatly reinforced wormhole to lower corner of first three leaves, frequent marginal annotations and occasional manicules in an early hand (occasionally just shaved), upper corner of one leaf torn and repaired (through the edge of two lines of text, no loss), ff. [90], folio (295 x 203mm), modern morocco, spine lettered in gilt, very good (ISTC ih00312000; Goff H312; Bod-inc H-142; BMC VII 986) £18,500

The second edition of Lorenzo Valla’s Latin prose translation of the Iliad - the first printed Latin translation - and only the third edition of anything resembling the full text of the Iliad to be printed in any language, following the 1474 first Valla edition and the 1488 Greek editio princeps. (There had otherwise only been editions of the epitome known as the ‘Ilias Latina’, and Nicolaus de Valle’s 1474 translation of excerpts into Latin verse.) Valla (1407-1485) had produced his translation in the early 1440s, working without a Greek lexicon and hence producing a loose translation in Ciceronian style. He seemed to be succeeding where other scholars and poets had failed or refused to try - a number of false starts and commissions had borne no fruit earlier in the fifteenth century - but in fact only finished the first sixteen books, before passing the remaining eight to his student, Francesco Griffolini, who completed them in 1458 (see Sowerby, ‘Early Humanist Failure with Homer I-II’, IJCT, IV.1-2).

This crisp and amply margined copy of the second edition was closely read by an early owner, who has added frequent short marginal notes - none more than a few words but with at least a few in the margin of most pages. Many of these simply extract key words, especially proper names, but others go further,

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including occasional commentary or additional information, a number of substantial lists of heroes (some with familial relations added), and one or two references to other writers, including Ovid.

75. [Hurlstone (Thomas)] Songs, Duets, Choruses, &c. in the comic opera of Just in time. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Printed by W. Woodfall, for T. Cadell, 1792, FIRST EDITION, outer leaves soiled and frayed at edges, pp. 32, 8vo, stitched, as issued, sound (ESTC T49476) £450

ESTC records just the BL copy. Although the author refers, in his Advertisment, to the ‘very flattering reception with which the Comic Opera of Just in Time was honoured, on the evening it was performed’ that was in fact the play’s only performance. The text of the play, however, was printed several times, both in London and Dublin.

76. James (Henry) A Passionate Pilgrim and other tales. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875, FIRST EDITION, fore-edge of three leaves at front slightly marked by damp, pp. 496, 12mo, original primary issue green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with ‘J. Osgood & Co’ stamped at foot, top edge not stained brown, booklabel of John K. Martin to rear pastedown, housed in a folding cloth chemise and matching slipcase, near fine (Edel & Laurence A1; Supino 1.1.0) £900

A superb unrestored copy of James’s first book, from the collection of John K. Martin, founder of the Black Sparrow Press and notable collector of numerous authors.

77. (Jesuits. Martyr.) A MOST TRUE RELATION of the Attachment, Life, Death, and Confession of Will. Waller, alias Walker, Ward, or Slater, a Priest and Jesuite, which was hang’d, drawne and quartered at Tyburne, on Munday being the 26 day of Iuly, anno Dom. 1641. For not obeying the lawes of this our kingdome, by returning againe after banishment, and seducing the Kings subjects. With a declaration of certaine questions, and his answers at Tyburne. ?London: Printed in the yeare 1641, FIRST EDITION, with a large woodcut on the verso of the last leaf showing the executed man hanging from the gallows, a bit soiled, stained and frayed, pp. [i], 5, [1], small 4to, modern burgundy calf backed boards, sound (ESTC R222702) £2,000

A vituperative account of the arrest, trial and execution of this Jesuit. He was taken after being overheard bemoaning his condition (being unable to move about freely) and boasting of converting Lord Wooton on his deathbed in Caterbury. Rare: BL, Durham, and Folger only in ESTC.

78. Johansen (Hjalmar) With Nansen in the North: a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96 translated from the Norwegian by H.L. Braekstad. Ward, Lock, and Co. 1899, FIRST EDITION, half- title, frontispiece author portrait (tissue guard), title-page with small embossed stamp, numerous photographs in the text, pp.viii+351+[4] (adverts.), cr.8vo., orig. green ribbed cloth, backstrip panel gilt lettered (slightly darkened), front board gilt lettered with gilt vignette of wolf’s head, newspaper obituary clippings pasted to front pastedown, good £80

The Norwegian Army lieutenant’s comprehensive account of Fridjof Nansen’s 1895 expedition to the North Pole. Johansen was Nansen’s only companion in his bid for Pole. The two men had set out on foot from the expedition ship “Fram” and, although they did not reach the Pole, they did record the farthest north record at that time. Johansen was later part of Amundsen’s South Pole team.

79. Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with critical observations n their works. In four volumes. Volume I [-IV]. Printed for C. Bathurst [and others], 1781, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, FIRST AUTHORISED EDITION, 4 vols., engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. i (without the printer’s imprint, added in some copies), no ad leaf in vol. iv, a few leaves browned, pp. vii, 480;

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iii, 471;iii, 462; iii, 503, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, red lettering pieces, small black circular numbering pieces (3 of these missing), joints of vols. i & ii repaired, short cracks in other joints, a bit chipped and worn at ends of spines, Glyndebourne book label, modern bookplate opposite, good (Fleeman 79.4LP/5) £1,250

The first separate edition of the Lives is strictly speaking that issued in Dublin in 1779 (vol. i) and 1781 (vols. ii & iii), but it must be assumed that this is the first authorised edition, and therefore the most desirable of the various early editions.

80. (Juvenile.) CEBES (of Thebes, attributed author) The Circuit of Human Life: a vision. In which are allegorically described, the virtues and vices. Taken from the tablature of Cebes, a disciple of Socrates. For the instruction of youth. The second edition, corrected. Printed for T. Carnan, 1775, with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, small fragment missing from fore-edge of one leaf, pp. [i], 116, 12mo, contemporary calf, roll tooled borders on sides with a fleur-de-lys at each corner, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, some wear to extremities, short cracks in joints, good (cf. ESTC T300805, Bodleian only) £500

In this issue the frontispiece depicts Minerva ‘conversing with a young Gentleman and Lady, thereby intimating, that both sexes equally claim her attention.’ The are at the foot of a high rock on top of which sits the Temple of Happiness and Fame. A translation of ’Pinax’, which is not in fact by Cebes. There were several edition, all of which are rare.

81. (Juvenile. Chapbook.) The Unfortunate Concubines, or the history of fair Rosamond, mistress to Henry IV, and Jane Shore, mistress to Edward IV, Kings of England, shewing how they came to be seduced, with their unhappy ends. Sabine & Sons, c.1810, with woodcut illustrations, some browning and spotting, frayed at fore-edge and the corners of many leaves crumpled, outer leaves browned, pp. 83, [1, ads], 12mo, original double stitch at centre, later (not recent) over-stitching and into blue paper wrappers, wrappers frayed £375

A fragile survival. This text was a popular chapbook title throughout the 18th century. This edition is recorded in COPAC in a single copy, Manchester. Sabine and Son were active from about 1770 to 1810, and this seems to date from towards the end of that period. WorldCat adds a copy at Princeton, with a conjectured date of 1824.

82. (Juvenile. Chapbook. Cheap Repository.) [MORE (Hannah)] The Two Shoemakers. In five parts. Sold by Howard and Evans (Printers to the Cheap Repository ...), by J. Hatchard, by S. Hazard, Bath; and by all Booksellers, Newsmen & Hawkers in Town & Country, c. 1797, FIRST EDITION, with a large woodcut on the title-page, slightly browned, pp. 60, 8vo, old calf backed boards, rebacked, sound (ESTC N14163, UCLA only, including the sixth part) £450

The title-page states quite plainly ‘in five parts’: at the end of the text however is announced as ‘just published’ ‘Part the 6th’. ESTC gives the sixth part a separate number (BL only).

83. Kempis (Thomas à) Opera et libri vite fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis canonicorum regularium quorum titulos vide in primo folio. Nuremberg: per Caspar Hochfeder, 1494, a splotch of worming to last leaf affecting part of four words, ruled in red throughout with initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue and printed capitals picked out in yellow, first leaf a bit soiled with some light dustiness and browning elsewhere, one blank corner renewed (fol. xvii), ff. [iv], CLXXVIII [recte CLXXX], folio (299 x 210 mm), early twentieth-century half vellum, spine lettered in ink, just a bit rubbed, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Ritmana, very good (ISTC it00352000; Goff T352; Bod-inc T-090; BMC II 475) £9,000

The second collected edition of Thomas à Kempis, but the first ‘works’ and the first collection of real significance, since the only earlier attempt ISTC( it00351000, printed c.1474, probably in Utrecht) had omitted the ‘Imitatio Christi’, among other works, and only claimed to be a collection of sermons and letters. This copy, though in a later binding, was more lavishly attended to early on, having been ruled in red and fully rubricated with initials of various sizes supplied in red and blue, and the printed regular capitals picked out in yellow.

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As the first ‘opera’ this edition was influential, being reprinted several times within the sixteenth century and still being cited as one of the best collected editions into the nineteenth; it was even being given as the first source for the life of à Kempis as late as the 10th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1902). The edition is also notable for including the first printing of any text by Gerardus Magnus (or Gerard Groote), founder of the Brethren of the Common Life with whom à Kempis spent a formational part of his education. He went on to write a biography of Groote which, in the printing in this edition, is followed by three short pieces written by Groote himself.

The authorship of the ‘Imitatio Christi’ has been disputed for centuries, although à Kempis has the earliest claim; certainly the publisher of this edition as well as the then prior of Nuremberg, Georg Pirkhamer, who contributes a commendatory epistolary preface, are confident that it was his work. The second claimant is Johannes Gerson, Chancellor of the University of Paris, but the trading of attribution went both ways, since the ‘De meditatione cordis’, now known to be by Gerson, is printed in this edition as the work of à Kempis.

84. Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. With Two Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. Macmillan, 1863, FIRST EDITION, first issue with ‘L’Envoi’ poem opening text, engraved headpieces to each chapter, light handling marks and occasional faint spotting, bottom corner of one leaf torn off, pp. [vii], 350, [1], 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt to upper board with blind-stamped triple-fillet border to lower, bubbling of cloth to both boards with light scuffs and scratches, backstrip a little faded and rubbed, splitting along lower joint with three-inch section opened, corners a little turned-in and rubbed, brown endpapers with small bookseller’s blind- stamp and bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, sound £700

The leaf following the dedication page in the first issue features the poem ‘L’Envoi’, which was suppressed during printing lest it cause offence - very few copies (said to be 200) retaining the leaf B1 were distributed.

85. (Koran. English. Selections.) The Morality of the East; extracted from the Koran of Mohammed: digested under alphabetical heads. With an Introduction, and occasional Remarks. Printed for W. Nicoll, 1766, FIRST EDITION, a little spotting or thumbing here and there, pp. [i], 133, [1, ad], (possibly lacking a final blank), small 8vo, contemporary sheep, worn at extremities, spine defective at head, lettering piece missing, good (ESTC T114169) £1,500

A very scarce and interesting ‘take’ on Islam, whose broad- minded, though anti-Catholic, compiler remains unknown. The compiler speaks approvingly of Warburton and Soame Jenyns, and quotes extensively from Sale, Mosheim, and Tournefort. The scheme of the book is best laid out in the following sentence from the 46-page Introduction: ‘To form an impartial estimate of the intrinsic merits of any religion, it may be necessary to pass over all the supernaturals wherewith it is embellished ... and to examine the tendency of the practical duties enjoined for the conduct of man toward man.’ And so the book proceeds with extracts from the Koran under such headings as Alms, Debts, Divorce, Marriage (these two the longest, with the longest appended Remarks), Inheritance, Justice, Orphans, etc., etc. The shortest extract is on Toleration: ‘Let there be no violence in Religion.’

ESTC locates 5 copies in the UK, 3 in America: Essex Institution, UCLA, Missouri. A second edition, edited by Josephus Tela, appeared in 1818. The advertisement at the end is for Observations on the Number and Misery of the Poor, just published [printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt].

86. La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles, en vers. Tome Premier [-Second]. Londres [Paris: Cazin:] 1780, 2 vols., with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 24 engraved plates mostly after Desrais, a little foxing, and a few plates slightly browned, pp. [iv], 251, [1]; [iv], 216, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled borders on sides, flat spines gilt in compartments, citron

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lettering piece, gilt edges, a little worn, head caps defective, 1951 inscription on flyleaf, good (Cohen-de Ricci cols. 572-73; ESTC T230603) £800

‘Jolie edition peu commune’ - Cohen-de Ricci, who list four copies in French sales, but the only copy in ESTC is in the National Library of Poland. Of course the London imprint is false, so perhaps the entry there is spurious; all the same, there is no copy in COPAC.

87. La Fontaine (Jean de) A Selection from [the] Fables, In French Prose; with an English interlineary translation, as literal as possible. By D. Boileau. [W. Wilson, Printer, for] Boosey and Sons, 1825, with 32 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all but 4 with 2 images (thus equalling 60 subjects, 1 for each fable), piece torn from lower outer corner of 1 plate, minutely affecting the coloured surface, the stitching just encroaching on 1 plate and the following leaf almost loose, pp. [iv], 60, 8vo, uncut in early drab brown cloth, slightly worn, repairs to spine, good £500

Daniel Boileau published a number of educational works between 1795 and 1840, but this very attractive La Fontaine is not recorded: not in COPAC, not in WorldCat, and not in Gumuchian. His books include instruction manuals for both French and German, and Papyro-Plastics.

88. Lalande (Joseph Jérôme Fançois de) L’Arte di fabbricar la carta. Traduzione prima Italiana. Venice: Antonio Marcassa, c. 1762, with XIV folding engraved plates, a little damp-staining in the lower outer corners at the beginning, occasional dust-soiling, pp. 254, large 4to, uncut in the original carta rustica, dust soiled, spine partly defective and consolidated in places, bookplate of the Parisian paper-maker Terzuolo inside front cover, preserved in a cloth chemise and slip-in case, good £800

Rare Italian translation of Art de faire le papier (1761), part of the series Descriptions des arts et métiers. Not found in WorldCat, and OPAC SBN locates only the Marciana copy - lacking 3 of the plates. It is in the nature of unpressed and uncut large 4tos such as this that there will be some ingress of dust: notwithstanding which, this is a fresh copy, printed upon pretty good paper.

89. [Lamb (Charles)] Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-Street, 1823, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the 1-line Fleet-Street imprint (and half-title not called for), without the advertisements, strip torn from top of title-page (where there had been an inscription), just below this a shakily written set of initials, W.R.W, a few spots here and there, one opening with some light ink stains, pp. [iv], 341, [1], 8vo, 19th-century half calf, black lettering piece on spine, slightly rubbed, good (Thomson LVIII; Grolier English 74) £500

Quite scarce. Last Essays did not appear for another decade.

90. [Langley (Batty)] The Young Builder’s Rudiments, teaching the meanest capacity in a plain familiar manner (by questions and answers) the most useful parts of geometry, architecture, mechanicks, mensuration, several ways of perspective, &c. The second edition, to which are added, The five orders of architecture ... Also, great variety of beautiful doors, windows, and chimneys, &c., according to Inigo Jones, and others ... . Printed for J. Millan, 1734, with an engraved frontispiece and 41 engraved plates on 39 leaves, some folding, clean tear across plate XIV (no loss) and a small piece of the surface (hatching) on plate XXX removed, some minor staining, thumbing, &c, 2 plates misfolded and protuding slightly beyond the textblock, pp. [vi], 130, [2], 4to, original calf, rubbed, and worn at extremities, tile-page inscribed ‘Thomas Edwards / College Ludlow / I desite this Book may be preserved safe for Arthur Evans, if he should want it! Thos. Edwards’, sound (ESTC N475549; Archer 175.2) £1,250

There is only one copy of this edition (the title was first published in 1730) recorded inESTC , Columbia University. It is one of ‘the mass of instructive builders’ manuals which Langley churned out’ (Eileen Harris in ODNB). In spite of the claim on the title-page, the plates are signed by Benjamin Cole.

91. (Language. French.) METHODE TRES FACILE POUR APPRENDRE LA LANGUE FRANCAISE en peu de Tems et en perfection. [followed by:] Petit Dictionaire, ou on trouvera toutes les phrases francoises,

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proverbes, Gaillicismes, et adverbes par l’Alphabet. [England: c. 1714], manuscript in ink on paper, with 2 manuscript folding tables (1 now loose), pp. 259, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, sometime rebacked and repairs also to corners and fore-edge of upper board, good £2,500

We have not found a source for this Methode tres facile, which is written in French but clearly for English use. The different functions of the difficult word en, for example, are explained in English - ‘Elle signifie en Anglois of, from him, her, then, from it, thence, from hence, some. Come vous verrez dans les regles suivantes ...’. The Petit Dictionaire is taken from Boyer, his ‘Nouveau dictionaire.’ The dating of the manuscript is partly on stylistic grounds (the script, the binding), references to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) - ‘Le Duc de Marlb. prit il n’y a pas long tems L’Isle en Flandre’- and crucially the evidence of the watermark of the paper. This last is a highly unusual combination of the Garter Arms watermark, and the Crown/AR (Anna Regina: she died in 1714) countermark. This was the subject of an article in the BAPH Quarterly, 84, October 2012 by Peter Bower, ‘A Unique Watermark Combination.’

92. (Law. England.) [BRETON (John le, Bishop of Hereford)] Britton. The second edition. Faithfully corrected according to divers ancient manuscripts of the same booke. By Edm[und] Wingate. Printed by the assignes of Iohn Moore, 1640, 1 vol. bound in 2, interleaved, and annotated, with the Corrections divided between the volumes more or less as appropriate (the 21 folios below), woodcut printer’s device on title, main text (in Law French) in black letter, ff. [xvi], 64, 66-175, 175-238, 240-249, 245-287, [21], small 8vo, old calf, rebacked, corners very worn, sound (ESTC S106709) £950

‘Britton’ was first published in 1533, and edition which Wingate says is ‘quite worn out, and exceeding full of manifest Imperfections.’ The treatise is traditionally attributed to the Bishop of Hereford (d. 1275), but is largely derived from Bracton. There is an early ownership inscription, longitudinal, by the fore-margin of the title of a member of the Middle Temple, and another at the top of the title, ‘Ed. Hatton, 17 Jan [18]17’, the latter being the annotator. His notes, or quite often queries, are not all that prolific, but they do extend through the entire work.

93. Lear (Edward) More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. Robert John Bush, 1872, FIRST EDITION, complete with all prelims, and the 138 lithograph plates and poems, printed on rectos only and not paginated, some light foxing to outer leaves, pp. viii, [ff. 142], small 4to, original quarter brown cloth with illustrated boards a little rubbed and soiled, some bubbling to paper and a little wear at corners, waterstain at head of lower board, backstrip lettered in gilt and rubbed, endpapers foxed with bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Noakes 83; Osborne I, p.70) £900

94. Lear (Edward) Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c. Robert John Bush, 1877, FIRST EDITION, final 2 sections illustrated and printed on rectos only, illustrations throughout poems and a few verso pages of musical notation, half-title and ads at rear discarded, pp. [128], small 4to, stamped in gilt and black to upper board and in blind to lower, some discolouration, fading and rubbing to cloth with bubbling to lower board, rebacked with original spine, lettered in gilt, edges dustsoiled, new endpapers with bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Noakes 87; Osborne I, p. 70) £300

95. Lever (Charles) Luttrell of Arran. With illustrations by ‘Phiz’. Chapman and Hall, 1865, FIRST EDITION, bound from the parts, scattered small foxspots to plates but generally quite clean inside, pp. [viii], 503, [1], 8vo, contemporary mid-brown half calf, marbled boards, spine lightly rubbed, neatly recased, modern bookplate, very good £120

The last of Lever’s novels to be illustrated by Phiz.

96. Livy. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt; cum omnium epitomis, ac deperditorum fragmentis: ad optimas editiones castigati. Accurante Tho. Ruddimanno, A.M. [Four volumes.] Edinburgh: In aedibus W. Ruddimanni et Sociorum, 1772, a little light soiling and browning,

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ownership inscription of Robert Kerr, 1786, to title-pages (and that of William Kerr, 1820, added in vol. ii), substantial sections of the second volume with interlinear and marginal pencil translations and annotations, a few small slips with further annotations tipped in, pp. [viii], 491, [1]; [ii], 552; [ii], 511, [i]; [ii], 457, [137], 12mo, contemporary sheep, spines divided by gilt rolls, black morocco lettering pieces and small green oval numbering pieces, somewhat rubbed, slight wear to corners and spine ends, a few scrapes to boards, joints cracking a little but sound, bookplate of William Scott Kerr of Chatto, good (ESTC N13442) £400

Thomas Ruddiman (1674-1757) was a classical scholar, librarian, and printer who produced a number of important editions, including the second printing of Douglas’s Virgil (1710). ‘In 1751 he published a superb edition of Livy, in four duodecimo volumes, but by then his sight was failing’ (ODNB) - this is a reprint produced by his nephew, Walter (1719-1781), the third separate edition (several issues had appeared in 1751-2, followed by a 1764 edition published by J. Wood). This copy seems to have come to William Scott Kerr (1807-1890) of Chatto when he was a young student; the pencil notes could be his. The earlier owner, Robert Kerr, must be William’s father (1770-1831), who was born Robert Scott but whose own father assumed the names and arms of Kerr on inheriting the estates of Sunlaws and Chatto.

97. [Locke (John)] A New Commonplace Book, being An Improvement on that Recommended by Mr. Locke, properly ruled throughout, with A complete Skeleton Index, and ample Directions for its Use. Equally adapted to the Man of Letters and the Man of Observation, the Traveller & the Student, and forming an useful and agreeable Companion, on the Road, and in the Closet. Printed for J. Walker, 1806, engraved title-page, title-page slightly foxed, pp. 14, [24], plus upwards of 100 leaves, ruled in red, with manuscript entries on about 70 pages, 8vo, original green vellum, a little stained, slightly warped, good £650

The manuscript entries in this book are in 4 sections. The first is a long memoir of Richard Reynolds, the Bristol philanthropist. Next are extracts ‘From [?Jane] Bowdler’s Essays’, followed by a long letter from Benton or Barton Dell on discipline in teaching. Lastly there are various poetical extracts, including 3 translated from the Hebrew by Elizabeth Smith. At the end is 2-page printed leaflet ‘In Remembrance of Richard Batt, Late Paper Manufacturer, Waterhouse Mill, Milnthorpe’, dated January, 1903. His signature appears on the front free end-paper in pencil, and in crayon on a scrap of paper tipped in. Loosely inserted at the front are 2 letters from William Batt, probably written in old age. He refers to Richard Batt as his father. He seems to have been a Quaker, addressing his ‘Dear Friend’ as thee.

98. Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue, 12pp. of publisher’s ads dated November 1855 bound after rear flyleaf, some light toning, pp. iv, 316, 8vo, original vertically-ribbed brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind, slight wear to backstrip, stains to endpapers (from tape formerly used to hold a protective cover?), in a marbled paper slipcase, modern bookplate, very good £500

Longfellow’s most famous poem, sometimes considered the first American epic to be wholly free of European influence; nevertheless it was much parodied (including by Lewis Carroll). The first London edition had appeared a few months earlier.

99. Luther (Martin) Tomus primus [-secundus] epistolarum Doct. Mart. Lutheri scriptarum ab anno MDVII [-MDXXII] ... à Iohane Aurifabro collectus et editus. Nunc vero in usum eccleslarum Marchiacarum & vicinarum comparatus, & triplici indice locupletatus, studio, sumptibus & impensis Georgii Celestini Doct. Berlin: Michael Hentzken, 1579, 2 vols., with (the same) woodcut medallion portrait of Luther on the title-pages, small woodcut coat of arms on verso of title in vol. i, large woodcut arms of Georgius Celestinus at end of vol. i, the portrait offset on to verso of A1 in vol. i and )(2 in vol. ii, a few headlines shaved, ff. [xviii], 367, [1, blank], [32]; [14], 396, [18], 4to, uniform contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, corners worn, armorial bookplate of The Law Society inside each front cover, good (VD 16 L 4653; Stewart 3820; not in Adams or COPAC) £2,000

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A rare edition of the collected letters of Luther. Johannes Aurifaber’s edition had appeared in 2 vols, Jenna 1556 and Eisleben 1565.

100. MacKenzie (Sir George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX. Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Allan and Company for Archibald Constable [et al.], 1811, FIRST EDITION, half-title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 7 plates on india-paper and mounted, 6 plain plates of which one folding, one plate of music, 2 maps, one folding and with partial colour, 15 wood-engravings in the text, 4 folding letterpress tables, edges foxed but text clean, the maps foxed, pp. xvii, [ii], 491, [1], 4to, uncut in the original boards, printed paper label on spine, a litle rubbed and worn, crude repair to head of spine, upper joint broken but cords holding, inscription on title-page, good (Abbey, Travel 160; Tooley 314) £600

Mackenzie travelled with the physicians Henry Holland (1788–1873) and Richard Bright (1789–1858). ‘Travels in the Island of Iceland ... described the natural history of the island and the history, literature, and diseases of the people. (Bright and Holland made significant contributions - both had read papers on Iceland to the Geological Society of London in 1811.) Mackenzie’s Iceland long remained a key publication but he had drawn on Holland’s manuscript, and Holland objected to Mackenzie’s misrepresentation of his geological observations ... Lyell admired Mackenzie’s “magnificent collection of mineralogical treasures” from Iceland, part of which later went to Glasgow University (ODNB).

101. Martial. Sales Epigrammatum. Being the Choycest Disticks of Martials Fourteen Books of Epigrams: and of all the Chief Latin Poets that have writ in these two last Centuries: together with Cato’s Morality. Made usefull for all Schools; being a more speedy and readier way to the speaking and making of true Latin. By J[ames]. W[right]. Printed by T.R. for Christopher Eccleston, 1664, engraved frontispiece, text in English and Latin on facing pages, ownership stamp of Sheppard on recto of imprimatur leaf, light dampmark emerging from the gutter throughout, pp. [xii], 179, [1], 8vo, contemporary sheep, front hinge cracked after title-page, spine a bit worn at ends and sometime crudely repaired at head, text-block starting to loosen from covers, free endpapers removed, sound (ESTC R26409) £650

A scarce schoolbook collection of Latin epigrams, mostly by Martial, with English translations. The editor and translator was James Wright (1644-1716) of Yarnton, a lawyer by training but also a versatile writer and translator. This is a reissue of the 1663 first edition, with cancel title-page, and rarer than that version: ESTC locates five copies in theUK (BL, Guildhall, Lincoln’s Inn, London Library, and NLS) plus three outside (Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, and UCLA).

ODNB queries the attribution, asking why the editor’s name appears followed by ‘M.Arts’ when he did not actually take a degree - but the degree is not mentioned on the first-issue title-page. This second issue appends the degree after his name but also completely resets the other text on the page and adds the phrase ‘Made usefull for all Schools; being a more speedy and readier way to the speaking and making of true Latin’. Since the rest of the text is identical between the two, the supposed degree and the ‘made usefull’ claim may have both just been attempts to add credibility for the schools market.

102. Maseres (Francis, ‘Baron’, owner and annotator) [Sammelband of law tracts]. 1794-96, 5 works in 1 vol. (see below), 8vo, contemporary calf, red lettering piece on spine (‘Report on Hasting’s Trial’), worn at extremities, upper joint cracked and lower one partly so, cords holding, from the library of Francis Maseres, variously signed and annotated by him (see below), good £3,000

An intriguing volume with important contents and interesting annotations, comprising:

1. Burke (Edmund) Report from the committee of the House of Commons, Appointed to Inspect the Lords Journals, In Relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings ... Debrett, 1794, pp. [iv, 88, signed at the head of the title-page ‘F. Maseres, May 31, 1796’ with the remark ‘This report contains a great deal of sound Law Learning’ at the foot. (Todd 63c) 2. Burke (Edmund) Substance of the speech ... in the House of

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Commons, on Friday the 23d day of May, 1794 ... Debrett, 1794, pp. 26, [4, ads, of 6 Lacking final advertisement leaf], signed F. Maseres at the head of the half-title, which is a bit soiled. (Todd 64b) 3. Brand (John) A Defence of the Pamphlet ascribed to John Reeves, Esq. and entitled, “Thoughts on the English Government” ... Longman and Owen, 1796, pp. [ii, of iv, lacking half-title], 95 (recte 93), [1], title-page (slightly soiled) inscribed ‘For Mr. Baron Maseres with the Author’s Compliments’, a few marginal notes by Maseres. (Goldsmiths’ 16827) 4. Brand (John) An Historical Essay on the Principles of Political Associations in a State ... Longman and Owen, 1796, pp. [vi], 106,[2],107-138, Maseres’s signature at head of title cropped, title-page inscribed by Maseres ‘This is a very able performance’ and the text with extensive notes in the margins. 5. Hales (William) Observations on Tithes ... To which is annexed, a second edition of the Moderate Reformer [by Francis Maseres] ... B. and J. White, 1794, pp. [ii], 73. The flyleaf at the front of the volumes is inscribed ‘T. Jones Howell, Septr. 1816 from Mr. Baron Maseres’ - in Maseres’s 85th year (he died in 1824).

Jeremy Bentham hailed Maseres as ‘one of the most honest lawyers England ever knew’ (quoted in ODNB). After three years as Attorney General in Canada, Maseres returned to England. ‘In 1773 the influence of the lord chancellor, Henry Bathurst, then Lord Apsley, secured his appointment to the virtual sinecure of cursitor baron of the exchequer ... Contemporaries often referred to him as Baron Maseres [as he did himself], but this was not a peerage title. He became a bencher at the Inner Temple in 1774 and its treasurer in 1782. From 1780 until 1822 (when he was over ninety) he served as a judge of the sheriff’s court in the city of London. His life was bound up with the Temple: his rooms were at 5 King’s Bench Walk, and although out of term he used to dine at his home in Rathbone Place, which he inherited from his brother John, he always returned to the Temple to sleep. Just as he spoke the French of Louis XIV, so to the end of his life he wore clothes from the time of George II, including a three- cornered hat, tye-wig and ruffles. He was very sociable and delighted in entertaining visitors, many of whom were eminent mathematicians, to dinner (ODNB).

103. Mayerne (Louis Turquet de) The Generall Historie of Spaine, containing all the memorable things that have past in the realmes of Castille, Leon, Navarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &c... translated into English, and continued unto these times by Edward Grimeston, Esquire. Printed by A. Islip, and G. Eld, 1612, FIRST EDITION, initial blank discarded, a bit of minor spotting, a few rustspots, one leaf with a neatly-repaired closed tear across 15 lines of text (slightly out of alignment but not affectnig sense), frequent small marginal tickmarks and a few short notes in an early hand, pp. [vi], 1380, [28], folio, later seventeenth-century sprinkled calf, boards bordered with a double gilt fillet enclosing gilt corner-pieces, spine divided by six raised bands between gilt fillets, small repair to foot of spine, modern bookplate of Adrian Bullock to front and rear, ownership inscription and purchase note of Henry Smith of Corpus Christi dated 1660 to flyleaf (with his initials also to title-page), very good (ESTC S114485; Sabin 47118) £2,500

The first edition of the first English translation of Mayerne’s history of Spain, an important source for later historians and other authors. It is now quite scarce in nice condition. Grimeston, a prolific translator mostly from French, produced a number of substantial tomes (few under 1000 pages), his two other major translations being histories of France and the Netherlands. This work includes a description of Columbus, hence its Sabin reference.

Despite this, he has received minimal modern attention: in 1906 F.S. Boas wrote (in Modern Philology, Apr. issue) ‘It is remarkable that he is not thought worthy of being mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography, even among his father’s descendants, for he was one of the most active and versatile of translators, when translation was in its golden age, and he was sergeant-at-arms during one of the most stirring periods of English parliamentary history’. Grimeston still goes nearly unmentioned in the ODNB - he now warrants half a line as one of his father’s sons and a sergeant-at-arms.

104. Mercier (Louis) Sermons sur les circonstances présentes, prononcés dans l’Église Française de Londres, en Threadneedle-Street. Imprimés par R. Noble pour T. Cadell, jun. [et al.], 1795, FIRST EDITION, complete with half-title (which has a tiny hole in it, not affecting text), pp. [ii], [v], 209, [1], 8vo, nineteenth-century half calf, black lettering piece on spine, a little rubbed and worn, George Washington Bethune’s copy, with his black leather book-label inside front cover and the name in gilt at foot of spine, large stamp of the Gardner Sage Library at New Brunswick Theological Seminary on title endorsed (heavily) ‘Discard’, good (ESTC T123222, BL, Senate House and Buffalo and Erie County Public only) £500

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A rare little volume of sermons by a French pastor in London in the wake of the Revolution - which Mercier did not support. ‘George Washington Bethune (1805-1862) ‘was born into the devout and wealthy family of Divie and Joanna Graham Bethune of New York City on March 18, 1805. His father was a highly successful merchant of Huguenot extraction and both his parents had been born in Scotland’ (Archives & Special Collections at Dickinson College). He made a great name as a preacher, and some of the hymns he composed and tunes he wrote for them are still in use toay.

105. [Méré (Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de )] Maximes, Sentences, et Reflections morales et politiques. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1687, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, tear in lower outer cornemr of M2, pp. [xvi], 248, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, minor wear, ownership inscription on title inked oververy good £750

Antoine Gombaud was not in fact a Chevalier, but adopted the title (Méré being where he was educated) for the protagonist in his dialogues who expressed his views. The maximes are worldly wise, for example [in translation]: Love is the weakness of the young, the vice of mature men, and the shame of old men; Woman is often an aid, and often an enemy, and marriage is sometimes a safe haven, sometimes a dreadful shipwreck.

Confusingly, the author is sometimes given as Gombaud’s exact contemporary George Brossin, (genuine) Chevalier de Méré (e.g. by Rochebiliere, but ‘perhaps not’ is the opinion of Brunet). There are 2 variants of the title-page: our copy is the variant with Cavelier in the title: the two variants are explained at the end of the Privilege, where Du Castin cedes half of the copyright to Cavelier.

Scarce: COPAC records 3 copies, Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge (all du Castin); WorldCat locates 2 copies in North America, Wisconsin (du Castin) and Newberry (Cavelier).

106. Mill (John Stuart) On Liberty. John W. Parker and Son, 1859, FIRST EDITION, old ownership inscription to head of title-page, some spotting and occasional pencil notes, pp. 207, [1], 8 (ads.), 8vo, original purple grained cloth, boards bordered in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, terracotta chalked endpapers, backstrip and edges faded, cloth split horizontally across middle of backstrip with some wear and chipping to joints, the lower part of the backstrip lifting but the underlying structure all sound, an old and tidy repair to head of backstrip, modern bookplate, sound (PMM 345) £2,000

Mill’s most famous essay, which ‘perhaps more than any other of his works, has been viewed by posterity as the kernel of his social philosophy’ (ODNB), and which ‘remains the strongest and most eloquent defense of liberalism that we have’ (SEP).

107. Mill (John Stuart) Autobiography. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (no errata leaf at end), owner’s initials (‘CPJ’) dated 1873 to half-title, some finger-soiling and marginal pencil marks, pp. vi, 313, [3], 8vo, original pebble-grain green cloth by Burn & Co., boards bordered and ruled in black, backstrip divided by black rules and lettered in gilt, brown chalked endpapers, spine cocked, extremities a little rubbed, good £175

The first edition of Mill’s classic autobiography, ‘a pioneering essay in the literary genre of psychological self-analysis’ in which he ‘portrayed himself as ‘one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it’ (Collected Works, 1.44)’ (ODNB). There is a misprint on p. 113, and a second issue added an errata leaf before the advertisement leaf at the end.

108. Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books. In two volumes. A New and Accurate Edition. Volume the first [-second].Printed by B. Long, and T. Pridden, 1773, 2 vols., a worm-trail in lower margin of 5 gatherings in vol. ii (clear of text), some light browning in vol. i, pp. [iv], [ix-] xxviii, [29-] 218; [i], [219-] 398, 12mo, contemporary sheep, spine gilt with groups of wavy lines in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces, minor wear, a front flyleaf excised from both vols., ownership inscription of Anna Theodosia Bartholomew dated 1775 in vol. i, very good (Not in Coleridge) £600

A pretty copy, and also a rare edition. WorldCat locates 1 copy, at UC Santa Barbara, and it is not in ESTC or COPAC. The curious pagination at the beginning is a facet of the book’s close relationship with an edition of Milton’s Works in 3 vols. produced by the same printers in the same year (8 copies in ESTC,

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N40384). That ‘Works’ opens with 8 unsigned preliminary pages (general half-title, general title-page, title-page for Paradise Lost, section-title for Milton’s Life), whereas this Paradise Lost contains only the specific title-page in common with that edition; it omits the general material (of course), but also the section-title for Milton’s Life, having instead a half-title for Paradise Lost not found in the ‘Works’.

Beyond the preliminaries the two editions appear at first glance to be from the same setting of type. However, the signatures in the Works contain volume numbers which are not present in the Paradise Lost, and by the end of the first volume more differences are clear: Paradise Lost splits the volumes after Book VI, while the Works moves the ‘End of Volume First’ printed statement to after Book VIII, and in the second volume Paradise Lost has continuous pagination and signatures while in the Works they start afresh, continuing on through Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes. However, for all text that the two versions have in common the page layout remains in perfect alignment; Long and Pridden must have reused the same setting of type and altered only the signatures and page numbers in moving between the two editions.

109. (Miscellany.) MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS (spine title). London, [various publishers], 1827-38, 5 works in 1 vol., small hole in last leaf of last work with the loss of a few letters, 24mo, contemporary half calf, slightly worn, sound £800

Veritably miscellaneous, and all rare:

1. FitzClarence (George Augustus Frederick, Earl of Munster) Memoirs on the Duty of Picquets. Printed by W. Clowes, 1827, with a folding map, pp. vi, 39, [1]: not in COPAC, 2 locations in WorldCat for an 1843 edition. The unfortunate Fitzclarence was one of the illegitimate children of the Duke of Clarence and Dorothy Jordan. He was an army officer - cornet in the prince of Wales’s regiment, the 10th hussars, at the age of thirteen - and published a number of works on military matters. 2. Urban’s Naval and Military Almanack & Pocket-Book ... Printed for Suttaby, Fox, anmd Suttaby, 1827, interleaved and with a few MS notes, pp. 166, [2]: Oxford and Cambridge only in COPAC, WorldCat adds BL. 3. “How do you do?” By a Friend. R. Groombridge, 1838, pp. 24: BL and Cambridge only in WorldCat. 4. Rappee (Tonquin, pseud) The Snuff-Box. E. Steill, 1835, illustrated with comic woodcuts, pp. 128: COPAC locates a copy at Liverpool, described as Parts 1-3, ?no more published. This copy has no mention of parts. Tonquin Rappee was a type of snuff. 5. Hints on Servants: valuable to all house-keepers. By a Bachelor. William Spooner, 1838, pp. 48: not in COPAC or WorldCat.

110. (Music. Harp.) WINDSOR (Honble. Mrs. H[enry], Countess Plymouth, née Ann Copson) [Collection of sheet music, mainly for the harp]. Various publishers, [c. 1780-1810] 24 items (one a repeat) in 1 vol., engraved thoughout (apart from 1 manuscript piece), 4to, contemporary half red morocco, marbled sides with a red morocco lettering piece on upper cover, ‘Honble. Mrs. H. Windsor’, plain reback and corners repaired, signed Ann Windsor inside the front cover (further signatures elsewhere), and with a pencil note chronicling the volume’s descent through the Vansittart family, good £1,500

A very attractive volume of Regency sheet music, with an emphasis on the harp. The album was compiled by Ann Windsor (née Copson), 1775-1850, the wife of Henry Windsor, 8th Earl of Plymouth (1768-1843). Leading harpists of the day, who were also composers and teachers, and sometimes publishers, are represented, and clearly Ann Windsor was a proficient pupil, with one of the pieces dedicated to her. The various martial pieces reflect the alarm caused by the French Revolution.

1. Lithander (C.L.) Sonata for the Piano Forte. Printed by Clementi & Co., nd, pp. 18. 2. Sor (Ferdinand) Three Waltzes for two Performers on one Piano Forte. Set 2d. Printed for the Author by Clementi & Co., nd, pp. 7, signed by Sor. 3. Guilbert (Eugene) Two Duets for Two Harps or Harp and Piano. Composed and Dedicated to the

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Honble Mrs. Windsor. Op. 2d. Printed and Sold by J. Platts, nd, pp. [i], 14, red stamp on title ‘I.P’. The first page is Platts’ advertisement, cropped at top (and possibly foot). Another copy, similar, follows No. 16. 4. Giordani (Tomasso) The Celebrated Overture and Irish medley to The Island of Saints. Dublin: Publish’d by Anne Lee, nd, pp. 7 (first page blank). 5. Mazzinghi (Joseph) Handel’s Overtures Arranged for the Piano Forte. No. 7. Printed by Goulding & Compy, nd, pp.[i], 75-86, signed Ann Windsor at head of title. 6. Handel (George Frideric) How Excellent, a Chorus from the Oratorio of Saul, Adapted for Two Performers on One Piano Forte by T. Haigh. Printed for Rt. Birchall, nd, pp. 7. 7. Handel (G.F.) Welcome Mighty King [in: Bland’s Collection, continued by Rt. Birchall. No. 28]. Pp. [121-]123. 8. A Rose Tree in Full bearing. With Variations for the Pianoforte or Harpsicord. Dublin: Publish’d by Edmund Lee, nd, pp. 4 (first blank). 9. Coolun. A Celebrated Irish Air with Variations. Dublin: Publish’d by Hime, nd, pp. [2], with Caun du deelish. 10. The Dawn of Day. A Favorite Irish Air with Variations for the Piano Forte or Harpsichord. Dublin: Edmund Lee, nd, pp. 3. 11. La Tarantella, a favourite Italian Dance Arranged as a Rondo. Printed by Rt. Birchall, nd, pp. 7. 12. Coombs (James Morris) March. Composed and Inscribed to the Armed Association of Chippenham. Printed & Sold by T. Preston, nd, pp. 3 (first page blank). 13. The Holesly Bay March & Quick Step. Adapted for the Piano Forte or Harp. Printed by J. Buchinger, nd, pp. 3 (first page blank). 14. Dahmen (I) The Huddersfield Volunteers March ... Printed by R. Wornum, nd, pp. 3 (first page blank), initialed by Ann Windsor, tight in gutter. 15. Carter (J) The Berkshire Militia March. Printed & Sold by Preston & Son, nd, pp. 3 (first page blank). 16. Mayer (John Baptiste) A Second Divertimento for the Harp ... Op.36. Printed by Falkner & Christmas, nd, pp. 9. 17. The Battle of Prague. A Sonata for the Piano Forte or Harpsicord. Dublin: Edmund Lee, nd, pp. [2]-6, some damage to margins, not affecting music. 18. Cardon Fils (Jean-Baptiste) Four Sonatas for the Harp, With an Accompaniment for the Violin ad Libitium ... Op. VII. Printed for J. Dale, nd, 2 parts (harp and violin), pp. 25, 9. 19. 2 pp. manuscript music, unidentified. 20. Jones (Edward) Musical Miscellany for the Harp, or Harpsichord. Consisting of Pastorales, Notturnos, Military Airs, and Sonatas. To which are added a few Airs Selected and Adapted from other Composers; and from Popular National Tunes, with Variations by the Author. Printed and Sold at No. 3 Green Street, n.d., with a stipple engraved frontispiece (Designed by Ed. Jones, & Delineated by Ed. Burney), cropped in fore and lower margins, pp. 39. 21. Barthelemon (François-Hippolyte) Tutor for the Harp, in which are introduced Progressive Examples of Arpeggios and Sonatas with Favorite Airs and Scotch Songs, with an Accompaniment for that Instrument, and also an easy method for Tuning. Printed by Longman and Broderip, [1787], pp. [i], 40, [1, ads]. 22. Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman. With Variations for the Harp or Piano Forte. With an Accompaniment for a Flute or Violin by J. Dale. Printed & Sold by J. Dale, n.d., pp. 3, some old repairs in the margins and tears through text, without material loss. The tune is better known in English as that to ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.’ 23. Webb (William) Fashionable & Popular Airs, Marches, Dances, &c. Arranged in a pleasing and familiar Stile, for the Piano Forte. No. [ ]. Printed & Sold by Preston, nd, 5.

Owen & Bowen road maps 111. Ogilby (John) Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv’d; being a correct coppy [sic] of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales ... by Ino. Owen ... Maps of all the Counties of South Britain ... by Eman. Bowen Engraver. Printed for & sold by Tho. Bowles ... 1720, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout, with engraved title-page (a trifle browned), 2 preliminary leaves of tables, 200 strip road maps, 54 county or part county maps, the majority in clean crisp condition, 2 plates of College arms, numerous coats of arms, numeral to p. 10 shaved,

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short tear in fore-margin of pp. 245-6 just entering plate but not affecting any printing, pp. [vi], 273, small 4to, contemporary panelled calf, a patch of insect damage with loss of surface on upper cover, a few small abrasions to lower cover, corners slightly worn, crack at head of upper joint, lacking label, very good (Chubb CXLVII; Fordham pp.18-19; ESTC N15579) £2,000

An excellent copy of the rare first edition: in particular, this is a tall copy; at 8 1/16 inches it is almost an inch taller than the dimension given by Chubb. It has the following first issue points: no notice of Stony Stratford on p. 53, the numbering is in the left-hand corner of p. 121, p. 128 is misnumbered 121 (here corrected in ink).

Owen and Bowen appear to have been in great demand since four editions were published between 1720 and 1724. It was a smaller, popular version of John Ogilby’s famous road maps of England, which were originally published in folio in 1675 as ‘Britannia: or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales’. Ogilby’s survey was perhaps the most accurate to date. He used the new distance of 1760 yards to a mile instead of the old standard of 2428 yards and calculated distances methodically by foot. Several smaller versions where published, although Ogilby’s own was the most successful, going through a number of editions and reprints well past the middle of the century. Each page is engraved, and provided with printed annotations and coats of arms.

112. Opie (Amelia Alderson) Tales of the Heart. In four volumes. Vol. I [-IV]. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, FIRST EDITION, 4 vols., with half-titles, a few spots here and there, pp. [iv], 350; [iv], 419; [iv], 396; [iv], 353, [2, ads], 12mo, contemporary French half green skiver, spines lettered in gilt, monogram and coronet in the top compartment, elaborate engraved armorial bookplate inside front covers (Marquess of Londonderry), very good £600

The Tales are divided into the following sections: Love, Mystery, and Superstition; The two Sir Williams; The two Sons; A Woman’s Love, and a Wife’s Duty; The opposite Neighbour; Happy Faces.

113. [Ortega (Fr. José de)] Apostolicos Afanes de la Compania de Jesus, escritos por un padre de las misma sagrada religion de su provincia de Mexico. Barcelona: Pablo Nadal, 1754, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornaments on title, various smallish woodcut head- and tail-pieces and large tail-piece at end, without errata leaf, some damp-staining, mainly in the inner corners, a few spots and stains, but quite a fresh copy, pp. [xii], 452, [8], 4to, contemporary limp vellum, remains of leather ties, front inner hinge broken, the lower held by one (of two) cords, lacking rear flyleaf, private library stamp on title of E. &. G. Gaughran and book-plate inside front cover, good (Sabin 57680 - and 1768, when it was still unattributed; Howes O127; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 128) £3,800

One of the prime sources on Jesuit activities in the Spanish Southwest, including an account of Father Kino’s work in what is now Arizona and Father Consag’s 1751 journey to California as far as the Colorado River, which he entered, and, incidentally, again proved that California was not an island. Father Ortega was born in Tlaxcala in 1700 and entered the Jesuit order in 1717. He was sent to the Missions of Nayarit, where he worked for 30 years. Rare in commerce: only 4 copies in ABPC between 1976 and 1988 and none since. The Streeter copy, sold in 1966, also lacked the errata leaf.

114. Paine (Thomas) The Political and Miscellaneous Works. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Printed and Published by R. Carlile, 1819, 18 separately paginated parts, most with their own title-page, in 2 vols, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, frontispiece offset onto title, some browning, especially in vol. ii, pp. xlii, [ii], 56, 188, 35, [1], 59, [3], 54, 34, 112; [iv], 124, 46, 22, 19, 26, 36, vii, [i], 44, 261, 8vo, recent half calf, re-using original green pebble-grained cloth boards, good £600

Richard Carlile dates his prefaces from Dorchester Gaol. Carlile’s ‘greatest contribution to the radical cause, and the most momentous, was his republishing of the writings of Tom Paine, which he did serially in the Weekly, individually as cheap pamphlets, and also as bound volumes’ (ODNB). The two volumes are printed on different paper stock, that in vol. ii rather prone to browning, especially in the margins, where this takes on the appearance of thumbing.

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115. Pindar. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Meta exegeseos palaias pany ophelimou, kai scolion homoion. Rome: per Zachariam Calergi Cretensem, [1515,] second edition of the text but the EDITIO PRINCEPS of the scholia, first leaf of text printed in red and black, that leaf with two small abrasions and one vertical hole, the hole also reaching (though less so) the next leaf, with one or two letters lost from about 2 dozen words in total, intermittent dampmark in lower margin, some soiling and spotting, foliated in a later hand, early annotations and manicules to last three leaves, ff. [240, incl. blanks iota6 & Theta9], 4to, eighteenth-century calf, spine and corners skilfully repaired, new labels in impeccable period style, leather a little darkened and marked in places, sound (Adams P1219; CNCE 23572; Dibdin II 286) £9,500

The second edition of Pindar (following the 1513 Aldine editio princeps) and the first book printed in Greek in Rome. Callierges, a Cretan native, printed initially at Venice but in the early 1510s moved to Rome, probably at the invitation of Pope Leo X, and had a fount of Greek type cast, producing this book as the first use of it. ‘As a printer of Greek, the achievements of Callierges are second only to those of Aldus. As an engraver of Greek type, he is in a class by himself. Only the potent commercial force of the Aldine press and the magic homogeneity of Griffo’s types have obscured its fame’ (Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type, p. 75).

Dibdin calls the Callierges Pindar ‘scarcer and dearer’ than the Aldine, and records that three of the parts are more accurate. ‘Due to its great merits, the Roman edition became the textus receptus for three hundred years’ (Fogelmark, The 1515 Kallierges Pindar, in Syncharmata, p. 38). This is Adams’ first listed variant, with gathering [beta] in the earlier state and no red printing on [Alpha]3.

116. Plautus. Comoediae superstites viginti; cum fragmentis deperditarum; ex optimis quibusque Editionibus, ac praecipue Friderici Taubmanni, diligentissime repraesentatae. Padua: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1725, light foxing in places, pp. xxxx, 830, 8vo, contemporary Italian vellum boards, red and green morocco lettering pieces to spine, as well as wide decorative gilt rolls, a little soiled, one label rubbed, bookseller’s ticket of B.H. Blackwell and ownership inscription of C.G. Allen (1934) to front endpapers, very good £300

The first Cominus edition of Plautus (a second appeared in 1764), elegantly printing the text and notes of Taubmann (whose variorum edition was first published 1605), including the fragments which Taubmann and Gruter uncovered in Heidelberg.

117. (Polygamy and Adultery.) [OCHINO (Bernardino)] The Cases of Polygamy, Adultery, Concubinage, Divorce, &c. Seriously and Learnedly Discussed. Being A Compleat Collection of all the Remarkable Tryals and Tracts which have been Written on thos Important Subjects. By the most Eminent Hands. Printed for T. Payne, J. Chrichley, and W. Shropshire, 1732, woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut tailpieces, 3 sectional titles (pagination continuous), slightly browned, pp. [i], lvii, [1], 240, 12mo, 18th-century speckled calf, double gilt fillets on sides, red lettering piece on spine, spine slightly defective at head, spine lacquered for consolidation, bookplate of the LA Law Library, good (ESTC T153320) £900

First edition of this collection, a scarce book. The first fifth of it is taken up with Memoirs of Ochino, and the next two-fifths with his two Dialogues, of Polygamy and of Divorce. In the dialogues, both sides of the argument are of course given: the arguments for polygamy are so well constructed that it gave great offence, and Ochino was forced to leave Zurich, where he was living at the time of its (unauthorised) publication in 1563. Ochino’s sermons were available in English in his lifetime, but it was not until 1657 that the dialogue on polygamy (alone, out of the 30 he wrote) appeared in English. This is a new translation, and the first appearance of the dialogue on Divorce in English. There is another issue, with Curll in the imprint.

The rest of the volume is taken up with three tracts, each with a title-page bearing the date of its original publication: Sir Charles Wolseley on Divorce, 1673; A Treatise concerning Adultery and Divorce, 1700; Conjugium languens: or, The natural, civil, and religious mischiefs arising from conjugal infidelity and impunity. By Castamore, 1700.

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118. Reade (Charles) It is never too late to mend. A matter of fact romance. In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Richard Bentley, 1856, FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., woodcut illustration in the text at end of vol. ii, a few scattered spots (more in vol. iii than elsewhere), pp. [iv], 395, [1]; [ii], 349, [1]; [ii], 344, 8vo, original embossed pinkish-maroon ripple grained cloth, spines lettered in gilt, rebacked preserving the original spines, spines faded, and, to a slight extent, the boards near the spine, slip- in case, good (Parrish pp. 183-84; Sadleir 2008; Wolff 5709) £500

‘In It is Never too Late to Mend the materials for his famously graphic exposure of the sadistic torture of prisoners, including the psychological torments caused by the “silent and solitary” system in vogue at the time, were drawn partly from his own on-the-spot research at Durham, Oxford, and Reading gaols, partly from newspaper articles - including an opportune report of brutalities at Birmingham gaol in The Times (12 September 1853), but quite largely from a book by Hepworth Dixon, The London Prisons (1850). Some of the most admired details of the gold-digging scenes in the same novel were taken from William Howitt’s Land, Labour, and Gold, or, Two Years in Victoria, and from other books’ (ODNB).

119. Richard of Raindale [i.e. Richard Addison of Levisham on the Wolds] Carmina excerpta; or, gleanings from the writings of Richard of Raindale, the Moorish Bard. Hull: Printed by J. Hutchinson, 1833, FIRST EDITION, etched frontispiece depicting the poet in his ‘sod hut’ (see below), title- page slightly soiled, a few minor stains here and there, pp. iv, 140, [6, Subscribers), 12mo, contemporary half calf, worn at extremities, spine defective at foot, sound £500

‘Moorish’ as in North York Moors. An obscure provincial peasant poet. The copy at the University of York has the following note: ‘Raymond Burton Collection copy has MS notes in pencil on front endpapers and rear flyleaf : “Not in BL cat. Preface appears to be autographed. Jackson ‘Annals of English Verse’ p 421. Stanford, ‘British Poetry of the Romantic Period’, item 8. Richard Addison. [Below ownership inscription of John Ripley:] in subs. list, Surgeon, Whitby. Johnson 165. [On rear flyleaf :] Richard of Raindale i.e. Richard Addison of Levisham on the Wolds went by the name of ‘King Dick’ died in 1841 in his sod hut and when found was partly eaten by rats - he was buried at Levisham”. Also MS notes, with bibliographic details, in a different hand, on a piece of paper sellotaped onto rear pastedown.’ Scarce: COPAC locates University of York, Yorkminster, and Oxford; WorldCat adds Stanford and UC Davis.

120. [Richardson (Samuel)] The History of Sir Charles Grandison. In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, By the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. Printed for S. Richardson.... [1753-]1754 FIRST EDITION, 7 vols., with all cancels and points, and vol.vi N8 in first state with the erroneous catch- word ‘My’ for ‘Well’ on recto, vol.iv lacks final advertisement leaf,12mo., contemporay sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, backstrips ornamented in gilt within raised bands, twin red leather labels, good (Black 692; Gilson 17; Rothschild 1752; Sale 39) £1,500

Contemporary signature of ‘Mrs Cox’ on upper paste-downs; later bookplate of William Marchbank in volume i. Richardson’s highly influential third novel has a complex publishing history. See Sale’s bibliography, pp.65-76, for a full account. ‘He had achieved nothing more delicate in his earlier books, and though today we may find the robustness ofPamela and the tragic intensity of Clarissa more appealing, it was Sir Charles Grandison which revealed the possibilities of the novel of domestic manners’ (Butt & Carnall). Jane Austen owned a set of first editions, referred to the novel in her letters, and wrote a dramatic adaptation (as yet unpublished). See Gilson for further details.

121. Ripley (James) Select Original Letters on various subjects. Printed for the Author, and to be had of the following Gentlemen, viz. [7, more or less directly associated with Public Houses in London], 1781, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece depicting the author at his desk in the Red-Lion with instruments of his trade about him, slightly offset onto title-page, frontispiece and title-page separated (but not disastrously) from the main text due to over-zealous application of adhesive on the front flyleaf,pp. vii (i.e.vi), 123, 12mo, modern marbled boards, vertical red label on spine, good (ESTC T75829) £500

Ripley was, as the title proclaims ‘for Thirty Years past, Ostler at the Red-Lion, Barnet’, and this is indeed an ostler’s-eye view. He is, as any modern taxi driver might be, opinionated, but he is moderate

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and compassionate. He lambasts cruelty to horses, just as he does superiority among the gentry and nobility, and cravenness among the lowly. Some of the letters had been published in newspapers, the titles of which appear in the frontispiece, engraved on the windows, or panelling, in the background: one is addressed to his son, entering upon the world with a speech impediment, others to unidentified individuals, male and female. Letter VII concerns the war in the American colonies, which he deplores: in the course of it he declares ‘let the words English and Scotch be entirely obliterated and lost in the more ancient and significant word Britons’ - this is a theme he returns to. Scarce.

122. Peary (Robert E.) The North Pole with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Hodder and Stoughton. 1910, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece (tissue guard present), slight foxing to preliminary and final leaves, numerous black and white photographs, facsimiles, large folding map, pp.xii+326, lge. 8vo., orig. pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered gilt with border and vignette of polar bear stamped in white, gilt titles and embossed gilt medallion device showing Peary on front board (a portion sunned, with inch long scratch into title), bookseller’s small ticket on front pastedown, sound £90

123. Robinson (Frederick C.P.) The Orthoëpic Guide. A pronouncing hand-book Containing upwards of Eight Thousand words Including many names of Foreign authors, artists, places etc, and a great number of words and phrases from Foreign languages that are frequently mispronounced. [Brighton: 1903], manuscript in ink on feint ruled paper, a little foxing at the beginning, pp. [i], 529, plus some blanks, 4to, original half burgundy leather, lettered in gilt on the spine, a little worn at extremities, good £450

Robinson was an English actor, who spent some time in the United States: indeed he styles himself on the title-page ‘Late Professor of Elocution and Dramatic culture to the National School of Opera, New York, and Instructor of Elocution at the College of the City of New York, etc, etc.’ He writes in a Prefatory Note: ‘The stage, which formerly was regarded as a standard of orthoëpic correctness, has sadly deterioirated of late in that respect, & the pulpit is no better, for both as regards elocution and pronunciation, the clergy are excessively faulty ... The same might be said of a small proportion of our members of parliament.’ Under pronunciation Robinson quotes from Dr. Wheaton’s ‘Travels in Englnd’ who was ‘not a little mortified at having [his] Yankee origin detected’ by mispronouncing this word. A number of words have small disquisitions attached to them, sometimes quoting authorities, sometimes poetry. A fascinatinng illustration of ‘correct’ pronunciation at the outset of the Edwardian era.

124. Saintsbury (George) Notes on a Cellar Book. MacMillan and Co., 1921, ONE OF 500 COPIES signed by the author, outer leaves foxed (thanks to the glue in the binding) pp. [i, Limitation statement and author’s signature], xxxi, 227, [1], 4to, uncut in the original cloth backed parchment, author’s signature blocked in gilt on the upper cover, spine faded, parchment a little discoloured £200

Edition de luxe, and in fact the third edition of this classic. ‘Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920), an allusive causerie on wine rather than a systematic treatise, brought him fame in gastronomic circles, and in 1931 a dining society, the Saintsbury Club, was founded in his honour’ (Alan Bell in ODNB).

125. (Scotland. Elections. Broadside.) LAMENTATION OF THE YOUNG LORD. & KING LDAR (sic). Edinburgh: Alexander Dunbar, [1835], single sheet broadside printed (very badly) on recto only, very thin paper, 400 x 173 mm, evidence of folding, a few spots £400

An execrably badly printed broadside, with several words illegible. A satire on the loss of the election in Edinburgh by Lord Ramsay and John Learmonth. The sub-title continues: ‘Just published, the Last Speech, Confession, and Doleful Lamentation, of the Young Lord alias the Beardless Boy - and King Lear alias Jack the Giant Killer.’ The Young Lord begins by protesting his Noble ancestry, which ‘for twenty five generations have fought and bled for your Freedom and Independence’. This was met by hisses. He enquires: ‘Hive (sic) I not shewn you Oxford logic since I entered your smoky Metropolis (i.e. Auld Reekie)’. At the end of his speech there are ‘Loud cries of “gae hame and suck your mammie.”’ ‘At the 1835 general election as Lord Ramsay he stood as a tory candidate for Edinburgh with “no wish to perpetuate abuses or to preserve blots”’ (ODNB). He was defeated, but... election served to introduce him to public life.’ As Earl of Dalhousie, he later became Governor-General of India, where ‘he proved himself a superb, lucid, and indefatigable administrator who was at once a master of detail but also a strategic thinker’ (ibid). Alexander Dunbar was a running stationer (see SBTI). NLS only in WorldCat.

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126. [Seward (Anna)] MUNDY (Francis Noel Clarke) Needwood Forest. Written in the Year M,DCC, LXXVI. Lichfield: Printed by John Jackson [1776],FIRST EDITION, inscribed on the title-page ‘For Mr. Green - from the Author’, pp, 52, 4to, [bound with:] Seward (Anna) Louisa, a Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles. The Fourth Edition. Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, and G. Robinson, London, 1784, inscribed on the title-page ‘For Mr. Green - from the Author’, and signed ‘Anna Seward’ at the end, 2 leaves (not adjacent) with tiny holes (no loss of text), pp. [vi, including half-title], 93, contemporary calf backed boards, vellum tipped corners, red lettering piece on spine (‘Poems’), joints cracked but cords firm, good (ESTC T92869 and T95512, 2 copies in the UK, 8 in the US) £1,100

The inscriptions on the title-pages are presumably clerical, at least in so far as they are in different hands, and not Anna Seward’s - although the implication is that Seward was the author of both texts. She was in fact a contributor to Needwood Forest - a somewhat tangled tale. ‘Seward’s friendship with Dr Erasmus Darwin started during her adolescence when he was her neighbour and endured in spite of the literary abuses of which she accuses him. In one case she asserts that verses she wrote in his garden in 1779 were reproduced as his own, with a few additional lines, as the Exordium of his Botanic Garden (1791). This was done without her permission or knowledge, even though the verses had already been published as her work in the Gentleman’s Magazine (May 1783). In another case, Darwin wrote three poems and appended them to Francis Mundy’s Needwood Forest (1776); he signed his name to the best one, his son’s name to the second, and Seward’s name to the third and worst poem. When Seward confronted him, ‘he laught it off in a manner peculiar to himself, and with which he carries all his points of despotism’ (Letters, 3.154). See Sylvia Bowerbank, Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England, p. 177. This copy has notes in pencil in a near contemporary hand, making one correction, and assigning certain lines either to Seward or Darwin.

The Fourth Folio 127. Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio ... Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685, magnificent engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses To the Reader on verso of the first leaf, title with fleur-de-lis device (McKerrow 263), double column text within typographical rules, woodcut initials, frontispiece skilfully repaired at inner margin, a tear (repaired) in the top inner corner just passing through the engraved surface for about 1 cm (hatched area), title-page with tears repaired, 2 small lacunae filled in, some of the repaired tears passing through letters but without loss, paperflaw in *Bbb1 with the loss of 7 letters on the recto and several more on the verso (failure to print), water-staining in the inner margins at the beginning, diminishing until absent in gathering E, intermittant water-staining in the lower margins, last leaf mounted and defective at head and foot without loss of text, minor worming strictly in the fore-margin in the third pagination, a few ink splashes here and there, and the odd small rust hole, tears in lower margin of *Bbb6 with loss to blank margin (not affecting text), another to Kkk4 entering the text but without loss, [xii], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.e. 253]-272, [2], 328, 303, [1], folio (362 x 235 mm), modern panelled calf over old boards (by James Brockman), spine richly gilt, contrasting lettering pieces (‘Shakespear’ as per the title-page), black-velvet-lined maroon buckram folding box with a black lettering piece (‘Shakespeare’), good (Bartlett 123; Gregg III, p. 1119; Jaggard p. 497; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S2915; see PMM for the First Folio - a remarkably succinct entry). £85,000

In general a good copy of the Fourth Folio, the last of the 17th-century editions of Shakespeare’s works, edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), the seven plays added by Philip Chetwin (d. 1680), publisher of the Third Folio: the title variant here (no priority) omits Chetwin’s name. A tall copy at 14 inches (cf. the 2 Pforzheimer copies: 910 at 14, and 911 at 13). Of the seven added plays only Pericles is now seriously considered to have any Shakespearian connection. In spite of the ‘Never before Printed’ of the title-page the seven extra plays were in fact included in the second issue of the third edition (1664). A previous owner has had pasted on to the front pastedown another portrait of Shakespeare, the only other example from the seventeenth-century, taken from a copy of the 1640 Poems.

A propos the First Folio the Pforzheimer catalogue emphatically states that ‘it is incomparably the most important work in the English language and will always be valued and revered accordingly’. The meed of veneration due the Fourth Folio, if not so empyrean, is still substantial.

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128. Shakespeare (William) The Two Gentlemen of Verona. A Comedy in Five Acts. Taken from the Manager’s Book, at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. Printed for R. Butters, [1790?], pp. 52, 12mo, bound with 5 other plays (see below), modern russet morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine, (ESTC T63029) £550

A rare edition, with just 3 copies recorded in ESTC, BL, Birmingham, and Rice University. The other Butters’ editions with which it bound are marginally commoner, but are not in the BL. Bound with:

1. [Macklin (Charles)] The Man of the World. Dublin, 1791. 2. Jonson (Ben) The Alchymist ... as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt Book ... Printed for John Bell, 1778. Advertisements at the end including a ‘Complete Set of Dramatic Characters’, i.e. sets of prints of the leading actors of the day in various Shakespearean roles, offered in a number of formats and papers. 3. Congreve (William) Love for Love ... Taken from the Manager’s Book. Butters, [?1790], not in the BL. 4. Moore (Edward) The Foundling ... Taken from the Manager’s Book. Butters, [?1790], not in the BL. 5. Vanbrugh (John) The Confederacy ...Taken from the Manager’s Book. Butters, [?1790], not in the BL.

‘a very curious edition’ 129. Shakespeare (William) Macbeth: With notes and emendations, by Harry Rowe, Trumpet-Major to the high Sheriffs of Yorkshire; and master of a Puppet-Show. York: Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman; sold by Vernor and Hood, London; and by the booksellers in York, 1799, with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece, depicting the aged sitter at a window, holding a copy of the play, emblems of his career on shelves behind him, and a view of a shipwreck out of the window, a little browned, some fraying of edges, and some dust-soiling, pp. vi [-ix], 10-112, 8vo, uncut, stitched in the original blue wrappers, wrappers creased and soiled, spine defective, inscribed inside the front wrapper ‘W. Danby, the gift of Dr. Hunter’, (Jaggard p. 383, stating that the real editor was Dr. Andrew Hunter, and calling for a portrait in the first edition;ESTC T62210) £850

Second edition (first 1797) of ‘a very curious edition of Macbeth ... In this engaging skit on the solemnity of Shakespearian scholars, Rowe claims two authorities for his text. The first is a “very old manuscript” dated “1598”; second, as a puppet-master he consults his “wooden comedians” for advice on emendations (which they freely give)’ (ODNB). This was not any old manuscript: it was in the possession of Rowe’s prompter, ‘one of whose ancestors by the mother’s side, was rush- spreader, and candle-snuffer, at the Globe play-house.’ The publication, by friends of Harry Rowe, was in an effort to stave off his penury, in which it doesn’t seem to have succeeded, as Rowe died in the poorhouse of St Olave’s, York, in 1799. The notes are variously ascribed to John Croft (Rowe’s friend and biographer) and Alexander Hunter (Davies, York Press, p. 309,) and possibly Andrew Hunter, (R. Chambers, Book of days, 1864, ii.436). The inscription in this copy is therefore significant. William Danby was a local land owner, and a writer: he was also some time high sheriff of Yorkshire, and would have been regaled by Rowe’s official trumpeting.

The frontispiece is signed ‘F.A. ad viv del. & Fecit. 1798’, meaning that it could not have been in the 1797 edition; moreover, the 1797 edition was a 12mo and this engraving is too large for a book in that format (unless folded of course). Howbeit ESTC has 2 entries for the first edition, 1 with, and 1 without a portrait. The version of the portrait in the NPG (reproduced in ODNB), with the same signature, has a different legend below the sitter’s name, with the plangent ‘(Last Performances)’ instead of the 4-line summary of Rowe’s career we have here.

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130. (Shakespeare.) THEOBALD (Lewis) Shakespeare Restored: or, a Specimen of the Many Errors, as well Committed, as Unamended, by Mr. Pope in his late edition of this Poet. Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet publish’d. Printed [by Samuel Aris] for R. Francklin, J. Woodman and D. Lyon, and C. Davis, 1726, FIRST EDITION, with woodcut head- and tail-pieces (the latter inscribed ‘Imprim Sam Aris’), pp. [vi], viii, 194, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with a gilt device in each compartment, red lettering piece, handsome gilt roll tooled decoration to board edges, engraved book-label of Lady Evelyn inside front cover, excellent (Jaggard p. 663) £650

First issue (with Francklin spelled thus in the title) of the first critical book devoted to Shakespeare. ‘Theobald recognizes that successive editions were generally printed from their immediate predecessors, with the consequence that “the more the Editions of any Book multiply, the more the Errors multiply too.” He inaugurates scholarly study of Shakespearian grammar and usage by means of parallel passages. Because he had the plays by heart, he was familiar with recurring patterns of imagery. His belief that Shakespeare wrote secretary script, “the universal Character in our Author’s Time”, and his own “Acquaintance with Stage-Books” allowed him precisely to visualize manuscript copy and the kinds of misreading such copy might induce in a printed text. A principal test of conjectural emendation was that a proposed reading should be consistent with “the Traces of the Letters” (that is, with the ductus litterarum) of secretary script and Elizabethan orthography. These considerations are brought to bear on his famous emendation of the first folio’s (1623) “and a Table of greene fields” found in the Hostess’s description of the death of Falstaff (Henry V, II.iii.16–17) “for his Nose was as sharp as a Pen, and a’ babled of green Fields”’ (ODNB).

131. Shaw (George Bernard) The Works of Bernard Shaw. [Thirty volumes.] Constable and Co Ltd., 1930- 1932, 26/1,000 COPIES (of an edition of 1,025 copies), 8vo, original green cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, t.e.g., backstrips a little darkened and flecked with tiny white spots, good £400

Illustrating the difficulty with issuing sets of ‘the works’ by living writers, Constable sold this set as complete in 30 volumes and then had to produce three further entries, in 1934 and 1938 - naturally not all sets include these later additions.

132. [Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft)] Monsieur Nongtongpaw. With illustrations by Robnert Cruikshank. London: Alfred Miller, and Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1830, with title-page vignette and 6 engraved plates by Robert Cruikshank, a few spots, pp. 19, [1], 8vo, original yellow printed wrapers, head and tail of spine a little chipped, near contemporary printed paper over wrapper, good £300

Mary Shelley’s first published work,Monsieur Nongtongpaw, appeared under her father’s imprint in 1808, when she was only 9. The is the first of the editions with Robert Cruikshank’s illustrations. The comical story is of the monoglot John Bull on an excursion to Paris, where his every query is met with ‘Je vous n’entends pas’ - hence Nongtongpaw.

133. [Somers (John, Baron Somers)] A Discourse Concerning Generosity. Printed by H. Clark, for James Adamson, 1693, FIRST EDITION, printer’s ornaments on title-page, water-stain affecting part of fore-edge and having attracted a little insect damage at the end, some minute worming in the upper and inner margins, no loss of text in either case, short tear in G1 without loss, pp. [xii], 143, [1], 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, corners worn, front flyleaf inscribed: ‘Elisa Gregor her Book 1693 / read in 1693’, sound (ESTC R221638) £800

The lawyer and politician John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716), in a distinguished career, published several books on political and legal topics, the present prudential work being unusual in his oeuvre. ‘His legal abilities, constitutional achievements in helping secure the union with Scotland and the Hanoverian succession, and his belief in religious toleration excited extravagant praise from whig historians... According to John Macky’s character sketch of Somers aged about fifty, he was “of a grave deportment, easy and free in conversation; something of a libertine”’ (ODNB). Rare: 3 copies in the UK, BL and 2 Oxford libraries; 5 in the US.

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134. Statius. [Opera.] Venice: per Octavianus Scotus, 1483, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a small scattering of wormholes to first and last few leaves - stretching on the last two leaves to a short trail with minor loss from three words - with a small hole at each end continuing about 20 leaves farther with no loss of sense, a little worming in the gutter elsewhere, small dampmarks extending from the gutter at beginning and end (with a small repair to affected blank area on verso of first leaf), another old repair to blank corner of last leaf, otherwise quite fresh and clean apart from browning to a few leaves, library blindstamp to first and last leaf, a number of old ink annotations in several hands (see below), ff. [229] (of 230, lacking initial blank), folio (305 x 205mm), early twentieth-century sprinkled calf, plainly decorated with a triple blind fillet, spine lettered in gilt direct, all edges blue, a few scratches to boards, lightly rubbed at extremities, large library bookplate to front pastedown, pencilled purchase note to flyleaf, old binder’s blank preserved and repaired at front containing several inscriptions and a tiny fragment of old vellum binding guard, good (ISTC is00691000 [this the Wigan PL copy]; Bod-inc S-286; BMC V 278; Goff S691; Dibdin II 423) £6,500

Often called the editio princeps, this is in fact the first collected edition of an author whose early printing history is complex and was often misunderstood. The first printing of any of Statius’s works appears to have been around 1470 by an anonymous printer, probably in Rome, comprising the epics (Thebais and Achilleis) only; there were several further editions in that decade, mostly omitting mention of printer, date, or both, and all quite rare. The Silvae, which had only been rediscovered in the 1410s by Poggio and brought to Italy forty years later, first saw print attached to the 1472 editio princeps of Catullus and had a separate printing by Pannartz, with the commentary of Domitius Calderinus, in August 1475. This edition prints for the first time all of Statius’s extant works in one volume, reproducing the 1475 Silvae and its commentary - down to a colophon at the end giving the date of August 1475, which contributed much to the confusion over priority of editions - following the Thebais and the Achilleis with their commentaries by Lactantius Placidus and Franciscus Maturantius, respectively. It was reprinted at Venice in 1490.

The Silvae were the more interesting texts for Renaissance humanists - Poliziano himself composed a set of ‘Silvae’ - and others until relatively recently; in this volume they seem to have been the only ones read. There are ink annotations in the Silvae in this volume in at least three hands, one sixteenth (contributing only a few marginal catchwords) and two seventeenth, one adding further catchwords and the other contributing more, including three longer notes on I.5 discussing other baths and a number of interlinear expansions and corrections in that poem, with a slightly smaller number of interlinear additions in other poems in Books II-V.

135. Stevenson (Robert Louis) A Child’s Garden of Verses. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, lavishly illustrated throughout, occasional light handling marks and one or two faint foxspots, pp. xiv, 140, [1], 16 [ads], crown 8vo, original dark green cloth with Robinson illustration stamped in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt with softening at tips, slight lean to spine, textblock strained in a couple of places, a.e.g., light spotting to endpapers with ownership inscription to flyleaf and Strang’s portrait of Stevenson laid in, very good (Prideaux 14) £350

The ownership inscription is that of Mabel Gore Booth, likely the sister of Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) - Irish republican and first woman elected to parliament - and the suffragist and poet Eva Gore-Booth; Yeats was part of their circle and recalls evenings at their family home, Lissadell House, in his 1927 poem ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz’ (ODNB).

John Logie Baird and the birth of television 136. (Television.) A Collection of early Books on Television, beginning with Dinsdale, Television, 1926, 16 books, with illustrations and diagrams as called for, 8vo and 4to, original bindings, in good condition £3,000

A good representative collection of pioneering works on television, comprising:

1. Dinsdale (Alfred) Television. Seeing by Wire or Wireless, Isaac Pitman, 1926, original printed boards. Text block broken between first and second gatherings, but stitching holding. The fundamental text, and very scarce. 2. Dinsdale (Alfred) Television. With a Foreword by Dr. J.A. Fleming. Television Press, 1928, original

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cloth, spine faded. 3. Television. The World’s First Television Journal. The Official Organ of the Television Society. Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. The Television Press, March 1928-February 1930. Vols. 1 and 2, with Indexes, the first with its wrapper, slightly browned in places, original publisher’s cloth case binding, lettered in gilt on the upper cover. 4. Sheldon (H. Horton) and Edgar Norman Grisewood. Television. Present Methods of Picture Transmission. Second printing, The Library Press Limited, 1930, original cloth. 5. Moseley (Sydney A.) and H.J. Barton Chapple. Television Today and Tomorrow. With a Foreword by J. Logie Baird. Second edition, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1931, original cloth, inscribed ‘To a bull! Yours, Moseley’, and also signed by Baird. 6. Chapple (H.J. Barton) Television for the Amateur Constructor. With a Foreword by Mr. J.L. Baird. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1933, original cloth, spine slightly faded. 7. Camm (F.J.) Newnes Television and Short-wave Handbook. George Newnes, Limited, 1934, original cloth, large stain on upper cover. Includes a Dictionary of Television Terms. 8. Robinson (Ernest H.) Televiewing. With a Foreword by Gerald Cock. Selwyn & Blount Ltd., [1935], title browned, original cloth, strikingly lettered on upper cover and spine, spine slightly rubbed. 9. Dowding (G.V.), editor. Book of Practical Television. The Amalgamated Press Limited, 1935, original cloth. 10. Myers (L.M.) Television Optics. An Introduction. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1936, original cloth. 11. Ardenne (Manfred von) Television Reception. Construction and Operation of a Cathode Ray Tube Receiver for the Reception of Ultra-short Wave Television Broadcasting. Translated by O.S. Puckle. Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1936, first couple of pages slightly foxed, original ‘Flexiback Binding’ of cloth, dust jacket, jacket slightly soiled. 12. Moseley (Sydney A.) and Herbert McKay. Television. A Guide for the Amateur. Oxford University Press, 1936, original pictorial cloth. Book-plate and ownership inscription of F.O. Moseley. 13. World Radio and Television Annual, The. Jubilee Issue. Edited by Gale Pedrick. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [1946], original cloth, snag in spine. 14. Television Annual for 1952, The. Edited by Kenneth Baily. Odhams Press Ltd., [1952], original cloth and dust jacket. 15. Moseley (Sydney) John Baird. The Romance and Tragedy of the Pioneer of Television. Odhams Press Limited, [1952].

137. [Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Paris Sketch book: By Mr. Titmarsh. With numerous designs by the author, on copper and wood. John Macrone, 1840, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 plates in each vol., the plates rather browned and spotted as usual (sometimes affecting the facing page as well), pp.[viii], 304; [iv], 298, 12mo, twentieth-century polished biscuit calf, by Riviere, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, a touch of rubbing, bookplates of Herbert Standen, very good (Grolier 14; Van Duzer 159) £600

Thackeray’s first full-length book, written in Paris during 1839, and entirely illustrated by him. The cunning face of ‘Cartouche,’ in the tale of that name, is strikingly similar to Becky Sharp’s in ‘Vanity Fair,’ published nine years later.

138. Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works of... [Twenty-four volumes.] Smith, Elder & Co., 1869- 1886, some vols. with illustrations (where called for), paper slightly age-toned throughout, 8vo, later half green morocco by Riviere, marbled boards, spines gilt, just slightly sunned, occasional minor rubbing, very good £1,500

The last two volumes were printed in 1886.

139. Theocritus. Tade enestin, ente garoi se biblo Eidyllia hex kai triakonta. [Rome: Zacharias Callierges, 1516,] a little light toning and spotting,. ff. [88], [116], 8vo, early nineteenth-century

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mid-brown polished calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, edges red, marbled endpapers, corners slightly worn, joints near-invisibly strengthened and front flyleaf re-attached, bookplate of Thomas Gaisford and letter from Earl Spencer to Gaisford glued to front endpapers, Gaisford’s ownership inscription and manuscript table of contents to blank endpapers, good (Adams T460; Dibdin II 485; CNCE 32693) £9,500

The first edition of Theocritus to include the scholia (the fourth edition overall), and also the second book ever printed in Greek at Rome. Callierges, a Cretan native, printed initially at Venice but in the early 1510s moved to Rome, probably at the invitation of Pope Leo X, and had a fount of Greek type cast. With it he printed Pindar in 1515, and then this edition of Theocritus in January 1516. ‘As a printer of Greek, the achievements of Callierges are second only to those of Aldus. As an engraver of Greek type, he is in a class by himself. Only the potent commercial force of the Aldine press and the magic homogeneity of Griffo’s types have obscured its fame’ (Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type, p. 75).

This copy belonged to Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), Regius Professor of Greek and later Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. It was given to Gaisford in January 1815 by the collector George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer - the prime mover in the creation of the Roxburghe Club - and his letter presenting the volume is tipped in. He writes: ‘Having understood from Mr Grenville that you are desirous of referring to the edition of Theocritus printeed by Callierges & having fortunately a duplicate copy of that book by me; I have desired Mr Bliss who is returning from here to Oxford to take charge of the volume, & beg you would do me the favour to accept it. The copy was in my original library here & formerly belonged to Dr George the headmaster of Eton. It is not in very firm preservation, but will I hope be looked upon by you as a mute testimony of the respect with which I remain, sir, your very obedient humble servent, Spencer’.

Gaisford was then in the process of editing Theocritus for his collection of Poetae Minores Graeci (1816), in which he also printed the scholia and added a useful critical apparatus. He presumably arranged for the current binding to fix the ‘not very firm preservation’ that Spencer describes.

140. (Trial.) The Tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th. 1662. Together with what he intended to have Spoken the Day of his Sentence, (June 11.) for Arrest of Judgment, (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the Court) and his Bill of Exceptions. With other Occasional Speeches, &c. Also his Speech and Prayer, &c. on the Scaffold. ?London: Printed in the Year 1662, FIRST EDITION, without the initial blank, last leaf (Errata on recto) partly defective (without loss of text) and laid down, pp. [3-] 134, [1], 4to, bound with a slightly greater number of blank leaves in modern calf backed boards, a few contemporary annotations, sound (ESTC R21850; Sabin 98500) £1,200

‘Written by a Sectarist in favour of Vane, and printed by stealth’ (Lowndes). Although, as Sabin remarks, ‘the religious works and printed speeches have little direct connection with his life in Massachusetts’, ‘Vane’s godly republicanism was genuinely eirenical, perceiving that goodness was not confined to the saints, and pursuing the reconciliation of all those formerly united under the banner of civil and Christian liberty. This understudied ideological legacy survived the débâcle of 1659 to influence the subsequent development of republicanism on both sides of the Atlantic’ (ODNB).

The contemporary annotations, to the ‘Tryal’ section, mostly comprise notes as to statutes mnetioned but not named in the text, so we can probably assume that they are in the hand of a lawyer - and an elderly one, to judge by the shakiness of the hand.

141. (Trial. United Irishmen.) THE TRIAL AT LARGE of Arthur O’Connor, Esq. John Binns, John Allen, Jeremiah Leary, and James Coigley, for High Treason ... on Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22d of May, 1798, at Maidstone; ... By James Fergusson. Printed for Parsons, [?1798], with an engraved portrait frontispiece (profile heads of the suspects), damp-stain at the beginning,pp. 51, 8vo, old marbled wrappers, paper label on upper cover titled in ink, another pamphlet possibly removed from binding, neat signature at head of title of Chri[stophe]r Wilson, sound (ESTC T179161) £750

Various versions of this sensational trial were published in its immediate aftermath, both in England (London and Maidstone) and Ireland (Dublin and Cork). Of this particular edition ESTC records 5 copies, 2 in the UK (not in the BL), and 3 in Ireland. ‘The Binns brothers were closely involved with both Arthur O’Connor, editor of The Press, the semi-official paper of the United Irishmen, and Father James Coigley,

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a Catholic priest who acted as an emissary from the United Irishmen to both France and the United Englishmen. Early in 1798 John travelled to Kent seeking to arrange passage to France for O’Connor and Coigley. On 28 February he was arrested in Margate, together with O’Connor, Coigley, and their two servants. Charged with high treason, the five were imprisoned in the Tower of London before being tried at the assizes held in Maidstone in May. Leading members of the parliamentary opposition testified on O’Connor’s behalf and the government was reluctant to reveal the origins of its secret information on the United Irishmen. As a result all were acquitted, except Coigley, who had been arrested with incriminating correspondence in his pocket, and who was executed on 7 June’ (ODNB). Coigley (or Quigley)’s sentence was to be ‘hanged, but not till he is dead; his heart and bowels to be taken out and burned before his face, his head to be severed from his body, and his body to be divided into four quarters.’ Hanging, drawing and quartering was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

142. Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset. In Two Volumes. Smith, Elder and Co. 1867, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bound from the parts, 32 plates by George H. Thomas, occasional minor foxing, pp. [iv], 384; [iv], 384, 8vo, near contemporary citron calf. single gilt fillets on sides, spines gilt in compartment, red and black lettering pieces, spines very slightly darkened, small abrasion to upper cover of vol. ii, corners a trifle worn, good (Sadleir, Trollope 26; Wolff 6784) £500

The last of the six chronicles of fictional Barsetshire, this work severed his working relationship with Millais, who was rejected in favour of George Thomas as illustrator. It is most famous for the surprising death of Mrs. Proudie, a literary coup de grace that Trollope later claimed to regret, despite its enormous impact on readers.

143. Trollope (Anthony) The Chronicles of Barsetshire. In Eight Volumes. Chapman and Hall, 1887- 89, 8 vols., half-titles, series titles, and frontispieces all present, 8vo, original olive green cloth, front covers decorated in black, spines lettered in gilt, label carefully removed from vol. i, some minor rubbing to extremities, good (Sadleir pp. 245-48) £400

The first attempt at a collected edition of Trollope, comprising six novels. Trollope himself was anxious that his Barsetshire vovels be brought together in a uniform series, and furnished a short preface. The set was originally to comprise six volumes (omitting The Small House at Allington), so that the earliest issues have series titles calling for six volumes, and individual title-pages dated 1878; more usually, as here, eight volumes are called for. Sadleir states that only 750 sets were printed, but these, dated ten years later, are probably re-impressions rather than re-issues.

144. Walker (George) The Vagabond, A Novel, in two volumes. - Vol. I [-II]. Third Edition, with Notes. Printed for G. Walker, and Hurst, 1799, 2 vols., printed on blue paper, bound without the half-titles, occasional minor foxing, pp. [xxiv, without i-ii, half-title], 229, 1, ads]; [viii, without i-ii, half-title], 275, 12mo, contemporary half geen roan over pink boards, the spines slightly darkened, extremities slightly worn, discolouration to boards, circular bookplates removed from inside front covers, good (ESTC T71312; see Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1799:4) £850

An attractive copy of the third edition within a year of this anti-Jacobin novel: added here are a new Preface, and the Notes. A. D. Harvey, in “George Walker and the anti-revolutionary novel”, Review of English Studies, new ser., 28 (1977), 290–300, ‘regards this “picaresque masterpiece”, with Godwin as its target, and the best of the anti-reform novels, exhibiting “the anxious repudiation of the new ideals about woman’s role”’. Godwin is indeed the chief target, under the sobriquet of Stupeo, but far from the only one. Hume for instance is ridiculed, and an attempt to found a Utopian colony in Kentuchy unsurprisingly fails. There was a Dublin edition, 2 in America, and a French translation.

145. Wallis (John) The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland: and of so much of the county of Durham as lies bewteen the Rivers Tyne and Tweed; commonly called North Bishoprick. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Printed for the Author, by W. and W. Strahan; and sold by S. Bladon, 1769, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., pp. [iv], [2, List of Subscribers], v-xxvii, [4, Contents], 438, [1, Errata]; [iv], 562, 22, [1, Errata], 4to, contemporary calf, red lettering pieces, numbered in gilt

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direct, front flyleaf in vol. ii excised, some rubbing and wear to extremities but a good solid set, armorial bookplate of Ra. Clavering of Callaly inside front cover, (ESTC T145681 £600

A good copy of this valuable Natural History and Antiquities (vols. i & ii respectively), with a distinguished Northumbrian provenance. ‘Wallis provided a benchmark for today’s naturalists, as well as a source of eighteenth-century English and Northumbrian names for many common species of plants and animals. The second volume deals with the antiquities, arranged in three tours through the county and is also still considered a valuable point of reference’ (ODNB).

146. Whyte (Alexander) Velina. A moral tale. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Printed for William Miller, 1812, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., printed on blue paper, with half-title and errata leaf in vol. i, vol. ii without half-title and with Whyte’s Preface, some soiling and staining, a few early leaves in both vols. slightly frayed, a number of minor tears, none affecting text, pp. [vi], 216; [i], [v-] xiix, 196, [4, ads], 8vo, uncut in contemporary half calf over drab boards, volume number in Roman numerals in gilt on spines, rubbed and worn, repairs to spines, ticket of bookseller J. Caldwell, Blandford Street, Manchester Square, inside front covers, and book-label of Constance Strachey, Sutton Court, dated 1887, inside front cover of vol. i, small armorial bookplate apparently removed from possibly later flyleaf in vol. ii, front flyleaf in vol. i also possibly later, sound (Garside & Schöwerling 1812: 65; BM copy only in COPAC and NSTC [W1797]; Cornell & UCLA only in the US; not in Sadleir or Wolff) £4,000

A rare novel, somewhat sensational in its plot, but very serious in its treatment of the subject of slavery: set, largely, in Jamaica. The author’s preface, which, rather oddly,here is bound at the beginning of vol.ii (of which more anon), concentrates on one aspect of the novel, namely ‘the chapters which regard the condition and improvement of the slaves’. He asserts that ‘some plan of instruction for the negroes, was not only expedient, but a matter of imperious necessity.’ His proposal is for plantation schools along the lines of those recently established in England by Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster - he doesn’t enter into the dispute as to whom originated the system. It is the eponymous heroine who is chiefly responsible for the introduction of such a school on a certain (coffee) plantation in Jamaica. She is the only daughter of Mandeville, scion of an ancient Kentish, now in somewhat reduced circumstance: his wife dies when the child was but seven years old. He brings her up according to his own notions of what a girl’s education should be, derived mainly from Turgot and Condorcet: he was determined that she should not turn out just one of the ‘beautiful automatons that crowd our assembles’. His neighbour is Colville, a Jamaican planter, and an abolitionist. Colville marries Velina: towards the end of 1795 Colville has to return to Jamaica, and Velina goes with him. Such was Colville’s prior goodness to his slaves, and such the success of the school, that when a slave revolt breaks in other parts of the island, his slaves remain faithful to him. The novel was written between the Slave Trade Act of 1807, (which, as Whyte points out means that ‘the period is now arrived when the black population in the West Indies, must depend entirely on its own natural means of reproduction’), and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Haunting the narrative is the Haitian Revolution (not so called of course), and one chapter takes us to the new Republic, and Toussaint makes an appearance. The mainspring of the plot is the machinations of Velina’s would-be seducer, before her marriage to Colville, and later in Jamaica. There are many themes: religious toleration among them. The author, a barrister himself, also lambasts the current state of the judiciary in Jamaica.

The make-up of the volumes is peculiar. Both vols. seem to have been recased, though not at all recently (the rear flyleaf in vol. ii is watermarked 1816), and accordingly one cannot be sure if the preliminary leaves have been interfered with. All the same, the Preface (signature b, beginning on p. [v]) has always been bound where it is: this pagination would fit it in with the preliminaries in vol. i, if it followed the half-title and title in vol. i - but the third leaf in vol. i, which bears the errata, is part of an incomplete gathering, being followed by a stub. In the BL copy (which is a good 15mm shorter than ours, and has been cruelly overstitched and rebound), the preface is in its natural place, and the Errata leaf is before the advertisements at the end of vol. ii. Two leaves in vol. i appear to be cancels, but there is no textual difference with the BL copy.

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There is a Jamaica connection in the Strachey family. Jane Maria Strachey [née Grant], Lady Strachey (1840-1928), suffragist, was the second daughter of John Peter Grant (1807-1893) Indian administrator and later governor of Jamaica, and perhaps these volumes arrived at Sutton Court under this influence.

147. Wilberforce (William) A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Yorkshire. Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies: sold also by J. Hatchard, 1807, FIRST EDITION, bound without the half-title, gathering P somewhat foxed, pp. [i], iii, 396, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, sponged decorated edges with alternating designs separated by wavy lines, joints slightly tender, corners a little worn, engraved bookplate inside front cover (pasted over another), 2 crests and the motto ‘Virtus mille scuta’ (?Earl of Effingham), good (Sabin 103953; Goldsmiths’19504; Kress B5282; PMM 232) £2,000

‘Fox’s death in September [1806] again destabilized the political situation and was a set-back for abolition. Grenville called a general election with a view to strengthening his position, and after a tense campaign Wilberforce once more carried Yorkshire without a poll. He spent the time before parliament met working on A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Like the Practical View, his other substantial literary work, this was a pamphlet that grew into a book. It consolidated and restated the formidable array of evidence and argumentation against the trade that Wilberforce had developed over the previous two decades. Its publication on 31 January 1807 served to inform the final phase of the struggle, which had already begun with Grenville’s introduction of an Abolition Bill in the Lords. When it had passed the upper house by unexpectedly large majorities, Viscount Howick (Charles Grey) moved its second reading in the Commons on 23 February. Wilberforce, though, was the real hero of the evening, as it became clear that this phase of his labours was at last coming to a triumphant end’ (ODNB).

148. [Wilde (Oscar)] An Ideal Husband by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan. [Chiswick Press for] Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899, FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies printed, endpapers a little browned and foxed and the merest hint of a transfer of this to the half-title, pp. [xvi], 213, [1], 4to, uncut in the original lavender cloth with gilt designs by Charles Shannon, spine and a portion of the lower board very slightly faded, corners a trifle worn, armorial bookplate of Farquharson Tweedale inside front cover, very good (Mason 385) £1,500

An Ideal Husband opened on 3rd January 1895 (cast list here among the preliminaries). Bernard Shaw, reviewing it in the Saturday Review, hailed Wilde as ‘our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theatre.’

149. [Wilde (Oscar)] The Importance of being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan. [Chiswick Press for] Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899, FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies printed, this one not numbered, uniformly very slightly browned, the occasional light spot, pp. [xvi], [152, last page not numbered], 4to, original lavender cloth with gilt designs by Charles Shannon, spine faded and possibly cleaned, a little fading to sides, corners a trifle worn, tanning to endpapers, good (Mason 381) £2,000

The Importance of being Earnest ‘won critical unanimity of applause (save for Shaw) and the twentieth century in general, when permitted to view it, hailed it as the greatest English comedy of all time’ (ODNB). A book almost impossible to find in fine condition: this copy is quite presentable.

150. Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918, a few spots here and there, pp. [46], [2, ads], small square 8vo, original light greeny-blue boards, the upper cover printed with a design by Charles Ricketts, dustjacket with part of that design repeated, backstrip panel of dustjacket slightly darkened, good £350

This is a reprint of Mason 363.

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151. [Wilkes (John)] The North Briton. To which is added, by Way of Appendix, the Letters which passed between the Rt. Hon. Earl of Talbot, &c. and John Wilkes, Esq; previous to their Duel. Together with all the Papers relative to the Confinement and Enlargement of Mr. Wilkes. With many other curious Particulars. Vol. I [-III]. [vols. i & ii] Dublin: Printed by J. Potts, [vol. iii] London: Printed by especial appointment for E. Sumpter. And, Dublin: Re-printed, and sold by the Booksellers, 1763, 3 vols., pp. [i], 195; [i], 173, 33, [1, ads]; [i], 195, 12mo, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, red lettering pieces, numbered in gilt direct, very good (ESTC T195003 & N19482) £600

A very pretty set. ESTC has three entries for Dublin 1763 editions, one for the first 2 vols., another for the third vol. alone, and another entry for the second edition (all three vols., T181842), this last noting that in the third volume the imprint reads: ‘Lnodon [sic]: printed by especial appointment for E. Sumpter’ &c. In this edition ‘London’ vs. ‘Lnodon’ is a variant, and is here spelt correctly.

The North Briton was ‘founded on 5 June 1762 to attack the new ministry of George III’s Scottish favourite, Lord Bute ... When Bute resigned on 8 April 1763 he was succeeded as prime minister by George Grenville, who had broken with Pitt and Temple in 1761. Wilkes momentarily held his fire, but when Grenville ended the parliamentary session by a king’s speech commending the peace, North Briton no. 45 on 23 April denounced the “ministerial effrontery” of obliging George III “to give the sanction of his sacred name” to such “odious” measures and “unjustifiable” declarations. Immediate prosecution of the paper for seditious libel ensued’ (ODNB).

152. Wollstonecraft (Mary) A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France. The second edition. Printed for J. Johnson, 1790, paper flaw in the title leaf with a weak area around the 2nd and 4th lines of the text, but without loss, the same leaf becoming loose from the bottom, a few leaves bound in askew, first few leaves a little foxed, stab holes from original binding in wrappers,pp. iv, 159, 8vo, early twentieth-century half red calf for Henry Sotheran & Co., gilt edges, a bit marked, spine darkened, good (Windle A4b; Rothschild 2596; ESTC T7171; Goldsmiths’ 14559) £2,000

The same year as the first edition, which was anonymous. ‘Up to 1789 there was little in Wollstonecraft’s professional life to distinguish her from the rest of the small army of women working at the lower end of the eighteenth-century literary scene ... But times were auspicious for would-be intellectual high-flyers. In 1789 the Bastille fell; in 1790 Edmund Burke published his famous attack on the French Revolution which outraged all English radicals, including Wollstonecraft. Burke’s apologia for the ancien régime, she fumed, revealed his indifference to the “silent majesty of misery” in France ... She must have expressed such views effectively, since Johnson encouraged her to write a refutation. With some trepidation she did so, and her Vindication of the Rights of Men was an immediate success’ (ODNB). As Windle observes: ‘surprisingly the next edition was not printed for 170 years.’

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Part II­­ Modern Books

153. (Acorn Press.) WEISSENBORN (Hellmuth) Fantasy. Hand-Coloured Linocuts. 1978, ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES signed by the artist (this copy neither numbered nor signed) printed on Wookey Hole handmade paper, with 21 linocuts by Weissenborn printed in blue or brown and finished with handcolouring, each with a printed title, the linocuts and text pages all printed on rectos only, pp. [44], lge.4to., original mid green boards with faded backstrip, printed front cover label, untrimmed, matching board slipcase with printed label, near fine £50

154. (Acorn Press.) WEISSENBORN (Helmuth, Illustrator) An Anthology of Love. With Linocuts by Helmuth Weissenborn. 1985, 45/100 COPIES, 15 linocuts printed in brown or blue,printed on buff Zerkall moulmade paper, pp. [44], square 8vo, original oatmeal cloth with printed label inset to upper board, edges untrimmed, fine (Carter 195) £80

Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

155. Alcott (Louisa M.) Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys. Boston: Roberts, 1871, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue, frontispiece with tissue-guard, light handling marks, creasing to a few leaves, small waterstain to leading edge of front ads, pp. [4, ads], [iv], 376, foolscap 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt to upper board with blind-stamped double-fillet border to both, backstrip a little darkened and lettered in gilt, spine rolled, rubbing to extremities with a touch of wear at corners, top edge green and a little dulled, other edges browned, front hinge a little cracked with bookplate tipped in to flyleaf and small bookseller sticker to front pastedown, good £950

156. (Allen Lane Christmas Book.) CALMAN (Mel) For Such as are of Riper Years. Allen Lane. 1965, [ONE OF 2,000 COPIES] printed on Chariot Cartridge paper, several cartoons by Calman, pp. [18], oblong cr.8vo., original orange cloth-backed pale grey boards, backstrip gilt lettered, front cover with a Calman cartoon, incorporating the title, in black, orange and yellow, fine £85

With the Allen Lane Christmas card for 1965, signed by him, loosely inserted. Mel Calman has pencilled his signature and a small sketch beneath the colophon.

157. (Allen Lane Christmas Book.) COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Allen and Richard Lane, 1945, ONE OF 700 COPIES printed on Barcham Green handmade paper, 5 colourprinted plates by Duncan Grant, the marginal notes printed in red, pp. 36, cr.8vo., original dark blue morocco, the backstrip lettering and the front cover design all gilt blocked, merest hint of fading to backstrip with a couple of areas of faint blotching to boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed and lightly toned, faint adhesive browning to borders of pastedowns, very good £300

Complete with the amusing Christmas card loosely inserted in the book and signed by Allen Lane.

158. (Allen Lane Christmas Book.) LINKLATER (Eric) Private Angelo. Allen Lane. 1957, ONE OF 2,000 COPIES printed on India paper, decorated pink and white endpapers from designs by David Gentleman, pp. [v], 237, [1], f’cap. 8vo., original cream, pink and pale grey boards, backstrip gilt lettered, fine £50

With the Allen Lane Christmas Card loosely inserted and signed by him.

Composed entirely without metal type and the first book produced in Britain by photocomposition.

159. (Ariel Poems.) The Complete Ariel Poems [Boxed Set of 38 vols:] 1. Thomas Hardy, Yuletide in a Younger World, Drawings by Albert Rutherston

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2. Henry Newbolt, The Linnet’s Nest, Drawings by Ralph Keene 3. Laurence Binyon, The Wonder Night, Drawings by Barnett Freedman 4. Walter de la Mare, Alone, Wood Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton 5. G.K. Chesterton, Gloria in Profundis, Wood Engravings by Eric Gill 6. Wilfrid Gibson, The Early Whistler, Drawings by John Nash 7. Siegfried Sassoon, Nativity, Designs by Paul Nash 8. T.S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi, Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer 9. The Chanty of the Nona, Poem and Drawings by Hilaire Belloc 10. W.H. Davies, Moss and Feather, Illustrated by William Nicholson 11. Walter de la Mare, Self to Self, Wood Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton 12. Humbert Wolfe, Troy, Drawings by Charles Ricketts 13. Harold Monro, The Winter Solstice, Drawings by David Jones 14. Siegfried Sassoon, To My Mother, Drawings by Stephen Tennant 15. Edith Sitwell, Popular Song, Designs by Edward Bawden 16. T.S. Eliot, A Song for Simeon, Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer 17. Edmund Blunden, Winter Nights, Drawings by Albert Rutherston 18. W.B. Yeats, Three Things, Drawings by Gilbert Spencer 19. A.E., Dark Weeping, Designs by Paul Nash 20. Walter de la Mare, A Snowdrop, Drawings by Claudia Guercio 21. G.K. Chesterton, Ubi Ecclesia, Drawings by Diana Murphy 22. James Stephens, The Outcast, drawings by Althea Willoughby 23. T.S. Eliot, Animula, Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes 24. Peter Quennell, Inscription on a Fountain-Head, Drawings by Albert Rutherston 25. G.K. Chesterton, The Grave of Arthur, Drawings by Celia Fiennes 26. Harold Monro, Elm Angel, Wood Engravings by Eric Ravilious 27. Siegfried Sassoon, In Sicily, Drawings by Stephen Tennant 28. D.H. Lawrence, The Triumph of the Machine, Drawings by Althea Willoughby 29. T.S. Eliot, Marina, Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer 30. Roy Campbell, The Gum Trees, Drawings by David Jones 31. Walter de la Mare, News, Drawings by Barnett Freedman 32. Henry Newbolt, A Child is Born, Drawings by Althea Willoughby 33. Walter de la Mare, To Lucy, Drawings by Albert Rutherston 34. Siegfried Sassoon, To the Red Rose, Drawings by Stephen Tennant 35. T.S. Eliot, Triumphal March, Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer 36. Edith Sitwell, Jane Barston 1719-1746, Drawings by R.A. Davies 37. Vita Sackville-West, Invitation To Cast Out Care, Drawings by Graham Sutherland 38. Roy Campbell, Choosing A Mast, Drawings by Barnett Freedman Faber and Faber, [1927-31,] FIRST EDITIONS, usually 2 illustrations (normally one coloured), one used as a decoration on each front cover, faint foxing to first volume,each pp. [4], foolscap 8vo, original printed sewn wrappers of varying colours, occasional offsetting from flaps or illustrations, faint mark at head of spine to vol. 16, custom slipcase and card folder, a very good set £1,000

Signed by author and artist 160. Banville (John) Conversation in the Mountains. Paintings and drawings by Donald Teskey. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2008, 203/350 COPIES (from an edition of 400 copies) signed by the author, titles and numerals printed in bronze, 6 full page colour illustrations and 2 reproductions of charcoal drawings, pp. [55], 8vo, original brown linen, upper board blocked in blind, tissue jacket, fine £170

Uniquely, this copy is also signed by the artist. A radio-play first broadcast onBBC Radio 4 in January 2006.

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161. Barry (Sebastian) On Canaan’s Side. Faber and Faber, 2011, FIRST EDITION, 9/100 COPIES (from an edition of 105 copies) signed by the author, pp. [x], 256, 8vo, original quarter blue leather with burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, matching slipcase, fine £110

Inscribed to Kay Boyle 162. Beckett (Samuel) Compagnie. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1980, FIRST EDITION, pp. 92, foolscap 8vo, original printed white wrappers, fine £750

This was Kay Boyle’s copy, with her signature on the front free endpaper. Samuel Beckett has inscribed the title-page ‘for Kay with love from Sam’. The parcel address label, the address written by Beckett, in which the book was despatched to Kay Boyle, is loosely inserted in the book.

Kay Boyle, novelist and poet, was a close friend of Beckett, having first met him during her years in France in the nineteen twenties and thirties. Their friendship remained close, they continued a correspondence and Beckett occasionally had the opportunity of meeting her following her return to America after the war.

Inscribed to Kay Boyle 163. Beckett (Samuel) Mal vu Mal dit. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1981, FIRST EDITION, pp. 80, foolscap 8vo, original printed white wrappers with a scattering of pinprick foxspots, very good £700

This was Kay Boyle’s copy, with her signature on the front free endpaper. Samuel Beckett has inscribed the title-page ‘for Kay affectionately, Sam - March 81’.

164. Betjeman (John) Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. John Murray, 1937, FIRST EDITION, printed on pale blue paper with a 4-leaf insert of white India Paper printed in black and red, 16 illustrations (some full-page) and border designs by de Cronin Hastings, Osbert Lancaster, Gabriel Pippet and others, pp.[x], 45, 8vo, original black cloth, the backstrip and front cover blocked in gilt to a design by Osbert Lancaster, a.e.g., bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, price-clipped dustjacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer with darkened backstrip panel a little chipped at tips, light rubbing to extremities, very good (Peterson A5a) £125

165. Betjeman (John) A Few Late Chrysanthemums. John Murray, 1954, FIRST EDITION, pp.[viii], 95, foolscap 8vo, original mauve cloth with printed label to upper board, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket, near fine (Peterson A21a) £275

Signed by John Betjeman on the flyleaf

166. Betjeman (John) First and Last Loves. John Murray, 1952, FIRST EDITION, numerous illustrations (reproducing work by John Piper among others), also a folding diagrammatic illustration by Piper, light foxing to prelims with occasional spots further in, pp.xi, 244, 8vo, original white cloth with decorations in blue, backstrip lettered in blue, some light soiling and handling marks, a few foxspots to edges, bookplate tipped in to front pastedown, price-clipped dustjacket chipped and rubbed with light overall soiling, creasing around head and loss at tips of backstrip, good (Peterson A20a) £500

A characteristically amusing inscription by the author on the front free endpaper ‘Cheerioh old girl, Cats balls for ever, John B’. Sadly, we do not know who was the recipient of this volume.

An inscribed book with an amusing holograph skit by Betjeman 167. Betjeman (John) ‘Grades of Churchmanship: A Handy Guide’. Illustrated manuscript in blue ink on a single half-sheet of lined paper, faintly spotted and frayed around edges, laid in at front of Hardwick (J.C.), Lawn Sleeves. A Short Life of Samuel Wilberforce. Oxford: Blackwell, 1933, FIRST EDITION, single faint foxspot to prelims, pp. [viii], 195, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, rubbed and scuffed overall, separated along upper joint with splitting to lower, sound £1,000

The book is inscribed by John Betjeman on the flyleaf: ‘The Reverend Major, in remembrance of his 2

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years in the Ministry of the Church of England Reformed, from John Betjeman 1939’.

Betjeman’s delineation of the three grades of churchmanship characterises each by altar, times of worship, headgear and physiognomy, affiliation, vestment and stole - these for the most part taking the form of illustrations. A further note by Betjeman is found on the reverse: ‘To laugh is light, not to laugh is deep. Light is bad, deep is good. That is what I learned, by implication, from my tutor. One was allowed to laugh at what he thought was bad. That is the privilege of an educated person. Light literature meant literature that was easy to ready & made you la- [crossed through] meant you to laugh’.

168. Betjeman (John) Mount Zion; or, in Touch with the Infinite.The James Press, [1931,] FIRST EDITION, special issue, text, decorations and decorative borders printed in brown on pale green paper, and 8 full-page illustrations by de Cronin Hastings and others printed in blue on pink paper, small inkspot to border of p. 41 and facing illustration, pp.57, 8vo, original blue and gold decorated boards, pictorial label printed in blue on upper board, light overall dustsoiling and toning with head of backstrip chipped, top corners a little bumped, bookplate to flyleaf, good (Peterson A1b) £750

Betjeman’s first book, a collection of twenty-one poems.

169. Betjeman (John) New Bats in Old Belfries. Poems [second printing]. John Murray, 1945, pp.vi, 54, foolscap 8vo, original ruby cloth with printed label to upper board, a hint of fading to borders, bookplates to pastedown and flyleaf, dustjacket with light overall soiling and a small amount of loss at foot of darkened backstrip panel, good £450

A fine association copy from the collection of Betjeman’s old friend John Davies Knatchbull “Widow” Lloyd, with his bookplate on the pastedown.

On the title-page, the author has drawn a line in ink through all the figure ‘1’s in the bell-change, and below has written some original verse: ‘Ring for the Widow Garthmyl bells!/ I shall not sleep tonight/ Across my age, my boyhood spells/ The verses I will write. John Betjeman’. On the rear free endpaper Lloyd has transcribed an extract from a letter from John Betjeman to John Steegman, with an 8-line verse ‘Written on the departure of John Steegman from Cardiff, on resigning his post as Keeper of Fine Arts, preparatory to taking up a position as Keeper of the Art Gallery at Montreal’.

170. Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells. John Murray, 1960, FIRST EDITION, title decoration and a small design at the head of each verse chapter by Michael Tree, bookplate tipped in to half- title, pp. [viii], 111, 8vo, original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, dustjacket with a few small nicks and light creases around head, very good (Peterson A29a) £150

Inscribed by Piper and with an interesting ALs by him 171. Betjeman (John) & John Piper (Editors) Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide. . John Murray, 1949, FIRST EDITION, numerous illustrations, folding 3-colour printed map, pp. xii, 164, imperial 8vo, original sand-yellow cloth, backstrip and front cover lettered and decorated in black and white, rubbing to extremities and a few light marks at foot of lower board, light foxing to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, good (Peterson A17a) £250

Inscribed by Piper on the flyleaf: ‘To Tom, with best love from both authors, J.P. July 27 1949’ - this being the day before publication. Betjeman was largely responsible for the text of this volume, with Piper providing almost all of the photographic illustrations.

Also laid in is a 2-page ALs from Piper on his headed paper to Anthony Jaggard, whose bookplate is on the pastedown, dated 15 February 1969. Jaggard was an architect, who at that time was working on the

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Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph at Purbeck in Dorset - to which their correspondence presumably relates: Piper thanks Jaggard for his ‘exciting proposition’ and declares that ‘I would enjoy working on it with you’ - the project in question is a commission for ecclesiastical vestments, with Jaggard having suggested their being tapestry. Piper asserts that ‘Tapestry [...] is surprisingly inexpensive; but I wonder if it is right for vestments? [...] I wonder if it would be just too heavy for a cope or chasuble?’ - and suggests fabric collage as an alternative. He declares himself unsure over costs and refers to his work for Coventry Cathedral, hoping to arrange a meeting in London or at Piper’s home.

172. Blake (Peter) Alphabets. Text by Mel Gooding. D3 Editions, Nottingham. 2010, FIRST EDITION, 68/100 COPIES (of an edition of 600 copies) signed by Peter Blake, with the signed numbered print by Blake, in its red card folder, loosely inserted in the book, over 200 pages of colour reproductions of photographs of the artist’s work and including 2 folding leaves, pp. [ii], 224, 4to., original crimson cloth, backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered, printed front cover label within a gilt frame, cotton-marker, matching board slipcase and label, fine £500

Peter Blake’s love of letters and collecting enthusiasm come together in this work to illustrate the 18 unique alphabets he has produced, some of them previously unpublished.

173. (Brotherhood of Ruralists.) MACHIN (Eve) Terms of Life. Poets Books, 1992, 59/250 COPIES signed by the author on the half-title, 6 tipped-in monochrome illustrations by Graham and Ann Arnold, pp. [48], crown 8vo, original quarter grey cloth with patterned paper sides, printed label to upper board, a sprinkling of foxspots to top edge, very good £60

Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘Eileen with love and many memories of Peggy’.

174. Buchan (John) The Island of Sheep. Hodder & Stoughton, 1936, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preliminaries very faintly foxed, pp.318, crown 8vo, original mid green cloth stamped in gilt to upper board with blind-stamped signle-fillet border, backstrip lettered in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, a few small foxspots to edges, maps on front endpapers, bookplate tipped in to verso of flyleaf, dustjacket a little frayed, very good (Blanchard A115) £200

Published 2 days after the American edition, which was issued under the title ‘The Man from the Norlands’.

175. Buchan (John) The Thirty-Nine Steps. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1915, FIRST EDITION, usual browning to page edges, pp. 253, [2, ads], foolscap 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in black to front, backstrip lettered in black and faded with light rubbing at tips, textblock strained in a few places, top edge dustsoiled, other edges toned, light adhesive browning to endpapers, bookplate tipped in to flyelaf, good (Blanchard A32) £800

With a striking Buckland-Wright dustjacket 176. (Buckland Wright.) MANNES (Marya) Message from a Stranger. Hamish Hamilton, 1948, FIRST EDITION, a few very faint foxspots to prelims, pp. 232, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, bump along head of lower board, edges lightly foxed, endpapers browned with ownership inscription to flyleaf, Buckland-Wright dustjacket printed in black, red and blue, a few short closed tears and light dustsoiling to rear panel, very good (Reid C5) £50

With an ALs by the author 177. Burnett (Frances Hodgson) Little Lord Fauntleroy. Frederick Warne, 1886, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 25 further illustrations from drawings by Reginald B. Birch, many full-page, one or two foxspots to prelims, pp. xii, 269, [2], 8vo, modern half grey morocco with single gilt rules, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt with five raised bands, title and author compartments black and brown respectively, t.e.g., marbled endpapers with section of illustration from original cloth to pastedown, bookplate tipped in to initial blank, very good £800

With an ALs from the author to a Mr Leighton tipped in to verso facing half-title,

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written in black ink on rectos only of a single folded sheet of headed paper: Burnett apologises for not having responded, if indeed she hasn’t, and assures her correspondent that she will be at home for the next couple of days should they wish to visit.

178. (Celandine Press.) PRINGLE (Roger) Portrait of a Stratford Year. Illustrated by Arthur Keene. Shipston-on-Stour, 1985, 101/320 COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies), printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, frontispiece and 5 further drawings with 3 full-page and 1 double-spread, illustrations and decorations printed in red, pp. [26], 8vo, original beige cloth with vertical gilt rule and marbled sides, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, fine £60

Inscribed by the author on the half-title: ‘For Constance - with love and hoping she will soon be back in Stratford - from Roger’. A long poem celebrating the town of Shakespeare’s birth.

An unusual binding om this classic Conrad tale 179. Conrad (Joseph) The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale. Methuen, 1907, FIRST EDITION, a few pencil marks to prelims, light foxing to same and to initial pages, very occasional light creasing to page-corners and some faint handling marks, pp. [vi], 442, 40 [ads, dated September 1907], crown 8vo, original[?] navy cloth with blind-stamped decorative border to both boards, edges rubbed with a spot of wear to corners, backstrip lettered in gilt above blind-stamped Art Deco-style design, lean to spine, edges dustsoiled and endpapers spotted with ownership inscription to flyleaf, traces of label removed from front pastedown, good (Smith 13; Cagle A12) £400

A variant binding, not recorded in the bibliographies and bearing no relation to others found in terms of its colouring or design - but seemingly original.

With pochoir illustrations by John Nash 180. (Cresset Press.) SPENSER (Edmund) The Shepheards Calendar. 1930, 321/350 COPIES (from an edition of 353 copies) printed on Barcham Green pale grey handmade paper, with a superb illustrated border to the title-page and 12 head-pieces, all by John Nash and hand-stencilled at the Curwen Press, pp. xxiii, 133, folio, original quarter vellum with cream silk sides, light spotting to vellum with some soiling to cloth, light wear at corners, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly creased at foot, t.e.g., others untrimmed, good £250

Noted by John Lewis as ‘the first serious work [...] that John Nash had illustrated in line’ (‘John Nash’, p. 71).

181. Cummings (E.E.) 50 Poems. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940], FIRST EDITION, 88/150 COPIES, leaves: [4], 52, crown 8vo, original fawn cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, gilt lettered large maroon leather label on the front cover, yellowing to the endpaper gutters, untrimmed, glassine- jacket, matching cloth slipcase and leather label, an unusually nice copy, near fine £800

Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

182. Dahl (Roald) Matilda. Jonathan Cape, 1988, FIRST EDITION, illustrations, some full-page, by Quentin Blake, pp.240, 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with overall design by Blake, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, fine £300

An inscribed copy with a holograph poem 183. de la Mare (Walter) The Burning-Glass and other poems. Faber and Faber, 1945, FIRST EDITION, pp. 106, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, corners a little bumped with some bubbling to cloth at head of lower board, edges untrimmed and unopened, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel and a few foxspots, in custom drop-down box, very good £300

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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘for Reginald Addyes-Scott from Walter de la Mare, 1945’. Above the inscription the poet has written out the final poem from this collection (‘The Old Author’). The original address label, also in de la Mare’s hand, is laid in at the front.

Inscribed by the author 184. de la Mare (Walter) Collected Poems. With decorations by Berthold Wolpe. Faber and Faber, 1943, FIRST EDITION, pp. xvi, 334, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with author’s monogram blind- stamped to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt with a little creasing at tips, top corners lightly bumped, top edge slightly dustsoiled, fore-edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket with light dustsoiling to rear panel and a short closed tear at foot of the same, a few small chips at head, very good £100

Inscribed by de la Mare on the flyleaf: ‘To Alison Barnard, with all remembrances & good wishes from W.J. de la Mare, June 1943’. Exactly how the recipient was known to the poet is obscure, but is likely to relate to The Centre for Psychological and Spiritual Studies that she ran in London - an area in which de la Mare is known to have had a great interest.

With a TLS from the author 185. de la Mare (Walter) The Three Mulla-Mulgars. Duckworth, 1910, FIRST EDITION, first issue, colour frontispiece and one further colour plate by J.R. Monsell, erratum-slip stating such tipped in following dedication page, pp. vii, 312, crown 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt and black to upper board, lower board with publisher’s device stamped in black, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., endpapers faintly browned, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket with one small spot of internal tape repair, backstrip panel lightly sunned, a little chipping to corners and light rubbing at extremities, a few short closed tears, very good £500

With a TLS from the author laid in at front, dated 12th May 1930, thanking a Mr. Caulfield for the invitation to speak at the Gryphon Club, but declining due to other engagements and his unsuitability for such a role: ‘I can’t speak, though when I am retiring into the seventies I may perhaps take lessons.’ De la Mare’s first story for children is scarce in the dustjacket of which this is a very bright example.

186. (Delos Press.) BONNEFOY (Yves) La Primauté du Regard/ The Primacy of Gaze. Quelques Remarques sur Raymond Mason. Traduction: Anthony Rudolf. Birmingham, 2000, 52/75 COPIES signed by author, translator and subject, printed on buff Fabriano Ingres mouldmade paper, title- page printed in blue and black, 3 tipped-in examples of Mason’s work, pp. [28], 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with marbled boards, printed label to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine (Carter 278) £60

Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

Signed by four of the contributors, including P.D. James 187. (Detection Club.) KEATING (H.R.F., Editor) The Man Who... Stories by Catherine Aird, Eric Ambler, Simon Brett, Len Deighton, Antonia Fraser, Michael Gilbert, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Peter Lovesey, Ruth Rendell, George Sims, Michael Underwood Macmillan, 1992, FIRST EDITION, pp. ix, 230, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a few small foxspots to edges, dustjacket a little crinkled at head of backstrip panel with a few spots to edges of flaps, a little creasing to front flap, very good £50

A collection of stories in honour of Julian Symons’ eightieth birthday. P.D. James and H.R.F. Keating have signed on the Contents page, Simon Brett and Peter Lovesey at the head of their contributions.

188. Dexter (Colin) The Dead of Jericho. Macmillan, 1981, FIRST EDITION, cancel-page blurb in place of half-title, light abrasion at head of dedication page, full-page plan of Jericho preceding text with a few small brown spots to leading edge of this and facing recto, pp. 224, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, edges very lightly dustsoiled, dustjacket with backstrip panel a trifle faded and some rippling to the rear panel, very good £400

Inscribed on the title-page: ‘For Peter Watson, [in Greek] A possession forever, Colin Dexter’. The Greek script is from Thucydides.

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189. Dexter (Colin) The Jewel That Was Ours. With an appreciation by H.R.F. Keating. Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1991, 42/150 COPIES signed by the author, full-page map, pp. viii, [ii], 275, 8vo original quarter red leatherette with marbled boards, a touch of wear at tips of joints, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge red, two small stickers at head of rear pastedown, glassine jacket, near fine £140

Additionally inscribed by the author on the limitation page, ‘For Peter Watson, [in Greek] A possession forever’. The Greek script is from Thucydides.

190. Dexter (Colin) Last Bus to Woodstock. Macmillan, 1975, FIRST EDITION, pages browned throughout as usual, pp. 256, crown 8vo, original terracotta boards, backstrip lettered in black, dustjacket with a few patches of very light soiling, a little fraying to edges with a couple of short closed tears, residual tape marks and faint spotting to flaps, good £500

The author’s first book, introducing Inspector Morse.

191. Dexter (Colin) Last Seen Wearing. Macmillan, 1976, FIRST EDITION, pages lightly toned, crease to corners of a couple of leaves, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in black with slight lean to spine, a couple of small indentations and faint marks to head, a couple of faint handling marks to front endpapers, dustjacket a touch frayed around head with a couple of short closed tears and a thin strip of waterstaining at head of rear panel, good £400

192. Dexter (Colin) The Way Through The Woods. With an appreciation by Jonathan Gash. Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992, 112/150 COPIES signed by the author, double-spread map, pp. [18], 296, 8vo, original quarter red leatherette with marbled boards, a little wear at tips of joints, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge red, two small stickers at head of rear pastedown, protective jacket, near fine £140

Additionally inscribed by the author on the limitation page, ‘For Peter Watson, [in Greek] A possession forever’. The Greek script is from Thucydides.

A signed proof copy 193. Dexter (Colin) The Wench is Dead. Macmillan, 1989, UNCORRECTED PROOF, map preceding text and 2 further illustrations, some type off-setting on final pages,pp. [viii], 188, crown 8vo, original printed wrappers, very good £120

Signed by Dexter above his name on the title-page

194. Du Maurier (Daphne) The Du Mauriers. Victor Gollancz, 1937, FIRST EDITION, folding genealogical table at rear, light foxing to prelims and terminal blank with a pencil note to verso of half-title, pp. 334, 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with lean to spine, edges toned, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf with contemporary ownership inscription at head, dustjacket sunned to borders and backstrip with light overall soiling, fraying to edges with tear down backstrip panel with some loss at foot, good £100

Scarce in the dustjacket.

195. (Eliot.) RIDLER (Anne) Working for T.S. Eliot. A Personal Reminiscence. Enitharmon Press, 2000, XXIV/XXV hors commerce copies signed by the author, printed on 125gsm Canaletto paper, title- page printed in black and red, pp. 14, royal 8vo, original patterned wrappers with printed label to front, fine £80

196. Flint (W. Russell) Drawings. Collins. 1950, FIRST EDITION, 134 plates (a number printed in two or more colours), pp. [x], 190, folio, original purple cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, dustjacket rubbed, very good £400

Signed by W. Russell Flint on the half-title.

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The publisher’s copy, with letters from all contributors tipped in 197. Forster (E.M.), Aldous Huxley, Richard Hughes (et al.) GEORGIAN STORIES. With Portraits. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1925, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, extra-illustrated with photographic portraits of the 14 authors facing the first verso of their contribution, two red pencil marks across gutter of pp. 320-1, pp. viii, 339, crown 8vo, original quarter green cloth with blue sides stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly dulled, some splitting along joints, wear at corners with handling marks and a couple of small spots to boards, t.e.g., fore-edge roughtrimmed, front hinge a little strained, contemporary buckram slipcase, good £1,000

A letter from each author to G.H. Grubb from Putnam’s has been tipped in before their contribution:

- TLs from Arnold Lunn preceding half-title; Lunn was editor of the Chapman & Hall edition, but is not credited here. - ALs from Michael Arlen, expressing his objection to such anthologies and his concern that a story originally published in 1923 is being included in a 1925 collection: ‘I [...] do not at all agree with the principles of these short-story collections’. - ALs from Martin Armstrong acknowledging receipt of book and commending Putnam’s on the idea of including portraits and the overall execution: ‘[...] a very nice book [...] in every way’. - TLs from E.M. Forster acknowledging receipt of book: ‘ [...] how very nicely they are got up’. - ALs from L.P. Hartley apologising for being so late to acknowledge receipt of book and calling it ‘in every way superior to the English version’. - ALs from Richard Hughes, recommending the photographic portrait he would like used, and suggesting where it might be obtained. - ALs from Aldous Huxley, explaining that he has been on a ‘voyage round the world’, and that whilst Grubb’s letter awaited him on his return, the book that it referred to did not, and wondering if Putnam’s would be doing an edition of the next volume of Georgian Stories, for which he had just submitted a contribution to Chapman & Hall. - ALs from F. Tennyson Jesse, commending them on ‘a beautiful bit of book making’. - ALs from Hugh Kingsmill (signed as Hugh Kingsmill Lunn), calling the book ‘really successfully got up’ and wondering if his signature’may lead you tot hink the editor guilty of family partiality’ [see Arnold Lunn above]. - TLs from Naomi Mitchison, describing the book’s physical appearance - ‘I think it looks very nice and fat [...] and it has a serious outside which ought to make one feel that it isn’t quite like buying a frivolous novel [...] We are camping out here and last night the book got under a mattress; however, neither it nor my husband suffered, which I am sure speaks well for it!’ - ALs from C.E. Montague calling the book ‘very handsome and good’, but regretting that his contribution is ‘the poorest’ and wondering if it had only been chosen by Lunn on account of its theme (‘it’s about climbing and he’s an Alpinist’). - ALs from Arnold Palmer, acknowledging receipt of ‘a most stylish looking volume’ and declaring its superiority to the English version. - ALs from Osbert Sitwell, apologising for not acknowledging receipt and suggesting they might meet in London. - ALs from Frank Penn-Smith apologising for not having acknowledged receipt and commending the production: ‘Type, get-up, etc are all that could be wished’. - TLs from J.C. Squire, calling it ‘a most entertaining volume, except the chapter contributed by myself’. - TLs from Horace Annesley Vachell, apologising for not acknowledging receipt and suggesting they might meet in London.

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198. Francis (Dick) Dead Cert. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, pp. 220, crown 8vo, original quarter grey boards with black sides with ‘Rinehart Suspense’ device stamped in red to upper board, backstrip lettered in red and grey against a red ground, rubbing to extremities with light bumping to a couple of corners, dustjacket a little frayed and rubbed with light soiling to rear panel, good £575

The author’s first novel. Inscribed on the flyleaf: ‘To Jack & Ida, with best wishes, Dick Francis, 27th Oct. ‘62’. The recipient was the horse trainer (and one-time jockey) Jack Waugh and his wife, making this a very appropriate association copy.

199. Francis (Dick) In the Frame. Michael Joseph, 1976, FIRST EDITION, double-page map, pp.252, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few very faint foxspots to edges and one or two to front endpapers, dustjacket, very good £70

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ‘Happy Christmas, 1976, 77 & all that. Dick Francis’.

Inscribed to a racing connection 200. Francis (Dick) Knockdown. Michael Joseph, 1974, FIRST EDITION, pp. 206, crown 8vo, original fuchsia boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch softened at tips with very slight lean to spine, adhesive spot to rear pastedown, dustjacket, very good £80

Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, dated October 1974: ‘Ida & Jack, So glad to hear the operation has been a success Ida. May all continue to go well, and we hope to see you about soon. Love from Mary & me. Dick Francis’. The recipient was the jockey and trainer Jack Waugh.

201. Fraser (George MacDonald) Flashman on the March. HarperCollins, 2005, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES signed by the author, 8vo, original maroon boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, matching slipcase, publisher’s shrinkwrap, fine £120

202. Friel (Brian) A Man’s World. Paintings by Basil Blackshaw. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2010, 159/350 COPIES (from an edition of 400 copies) signed by the author, titles and numerals printed in terracotta, half-title illustration and 4 further full-page illustrations in colour, pp. 50, 8vo, original brown linen blind-stamped to upper board, tissue jacket, fine £80

203. Frost (Robert) A Way Out. A One Act Play. New York: The Harbor Press, 1929, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, 271/485 COPIES signed by the author at the foot of his preface, printed on laid paper, decorations to title and fly-title printed in brown,pp. [x], 19, foolscap 8vo, original quarter black cloth with double wave-rule in gilt and orange boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little soiling around head, dustsoiling to top edge, edges untrimmed, bookplate to pastedown now detached, original tissue jacket with some chipping and creasing (Crane A11) £250

204. Gascoyne (David) A Short Survey of Surrealism. Preface by Dawn Ades. Introduction by Michael Remy. Enitharmon Press, 2000, FIRST EDITION, 44/50 signed by the author, pp. 128, crown 8vo, original terracotta cloth with illustration inset to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine £160

A signed, limited copy of Enitharmon’s reprint of this seminal work.

205. Gill (Eric) Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell. 1929, FIRST EDITION, 34/100 COPIES signed by Gill and printed on Large handmade paper, with a wood-engraved title-vignette by Gill, pp. [ii] (blanks), x, 325, [3] (blanks), roy.8vo., original maroon bevel-edged buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, usual faint free endpaper browning, t.e.g., others untrimmed, fine £500

The first use of Eric Gill’s ‘Perpetua’ typeface.

206. (Golden Cockerel Press.) GHOSE (Sudhin N.) Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. With illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile. 1961, 469/400 COPIES (from an edition of 500 copies) printed

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on Millbourn mouldmade paper, title-vignette, endpaper emblems and 6 plates designed by Shrimati Carlile and printed in black and brown, pp.147, sm.folio, original brown cloth with Carlile design to upper board stamped in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few small waterspots at foot of upper board, untrimmed, very good (Cock-a-Hoop 212) £90

207. (Golden Cockerel Press.) HUDSON (W.H.) Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham. With a few to Cunninghame Graham’s Mother Mrs. Bontine. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Curle. Drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein. 1941, 137/250 COPIES printed on Arnold’s mouldmade paper, 2 tinted plates, pp. 128, crown 8vo, original quarter scarlet morocco with yellow cloth sides, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded with a small water spot just beneath title, bump at head of lower board, t.e.g., others utrimmed, a little browning to gutters of endpapers and a small bookseller sticker to rear pastedown, good (Pertelote 150) £140

Signed special issue with additional illustrations 208. (Golden Cockerel Press.) MILLER (Patrick) Woman in Detail. A Scientific Survey, with Drawings by Mark Severin. 1947, 9/100 COPIES signed by the author and illustrator (from an edition of 550 copies), printed on Arnold’s mouldmade paper, 5 prints of pencil drawings by Mark Severin, with a suite of individual prints of the same images plus 3 extras contained in wallet at rear, pp. 63, 8vo, original quarter blue morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded, t.e.g, others untrimmed, faint penned price at foot of flyleaf, slipcase, very good (Cockalorum 174) £500

One of 75 copies with a suite of the illustrations 209. (Golden Cockerel Press.) XENOPHON of Ephesus. The Ephesian Story. Translated and Introduced by Paul Turner. 1957, 49/75 COPIES (from an edition of 300 copies) printed on Saunders mouldmade paper, the design on the fawn tinted title-page and 5 full-page tinted collotypes of brush drawings by Eric Fraser, suite of the illustrations (including one additional) in cloth portfolio, pp. 61, small 4to, original green morocco with a Fraser design blocked in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded, t.e.g., cloth slipcase, very good (Cock-a-Hoop 207) £500

The bibliography records the special issue as signed, but this does not seem to be the case.

210. (Golden Head Press.) LISTER (Raymond) The Emblems of Theodosius or the Unity of Endymion and Prometheus. Cambridge. 1969, 43/50 COPIES (of an edition of 59 copies), 9 plates, each on the recto of a pale grey backing-paper, pp. [ii] (blanks), [6]+Plates, [1], [9] (blanks), 4to., original bright blue wrappers, with a repeated design overall blocked in gilt, good £50

211. Golding (Louis) Sorrow of War. Poems. Methuen. 1919, FIRST EDITION, pp. xii, 116, 16mo, original grey boards, printed label (a trifle chipped) on darkened backstrip, tail edges untrimmed, good £70

212. Graves (Robert) John Kemp’s Wager: a Ballad Opera. British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama No.11, Oxford: Blackwell, 1925, FIRST EDITION, 21/100 COPIES printed on Kelmscott handmade paper and signed by the author, pp. xvi, 77, [3] (blanks), 16mo, original vellum-backed cream boards with an overall repeat pattern in green, backstrip gilt lettered, tail corners rubbed, book label of Simon Nowell-Smith, untrimmed and partly unopened, very good (Higginson & Williams A13a) £500

213. Graves (Robert) Mock Beggar Hall. Hogarth Press, 1924, FIRST EDITION, occasional faint foxing to preliminary and final few leaves,pp. [iv] (blanks), 80, [4] (adverts), 4to, original dark grey boards with design by William Nicholson top upper board printed in black, Simon Nowell-Smith’s book label, untrimmed, very good (Higginson & Williams A10; Woolmer 46) £500

The cover design by Nicholson, then the poet’s father-in-law, is very striking.

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214. (Greenaway.) BROWNING (Robert) The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With 35 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. George Routledge, [1888], FIRST EDITION, first issue with Glasgow on imprint and copyright statement on verso of title, letterpress and page-frames printed in dark brown, colour-printed illustrations throughout, some full-page, very occasional faint foxspots and handling marks, contemporary ownership inscription to title- page, pp.64, 4to, original dark brown cloth-backed glazed pictorial orange boards, extremities rubbed with a few spots of light wear, a few light scratches, edges blue, grey-blue chalked endpapers with bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Osborne pp.52-3: Schuster & Engen 157[1a]) £250

215. Greene (Graham) Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment. Heinemann, 1958, FIRST EDITION, pp. [vi], 273, 8vo, original blue cloth with publisher’s device blind-stamped to lower board, backstrip lettered in gilt with very slight lean to spine, top edge lightly dustsoiled, dustjacket a trifle chipped at one corner with a few nicks, backstrip panel lightly sunned with a few spots to rear panel, very good (Wobbe A38a) £250

216. (Gregynog Press.) PLACES. ‘Llanfrothen’ by Richard Llywelyn, Illustration by Jonah Jones; ‘Llangadog’ by Nigel Jenkins, Illustration by Mary Lloyd Jones; ‘Caerdydd’ by Wiliam Owen Roberts, Illustration by Siarlys Evans; ‘Cefn Golau’ by Christopher Meredith, Illustration by Sara Philpott; ‘Abergavenny’ by John Barnie, Illustration by Rhiain M. Davies; ‘Abergwesyn’ by Ruth Bidgood, Illustration by Bernice Carlill; ‘Dolgellau’ by Ioan Bowen Rees, Illustration by Kyffin Williams; ‘Banc Siôn Cwilt’ by Gillian Clarke, Illustration by Margaret Merritt; ‘Nantybenglog’ by Myrddin ap Dafydd, Illustration by David Woodford; ‘Pontardawe’ by Menna Elfyn, Illustration by Ozi Rhys Osmond; ‘Uwchmynydd’ by Christine Evans, Illustration by Kim Atkinson; ‘Grwyne Fawr’ by Tym Morys, Illustration by Anthony Evans [12 vols.] Newtown, Powys, 1996-1998, 48/400 COPIES, double-spread or full-page illustration to each volume printed in a variety of colours, pp. [13]; [14]; [12]; [13]; [12]; [13]; [17]; [13]; [12]; [9]; [13]; [14], 8vo, original sewn printed wrappers, edges untrimmed, blue cloth dropdown box with some rubbing, fine £150

With a slip from the Press, apologising for the delay with the last 3 volumes, laid in.

Inscribed to H.E. [Havelock Ellis] 217. H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] The Usual Star. [Dijon]: Privately printed, 1928 [but 1934,] ONE OF 100 COPIES, ‘privately printed for the author’s friends’, pp. 116, crown 8vo, original white paper wrappers lettered in black with the lightest of dustsoiling overall, backstrip lettered in black and a little toned, edges untrimmed, protective glassine wrapper, very good (Boughn A14) £900

An exceptionally bright copy of what is itself a very scarce book, made all the more attractive for the association conveyed by the characteristically spare inscription on the title page: ‘H.D. to H.E.’ - the latter being the pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis, who became part of H.D. and Bryher’s circle in 1919. In a letter to Ellis [‘Chiron’] from September 1934, H.D. mentions that ‘I am trying to post you two little prose volumes of mine that Br. [Bryher] had set up for me as a birthday present [‘The Usual Star’ and ‘Kora and Ka’]... I do not want you to read these. But it helps me to get them into circulation’. Initially, the author regarded their manner of publication and distribution as a simple unclogging (‘I am so blocked with MSS’), but she later - possibly buoyed by feedback from recipients that had disregarded her directive - developed more affection for what she came to term her ‘Peter Rabbit books’.

Something of an eternal initiate, H.D. gravitated towards a series of paternal ‘teacher’ figures throughout her life - amongst these, Havelock Ellis played a crucial role in the development of her thought and experience. Both she and Bryher had consulted him in 1919, and he travelled with them to Greece the following year; his theories affirmed and explained certain aspects of their complex sexual identities, whilst his own proclivities - most salaciously, his urolagnia - were satisfied in return. In time, although they remained on good terms until his death in 1938, his authoritative position in her affections would come to be supplanted by her more lasting interest in the theories, techniques and charisma of Sigmund Freud - in fact, it was armed with a letter of introduction from Ellis that Bryher had first approached Freud in 1927, from which encounter arrangements for H.D.’s analysis with him ensued.

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The place and date given on the title-page [London, 1928] refer to the story’s setting, not its publication - the details of which are given in a statement at the rear. The section-title for the second story in this volume [‘The Two Americans’, p. 91ff] carries an equivalent designation [Vaud, 1930].

218. Hastings (Francis, Viscount) The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas. (Introduction by Blamire Young). Eveleigh Nash & Grayson. 1928, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 750 COPIES, 12 colourprinted plates by Blamire Young, each tipped to a grey card mount, captioned tissue-guards present, pp. [xx], 96, 4to., original qtr. grey cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, brown decorated batik boards, light free endpaper browning, t.e.g., others utrimmed, good £120

219. Heaney (Seamus) Slack Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, 2009, FIRST EDITION, pp. [5], oblong crown 8vo, original four-panel concertina folded card, printed on all sides, fine £450

Signed by the author beneath his printed name at the foot of the poem - very few copies of this occasional item were signed.

Inscribed by the author 220. Heaney (Seamus) Stations. Belfast: Ulsterman, 1975, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription to title-page, pp. 24, 8vo, original yellow stapled wrappers, front cover with dot matrix portrait of Heaney and lettering in orange, very light fading around spine and some very light soiling, very good £600

Inscribed by Heaney on the title-page to William B. Ewert, an American publisher whose list included Heaney: ‘Bill, “Oh yes, I crept before I walked...” (p. 24). Seamus Heaney 10.iv.’93’.

221. Heller (Joseph) God Knows. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, FIRST EDITION, 293/350 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [vii], 353, royal 8vo, original quarter white cloth with multicolour pastel sides, publisher’s device blind-stamped to lower board, top edge yellow, others roughtrimmed, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket with backstrip panel a trifle sunned and a small pinprick hole in the centre, slipcase, very good £150

222. Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner’s, 1952, FIRST EDITION, pp. [i], 140, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with author’s signature blind-stamped to upper board and a few small spots, backstrip lettered in silver and very lightly sunned, edges tones, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, first issue dustjacket, near fine (Hanneman 24A) £2,500

223. Henty (G.A.) Under Wellington’s Command. A Tale of the Peninsular War. Blackie, 1899, FIRST EDITION, 12 plates by Wal. Paget, 5 maps in the text of which 3 full-page, preliminary and final leaves lightly foxed, pp.[x], 383, 32 [ads, first state], crown 8vo,original bevel-edged royal-blue cloth, pictorial front cover and backstrip blocked in black, red, white and pink, lettered in white and gilt, just a hint of rubbing at extremities, olive-green edges, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, very good (Newbolt 83.1) £300

The binding unusually bright and clean.

Inscribed by the translator to Michael Sadleir, and with the translator’s copy of the original German text 224. Hesse (Hermann) In Sight of Chaos. Translated by Stephen Hudson. Zurich: Verlag Seldwyla, 1923, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pp. 64, foolscap 8vo, original grey boards printed in black, a little browned to borders, a few faint foxspots to endpapers, very good £800

Inscribed by Stephen Hudson [Sydney Schiff] on the blank preceding half-title, to bibliophile and author Michael Sadleir: ‘with warm regard, Stephen Hudson. Oct 18. 29’.

This was the first of Hesse’s works to be translated into English, two essays on Dostoevsky, and it had a profound impact. T.S. Eliot quoted from the work in his notes to the final section of ‘The Waste

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Land’, and explained the background to his citation: ‘My attention was first drawn to Hermann Hesse by my friend Sydney Schiff, who was also known as a novelist under the name Stephen Hudson. He gave me ‘Blick ins Chaos’ to read and I was very much impressed by it’ (Field, ‘Hermann Hesse’, p. 74). Eliot’s contemporary account, in a letter to Hesse himself, reversed the chain of recommendation - he described having come across Hesse’s work whilst recuperating in Swtizerland and subsequently encouraged Schiff to undertake the present translation. [offered with:] Hesse (Hermann) Blick ins Chaos. Berne: Verlag Seldwyla, 1921, pp. [iv], 43, [1], foolscap 8vo, original boards printed in green and black, boards and textblock a little toned, a slight bump at head of backstrip and light rubbing to edges, endpapers browned, very good

The translator’s copy, inscribed on the flyleaf: ‘Sydney Schiff, Lye Green, Chesham’.

Specially bound for the author 225. Hill (Susan) The Small Hand. A Ghost Story [fourth printing.] Profile, 2010,pp. [viii], 167, foolscap 8vo, author’s binding of red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, slipcase, fine £80

Signed by the author to the title-page and uniquely bound for her, with a note by the author to this effect on a small holograph card accompanying the book. A ghost story, from one of the genre’s foremost modern practioners.

A signed proof copy of this much-loved modern ghost story 226. Hill (Susan) The Woman in Black. Hamilton. 1983, UNCORRECTED PROOF, head-pieces and other illustrations in the text by John Lawrence, pp. 160, foolscap 8vo, original pale blue wrappers, the front cover printed and illustrated in black and also printed ‘Uncorrected Book Proof’, fine £200

Signed by the author to the title-page, beneath her printed name. The margins trimmed down for the uncorrected proof issue to foolscap octavo in size.

A signed copy 227. Hilton (James) Good-bye Mr. Chips! Hodder & Stoughton, 1934 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, title-page and chapter decorations printed in black and blue, head- piece, tail-piece and 4 full-page illustrations by Bip Pares, one or two faint foxspots at foot of opening pages, pp. 128, crown 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, endpapers with school motto printed in blue and a few faint foxspots, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket with light rubbing to extremities, light chipping to corners with a short sliver missing at head of backstrip, closed tear at head of front panel with nicks and light creasing elsewhere, very good £1,000

Signed by the author on the blank preceding half-title.

228. Hollinghurst (Alan) Confidential Chats with Boys. Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1982, FIRST EDITION, pp. [8], crown 8vo, original dark pink printed sewn wrappers, fine £250

Preceded only by his first book of poetry, the 1975 Sycamore Broadsheet publication ‘Isherwood is at Santa Monica’. ‘Confidential Chats with Boys’ is loosely based upon William Howard’s 1911 publication of the same title.

229. (Huddart.) THE PSALMS OF DAVID. Coverdale’s Version, Edited with an Introduction by George Rylands, With Thirty-Two Drawings by Frideswith Huddart (Baroness de Lynden). Faber & Gwyer, 1926, FIRST HUDDART EDITION, 32 full-page illustrations, occasional pencil annotation with more extensive on terminal blanks, light toning to page-borders, pp. xi, 131, 4to, original red cloth with Huddart design stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered ing ilt and a little faded, a few small water spots, light overall soiling and a little bubbling to cloth on lower board, top edge red, others untrimmed, good £90

Signed by the illustrator, as Frideswith de Lynden, to the half-title.

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230. (Incline Press.) FRASER (C. Lovat) Sixteen Songs Originally for 6d. Transferred from a Poster drawn by C. Lovat Fraser. Oldham, 1996, 14/30 COPIES (of an edition of 150 copies) being one of those handcoloured by the printers, signed by the printers Graham Moss and Jane Audas, and screen printer Tony Grimes, with 16 illustrations by Lovat Fraser, pp. [iv], 20, 16mo., original apple-green wrappers, covers printed in black and purple, roughtrimmed, fine £75

231. James (Henry) William Wetmore Story and His Friends, From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. New York: Grove, [1957,] 70/100 COPIES, pp. 345, crown 8vo, original quarter brown cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, backstrip a trifle faded, some handling marks to boards and a touch of wear at corners, top edge lightly dustsoiled, good £50

Originally published by William Blackwood in 1903, this Grove Press edition of James’s biography of the American sculptor collects the two volumes of the original into one.

232. Jones (David) The Anathemata, fragments of an attempted writing. Faber and Faber, 1952, FIRST EDITION, 9 plates, one in black and red, two marginal corrections in pencil to Preface, pp. 243, 8vo, original tan cloth, backstrip lettered and bordered in gilt against a red ground, faintest of dustsoiling to top edge, dustjacket a little sunned to backstrip and borders with very light creasing around head, a short closed tear at foot of joint on rear panel, very good £120

Signed by Jones and Eliot 233. Jones (David) In Parenthesis. (A Note of Introduction by T.S. Eliot.) Faber, 1961, 32/70 COPIES signed both by the author and T.S. Eliot, 3 plates by Jones, pp. xxii, 226, 8vo, original light blue buckram, backstrip lettered in blue on grey within a gilt border, t.e.g., glassine-jacket, fine (Gallup B85a) £1,400

The first edition to appear with Eliot’s introduction (the book was first published in 1937). Of the seventy copies printed only fifty were for sale.

234. Joyce (James) The Cats of Copenhagen. Glengarriff: Ithys Press, 2012, FIRST EDITION, 140/170 COPIES (from an edition of 200 copies) printed on Fedrigoni Vellum, line illustrations throughout text by Casey Sorrow, pp. [27], oblong imperial 8vo, original quarter red cloth with marbled sides, printed label inset to upper board, fine £260

Referred to in the Preface as ‘a slightly younger twin sister to The Cat and the Devil’, which Faber published in 1965 - like that other work, it originates in a letter to his grandson, Stephen. Written in 1936, whilst Joyce was staying in Copenhagen, it is an extravagant postcard that offers a charming outlet for the author’s characteristic playfulness and absurdity.

235. (King Penguin.) The King Penguin Series. [Complete in 76 vols.] Penguin, 1939-1959, FIRST EDITIONS, foolscap 8vo, original illustrated boards, moderate edgewear, fading to boards on vol. 34, gentle sunning to backstrips elsewhere, ownership inscriptions to many, front hinge of vol. 57 a little strained, dustjackets (that to vol. 58 with tape reinforcement to corners, four others price- clipped), good condition overall £700

In his overview of the series for the Penguin Collectors’ Society, David J. Hall states that to his knowledge all volumes published from 1949 onwards had dustjackets: in this set vols 51 (the only volume published in 1949) & 55 are lacking theirs; amongst those preceding Hall’s date, vols 3, 41, & 48 have dustjackets present.

Beginning with ‘British Birds on Lake, River and Stream’ in 1939, and ending twenty years later with ‘The Sculpture of the Parthenon’, the King Penguins were a beautifully designed series of books that were broad in scope overall, but appealingly specialised individually - providing an authoritative introduction to a range of subjects. Authors include Max Beerbohm, John Piper, Noel Carrington, E.H. Gombrich, and Nikolaus Pevsner.

236. Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, For Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. Macmillan, 1902, FIRST EDITION, occasional handling marks, patch of foxing at head of final page of text,pp. [vi],

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249, royal 8vo, original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and white, backstrip lettered in white and faded with rubbing at tips, spine shaken, dust soiling to top edge with other edges toned, endpapers browned and a little spotted, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Richards A181) £800

237. Kipling (Rudyard) Kim. Macmillan. 1901, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, title-page printed in black and red, frontispiece with tissue-guard and 9 further plates, pp. [vi], 413, [2], 8vo, original red cloth with embossed elephant stamped in gilt to front, one or two very small faint marks to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and lightly faded, light rubbing to extremities, t.e.g. and slightly dulled, fore-edge toned and a little dustsoiled, a couple of small foxspots at head of rear endpapers, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Richards A174) £250

Published a couple of weeks after the American edition.

Michael Sadleir’s copy, with early issue dustjacket 238. Kipling (Rudyard) Puck of Pook’s Hill. Macmillan, 1906, FIRST EDITION, title-page printed in red and black, frontispiece and 19 further full-page illustrations, pp. x, 306, [4, ads], crown 8vo, original red cloth with author’s embossed device in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., some areas of faint browning to endpapers, Sadleir bookplate to pastedown with thin strip of adhesive from removed bookplate below, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, early issue dustjacket with light overall soiling, a little chipping to edges, creasing at head of rear panel, internal tissue reinforcement along head and in a few spots at foot, very good (Richards A205) £2,000

The dustjacket, clearly a very early issue, differs from that described in Richards’ bibliography only insofar as there is a print number stated against ‘Traffics and Discoveries’ in the list of Kipling’s works on the rear panel.

The first appearance of ‘If-’ 239. Kipling (Rudyard) Rewards and Fairies. With Illustrations by Frank Craig. Macmillan, 1910, FIRST EDITION, title-page printed in red and black, 4 plates, occasional light foxing, pp. xii, 338, [x, ads], crown 8vo, original red cloth with author’s embossed device in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt with gentle rubbing to tips, t.e.g., fore-edge toned, endpapers lightly browned and spotted, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, later issue dustjacket with a small mark to front flap-fold, and a light crease running down backstrip and rear panel, very good (Richards A243) £800

The dustjacket here must be a later issue, it differs from that described by Richards, being a plainer design with the title, author and publisher’s device printed in blue on front panel, the same (along with price of ‘7/6 net’) printed on backstrip panel, and a list of 25 works in the Uniform Edition (rather than Richards’ 19) printed on the rear panel, including some subsequent to the present title.

240. Kipling (Rudyard) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories. [Indian Railway Library No.6.] A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad. [1889,] FIRST EDITION, small spot at the head of a few leaves, light creasing to some page-edges, pp. [viii], 104, vii [ads], crown 8vo, original green wrappers with J.L. Kipling drawings to both covers, darkened to borders with some chipping around edge of front cover and a closed horizontal tear starting from the same, heavy chipping at tips of backstrip with cracking horizontally and along joints, custom clipcase, good (Richards A19) £1,500

The cover of the first edition has four variant states described by Richards: this one is the second of these, with publisher’s initials punctuated. Richards cites correspondence and refers to presentation copies to make clear that 1889 is the year of publication - previous bibliographies had attributed it to the previous year.

241. (Lawrence.) CHURCHILL (Winston) Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Lawrence of Arabia, City of Oxford High School for Boys, 3 October 1936. Oxford: J. Thornton & Son, 1937,

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photographic frontispiece showing memorial with light off-setting to title-page, pp. 23, small 4to, original tan paper wrappers printed in blue, slightly chipped at tips of spine with a small torn portion on the lower panel, good £225

A brochure printed to commemorate the unveiling of this memorial by Winston Churchill, whose speech is recorded on pp. 9-18.

With a leaflet from the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Committee encouraging contributions for a further memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral loosely inserted.

242. Lessing (Doris) [On Not Winning the Nobel Prize] Nobel Lecture, 7 December 2007. Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2008, 57/150 COPIES (from an edition of 176 copies) signed by the author, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page printed in black and green with wood-engraved portrait of author by Abigail Rorer, fly-title printed in green,pp. 31, tall 8vo, original quarter green cloth with patterned paper sides, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, slipcase, fine £185

Oak Tree Fine Press exists to raise money for the care and support of children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS - this is one of a series of Nobel Prize Lectures that they have published, with Toni Morrison and Günter Grass being the others available.

243. (Lewis.) BAYNES (Pauline) Original drawing for Prince Caspian. [p. 62: ‘… it was not a man’s face but a badger’s …’] [n.d., circa 1951,] black ink with some correction to details in white, pencil annotations, 31.7 x 19cm, original creasing from publisher storage, but none touching image, trace overlay fixed with tape on verso, very good £5,000 + VAT in EU

Baynes’s drawing, with her pencilled signature beneath, shows Prince Caspian in the cave with Trufflehunter the Badger, and Trumpkin and Nikabrik the Dwarfs (Chapter V: ‘Caspian’s Adventure in the Mountains’). The image is the same size as published in the first edition. The other pencil markings (some in red, numerals in pen at head) refer to sizing and place in text, with a contextual quotation (contemporary with the original drawing) in Baynes’s hand captioning her illustration.

244. (Lewis.) BAYNES (Pauline) Original drawing for Prince Caspian. [p. 143: ‘The Dwarf went on ahead …’] [n.d., circa 1951,] black ink with some correction to details in white, pencil annotations, 23.8 x 18.4cm, original creasing from publisher storage, but none touching image, trace overlay with some pen and pencil markings fixed with tape on verso, very good £5,000 + VAT in EU

Baynes’s drawing, with her pencilled signature beneath, shows Trumpkin the Dwarf, Peter and Edmund in Aslan’s How (Chapter XII: ‘Sorcery and Sudden Vengeance’). The image is the same size as published in the first edition. The other pencil markings (some in red, numerals in pen at head) refer to sizing and place in text, with a contextual quotation (contemporary with the original drawing) in Baynes’s hand captioning her illustration.

245. (Limited Editions Club.) THACKERAY (William Makepeace) The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. With an Introduction by Robert Cantwell. 2 Vols. Printed by W.S. Cowell. 1961, 1,411/1,500 SETS, 32 full-page colour printed illustrations by Charles W. Stewart, title-page printed in black and blue, pp. xx, 366; x, 352, 8vo., original light yellow cloth, backstrips gilt lettered on a blue-grey ground, the covers with a decorative design blocked in blind overall, tissue-jackets, board slipcase, fine £60

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246. (Limited Editions Club.) WHITE (Gilbert) The Natural History of Selborne. With drawings by John Nash and an introduction by The Earl of Cranbrook. New York: Printed by W.S. Cowell for the Club, 1972, 960/1,500 COPIES signed by the artist, numerous illustrations by John Nash, including 16 full-page colourprinted lithographs, pp. 276, 4to, original quarter tan calf, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little rubbed at tips, green boards patterned to a design by Nash, remnant of glassine dustjacket laid in, matching board slipcase with a small amount of wear to corners, very good £50

247. Llewellyn (Richard) How Green Was My Valley. Michael Joseph, 1939, FIRST EDITION, 84/200 COPIES signed by the author, pp. 651, [1], 8vo, original beige buckram, backstrip a trifle darkened with red leather label lettered in gilt, t.e.g., red page-marker, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, slipcase, very good £600

248. London (Jack) White Fang. Methuen, 1907, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, occasional light foxing, spot of drink-staining to top corner of a couple of leaves of ads at rear, pp. viii, 310, 40 [ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in white and black to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, top edge dustsoiled, other edges roughtrimmed and toned with light foxing, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good £150

249. McEwan (Ian) On Chesil Beach. Jonathan Cape, 2007, FIRST EDITION, 541/1,200 COPIES signed by the author, pp. viii, 166, [1], crown 8vo, original quarter brown boards with blue sides illustrated in brown, backstrip lettered in blue, matching slipcase, fine £100

250. McEwan (Ian) Saturday. Jonathan Cape, 2005, FIRST EDITION, 396/1,500 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [x], 279, [1], 8vo, original black boards, backstrip gilt, slipcase with pictorial onlay, fine £100

251. Manning (Olivia) Fortunes of War [The Balkan Trilogy & The Levant Trilogy.] The Great Fortune; The Spoilt City; Friends and Heroes; The Danger Tree; The Battle Lost and Won; The Sum of Things [6 vols.] Heinemann and Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1960-1980, FIRST EDITIONS, pp. 296; viii, 319; x, 363, crown 8vo; 196; 185; 203, 8vo, original boards, backstrips lettered in gilt, dustjackets, that to first volume with toning to rear panel and light chipping at corners and tips of backstrip, occasional nicks, light fading to backstrip panel of fifth volume, light toning or faint foxing to edges of some volumes, very light foxing to endpapers of Levant trilogy with some to flaps of the same, very good £400

‘The Danger Tree’ signed by the author to the title-page, beneath her crossed-through printed name. Manning’s two trilogies, grouped together under the title Fortunes of War, use the same group of characters and draw upon the author’s own experiences to explore the effects of the Second World War on the respective regions; they were described by Anthony Burgess as ‘the finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer’.

252. Mantel (Hilary) Bring up the Bodies. 4th Estate, 2012, FIRST EDITION, pp. xviii, 411, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, dustjacket, fine £70

Signed by the author to the title-page.

A beautifully produced example of Catalan modernism 253. Marquina (Eduardo) Elegías. Punta Secas por Laura Albéniz. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1935, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 1/5 COPIES (from an edition of 176 copies) on Japon nacarado paper with an original drawing signed by the artist, the original metal plates of two of the illustrations, and a separate suite of prints on China paper, titles and decorations printed in orange, illustration at head of each poem, the occasional foxspot, pp. 233, [2], 4to, original wrappers, small tear at foot, unbound as issued, edges untrimmed, the suite of prints and plates enclosed in their own folders, prospectus laid

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in, all housed in quarter vellum folder with blue sides, lettered in gilt to backstrip, faint handling marks, original slipcase a little rubbed and lightly dustsoiled, very good £2,000

Originally published in 1905, this lavish new edition in the publisher’s ‘La Cometa’ series enhances the original text with drypoint etchings by fellow Catalan Laura Albéniz; her illustrations are also provided as a separate suite of prints with two of her original plates and an original drawing.

254. Maugham (W. Somerset) Liza of Lambeth. Heinemann, 1947, JUBILEE EDITION, 870/1,000 COPIES signed by the author, pp. xv, 137, 8vo, original quarter vellum with vertical gilt rule, patterned paper boards, backstrip with black leather label lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, one or two small foxspots at head of front endpapers with strip of browning to both free endpapers, dustjacket with backstrip panel a little faded, a little frayed around head with a short closed tear at head of upper joint fold, very good (Toole Stott A1f) £120

A fiftieth anniversary edition of Maugham’s first book, which adds a supplementary Preface by the author.

255. Maxwell (Gavin) Ring of Bright Water. [Centenary Limited Edition.] Eilean Bàn Trust, 2014, 25/200 COPIES signed by Richard Branson, John Lister-Kaye, Virginia McKenna and Jimmy Watt, printed on mouldmade paper, 20 tipped-in plates, pp. [vi], 293, royal 8vo, original quarter green leather with blue-green cloth sides, bevelled edges, stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, green page marker, patterned endpapers, matching slipcase, fine £1,500

A lavish new edition of this modern nature classic, published to mark the centenary of the author’s birth. The signatories are drawn from diverse fields, but all bear some relation to Maxwell’s work: Lister- Kaye is an author and friend who has carried on his work; Virginia McKenna starred in the film based on the book; Richard Branson won the Maxwell Literature Prize at Stowe School; Jimmy Watt is a central figure in the book as a young man assisting Maxwell in his work, and continues to preserve his legacy.

256. Milne (A.A.) Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen, 1927, FIRST EDITION, pp. xii, 103, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth with Shepard vignettes stamped in gilt to both boards, single fillet gilt border to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few tiny spots of rubbing along upper joint and a small mark to lower board, t.e.g., tail edge roughtrimmed, pink illustrated endpapers, bookplate tipped in to verso of flyleaf, dustjacket with very lightly faded backstrip panel, near fine £1,800

257. Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen, 1924, FIRST EDITION, second printing with contents page numbered, pp. xii, 100, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with Shepard illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, single fillet gilt border to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt with the lightest of rubbing to tips, very slight lean to spine, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, areas of light adhesive browning to endpapers with bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket with light overall dustsoiling, a little light chipping at tips of backstrip panel and short closed tears to the same with attendant slight creasing at head of rear panel, very good £8,000

258. Milne (A.A.) Winnie-the-Pooh. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen, 1926, FIRST EDITION, pp. xvi, 159, crown 8vo, original dark green cloth, upper board stamped in gilt with Shepard vignette and single fillet border, bottom corner of lower board a little bumped, backstrip lettered in gilt with tips a trifle softened, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, endpaper maps by E.H. Shepard, bookplate tipped in to initial balnk, dustjacket with the lightest of rubbing to extremities and a few faint handling marks, head of backstrip panel a little nicked and creased, near fine £3,000

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With the publisher’s original prospectus for the book, a single folded sheet printed on all sides in red and black, laid in at front - a fascinating insert. All first issue points present.

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author for Henry Newbolt 259. Monro (Harold) Elm Angel. Wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious [Ariel Poems No. 26.] Faber and Faber, 1930, FIRST EDITION, full-page wood-engraving, pp. [3], foolscap 8vo, original yellow wrappers with Ravilious wood-engraving to front, some very faint spotting, small bookseller sticker at foot of inside rear-cover, protective card folder, very good £180

Inscribed by the author on the inside front-cover: ‘Henry Newbolt, from Harold Monro. 1930’.

Newbolt had been published - in Broadside form - by Monro’s Poetry Bookshop imprint, as well as opening the shop itself in 1913; his appreciation for the Georgian poets had been expressed, at Monro’s behest, in a review of ‘Georgian Poetry 1911-1912’, establishing his connection to a younger generation. He had himself contributed an earlier poem to the Ariel series, ‘The Linnet’s Nest’, making this a notable association copy on a number of fronts.

Inscribed by the author for Edith and Osbert Sitwell 260. Moore (Marianne) A Marianne Moore Reader. New York: Viking Press, 1961, FIRST EDITION, pp. xviii, 301, 8vo, original orange cloth with a small amount of very light dustsoiling, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket a touch faded around head of front panel and at backstrip, light soiling to rear panel and borders of flaps, very good (Abbott A18.a1) £700

Inscribed by Moore on the flyleaf: ‘For Edith and Osbert, whom I read and read and evy and love. Marianne. November 1, 1961’. Moore has additionally written the exact date of publication (‘November 16th’) next to the year on the title-page verso. The selection includes Moore’s essay ‘Edith Sitwell, Virtuoso’ (pp. 210-5), whilst Sitwell’s reciprocal approbation is recorded in the quotes on the dustjacket rear-panel, where she ranks Moore ‘among the most exquisite and accurate observers of our time’.

261. Muldoon (Paul) Wayside Shrines. Paintings and drawings by Keith Wilson. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2009, 281/350 COPIES (from an edition of 400 copies) signed by the author, titles and numerals printed in purple, 8 full-page illustrations with 3 in colour, pp. [37], 8vo, original purple linen blind-stamped to upper board, tissue jacket, fine £150

Uniquely, this copy is also signed by the artist.

262. Murdoch (Iris) The Bell. Chatto & Windus, 1958, FIRST EDITION, pp. 320, crown 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine and a little softening at tips, a few faint spots to top edge, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with mild toning to borders and backstrip panel, very good £300

263. Nash (Paul) Fertile Image. Edited by Margaret Nash, with an Introduction by James Laver. Faber and Faber, 1951, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of artist and 64 photographic plates, a small amount of surface removal to border of plate 37, pp. 28 + plates, 4to, original green cloth with artist signature blind-stamped to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, faint browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with one or two tiny nicks and some internal tape reinforcement at tips of backstrip, a little light rubbing and dustsoiling, very good £250

A very bright example of a scarce dustjacket.

264. (Nonesuch Press.) BELLOC (Hilaire) Verse. Edited by W.N. Roughead. 1954, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 881/1,650 COPIES, pp.xxv, 296, 8vo, original maize buckram with vertical gilt rule, a few small faint spots, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed and lightly toned, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, dustjacket a little frayed around head with light fading to backstrip panel and a few light scuffs and marks, very good (Dreyfus 121) £75

Contains - except for a few manuscript verses, printed fragments and some oral tradition verses - all of Belloc’s verse.

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265. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) X Sermons. Chosen from the Whole Body of Donne’s Sermons by Geoffrey Keynes. 1923, 276/725 COPIES printed in black and red on Dutch mould-made paper, pp.[iv], 162, folio, original quarter cream canvas with brown sides, light wear to corners and a few faint marks, backstrip with printed label a little browned (spare tipped in at rear), edges untrimmed and toned, bookplates to pastedown and flyleaf, good (Dreyfus 9) £140

The bookplate to pastedown that of novelist and music critic Edward Sackville-West. ‘So many of Donne’s sermons possess special attractions from a literary point of view that a choice of only ten is not easily to be made. This collection seems however to compass fairly well the field covered by Donne’s preaching, and it contains besides enough of his magnificent imagery to satisfy the literary sense.’ (Keynes ‘Bibliographical Note’)

266. O’Hara (Frank) A City Winter and Other Poems. New York: (Printed by Ruthven Todd for) Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951, FIRST EDITION, 28/130 COPIES (of an edition of 150 copies) printed on French Arches paper with the 2 inserted illustrations by Larry Rivers printed on Japanese Shogun paper, the title printed in blue, unbound as issued, pp. [iv], 16, crown 8vo, original plain white wrappers, untrimmed, fine £1,800

Scarce. Frank O’Hara’s first book. O’Hara took up residence in New York where he worked as Assistant to the Curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Whilst there he met and befriended several of the artists of the American Abstract Expressionists group, especially Jackson Pollock and Willem DeKooning. He was also a member of the New York School of Poets, other members of whom included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Barbara Guest.

The Tibor de Nagy Gallery was founded in 1949 by de Nagy and J.B. Myers. Although initially a financial failure, funding from Dwight Ripley placed it on a more firm financial footing. ‘A City Winter and Other Poems’ was the first in a series of books issued by this gallery.

267. (Old Stile Press.) BUTLER (S.J.) The Swimmer. Photographs by Steffi Pusch. Llandogo, 2012, 29/100 COPIES signed by author and artist, printed in bronze with fly-titles in blue on Vélin Arches paper, title-page printed in blue and copper, 10 tipped-in photographs, pp. [40], 4to, original grey boards with title in black and wave design in brown and blue, edges untrimmed, fine £130

A short story.

268. (Old Stile Press.) D’ARBELOFF (Natalie) Scenes from the Life of Jesus. Llandogo, 2010, 26/60 COPIES signed by the artist, text printed in grey with tiles in blue on Vélin Arches paper, colour frontispiece laser-printed on handmade paper, pp. [56], 4to, original blue boards with illustration to upper, backstrip lettered in silver, edges untrimmed, fine £90

12 scenes illustrated with ink drawings and accompanied by scriptural quotation.

269. (Old Stile Press.) JOHN (Edmund) The Flute of Sardonyx. Images & Introduction by Nicholas Wilde. Llandogo, 140/260 COPIES (from an edition of 286 copies) signed by the artist, 16 pencil drawings, pp. 77, 8vo, original purple boards illustrated to upper in darker shade, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed blue cloth slipcase with illustrated paper sides, fine £80

A volume of poetry of the Uranian variety, originally published in 1913, now reissued and accompanied by new drawings in a handsome production from the Old Stile Press.

270. (Old Stile Press.) KEATS (John) A Song about Myself. Calligraphy [by] Andy Moore. Llandogo, 2014, 14/150 COPIES (from an edition of 162 copies) signed by the calligrapher, printed in red and black on Vélin Arches paper, pp. [27], 4to, original illustrated wrappers over stiff card, untrimmed, new £145

Originally written in a letter to his sister, this is an uncommonly playful poem by Keats, and is illustrated as such by the calligrapher in this very handsomely designed book.

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271. (Old Stile Press.) SKELTON (Robin) Lens of Crystal. Images by Sara Philpott. Llandogo, 1996, 69/250 COPIES signed by author and artist, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, text of poems printed in red, 37 linocut illustrations, pp. 80, royal 8vo, original terracotta boards illustrated with a duochrome linocut, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge black, others untrimmed, illustrated slipcase, fine £100

Skelton’s poems are based on Medieval Welsh verse-forms.

272. (Orwell.) VICTORY OR VESTED INTEREST? Routledge, 1942, FIRST EDITION, pp.vii, 97, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, light rubbing to extremities and a faint spot at foot of upper board, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, good (Fenwick B17) £65

Orwell’s contribution is ‘Culture and Democracy’ on pp.77-97. The other contributors are: G.D.H.Cole, Harold Laski, Mary Sutherland and Francis Williams.

273. Orwell (George) Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. Secker and Warburg, 1950, FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 212, foolscap 8vo, original pale green cloth with a little fading to edges, backstrip lettered in pink and faded, top edge pink, bookplate to flyleaf, dustjacket a little frayed with corners and tips of backstrip panel lightly chipped, backstrip panel faded, very good (Fenwick D3a) £150

274. Osborne (John) Look Back in Anger. A Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber, 1957, FIRST EDITION, pp. 96, crown 8vo, original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few small spots to edges, dustjacket price-clipped with mild toning to backstrip panel and lightest of rubbing to extremities, very good £125

The founding-stone of the Angry Young Men movement.

275. (Piper.) ELBORN (Geoffrey, Editor) To John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday. Stourton Press, 1983, 142/200 COPIES (from an edition of 900 copies), numerous monochrome illustrations, pp. 91, 8vo, original quarter brown morocco a little rubbed to edges with vertical gilt rule, grey boards with an overall design by Piper printed in brown, backstrip lettered in gilt, original prospectus loosely inserted, very good £80

276. Plath (Sylvia) Winter Trees. Faber and Faber, 1971, FIRST EDITION, pp. 55, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, lightest of rubbing to extremities, dustjacket with mild toning to backstrip panel, very good (Tabor A15a) £100

277. (Pop-up Book: Kubasta.) SLEEPING BEAUTY (Cover-Title). Bancroft. 1961, with 8 superb colour double-page concertina pop-ups printed on thick card paper, 2 incorporating movable elements, the illustrations by Kubasta, including the endpapers, pp.[16], oblong 8vo, original quarter lime- green unlettered cloth, colourprinted boards illustrated overall, the front cover also with one movable tab, fine £130

278. Potter (Beatrix) Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes. Frederick Warne, [1922,] FIRST EDITION, title- page vignette, colour frontispiece and 14 further colour illustrations by author, pp. 53, 16mo, original red boards, backstrip and upper board lettered in white, onlaid colourprinted illustration to upper board, backstrip a little faded, light dustsoiling to top edge, illustrated endpapers (as called for by Linder, Figs 13&14), very good (Linder p. 430) £500

279. Potter (Beatrix) The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1929, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece and 5 further colour illustrations, numerous further illustrations by author with many full-page, occasional light handling marks, pp. 225, 8vo, original green cloth with pictorial onlya to upper board, rubbed to extremities with a few light marks, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges lightly toned, a little cracking to front hinge with pencilled gift inscription to flyleaf, good (Quinby 29A; Linder p. 431) £175

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280. Potter (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding. Frederick Warne, 1908, FIRST EDITION, second issue, colourprinted title-page and frontispiece with 17 full-page colourprinted illustrations, further illustrations throughout text, pp. [viii], 70, square 8vo, original red cloth with bevelled edges, upper board lettered in grey and gilt with square colourprinted illustration inset within a grey border, backstrip lettered in grey, illustrated endpapers with neat gift inscription to flyleaf, very good (Linder p. 427) £650

The second printing, a couple of months after the first, omits the words ‘All Rights Reserved’ at the foot of the title-page.

281. Potter (Beatrix) The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. Frederick Warne, 1906, FIRST EDITION, first issue, with ‘London & New York’ on rear cover, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, arranged in pairs with text on recto and colour illustration on facing verso, occasional creasing and light handling marks with light rubbing to folds, ff.[28], 32mo, mounted within folding green cloth wallet with silver tab, rubbing to tab and to extremities, stamped in dark blue to both boards with picture of a rabbit on-laid to front, mottled lilac endpapers printed in white with a couple of short splits and creasing around folds, good (Linder p.426: Quinby 12) £1,200

A nice copy of a rather fragile book, with the often missing tab present. Shops were reluctant to stock this and ‘Miss Moppet’, the only other book by Potter published in this form, because they were awkward for small hands to handle and easily damaged. Both were eventually reprinted in bookform in 1916. ‘Bad Rabbit’ was written at the prompting of Beatrix Potter’s niece, Louie, who told her aunt that ‘Peter was much too good a rabbit, and she wanted a story about a really naughty one!’ (Linder p.183).

282. Potter (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet. Frederick Warne, 1906, FIRST EDITION, first issue, with ‘London & New York’ on rear cover, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, arranged in pairs with text on recto and colour illustration on facing verso, occasional creasing with light rubbing to folds, ff.[28], 32mo, mounted within folding grey cloth wallet with silver tab, stamped in dark blue to both boards with colour picture on-laid to front, rubbing to extremities and to tab with slot-flap missing, a few small marks, mottled lilac endpapers printed in white with some light rubbing to folds, good (Linder p.426: Quinby 11) £1,000

A nice copy of a rather fragile book.

283. Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. Frederick Warne, 1930, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece and 5 colour plates with 22 further full-page illustrations by the author, pp. 96, 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown to upper board, backstrip lettered in dark brown and a shade faded, a few light marks across head and foot of upper board with top corner of the same a little bumped, uillustrated endpapers very faintly spotted, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, a few small spots of restoration to corners and backstrip with a couple of light marks to foot of rear panel, very good (Quinby 30; Linder p. 430) £700

284. Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Frederick Warne, 1906, FIRST EDITION, title vignette, colour frontispiece and 26 further colour illustrations by author, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, pp. 85, 16mo, original grey-green boards, lettered in white to upper board with circular onlaid colour illustration, backstrip lettered in white with very slight lean to spine, a few small spots to top edge, illustrated endpapers, very good (Linder p. 426) £900

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285. Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Frederick Warne, 1905, FIRST EDITION, vignette to title-page, colour frontispiece and 26 further colour illustrations by the author, pp. 77, 16mo, original green boards, upper board lettered in white with onlaid irreugular-shaped colour illustration, backstrip lettered in white, slight lean to spine and light fading around backstrip, light dustsoiling to top edge, illustrated endpapers, very good (Linder p. 425) £1,000

286. Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding. Frederick Warne, [1926,] FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 17 colour illustrations with further illustrations throughout text by author, pp. 75, 16mo, original red boards, lettered in white to upper board with circular onlaid colour illustration, backstrip a little faded with white lettering a little rubbed, very slight lean to spine, illustrated endpapers, very good £300

A re-issue of ‘The Roly-Poly Pudding’, retitled and in a smaller format to correspond with the author’s other works.

287. Pullman (Philip) His Dark Materials. Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass [3 vols.] Scholastic, 2007, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, each volume signed by the author, crown 8vo, original wrappers, slipcase, publisher’s shrinkwrap, fine £150

A Borders exclusive back in 2007, an attractively presented set.

288. (Rackham.) HAWTHORNE (Nathaniel) A Wonder Book. Hodder & Stoughton. [1922], FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, 546/600 COPIES signed by the artist, 24 colourprinted plates, of which 16 are lightly tipped to cream card mounts with associated captioned tissue-guards, other illustrations in the text and the endpaper designs all by Arthur Rackham, one hinge strained, pp. [ii], viii, 208, large 4to., original white cloth, the backstrip and front cover gilt blocked to a design by Rackham, just a little faint edge browning to rear cover, t.e.g., others untrimmed, good (Riall p.146; Latimore & Haskell p.55) £1,250

289. (Rackham.) IBSEN (Henrik) Peer Gynt, a Dramatic Poem. (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.) Harrap. 1936, FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, 12 colourprinted plates with captioned tissue-guards present, endpaper decorations, decorated half-title and title-page (both printed in black and green) and text illustrations placed as head and tail-pieces, all by Arthur Rackham, pp. 258, imp.8vo., original mid brown cloth, backstrip and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by Rackham, the dustjacket with an overall design not present in the book, near fine £500

290. (Rackham.) WAGNER (Richard) The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. (‘The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie’ a Third Impression). 2 Vols. Heinemann. 1911/12, FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, numerous colourprinted plates and line-drawings in the text by Rackham, pp. x, 182; x, 160, 4to., original tan buckram, gilt lettering and decoration to the backstrips and front covers, rear cover to ‘The Rhinegold’ just a little waterstained, backstrips faded, good £600

Will Carter’s own copy, with his bookplate 291. (Rampant Lions Press.) JONES (David) The Fatigue. c.A.V.C. DCCLXXXIV Tantus Labor Non Sit Cassus. [Cambridge: Privately Printed at the Rampant Lions Press,] 1965, ONE OF 298 COPIES [this unnumbered], erratum slip tipped-in to final page,pp. xii, 20, original maroon wrappers over stiff card, printed label to front with a few very faint spots, original proposal letter and subscription form loosely inserted, very good £150

Will Carter’s own copy, with his bookplate to the inside front cover.

292. (Reading Room Press.) TESSIMOND (A.S.J.) & Ceri Richards. An Advertiser’s Alphabet. Quenington, 2014, FIRST EDITION, 57/150 COPIES, 25 colour vignettes by Ceri Richards, printed rectos only, pp. [61], 8vo, original quarter red cloth with labels (likely of a Richards design) to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine £50

A faithful and attractive reproduction of a booklet found in Tessimond’s archive, wherein he playfully

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captures the essence of his craft as an advertising copywriter. All the features of the original, including Richards’ beautiful illustrations are richly represented, including the fact that the ‘A’ was missing - the text begins therefore, with an Introduction by Richards’ son-in-law Mel Gooding, which partly addresses this omission, and a few speculative and amusing attempts to provide the missing piece.

293. (Red Hen Press.) JONES (Shirley) Pick Me a Bunch of Roses. Brecon, 1994, 66/100 COPIES (from an edition of 500 copies) signed by Shirley Jones, printed in brown on pink paper, numerous illustrations reproduced from original etchings or mezzotints, pp. [44], 8vo, original quarter dark brown linen with a Jones design printed in pink to upper board, fine £80

294. Rowling (J.K.) The Casual Vacancy. Little, Brown, 2012, FIRST EDITION, pp. [vi], 503, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine £275

Signed by the author to the title-page, with her authenticating hologram-sticker on the facing verso. The ticket to Rowling’s appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2012, at which event this copy was signed, is laid in at the front.

295. Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bloomsbury, 1998, FIRST EDITION, single faint spot at foot of prelims, pp. 251, [4], crown 8vo, original boards illustrated overall, lettered in black, blue, green and white, dustjacket repeats cover design, near fine £800

296. Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury. 1999, UNCORRECTED PROOF, owner’s signature at the head of the title-page, pp. 316, f’cap.8vo., original green and white wrappers, covers printed in black, the front cover printed ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY’, publication data printed on the rear cover, corners a little creased, very good £950

297. (Saint Dominic’s Press.) HOBHOUSE (Rosa) The Man with the Leather Patch and Five other Tales. Being Parts I, II and III of the Diary of a Story-Maker. Stanford Le Hope: [Printed at the St. Dominic’s Press for] The Sign of the Willow, 1928, printed on Batchelor’s handmade paper, 6 full-page line-drawings, pp.[viii], 41, crown 8vo, original printed tan wrappers a little sunned with very light overall soiling, creasing to corners, light dustsoiling to top edge, untrimmed, very good (Taylor & Sewell A165) £100

298. (Saki.) MUNRO (H.H.) The Chronicles of Clovis. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912, FIRST EDITION, a few foxspots to outermost borders of first handful of leaves, returning to ads at rear, pp. 300, [1], [18, ads], 8vo, original green cloth with design stamped in white, black and blue to upper board, backstrip lettered in white, rubbing to corners, top edge green and a trifle rubbed, others untrimmed with a few faint foxspots to fore-edge, good £275

299. (Scholartis Press.) DE LOCRE (Elza) I See the Earth. With decorations by Peter Meadows. 1928, 195/525 COPIES signed by the author, printed on mouldmade paper, title-page decoration and 22 tail-piece drawings, creasing to page edges of a couple of leaves, pp. 79, imperial 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded, one or two small dents and marks to boards with wear to corners, edges untrimmed and toned, light browning to free endpapers, good £80

Additionally inscribed beneath the limitation statement, ‘To WMK’. The decorations are by Jack Lindsay, the poet’s lover at the time, to whom the collection is dedicated.

Described by Eric Partridge, in his account and bibliography of the Press, as the ‘most unjustly neglected of our books’.

300. Sebald (W.G.) Austerlitz. Hamilton, 2001, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 89/100 COPIES signed by the author, with illustrations throughout, pp. [vi], 358, crown 8vo, original cream boards printed in black, white and yellow and illustrated overall on the front cover, fine £600

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301. Sellar (Walter Carruthers) & Robert JulianYeatman. 1066 AND ALL THAT. A memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember including one hundred and three good things, five bad kings, and two genuine dates. Illustrated by John Reynolds.Methuen, 1930, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece drawing with vignettes throughout, a few foxspots to ads at rear and one or two faint spots to text-pages, pp. xii, 116, 8 [ads], crown 8vo, original red cloth stamped in gilt to front, some very, backstrip lettered in gilt with lightest of rubbing at tips, faint water-staining to both boards, a few foxspots to edges, tail edge roughtrimmed, light browning to free endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to pastedown, dustjacket lightly toned with a small amount of faint foxing, a few small ink spots to rear panel with light chipping to corners and tips of backstrip, a few short closed tears and some light creasing with three spots of internal repair, very good £200

Although to all intents and purposes the first edition, a short ‘Preface to the Second Edition’ explains: “A first edition limited to 1 copy and printed on rice paper and bound in buck-boards and signed by one of the editors was sold to the other editor, who left it in a taxi somewhere between Piccadilly Circus and the Bodleian.” A classic of twentieth-century humour, and scarce in the dustjacket.

With a bookplate signed by the author 302. Seuss (Dr.) The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random House, 1957, FIRST EDITION, illustrations throughout coloured in blue and red, one or two small spots and faint handling marks to page-borders, pp. [ii], 61, [1], 8vo, original pictorial boards with rubbing to extremities and light wear to corners and tips of backstrip, illustrated endpapers, dustjacket with rubbing overall, chipping to tips of backstrip panel, creasing and a few short closed tears, very good £5,000

With a bookplate signed by the author to verso of title- page. A first issue copy, identified by the price code (200/200) on the front flap and the non-laminated boards.

303. Seuss (Dr.) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. New York: Random House, 1958, FIRST EDITION, illustrations throughout coloured in blue and red, one or two small spots and faint handling marks, pp. 63, 8vo, original pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers with a contemporary gift inscription at foot of flyleaf, dustjacket with a single short closed tear and some light creasing at head of rear flap, a tiny scrape affecting one letter in publisher’s name on backstrip panel, near fine £500

304. Shute (Nevil) A Town Like Alice. Heinemann, 1950, FIRST EDITION, occasional handling marks and faint staining to a couple of pages, pp. [iv], 332, [1], crown 8vo, original red cloth blind- stamped to both boards with a few light marks, backstrip lettered in gilt now a little tarnished, lean to spine and light bump at foot of lower joint, top edge red, other edges toned, faded ownership stamp to flyleaf, dustjacket a little frayed with rubbing to extremities, internal repair to corners and ends of backstrip, good £300

305. Sillitoe (Alan) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. W.H. Allen, 1958, FIRST EDITION, one or two small foxspots to borders of prelims, pp. 216, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, corners a touch bumped, one or two small foxspots to free endpapers, dustjacket price- clipped and a little frayed with some creasing and short closed tears and splitting to fold of rear flap, light rubbing and soiling overall, good £175

The author’s first novel, and one of the key texts of the Angry Young Men movement.

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Including some inscribed copies 306. Snow (C.P.) The Complete Strangers and Brothers. Strangers and Brothers; The Light and the Dark; Time of Hope; The Masters; The New Men; Homecomings; The Conscience of the Rich; The Affair; Corridors of Power; The Sleep of Reason; Last Things [11 vols.] Faber and Faber [vols 1-3]; Macmillan [vols 4-11,] [1940-1970,] FIRST EDITIONS, a little foxing to prelims of first volume with the odd spot elsewhere to same, pp. 405; 392; 416; xi, 387; vii, 311, [1]; vii, 400; xi, 337; vi, 376; viii, 408; viii, 406; vi, 346, 8vos, original cloth or boards, last volume with dampstain at foot of boards, dustjackets to all but first two, third volume with Book Society band, that to ‘The Affair’ price-clipped, a couple of spots of tape repair, good condition overall £1,400

A sequence of books named at first after their narrator, Lewis Eliot, then referred to by the title of the first. The inscribed and signed copies are: ‘Time of Hope’, author’s signature faintly visible on flyleaf, and inscribed to John Boyles on the half-title. ‘Homecomings’, signed and dated ‘Nov. 8/77’ on the half-title. ‘The Sleep of Reason’, inscribed on the title-page to John Bingham and his wife ‘with love from Charles’ and signed ‘C.P. Snow’ at the foot.

An inscribed copy of the author’s first book 307. Snow (C.P.) Death Under Sail. Heinemann, 1932, FIRST EDITION, occasional light foxing, pp. [viii], 344, crown 8vo, original black cloth stamped in red to both boards, backstrip lettered in red and a little faded with a small split at head, slight lean to spine, edges faintly spotted, good £350

Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf, without signature: ‘To Muriel, with love.’

308. [Snow (C.P.)] New Lives for Old. Victor Gollancz, 1933, FIRST EDITION, foxing to prelims with the occasional outbreak further in, pp. 399, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow with tips rubbed and slight lean to spine, edges spotted, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel and waterstain along most of rear joint-fold, light overall soiling with light chipping at corners and tips of backstrip, brown dot stuck to rear flap and a small hole at head of rear flap-fold, good £600

The author’s second book, published anonymously.

309. (Snow.) GREACEN (Robert) The World of C.P. Snow. With a Bibliography by Bernard Stone. Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, [1962,] FIRST EDITION, 12/50 COPIES signed by the author, 4 plates, pp. 64, crown 8vo, original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, near fine £120

310. Spark (Muriel) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Macmillan, 1961, FIRST EDITION, one or two handling marks, pp. [iv], 172, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, spine a little shaken with slight lean, rubbing to extremities and a small amount of water-staining around head, dustjacket a little frayed at corners, lightest of soiling to rear panel, good £90

311. (Stanbrook Abbey Press.) PRAYER of King Henry VI. Worcester. 1958, single leaf tipped to inside rear wrapper, printed in black in Cancelleresca Bastarda on W.S. Hodgkinson laid paper, hand- illuminated gold initial and green, purple and red fleuron by Margaret Adams, pp. [2], oblong 12mo, original Millbourn hand-made paper wrappers, ‘GREETINGS’ printed in red on front, colophon in black on rear, near fine (Butcher C2) £60

312. Steinbeck (John) Cannery Row. New York: Viking, 1945, FIRST EDITION, pp. [vi], 208, [1], crown 8vo, original first state binding of buff cloth, lettered and decorated in varying shades of blue to upper board and backstrip, backstrip a shade darkened, a few light handling marks overall,, top edge blue, dustjacket with light rubbing to extremities, light dustsoiling to rear panel and a small hole towards foot of rear flap-fold, very good (Goldstone & Payne A22b) £1,200

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A version in canary yellow cloth also exists, after the supply of buff cloth ran out.

313. Steinbeck (John) The Moon is Down. A Novel. New York: Viking, 1942, FIRST EDITION, first issue, pp. 188, crown 8vo, original blue cloth blind-stamped to upper board, backstrip with lettering and decorations in silver, dustjacket with faint toning to backstrip and rear panels, very good (Goldstone & Payne A16b) £600

Identified as the first issue by the large and unrequired full-stop on p. 112.

314. Steinbeck (John) Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking, 1954, FIRST EDITION, title-page printed in red and black, one or two light handling marks, pp. x, 273, crown 8vo, original beige cloth with lettering in red and decorations in blue to upper board and backstrip, backstrip darkened and rubbed at tips with a small area of dampstaining at foot, top edge red, dustjacket very bright with a split to rear flap-fold (Goldstone & Payne A33b) £250

315. Stevens (Wallace) Three Academic Pieces. Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1947, FIRST EDITION, XXXVI/LII COPIES (of an edition of 246 copies), signed by the author, printed on Crown & Sceptre paper, 3 hand-coloured initials in the text, pp. 36, [5], 8vo, original hand-coloured boards backed in linen by Peter Franck, backstrip longitudinally blocked in blue, plain white dustjacket and card slipcase discarded, near fine (Edelstein A12) £3,000

Stevens read these poems at Harvard in February 1947, and arranged with Knopf for the Cummington School of the Arts to produce this edition. Surveying the proofs, he wrote: ‘If I like the other initials as much as I like the O, I shall be hard to hold down’. Only this smallest issue was bound by Peter Franck; two larger unsigned issues on different paper were bound by Arno Werner.

316. Symons (A.J.A., Editor) An Anthology of ‘Nineties’ Verse. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928, FIRST EDITION, title-page with unused Aubrey Beardsley design for Ruding’s ‘An Evil Motherhood’, pp. 176, crown 8vo, original quarter yellow cloth with Beardsley-illustrated boards, a darker patch at foot of lower board and a small indentation to its middle, backstrip lettered in black, top edge a little dustsoiled with a few faint spots, other edges untrimmed, browning to free endpapers, dustjacket repeating Beardsley image with light chipping to corners and tips of backstrip, a small hole in centre of upper joint-fold, a few instances of internal tape repair, two brown spots to rear panel and a small red mark at head, very good £70

Symons’ selection includes Beardsley, Davidson, Lord Alfred Douglas, Ernest Dowson, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats.

317. (Tern Press.) THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA. With prints by Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, 1990, 19/185 COPIES signed by the artist, printed on Views of the Rhine paper, 7 full-page colour-printed etched linoprints, title-page printed in four colours, initial letter blue and portion of text printed in red, pp. [19], crown 8vo, original ivory cloth with pink floral design, printed label to upper board and backstrip, this latter with crease to one corner, near fine £70

318. (Tern Press.) ANACREON. Five Odes. Translated into English by Thomas Moore, And First Published in 1800. Illustrated with Etchings by Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, 1985, 40/75 COPIES signed by the printers, printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, 5 copper-engraved illustrations, title-page printed in yellow and copper, fly-titles and initials printed in copper, one or two faint handling marks, pp. [19], square 4to, original half green leather with gilt divisions and marbled sides, backstrip with leather label lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, original slipcase of cloth and handmade paper with partial fading, near fine £80

319. (Tern Press.) JONES (R. Gerallt) From Garn’s Summit. Memories of Lleyn. Illustrated by Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, 1999, 75/100 COPIES signed by the printers, printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, illustrated overall with line drawings in green, pp. [30], oblong 8vo, original green cloth with illustrated sides, untrimmed, fine £80

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320. Toole (John Kennedy) A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. 1980, FIRST EDITION, pp. xii, 340, 8vo, original pale green cloth, backstrip blocked in black, First Issue dustjacket without a blurb on the rear panel, fine £3,500

Toole’s work was rejected during his lifetime. Depression, brought on in part by rejection, led to his suicide in 1969 at the age of 31. Thelma Toole’s belief in her son’s work, of how she pressured Walker Percy into reading the manuscript and his astonishment at the discovery, with every passing page, that he was reading a work of brilliance, is now the stuff of legend. Even so, it took a further three years before Thelma Toole and Walker Percy found a publisher prepared to publish ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’.

A nice bright copy of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which is signed by Walker Percy on the title-page, beneath his printed name.

An inscribed copy of the author’s first book 321. Walters (Minette) The Ice House. Macmillan, 1992, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece map, pp. 240, crown 8vo, original green boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, second state dustjacket, near fine £550

Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ‘To Mike - my all time favourite escort! With all my love for a brilliant future - miss you! Minette Walters’. The author’s first book.

322. (Waugh.) THE NEW DECAMERON. The Sixth Volume, Edited by Vivienne Dayrell, and Containing Stories by Gerald Bullett, Ethan Allan Brown, Madeleine Nightingale, Naomi Royde-Smith, Eric Walter White, Vivienne Dayrell, William Gerhardi, Evelyn Waugh, L.A.G. Strong, Raymond Cropmton Rhodes, L.P Hartley. Oxford: Blackwell, 1929, FIRST EDITION, half-title and final text-page browned,pp. 240, crown 8vo, original quarter beige cloth with blue sides, backstrip with browned paper label, wear to corners, edges untrimmed with one or two small spots, a few small foxspots to top corner of pastedowns, good £60

323. Waugh (Evelyn) Basil Seal Rides Again, or the Rake’s Regress. Frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. Chapman & Hall, 1963, FIRST EDITION, 435/750 COPIES signed by the author, full-colour lithographic frontispiece, title and fly-title printed in blue,pp.[v], 49, royal 8vo, original blue buckram with bevelled edges, stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, glassine dustjacket, very good £500

An entry in Waugh’s diary for 28 October 1963 reads ‘Bibliographical note. Chapman & Hall forgot the half-title page of “Basil Seal Rides Again”. I had one printed for the fifty copies which I was giving to friends. When the books came for signing and addressing there were more than fifty. I did not observe this. Thus some of the copies I sent to friends lack half-title, some of the “out of series” copies for review have it. The numbers of each were not recorded.’

Waugh liked the production however, as he wrote to the dedicatee Ann Fleming in July 1963: ‘I think you never saw the story I am dedicating to you. You will receive a handsome copy with a frontispiece by Marmalade Cat Miss Hale’.

This copy does not have the half-title.

324. Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief. Chapman and Hall, 1932, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece-map, pp. 303, crown 8vo, original red and black patterned cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, light rubbing to extremities and a small scuff to lower board, bookplate to front pastedown, dustjacket with light fraying around head, backstrip panel a shade darkened with internal tape reinforcement at its tips, a little chipping to corners and light overall dustsoiling, very good £800

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325. Waugh (Evelyn) Edmund Campion. Longmans, Green, 1935, FIRST EDITION, pp.x, 225, 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, some bubbling to cloth at head of lower board and one or two very small spots, a couple of corners with the lightest of bumps, top edge red, a few small foxspots to other edges and rear endpapers, small bookseller’s sticker at foot of front pastedown, dustjacket price-clipped with sunning to backstrip panel, light overall soiling with a few faint marks, edges a little frayed with a short closed tear at head of rear joint- fold, good £1,200

In nicer condition than normally found.

326. Waugh (Evelyn) A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, 1934, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, the odd tiny foxspot, pp.348, [3, ads], crown 8vo, original patterned black and red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, handful of pinprick foxspots to edges, very good £500

327. Waugh (Evelyn) Helena. A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1950, FIRST EDITION, pp.xiii, 265, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with bump at head, dustjacket a little frayed with re- pricing sticker on front flap and some light handling marks to rear panel, good £90

328. Waugh (Evelyn) Labels. A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, 1930, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 plates, double-page map, the frontispiece from a painting by Waugh, rear flyleaf slightly creased, pp.206, 8vo, original dark violet cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and somewhat faded with a few spots of wear at head, a little fading to borders, bookplate to pastedown, free endpapers browned, good £150

329. Waugh (Evelyn) Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands, Including the Author’s. Chapman & Hall, 1953, FIRST EDITION, line- drawings, some full-page, pp.[viii], 53, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettering and front cover design gilt blocked, top edge red, dustjacket with light overall dustsoiling, very good £100

330. Waugh (Evelyn) The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. Chapman & Hall. [1948], FIRST ENGLISH TRADE EDITION, frontispiece and 7 full-page illustrations with other decorations by Stuart Boyle, one or two foxspots to prelims, pp.[vi],144, foolscap 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with lean to spine, top edge black with some light foxing to fore-edge, marbled endpapers, dustjacket with some light foxing to flaps and rear panel, good £100

331. Waugh (Evelyn) Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson. Chapman & Hall, 1939, FIRST EDITION, pp.viii, 286, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little sunned, lightst of rubbing to extremities with edges toned, good £180

332. Waugh (Evelyn) Scott-King’s Modern Europe. Chapman & Hall, 1947, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, title-page printed in brown, pp.[vi], 88, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge blue, a few small foxspots to fore-edge, dustjacket with light foxing to rear panel, rubbing to extremities and the odd nick, very good £100

333. Waugh (Evelyn) Sword of Honour Trilogy. Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender [3 Vols.] Chapman & Hall, 1952-61, FIRST EDITIONS, pp.[vi], 314; [ix], 335; [v], 311, crown 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt with slight lean to spines, top edges blue, others lightly toned, faint partial browning to free endpapers with one or two small foxspots, dustjackets with light overall soiling, rubbing, and a few nicks, that to first cvolume with tissue repair at foot of faded backstrip panel, ‘Men at Arms’ with light foxing and toning to white panels, a very good set £600

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334. Waugh (Evelyn) Vile Bodies. Chapman & Hall, 1930, FIRST EDITION, pictorial title-page designed by the author, pp.x, 252, [2], crown 8vo, original black and red patterned cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, edges toned with a few faint spots, tail edge roughtrimmed, one or two adhesive spots to free endpapers and original Blackwell bookseller’s sticker at foot of front pastedown, good £600

335. Waugh (Evelyn) Waugh in Abyssinia. Longmans, Green, 1936, FIRST EDITION, handful of small foxspots to inner margin of half-title, pp.[viii], 253, 8vo original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, lightly dustsoiled with one or two small marks to lower board, top edge red, flyleaf very lightly foxed and with a contemporary ownership inscription, book club sticker to rear pastedown, good £175

336. Waugh (Evelyn) Wine in Peace and War. Saccone & Speed, [1947,] FIRST EDITION, 2 full- page colour-tinted line-drawings by Rex Whistler, pp.78, 8vo, original cream boards with colourprinted Rex Whistler design to both boards, usual heavy foxing to pastedowns and the odd spot to free endpapers, good £150

337. Wells (H.G.) The War in the Air, And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted. George Bell, 1908, FIRST EDITION, monochrome frontispiece and 15 further plates, occasional faint foxing, pp. vii, 389, [2], crown 8vo, original later issue red cloth stamped in black to upper board with onlaid colour version of frontispiece which is a little wrinkled and spotted, backstrip lettered in gilt a trifle rubbed and faded, edges lightly toned, gift inscription to front pastedown, good (Wells 35) £70

338. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 1. Andoversford, 1981, 292/320 COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies) printed on heritage Laid Paper, tipped-in plates (mainly illustrating wood-engravings) and illustrations in the text, title printed in purple, pp.70, imperial 8vo, original printed purple wrappers over matching card, tipped-in wood-engraving to front cover, backstrip lettered in black, light fading to backstrip continuing round to first third of front cover, a few light marks, corners and edges a little bumped with some associated creasing, untrimmed, good (Butcher 60) £600

339. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 10. Andoversford, 1990, ONE OF 820 COPIES (from an edition of 925 copies) printed in black and orange on Sommerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers, text illustrations, several plates of photographs, a number in colour, examples of papers and numerous examples of original printing tipped in, pp. [vi], 237, imperial 8vo, original stiff colour-printed wrappers designed by Alan Powers over orange card, untrimmed, order form for Matrix 11 loosely inserted, near fine £120

Pages 221-236 comprise an Index covering the first ten issues of ‘Matrix’.

340. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 11. Risbury, 1991, ONE OF 850 COPIES (from an edition of 955 copies) printed on Sommerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers, text illustrations, numerous plates of photographs, a number coloured, examples of handmade and marbled papers and with John O’Connor’s essay ‘Twins’ tipped in, pp. [vi], 207, imperial 8vo, original patterned orange and red card, a couple of very slight indentations to top and tail edge, untrimmed, dustjacket with very slight fading to backstrip panel, order-slips for Matrix 12 and the reprint of Matrix 2 loosely inserted, letter from Press regarding this number laid in at rear, very good £80

341. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 12. Risbury, 1992, ONE OF 825 COPIES (from an edition of 925 copies) printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mouldmade papers, text illustrations, several

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plates of photographs, including some in colour, examples of papers and original ephemeral pieces of printing, pp. [vi], 222, imperial 8vo, original patterned green and cream card, untrimmed, order-slips for Matrix 12 and the reprint of Matrix 2 loosely inserted, 2 letters from the Press laid in at rear, dustjacket with very light fading to backstrip panel, a coupl eof short closed tears and attendant creasing at foot of rear panel, a little white paint transfer at head of front fold, very good £75

342. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 13. Risbury, 1993, ONE OF 835 COPIES (from an edition of 925 copies) printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mouldmade papers, text illustrations, several plates of photographs, examples of papers and original ephemeral pieces of printing, pp.[vi], 234, imperial 8vo, original pink boards with a linocut on front cover by John Petts printed in brown, untrimmed, dustjacket, Whittington prospectus and order-slip for Matrix 14 laid in at front, near fine £100

With an amusing inscription by the author 343. Williamson (Henry) Salar the Salmon. Faber and Faber, 1935, FIRST EDITION, title-vignette and tail-piece by C.F. Tunnicliffe, pp.320, crown 8vo, original brown linen, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt with spine a little cocked, top edge pink, tail edges roughtrimmed, a few small foxspots to fore-edge, endpaper maps by Tunnicliffe, dustjacket with overall Tunnicliffe design, chipping to corners and at head of backstrip panel with a touch of rubbing along folds, very good Matthews A22b) £300

Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf, referring to a location on the Tunnicliffe map: ‘This is where my wraith will haunt the bright water long after you and I are air and earth, Old Witters! H.W. 11.11.35’

344. Williamson (Henry) Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life & Death in the Country of the Two Rivers. With an Introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue K.C.V.O. Privately Printed [for subscribers only,] 1927, FIRST EDITION, 29/100 COPIES, signed by the author with his owl device drawn alongside, printed in brown and black on handmade paper, pp. xii, 256, royal 8vo, original vellum, a little very light spotting to borders, backstrip with brown leather label lettered and bordered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed and uncut, protective acetate jacket, very good (Matthews A8a) £1,800

345. Wodehouse (P.G.) Thank You, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1934, FIRST EDITION, light creasing to top corner of one or two leaves, pp. 312, [8, ads], crown 8vo, original oatmeal cloth stamped in red, top edge red, very good (McIlvaine A51a) £200

The first full-length Jeeves novel.

346. (Wynken de Worde Society.) THE UNIFYING ELEMENT. The Creative Use of Paper [Comprising Essays by George T. Knipe, Michael D. Chater, Frank Grunfeld, Raymond W. Roberts, Frank Herrmann, and David Gentleman.] 1963, ONE OF 200 COPIES, printed on a variety of papers, a little offsetting to half-title from endpapers, pp.[vii], 48, [1], small 4to, original grey boards stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, handmade fuchsia endpapers, near fine £50

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Printed by the John Roberts Press: the title-pages on Dover Opaque Offset, and Conqueror Air Mail; Knipe’s ‘Paper Selection: Practical Considerations’ printed on Dover Opaque Offset; Chater’s ‘The Paper Maker’ on Glastonbury Antique Laid Opaline; Grunfeld’s ‘The Spider as Paper Merchant’ on Mandrake No.I; Roberts’s ‘The Unifying Element’on T.S. Plan; Herrmann’s ‘A Publisher on Paper’ on Basingwerk Parchment; Gentleman’s ‘Unity and Variety’ on Tosa Butten Almond; the sample leaf is ‘Grace Kelly’ paper supplied by Barcham Green (on the occasion of the Monaco Royal Wedding, when admirers at Hayle Mill celebrated by throwing confetti into the cylinder mould machine); the colophon leaf on Conqueror Deep Blue Laid; the endpapers of Natsume (Japanese ‘Nagashizuki’ paper); and the case of Elephant hide paper.

Inscribed to a schoolfriend of Yeats by the publisher 347. Yeats (W.B.) The Golden Helmet. New York: Published by John Quinn, 1908, FIRST EDITION, 25/50 COPIES, light waterstaining to the bottom third of the text throughout, pp. 33, [3] (blanks), 16mo, original grey boards, rebacked to match, printed label on the front cover, grey endpapers, untrimmed, housed in a protective dark blue cloth box with a printed label on the spine, good (Wade 74) £2,500

Issued for copyright purposes by Quinn, the successful lawyer, patron of the arts and close friend of Yeats. This copy is inscribed by him to his and Yeats’ friend, Frederick James Gregg, schoolmate of Yeats who had initially introduced him to literature, and latterly a New York journalist. Yeats had inscribed a copy of ‘Mosada’ for Gregg. The initial page (containing the limitation statement) is inscribed at its head ‘To F.J. Gregg with the publisher’s compliments, New York John Quinn June 10 1908’.

348. Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1933, FIRST EDITION, pp. x, 101, crown 8vo, original green cloth with T. Sturge Moore design stamped in blind to upper board, backstrip with lettering and design in gilt, very slight lean to spine, edges untrimmed, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, green dustjacket with same Sturge Moore design in dark green, backstrip panel very slightly faded with a single spot of internal tape repair at head, very light chipping to corners, very good (Wade 169) £750

One of 2,000 copies in the first edition.

Inscribed by Elizabeth Yeats to J.B. Yeats 349. Yeats (W.B.) and Lionel Johnson. Poetry and Ireland: Essays. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1908, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES, printed in red and black, occasional outbreaks of foxing to borders but text largely clean, pp. [ii], 54, crown 8vo, original quarter buff cloth with blue boards, title stamped in black to upper board, backstrip darkened with light soiling overall and a few spots, corners rubbed, top edge a little dustsoiled, others untrimmed, bookplates to flyleaf and pastedown with some offsetting from the latter, good (Wade 254) £1,500

Inscribed on the first blank, by the printer (and author’s sister) Elizabeth Corbet Yeats: ‘To J.B. Yeats, With love from Lolly, Dec. 1908’. With father (John Butler Yeats) and son (Jack Butler Yeats) sharing the

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same initials, it is difficult to be entirely conclusive about the recipient: the form of address, however, could be taken to suggest that Jack is more likely, though in either scenario this is a very significant Yeats association copy.

Inscribed by Zukofsky to his wife, and then to Herbert Read 350. Zukofsky (Louis) 55 Poems. Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, [1941,] FIRST EDITION, title-page printed in black and red, pages lightly toned throughout, pp. 126, [5], 8vo, original dark brown boards with paper label printed in red and black to upper board, backstrip with paper label a little browned, light rubbing to corners with sliight softening at head of backstrip, top corners a little bumped and edges toned, very good £800

Inscribed twice by the author on the flyleaf: the first to his wife, ‘To Celia, from Louis’ - peculiar insofar as the name has at some time been erased, causing some abrasion to the paper, and then overwritten, with the same abrasion beneath the author’s name; the second inscription is ‘For Herbert Read, the dedicated wishes me to re-dedicate. Sincerely, Louis Zukofsky, 16 April 1951’. Read was at that time an editor at Routledge & Kegan Paul, who were preparing to issue an English edition of Zukofsky’s ‘A Test of Poetry’ in 1952. The latter inscription would seem to suggest that Celia - who was her husband’s collaborator and muse - had requested that her husband make a gift of her copy to Read.

An already scarce book, made all the more desirable by the chain of associations in its inscriptions.

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