LONDON 13 DECEMBER 2016 DECEMBER 13 LONDON HISTORY, CHILDREN’S CHILDREN’S HISTORY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, LITERATURE, ENGLISH BOOKS AND BOOKS ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 13 DECEMBER 2016 L16408 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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AUCTION IN LONDON 13 DECEMBER 2016 SALE L16408

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8 SESSION ONE: LOTS 1–216 HISTORY 1-116 ENGLISH LITERATURE 15TH TO 18TH CENTURIES 117-122 19TH CENTURY 123-155 20TH CENTURY 156-216 113 SESSION TWO: LOTS 217–339 FINE PRINTING, PRIVATE PRESS AND CALLIGRAPHY 217-232 “WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?” SELF-REVEALING ARTWORKS BY PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE 233-263 WHAT HEATH ROBINSON WOULD BE DRAWING IF HE WAS ALIVE TODAY? 264-282 CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS 283-339

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THIS PAGE LOT 166 (DETAIL) HISTORY 1 4 BRODRICK, ALLEN ROCHESTER, LAURENCE HYDE, FIRST PROPERTY FROM Document signed, “Reasons why Mr John Thurloe EARL OF THE COLLECTION should be excepted out of the Act of Indempnity” Two autograph manuscript meditations, on the death listing seven accusations against Thurloe from “inbred Malice of his wife against his Ma[jest]ys Royall person” to the corruption of OF THE EARLS OF the first taking as its textLamentations 3:22 (“It is of the Lords “Severall of his Ma[jest]ys servants and Agents & procured mercy that we are not consumed, because his compassion them to betray his Ma[jest]ys affayres”, contemporary CLARENDON faile not”), a poignant search for solace in the immediate marginal notes in another hand (e.g. naming the corrupted aftermath of her death (“...It was of the Lords mercy that I was servants as Sir Richard Willis and others), two pages, integral not consumed this day, when the comfort of my life was taken blank, folio, [May-August 1660] [with:] “The motives & reasons LOTS 1–22 from me when her breath, went out of her Nostrills, and she which induced the Dutches of Yorke to embrace the Catholique grew cold, as I was holding her hands...”), 17 pages, folio, dated Religion, written by her owne Hand at St James’s 20 August Cornbury, 12 April 1686, stab-stitched in paper wrappers, 1670”, contemporary manuscript copy, 3 pages, folio, the The following 22 lots have been removed from Holywell tears at stab-holes; the second with memories of his wife and second leaf lacking blank bottom half of leaf House, Hampshire, the home of the Villiers family, melancholy reflections on the state of the nation under William Allen Brodrick (1623-80) was a loyalist to the royal cause and Mary (“...What is become even of the most glorious of all Earls of Clarendon. They chiefly relate to the life and during the Commonwealth and a member of the Sealed Knot. this Kings actions, since his comeing to the Throne, I mean his careers of two contemporaries: Henry Hyde, Viscount He here attempts to secure the prosecution of John Thurloe triumphant victory at the Boyne, by which it seemed once as if (1616-68), who had run the Commonwealth’s formidable he had entirely conquer’d that Kingdome and established the Cornbury (1710-73), and Thomas Villiers (1709-86), intelligence network. In the end Thurloe was not exempted rest...”), 12 numbered pages, folio, dated New Park, 12 April created successively Baron Hyde of Hindon (1756) and from the Act of Indemnity, allegedly as he threatened to 1691, stab stitched in paper wrappers publish his “black book” that named Cavaliers who had Earl of Clarendon (1776). Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester (1642-1711), was the informed for the Commonwealth. second son of Edward, Earl of Clarendon. His loyalty to the Cornbury was the last heir to the Earldom of Church of England led to his falling out with James II before the £ 500-700 € 600-800 Clarendon that had been created for the statesman # Glorious Revolution, but as a high churchman he increasingly and historian Edward Hyde (1609-1674). Cornbury had associated himself with the Tory party after 1688. In 1665 Hyde married Henrietta Boyle, daughter of Richard, Earl of Jacobite sympathies but was MP for the University 2 Burlington. She died on 12 April 1686 (the date of the first of of Oxford – with which his family had powerful these manuscript meditations). CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF 4 connections – from 1732 until 1751. He became # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 disillusioned with politics in the later 1740s and spent A Collection of Proceedings in the House of Commons about impeaching the Earl of Clarendon his final years in France. Cornbury counted Pope late Lord Chancellor with the debates and speeches 5 and Swift amongst his friends, and was himself the 3 concerning that Matter; As also severall Arguments author of pamphlets and at least two plays (see lots concerning the Nature of Treason by Mr John CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF SPAIN—KEENE, SIR BENJAMIN 6 and 7). He died, unmarried, in Paris in 1753. Most Vaughan, Serjeant Maynard &c, Three bundles of contemporary copies of letters The Life of Edwarde Earle of Clarendon, scribal of Cornbury’s property was inherited by his niece, scribal manuscript in a single hand, recording a series of and papers relating to Keene’s mission as envoy- manuscript Charlotte (née Capel). Thomas Villiers, second son debates from 26 October to 18 December 1667, with red ruled extraordinary to the Spanish court margins and contemporary pagination, 270 pages, folio, vellum in a single hand, the text divided into seven parts, dated at the of the Earl of Jersey, was her husband. Villiers had boards gilt, c.1670s beginning and at the end of each part, Montpellier, 23 July 1669 including correspondence between Keene and the Foreign minister, Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, and between Keene spent the 1730s and ‘40s as a diplomat mostly in These debates in the Commons enjoyed circulation in [sic, for 1668] to 1 August 1670, red-ruled margins, paginated, in and the Spanish Secretary of State Sebastian de la Cuadra, manuscript in the years after Clarendon’s banishment, and 58 stab-stitched fascicules, 1407 pages, plus blanks, folio (325 the German-speaking world (none of his diplomatic petitions and memorials by British merchants in the Americas, were printed in 1700 from a text similar to this scribal copy. x 200mm, Maid of Dort “Pro Patria” watermark), eighteenth papers are included in this offering) and, following his century, severe damp damage to the final fascicule and the last letters of British prisoners of the Spanish in Havana and elsewhere (“...the place we are in is 130 foot long, and about # £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 few fascicule somewhat affected by damp retirement from the diplomatic service, he entered 30 foot broad and 300 and odd slaves with Iron on and Clarendon wrote this account of his life after settling in government in the 1760s. As Chancellor of the Duchy Chaines and as full of vermine as you can think...”), minutes Montpellier after being exiled from Britain by Charles II. of meetings, details of recompense demanded by the British of Lancaster (1771-82 and 1783-86), Clarendon was It covers the period from his birth to the Restoration, so crown for Spanish depredations of merchant shipping, one in Cabinet during the American War of Independence revisited the Civil War years covered by the History of the bundle comprising earlier papers relating to disputes between Rebellion, the first version of which had been written during British merchants and the Spanish in the West Indies, including (see lots 14-19). a previous exile in the later 1640s, but is both more personal instructions to Admiral Charles Stewart, Commander in Chief and more critical of Royalist policy. Eventually he merged the of the Jamaica station, altogether c.57 items, 1729-39 but Life with the earlier History, and it is this combined text that mostly 1737-39, dust staining was published as the History of the Rebellion in 1702. This copy of Clarendon’s autograph manuscript was presumably AN INSIGHT INTO TENSIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND SPAIN, made before its donation to the Bodleian in 1759 (where it is CHIEFLY OVER THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE CARIBBEAN. Sir now MS Clarendon 123). Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) was a diplomat with extensive experience in Spain at a time of growing tension over British rights to trade into Spanish America. These copies were # £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 presumably produced for Lord Cornbury.

# £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700

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HYDE, HENRY, VISCOUNT CORNBURY The Mistakes, or the Happy Resentment A Comedy autograph draft manuscript of a play in five acts, with title page and dramatis personae, extensive revisions throughout, loose in bifolia, 64 pages, plus blanks, folio (varying sizes), final leaves torn with loss, elsewhere with occasional nicks, tears, and dust-staining This play was published posthumously in 1758 with a two- page prefatory advertisement by Horace Walpole, in which he explains that the author gave permission to the retired actress Mary Porter to publish a subscription edition of this “a very juvenile Production”. Walpole continues with a eulogy on Cornbury’s virtues: “He was upright, calm, steady; his Virtues were of the gentlest Complexion, yet of the firmest Texture: Vice could not bend him, nor Party warp him; even his own Talents could not mislead him.”

# £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350

7 11 10 11 HYDE, HENRY, VISCOUNT CORNBURY Undkan King of Tartary DOUGLAS FAMILY, DUKES OF HYDE, HENRY, VISCOUNT CORNBURY autograph draft manuscript play, in five acts, with dramatis QUEENSBERRY Papers relating to the Committee of Secrecy, mostly personae listing names of professional actors and a “Prologue concerning Secret Service and other Government to the Spoken by Mr Wilks” (2 pages) loosely inserted, 7 Correspondence with Lord Cornbury and related revisions throughout, at least two cancelled passages overlaid papers, comprising: expenditure, in five bundles: with sealing wax, 58 pages, plus blanks, folio, ?1730s, marbled five letters by Henry, Lord Drumlanrig, to his uncle Lord i) “A further report of the Commission of Secrecy”, paper wrappers, covers lightly worn and epilogues, two poems addressed to William Whitehead on Cornbury, from France, with news of personal and public investigating the costs of military operations in the Americas his being made Poet Laureate, one poem addressed to Lord APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. A drama loosely set in the time affairs from the the Battle of Casteldelfino to his acquaintance in the early stages of the War of Jenkins’s Ear, 55 pages, with Cornbury, and various political satires (on Robert Walpole and of Genghis Khan, here called Zingis, King of the Mongols. It tells with Voltaire, 1743-44, with two letters by T.F. Delaporte an additional 16 appendices including summary financial other subjects), two poems with integral address leaves to Lady of the love of Zingis for Princess Taxila, daughter of Undkan, (apparently Drumlanrig’s tutor) to Cornbury, 1743 and one accounts, witness depositions, and related details, 79 pages Charlotte Hyde, various sizes, 1730s-80s (mostly 1730s-40s) King of Eastern Tartary, who suffers the enmity of her step- retained draft letter by Cornbury to Drumlanrig dispensing (134 pages in total), folio, c.1742; bundled together with mother, Zamar, and the unwanted advances of Zamar’s son avuncular advice; three letters by Lord Charles Douglas eight miscellaneous summaries of specific government # £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 Prince Timur. The story appears to have been adopted from to Cornbury, two written on board ship immediately after expenditures, including summary accounts of Secret Service Zingis: Histoire Tartare by Anne de la Roche-Guilhem (1691). his escape from the Lisbon earthquake (“...there is now no expenditure, 1707-1720 and 1731-41, expenditure on bounties The actors names include Mr Mills Sr and Jr, presumably John Town, all is burnt or Tumbled down, and the Houses that are (with names of recipients), 1731-41, and subsidies for (d. 1736) and William (fl. 1701-50) Mills, and Mr and Mrs Booth, 9 Standing in the Country are so much shattered that Nobody government-supporting newspapers, 1731-41; possibly Barton (1679?-1733) and Hester (c.1690-1773) Booth. dares Inhabit them...”), 8 pages, 1748 to 8 November 1755, ii) Bundle of about twenty summary estimates of specific These actors all worked at Drury Lane, and the play may have SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI with a related note by Cornbury, and a draft memorandum expenditures, mostly military, including regiments of marines, been performed there, but Barton Booth retired in 1728, when on a scheme of reading history for Lord Charles; a copy of German troops in British pay, troops in the colonies, ordnance, Cornbury was only 18, so the details of performance - if any - Manuscript draft proposal a will, presumably that of the Duke of Queensberry; two navy, and other costs, with other related papers, 1740s; remain uncertain. iii) Bundle of six papers relating to remittance of funds to “It is Proposed. That the Dilettanti do form themselves into a pseudonymous letters (“Salamander” and “Montezuma”), one British forces in Flanders, including proposals and Cornbury’s Society, For the Encouragement of Arts, as well whose Usefull to Lord Cornbury, the second to the Duchess of Queensberry, £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 draft pencil notes, early 1740s; # as those Ornamental”, outlining the intention that members describing Jamaica with a salacious account of a slave woman, iv) Bundle of four summaries of government surpluses for the establish a fund to distribute prizes (“praemiums”) to be Jamaica, 11-26 November 1738 Aggregate Fund, folio, 1745-46; awarded to outstanding works in various named categories, [with:] William Whitehead, poet laureate, autograph v) Report on the military forces of France, 31 pages, folio, 1738 8 manuscript, with revisions in pencil, four pages, folio, c.1750, manuscript poem entitled ‘To her Grace the Duchess of spotting, nicks Queensberry’ (“Say shall a Bard in these late times...”), 2 Cornbury was MP for the University of Oxford from 1732 to 1751. He was elected to the Secrecy Committee in 1742 despite POETRY A STEP TOWARDS THE FOUNDATION OF THE ROYAL pages, with a covering autograph letter, written in the third his suspected Jacobite sympathies, and remained a member ACADEMY. The Society of Dilettanti, founded in 1734, began to person, by Whitehead to Lord Clarendon enclosing the poem A collection of 46 manuscript verse separates until his retirement from active politics in 1748. take a serious interest in encouraging the arts in England in the and asking it to be sent to the Duchess, and a further letter by including copies of poems by Jonathan Swift (answer poem, late 1740s. This draft probably relates to a scheme proposed the Duchess of Queensberry to Clarendon, “neither daring to # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 “The nymph who wrote this in a humourous fit”, together with by Robert Dingley on 18 February 1749 at a committee meeting receive, or caring to reject” the poem, 1 page, 22 April 1777, in original “Rebus”), R. B. Sheridan (“Verses to the memory of of the Society. The meeting was, according to the minutes, a letter wrapper with seal Garrick”), Voltaire (verse epistle to Frederick the Great, 1747), “a little noisy and drunk”, but the proposal was passed and Henry, Lord Drumlanrig, and Lord Charles Douglas were the William Congreve (epistle to Lord Cobham “Sincerest critic of marked a first step towards the foundation of the Royal sons of the Third Duke of Queensberry. Their mother was my Prose or Rhime”), James Thompson (“Come gentle god of Academy in 1768. Thomas Villiers was a founder member of Catherine (Kitty), née Hyde, was the sister of Henry Hyde, soft desire”), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Colley Cibber, and the Society of Dilettanti. Viscount Cornbury. Earl Nugent (“Ode to William Pultney”), theatrical prologues # £ 500-700 € 600-800 # £ 600-800 € 700-900 12 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 13 12 13

12 A group of works on political affairs and pedagogical theory by an experienced diplomat and politician. They reveal a man at ease in Cosmopolitan culture, with astute diplomatic instincts 14 15 VILLIERS, THOMAS, EARL OF CLARENDON and Grenvillite political sympathies. A group of seven manuscripts, all folio: # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 i) “A Sketch of a Plan for the Education of a Prince of Wales”, in a 14 15 scribal hand with autograph revisions, 22 pages, paper wrappers; ii) Epistle to the Earl of Westmorland on plans for Grand Tour, 13 retained scribal copy, 11 pages, Grosvenor St, London, 14 TRYON, WILLIAM AMERICAN REVOLUTION February 1778, paper wrappers; Six autograph letters signed, to Lord Clarendon, A Sketch of the Interest of Great Britain in her iii) “Some Opinions, perhaps Errors, of a Warm Friend to Mr ALLEN, RALPH [George] Grenville 1761”, fair copy in a scribal hand, 11 pages, including his explanation of the mood in the colonies (“...The American Colonies, with some remarks upon the paper wrappers; A Narrative of Mr Allen’s transactions with the inhabitants ... have great Elbow Room in their Plantations, policy, trade, and commerce of America “Hints to Opposition with Opinion on the state of America”, Government, for the better management of the Bye- iv) Live in great freedom and Independency ... upon an equality in an anonymous manuscript treatise calling for free containing a mixture of autograph draft and fair copy ways & Cross-road Posts, from the year 1720 to the Circumstances and Manners...”), giving a dramatic account of trade between Britain and the American colonies, the memoranda on opposition (e.g. “general reflections ... by year 1762 his family’s narrow escape from the fire that destroyed New encouragement of American manufacturing, the better some of the able persons, who lament the mal-administration York’s Government House (“...In two or three minutes after we understanding of the needs and desires of American settlers of public affairs”) and affairs in America (“...It must soon be fair copy manuscript signed and dated by Ralph Allen, with were out of the House, the flame Ran up the Principal staircase (“...We do not enough consider, that the first care & concern determined whether our Colonies shall be Allies or under four appendices (improvements in Post Office revenue from and Reached the Door through which we made our Escape...”, an American Setler [sic] has, is to clear his land, to get Bread Subjection...”) as well as draft letters by Clarendon to George 1720-1761; “Advantages to the National Commerce by the 31 December 1773), after the outbreak of war expressing his to eat from it, and to support himself and Family by the Grenville and Lord Temple, altogether 29 pages, paper safe and speedy Conveyance of Letters”; petition of Ralph wish for military command and with news of the surrender produce of it...”), the limitation of taxation and, among other wrappers ; Allen to the Commissioners of the Treasury; report of Robert of Ticonderoga, 32 pages, folio and 4to, Brunswick, North legislative reforms, the abolition of the Act reserving white “Humble opinions, offered to the King Thro’ Mr H. 1769”, Hampden, Postmaster General, to the Lords of the Treasury, v) Carolina, New York, and Kings Bridge Camp, 2 August 1766 to pines for the crown, fair copy in a single hand, text on rectos retained drafts of four letters addressed anonymously to the 1760), red ruled margins, altogether 65 numbered pages, 4to 16 July 1777, occasional nicks at folds only, with occasional additions on the facing versos, complete King through Mr “C.H.”, on the constitutional crisis triggered (275 x 220mm), Prior Park, Somerset, dated 2 December 1761, [with:] a series of seven copy letters by Benjamin Barons, in four numbered 4to notebooks, c.110 pages, plus blanks, with by John Wilkes’s contested election to the Commons, together contemporary marbled boards, binding stained, worn at spine deputy Post-Master of North Carolina, to Tryon, Charlestown, five slips of paper with contemporary notes in another hand with copies of four copy letters and press cuttings, 22 pages, A RECORD OF MAJOR INNOVATIONS IN THE POSTAL North Carolina, 1765-66, and a related letter by Barons to loosely inserted, marbled paper wrappers, probably late 1760s February-May 1769; SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Ralph Allen (1693- Lord Hyde, 1766; [also with:] small bundle of correspondence vi) “A Letter from Lord Hyde to Lord Viscount Howe 1770”, 1764) made a considerable fortune by improving the English [with:] Thomas Howard, autograph letter signed, to “My Lord” between Tryon and James Stansfield, carpenter, about the retained copy, on the strategy and significance of the naval provincial postal system. “Bye” posts used the major postal [Thomas, 1st Earl of Clarendon], on British difficulties in the establishment of a saw mill in North Carolina, 1764 command in the Mediterranean, 22 pages, The Grove, 23 routes but did not pass through or to London, whilst “cross” War of Independence (“...The country is so very strong, and November 1770, paper wrappers; posts were services between major towns not on the principal William Tryon (1729-1788), a well-connected gentleman with the general enmity so very prevalent against us, that we find vii) Epistle to the Countess of Egremont on the education of postal routes (which all converged on London). He improved a distinguished military record, moved to America in 1764 and infinite difficulties whenever we are separated for any length her son (“...It is observable, Madam, that the finest Plants the checking of letters, thus increasing revenues, and became Governor of North Carolina the following year. In 1771 of time from our shipping...”) and advising on military policy, 8 require the most Care, as they may be the soonest nipped introduced many new “cross” routes. Allen was a well-known was appointed Governor of New York, where he attempted to pages, folio, Philadelphia, 30 November 1777 by hard Weather; and it is but too certain, that every Season figure in Bath and was a friend of Alexander Pope, Henry counter growing unrest by enhancing the power of aristocratic “...Independence is the natural inheritance of the Mind of Man...” of Life is obnoxious to Blights and Storms...”), fair copy in a Fielding, who is said to have modelled for Squire Allworthy in landowners. At the outbreak of war he joined the military and A SEEMINGLY UNKNOWN TREATISE ADVISING ON BRITISH scribal hand, text on rectos only, 30 numbered pages, The Tom Jones on Allen, and the elder Pitt. This manuscript was was engaged in a number of campaigns in Connecticut, but POLICY TOWARDS THE AMERICAN COLONIES. Grove, 1765, half calf on marbled boards undoubtedly presented to Thomas Villiers, then Lord Hyde, returned to Britain in 1780. who was Postmaster General from 1761 to 1763. # £ 6,000-8,000 € 6,700-9,000 # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 14 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 15 17

SERLE, AMBROSE Autograph manuscript tracts on American affairs: ‘Thoughts of the Fur Trade on the River Mississippi’, 10 pages, folio, 1769 ‘Lusus Politicius or an Essay on the Pretensions of the Colonies’, (“...It is a more glorious and more difficult Task wisely to adjust the Principles of domestic Government, than to conquer a Nation or even to subdue the World...”), 29 pages, folio, 1769 ‘Thoughts upon the Means of Establishing Episcopacy in the Colonies’, two copies, one with an introduction signed by the author addressed to Lord Hillsborough, 71 pages, folio, 1771-72 ‘A Political Essay [on Rhode Island Affairs]’, 19 pages, folio, dated August 1772 (this and above are bundled together with a contemporary label) Untitled tract on American policy (“...The present system of Policy, with regard to America, seems to be founded upon these Principles; our Superiority over the Colonies, or rather 19 their Dependence upon us, and to make that Dependence productive of Advantages to and determining in the Interest of the Mother Country..”), addressed to Lord Hyde, signed and 17 dated, 10 pages, folio, Lambeth, 28 May 1768, rodent damage 19 a defence of steel against the wiles of cunning men...”, 29 with some loss at outer margins November 1776), 25 pages, plus blanks, folio, 1776-1777, stab- Untitled tract on the development of manufacturing in 16 stitched in paper wrappers America, addressed to Lord Hyde, signed and dated, 7 pages, HOWE, ADMIRAL RICHARD “...The treacherous conduct of these People in the flagrant folio, Lambeth, 26 July 1768 15 autograph letters signed, mostly as Commander violation of the convention of Saratoga, and the most insolent ‘An Epitome of some Facts and Thoughts respecting North SERLE, AMBROSE pretension that the Ratification of it should be duely notified America’, contending that the American colonies had been in Chief in North America, to the 1st Earl of Clarendon to their congress by the court of Great Britain, will sufficiently Series of c.35 newsletters, unsigned, but in Serle’s a drain on Britain’s resources, 18 pages, folio, dated January (Lord Hyde) point out to your Lordship, the Idea they have formed of hand, to an unnamed Lord 1780 complaining of inadequate instructions and delays in their ability to uphold their Independence; and the regard reporting on American affairs, with extensive detail on the Ambrose Serle was a colonial official with a long professional confirming his position, writing from America on the progress they will have to any terms of accommodation short of that febrile political atmosphere in the colonies in the years before interest in North America (see previous lot). In 1772 he was of the war on land and sea, the policies of the London preliminary...” (12 March 1778) the War of Independence, such as non-importation schemes appointed under-secretary to the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary government and position of the opposition, the attitude A SIGNIFICANT CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE and their collapse, the smuggling of tea, the entangled of State for the Colonies. He went to America in 1774 and of the rebels (“...the manner in which the resistance has AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. Admiral Richard commercial relationship between Britain and America, popular remained there until 1780. He spent periods with the British been conducted proves that no regular government can be Howe (1726-1799) was appointed naval commander-in- and legislative hostility to Britain, and the Boston Massacre Army and for a time had control of the New York press. He was established here but by compulsion...”) with warnings at their chief in the Americas on 5 February 1776 and arrived in New (“...The attacks made by the Inhabitants upon the Soldiery do the author of Americans Against Liberty (1775) and of many lack of interest in a negotiated peace, writing on 20 November York on 12 July, just after the signing of the Declaration of not seem to arise from accidental starts of passion, but from devotional works. 1777 in the aftermath of the British defeat at Saratoga of Independence. Howe had long connections with the colonists principle, sowered by disappointment and desperate through his wish to be relieved of command, later commenting and knew Benjamin Franklin, and he undoubtedly hoped that a despair... The first blow is now unhappily struck: may some # £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 on the rebels’ increasing confidence, and discussing the settlement could be reached without bloodshed; however, as gentle Providence and wise Counsels ordain and direct it to be evacuation of Philadelphia, including news of William Tryon these letters show, he soon realised that matters had gone too the last!...”, 23 April 1770), repeatedly reporting on the hostility and Ambrose Serle, with extensive discussion of patronage far for this to be possible. His two naval tasks were to support of various Indian tribes and also Spanish and French activities, and his proposed peerage, also including a partial duplicate 18 the army - whose second in command was his brother, William c.96 pages, 4to, 1769-1770; [with:] a summary of the white, (in Howe’s autograph) and a draft letter, partially in Hyde’s - and enforce the blockade against the rebels. His failure black and Indian populations in the American colonies and hand, by Howe to Benjamin Franklin, cautiously opening a line in both tasks was probably more to do with his inadequate interior, 1774 (3 pages), “An abstract of the present state of [MARRIOTT, SIR JAMES] of communication between Franklin and Hyde but warning resources than a lack of ability, and he was recalled in 1778. that “on the present American context, your principles & his, South Carolina ... 1770” (3 pages), and “A List of the principal Memoire Justificatif de la Conduite de la Grande Sinecure Offices in North America and the West Indies” (3 or rather those of Parl[iamen]t are, as yet, so wide from each Bretagne, en Arrêtant les Navires Etranges et les # £ 15,000-20,000 € 16,800-22,400 pages); [also with:] 10 autograph letters signed, by Serle, to other that a meeting merely to discuss them might give you an Clarendon, chiefly on American affairs, including criticisms Munitions de Guerre, destinées aux Insurgens de unhappy trouble” (20 February 1775), 51 pages, plus blanks, of the evacuation of Philadelphia, c.29 pages, Maidenhead l’Amérique. T. Harrison and S. Brooke, 1779 chiefly 4to, London, New York, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Thicket and elsewhere, 1779-1785 Philadelphia, often on board HMS Eagle, 20 February 1775 to 20 4to, FIRST EDITION, stab-stitched in contemporary paper 15 June 1778 (where dated), docketed “...the dissensions and opposition of America to British wrappers, untrimmed, marginal tear to title page not affecting Legislation and Taxation have for so many years engaged the text, other minor nicks and tears, dust staining to first few [with:] Retained copies of letters by Clarendon to Howe, WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM public and ministerial attention...” leaves including a long letter setting out Howe’s remit including An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of his “discretionary power to negotiate” and with military and These newsletters were presumably written for Lord Hyde A defence of British policy in response to a protest from the diplomatic advice (“...The idea of subduing disaffection & of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in Behalf of the (later Earl of Clarendon), who was in the Cabinet as Chancellor Dutch Republic: the Dutch were selling arms so their shipping reviving loyalty by reason alone may be conceived, but must Negro Slaves in the West Indies. J. Hatchard and Son, of the Duchy of Lancaster. Although unsigned, they were the was harassed by Royal Naval ships enforcing an embargo not delude...”, 16 March 1776), expressing his confidence work of the Ambrose Serle (1742-1812), as can be seen by against the rebels. According to a note in the 1801 reprint this 1823 that military success will bring the rebels to the negotiating comparison with the later letters by Serle to Clarendon also original pamphlet was not published for public sale. RARE: only 8vo, first edition, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title table and of Howe’s place in those negotiations (“...I reflect included in this lot. In 1769-70 Serle was a colonial official two copies have sold at auction since the 1970s. (“From the Author”) in a clerk’s hand, stab-stitched, light with satisfaction that your Lordship knows Dr Franklyn, based in London so these letters are primarily anonymised soiling to outer leaves since he has been, & is likely to be, their leading negotiator. summaries of despatches and secret intelligence. REFERENCES It is disagreeable to converse in armour; but one must have Adams, American Controversy, 79-70; Sabin 44869. £ 400-600 € 450-700 # £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 £ 300-500 € 350-600 16 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 17 stream of confidential information, from the time of his OTHER PROPERTIES opposition to Lloyd George’s “people’s budget” and struggles for power within the Conservative Party, as well as gloomy prognostications on the likelihood of war with Germany 23 (“...The German Emperor sent a message by [Sir John] French to Haldane to say that he had better not rely too MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS much on the French as he would guarantee to be in Paris in 33 days – personally...”, 13 September 1911), news from Collection of contemporary copies of papers relating within government during World War I including divisions to her trial and execution: within Cabinet (“It appears that K. has promised the French 70 Divisions – being 20 more than he told the cabinet...”, 5 i) Copies of four letters between Anthony Babington and Mary, September 1915), disagreements over conscription, news from Queen of Scots, 25 June to 3 August 1586, 3 pages; the Front including Gallipoli and the Somme (“...we have lost ii) “A copy of the letter from the Sco: Q: unto Anthony nearly all the ground we took yesterday – and I am afraid the Babington 17 of July 1586”, the so-called “bloody letter”, loses are very heavy – don’t say anything about this as it will I 5 pages, plus blanks; suppose not be put quite so crudely in the papers. I am rather iii) “A note of the poyntes of the Inditement agaynst Ballerd, low about the whole affair – we have only got half of what we Babington, Barnewell, Tichborne, Savage Salisburie and hoped to get and I suppose have lost over 100,000 men in Dunne”, with summaries of their confessions and those of 22 doing this...”, 8 July 1916), the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, then others involved in the plot, also a transcript of an incriminating with news as Ambassador in Paris from negotiations preceding letter by Babington to Mary, Queen of Scots, 12 pages, plus the Armistice (“...The President’s wretched 14 articles are blanks; likely to cause a certain amount of trouble...”, 6 November iv) Anthony Babington, copy letter to Queen Elizabeth, begging 21 1918) to the years after the Versailles Treaty, to political affairs forgiveness, n.d., 1 page; in the inter-war years, the letters also discussing mutual v) Account of the execution of those convicted for the friends and family, horse-racing, and personal affairs, the last Babington plot on 20-21 September 1586, 15 pages, plus CAPPER, COL. JAMES few letters written during World War II (“...I am writing this blanks, damp damage with some loss; vi) Proceedings in the House of Commons concerning “this Account of the First Anglo-Maratha War, addressed during an air raid...” Knowsley, 12 Sept 1940), also including horrible conspiracye to take awaye the Lyeffe of our most to Lord North a small number of letters by other correspondents including the Dowager Countess of Dudley (Lady Wolverton’s mother), gratious Quene” on 3 November 1586, 6 pages, plus blanks, copy manuscript, in a scribal hand but signed and dated by the various locations including Knowsley Hall, Derby House in damp damage with slight loss; author, labelled “Duplicate”, loose in 31 numbered bifolia, 122 London, the War Office, and the British Embassy in Paris, vii) Christopher Hatton (“Mr Vicechamberleyne”), copy of pages, 4to, Lisbon, 26 November 1781, creased almost all letters with original envelopes, c.1907-1941 his speech in Parliament against Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 [with:] 16 letters signed by Capper, to Lord Clarendon, on November 1586, 5 pages; A REMARKABLE CORESPONDENCE BY THE “UNCROWNED Indian affairs, including the progress of the Anglo-Maratha viii) Petition to Queen Elizabeth against Mary, Queen of Scots KING OF LANCASHIRE”. Edward, 17th Earl of Derby (1865- War and his disputes with the East India Company, c.58 pages, (“The worde of god doth often and most earnestly teache, that 1948) first entered the Commons in 1892 and eleven years various sizes, Madras, Fort St George, and other locations, godly Princes and magistrates ... ought severely and uprightly later had a seat in Cabinet, but lost his seat in the 1906 1774-81, creased to minister Justice...”), usually known as ‘Reasons to prove the Election. He became Earl of Derby - and one of the greatest Queens Majesty bound in Conscience to proceed with Severity “...Our conquests in India have long made the Country powers landowners in the North West - on the death of his father in in this Case of the late Queen of Scots’, 4 pages; 23 believe that an alliance with us must ensure success to the 1908. At the outbreak of World War I he was a keen promoter ix) A speech or discourse on the necessity of executing Mary, most desperate cause, & therefore, when an ambitious Man of the “pals” battalions in Lancashire, and in 1916 he re-joined Queen of Scots (beginning “And [sic, for “As”] paynefull has any real or pretended Claims to Sovereignty & wants either the Government in the War Office. In the Spring of 1918 he maryners, so must vigilent and carefull magistrates not only money or troops to support these claims, he naturally turns was appointed Ambassador to Paris, where he remained until pumpe out the water alredy entred, that is caste out of the his eyes towards us for assistance & I am afraid it may be said, November 1920. He returned to the War Office under Bonar common weale so dangerous members...”), 2 pages, with a that with money properly applied, a tolerable decent Cause & Law in 1922 but retired from ministerial life two years later. poem on the same subject entitled “The Q of Scotts Doome” by copies of documents relating to the trial of the Earl of Essex liberal promises of gratitude to the British nation, scarce any From 1907 until ill-health prevented him from writing in the (beginning “If Maria lyve, Eliza needs must dye...”), in five six- and fellow conspirators, in an early seventeenth century hand, person has failed of gaining Us over to his party...” early 1940s, he kept up a regular stream of letters to Edith line stanzas, 1 page, apparently unpublished and unrecorded 28 pages; all folio, housed together in a collector’s folding box A DETAILED NARRATIVE OF THE FIRST ANGLO-MARATHA Amelia Glyn, née Ward, (1872-1956), the wife of Frederick, (not in the Folger first-line index); 4th Baron Wolverton. She was a close confidante who shared [with:] manuscript notes on Mary, Queen of Scots, thought to WAR, in which the British supported a pretender to the x) Queen Elizabeth, copy letter to Sir Amias Paulet, c.January be in the hand of George Harbin, including notes on published Maratha Empire and suffered a number of military defeats. his relish for political life, and with whom he entrusted many 1587, 1 page, torn at fold; matters that were not public knowledge - his letters are and manuscript sources, c.115 pages, with an additional file James Capper (1743-1825) was an officer in the Madras Army xi) Copy of the commission to the Earls of Shrewsbury, Kent, of unrelated antiquarian and genealogical notes in the same and his critical analysis is founded on first-hand knowledge, replete with requests that what was to follow was to remain Derby, Cumberland, and Pembroke to carry out the sentence hand, early 18th century, housed in a collector’s folding box with extensive quotation from contemporary letters and “between ourselves”. Derby trusted not only her discretion of death passed against Mary, Queen of Scots, 1 February documents. Capper left Madras in February 1781 and wrote but her judgment: in November 1911, for example, he sent 1587, 2 pages, plus blanks, docketed; A LARGE COLLECTION OF ELIZABETHAN MANUSCRIPT Lady Wolverton a copy of Arthur Balfour’s confidential his narrative before the war was concluded with the Treaty of xii) Copy letters between Amias Paulet and Francis COPIES OF VARIOUS DOCUMENTS RELATING TO Salbai, signed on 17 May 1782. letter to him explaining his wish to resign as leader of the Walsingham, William Davison, and others, relating to Mary, BABINGTON CONSPIRACY AND THE SUBSEQUENT TRIAL Conservative Party together with his own draft reply, asking Queen of Scots, 1 page, February 1587; AND EXECUTION OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. The public her for comment and advice. He requested that she burn the # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 xiii) William Davison, account of the signing and dispatch of interest in Mary ensured that scribal copies of key documents enclosures but Balfour’s letter remains in the correspondence Mary, Queen of Scots’s execution warrant in February 1587, circulated in the months and years after her execution. This (as do other papers that he similarly requested be destroyed). endorsed “Secretary Davisons Apologie”, 4 pages, some damp collection appears to have been assembled by the antiquarian damage, torn at fold with slight loss; and nonjuror George Harbin (1665-1744). 22 PROVENANCE xiv) Robert Beale, copy letter to the Privy Council giving an Lady Wolverton; her daughter, Marion (1900-1970), who account of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 5 pages, PROVENANCE STANLEY, EDWARD GEORGE VILLIERS, married George, Lord Hyde (1906-1935); thence by descent. Fotheringay, 8 February 1586, docketed “From the Earle of Sotheby’s London, 20 July 1976, lot 311 17TH EARL OF DERBY Shrewsbury &c to the LL. of the Counsell from fotheringay”; # £ 7,000-10,000 € 7,900-11,200 xv) Copies of Babington letters, the interrogation of Mary, # £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800 Extensive series of c.630 autograph letters signed Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay and subsequent trial, followed (“EG”), to Edith Lady Wolverton providing regular detailed updates on public and political life over a period of more than thirty years, with a regular

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COOTE, GENERAL SIR EYRE Three letters signed, with related material, one letter to John Purling (marked “Duplicate”) DISCUSSING THE DANGEROUS POLITICAL SITUATION JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND MYSORE WAR (“...It is most certain, that the Marattas have united all their jarring Interests, and even formed an Alliance with Hyder Ally for the purpose of annoying us...”) and criticising Warren Hastings, 12 pages, folio, Lucknow, 29 January 1780; the other two to the lawyer John Thomas Batt on his legal affairs, 4 pages, 4to, Wrest Park and Lucknow, 11 December 1775 and 15 November 1782; [with:] 10 letters by Lady Coote to Batt (including one duplicate) on personal, legal and financial matters, 52 pages, 27 February 1780 to 24 October 1791; [also with:] letter signed by William Banton, under sentence of death, to Lady Coote, imploring her to sign a petition for clemency, Newgate, January 1785; two letters by Purling forwarding Batt letters by Coote, and three further items; 12 of the letters retaining address wrappers or panels (19) Sir Eyre Coote was one of the greatest British generals in 18th century India, who defeated Hydar Ali (father of Tipu Sultan) at the Battle of Porto Novo in 1781.

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24 ROBERTSON, DR ROBERT place admitted from, disease and symptoms, medicine “About 1 PM yesterday a Signal was made for a strange Fleet A collection of five autograph manuscripts: ordered, whether they recovered or died, and their date of - which proved to be the Spanish Fleet of 13 large (& a number 24 Two Diaries: i) Diary, with daily entries recording his medical discharge, with monthly summary returns of admissions, small) Men of War. Our signal being made we soon came up practice along with weather reports on the facing versos, showing an average intake of between 30-50 admissions per with a No. of the Enemies Ships & engaged. About ten minutes LOCKE, JOHN providing a detailed account of his career at sea on HMS Edgar, month, mostly of older patients suffering from a wide range of after we left their Sternmost Ship wearing a Broad Pendant including an account of the Battle of Cape St Vincent and other diseases including many cases of fever, bowel cases, phthisis, she blew entirely up. A shocking sight. One of our Lieut. of An essay concerning humane understanding. encounters with enemy ships, then on HMS Romney (from 20 intemperance, insanity, and other common disorders but with Marines & five men were killed: & about 24 wounded & hurt Elizabeth Holt for Thomas Bassett, 1690 July 1782), then in private practice in Hythe, Hampshire (from rarer cases including St Vitus Dance and vertigo, also with but a number of them do their Duty. 21 of them in the List only. related notes including on controversy about the treatment of There were two legs to amputate & two badly woundly [sic]...” folio (313 x 193mm.), FIRST EDITION, title within double-rule 6 April 1783) and finally as physician in charge at Greenwich the families of pensioners, and a note that “The air pump vapor (17 January 1780) border, second issue with cancel title-page with irregular block Royal Hospital (from 26 August 1791), with detailed records of Bath was made a trial of on Admiral [John Willett] Payne nine of type-ornament in five rows and Edw[ard] Mory’s name in interesting cases, notes of those added to the sick lists, and Robertson was in private practice in Hampshire for much of times - under the Direction of Dr Blegborough” (July 1803), the imprint, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, some slight some general comments on disease, the later entries largely the 1780s, but in 1790 he was appointed physician in charge 462 numbered pages, 22 December 1790 to August 1803, folio browning to text, slight damp-staining to inner margins at restricted to weather reports, c.387 pages, with five additional of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, the charitable institution (368 x 270mm.), quarter vellum on marbled boards, worn; v) beginning and end leaves inserted, 22 October 1779 to 20 August 1795, large 4to established in 1694 for the care of retired naval men. His sick Greenwich Royal Hospital Sick Book, listing patients’ names, (295 x 240mm), half calf on marbled boards, worn, hinges books provide an important medical record for the hospital FIRST EDITION OF LOCKE’S MONUMENTAL WORK, a critical ages, date of admission, medicine ordered, place admitted splitting, loss at spine; ii) Diary, at Greenwich Hospital, with over a period of seventeen years, and his diary is a significant assessment of the origins, nature, and limits of human from, and outcome, partially autograph, c.118 pages, plus daily entries primarily recording weather conditions but with additional source for his personal and professional life in reason, which was to remain the single most influential work blanks, 1 January 1815 to 1 December 1818, 8vo (243 x 148 regular additional remarks on such subjects as the treatment Greenwich. in European philosophy for at least one hundred years. Locke of prominent or interesting patients (e.g. Sir Hugh Palliser in mm.), contemporary calf, worn laboured for nearly two decades on his investigation of “the Robertson was a noted authority on fever, publishing 13 1796), the lying in state of Lord Nelson at Greenwich ([4 Jan. Dr Robert Robertson (1742-1829), physician, began his career certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge,” concluding volumes on the subject between 1777 and 1812, and became 1806] “Vast numbers of people came to see the Remains of as a ship’s surgeon. He served on a series of men-of-war that “though knowledge must necessarily fall short of a member of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Lord Nelson” [5 Jan. 1806] “Horse Guards came down to keep from 1761 to 1783. The final years of his service on Edgar complete comprehension, it can at least be ‘sufficient’; enough Society. His particular clinical interests can be seen, for the mob off the gates, which they forced”), public affairs, his (74 guns) and Romney (50 guns) are recorded here both to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance, example, in his diary note when he first came on board HMS own ill-health and personal affairs, c.236 pages, 22 August through Robertson’s diary and a sick book. Robertson’s record and can to some extent control our own destiny” (PMM). Romney: 1795 to 6 February 1823, folio (380 x 255mm.), vellum boards, of sickness on HMS Edgar during the naval war between worn, hinges splitting, loss at spine “...June 11th [1782] I enter’d on board the Romney - since REFERENCES Britain and Spain that formed part of the American War of which time the most general Complaint has been the Influenza Three sick books: iii) Sick Book maintained during service Independence includes many cases of venereal disease, Grolier English 36; Grolier One Hundred 72; Norman 1380; which was highly Epidemic throughout Europe as far as I can as Ship’s Surgeon on HMS Edgar and HMS Romney, with title scurvy, and fever as well as contusions and wounds, as well as Pforzheimer 600; PMM 164; Wing L2739 learn. Various have been the opinions amongst the Faculty (“Edgar’s Diary of the Sick”), daily entries recording those in providing additional detail on the most unusual incidents such of its Origin. Lind & others attributing it to Contagion while PROVENANCE the sick bay, their name, age, date taken sick, date of recovery as the death of a fourteen year-old midshipman following a fall into the hold on 28 April 1781, or the unfortunate Richard King, many, of whom I profess my self one, attribute it solely to the “John Nicoll”, later ownership inscription and five-line or when sent to hospital, disease and symptoms, and medical who “shot off his left fore-Finger by accident while Sentinel extremely cold, wet, & variable spring...” manuscript note on front endpaper; “W.H”, initials and six-line treatment, c.376 pages, 1 July 1779 to 31 December 1782, large 4to (295 x 240mm.), half calf on marbled boards, binding last night” (17 December 1781). His concurrent diaries provide note on same page £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800 worn, upper cover detached; iv) Greenwich Royal Hospital further detail about his life and work on board and include accounts of enemy action, most notably the Battle of Cape St £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800 Sick Book, listing patients’ names, ages, date of admission, Vincent on 16 January 1780:

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30 27 A RARE LETTER OF PATERNAL LOVE. Although there is a note on the letter that suggests it was written in August 1804 it was in fact almost certainly written some four months earlier, in ROMNEY, GEORGE, AFTER April, since that is when Horatia was sick with smallpox. Nelson 30 Portrait of Emma Hamilton as Circe had been at sea for nearly a year when he wrote this letter of desperate anxiety. One of Nelson’s last acts before leaving head and shoulders in a white gown, oval, pastel, framed and England had been to attend Horatia’s christening, at which WEIR, JAMES soiling; “Valley W. of Palermo” (160 x 230mm.), captioned and glazed (800 x 650mm.), nineteenth century he and Emma had acted as godparents. His young daughter dated, 31 July 1799, framed (230 x 320mm.), light spotting; Collection of thirteen watercolours of naval views: An attractive copy of Romney’s 1782 portrait of Emma Hart was never far from his thoughts during his final years at sea “Palermo” with Nelson’s fleet at anchor (165 x 235mm.), (later Hamilton). although it was to be another year before he returned home to “Island of Capraja SW by W” (250 x 360mm.), dated 7 July captioned, [May-August 1799], framed (220 x 270mm.), slight see Emma and his daughter for the final time before Trafalgar. 1796, framed (365 x 510mm.), pencil mark, light staining; discolouration; “Bay of Palermo”, with Nelson’s fleet at anchor # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 Nelson’s concern that Horatia had forgotten her father finds “Porto Ferajo S by E ... from the sea” (180 x 305mm.), initialled (155 x 340mm.), two sheets laid down together, [May-August expression in a dream, which he describes to his lover in and dated, July 1796, framed (270 x 380mm.), tear at margin; 1799], framed (260 x 460mm.), trimmed poignant detail. [Nelson’s fleet at anchor, Porto Ferrajo, Elba], (215 x James Weir (d.1820) was Captain of Marines on HMS 28 No Lot This letter is physically marked by the scandal of Horatia’s 330mm.), July 1796, framed (370 x 465mm.); “Toulon, the Audacious from 1795 to 1800, and was also an accomplished parentage. As is well known, her unmarried parents maintained 2 Brothers bearing NE 1/2 E” (125 x 475mm.), dated 24 watercolourist. The earliest watercolours in this group August 1796, framed (285 x 590mm.), slight soiling; “Adml. 29 a fiction that Horatia was an orphan over whom they had were produced when the Audacious was on patrol off the taken a benevolent interest. They wrote impassioned love Man’s [squadron] getting under weigh from Fiorenzo” (185 x Portuguese coast in 1796. Weir painted other of these letters as Mr and Mrs Thompson, and Nelson did not sign 330mm.), captioned and dated, 9 September 1796, framed watercolours in the months leading up to the Battle of the NELSON, HORATIO LORD this letter presumably in order to protect his identity. Nelson (315 x 425mm.), spotting; “Lord Nelson saluted by the Nile, when the Audacious was part of Nelson’s squadron acknowledged his paternity as he lay dying, imploring that his Messinese when going in quest of Bonaparte” (110 x 210mm.), searching for the French fleet off the Italian coast after it had Autograph letter, unsigned, to Emma Hamilton family be protected with the words that “I leave Lady Hamilton signed and dated 20 June 1798, mounted and framed (275 escaped from Toulon. He also depicted Nelson’s flagship, HMS (“My beloved”) and my daughter, Horatia, as a legacy to my country”. Horatia x 360mm.), tear; Montecristo and Pianosa (80 x 205mm.), Vanguard, anchored at Naples Bay for repairs in October 1798, captioned and dated, 12 June 1798, framed (235 x 350mm.), A HIGHLY INTIMATE LETTER EXPRESSING HIS LOVE FOR grew up believing that Emma Hamilton was only her guardian when he first met Emma Hamilton. The final watercolours soiling; Mt Etna with a ship in the foreground (105 x 205mm.), THEIR DAUGHTER HORATIA (“...unexampled love, never I and was never to acknowledge that she was her mother. Many depict the fleet at Palermo, where Nelson had accompanied captioned and dated, 21 June 1798, framed (200 x 270mm.), trust to be diminished much less broken...”), wishing that he of the Nelson-Emma Hamilton letters were doctored, like this the royal court of the Two Sicilies after they fled Naples. Other tear; “The Vanguard with part of Lord Nelson’s fleet at Naples” could have smallpox in her place, and recalling a dream (“...I one, to hide content that proved Emma’s parentage of the girl. watercolours by Weir were included in Sotheby’s ‘Travel and (170 x 265mm.), dated October 1798, framed and glazed (335 dreamt last night I heard her call papa & point to her arm just Natural History’ sale on 15 November 2016 (lot 180). REFERENCES x 420mm.); “W. of the entrance to the bay of Palermo” (160 x as you described...”), 2 pages, 8vo, integral autograph address 235mm.), dated 31 May 1799, framed (240 x 310mm.), slight leaf (“Lady Hamilton”), noted in another hand as having been Alfred Morrison, The Hamilton & Nelson Papers: Volume II ‡ £ 12,000-15,000 € 13,400-16,800 enclosed with another letter to Lady Hamilton dated HMS (1894), p.239 Victory, 13 August 1804, three words crossed through at a later date with the erased text written in pencil above (“our dear # £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800 child”), [HMS Victory, probably April 1804], portion of address leaf restored, neat repairs, traces of seal

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HAMILTON, EMMA—J. T. HERBERT BAILY Emma, Lady Hamilton. W.G. Menzies, 1905 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY HORATIO, LORD NELSON, to John Sullivan, assuring him of his high regard for his nephew, Mr Forbes of HMS Phoebe (1 page, 4to, 22 December 1803, integral blank, fold tears repaired), an autograph document signed by William Hamilton (15 March 1770), an autograph letter signed by William Hayley, to John Flaxman, describing his new library in detail and requesting twelve busts (3 pages, integral address panel, 4to, 24 July 1784), an autograph letter signed by Thomas Lawrence, to Richard Lane (2 pages, 8vo, n.d.), around 70 prints of the Napoleonic era including portraits, views, and other subjects, and about 50 later prints, lithographs and reproductions, large 4to (290 x 240mm.), finely bound in crushed green morocco gilt This attractive volume includes rare contemporary prints of Nelson, Lady Hamilton, and others.

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VICTORIA, QUEEN—BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF 34 35 31 Heath’s Book of Beauty ... for 1839. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, [1838] 8vo, INSCRIBED BY QUEEN VICTORIA (“To The Viscount Falkland from Victoria R Windsor Castle Oct. 22. 1838”) on the 34 35 front paste-down, additional engraved vignette title page and 12 engraved plates, original blue watered silk embroidered in yellow silk thread with a floral design, gilt edges, rubbed SMITH, ADAM [MCCULLOCH, JOHN BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS Lucius, 10th Viscount Falkland (1803-1884) was married to RAMSAY] Autograph manuscript on the wealth of Zanzibar Amelia FitzClarence, King William IV’s illegitimate daughter. Sketch of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D. discussing the personal wealth of the Sultan, the region’s rich resources and recent changes in the economy, working draft £ 500-800 € 600-900 Edinburgh: Murray and Gibb, Printers [for Adam and Charles Black], 1885 with extensive revisions, brown ink with occasional additions in pencil, text written first on numbered rectos (1-8) with 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM additions, revisions and notes on the facing versos, 13 pages, 33 (with the exception of the facsimile letter), half-title, portrait plus blanks, 8vo, mid-1870s, bound with a transcription in frontispiece by R.C. Bell after Tassie, a second portrait after modern speckled calf, strengthened at folds, light staining to NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE Kay opposite the first leaf of text, double page folding facsimile outer leaves letter, full navy morocco gilt, spine titled in gilt, gilt dentelles, “...the abolition of slavery has greatly diminished the number Two autograph letters signed, to Dr Duncan all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, joints slightly rubbed of hands in the Island and on the Coast of Zanzibar, which are MacPherson, chief medical officer of the Turkish SCARCE; Senate House Library and Cambridge University equally rich in cloves and in pure copal ... not to speak of the Contingent both note that only 50 copies were printed. It is not recorded finest ivory in the world...” whether the entire edition was - like this copy - printed on sending him supplies and provisions, including winter clothing, AN ANALYSIS OF THE RESOURCES OF BARGHASH BIN SAID, vellum. books (“Dickens & Chambers &c”), hams and bacon (“... SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR. Barghash was evidently negotiating It seems rather anomalous sending the ‘unclean beast’ to PROVENANCE for a loan from Britain, and Burton here explains the extensive a Turkish Contingent. But you will find it very acceptable to resources that underpin his creditworthiness. He was the John Scott of Halkshill, Aryshire; his sale, Sotheby’s London, your European convalescents in Hospital...”), with repeated second sultan of Zanzibar after the division of the Arab 5 April 1905, lot 2357; “WBD” [W.B. Dunlop ?], ownership complaints about theft by purveyors, 8 pages, 4to and 8vo, Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in 1856, and ruled vast swathes inscription beneath catalogue clipping Scutari, 29 January to 23 February 1856, light soiling, nicks at of East Africa from his capital of Stone Town. Burton’s report margins, remains of mounts on final versos is a snapshot of Zanzibar in the years immediately following £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 Sultan Barghash’s abolition of the slave trade in 1870. Burton The Turkish Contingent comprised officers of the Indian Army had visited the island of Zanzibar with Speke in the 1850s and seconded into the Turkish Army during the Crimean War. Dr his book, Zanzibar, had been published in 1872. MacPherson, who was based in the Turkish hospital in Kerch from 1855-56, was later described by Nightingale as “the only PROVENANCE (superior) medical officer in the Crimea who really knew his 33 business” (letter to Sir Charles Trevelyan, 25 September 1859). Sotheby’s New York, 10 December 1993, lot 183

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PROPERTY OF MRS A. P. KEYNES The first Darwin knew of the publication of the Extracts from Letters was in family letters. His sister Caroline wrote to him on DARWIN, CHARLES 29 December: For Private Distribution ... Extracts from Letters “...you must now hear how your fame is spreading— a note addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq. came to my Father on Xmas day from Profr. Henslow speaking Cambridge: [the University Press for the Cambridge most kindly of you & rejoicing you would soon return “to reap the reward of your perseverance and take your position among Philosophical Society], Dec. 1, 1835 the first Naturalist of the day” and with the note he sent my 8vo (215 x 137mm.), FIRST EDITION OF DARWIN’S FIRST Father some copies of extracts from your letters to him printed SEPARATELY PRINTED WORK, inscribed at the head of the for Private distribution ... My Father did not move from his seat first page “from Professor Henslo[w] /[18]38”, disbound, till he had read every word of your book & he was very much housed within tan buckram folding case, leaves slightly gratified— he liked so much the simple clear way you gave browned with minor occasional spotting, remains of original your information. Your frank unhacknied mode of writing was pale grey plain wrappers to spine and first and final leaves, to him particularly agreeable...” three stab holes from previous binding News of the publication did not actually reach Darwin until he AN IMPORTANT DARWIN RARITY: HIS FIRST ACCOUNT arrived at the Cape of Good Hope at the beginning of June. Not IN PRINT OF HIS DISCOVERIES ON THE BEAGLE. During for the last time, Darwin’s immediate response to the thought his years on the Beagle Darwin wrote regularly to the Rev. of publication was to be “a good deal horrified”, and to worry Professor John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Cambridge that “I have always written to Henslow in the same careless Professor of Botany. As an undergraduate, Darwin had a manner as to you; & to print what has been written without favourite student of Henslow: it was the conversation at care & accuracy, is indeed playing with edge tools. But as the Henslow’s Friday soirées that inspired Darwin to pursue Spaniard says, ‘No hay remedio’” (letter to Catherine Darwin, natural history, and the young man excelled in Henslow’s field 3 June 1836). He would surely have been reassured when he classes, spending enjoyable days searching for specimens finally saw a copy of the pamphlet after his return to England in the countryside around Cambridge. It was Henslow who in October of the same year, as Henslow’s preface cautiously encouraged Darwin to learn geology from the great Adam emphasises that the letters were “the first thoughts which Sedgwick, and it was Henslow who recommended Darwin to occur to a traveller respecting what he sees, before he has had Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle. Darwin’s letters to Henslow time to collate his Notes, and examine his Collections, with from the Beagle more than repaid Henslow’s belief in Darwin’s the attention necessary for scientific accuracy.” Certainly the abilities; they are full of botanical and geological observations publication did no harm to his relationship with Henslow, who and discoveries including unrecorded specimens and remained a lifelong friend. tantalising fossils, conveying his enthusiasm and excitement This pamphlet is exceptionally rare. A proof copy with some in pellucid prose. When Henslow read excerpts from these twenty corrections in pencil was sold in these rooms on 13 letters at a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society March 1973 (lot 404), and since then only five copies have sold on 16 November 1835, they generated so much excitement at auction, including a copy presented by Henslow to Oxford’s that Henslow decided to reproduce them in a pamphlet for Ashmolean Natural History Society. circulation with the Society. Darwin was, of course, still on the Beagle - then in New Zealand - so could not be consulted about REFERENCES the publication. Freeman 1

PROVENANCE Sir Geoffrey Keynes, surgeon and bibliophile (1887-1982), ownership inscription on folding case dated 1937; his son (and Charles Darwin’s great-grandson), Prof. Richard Keynes (1919- 2010), physiologist and Darwin scholar

£ 80,000-120,000 € 89,500-134,000

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26 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 27 FROM THE LIBRARY 38 OF SIR GEORGE DARWIN, CHARLES The Variation of Animals and Plants under MURRAY HUMPHRY Domestication. John Murray, 1868 (1820-1896) 2 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 5 lines of errata in vol. 1 and 7 lines in vol. 2), woodcut illustrations, 32pp. publisher’s adverts dated April 1867 at end of vol. 1 and LOTS 37–40 2pp. dated February 1868 in vol. 2, original green cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt on spine (with publisher’s imprint in one line), small chip from upper edge of title page in vol. 1 (resulting from the opening of the gathering), bindings a little worn at extremities Murray published the first edition of Darwin’s Variation in an initial run of only 1,500 copies, most of which were already accounted for when the book appeared in late January. Within a month another issue was in the press. This title represents the only published section of Darwin’s intended “big book” on the origin of species, although a second section, transcribed from his manuscript notes, appeared in 1975.

REFERENCES Freeman 877

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37 37 Sir George Murray Humphry, ownership signature on title page; thence by descent

£ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Professor Sir George Murray Humphry was a 37 40 renowned surgeon and anatomist. Despite coming 39 from a modest background without connections, he DARWIN, CHARLES became the youngest hospital surgeon in England On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural DARWIN, CHARLES 40 when he was appointed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. John Murray, 1859 Two works, 1872-1875, comprising: in Cambridge at the age of 22. In 1847 he became a DARWIN, CHARLES i) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John 8vo, FIRST EDITION (with two quotations on the verso of the lecturer in Human Anatomy at Cambridge University, Murray, 1872, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with final Letter signed, to Professor [George Murray] half-title), half-title, folding lithographed diagram at p.117, signatures 2B2 and 2C3, with 2B1 and 2C1 signed), 7 heliotype Humphry was appointed Professor of Human Anatomy in 32pp. publisher’s adverts dated June 1859 at end (Freeman’s plates (3 folding) numbered in Roman, 4pp. publisher’s adverts state 2), original green blind-stamped cloth (Freeman variant explaining with regret that his health will prevent his attending 1866, and he ended his life as “one of the most dated November 1872 at end, original green cloth, ruled in a), lettered in gilt on spine, binders label of Edmonds and a meeting but assuring him “how glad & proud I shall be to blind and lettered in gilt on spine [Freeman 1141; Norman 600], influential people in the University of Cambridge” Remnants at end, a little bumped at head and foot of spine, aid in any way in doing honour to the venerated memory of possibly lacking preliminary blank, binding slightly rubbed at some light wear to boards, inner hinges splitting, preliminary [Adam] Sedgwick”, the body text in the hand of Emma Darwin, (ODNB). Humphry was acquainted with Darwin’s son extremities, plate VI with a small closed tear to upper corner; ii) gathering a little loose, some very light spotting 2 pages, 8vo, Down House headed stationery, 14 March 1873, Insectivorous Plants. John Murray, 1875, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, George, who had entered the university in 1863. The light spotting and nicks at edges not affecting text A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF FIRST ISSUE, half-title, woodcut illustrations, original green first edition Origin of Species offered here reflects DARWIN’S SEMINAL BOOK ON EVOLUTION, published in cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt on spine [Freeman 1217; A GRACIOUS LETTER ABOUT A FORMER TEACHER AND Humphry’s participation in the most important 1859. Just 1,250 were printed of the first edition and only 1,170 Norman 601], binding slightly rubbed (2) INTELLECTUAL ADVERSARY. This letter’s recipient, Sir of these were available for sale, the rest being reserved as George Murray Humphry, had written to invite Darwin to a As with the Norman copy, this copy of the first edition of The scientific debates of his time: when invited in 1880 copies for the author, reviewers, copyright and at least twenty meeting in memory of the university’s Woodwardian Professor Expression of the Emotions... has the plates numbered in to deliver the Rede Lecture, he chose as his subject for presentation. Although Murray already had orders for of Geology, the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, who had died some Roman rather than Arabic numerals. The present copy bears another 250 copies beyond what he had to sell, he immediately six weeks earlier. Darwin had known Sedgwick since his “Man, past, present and future”. In 1866, Humphry all the issue points of the first issue, with the correct signatures asked Darwin to begin revising the text, and as such the first undergraduate days in Cambridge more than forty years for the final leaves, the first issue integral adverts and “than” founded the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, edition exists in only one issue. earlier, and Sedgwick had provided him with crucial geological correctly spelt on p.208, but has only three preliminary leaves. which he co-edited. The Journal regularly reviewed Described by Freeman as “certainly the most important training when he accompanied him on a two-week field tour of Wales just before Darwin was appointed to the Beagle in 1831. biological book ever written”, the text was completed by PROVENANCE recent publications, and naturally its editor received Sedgwick had, however, been a vocal opponent of evolution by Darwin just 13 months and 10 days after he began the abstract Sir George Murray Humphry, ownership initials on i) title page natural selection, writing to Darwin on receipt of a copy of the copies of Darwin’s works in their earliest editions. on 20 July 1858. and ii) half-title; thence by descent Origin that: “You have deserted—after a start in that tram-road REFERENCES of all solid physical truth—the true method of induction, and £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 started off in machinery as wild, I think, as Bishop Wilkins’s Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344(b) locomotive that was to sail with us to the moon.” (quoted in PROVENANCE ODNB). Sir George Murray Humphry, ownership signature on title page; thence by descent # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350

£ 50,000-70,000 € 56,000-78,500

28 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 29 PROPERTY FROM 41 THE LIBRARY AT [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The booke of the common prayer and administracion FETTERCAIRN HOUSE of the Sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche: after the vse of the Churche of LOTS 41 – 116 England. Edward Whitchurch, (4 May) 1549 small folio, early state (with “fol.xvii” misnumbered “fol.xviii”), woodcut title [McKerrow and Ferguson 68], title and calendar printed in black and red, woodcut initials throughout, later calf, flat spine in six compartments, red spine label lettered in gilt, all edges red, rubbed, lacking four clasps, additional ink decorations to title page, resulting in an area of loss below imprint, some slight staining to lower edge of leaves A2-A5, some ink annotations One of the sixteen editions of the Book of Common Prayer issued in its first year of publication, and is now “as a source of spiritual inspiration...for most Englishmen second only to the Bible” (PMM). The final paragraph contains a decree from the King regarding the price of the book.

REFERENCES Griffiths 1549/8; PMM 75; STC (2nd ed.) 16270

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Sir William Forbes, bookplate 42 44

£ 3,000-4,000 € 3,350-4,500

The Forbes Baronetcy was created in 1626 for Sir 43 44 William Forbes (d. circa 1650) by James VI in the 42 Barontage of Nova Scotia. The majority of the works [BIBLE] [BIBLE] [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] offered here were acquired by the sixth Baronet, The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, select passages The Booke of Common Prayer and administration of also William (1739-1806), who added Pitsligo to his the New: translated out of the original tongues and in the Old and New Testaments, represented with the Sacraments, and other Rites and ceremonies of with the former translations diligently compared and Emblematic Figures for the Amusement of Youth. title in 1781. He was an eminent Scottish banker the Church of England. Printed by Robert Barker...and revised. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763 Printed for T. Hodgson, 1785 and benefactor, good friend of James Boswell by the Assignes of John Bill, 1632 folio, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES, third state (with list of subscribers 12mo, third edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY [?] and Samuel Johnson (see lots 45-46), and finally small 4to, woodcut title [McKerrow and Ferguson 164b], ending with “York”), separate title page for New Testament, ALEXANDER BOSWELL (“A | Present from | James Boswell succeeded in recovering the Pitsligo estates forfeited calendar printed in red and black, separate title page for “The 22pp. index and tables at end, contemporary full red morocco Esqr | To | His eldest Son | Alexander | 1785”) on the front Psalter, of Psalmes of David”, lacking final blank; [bound with:] richly gilt, oval centrepiece featuring a gilt vignette of Athena free endpaper, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. His son William, The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English meeter. within a border decorated with leafy sprays, small floral TO JAMES FORBES (“to Mr James Forbes | from his affecte the seventh baronet, beat Sir Walter Scott to the Printed by T[homas]. P[urfoot]. for the Company of Stationers, cornerpieces, gilt Greek border, flat spine in six compartments friend | Alexr Boswell”) on verso of the front free endpaper, 1633, small 4to, woodcut title [McKerrow and Ferguson elaborately gilt, one compartment titled in gilt, the others with frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original pictorial printed hand of the renowned beauty Williamina Belsches 263], printed music in the text, pages numbered on rectos vignette of stag within a decorative floral border, all edges gilt, boards, boards worn, spine perished, inner hinges split, Stuart (1776-1810), and it was with their marriage only, index at end; contemporary English calf elaborately gilt marbled endpapers, very small tear to lower edge of leaf *e2, occasional tears very occasional light browning that the family moved to her family seat, Fettercairn with floral centre- and corner-pieces on a semis of inverted CHARMING ASSOCIATION COPY, LINKING THE TWO fleurons, within a wide gilt border of volutes, flat spine in A FINE COPY. On the preliminary blank there is a manuscript FAMILIES OF FORBES AND BOSWELL. Boswell’s son House in Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire. five compartments tooled in gilt with the same stamp as the note listing the children of the Sir William Forbes, sixth Baronet Alexander, the eldest of his surviving sons, was born in 1775 One of the sixth baronet’s acquisitions for wide border, edges gilt and gauffered, two clasps, additional of Monymusk and Pitsligo, and overleaf, of his son, the seventh to the delight of his father. This children’s bible was given to pair of catches [?] on upper edge (possibly rings for a girdle his library at Pitsligo were numerous highly baronet. Alexander at the age of 10, who then in turn gifted the book to book?), lacking both straps and one catchplate on lower board, James Forbes, who was two and half years younger and the important miscellanies and tract volumes, many somewhat rubbed REFERENCES fourth of the thirteen children of Sir William Forbes (see lot of which were purchased as a set from Edinburgh IN AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Darlow and Moule 1146; ESTC T93106; Gaskell 26 45). bookseller Elphinstone Balfour in October 1786. REFERENCES £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 REFERENCES These were subsequently supplemented by further Griffiths 1632/1; PMM 75; STC (2nd ed.) 16385.7 and 2641 ESTC T168839 contemporary tracts and other works from the late PROVENANCE £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Most of Sophia Areskine [Lady Sophia Erksine], wife of Alexander these miscellanies bear a nineteenth century Forbes Forbes (c.1655-1690), 3rd Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, inscription on endpaper family bookplate. £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350

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45 45 BOSWELL, JAMES [CAVE, EDWARD, AND OTHERS] The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel The Gentleman’s Magazine: or, Monthly Johnson, LL.D. Printed by Henry Baldwin, For Charles Intelligencer...for the year 1731 [-1788]. Printed and 45 Dilly, 1785 sold...by F. Jefferies [later volumes: for John Nichols, 8vo, second edition “revised and corrected”, PRESENTATION David Henry...and sold by Eliz. Newbery], 1732-1788 BOSWELL, JAMES Sir William Forbes (1739-1806) was a close friend of Boswell COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES and, through him, had been introduced to Johnson himself in volumes 1-58 bound in 64 volumes, together with 2 index (“to (“To Sir William Forbes | of Pitsligo Baronet | from his much The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Printed by Henry 1773. Despite their Scottish heritage, both Forbes and Boswell the first fifty-six volumes”, 1731-1786) volumes, 8vo, some obliged | and affectionate friend | The Authour”) on the verso Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791 naturally gravitated towards London where they shared many title pages for individual numbers, engraved plates and maps, of the half-title, half-title, cancel leaf F5, 1pp. publisher’s friends and interests. Both were enthusiastic freemasons: many folding, contemporary panelled calf with decorative floral 2 volumes, 4to, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE adverts announcing Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson as as grand master, Forbes chose Boswell as his deputy grand borders and additional floral tooling (earlier volumes speckled AUTHOR TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES (“To Sir William Forbes | of “preparing for the press”, contemporary calf backed marbled master in Scotland. On Boswell’s death, Forbes was appointed calf), spines in six compartments numbered in gilt and with red Pitsligo Baronet | these volumes | are presented | by his much boards, spine somewhat worn, boards slightly rubbed, some one of his executors, responsible not only for clearing the spine labels lettered in gilt, speckled edges; obliged | and faithful friend | The Authour.”) on a note tipped minor worming, short tear to fore-edge of D7 in before the title, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,750 COPIES, estate of considerable debt, but also for the care of Boswell’s [with:] The Gentleman’s Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. second state of volume one (with “give” spelt correctly on children and his vast array of diaries, letters and private BOSWELL’S ACCOUNT OF HIS TOUR OF THE HIGHLANDS For the Year MDCCXCIX. Printed by John Nichols...and sold p.135), portrait frontispiece by James Heath after Sir Joshua papers. It was not until the thirties that it became clear that AND INNER HEBRIDES, INSCRIBED TO HIS FRIEND SIR by Elizabeth Newbery, 1799, volume 69 bound in 2 volumes, Reynolds, 2 plates by H. Shepherd in volume 2, cancel leaves many of these papers - having at some point been moved to WILLIAM FORBES. 8vo, engraved plates (one folding), contemporary half calf Mm4 and Nn1 in volume one, and E3, Oo4, Qq3, Zz1 and Forbes’ home at Pitsligo and then later to Fettercairn House, Boswell’s Tour as published, according to Pottle, was “almost over marbled boards, speckled edges; sold as a periodical, not Eee2 in volume 2, contemporary tree calf, speckled edges, which passed into the Forbes family on the marriage of his literally the actual journal...kept day by day on the journey”. subject to return, rubbed (68) son - had never been returned to the Boswell family. The spine joints a little worn, boards a little bumped and rubbed; Although the majority of the book was therefore written in A GOOD SET. Established by Cave and edited by him under Fettercairn discovery, which was quite accidental, marked a [bound with]: The Principal Corrections and Additions to the 1773, it was not published until after Johnson’s death. The first the pseudonym “Sylvanus Urban”, The Gentleman’s Magazine significant addition to Boswell scholarship, and are now held in First Edition of Mr. Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson. [Printed by edition having sold out within a month, this second edition was rapidly became “the most popular and enduring journal of the collections of Yale University. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793], 4to, bound in respective seen through the press by Edmund Malone, Boswell himself the century” (ESTC), resulting in numerous reprints to meet volumes (as intended), without title page Other presentation copies of the Life included that given to John being back in Scotland by the time of the printing. As well as demand. Wilkes, Warren Hastings, Sir William Scott, James Boswell the his editor, Malone became Boswell’s closest friend for the later AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO As such, identifying specific editions remains challenging. Even younger, and John Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle. The last of these part of his life, and, like Forbes, served as his executor after his BOSWELL’S GREAT FRIEND SIR WILLIAM FORBES. limited to only the years of Cave’s proprietorship, “there are was sold by Sotheby’s, New York on 15 December 1998 (lot death in 1795. 24 annual volumes, comprising 312 separate numbers, some Boswell’s Life of Johnson, arguably “the most famous 26) and is the last such copy to have appeared at auction. The printed at least nine times, all occurring in states differing in biography in any language” (ODNB), was first mentioned in present copy is unrecorded in Pottle’s bibliography. REFERENCES every set, and many thereafter confused in mixtures of several the author’s extensive diaries in March 1772, although it is ESTC T53588; Pottle 59; see Rothschild 456 likely Boswell conceived of the idea to “preserve but a faint REFERENCES sets” (Todd, A Bibliographical Account of The Gentleman’s impression of Johnson” (letter to Wilkes, 13 July 1765) several Magazine, 1731-1754 (1965), p.81). ESTC T64481; Pottle 79; Rothschild 463; Tinker 338 PROVENANCE years before. The task, which Boswell saw as “a glory to myself Sir William Forbes, bookplate PROVENANCE and a benefit to mankind” (ibid.), took the best part of two PROVENANCE decades to come to fruition and was eventually published Sir William Forbes, bookplates Sir William Forbes, ownership signature on titles and £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 exactly twenty-eight years after the first meeting of the author bookplates and his subject in Thomas Davies’ back parlour in 1763. £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500 32 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 33 49 51

FORBES, SIR WILLIAM, OF PITSLIGO GIBBON, EDWARD Letters explanatory of the Religious Belief and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Practical Duties of a Christian Empire. For W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1781-1788 manuscript fair copies of fifty letters addressed to his children, 6 volumes, 4to, FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS (volume 1: each on a named religious topic, with a partially autograph second edition, with preface dated 1 June 1776; volumes 2-6: signed preface (“Memorandum”), in at least two scribal first edition), half-titles, portrait frontispiece dated 1780 in hands, each volume with contents pages, volume 3 signed volume one, 3 folding maps in volume 2, cancel leaves G1 by the author at the end, text on rectos only, with footnoted (signed *G) and Ll1 (signed *L1) in volume 2, and H3 (so references, scattered erasures and corrections and also signed) and L2 (signed *L2) in volume 4, errata leaf at end of occasional insertions on the facing versos in various hands, volume 3, errata for volumes 4-6 at end of volume 6 on verso volume 2 with a bibolium of notes loosely inserted apparently of 4U1, final blank at end of volume 6, contemporary calf, by Bishop [Daniel] Sandford and volume 3 with a single leaf speckled edges, lacking leaves a1-a4 in vol. 5, some repairs loosely inserted, paginated, altogether 1074 pages, bound to spines, some minor spots of soiling to boards, occasional in 3 volumes, large 4to (280 x 220mm.), preface dated 5 spotting (particularly to pp.415-428 in vol. 2) (6) October 1803, tree calf with morocco lettering piece on spine The third of the folding maps here bound in volume two (“A (“Letters”) and labelled 1-3; Map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire”) is more [with:] sixteen additional letters, entitled “Letters on Study”, usually found in volume three. The 12 pages of contents and with title page, content page, in a single scribal hand, text on the portrait frontispiece in volume one were issued with the rectos only, with occasional erasures and corrections, 263 first edition of the second volume. pages, large 4to (287 x 222mm), c.1800, calf backed marbled boards, matching lettering piece and labelled 4; REFERENCES [with:] thirteen additional letters, entitled “Letters on a right ESTC T78357, T78362, T78360 and T78365; PMM 222; Conduct in regard to Society”, with title page, content page, in Rothschild 942 a single scribal hand, text on rectos only, scattered erasures and corrections with occasional insertions on facing versos, PROVENANCE 388 pages, large 4to (292 x 226mm.), c.1800, calf backed Sir William Forbes, bookplate marbled boards, matching lettering piece and labelled 5 (5) 48 Forbes’s prefatory memorandum explains the origin of this 50 £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 extensive series of letters of advice to his children. They were begun soon after the birth of his eldest son, William, in December 1773. His first manuscript took about two years to 52 complete, but over the years and decades that followed Forbes 50 48 returned repeatedly to the work and the current volumes represent the third version of the text, including not only his JOHNSON, SAMUEL own further thoughts and readings, but also revisions made on FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN FERGUSON, ADAM The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, the advice of his friends (one such set of suggested changes is Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made Principles of Moral and Political Science; being chiefly still found loosely inserted in the second volume). The final two Biographical and Critical. Printed by John Nicols for J. at Philadelphia in America. Printed for David Henry a Retrospect of Lectures delivered in the College of volumes show Forbes expanding his remit beyond religious Buckland [and others], 1790 and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769 Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Strahan and T. concerns. 75 volumes, including two index volumes, 8vo, half-titles to Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792 “...Whenever I think of the infinite importance of those few 4to, fourth edition, half-title, 7 engraved plates (2 folding and volumes one and 7-75, fly titles, 32 portraits (5 in vol. 1; 3 in vol. years that are usually dedicated to the purposes of education, 5 full page), woodcut illustrations, pp.111-112, pp.416-417 and 2; 9 in vol. 3; 3 in vol. 4; 5 in vol. 5; 7 in vol. 6) including Milton, 2 volumes, 4to, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, contemporary tree and which in a great measure determine the future happiness pp.465-472 duplicated in the pagination as issued, 16pp. index Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson and others, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, red spine label, green speckled of mankind, both here and hereafter; I cannot help feeling for at end, contemporary calf, spine in compartments with red calf, flat spine ruled in 7 compartments, red morocco spine edges, some very occasional minor spotting, spines very you the utmost degree of anxiety...” spine label, boards slightly rubbed with one significant scuff to labels lettered “Johnson’s Poets” in gilt, oval black morocco slightly faded lower board, slight tear to inner edge of one folding plate volume number labels, and black morocco labels lettered in A FINE COPY. PROVENANCE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of “the most important scientific gilt, with names of poets at foot of spine, all edges yellow, Sir William Forbes, bookplates in volumes 1-3 book of eighteenth-century America” (PMM). some volumes a little rubbed, some slightly worn at head and REFERENCES foot of spine, occasional spotting, some offsetting to endpapers ESTC T114601 REFERENCES £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 A HANDSOME SET. ESTC T101040; Ford 307; Gartrell 175; Howes F320; see PROVENANCE Norman 830; see PMM 199; Sabin 25506; Wellcome III p.62 REFERENCES Sir William Forbes, bookplates ESTC T152606 PROVENANCE £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Sir William Forbes (1739-1806), sixth baronet, ownership PROVENANCE signature on title and bookplate dated 1760 Sir William Forbes, bookplates

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REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA SCOTTISH BINDINGS 55 56 Four autograph letters signed, to Sir William Forbes, Two public disputations, both dedicated to Bt., of Pitsligo William Forbes, in Scottish red morocco bindings, SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM encouraging him to visit his friends in England, discussing comprising: The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare. Revised by A Collection of Prints, from pictures painted for mutual friends including James Boswell and Samuel Johnson i) Moir, Alexander. Disputatio juridica, ad tit. XXII lib. XLIII George Steevens. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co...for the purpose of illustrating the Dramatic Works of (“... I hope you have seen Dr Johnson’s lives of the Poets as Digest. de fonte... publicae disquisitione subjicit Alexander John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol, 1802 Shakspeare, by the artists of Great-Britain. John and far as he is advanced. he is still at work - he has given me a Moir. Edinburgh: Balfour and Smellie, for sale by William Gibb, Josiah Boydell, 1803 [-1805] sight of Addison Prior and Rowe which are admirable. It is very 1782, 4to (230 x 173mm.), with printed dedication leaf to 9 volumes, folio, 96 COOPERPLATES (including portrait lucky this opportunity of bringing out his critical knowledge William Forbes of Pitsligo, contemporary red morocco gilt fan frontispiece to volume 1, the second portrait, and further 2 volumes in one, large folio, portrait frontispieces in each which I take to be his chief excellence...”), admitting to the binding, gilt edges, armorial bookplate of Sir William Forbes; engraved plates throughout), half-title in each volume, 4 fly volume, engraved vignettes on title pages, and 95 engraved reason for the fading of his portrait of the Earl of Erroll (“... ii) Bell, Archibald. Disputatio juridica ad tit. II lib. II Digest. titles in each volume (for 36 plays), contemporary green plates (39 in volume one and 49 in volume 2; the 7 As You Like the truth is for many years I was extremely fond of a very quod quisque Juris in alterum statuerit, ut ipse eodem Jure straight-grain morocco elaborately gilt, with inset double It “Seven Ages” plates bound at end), contemporary diced calf, treacherous colour called Carmine, very beautifull to look at, utatur... publicae disquisitioni subjicit Archibaldus Bell. border of small tulips, ornate gilt vignette of lyre on upper and with marbled paper panel on both boards, Greek border tooled but of no substance...”), sending works to Fettercairn House, Edinburgh: Balfour and Smellie, 1798, 4to (232 x 183mm.), lower board of each volume, additionally decorated in blind in blind, spine gilt in compartments, binding worn, occasional and returning repeatedly to his attempts to get Lord Erroll to with printed dedication leaf to William Forbes of Pitsligo, and gilt, spines richly gilt in six compartments, repeating the slight marginal worming, lacking one plate (Vol. 2, No. 48: settle his bill, 12 pages, 4to, one with autograph address panel, contemporary red morocco gilt binding in the style of Scott of design of the lute, all edges gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities, “Shakspeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy”), some tissue docketed, London, 21 April 1778 to 18 October 1783, light damp Edinburgh, gilt and gauffered edges (2) some very slight staining to the lower edge of the boards in a guards torn staining, fold tears few volumes, some light spotting and browning (particularly to Davis Gift 284 is an Edinburgh binding, also on a Balfour and Described by Josiah Boydell in the Preface as “a work, which, vol. 8) “...I am sorry to hear you have no thought of coming amongst Smellie imprint, which uses many of the same tools as the for its magnitude and expense, is certainly unparalleled in any us again, Boswell makes nothing of the journey, he seems 1798 binding. It is likely that this was an in-house bindery, A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET IN A SUMPTUOUS BINDING. John age of country; and bears much more the appearance of a to set out for England as a man would go a few miles in the working in a similar style to the Scotts of Edinburgh; for Boydell (1720-1804) conceived of this grand illustrated edition National Undertaking, executed at the public expense, than the Country to dine with a friend, He made a visit last year to similar tools, see J.H. Loudon, James Scott and William Scott, of Shakespeare’s plays in November 1786. Quickly, Boydell, enterprise of the branches of one private family”. Dr Johnson when he was in Darbyshire, in this easy manner Bookbinders (London, 1980). aided by his brother Josiah and the bookseller George Nicol, and when he had seen him he was satisfied and returned to recruited Shakespeare scholar George Steevens to edit £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 Scotland, he is come now a second time to the great pleasure £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 the text and numerous artists and engravers to provide the and satisfaction of his friends...” illustrations. Sir William Forbes (1739-1806) came to know Reynolds, as well REFERENCES as Johnson and other members of the Literary Club, through Jaggard p.508 his close friendship with James Boswell. Reynolds’s portrait of Forbes is now at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600

36 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 37 estates of England, to importune and perswade him to accept MISCELLANIES of the kingship, and crown of England... for William Leak, 1657 [Wing P3990]—To His Excellency the Lord Fleetwood, and the general council of officers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble address of the inferiour officers and souldiers of the late Lord Pride’s regiment. T. Lock, 1659 [Wing T1352]—Carre, James. A letter…to the Lord Admirall. Allo [sic], good news from Ireland, of Inchiqvins declaring himself against the rebels, and 14000 Scots marched towards them, and other passages from thence. And, Hastings forces routed in Derbyshire… For Matthew Walbancke, 1644 [Wing R6967; FOUR COPIES ONLY IN THE UK]; and 23 others, chiefly from the English Civil War period (1) The first two works, the Elizabethan Injunctions and Visitation Articles, were normally issued together in various editions from 1559 onwards. THIS IS AN EARLY EDITION OF THE DEFINING 39 ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH HAD A LASTING EFFECT ON RELIGION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE THROUGH THEIR INCORPORATION IN THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Collection of 20 seventeenth-century pamphlets, from before, during and after the Civil War period in one volume: 59 57 58 An Historical Narration of the Judgement of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops...concerning Gods Election... B.A. and T.F. for Samuel Nealand, 1631 [STC 4]— 59 Articles agreed on in the Nationall Synode of the Reformed 57 58 Churches of France, held at Charenton neere Paris, in the Moneth of September, 1623...Oxford: John Lichfield and James CHURCH OF ENGLAND ARTICLES AND SMITH, ADAM STEUART, JAMES Short, 1624 [STC 11297; Madan I, p.121]—Neville, Francis THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR de. The Christian and Catholike Veritie...T.P. and M.S. for Essays on Philosophical Subjects...to which is An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy: H. Blunden, 1642 [Wing N502]—Pym, John. The Reasons prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Collection of 30 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century of the House of Commons to stay the Queenes going into Author; by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. London and Free Nations. For A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767 pamphlets in one volume: Holland...1641 [Wing P4273A]—A View of the present condition of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland... for Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies...and 2 volumes, 4to, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding tables (one in each England, Church of. Iniunctions giuen by the Queenes John Bellamy and Ralph Scott, 1642 [Wing V366], cropped and W. Creech, 1795 volume), errata leaf at end of volume 2 (errata for volume Maiestie...The first yeere of the raigne of our soueraign Lady torn—Eglisham, George. The Fore-runner of Revenge being one printed on the verso of the final leaf of the Preface), Queene Elizabeth. [issued with:] Articles to be enquired of 4to, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy inscribed in Latin as a two petitions... printed... in the yeare 1642 [Wing E256cA], contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, red spine labels, some in the visitation, in the first yeere of the raign of our most prize to John Forbes by James Pillans, fly titles, contemporary cropped, somewhat darkened and soiled—Charles I. His slight soiling resulting from water damage to lower corner of dread soueraign Ladie Elzabeth... By the assignment of Robert calf tooled in gilt and blind, spine in compartments, marbled Majesties answer to a printed book, entituled, A remonstrance, volumes (more noticeable in vol. 1), some contemporary pencil Barker, 1600 [STC 10110, 10133]; these two issued as a pair edges, marbled endpapers, binding a little rubbed in places or, The declaration of the Lords and Commons now assembled annotations and notes, some spotting (particularly pp.455-467 as usual, some slight tears to second work and lacking the final in Parliament, May 26. 1642 [Wing C2103A]—A True and This copy, in an attractive binding, was presented to Sir in vol. 1), repaired tear to leaf a1 in vol. 2 blank leaf; A short forme of thankesgiuing to God, for staying Briefe Relation how, and by what meanes, the Isle of Wight was John Forbes in April 1822 by Professor James Pillans. Pillans the contagious sickenes of the plague: to be vsed in common “The first English work which had any pretensions to be secured, in August, 1642. R.O and G.D. for Stephen Bowtell, was elected to the chair of “Humanity and Laws” (Latin) prayer... Robert Barker, 1604 [STC 16533], these three all with considered as a systematic or complete view of the subject” 1642, [Wing T2417]—Sedgwicke, Obadiah. An Arke against a at Edinburgh University in 1820, and went on to hold the title page borders [McKerrow & Ferguson 165]—The fatall (J.R. McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy), Sir James Deluge: or Safety in Dangerous Times... J. Raworth for Samuel professorship for 53 years. vesper, or A true and punctuall relation of that lamentable and Steuart’s Inquiry anticipated Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Gellibrand, 1644 [Wing S2364]—A continuation of the narrative fearefull accident, hapning on Sunday in the afternoone being Nations, which was published almost a decade later in 1776. being the last and final dayes proceedings of the High Court REFERENCES the 26. of October last, by the fall of a roome in the Black- of Iustice sitting in Westminster Hall on Saturday, Jan. 27. ESTC T33499; Goldsmiths’ 16218; Kress B3038; Rothschild Friers in which were assembled many people at a sermon, REFERENCES concerning the tryal of the King...Together with a copy of the 1902 which was to be preached by Father Drurie a Iesuite... John ESTC N797; Goldsmiths’ 10276; Kress 6498; see Sabin 91387 sentence of death upon Charls Stuart... For John Playford, 1648 Haviland for Richard Whitaker, 1623 [STC 6015, previously [Nelson and Seccombe 518.3]; and 9 others, including works PROVENANCE incorrectly attributed to William Crashaw], apparently the by or relating to William Prynne; 4to, some with contemporary Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes (1804-1866), 8th Baronet £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 second issue with forms reimposed [see Arthur Freeman, in ownership signatures, eighteenth-century quarter calf (spine of Monymusk, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, Colinton House, The Library, ser. 5, 23:128-135], lacking initial and final blanks— numbered 8), binding worn, spine slightly chipped, some bookplate [Prynne, William.] King Richard the Third revived. Containing cropping and tears and staining to some tracts (1) a memorable petition and declaration contrived by himself £ 2,000-2,500 € 2,250-2,800 and his instruments, whiles Protector, in the name of the three £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800

38 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 39 61 Hodges, 1649 [Wing P3996A]—A Remonstrance from Ireland, to the High Court in England...first printed at Dublin, and now reprinted at London, 1641 [Wing R982]—Bristol, John Digby, ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Earl of. Two speeches spoken at the councell-table at Oxford. Collection of approximately 76 works, many relating The one, by the Right Honourable John Earle of Bristoll, in favour of the continuation of the present warre. The other, by to Scotland and the Irish Rebellion, in three volumes: the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset, for a speedy An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in accomodation betwixt His Majestie, and his high court of Parliament, for raising of fourscore thousand pounds...for Parliament. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield and now reprinted at the present relief of the British Army in Ireland...for Edward London for John Hanson, 1642 [Wing B4798; Madan II, 1136]— Husbands, October 23, 1644 [Wing E1913]—An Act of State Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of. The right honourable made by the Lords Justice and Councell of Ireland...for the the Lord Kimbolton his speech in Parliament, Ian. 3. 1641. discovery and prevention of the horrible Conspiracy and Plot Concerning the articles of high treason exhibited against of the Papists...Dublin: William Bladen ...and now re-printed him, Mr. Pym, Mr. Hambden, Mr. Hollis, Sir Arthur Haslerigge at London by Edward Husbands, Novemb. 23, 1643 [Wing knight, and Mr. Strowde... For John Thomas, 1641 [Wing I323]—An Ordinance or Declaration...for the encouragement M395]—and approximately 42 others, including further tracts of Adventurers to make new subscriptions for Townes, Cities, by Prynne, speeches by Digby, Nathanel Fiennes, Denzell and Lands in Ireland...John Wright, 1643 [Wing E2114]— Holles, John Pym (against Laud), Sir Thomas Roe and others; The Humble Petition of the Scottish, and many others the 4to, some contemporary ownership signatures, eighteenth- Inhabitants of the Province of Ulster...to the..Moderator, and century half calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 4), binding remnant Members of the Generall Assembly of Scotland very worn, some pamphlets cropped (1) convened at S. Andrews in July.1642. John Bartlett, 1642 [Wing H3578]—Mervyn, Sir Audeley. An Exact Relation of all £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 Such occurences as have happened in the severall Countries of Donegall, London-Derry, Tyrone, & Fermanagh...since the beginning of this horrid, bloody, and unparaleld Rebellion 63 there... For Thomas Downes and William Bladen, 1642 [Wing M1880A ]—A True Reltion of all the Proceedings in Ireland... for Joseph Hunsctott, 1642 [W1640]—Jones, Henry. A ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Remonstrance of Divers Remarkable Passages concerning the Collection of 22 works in one volume: Church and Kingdome of Ireland... for Godfrey Emerson and William Bladen, 1642 [Wing J943]—Harcourt, Daniel. A New A Briefe Discourse, concerning the Power of the Peeres, and Remonstrance from Ireland, containing an exact declaration Commons of Parliament... printed in the yeere, that Sea-Coale 63 63 of the cruelties, insolencies, outrages, and murders exercised was exceeding deare, 1640 [STC 22166]—[Prynne, William.] by the bloodthirsty, Popish rebels in that Kingdome upon A Full Vindication and Answer of the XI. Accused Members,... many hundred Protestants in the Province of Ulster...for 1647 [Wing P3968]—An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons 64 Henry Shephard, [1643] [Wing H692]—The Declaration of assembled...with instructions for the taking of the League the Knights, Gentry, and Trained Bands of the Couuty [sic] and Covenant...5. Feb. 1643... for E. Husbands, [1644] [Wing of Kent...to march against the Kings Army...and to rescue E2110]—Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of. The two last ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION The Moderate Intelligencer, A Diary, or an Exact Journal and His Majesty out of the Cavaleers hands...J. Banks, 1642 speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and The Diurnall; [Wing D698, ONLY FOUR COPIES RECORDED IN THE UK BY Deaputy of Ireland. The one in the Tower, the other on the Collection of serial publications and other works in ESTC]—Scotlands Alarme...Edinburgh, re-printed at London scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12. 1641. 1641, woodcuts [Wing two volumes: ii) Individual works: Happy Newes from Sherborn, and S5799], slightly cropped—Strafford’s Ghost. Complaining, of Sherborne Castle... For F. Cowles, Septem.13 1642 [Wing for Robert Bostock, 1643 [Wing S2015]—The Discovery of i) Serial Publications: Dvrnall Occurences: or the Heads of W57, ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC (British a late and bloody conspiracie at Edenburg, in Scotland...for the cruelties of his country-men, in killing one another...for G. Seversll proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, from the Library and Bodleian)]—An Extract of the Last and Truest John Thomas, 1641 [Wing D1637]; and other pamphlets in this Bishop, August 22, 1644, woodcut [Wing E84], cropped—The 20. of December to the 27 of the same. 1641. Wherein was Newes from divers part of this Kingdome, and other forraigne volume, relating to the Covenanters, the trial of Lord Strafford, Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech...preacht by himself on the read divers letters sent from Ireland...also what English and parts...from Holland, France, Westminster, Oxford, Lincolne, the Battle at Newbury, etc., and approximately 65 others, scaffold on Tower Hill, on Friday the 10. of Ianury, 1644...Peter Scottish Forces are speedily to be sent thither...For John Salisbury, Leicester, Norhtampton. and Nottingham. For similar, some from the earlier period just before the Civil War Cole, 1644, with the initial blank [Wing L599]—The Last Advice Thomas, 1641—Mundayes Message to the Parliament, City, Francis Leach and Francis Coles, 1642 [NOT FOUND IN WING (concerning Ship Money etc, at least one Cambridge imprint); of William Laud...for J.B., 1645 [Wing L468]—The Declaration and Kingdome...from Munday the 8. of Ianuary, to Munday the OR ESTC]—Newes out of the Low-Countries, sent in two 4to, some with contemporary signatures or annotations, late of the Protestant Army in the province of Mounster, under 15...For W.W. n.d.; Mundayes Message to the Parliament...from letters. First printed at Oxford for William Web, and since seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century half calf, marbled the Command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of 1. of Ianuary, to Munday the 7... For W.W., 1643—The Spie, reprinted in London, 1643 [NOT FOUND IN WING OR ESTC]— boards (spines numbered 5, 9, 10), some works cropped, Inchiquin. Printed at Corke: 1648 [UNRECORDED BY ESTC, communicating intelligence from Oxford. Number 5...[7, 13-15, Intelligence from Yorke: relating the unlavvfull proceedings stained or torn, bindings very worn (3) WING OR SWEENEY]—Charles I. His Majesties Proclamation 20,33,36], for I.F. [?1644] [see Nelson & Seccombe 609]— of the malignant party there: with some of their propositions. in Scotland: with an explanation of the meaning of the oath and Certaine Informations from severall parts of the Kingdome... for H. Blunden, 1642 [Wing I263, 3 COPIES ONLY RECORDED £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 covenant...Robert Young, 1639 [STC22001.5]; and 13 others, Numb. 9 [10,11,15,26, 30, 32,37] [Henry Overton, 1644] BY ESTC]; both small 4to, some with contemporary or near by Laud and others, including Wing F415, Declarations of the [see Nelson & Seccombe 36]; and many others, including contemporary annotations, later quarter calf, marbled boards Parliament of England, King’s Declarations (e.g. the causes Speciall passages and certain informations from severall (spines numbered 11, 16), bindings very worn and rubbed, some 62 moving him to dissolving Parliament in 1640), Ordinances (e.g. places... (?Humphrey Blunden, 1642 and 1643, and apparently pamphlets slightly cropped, soiled, or with occasional stains (2) for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops in England and counterfeit versions of the same), The True Informer, Speciall Wales, 1646, for the selling of the Bishops’ land in England and A RICH AND SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Passages..., The True and Perfect Dutch-Diurnall, of several Wales, 1646); 4to, later quarter calf, marbled boards (spine passages and proceedings..., The Faithful Post, communicating AND RESTORATION NEWSBOOKS, which inaugurated the numbered 14); some works stained or browned, binding worn Collection of approximately 47 works, chiefly printed the proceedings of the Armies in England, Scotland, and tradition of the weekly paper covering domestic news in (1) Britain. The first British newsbooks appeared in November in 1641 and 1642, in one volume: Ireland..., The Weekly Intelligencer of the Common-Wealth, A FINE TRACT VOLUME, INCLUDING THE LOST CORK FIRST The Loyal Intelligencer, The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer 1641 and the demand was so strong that over 300 differently- The Propositions of the Lords and Commons...for a safe and EDITION of The Declaration of the Protestant Army in the (many issues), The Compleate Intelligencer and Resolver, titled newsbooks were issued during the Civil War and well grounded peace. Sent to his Majestie at Newcastle, by the province of Mounster, previously known only by the Edinburgh The Moderate Publisher of Every daies Inteligence, The Commonwealth period, although many did not last beyond a ...Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery, for John Wright, 17 July reprint by Evan Tyler in the same year [Wing D755; Aldis 1322]. Kingdoms Intelligencer (a long run, 1662—1663, nos.1-54), few issues. 1646 [Wing E2209]—Prynne, William. A legall vindication of The Kingdomes Weekly Post, The Scots Army advancing. The the liberties of England, against illegall taxes and pretended £ 2,500-4,000 € 2,800-4,500 Weekly Account, The Perfect Weekly Account, The Moderate, £ 2,500-5,000 € 2,800-5,600 Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people... for Robert

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND LATER POLITICS ENGLISH CIVIL WAR ALCHEMY, SCIENCE, THE Collection of 40 works and pamphlets, about Charles Collection of 79 seventeenth-century pamphlets from COMMONWEALTH, ETC. I, Scottish claims to the throne, John Locke and other the period of the Civil War in one volume: Collection of 47 works, twelve published during the seventeenth-century affairs, in four volumes: Parsons, Ralph. Two famous battels fought in Ireland: Commonwealth, the others later, in four volumes: vvherein the Protestants under the command of the Earle The Kings cabinet opened: or, certain packets of secret Winstanley, Gerrard. The law of freedom in a platform: of Ormond, Sr. Charles Coote, and Sr. Simon Harcourt, slew letters & papers, written with the Kings own hand, and taken or, True magistracy restored. Humbly presented to Oliver great numbers of the rebels, routing them from one town in his cabinet at Nasby-Field, June 14. 1645. By victorious Sr. Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. to another, and tooke divers prisoners to their great joy and Thomas Fairfax...For Robert Bostock, 1645, without the initial And to all English-men my brethren whether in church- comfort... Whereunto is added, the brave adventures and blank or rare errata leaf at the end [Wing C2358], title very fellowship, or not in church-fellowship...J.M. for the Author, victorious exploits of Captain Thomas Steutevile, neere unto soiled, other leaves slightly torn—[Wolseley, Sir Charles.] 1652 [Wing W3045A, TWO COPIES ONLY OF THIS ISSUE the town of Drogheda in Ireland. For J Wright, 1642, woodcut Liberty of Conscience...printed in the year 1668 [Wing RECORDED BY ESTC]—Junius Anonymous. Alazono-Mastix: illustration on title [Wing P562], stained, title page slightly W3310]—[Ludlow, Sir Edmund.] Truth brought to light: or The Or The Character of a Cockney In A Satyricall Poem. R.I., defective—A true relation of the late Hurliburly at Kingston gross forgeries of Dr. Hollingworth, in his pamphlet intituled, 1652, in verse [Wing A838, ONLY THE BRITISH LIBRARY upon Thames, on Wednesday the 12 of Jauua. [sic]... printed The character of King Charles the First, from the declaration AND SENATE HOUSE COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC], slightly in the year 1642, woodcut illustration [Wing T2984]—June of Mr. Alexander Henderson, &c. detected... printed in the year cropped sometimes affecting headlines—P. (H.) Five Treatises 8th. 1642. A True Relation of the Proceedings of the Scots and 1693—[Burnet, Thomas.] Remarks upon an Essay concerning of the Philosophers Stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugal! English Forces in the North of Ireland... For F. Coules and T. 67 Humane Understanding: in a letter address’d to the author. For . . . One of John Sawtre a monke . . . Another written by Bates, 1642 [Wing P2224]—Newes from the Tower, France and M Wotton, 1697 [Wing B5944]; Second remarks upon An essay Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher . . . Also a treatise Purgatory. First, concerning the imprisonment of Sir Edward concerning humane understanding... M. Wotton, 1697 [Wing ... by William Gratacolle... Thomas Harper, 1652 [Wing 42900], Deering...imprinted in the yeare, 1642 [Wing N1022A, THREE B5946]; Third Remarks...for M. Wotton, 1699 [Wing B5955]— some leaves slightly torn and soiled—Lilly, William. Annus COPIES ONLY]—Davis, John. Certaine and good News from Gordon, John. Elizabethae Reginæ manes de religione et tenebrosus, or The dark year. Or astrologicall iudgements the West of Ireland, and City of Cork...concerning the taking regno ad Iacobum magnum...Thomas Man, 1604—Melville, upon two lunar eclipses, and one admirable eclips of the sun, and besieging of the Town of Dungarven, and the overthrow James. Ad serenissimum Jacobum Primum Britanniarum all visible in England, 1652. for the Company of Stationers and of many hundreds of the Irish Rebells...for F. Coules, 1642, monarcham, Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ libellus supplex,... J.R. for G. H. Blunden, 1652, woodcuts [Wing L2209], title page torn with woodcut illustration on title [Wing D419, FIVE COPIES ONLY]— Thomason and O. Pullen, 1645—Anglia liberata, or, The rights some loss at the top; An easie and familiar method whereby Cole, Robert. More good and true news from Ireland...likewise of the people of England, maintained against the pretences to iudge the effects depending on eclipses, either of the sun a new plot discovered against our kingdome by the Danes... of the Scotish King... T. Newcomb for Richard Lowns, 1651 or moon. For the company of Stationers and H. Blunden, for F. Coules, 1642 [Wing C5025, FIVE COPIES ONLY]—Joyfull [Wing A3178; Kress 1218]; and other seventeenth- and early 1652 [Wing L2219]—Sterry, Peter. England’s Deliverance Newes from Ireland...For John Franke, 1642, [Wing L2831]— eighteenth-century works; 8vo and 4to, quarter or full calf, from the Northern Presbytery... Leith: Evan Tyler, 1652 [Wing Horrible News from Yorke: Hull, and Newcastle...for Ioh some leaves torn or badly damaged, extremities very worn (4) S5479]; with six others published in 1652 in the same volume, Greensmeth. An. Coe, 1642 [Wing H2860, ONLY TWO COPIES, and 3 further volumes with eighteenth-century works and NO COPY IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY], badly stained—Porter, £ 1,200-1,800 € 1,350-2,050 tracts, some Jacobite, some relating to Orkney, the Scottish Robert. A True Relation of Prince Ruperts Barbarous Cruelty Peerage, the trial of Capt. John Porteous, the case of the against the towne of Birmingham, to which place on Monday Forfeited Estates in Scotland etc.; 8vo, late eighteenth- or early Apr. 3 1643. he marcht with 2000 horse and foot...For John 66 nineteenth-century quarter calf (spines numbered 2, 4, 12, 19), Wright, 1642 [Wing P2987A]—A Declaration of a strange and some works defective or torn, bindings worn, torn and partially Wonderfull Monster: born in Kirkham Parish in Lancashire... cracked (4) ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Jane Coe, 1646, woodcut illustration on title [Wing D602]—A spectacle, or councell of consequence; given by him that will Alazono-Mastix, the second work listed here, a vituperative Collection of 28 seventeenth-century pamphlets appeare as impartiall in his words, as the world has found verse satire of the Londoner or Cockney, appears to be from the period of the Civil War in one volume: EXTREMELY RARE, with only two institutional copies recorded. him in his waies, he continues a like to all, and the same to 68 We can find no record of a copy for sale at auction since the [Palmer, Herbert.] Scripture and Reason pleaded for the last... T. Paine, 1645, woodcut illustration of Death on title 1920s. Defensive Armes: or the whole controversie about subjects [Wing S4847, FOUR COPIES ONLY]—[Taylor, John.] The Devil taking up armes...John Bellamy and Ralph Smith, 1643 [Wing turn’d Round-Head...[1642], woodcut illustration on title [Wing The first work is the first edition of the best-known publication P244]—Some Speciall Arguments which warranted the T449]—[Bond, Edward.] Oneale and Colonell Brunslow, Chiefe of the radical author and Digger Gerrard Winstanley (c.1609- Scottish subjects lawfully to take up armes in defence of their of the Rebells in Ireland; their apprehension at Grohoyne in... 1676). religion and liberty... [1642] [Wing S4619], with contemporary Munster...also a description of the taking of a ship upon the annotations—Prynne, William. Romes Masterpiece: or, the coasts of Barbary... for Andrew Coe and Marmaduke Boat, £ 2,500-5,000 € 2,800-5,600 grand conspiracy of the Pope... for Michael Sparke, senior, 1642 [Wing B3558]—A diurnall of sea designes, which is 1644, second edition [Wing P4056]—Fern, H. The Resolving of as strange as true. Relating vvhat great preparations many Conscience...printed at Cambridge, and reprinted at London, mighty forraigne princes have now upon the ocean, no man 1642 [Wing F803]—Gregory XV, Pope. Behold! Two letters, knowing for what intent or purpose. For W.S., 1642 [Wing the one, written by the Pope to the (then) Prince of Wales, H154]—The Last warning to all the inhabitants of London. now King of England: the other, an answere to the said letter, [Richard Overton, 1646] [Wing L512], annotations; and 63 by the said Prince, now His Majesty of England... printed in the others, similar, nearly all from 1642, many recording battles or yeare of Discoveries 1642, engraved title page, text in double confrontations in Ireland, York, Hull, Durham and elsewhere, columns in English and French [Wing G1880]; and 23 others, also orders, declarations, remonstrances and speeches in including further works on the Divine Right of Kings, and parliament (including Rowse, Hollis, Wroth), propositions, works by or attributed to Prynne (The Popish Royall Favourite, resolutions, Proclamations, petitions, reports of funerals (e.g. 1643; The Aphorismes of the Kingdome, 1642); 4to, some Robert earl of Essex) and of strange apparitions, some Oxford with contemporary annotations or titles crossed through, imprints; 4to, contemporary manuscript annotations on front seventeenth-century calf (numbered 7 on the spine), some endpaper, late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century browning and staining, spine partially defective (1) mottled calf (spine numbered 3), some pamphlets stained, browned or torn (1) 68 £ 700-1,000 € 800-1,150 See catalogue note at SOTHEBYS.COM

£ 2,500-3,500 € 2,800-3,950 42 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 43 70 year 1688 [Wing D942B], lacking final leaf—[?Defoe, Daniel.] Reflections upon the late great revolution. Written by a lay- hand in the country, for the satisfaction of some neighbours. ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION For R. Chiswell, 1689 [Wing D844; Moore 6]—Whittel, John. Collection of 31 works in two volumes: An exact diary of the late expedition of His illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange, (now King of Great Britain) from his The Bill of Attainder, that passed against Thomas Earle of palace at the Hague, to his landing at Torbay; and from thence Strafford, for J.A. 1641 [Wing E2533]—Laud, William. A to his arrival at White-Hall. For Richard Baldwin, 1689 [Wing True copy of certain passages of the Lord Arch-Bishop of W2040A], final leaf laid down, some tears and repairs near Canterbury his speech spoken on the scaffold on Tower-Hill the end—Walker, George. A True Account of the Siege of immediately before his death Jan. 10 1644 [Wing L602]— London-Derry. For Robert Clavel and Ralph Simpson, 1689, [Waring, Robert.] A Publike Conference betwixt the Six initial licence leaf [Wing W352]; A Vindication of the True Presbyterian Ministers, and some independent Commander: Account of the Siege of Derry in Ireland. For Robert Clavel, held at Oxford, on Thursday Novemb. 12. 1646. Printed in the 1689 [Wing W354]—A true relation of the horrid conspiracy, Yeare, 1646, a satire [Madan, II, 1906; Wing W868]—Good against the life of the King. With an exact list of the prisoners English: Or, certain reasons pointing out the safest way of committed to the Tower, Newgate, Gate-house and the fleet; Settlement in this Kingdom... Printed in the year 1648 [Wing upon the account of the plot...sold by E. Whitlock [Wing G1043]—Nedham, Marchamont. The Case of the Common- T2968]; A Continuation of the History of the Plot... sold by E. wealth of England Stated...For E. Blackmore, and R. Lowndes, Whitlock, 1696 [Wing C5965A, NO COPY RECORDED IN THE [1650] [Wing N376]—Ward, Seth. Vindiciæ academiarum BRITISH LIBRARY]—A true history of the horrid conspiracy, containing, some briefe animadversions upon Mr Websters to assassinate His Sacred Majesty King William, to raise a book, stiled, The examination of academies. Together with rebellion, and to procure an invasion from France... for John an appendix concerning what M. Hobbs, and M. Dell have Salusbury, 1696 [Wing T2703A]—Strutton, Richard. A true published on this argument. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1654 relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French, upon the [Madan, III, 2251; Wing W832]—Your servant gentlemen, or English prisoners of war. Being a journal of their travels from VVhat think you of a query or two more?. Printed in the year Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence: and back again.. for 1659 [Wing Y202]—The Charge of High Treason, murders, Richard Baldwin, 1690 [Wing S6018]; and 6 others; 4to, early oppressions, and other crimes...against the Marquess of eighteenth-century quarter calf, red morocco label, marbled Argyle... For Richard Lowndes, 1661 [Wing C2056]—Evelyn, boards (spine numbered 17), some pamphlets soiled or slightly John. Fumifugium: or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and torn or stained, boards scuffed and worn, binding rubbed with Smoak of London dissipated...W. Godbid for Gabriel Bedel some slight worming (1) 71 and Thomas Collins, 1661 [Keynes 23; Wing E3488]—A True 70 and Faithful Account of the Several Informations Exhibited to £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament to Enquire into the Late Dreadful Burning of the City of London... 69 printed in the year 1667 [Wing T2470]—[Ferguson, Robert.] 72 73 The East-India Trade a most profitable trade to the kingdom... NEDHAM, MARCHAMONT [ED.] AND printed in the year 1677, manuscript notes inserted [Wing F736A]—Speeches and passages of this great and happy INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, ETC. THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OTHERS Parliament: from the third of November, 1640, to this instant Collection of 19 pamphlets in one volume: Collection of pamphlets and works relating to Mercurius Politicus. Comprising the sum of all June, 1641. For William Cooke, 1641 [Wing E2309], lacking final leaf, some contemporary annotations; and 19 others, England, Scotland and Ireland, in one volume: Intelligence, with the Affairs and Designs now on foot D’Auvergne, Edward. A Relation of the most remarkable including other works on the East India trade, The Privileges transactions of the last campaigne, in the Confederate army... in the three Nations of England, Ireland, & Scotland: A Parallel between O.P. and P.O. Printed in the year 1694, and Practice of Parliaments in England (1680, with engraved of the elector of Bavaria, in the Spanish Netherlands... for broadside, in verse, state with third line of verse 5 ending in defence of the Commonwealth, and for information frontispiece), trials; small 4to, second volume with early Dorman Newman, 1693 [Wing D300]—An impartial account “pay’d” [Wing P334A; ONLY ONE COPY RECORDED BY ownership signature on upper paste-down of Sir William of the people. T. Newcomb, 13th April 1654-27th of all the material transactions of the grand fleet and land ESTC, at Harvard]—[Hickes, George.] An apology for the September 1655 Forbes, contemporary calf (spines numbered 1 and 2), spine forces from their first setting out from Spithead, June the 29. new separation: in a letter to Dr. John Sharpe, Archbishop defective on one volume, bindings scuffed and very rubbed, till his Grace the Duke of Ormond’s arrival at Deal, November small 4to, a collection of 76 continuous issues (numbers 201- of York... printed in the year 1691 [Wing H1841; Kress 2912], some leaves torn, browned or stained, occasionally cropped (2) the 7th. 1702. In which is included a particular Relation of the 276), continuously paginated pp.3415-5644, contemporary some leaves torn—An Answer to a book, intituled, the state Expedition at Cadiz, and the Glorious Victory at Vigo... for R. blind-tooled calf (spine numbered 15), some leaves browned or of the Protestants in Ireland under the late King James’s £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 Gibson, 1703—R. V. A Letter from A Minister of State at Turin... stained (ink, oil), some leaves slightly torn or cropped (occasional government... printed in the year 1692, with folding plate (A List relating to the Expedition into Provence, and siege of Toulon... loss), binding worn and rubbed, spine slightly cracked (1) of Ships, that have been lost of damaged since the year 1688) done from a French copy transmitted from the Hague... John [Wing L1120]; and six others, (one incomplete and interleaved Mercurius Politicus ran from 6 June 1650 to 12 April 1660. 71 Morphew, 1707, second edition, ONLY 3 COPIES OF THIS with some early manuscript notes); 4to, contemporary mottled It was originally edited by Marchamont Nedham and John ISSUE RECORDED BY ESTC IN THE BRITISH ISLES (no copy calf, some leaves browned, binding scuffed and worn (1) Hall, then by Nedham alone, and finally by John Canne. John in the British Library)—Manley, Delariviere. The Conduct of The broadside comparison in verse of Oliver Cromwell and the Milton is thought to have been co-editor for some issues THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION his Grace the Duke of Ormonde, in the Compagne of 1712. Prince of Orange. There is another state of the poem, with a during this period. The issues in the present lot vividly record, For John Morphew, 1715—[Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath.] Collection of 17 pamphlets in one volume: different setting in the third line of verse 5 (British Library copy from the perspective of the Commonwealth regime, the A State of the National Debt, as it stood December the 24th, only). tumultuous events of the time, most strikingly the rising in [Ferguson, Robert.] An enquiry into, and detection of the 1716...for R. Francklin, 1727; and 14 others, including more on the Scottish Highlands which lasted from June to September barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex. Annon 1684 [Wing the national debt and forms of prayer; 4to, early eighteenth- 1654 (put down by General Monck) and the opening of the first F737]—Braddon, Laurence. Essex’s innocency and honour century quarter calf, marbled boards (spine numbered £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 Protectorate Parliament on 3/4 September, as well as events vindicated: or, Murther, subornation, perjury, and oppression, 30), some damp-staining and soiling and spotting, binding in Ireland and Europe. justly charg’d on the murtherers of that noble lord and true somewhat worn and rubbed (1) patriot. For the author, 1690, engraved plate [Wing B4101]— REFERENCES Dellon, Gabriel. The history of the Inquisition, as it is exercised £ 500-700 € 600-800 Nelson & Seccombe, British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1641- at Goa. Giving an account of the horrid cruelties which are 1700, 361 exercised therein...Translated into English. Printed in the

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44 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 45 and Colonial affairs of the period, including: A defence of the 76 Scots settlement at Darien. With an answer to the Spanish memorial against it. And arguments to prove that it is the interest of England to join with the Scots; and protect it. To MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS FROM THE which is added, a description of the country, and a particular ENGLISH CIVIL WAR TO AUGUSTAN account of the Scots colony. Edinburgh: 1699 [Wing F2047A]— POETRY Proposals for restoring credit; For Making the Bank of England More Useful and Profitable; For Relieving the sufferers of the Collection of 48 works in two volumes: South-Sea Company; for the Benefit of that of the East-India; And for Raising the Value of the land-interest of Great Britain... i) First volume: Nunc aut Nunquam, Peace Now or Never; Printed in the year 1721, [Goldsmiths 5954; Sabin, 88194]; and being a Dialogue betwixt Jack and Will...Thomas Snowden, others; 4to and 8vo, eighteenth-century quarter calf, marbled 1697 [Wing N1470, ONLY ONE COPY RECORDED BY ESTC, boards, red morocco label (spines numbered 366 and 122, at Yale]—[Ridpath, George.] A Dialogue betwixt Jack and the others unnumbered), two volumes incomplete and lacking Will...1697 [Wing R1461]—University of Oxford. Comitia habita upper covers some damp-staining, some pamphlets cropped or in universitate Oxoniensi Apr. 16. an. Dom. 1696. Oxford: e shaved, some soiling and spotting, some wear to binding (4) theatro Sheldoniano, 1696, broadside, folded [Wing O868]— [Winthrop, John.] A Short Story of the rise, reign, and ruin For the doomed Scottish attempt to establish a trading colony of the Antinomians, Familists & Libertines, that infected the at Darien in the Panamanian isthmus bordering Columbia, in Churches of New-England...For Ralph Smithe, 1644 [Wing which something between a quarter and a half of all Scotland’s W1269, SCARCE, a reissue of Wing W3094; Sabin, 104848]—A wealth at the time was sunk and lost, see lot 84. True Relation of Certaine special and remarkable passages from both Houses of Parliaments...the 15 of August till...the £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 Nineteenth 1642. Containing [Letters from Scotland...Of news from Ireland...] Francis Leach, 1642 [Wing T2901]—The True Relation of the Queenes Departure from Falmouth into the 75 Brest in the west of France. After whom our Lord Admirall sent all his Ships to overtake her... For Mathew Walbancke, 76 EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PUBLIC 1644 [Wing T3030]—A True & particular Relation, of the taking of Todos los Sanctos in Brasiel, by the Hollanders the 77 AFFAIRS 9. of May last, 1624...For Nathaniel Butter, Nicholas Bourne, and William Sheffard, 1624 [apparently part of a series of Collection of approximately 160 works in 17 volumes: newsbooks, cf STC 18507.174]; with another issue from the WITCHCRAFT AND OTHER SUBJECTS 74 A Few passages, shewing the sentiments of the Prince of same series—[Lilburne, John.] An Unhappy Game of Scotch Hesse, and General Hawley. Sold at the pamphlet shops, and English...Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1646 [Wing L2195]; and Collection of 22 late seventeenth- and early 1746—[Willison, John.] A letter from a parochial bishop to a 20 others, similar, including Humble Addresses, Papers of eighteenth-century tracts, in two volumes: the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland (Edinburgh 74 prelatical gentleman in Scotland, concerning the government [Bragge, Francis.] A Full and Impartial Account of the of the church. Edinburgh: printed for Mr. James M’Euen, imprint), tracts on the Oath of Allegiance, attacking the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft Practis’d by Jane 1714—[Ollyffe, John.] An essay towards a comprehension. “Fallacies of William Prynne”, etc.; Wenham... Also her Tryal at the Assizes at Hertford before THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION, THE UNION, Or, a perswasive to unity amongst protestants. Printed for ii) Second volume: The Honourable Chiftains [sic] of the Mr. Justice Powell, where she was found Guilty of Felony and Fletcher Gyles, 1714, second edition [ONLY TWO COPIES IN THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Highland-Clans, vindicated...re-printed at Edinburgh: James Witchcraft, and Received Sentence of Death for the Same, THE UK LISTED IN ESTC]—[Fénelon, François de Salignac Watson, 1713—[Pope, Alexander.] An Essay on Criticism. For March 4, 1711-12. For E. Curll, 1712, cropped—A Short Account Collection of pamphlets in four volumes: de La Mothe-] The man-hater unmasked, in a dialogue W. Lewis, 1711, with half-title but without advertisement leaf, of the Experience of Mrs. Anne Beaker, of Littleton... for the between Socrates, Alcibiades and Timon. By the Arch-bishop i) One volume: A True account of the Captivity of Thomas [Foxon P806; Griffith 2; Rothschild 1562], stained and browned; author, 1744—A True Narrative of the Sufferings and Relief of Cambray. Edinburgh: Mr. Robert Freebairn, 1714 [ONLY Phelps, at Machaness in Barbary... H. Hills, 1685 [Wing and 17 others, mostly early eighteenth-century tracts; both of a Young Girle strangely Molested, by Evil Spirits and their ONE COPY IN THE UK LISTED IN ESTC]—Haines, Henry. P1982]—[Fletcher, Andrew.] A Short and Impartial View of chiefly 4to, first volume in later quarter calf, marbled boards, Instruments, in the West...containing reflections on what is Treachery, baseness, and cruelty display’d to the full; in the the Manner and Occasion of the Scots Colony’s coming away the second volume in full calf (spines numbered 12 and 27), most material or curious; either in the History, or Trial of the Hardships and Sufferings of Mr. Henry Haines.Henry Haines, from Darien... printed in the year 1699 [Wing F1297]—A letter, bindings somewhat worn, some works stained or soiled (2) Seven Witches who were condemn’d to be Execute in that giving a description of the Isthmus of Darian: (where the in the King’s-Bench Prison, 1740—A letter from a minister Countrey. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1698, leaves badly torn The sixth listed item here is the contemporary account of Scot’s colonie is settled;) from a gentleman who lives there in the country, to one in the city. K——- 12th October, 1737. soiled and stained (with loss at the end)—Keimer, Samuel. A Queen Henrietta Maria’s final escape from the Parliamentary at present... Edinburgh: for John Mackie and James Wardlaw, [Edinburgh?], 1737 [ONLY TWO COPIES IN THE UK LISTED IN Brand pluck’d from the burning: exemplify’d in the unparallel’d army and navy as she sailed from Falmouth on 14 July 1642 1699, with the folding engraved map [Wing L1549, ONLY ESTC]—Lowe, Joseph. An inquiry into the state of the British case of Samuel Keimer, Offer’d to the Perusal of the Serious accompanied by her courtier Henry Jermyn, one lady, a THREE COPIES IN UK RECORDED BY ESTC]—[Pomfret, West Indies. Fourth edition. C. & R. Baldwin, 1808, authorial Part of Mankind...W. Boreham, 1718—and 18 others, relating physician, her dwarf and her dog. The final item listed is the John.] The Choice, or wish; a poem. Edinburgh, 1701, thistle inscription on half-title—[Cowper, William, Earl.] A letter to to taxes, Scotland, riots, Liberties of England, religious first edition of Pope’s first separate publication, issued just ornament on title page [Foxon P723]—Marvell, Andrew, and Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; occasion’d by the letter to the examiner. controversies, some Edinburgh imprints, some annotations before his twenty-third birthday, containing some of the most others. Collection of Poems on Affairs of state; viz. Advice to 1710; and many others, including letters and accounts of or ownership signatures; 8vo or 12mo, contemporary quarter well-known lines in the English language, including “To err, is a Painter...by A— M— Esq; and other Eminent Wits. Printed Scottish settlement at Darien, John Law, the White Staff, the calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 285, 288), some wear human, to forgive divine”, “Fools rush in where angels fear to in the Year, 1689 [Wing C5176]; Third Part of the Collection South-Sea Company, the French East-India-Company, Charles, to bindings (2) tread”, and “A little learning is a dangerous thing”. of Poems on Affairs of State. Containing Esquire Marvel’s Prince of Wales, Eustace Budgell, Robert Earl of Oxford, the Jane Wenham (d.1730) was the last person convicted of further Instructions to a Painter. And the late Lord Rochester’s captivity of Henry Grace, the confinement and execution £ 2,500-4,000 € 2,800-4,500 witchcraft in England. Her case was heard on 4 March 1712, Farewel. Printed in the Year 1689, FIRST EDITION [Wing T913, of Laurence Earl Ferrers, The Barrier-Treaty, the murder of and villagers described how she had bewitched them, their Pforzheimer 670; Case 188]; and others, including verse Captain John Porteus; 4to or 8vo, eighteenth century quarter children and even local livestock, and how potions prepared (including collections of poems and songs against Popery), calf, marbled boards, bindings worn, some staining and from corpses had been found under her pillow. The only some relating to Protestants in France, the proceedings of the browning, scattered pen notes in some volumes (17) indictment the assize lawyers would accept, however, was Scottish parliament; See fuller list on Sothebys.com. that she had conversed with the devil in the form of a cat ii) Three other volumes, with similar pamphlets printed in and although this was enough to secure a guilty verdict the London and Edinburgh relating to British, Scottish, European £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 sceptical trial judge, Sir John Powell, ordered a reprieve and later secured Wenham a royal pardon.

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46 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 47 78 and mischief, of drunkenness and excess of of drinking...J. Elkanah Settle was London’s “city poet” from 1691. The annual Oswald, 1743—The rules and constitutions, for governing pageant for the lord mayor’s show included in this lot (for 29 and manageing the —— Maiden-Hospital. Edinburgh, 1702 October of that year) was probably the first he organised. THE UNION, TRADE, AND OTHER [Hanson 251; FOUR COPIES ONLY IN UK RECORDED BY The notorious murder of Margaret Hall recorded in the first SUBJECTS ESTC], slightly cropped and soiled—Scott, Robert. A Sermon pamphlet in this volume was commemorated in a monument upon the occasion of the late Dreadful Fire, which happened (“Muschet’s Cairn”) which gained fame through its inclusion in Collection of c.150 works in 11 volumes: at Edinburgh the third of February, 1700. Edinburgh: James Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian. Boswell’s rare poem i) One volume of 30 tracts on the Union including: Watson, 1701, slightly cropped; with many others, including The Cub, at New-Market celebrates his first visit to London in [Bannatyne, John.] Some queries proposed to consideration, other religious and political pamphlets, a few non-religious 1760. relative to the Union now intended. [Edinburgh, 1706]—[Lords works (e.g. on linen manufacture in Scotland), and the Book Commissioners for the Union.] Articles of Union. [?Edinburgh, of Common Prayer (Oxford: 1772, family presentation copy £ 2,500-3,500 € 2,800-3,950 1707]—[Clark, Sir John.] A letter to a friend, giving an inscribed to William Forbes “from his affectionate father on his account of how the Treaty of Union has been received here. going to France. 25 Sept. 1787”) and Bible; cheifly 4to and 8vo, Edinburgh, 1606—[Abercromby, Patrick.] The advantages of mostly eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf 81 the act of security. [?Edinburgh], 1706—[Defoe, Daniel.] An with marbled boards, some in full calf (spines numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 (2), 5, 6, 21, 51, 53, 54, 222, 240, 270, 271, 299, 325, 328, essay, at removing national prejudices... Part III. [?Edinburgh], SCOTLAND 1706]; The state of the excise after the Union. [?Edinburgh], 336, 340, 355, 356, 357, 370, 371, the others unnumbered) 1706—Some reasons humbly offered why the English oath of (29) Collection of 29 pamphlets chiefly relating to the abjuration should not be imposed upon the subjects of North- Union with England and the Darien Scheme, in one Britain. [Edinburgh, c. 1706], 8pp., [not found in ESTC]—The £ 500-700 € 600-800 volume: petition of the several brewars in and about Edinburgh under subscribing. [Edinburgh, 1725]—An answer of a letter from a Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of. A Vindication of Robert gentleman in Fife... witchcraft... [Edinburgh], 1705—[Defoe, 80 III. King of Scotland, from the imputations of Bastardy... Daniel.] A voice from the south. [Edinburgh, 1707]; The vision, Printed in the year 1701 [apparently a reprint of Wing C7027, 80 a poem. [Edinburgh, 1706]—[Pennecuik, Alexander.] Groans POPE, ALEXANDER, AND OTHERS not found in ESTC]—Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount of. from the grave. [Edinburgh, 1725]; and 18 others; An apology for Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, President of ii) One volume of 4 tracts on military history including: Collection of 22 seventeenth- and eighteenth-century the Session, by himself. [Edinburgh: 1690] [Wing S5174]— Donneau de Visé, Jean. A diary of the siege of Luxembourg pamphlets, mostly literary, in one volume: [Kirkwood, James.] An Overture for Founding & Maintaining by the French king’s forces. J.G. for D. Brown, 1684, folding of Bibliothecks in every Paroch throughout this Kingdom... engraved plate; The Last Speech and Confession of Nicol Muschet of [Edinburgh:] Printed in the Year 1699 [Wing K648, ONLY iii) One volume of 5 works relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; Boghal, who was execute in the Grass Market of Edinburgh... FOUR COPIES RECORDED IN ESTC]— A Letter, giving a iv) Four volumes of 36 tracts mostly on trade, but including: Edinburgh: John Reid, [?1721], ONLY TWO UK COPIES description of the Isthmus of Darian: (where the Scot’s Colonie Grierson, George Hamilton. A Prophecy ... on the Blazing Star. RECORDED BY ESTC, darkened and slightly torn—S[ettle], is settled...Edinburgh: for John Mackie and James Wardlaw, for the author, 1743-4 [NOT IN ESTC]—The Courtier’s Book E[lkanah.] The Triumphs of London performed on Thursday, 1699 [Wing L1549, ONLY TRHEE COPIES RECORDED IN of Common-Prayer. for T. Davis, [1745?] [ONLY ONE COPY Octob. 29. 1691. for the entertainment of the...Lord Mayor of BRITAIN], WITH FOLDING ENGRAVED MAP OF THE ISTHMUS LISTED IN ESTC]—Penkethman, John. Authentic Accounts of the city of London· Containing a true description of the several OF DARIAN IN AMERICA AND BAY OF PANAMA—[Fletcher, the History and Price of Wheat, Bread, Malt, &c. for R. Davis, pageants...All set forth at the proper costs and charges of the Andrew.] A Short and Impartial View of the Manner and 1765, engraved frontispiece and folding plate; worshipful Company of Drapers. Alex. Milbourn for Abel Roper, Occasion of the Scots Colony’s coming away from Darien... v) Three volumes with 34 miscellaneous tracts including: 1691 [Wing S2725], some slight damp-staining, some tears and [Edinburgh:] 1699—B[lackwell], I[saac]. A Description of the Sentiments Relating to the Late Negotiation. R. Griffiths, 1761, browning—Drummond, William. Polemo-middinia... Oxford, Province and Bay of Darian...being vastly rich with gold and half-title, and other tracts relating to the Seven Years’ War 1691 [Wing D2204], in verse, text in English and Latin, with final silver... Edinburgh: 1699 [Wing B3091]—[?Defoe, Daniel.] and international trade, another volume including Account blank—Milton, John. Paraphrasis Latina, in duo poemata...Two The Advantages of Scotland by an Incorporate Union with of the Ceremonies Observed in the Coronations of the Kings poems..., (the one whereof was penn’d by Milton, and the other England... [?Edinburgh:], 1706 [Moore 134, Goldsmiths 4274; and Queens of England. for G. Kearsly, 1760, two plates (one by Clieveland...to which is added a Latin paraphrase on both, Kress 2500], some leaves scorched—[Ridpath, George.] The folding) and numerous woodcut vignettes—Flora’s Address to which was penn’d by W[illiam]. H[ogg.] Printed for the author, reducing of Scotland by arms. And annexing it to England, His Majesty, on an Interesting and popular Subject. M. Thrush, 1694, simultaneous English and Latin text [Wing M2157], as a province, considered. London: [?1705] [Kress 2474; [1761] [NOT IN ESTC]; leaves soiled—Colluthus, of Lycopolis. The Rape of Helen... Hanson, 471]; and 20 others, including several more relating vi) One volume with c.43 titles, mostly petitions and for J.Roberts, 1731, verse, title in red and black, engraved to the Union and other Scottish affairs (chiefly with Edinburgh addresses to the Court of Sessions in Edinburgh, 1760s; 4to frontispiece [Foxon R118, ESTC RECORDS ONLY THREE imprints); chiefly 4to, some early manuscript notes, early and 8vo, various 18th century bindings, lettering pieces (spines COPIES IN THE UK]—[Brown, John.] An Essay on Satire: eighteenth-century quarter calf (spine numbered 31), some 80 numbered 19, 32, 35-7, 39-41, 43, the others unnumbered) (11) occasion’d by the Death of Mr. Pope. For R. Dodsley, 1745 pamphlets slightly cropped, soiled or stained, binding slightly [Foxon B502]—Pope, Alexander. The Impertinent: or, a visit to A rich collection of tracts including four pamphlets by Daniel bumped and rubbed (1) the court. A Satyr. For E. Hill, 1737, third edition [Foxon P901, Defoe on the Union and three works not listed in the ESTC. The Darien Scheme was an unsuccessful attempt by Scotland, possibly a piracy]—The City Struggle. A Satire. T. Robins, in the decade before the Act of Union, to become a world 1740 [NOT FOUND IN ESTC]—Funidos, Rigdum. Kitty’s £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 trading nation by establishing a colony called “Caledonia” on Stream...A Comic Satire. 1759 [TWO COPIES ONLY IN THE the Isthmus of Panama on the Gulf of Darien. William Paterson UK RECORDED BY ESTC], partially disbound—Serle, John. sailed out to the colony with five ships and 1300 settlers in A plan of Mr. Pope’s garden... with a plan and perspective 1698, but within two years, beset by hostile Spanish colonies, 79 view of the grotto... With an account of all the gems, minerals, the challenges of the climate and insect-borne diseases, the spars, and ores of which it is composed... for R. Dodsley, 1745, enterprise failed on a catastrophic scale. The death rate for the three engraved plates (one folding), verses by several authors, RELIGION AND THEOLOGY settlers was above 70% and thousands of Scottish investors slightly soiled at fore-edge—Garrick, David. The farmer’s were ruined. A legacy of the scheme was its role in promoting Large collection of over 180 chiefly eighteenth- return from London. An interlude... Dryden Leach, 1741, the Union between Scotland and England in 1707. century pamphlets and works, mostly printed in engraved frontispiece by Hogarth—[Boswell, James.] The Cub, at New-market. R. and J. Dodsley, 1762, in narrative verse London and Edinburgh, in 29 volumes: £ 2,500-3,500 € 2,800-3,950 [ESTC RECORDS ONLY 5 COPIES], a few tiny holes towards Milton, John. Considerations touching the likeliest means end; and 12 others, including satires; chiefly 4to, eighteenth- to remove hirelings out of the church. Edinburgh, 1736, new century quarter calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 42), edition, ONLY TWO COPIES IN THE UK COPIES RECORDED BY slight tear to binding on spine, slightly worn and rubbed (1) 81 ESTC—Notcutt, W. A True representation of the sin, danger

48 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 49 82 of Great Britain, with regard to the Negociations and other Transactions abroad. Edinburgh: Mr. Baskett and company, 1729 —The true state of England. Containing the particular DRAMA, EXPLORATION, SCOTTISH duty, business and salary of every officer, civil and military AFFAIRS, POLITICS AND OTHER In All the Publick Offices of Great Britain...For C. King and J. SUBJECTS Stagg, 1729; and 9 others; chiefly 8vo, eighteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 39), slight Collection of 41 tracts in six volumes: wormhole to spine, binding slightly rubbed and worn (1)

[Gay, John.] Acis and Galatea, a Serenata ... formerly £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 composed by Mr Handel. T. Wood, 1732, THREE COPIES ONLY RECORDED IN ESTC (NOT IN BL)—Holwell, J.Z. A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, 86 and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole ... at Calcutta. for A. Millar, 1758—Peter Williamson. The Travels ... Among the different Nations and Tribes of Savage Indians in PHILOSEMITIC WORKS America ... in three parts. Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1768, three engraved plates—[Smollett, Tobias.] The Reprisal: Or the Tars Five works in one volume: of Old England. Paul Vailant, 1757, FOUR COPIES RECORDED [Toland, John.] Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great ON ESTC (NOT IN BL)—[Blair, Hugh.] Heads of the Lectures Britain and Ireland...containing also, a defence of the Jews on Rhetorick and Belles Lettres, In the University of Edinburgh, against all vulgar prejudices in all countries. For J. Roberts, 1767. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell, [1767], THREE COPIES 1714— Cantabrigiensis, Theophanes. The Ancient History of 82 IN ESTC—Barker, Robert. The Unfortunate Shipwright: or the Hebrews Vindicated... Cambridge: for W. Thurlbourn, W. Cruel Captain, being A faithful Narrative of the unparallel’d Innys and J. Beecroft, 1741—Ben Israel, Rabbi Manasseh. Sufferings of Robert Barker...in a Voyage to the Coast of Vindiciae Judaeorum: or, a letter in answer to certain questions Guinea and Antigua. by Larkin How for the Benefit of the 84 propounded by a noble and learned gentleman, touching Sufferer, 1762, woodcut frontispiece and endpiece—Goldini, the reproaches cast on the nation of the Jews. W. Bickerton, Carlo. The Coquet. A Musical Entertainment ... Translated EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PUBLIC 1743—Lardner, Nathaniel. The Circumstances of the Jewish from the Italian...By Stephen Storace. C.D. Piguenit, 1771—The People...1743; and one other; 8vo, eighteenth-century quarter Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, or the Republican AFFAIRS 86 calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 59), some staining, Unmasq’d. 1704, fourth edition with additions—The Massacre Collection of 78 works in nine volumes: some wear to binding (1) of Glenco. B. Bragg, 1703; and 32 others on a wide range of subjects including current affairs from 1700s-1740s, plays, and i) Two volumes mostly comprising tracts on 15 on the royal 85 £ 300-500 € 350-600 theology; 5 volumes 8vo and one volume (containing 10 tracts) succession and Jacobitism including: [Defoe, Daniel.] And 4to, contemporary contents list at the front of each volume, What if the Pretender should come? J. Baker, 1713; Reasons DEFOE, DANIEL, AND OTHERS 18th century calf-backed marbled boards with lettering pieces against the succession of the House of Hanover. J. Baker, 87 (spines faintly numbered 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, the other unnumbered), 1713; An Essay Towards the History of the Last Ministry and Collection of 19 pamphlets relating to the American bindings worn, some staining and occasional spotting (6) Paliament. J. Baker, 1710—A Full Answer to the Depositions ... Colonies, the Hanoverian succession, trade, coinage Concerning the Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales. n.p., SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND HEALTH ETC. £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 1711, folding plate of St James’s Palace; and 21 others; and other British and European affairs, in one ii) One volume of tracts on Quakerism, mostly dating from volume: Collection of 17 works in three volumes: 1707-8, including: The High-Priest of Beaven, Thomas. [Defoe, Daniel.] Atalantis Major. [Edinburgh:] Printed in Cornaro, Lewis. Sure and Certain Methods of attaining a 83 Melksham. J. Sowle, 1707—Fox, Bohun. Thomas Beaven’s Olreeky, the chief city of the north part of Atalantis Major. Long and Healthful Life... D. Midwinter, 1737, third edition— Vindication of his Second Thoughts Relating to the Quakers. Anno mundi, 1711 [1710] [Moore 196], cut close at top margin, [Cohausen, Johann Heinrich.] Hermippus Redivus: or, the for John Wyat ... and sold at R. Warne’s in Chippenham, 1707, Sage’s Triumph over Old Age and the Grave... J. Nourse, 1748— SLAVE TRADE AND EIGHTEENTH- some staining; Reasons against the succession of the House with initial advertisement leaf—[Bugg, Francis.] News from of Hanover, with an enquiry how far the abdication of King Pringle, John. Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital CENTURY BRITISH AND EUROPEAN Pensilvania. n.p., 1703; and 5 others; James, supposing it to be legal, ought to affect the person and Jayl-fevers... For A. Millar and D. Wilson, 1750—Doddridge, iii) One volume on miscellaneous public affairs of the 1710s of the Pretender. For J. Baker, 1713, variant with signature P. The case of receiving the Small-Pox by Inoculation...James HISTORY such as the Test Acts and the War of Spanish Succession C reset [Moore 248], title page slightly torn; [?Defoe, Buckland and James Waugh, 1750—Thomson, Thomas. The including: An Account of the Earl of Galway’s Conduct in Spain Collection of nine works in one volume: Daniel.] Some account of the two nights court at Greenwich. Case of...Thomas Winnington, Esq... T. Gardner, 1745 [with and Portugal. J. Baker, 1711—[Defoe, Daniel.] The Secret Wherein may be seen the reason, rise and progress of the replies and further tracts on this case]—Watson, William. Some remarks on a pamphlet, call’d, Reflections, on the History of the October Club. n.p., 1711, half-title; A Sharp late unnatural Rebellion...for J. Baker, 1716—An argument Experiments and Observations tending to illustrate the nature constitution and management of the trade to Africa. printed Rebuke From one of the People called Quakers to Henry against banishment: or the meeting of dissaffected [sic] and properties of Electricity... For C. Davis, 1746—Jurin, James. in the year, 1709 [Kress 4557]; and 8 others relating to the Sacheverell. S. Keimer, 1715; and ten others; persons abroad dangerous to a government. J. Baker, 1713, A Letter...containing, a comparison between the mortality of the Bank of England, Non-conformity, the British Constitution, iv) Three volumes of 22 tracts on the toleration of Episcopacy [on the Duke of Marlborough’s self-imposed exile, 1712-13], Natural Small Pox, and that given by Inoculation. For W. and J. the Treaty of Utrecht etc.; 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, in Scotland, 1700s; final leaf soiled—[Burnet, Gilbert.] The revolution and the Innys, 1723; An Account of the Success of inoculating the Small- marbled boards, some leaves soiled, binding worn, upper joint v) One volume of 6 tracts on Roman Catholic affairs including present establishment vindicated. In a memorial drawn by Pox...for J. Peele, 1726; with a revised edition, 1727, and another partially cracked (1) the case of Catherine Cadiére, 1730s; King William’s special direction; intended to be given in at the edition, 1743; and others, including works on agriculture; 12mo of 4 tracts on public affairs of the 1730s, The listed work is a reply to Charles Davenant’s Reflections vi) One volume Treaty of Reswick...for R. Burleigh, 1715—[Clement, Simon.] and 8vo, eighteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards upon the constitution and management of the trade to Africa notably the Sinking Fund; all 8vo, contemporary bindings (four Remarks upon a late ingenious pamphlet, entituled, A short (spines numbered 61, 81, 298), bindings worn, bumped and (1709), which had advocated renewing the Royal African in panelled calf, three in full calf, one with marbled boards, one but thorough search into what may be the real cause of the scuffed, staining to some leaves (3) with papered boards), three with lettering pieces (numbered Company’s monopoly on the slave trade on the basis that the present scarcity of our silver coin, &c... for S. Baker, 1718 The physician and natural philosopher James Jurin (1684— on spine 14, 17, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 39, the others unnumbered), Dutch competition “necessitated the maintenance of forts, [Kress 5451]—Some considerations on the consequences of 1750) was an ardent Newtonian whose forceful advocacy of one volume lacking upper cover, one volume splitting at spine, which only a joint-stock company could afford.” the French settling colonies on the Mississippi, With respect to smallpox inoculation using an innovative statistical approach bindings worn, occasional nicks, tears, and staining (9) the Trade and Safety of the English Plantations in America and brought him widespread recognition both in Britain and abroad £ 300-500 € 350-600 A RICH COLLECTION OF TRACTS FROM ENGLAND AND the West-Indies. For J. Roberts, 1720, with engraved folding (see Oxford DNB). The pamphlets he published from 1723 SCOTLAND IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 18TH CENTURY map [Kress 3305; Sabin, 86620]— Letters and memorials onwards included in this lot are acknowledged “as central to INCLUDING FOUR TITLES BY DANIEL DEFOE. which have lately passed between the ministers of the courts the establishment of smallpox inoculation in England.” (op.cit.) of Great-Britain, France, and Spain. Sam. Buckley, 1727 [Sabin £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 40576; Goldsmiths 6503]—Observations on the Conduct £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350

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EARLY AND MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MISCELLANIES A very large quantity of works and pamphlets in 91 volumes: A full and impartial account of the Company of Mississipi, otherwise call’d the French East-India-Company, projected and settled by Mr. Law ... To which are added, A Description of the Country of Mississipi, and a Relation of the first Discovery of it... R. Francklin, 1720, text in English and French, errata leaf at the beginning [Goldsmiths 5713; Sabin 26144]—Tailfer, Patrick, and others. A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America....Charles-Town, South Carolina [but London]: for P. Timothy, [1741] [Sabin 94217]—The Earl of Torrington’s Speech to the House of Commons, in November, 1690… 1710, engraved plates of the Battle of Beachy Head— Reasons for giving up Gibraltar... for W. Webb, 1749, folding map; and many hundreds of others, subjects including the South-Sea Bubble, duels in France, the Ecclesiastical Commissions, the Jacobite Rebellion and related (including the Bill for the removal of heritable jurisdictions of Scotland, 1746, tracts on Feudal Survivals), other Affairs of Scotland, European affairs (e.g. at Hanover, the effect of Spanish actions on British trade and navigation, the war in Prussia) and of treaties (e.g. the Treaty of Seville, 1729), Spanish, French and Hebrew grammars, the role and funding of standing armies and the 91 English navy, manufacturing (e.g. Woollen manufacture in Ireland), excise duties etc., Proceedings and Speeches of the on transmutation and the incalescence of mercury with Commons, Addresses to Electors, serials (e.g. The Political 90 gold, reflecting his contact with a shadowy circle of French State), anti-Papist tracts, accounts of trials, some works of alchemists centred around Georges Pierre who claimed to topography (e.g. on Corsica, 1739, with map; also on Norfolk, ALCHEMY, SCIENCE, ICE-AGE THEORY, have witnessed alchemical processes. Martel’s Account of the Suffolk, Constantinople), proposals for works in Edinburgh 88 Glacieres...in Savoy is a scarce early work on glaciers WHICH and elsewhere (some Edinburgh imprints, sometimes with THE AMERICAN COLONIES, AND POETRY FIRST GAVE RISE TO THE THEORY OF THE ICE AGE. Pierre engraved plates), works of science and medicine (e.g. Collection of nineteen eighteenth-century works in Martel (1706-1767) was a Swiss engineer and geographer, who on human anatomy, the beneficial effects of spa waters, one volume: visited the valley of Chamonix in the Alps of Savoy in 1742, treatments for cancer), treatises on education, husbandry, inspired by an earlier visit by William Windham (the English aesthetics and some plays; chiefly 8vo, eighteenth or early Hide, Ralph. A Short Discourse...for the advancement...of Gentleman in the title). Martel reported that the inhabitants nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines Woollen Manufactures...1660 [not found in Wing or ESTC]— of the valley attributed the erratic dispersal of boulders to the numbered between 5 and 388, not inclusively), bindings Reasons for establishing the Colony of Georgia...W. Meadows, fact that the glaciers had previously extended much further, sometimes very worn or even defective, some leaves soiled or [Haweis, Thomas.] Ruth. A Sacred Oratorio. The Third Edition. 1733, engraved frontispiece, map—Middleton, Conyers. A thus giving rise to ice age theory. torn (91) For the benefit of the Lock-Hospital, 1773—Jennens, Charles. Dissertation concerning the origin of Printing in England... Messiah: an Oratorio...set to Music by Mr. Handel. For the The first work listed here, sometimes attributed to Daniel Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn, 1735—Boyle, Robert. An Historical administrator of J. Watts, [?1767]—[Barron, William.] History £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 Defoe, is an early account of the Scottish adventurer and Account of a degradation of Gold, made by an anti-elixir: a of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity, applied to economist John Law’s currency manipulation at Paris and of strange chymical narrative...the second edition. R. Montagu, the present contest between Great Britain and her American the founding of the Mississippi Company, the vehicle of the 1739 [Fulton 137, RARE, only four copies recorded]—A Poem Colonies. For T. Cadell, 1777 [Adams 77-18a]—A Description 91 speculative frenzy which became the notorious ‘Mississippi to the Memory of Mr. Hugh Murray-Kynnynmound...Edinburgh: of Killarney. for J. Dodsley, 1776, engravings—Stewart, Bubble’. T.W. and T. Ruddimans, 1742—Martel, Peter. An Account of Captain Robert. Narrative of a transaction which passed in the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy, in Two Letters, One from Bengal in 1782-3, between James Fraser and...the executors LATITUDE AT SEA, AND OTHER SUBJECTS £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 an English Gentleman to his Friend at Geneva; the Other of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hannay. [London]: 1787; with from Peter Martel, Engineer, to the said English Gentleman... Collection of 12 works in one volume: answers and related works—Jemmat, Catherine. Miscellanies for Peter Martel, 1744, two folding engraved plates; and 13 Hadley, George. A description of a new instrument... for taking in Prose and Verse...for the author, 1766—Williams, Anna. others, including Memoirs of William Pulteney, various editions 89 the latitude or other altitudes at sea. With directions for its Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. For T. Davies, 1766; with of Dr Bentley’s Proposals, Accounts of the Roman Senate, use. T.Wood, 1734, folding engraved frontispiece; and others, numerous others, including poetical pamphlets, Letters, works further poetical pamphlets (some printed in Edinburgh), including some on trade and revenue, and Henley’s English on the Popish Plot, the trial of Robert Earl of Essex, the trial the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1749); 4to, late eighteenth- or LITERATURE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS grammar (1726), cropped; 8vo, eighteenth-century quarter of Capt. John Porteus, and Land Inventories, and one volume early nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spine calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 294), some leaves Collection of approximately 46 seventeenth- and of Miscellaneous State Papers; chiefly 4to, some pamphlets numbered 33), some staining to some works, upper joint stained or browned, binding slightly worn (1) eighteenth-century works in six volumes: with the ownership signature of Sir William Forbes, various cracked, binding worn (1) bindings, chiefly late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century In 1730 The mathematician and natural philosopher John [Nicholls, Thomas.] Shenstone; or, the force of benevolence. Robert Boyle’s Historical Account of a degradation of Gold was quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 6, 44, 48, the Hadley (1682—1744) invented the quadrant - completely A poem. For the author, 1776—[Tait, John.] Poetical Legends: first published in 1678. The reasons behind the publication others unnumbered), bindings worn (6) independently of Thomas Godfrey of Philadelphia who also containing the American Captive, and the Fatal Feud... John of the rare second edition (present here) 61 years later, are claimed the invention - for measuring the altitude of the Sun or Davidson, 1776, without the two final advertisement leaves Sir Eldred of the Bower was Hannah More’s first published not clear. This second edition, of which only around seven a star above the horizon to find geographic position at sea. [Adams 76-151; Sabin 63647]—More, Hannah. Sir Eldred work of poetry. copies are thought to be recorded in total, is extremely rare of the Bower, and the Bleeding Rock. For T. Cadell, 1776— at auction, with only two copies recorded on ABPC. It was £ 600-800 € 700-900 £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 one of a number of works Boyle published around 1676-78

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TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS Collection of works in three volumes: The Beauties of Stow...with above thirty plates...by Geo: Bickham. [1753]—An Historical Description of Westminster- Abbey. J. Newberry, 1767—A Description of...Melrose. Edinburgh: Alex McCaslan for John Martin, 1769—Hamilton, Sir William. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos. T. Cadell, 1773, plates, second edition— Douglas, Francis. A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland... Paisley, for the author, 1782; and others, on cement, India, etc., one work by Joseph Priestley; 8vo or 12mo, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 225, 311, 330), bindings somewhat worn (3)

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93 93 94 AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER TOPICS, 1770s-80s Collection of 24 tracts in two volumes: 94 92 93 Tod, Thomas. Observations on American Independency. [Edinburgh: 1778]—[Macpherson, James.] A short history of MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PUBLIC SLAVE TRADE—[POSTLETHWAYT, MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN the opposition during the last session of Parliament. Printed for AFFAIRS AND OTHER SUBJECTS T. Cadell, 1779—A letter upon the distillery, to the framers of AFFAIRS MALACHY] the Perth-shire resolutions. [Perth: 1784?]—Maclean, Robert. Collection of approximately 138 works and pamphlets The national and private advantages of the African Collection of over 100 eighteenth-century works in 13 A syllabus, or, heads of a course of experimental lectures, on the following branches of natural philosophy. Edinburgh: in 17 volumes: trade considered: being an enquiry, how far it volumes: 1782 [ONLY ONE COPY LISTED IN ESTC]—A Guide to Stage [Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles.] Plain Thoughts in plain concerns the trading interest of Great Britain, The Fisheries Revived...for J. Robinson, 1750, folding engraved Coaches, Diligences, Waggons, Carts, Coasting Vessels, language. A New Ballad. For W. Webb, 1743 [Foxon W501]— effectually to support and maintain the forts and plate—An Account of the Expedition to Carthagena… M. Barges and Boat, which carry passengers and merchandise [Dudgeon, William.] Some Reflections on a late pamphlet, settlements in Africa; belonging to the Royal African Cooper, 1743—The Importance and Advantage of Cape from London to the different towns in Great Britain. Printed called the State of the Moral World Considered. Edinburgh, Company of England... For John and Paul Knapton, Breton…For John and Paul Knapton, 1746, with engraved for T. Lowndes, 1782 [SEEMINGLY UNIQUE; NOT LISTED IN maps—Pepperrell, William, Sir. An accurate Journal and 1732—Pasquin and Marforio on the peace: being a discussion, 1746 ESTC]—Melancthon. Four Letters on the Popish Bill intended by these celebrated statues at Rome, of the general conduct Account of the Proceedings of the New-England Land-Forces, for Scotland. Edinburgh: 1780 [ONLY ONE COPY LISTED IN of England, but particularly pending the late war, and in 8vo, first edition, three folding maps, contemporary quarter during the late Expedition against the French Settlements on ESTC]—[Dalrymple, John.] Reflections upon the military negotiating the present peace. Translated from Italian... W. calf, marbled boards, some minor damp-staining and spotting, Cape Breton… A. and S. Brice, 1746 [Sabin 42173, 60841]— preparations which are making at present in Scotland. Webb, 1748—[Burton, John.] A genuine and true journal of binding slightly worn and scuffed(1) Whitefield, George. A brief account of the rise, progress, and Edinburgh: 1778; and 17 others, including three further works present situation, of the orphan-house in Georgia…Edinburgh: the most miraculous escape of the Young Chevalier, from the The writer and publicist Malachy Postlewayt (1707-67) worked on distilling; mostly 8vo, parchment backed marbled boards T. Lumisden and company, 1748 [THREE COPIES IN THE UK battle of Culloden, to his landing in France... Printed in the for the Royal Africa Company from 1743 to 1746, and wrote (spines numbered 9 and 10), bindings worn, some browning (2) year 1754; and many others, subjects including the war of the ONLY, ACCORDING TO ESTC]— Little, Otis. The State of two works (including this one) strongly supporting the slave Including a very rare copy of Lowndes’ Guide to Stage Austrian secession, relations with Spain, proposed land wars Trade in the Northern Colonies considered; with an account… trade in Africa, as highly beneficial to Britain’s commercial Coaches...[&c.]. The previous edition was published with in Europe, trade and tax, affairs in Holland, France, Poland and of Nova Scotia… G. Woodfall, 1748, presentation copy from and other interests. He is chiefly known as the author of The the title The London Directory, and although ESTC lists a elsewhere, with accounts of naval and military battles (e.g. the author [Sabin 41523]; with at least one other copy of the Universal Dictionary, which appeared in instalments between number of copies dated between 1780 (when the new title was the taking of the ship Northumberland by the French, 1745), same work—An Impartial View of the Conduct of the M——-ry, 1751 and 1755 and subsequently as a two-volume work (1757). apparently adopted) and 1797, but no examples of this 1782 military discourses, State of Nation tracts, editions of Plato’s In regard to the war in America…printed in the year 1756—The This has been described as an amplified and Anglicized version edition. The work includes distances to each town and details dialogues, plays by Dodsley, works on Perspective, religious Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer…For J. Almon, of the Dictionnaire universal de commerce, written largely by of the regular departures, as well as “The Rates of Hackney revivals in Scotland, the training of peach and nectarine trees, 1765—Moore, Francis. A Voyage to Georgia. Begun in the Year Jacques Savary des Brulons (see Oxford DNB). Coaches, Chairman, and Watermen”, seemingly new for this cookery, the Letters of Carlisle, speeches by Burke, some with 1735…for Jacob Robinson, 1744; and approximately 100 others, edition. Edinburgh imprints; 4to and 8vo, various bindings (spines REFERENCES including Letters on trade (and the conflicts between English and French colonies in America), State-Anatomies, court- numbered 64, 70, 76, 77, 78, 80, 120, 162, 187, 195, 203, 204, Sabin 64567, Kress 8224 PROVENANCE 209, 225, 226, 233, 314), some bindings damaged and scuffed martials, considerations of the interests of Great Britain and J.W. Belsches, ownership signatures Hanover, Observations and Proposals for the Navy, accounts and worn, one badly defective (17) £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 of battles between the British and French fleets off Minorca, £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 £ 600-800 € 700-900 Reports of Officers, pamphlets on national affairs, and some

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98 98 HARRISON, JOHN, AND OTHERS of.] A proposal for selling part of the forest lands and chaces, and disposing of the produce towards the discharge of that Collection of 36 pamphlets in one volume: part of the national debt, due to the Bank of England; and for the establishment of a national bank... For T. Payne, 1763; and Harrison, John. An Account of the Proceedings, in order to the 26 others, relating to eighteenth-century British and European 98 Discovery of the Longitude: in a letter to the right honourable History and Science including Scotland, the Treaty of Utrecht, ******, Member of Parliament. T. and J.W. Pasham, 1763, 4to the Treaty of Paris, trade, excise duties, the National Debt, and on the Continent of America considered: in a letter from a (236 x 184mm.), FIRST EDITION, 46pp., numbered 19 in ink on AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE STAMP duels; all 4to, eighteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards Gentleman in Philadelphia to his Friend in London...Philadelphia title page (as 19th pamphlet in this volume), traces of water- ACT, TAXATION AND RELATED ISSUES (spine numbered 38), occasional soiling or dampstaining or printed: London re-printed, for J. Almon, 1765 [?1766], [Adams, staining to margins of first few leaves, minor rust stains and spotting, binding slightly worn and rubbed 65-5b]—[Knox, William.] The Claim of the Colonies to an other very slight soiling Collection of 36 works in three volumes: exemption from internal taxes. for W. Johnson, 1765, [Adams HARRISON’S VERY RARE “ACCOUNT OF THE Memorial and Case of Amelia and Mary Frasers... [n.p., n.d.], The General Opposition of the Colonies to the payment of the 65-14a]; and 20 others, some relating to different issues; 8vo, PROCEEDINGS...” (1763) ANNOUNCES THE AUTHOR’S 28pp. [NOT FOUND IN ESTC]—Memorial for the Established Stamp-Duty; and the consequences of enforcing obedience half-titles sometimes present, eighteenth-century quarter calf, INVENTION AND TESTING OF HIS FIRST ACCURATE School-masters in Scotland, containing, modest proposals... by military measures...for. T. Payne, 1766 [Adams 66-23]—An marbled boards (spines numbered 182, 184, 190), occasional CHRONOMETER, GENERALLY REGARDED AS THE GREATEST London: 1751, 8pp [NOT FOUND IN ESTC]—The provisions examination of the rights of the colonies, upon Principles of soiling, bindings worn (3) SINGLE ADVANCE IN THE HISTORY OF AIDS TO NAVIGATION Law. By a Gentleman at the Bar. R. Dymott, 1766 [Adams made by the treaties of Utrecht, for separating Spain for ever AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF KEY PAMPHLETS, UNTIL THE INTRODUCTION OF RADAR. 66-20]—The Late Occurences in North America...for J. Almon, from France, and for preventing France from enjoying any including John Dickinson’s argument that America should The first trial of Harrison’s fourth chronometer (H4) took 1766—The Rights of Parliament vindicated, on occasion of separate exclusive commerce with the Spanish dominions in be independent in its trade and William Pitt’s highly eloquent place on H.M.S. Deptford in 1761 and 1762. “Harrison’s the late Stamp-Act. In which is exposed the conduct of the America... S. Baker, 1762 [Sabin 66396; ONLY THE BRITISH speech of January 1766 calling unequivocally for the repeal chronometer not only supplied navigators with a perfect American Colonists...for J. Almon, 1766 [Adams, 66-51]—The LIBRARY COPY IN THE UK according to ESTC]—[Heath, of the Stamp Act, not, as was expected, on the grounds of instrument for observing the true geographical position at Justice and Necessity of Taxing the American Colonies...for Benjamin.] The case of the county of Devon, With Respect to expediency but through an outright declaration that the House any moment during their voyage, but also laid the foundation J. Almon, 1766 [Adams 66-31]—[Lyttelton, George.] Protest the Consequences of the New Excise Duty on Cyder and Perry. of Commons did not represent North America, and therefore for the compilation of exact charts of the deep seas and the against the Bill to repeal the American Stamp Act... Paris: J.W., For W. Johnston, 1763—Some plain reasons for a repeal of the “had no right to lay an internal tax upon America”. Britain, he coastal waters of me world...” (PMM). The instrument made to 1766 [Adams 66-28b]—[Hopkins, Stephen.] The Grievances late cyder-act. Dedicated to every man who pays taxes... J. said, had broken “the original compact” by taxing the colonies. Harrison’s design received its most thorough trial on Captain of the American Colonies candidly examined. for J. Almon, Whiston and B. White, 1763 [NO COPIES LISTED BY ESTC IN The speaker of the House, Sir Fletcher Norton, immediately Cook’s first voyage in 1768. He refers a number of times in his 1766 [Adams, 65-12b]—Dummer, Jeremiah. A Defence THE UK, TWO COPIES ONLY IN AMERICA]—Treaty of Paris. A accused him of sounding “the trumpet to rebellion...” (see journal to ‘Mr Harrison’s watch’, which proved highly accurate of the New-England Charters. J. Almon, [1765] [Adams full, Clear, and Succinct Discussion of the Preliminary Articles Oxford DNB). of peace... For S. Williams, [1762]—Scotland. Eleutheria: both for navigation and for coastal charting. 65-7]—The Necessity of repealing the American Stamp-Act one of a series of letters to a Nobleman...for W. Nicoll, 1763 demonstrated...for J. Almon, 1766 [i.e. 1765] [Adams 65-17]— Upon the whole, I beg leave to tell the house what is really [NOT FOUND IN ESTC]— An epistle to His Excellency the REFERENCES Second Protest...against the Bill to repeal the American Stamp my opinion. It is, that the Stamp-Act be repealed absolutely, Duke d’Nivernois. In which a new light is cast upon some Adams and Waters, English Maritime Books printed before Act....Paris: J.W., 1766 [Adams 66-29c]—Lloyd, Charles. The totally, and immediately. . . . [W]e may bind [the colonies’] transactions of the highest importance ... To which is added, 1801, 2011; JCB 134; Norman 1941; PMM 208; Taylor II 60; Conduct of the Late Administration Examined...J. Almon, trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power an humble address to the greatest assembly in England. For J. Exploration and Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin 1767 [Adams 66-36a]—A Free Appeal to the People of Great whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their Wilson and J. Fell, 1762 [NO COPY LISTED BY ESTC IN THE UK, Brooke-Hitching Part 2, D-J , 605 Britain..since the thirtieth of July, 1766. for J. Almon, 1767— pockets without their consent TWO COPIES IN AMERICA]—[Egmont, John Perceval, Earl [Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham.] Political Debates. Paris [but (Pitt’s speech, 14 January 1766) £ 30,000-50,000 € 33,500-56,000 actually London]: J.W., 1766 [Adams, 66-14b]—[Dickinson, John.] The Late Regulations respecting the British Colonies £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800

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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE SUBJECTS, CHIEFLY 1770s-80s Collection of 36 works in six volumes:

Collection of approximately 72 seventeenth- and [Paine, Thomas.] Common Sense: addressed to the eighteenth-century works in nine volumes: inhabitants of America... Philadelphia, printed: London, reprinted for J. Almon, 1776—Candidus [Chalmers, James]. [Knox, William.] The Controversy between Great Britain and Plain Truth: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America. her Colonies reviewed; the several pleas of the colonies... Philadelphia printed; London reprinted, for J. Almon, 1776, J. Almon, 1769 [Adams, 69-17b]—[Adams, Samuel.] An second edition, corrected, half-title with advertisement on appeal to the world; or a vindication of the town of Boston, verso—Price, Richard. Observations on the nature of civil from many false and malicious aspersions. Boston: Edes liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and and Gill and (London:) reprinted for J. Almon, 1770 [Adams, policy of the war with America. Edinburgh: for J. Wood and 69-7d; Sabin, 6478]—Mauduit, Israel. A Short View of the J. Dickson, 1776, eighth edition, newly corrected [Adams, History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay...third edition. 76-118r]; Additional Observations on the Nature and Vlue of For J. Wilkie, 1774—Smith, William. An Oration in memory Civil Liberty, and the War with America... for T. Cadell, 1777— of General Montgomery, and of the Officers and Soldiers, [Blacklock, Thomas.] Remarks on the nature and extent who fell with him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec... of liberty, as compatible with the genius of civil societies; Philadelphia, printed; London, reprinted for J. Almon, 1776— on the principles of government and the proper limits of its [Kippis, Andrew.] Considerations on the Provisional Treaty powers in free states; and, on the justice of the American with America, and the Preliminary Articles of Peace with war... Edinburgh: for W. Creech and (London:) T. Cadell, France and Spain. For T. Cadell, 1783 [Adams 83-57a; Sabin 1776 [Adams, 76-15]—Mauduit, Israel. Remarks upon Gen. 37953]—[Wolseley, John Rogerson.] An Account of the Howe’s account of his proceedings on Long-Island, in the Gallant Defence made at Mangalore in the East-Indies... For extraordinary Gazette of October 10, 1776. for Fielding and C. Bathurst, 1786, folding engraved map and two further Walker, 1778, without half title—Pulteney, William. Thoughts engraved plates—Lunardi, Vincenzo. An Account of Five Aerial on the Present State of Affairs with America...the third edition. Voyages in Scotland, in a series of letters to his Guardian, For J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1778, ownership signature of Chevalier Gerardo Compagni. For the author, 1786, stipple- William Forbes—An Answer to the Declaration of the American engraved portrait by Burke after Nesmith, 2 plates, leaf of Colonies...the fifth edition.For T. Cadell, 1776—Wesley, John. explanation at end—[Martin, Benjamin.] The principles of A Calm Address to our American Colonies...a new edition. R. 101 101 perspective, explained in a genuine theory. Edinburgh, 1790, Hawes [Adams, 75-155e, THREE COPIES ONLY RECORDED engraved plates—Carter, George. A Narrative of the Loss of BY ESTC], somewhat soiled—[Chandler, Thomas Bradbury.] the Grosvenor East Indiaman... Minerva Press for J. Murray What think ye of the Congress now? or, an enquiry, how and William Lane, 1791, folding engraved frontispiece—Walker, far the Americans are bound to abide by, and execute, the 101 George. A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry...the decisions of the late Continental Congress. With A plan, by second edition corrected. Robert Clavel and Ralph Simpson, Samuel Galloway, Esq; for a proposed union between Great- The Kentish Cricketers is a spirited reply to John Duncombe’s 1689 [Wing W352]—Parliament. House of Commons. An THE KENTISH CRICKETERS, BATH, Britain and the colonies. New York, printed by J. Rivingston: Surry Triumphant again published in the same year, and account of extraordinary services incurred, and paid by London, reprinted for Richardson and Urquart, 1775, half-title, COFFEE, LONGITUDE AND NAVIGATION employs the metre of “Chevy Chace” to describe both the the Right Honourable Richard Rigby, ... between the 31st of final leaf of advertisements [Adams, 75-22b]—[Chandler, ETC. first match at Bishopsbourne Paddock (the seat of Sir Horatio January 1781 and the 1st of February 1782, and not provided Thomas Bradbury.] A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Mann) in July 1773 (played for the enormous wager of £2000), for by Parliament. By order of the House of Commons, 1782, Americans...New York, printed: London, reprinted for Collection of 14 works in one volume: and won easily by Surrey led by the famous Edward ‘Lumpy’ with additional title-page, ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY Richardson and Urquhart, 1774 [Adams, 72-20b]—[Leonard, [Burnby, John.] The Kentish Cricketers: a Poem...being Stevens (aided by the weather), and the return match at the ESTC (BRITISH LIBRARY AND HAVARD—Clive, Robert Clive, Daniel.] Massachusettensis: or a series of letters, containing a a reply to a late publication of a parody on the Ballad of Vine, won by Kent. The introductory stanzas markedly contrast Baron. Lord Clive’s Speech, in the House of Commons, 30th faithful state of many important and striking facts, which laid Chevy Chace; intituled, Surry Triumphant: or, the Kentish the vices of the town with the rural innocence of cricket, and March, 1773...For J. Walter, [1772]; and many others, subjects the foundation of the present troubles in the province of the Men’s Defeat. Canterbury: T. Smith and Son, 1773, VERY the poem is a wonderful celebration of the game. Only four including the attempted impeachment of Warren Hastings, Massachusetts Bay... Boston printed: London reprinted for J. RARE, ESTC RECORDING ONLY THREE COPIES, with half- institutional copies of this rare poem are recorded, a further speeches by Burke relating to France, elections, salt, Scottish Mathews, 1776, fourth edition [Adams, 75-76f]—Consolatory title [Allen 5; Padwick 2061]—[Hippesley, R.] Bath and it’s copy located in the M.C.C. library as well as the three noted affairs, colonial affairs, together with works of verse, some with Thoughts on American Independence...Edinburgh: James environs, a descriptive poem, In three cantos. Wherein The by ESTC (National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews University ownership signatures of William Forbes or presentations to Donaldson, 1782 [Kress 12258; Sabin 96076], PRESENTATION Reality, Life, and great Qualities of it’s first Founder Bladud and the British Library). him; 8vo and 4to, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century COPY FROM THE AUTHOR INSCRIBED TO SIR WILLIAM are displayed...Bath: R. Cruttwell for J. Almon, engraved quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 58, 192, 247, The last work in the volume is an important early treatise on FORBES ON TITLE PAGE; and many others, similar, all from frontispiece portrait by Baron after Hoare—Bishop, R. The 248, 249, 250, 274, 277, 279), some bindings slightly worn and coffee, written by John Ellis to encourage the growth of coffee the time of the American War of Independence, authors east India navigator’s daily assistant; with the new method of rubbed, some occasional staining to some texts (9) in the West Indies for home consumption and exportation. including Josiah Tucker, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, computing the longitude... R. Hilton, for the author, tables, one There are no auction records since the war for Bishop’s A SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION OF WORKS, INCLUDING David Hartley, Joseph Galloway (Letters to a Nobleman... folding engraved plate, RARE (only five copies recorded by East India navigator’s daily assistant; with the new method of IMPORTANT PAMPHLETS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN 1779, with folding plan of the operations of the British and ESTC, no recent auction records)—Ellis, John. An Historical computing the longitude. REVOLUTION, INDIA, AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. Rebel army in the Campaign, 1777), Henry Clinton (including Account of Coffee...for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774, folding In Times like these, when COMMERCE weeps, the campaign in North Carolina); 4to and 8vo, some with engraved plate of Coffea Arabica [Kress 11132; Hunt 638; And ENGLISH CREDIT soundly sleeps; £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 William Forbes’ ownership signature, late eighteenth- or early Sabin 22317]; and 5 other verse works, including satires, When candid Merchants, bent to thrive, nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines and other works (e.g. John Lawson’s Synopsis of all the Data Keep FLATTERY and FRAUD alive... numbered 1-6), some wear to bindings (6) for the Construction of Triangles... Rochester, 1773, A Plan The first two items comprise the second edition of Paine’s for Preserving the Maritime Power and Commerce of the My Muse, descriptive, bends her Way, Common Sense (arguing for American independence) and Nation, in time of war...1773, The Question concerning Literary The Game of CRICKET, to display, the anonymously published Plain Truth (arguing against). Property, 1773, Reflections on the Law of Arrests in Civil And place the Laurel, where ‘tis due, The author of the loyalist response to Common Sense was Actions, [1774], A Treatise upon Fines, 1773); 4to, some works Tho’ simple PARODIES ensue... a wealthy planter from Maryland, with a prose style rich in with manuscript ex-libris “Bibliotheca Edinensis” on title pages, literary and historical references, contrasting vividly with the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, £ 12,000-18,000 € 13,400-20,100 Paine’s plain language. binding rather worn, joints partially cracked (1)

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MORAL GUIDANCE, PHILOSOPHY, ESSAYS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ETC. Substantial collection of eighteenth-century works in 11 volumes: including works of moral instruction (e.g. Essays addressed to Young Married Women... 1782; Essays...for Young Ladies... 1777), works on Education (including commentaries on Rousseau), Rules for Horsemen, Advice to the officers of the British Army, trials, a History of Knaresborough, letters on reform, works of Aesthetics, works on the Scottish Peerage, autobiographies (e.g. The Life of David Hume, 1777), Poems, Letters (e.g. by David Hume to Adam Smith, second edition, Oxford, 1777, Moral Demonstrations (e.g. of the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1775), Village Memoirs; some Scottish imprints (e.g. Aberdeen), some engraved plates, some works in French (one on David Hume); contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 313, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 323, 325, 327, 331, 332); bindings worn and scuffed (11)

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102 103 106 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LAW EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSE AND SCOTTISH AND IRISH AFFAIRS, CHIEFLY Very large collection of chiefly legal pamphlets in nine BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES DRAMA, AND OTHER WORKS 1780s-90s volumes: A collection of works, including eighteenth-century i) 4to volumes including Petitions, Informations (on disputed Large collection of works in 23 volumes: Collection of 17 pamphlets and works in one volume: auction catalogues, in three volumes: bills etc), Letters Patent, etc., several relating to the lands of Carmichael, [Rebekah]. Poems. Edinburgh: for the author, [Ogilvie, William.] Outlines of a plan for uniting the King’s and Pitsligo and the claims of Sir William Forbes (e.g. Answers Beauclerk, Topham. Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana. A Catalogue 1790—Linnecar, Richard. The Miscellaneous Works. Leeds: Marischal universities of Aberdeen, with a view to render the for Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Baronet, to The Petition of of the Large and Valuable Library... Paterson, 9 April 1781, two Thomas Wright, 1789—[Nicolls, Thomas.] Shenstone...a poem. system of education more complete. Abderdeen, 1786, ESTC Alexander Lord Salton, 20 April 1787; Answers for William parts in one, preliminaries and title bound after the first part— For the author, 1776—[Irwin, Eyles.] Eastern eclogues; written RECORDS ONLY THREE COPIES, bound with an autograph Forbes...to the Petition of John Ronaldson Merchant in Letter from the Earl of Buchan to his brother...on the subject during a tour through Arabia, Egypt, and other Parts of Asia letter to Sir William Forbes in support of the proposal— State Edinburgh, 28 February 1783, with folding engraved plate of Education... Edinburgh, 1782, author’s presentation copy— and Africa... For J. Dodsley, 1780—Gay, John. The Beggar’s of the evidence, for proving that the present Sir John Stuart of the disputed public entry), some relating to claims in Catalogue of the Extensive, Genuine, and Highly Valuable Opera... For Jacob and Richard Tonson, 1761, engraved of Castelmilk is the lineal heir-male and representative of Sir Ireland and foreign lands (e.g. Jamaica), folding tables and Collection of Pictures, late the property of The Hon. John music— Miniature pictures... Newly adapted to the most William Stuart of Castelmilk, who lived during part of the 14th appendices, some disputed bills in manuscript interleaved, Clerk of Eldin... Edinburgh, 14 March 1833—Catalogue of the fashionable and public characters, of both sexes, now living and 15th centuries. [Edinburgh, 1794], ONLY TWO COPIES some with William Forbes’ ownership signature; intire Cabinet of Capital Drawings collected by the late Greffier [extracts from The Beggar’s Opera] For M. Smith, 1781—More, RECORDED BY ESTC—A catalogue of pictures, Copied or Francois Fagel...which will be sold by auction, under the ii) 8vo volumes containing Trials (e.g. that of Katharine Nairn Hannah. Florie: a tale...For T. Cadell, 1786—Courtenay, John. Multiplied (for Sale) By a chymical and mechanical process; direction of Mr. Thomas Philipe...the 20th of May, 1799, ad five and Patrick Ogilvie for murder and incest in Edinburgh in A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the exhibited with The capital originals from which they have been following days... 1799; and many other catalogues (including August 1765), reports on the alarming bankruptcies occurring late Samuel Johnson... For Charles Dilly, 1786—Potter, Robert. taken, by the Polygraphic Society, At their Rooms, in Pall-Mall, the collection of drawings, books, coins etc assembled by John in Scotland in the late eighteenth century; Considerations An inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the being their eighth exhibition: opened the 4th of April, 1792. A. McGouan of Edinburgh, sold in January 1804) all annotated of the Dangers of Convictions on Circumstantial Evidence, poets: particularly his observations on lyric poetry, and the Grant, 1792, ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC—State with prices realised, and others, including accounts of trials the minutes from the trial of Warren Hastings, late governor odes of Gray. J. Dodsley, 1783, plate—Taylor, John. A Letter of the Lunatic Hospital and Dispensary at Montrose from the and histories of the church; 8vo, various bindings (spines general of Bengal (1786), at least one work relating to the war to Samuel Johnson...on the subject of a Future State. For T. 26th of May 1782 to the 1st of January 1787. [Montrose, 1787], numbered 232, 379, one unnumbered) (3) in America (A View of the History of Great-Britain during the Cadell, 1787—Don, a poem. 1742 [Foxon D394, ONLY THREE ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC; and many others, Administration of Lord North... for G. Wilkie, 1782), and another The book collector and amateur chemist Topham Beauclerk COPIES LISTED BY ESTC]—Caledonia. A Poem. T. Cadell, including memorial of Joshua Reynolds and works in verse; relating to the “Inhuman Massacre” of a mob sympathetic (1739–1780), a great grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, 1788; and many others, including Bills of suspension brought various sizes, eighteenth-century quarter calf (spine numbered to the imprisoned radical M.P. John Wilkes at St. George’s was “aristocratic, idle, and accomplished” (Oxford DNB), by Sir William Forbes, reports on the proposed canal from the 62), red morocco label, some headlines shaved, some leaves Fields in May 1768; many printed in Edinburgh and issued for and a close friend of Samuel Johnson, appearing throughout river Forth to the river Clyde (with engraved plan), “State of soiled or stained, some wear to binding (1) the Faculty of Advocates, others printed in London; all late Boswell’s Life. Over the course of his short life he amassed the Nation” pamphlets (relating to trade and finance), other eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled a fine library of over 30,000 volumes. “To store them, he works of verse and drama with authors including Alexander £ 700-1,000 € 800-1,150 boards (spines numbered 65, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 215, 238, 308 employed Robert Adam to design a library for his house in Pope, Peter Pindar, Andrew Erskine, William Hayley, Christian (9) Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury. According to Walpole it Carstairs, Charles Churchill, R. Ferguson, Thomas Warton, reached “halfway to Highgate. Everybody goes to see it; it has and Rochester; some with autograph presentations to Sir £ 300-500 € 350-600 put the [British] Museum’s nose quite out of joint” (Walpole, William Forbes, a number with Edinburgh imprints, catalogues Corr., 33.136). On Beauclerk’s death the library, which had (including one of works by Wedgwood and Bentley), reports been mortgaged to the duke of Marlborough, was sold over from the Scottish Parliament and works on the Constitution, a period of fifty days, beginning on Monday, 9 April 1781, for some with plates; chiefly 4to and 8vo, some with the ownership £5011.” (op.cit.) signatures of Sir William Forbes, nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, some wear to bindings (23) £ 1,200-1,800 € 1,350-2,050

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SLAVE TRADE RARE BROADSIDES PRINTED IN PHILADELPHIA CALLING FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Collection of 11 works, pamphlets and broadsides, The first item listed here (seven copies listed in America by including four works relating to the slave trade, one ESTC) is the important and rare broadside issued by the 108 by Benjamin Franklin, in one volume: Pennsylvania Society soliciting contributions to fund a plan for educating and employing freed slaves: “...Attention to Franklin, Benjamin. An Address to the Public, from the emancipated black people . . . will become a branch of our Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 108 and the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage national policy ... To instruct; to advise; to qualify those who Philadelphia, 9th of November 1789... [Philadelphia: have been restored to freedom ... are the great outlines of Francis Bailey, 1789], broadside, folded—Pennsylvania the annexed plan, which we have adopted, and which we SLAVE TRADE AND EIGHTEENTH- LISTED BY ESTC, folded—The Debate on a Motion for conceive will essentially promote the good, and the happiness the Abolition of the Slave-Trade...April 18 and 19, 1791. W. Society. Philadelphia, 26 October, 1789. At a meeting of the CENTURY BRITISH AND EUROPEAN Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery of these, our hitherto too much neglected fellow creatures . . Woodfall, 1791, presentation copy to Sir William Forbes [Sabin &c. An Essay of a Plan for improving the condition of Free . Signed by order of the Society, B. Franklin, President”. The HISTORY 19094]—A Short Address to the People of Scotland on the Society was first established in 1774 by James Pemberton subject of the Slave Trade... Edinburgh: J. Robertson, 1792 Negroes...A Plan for improving the condition of the Free Collection of 10 works or broadsides in one volume: Blacks. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1789, broadside, folded, and Dr. Benjamin Rush. After the American Revolution in 1787 [Kress 15372; Sabin 80593]—The Speech of Mr. Beaufoy...18th integral address leaf on verso to Sir William Forbes—Society it was reconstructed on a larger basis under the presidency [Wilberforce, William, compiler.] An Abstract of the evidence June, 1788...for regulating the conveyance of Negroes from for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. London, 28th July, 1789. At of Franklin. The second item, also a very rare broadside, delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons Africa to the West-Indies... for J. Phillips, 1789 [Sabin 4166]— a Committee of the Society, instituted in 1787, for the purpose appears to be very similar, but not identical to ESTC W42519 in the years 1790, and 1791; on the part of the petitioners At a Committee of the Society...for...the Abolition of the Slave of effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade... [London: 1789]— (recorded at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania only), with for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade. James Phillips, 1791, Trade. [1791], broadside, ONE COPY ONLY LISTED BY ESTC; The Speech of...William Pitt, on a motion for the Abolition of its proposal to set up four committees. presentation inscription on title page to Sir William Forbes, and two other small pamphlets; 12mo and 8vo, contemporary the Slave Trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday the TWO FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES (with illustration and quarter calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 253), some second of April, 1792. James Phillips, 1792, [Sabin, 63097]; £ 7,000-10,000 € 7,900-11,200 description of a slave ship etc), FOLDING MAP OF AFRICA occasional spotting or slight staining, binding slightly worn (1) and 7 others from the same period, including works on income AT REAR [Sabin 81745]—At a committee of the Society, RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORKS AND BROADSIDES. tax in Great Britain, an observation on Paine’s pamphlet on instituted in 1787, for the purpose of effecting the abolition of The first work is a classic in the abolitionist canon. the English system of Finance, A Vindication of the French the slave trade. [1789], 4pp. dated at head of the drop-head Wilberforce’s arguments before Parliament stand as one of the Emigrants (Dublin, 1803) and the Trial of William Jackson title: London, 28th July, 1789, 3 COPIES ONLY LISTED BY most important long-running attempts to portray the iniquities for high treason (Dublin, 1795); 8vo (apart from broadsides), ESTC, folded—Translation of a letter written by the Society of of the African slave trade. The diagram of the hold of a slave contemporary half calf, marbled boards, minor wear to binding the friends of the negroes, in France, to the different baillages, ship with slaves packed layer upon layer is one of the most (1) or districts, entitled to send delegates to the States-General. recognizable images depicting the true horrors of slavery. [1789], 4pp., ONE COPY ONLY LISTED BY ESTC (Durham), folded—At a Committee of the Society...for...the Abolition £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 of the Slave Trade. [1788], broadside, FOUR COPIES ONLY

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FRENCH REVOLUTION, FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AND EARLY REVOLUTIONARY WARS AND AMERICA NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH AND Collection of 44 works in five volumes: BRITISH AFFAIRS Remarks on the Internal Situation of France... Edinburgh: for A very large collection of works, pamphlets and J. and J. Fairburn, 1794, no copy of this edition recorded in tracts in 31 volumes: Europe by ESTC—Young, Arthur. The Example of France. A Wedgwood, Josiah. An Attempt to Compare and Connect the Warning to Britain. For W. Richardson, 1794, fourth edition; An Thermometer for strong fire…read at the Royal Society, May Idea of the Present State of France...second edition...For W. 13, 1784 [London, 1784], engraved plates—Downie, Murdo. Richardson, 1795—Wraxall, N. William. The Correspondence The New Pilot of Scotland…accompanied by four charts. For between a traveller and a Minister of State... For J Debrett, the author, 1792—Lunardi, Vincent. An Account of Five Aerial n.d. [1796] [Kress 16549]—An Appeal to impartial Posterity Voyages in Scotland… for the author, 1786—Burke, Edmund. by Citizenness Roland... translated from the French... For J. Speech…on moving…resolutions for conciliation with the Johnson, 1795—De Latocnaye. Les Causes de la Revolution colonies, March 22, 1775. The third edition. For J. Dodsley, de France... Edinburgh: J. Mundell, 1797—Le Mesurier, 1778; and many others, on British trade and commerce, plans Havilland. Thoughts on a French Invasion, with reference for prisons, bridges and other works in Edinburgh in the late to the probability of its success, and the proper means of eighteenth-century, reports on the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum resisting it. Edinburgh, 1798—Harper, Robert Goodloe. (early nineteenth century); Minutes and Proceedings of the Observations on the Dispute between the United States and Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers of Edinburgh, France...fourth edition... Philadelphia printed: London: reprinted Heads of Bills (e.g. for enlarging and improving the Harbour of the Philanthropic Reform, 1798; and 36 others, in English Leith for erecting docks (with engraved plate); collections of and French, some Edinburgh imprints; some with ownership poetry in various editions (e.g. Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, signatures of Sir William Forbes and others; 4to and 8vo, 1770); Letters to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Narratives of contemporary or near contemporary quarter calf, marbled Riots in Edinburgh, accounts of elections, the peerage, some boards (spines numbered 257, 260, 263, 264, 265), some accounts of slaves (e.g. Information for John Wedderburn… staining, cropping and spotting, bindings with some wear at against Joseph Knight, a Negro, Pursuer… July 1775), surveys extremities, occasionally badly bumped, scuffed or stained(5) of collieries, Forms of Prayer to be used in Scotland, exhibition In the last work listed here Harper addresses the charges catalogues, trials, Informations relating to various trade and made by France against the United States following the land disputes, bankruptcies, lists of creditors, rules of Friendly ratification of the Jay Treaty in 1795. Societies, faculty reports, observations on the introduction of roads to the Scottish Highlands, trade in Holland and Germany, 113 £ 700-900 € 800-1,050 parliamentary arguments for the reform of gambling clubs, instructions for the swordsman, patents, proposals for the 111 relief of the poor, essays on bleaching, works on language, 110 histories of the wars in Scotland, letters from Tenerife, Brazil, the East Indies and Russia, accounts of Philanthropic ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE Societies, Widow’s Petitions; Proceedings of the Society for the Suppression of Vice; many Edinburgh imprints; Cadell, 1780—Molyneux, William. The Case of Ireland... For J William Forbes—J. Johnson. A Guide for Gentlemen Studying some works with the ownership signature of Sir William Collection of works in one volume: Almon and M. Hingeston, 1770—[Sheridan, Charles Francis.] Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. For G.G.J. and J. Forbes or other contemporaries, some presentation copies, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine...for August, 1798, A Review of the Three Great National Questions relative Robinson et al, 1792—Henry, Thomas. An Account of a Method to A Declaration of Right, Poynings’ Law, and the Mutiny occasional manuscript notes interleaved; 4to and 8vo, chiefly of Preserving Water, at Sea, from Putrefaction...Warrington: engraved folding plate by Gillray; together with issues for contemporary or near contemporary quarter calf, marbled Bill. J. Dodsley, 1781—[MacNally, Leonard.] The Claims of W. Eyres for (London:) J. Johnson, 1791, folding engraved September, October, November and December 1798, all boards (spines numbered 53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 69, 101, Ireland... for J. Johnson, 1782 [ESTC RECORDS ONLY BL plates—Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von. Proposals for forming but the last also with engraved folding plates by Gillray— 206, 230, 231, 236, 239, 243, 244, 273, 278, 310, 321, 334, The Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies AND TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY COPIES IN THE UK AND by subscription, in the metropolis of the British Empire, a IRELAND]—The Report from the Secret Committee of the 337, 339, 360, 362, 363, 375, 377, 376 , 378), some works in public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating Reviewed... for J. Almon, 1769; and others; 8vo, eighteenth- poor condition, bindings sometimes rubbed or defective (31) century quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco label on House of Commons... Dublin: James King and A.B. King, the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and spine (spine numbered 282), some wear (1) 1798, with folding table, engraved facsimile of manuscript improvements, and for teaching, By Courses of Philosophical letter addressed to “Irishmen” interleaved after table [Kress £ 1,500-2,500 € 1,700-2,800 Lectures and Experiments, the application of science to the £ 500-800 € 600-900 17459]—[Tittler, Colonel.] Ireland profiting by example; or, common purposes of life. [London, 1799], presentation copy the question whether Scotland has gained, or lost, by an inscribed by the author on the title page to Dugal Stewart; and union with England... Dublin, for J. Milliken, 1799—An Abstract 113 many others, some on science or medicine (e.g. midwifery, of the number of Protestant and Popish Families in the ... Journals of the Royal Institution), some religious; together 111 provinces and counties of Ireland...Dublin: W. Sleater, 1786; SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND LITERATURE with parliamentary speeches, poetry, essays on the theatre and approximately 46 others, including several relating to the etc., some works in French; 4to and 8vo, some with ownership UNITED IRISH REBELLION OF 1798, INDIA, rebellion of 1798 (including further reports of the Committee Collection of works in five volumes: signature of Sir William Forbes, contemporary or near of Secrecy), speeches in the House of Commons of Ireland, contemporary quarter or half calf, marbled boards (spines TRADE, SCOTLAND Falck, N.D. A Philosophical Dissertation on the Diving Vessel arguments for and against a union between Britain and Ireland, numbered 49, 245, 281, 361, 364), some wear to bindings (5) projected by Mr. Day, and sunk in Plymouth Sound... for the Collection of approximately 55 pamphlets in seven poetical works, some Dublin and Scottish imprints, together author, 1775, two folding engraved plates—Sinclair, Sir John. The first listed work is the first edition of a description of the with a volume including tracts on the Irish land forfeitures of volumes: An Essay on Longevity. For A. Strahan, 1802, presentation submersible ship devised by an illiterate Yarmouth carpenter, the late seventeenth century; some with Sir William Forbes’s copy from the author to Sir William Forbes; The Code of with an analysis of its single failed dive, in which the inventor Scott, Jonathan. A translation of the Memoirs of Eradut ownership signature; 4to and 8vo, chiefly eighteenth-century Health and Longevity... Edinburgh: for the author, 1805— drowned. Khan, a nobleman of Hindostan... For John Stockdale, quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco labels (spines Herdman, John. Discourses on the Management of Infants... 1786—[Nandakumara, Mahārāja.] The Trial of Maha Rajah numbered 57, 201, 234, 267, 268, 275, 293), a few tracts Edinburgh: for A. Constable, 1804, presentation copy to Sir £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 Nundocomar...for Forgery. T. Cadell, 1776—[Barron, William.] damages, some bindings worn (7) History of the Political Connetion between England and Ireland from the reign of Herny II. to the Present Time. T. £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700

64 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 65 114 115 ENGLISH LITERATURE LITERARY WORKS, ALSO SOME ON SCOTTISH PUBLIC AFFAIRS, MOSTLY SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER SUBJECTS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY FIFTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 18TH CENTURY Collection of c.270 works including periodicals and Collection of 107 works, comprising 95 pamphlets broadsides in three volumes: 117 and tracts works in 14 volumes and 12 other works [Queen Anne]. Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Letter to the (some incomplete sets) in an additional 13 volumes: Parliament of Scotland. Edinburgh: Anderson, 1706—Colvil, Samuel. …Prophecy anent the Union… [London: no publisher], BACON, FRANCIS i) One volume of early 18th century literature including: Pope, 1707—Minuts of the Proceedings in Parliament… 3 October Alexander. Of the Characters of Women. n.p., n.d., lacking title 1706 [through to] 25 March 1707. Edinburgh: Anderson, 1706- Apophthegmes New and Old. [John Haviland for] page and imprint—Harvey, John. The Life of Robert Bruce King 1707, 89 sequential numbers, INCLUDING THE RESULTS OF Hanna Barrett and Richard Whitaker, 1625 of Scots. A Poem. Edinburgh: for John Catanach, 1729—Steele, THE VOTE OF 16 JANUARY 1707 APPROVING THE RATIFYING Richard. The Lying Lover: or the Ladies Friendship. Bernard 8vo, FIRST EDITION, title within double-ruled border, text OF THE TREATY OF UNION—[Anon.] Elegy on the much to be Lintott, 1704, first edition, and six others, 4to; within ruled border with marginal column for side-notes, Lamented Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Stairs. ii) Three volumes, mostly literature and criticism, including: with two additional jests set in a courtroom added in an early [Edinburgh, 1707]—[Hamilton, John] An Equivalent for Defoe. Keate, George. The Alps. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763, first edition, seventeenth-century hand on the final blank (under the title [Edinburgh, 1706]—Fitzgerald, David. A Narrative of the Irish half-title—[Percy, Thomas.] The Hermit of Warkworth. A “Only New”), contemporary calf, lacking preliminary blank, Popish Plot… Tho. Cockerill, 1680—...Adventurers in the Joynt- Northumberland Ballad. T. Davies, 1771, first edition, half-title— rebacked, neatly restored at corners, new endpapers Stock of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. J. Indies. Edinburgh: Anderson, 1696—Edinburgh Courant, 52 RARE. We have traced only four copies at auction in the last Newberry, 1765 [1764], first edition, half title, advertisement issues (ranging from issue 1 – 703)—Scots Courant, 24 issues half-century. leaf—Van Reenen, Jacob, and Riou, Edward. A Journal of (ranging from issue 710 – 826)—Edinburgh Gazette, 16 issues a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope, undertaken in 1790 REFERENCES (ranging from issue 50 – 157)—The Tatler, 3 issues (ranging and 1791 ... in search of the wreck of ... the Grosvenor. for G. from issue 63 - 111)—The Scots Post-Man, 40 issues (ranging ESTC S113684; STC 1115 Nicol, 1792, folding engraved map—Particulars of the Lands from issue 10 – 137)—Burnet, D. Elegy on the much Lamented and Fishings, lying in the United Parishes of Slains and Forvie, Death of… George of Denmark. Edinburgh: Watson, 1708; and £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 Belonging to the Earl of Errol. n.p., n.d., NOT IN ESTC— others, many relating to the Act of Union; 4to, contemporary Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Aikin. Poems. for Joseph Johnson, or near-contemporary calf or calf-backed marbled boards 1773—Goldsmith, Oliver. Retaliation: A Poem. for G. Kearsley, 118 (spines numbered 1, 2, 3), some tears and occasional loss, 118 1774, “new edition”, and 25 others, 4to; some wear to bindings (3) iii) One volume including: Thomson, Edward. Edward and PROVENANCE Eleonora. A Tragedy. sold by A. Milar, 1739, first edition— THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Henry Compton (1632-1713), Bishop of London and Dean of £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 [Bent, William.] The London Catalogue of Books ... That have the Chapels Royal; by descent to his great-nephew William been printed in Great Britain, since the year 1700. n.p., 1773, The Book of Common Prayer And Administration Compton, LLD (inscription on front endpaper). Henry’s niece and 4 others, 8vo; of the Sacraments ... Together with the Psalter or Mary married the second Viscount Lanesborough, who died in 116 iv) Three volumes of plays including: [Cumberland, Richard.] Psalms of David. Charles Bill and the Executrix of 1724. The Brothers: A Comedy. W. Griffin, 1770 and 17 others, 8vo; Thomas Newcomb, 1704 v) Six volumes of late-18th century tracts, comprising: two BRITISH AND EUROPEAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS, £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 folio (405 x 250mm), engraved frontispiece of the Sheldonian volumes with 16 works mostly on the French Revolution; one Theatre, title page within two rules, text in two columns, volume of 5 works on the controversial election of John Leslie CHIEFLY EARLY-NINETEENTH CENTURY ruled in red throughout, in a St James’s Chapel binding, to the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh University; one 119 Substantial collection of political, economic and other contemporary dark brown goatskin elaborately tooled in gilt volume of Scottish works (including MacNeill, Hector. The pamphlets in 21 volumes: and blind, lettered on upper cover “St James’s | Chappel”, Links o’Forth ... A Plaint. Edinburgh: Constable etc., 1799, and cornerpieces of Queen Anne’s crowned monogram, spine gilt two others); one volume of scientific tracts (includingThiville, including observations and reports (e.g. on the building of the CAXTON, WILLIAM—HIGDEN, RANULPH in compartments with the same monogram, gilt edges, with 2 J.G.J.B. Count. An Essay on the Means Hitherto Employed proposed Union Canal between Falkirk and Edinburgh in 1814, wide blue watered silk page markers with tassels of gold thread Policronicon. [Westminster: William Caxton, between for Lighting Streets and the Interior of Houses. Richardson the plan for the New Town between Edinburgh and Leigth, loosely inserted, lacking two pairs of silk ties, binding somewhat 2 July and 8 October 1482] etc., 1800, folding engraved plate, and 4 others); one volume 1819, for the Edinburgh Academy, on education and schools rubbed of military works (including Tyndale, William. Instructions for in Scotland), descriptions (of the regalia of Scotland, of the a single leaf (sig. 28/4, folio CCXX), Chancery folio (223 x [with, loosely inserted:] Letters Patent, in the name of Edmund young dragoon officers. T. Egerton, 1796, 10 folding plates, Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich), accounts (e.g. of 174mm.), 40 lines plus headline, black letter (Caxton’s type Gibson, Bishop of London, granting a vault in St James’s ONLY THREE COPIES ON ESTC, and two others); all 8vo; the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831, with engraved 4), containing the end of chapter 30 and the start of chapter Churchyard to Viscount Lanesborough, one vellum membrane, vi) 12 other works in 13 volumes, including: [Brown, Robert.] frontispiece), catalogues (e.g. for the National Gallery of Practical 31 from book four (relating to the Emperor Theodosius), one pendant papered seal, 1724 Remarks on the Earl of Selkirk’s Observations on the present Science, 1833), letters (e.g. to the Merchant Company of three-line initial supplied in red with red paraphs and marginal state of the Highlands of Scotland: with a view of the causes Edinburgh, on the French government, the state of France; with This book was in use in the Chapel Royal of St James’s notes added in Caxton’s printing shop, framed and glazed to and probable consequences of emigration. Edinburgh: Alex. other works on the French Revolution), speeches, narratives of Palace (not to be confused with Inigo Jones’s Queen’s Chapel show both sides of leaf, a few small marginal repairs Smellie for John Anderson and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and battles in the Napoleonic Wars (some with engraved plates), opposite the palace on Marlborough Road) under Queen Anne, together with a single leaf (sig. &2, folio CLXXXVI) from Orme, 1806, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author proclamations, reports from India on mutinies and other imperial when it was the monarch’s principal London residence. The Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (London: Wynkyn to Sir William Forbes, contemporary speckled calf—Sterne, affairs; and others (e.g. A Brief Account of the Mechitaristican binding is likely to be by Robert Steel (see Nixon, Restoration de Worde, 1527), probably translated by William Caxton, folio Lawrence. A Sentimental Journey. T. Becket and P.A. De Society founded in the Island of St. Lazaro. [Translated by Bindings no. 35 for a very similar design), who was active (245 x 185mm.), containing part of the life of St Peter ad Hondt, 1768, 2 volumes, 12mo, “new edition”; and 10 others Alexander Goode.], Venice, 1825—William Wright’s Grotesque between 1668 and 1710. J.R. Abbey, English Bindings, no.66, Vincula, mentioning King Herod and Antony and Cleopatra (including incomplete sets); the 14 tract volumes in various Architecture...1790, with engraved plates), several volumes of depicts another Queen Anne Chapel Royal binding and a [STC 24880], outer margins cut down contemporary bindings, some with lettering pieces (spines political and economic pamphlets, chiefly London and Edinburgh third example, lettered “Windsor Chapel Royal”, was sold at imprints; 4to and 8vo, some with the ownership signature of numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 34, 45), all with some general wear and Sotheby’s, 20 May 1903, lot 790, for £63. REFERENCES dust-staining (27) William Forbes, some presentation copies to Forbes, some volumes with annotations, nineteenth-century quarter calf, REFERENCES Goff H267; HC 8659; BMC xi 127; Bod-inc H-121; GW 12468; STC 13438; De Ricci, Census 49; Duff 172; Needham,Checklist £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 marbled boards (spines numbered 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, Griffiths, 1704, no.1 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 358, 359, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372, Cx52 373, 374), some bindings slightly scuffed or worn (22) ‡ £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 £ 400-600 € 450-700 66 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 67 121 ENGLISH LITERATURE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE NORTH GERMAN COLLECTION NINETEENTH CENTURY SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Dramatic Works...revised by George Steevens. W. Bulmer and co. for John and Josiah Boydell, 1802 18 parts in 9 volumes, folio (414 x 302mm), with the prefaces by Pope and Johnson, 96 COPPERPLATES (including frontispieces in each volume and engraved plates throughout), contemporary horizontally-grained dark green morocco ornately gilt, covers with outer fillets enclosing border of pictorial ovals (masks, musical instruments, swords, scales, crowns, quills, scrolls) enclosing inner panel with corner- and side-pieces of fleurons and leafy scrolls, chocolate endpapers, all edges gilt, extremities and edges of bindings sometimes worn and rubbed, some previous repairs to joints, upper cover of volume 7 nearly detached, other joints slightly split, some covers scuffed, some gatherings slightly loose, some offsetting and foxing to plates and text, occasional damp-staining This edition contains Boydell’s fine series of one hundred large copperplates from paintings by Reynolds, Smirke, Northcote, Porter, Stothard, Hamilton, Bunbury, Opie and Westall. The plates were issued serially from 1791 onwards. George Steevens, the “Puck” of Shakespeare commentators and scholars, was responsible for editing the text and correction of the press, although the edition was not published until 1802, two years after his death.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM 122 [AUSTEN, JANE] estate that was inherited by Jane’s brother Edward from Thomas and Catherine Knight, whose surname he took as a The Works of Shakespear...collated and corrected by Cup-and-Ball game (bilbocatch) condition of the inheritance. Household items from Jane’s the former editons, by Mr. Pope. London: For Jacob SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM house thus passed to the Knights after it reverted back to the height 175 mm, ball c.60mm diameter, ivory with modern Tonson, 1725 estate. The Cup-and-Ball game remained at Chawton House The Works of William Shakespeare.... Macmillan and string, possibly English, c.1800, chipped at base, hairline cracks and was played with by successive generations of Knight 7 volumes, 4to, FIRST EDITION, series title page in volume one Co., 1893-95 “Jane Austen was successful in everything that she attempted children until the death of Montagu Knight (1844-1914), the printed in black and red, additional title page for each volume with her fingers. None of us could throw spilikins in so 8vo (255 by 170mm), 40 volumes, one of 500 copies on grandson of Jane’s brother Edward. Montagu’s widow Florence (dated 1723-1725), fly titles, engraved head- and tail-pieces, perfect a circle, or take them off with so steady a hand. Her hand-made paper, title-pages in red and black, half-titles, took various items associated with Jane and Cassandra contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, performances with cup and ball were marvellous. The one contemporary half red morocco signed by Sangorski and (including this Cup-and-Ball) with her to the Dower House all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, lacking portraits, some used at Chawton was an easy one, and she has been known to Sutcliffe, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, marbled when Chawton itself was inherited by her nephew Lionel spotting, rebacked, binding slightly rubbed at extremities, gilt catch it on the point above an hundred times in succession, till endpapers, contained in four collector’s slipcases, occasional (1872-1932). The elderly Florence Knight was looked after by on spines faded her hand was weary.” (James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir light spotting or browning, some hinges splitting, many joints two nieces: Beryl, the daughter of Elizabeth, née Knight, and of Jane Austen (1871), pp.97-98) FIRST POPE EDITION, with the rare seventh volume of Poems weak, occasional professional strengthening to joints, minor Margaret, née Hardy, both grand-daughters of the original published under a different imprint. abrasions to spine Cup-and-Ball, or bilbocatch (from the French bilboquet) was Edward Knight’s son and heir, Edward Knight II (father of a popular domestic game at which Jane Austen excelled. She Montagu Knight). Margaret married her cousin, Beryl’s brother REFERENCES This edition of the works of Shakespeare, in attractive gives a good indication of the game’s part of daily routine in Lt. Col. Edward Bradford, so their children were descendants Sangorski and Sutcliffe bindings, was edited by William Aldus ESTC N26060 and T138856; Jaggard p.251 a letter to Cassandra of 29 October 1809: “We do not want of the Knight branch of the Austens by both parents. Edward Wright and comprises ‘The Cambridge Shakespeare’. amusement: bilbocatch, at which George is indefatigable; and Margaret Bradford inherited the contents of the Dower PROVENANCE spillikins, paper ships, riddles, conundrums, and cards, with House on Florence’s death in 1935: some items were donated £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 Sir John Bickerton Williams, bookplate in volume one watching the flow and ebb of the river, and now and then to the Jane Austen House Museum in the 1940s and others, a stroll out, keep us well employed; and we mean to avail including this Cup-and-Ball game, remained in the family. £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 ourselves of our kind papa’s consideration, by not returning to Winchester till quite the evening of Wednesday.” PROVENANCE Edward Knight, brother of Jane Austen, who inherited the This Cup-and-Ball game, which has always remained in the Chawton estate; his grand-daughter, Florence Knight (d.1935); family of Jane Austen, has always been associated with the her nephew and niece, Lt. Col. Edward Bradford and his wife author including on the rare occasions when it has been Margaret; thence by descent. publicly exhibited. The house in Chawton in which Jane lived with Cassandra and their mother was part of the Chawton # ◉ £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500

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accepted, then rejected, some two years after this letter was Although Austen suffered the “greatest anxiety” about her written. Bigg-Wither was the heir to a considerable estate a few fourth novel and feared that “...to those readers who have miles from Steventon and his sisters were close friends of Jane preferred “Pride and Prejudice” it will appear inferior in wit, and Cassandra - it would have been, in practical terms, a highly and to those who have preferred “Mansfield Park” very inferior suitable match and Jane’s rejection of the proposal has always in good sense...” (from a letter to James Stainer Clarke, 11 been seen as a key moment in her life. December 1815), it soon came to be regarded as one of the greatest of all English novels. This is one of a series of letters written by Jane to her sister when Cassandra was absent from home from October 1800 REFERENCES 124 through to February 1801, visiting their brother Edward (who later took the surname Knight) at Godmersham Park House, Garside and Schöwerling 1816:16; Gilson A8; Keynes 8; Sadleir Kent. The eleven letters that survive are probably only a 62d 124 fragment of those Jane wrote to Cassandra during these five months. Unbeknownst to Jane, her familiar quiet existence £ 8,000-12,000 € 9,000-13,400 integral address panel and postal marks, seal tear, fold tears, AUSTEN, JANE was about to come to an end: life at Steventon was shattered professionally conserved Autograph letter signed (“JA”), to her sister just weeks after this letter was written by her father’s abrupt “…To sit in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned decision to retire from the rectory in favour of his son James, 126 Cassandra, room is a luxurious sensation…” and move to Bath with his unmarried daughters. Jane was on family affairs and local news, with a charming account of A VIVIDLY DESCRIPTIVE LETTER OF JANE AUSTEN’S DAILY distraught at the news that she would be uprooted from her AUSTEN, JANE new furniture acquired for the rectory at Steventon, news of LIFE. Written at the age of 25 from Steventon Rectory, the only home and the beloved local countryside, and she was to have a Earle Harwood, their neighbour’s son then serving in the army family home she had ever known, Austen writes of a deeply peripatetic life until she settled in Chawton in 1809. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasian. John Murray, (“...About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard room familiar world with a fondness marked, of course, by ironic 1818 REFERENCES at Marcau [St Marcouf], he accidentally shot himself through wit. Neighbourhood and family gossip act as a window on the 4 volumes, 12mo, FIRST EDITION, half-titles (between the the Thigh...”) and currently in hospital in Gosport, with a terse world at war - the son of the local squire who was injured whilst Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (1995), no. 25 preliminary leaves and first page of text in each volume, as account of a ball attended by her brother James when visiting garrisoning an island off the Normandy coast; her brother’s issued), paper watermarked “AP | 1816 | 2”, later full calf, Earle Harwood (“...It was in general a very ungenteel one, & naval exploits in the eastern Mediterranean - but her focus is # £ 40,000-60,000 € 44,700-67,000 gilt border, flat spine gilt, titled in gilt on red labels, volume there was hardly a pretty girl in the room...”), describing a on the local and domestic. She gives a wonderfully detailed and numbers and dated in gilt on red and green labels, all edges quiet evening spent with friends in a neighbouring village (“... precise account of the purchase of new tables for the rectory, speckled, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, titles and a few Sometimes we talked & sometimes we were silent; I said whilst the event she describes in the most dramatic terms is a 125 leaves strengthened at gutter, some spotting and browning two or three amusing things, & Mr [James] Holder made storm that has blown down trees in the rectory garden. Many a few infamous puns...”), ALSO MENTIONING THE STATE of those named in the letter were longstanding friends and part See catalogue note at SOTHEBYS.COM OF HEALTH OF HARRIS BIGG-WITHER, whose proposal of the same small community, whose lives had been deeply AUSTEN, JANE REFERENCES of marriage Jane was to accept briefly in 1802, with three connected with the Austens over many years. James Digweed, Emma: A Novel. John Murray, 1816 postscripts, the first including news of their brother Charles’s for example, one of the friends mentioned in Jane’s account Garside and Schöwerling 1818:19; Gilson A9; Keynes 9; Sadleir capture of a Turkish ship and the second, written in the of her quiet evening with friends at Ash Park, was a curate at 3 volumes, 12mo, FIRST EDITION, half-titles supplied in 62e evening, describing the dramatic effects of a storm earlier Steventon who, in years past, Jane had teasingly claimed was facsimile, paper watermarked “1815 | H”, “Budgen 1815” and “J in the day (“...I was sitting alone in the dining room, when an in love with Cassandra. However the most significant reference Budgen 1815”, 1p. publisher’s advertisements on verso of the PROVENANCE odd kind of crash startled me - in a moment afterwards it was is Jane’s brief comment that “Harris seems still in a poor way, final leaf of text in volume 3, later full calf, gilt border, flat spine J.C. Fowle, ownership signature on title of each volume repeated; I then went to the window, which I reached just in from his bad habit of body; his hand bled again a little the other gilt, titled in gilt on red labels, volume numbers and dated in gilt time to see the last of our two highly valued Elms descend into day, & Dr Littlehales has been with him lately”. This is the most on green labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, together in £ 6,000-8,000 € 6,700-9,000 the Sweep!!!!!...”), 4 pages, with interlinear postscript added extensive comment found in any of Austen’s extant letters collector’s brown slipcase, many leaves strengthened at gutter, upside down to first page, 4to, Steventon, 8-9 November 1800, to Harris Bigg-Wither, whose proposal of marriage Austen some spotting and browning, some repairs to page edges

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AUSTEN, JANE—LEFROY, ANNA Autograph manuscript continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon working manuscript with extensive revisions, mostly with interlinear revisions but partially written on rectos only with revisions and additions on facing versos, two pages entirely cancelled and pasted over with revised text, in three stab-stitched fascicules respectively composed of 8, 11 (lacking final blank) and 8 bifolia, the third with an additional leaf stitched in, with a final section of 11 loose bifolia and one single leaf (the conjugate leaf torn away), on unwatermarked wove paper with indistinct blind stamp in upper left corners, altogether 113 pages, plus blanks, 8vo (180 x 110mm), probably 1840s, light spotting

[with:] Two autograph manuscript reminiscences of Jane Austen: retained copy of a letter to her brother James Edward Austen-Leigh when he was preparing his Memoir of Jane Austen, 9 pages, c.1864; further reminiscences (commencing “I cannot remember distinctly the face of either Aunt...”) in two draft texts, one incomplete, 5 pages; 8vo (180 x 110mm) [also with:] Autograph manuscript note on the manuscript of Sanditon (“I have in my possession a few pages of M.S. the last effort of my dear Aunt’s pen...”), 2 pages, 8vo (205 x 132mm), with a later subscription in the hand of Lefroy’s grand-daughter

M. Isabel Lefroy 127 housed in an orange collector’s folding box work before it was completed. She later reflected on how her “...Aunt Jane was the general favorite with children - as own work compared to her aunt’s: “There seems to me just the well she might be - her manners were so playful, & her long same difference as between real Lace, & Imitation.” circumstantial stories, continued from time to time & invented for the occasion were so delightful ... her earliest Novels, Anna Lefroy’s continuation of Sanditon is not just a literary certainly P. & P were read aloud in the Parsonage at Dean when manuscript inspired by Austen and written within her intimate 128 129 I was in the room - & not expected to listen ... I did listen with all familial circle; it also stands at the head of a distinct literary my might, was so much interested & talked so much afterwards sub-genre of Austen sequels. The impulse to continue her about Jane & Elizabeth that it was resolved for prudence sake to stories surely stems from the extraordinary depth and read no more of the story aloud in my hearing...” subtlety of characterisation that is one of the foremost qualities of Austen’s art. The author herself appears to have 128 129 A CONTINUATION OF AUSTEN’S FINAL WORK BY ONE OF talked of her creations almost as living people, entertaining HER CLOSEST RELATIONS, TOGETHER WITH AUTOGRAPH her family with stories of their lives beyond the novels that FROM THE COLLECTION OF J. DUDFIELD ROSE (1907-1992), RECOLLECTIONS OF AUNT JANE. Anna Lefroy, née Austen AUSTEN, JANE contained them. Many readers have felt a similar intimacy FRCS (1793-1872), was the daughter of Jane’s eldest brother the with Austen’s characters, and had the same desire to continue Pride and Prejudice. George Allen, 1894 Rev. James Austen (1765-1819). Jane knew her niece well their stories. At about the time that Lefroy was continuing [COMBE, WILLIAM] in early childhood: when Anna’s mother died in 1795, her 8vo, FIRST EDITION THUS, half-title, frontispiece and Sanditon, her younger cousin Catherine Anne Hubback was father sent her to his parents in Steventon, where Jane and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, full pictorial teal morocco Two works: writing The Younger Sister (1850), a completion of Austen’s Cassandra also lived. The relationship deepened when Anna gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, motif of peacock standing on other surviving fragment, The Watsons. Austen sequels have i) The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas grew up to have literary ambitions, no doubt inspired by her an urn on upper board with morocco onlays, within a border since proliferated into well over fifty titles - even leaving aside Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of “Doctor aunt, and Jane wrote encouraging and enthusiastic letters of peacock feathers, single red jewel for peacock’s eye, pastiches and re-imaginings - including P.D. James’s Death Syntax”. R. Ackermann, 1815-1816, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece about Anna’s unpublished novel, Which Is The Heroine?, spine gilt in compartments with designs of peacock feathers Comes to Pemberley (2011). Sanditon itself (including Lefroy’s in volume one, additional pictorial title in volume one, 72 which provide an invaluable insight into Austen’s method of and butterflies, all edges gilt and gauffered, teal and purple continuation) has recently been adapted for the stage by coloured aquatint plates (36 in each volume) by Rowlandson; novel-writing. These literary conversations continued until morocco doublures, silk endpapers, collector’s slipcase, spine Christopher Brindle, who also directed a documentary on the ii) The Dance of Life, A Poem, by the author of “Doctor Syntax”; Jane’s final months; the two discussed Jane’s ongoing work on slightly rubbed, front free endpaper coming loose life of Anna Lefroy. illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. R. Sanditon in the early months of 1817. The peacock design of this sumptuous binding evokes Hugh Ackermann, 1817, 8vo, frontispiece, pictorial title, 24 coloured Anna went on to publish a novella and two children’s books REFERENCES Thomson’s design for the original cloth binding, as well as aquatint plates; FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, uniform full and, as the “literary niece”, inherited both Sanditon and Anna Austen Lefroy, Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Continuation by the peacock motif on the title page. The book contains 160 calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, all edges yellow,bindings the cancelled chapters of Persuasion when Jane Austen’s her Niece, ed. M.G. Marshall (Chicago, 1983) line drawings by Thomson, including headpieces, tailpieces, worn, upper joint split of “A Dance of Life” (3) manuscripts were divided amongst family members on the ornamental initials and the wholly drawn title page, which Deirdre Le Faye, ‘Sanditon: Jane Austen’s Manuscript and According to Abbey, “the Dance of Death and The Dance of Life death of Cassandra in 1845. Her continuation of Austen’s he began in the autumn of 1893. The book was published in Her Niece’s Continuation’, Review of English Studies, Vol. 38 were originally issued in twenty-four and eight monthly parts last, unfinished, novel was an act of homage to her aunt. October 1894. (1987), 56-61 respectively. It is possible that the extraordinary success of The additional characters, if not plot developments, that are Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts (www.janeausten.ac.uk) Dr. Syntax caused Ackermann to over-estimate the demand found in Anna’s continuation derive from her conversations REFERENCES Christopher Brindle, Jane Austen’s Sanditon: Documentary and for the new venture, with the result that a large number of with Jane in 1817 (Anna Lefroy to James-Edward Austen- Gilson E78; Keynes 82 Film-of-the-Play (2014; www.sanditon.info) unbound sheets were left on his hands”. Leigh, 8 August 1862, quoted in Le Faye, pp.58-59). Her imitation of her aunt extends to the physical appearance of PROVENANCE £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 REFERENCES the manuscript: Austen’s Sanditon is written in three booklets, Sotheby’s, 13 December 1977 (“The Property of the great- Abbey Life 263-264 almost identical to the arrangement of Lefroy’s continuation great nephews of Jane Austen”), lots 266, 267, 269 although very slightly smaller. Anna’s attempt to complete £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 the story ultimately proved too much and she abandoned the £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500

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DICKENS, CHARLES DICKENS, CHARLES The Christmas Books. [Vol. 1-2] Chapman & Hall, A set of the Christmas Books: 1843-1845; [Vol. 3-5] Bradbury and Evans, 1846-1848 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. i) A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Chapman and Hall, 1843, sixth edition, hand-coloured 132 Christmas. 1843, FIRST EDITION, second state (with chapter frontispiece and 3 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, one headed “Stave I”), half-title printed in blue, title printed contemporary inscription; The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some in blue and red, hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 hand-coloured Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Chapman 132 etched plates and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text by John and Hall, 1845, FIRST EDITION, additional vignette title (first Leech, 2pp. publisher’s adverts at end, original boards showing issue) and frontispiece, wood-engraved text vignettes; The [DICKENS, CHARLES]—CRUIKSHANK, In the Richard Gimbel collection of Dickens and Dickensiana evidence of green endpapers preserved at end; ii) The Chimes. Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. For the author (Yale University Library), there are ‘24 handcolored etched A Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and by Bradbury and Evans, 1846, FIRST EDITION, additional GEORGE copies by F.W. Pailthrope of the original plates for Oliver a New Year In. 1845, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with wood-engraved title-page and frontispiece after Maclise, Twist. Printed on paper watermarked “Whatman 1889,” these name of publishers a part of the vignette on the engraved wood-engraved text vignettes; The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Rare set of hand-coloured plates for Oliver Twist, etchings, which are beguiling and meticulously exact copies title page), half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional Bradbury and Evans, 1846, FIRST EDITION, additional pictorial [c.1880] wood-engraved title-page (fourth state) and frontispiece after of Cruikshank’s originals, bear no titles. At the foot of several engraved title by Maclise, 11 illustrations; iii) The Cricket comprising 22 (of 26) hand-coloured etchings, mostly 275 by Maclise, wood-engraved text vignettes, autograph letter signed prints there are pencilled instructions to the colorist’ (see John on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. 1846, FIRST EDITION, 195mm, many with pencil titles on reverse, some spotting and “C.W.” to W.W. Holden tipped-in, presenting this volume to B. Podeschi, Dickens and Dickensiana, 1980, item H1053). The half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title browning, one plate trimmed, one plate trimmed and mounted him (26 December 1846); The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s present set, however, has no watermark. by Maclise, 12 illustrations, 2pp. publisher’s adverts at end; on board iv) The Battle of Life. A Love Story. 1846, FIRST EDITION, Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. Bradbury and Evans, In 1903 Grego published a set of 67 plates for Oliver Twist, The half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved 1848, FIRST EDITION, additional pictorial wood-engraved THE RARE HAND-COLOURED ETCHINGS PRODUCED IN THE Miser’s Daughter and The Irish Rebellion in a limited edition of title (fourth state with “A Love Story” within a scroll borne title-page and frontispiece after John Tenniel by Martin 1880S AND AN UNCOMMON DICKENS/CRUIKSHANK ITEM. 300 copies. These were not hand-coloured. and Corbould, wood-engraved text vignettes; original cloth by a nude cupid without the imprint beneath) by Maclise, 11 In 1866 George Cruikshank produced a set of 24 coloured The present set therefore appears to be part of a very small bindings lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, some illustrations, 2pp. publisher’s adverts at end; v) The Haunted drawings (and one coloured ‘title-page’) for his friend F.M. hand-coloured edition produced around 1889. There are no browning to leaves in all volumes, cloth bindings worn, chipped Man and Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. 1848, Cosens. These coloured illustrations would later be published published titles. A clipping from the bookseller’s catalogue and torn on the spine, some repairs to spines and hinges (5) FIRST EDITION, 2pp. publisher’s adverts at front, frontispiece as photogravure plates, with Dickens’ text, by Chapman and of Sucking and Co (dated December 1916) and included with and additional engraved title by John Tenniel, 14 illustrations; Hall in 1895. the British Library material notes that set is ‘scarce’ and ‘a REFERENCES all small 8vo, each with original boards preserved at end, It appears, however, that the set of plates (expanded to 25 very small number only of these were done by the late Joseph uniform red morocco by Bayntun, spines gilt in compartments, Smith II:4, 5, 6, 8, 9 illustrations and one ‘title-page’) was also produced in a variety Grego’. gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, together in of different forms. The British Library holds a set of trial proofs The additional plate, ‘Rose Maylie and Oliver’, was made by collector’s red cloth slipcase, very occasional spotting £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 ‘in bistre’ thought to be a unique set (see Dex.297(1)). The Joseph Grego from the cancelled drawing by Cruickshank. Dickens’ Christmas Carol was the first of his five immensely same collection at the British Library includes an incomplete The plates ‘Oliver asking for more’, ‘Oliver’s reception by Fagin popular Christmas books. According to Eckel, “it was issued set of hand-coloured plates and a further incomplete set of and the boys’, ‘Mr Bumble and Mrs Corney taking tea’ and about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were hand-coloured plates thought to comprise a set of proofs ‘The evidence destroyed’ are lacking from the present set. sold on the first day”. (showing plate marks). The British Library sets were all owned A number are on trimmed leaves (as with the British Library by the collector J.F. Dexter who acquired the collection from incomplete set). REFERENCES G. Etheridge of Chapman and Hall. The sets were all instigated Eckel pp.110-125; Smith II 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 by Joseph Grego (1843-1908), the art collector and authority ‡ £ 2,500-3,000 € 2,800-3,350 on Dickens. £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900

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KEATS, JOHN LANG, ANDREW Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Printed for Taylor and Grass of Parnassus. Rhymes Old and New. 135 Hessey, 1818 Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Shelley-Brooks-Wade-Forman copy, Granniss 16) and the 8vo, FIRST EDITION, later issue, half-title with imprint on verso 8vo, NUMBER 41 OF 113 LARGE PAPER COPIES, half-title, full copy he presented to Leigh Hunt (Grannis 17). Out of around “Printed by T. Miller, Printer, Noble street, Cheapside”, five green morocco elaborately gilt by Zaehnsdorf, tooled with Queen Mab. London: ‘’by P.B. Shelley’’ [but by an 250 copies less than twenty are thought to have survived line errata on p.[xi], sectional titles, full blue green morocco by floral sprays within leafy ovals, spine gilt in compartments unknown printer for Thomas Hookham], 1813 with the original preliminary leaves. Furthermore Shelley also Riviere & Son, spine gilt in 6 compartments, gilt dentelles, top repeating floral design of boards, top edge gilt, green morocco removed most of the dedication leaves prior to distribution, a 8vo, FIRST EDITION, THE TERRY-MARTIN COPY, without half- edge gilt, marbled endpapers, collector’s green morocco and doublures stamped with floral design in gilt, matching green reflection of the great crisis of his life, his separation from his title as issued, with the dedication leaf (“To Harriet*****”), cloth slipcase, occasional slight spotting, small area of rubbing morocco endpapers, binding faded, expertly rebacked wife Harriet. to head of spine near joint with upper board, preserving original spine Shelley’s imprint on title page and the final leaf intact, dark- olive morocco gilt by the club bindery (1901), finished by “Breathing indignation against tyranny in fiercely denunciatory Endymion, dedicated to the memory of the poet Thomas AN ATTRACTIVE BINDING IN THE “DUODO” STYLE. Pietro Leon Maillard, with green, red, and ivory morocco onlays and blank verse, and containing eloquent essay-like notes on such Chatterton, was written when Keats was only 21 years old and Duodo (1554-1611) was Venetian ambassador to France in the pointillé decoration, red morocco doublures with floral and star subjects as the evils of meat-eating and marriage, Queen determined to test his abilities as a poet. Keats composed 1590s, and this all-over design of naturalistic flowers within designs in gilt, green silk and decorated endpapers (to a leafy Mab shows the youthful radical poet in quintessential form...” the epic poem over six months, beginning in April 1817, a task leafy ovals imitates the Parisian bindings designed for his and floral design), all edges gilt, preserved in specially made (Michael O’Neill, Oxford DNB). possibly conceived in rivalry with Shelley, who was engaged in library, although with the spine in compartments rather than crushed blue morocco pull-off box, neat repairs to small tears writing Laon and Cythna during the same period. the flat spine usually seen. REFERENCES on dedication leaf and final leaf At some stage after the publication of the first issue, the outer Ashley 5:57; Forman, Shelley 21; Granniss 15; Hayward 225; A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S double-leaf of the first gathering was cancelled. As here, the £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Wise Shelley pp.39-40 REVOLUTIONARY COMBINATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND replacement half-title bears a slightly amended imprint on the POETRY, IN UNMUTILATED STATE. Queen Mab, which verso (reading “T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street...” rather than PROVENANCE prefers the impersonal concept of Necessity to the Christian simply “T. Miller, Noble Street...”) which differentiates the two M.C. D. Borden, bookplate; Roderick Terry, bookplate, the sale notion of God, was the most widely read of Shelley’s poems issues. The often cited issue point regarding the errata leaf of his library at Anderson Galleries, New York, 2 May 1934, lot for many years, inspiring the Chartists and others. The work (first issue copies apparently listing only the single amendment 240; H. Bradley Martin, the sale of his library at Sotheby’s New was privately printed and given to just a few of the author’s to p.108) is dismissed by Hayward, who cites a letter from York, 1 May 1990, lot 3183 friends. In most cases — to avoid possible prosecution owing Keats “from which it is clear that both the one-line erratum to the content — Shelley removed the title and imprint from and the five-line errata were printed off before the book was £ 14,000-18,000 € 15,700-20,100 the last leaf. This applied even to the author’s own copy (the published”.

REFERENCES Ashley Library III, p.13; Hayward 232; MacGillivray A2

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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Ecologue; with other poems. Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1819 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, full green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, decorated with leafy sprays and roses, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, collector’s maroon chemise and marbled slipcase, some spotting and browning According to Mary Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen was begun at Marlow, and thrown aside till she found it, when, at her request, Shelley finished it at the Baths of Lucca in the Summer of 1818” (Buxton-Forman, The Shelley Library (1886), p.88).

REFERENCES Ashley Library V p.68; Granniss 49; Wise, A Shelley Library p.50

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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE 139 141 Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. C and J Ollier, 1820 8vo, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with “Miscellaneous” spelt 139 EDITION, half-title, frontispiece by Walter Crane, original green correctly on contents leaf A3 and this leaf a cancel), half-title, cloth, [Prideaux 3], several leaves loose, binding worn and soiled; Virginibus Puerisque and other papers. C. Kegan Paul & Co., fly titles, 2pp. publisher’s adverts at end, ORIGINAL BOARDS, STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS rebacked preserving small section of original spine and label, 1881, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher’s catalogue at end boards rubbed at extremities and a little soiled, some spotting Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David (dated 7.81), original orange cloth, [Prideaux 5], binding worn, minor worming to lower hinge; together with 22 other volumes Shelley writes in the Preface that “This Poem was chiefly written Balfour in the Year 1751. Cassell & Company, Limited, by or relating to Stevenson; all 8vo, original bindings, occasional upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla... The bright 1886 spotting and browning, bindings generally worn (26) sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with “business” on p.40 that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenched the line 11; “nine o’clock” on p.64, line 2; and “Long Islands” on £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.” p.101, lines 9-10), half-title, folding map, 1pp. publisher’s advert REFERENCES for first illustrated edition of Treasure Island followed by 16pp. of further adverts (earlier state with “5.G.4.86” at foot of first Ashley Library V pp.73-74; Granniss 54; Hayward 228; Wise, A 141 page), later full black morocco by Sangorksi & Sutcliffe with 137 Shelley Library pp.55-56 map pattern in blind and gilt, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, WELLS, H.G. PROVENANCE patterned endpapers John Whipple Frothingham, bookplate A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, preceded The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance. C. Arthur only by a few copies of a proof edition were printed in order to Pearson Limited, 1897 £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 secure the copyright. The story was first serialised in Young 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY H.G. WELLS ON THE HALF- Folks in the spring of 1886. TITLE, title page printed in red and black, 2pp. publisher’s REFERENCES adverts at end, original red cloth titled in gilt on upper board, 138 design of an invisible man in his dressing gown stamped in black Osborne p.392; Prideaux 18 on upper board, titled in gilt on spine, collector’s red morocco backed folding box, occasional light spotting and browning SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 RARE IN SUCH CONDITION. The Invisible Man, the tale of a Posthumous Poems. Printed for John and Henry L. scientist who turns himself invisible but is unable to reverse Hunt, 1824 140 the process, was first printed serially in Pearson’s Magazine 8vo, FIRST EDITION, thirteen fly-titles, without errata leaf, full calf in June and July 1897. Written shortly after the successful by Tout, ruled in gilt with floral ornaments at corners, spine gilt in publication of The Time Machine, the story has been adapted compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS numerous times for film and television. “Boldly melodramatic and intellectually provocative, Well’s early scientific romances... rebacked preserving spine, corners of boards repaired, occasional Collection of 26 volumes, comprising: light spotting remain unsurpassed for their imagination and visionary power” Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Longmans, Green, and (ODNB). According to Buxton-Forman, “the list of errata with probably Co., 1886, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half-title, original salmon- compiled after the book had begun to be circulated: hence its coloured cloth, 1p. publisher’s adverts at end, [Prideaux 17], REFERENCES frequent absence from copies” (The Shelley Library (1886), p.109) binding worn and slightly soiled; An Island Voyage. C. Kegan Wells 11 Paul & Co., 1878, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece by REFERENCES 138 Walter Crane, original blue cloth, [Prideaux 1], binding worn and £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 Ashley Library V p.88; Granniss 78; Wise, A Shelley Library p.70 soiled; Travels with a Donkey. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879, FIRST

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WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL Collection of 6 works, chiefly relating to the famous libel suit the artist took out against John Ruskin: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Edited by Sheridan Ford. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1890, pirated edition, original wrappers; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies...William Heinemann, 1899, first edition, original ochre boards gilt with butterfly decoration on upper cover,slightly browned, some wear to binding; Mr. Whistler’s Ten O’clock. Chatto & Windus, 1888 [bound with:] Whistler v Ruskin...sixth edition. n.d.; Wilde versus Whistler. An Acrimonious Correspondence on Art. 1906, privately printed, one of 500 copies; these 3 in original wrappers bound together in later brown boards; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly...Paris: Louis-Henry May, [1899], first American edition, ONE OF 250 COPIES, original cloth-backed boards gilt, in case with In Memoriam pamphlet; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly...New York, 1899, first American edition, original boards gilt; all preserved in cases or slipcases or boxes (6) The first work here is the rare American pirated edition (many copies allegedly destroyed by fire), preceding the authorised English edition by a few months.

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143 According to a pencil note the letter by Rodd is to Robert Louis 146 147 WILDE, OSCAR Stevenson. Ravenna Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, REFERENCES 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878 Mason 242 146 147

8vo, FIRST EDITION, original printed grey-green wrappers £ 400-600 € 450-700 bound in, rebound for Hatchards in three-quarter green WILDE, OSCAR WILDE, OSCAR morocco gilt with new blank leaves after the text, green cloth covers, matching endpapers, preserved in specially made “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in Lippincott’s Monthly Autograph letter signed, to “Dear Sir” (R.E. Forrest) 145 matching case and quarter green morocco slipcase Magazine, No. 271. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., responding gracefully to a suggested change to his essay ‘The A NEAR FINE COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST PUBLISHED July 1890 Artist as Critic’ (“... I do not agree with you that ‘whirring wheel’ BOOK. WILDE, OSCAR 8vo, FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE, WITH THE RARER is unmusical, but I think the epithet is too obvious - and also, as you have reminded me, it is not true - it conveys a wrong “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in Lippincott’s Monthly PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT, adverts at beginning and end, REFERENCES image. ‘Silent’ I like very much...”), 4 pages, 8vo, 16 Tite Street, Magazine. Ward, Lock, and Co., July 1890 [20 June original printed wrappers in red and black, collector’s cloth Mason 301; Ellmann pp.87-94 case and quarter morocco slipcase, wrappers slightly darkened London, [between July 1890 and May 1891], framed and glazed 1890] with a few short tears, and some small stains, slightly chipped alongside a transcription PROVENANCE 8vo, FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE, original wrappers at head and base of spine Robert Edward Trexton Forrest (1835-1914) was an civil George Herbert Wailes, armorial bookplate printed in black and red, collector’s full brown morocco See catalogue note at SOTHEBYS.COM servant in India for 21 years before retiring to write potboilers folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe replicating part of upper with an Indian setting. His suggestion for a more elegant £ 600-800 € 700-900 wrapper design in black lettering and red morocco onlay, some REFERENCES wording in ‘The Artistic As Critic’ was taken up by Wilde, and later versions of the text describe a vase emerging “flower-like spotting, recased, some loss to corners of wrappers (including Mason 82 final work of title), repaired with matching brown paper from the silent wheel” beneath the potter’s hands. This letter was presumably written between the essay’s first appearance 144 FIRST PUBLICATION OF WILDE’S CELEBRATED STORY. £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 in Nineteenth Century (July 1890) and the publication of a The character of Dorian was probably named after the young revised text in Intentions (1891). [WILDE, OSCAR]. RODD, RENNELL poet John Gray who was introduced to Wilde by Ricketts and Shannon. When the magazine appeared on 20 June 1890, the REFERENCES Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart story immediately created a huge amount of attention and APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. Not in The Complete Letters of & Co., 1882 interest, with some finding it repellent. Wilde subsequently Oscar Wilde (2000). 8vo, EDITION DE LUXE, LIMITED TO 175 COPIES, thin added a new preface and six new chapters for publication in transparent handmade paper interleaved throughout with a book form in 1891. PROVENANCE thin leaf of green tissue, printed in brown ink, Japanese head- Formerly on temporary deposit at West Sussex Record Office REFERENCES and tailpieces, rebound in contemporary green morocco gilt, (library stamp) top edge gilt, housed in folding case and quarter blue cloth Mason 81 slipcase together with an autograph letter signed by Rennell £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 Rodd (3 pages, Venice, “May 2”), slight wear to binding £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900

80 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 81 INCLUDING SHANNON’S FOUR “DELICATE AND LOVELY” 150 ILLUSTRATIONS AND RICKETTS’ “COMPLETELY BEAUTIFUL” DESIGNS. WILDE, OSCAR Although Wilde remained effusive about the decoration of his book (and defended it from public criticism), the printing of The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Shannon’s four plates had been difficult. As a result of some Serious People. Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 fault in the printing process, a dusty deposit appeared on 4to, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 40 OF 100 LARGE PAPER each plate, which was only noticed after the book was bound. COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title, paper Unfortunately the solution - wiping each plate with a flannel watermarked “Van Gelder Zonen”, original lavender cloth, small - removed the surface of the print and left the images rather designs by Charles Shannon in gilt, spine lettered in in gilt, faint, and in some cases, almost invisible. collector’s brown chemise and morocco backed slipcase, very REFERENCES slightly bumped at head and foot of spine and upper right corner of upper board Mason 347 A FINE COPY. Wilde’s play was first performed in 1895 but not £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 published until four years later, on the account of the scandal which engulfed the writer within months of the opening night. By the time of Wilde’s release from prison, Leonard Smithers was 149 one of the only publishers who could be convinced to publish Wilde’s work. The play was issued in a standard edition of 1,000 copies, as well as this large paper edition and twelve copies on [WILDE, OSCAR] vellum, most of which the author presented to his friends.

Key believed to have opened Cell 3.3 at Reading Gaol REFERENCES key approx 100mm. long, mounted within a wooden Mason 382 presentation box with sliding glass lid (217 x 125mm.), [with:] a framed statement on headed paper dated 14 December 1971 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 148 from Leslie Portch, Governor of HM Prison Reading, presenting the key to the Rotary Club of Reading and explaining “This key...opened all Cells in ‘C’ Wing and consequently would have 151 been used to unlock C. 3-3 occupied by Oscar Wilde from 150 November 19 1895 to May 18 1897” (2) WILDE, OSCAR “...But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and Salome. A tragedy in one act: translated from the French the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of Oscar Wilde. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912 of...” (Wilde, De Profundis) 4to, half-title, pictorial title page, frontispiece, list of AN EVOCATIVE ITEM. Wilde served the majority of his illustrations and 13 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, two leaves sentence for gross indecency at Reading Gaol, and remains inserted after “The Persons of the Play” (giving the cast for without doubt the prison’s most famous inmate. Wilde’s the first performance of Salomé in England in May 1905, and incarceration all but destroyed his literary reputation and his reproducing the playbill for the first production of the Operatic health but during this time he wrote the letter to Lord Alfred Version in Dresden in December 1905), 1p. publisher’s adverts Douglas which was later published as De Profundis and, in the and original green linen upper cover, featuring Beardsley’s month of his release, began The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which design, and spine preserved at end, full green morocco gilt he signed with his cell number, C.3.3. by Sangorksi and Sutcliffe, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral According to Portch’s accompanying letter, this key was used endpapers, collector’s matching green and yellow slipcase, at the gaol for a period of thirty years. As would be expected, it spine a little faded opened all the cells in C block, including Cell 3.3 in which Wilde was held following his transfer to Reading in November 1895. REFERENCES After Wilde’s departure the prison underwent numerous Mason 356 changes until its final closure in 2013, but despite extensive redevelopment and rebuilding Wilde’s old cell block still £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 149 stands. In November 1915 the remaining inmates of C block 148 were moved out to prepare for the prison’s use as a place of internment during the war; it was around this time that this 152 key became defunct. In 1920 the prison was closed and it lay WILDE, OSCAR empty for another 26 years before being reopened in 1946. WILDE, OSCAR It was converted to a borstal correctional facility in the early A House of Pomegranates. James R. Osgood fifties but became an adult prison once again in 1969. Most [The Complete Works.] Methuen, 1908 McIlvaine & Co, 1891 recently (September-December 2016), Reading Gaol has been 8vo, 14 volumes, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, limited to 1,000 151 small 4to, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, pictorial title the site of an exhibition in which artists, writers and performers copies on handmade paper, original gilt-stamped white linen- page, four plates by C.H. Shannon, head-pieces, tail-pieces have responded to Wilde’s incarceration and the Victorian covered boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, minor browning and illustrations by Charles Ricketts throughout, original penal regime. and offsetting (14) green linen backed cream boards stamped in pale red and gilt PROVENANCE with designs by Ricketts, including a peacock, fountain and a REFERENCES basket of pomegranates, spine titled in gilt with a few small Offered in an auction held by the Rotary Club of Reading, Mason 420-448a pomegranate designs, decorated endpapers, collector’s green c.1971, where purchased by the father of the present owner morocco backed folding box, hinges expertly repaired, small PROVENANCE ink ownership signature dated 1909, boards darkened and very £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 Elsie Jennings, bookplate slightly rubbed, lower board with two small bubbles £ 500-700 € 600-800 82 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 83 ENGLISH LITERATURE

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BETJEMAN, JOHN A large collection of books and periodicals by and relating to John Betjeman, 1924-2006, comprising:

i) The Heretick. [Marlborough: W. Gale], March and June 1949, 4to, original printed wrappers, together in collector’s folding box; ii) Mount Zion. Or In Touch with the Infinite. The James Press, 1931, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original boards; with 153 a copy of the 1975 facsimile edition; iii) Continental Dew. John Murray, 1937, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED COPY, of the final illustrations, some signed and annotated by the 153 original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket; with a copy of the 1977 artist, mounted; 4 sheets preliminary pencil sketches; 2 sheets facsimile edition, inscribed; iv) Selected Poems. John Murray, ink decorations; 6 wood-engravings each printed in black and 1948, 8vo, number 18 of 18 special copies on vellum, SIGNED, WILDE, OSCAR one colour, either red, green or ochre, each image present in original buckram; with a copy of the standard trade edition; v) 3 to 7 copies with slight variations in colouring and papers, [Works]. Methuen and Co., 1908 John Betjeman’s Collected Poems. John Murray, 1958, 8vo, several signed, dated and numbered from an edition of 25 number 72 of 100 special copies, SIGNED, original red calf, 14 volumes, 8vo, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 copies by the artist, some with annotations, others with printed publisher’s slipcase; with a proof copy, a copy of the standard 157 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER, half-titles, volume one (The caption, each mounted; in two collector’s folding cases (2) trade edition and 8 later editions; vi) Summoned by Bells. Duchess of Padua) with copyright slip dated 1907 after title Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime was published in an John Murray, 1960, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, signed, original cloth, page, volume 8 (Dorian Gray) published in Paris by Charles edition of 1000 copies with illustrations by Dorothea Braby by dust-jacket; with 7 other editions; vii) High and Low. John Carrington, uniform later full tan morocco by Sangorski and the Rodale Press in 1954. Murray, 1966, 8vo, number 83 of 100 copies, SIGNED, original Sutcliffe, ruled in gilt with leafy sprays at each corner, flat white buckram, dust-jacket; with a copy of the standard trade spines with dark green label lettered in gilt and pattern of edition; viii) A Nip in the Air. John Murray, 1977, 8vo, number leafy sprays in gilt along the length of the spines, top edges Ω ⊕ £ 500-700 € 600-800 73 of 175 copies, SIGNED, original yellow buckram; with 2 gilt, patterned endpapers, together in 3 collector’s tan cloth other copies; together with numerous other titles by Betjeman, slipcases, booksellers blindstamp on half-title of A House of boards lightly soiled, slightly rubbed at head and foot of spine, some signed and inscribed, works including contributions and Pomegranates, an occasional touch of spotting and browning 155 dust-jacket price clipped, slightly worn at edges with tape poetry by Betjeman, a framed 5 line handwritten stanza from repairs on verso AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF WILDE’S COLLECTED WORKS, “Christmas” signed by Betjeman, 3 signed broadsheets, a large FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S CLASSIC DYSTOPIAN edited by Robbie Ross, Wilde’s sometime lover, longstanding WILDE, OSCAR collection of periodicals featuring contributions by Betjeman NOVEL. Published simultaneously in paperback, and also in friend and literary executor. The text is taken in most cases and also works about him; various sizes, occasional wear to Collection of 10 limited editions: 200 signed copies bound in asbestos. from the last editions of each work issued under Wilde’s wrappers and bindings (c.460) supervision. The Sphinx. John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1920, one of A WIDE COLLECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF SIR JOHN REFERENCES 1,000 copies, 10 pochoir plates by Alastair, preface by Robert This first collected edition was issued in sets over 1908 - the BETJEMAN. Even from his earliest works, Betjeman Ross, original white buckram pictorially gilt, slipcase; The Bruccoli and Clark I p.42 first six in February, the next five in March and the final two demonstrated “the impeccable ear, delight in skill, and assured Fisherman and his Soul. San Francisco; the Grabhorn Press, in October. Dorian Gray, the only volume published under mastery of a wide range of tones and themes” (ODNB) that so 1939, limited to 200 copies, decorations and initials by Mallette £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 Carrington’s imprint, was published in April. delighted his readers. A full list is available on request. Dean, original quarter cloth, decorated boards; Le Portrait REFERENCES de Dorian Gray. Paris, 1928, new translation with engravings PROVENANCE by J.-E. Labourer, one of 200 copies, original paper covers, 158 Mason 420, 423, 425, 427, 429, 431, 433, 435, 437, 439, 441, see Gammond, A Bibliographical Companion to John Betjeman collector’s folding box; De Profoundis. A Facsimile. British 443, 445 and 447 (1997) [a copy included in the lot] Library, 2000, introduction by M. Holland, one of 95 copies signed by Holland, original quarter blue morocco, slipcase; CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.—PAGET, JOHN £ 15,000-20,000 € 16,800-22,400 £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. Rodale Press, 1954, illustrations The New “Examen”. The Haworth Press, 1934 by Dorothea Braby, unbound proof sheets for the limited edition (? of 1,000 copies), preserved in folding box; Hellenism. 8vo, NUMBER 31 OF AN UNSPECIFIED LIMITATION SIGNED 154 Edinburgh: the Tragara Press, 1979, trial copy in wrappers, for 157 BY CHURCHILL, full chestnut niger morocco by Sangorski and an edition of 95 copies on Amalfi paper, original blue wrappers, Sutcliffe, top edge gilt,spine very slightly faded BRABY, DOROTHEA—WILDE, OSCAR with a copy of the published limited edition on blue cloth BRADBURY, RAY Paget’s 1861 volume on the Duke of Marlborough was boards, both preserved in blue cloth case and slipcase; with reprinted, with an introduction by Churchill, in a limited edition Original drawings and coloured wood-engravings by three other limited editions published by the Tragara Press; Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books Inc., 1953 and standard trade edition in 1934. Neither Woods nor Cohen Dorothea Braby for “Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime”. 1954 [together with:] Another Portrait of Oscar Wilde by Henri de provide the limitation. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED Toulouse-Lautrec. Grabhorn Press for Arthur L. Bloomfield, 9 large sheets of rough pencil sketches and details of BY RAY BRADBURY (“David! | Ray Bradbury | 2/5/88”) on n.p., n.d., unbound as issued, in blue-grey boards, slipcase; REFERENCES costumes and clocks, some annotated by the artist, each title, half-title, original red cloth lettered in yellow on upper various sizes, chiefly 4to (10) mounted; one unused pencil drawing and accompanying ink board and spine, DUST-JACKET, collector’s double morocco Woods B22; Cohen B53.1 and watercolour drawing of the carriage clock, both signed by slipcase, inner slipcase with “Fireproof” stamped in gilt, outer the artist, mounted; 6 preliminary pencil drawings and 8 early £ 600-800 € 700-900 slipcase with red and black morocco onlays depicting the £ 700-1,000 € 800-1,150 ink and watercolour drawings in various stages for all but one flammable hazard symbol on sides and thermometer on spine,

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CHRISTIE, AGATHA Gem set and diamond giardinetto brooch regularly worn by her Designed as basket of flowers, set with foliate clusters of variously cut stones including opals, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and diamonds, c.1950, one emerald deficient A FAVOURITE PIECE OF JEWELLERY WORN REGULARLY BY AGATHA CHRISTIE IN HER FINAL DECADES. Agatha Christie - who was rarely seen in public without a brooch and other jewellery - can be seen wearing this lively and colourful piece in numerous photographs dating from 1957 onwards.

PROVENANCE Sale of the contents of Dame Agatha Christie’s home, Greenaway House, Devon, Bearne’s, 12 September 2006, lot 283 159 Ω £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900

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DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. George Newnes, 1892 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (with “Violent Hunter” for “Violet Hunter” on p.317), half-title, numerous half-tone illustrations by Sidney Paget; 162 [with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. George Newnes, 1894 [1893] 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece and numerous half-tone illustrations by Sidney Paget; uniform full dark blue morocco, spines gilt in compartments with motifs of magnifying glasses, hats and pipes, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, 162 together in collector’s blue cloth and morocco slipcase, very occasional spotting (2) FLEMING, IAN FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, the stories having been initially Casino Royale. Jonathan Cape, 1953 published in The Strand Magazine. The first Holmes and Watson Agatha Christie wearing her giardinetto brooch, 1958 story appeared in towards the end of the magazine in July 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original black cloth lettered 1891, but quickly became one of the most popular features with in red on spine and with heart design on upper cover, DUST- circulation quickly doubling. JACKET, preserved in specially designed black morocco folding box by Sangoski & Sutcliffe with red heart motif on REFERENCES spine and lettering in red on lower and upper panels with Green and Gibson A10a and A14a; Sadlier 739 and 746 interlocking design in gilt and silver, interior lined with red velvet, some slight spotting and browning and wear to text, £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 edges and corners slightly bumped, jacket restored on spine and at creases, minor staining to jacket; together with the official programme for the 2006 Royal Film Performance 161 premiere of the film version in the gracious presence of Her Majesty the Queen, in aid of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, Leicester Square, 14 November 2006, DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN oblong 8vo, original paper covers, housed in matching specially The Speckled Band. An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. designed Sangorski morocco folding box, also lined with red velvet (2) (London and New York:)Samuel French, Limited, 1912 THE FIRST “JAMES BOND” NOVEL, together with the 8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, the author’s dramatic 2006 film premiere programme, each housed in SUPERB adaptation of his celebrated Sherlock Holmes story, publisher’s SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFE MOROCCO CASES. advertisements at the beginning and end, stage plot, properties plot and electric and lime plot at the end, original light green REFERENCES paper covers glued to spine blocked and titled in black with floral Gilbert A1a(1.1) bands, some slight browning, backstrip partially unglued, slight 162 creasing and wear to covers £ 12,000-18,000 € 13,400-20,100 See catalogue note at SOTHEBYS.COM

REFERENCES 161 Green & Gibson A36a

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166 163 apologized and - for the only time - revised the character’s name in the proof stage from ‘Gore’ to ‘Kidd’. However, one mention of the nickname “Boofy” remained in the published FLEMING, IAN text, which was swiftly corrected for the second impression. 166 Live and Let Die. Jonathan Cape, 1954 REFERENCES 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original black cloth Gilbert A4a(1.2) FLEMING, IAN was sent to Fleming on 25 June and which, with Fleming’s light lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET (first state without printed revisions, was then sent to William Plomer at Cape on 1 July. ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’, corrected typescript acknowledgement to the author or the artist Kenneth Lewis), £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 Fleming was not satisfied with the text and planned to revise it small label removed from upper fixed endpaper, binding very noted as the setting copy, autograph revisions in blue ink to in Jamaica the following year so he did not wish the typescript slightly soiled, dust-jacket soiled and frayed at extremities with about 80 pages, notably the addition two sentences at the to be circulated within the wider editorial team. Plomer wrote minor tears and occasional minor loss 165 end of the novel, and extensive editorial corrections in red, that he “much enjoyed the book as it is” but the question of A first edition of Fleming’s second James Bond novel. green and black ink, including some further revisions probably further revision soon became moot: Fleming’s health, which added from another typescript, 182 numbered pages, with an had been poor for some time, was in rapid decline and he REFERENCES FLEMING, IAN additional five pages of preliminaries (half-title, title page, list died on 12 August. This typescript therefore almost certainly contains Fleming’s last ever work on James Bond. This Gilbert A2a(1.1) Autograph manuscript article on Jamaica of Fleming’s other books, imprint, and contents page), one leaf cancelled and with the revised text supplied in contemporary typescript, including as it did the author’s final changes, was £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 a partial working draft of his piece published as “Adventures photocopy, 4to (255 x 200 mm), June-July 1964, with a single then sent to the printer for use as the setting copy. in the Sun: Blue Mountain Solitaire”, with extensive cancelled typescript page of suggested corrections by Kingsley Amis Fleming’s revisions tighten the prose and clarify the action. passages, in blue and black ink, 3 pages of a single bifolium, that were later adopted in proof, the first page of text with He revises some key moments - such as the description of folio, [1956]; with galley proofs of the complete article, 2 164 a note from the printer, Richard Clay & Co., requesting the Scaramanga’s “golden gun” (p.26) - but the most telling pages, manuscript with 35mm. tear at bottom edge not return of marked proofs by 29 December 1964, loose in a red change is the addition of the thee sentences that end the affecting text folder; staining to some leaves, some creasing, final leaf torn novel, and which perhaps give a telling insight into Fleming’s FLEMING, IAN “...Ever since I came to Jamaica I have been interested in the without loss troubled state of mind in his final weeks: Diamonds are Forever. Jonathan Cape, 1956 Solitaire (I even stole its sweet name for the heroine of one A TYPESCRIPT RECORDING FLEMING’S FINAL REVISIONS TO “...At the same time, he knew, deep down, that love from Mary of my books) because it is so seldom seen & because of the HIS LAST BOND NOVEL. Goodnight, or from any other woman, was not enough for him. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION (with “Boofy” for renown of its song...” It would be like taking ‘a room with a view’. For James Bond, “Dolly” on p.134), half-title, original black cloth (Gilbert’s Type By the 1960s the production of a new Bond novel followed In this manuscript Fleming explains what intrigues him about the same view would always pall.” B), ruled in blind in a repeated diamond pattern with silver a familiar routine. When Fleming was completing his text he the rufous-throated solitaire, a Caribbean thrush, and led diamond motif on upper board, titled in silver on spine, DUST- would request that a set of clean typescripts be produced him to undertake an expedition to spot the bird in the Blue REFERENCES JACKET, collector’s black cloth slipcase, dust-jacket very from it, which in this case he did on 14 April 1964. Fleming’s Mountains of Jamaica. Fleming famously took the name James See Gilbert A13a lightly browned text was sent to the typists in batches between 15 April and Bond from the author of Birds of the West Indies, and he here 16 June, and three sub-edited typescripts were completed by Fleming had appropriated the nickname “Boofy” from his admits that his ornithological interests also lay behind the 24 June. This is one of those copies, presumably the one that # £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500 wife’s cousin Lord Arran, who was known as Arthur “Boofy” name of the psychic virgin Solitaire in Live and Let Die. The Gore. Unfortunately, the character Fleming has chosen was completed article was first published in The Times on 8 April a particularly unpleasant one, and upset Lord Arran. Fleming 1956 (Gilbert C54).

88 SOTHEBY’S # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 89 167 PROVENANCE Largely Frederick S. Peck, bookplate FORSYTH, FREDERICK £ 500-700 € 600-800 The Day of the Jackal. Hutchinson of London, 1971 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK FORSYTH (“To | Sir Dudley | with warmest regards 170 | Freddie Forsyth | 15.11.71.”) on verso of the half-title, half-title, original dust-jacket preserved at end, pictorial red, blue, black and GRAVES, ROBERT white morocco, black morocco onlays and silver rule depicting a marksman and crosshairs, lettered in silver in spine, all edges Poems (1914-27). William Heinemann, Ltd., 1927 silver, red, blue and white head- and tail bands, patterned 8vo, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 63 of 115 SIGNED COPIES, endpapers, collector’s matching black morocco slipcase half-title with limitation on verso, fly titles, paper watermarked As a young journalist posted in Paris in the early 1960s, Forsyth “Ellerslie” with an outline of a unicorn, full navy morocco gilt by had reported first hand from the scene of a genuine attempt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, titled in gilt on extreme right wing forces to assassinate President Charles de red spine label, original wrappers and spine preserved at end, gilt Gaulle on the Avenue de la Libération. It was this experience dentelles, top edge gilt, floral endpapers, navy morocco and cloth which inspired his 1971 novel, centred on an unnamed assassin, slipcase codenamed the “Jackal,” who ingeniously plots a further threat to A VERY FINE COPY. de Gaulle’s life. 170 REFERENCES £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Higginson A24

£ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 168

FRANK, ANNE 171 Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 167 Augustus 1944. Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 1947 GREENE, GRAHAM 8vo, FIRST EDITION, text in Dutch, photographic portrait The Name of Action. William Heinemann, 1930 frontispiece, floor plan of the house, two photographic plates 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY and facsimiles of her handwriting, original paper-covered boards, GREENE TO KENNETH RICHMOND (“For Kenneth Richmond | morocco fitted folding case,spine darkened, some browning to from | Graham Greene | Oct. 1930.”) on the front free endpaper, boards and endpapers, lacking the dust-jacket half-title, original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, FIRST True first edition of The Diary of a Young Girl. In June 1947 Otto ISSUE DUST-JACKET (priced “7/6” on spine), collector’s folding Frank published his daughter Anne’s diary, which has become morocco box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe,boards slightly rubbed, one of the most famous books written during the Nazi occupation some spotting, repairs to head spine of dust-jacket at head and to of western Europe. Anne herself selected the title Het Achterhuis, small section below the price, further repairs to a few small tears literally “back of the house,” but now known throughout the AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THE English-speaking world as The Diary of Anne Frank. Limited TEENAGE GREENE’S PSYCHOANALYST. edition, with only 1,500 published. At the age of sixteen and following several years of deep unhappiness at boarding school, Greene was sent to stay £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 171 with psychoanalyst Kenneth Richmond and his wife Zoe. As Greene wrote in A Sort of Life, “I don’t know by what process of elimination my father and brother chose Kenneth Richmond to be 169 my analyst, but it was a choice for which I have never ceased to be grateful, for at his house in Lancaster Gate began what were GALSWORTHY, JOHN perhaps the happiest six months of my life”. A testament to his significance in the author’s life, some nine Collection of novels, plays and others, comprising: years after his treatment, Greene sent this copy of his second i) The Island Pharisees. Heinemann, 1904, first edition, first novel to Richmond. He would go on to devote almost an entire published impression (state not recorded in Marrot with the chapter of his autobiography to these six months. Richmond “Dolf Wyllarde” spelt correctly on the verso of the title page, but was himself a writer and well connected in the literary world, this title also listed), PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE and it was at his home that Greene was introduced to Walter de AUTHOR, original cloth, collector’s chemise and slipcase [Marrot la Mare (a childhood favourite) and other authors and editors. pp.8-9], boards slightly soiled and rubbed, corners bumped, This, combined with the tranquility of life in west London and bookdealers label on front pastedown; ii) The Forsythe Saga. Richmond’s sensitive approach to the young man’s fragile mental Heinemann, 1922, first edition, folding family tree (pulling out to health “liberated” Greene, and “helped to start him on his long the right), original cloth, collector’s chemise and slipcase [Marrot road as a writer” (Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, Volume One pp.34-35], lower interior joint splitting, browning to endpapers, (1990), p.99). ownership inscription on front free endpaper; iii) The Silver Spoon. Heinemann, 1926, first edition, PRESENTATION COPY REFERENCES INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the day of publication “Aug 26. Wobbe A3a 168 1926”, 8pp. publisher’s adverts at end, original cloth, dust-jacket, together with a pictorial dust-jacket, collector’s chemise and £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 171 slipcase [Marrot pp.42-43], dust-jacket frayed at extremities; together with 21 others, including 14 plays; mostly 8vo (24) 90 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 91 175

GREENE, GRAHAM The Quiet American. William Heinemann, 1955 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENE (“For Doris Young | from | Graham Greene | in grateful thanks for easing | so many burdens.”) on the front free endpaper, half-title, original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, top edge blue, dust-jacket, collector’s pictorial morocco folding box, some spotting, spine of dust-jacket browned Doris Young was Greene’s secretary from the early 1950s until 1958, when she was replaced by Josephine Reid. Young apparently came to Greene from Harry Walston, husband of Greene’s lover Catherine.

REFERENCES Wobbe A35a

PROVENANCE Doris Young, presentation inscription; by descent to Mrs 172 174 Penelope Cook; sale, Sotheby’s London, 16 July 1984, lot 170

£ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600

172 173 176 GREENE, GRAHAM GREENE, GRAHAM The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann, 1948 The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. William GREENE, GRAHAM

8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED Heinemann, 1950 The Quiet American. William Heinemann, 1955 175 BY GREENE (“With all good wishes | (saw this book while | 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original black cloth, titled in 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original blue cloth, titled in gilt telephoning) | thank you for the royalty, | Graham Greene | silver on spine, publisher’s device in blind on lower board, on spine, top edge blue, dust-jacket, ‘Book Society Choice’ red Sept. 11. 1948.”) on front free endpaper, original dark blue DUST-JACKET, collector’s dark green slipcase, bookseller’s wrap around band, collector’s green cloth slipcase, spine of cloth, titled in silver on spine, publisher’s device blindstamped stamp to rear pastedown endpaper jacket very slightly darkened on lower board, DUST-JACKET, collector’s morocco folding A NEAR MINT COPY. box, spine somewhat worn, some browning, dust-jacket slightly A VERY FINE COPY, with the rare wrap around band announcing the book at “Book Society Choice & Daily Mail worn at extremities and a little spotted, dust-jacket spine faded REFERENCES Book of the Month”. Having been taken ill during a trip to New York, September Wobbe A23a 1948 saw Greene back in London to recuperate. He was REFERENCES exhausted. Over the previous eighteen months he had finished £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 Wobbe A35a The Heart of the Matter, which was then published to wide acclaim at the end of May, written three complete film scripts £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 and The Third Man, a “short” novel of 30,000 words. In New 174 York between meetings with Carol Reed and David Selznick to discuss The Third Man Greene was also roughing out ideas for a theatre production of The Heart of the Matter proposed GREENE, GRAHAM 177 for December. The Fallen Idol, another film with Reed, was The Third Man. Helsinki: Eurographica, 1988 released on 30 September. GREENE, GRAHAM large 8vo, ONE OF 520 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE REFERENCES OF 20 COPIES “PRINTED FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF A Burnt-Out Case. Heinemann, 1961 Wobbe A21a THE AUTHOR”, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“For Bryan 8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY & Nanette | with love from | Graham”) below the limitation, INSCRIBED BY GREENE (“For Jack Robins [?] | with £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 original blue grey cloth, lettered in dark blue on upper board affectionate good wishes | from Graham Greene”) on the front and spine, dust-jacket, collector’s red morocco backed folding free endpaper, half-title, original black cloth, lettered in silver box with device of bee in gilt on lower board at foot of spine, on spine, dust-jacket, collector’s dark green slipcase, boards dust-jacket with a few spots of light soiling very slightly soiled with some rubbing to head of spine, some BRYAN FORBES AND NANETTE NEWMAN’S COPY. Director slight spotting to edges of jacket flaps and writer Bryan Forbes (1926-2013) was a longstanding First published in Swedish the preceding year, Greene’s novel friend of Greene, and often claimed that his great ambition was set in a leper’s colony in remote Africa is “a fascinating study to write a book as good as The End of the Affair. Forbes and of the relationship of suffering, especially freely accepted actress Nanette Newman were married for 58 years. suffering — to wholeness” (review in The New York Times, The folding box in which this copy in preserved bears a small February 1961). Napoleonic bee stamped in gilt, which appears on many boxes from Forbes’ library and also on his bookplate. REFERENCES Wobbe A41a 177 £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 £ 2,000-2,500 € 2,250-2,800 92 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 93 179

178 Their relationship was the most enduring of Greene’s life. Greene’s pet name for Yvonne, “Healthy Happy Kitten” or “H.H.K.” (which appears as on the dedication page of Travels GREENE, GRAHAM with my Aunt), disguises the deep emotion he felt for her: on The Comedians. The Bodley Head, 1966 the back of photograph given to her in 1978, he inscribed “If I were to live my life again, there is only one thing I would want 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED unchanged: meeting you, knowing you, and loving you.” Six 182 BY GREENE (“For David, in memory of | Havana, & in hope months before he died, he went further: “If she didn’t exist,” he of other [?] | adventures, from Graham.”) on title, half-title, wrote, “I’d put a bullet through my head.” original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine, top edge lilac, first issue dust-jacket (priced “25s”), collector’s green cloth REFERENCES slipcase, dust-jacket lightly worn at extremities Wobbe A55a 181 182 INSCRIBED TO DAVID LEWIN, film critic and journalist for the Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily Star. Lewin interviewed PROVENANCE Greene early in 1966 for the Mail. Yvonne Cloetta, presentation inscription; by descent; sale, GREENE, GRAHAM GREENE, GRAHAM Sotheby’s London, 15 December 2011, lot 83 [part of] Getting to Know the General. The Story of an [Works] The Collected Edition. William Heinemann & REFERENCES Involvement. The Bodley Head, 1984 The Bodley Head, 1970-1982 Wobbe A48a £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 22 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION THUS, ALL BUT ONE PROVENANCE BY GREENE (“For Yvonne | The first copy | with all my love, VOLUME SIGNED BY GRAHAM GREENE on the title page, David Lewin (d.2012), presentation inscription and ownership 180 | Graham | Sep 10 [?] 1984”) on front free endpaper, half- volume one (Brighton Rock) inscribed by the author to Rick signature dated January 1966, the month of publication title, original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket, Gekoski (“Graham Greene | for Rick | with affection”) on collector’s dark green cloth slipcase, a touch of spotting on title, further inscribed by Greene on the front endpaper of £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 GREENE, GRAHAM lower flap of jacket volume 8 (Collected Stories) and with three line of working annotations on the lower flap of the dust-jacket, each with a Travels with my Aunt. A Novel. The Bodley Head, A FINE INSCRIBED COPY, given by the author to his new introduction by the author, original green cloth, titled in 1969 longstanding lover, Yvonne Cloetta (see lot 179). 179 gilt on spine, top edges green, dust-jackets, in 5 collector’s 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PROVENANCE dark green cloth slipcases, volume 18 supplied from another set (and not signed), top stains faded, dust-jackets slightly worn GREENE (“For David | affectionately | from Graham”) on the Yvonne Cloetta, presentation inscription; by descent; sale, at extremities and spines a touch browned; [with:] Collected GREENE, GRAHAM front free endpaper, half-title, original green cloth, lettered in Sotheby’s London, 15 December 2011, lot 83 [part of] gilt on spine, top edge stain, dust-jacket, collector’s dark green Essays. The Bodley Head, 1969, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, signed by A Sort of Life. The Bodley Head, 1971 Greene, original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket, slipcase, dust-jacket worn at extremities with tape repairs on £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY verso to a few small tears, some minor loss to head and food matching collector’s dark green cloth slipcase, dust-jacket GREENE (“For Yvonne & Jacques | with love from | Graham”) of spine slightly worn at extremities (23) on the front free endpaper, half-title, original green cloth, titled Lewin interviewed Greene in 1966 (see lot 178) and again in GRAHAM GREENE’S OWN COPY OF HIS COLLECTED WORKS. in silver on spine, dust-jacket, collector’s dark green slipcase, 1975. His inscription on the endpaper of the volume of Collected black ink annotations marking two passages to p.25, edges of Stories notes three stories as “possible additions”: ‘The jacket very slightly worn REFERENCES Lieutenant Died Last’, ‘The News in English’ and ‘The Moment INSCRIBED TO YVONNE CLOETTA, GREENE’S LOVER OF Wobbe 53a of Truth’. OVER THIRTY YEARS, AND HER HUSBAND JACQUES. PROVENANCE REFERENCES Greene and Yvonne (1923-2001) had first met in Douala in see Wobbe A52 and A56 French Cameroon in 1959, and shortly afterwards became David Lewin (d.2012), presentation inscription, further lovers despite his being 18 years her senior. Although Yvonne inscribed by Lewin with the date “Feb ‘70” PROVENANCE was married, Greene moved to Antibes in 1966 in order to be Graham Greene; purchased from the author in 1989 close to her. Her husband, a Swiss Unilever executive, was £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 apparently ignorant of the affair until 1972, and although the discovery caused him some distress, it was not until the very £ 12,000-15,000 € 13,400-16,800 end of Greene’s life that Yvonne went to live permanently with him on Lake Geneva.

94 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 95 183 183

HARDY, THOMAS The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. Macmillan and Co., 1912-31 8vo, 24 volumes, THE WESSEX EDITION, titles in red and black, photogravure frontispieces and maps, half-titles, full green calf by H. Sotheran, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, occasional spotting and browning, spines slightly faded, occasional minor wear to extremities “The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy’s work and the last authority in questions of text” (Richard Little Purdy, Thomas Hardy A Bibliographical Study, 1979, p. 286) 186

REFERENCES Purdy pp. 282-86 185 186

£ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 ISHIGURO, KAZUO JOHN, AUGUSTUS Collection of works by Ishiguro, comprising: Corrected typescript autobiography

184 184 i) A Pale View of Hills. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982, with cancelled titles (“Ups and Downs” and “Now and first US edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title Then”), portions later published under the title Chiaroscuro, HEMINGWAY, ERNEST page, original blue cloth backed white boards, dust-jacket, comprising a section entitled Book One in 326 numbered unobtrusive “P” stamp in black on lower edge, small tear to pages with 11 inserts, and additional shorter fragments with Four photographs, signed and inscribed on the lower left corner of upper panel of dust-jacket; ii) The Remains reminiscences of places, moments, and people (ranging from image, by Paco Cano of Madrid: of the Day. Faber and Faber, 1989, first edition, original black Winston Churchill to Aleister Crowley), c.84 pages, autograph cloth boards, dust-jacket, together with an advance proof corrections and revisions in blue and black ink, altogether i) Hemingway seated at Bar Txoca, Pamplona, in a group copy and a signed copy of the first US edition;iii) Never Let c.401 pages, a mixture of top copies and carbon copies, mostly including Valerie Danby-Smith, inscribed “El Papa peregrino Me Go. Faber and Faber, 2005, NUMBER 438 of 1000 COPIES 4to, c.1950s, the main sequence lacking leaves including pp. 2, and Val with our gang - in maravilloso Espectaculo - Viva SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original green boards, dust-jacket, 4, 37, 65-66, 281-93, 317, and 319 España - Nunca Basta. Your friend Ernesto Hemingway” publisher’s slipcase; together with 6 others, all 8vo (11) ii) Hemingway standing between two women on a street, Augustus John’s vivid telling of his extraordinary life takes inscribed “Pamplona - Mi ultra corridas. Viva Bar Txoko’. Un the form of a largely unstructured series of anecdotes and, £ 700-900 € 800-1,050 abrazo muy fuerte. ‘Happy’ Mary sends her love. Ernesto” after memories of childhood and his time as a student at the iii) Hemingway, suited, standing in a group of six behind a Slade (covering some 45 pages), it is largely untroubled by dining table, including his wife Mary and the matador Antonio chronology or dating. These are the reminiscences of a natural Ordóñez, inscribed “La torre de Babel - 1-2-3 Madrid, Papa’s raconteur: he meets everyone from Oscar Wilde in his final Gang, Seran benditas en ti todas la familias de la tierra, ‘Our years (with disappointingly short hair) to T.E. Lawrence at the Hobby’, Ernesto y Mary”, ink marks on image Paris Peace Conference; discusses fellow artists from Picasso iv) Hemingway, suited, standing in conversation between two to Dora Carrington; pays visits to Yeats in Dublin and Joyce men, inscribed “Best luck always Ernesto. Papa” in Paris; finds himself dogged by Frida Strindberg with her All four photographs additionally signed on the image by the unsettling habit of announcing her imminent demise; paints photographer and with the photographer’s stamp on the portraits of the Crown Prince Hirohito and the Governor of reverse, some minor creases and wear the Bank of England (whose lofty indifference makes him the perfect sitter); and savours life whether he finds himself in ‘20s These photographs were taken by the Spanish photojournalist Berlin, a Harlem jazz club, a Provencal village, or a Jamaican Paco Cano Lorenza who specialised in torero photography. beach. They were taken during Hemingway’s final visit to Spain, on an 184 assignment for Life magazine about the rise of the bullfighter # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 Antonio Ordonez, who is depicted in one of the photographs. Hemingway’s text was finally published in book form as The Dangerous Summer in 1985.

96 SOTHEBY’S # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 97 ii) “Albert Angelo”, carbon copy typescript, inscribed on title page (“A.A. (né S.A) for T, J and K, with L from B. (Sorry - typing errors not corrected”), a few marginal notes in red ball- point marking passages to be emboldened, four leaves with cut-out section as intended, 176 numbered pages, 4to, dated 1962-63, split-pin binder in dark red wrappers iii) File of 18 typescript poems, including two sequences, fourteen initialled by the author and some also inscribed and dated, 29 pages, 4to, 1959-61, loose in a folder iv) “The Unfortunates”, mimeograph typescript television script for a documentary based on the novel, 17 pages, folio, [1968]

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JOHNSON, B.S. 188 A collection of eleven works, 10 inscribed by the author to Tony and June Tillinghast: Travelling People. Constable, 1963, proof, DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED TO TONY AND JUNE (“gratefully, Bryan”), paper wrappers with dust-jacket; another copy, Panther, 1967, paperback reprint, inscribed to June; with Zulfikar Ghose, Statements Against Corpses. Constable, 1964, inscribed to Tony and June; Poems. Constable, 1964, inscribed to Tony and June; Trawl. Secker & Warburg, 1966, inscribed to June; 187 The Evacuees. Victor Gollancz, 1968, inscribed to June; House Mother Normal. Trigham Press, 1971, one of 26 lettered copies (“T”), with long inscription to June, lacking dust- jacket; Poems Two. Trigham Press, 1972, inscribed to June; 187 appear as flashbacks, all within the framework of a visit to Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry. Collins, 1973, inscribed to report a football match. This suggests itself as a film, first of June; Szerencsetlenek [The Unfortunates]. Debrecen: Alföldi all, or a television play: but the trouble is that so many other Nyomda, n.d., Hungarian edition, inscribed to June; See the JOHNSON, B.S. people would mess it about it either of these media unless I Old Lady Decently. New York: Viking, 1975; first editions except kept the very strictest control. So maybe a novel or short story Series of c.77 letters to his close friend Tony where stated, dust-jackets (where issued), 8vo (11) would be better. I’ve made some notes along these lines, but Tillinghast, and June Tillinghast how do you feel about all this? Naturally, I wouldn’t want to do £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 a mixture of autograph and typed letters signed, with a few anything which would hurt you in any way. Please let me know postcards, together with more than 100 letters by Tillinghast how you feel...” (June Tillinghast to Johnson, 31 January 1965) to Johnson, 7 letters by June Tillinghast (mostly after her JOHNSON’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE FRIEND husband’s death) to Johnson, and 9 other letters by Virginia 190 WHOSE DEATH FROM CANCER AGED 29 INSPIRED THE 189 Johnson and others, the correspondence beginning when both UNFORTUNATES. Tony Tillinghast (1935-64) was an men were undergraduates, discussing their work on publishing undergraduate at Nottingham University when Johnson was JOHNSON, B.S. the anthology Universities’ Poetry, with extensive discussion at King’s College London and their friendship was of great of Johnson’s literary work including Tillinghast’s careful significance to Johnson. Johnson acknowledged the debt The Unfortunates, carbon copy typescript critique of a draft of Travelling People, updates on his novels’ he owed to Tillinghast for his help on Travelling People by scattered corrections, in 27 sections, some sections with progress from their germination - such as the trip that inspired dedicating the novel to him and his wife (see lots 188-189). brief notes on the text by June Tillinghast on the final versos, Trawl (“...Went to the White Sea, just off the Russian coast: 160 pages, 4to, in a mock-up box (290 x 240 x 80mm) the saw a Russian cruiser which fired off a few shots – hoped it # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 inside with typescript notes, quotations and mock imprint was practice, but had crew mustered aft to sing God Save (“Published by Secker and Warburg etc”), dated 1967 [with:] Mr Kruschev [sic] just in case. Went up through the western typed letter signed by Johnson to June Tillinghast, presenting fjords of Norway ... Got what material I needed, I think, though the typescript and asking for her comments, also enclosing his I haven’t had time to absorb it yet...” 10 November 1963) 188 correspondence with Tony Tillinghast, 1 page, 29 September - through agents, publishers and printers, also discussing 1967; press release for The Unfortunates with Johnson’s CV Tillinghast’s professional ambitions as an academic, and their JOHNSON, B.S. and a press photograph with caption on the verso, 1969, personal lives (“...The wedding went off very smoothly – comes caption detached of having only seven there!...”), the later letters increasingly A group of four typescript works: [with:] The Unfortunates. Panther Books in association with taken up with Tillinghast’s diagnosis with cancer and declining i) “Travelling People”, carbon copy typescript, inscribed on Secker & Warburg, 1969. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, in 27 sections as health, with a few later letters to his widow, June, including title page (“for Tony and June Tillinghast, most gratefully, issued, with violet bellyband, housed in original pictorial drop- the initial idea for The Unfortunates, altogether c.300 pages, but for whose encouragement and honest criticism this novel backed box, INSCRIBED (“for Tony’s parents-in-law, with all various sizes and locations, 1958-67 would have been far worse. B.S. Johnson 4th July, 1961”), 370 my sympathy, this inadequate remain Bryan”), bellyband torn, “...I had an idea recently, going to Nottingham. It would take numbered pages, with an additional 40 cancelled pages bound box rubbed at joints and with slight wear the form of a visit to Nottingham (or another city) by a man in at the front, altogether 410 pages, 4to, dated January 1960- June Tillinghast was the widow of Tony, whose death was the who had not been there for some time. Various things he saw June 1961, in a split pin binder in pink wrappers, wrappers torn, subject of The Unfortunates. See lot 187. and did would remind him of his earlier visits, and these would light wear to outer leaves 190

£ 1,200-1,800 € 1,350-2,050

98 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 99 191

LE CARRÉ, JOHN A Murder of Quality. Victor Gollancz, 1962 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (“John le Carré”) on the title page, original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET, some slight soiling to upper corner of lower board, crease at the foot of dust-jacket spine and library stamp in blind on lower panel As stated on the dust-jacket, “Mr Le Carré’s second thriller”, and his only novel not to focus on the world of espionage.

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191 LE CARRÉ, JOHN The Spy who came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (“John Le Carré”) on a slip laid down to the front pastedown endpaper, 194 194 half-title, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (priced “18/-”), collectors red slipcase within a dark blue slipcase with morocco onlays depicting a man casting a long shadow 194 195 A VERY FINE COPY IN A MINT DUST-JACKET of Le Carré’s acclaimed novel, described by Time magazine in their list of the best hundred English language novels as “a sad, LOWRY, MALCOLM LOWRY, MALCOLM sympathetic portrait of a man who has lived by lies and Ultramarine. Jonathan Cape, 1933 Collection of eight works by or with contributions by subterfuge for so long, he’s forgotten how to tell the truth”. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, inscribed by the author on the front free him: £ 2,500-4,000 € 2,800-4,500 endpapers to his mother-in-law Emily Vanderheim (“To my Under the Volcano. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947, mother Emily J. Vanderheim - with lots of love from the author, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s grey cloth, reproduction dust- your son Malcolm. I wish the book were worthy of the done: jacket; Under the Volcano. Jonathan Cape, 1947, first English 193 I’ll give you a better one next time. I/X/XXXIV”) with a vintage edition, publisher’s grey cloth; John Davenport, Hugh Sykes photograph of the author inserted beneath the inscription with & Michael Redgrave, eds. Cambridge Poetry 1930. Hogarth adhesive tape, pencil note about Lowry presumably in Emily Press, 1930, David Worth (book plate); Edward J. O’Brien, ed. LITERATURE, ETC. Vanderheim’s hand, original blue cloth, DUST-JACKET, light The Best British Short Stories 1931. New York: Dodd, Mead & 192 Collection of ten volumes, comprising: soiling and wear to jacket, edges bumped Company, 1931, OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF JAN GABRIAL, AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF LOWRY’S FIRST NOVEL. Emily LOWRY’S FIRST WIFE, DUST-JACKET; Life and Letters: the Maugham, W.S. Cakes and Ale, Heinemann, [1954], number Vanderheim was the mother of Jan Gabrial. Lowry and Florin Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 55, July 1934; and three others (8) 272 of 1000 copies signed by the author and artist, lithograph Gabrial, a young American travelling around Europe, met in and decorations by Graham Sutherland, collector’s chemise Spain in 1933 and married in January 1934. By August 1934 # £ 500-700 € 600-800 and slipcase, some wear to extremities—Priestley, J.B. The they were both in New York and Lowry soon developed a Town Major of Miraucourt, Heinemann, 1930, number 421 friendly intimacy with Emily Vanderheim - in striking contrast of 525 copies signed by the author, vellum slightly bowed— to his strained relationship with his own parents. Lowry and 196 together with 8 others by W.H. Auden, A.E. Coppard, Ian Gabrial moved to Mexico together, where he began work on Cox, T.W.H. Crosland, Carlton Lake, Walt Mason and Wilson his masterpiece, Under the Volcano, but Lowry’s extreme MacDonald; mostly 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting behaviour and alcoholism (not helped by their isolated life in LOWRY, MALCOLM and browning (10) Mexico) proved too much of a strain on their relationship and Typed letter signed, to Jonathan Cape Gabrial left for California in December 1937. Lowry continued £ 200-300 € 250-350 to correspond with Emily Vanderheim even after his divorce explaining that he has signed a contract with Random House from her daughter. NO OTHER COPY OF THIS NOVEL WITH and outlining his works in progress including Lunar Caustic SUCH A PERSONAL PRESENTATION FROM THE NOVELIST (“...a wild novel set in a New York madhouse...”) and Dark HAS BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION IN RECENT DECADES. As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (“...the first of a sort of Under the Volcano trilogy...”), 1 page, 4to, Dollarton, BC, £ 5,000-8,000 € 5,600-9,000 Canada, 24 July 1952, creased [with:] a file of correspondence between Margerie Lowry, Earle Birney, Tom Maschler (retained copies), and others, on an edition of Lowry’s poetry and other projects, including a draft introduction by Birney, in excess of 100 items, 1970s, nicks and creases 192 £ 600-800 € 700-900

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MILLER, ARTHUR O’CASEY, SEAN Eight typed letters signed, to Dr Meir Stieglitz, Collected Plays. Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1949-1951 including discussion of his work, American and Israeli politics, 4 volumes in 2, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 11 pages, together with three faxes (and one duplicate) and BOTH VOLUMES INSCRIBED BY SEAN O’CASEY (“Inscribed to | two print-outs of emails, 6 pages, Roxbury, Connecticut, 12 Saul Shapiro | by | Sean O’Casey | With all good wishes. | Devon. 198 December 1992 to 12 August 2002, with eight envelopes, 1956”) ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY O’CASEY WITH A WALT including one with autograph address WHITMAN QUOTATION (“Today at Twlight, hobbling, answering [with:] 10 letters by Steiglitz to Miller, retained copies, mostly | company roll-call, Here, with | vital voice.”) on the half-title discussing Israeli politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 26 to volume 1, and with another quotation on the half title of the pages, 8 September 1987 to 27 July 2002 second volume (“There’s more in the sound of a | name than two or three | pronunciations”), later full black pictorial morocco “...But what do you feel about this? From where do you draw gilt, with multicoloured morocco inlays depicting the proscenium hope? arch flanked by the figures of tragedy and comedy, titled in gilt on I think I draw mine primarily from the prospect of creating spines, all edges gilt, red morocco doublures with morocco inlays something of beauty. To tell the truth, I don’t dare contemplate showing the masks of tragedy and comedy, patterned endpapers, what life must be for people who aren’t able to create and are collector’s matching patterned slipcases, slipcases slightly rubbed bound by the present and reality ... In fact, as you probably know, ‘culture’ is our second largest export, aircraft being A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND SET, INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY THE first. So we teach the whole world how to dream, something at PLAYWRIGHT. which we are expert...” The quotation that O’Casey has inscribed in the first volume comes A REFLECTIVE SERIES OF LETTERS FROM THE 1990s. Miller from Walt Whitman’s ‘My 71st Year’, from Leaves of Grass. O’Casey was still writing new work in his last decade - these letters himself was in his mid-seventies at the time he inscribed this copy. discuss such plays as The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, the film of The Crucible, and The Ride Down Mount Morgan - but he also PROVENANCE writes about receiving honours for his lifetime achievement. Saul Shapiro, presentation inscriptions and bookplates The letters are replete with revealing comments about both For other books from Shapiro’s library see lots 209 and 212. The men’s personal and romantic lives. The chief subject of these primary focus of his collection was Anglo-American writing of letters is, however, politics. Stieglitz met Miller in 1987 when Jewish interest. he was a post-doctoral fellow in international relations and nuclear strategy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. They shared £ 12,000-15,000 € 13,400-16,800 many political beliefs, including a radical critique of Israeli and American foreign policy, and in these letters Miller shares his wearily critical views of the Clinton administration, the Balkan 199 crisis, and the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu.

‡ £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 ONDAATJE, MICHAEL In the Skin of a Lion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original black cloth, dust-jacket; together with a signed copy of the Alfred Knopf first American edition (2) 198 198 Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient (1992) is, in part, a sequel to this title, set in 1930s Toronto.

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PIPER, JOHN STOK, WILLIAM—[ROBBINS, TOM] A large collection of works by, illustrated by and “Another Roadside Attraction” relating to John Piper, 1924-2003, comprising: 480 by 635mm., ink and watercolour drawing with onlays laid i) The Gaudy Saint and Other Poems. Bristol: The Horseshoe down to card, signed at centre Publishing Co. Ltd., 1924, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original boards; First published in 1971 as ‘an apocalyptic entertainment’ and ‘a ii) Nash, Paul, and others. Dorset. Shell Guide. Architectural metaphysical suspense’, Tom Robbins’ debut novel was issued Press, [1935], 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original spiral bound by Penguin in 1975 with this design on the wrappers. wrappers; together with approximately 20 other ‘Shell Guides’; John Piper’s Brighton Aquatints. Duckworth, 1939, oblong iii) # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 folio, FIRST EDITION, original boards; iii) Sitwell, Osbert. Left Hand Right Hand! An Autobiography. Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1945-1950, 5 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS (second 203 impression of volume one), original cloth, dust-jackets; vi) Golding, William. The Spire. Faber and Faber, 1964, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, original cloth, SHARPE, TOM dust-jacket; vii) John Piper’s Stowe. Hurtwood Press, 1983, 202 folio, FIRST EDITION, number 196 of 300 copies signed by Collection of 18 volumes, comprising: the author, original cloth, publisher’s slipcase; viii) Young, Riotous Assembly. Secker & Warburg, 1971; Indecent Exposure. Grahaeme Barrsford (ed.) Labrys 9. Hunting Raven Press, Secker & Warburg, 1973; Porterhouse Blue. Secker & Warburg, November 1980, 8vo, JOHN PIPER’S COPY, with his bookplate, 1974 (two copies, one signed); Blott on the Landscape. Secker original wrappers; together with numerous other titles by & Warburg, 1975; Wilt. Secker & Warburg, 1976; The Great Piper, illustrated by Piper, and about Piper and his work, Pursuit. Secker & Warburg, 1977; The Throwback. Secker & a large collection of periodicals featuring contributions by Warburg, 1978; The Wilt Alternative. Secker & Warburg, 1979 Piper (including The Listener, Cornhill, etc.), and catalogues (two copies); Ancestral Vices. Secker & Warburg, 1980, signed, for exhibitions of Piper’s work across the UK; various sizes, price-clipped dust-jacket; Vintage Stuff.Secker & Warburg, occasional wear to wrappers and bindings (c.240) 1982 (two copies, one signed, price-clipped dust-jacket); Wilt A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF PIPER’S PUBLISHED on High. Secker & Warburg, 1984 (three copies, one signed, WORK, including a very fine copy of his Brighton Aquatints and one in variant price-clipped dust-jacket); Grantchester Grind. Deutsch, 1995; Wilt in Nowhere. Hutchinson, 2004; 200 Stowe. all 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS, original bindings, DUST-JACKETS, A full list is available on request. occasional fading and wear to dust-jackets (18)

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PYNCHON, THOMAS THOMPSON, HUNTER S. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York: The Viking Press, 1973 Hell’s Angels. New York: Random House, [1967] 8vo, FIRST EDITION (stating “First published in 1973” on 8vo, first edition, fourth printing (as stated on the colophon), colophon), original blood orange boards decorated in blind with SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, original black cloth arc, top edge blood orange, DUST-JACKET (with code “0273” with silver vignette, spine lettered in red and silver, top edge on upper flap and SBN number in white on lower panel), black, dust-jacket, collector’s folding box, dust-jacket price collector’s matching blood orange folding box, bookplate clipped and worn at extremities with some loss; together with and neat ownership inscription on front and rear paste down a copy of the Book Club edition and the Allen Lane first British endpapers respectively, dust-jacket price clipped edition (3) A FINE COPY. Reviewed in the New York Times on publication as the novel in which “Pynchon establishes his imaginative £ 600-800 € 700-900 continuity with the great modernist writers of the early years of this century”.

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WAUGH, EVELYN Labels. A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, 1930 8vo, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 42 OF 110 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ORIGINAL SHEET OF THE MANUSCRIPT BOUND IN, half-title, frontispiece, sheet of manuscript tipped in between two blue leaves of card, 3 photographic plates, 2 maps, later three-quarter dark blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, matching blue morocco and cloth slipcase WAUGH’S FIRST TRAVEL BOOK. The sheet of manuscript included with this special copy roughly corresponds pp.116-118 of the published text, the opening of the fifth chapter which describes Waugh’s departure from the Port of Said. The manuscript shows numerous revisions and amendments by Waugh, and is titled by him “Five”.

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WAUGH, EVELYN WAUGH, EVELYN Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Wine in Peace and War. Saccone & Speed, [c.1949] Novel. Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1942 8vo, NUMBER 23 OF 100 SIGNED COPIES, half-title, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES, PRESENTATION illustrations by Rex Whistler, original maroon sheep, titled in COPY INSCRIBED BY WAUGH (“Frank | from | Evelyn | gilt on upper board with motif of a barrel designed by Whistler, Christmas 1942”) on front free endpaper, half-title, original red titled in gilt on spine, collector’s black folding box by The cloth title in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET, collector’s pictorial Chelsea Bindery, spine slightly faded morocco folding box, with a portrait of the author smoking Waugh was apparently paid in cases of champagne for this a pipe on the upper side, some spotting, slightly soiled dust- short work, which he was asked to write by Prince Vsevolod jacket worn at edges with some loss to head and foot of spine, Ivanovich of Russia (the dedicatee), who had married Lady spine of jacket darkened Mary Lygon in 1939 and worked at wine merchants Saccone INSCRIBED TO FRANK PAKENHAM, LATER LORD LONGFORD and Speed. (1905-2001). Frank and his wife Elizabeth were friends of Waugh, although Waugh regarded Pakenham’s literary PROVENANCE ambitions with undisguised disdain: he recorded in his diary James C. Thomson, bookplate for 1952 that, after seeing a manuscript of Pakenham’s 206 autobiography, “I said I wasn’t shocked at a politician writing £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 like that, but at a don’s” (The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976), p.704). 209 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 WAUGH, EVELYN 207 Men at Arms. A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WAUGH, EVELYN WAUGH (“Inscribed fro Mr. Saul | Shapiro by Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Feb 1953”) on title, half-title, later full pale brown morocco with black morocco inlays depicting the silhouettes of two soldiers, Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel. top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, collector’s matching brown Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1945 morocco and black cloth slipcase, spine very slightly darkened 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, later full pictorial morocco with THE FIRST TITLE IN WAUGH’S ‘SWORD OF HONOUR’ dark brown morocco inlays depicting the Oxford skyline, titled TRILOGY, INSCRIBED TO CANADIAN BOOK COLLECTOR in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, spine, flaps SAUL SHAPIRO. Shapiro (b.1910) collected English language and panels of dust-jacket (priced “10s 6d”) preserved at end, titles of Jewish interest, which he would have signed by the collector’s matching dark brown morocco slipcase author and rebound in attractive bindings. Much of his library A finely bound copy of Waugh’s masterpiece, described by him is now in the collection of the McGill Library, Montreal. as his “magnum opus”. PROVENANCE Saul Shapiro, presentation inscription 206 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 209

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212 210 211 212 WAUGH, EVELYN Officers and Gentlemen. A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1955 210 211 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WAUGH (“Inscribed | for | Saul Shapiro | by | Evelyn Waugh”) WAUGH, EVELYN WAUGH, EVELYN on a preliminary blank, half-title, full red, blue and green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue morocco doublures, Men at Arms. A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952 The ‘Sword of Honour’ trilogy, 1952-1961, comprising: all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, upper panel of original 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY i) Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952; ii) Officers and dust-jacket preserved at end, collector’s red morocco folding WAUGH FOR GRAHAM GREENE (“Graham | a bad book for Gentlemen. A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1955; iii) Unconditional box, joints very slightly worn a good friend | from | Evelyn | Sept 2nd 1952”) on front free Surrender. Chapman & Hall, 1961; all 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS, SHAPIRO’S COPY OF THE SECOND BOOK IN WAUGH’S endpaper, with additional notecard from Waugh to Greene full matching tan pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, TRILOGY. loosely inserted (“P.S. ...if you want a lump sum. Borrow maroon, green, white, black and yellow morocco onlays it from bank or publishers...offering in return the yearly and inlays, spines decorated with silhouettes of soldiers, all PROVENANCE allowance from your US publishers...”), original blue cloth, edges gilt, original dust-jackets preserved at ends, together in Saul Shapiro, bookplate and presentation inscription titled in gilt on spine, top edge blue, DUST-JACKET, collector’s maroon morocco slipcase, dust-jackets of ‘Men at Arms’ and red chemise and morocco backed box, dust-jacket worn at ‘Officers and Gentlemen’ adhered to themselves at a few points £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800 edges with some loss at head and foot of spine, tear to lower (3) edge of lower panel An attractive set of Waugh’s trilogy, considered by many to INSCRIBED FOR WAUGH’S “HONOURED FRIEND” GRAHAM be the finest novel series of the Second World War. Waugh 213 GREENE. was delayed in completing the final volume,Unconditional Surrender, firstly by the writing ofThe Ordeal of Gilbert Greene and Waugh, who were contemporaries at Oxford, Pinfold (see lot 213), which he wished to complete whilst his WAUGH, EVELYN exchanged inscribed copies of their books throughout their experience of bromide poisoning was fresh in his mind, and lives and regularly reviewed each other’s writing. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece. then by his biography of Ronald Knox, which his friend had Chapman & Hall, 1957 Waugh’s description of this as “a bad book” follows a letter asked him to write shortly before his death. he sent to Greene earlier the same year, shortly after finishing 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS the draft: “I finished that book I was writing.Not good. Of £ 8,000-10,000 € 9,000-11,200 AT THE FOYLE LITERARY LUNCH TO LAUNCH THE BOOK, course all writers write some bad books but it seems a pity at half-title, original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, top edge this particular time. It has some excellent farce, but only for a blue, DUST-JACKET, collector’s blue cloth slipcase, boards few pages. The rest very dull. Well, the war was like that.” (27 lightly soiled February 1952, Letters (1980), p.370). Waugh attended a Foyle luncheon to promote Pinfold on the 213 Despite Waugh’s apparent poor opinion of the book, it went on 19 July 1957, the day of publication. Attendees included Doris to win the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1952. Leslie, Maurice Denham, and William Foyle, each of whom have signed this copy along with one other. PROVENANCE This fictionalised account of the severe aural hallucinations Graham Greene, book-label and presentation inscription Waugh suffered in the mid 1950s as a result of bromide poisoning is widely considered his last major work. £ 10,000-15,000 € 11,200-16,800

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA on which she intended “to break up the horror of human WYNDHAM, JOHN WYNDHAM, JOHN intercourse with music” (letter to Vita, 23 September 1925). Orlando. A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928 By the time she came to write Orlando, which drew strongly on The Day of the Triffids. Michael Joseph, 1951 The Chrysalids. Michael Joseph, 1955 the history of Knole and the Sackville family, Woolf felt enough 8vo, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 22 OF 861 COPIES, 8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half-title, original green cloth 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, full pictorial green morocco by affection towards Eddy to tell him about the book and the affair PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO lettered in silver on spine, DUST-JACKET, collector’s yellow Sangorski & Sutcliffe, pattern of human silhouettes in black with his cousin, writing “I feel it awkward to spring the whole EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST (“Eddy | with love | from | Virginia pictorial morocco folding box, faded ownership inscription on morocco onlays, titled in gilt on spine between two facing thing on him without warning-Would he keep it a secret?” | Oct 1928”) on the front free endpaper with his bookplate, front free endpaper, repairs to dust-jacket at head and foot of silhouettes, top edge gilt, floral endpapers, ORIGINAL DUST- (letter to Vita, 4 May 1928). ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE VERSO spine and at folds JACKET PRESERVED AT END, matching green morocco OF THE PRELIMINARY BLANK, half-title, photographic Luckily, having apparently received a copy of the London slipcase, spine of book and top edge of slipcase very slightly A FINE COPY, complete with Patrick Gierth’s dust-jacket frontispiece and 7 plates, original black cloth with vignette of edition, Eddy so admired the book that he requested a copy faded showing triffids in Piccadilly Circus. The novel, which was the ram in gilt on upper board, spine gilt, spine a little faded and of the true first from the author, who was “overjoyed that you first Wyndham published under this pen name, was adapted The Chrysalids - which Wyndham wrote with the working title slightly bumped at head and foot, very occasional foxing like it”. She continued, “I have been waiting for the American for film in 1962 with Howard Keel playing the role of Bill Masen. “Time for a Change” - was published in the US the same year copies to come to send you what you rightly demanded - a INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE COUSIN OF THE with the title “Re-birth”. three guinea copy. But they never came. At last, 4 weeks late, DEDICATEE, VITA. The first edition of Woolf’s “public love £ 6,000-8,000 € 6,700-9,000 one miserable specimen, on pale green paper like a widows letter and tribute” (ODNB) to her friend and lover Vita £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 hymn book, has arrived. I dont think you can wish for this; so Sackville-West was published in New York on the 2 October I’ll wait for the white paper ones, and send you what I trust 1928, shortly followed by the English edition, published by the may be less cadaverous. The Americans have surpassed author at the Hogarth Press on nine days later. themselves, in pretention (sic), fuss, and incompetence.” Woolf first met Edward Sackville-West (1901-1965) around the (letter to Eddy, 22 October 1928). same time that she first became acquainted with his cousin in December 1922. It seems to have taken several years for her REFERENCES to warm to his often “peevish” company, perhaps because of Kirkpatrick A11 some resentment born towards him as the heir of Knole, the Sevenoaks mansion which Vita had grown up in and adored. PROVENANCE However, by the late twenties the pair had become friends, Edward Sackville-West, presentation inscription and bookplate with “Eddy” (as he was always known) appearing often in her diaries and letters and one occasion lending her a piano £ 8,000-12,000 € 9,000-13,400

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112 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 113 FINE PRINTING, 217 219 222 PRIVATE PRESS AND CLEVERDON, DOUGLAS—JONES, DAVID— DROPMORE PRESS GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS—WEBB, CALLIGRAPHY COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR Collection of 7 volumes, 1946-1951, comprising: CLIFFORD The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Bristol: Douglas Shanks, E. The Universal War... 1946, number 76 of 550 copies, Collection of 9 Golden Cockerel Press volumes each Cleverdon, 1929 presentation copy inscribed by the author, dust-jacket—Bryant, with wood-engraved illustrations by Clifford Webb, A. Historian’s Holiday. 1946, number 427 of 550 copies— 4to, NUMBER 196 OF 460 COPIES SIGNED BY DAVID JONES, comprising: Sandeman, C. Thyme and Bergamot. 1947, number 159 of 550 10 copper engravings by David Jones, later full navy morocco copies, illustrations by John O’Connor, dust-jacket—De Quincey, Miller, P. Ana the Runner, 1937, number 7 of 150 copies signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with outline of a ship and coastal T. Revolt of the Tartars. 1948, number 45 of 450 copies of which by the author [Pertelote 122]—Calderon, V.G. The White Llama, scene blocked in blind on boards, titled in blind on spine, top this is one of 50 specially bound, illustrations by Stuart Boyle— 1938, number 11 of 75 copies [Pertelote 132]—Wells, H.G. The edge gilt, morocco endpapers, collector’s matching navy Landor, W.S. The Sculptured Garland. 1948, number 43 of 300 Country of the Blind, 1939, number 145 of 280 copies [Pertelote morocco and cloth slipcase copies, illustrations by Iain Macnab, dust-jacket, remnants of 142]—Bannet, I. The Amazons, 1948, number 295 of 500 copies A FINELY BOUND OF COPY OF DOUGLAS CLEVERDON’S slipcase—Cooper, D. Translations and Verses. 1949, number 503 [Cockalorum 181]—De Chair, S. Julius Caesar’s Commentaries, LIMITED EDITION OF COLERIDGE’S BALLAD. Cleverdon of 600 copies—Snagg, T. Recollections of Occurrences. 1951, 1951, number 180 of 320 copies [Cock-a-Hoop 188]; Story of a began publishing around the same time as he set up his own number 41 of 300 copies, illustrations by Kenneth Hunter, some Lifetime, 1954, number 46 of 110 copies all signed by the author bookshop in Bristol, and sought “to produce finely printed fading—all 8vo or small 4to, original bindings, some occasional and specially bound, slipcase [Cock-a-Hoop 195]—Walters, E. books with illustrations...by the most vital of contemporary wear, occasional spotting (7) The Serpent’s Presence, 1954, number 41 of 290 copies, full artists” (quoted in Ransom). morocco gilt [Cock-a-Hoop 197]; and 2 other unlimited editions £ 200-300 € 250-350 [Pertelote 122, 132]—various sizes, each with wood-engraved REFERENCES illustrations by Clifford Webb, original bindings (9) The Artist and the Book 136; Ransom, Cleverdon 7 220 £ 400-600 € 450-700 £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700

FLEECE PRESS—BUCKLAND WRIGHT, JOHN 223 218 Collection of the three Fleece Press volumes, together with two others, comprising: NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE PRESSES, ETC. DOVES PRESS—SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM i) Bathers and Dancers, 1993, 8vo, one of 206 copies of which Collection of 34 volumes 217 this is one of 180 copies bound in vellum-backed boards, slipcase; The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. mostly limited signed or illustrated editions, including texts by ii) Baigneuses, 1995, folio, one of 240 copies of which this is one Hammersmith: The Doves Press, June 1909 Oscar Wilde, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, etc.; illustrations by of 204 copies bound in vellum-backed boards, folding box; iii) Leonard Baskin, Graham Coughtry, Robert Gibbings, Rockwell small 4to, ONE OF 265 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF Surreal Times, 2000, folio, one of 266 copies of which this is one Kent, Barry Moser, Howard Pyle, etc. and with presses including 250 ON PAPER, INSCRIBED BY T.J. COBDEN-SANDERSON of 210 copies bound in cloth-backed boards, slipcase—together Arion Press, Aya Press, Canadian Fine Editions, Gehenna Press, (“The Doves Bindery | C - S 1909”) on the rear pastedown with two others (1937 Exhibition Catalogue, torn [with] Cockerel The Heritage Press, Limited Editions Club, Pennyroyal Press, endpaper, green initial on first page of text added by hand by Cavalcade, 1988) (5) Bruce Rogers and the Press of A. Colish, The Sign of the Vine, Edward Johnston, printed in red and black throughout, original Sylvan Press and The Yellow Barn Press; all various sizes, original full limp speckled vellum, lettered in gilt on spine, collector’s £ 400-600 € 450-700 bindings, occasional spotting and browning, occasional wear (34) tan morocco folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe,one very small chip to vellum near foot of spine on upper wrapper £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 Inscribed by the printer Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 221 who in 1900 had established the Doves Press at Hammersmith in partnership with Emery Walker. Over the next seventeen GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS—QUENNELL, 224 years, they published numerous works of great literature unadorned with any illustration or decoration (aside from the PETER occasional hand painted initial), “just the words printed with Masques and Poems, Golden Cockerel Press, 1922 RICKETTS, CHARLES care on handmade paper”, an approach which later became “a visual model for the reform of typography in Britain, Europe, 8vo, number 262 of 375 copies, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS Collection of 12 volumes, comprising: and America” (ODNB). SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, illustrations by Peter Quennell, vellum- Warren, J.L. Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. Mathews and Lane, backed decorative paper over boards [Chanticleer 9] For this edition of Hamlet, the text of the second Quarto edition 1893, one of 100 copies, original vellum gilt, collector’s folding was used with some corrections by Cobden-Sanderson, who This copy of the first book from the Golden Cockerel Press to box, binding very slightly bowed—Ricketts, C. Pages on Art. also “tried to improve the punctuation” (Tidcombe). be issued with illustrations, contains five full-page original ink Constable, 1913, original cloth, dust-jacket, dust-jacket frayed at drawings each either signed with initials or in full or annotated by head and foot of spine—Shakespeare, W. Macbeth. Benn, 1923, REFERENCES Peter Quennell. This was Peter Quennell’s first book, published number 83 of 100 copies, signed by Granville-Barker, Ricketts Ransom, Doves Press 17; Tidcombe DP17 when he was only seventeen. and Rutherston, original morocco gilt—Raymond, J.P. and C. Ricketts. Oscar Wilde. Nonesuch, 1932, number 722 of 800 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 £ 300-500 € 350-600 copies, original cloth gilt, collector’s chemise and slipcase— Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. Secker, 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in red, dust-jacket, tears and loss to dust-jacket; Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. Secker, 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in gilt— together with 6 others; all 8vo or 4to, original bindings, occasional light browning and spotting, occasional light soiling (12)

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ROYCROFT PRESS—SHAKESPEARE, SANGORSKI, ALBERTO AND FRANCIS— WILLIAM TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD The Sonnets of Shakespeare. New York: The Extracts from ‘The Idylls of the King’ Roycrofters at The Roycroft Shop, 1899 CALLIGRAPHIC AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, 8 leaves 8vo, NUMBER 8 OF 12 COPIES ON VELLUM, signed by Elbert illustrated by Alberto Sangorski, each mounted on a separate Hubbard (or by one of his Roycrofters trained to imitate his board, BOUND IN FULL GREEN MOROCCO ELABORATELY signature) on the limitation, title page printed in green and GILT BY FRANCIS SANGORSKI, each board with an inset red, hand coloured initials throughout, full red morocco by panel of maroon morocco with a verse of Tennyson’s Idylls Roycroft, chocolate morocco doublures decorated with a leafy lettered in gilt with an ornate initial, within a border composed border (front) and a floral spray (rear) in gilt with morocco of morocco onlays set with small turquoise and red jewels and inlays and onlays, silk endpapers, top edge gilt, red silk marker decorated with leaves, butterflies, animals, fruit and birds, ribbon, collector’s half red morocco folding box, light staining along with a crown, a sword, a shield and a chalice composed to spine and lower board, some staining to pp.36-37 resulting of coloured morocco onlays within ovals, spine gilt in from marker ribbon, ribbon detached compartments, all edges gilt, maroon morocco doublures with the initials of Tennyson and Francis and Alberto Sangorski, silk Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft Press, had travelled to endpapers, collector’s dark green morocco backed folding box, England in 1892 where he met William Morris and learnt of the some very light spotting Kelmscott Press. On his return to New York, he founded the “Roycroft Shop” which was named after the printers Samuel A RARE EXAMPLE OF A COLLABORATION BETWEEN BINDER and Thomas Roycroft (active in London c.1650-1690), and FRANCIS SANGORSKI AND HIS ELDER BROTHER ALBERTO. particularly appealed to Hubbard because of its derivation Alberto Sangorski (1862-1932) was an accomplished from roi craft, meaning “King’s craft”. calligrapher and illuminator, and here presents selected extracts from Tennyson’s poem in imitation of a medieval REFERENCES manuscript, with richly coloured vignettes and several Ransom, Roycroft 32 historiated initials. From 1910, he worked for Riviere. The upper board of this sumptuous binding is lettered in gilt £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 with the opening quatrain of ‘Guinevere’, whilst the lower board features lines from ‘Merlin and Vivien’. 226 £ 25,000-30,000 € 28,000-33,500

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VALE PRESS—BLAKE, WILLIAM VALE PRESS—MOORE, T. STURGE 230 231 Collection of two volumes, comprising: Collection of three volumes, comprising:

The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Shakespeare, W. The Passionate Pilgrim and the Songs Experience, 1897, one of 210 copies, wood-engraved in Shakespeare’s Plays, 1896, [one of 310 copies], wood- 231 232 frontispiece and borders by Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 9]; engraved illustration and border by Ricketts, order form Poetical Sketches, 1899, [one of 210 copies on paper], wood- loosely inserted, [Ransom Vale 5], head of spine bumped— engraved frontispiece and borders by Ricketts, collector’s De Guerin, M. The Centaur and The Bacchante, 1899, one VALE PRESS VALE PRESS folding box, [Ransom Vale 22]; both 8vo, original bindings, of 150 copies on paper, 5 wood-engraved illustrations by Collection of twelve volumes, comprising: Collection of five works in eight volumes, comprising: some browning, bindings slightly worn (2) Sturge Moore, collector’s folding box, [Ransom Vale 28], binding somewhat soiled—Sturge Moore, T. Danaë, 1903, Sidney, P. The Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney, 1898, one of Shelley, P.B. Lyrical Poems, 1898, one of 210 copies on paper, £ 400-600 € 450-700 [one of 230 copies on paper], 3 wood-engraved illustrations 210 copies on paper, wood-engraved border by Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 19], binding worn—Keats, J. Poems, 1898, 2 by Ricketts, collector’s chemise and slipcase, [Ransom Vale [Ransom Vale 15], embossed stamp to second preliminary vol., one of 210 copies on paper, wood-engraved borders by 43], bookplate—all 8vo, original bindings, some browning, blank—Shakespeare, W. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1899, [one Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 20]—Coleridge, S.T. The Rime of the 228 occasional spotting (3) of 210 copies on paper], wood-engraved border by Ricketts, Ancient Mariner, 1899, one of 210 copies on paper, wood- order form loosely inserted, collector’s folding box, [Ransom engraved border by Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 23], bookplate— £ 400-600 € 450-700 Vale 27], inscription, spine browned—Shakespeare, W. Shelley, P.B. Poems, 1901-1902, 3 vol., one of 310 copies [VALE PRESS]—BLAKE, WILLIAM [Shakespeare’s Works], 1900-1903, [one of 310 copies on on paper, wood-engraved borders by Keats after Ricketts, paper], 8 (of 39) vol., wood-engraved borders by Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 34], spine slightly soiled—Wordsworth, W. Poetical Sketches. Printed at the Ballatyne Press... 230 [Ransom Vale 44], some bookplates, some cloth bubbled, Poems from Wordsworth, 1902, one of 310 copies, 6 wood- Sold by Messrs. Hacon and Ricketts [Vale Press], tear to spine of one volume—Marlowe, C. Doctor Faustus, engraved illustrations by T. Sturge Moore, [Ransom Vale 37]— 1899 1903, [one of 310 copies on paper], wood-engraved border all 16mo or 8vo, original bindings, first and last in collector’s VALE PRESS—RICKETTS, CHARLES by Ricketts, [Ransom Vale 45; Errington Masefield B10(a)]; boxes, some browning, occasional spotting (8) 8vo, ONE OF 218 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF 8 ON Marlowe, C. Doctor Faustus, 1903, [one of 310 copies on VELLUM, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, original full limp A Defence of the Revival of Printing, 1899, [one of 250 copies paper], wood-engraved border by Ricketts, later morocco gilt £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 vellum, ruled and titled in gilt on spine, yapp edges, occasional on paper], wood-engraved illustration and border by Ricketts, by Stikeman, [Ransom Vale 45; Errington Masefield B10(a)], light browning collector’s folding box, [Ransom Vale 25], lacking head of joints rubbed—all 8vo, original bindings unless otherwise A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY, with illustrations designed and spine; A Catalogue of Mr Shannon’s Lithographs..., [1902], noted, some browning, occasional spotting, some bindings cut by Ricketts himself. [one of 200 copies on paper], wood-engraved medallion bumped at extremities (12) portrait by Ricketts, order form for Eragny Press book Titles from Shakespeare’s Works are: Julius Caesar, Pericles, REFERENCES (Ransom Eragny 4) loosely inserted, [Ransom Vale 36], binding Macbeth, Richard II, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Ransom, Vale 22 worn with some loss; Bibliography of the Vale Press, 1904, Measure, Henry VI part I and Henry VI part II. [one of 260 copies on paper], wood-engraved border by Keats £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 after Ricketts, collector’s folding box, [Ransom Vale 46], some £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 loss to spine label; all 8vo, original bindings, some browning, occasional spotting (3)

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APPLEBY, STEVEN ‘What Are You Like?’ 400 by 580mm, ink, watercolour, crayon and gouache drawing, unsigned, dated, framed and glazed Cartoonist, writer and illustrator for newspapers, books, radio, television and the stage, Steven Appleby is the illustrator of the 237 long-running ‘Loomus’ strip for the Guardian.

233 ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 237 235 BLAKE, QUENTIN BAXTER, GLEN ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ 260 by 510mm, ink drawing, unsigned, framed and glazed 280 by 510mm, ink and pastel drawing, unsigned, framed and Quentin Blake is a world-renowned, multi-award-winning glazed British illustrator who has written and illustrated over 300 books, including some of the greatest children’s books of the Glen Baxter is an English cartoonist who has exhibited last fifty years. He was the UK’s first Children’s Laureate and is internationally, published numerous books and contributed to the founding trustee of House of Illustration. the New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair and the New York Review of Books. This work appears, as a double-page spread within Quentin Blake, Beyond the Page (Tate Publishing, 2012), pp. 126-27. “A kind of mad cross between Magritte, S.J. Perelman, and pulp fiction” £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 — The New York Times ⊕ # 236

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236 BLAKE, PETER ‘What Are You Like?’ BERGER, JOE 385 by 565mm, digital print, unsigned, framed and glazed ‘What Are You Like?’ Peter Blake is a world-renowned British artist and pioneer of 385 by 485, ink, pencil and watercolour drawings, unsigned, ‘Pop Art’. One of his best-known works is the 1967 album cover framed and glazed for The Beetles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1981 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy and in 1994 he Joe Berger is a children’s author, illustrator and cartoonist. In was made the Third Associate Artist of the National Gallery. 2011 he won Booktrust’s Best New Illustrators Award. He also makes prize-winning animated short films and title sequences £ 2,500-3,500 € 2,800-3,950 and is co-creator of the Berger & Wyse food cartoon. ⊕ #

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BROOKES, PETER ‘What Are You Like?’ 355 by 520mm, ink, watercolour and gouache drawing in eight panels, unsigned, framed and glazed Peter Brookes is the multi-award-winning political cartoonist for The Times, a post he has held since 1992. He has contributed to many other magazines, including The Spectator, Radio Times, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman.

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239 CAPALDI, PETER ‘What Are You Like?’ 90 by 110mm (average), eight vignettes in oil on artist’s board, unsigned, framed and glazed Peter Capaldi is a BAFTA-award-winning British actor, writer and director. He is best known for being the twelfth and current actor to play the Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who, and for the role of Malcolm Tucker in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It.

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241 242 243 CHILD, LAUREN ‘What Are You Like?’ CAMPBELL, PETER CARLIN, LAURA 415 by 575mm, paper collage, unsigned, framed and glazed ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ 240 Lauren Child is an award-winning author and illustrator best 450 by 300mm, pencil and watercolour drawing, unsigned, 600 by 420mm, three-dimensional paper cut-outs on single known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and for the framed and glazed sheet, unsigned, framed and glazed Clarice Bean series of picture books and novels. I will not ever Peter Campbell was a designer, writer and illustrator. He was Laura Carlin is an award-winning British illustrator voted one of Never eat a tomato, the first Charlie and Lola book, won the resident illustrator and art critic for the London Review of the 50 most influential creatives under 30 by the Art Director’s Kate Greenaway Medal - the UK’s principal illustration award Books until his death in 2011. Club of America. She has illustrated many children’s books, - in 2000. is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, The New York “An heir to Ardizzone, Bawden and Ravilious” - Alan Bennett Times and The Guardian. She won a V&A Award in 2010 for her ⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 illustrations of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350

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ENO, BRIAN ‘What Are You Like?’ 335 by 495mm, digital print with handwritten explanation in pencil, unsigned, framed and glazed Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. Described as one of popular music’s most influential and innovative figures, he was a member of Roxy Music in the 1970s and has collaborated with numerous artists including David Byrne, David Bowie, Coldplay, and James Blake.

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FANELLI, SARA ‘What Are You Like?’ 205 by 335mm, pencil drawing with paper collage, unsigned, framed and glazed Sara Fanelli is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has been exhibited internationally. She has twice been the overall winner of the V&A Illustration Award, has won two D&AD pencils and in 2006 became the first woman illustrator to be elected an Honorary Designer for Industry.

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ETZDORF, GEORGINA VON ‘What Are You Like?’ 460 by 300mm, ink and watercolour, unsigned, framed and glazed 248 Georgina Von Etzdorf is an internationally renowned fashion and textile designer, famous for her velvet scarves and for experimenting with texture and technique on fabric. Etzdorf was appointed as a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in 1997. 245 ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700

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FERN, DAN ‘What Are You Like?’ 465 by 660mm, mixed media, unsigned, framed and glazed 252 253 Dan Fern is an award-winning designer, graphic artist and teacher at the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Tate 252 253 Northern in Liverpool and the Smithsonian Institute in New York, as well as being in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. FISHER, JEFF GARLAND, NICK ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 490 by 380mm, ink and gouache drawing, unsigned, framed autograph letter signed (“Nick Garland”) to Quentin [Blake] and glazed with numerous sketches in ink and watercolour, framed and glazed 250 Jeff Fisher is an Australian illustrator who has designed over 1000 book jackets. Based in France, he exhibits regularly in Nick Garland is a British cartoonist and illustrator and became 250 FITCH, RODNEY Paris and London. the Daily Telegraph’s first political cartoonist in 1966. Garland is an accomplished painter and woodcut artist, whose work ‘What Are You Like?’ ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 has been exhibited widely. He has illustrated a number of books, most recently The Coma, by his son the novelist Alex 270 by 400mm, ink and coloured pencil drawing, unsigned, Garland. framed and glazed

Rodney Fitch was a British designer who founded and ran one ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 of the world’s largest design firms, Fitch & Company. He died in 2014.

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GREY, MINI ‘What Are You Like?’ 250 by 620mm, ink, coloured pencil and gouache drawing, signed and dated, framed and glazed Mini Grey is an award-winning British illustrator and author of 251 children’s books.

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HOWELL, MARGARET MCCARTNEY, MARY ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ 375 by 560mm, mixed media, unsigned, framed and glazed 105 by 85mm, eight polaroid-style photographs, unsigned, framed and glazed Margaret Howell is a world-renowned British clothing designer. She was elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 2007. Mary McCartney is a renowned portrait and fashion photographer. Her work has been published and exhibited ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 worldwide.

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258 HUGHES, SHIRLEY 257 ‘What Are You Like?’ 254 MILLS, RUSSELL 210 by 390mm, ink, watercolour and gouache drawing, ‘What Are You Like?’ unsigned, framed and glazed 415 by 585mm, mixed media, unsigned, framed and glazed Shirley Hughes is one of the most highly-respected children’s authors and illustrators working today. She has written over Russell Mills is a Cumbrian-based multimedia artist who paints, seventy books, including Dogger and the Alfie series, and designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record illustrated many more by other writers. covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins, Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel and Nine Inch ⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Nails.

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259 INGMAN, BRUCE ‘What Are You Like?’ PEÑATE, JACK 240 by 585mm, pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour ‘What Are You Like?’ drawing, unsigned, framed and glazed 240 by 280mm, ink drawing, unsigned, framed and glazed Bruce Ingman is a critically acclaimed author and illustrator. He is the winner of the 1996 Mother Goose Award for the most Jack Peñate is a British singer, songwriter and musician and 258 255 exciting British newcomer to children’s picture books, and is the grandson of Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast. widely known for his collaborations with award-winning author Allan Ahlberg, including the modern children’s classic The ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350 Pencil.

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SHRIGLEY, DAVID SMITH, PAUL ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ 580 by 415mm, ink drawing, unsigned, framed and glazed 265 by 200mm, mixed media, unsigned, framed and glazed David Shrigley is an award-winning British artist whose Paul Smith is a renowned British designer with a global design sculpture ‘Really Good’ was unveiled as the Fourth Plinth brand. In 2011, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Commission in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2016. He was in Fashion Design award at the British Fashion Awards for his shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2013 and his work is included exceptional contribution to the British fashion industry. in prominent international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Art Institute of Chicago and Tate ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 London. 263 ⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350

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SIMMONDS, POSY URQUHART, DONALD ‘What Are You Like?’ ‘What Are You Like?’ 190 by 330mm, ink, watercolour and gouache drawings, 390 by 565mm, ink drawing, unsigned, framed and glazed unsigned, framed and glazed Donald Urquhart is a renowned contemporary artist, writer and Posy Simmonds is an award-winning newspaper cartoonist performer. for The Guardian and a writer and illustrator of graphic novels “A style that mixes the simplicity of the Beano with the graphic and children’s books. Her graphic novels Gemma Bovery and finesse of Aubrey Beardsley” – The Guardian. Tamara Drewe were originally published as comic strips in The Guardian and have both been made into feature films. ⊕ # £ 800-1,200 € 900-1,350

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SOLD TO BENEFIT THE HEATH ROBINSON MUSEUM

The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner is the first professional career. It also puts on a series of related museum devoted to the work of William Heath special exhibitions. Robinson, one of Britain’s best-loved artists. The The museum opened on 15 October 2016, but in collection is owned by the William Heath Robinson order to be able to deliver its full range of exhibitions Trust. The Museum is a national and international and activities it needs to raise a further £50,000. centre for the understanding and appreciation of Lots 264-282 are sold to benefit the museum. the artist’s work, housing a permanent exhibition of They provide responses from a number of original artwork, books, letters, photographs, film contemporary artists when asked what Heath and digital media which will tell the full story of his Robinson would be drawing if he was alive today.

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BARKER, GARY ‘The Modern Homeworker’ 190 by 285mm, ink drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

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BENNETT, FELIX ‘Heath Robinson meets Steve Jobs’ 266 95 by 155mm, ink drawing, signed lower left, mounted, framed and glazed

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BENNETT, FELIX 264 ‘Oiling the Drone’ 150 by 110mm, ink drawing, signed lower right, mounted, BAKER, IAN framed and glazed ‘I’ll just put in the Heath Robinson museum address ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 into the sat-nav...’ 140 by 220mm, ink drawing, signed lower left, mounted, framed and glazed

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‘A New Device for Reducing the Number of Injuries 271 Sustained by Smart-Phone Users Walking into Lamp- Posts’ JONES, STEVE (“JONESY”) 210 by 150mm, ink and coloured pencil drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed ‘This is far sillier and more convoluted than anything I could ever hope to devise’ ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 140 by 140mm, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

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JENSEN, JOHN (‘JENSEN’) 272 ‘The Layabout Special’ 268 180 by 120mm, ink and coloured pencil drawing, signed upper JONES, STEVE (“JONESY”) right, mounted, framed and glazed ‘Lose this, this, this and this. Simplify that...’ ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 155 by 125mm, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

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JENSEN, JOHN (‘JENSEN’) 273 ‘Keeping temptation at arm’s length’ 155 by 190mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower left, MADDEN, CHRIS mounted, framed and glazed ‘A Mobile Phone Fitted with an Airbag for Protection 273 ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 during Collisions’ 135 by 90mm, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, signed lower left, mounted, framed and glazed

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MADDEN, CHRIS OLLIVE, RICHARD ‘A Contraption for Capturing Unusually Shaped ‘If W. Heath-Robinson was alive today’ Clouds’ 255 by 175mm, original ink drawing, signed lower left, 300 by 240mm, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, mounted, framed and glazed signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 ⊕ # £ 300-500 € 350-600

278 275 PYNE, KEN MADDEN, CHRIS ‘What Heath Robinson would be drawing if he was ‘Breathing Equipment for a Polluted World’ drawing today’ 277 274 215 by 170mm, ink and monochrome drawing, signed lower 100 by 140mm, ink drawing, signed lower right, mounted, right, mounted, framed and glazed framed and glazed

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MADDEN, CHRIS STOTT, BILL ‘A wind powered car utilising the drag created by its ‘Where’s the first-aid tent? My nephew’s got culture- forward motion to power its forward motion’ shock. No air-con, no sound system, no electric 130 by 175mm, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, windows, no sat-nav.....’ signed lower left, mounted, framed and glazed 210 by 295mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 ⊕ # £ 300-500 € 350-600

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ADAMS, RICHARD Watership Down. Rex Collings, 1972 8vo, FIRST EDITION, folded coloured map at end, full brown morocco signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with design of a rabbit against a multi-coloured sky in vellum onlay with added watercolour across covers and spine, gilt edges, matching slipcase in brown morocco and brown cloth

281 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600

280 284 STOTT, BILL [ANDERSEN, HANS]—LEFLER, HEINRICH 283 ‘The cycle-powered phone’ ‘Der fliegende Koffer’ [‘Den flyvende Kuffert’ / ‘The 120 by 170mm, ink drawing, signed lower right, mounted, Flying Trunk’] framed and glazed 177 by 232 mm, fine watercolour drawing, unsigned, mounted ⊕ # £ 200-300 € 250-350 A fine watercolour for Andersen’sZwölf Märchen (Vienna, Verlag M Munk, ca. 1911–12) and later used in a calendar Märchen Kalender (1911). 281 Heinrich Lefler (1863–1919) worked primarily in Vienna as a member of the Künstlerhaus and by the late 1890s became STOTT, BILL one of Austria’s first artists to design posters, then an emerging medium. Together with Joseph Urban (1872–1933), ‘My old granddad had one of those. Worst car he ever he designed costumes, interiors, furniture and household owned, apparently....’ accessories. In 1900 they co-founded the Hagenbund, an artists’ cooperative that exhibited works by a number of 205 by 295mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower important figures including Oskar Kokoschka and Egon 280 right, mounted, framed and glazed Schiele. From 1903–1910 Lefler taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. He also designed decorations for ⊕ # £ 300-500 € 350-600 the Vienna town hall, but the images for the Andersen series/ calendar are considered amongst the most beautiful designs in his oeuvre. 282 ‘The Flying Trunk’ is one of ten tales from Andersen’s second series of Fairy Tales, told for Children [Eventyr, fortalte for WALKER, DAVE Børn, Andet Bind. Ny Samling, Copenhagen, 1838–42]. ‘Taking a Selfie’ # £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 345 by 235mm, ink drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

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BAUM, L. FRANK BAUM, L. FRANK SOLD TO BENEFIT HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION BECK, IAN The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill The Wizard of Oz. Hutchinson & Co., [c. 1939] [BBC TELEVISION]—FORD, PHIL Stories and Songs for Bedtime Co., 1900 4to, ENGLISH FILM TIE-IN EDITION, 8 colour plates from Doctor Who: ‘Into the Dalek’ 250 by 380mm, pencil and watercolour drawing, titled, signed 4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE TEXT, pictorial title-page the MGM film, 7 black and white plates and numerous other and dated below image, framed and glazed 72 pages, shooting script (draft 8) typescript dated 20 and 23 plates printed in colour apparently both first and illustrations by W.W. Denslow, original green cloth lettered December 2013, title-page illustrated with ink, watercolour Ian Beck is an award-winning British children’s illustrator and second state (dark-blue spots present on moon facing page with design of the Tin Woodman in dark green, DUST-JACKET and gouache drawing by Peter Capaldi featuring comic Daleks, author whose books have been translated into more than 20 34 and red shading on horizon removed from plate facing page featuring scene from the MGM film, COLLECTOR’S BROWN space ships and the Tardis, signed and dated ‘Peter Capaldi languages. He is also widely known for his cover illustration for 92), together with numerous illustrations in the text printed MOROCCO FOLDING BOX featuring design in coloured | 8.12.15’ with additional comment ‘My First Dalek Story!!’, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. This drawing in black and one other colour, all by W.W. Denslow, modern morocco onlays of the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy, the Tin pages with printed ‘Peter Capaldi’ watermark, loose leaves comprises the double-page contents spread for Stories and full brown morocco binding signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe Woodman and the Scarecrow on the yellow brick road, some Songs for Bedtime: an illustrated treasury, first published by The actor Peter Capaldi (b. 1958) was revealed as the twelfth with design in morocco onlays with tooling in gilt and text in browning and spotting, some splitting between gatherings, Oxford University Press in 2004. The publisher’s blurb noted incarnation of Doctor Who during August 2013 and his black, top edge gilt, original spine and upper and lower covers ownership inscription, boards slightly bowed with slight fading, that the volume was ‘a wonderful new classic from a best- performances have been enthusiastically received (‘all the (variant C) bound in at end, front fixed endpaper preserved, dust-jacket slightly frayed at extremities with repairs including selling artist, whose book sales exceed one million copies.’ slipcase, some spotting and browning, occasional minor tears strengthening to head and foot of spine and new section of hallmarks of a great Doctor’, ‘the air of the classic Doctor’ and upper inside flap ‘wise and thoughtful’). Capaldi’s first story involving Daleks to extremities of leaves, occasional folds, sections of original ⊕ # £ 500-700 € 600-800 was originally broadcast on 30 August 2014 and was given binding somewhat soiled, original fixed endpaper with small No publication date is provided. The blurb on the inside upper positive reviews. The Independent called the episode ‘a classic blank section reconstructed flap notes ‘...a film taken from the original story is being sci-fi adventure with all the spectacle of a blockbuster’. The first true American fairy tale in the first state of the text. released to the public in the Autumn’. A different issue from 289 the publishers featured a different scene from the film on This lot also includes two postcards inscribed ‘Best wishes REFERENCES pictorial boards and dust-jacket. Given the blurb, it is assumed from Peter Capaldi Dr ?’ Hanff/Greene I(1) binding C that the present lot is the first issue of the movie tie-in edition. BLAKE, QUENTIN # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 The BFG and Sophie in London I £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 480 by 370mm, ink drawing, unsigned Drawn by the artist on 12 July 2016 at St Pancras station as part of a live drawing event to launch the station’s summer of free illustration events (see also lots 290 and 291). With the centenary of Roald Dahl in 2016, House of Illustration held The BFG in Pictures as their summer exhibition.

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BLYTON, ENID—BLAKE, QUENTIN ‘Five on a Treasure Island’ 195 by 220mm, ink and pencil watercolour, signed and dated lower left In 2012, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Enid Blyton’s much-loved Famous Five series, five of the most illustrious children’s illustrators of today were asked to provide new special anniversary covers for the first five adventures in the series. The artwork presented in lots 294-298 is the original 291 293 artwork as published by Hodder Children’s Books for the 70th anniversary edition.

⊕ # £ 2,500-3,000 € 2,800-3,350 290 292

295 BLAKE, QUENTIN BLAKE, QUENTIN The BFG and Sophie in London II Girl riding ‘The Red Asterisk Beast’ BLYTON, ENID—CHICHESTER CLARK, 490 by 390mm, ink drawing, unsigned 270 by 375mm, dark green and red ink, signed lower right EMMA

⊕ # £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 ‘Five Run Away Together’ 300 by 215mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed (twice) below image and with initials lower right 296 291 293 ⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 BLAKE, QUENTIN BLAKE, QUENTIN

The BFG and Sophie in London III Boy riding ‘The Purple Asterisk Beast’ 296 530 by 390mm, ink drawing, signed upper right 260 by 380mm, light green and purple ink, signed lower left BLYTON, ENID—JEFFERS, OLIVER ⊕ # £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 ‘Five Go to Smuggler’s Top’ 430 by 320mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower right

⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350

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BLYTON, ENID—OXENBURY, HELEN CARROLL, LEWIS [CHARLES LUTWIDGE ‘Five Go Adventuring Again’ DODGSON] 200 by 155mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower left Two volumes, Macmillan and Co., 1889-93, comprising: ⊕ # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Sylvie and Bruno. 1889, 3pp. publisher’s adverts at end, bookplate; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. 1893, 5pp. first issue with errors in contents listing, publisher’s adverts at end; 298 both 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations after Harry Furniss, original red cloth, gilt edges, collector’s folding box, occasional BLYTON, ENID—RIDDELL, CHRIS browning, extremities slightly bumped, some minor soiling and bubbling to bindings, hinges cracking (2) ‘Five Go Off in a Caravan’ REFERENCES 280 by 190mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 217; 250 right

£ 150-200 € 200-250 ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 297

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OTHER PROPERTIES CARROLL, LEWIS—SOWERBY, MILLICENT CARROLL, LEWIS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, 1913 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan and 301 small 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST TO Co., 1866 HER PARENTS (‘to | Father + Mother | with Milicent’s love’) 8vo, second [first published] edition, wood-engraved TOGETHER WITH PENCIL AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING illustrations after John Tenniel, original pictorial cloth gilt, dark OF A CHILD READING on front free endpaper, 8 coloured green endpapers (binder’s label on lower fixed endpaper), gilt illustrations by Millicent Sowerby, original red cloth-backed edges, some spotting, worn at extremities with loss to head boards with laid-down illustration on upper cover, some light and foot of spine, minor splitting to upper joint, contemporary browning and soiling, some gatherings slightly loose, binding ownership signature, small shelf label to front fixed endpaper worn with some minor loss The present copy includes the inverted ‘S’ in the final line of the Contents listing which is thought to be a feature of the £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 earliest state of the edition. The ownership signature is dated August 1866. 302 REFERENCES Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 46 298 SOLD TO BENEFIT HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION

£ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 [CARROLL, LEWIS]—RIDDELL, CHRIS Ten characters from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 280 by 190mm (average), pencil drawings on 10 sheets, each signed lower right The characters represented comprise: Alice, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Caterpillar, the March Hare, the Carpenter, the Walrus and the Mad Hatter. Chris Riddell, the British illustrator, writer and a political cartoonist for The Observer is the first ever triple winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 2015 he was appointed the UK’s Children’s Laureate. His introduction to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in Puffin Classics in 2008.

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CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE DISNEY STUDIOS, WALT GREENAWAY, KATE—TAYLOR, KIPLING, RUDYARD Four works in one volume, comprising: Lullaby Land. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1934 JANE AND ANN [The Jungle Books]. Macmillan and Co., 1894-85 i) Hop-O’My Thumb and the Seven-League Boots. David small 4to, FIRST EDITION, two double-page colour plates, 8 Little Ann and Other Poems. London and New York: The Jungle Book. 1894, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake Bogue, [1853], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Frederick Warne and Co., [c.1909] and P. Frenzeny, FIRST EDITION; The Second Jungle Book. advertisement for “Jack and the Bean-stalk” on lower the Walt Disney Studios, original pictorial boards, coloured 1895, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, second edition, illustration on half-title, pictorial title page, wrapper and list of illustrations printed on the verso of the endpapers, DUST-JACKET, collector’s box featuring designs in 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at end; both 8vo, original blue colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway, full mustard yellow front fly-leaf), frontispiece and 5 etchings by Cruikshank; ii) morocco onlays and gemstones on upper and lower sides, new pictorial cloth gilt, green endpapers, gilt edges, collector’s morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, vignette of small girl sat The History of Jack & The Bean-Stalk. David Bogue, [1854], spine preserving original spine title, slightly bowed, very minor black morocco folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe featuring amongst flowers with coloured morocco onlays and inlays FIRST EDITION, later issue (with frontispiece “The Fairies browning and spotting, short tear to page 33 not affecting text, the original gilt designs from the upper cover of each book, within a gilt oval on upper board, motif of fruit-laden branch and the Giant in the Bean-stalk” and plates on white paper), some restoration to dust-jacket including supplied sections booklabels, some very minor spotting or browning, very slightly with morocco onlays and inlays within a gilt oval on lower frontispiece and 5 etchings by Cruikshank; iii) Cinderella and bumped at extremities (2) The book is based on the Disney ‘Silly Symphony’ released in board, spine titled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral the Glass Slipper. David Bogue, [1854], FIRST EDITION, first [?] 1933. It appears there was no American edition. endpapers, matching red cloth and yellow morocco slipcase Exceptional copies in a sumptuous collector’s box issue (with No. I and No. II listed on lower wrapper, but with list of illustrations bound before the title), frontispiece and 5 plates £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 REFERENCES REFERENCES (showing 9 subjects); iv) Puss in Boots. Routledge, Warne, Richards A76; A85 and Routledge, [1864] , FIRST EDITION, later [?] issue (with see Osborne p.80; Schuster & Engen 109.2(a-c) no front fly-leaf or list of illustrations as first issue, but without 305 PROVENANCE leaf repeating cover design on white paper or the “Notice to £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 Mrs J. Insley Blair (Sotheby’s New York, 3 December 2004, lot Public” repeated at end), frontispiece and 5 plates (showing 186) 10 subjects); 4 works bound in one, all small 4to, ORIGINAL GRAHAME, KENNETH PRINTED PALE BLUE-GREEN WRAPPERS BOUND IN, full red £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 morocco by Zaehnsdorf (dated 1899) elaborately gilt, titled in The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co., 1908 gilt on upper board and spine, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, silk 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece illustration by endpapers, occasional light spotting Graham Robertson, full green morocco binding signed by FIRST EDITIONS TOGETHER IN A VERY ATTRACTIVE Sangorski and Sutcliffe with design of reeds, dragonfly and fly BINDING. on upper and lower covers featuring morocco and mother of pearl onlays, title and author in gilt on spine, silk-backed free REFERENCES endpapers, top edge gilt, matching green morocco slipcase, Cohn 196, 197, 198 and 199 spine and sections of slipcase slightly darkened

PROVENANCE £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 Sir Herbert S. Leon (1850-1926) Liberal MP, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s London, 19 July 1937, lot 177; John Francis Neylan (1885-1960), American lawyer and journalist, bookplate

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LEWIS, C.S. SOLD TO BENEFIT HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION OTHER PROPERTIES Complete set of the Narnia Chronicles, comprising: PIENKOWSKI, JAN POTTER, BEATRIX 1) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Bles, 1950, FIRST ‘They find 1 big slimy pink worm” Hunca Munca with Cradle [together with] Two EDITION, coloured frontispiece and other illustrations by 228 by 475mm, ink drawing corrected with gouache and Alphabet Letters (‘C’ and ‘Y’) Pauline Baynes; 2) Prince Caspian. Bles, 1951, FIRST EDITION, adhesive labels, signed lower left, framed and glazed coloured frontispiece and other illustrations by Pauline Baynes; 70 by 108mm (Hunca Munca), 45 by 25mm (letter ‘C’) and 36 3) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Bles, 1957, reprint, The first Meg and Mog book, written by Helen Nicoll, was by 21mm (letter ‘Y’) all on single sheet 204 by 165mm (with frontispiece and other illustrations by Pauline Baynes; 4) The originally published with Jan Pieńkowski’s illustrations in 1972. watermark ‘ST NEOTS MILL | NO 24’), ink drawings, the first Silver Chair. Bles, 1953, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and other The series has become a classic for children. This double- signed with initials lower right, mounted, framed and glazed, illustrations by Pauline Baynes; 5) The Horse and His Boy. spread is from Meg and Mog Touch and Feel Counting Book, some browning (especially below mount) Bles, 1954, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and other illustrations first published in 2006. Potter first drew this composition of a mouse with children by Pauline Baynes; 6) The Magician’s Nephew. Bodley Head, in a cradle in the early 1890s and it was eventually to appear 1955, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by Pauline Baynes; 7) The ⊕ # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 in The Tale of Two Bad Mice featuring Hunca Munca in 1904. Last Battle. Bodley Head, 1956, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by It is known in at least eight versions (Victoria and Albert Pauline Baynes; all 8vo, full black morocco signed by Sangorski Museum, Linder Collection, Warne Archive and National Trust and Sutcliffe featuring blue to green spectrum on lower covers collections). Only one of these versions shows Hunca Munca’s and red to yellow spectrum on upper covers together with gilt tail on the left of the composition (as here). rules, gilt edges, matching slipcase in black cloth and morocco The combination of letters ‘C’ and ‘Y’ is known in two other (7) versions and both are apparently in pencil (see Victoria and Albert Museum VA1064 and VA1061). The second version £ 6,000-8,000 € 6,700-9,000 (with additional letters) was first reproduced in Enid and Leslie Linder’s The Art of Beatrix Potter, 1972, p. 240. The present version therefore appears to be the only known ink drawing of the composition.

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POTTER, BEATRIX collection of Caroline Halpin (née Hutton) (Sotheby’s, 17 [POTTER, BEATRIX]—GRIMWADE’S LTD PULLMAN, PHILIP December 2008, lot 194), which is dated January 1896 and Four little rabbits on bicycles shows a rabbit in front of a group of three other rabbits and Peter Rabbit’s Tea Set, [c.1930s], comprising Complete set of His Dark Materials, together with an cycling in the same direction as the other rabbits. In all three 48 by 95mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated tea pot with lid, cream jug, sugar basin, 4 tea cups, 4 saucers, American proof, comprising: variants the rabbits wear the same colours of coats (although lower right corner (“H.B.P. | Christmas 1895.”) 4 tea plates and 2 cake plates; all white porcelain with coloured the colour of the coat of the largest rabbit changes). Northern Lights. Scholastic, 1995, FIRST EDITION, original ONE OF THE EARLIEST COLOURED DRAWINGS OF RABBITS designs after Beatrix Potter, gold edging, IN ORIGINAL BOX maroon boards, DUST-JACKET (in first state without Carnegie This is the earlier of the two examples of the composition with BY BEATRIX POTTER THAT, WE MAY ASSUME, ARE FLOPSY, WITH PICTORIAL LABEL ON LID, box worn with tears, loss and gold sticker), extremities slightly bumped, edges of dust-jacket all rabbits moving from right to left. The date of this piece is MOPSY, COTTONTAIL AND PETER. some abrasions very slightly frayed in places, spine of dust-jacket very slightly extremely important. It was in September 1893 that Beatrix Original boxes for this tea set are rare. In 1917 Beatrix Potter faded; The Subtle Knife. Scholastic, 1997, FIRST EDITION, Beatrix Potter’s 1895 Christmas design sent to Elinor and Potter sent a letter to Noel Moore in which she told ‘a story sent miniature clay models of her characters to the firm of original green boards, dust-jacket; The Amber Spyglass. Elizabeth Lupton. The Lupton sisters’ great aunt was Beatrix about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Grimwade’s asking if the firm might manufacture them. They Scholastic, 2000, FIRST EDITION, original black boards, dust- Potter’s grandmother and the artist is known to have sent Cottontail and Peter’. This watercolour is therefore drawn agreed and requested permission to produce a range of china jacket; The Golden Compass. New York: Knopf, 1996, advance Christmas designs to her relations in 1890, 1893 (see just over two years after the original story of Peter Rabbit was with a Potter design transfer. The range was manufactured reader’s edition (“2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10” on imprint page), original Sotheby’s, 14 July 2011, lot 142), 1894 (see Sotheby’s, 14 July written (and six years before the first privately printed edition throughout the 1920s and 1930s. wrappers, slightly skewed; all 8vo (4) 2011, lot 143) and 1895. Relatives of Elinor Lupton (1886-1979) of the famous book). and Elizabeth (“Bessie”) Lupton (1888-1977) first sold these £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 designs at auction in 2006. PROVENANCE # £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 This composition is known in two other versions: one in the Elinor Lupton (1886-1979) and Elizabeth (“Bessie”) Lupton (1888-1977) Leslie Linder Collection (Linder Trust, catalogue reference 314 6.4) which is dated Xmas 1895 and shows a rabbit advancing towards a group of three rabbits, and the other, from the # £ 15,000-20,000 € 16,800-22,400 RACKHAM, ARTHUR “The Enchanted Wood” 190 by 275mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower right, framed and glazed, some minor abrasions, some spotting This apparently unknown Rackham drawing is titled on the reverse of the board by the artist and additionally signed with his address (3 Primrose Hill Studios). The piece is dated 1903.

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RACKHAM, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ARTHUR—[BARRIE, J.M.] “The Companions” “Witches and warlocks, ghosts, goblins and ghouls” “The Queen turned angrily away from him and said to The Peter Pan Portfolio. Hodder and Stoughton, 300 by 242mm, fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed and 228 by 152mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower the Knave, ‘Turn them over’” [1912] dated lower left, mounted, framed and glazed right, mounted, framed and glazed, some professional 235 by 168mm, fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed and 4to, NUMBER 296 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE restoration to edges, not affecting image The frontispiece illustration to Eleanor Gates’ Good Night dated lower right, mounted, framed and glazed PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 12 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, original half vellum lettered in gilt on upper cover, (Buenos Noches) published in New York by Thomas Y. First published, as a black and white drawing, in the 1898 J.M. AN ORIGINAL RACKHAM WATERCOLOUR FOR HIS FAMOUS silk ties, modern collector’s box with original upper and lower Cromwell Co in 1907. The illustrations first appeared in Dent edition of The Ingoldsby Legends (page 465). Rackham EDITION OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Scribner’s Magazine in February 1906. undertook a “careful overhauling” of the book in which “many box covers preserved inside, SUMPTUOUS COLLECTOR’S When the copyright on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on BOX in full green morocco with design by Rackham in morocco Sotheby’s is grateful to Anne Stevenson Hobbs and Gary expired in 1907 a number of different publishers issued again...” Accordingly, this drawing was reproduced, now in onlays signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, new endpapers, new Swinson (The Arthur Rackham Society) for their assistance in editions with newly commissioned illustrations. Rackham’s colour, opposite page 396 in the 1907 edition of The Ingoldsby silk ties, one corner of box slightly bumped the cataloguing of this lot. version was one of the most successful. This is one of 13 ink Legends (J.M. Dent and E.P. Dutton). and watercolour drawings which Rackham provided and is REFERENCES PROVENANCE The illustration, being one of 24 colour plates within the 1907 signed and dated 1907. Riall p.113 Bonhams, 4 November 2003, lot 153 edition, accompanies ‘The Lay of St. Aloys’ which is subtitled ‘A Legend of Blois’. PROVENANCE £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500 # £ 5,000-7,000 € 5,600-7,900 Leicester Galleries Exhibition, January - February 1908, item # £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700 18; Sotheby’s, 1 July 2004, lot 288

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ROWLING, J.K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard translated from the original runes, 2007 ONE OF SEVEN MANUSCRIPT COPIES BY THE AUTHOR OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF SIX COPIES PRESENTED TO A PERSON ‘MOST CLOSELY CONNECTED TO THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS’, individually handwritten and illustrated by the author, 155 pages containing c. 6000 words and 17 vignette illustrations, small 8vo (175 by 120mm), within an Italian handmade notebook with deckle-edged cream-coloured leaves, brown morocco, embellished by the Edinburgh silversmiths Hamilton and Inches with five individual hand- chased hallmarked sterling silver ornaments and mounted rhodochrosite stones, spine in compartments with raised bands, detachable clasp in hallmarked sterling silver with mounted rhodochrosite stone, green endpapers, green head and foot bands together with green marker ribbon, presentation cloth bag from Hamilton and Inches together with jewellers’ box, some small marks to lower cover THE FIRST PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS FAMOUS MANUSCRIPT TO APPEAR AT AUCTION AND A MAJOR PIECE OF HARRY POTTER HISTORY. THERE ARE MINOR TEXTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS MANUSCRIPT AND THE PUBLISHED VERSION.

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Within the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the POTTER HISTORY. The book was sent by courier to Barry 320 321 Deathly Hallows, we learn of the collection of wizarding fairy- Cunningham on 12 December 2007 (the day before the charity tales by Beedle the Bard. In chapter seven Albus Dumbledore auction at Sotheby’s) and the original envelope is included in ROWLING, J.K. ROWLING, J.K. bequeaths his copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard to the lot. The other recipients have never been named although Hermione (‘in the hope that she will find it entertaining and Rowling’s American publisher, Arthur A. Levine, exhibited Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. instructive’) and in chapter twenty-one Hermione reads his copy (number 5) at New York Public Library in December Bloomsbury, 1997 Bloomsbury, 1997 aloud ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ from the collection. 2008. The present copy was also exhibited at the same time Apparently, the tales ‘have been popular bedtime reading for but at the National Library of Scotland. 8vo, FIRST EDITION (hardback issue) (‘10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1’ on 8vo, FIRST EDITION (paperback issue) (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” centuries’ and, as a result, ‘the Hopping Pot and the Fountain publisher’s imprint page), PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED on publisher’s imprint page), original pictorial wrappers, some The individual tales within the manuscript comprise: ‘The of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many of the students at BY THE AUTHOR (‘to Ella - | one of my favourite | names. | browning and soiling, wrappers creased and worn with tears Wizard and the Hopping Pot’ (24 pages and c. 1010 words), Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle With best wishes | JKRowling’) on dedication page, original and some minor loss ‘The Fountain of Fair Fortune’ (35 pages and c. 1465 words), (non-magical) children.’ laminated pictorial boards, very slight browning ‘The Warlock’s Hairy Heart’ (29 pages and c. 1100 words), REFERENCES After writing the final novel in the series, J.K. Rowling decided ‘Babbity Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump’ (43 pages and AN ALMOST MINT COPY. PRESENTATION COPIES OF THE Errington, Rowling A1(aa) to create The Tales of Beedle the Bard and give a manuscript c. 1670 words) and, finally, ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL ARE RARE. The publishers have copy in her hand to ‘those most closely connected to the (17 pages and c. 670 words). confirmed that there were only 500 copies of the hardback £ 700-900 € 800-1,050 Harry Potter books during the past 17 years’. A seventh copy issue. Each of the seven copies was uniquely embellished by was also written for sale at auction and that book was sold at Hamilton and Inches, inspired by an ancient Italian prayer REFERENCES Sotheby’s on 13 December 2007 to benefit the charity now book, and set with different kinds of gemstones. This copy known as Lumos. The sale price of £1.95 million is still a world Errington, Rowling A1(a) carries seven mounted rhodochrosite stones. At the end record for a modern literary manuscript and a world record for of the volume, the author has noted that these stones are a children’s book. The successful buyer was amazon and the £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500 ‘traditionally associated with love, balance and joy in daily life’. book, in an enlarged form (with additional ‘commentary’), was published in 2008. REFERENCES The present copy is the first of the original manuscript cf Errington, Rowling D5 presentation copies ever to be offered for sale at auction. It was presented to Barry Cunningham, who accepted the first PROVENANCE Harry Potter book for publication. It is copy number three Barry Cunningham, O.B.E. and includes the inscription ‘To Barry, | the man who thought | an overlong novel | about a boy wizard | in glasses might | £ 300,000-500,000 € 335,000-560,000 just sell… | THANK YOU’. This is therefore A SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION COPY AND A MAJOR PIECE OF HARRY

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ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury, 1997 8vo, FIRST EDITION (paperback issue) (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” on publisher’s imprint page), original pictorial wrappers, very slight browning, very slight bumps to extremities AN ALMOST MINT COPY. Both hardback and paperback issues of the first Harry Potter novel were published on the same day. Neither, therefore, has bibliographical priority.

REFERENCES Errington, Rowling A1(aa)

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ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bloomsbury, 1998 8vo, FIRST EDITION (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” on publisher’s imprint page), PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“to Ella (again!) | hope you like it! | JK Rowling”) on dedication page, original pictorial laminated boards, dust- jacket, minor ink mark to lower cover of dust-jacket A FINE COPY of the second Harry Potter novel. 326 REFERENCES Errington, Rowling A2(a) 325 326 £ 4,000-6,000 € 4,500-6,700

ROWLING, J.K. ROWLING, J.K. 324 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury, 1999 2005 323 ROWLING, J.K. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (‘Joanne Rowling’ on 8vo, FIRST EDITION, sumptuous full black morocco signed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. imprint page and dropped text block on page [7]), original Sangorski and Sutcliffe with design in multi-coloured morocco Bloomsbury, 1999 pictorial laminated boards, dust-jacket onlays, all edges in silver with iridescent star pattern, turn- ins with star design, silk doublures, matching black morocco 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (‘Joanne Rowling’ on A FINE COPY slipcase imprint page and dropped text block on page [7]), original REFERENCES pictorial laminated boards, dust-jacket SIGNED BY THE A specially bound copy of the penultimate Harry Potter ARTIST CLIFF WRIGHT on lower cover, very minor abrasion to Errington, Rowling A7(a) book. Bloomsbury published both a children’s edition and blank side of upper inside flap adult edition on the same day and neither has bibliographical £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 priority. This copy is from the adult edition, and therefore, from A FINE COPY of the first state of the first edition of the third the smaller print-run. Harry Potter book. It is generally thought that there were 2500 copies of the first issue before the dropped text and copyright REFERENCES line were corrected. Cliff Wright provided artwork for the cf Errington A13(aa) second and third titles in the series.

REFERENCES £ 8,000-12,000 € 9,000-13,400 Errington, Rowling A7(a)

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ROWLING, J.K. Complete set of the deluxe Harry Potter volumes, Bloomsbury, 1999-2007 all 8vo, first deluxe editions (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” or “First Edition” on publisher’s imprint page), original cloth gilt with laid-down illustration on upper cover, gilt edges, occasional browning and spotting, some light scratches to edges (7) When the deluxe editions were first published, in 1999, the editions were preceded by the true first trade editions. By the end of the series, in 2007, trade edition, adult edition and deluxe edition were all issued on the same date. The Bloomsbury Archives do not record a print run for the deluxe Prisoner of Azkaban. However, it is believed there were 4869 copies of Philosopher’s Stone and 7500 copies of Chamber of 327 Secrets. This would rise to 46,500 copies of the deluxe Deathly Hallows.

REFERENCES Errington, Rowling A1(d), A2(e), A7(c), A9(b), A12(c), A13(b), A14(aaa)

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ROWLING, J.K. Set of the first four Harry Potter volumes, Bloomsbury, 1999-2000 all 8vo, first deluxe editions (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” or “First Edition” on publisher’s imprint page), original cloth gilt with laid-down illustration on upper cover, gilt edges (4) 328 FINE CONDITION

REFERENCES 330 Errington, Rowling A1(d), A2(e), A7(c), A9(b)

£ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 330

329 SHEPARD, E.H. ‘Feeling More Snowy behind the ears than he had SHEPARD, E.H. ever felt before...’ Winnie-the-Pooh 110 by 127mm, ink drawing, signed and dated lower right, 98 by 75mm, ink drawing, signed with initials lower right, mounted, framed and glazed, very minor browning at mount framed and glazed, minor consistent browning, minor water window spot The scene is from the opening chapter of The House at Pooh Drawn by Shepard on camera during the filming in the late Corner in which a house is built for Eeyore. Shepard has 1960s of Hans Keller’s documentary Beloof me dat je me nooit annotated the back of the artist’s board with the note ‘Ernest vergeet al word ik 100 jaar. H. Shepard | Replica drawing from | ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ | Sept 1965’. # ⊕ £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 Shepard redrew several of his drawings as presents or commissions. In the 1950s and 1960s he produced a number of replicas for sale in exhibitions (at Foyles Art Gallery in 1958, for example).

PROVENANCE Folio Fine Art Ltd. (6 Stratford Place, London), item D7298/6

329 # ⊕ £ 8,000-12,000 € 9,000-13,400

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TERRY, MICHAEL “Stay away from my river!” 264 by 565mm., ink, pencil and watercolour drawing, signed lower right The first double-page spread (pages 6 and 7) within Faustin Charles’ and Michael Terry’s bestselling picture book, The Selfish Crocodile (Bloomsbury, 1998). The popularity of the book would lead to a number of spin-off titles including: The Selfish Crocodile Book of Colours, The Selfish Crocodile Book 333 of Sounds, The Selfish Crocodile Jigsaw Book, The Selfish Crocodile Book of Words, The Selfish Crocodile Book of Numbers, The Selfish Crocodile Book of Nursery Rhymes and The Selfish Crocodile Counting Board Book. Michael Terry (b. 1947) started work in the late 1960s as a designer and typographer but soon became a freelance illustrator producing work for advertising, editorial and publishing. During this time he was awarded a D&AD award for illustration and a Mecanorma award for best poster illustration. 331 He is well-known for his characterful animal illustrations and also for his illustrations to the novels of Dick King-Smith.

# £ 1,200-1,600 € 1,350-1,800 331 334 SHEPARD, E.H. a recognizable staircase. For ‘No use hiding, Smoky, it’s 333 bedtime’ (see The Observer 12 March 1950), the boy appears 334 “No, don’t do that! Listen to my story.” to have acquired Christopher Robin’s train set while Pooh Bear TERRY, MICHAEL 290 by 146mm., pencil, ink and watercolour drawing with is positioned on top of a chest of drawers. Publication of the “Every day the crocodile lay on his great big back in TERRY, MICHAEL corrections in gouache, unsigned, captioned in pencil below present piece has not been traced, however. The caption is provided in Shepard’s hand (below the mount) and the reverse mount, mounted, framed and glazed the sun, picking his big, sharp teeth with a stick” “He’s either very brave or mad!” includes a fragment of a label noting ‘Horlicks Account’ and a 264 by 565mm., ink, pencil and watercolour drawing, signed In the late 1940s and early 1950s Shepard produced a series stamped date of 16 July 1948. 265 by 565mm., ink, pencil and watercolour drawing, signed lower right of artworks advertising the malted milk drink, Horlicks. One lower right example (entitled ‘You naughty children - you ought to be PROVENANCE The third double-page spread (pages 10 and 11) from The The eighth double-page spread (pages 20-21) from The Selfish asleep!’) was published in The Times on 22 June 1949 and Selfish Crocodile. Richard Hagen Gallery (c.1985) Crocodile. features a familiar teddy bear balancing on his head. Another (‘Mummy, can’t I stay up late - just once?’) was published ‡ ⊕ £ 20,000-30,000 € 22,400-33,500 # £ 1,200-1,600 € 1,350-1,800 in The Times on 8 February 1950 and shows a child on # £ 1,200-1,600 € 1,350-1,800

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FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY GREEN (NÉE TENNIEL), THE ARTIST’S SISTER, AND THENCE BY FAMILY DESCENT TENNIEL, JOHN Two watercolours [together with] Miniatures of Old Master paintings, comprising: i) ‘How Don Quixote Made Ready His Armour’, 230 by 220mm, signed with monogram and dated lower right 1902, some spotting; ii) Elizabethan Gentleman playing the viola da gamba, 134 by 110mm, unsigned; both ink and watercolour drawings, mounted, framed and glazed (2 drawings); [together with] iii) Onorio Marinari, [Madonna and Child], 105 by 84mm, oval; iv) Valasquez, 165 by 138mm; v) Rembrandt, [Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer], 172 by 156m.; vi) Van Dyke, [Portrait of a Woman and Child], 140 by 120m.; vii) Van Dyck, [Portrait of a Young Man], 160 by 125mm; viii) Rubens, 200 by 130mm.; ix) Van Dyck, [Portrait of Antoine Triest, Bishop of Ghent], 155 by 130mm; watercolour drawings, unsigned, laid- down to card, framed and glazed (drawings iii-vi in one frame and drawings vii-ix in another), backing card browned, loss to frames Tenniel exhibited an earlier version of ‘How Don Quixote Made Ready His Armour’ at the Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1883 and, again, at the Royal Jubilee Exhibition 338 in Manchester in 1887. It is evidently a subject to which he returned fifteen years later.

# £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 337 338 339

336 WAIN, LOUIS [WYSS, JOHANN DAVID]

337 ‘Fooled’ The Swiss Family Robinson: or, the Adventures of a OTHER PROPERTIES 222 by 426mm, ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower left, Father and Mother and Four Sons in a Desert Island... THOMAS, BERT TOLKIEN, J.R.R.—LEE, ALAN mounted, framed and glazed, some minor spotting Translated from the German of M. Wiss. Printed for M.J. Godwin and Co., 1818 Collection of sixteen cartoons, from the 1930s The Lord of the Rings. Harper Collins, 1996, £ 3,000-5,000 € 3,350-5,600 2 volumes, 12mo, second English edition, frontispieces and 230 by 330mm. (average), ink drawings or ink and watercolour comprising: 4 engraved plates (3 in volume 1; one in volume 2), folding drawings with occasional corrections in gouache, each signed, The Fellowship of the Ring, third impression of 1996 paperback map in volume 2, 1p. publisher’s adverts on verso of the final occasional light soiling and spotting, pin holes, occasional chips set; The Two Towers, second impression of 1996 paperback page of text in volume 1, later full dark brown morocco gilt, flat to extremities of boards set; The Return of the King, second impression of 1996 spine titled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, together Topics include an exorbitant hotel, motor cars, televised paperback set; each 8vo, numerous colour illustrations by Alan in collector’s brown morocco and cloth slipcase, occasional boxing, court room scenes and golf. The cartoons were mostly Lee, original illustrated wrappers, publisher’s slipcase, some spotting and browning, some loss to lower edge of leaf C5 in vol. published in Humorist magazine and London Opinion between creases to spines (3) 1 and to fore-edge of leaf I5 in vol. 2 (not affecting text) 1931 and 1939. Bert Thomas (1883-1966) is described by EACH VOLUME CARRIES AN INSCRIPTION AND ORIGINAL This edition is the first version to have the title by which the Houfe as having worked “in London for many of the leading PENCIL DRAWING BY ALAN LEE. Alan Lee (b. 1947), renowned book is now known. It was written by Wyss to teach his four magazines, taking as his subjects a raffish metropolitan world for his book illustrations to Tolkien’s work, was also a concept sons about family values, the first part being published in of policeman, waitresses, soldiers and sailors, set down with a artist for the Peter Jackson film trilogy of The Lord of the Zurich in German in 1812. spontaneous broken line”. Rings. He was also employed on The Hobbit trilogy. Jackson notes that Lee’s art “captured what I hoped to capture with £ 1,000-1,500 € 1,150-1,700 £ 1,500-2,000 € 1,700-2,250 ⊕ # the films.” The inscriptions are to Costa Botes (b. 1958), the New Zealand writer, director and cinematographer, who was responsible for three behind-the-scenes documentaries about END OF SALE the making of the three films in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Absentee, Telephone and Internet Bids guide only. US$10,000. Greenford Park, Storage and Collection Instructions to “BUY” or unlimited bids will not be accepted. +44 (0)20 7293 6667. If you cannot attend the auction, we will In order to fulfil the services clients have requested, Sotheby’s • It is Sotheby’s policy to request any information). All such purchases will be Bids must be numbered in the same order as the lots appear Condition of Lots Prospective buyers be happy to execute written bids on your new clients or buyers preferring to make a subject to further storage and handling in the catalogue. may disclose information to third parties (e.g. shippers). Some are encouraged to inspect the property behalf or you can bid on the telephone cash payment to provide: proof of identity charges from this point. Alternate bids for items can be made by placing the word countries do not offer equivalent legal protection of personal at the pre-sale exhibitions. Solely as a for lots with a minimum low estimate of (by providing some form of government “OR” between lot numbers. This means if your bid on an early information to that offered within the EU. It is Sotheby’s policy convenience, Sotheby’s may also provide £3,000 or you can bid online using BIDnow. Loss or Damage Buyers are reminded issued identification containing a lot is successful, we will not continue to bid on subsequent lots to require that any such third parties respect the privacy and condition reports. The absence of reference A bidding form and more information can that Sotheby’s accepts liability for loss photograph, such as a passport, identity confidentiality of our clients’ information and provide the same to the condition of a lot in the catalogue be found at the back of this catalogue. or damage to lots for a maximum period for you. Or, if your early bids are unsuccessful, we will continue card or driver’s licence) and confirmation level of protection for clients’ information as provided within description does not imply that the lot is of thirty (30) days after the date of the to execute bids for the remaining lots listed on your absentee Online Bidding via BIDnow If you cannot of permanent address. Thank you for your free from faults or imperfections. Please auction. Please refer to Condition 7 of the bidding form. the EU, whether or not they are located in a country that offers attend the auction, it may be possible to co-operation. refer to Condition 3 of the Conditions Conditions of Business for Buyers printed If you are arranging a telephone bid, please clearly specify equivalent legal protection of personal information. By signing bid online via BIDnow for selected sales. of Business for Buyers printed in this Cheques should be made payable in this catalogue. the telephone number on which you can be reached at the time this Absentee and Telephone Bidding Form you agree to such This service is free and confidential. catalogue. to Sotheby’s. Although personal and of the sale, including the country code. We will call you from the disclosure. Please note that for security purposes Sotheby’s For information about registering to bid Shipping Sotheby’s offers a company cheques drawn in pounds saleroom shortly before the relevant lot is offered. premises are subject to video recording. Telephone calls e.g. All via BIDnow, please refer to sothebys. comprehensive shipping service. Except Electrical and Mechanical Goods sterling on UK banks are accepted, you are telephone bidding/voicemail messages may also be recorded. electrical and mechanical goods are sold com. Bidders using the BIDnow service if otherwise indicated in this Buying At advised that property will not be released on the basis of their artistic and decorative are subject to the Additional Terms and Auction Guide, our Shipping Department New Clients until such cheques have cleared unless you value only, and should not be assumed Conditions for Live Online Bidding via can advise buyers on exporting and have a pre-arranged Cheque Acceptance If you have opened a new account with Sotheby’s since 1 Decem- to be operative. It is essential that prior to BIDnow, which can be viewed at sothebys. shipping property, and arranging delivery. Facility. Forms to facilitate this are available any intended use, the electrical system com, as well as the Conditions of Business For assistance please contact: ber 2002, and have not already provided appropriate identifica- from the Post Sale Services Department. tion, you will be asked to present documentation confirming your is checked and approved by a qualified applicable to the sale. Post Sale Services (Mon-Fri 9am to 5 pm) electrician. Bank transfers Our bank account details Tel +44 (0)20 7293 5220 identity before your property or sale proceeds can be released to Consecutive and Responsive Bidding The are shown on our invoices. Please include Fax +44 (0)20 7293 5910 you. We may also contact you to request a bank reference. In certain circumstances, auctioneer may open the bidding on any Provenance your name, Sotheby’s account number Email: [email protected] Please provide government issued photographic identification Sotheby’s may print in the catalogue the lot by placing a bid on behalf of the seller. and invoice number with your instructions We will send you a quotation for such as a passport, identity card or drivers licence and confirm history of ownership of a work of art if such The auctioneer may further bid on behalf of to your bank. Please note that we reserve shipping your purchase(s). Transit risk your permanent address. information contributes to scholarship the seller, up to the amount of the reserve, the right to decline payments received insurance may also be included in your or is otherwise well known and assists in by placing consecutive or responsive bids from anyone other than the buyer of record quotation. If the quotation is accepted, we distinguishing the work of art. However, for a lot. Please refer to Condition 6 of the 10/16 NBS_BUYING AT AUCTION AT NBS_BUYING 10/16 and that clearance of such payments will arrange the shipping for you and will the identity of the seller or previous owners Conditions of Business for Buyers printed will be required. Please contact our Post despatch the property as soon as possible may not be disclosed for a variety of in this catalogue. after receiving your written agreement reasons. For example, such information

168 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 169 to the terms of the quotation, financial Sotheby’s recommends that you retain bidder’s obligation to pay the full purchase convenience of Buyers and the absence buyer’s premium cannot be cancelled or VAT on the buyer’s premium and hence Under all other circumstances Sotheby’s is registered to collect sales release of the property and receipt of any all import and export papers, including price for the lot and the purchase price of the Symbol is not a warranty that there refunded by Sotheby’s or HM Revenue and will charge an amount in lieu of VAT at Sotheby’s is required to complete the tax in the states of New York and California, export licence or certificates that may be licences, as in certain countries you may be reported for the lot shall be net of such are no restrictions regarding import or Customs.) the standard rate on this premium. This importation and pay the VAT due to HM USA. In the event that Sotheby’s ships required. Despatch will be arranged at the required to produce them to governmental fixed fee. If the irrevocable bid is not export of the Lot; Bidders should refer to Buyers requiring an invoice under the amount will form part of the buyer’s Revenue and Customs prior to the property items for a purchaser in this sale to a buyer’s expense. Sotheby’s may charge authorities. secured until after the printing of the Condition 10 of the Conditions of Business normal VAT rules, instead of a margin premium on our invoice and will not be leaving its premises and so a VAT refund destination within New York State USA, or an administrative fee for arranging the auction catalogue, a pre-lot announcement for Buyers. Please also refer to the section scheme invoice, should notify the Post separately identified. will not be possible. California State USA, Sotheby’s is obliged Endangered Species Items made of or despatch. will be made indicating that there is an on Endangered Species in the Buying Sale Service Group or the Client Accounts (VAT-registered buyers from the EU to collect the respective state’s sales or incorporating plant or animal material, Proof of export required All shipments should be unpacked and irrevocable bid on the lot. If the irrevocable at Auction Guide. As indicated in the Department on the day of the auction and should note that the import VAT charged use tax on the total purchase price and such as coral, crocodile, ivory, whalebone, • for lots sold under the margin scheme checked on delivery and any discrepancies bidder is advising anyone with respect to Endangered Species section, Sotheby’s is an invoice with VAT on the hammer price on property released in the UK cannot shipping costs, including insurance, of such tortoiseshell, etc., irrespective of age or (no VAT symbol) or the normal VAT rules notified immediately to the party the lot, Sotheby’s requires the irrevocable not able to assist buyers with the shipment will be raised. Buyers requiring reinvoicing be cancelled or refunded by Sotheby’s, items, regardless of the country in which value, may require a licence or certificate († symbol), Sotheby’s is provided with identified in your quotation and/or the bidder to disclose his or her financial of any lots with this symbol into the US. under the normal VAT rules subsequent however you may be able to seek the purchaser resides or is a citizen. Where prior to exportation and require additional appropriate documentary proof of export accompanying documentation. interest in the lot. If an agent is advising A buyer’s inability to export or import any to a margin scheme invoice having been repayment) by applying to HM Revenue the purchaser has provided Sotheby’s with licences or certificates upon importation from the EU. Buyers carrying their own you or bidding on your behalf with respect lots with this symbol cannot justify a delay raised should contact the Client Accounts and Customs - see ‘VAT Refunds from HM a valid Resale Exemption Certificate prior Export The export of any lot from the UK to any country outside the EU. Please property should obtain hand-carry papers to a lot identified as being subject to an in payment or a sale’s cancellation. Department for assistance. Revenue and Customs’) to the release of the property, sales and use or import into any other country may be note that the ability to obtain an export from the Shipping department to facilitate irrevocable bid, you should request that the (VAT-registered buyers from the UK tax will not be charged. Clients to whom subject to one or more export or import licence or certificate does not ensure ∏ Monumental this process. agent disclose whether or not he or she has 2. PROPERTY WITH A † SYMBOL should note that the invoice issued by this tax might apply are advised to contact licences being granted. It is the buyer’s the ability to obtain an import licence or Lots with this symbol may, in our opinion, • for lots sold under Temporary Admission a financial interest in the lot. These items will be sold under the normal Sotheby’s for these items is not suitable the Post Sale Manager listed in the front of responsibility to obtain any relevant export certificate in another country, and vice require special handling or shipping (‡ or Ω symbols), and subsequently UK VAT rules and VAT will be charged at the evidence in respect of import VAT.) this catalogue before arranging shipping. or import licence. The denial of any licence versa. For example, it is illegal to import ⊻ Interested Parties services due to size or other physical transferred to Sotheby’s Customs On request, immediately after sale, the required or delay in obtaining such licence African elephant ivory into the United Lots with this symbol indicate that parties considerations. Buyers are advised to standard rate on both the hammer price Warehouse (into Bond). The property Temporary Admission Department can cannot justify the cancellation of the sale States and there are other restrictions on with a direct or indirect interest in the lot inspect the lot and to contact Sotheby’s and buyer’s premium. must be shipped as described above in the Please see ‘Exports from the European either ask HM Revenue and Customs to CONDITIONS OF or any delay in making payment of the total the importation of ivory into the US under may be bidding on the lot, including (i) the prior to the sale to discuss any specific paragraph headed Property with a ‡ or a Ω generate a C79 certificate (for UK buyers), amount due. certain US regulations which are designed beneficiary of an estate selling the lot, or shipping requirements. Union’ for the conditions to be fulfilled symbol. BUSINESS FOR BUYERS or obtain a copy of the import C88 (for Sotheby’s, upon request and for an­ to protect wildlife conservation. (ii) the joint owner of a lot. If the interested before the VAT charged on the hammer • buyers carrying their own property Please refer to VAT information for Buyers other EU VAT registered buyers), which 1. INTRODUCTION administrative fee, may apply for a licence Sotheby’s suggests that buyers check with party is the successful bidder, they will be price may be cancelled or refunded. must obtain hand-carry papers from the for VAT symbols used in this catalogue. may be used to claim recovery of the VAT. to export your lot(s) outside the UK their own government regarding wildlife required to pay the full Buyer’s Premium. (VAT-registered buyers from other EU Shipping Department for which a small (a) Sotheby’s and Sellers’ contractual Value Added Tax (VAT) may be payable Otherwise Sotheby’s may re-invoice the lot • An EU Licence is necessary to export import requirements prior to placing a bid. In certain instances, interested parties may countries may have the VAT cancelled or administrative charge will be made. The relationship with prospective Buyers is on the hammer price and/or the buyer’s as if it had been sold with a † symbol and cultural goods subject to the EU It is the buyer’s responsibility to obtain have knowledge of the reserve. In the event refunded if they provide Sotheby’s with VAT refund will be processed once the governed by: premium. Buyer’s premium may attract a charge VAT at the standard rate on both the Regulation on the export of cultural any export or import licences and/or the interested party’s possible participation their VAT registration number and evidence appropriate paperwork has been returned (i) these Conditions of Business; charge in lieu of VAT. Please read carefully hammer price and premium and provide property (EEC No. 3911/92, Official certificates as well as any other required in the sale is not known until after the that the property has been removed from to Sotheby’s. (ii) the Conditions of Business for Sellers the “VAT INFORMATION FOR BUYERS” a tax invoice to the buyer. This may enable Journal No. L395 of 31/12/92) from the documentation (please refer to Condition printing of the auction catalogue, a pre-lot the UK within three months of the date of • Sotheby’s is not able to cancel or refund displayed in the saleroom and which are printed in this catalogue. a buyer who is VAT registered elsewhere European Community. 10 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers announcement will be made indicating sale. The evidence of removal required any VAT charged on sales made to UK available upon request from Sotheby’s in the EU to avoid payment of VAT in the • A UK Licence is necessary to move printed in this catalogue). Please note that that interested parties may be bidding on is a certificate of shipment or, if the lots or EU private residents unless the lot is UK salerooms or by telephoning United Kingdom. Re-invoicing in this way cultural goods valued at or above the Sotheby’s is not able to assist buyers with the lot. were carried by hand, proof of travel and subject to Temporary Admission and the +44 (0)20 7293 6152; may make the lot ineligible to be re-sold relevant UK Licence limits from the UK. the shipment of any lots containing ivory VAT AND OTHER TAX completion of a form available from the property is exported from the EU and (iii) Sotheby’s Authenticity Guarantee as □ No Reserve using the margin scheme. and/or other restricted materials into the INFORMATION FOR BUYERS Post Sale Service Group. the requisite export papers provided to printed in the sale catalogue; For export outside the European Unless indicated by a box (□), all lots in this Sotheby’s will transfer all lots sold US. A buyer’s inability to export or import The following paragraphs are intended to Sotheby’s within one month of collection of (iv) any additional notices and terms Community, an EU Licence will be required catalogue are offered subject to a reserve. 3. PROPERTY WITH A α SYMBOL subject to Temporary Admission to its these lots cannot justify a delay in payment give general guidance to buyers on the VAT the property. printed in the sale catalogue, including for most items over 50 years of age with A reserve is the confidential hammer price Customs warehouse immediately after or a sale’s cancellation. and certain other potential tax implications Items sold to buyers whose address is in • Sotheby’s is not able to cancel or refund Buying at Auction and, a value of over £39,219. The following is a established between Sotheby’s and the sale. of purchasing property at Sotheby’s. The the EU will be assumed to be remaining any VAT charged on sales to UK or EU (v) in respect of online bidding via the selection of categories of items for which seller and below which a lot will not be sold. information concerns the most usual in the EU. The property will be invoiced private residents unless the lot is subject internet, the BIDnow Conditions on other value limits apply and for which The reserve is generally set at a percentage 5. EXPORTS FROM THE circumstances and is not intended to be as if it had no VAT symbol (see ‘Property EUROPEAN UNION to Temporary Admission and is shipped as the Sotheby’s website, in each case an EU Licence may be required. It is not EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS of the low estimate and will not exceed the complete. In all cases the relevant tax with no VAT symbol’ above). However, if described above. as amended by any saleroom notice exhaustive and there are other restrictions. The following key explains the symbols you low estimate for the lot. If any lots in the The following amounts of VAT may be legislation takes precedence and the VAT the property is to be exported from the Buyers intending to export, repair, or auctioneer’s announcement at the may see inside this catalogue. catalogue are offered without a reserve, cancelled or refunded provided Sotheby’s EU Licence Thresholds rates in effect on the day of the auction will EU, Sotheby’s will re-invoice the property restore or alter lots sold under Temporary auction. these lots are indicated by a box (□). If all receive the appropriate export documents Archaeological objects ○ Guaranteed Property be the rates charged except for lots sold under the normal VAT rules (see ‘Property Admission (‡ or Ω symbols) and therefore (b) As auctioneer, Sotheby’s acts as agent lots in the catalogue are offered without a within the time limits stated: EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: ZERO The seller of lots with this symbol has subject to Temporary Admission for which sold with a † symbol’ above) as requested transferred to Customs Warehouse after for the Seller. A sale contract is made reserve, a Special Notice will be included to Elements of artistic, historical or religious been guaranteed a minimum price from the applicable rate will be that in force at by the seller. Property with no VAT symbol (see sale should notify the Shipping Department directly between the Seller and the Buyer. this effect and the box symbol will not be monuments one auction or a series of auctions. This the time of collection. It should be noted Items sold to buyers whose address paragraph 1) before collection. Failure to do so may However, Sotheby’s may own a lot (and used for each lot. EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: ZERO guarantee may be provided by Sotheby’s that, for VAT purposes only, Sotheby’s is is outside the EU will be assumed to be The amount in lieu of VAT charged on result in the import VAT becoming payable in such circumstances acts in a principal Manuscripts, documents and archives or jointly by Sotheby’s and a third party. ⊕ Property Subject to the Artist’s Resale Right not usually treated as an agent and most exported from the EU. The property will be Buyers Premium may be refunded immediately and Sotheby’s being unable to capacity as Seller) and/or may have a legal, (excluding printed matter) Sotheby’s and any third parties providing Purchase of lots marked with this symbol property is sold as if it is the property of invoiced under the normal VAT rules (see provided the purchaser resides outside refund the VAT charged on deposit. beneficial or financial interest in a lot as a EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: ZERO a guarantee jointly with Sotheby’s benefit (⊕) will be subject to payment of the Sotheby’s. ‘Property sold with a † symbol’ above). of the United Kingdom and the property secured creditor or otherwise. 6. VAT REFUNDS FROM HM Architectural, scientific and engineering financially if a guaranteed lot is sold Artist’s Resale Right, at a percentage of the In the following paragraphs, reference Although the hammer price will be subject is exported from the EU within 3 months REVENUE AND CUSTOMS 2. COMMON TERMS IN THESE drawings produced by hand hammer price calculated as follows: to VAT this will be cancelled or refunded successfully and may incur a loss if the sale to VAT symbols shall mean those symbols of the sale. Sotheby’s must be provided CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS: EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £11,766 is not successful. If every lot in a catalogue located beside the lot number or the upon export - see ‘Exports from the with the appropriate proof of export Where VAT charged cannot be cancelled or Portion of the hammer price (in €) Photographic positive or negative or any is guaranteed,­ the Important Notices in the pre-sale estimates in the catalogue (or European Union’. However, buyers who are immediately after export of the goods. refunded by Sotheby’s, it may be possible Bidder is any person considering, making Royalty Rate assemblage of such photographs sale catalogue will so state and this symbol amending sale room notice). not intending to export their property from to seek repayment from HM Revenue and or attempting to make a bid, by whatever From 0 to 50,000 4% Property with a † symbol EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £11,766 will not be used for each lot. the EU should notify our Client Accounts Customs. Repayments in this manner means, and includes Buyers; From 50,000.01 to 200,000 3% The VAT charged upon the hammer price Textiles (excluding carpets and tapestries) 1. PROPERTY WITH NO VAT SYMBOL Department on the day of the sale and the are limited to businesses located outside Buyer is the person who makes the highest △ Property in which Sotheby’s has an From 200,000.01 to 350,000 1% may be refunded provided the purchaser EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £39,219 property will be re-invoiced showing no VAT the UK. bid or offer accepted by the auctioneer, Ownership Interest From 350,000.01 to 500,000 0.5% Where there is no VAT symbol, Sotheby’s resides outside of the United Kingdom Paintings in oil or tempera on the hammer price (see ‘Property sold and includes such person’s principal when Lots with this symbol indicate that Exceeding 500,000 0.25% is able to use the Auctioneer’s Margin and the property is exported from the EU Claim forms are available from: EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £117,657 with no VAT symbol’ above). bidding as agent; Sotheby’s owns the lot in whole or in part Scheme and VAT will not normally be within 3 months of the sale. Sotheby’s HM Revenue and Customs Watercolours, gouaches and pastels The Artist’s Resale Right payable will be Buyer’s Expenses are any costs or or has an economic interest in the lot charged on the hammer price. 4. PROPERTY SOLD WITH must be provided with the appropriate VAT Overseas Repayments Unit EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £23,531 the aggregate of the amounts payable expenses due to Sotheby’s from the Buyer equivalent to an ownership interest. Sotheby’s must bear VAT on the buyer’s A ‡ OR Ω SYMBOL proof of export immediately after export of PO Box 34, Foyle House Prints, Engravings, Drawings and Mosaics under the above rate bands, subject to and any Artist’s Resale Right levy payable premium and hence will charge an amount the goods. Duncreggan Road, Londonderry EU LICENCE THRESHOLD: £11,766 ⋑ Irrevocable Bids a maximum royalty payable of 12,500 These items have been imported from in respect of the sale of the Property, in lieu of VAT at the standard rate on this Northern Ireland, BT48 7AE Lots with this symbol indicate that a party euros for any single work each time it is outside the EU to be sold at auction under Property with a ‡ or a Ω symbol including an amount in respect of any There are separate thresholds for exporting premium. This amount will form part of the Tel: +44 (0)2871 305100 has provided Sotheby’s with an irrevocable sold. The maximum royalty payable of Temporary Admission. When Sotheby’s The Temporary Admission VAT charged on applicable VAT thereon; within the European Community. A UK buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not Fax: +44 (0)2871 305101 bid on the lot that will be executed during 12,500 euros applies to works sold for releases such property to buyers in the the hammer price may be refunded under Buyer’s Premium is the commission Licence will be required for most items over be separately identified. A limited range of [email protected] the sale at a value that ensures that the 2 million euros and above. Calculation UK, the buyer will become the importer the following circumstances:- payable by the Buyer on the Hammer Price 50 years of age with a value of over £65,000. goods, including most books, are not liable lot will sell. The irrevocable bidder, who of the artist’s resale right will be based and must pay Sotheby’s import VAT at the • Sotheby’s is instructed to ship the at the rates set out in Buying at Auction; Some exceptions are listed below:- to VAT and therefore no amount in lieu of 7. SALES AND USE TAXES following rates on the hammer price: Counterfeit is as defined in Sotheby’s may bid in excess of the irrevocable bid, on the pound sterling / Euro reference VAT will be added to the premium. property to a place outside the EU - the reduced rate Buyers from outside the UK should note Authenticity Guarantee; UK Licence Thresholds will be compensated based on the final exchange rate quoted on the date of the Please see ‘Exports from the European ‡ • The property is hand carried from the UK - the standard rate that local sales taxes or use taxes may Hammer Price is the highest bid accepted Photographic positive or negative or any hammer price in the event he or she is sale by the European Central Bank. Union’ for the conditions to be fulfilled Ω directly outside the EU and Sotheby’s pre assemblage of such photographs not the successful bidder or may receive lodge the export entry with HMRC become payable upon import of items by the auctioneer by the fall of the hammer ◉ Restricted Materials before the amount in lieu of VAT on the You should also note that the appropriate UK LICENCE THRESHOLD: £10,000 a fixed fee in the event he or she is the • The VAT liability is transferred to your following purchase (for example, the Use (in the case of wine, as apportioned Lots with this symbol have been identified buyer’s premium may be cancelled or rate will be that in force on the date of Textiles (excluding carpets and tapestries) successful bidder. If the irrevocable bidder shippers own Temporary Admission or Tax payable on import of purchased items pro-rata by reference to the number of at the time of cataloguing as containing refunded. collection of the property from Sotheby’s UK LICENCE THRESHOLD: £12,000 is the successful bidder, the fixed fee (if Customs Warehouse arrangement prior to to certain states of the USA). Buyers should separately identified items in that lot), or in organic material which may be subject to (VAT-registered buyers from within the and not that in force at the date of the sale. British Historical Portraits applicable) for providing the irrevocable collection from Sotheby’s obtain their own advice in this regard. the case of a post-auction sale, the agreed restrictions regarding import or export. European Union (EU) should note that the These lots will be invoiced under the UK LICENCE THRESHOLD: £10,000 bid may be netted against the irrevocable sale price; The information is made available for the amount in lieu of VAT contained within the margin scheme. Sotheby’s must bear

170 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 171 Purchase Price is the Hammer Price and whether the Buyer acquires copyright in (b) Sotheby’s advises Bidders to attend earliest of i) collection or ii) the thirty-first property and apply the proceeds to the (d) These Conditions of Business are their information for certain purposes, Collect your property from: applicable Buyer’s Premium and VAT; any lot. the auction but will seek to carry out calendar day after the auction. Until risk amount owed to Sotheby’s; not assignable by any Buyer without including direct marketing, and may Sotheby’s Property Collection Reserve is the (confidential) minimum absentee written bids which are in pounds passes, Sotheby’s will compensate the Sotheby’s prior written consent, but are access and rectify personal data relating Opening hours: (f) Subject to th­e matters referred to in (h) resell the lot by auction or private Hammer Price at which the Seller has sterling and, in Sotheby’s opinion, clear Buyer for any loss or damage to the lot binding on Buyers’ successors, assigns to them and may obtain more information Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm Conditions 3(a) to 3(e) above and to the sale, with estimates and reserves at agreed to sell a lot; and received sufficiently in advance of the up to a maximum of the Purchase Price and representatives. No act, omission about Sotheby’s data protection policies 34–35 New Bond Street specific exclusions contained at Condition Sotheby’s discretion. In the event such Seller is the person offering a lot for sale of the lot, endeavouring to ensure that paid. Buyers should note that Sotheby’s or delay by Sotheby’s shall be deemed a by writing to Sotheby’s, 34-35 New London, W1A 2AA 4 below, Sotheby’s shall exercise such resale is for less than the Purchase Price sale (including their agent (other than the first received of identical written bids assumption of liability for loss or damage waiver or release of any of its rights. Bond Street, London W1A 2AA, or 1334 Tel: +44 (0)20 7293 5358 reasonable care when making express and Buyer’s Expenses for that lot, the Sotheby’s), executors or personal has priority. is subject to the exclusions set out in York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, Attn: Fax: +44 (0)20 7293 5933 statements in catalogue descriptions or Buyer will remain liable for the shortfall (e) The Contracts (Rights of Third representatives); Condition 6 of the Conditions of Business Compliance, or emailing: enquiries@ condition reports as is consistent with (c) Where available, written, telephone together with all costs incurred in such Parties) Act 1999 is excluded by these Sotheby’s means Sotheby’s, the unlimited for Sellers. sothebys.com. COLLECTION FROM SOTHEBY’S its role as auctioneer of lots in the sale to and online bids are offered as an additional resale; Conditions of Business and shall not GREENFORD PARK FINE ART company which has its registered office at which these Conditions relate, and in the service for no extra charge, at the (d) For all items stored by a third party and apply to any contract made pursuant STORAGE FACILITY 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA; (i) commence legal proceedings 13. LAW AND JURISDICTION light of (i) the information provided to it by Bidder’s risk and shall be undertaken with not available for collection from Sotheby’s to them. Sotheby’s Company means both to recover the Purchase Price and Lots will be released to you or your the Seller; (ii) scholarship and technical reasonable care subject to Sotheby’s other premises, the supply of authority to release Governing Law These Conditions of Sotheby’s in the USA and any of its Buyer’s Expenses for that lot, together (f) The materials listed in Condition 1(a) authorised representative when full and knowledge; and (iii) the generally accepted commitments at the time of the auction; to the Buyer shall constitute collection by Business and all aspects of all matters, subsidiaries (including Sotheby’s in with interest and the costs of such above set out the entire agreement and cleared payment has been received by opinions of relevant experts, in each case Sotheby’s therefore cannot accept liability the Buyer. transactions or disputes to which they London) and Sotheby’s Diamonds S.A. and proceedings on a full indemnity basis; or understanding between the parties with Sotheby’s, together with settlement of any at the time any such express statement for failure to place such bids save where relate or apply (including any online bids its subsidiaries (in each case “subsidiary” (e) All packing and handling is at the respect to the subject matter hereof. It is removal, interest, handling and storage is made. such failure is unreasonable. Telephone (j) release the name and address of the in the sale to which these Conditions having the meaning of Section 736 of the Buyer’s risk. Sotheby’s will not be liable agreed that, save in respect of liability for charges thereon, appropriate identification and online bids may be recorded. Online Buyer to the Seller to enable the Seller apply) shall be governed by and Companies Act 1985); for any acts or omissions of third party fraudulent misrepresentation, no party has been provided and a release note has 4. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS bids (“BIDnow”) are made subject to to commence legal proceedings to interpreted in accordance with English VAT is Value Added Tax at the prevailing OF LIABILITY TO BUYERS packers or shippers. has entered into any contract pursuant been produced by our Post Sale Service the BIDnow Conditions available on the recover the amounts due and legal costs. law. rate. Further information is contained in to these terms in reliance on any Group at New Bond Street, who are open (a) Sotheby’s shall refund the Purchase Sotheby’s website or upon request. The (f) The Buyer of any firearm is solely Sotheby’s will take reasonable steps to Buying at Auction. representation, warranty or undertaking Jurisdiction For the benefit of Sotheby’s, Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm. Price to the Buyer in circumstances where BIDnow Conditions apply in relation to responsible for obtaining all valid firearm notify the Buyer prior to releasing such which is not expressly referred to in such all Bidders and Sellers agree that the Purchasers must ensure that their it deems that the lot is a Counterfeit and online bids, in addition to these Conditions or shotgun certificates or certificates of details to the Seller. 3. DUTIES OF BIDDERS AND materials. Courts of England are to have exclusive payment has been cleared prior to of Business. registration as a firearms dealer, as may OF SOTHEBY’S IN RESPECT each of the conditions of the Authenticity jurisdiction to settle all disputes arising in collection and that a release note has OF ITEMS FOR SALE be required by the regulations in force 9. FAILURE TO COLLECT PURCHASES Guarantee has been satisfied. 12. DATA PROTECTION connection with all aspects of all matters been forwarded to Sotheby’s Greenford 6. CONDUCT OF THE AUCTION in England and Wales or Scotland (as (a) Sotheby’s knowledge in relation to each (b) In the light of the matters in Condition 3 (a) If the Buyer pays the Purchase Price or transactions to which these Conditions Park by our Post Sale Service Group at applicable) relating to firearms or other Sotheby’s will use information provided lot is partially dependent on information above and subject to Conditions 4(a) and (a) Unless otherwise specified, all lots are and Buyer’s Expenses but fails to collect a of Business relate or apply. All parties Sotheby’s New Bond Street. Buyers who weapons at the time of the sale, and by its clients (or which Sotheby’s provided to it by the Seller, and Sotheby’s 4(e), neither any Sotheby’s Company nor offered subject to a Reserve, which shall be purchased lot within thirty (30) calendar agree that Sotheby’s shall retain the right have established credit arrangements with for complying with all such regulations, otherwise obtains relating to its clients) is not able to and does not carry out the Seller: no higher than the low presale estimate at days of the auction, the lot will be stored at to bring proceedings in any court other Sotheby’s may collect purchases prior to whether or not notice of such is published for the provision of auction and other exhaustive due diligence on each lot. (i) is liable for any errors or omissions the time of the auction. the Buyer’s expense (and risk) at Sotheby’s than the Courts of England. payment, although a release note is still in the Sale Catalogue. Sotheby’s will art-related services, loan and insurance Bidders acknowledge this fact and accept in information provided to Bidders by or with a third party. required from our Post Sale Service Group (b) The auctioneer has discretion at any not deliver a firearm to a Buyer unless services, client administration, marketing Service of Process All Bidders and responsibility for carrying out inspections Sotheby’s (or any Sotheby’s Company), as above. time to refuse any bid, withdraw any lot, the Buyer has first supplied evidence to (b) If a purchased lot is paid for but not and otherwise to manage and operate Sellers irrevocably consent to service and investigations to satisfy themselves as whether orally or in writing, whether Any purchased lots that have not been re-offer a lot for sale (including after the fall Sotheby’s satisfaction of compliance with collected within six months of the auction, its business, or as required by law. of process or any other documents in to the lots in which they may be interested. negligent or otherwise, except as set out collected within 30 days from the date of the hammer) if he believes there may be this Condition. the Buyer authorises Sotheby’s, having given This will include information such as connection with proceedings in any of the auction will be subject to handling (b) Each lot offered for sale at Sotheby’s in Condition 3(f) above; error or dispute, and take such other action notice to the Buyer, to arrange a resale of the the client’s name and contact details, court by facsimile transmission, personal and storage charges at the rates set out is available for inspection by Bidders prior (ii) gives any guarantee or warranty to as he reasonably thinks fit. 8. REMEDIES FOR NON-PAYMENT item by auction or private sale, with estimates proof of identity, financial information, service, delivery by mail or in any other Bidders and any implied warranties and and reserves at Sotheby’s discretion. The records of the client’s transactions, manner permitted by English law, the below. to the sale. Sotheby’s accepts bids on (c) The auctioneer will commence and Without prejudice to any rights the Seller conditions are excluded (save in so far as proceeds of such sale, less all costs incurred and preferences. Some gathering of law of the place of service or the law lots solely on the basis that Bidders (and advance the bidding at levels and in may have, if the Buyer without prior Collect your property from: Sotheby’s such obligations cannot be excluded by by Sotheby’s, will be forfeited unless collected information about Sotheby’s clients of the jurisdiction where proceedings independent experts on their behalf, to increments he considers appropriate and agreement fails to make payment for Greenford Park Fine Art Storage Facility law) other than the express warranties by the Buyer within two years of the original will take place using technical means are instituted, at the last address of the the extent appropriate given the nature is entitled to place a bid or series of bids on the lot within five days of the auction, Opening hours: given by the Seller to the Buyer in auction. to identify their preferences in order to Buyer or Seller known to Sotheby’s or and value of the lot and the Bidder’s own behalf of the Seller up to the Reserve on the Sotheby’s may in its sole discretion Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm Condition 2 of the Sellers’ Conditions of provide a higher quality of service to any other usual address. expertise) have fully inspected the lot prior lot, without indicating he is doing so and (having informed the Seller) exercise one Sotheby’s Greenford Park, Business; 10. 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Sotheby’s may also disclose the to bidding and have satisfied themselves whether or not other bids are placed. or more of the following remedies: 13 Ockham Drive, Greenford, Middlesex, as to both the condition of the lot and the (iii) accepts responsibility to any Bidders It is the Buyer’s sole responsibility to client information to other Sotheby’s UB6 0FD accuracy of its description. in respect of acts or omissions (whether (d) Subject to Condition 6(b), the (a) store the lot at its premises or identify and obtain any necessary export, Companies and/or third parties acting on SOTHEBY’S GREENFORD PARK Tel: +44 (0)20 7293 5600 STORAGE AND COLLECTION negligent or otherwise) by Sotheby’s in contract between the Buyer and the elsewhere at the Buyer’s sole risk and import, firearm, endangered species or their behalf to provide services for these Fax: +44 (0)20 7293 5625 (c) Bidders acknowledge that many lots INFORMATION connection with the conduct of auctions Seller is concluded on the striking of the expense; other permit for the lot. Any symbols purposes listed above. are of an age and type which means that or for any matter relating to the sale of auctioneer’s hammer, whereupon the or notices in the sale catalogue reflect Sometimes, Sotheby’s may also Smaller items can normally be collected ROUTE GUIDANCE TO SOTHEBY’S they are not in perfect condition. All lots are (b) cancel the sale of the lot; GREENFORD PARK FINE ART any lot. Buyer becomes liable to pay the Purchase Sotheby’s reasonable opinion at the disclose this information to carefully from New Bond Street, however offered for sale in the condition they are in STORAGE FACILITY Price. (c) set off any amounts owed to the time of cataloguing and offer Bidders selected third parties for their own large items may be sent to Sotheby’s at the time of the auction (whether or not (c) Unless Sotheby’s owns a lot offered for Buyer by a Sotheby’s Company against general guidance only. Without prejudice marketing purposes. If you do not wish Greenford Park Fine Art Storage Facility. From Bond Street head towards Regents Bidders are in attendance at the auction). sale, it is not responsible for any breach of (e) Any post-auction sale of lots offered at any amounts owed to Sotheby’s by the to Conditions 3 and 4 above, Sotheby’s your details to be used for this purpose, If you are in doubt about the location of Park, take the A40 Marylebone Road Condition reports may be available to these conditions by the Seller. auction shall incorporate these Conditions Buyer in respect of the lot; and the Seller make no representations please email [email protected]. your purchases please contact the Sale to Western Avenue. Take the exit off assist when inspecting lots. Catalogue as if sold in the auction. (d) Without prejudice to Condition 4(b), any or warranties as to whether any lot is If the client provides Sotheby’s with Administrator (see front of catalogue) the A40 signposted Greenford A4127. descriptions and condition reports may claim against Sotheby’s or the Seller by a (d) apply any payments made to 7. PAYMENT AND COLLECTION or is not subject to export or import information that is defined by European prior to collection. At the roundabout take the third exit on occasions make reference to particular Sotheby’s by the Buyer as part of the Bidder is limited to the Purchase Price with restrictions or any embargoes. The denial data protection laws as “sensitive”, the signposted Harrow and Sudbury, A4127 imperfections of a lot, but Bidders should (a) Unless otherwise agreed, payment of Purchase Price and Buyer’s expenses COLLECTION FROM NEW regard to that lot. Neither Sotheby’s nor of any permit or licence shall not justify client agrees that it may be used for the onto Greenford Road. Go under the note that lots may have other faults not the Purchase Price for a lot and any Buyer’s towards that or any other lot purchased BOND STREET the Seller shall under any circumstances cancellation or rescission of the sale purposes set out above. railway bridge and at the traffic lights turn expressly referred to in the catalogue Expenses are due by the Buyer in pounds by the Buyer, or to any shortfall on the be liable for any consequential losses. contract or any delay in payment. In the course of these disclosures, Lots will be released to you or your first left into Rockware Avenue. At the or condition report. Illustrations are for sterling immediately on conclusion of the resale of any lot pursuant to paragraph personal data collected in the European authorised representative when full and T Junction turn right onto Oldfield Lane identification purposes only and will not (e) None of this Condition 4 shall exclude auction (the “Due Date”) notwithstanding (h) below, or to any damages suffered 11. GENERAL Economic Area may be disclosed to cleared payment has been received by North and then left into Ockham Drive. convey full information as to the actual or limit Sotheby’s liability in respect of any requirements for export, import or by Sotheby’s as a result of breach of countries outside the European Economic Sotheby’s, together with settlement Stop at the security barrier and say you condition of lots. any fraudulent misrepresentation made other permits for such lot. contract by the Buyer; (a) All images and other materials by Sotheby’s or the Seller, or in respect produced for the auction are the Area. Although such countries may not of any removal, interest, handling and are visiting Sotheby’s. Once cleared, (d) Information provided to Bidders in of death or personal injury caused by the (b) Title in a purchased lot will not pass (e) reject future bids from the Buyer or copyright of Sotheby’s, for use at have legislation that protects a client’s storage charges thereon, appropriate travel 300 yards down the road and Unit respect of any lot, including any estimate, negligent acts or omissions of Sotheby’s until Sotheby’s has received the Purchase render such bids subject to payment of Sotheby’s discretion. personal information, Sotheby’s shall take identification has been provided and a 13 is situated on the left hand side. whether written or oral and including or the Seller. Price and Buyer’s Expenses for that lot in a deposit; reasonable steps to keep such information release note has been produced by our STORAGE CHARGES information in any catalogue, condition or cleared funds. Sotheby’s is not obliged to (b) Notices to Sotheby’s should be in secure and in accordance with European Post Sale Service Group at New Bond (f) charge interest at 6% per annum writing and addressed to the department other report, commentary or valuation, 5. BIDDING AT AUCTION release a lot to the Buyer until title in the lot data protection principles. By agreeing to Street, who are open Monday to Friday Any purchased lots that have not been above HSBC Bank plc Base Rate from in charge of the sale, quoting the is not a representation of fact but rather has passed and appropriate identification these Conditions of Business, the client is 9.00am to 5.00pm. collected within 30 days from the date (a) Sotheby’s has absolute discretion to the Due Date to the date the Purchase reference number specified at the is a statement of opinion genuinely held has been provided, and any earlier release agreeing to such disclosure. Any purchased lots that have not been of the auction will be subject to handling refuse admission to the auction. Bidders Price and relevant Buyer’s Expenses are beginning of the sale catalogue. Notices by Sotheby’s. Any estimate may not be does not affect the passing of title or the Please be aware that Sotheby’s collected within 30 days from the date and storage charges at the following must complete a Paddle Registration received in cleared funds; to Sotheby’s clients shall be addressed to relied on as a prediction of the selling price Buyer’s unconditional obligation to pay the may film auctions or other activities of the auction will be subject to handling rates: Form and supply such information and the last address formally notified by them or value of the lot and may be revised Purchase Price and Buyer’s Expenses. (g) exercise a lien over any of the Buyer’s on Sotheby’s premises and that such and storage charges at the rates set Small items (such as jewellery, watches, references as required by Sotheby’s. to Sotheby’s. from time to time in Sotheby’s absolute property which is in the possession of recordings may be transmitted over the out below. In addition all purchased lots books or ceramics): handling fee of £20 Bidders act as principal unless they have (c) The Buyer is obliged to arrange discretion. a Sotheby’s Company. Sotheby’s shall Internet via Sotheby’s website. Telephone that have not been collected from our per lot plus storage charges of £2 per lot Sotheby’s prior written consent to bid collection of purchased lots no later than (c) Should any provision of these inform the Buyer of the exercise of any bids may be recorded. New Bond Street premises within 90 per day. (e) No representations or warranties are as agent for another party. Bidders are thirty (30) calendar days after the date Conditions of Business be held such lien and within 14 days of such Under European data protection days of the auction will be transferred Medium items (such as most paintings made by Sotheby’s or the Seller as to personally liable for their bid and are jointly of the auction. Purchased lots are at unenforceable for any reason, the notice may arrange the sale of such laws, a client may object, by request to Sotheby’s Greenford Park Fine Art or small items of furniture): handling fee whether any lot is subject to copyright or and severally liable with their principal if the Buyer’s risk (and therefore their sole remaining provisions shall remain in full and free of charge, to the processing of Storage Facility. bidding as agent. responsibility for insurance) from the force and effect.

172 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 173 of £30 per lot plus storage charges of £4 complained of was sold un-named in a Payment for purchases is due in Pounds INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENTS per lot per day. lot; or Sterling, however the equivalent amount in Large items (items that cannot be lifted (vi) the defect complained of is other any other currency will be accepted at the For a full listing of our offices and salerooms worldwide with detailed information on all of Sotheby’s services, visit sothebys.com or moved by one person alone): handling than in text or illustration. (For example, rate prevailing on the day that payment is fee of £40 per lot plus storage charges of without limitation, a sale will not be set received in cleared funds. £8 per lot per day. aside on account of damage to bindings, Settlement is made to vendors in the Oversized items (such as monumental stains, foxing, marginal wormholes, currency in which the sale is conducted, or sculptures): handling fee of £80 per lot lack of blank leaves or other conditions in another currency on request at the rate plus storage charges of £10 per lot per not affecting the completeness of the prevailing on the day that payment is made London New York Paris day. text or illustration, lack of list of plates, by Sotheby’s. Dr. David Goldthorpe Richard Austin inserted advertisements, cancels or Anne Heilbronn A lot’s size will be determined by LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE Head of Department Head of Department any subsequently published volume, Head of Department Sotheby’s on a case by case basis FOR PURCHASED LOTS supplement, appendix or plates or error +44 (0)20 7293 5303 +1 212 894 1642 (typical examples given above are for +33 (0)1 53 05 53 18 in the enumeration of the plates; or Purchasers are requested to arrange illustration purposes only). (vii) there has been no material loss in clearance as soon as possible and are ENGLISH LITERATURE MUSIC AND CONTINENTAL PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT All charges are subject to VAT, where BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS value of the lot from its value had it been reminded that Sotheby’s accepts liability applicable. All charges are payable AND HISTORY, CHILDREN’S MANUSCRIPTS AMERICANA, MAPS AND ATLASES in accordance with its description. for loss or damage to lots for a maximum to Sotheby’s at our Post Sale Service BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Anne Heilbronn This Guarantee is provided for a period period of thirty (30) calendar days Dr. Simon Maguire Selby Kiffer Group in New Bond Street. +33 (0)1 53 05 53 18 of five (5) years (in respect of counterfeit following the date of the auction. Please Storage charges will cease for Peter Selley +44 (0)20 7293 5016 International Senior items) or twenty-one (21) days (in respect refer to condition 7 of the Conditions of purchased lots which are shipped +44 (0)20 7293 5295 Frédérique Parent of items materially defective in text or Business for Buyers. Book Specialist through Sotheby’s Shipping Logistics Dr. Stephen Roe illustration) after the date of the relevant +1 212 894 1288 +33 (0)1 53 05 52 91 from the date on which we have received a Dr. Philip W. 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To be able to claim under this with a W will be transferred from the ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, PRIVATE +33 (0)1 53 05 52 66 Sotheby’s UK Dr. Gabriel Heaton Guarantee, the Buyer must:- saleroom to Sotheby’s Greenford Park Fine Buyers are reminded that Sotheby’s has been awarded the European Union Author- MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PRESS, NATURAL HISTORY (i) notify Sotheby’s in writing within Art Storage Facility after 5 pm on the day +44 (0)20 7293 5670 ADMINISTRATOR accepts liability for loss or damage to ised Economic Operator status by Her Majesty’s three (3) months (for counterfeit items) of the sale. Collection can be made from MANUSCRIPTS Justin Caldwell lots for a maximum period of thirty Revenue and Customs. or twenty one (21) days (for items Sotheby’s Greenford Park two days after Jennifer Dell Sylvie Delaume-Garcia (30) calendar days after the date of the Dr. Mara Hofmann +1 212 894 1265 materially defective in text or illustration) the sale, but not on the day immediately auction. Please refer to Condition 7 of the +44 (0)20 7293 5296 +33 (0)1 53 05 53 19 with the reasons why the Buyer following the sale. +44 (0)20 7293 5330 Conditions of Business for Buyers. considers the item to be counterfeit or EUROPEAN LITERATURE Exceptions to this procedure will be TRAVEL, ATLASES, MAPS materially defective in text or illustration, notified by auction room notice and Peter Kidd ‡ Brussels AND NATURAL HISTORY Adrien Legendre specifying the lot number and the date announced at the time of the sale. After 30 +1 212 894 1040 BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS of the auction at which it was purchased; days storage charges will commence. ADMINISTRATORS SOTHEBY’S AUTHENTICITY Dr. David Goldthorpe and Please see the Buying at Auction guide Alexia Massant +44 (0)20 7293 5303 Lukas Baumann GUARANTEE FOR BOOKS (ii) return the item to Sotheby’s in the for further information. 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Main Enquiries: Sotheby’s will set aside the sale and the above requirements. Sotheby’s may is reasonably practicable. Nevertheless, AUCTION OPERATIONS Dr. David Wachtel ‡ Filippo Lotti +44 (0)20 7293 5000. Catherine Slowther ‡ refund to the Buyer the total amount paid require the Buyer to obtain at the Buyer’s should you handle any items on view at our +39 02 295 001 by the Buyer to Sotheby’s for the item, in cost the reports of two independent and premises, you do so at your own risk. Elizabeth Connolly CONTINENTAL AND RUSSIAN the currency of the original sale. recognised experts in the field, mutually Some items can be large and/or heavy Thibaut Closson For these purposes, “counterfeit” means acceptable to Sotheby’s and the Buyer. and can be dangerous if mishandled. BOOKS, SCIENCE, MEDICINE Consultant ‡ a lot that in Sotheby’s reasonable opinion Sotheby’s shall not be bound by any Should you wish to view or inspect AND BINDINGS GENERAL ENQUIRIES is an imitation created to deceive as to reports produced by the Buyer, and any items more closely please ask for Charlotte Miller Francesca Charlton-Jones authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture reserves the right to seek additional expert assistance from a member of Sotheby’s or source, where the correct description advice at its own expense. In the event staff to ensure your safety and the safety of +44 (0)20 7293 5893 +44 (0)20 7293 6182 of such matters is not reflected by the Sotheby’s decides to rescind the sale under the property on view. description in the catalogue (taking into this Guarantee, it may refund to the Buyer Some items on view may be labelled account any Glossary of Terms). the reasonable costs of up to two mutually “PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH”. Should you Please note that this Guarantee does approved independent expert reports. wish to view these items you must ask for not apply if either:- 4/08 NBS_GUARANTEE BOOKS assistance from a member of Sotheby’s (i) the catalogue description was in staff who will be pleased to assist you. accordance with the generally accepted Thank you for your co-operation. opinion(s) of scholar(s) and expert(s) at the date of the sale, or the catalogue IMPORTANT NOTICES PHOTOCOPIES OF BOOKS description indicated that there was a AND MANUSCRIPTS FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS ESTIMATES IN EUROS conflict of such opinions; or The proliferation of photocopying A comprehensive calendar of international auctions, in addition to all sale results, can be viewed at sothebys.com (ii) the only method of establishing at As a guide to potential buyers, estimates machines makes it impossible for the date of the sale that the item was a for this sale are also shown in Euros. The Sotheby’s to know whether copies of lots counterfeit would have been by means estimates printed in the catalogue in have been taken. We will endeavour to of processes not then generally available Pounds Sterling have been converted at contact vendors about the existence of Photography the following rate, which was current at the or accepted, unreasonably expensive photocopies, on request. Paul Brickell TRAVEL, ATLASES, MAPS AND ICONS OF CHILDREN’S FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS time of printing. These estimates may have or impractical to use; or likely to have 11/10 NBS_NOTICE_BOOKS € Catalogue Designer caused damage to the lot or likely (in been rounded: Lynne Sellers NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION 6 December 2016 Sotheby’s reasonable opinion) to have £1 = €1.12 Colour Editor 15 November 2016 30 November - 14 December 2016 New York caused loss of value to the lot; or By the date of the sale this rate is Philip White London Online Sale (iii) the item complained of comprises an likely to have changed, and buyers are Production Controller atlas, an extra-illustrated book, a volume recommended to check before bidding. Victoria Ling MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE with fore-edged paintings, a periodical During the sale Sotheby’s may provide MUSIC AND CONTINENTAL THE BIBLE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS publication or a print or drawing; or a screen to show currency conversions (iv) in the case of a manuscript, the lot as bidding progresses. This is intended BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS DR. CHARLES CALDWELL RYRIE 6 December 2016 was not described in the catalogue as for guidance only and all bidding will 29 November 2016 5 December 2016 London complete; or be in Pounds Sterling. Sotheby’s is not (v) the defect complained of was responsible for any error or omissions in London New York mentioned in the catalogue or the item the operation of the currency converter.

174 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 175 INDEX

Adams, R. 283 Cruikshank, G. 132, 303 73-74, 103, 110, 111, 116 Riddell, C. 298, 302 Adams, S. 99 Culloden 92 Ishiguro, K. 185 Robbins, T. 202 Adjaye, D. 233 Dahl, R. 289-291 Jeffers, O. 296 Robertson, R. 26 Africa 93, 108 Darien Scheme 74-75, 81 Jensen, J. 269-270 Rochester, J.W., Earl of 74 Alchemy 68 Darwin, C. 36-40 John, A. 186 Rochester, L., Earl of 4 Allen, Ralph 13 De Quincey, T. 219 Johnson, B. 187-190 Romney, G. 27 America 15, 74-76, 85, 88-89, 94, Defoe, D. 81, 84-85 Johnson, S. 52, 102, 106 Rowlandson, T. 129 96, 98-100, 105, 107, 109-110 Denslow, W.W. 285 Jones, D. 217 Rowling, J.K. 319-328 Andersen, H.C. 284 Derby, Earl of 22 Jones, S. 271-272 Roycroft Press 225 Anti-Jacobin 110 Dickens, C. 130-132 Judaism 86 Sackville-West, E. 214 Appleby, S. 234 Dickinson, J. 98 Jurin, J. 87 Sangorski and Sutcliffe 226, 283, Astrology 68 Dilettanti, Society of 9 Keats, J. 133, 232 305, 308, 326 Auden, W.H. 193 Disney Studios 304 Keene, B. 5 Scotland 61-66, 69, 74-76, 78, Austen, J 123-128 Dodgson, C.L. 299-300 Kipling, R. 307 81-82, 84, 88, 96-97, 103, 111-112, Bacon, F. 117 Douglas, C. 10 Knox, W. 99 115-116 Baker, I. 264 Douglas, F. 95 Landor, W.S. 219 Scottish bindings 54 Barker, G. 265 Douglas, H. 10 Lang, A. 134 Serle, A. 16-17 Barrie, J.M. 318 Doves Press 218 Laud, W. 63 Settle, E. 80 Baum, L.F. 284, 286 Doyle, A.C. 160-161 Law, J. 88 Shakespeare, W. 55-56, 120-122, Baxter, G. 235 Dropmore Press 219 Le Carré, J. 191-192 218, 224-225, 229, 231 BBC Television 287 Drummond, W. 80 Lee, A. 337 Shannon, C. 230 Beauclerk, T. 106 Edinburgh 80 Lefler, H. 284 Shapiro, S. 198, 209, 212 Beck, I. 288 Elizabeth I. 59 Lefroy, A. 127 Sharpe, T. 203 Bennett, F. 266-267 English Civil War Lewis, C.S. 308 Shelley, P. B. 135-138, 232 Berger, J. 236 Eno, B. 246 Lilly, W. 68 Shepard, E.H. 329-331 Besley, R. 268 Etzdorf, G. von 245 Locke, J. 24, 65 Shrigley, D. 260 Betjeman, J. 156 Evelyn, J. 70 Longitude 97, 101 Simmonds, P. 262 Bible 43 Fairfax, Sir T. 59 Lowry, M. 194-196 Slavery 82-83, 93, 107-108 Blake, P. 238 Fanelli, S. 247 Lunardi, V. 99, 112 Smith, A. 34, 57 Blake, Q. 237, 289-294 Feaver, W. 248 Madden, C. 273-276 Smith, P. 261 Blake, W. 227-228 Ferguson, A. 48 Marlowe, C. 231 South Sea Bubble 74 Blyton, E. 294-298 Fern, D. 249 Marriott, J. 18 Sowerby, M. 301 Book of Common Prayer Fisher, J. 252 Martel, P. 90 Stamp Act 98 41-42, 118 Fitch, R. 250 Marvell, A. 74 Steuart, J. 58 Boswell, A. 44 Fleece Press 220 Mary, Queen of Scots 23 Stevenson, R.L. 139-140 Boswell, J. 44-45, 80 Fleming, I. 162-166 Mason, W. 193 Stok, W. 202 Boydell, J. 55-56, 121 Forbes, J. 44 Maugham, W.S. 193 Stott, B. 279-281 Boyle, R. 90 Forbes, W. 45-46, 49 McCartney, M. 257 Taylor, A. 306 Braby, D. 154 Ford, P. 287 McCulloch, J.R. 34 Taylor, J. 306 Bradbury, R. 157 Forsyth, F. 167 Miller, A. 197 Tenniel, J. 335 Brodrick, A. 1 France 108-109, 116 Mills, R. 258 Tennyson, A. 226 Brookes, P. 239 Frank, A. 168 Milton, J. 79-80 Terry, M. 332-334 Buckland Wright, J. 220 Franklin, B. 50, 107 Moore, T. S. 229 Thomas, B. 336 Burnby, J. 101 Galsworthy, J. 169 Moral Guidance 104 Thompson, H. S. 204 Burton, R.F. 35 Garland, N. 253 More, H. 89 Tolkien, J.R.R. 337 Cadiz, Battle of 72 Gay, J. 102 Nelson, Lord 29 Tryon, W. 14 Campbell, P. 242 Gentleman’s Magazine 47 Nightingale, F. 33 Urquhart, D. 263 Capaldi, P. 240, 287 Georgia 88 Nonesuch Press 224 Vale Press 227-232 Capper, J. 21 Gibbon, E. 51 O’Casey, S. 198 Victoria, Queen 32 Carlin, L. 243 Glorious Revolution 71 Ollive, R. 277 Wain, L. 338 Carroll, L. 299-302, 317 Golden Cockerel Press 221-222 Ondaatje, M. 199 Walker, D. 282 Cave, E. 47 Grabhorn Press 155 Ormond, Duke of 72 Warren, J.L. 224 Caxton, W. 119 Grahame, K. 305 Oxenbury, H. 297 Waugh, E. 205-213 Charles I. 65 Graves, R. 170 Paget, J. 158 Webb, C. 222 Charles, F. 332-334 Greenaway, K. 306 Paine, T. 100 Wedgwood, J. 112 Chichester Clark, E. 295 Greene, G. 171-182, 210 Peñate, J. 259 Weir, J. 30 Child, L. 241 Grey, M. 251 Pienkowski, J. 309 Wells, H.G. 141 Christie, A. 159 Hadley, J. 91 Piper, J. 200 West Indies 75, 85 Churchill, W.S. 158 Hamilton, E. 27, 29, 31 Pitt, W., Earl of Chatham 98 Whistler, J.A.M. 142 Civil War 59-64, 66-70, 76 Hamilton, W. 95 Poetry 8 Whitehead, W. 10 Clapton, E. 244 Hardy, T. 183 Pope, A. 76, 80, 102, 114, 120 Wilberforce, W. 20, 108 Clarendon, Earl of 12 Harrison, J. 97 Popish Plot 89 Wilde, O. 143-155 Cleverdon, D. 217 Hemingway, E. 184 Postlethwayt, M. 93 William III 71, 73 Cloetta, Y. 179, 181 Henrietta Maria, Queen 76 Potter, B. 310-312 Witchcraft 77 Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. 218 Howard, T. 15 Priestley, J.B. 193 Woolf, V. 214 Coinage 85 Howe, R. 19 Prynne, W. 59, 66 Wordsworth, W. 232 Coleridge, S.T. 217, 232 Howell, M. 254 Pullman, P. 313 Wright, C. 324 Combe, W. 129 Hughes, S. 255 Pynchon, T. 201 Wyndham, J. 215-216 Coote, E. 25 Hyde, E. 2-3 Pyne, K. 278 Wyss, J.D. 339 Cornbury, Viscount 6-7, 11 India 99, 111 Quennell, P. 221 Cornwell, D. 191-192 Ingman, B. 256 Rackham, A. 314-318 Cricket 101 Ingoldsby, T. 316 Reynolds, J. 53 Cromwell, O. 73 Ireland 59, 61-64, 66-67, 69, 71, Ricketts, C. 224, 230

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