PDF Catalogue Advanced Search ▼ Lots Per Page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Books Original Artwork, Children's and Illustrated Foreign Travel and Mountaineering Maps and Atlases Natural History Military, Naval, Aviation and Transport Literature Religion Antiques, Art Reference and Architecture Sport Music British Topography and Local History Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing lots 1-48 of 64. View <<|12|>> Lot 17 Milton, John; Martin, John (illus.) Paradise Lost. Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1853. 4to, full coarse-grain plum leather gilt; 24 mezzotints by John Martin. Martin's mezzotints were first sold in stages to subscribers. Twenty-four were then selected to accompany the poem, originally in a two-volume edition in 1827. Mezzotints seem especially apt for Milton's work, with their emphasis on the contrast between dark and light. Typical of all artists, in imagining Milton's work, Martin has drawn on Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£350Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£350Status:Closed Lot 25 Crompton, Richmal William the Superman. George Newnes, 1968. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (priced 10/6). First ed. idem William the Bold. George Newnes, 1950. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (priced 7/6). First ed. with William the Outlaw, 24th Imp in dj. [3] Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 27 Peake, Mervyn The Gormenghast Trilogy, comprising: Titus Groan. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. 8vo, org. red cloth in heavily-clipped second state dj (removing price and ''Second Impression''). First ed. in second state jacket. Gormenghast. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped dj. First ed. Titus Alone. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped jacket. First ed. Along with Titus Groan, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1949, in dj; Gormenghast Trilogy, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968-70, Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 28 Peake, Mervyn Ephemera relating to Peake and his works and contributions by him to periodicals. The collection includes the work of various Peake societies (such as Peake Studies (33), the Mervyn Peake Society (10 publications and a series of newsletters) and the Mervyn Peake Review (20)) and biographies by John Watney, John Batchelor, G. Peter Winnington and Maeve Gilmore. There are also examples of Peake's works in Lilliput (4); Arts Quarterly (3); The London Mercury (4); The Windmill, New Wor Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 31 Austin, Paul Britten; Peake Mervyn (illus.) The Wonderful Life & Adventures of Tom Thumb and The Second Part. Stockholm: Radiotjanst, 1954-5. 12mo (2 vols). Org. wrappers priced 3.50kr and 4.00kr to lower covers (corrected in pencil to 2 on each); illus by Peake, small miniature book page 97, Second Part. First Peake illustrated eds. Uncommon in nice condition as they were originally published as teaching aids and are often heavily used or annotated. [2] Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 32 Peake, Mervyn A collection of books illustrated by Peake and of his drawings. Illustrated works include: Collins, Maurice, Quest for Sita (1946, limited of 500, in dj); Hole, Christina, Witchcraft in England (1945, in dj); Haynes, Dorothy, Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch (1949, in dj); and Crisp, Quentin, All This and Bevin Too (1943, org. wraps). Also Peake's own work inc.: The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1949, in dj); Figures of Speech (1954, in dj); and the Craft of the Lead Pencil (1946, org. bo Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£250Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£250Status:Closed Lot 33 Peake, Mervyn A collection of his poetry and writing including: Shapes and Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941; The Glassblowers. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950; The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb. J.M. Dent and Sons, 1962; and A Reverie of Bone. Bertram Rota, 1967. All 8vo, org. cloth in djs (Shapes clipped). First eds (Reverie Limited, no. 169 of 320). With nine others such as Mr Pye (1953 and 1969) and Sometime Never (1956, along with Boy in Darkness, 1976). [13] Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£220Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£220Status:Closed Lot 37 Society of Antiquaries Pettingal, John, A Dissertation upon the Tascia or Legend, on the British Coins of Cunobelin and others (1763, one plate) bound with idem The Latin Inscription on the Copper Table Discovered in the year 1732 (1760) and Webb, Philip Carteret An Account of the Copper Tablet: containing two inscriptions in the Greek and Latin Tongues (1760, 4 plates) and idem A Short Account of Danegeld (1756) and idem A Short Account of Some Particulars concerning the Domesday Book (1756). 4 Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 38 Ephemera A collection of broadsides, pamphlets and poetry publications, principally 18th and 19th century. The selection includes published open letters (to Pitt on abuses in the wheat and bread trade and Sir Robert Peel from ''an old school-friend''); news accounts (such as the apparitions in the sky above Chipping Norton); political pieces and oddities (an 18th century choral concert ticket and the bookplate of Lane's Circulating Library). [qty] Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£1,300Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£1,300Status:Closed Lot 39 Politics A collection of broadsheets, pamphlets and similar material relating to British politics of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Including: A Briefe and Exact Treatise declaring How the Sheriffs...have been Anciently elected and chosen (Printed for T.I., 1642); Homer, Henry. An Enquiry into the Means of Preserving and Improving the Publick Roads (Oxford, 1767); and Eustace, John Chetwood, An Elegy to the Memory of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (F. and C. Rivington, 1798). Along with Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£900Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£900Status:Closed Lot 40 Anon The Benefits and Privileges of Cuckolds Shewing the Little Disgrace There is in Being One, and the Obligations Men Sometimes have to Their Wives for Conferring That Honour Upon Them...Humbly dedicated to Mother H----gg-r [Heidegger]. Printed for A. Moore, 1728. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; pp.32. First ed. Anon Thoughts on the Propriety of Preventing Marriages founded on Adultery. Printed at the Philanthropic Reform by J. Richardson, for F. and C. Rivington and J. Hatchard, 1800. 8vo, unbound pam Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£1,200Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£1,200Status:Closed Lot 41 Trials, Courts-Martial and Grand Juries A collection of nine broadsides and trial transcripts, variously dated 1679-1809 (principally 18th century), all unbound pamphlets (one in modern folder) dealing with murder, counterfeiting, bribery, arson and more. The trials include the 1776 conviction of Richard Smith and Thomas Brand Hollis for bribery (in connection with a rotten borough); the Presentment of the Grand Jury of the Hundred of Ossulston (1628); the 1755 trial of William Turton for the mu Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£350Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£350Status:Closed Lot 42 Astle, Thomas The Origin and Progress of Writing. Printed for the Author, 1784. 4to, cloth, sometime rebacked retaining spine; 31 plates. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 43 Various The Secret Court Memoirs. Printed for the Grolier Society, [1904]. 8vo (20 vols). Org. green cloth, paper labels to spines; illus. Limited ed. of 1000, this un-numbered. [20] Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£30Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£30Status:Closed Lot 44 Tuer, Andrew W. The Follies & Fashions of our Grandfathers. Field & Tuer, 1886-7. 8vo, half grey leather over boards, upper board and spine with embroidered lettering-piece; 37 full-page plates. The Demy Octavo edition of this arch look back at the vanities and oddities of the flourishing magazine trade of the early-19th century. Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold Lot 45 Charles I Legal document issued to William Weedon, merchant tailor of London, granting the use of a property for his life-time, signed by Julius Cesar, Charles' Master of the Rolls, manuscript on vellum, with large wax Great Seal (with some loss), framed and glazed. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 46 A Noble Hand Cabala: Sive Scrinia Sacra. Mysteries of State & Government in Letters bound with A Supplement of the Cabala. Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1654. 4to (2 vols in 1 with add. tit.). Full ?contemporary calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked, advertisments at rear; provenance: Hereford Permanent Library (lib. stamps to verso of titles). A free-wheeling and curious assortment of texts, including pieces from Francis Bacon's papers, purporting to reveal the secret truths behind t Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 47 Strafford, William, 2nd Earl MSS accounts for ?1647, written under the direction of (and likely by) the Earl for the management of his estates, 6th May 1648. One sheet, folded in half (and smaller), MSS on two sides, faded but legible. The estates in question were restored to the 2nd Earl with Charles I's overturning of the forfeiture which has resulted with the 1st Earl (''Black Tom'')'s attainder for treason. William came into his majority in 1647, but fled to France after the Civil War. With Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£220Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£220Status:Closed Lot 48 Lover of Peace and Truth [P.A. (attrib.)] The Character of An Honest Man; Whether Styled Whig or Tory, And his opposite, the Knave. Printed for Randal Taylor, 1683. Folio, pamphlet loose in quires; pp. 16, 13-16 [agrees with ESTC]. The terms Whig and Tory entered British political vocabulary around 1681 (initially being borrowed from Scottish and Irish politics). They came to refer to those supporting the Exclusion of the Catholic James, Duke of York (Whigs) and the Royalists (Tories) who suppor Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 49 Olgiati, Girolamo Quinquaginta illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numismatibus extractae. Venice: Ambrogio Dei, 1607. 4to, leather-backed marbled boards (upper board detached); eng. title, 50 eng. plates, bound alternately with later lined writing paper, some with MSS notes on the philosopher. Second edition. The word 'quinquaginta' was later added to the title-page plate for the printing. Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 50 Grotius, Hugo De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650. 8vo, archival binding, paper label on spine; pp. [24], 618, [45]; title printed in red and black, floriated initials and decorative tail-pieces. New edition, with annotations by the author. The book which made Grotius famous throughout Europe was first published in 1625. Grotius was living in Paris, having made a daring escape from Dutch prison - where he had fallen foul of intra-Calvinist dispute - in a chest of books Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 51 Varchi, Benedetto Storia Fiorentina. Colonia: Pietro Martello, 1721. Folio, full calf, speckled edges; pp. [28], 677, [3]; add. eng tit., port. frontis., tit. printed in red and black with vignette, double-page genealogy, decorative head- and tail-pieces and initials. First ed. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£110Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£110Status:Closed Lot 52 Ackermann, Rudolph; Rowlandson, Thomas; Pugin, Augustus Eight plates from The Microcosm of London. Ackermann, c.1810. Comprising: Doctor's Commons; Guildhall (Examination of a Bankrupt); Court of King's bench (Westminster Hall); Court of Common Please (Westminster Hall); Court of Chancery (Lincoln's Inn Hall); The Old Bailey; The Great Hall (Bank of England); and Christie's Auction Room. All hand-coloured and mounted. With original accompanying letterpress pp. 31- 40, 42-48 (42 modern copy), 81- Estimate:£150 - £200Sold For:£280Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £200Sold For:£280Status:Closed Lot 53 Bishop of Cloyne [Berkeley, George] A Miscellany, containing several Tracts on various Subjects. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. 8vo, full calf, sometime rebacked; pp. 267, [1] [A3 cancel as common]; provenance: Matthew Boulton (business partner of James Watts, his Soho [Birmingham] library bookplate to upper pastedown). First London edition (previously published in Dublin in the same year). Among the pieces present are his critical economics text The Querist and the first prin Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 54 [Burke, Edmund]. Broken run of The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Years 1762, 1763, 1767 [all later], 1772, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1781-90 [all Dodsley], 1791-3 [Rivington, along with Robinson's New Register for 1792], 1794, 1796 [G.G.J. & J. Robinson], 1795, 1798, 1799 [Proprietors of Dodsley's Annual Register]. Various publishers, principally J Dodsley, varying dates and editions. 8vo (36 vols). Variously bound in leather; provenance: some volumes with bo Estimate:£300 - £400Sold For:£320Status:Closed View details Estimate:£300 - £400Sold For:£320Status:Closed Lot 55 Slave Trade The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19, 1791. Printed by and for W. Woodfall, 1791. 8vo, later cloth; pp. [4], 123, [1]. The drive to abolition was a difficult one, against significant entrenched interests in the House. Outside, the campaign sought to harness indignation and revulsion, aided by a remarkable range of propaganda efforts. At its heart though, it was always the Parliamentary campaign whic Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£380Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£380Status:Closed Lot 56 Walker, Capt. Charles Authentick Memoirs of the Life Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury. London: Printed in the Year, 1723. 8vo, cloth-backed marbled boards; port. frontis. The life and times of a notorious prostitute, dearly loved by her influential patrons. She ended her days of 'brain fever' (almost certainly syphilis) in Newgate after stabbing John Finch (a politician and son of the Earl of Nottingham). Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£750Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£750Status:Closed Lot 57 Mayall, John Jabez Edwin Series of Photographs of Eminent Men. Messrs Marion & Co., 152 Regent St., 1862. Seven albumen prints after photographs by Mayall, all flush mounted to captioned card mounts, five signed and dated 1861 in the negative, 6 in original paper wrappers printed with title details, all signed by subjects on the mount, all contained in likely original folio folder. The seven photographs comprise: Prince Albert, the Prince Consort - this photograph was taken two months before Alb Estimate:£600 - £800Sold For:£550Status:Closed View details Estimate:£600 - £800Sold For:£550Status:Closed Lot 58 Churchill, Winston Marlborough. His Life and Times. George Harrap & Co., 1947. 8vo (2 vols). Quarter blue morocco over linen, t.e.g. in slipcase; illus. with portraits, maps and facsimile MSS. First edition in two books. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 59 Churchill, Winston Typed letter signed 'Winston S. Churchill'' to T.H. Moore, 2 Sussex Square, 14th December 1923, folded for posting, sending general thanks for a letter. With a photograph of Moore. The date of the letter would put it just over a week after Churchill lost the West Leicester by-election (his last as Liberal), suggesting that Moore's letter was one of commiseration. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£500Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£500Status:Closed Lot 60 Suffragette Movement In Memoriam Miss Emily Wilding Davison, B.A. Philp [sic] & Sons, [June] 1913. 12mo, single bifolium printed in black with photograph of Davison in scrollwork roundel. With a cutting from the Montreal Family Herald June 25 1913, headline 'Militants declare they are prepared to die to get vote'. Intriguingly, there is a piece on the reverse about a copycat incident at Royal Ascot by a disturbed man called Harold Hewitt, who appears not to have had a connection to the WSPU. At Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£400Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£400Status:Closed Lot 63 Neagle, Anna Seven typed letters signed ''Anna Neagle'', dated variously 1937-83, principally thank you letters to fans for their letters; with three autograph letters signed ''Anna'' (2) or ''Anna Neagle'' (1), all undated (though one mentions ''Charlie Girl'' so would be c.1964-70); and with two b/w photographs, one of her as Victoria (stamped Publicity Department Republic Pictures on verso). Neagle was a hugely successful box office draw for British cinema, frequently working with her husband Estimate:£200 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 74 Shaw, L.O. The Duel, the Battle of Waterloo, and other poems. Haslingden: For the Author, [1836]. 8vo, org. moire cloth. Bobbin, Tim (pseud.); [Collier, John]. My Lodger's Legacy. For the Editor, 1819. 8vo, org. boards. Douglas, Jonathan. Miscellaneous Poems. Maryport: Robert Adair, 1836. 8vo, org. cloth. White, John Nesbitt. Poems. Doncaster: W. Sheardown, 1806. 8vo, unbound pamphlet. With two other poetical collections (Rev. Charles Watkins and Henrietta Rhodes) and a number of broadsides and Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£1,100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£1,100Status:Closed Lot 75 Millar, William. The Fairy Minstrel. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1822. 12mo, cloth-backed boards. Allan, Robert. Evening Hours. Glasgow: David Robertson, 1836. 8vo, decorative cloth. McCarthy, Justin Huntly. The White Carnation. Printed for Private Circulation, [1892]. 8vo, org. wrappers: authorial gift inscription to contents. Mac-Carthy, Denis Florence. The Two Lovers of Heaven. Dublin: John F. Fowler, 1870. 8vo, org. wrappers. Jones, Jos. Lorin: or, The Wanderer in Wales. Longman, Hurst, Rees Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£170Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£170Status:Closed Lot 76 Rural Poetry Franklin, Robert. The Miller's Muse. Hull: Printed and Sold by I. Wilson, 1824. 8vo, wrappers. Cole, William. Rural Months. Printed for the Author, 1824. 8vo, org. paper-backed boards. Anstey, Christopher. The Famer's Daughter. Bath: Printed by S. Hazard for T. Cadell Jun. and William Davies, 1795. 8vo. later marbled wrappers. Gisbourne, Thomas. Walks in a Forest. Printed by J. Davis for B. and J. White, 1794. 4to, unbound pamphlet. [4] Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 77 In Memoriam A series of poetical musings on death, including Elegies for Edmund Burke and Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex and the Rev. Kennedy's Tribute in Verse for George Canning (1827), along with Thomas Denton's Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human Life (1754) and W.R. Spencer's The Year of Sorrow (1804). Also with J. Carvell Williams' The Present Position of the Burials Question (1879), an effort to return religious liberty to the churchyard. [9] Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£110Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£110Status:Closed Lot 79 Deighton, Len Horse Under Water. Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (priced 16s). First ed., with crossword endpapers but no inserted crossword. Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago. Collins and Harvill, 1958. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (priced 21s). First English ed. [2] Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 80 Anon The Hampstead Congress: or, the Happy Pair. Printed: And sold by M. Cooper, A. Dodd, and G. Woodfal, 1745. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards in a period style; pp. 23, blank; provenance: North Library (bookplate upper pastedown) -- J.O. Edwards (book label upper pastedown). First ed. A scarce item (we have only traced on copy at auction in 1997). This light-hearted poem traces an argument between newly-weds about where is best to live - town or country. The argument going nowhere, Sir John Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£300Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£300Status:Closed Lot 81 Burrage, A.M. Some Ghost Stories. Cecil Palmer, 1927. 8vo, org. black cloth, upper board ruled and titled in white with lower white vignette, spine lettered in white. First ed. Burrage was best known in his day as a writer of fiction for boys and comic fiction. However, it is his horror writing for which he is chiefly remembered today. M.R. James praised this book (Burrage's first horror collection), saying ''if about half his ghosts are amiable, the rest have their terrors, and no mean ones.'' Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 82 Dickens, Charles (ed.) The Daily News. January 21, 1846. Broadsheet, eight pages on four folded sheets, text in six columns. The first issue of Dickens' own newspaper dedicated to 'Principles of Progress and Improvement; of Education, Civil and Religious Liberty, and Equal Legislation'. Dickens' hope was to offer a Liberal alternative to The Times and Morning Chronicle. Dickens himself contributed. This issue features the first of his letters from Italy as ''Travelling Letters. Written on the Ro Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 83 Dickens, Charles Works. Chapman and Hall, c.1890-2. 4to (22 works in 8 vols). Half red calf over marbled boards, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers and edges; illus by Phiz, Barnard et al. [8] Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 84 Dickens, Charles Master Humphrey's Clock. Chapman & Hall, 1840-1. 8vo (3 vols). Half calf over marbled boards (Vols 1+2 uniform)' woodcuts to text. First eds in book form. idem Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards; frontis., add. eng. tit. (1853 imprint), 38 plates (including dark plates), no half-title. First ed. with ''elgble'' p.19; ''chair'' p.209; and ''counsinship'' p.275; five-line errata below plate list. idem Little Dorrit. Bradbury & Evans, 1857. 8vo, Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 85 E.P. [Ellis Pratt M.D.] The Art of Dressing the Hair. A Poem Humbly Inscribed to the Members of the T[uesday] N[ights] Club. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author, 1770. 4to, wrappers; pp.18. An intriguing little item by the self-described 'Philocosm And Late Hairdresser to the said Society'. The poem was well reviewed by several periodicals of the time, making sly comment on their suspicion that E.P. was not the mere hairdresser he purported to be. The Monthly Review (Vol. 43) said 'it Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£250Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£250Status:Closed Lot 86 Shaw, George Bernard Four autograph letters and one typed, signed variously 'G.B.S.' or 'G. Bernard Shaw', 4 Whitehall Court, dated 1930-37 to The Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company, relating to the bindings of his works, one (1934) with original envelope. Two show Shaw's hands-on concern with the appearance of his Collected Works (which initially consisted of 30 works published in 1932). He pushes for a specific green dye for the cloth (as it remains fast even at the Equator) and advocates ag Estimate:£500 - £700Sold For:£600Status:Closed View details Estimate:£500 - £700Sold For:£600Status:Closed Lot 87 Jonson, Ben The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added a comedy, called The New Inn With Additions never before Published. Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692. Folio, full calf, joints cracking, upper board detached but present, signs of damp with some mould; port. frontis.; pp. [x], 264, 281-382 [380], 393-794 [4 (Leges Convivales)]. Third Folio ed., Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£220Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£220Status:Closed Lot 88 Lewis, Wyndham One-Way Song. Faber and Faber, 1933. 8vo, original full vellum, upper board and spine lettered directly in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; decorated title page, four illus by Lewis. Signed limited ed., no. 21 of 40. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£120Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£120Status:Closed Lot 89 Prescott, William H.; Kirk, John Foster (ed.) Works. J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884 [but Philadelphia: J. B Lippincott]. 8vo (15 vols). Brown cloth, paper labels on spines; steel-engraved portraits on India paper and maps. Fine paper edition, Limited ed., no. 7 of 25 offered 'by courtesy of the English holders of the Copyright' for sale in the US by Lippincott. Some water-staining. [15] Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 90 Ramsay, Allan Poems. Edinburgh: Printed by Mr Thomas Ruddiman for the Author, 1721. 4to, full calf, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. First ed. of Ramsay's rare first volume of poetry (the second being published in 1728). Ramsay was a wig-maker turned bookseller whose contributions to the literary life of Edinburgh earned him recognition on the Scott Monument. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lots Per Page 122448 <<|12|>> Previous 12 Next
