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terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. 1 india paper proof copy [ARNAULT, Antoine-Vincent]. Les Souvenirs et les Regrets 2 du Vieil Amateur Dramatique; ou, Lettres d’un Oncle à son Neveu BATTY, Captain Robert. Welsh Scenery. From Drawings by sur l’Ancien Théatre Français. 36 hand-colored engraved plates Captain Batty. 35 engraved plates on india paper by Edward of theatrical costume. viii, 214, [2] pp. 8vo, Paris: Charles Finden after Batty. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. Froment, Libraire, quai des Augustins, No. 37, 1829. First 4to, London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823. First edi- edition. Contemporary citron straight-grained morocco tion. Near-contemporary quarter morocco and cloth sides, attractively gilt by Hering & Muller, rue Coquenard, No. 18, “Percival” stamped in gilt at foot of spine, a.e.g. Bumping gilt-stamped on spine and with their ticket on the front free to corners, spine slightly faded, marginal foxing on plate 28, endpaper. Light spotting on covers, occasional light offsetting otherwise fine. from plates, minor foxing, in morocco-tipped marbled paper- $750 over-boards slipcase. Carteret III, pp. 37-38. $1,500 3 BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de. Proof engravings to Oeuvres de Béranger and Ma Biographie. 77 steel-engraved proofs before letters on india paper, mounted to thick paper, after Charlet, De Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Lange, Pinguilly, De Rudder and Raffet. Folio, [Paris: Perrotin, 1847; 1850]. Slightly later half red morocco and marbled boards, by V[ictor] Champs, t.e.g. Foxing to mounts throughout, rarely affecting the images. $750

4 [BEWICK, Thomas, et al]. Bound volume of proof wood engravings to Scripture Illustrated. Frontispiece and 80 woodcuts (2 per page), designed by W.M. Craig and cut by Bewick, C. and J. Nesbit, Branston, Austin, Clennell, Hole, Lee, et al. 8vo, [London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807]. Bound in contemporary full navy straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt with outer roll borders and central ruled panel, flat spine gilt and divided in six compartments, a.e.g. Light rubbing to covers, else fine. Hugo 225. A handsome volume of proofs of 81 of the 94 wood engravings for Scripture Illustrated (London, 1807). Three of the illustrations — nos. 48, 49 & 51 — were cut by Bewick. With an autograph note from a British Museum curator identify- ing the work for which these cuts were made. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller bound for louis philippe i 6 5 (BINDING, Cathedral) A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, (BINDING, Armorial) Beattie, William. La Suisse Pittoresque Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture. Frontispiece, steel … Traduit de l’Anglais par L. de Bauclas. 2 engraved titles and engravings to text. 3 vols. 8vo, Oxford: John Henry Parker, 106 engraved plates after W. H. Bartlett. 2 vols. 4to, London: 1840. Third edition, enlarged. Dark purple morocco, covers George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, 1836. First edition in French. blocked in gilt to a cathedral design, spine in five compart- Full green contemporary morocco, a.e.g. Front covers with ments with raised bands, a.e.g., Dutch gilt endpapers, light gilt-stamped crown and monogram (“L.P.”) of Louis Philippe rubbing to joints, near fine. I. Faint scuff across vol. II cover, else fine. Later 19th-century $1,500 gift inscription on first blank. Olivier 2499/6. Louis Philippe I (1773-1850) was the last king of France. $1,750

catalogue 114 |  7 (BINDING, Comte de Caumont) Commonplace book of original drawings, engravings and transcribed poetry. Numerous engravings, mostly 18th-century portraits of royalty, some hand-colored, 10 original watercolors (3 x 2-H in.) in the style of Henry Corbould, and one additional watercolor portrait (8-G x 6-H in.) of a young woman. 4to, ca. 1803-1814. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers gilt-tooled with a wide roll border, gilt-ruled frame with corner decorations made up from small tools, spine gilt in six compartments, a.e.g., by Comte de Caumont (ticket on verso of ffep). Light scuffing to edge of covers, glue burn to engravings, some engravings loose. Ramsden, London Bookbinders, p. 48; for other de Caumont bindings cf. Oldaker, no. 30; Maggs 1075 II, no. 264; Maggs 1212 II, no. 186. Provenance: John Collins, Devizes (bookplate); Samuel Muir (bookplate); “C.S.” (bookplate, loose). A fine binding from the shop of the French-born Auguste Marie, Comte de Cau- mont, dating from his period at 1 Frith Street, which he occupied from 1803-1814. It is generally accepted that de Caumont was not himself a binder, but rather managed the shop, tended to customers and kept accounts. He hired some of the great Lon- don binders of the day, including Cordeval and Kalthoeber. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller 8 9 (BINDING, English) A Theologico-Controversistical Conference (BINDING, English) Carte-de-visite photographic album Held at the Hague, the 2nd of June 1785, Between an English Lu- with portraits of Queen Victoria, her Prime Ministers, and theran, Scotch Calvinist and Dutch Rabeen … Frontispiece. 237, foreign heads of state. 35 albumen carte-de-visite photo- [1]; [4], 101-305, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for the Author, graphs set in an album. 4to, [London]: Bound in green peb- 1785. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt-tooled with bled morocco, covers with black – and silver-ruled borders, outer Greek key roll surrounding floral and vase dentelle set into an Indian carved and inlaid boxwood binding, metal tools, central wheel tool surrounded by floral tools, flat spine clasps and catches, by Aspery of London, some loss to spine with black morocco lettering and volume number labels, the ends and a few spots of loss to inlay. rest gilt with repeating floral and vase tools. Light wear to $3,000 extremities, small piece from one spine label, vol. I frontispiece diagram mostly lacking, bookplate. ESTC T177181 (2 copies); OCLC 316766664 (1 copy). A scarce Protestant dialogue in an attractive neo-Classical binding of the period. $1,500

catalogue 114 |  10 (BINDING, English) Manuscript music album. [50] pp of manuscript hymns, responses and chants with four-part vocals and organ accompa- niment. Oblong 4to, [Thame, Ox- fordshire: n.d., ca. 1830s]. Full black morocco, covers blind-stamped and tooled in gold to a panel design with wide rolls, stamped with the initials “S.E.W.” on the front cover and “W” with a crown on the rear cover. Prov- enance: Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm, 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park (her monogram in gilt on the binding). A musical notebook beautifully bound in the Regency style, belonging to Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm, 1st Bar- oness Wenman of Thame Park (1790- 1870). She was an early love interest of the future King William IV — when he later ascended the throne he revived the title of Baroness Wenman. $1,000

11 (BINDING, English) [Ridley, James]. The Tales of the Genii: or, the Delight- ful Lessons of Homar the Son of Asmar. Translated from the Persian, by Sir Charles Morell. 14 engraved plates after William Craig. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for James Wallis, Paternoster By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1805. New edition. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco, cover gilt with a Greek key border surrounding a small gilt-stamped stag, a.e.g., by Mayor & Huntly of Bath, with their ticket. Fine. Not in Spawn & Kinsella. Modeled on the Arabian Nights, these tales were written by James Ridley under the pseudonym of Charles Morell. In a fine binding by Mayor & Huntly of Bath. Ramsden lists a Mayor in Liv- erpool and a Huntly in Bristol. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller 12 (BINDING, French) L’Ardèche, P.-M. Laurent de. Histoire de L’Empereur Napoléon. Frontispiece and woodcuts to text throughout. 802 pp. 4to, Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et C[i] e, 1839. Full contemporary straight-grained citron-brown morocco, covers gilt-stamped with a large “N” and eagle emblem surrounded by large floral sprays and volutes, a.e.g., green moiré endpapers. Spine lightly faded, else fine. In a morocco-tipped crimson cloth open-faced slipcase. $1,400

embossed american binding 13 (BINDING, Gaskill) Cowper, William. The Works of Cowper and Thomson … Fron- tispiece. x, 404; xxxvi, 133 pp. 8vo, Philadel- phia: Gregg & Elliot, No. 9 North Fourth Street, 1841. Bound in full black morocco, covers and spine embossed in blind to an all-over scrollwork, floral and scallop-shell design, a.e.g., by Benjamin Gaskill (signed at head of spine in blind, “Gaskill, Phila.”). Light rubbing to corners, else fine. Maser 43a-b (for binding). A fine embossed binding by Benjamin Gaskill of Philadelphia. Gaskill popularized embossed bindings in America, drawing on the pioneering work of the English firm of Remnant & Edmonds. In fact, the spine of this volume is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque (cf. Maser 43a). $1,500

catalogue 114 |  14 (BINDING, Hayday) Cowper, William. The Task: A Poem. Engravings throughout by Birket Foster. [xvi], 263, [1] pp. 8vo, London: [R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, for] James Nesbet and Co, 1855. Contemporary blue polished calf, gilt-tooled dentelle covers, silver silk doublures and endpapers, edges gilt and gauffered, by Hayday. A fine Hayday pastiche binding in the 18th-century dentelle style. $1,000

the publisher’s copy 15 (BINDING, Hayday) Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefiled. 32 illustrations by William Mulready. xv, [i], 306, [6, ads] pp. 8vo, London: John Van Voorst, 1843. First edition thus. Bound in full contemporary dark purple morocco, covers with triple fillet gilt border surrounding gilt dentelle tooling, spine in six compartmets, lettered in gilt, a.e.g., by Hayday. Fine, and a custom cloth box. Ray, England, 62; Provenance: John Van Voorst, publisher (his booklabel and inscription); Edouard Drouyn de Lhyus (ALS from Van Voorst). Publisher John Van Voorst’s copy, with his booklabel — and according to his note on the flyleaf, a “Very superior copy, one of two selected by the Artist, Mulready, from the sheets. J.V.V.” With an autograph note by Mulready tipped-in at the rear and two autograph letters — from Van Voorst to French statesman Edouard Drouyn de Lhyus offering the present volume, and a thank-you letter in return. $2,000

16 (BINDING, Irish) The Book of Common Prayer … [36, 360] pp. With cancel title page with price of 5 shillings. 8vo, Cambridge: J. Baskerville, 1762. Contem- porary Irish red morocco, covers with outer gilt roll surronding a central olive morocco lozenge onlay, spine with raised bands, six compartments, with green and citron morocco onlays, a.e.g. Light wear to extremities and spine onlays. Griffiths 1762:8; Gaskell 20; ESTC T087220. An attractive example of an 18th-century Irish binding on a Baskerville prayer book. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller moxon tennyson in a mosaic binding 17 (BINDING, Mosaic) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Poems. Frontispiece portrait medallion by Thomas Woolner with 54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W.J. Linton, etc. after D.G. Rossetti, J.E. Millais, Mulready, Stanfield, W. Hol- man Hunt, T. Creswick et al. [i-v] vi-xiii [iii], [1]-375, [1] pp. Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm), London: Edward Moxon, 1857. Moxon edition. Mosaic binding of full light brown levant morocco, gilt with red and green onlays with a centerpiece surrounded by four cornerpieces, a.e.g., by M.M. Holloway, London. Light rubbing to spine, else fine. Ray, England, 148; Tinker 2076; Ashley VII 114; Reid 36-43; Ehrsam & Deily 218; Fredeman 90.3. Moxon’s edition of Tennyson, now considered a classic, was something of a scandal and a commercial failure upon its publication. “Moxon’s impartial division of the illustrations among traditional and Pre-Raphaelite artists did not satisfy the book-buyers of the day” (Ray). $1,750

18 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Achard, Amédée. Une Saison à Aix-les-Bains. 17 engravings (4 colored) after Eugène Ginain and one colored map of the Savoie department. [ii], viii, 358, [2] pp. 8vo, Paris: Ernest Bourdin, [1850]. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in gilt, front cover with filigree border surrounding center oval containing coat-of-arms in gilt and red, rear cover with elaborate cathedral medallion, spine blocked in gilt with title, imprint, and coat-of-arms, a.e.g. Fine. Carteret III, p. 31. A stunningly fine copy in publisher’s binding, the gilt look- ing like it was stamped yesterday. “Le cartonnage spécial de l’éditeur est agréablement orné” (Carteret). $1,000

catalogue 114 |  19 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Beauvoir, Le Comte de. Voyage Autour du Monde. 360 wood engravings, full-page and in text. 4to, Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1878. Nouvelle édition. Publisher’s illustrated green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, front cover illustration signed “A. Souze,” a.e.g. Fine. A pristine copy in the publisher’s illustrated cloth. $750

20 (BINDING, Publisher’s) [DARBOY, Georges]. Les Femmes de la Bible, Collection de Portraits des Femmes Remarquables de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament … 20 engraved portraits after Gustave Staal. Unpaginated. 4to, Paris: H.L. Delloye, 1846. Publisher’s brown cloth, heavily gilt all over, covers with outer panels surrounding central oval vignette of Esther, with red and green morocco onlays, a.e.g. Edges lightly rubbed, some foxing to plates, else in remarkable condition. Carteret III, p. 230. Biographical portraits of twenty women from the Bible with accompanying engraved portraits after Gustave Staal, in a stunning publisher’s binding richly tooled all-over in gilt. $750

21 (BINDING, Publisher’s) La Bruyère, Jean de. Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce Siècle. Frontispiece and 25 engraved plates, illustrations to text throughout. Large 8vo, Paris: Belin-Lep- rieur, 1845. Publisher’s full pebble-grained brown morocco, covers blocked in gilt with a decorative floral border, flat spine blocked and titled in gilt. A ninteenth-century edition of La Bruyère’s classic work of sarcastic portraiture, in the publisher’s deluxe binding. $750

 | james cummins bookseller in a “stereographic” binding 23 22 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Moore, Thomas. Irish Melodies. Ad- (BINDING, Publisher’s) MacDonald, A.J., ed. The Rain- ditional engraved title, decorative borders and vignette illus- bow. Frontispiece and 9 engraved plates. viii, [i], 272 pp. 8vo, trations throughout by Daniel Maclise. [iv], 280, [2, ads] pp. Albany, New York: A.L. Harrison, 1848. First edition, second 4to, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. state (with all dates changed to 1848). Publisher’s beige calf, First edition thus. Publisher’s beveled illustrated paper-coverd covers blocked in gilt, stencilled ornaments in green, red boards with a field of interlaced shamrocks surrounding, on and brown paint in imitation of colored onlays, spine with the front cover, a roundel showing a woman playing a harp circular black onlay stamped “1848,” spine ends stamped in and, on the rear cover, the publisher’s monogram, rebacked gilt, “A.L. Harrison, Binders. Patent Stereographic Binding,” preserving original spine, edges rubbed. Ray, England, 29 (“a a.e.g, glazed decorative endpapers. Mild rubbing to binding, landmark … in the history of style”). some light foxing throughout, contemporary gift inscription First Maclise edition, scarce in the original boards — “one to first blank, in all, a beter than usual copy. BAL 1027; Maser, of the finest covers of the early Victorian period, probably Bookbinding in America, 47 (“This binding is unusally suc- designed by Owen Jones” (McLean, p. 30). Save for the title- cessful from a technical point of view”); Andrews, Bibliopegy page and preface, the entire work — illustrations and text — in the United States, p. 116. is engraved. A publisher’s-bound gift book collecting works of William $1,250 Gilmore Simms, Park Benjamin, James T. Fields and others. The Rainbow was first published in 1847 with the remainders being reissued again the following year with all the dates cleverly changed to read 1848 (BAL’s second state). The publisher’s binding, produced by A.L. Harrison’s “Patent Stereographic” process, involves the mechanical application of paint to mimic the look of colored onlays. $750

catalogue 114 |  24 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Parables of Our Lord. Illustrated by John Franklin. [26] leaves on heavy stock with printed overlays. Printed by McQueen. Engraved by F. E. Becker. Small Folio, London: John Mitchell, [33 Old Bond Street, c. 1853]. Pub- lisher’s full crimson pebbled morocco, over heavy beveled boards, a.e.g, gauffered edges. Some light scuffing to extremities, a few faint spots of foxing to illustrations. $750

gavarni’s masterpiece in a pictorial publisher’s binding by engel & schaeck 25 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Süe, Eugène. Le Juif Errant. 83 engraved plates after Gavarni and others, with c. 600 engraved illustrations to text. 4 volumes bound in 2. Tall 8vo, Paris: Paulin, 1845. First Gavarni edition. Bound in half black morocco, covers in black diapered cloth blocked in gilt with decorative border surrounding central vignettes depicting 13 characters from the novel, decorated with gilt-stamped floral wreaths and sprays painted red, orange, pink, white, and green, spines similarly decorated with vignette of the Wandering Jew, a.e.g. by Engel & Schaeck. Fine. Morocco book label of André Villet. Ray, French, 206; Carteret III, pp. 570-4; Vicaire VII, pp. 687-89; Ramsden, French Bookbinders, p. 83. A fine copy in elaborate publisher’s binding of the richly-illustrated Gavarni edition of Sue’s wildly popular novel, Le Juif Errant, which first appeared in serial form in 1844-5. “Gavarni’s ability to sum up everything an author has to tell about a character in a single likeness is nowhere better shown than in his series of portraits for this novel” (Ray). Cart- eret reproduces the text of a printed binder’s note which describes the present elaborate pictorial binding as being available to subscribers from the binders Engel & Schaeck, rue Suger. The front cover vignettes show members of the Rennepont family, the rear covers depict Rodin and the novel’s other villainous characters, and the Wandering Jew appears on the spines. $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller bound for a daughter of louis xv 26 (BINDING, Royal, Madame Adélaïde) [Nicole, Pierre]. Continuation des Essais de Morale … 5 vols. 8vo, Paris: Guillaume Desprez … et Guillaume Cavelier, 1751. Nouvelle edition. Bound in contemporary red morocco, covers stamped in gilt with the arms of Madame Adélaiïde, daughter of Louis XV, flat spines gilt, a.e.g., Dutch gilt endpapers. Light wear to joints of vols. I & V, small nick to tail end of vol. II spine. Madame Adélaïde was one of three bibliophile daughters of Louis XV. Each daughter had her library bound in a distinct color — red in the case of Madame Adélaïde. Here volumes 9 to 13 of a set of the works of Pierre Nicole are bound for her as volumes 1-5 in her red morocco. $3,500

catalogue 114 |  in a neo-gothic cathedral binding by simier 27 (BINDING, Simier) Les Saints Évangiles. Engraved and hand- illuminated title, hand-illuminated head-piece and initial, 22 engraved plates, 2 engraved and hand-colored maps of the Holy Land. lxxx, [2], 263, [1]; [iv], 460 pp., text within engraved border. 2 vols. Tall 8vo, Paris: L. Curmer, 1836. Vellum blocked in gilt to a cathedral design, silver moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by Simier. Small split at bottom of vol. II front joint, else fine, in a custom slipcase. Vicaire III, pp. 616-7; Ramsden, French Bookbinders, p. 190. An elegant cathedral binding, signed on the spine “Simier. R. du Roi” — both René (1772-1843) and his son Alphonse (1796-1859) worked together at their workshop at rue St. Honoré 152. $2,250

 | james cummins bookseller illustrations for the book of common prayer 28 (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) Nixon, John H. and W. Green. Eight original sepia watercolor drawings for an ?unpublished Book of Common Prayer by John Van Voorst. 6 watercolors by Nixon and 2 by Green, mounted on larger thick paper, with proofs on india paper of the engravings made from the watercolors and a proof of an engraved title-page “Cabinet Edition of the Book of Common Prayer with Illustrations of the Rites & Ceremonies of the Protes- tant Church …” Each 2-K x 1-M inches. London: John Van Voorst, c. 1836. Fine. Original watercolors for illustrations to a possibly unpublished Book of Common Prayer. An advertisement in Yarrell’s History of British Fishes, published by Van Voorst in 1836, lists a Cabinet Edition Bible and Book of Common Prayer (illustrated with 10 engravings). Neither work turns up in OCLC or Darlowe and Moule, and Griffiths does not note the BOCP. $1,250

in the original parts 29 (BYRON, Lord) Finden, E[dward] and W[illiam]. Finden’s Byron Beauties: A Series of Ideal Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in Lord Byron’s Poems [cover title]. 39 portrait engravings of female characters from the poems of Byron, after J.W. Wright, J.F. Lewis, F. Stone, et al, each portrait with one page accompanying letterpress text. 13 original parts. 8vo, London: Charles Tilt, 1834-1835. First edition thus. Printed salmon-pink wrappers. Beautiful, near flawless set, in green cloth slipcase with chemise. A fine set in the original 13 parts of this series of illustrations of the female characters from “Don Juan,” “Childe Harold,” and other Byron poems. $1,750

catalogue 114 |  30 (BYRON, Lord) Finden, William and Edward, illustrators. Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to Mr. Murray’s First Complete and Uniform Edition of The Life and Works of Lord Byron. in the original 24 monthly parts. 151 engraved plates (including many portraits) by William and Edward Finden, after drawings by W. Westall, J.D. Harding, J.M.W. Turner, David Roberts, and others. 4to, London: John Murray … sold also by Charles Tilt. Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode, New- Street-Square, 1832-33. First edition in parts. Each part in the original printed wrappers, signed at top right by the original subscriber, M.W.A. Halden. Wrappers to first and final parts a bit worn and slightly soiled, all others near immaculate; plates entirely clean, with original tissue guards. Contained in a quarter red leather clamshell box. Rare thus. $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller the smirke plates for quixote, proofs on india paper 31 (CERVANTES, Miquel de) Smirke, Robert. Engravings, Illustrative of Don Quixote, from pictures by Robert Smirke. [2] leaves (Title, plus Table of plates) + 74 plates (26 vignettes and 48 illustrations) after drawings by Robert Smirke, engraved by E. Engleheart, R. Golding, A. Raimbach, J. Scott, C. Warren, J. Mitan, Finden, C. Armstrong, et. al. proofs before letters on india paper signed and dated in the print, mounted to folio sheets. (One plate, no. 11, is duplicated). Folio (album), London: Cadell and Davies, 1817. The earliest state of the plates, one of a few copies thus issued, for the publisher’s edition of 1818. Bound in later brown half morocco and marbled boards. First two leaves (Title and Table) show small, neat repairs at lower edge. Beautifully mounted and elegantly bound collection of these plates, in a perfect state of preservation. Rare. Ashbee, An Iconography of Don Quixote, 119. Smirke’s delightful plates were issued by Cadell and Fields in a four-volume quarto edition of 1818. $5,000

catalogue 114 |  32 CHETWYND-TALBOT, John and/or Caroline, attrib- uted to. Album of 118 original drawings of landscapes and architectural subjects, chiefly relating to great houses of England, Scotland, and Wales. Watercolor and ink drawings on paper (10 x 14 in. and smaller), most with manuscript title and date of execution, unsigned, apparently in two different hands. Mounted on dark grey album leaves. Folio, [V.p.: England, Wales, Scotland, France, Austria: 1837-1859]. Contemporary brown leather-backed marbled boards (binding defective). Occasional light spotting to drawings, otherwise in excellent condition; occasional minor paper flaws in mounting leaves. Laid into a green morocco case. Provenance: John Chetwynd-Talbot (1806- 1872) and his wife Caroline (1809-1876, née Caroline Jane Stuart-Worley-Mackenzie); John Gilbert Talbot (d. 1835, Falconhurst, Eden Bridge, Kent); Rupert Forbes Gunnis (1869-1965), with his bookplate and note on front pastedown. $9,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  33 (CHINA PAPER) Notice de Livres Rares et Précieux Imprimés sur papier de Chine. [vi] pp. premlims, [20] ff., text surrounded by engraved decorative border. 12mo, Paris: B. Warée Ainé, Libraire. Rignoux, Imprimeur – Founder, 1836. Later hand- lettered wrappers, (lacking original pink wrappers), light soiling to title page, else fine. A catalogue of 20 works, mostly on China paper, printed by Rignoux and offered for sale by Warée. 18 of the titles had been displayed at the Exposition des produits de l’industrie française in 1834. Most of the works are marked “unique.” Rare; only a handful of copies located on OCLC. $550

with 28 chromolithographs 34 (CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY) The Illustrated Gems of Sacred Poetry. Frontispiece, vignette title, and four engraved plates by Sartain after Stothard, Turner and others. Chromolitho- graph title and initials throughout (28 in all) by M. Schmitz, printed by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia. 164, [2] pp. 8vo, Phila- delphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, [1848]. Contemporary half polished brown calf and marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Not in Bennett or Thompson. $750

 | james cummins bookseller an opulent example of curmer’s chromolithography 35 (CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY) Les Evangiles des Dimanches et Fètes. A profusion of full-page miniatures, lavish vignette and ornamental borders, and historiated initials, entirely lithographed in gold and color throughout. 2 vols. Thick 4to, Paris: Curmer, 1864. Full contemporary French red morocco with an openwork brass monogram (interlacing W and L) mounted on upper cover, doublures and endleaves of green silk. The second volume is entitled: Appendice aux Evangiles. Profusely illustrated, and with a series of mounted albumen pho- tographs after 16th-century engravings by the Wierix brothers. Bound in contemporary quarter red morocco gilt, some light marginal dampstaining and some foxing at beginning and end of final volume. Henri-Léon Curmer (1801-1870) was the leading publisher of chromolithographic works in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through his printer Lemericer, Curmer lifted the technique of imitating the art of illuminating manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to unparalleled heights — as with this glorious New Testament. Gordon’s Ray’s remarks on Curmer’s L’Imitation de Jésus-Christ (The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 357-358) apply here as well: “Confined to a small central panel, the text is surrounded by the richest conceivable ornamentation, in gold as well as in color, drawn from manuscripts in the great libraries of Europe dating from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries, but particularly from the fourteenth and fifteenth. Nine hundred stones were required …” And in his Evangiles, the full-page miniatures are even more stunning. One of the pinnacles of 19th-century chromolithography from its leading exponent. $2,500

catalogue 114 |  36 CORBOULD, Henry, and Thomas UNWINS. Bound album of 34 drawings (20 by Courbold, 14 by Unwins). Pen and ink, watercolor, and wash drawings mounted; one signed by Corbould, 3 signed by Uwins. England: 1820-1850. Double- matted and handsomely bound on hinges in full brown morocco. A few drawings show minor foxing, but overall beautifully preserved. The English illustrator Henry Corbould (1787–1844), studied at the Royal Academy (with, among others, Fuseli) and he quickly developed a taste for neo-classical historial painting. He soon concentrated “his efforts … on perfecting a delicate, rather feminine, neo-classical style which suited the purposes of refined Regency book illustration. During the remainder of his career he was ‘extensively employed by publishers to make drawings for engravings, and the number of his designs, which adorn many books amount to several hundreds’ (J. Britton, The autobiography of …, 2.172). This is also reflected in those works he continued to send to the Royal Academy exhibition, which were predominantly composi- tions of a sentimental and literary genre, commissioned to illustrate the novels of Walter Scott or the poetry of Byron and Crabbe. As was the case with J. F. Dove’s edition of Fanny Burney’s Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an Heiress (1825), many of Corbould’s illustrations were turned into steel-engravings by his cousin Charles Heath; in other instances they were reproduced in fashionable media such as lithography and stipple engraving …” (ODNB).

 | james cummins bookseller The 20 small Corbould drawings in this album (one of which is signed), are typical of his book work: his portrait of William Shenstone, possibly for Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; the design for the engraved title-page of “The Graces, or Literary Souvenir …London | Printed for Hurst and Robinson, 1824”; an illustration for Hugh Kelly’s, Memoirs of a Magdalen (“Sir Robt Harold coldly endeavouring to console Miss Mildmay | Vol. 1, p. 48”); and numerous illustrations for various adventures and romances, as yet to be identified. Corbould’s contemporary, Thomas Unwins (1782–1857), also was able to enter the Royal Academy Schools, where he exhibited miniature portraits, and contributed illustrations to Rudolf Ackermann’s Westminster Abbey (1812), Oxford University (1814), Cam- bridge University (1815), and Public Schools (1816). Eventually, Uwins evolved to larger forms and while living for several years in Rome, Venice, and Naples, began to paint in larger forms in oil. His illustration work includes Shakespeare, Virgil, Horace, King Arthur and the Round Table, Robinson Crusoe, etc. The 14 exquisite drawings displayed here amply display his skill and mastery of the small, watercolor illustration. $9,500

catalogue 114 |  37 COWPER, William. Poems … With a Biographi- cal and Critical Introduction, by the Rev. Thomas Dale. 75 illustrations, engraved by J. Orrin Smith, from drawings by John Gilbert. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, 1841. Full contemporary brown morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by Sharp (not in Ramsden). Fine. A pretty set of Cowper in a fine contemporary provincial binding by Sharp of Stamford. $300

38 CRÉBILLON, [Claude Prosper Jolyot de]. Oeuvres de … Le Sopha. Conte Moral [bound with:] La Nuit et Le Moment [bound with:] Le Hasard du Coin du Feu. 358; 154; 148 pp., printed entirely on china paper. 3 volumes bound in 1. 8vo, Brussels: Libraire Uni- verselle de J. Rozez, 1869. Each one of two copies on china paper. Contemporary full citron morocco, a.e.g., by L. Claessens. Extremities rubbed, else fine. Three works on China paper by the 18th-century French novelist Crébillon. $900

 | james cummins bookseller proofs on india paper, with original pencil drawing of the frontispiece 39 CRUIKSHANK, George. Sketches by Boz. Both Series. Proofs of the Etchings. Original pencil drawing for the frontispiece of Sketches by Boz, signed at the bottom (“George Cruikshank”) and with a note in pen below, “The parties going up in the balloon are in- tended for the author and the artist,” printed title-page, 28 etched proof plates before letters on india paper (each 7-G x 4-I inches, two images per sheet as printed) mounted on 14 leaves and matted, the 12 proof images for “Series Two” are labelled “First Proof ” and signed by Cruikshank in pencil. With 3 additional proofs for the frontispiece for the 1852 edition of Sketches by Boz and 2 states of the upper wrapper for part 1 of Sketches, before and after the additon of “No. 1 Price 1 s.” Oblong folio, [London: John Macrone, v.d., 1836-1852. Bound in full green morocco, by Riviere & Son, t.e.g. Light spotting to plates throughout, dampstaining to “Series One” proofs at left margin, not affecting images, otherwise fine. Cohn 232 & 233 (for published editions); Ray, England, 115 (“The fine draftsmanship of these small-scale illustrations is best seen in these India-paper impressions.”) Patten, George Cruikshank’s Life … Volume 2: 1835-1878, pp. 30-32. Provenance: Henry William Bruton (his signature on the first blank); B.B. MacGeorge (autograph letter, 10 June 1906, to him from Burton). A unique volume assembled by Cruikshank’s executor and pre-eminent collector, Henry Bruton, comprising proofs on India paper of Cruikshank’s illustrations to Sketches by Boz, an original pencil sketch of the frontispiece, proofs of the original part 1 wrapper, and a proof of the 1852 edition frontispiece. Proofs of the illustrations on India paper are extremely rare — Bruton catalogue 114 |  (who owned another set besides this one) had seen only 4 sets and noted that none appeared at the Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales held by Cruikshank’s executors. Cohn does not mention a set on India paper. With a 4 pp. autograph letter, signed (”H.W. Bruton”), to B.B. MacGeorge thanking him for his library catalogue and expressing happiness at discovering where some of his “choicest G.Ck’s repose … Forgive my being critical — but why have you omitted any reference to the proof of the wrapper of the parts which I inserted in the vol. of proofs to Sketches by Boz? I looked upon this wrapper as a most interesting item — it was the only one known to me …” $14,000

 | james cummins bookseller from the private cabinet of an american quaker on china paper 40 41 (CURIOSA) Collection of engravings for an unidentified DEHARME, Ernest. Les Merveilles de la Locomotion. 77 edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. 95 vignette illustrations to text by B. Bonnafoux, A. Jahandier engravings on china paper, mounted to larger sheets, includ- and A. Marie. [iv], 308 pp., printed on china paper. 8vo, ing an engraved portrait of La Fontaine, each identified and Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1874. First edition. Contem- numbered by hand in pencil. 1-H x 2-G inches (images); 10-H porary half blue morocco and marbled boards, some foxing by 7-H (most mounts), N.p. [France]: n.d. [1700s]. Bound throughout, else fine. into a single volume in modern red buckram, lettered in gilt A work on the history and science of transportation, printed on spine; “from a quaker’s collection.” Flyleaf docketed in on China paper, from the Bibliothèque des Merveilles. pencil, “From the Collection of T. Wistar Brown,” and with the bookplate of Brown’s son-in-law, Henry Goddard Leach. $300 Some occasional foxing to mounts, images quite clean. T. Wistar Brown was the descendant of the Philadelphia Quaker family of Moses Brown and Mary Wain Wistar. Author and poet Henry Goddard Leach married T. Wistar Brown’s daughter, Agnes. $850

catalogue 114 |  42 DETHOMAS, Maxime Pierre. [38 Dessins Originaux de … pour illustrer Le Reste est Silence de Edmond Jaloux]. 38 charcoal drawings on paper, most in stiff paper mounts with tissue guards; larger drawings titled in ink. 13 large drawings (35 x 40 cm); 6 medium-sized drawings (approx 28 x 28 cm); 19 small drawings (15 x 15 cm). Unsigned. With a suite of the engravings by Georges Aubert on China paper, tipped into an album. Folio and smaller, Paris: 1924. Published as a series of engravings to: Les Livres Celebres, Editions Lapina, 1924. Some marginal notes for preparing the engravings, one small marginal tear to one drawing, else fine. Preserved in a green paperboard portfolio. Engravings fine, in album with stiff card wrappers (minor exterior soiling). Maxime Dethomas (1867-1929 was an artist, lithographer, and highly re- garded set and costume designer for the Paris theater. He was a close friend of Toulouse-Lautrec, Proust, and Pierre Louys, and his book illustrations appear from the turn of the century through the mid-1920s. Le Reste est Silence was first published in 1909. The larger of Dethomas’ drawings for the book are domestic scenes with graceful figures in expressive poses; the small drawing include a number of ornamental initials and vignettes. With a suite of the engravings by Georges Aubert after Dethomas (much re- duced in format) on China paper, produced to accompany 20 numbered copies of the book. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  dore’s “early masterpiece,” on china paper proofs on china paper 43 44 (DORÉ, Gustave) BALZAC, Honoré de. Les Contes Drola- DORÉ, Gustave. Proof illustrations to Comtesse de Segur’s tiques … 425 wood engravings by Doré throughout, the Nouveaux Contes de Fées. 31 wood-engraved proofs before let- whole work printed on china paper. 664 pp. 8vo, Paris: ters on china paper; 29 by Doré and 2 by Didier, most printed Garnier, [1867]. Second Garnier edition. Bound in contempo- two-to-a-page, captioned in pencil. Sheets measure 10-H x rary dark brown morocco, gilt, t.e.g., rest uncut, by Hardy- 6-I in, [Paris: Hachette, ca. 1863]. Loose sheets housed in a Mennil. Minor foxing throughout, else fine. Ray, French, blue ring binder. Fine. Malan, p. 301. 244 (1855 edition); Carteret III, pp. 48-52 (1855 & 1861 eds.); Malan notes that Doré did a total of 34 illustrations for the Malan, p. 237. Comtesse de Segur’s New Fairy Tales — 14 for the serial Doré’s illustrated Contes Drolatiques, his “early masterpiece” edition and an aditional 20 for the first book edition. These (Ray), was first published in 1855, a slender octavo brimming proof plates were likely made for the second book edition of with 425 woodcut engravings. The firm of Garnier frères 1863, which combined the 20 book illustrations with 9 of the later acquired the original blocks and published their own serial illustrations. editions in 1861, 1867, and many more thereafter. Carteret $300 notes that 25 copies of the 1861 edition were printed on China paper, but makes no mention of this 1867 edition. $2,250

 | james cummins bookseller with proofs on china paper 45 (DORÉ, Gustave) Lafon, Mary. Les Aventures du Chevalier Jaufre et de la Belle Brunissende. 20 wood-engraved illustrations in two states (china paper proofs before letters and thick paper) by Gustave Doré. 139, [3] pp. Tall 8vo, Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1856. First edition. Three quarters brown morocco over alligator-skin patterned paper, spine gilt-stamped with an urn and painted flow- ers, a.e.g. on the rough, one plate loose, with a small gold embossed bookplate. Cartaret III, pp. 351-2; Malan, p. 283. The first edition of Lafon’s translation of the 12th-century Arthurian romance of Jaufry the Knight, with 20 wood-engraved illustrations by Doré in two states. $1,250

catalogue 114 |  on china paper, with 3 rejected plates 46 DORÉ, Gustave. Illustrations for Les Fables de La Fontaine. 85 full-page and 14 vignette wood-engraved illustrations on china paper, most mounted on thick paper, with an additional 3 “planches refusées.” 2 vols. Folio, [Paris: Hachette, n.d., ca. 1867]. Loose sheets. Some plates with stain on upper margin of mount, not affecting image. In brown folder. Malan, p. 283. A complete set on China paper of Doré’s full-page illustrations to La Fontaine’s Fables, with an additonal 3 rejected plates (“Le Re- nard et les Raisins,” “L’Huitre et les Plaideurs,” “Un Animal dans la Lune”). These are likely extra sheets from the deluxe edition of the work, which was issued with plates on China paper. $2,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  47 FOSTER, [Myles] Birket. Complete set of his etchings for Thomas Warton’s The Hamlet: An Ode Written in Whichwood Forest (1859). 14 etchings after drawings by Myles Birket Fos- ter, proofs before letters, printed on india paper, mounted to larger sheets, and each signed in pencil (“Birket Foster”) by the artist. Folio, [London: Sampson, Low, 1858]. Beauti- fully mounted and preserved set, bound in full red moroccco, a.e.g., by Riviere and Son. Fine. Bookplate of William Foster. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller large paper copy with plates on china paper 48 (KEEPSAKE) Soulié, J.-B.-A, editor. Keepsake Français ou Souvenir de Littérature Contemporaine. Premiere année. 18 engravings on china paper mounted to thick paper, after Turner, Stothard and other English artists. [iv], 267, [1] pp. 8vo, Paris: Giraldon-Bovinet et Compie, 1830. Large paper copy. Quarter contemporary crimson morocco, by Herring & Muller, Relieurs, (with their label affixed upside-down on the front free endpaper). Near fine. Carteret III, p. 332. $850

49 (KEEPSAKE) Nouveau Keepsake Fran- çais. Souvenir de Littérature Contempo- raine. 8 engraved plates. [viii], 331, [1] pp. 12mo, Paris: Louis Janet, n.d., ca. 1832. Bound in publisher’s peach paper-covered boards, blocked in gilt with a neo-classical border, decorated with red, blue, yellow and green paint, with hand-colored engravings of a stormy sea and peaceful harbor on the covers, spine gilt and painted, a.e.g., light wear to corners, in original gilt and painted paper slipcover. Carteret III, 336. A charming gift book in its original publisher’s binding with hand-colored engravings on the covers. $750

50 (KEEPSAKE) Paris-Londres Keepsake Français 1837. Nouvelles Inédites. Frontispiece and 25 engravings. [viii], 216 pp. 8vo, Paris: Delloye, Desmé et Cie, 49 Rue Neuve-Vivienne, 1837. First edition. Probable publisher’s full contemporary blue morocco, with blind-stamped outer border and gilt filigree inner panel, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Boutigny (ticket on pastedown). Light rubbing to corners, else fine. Carteret III, p. 337; Ramsden, French, p. 40. Text by French authors Georges Sand, Châteaubriand, and others, with illustrations by English illustrators. Ramsden notes that Boutigny was the leading exponent of the rocaille style and did much of his work anonymously for publishers. $750

catalogue 114 |  51 52 (KEEPSAKE) Paris-Londres Keepsake Français 1838. Nouvelles (KEEPSAKE) Keepsake pour 1840. 20 steel-engraved plates Inédites. Fifty-six engraved vignettes after Turner, et al. [viii], after Catermole. 302, [1] pp. 8vo, Paris: M.D. Wilmann, 1840. 236, [2] pp. 8vo, Paris: Delloye, Desmé et Cie, 49 Rue Neuve- First edition. Probable publisher’s binding of full contempo- Vivienne, 1837. First edition. Probable publisher’s binding of rary morocco, covers blocked in blind with scrollwork border full contemporary green morocco, covers gilt-stamped with surrounding a large gilt-stamped urn, a.e.g., by Boutigny an outer thick rule surrounding a floral and rule border made (ticket on flyleaf). Fine. Small bookplate. Ramsden, French, up of smaller tools, spine gilt with floral, volute and drawer- p. 40. handle tools and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Endpapers renewed, Ramsden notes that Boutigny was the leading exponent of else fine. Carteret III, p. 337. the rocaille style and did much of his work anonymously for A finely-bound keepsake of 24 short stories by French au- publishers. thors (Dumas, Châteaubriand, etc.) illustrated with engrav- $750 ings by English artists. $750 in a riviere pigskin binding 53 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) [Orbeliani, Sulkhan Saba]. The Book of Wisdom and Lies. [Translated with notes by Oliver Wardrop]. xvi, [ii], 256 pp. Printed in Golden Type in black & red. 8vo, [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894]. One of 250 copies. Bound in full tawed pigskin, covers stamped in blind with a grape leaf and tendril border and central panel, with small dots, grapes, and stars stamped in gilt all over, flat spine similarly decorated and titled in gilt, t.e.g., by Riviere & Son. Joints repaired, some light soiling to binding, internally fine. Walsdorf 28; Peterson, A28. Provenance: Charles J. Barnes (his sale, Anderson Galleries, November 22, 1920, lot 801a, brought $42.50). A collection of Georgian tales by the 18th-century prince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani translated by Oliver Wardrop. In a very unusual binding by Riviere done in full pigskin decorated with a grape vine motif. $2,500

 | james cummins bookseller 54 LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Contes et Nouvelles de …. Frontispiece and 31 engraved plates on china paper mounted on thick paper after Johan- not, Roqueplan, Déveria, Boulanger, Fragonnard Père, Janet-Lange, Français, Laville, etc., numerous head – and tailpieces and illustrations to text. viii, [9]-534 pp. Tall 8vo, Paris: Ernst Bourdin, n.d. [1839]. Full blue publisher’s cloth, with blind- and gilt-stamped filigree on spine and covers, a.e.g. Small area of loss to spine from binder’s overly hard stamping, else fine. Carteret III, pp. 354-5. A pristine copy of this illustrated edition of La Fontaine’s Tales. Carteret notes that copies with the plates on China paper are, of course, very rare. $600

extra-illustrated 55 LA FONTAINE, Jean de. La Fontaine’s Tales: Imitated in English Verse. Extra-illustrated with two frontispiece portraits of La Fon- taine in volume I, portrait of Jean Duplessis-Bertaux in volume II and 76 engarvings by Duplessis-Bertaux in two states (in contemporary color and uncolored). xxii, 286; [ii], 360 pp. 12mo, London: C. Chapple, 66 Pall- Mall, 1814. First full English verse edition. Bound in later 19th-century three-quaters brown morocco, a.e.g. Fine. The first complete verse translation of La Fontaine’s Tales in English, extra-illustrated with 76 plates by Duplessis-Bertaux in colored and uncolored states. $1,500

catalogue 114 |  unique copy on india paper 56 (LEE PRIORY PRESS) [Breton, Nicholas]. Breton’s Praise of Virtuous Ladies. Edited by Egerton Brydges. [x],38; [x], 38 pp. Second copy printed on India paper (one side of leaf only). 2 copies in one volume. 12mo, Kent: Private Press of Lee Priory by Johnson and Warwick, 1815. First edition. only copy on india paper; and the other copy one of an edition of 80 copies. Contemporary pebbled green morocco, boards with double leafy borders within gilt rules, a.e.g., by Hayday. Fine. Ransom p. 337, #21 (citing 1 copy on India). A lovely Hayday binding housing a regular copy and then another copy of the text, unique on India paper. An earlier cataloguer has conjectured that this was Egerton Brygdes’ own copy. $3,500

57 (LEE PRIORY) Quillinan, Edward. Woodcuts and Verses. Label tipped in to blank before title-page: “The Engravings on Wood at Lee Priory, Printed on Chinese Paper. With Verses. 3 guineas ...” Pp. [2], 14, [1, sectional title]; [45] ff., woodcut vignettes and verses, on India, printed on rectos only; [12] ff., poems, printed rectos only; pp. 16, Notes, [2], list of first lines & errata. 4to (9 x 7-G in.), Kent: Printed at the private Press of Lee Priory: by John Warwick, 1820. Only one hundred copies printed. Bound in full contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, a.e.g. Bookplate of Thomas P. Wood, signed by him on first leaf, “Thos. P. Wood/ Chesterfield.” Also inscribed by him to his sister on verso of flyleaf and signed again on title-page. Lightly worn at extremities. Ransom 41; Lowndes XI.220, no. 30; Johnson 732. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller presentation copy, uncut 59 58 (LEE PRIORY) Wither, George. Select Lyrical Poems by … (LEE PRIORY) Quillinan, Edward. Woodcuts and Verses. Written about 1622. Vignette on title page, ornament at head Unbound sheets. Pp. [2, title], 14, [1, sectional title]; [44] ff., of text, tailpiece vignette. Text printed within typographic woodcut vignettes and verses on India, mounted; [12] ff., po- borders, rectos only. Printed on laid paper painted slate blue ems, printed rectos only; pp. 16, Notes. Without the terminal on verso. 12 pp. 7-I x 5-I inches, Kent: Printed at the private leaf of Farewell to Lee Priory and the Arrangement leaf. 4to Press of Lee Priory by Johnson and Warwick, 1815. One (9-I x 7-I inches), Kent: Printed at the private Press of Lee of 100 copies printed on colored paper. Later drab boards. Priory: by John Warwick, 1820. Only one hundred copies About fine. Ransom, Selective Checklists, 18. printed. Loose sheets, with correspondence laid in. The Retort $400 Courteous in later drab wrappers. Crimson cloth folding case, leather spine label, inner chemise, by Macdonald. Ransom 41; Lowndes XI.220, No 30; Johnson 732. 60 A fine set of the greatest work of the private press of Lee [LESAGE, Alain-René]. Priory of Egerton Brydges, the Woodcuts and Verses edited by The Adventures of Gil Blas Edward Quillinan, here lacking two leaves (evidently lacking of Santillana. Rendered from very early on; and supplied in photocopy), but with into English by Henri notable additional material. Van Laun. Frontispiece The preface bears a pencil correction to a footnote and to each volume and 18 two of the leaves of verses at the end have notes on their etched plates by Lalauze, composition (Sonnet II) or the events that inspired the poem each on india paper in (At a Ball, “Ramsgate, 1816”). Two unsigned autograph two states. 3 vols. 4to, notes (almost certainly in Quillinan’s hand), discuss the book Edinburgh: William in its unbound form, and present it to a Miss Gillows. “As a Paterson, 1886. No. 26 of matter of mere curiosity the books from the Private Press of 75 copies on Whatman’s Lee will become rare …” Accompanying the work is a copy paper with proofs of the of The Retort Courteous (1821), published anonymously by plates in two states. Con- Quillinan (but referring in the text to the book of Woodcuts), temporary full brown bearing the book plate of Mary & Eliza, printed on India morocco, gilt. t.e.g. Fine. paper with the same woodcut vignette and floral border as appears on the final page of Farewell to Lee Priory. Three ad- $600 ditional untrimmed specimens of the book plate are loosely inserted. $2,000

catalogue 114 |  copy number one on china paper from strahan to routledge 61 62 MAISTRE, Xavier de. Voyage Autour de ma Chambre Suivi de MILLAIS, John Everett. Millais’s Illustrations. A Collection l’Expédition Nocturne … Préface par Jules Clarétie. Frontispiece of Drawings on Wood. 80 wood-engravings by Joseph Swain and 5 etched plates after Hédouin, each in two states (before and the Dalziel Brothers after work by John Everett Millais. and with letters). xxiv, 182 pp., printed entirely on china 4to, London and New York: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First paper. 8vo, Paris: [D. Jouaust for] Librairie des Bibliophiles, edition. Original green beveled cloth, stamped “Millais’s Col- 1877. Copy number 1 of 20 printed on China paper (of an lected Illustrations” on upper cover, spine plain, a.e.g., with edition of 210 total). Contemporary full blue morocco, gilt, diamond label “Bound by Burn & Co.” to rear pastedown. t.e.g. Fine, in a morocco-tipped paper-over-boards slipcase. Fine. Ray, England, 171; Goldman 38. Bookplates of Clarence H. Clark and Cortlandt F. Bishop. A beautiful copy, inscribed from the book’s publisher, Alexan- Vicaire I, 599; Cioranescu, 41882. der Strahan, to his fellow publisher George Routledge. $1,250 $600

63 MILTON, John. L’Allegro. Illustrated by the Etching Club, including C.W. Cope, R.A., John C. Horsley, H.J. Townsend, Thos. Creswick, Frederick Tayler, C. Stonhouse, R. Red- grave, A.R.A with 20 engraved plates on india paper laid onto heavier stock. Printed by Gad and Keningale; the Letterpress by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick. 4to, London: Published for the Etching Club by Joseph Cundall, 12, Old Bond Street, 1849. One of 100 copies, published at 4 and a half guineas. Full morocco, a.e.g. Fine. McLean, Cundall, p. 67. $500

 | james cummins bookseller on india paper 64 MILTON, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton … 120 engravings by John Thompson, S. and T. Williams, O. Smith, J. Linton, and others, after William Harvey and with a proof engraving of Milton by E. Vertue, 1750, pasted on to the front free endpaper. [iv], lii, 378; viii, 341, [1] pp., printed entirely on india paper. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. One of ?2 copies on India paper. Centerpiece pastiche binding of full brown pebbled morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere, light rubbing to joints and spines, else fine. Sotheran book tickets at rear. Lowndes, p. 1557. Provenance: George Daniel (inscription on first blank of vol. I); John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (his ownership inscriptions in each vol., “J.D. Coleridge / 10 Southwick Crescent / 1866.” According to Lowndes this is one of only two copies of this William Harvey illustrated edition of Milton on India paper. This copy with a distinguished provenance, having belonged to the Shakespeare collector George Daniel and the judge John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, great-nephew of the poet and owner of a magnficent 12,000 volume library at Heath’s Court, Devonshire. $2,500 inscribed by the dalziel brothers to the publisher’s widow 65 MONTGOMERY, James. Poems … Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. 100 wood engravings by Pickengill, Birket Foster, J. Wolf, John Gilbert, William Harvey, Duncan, and others, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to, London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street, 1860. First edition thus. Publisher’s presentation binding of full green morocco, covers with beveled edges, gilt, a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched, else fine. A pretty copy in a publisher’s deluxe presentation binding, with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Dalziel brothers to Mrs. William Warne, the widow of the publisher William Warne (d. 1859). $750

catalogue 114 |  66 MONTVIOL, [Louis Julien] Le Chevalier de. Album of 9 watercolor drawings of ancient Greeks and Romans, illustrative of ancient costume. Pen and ink and watercolor on paper, heightened with gum arabic, captioned, signed (“L.C. de Mont-viol”) and dated. 4to (drawings approximately 16 x 12 cm), N.p. [France]: 1815. Tipped to larger sheets in album bound in red wrappers, with manuscript onlaid title: “Recherches sur les Costumes anciens — Grecs & Romains. Dessines et peints a 1‘aquarelle par Le Ch de Mont-viol – peintre.” Superbly executed studies of ancient costume by this artist who specialized in miniature portraiture. Montviol was a former guard to Louis XVI who, imprisoned during the Terror, managed to escape to England, and only returned to France during the Empire. “Retiré dans une petite propriété familiale à Annecy, dans le departement de la Loire, il y finit ses jours sous la Restau- ration, en ultivant paisiblement les belles-lettres et les arts d’agrément, surtout la peinture.” (v. Revue d’Histoire de Lyon, Tome Dixieme – Annee 1911, p. 82). $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  proofs before letters on india paper 67 MOORE, Thomas. Irish Melodies. Engraved title, decorative borders and vignette illustrations throughout by Daniel Maclise, proof copy before letters on india paper printed on one side only and tipped onto heavier stock, omitting the typeset title and preface and text. Large 4to, London: Longmans & Co, 1845. Bound in half green morocco, t.e.g., by Bumpus, Oxford. Book- plate of Sir David Lionel Salomons. Ray, England, 29 (“a landmark … in the history of style”). A rare proof copy of the engraved illustrations and borders, printed entirely on India paper. The engraved title page is dated 1845; the date was later removed when the book was published the following year. $3,000

proofs on india paper 68 MOORE, Thomas. Irish Melodies. Engraved title, decorative borders and vignette illustrations throughout by Daniel Maclise, proof copy with letters, printed on one side only, omitting the typeset title and preface, printed entirely on india paper. [ii], 218, [1] ff. 4to, London: Longmans & Co, 1846. Bound in contemporary pebbled green morocco with gilt strapwork design, a.e.g., sporadic light foxing, early 20th-century gift inscription on ffep, near fine. Ray, England, 29 (“a landmark … in the history of style”). A rare proof copy of the engraved illustrations, borders and text, printed entirely on India paper. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller 69 (MYRIORAMA) [Dales, T.T.]. Panoramacopia. Designed by T.T. Dales, drawing master. 18 hand-colored aquatint cards (each 7-G x 2-M inches) with grey wash borders top and bottom, numbered 1-18 in the lower border, forming an interchangeable panoramic landscape view. Watermarked 1824. [London: 1824]. Contained in a modern box, largely constructed of 19th-century elements. A myriorama comprised of 18 aquatint cards that can be rearranged in any order to compose a continuous scene. The cards depict a Romantic pastoral of hikers rambling along a countryside dotted with picturesque ruins. $4,000

catalogue 114 |  70 NORTHCOTE, James. Proof illustrations to Northcote’s Fables. And of the Ornamental Letters and Vignettes by William Harvey. 44 pages of 4-to-the-page wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 6 numbered pages of Index to the Engravings and 6 unnumbered ad pages at end. Printed entirely on india paper. 8vo, London: Geo: Lawford, Saville Pas- sage. Printed by J. Johnson [Apollo Printing Office, Brook Street, Holborn.], 1828. Later three-quarters blue morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. Ray, England, 55. Harvey was “the longest lived and most important of Bewick’s pupils” (Muir); he adapted Northcote’s designs of the headpieces for engraving, but the tailpieces and initial letters were his own work, and the whole earned Bewick’s generous praise. $2,000

71 OUDRY, J[ean]-B[aptiste]. Chasse … à Mr. le Chevalier … Suite de 16 Planches. Engraved title and 16 circular etchings of hunting scenes by Oudry, engraved by Wexelberg, plates mounted on album leaves. 8vo, N.p: ca. 1760. Bound in 19th-century full green morocco, covers ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped emblems of a fox head, stag, and boar at the corners, t.e.g. A few small spots of glue burn-through at margins of plates, else fine. Schwerdt II, pp. 55-6. The rare suite of Oudry’s hunting etchings in a fine 19th-century binding with emblematic hunt tools. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  72 RAFFET, Auguste. Forty original watercolors for Lamartine’s L’Histoire des Girondins. 40 watercolors (39 portraits, 1 device with liberty cap), signed by the artist in lower right or left. 4to, [Paris: Fume, ca. 1847]. Red janseniste morocco, with green morocco doublures with wide gilt dentelle borders, marbled flyleaves, a.e.g., by Capé. Finely rebacked, one lower flyleaf replaced, covers with some traces of staining, light foxing to a few watercolors. Ray, French, pp. 185-187. Provenance: Ricardo Heredia y Liver- more (ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper); Chandé (vente 21 dec., 1867). Though not generally appreciated in his own time, Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) was later thought to be one of France’s great illustrators. “Beraldi made the startling assertion that Raffet’s was ‘the greatest name of the century in original prints,’ adding that this still isn’t enough to say. One of the greatest names of French art.’” — Ray, p. 183 The fine watercolors here form a veritable gallery of the French Revolution, and include portraits of Mirabeau; Danton; Charlotte Corday; Robespierre; Marie Antoinette; Marat; C. Desmoulin; St. Just; Talien; Grégoire; Barère, etc. $40,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  on china paper inscribed, with plates on india paper 73 75 RENAN, Ernst. Vie de Jésus. Sixty woodcuts by Godefroy Du- ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. 58 engraved plates by J.M.W. rand. viii, 304 pp., printed entirely on china paper. 8vo, Paris: Turner, 47 plates and 8 vignettes by Stothard, 12 plates and Michel Lévy Frères, Éditeurs, 1870. First edition with these 9 vignettes by Flaxman and others, nearly all the plates on illustrations. Contemporary half blue morocco and marbled india paper. viii, 264; viii, 274, [2, ads] pp. 2 vols. 4to (11-H boards, t.e.g., by David. Some light scuffing to covers, near x 8-H inches), London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1839. fine. Carteret III, p. 514. Large paper copy. Contemporary pebbled maroon morocco, One of only a few copies (Carteret knew of only one) on gilt urn on front and rear panels, a.e.g., by Hayday. Rubbing China paper. to binding and some minor spotting throughout. Ray, Eng- land, 13 & 15 (for illustrations). $750 A large paper copy with plates on India paper — most of the illustrations first appeared as in-text vignettes in the 1830 & 1834 Cadell & Moxon editions of Poems and Italy. Turner’s engravings by turner and stothard in proof state illustrations to Italy had a profound effect on the young 74 Ruskin, who claimed they “determined the main tenor of ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. One engraved plate and 32 vi- my life.” Ray praises Turner’s “delicate and graceful vignettes after Turner, 35 vignettes after Stothard, and 4 other gnettes, which are miracles of fine detail, [and] seem fairly to vignettes, all in proof state. viii, 295, [1] pp. 8vo, London: float upon the page.” This copy inscribed on the title-page of T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1834. Full red morocco, a.e.g. by J. volume one, “To Miss Coutts / from her sincere friend/ The Wright. Binding lightly rubbed, else fine. Rawlinson, XLIV Author.” Rogers and Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) (nos. 373-405); Hermann, p. 267; Ray, England, 15. were good friends. She was the wealthiest woman in England and also close to Dickens. $800 $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller on india paper 76 ROGERS, Samuel. The Pleasures of Memory with Other Poems. Numerous vignette engravings by Clennell after Stothard. [vii], 167, [1] pp. T. Bensley Printer, printed entirely on india paper. 8vo, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. New edition. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco, gilt, a.e.g., purple moiré doublures and endpapers, sporadic foxing. One of only a few copies on India paper. $1,500

on india paper 77 ROGERS, Samuel. The Pleasures of Memory with Other Poems. Nu- merous vignette engravings by Clennell after Stothard. [vii], 167, [1] pp. T. Bensley Printer, printed entirely on india paper. 8vo, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. New edition, first with these illustrations. Quarter contemporary morocco and marbled boards. Spine rubbed, some light foxing throughout. Ray, England, 54. One of only a few copies on India paper. Inscribed on the title- page “A Present / From the Author / to / T.J. Mathias.” Thomas James Mathias (1754?-1835) was a poet and Italian scholar. Rogers writes of him in Table Talk. With an autograph letter, signed (“Saml Rogers”), from the author to Mathias, mentioning the India paper edition: “… woodcuts, which poor Hoppner saw and admired exceedingly … To do them justice I have printed off a few copies on India paper.” Ray says of Stothard’s illustrations for this work that “they are among the best wood engravings of the early nineteenth century.” They were engraved by Luke Clennell, one of Bewick’s most gifted students. With a note on the front pastedown that this copy was bought from Mathias’ estate in Naples in 1836 by P. Faulkner. $1,500

catalogue 114 |  78 ROUJOUX, Baron. Histoire Pittoresque L’Angleterre et de Ses Possessions Dans Les Indes. Published and edited by Alfred Mainguet under the direction of Charles Nodier. Wood engraved illustrations throughout, printed entirely on china paper. 3 volumes in 1. 4to, Paris: A l’Administration de l’Histoire Pittoresque d’Angleterre, 1835. First edition. Bound in full straight-grained green morocco with gilt fillet borders on covers and spine stamped “A Gift” on lower spine panel, by Kleinhans in 1865. Extremities moderately scuffed, stain to bottom edge not affecting contents. Small bookplate. First edition, printed entirely on China paper. With a note on the verso of the front free endpaper concerning the provenance. The owner (“Chabouillet”) states that this is a copy on China paper given to him by the book’s editor, Alfred Mainguet. A later owner goes on to explain how this edition differs textually from later editions. He states that the previous owner, Jean Marie Anatold Ch- abouillet, was a French antiquarian who became conservator of the cabinet of medals in the National Library and authored many works. $1,500

79 (SCOTT, Sir Walter) The Waverley Gal- lery of the Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott’s Romances … Engraved Under the Superintendence of Charles Heath. 36 engraved plates by W. Drummond, J.W. Wright, et al, each with facing text leaf. 8vo, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841. Full red morocco, covers gilt-stamped with scroll and strapwork borders surrounding central filigree medallion, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, a.e.g. Fine. $300

with an original watercolor by a. andreas 80 SILVESTRE, Armand & Eugène MORAND. Grisélidis Mystère. vii, [i], 99, [1] pp. 8vo, Paris: Ernest Kolb, 1891. First edition. Half contemporary morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, t.e.g. Original wrappers bound in. Bookplate of Th. Révillon. Fine. With a full-page watercolor of the devil on the half-title by the French graphic designer A. Andréas. Jules Massenet’s opera Grisélidis used a libreto by Silvestre and Morand adapted from the play. $600

 | james cummins bookseller proofs on china paper 81 STAAL, Pierre Gustav Eugène. Proof illustrations to Jean- Baptiste Louvet de Courvay’s Faublas. 46 wood-engraved proofs before letters on china paper. [Paris: G. Havard, 1849]. Loose sheets housed in a brown binder. One plate with tape- repaired horizontal tear, the rest fine. $150 on pink paper 82 SURVILLE, Clotilde de. Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, Depuis Madame de Surville, Poëte Français du XVe Siècle. Frontispiece and 5 plates (hand-colored and some hightened in gilt), 3 headpiece vignettes in 2 states (colored and on China paper) after Colin and others. cxvii, [i], 312 pp. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, Paris: Nepveu, 1824. “Nouvelle Édition.” Rare copy on pink paper. 19th-century half green morocco gilt and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Chipot. Fine. Ray, French, 176; Vicaire VII, 715; Cartaret III, p. 577. A fine copy on pink paper of “one of the most lavish produc- tions of the period” (Ray). “Clotilde de Surville“ was sup- posedly a 15th-century poet whose manuscripts were later discovered and published in 1803. She was in fact an inven- tion of one Jean François Marie, Marquis de Surville, who passed the forged manuscripts off on unsuspecting publishers. Ray calls for 4 vignettes, while Cartaret does not specify a number. The present copy has 3, each in two states, colored and on chine appliqué. $1,750

83 THOMAS À KEMPIS. Imitation de Jesus-Christ, traduction nouvelle, de M.L. L’Abbé d’Assance. Engraved additional title and 10 plates by Tony Johannot, historiated and decorated initials throughout in full or partial hand-color. 287 pp. 8vo, Paris: L. Curmer, Éditeur, 25, Rue Sainte-Anne, 1879. First thus. Full contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco, elaborately gilt-blocked images of Christ on upper cover and crucifix on lower cover, a.e.g., blue floral endpapers, by Rivage (signed at bottom of spine). Fine, with some minor foxing. $1,500

catalogue 114 |  on india paper 84 THOMSON, James. The Seasons, and the Castle of Indolence … With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, by Allan Cunningham. 48 wood engravings by Samuel Williams. [v]-lxx, [2], 271, [1], 4 (ads) pp., printed entirely on india paper by Wright and Co., Printers. 8vo, London: Bogue, 1841. One of a few copies printed on India paper. Full contemporary green contemporary morocco with gilt arabesques on upper and lower covers, a.e.g., joints rubbed, else fine. Lowndes, p. 2671. $600

85 THUMANN, Paul. Twelve pen and ink with wash drawings illustrating scenes from Longfellow’s “Evangeline.” All drawings but one are signed or initialled, several are dated (“62”), are cut to image edge and mounted in a folio album. Album size: 16-I x 10-H inches; image sizes vary from 3 to 8 inches in height, N.p. [Germany or England]: 1862. Bound in brown morocco blocked in blind. Brown cloth chemise and slipcase. From the private library of Dalton Hall in Westmoreland, with the library ticket on the verso of the front free endpaper, and the following note “By Professor Paul Thumann / drawn for Miss Yates the [illegible two words] / inherited by S. Hornby and E.G. S. Hornby”; and the latter has signed the facing page. Paul Thurmann (1834-1908) was a German artist and illustrator active in the latter half of the 19th century, who illustrated many books of German poetry, antholgies, romances, Heine, Goethe, etc. As far as we can tell through OCLC, his first published work appeared in 1864, two years after he completed this fine sequence of drawings for “Evangeline.” Several of his illustrations were published in America, including an Eros And Psyche published in Chicago, 1900; but we can find no evidence that these were ever published. $5,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  large paper copy with india proof engravings proofs on india paper of turner’s annual tours 86 87 (TURNER, J.M.W) Ritchie, Leitch. [Turner’s Annual tours]. TURNER, J.M.W. Proof engravings on India paper for Wanderings by the Loire; Wanderings by the Seine; Wanderings Tuner’s Annual Tour 1833 [Wanderings by the Loire], 1834 by the Seine. 61 proof engravings on india paper mounted to [Wanderings by the Seine] & 1835 [Wanderings by the Seine]. 61 thick paper, engraved by William Miller, R. Wallis, Thomas engraved proofs before letters on india paper, engraved by Higham, Robert Brandard and others after drawings by William Miller, R. Wallis, Thomas Higham, Robert Brandard Turner. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and others after drawings by Turner. Printed by McQueen. Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row, 1833; 1834; 1835. Text captions in French and English inlaid to size. Folio. First edition, large paper copy. Publisher‘s binding of blue Plates measure approx. 8 I x 5 H in. London: [Longman, pebbled morocco, covers gilt with wide panel design filled Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833-1835]. Later with smaller tools, spines gilt with strapwork design and 19th-century full blue morocco, richly gilt to a panel design, small tools, moiré silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fine. Ray, England, front joint rubbed, scuff to rear cover, near fine. Bookplate of 16; Rawlinson XLVIa-c (nos. 432-492). Thomas J. Barratt. Ray, England, 16; Rawlinson XLVIa-c (nos. A beautifully-bound large paper set of Turner’s three an- 432-492). nual tours, which were later reissued in 1837 as The Rivers Proofs on India paper of a complete set of the steel-engraved of France. Most of the plates are supplied from unsold India illustrations to Turner’s Annual Tours. proof sets. Ray notes that “Turner achieved his best land- $2,500 scapes on steel in this series.” $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller turner’s own proof copies on india paper 88 TURNER, J.M.W. Proof engravings on India paper to Byron’s Life and Works, Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to the Bible, and Moore’s Epicurean. Byron: 25 (of 26) engraved proofs before letters; Finden: 21 (of 26) proofs after letters; Moore: 4 (of 4) engraved proofs before letters, all on india paper mounted on thick paper, most of the plates with the Turner blindstamp (Lugt 1498). Folio. Plates measure approx. 9 G x 7 in, [London: 1832-4; 1836; 1839]. Later 19th-century three-quarters pebbled green morocco and pebbled boards. Binding extremities rubbed, foxing to a few plates. Rawlinson XLV (nos. 406-431, LIV (nos. 572-597) & LIX (nos. 634-637). A collection of proofs on India paper to nearly all of Turner’s engravings to Byron’s Life and Works, Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to the Bible, and Moore’s Epicurean. Most of the proofs bear the “J.M.T.” blindstamp that indicates they were auctioned in the six-part Christie’s sale in the 1870s that dispersed the prints in the Turner estate. $1,500

catalogue 114 |  turner’s own proof copies on india paper 89 TURNER, J.M.W. Proof engravings to Samuel Rogers’ Italy & Poems. Italy: 22 (of 25) engraved proofs before letters (lacking plates 12, 13 & 14) on thick paper; Poems: 33 engraved proofs before letters, with an additional engraver’s proof of plate 29, on india paper mounted on thick paper. Most of the plates with the Turner blindstamp (Lugt 1498). Folio. Plates measure approx. 11 G x 5 I in., [London: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1830; 1834]. Later 19th-century three-quarters pebbled green morocco and pebbled boards. Binding extremities rubbed, foxing throughout, heavy on a few plates. Ray, England, 13 & 15; Rawlinson XLIII (nos. 348-372) & XLIV (nos. 373-405). A collection of proofs on India paper to nearly all of Turner’s engravings to Samuel Rogers’ Italy & Poems. Most of the proofs bear the “J.M.T.” blindstamp that indicates they were auctioned in the six-part Chris- tie’s sale in the 1870s that dispersed the prints in the Turner estate. A grand format for Turner’s finely rendered engravings — they appear only as in-text vignettes in the original published works. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller 90 (VICTORIA, Queen) Subscribers to the Coronation of Her Most Sacred Majesty the Queen, Painted by George Hayter [cover title]. 21-H pp. with circa 380 signatures. Folio (13-I x 10 inches), [London: 1838-1841]. Original dark blue morocco, front cover stamped in gilt to a cathedral design with numerous color onlays surrounding the gilt-stamped title. Fine. In a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. A unique order book containing subscriber’s signatures to the mezzotint engraving of George Hayter’s painting of the coronation of Queen Victoria. Subscribers could order first proofs at £12.12, proofs at £8.8 and prints at £4.4 (Queen Victoria ordered 6 first proofs). Other notable subscribers include Victoria, Duchess of Kent (the Queen’s mother), the Duke of Sussex, Leopold of Belgium, and Albert, Prince Consort. The album is beautifully-bound in a cathedral binding with multiple color onlays. $15,000

catalogue 114 |  91 WESTALL, Richard, Robert SMIRKE & Thomas STOTHARD. Album of engravings on India paper to Roger’s Poems (1824), Gil Blas (1822), Scott’s Poems (1823), Don Quixote (1820), and The Decamerone (1825). 75 engravings on india paper, mounted to thick paper, the Decamerone engravings marked “Proof.” Engravings measure approx. 7-H x 5 in, London: Hurst & Robinson; Wil- liam Pickering, v.d., 1820-1825. Contemporary green morocco, covers tooled in blind to a panel design with gilt filigree cornerpieces, a.e.g. Some light rubbing to joints and corners, else fine. An attractively-bound sampling of India paper engravings by Westall, Smirke and Stothard. $750

92 WESTALL, Richard. Four original watercolors for Marmion, Lay of the Minstrel and Lady of the Lake. 4 watercolors on artist’s board, with copies of the published engravings made from the watercolors included. Approx 9 x 7 inches, 1809; 1810. Small chip to lower right corner of one watercolor to Marmion, else fine. Matted. Four original watercolors for illustrations to the John Sharpe editions of Scott’s Lay of the Minstrel, Marmion, and Lady of the Lake. Westall (1765-1836) was a successful painter and illustrator of the neo-Classical and Romantic eras, known for his portraits of Byron and other authors and his book illustrations to, among many, the works of Scott and Shakespeare. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 114 |  proofs to illustations for whittingham’s 1826 shakespeare 93 WHITTINGHAM, Charles, (publisher). Proofs of the illustrations to Shakespeare’s Dramatic Works, published by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick, 1826. 73 wood engravings on 65 leaves, engraved by John Thompson after drawings by Stothard, Corbould, Harvey, et. al. 12mo, [London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1826]. Full straight-grained blue morocco, stamp-signed by the binder “J. Leighton Brewer St” (his address after 1820). Bookplate of Clarence C. Bemis and one other: an intriguing and highly unusual bookplate, reading “The Last political Prisoners Unconditionally Released by the United States. December 22. 1923,” and a quotation from The Tempest: “This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters.” Joints slightly rubbed, internally fine. See Warren, The Charles Whittingham Printers, pp. 101 & 107; Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, pp. 53-54. Charles Whittingham’s (the uncle) very popular 1826 edition in 10 volumes, was edited by the scholar Samuel Weller Signer, with a life of the author by Dr. Charles Symmons. The verso of the title-page reads, “With sixty engravings on wood, by John Thompson; from drawings by Stothard, Corbould, Harvey, etc. … in ten volumes.” This delightful set of proofs contains a total of 73 images, including the portrait of Shakespeare by Stothard, and the wonderful full-page frontispiece, designed by Harvey. $2,000

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