Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

WOOLLEY, Hannah. The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying, and Cookery, Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex. To which is added, A Supplement Presented to all Ingenious Ladies and Gentlewomen. London: R. Chiswel and T. Sawbridge, 1681-1680. Fourth edition, 12mo (148 x 77mm.) With preliminary license leaf, in 2 parts with separate titles, including the supplement with separate title dated 1680. (Marginal loss to license leaf, lacking additional engraved frontispiece, lacking leaf C11, leaf B11 of 'Supplement' is detached, browning throughout, soiling to p.67, A3-E3 of 'Supplement' with marginal loss affecting headline, lacking front and rear blanks.) 20th century black morocco, gilt titling to spine (endpapers replaced). [Cagle 1064.]

COOKERY. - [Hannah GLASSE.] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published. London: W. Straha, J. and F. Rivington et al., 1770. New edition, 8vo (204 x 122mm.) Facsimile signature of Hannah Glasse at B1, recipes in contemporary manuscript hand verso the title and verso a8. (Lacking leaf U3 and lacking the fold-out 'Order of a Modern Bill of Fare', front blank replaced, some damp-staining and soiling, some marginal tearing, some heavy spotting, lacking rear blank.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with tips strengthened, rubbing). Provenance: Mary Woody (ink inscribed on last leaf); 'School Library' (ink inscribed on front free-endpaper).

MANUSCRIPT. - H.G. DOLBEN. [A hand-written book of recipes from Horley Rectory. N.p.: circa 1850.] 116pp., manuscript, 8vo (197 x 158mm.) Numerous recipes, often attributed to individuals, in a single legible hand on numbered leaves. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary black morocco-backed paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities, surface wear). Note: includes recipes for mashed calf's head, calf's feet jelly and sheep head soup, plus many puddings.

LÉMERY, Nicolas. New Curiosities in Art and Nature: or, a Collection of the Most Valuable Secrets in all Arts and Sciences. London: for John King, 1711. Translated from the Seventh Edition, 8vo (173 x 102mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, 14pp. index to rear. (Lacking 1 plate, heavy browning, lacking leaf I3, paragraph excised from p.299, annotations verso the 'firework' plate, some leaves with marginal loss, lacking blanks.) Near contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

MANUSCRIPT. [A presentation gift to an employee of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. N.p.:] 1909.Small folio (250 x 193mm.) Varicoloured hand-painted dedication leaf to 'H.A. Walker', hand-written address with elaborate hand-painted border, 25 leaves of names and job-titles of employees in manuscript of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. (Mild toning.) Contemporary black morocco bound by Kelly & Sons, company device in gilt on upper cover surrounded by elaborate foliate and floral design with red, green and tan morocco inlays, gilt to spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, moiré silk endpapers, g.e. (small marks to lower cover).

SMITH, Charlotte. Elegiac Sonnets. London: for J. Dodsley, et al., 1786. Third edition, signed by Charlotte Smith, 4to (265 x 205mm.) Newspaper article mounted under the second preface, signed by author verso the last leaf. (Occasional minor soiling and spotting, blanks replaced, lacking errata leaf.) Early 20th century blue cloth (damp-spotting to covers). Note: Smith had to battle hard with publishers and printers to be taken seriously, so it is possible that she herself mounted the favourable newspaper review that is under the second preface. With increasing awareness of her importance in influencing the romantic sensibility, Smith has become better known. In the 1830s Wordsworth wrote that Smith was 'a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered'.

[CRUIKSHANK, George.] The Constitutional Apple Pie: or, Rythmical Red-Book. By Master Jacky Jingle. London: T. Hughes, 1820. Second edition, 8vo (213 x 130mm.) Hand-coloured illustrations, 22pp. unnumbered. (Marginal browning.) Original wrappers, hand-coloured illustration to the upper cover (lacking lower cover). - And a further twenty-one miscellaneous publications, many disbound (including Robert Cruikshank's 'Monsieur Tonson', 1830, 8vo) (small group).

[BOWLES, Carrington.] The Artist's Assistant; or School of Science, forming a Practical Introduction to the Polite Arts. Birmingham: Swinney & Hawkins, 1801. 8vo (209 x 124mm.) 10 engraved plates, 6 folding. (Creasing to plates, damp-staining to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: F. Bevis (name inscribed to front pastedown); Birmingham Library (small stamp to initial blank). - And thirteen further volumes related to art (including Cennino Cennini's 'A Treatise on Painting', 1844, 4to, and C. Hullmandel's 'The Art of Drawing on Stone', 1835, 8vo, and M. D'Arclais de Montamy's 'Traité des Couleurs pour la Painture en Émail et sur la Porcelaine', 1765, 8vo) (14).

BINDING. - G.F. MACMUNN. The Armies of India. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. Limited edition, this being number 84 of 500 copies signed by the publisher, 4to (262 x 195mm.) 72 tipped-in plates mounted on card after A.C. Lovett with captioned tissue-guards. (Minor spotting to preliminaries, toning to margins.) Late 20th century red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g.

TRAVEL. - Thomas ASTLEY (publisher). A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of the most Esteemed Relations, which have been hitherto published in any Language. London: for Thomas Astley, 1747. Volume IV (of 4). First edition, 4to (259 x 194mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates and maps and charts, including 6 folding, index to rear. (Most of the folding plates are heavily creased, some paper repairs, two with marginal loss, two with significant loss, browning, occasional spotting, lacking rear blank.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, upper joint splitting). Note: includes du Halde's descriptions of China, and voyages to Korea and Tibet.

ROSSETTI, Christina. - Florence HARRISON (illustrator). Poems. London: Blackie and Son., [1910.] 4to (258 x 195mm.) Introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, numerous black and white illustrations, captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to title, toning.) Original cream buckram, pre-Raphaelite pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (joints splitting, wear to spine ends).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1930]. 8vo (202 x 149mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, lacking initial blank and 1 tissue-guard, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth (browned to margins, wear at spine ends), dust-jacket with mounted colour plate (tear at top of spine with loss, marginal creasing).

HESELTINE, J.P. Trifles in Sculpture, from the Collection of J.P.H. London: J.J. Waddington, 1916. 4to (259 x 188mm.) 32 sepia plates of sculpture. (Browning to margins, spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards (fading, minor soiling). Provenance: John Postle Heseltine (gift inscribed from on headed note-paper mounted on the front-free endpaper). - And a further thirteen miscellaneous volumes (including 12 Chinese almanacks, [circa 1900], 8vo, and, with a facsimile title-page, Gervase Markham's 'Markham's Master-piece', [circa 1720], 4to) (14).

CHARLES I. - [John GAUDEN.] Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings. [London: by Henry Hills], 1649. 12mo (138 x 78mm.) Double-paged engraved frontispiece of Charles I, folding plate 'The Explanation of the Emblem', with separate title for 'A Perfect Copy of the Prayers Used by His Majestie', near contemporary manuscript notes on rear blank. (Lacking portrait plate, browning, minor soiling, hinges reinforced.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). Note: the manuscript notes at rear concern authorship: ' [sic] affirmed in print that that this book was wholly compiled by Dr [?] Gauden'. Provenance: Edward Baddeley (stamp to front pastedown). [ESTC R221636.] - And a further seven volumes, six of which relate to Charles II (including Thomas Blount's 'Boscobel: or the Compleat History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester' [lacking 2 folding maps], 1662, 8vo) (8).

[ALKEN, Henry.] 'Peter PASQUIN'. Flowers from Nature. London: Thomas McLean, 1824. Oblong 4to (263 x 360mm.) 6 etched plates with hand-colouring, each containing a figure with a punning caption.(Minor finger-marking, small marginal tear to last plate, toning.) Original printed wrappers, later sowing (large tear to lower wrapper, chipping, illegible name to upper wrapper).

SMITH, James Edward and James SOWERBY. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. London: for the Proprietor, C.E. Sowerby, [1832]-1838. 4 vols. (only, of 12). Second edition, 8vo (218 x 129mm.) Numerous hand-coloured plates, many with common names in manuscript pencil or crayon. (Browning, toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to spines and extremities). Note: volumes 1,2,3 and 5 only (4).

TATE, Nahum. The History of King Lear: a Tragedy. London: [n.p.:], 1729. 12mo (159 x 92mm.) (Browning, small marginal tears, marginal paper repair to D7, initial blank loose, spotting.) Contemporary brown half calf (upper cover nearly detached). Note: Nahum revised 'Lear' for the sensibility of the Restoration theatre, restoring the original happy ending of the historical chronicles and creating a romance between Edgar and Cordelia, two characters who never even speak to each other in Shakespeare's play. - And a further eleven volumes (including Jane and Ann Taylor's 'City Scenes or a Peep into London for Children', 1814, [77 numbered woodcut illustrations, lacking 3], 12mo) (12).

TRAVEL. - Charles Nicholas Sigisbert SONNINI. Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte, fait par Ordre de Louis XVI. Basle: chez Henricy, 1799. 'Atlas' volume only, 4to (268 x 199mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 2pp. 'Table', 38 engraved plates, 2 folding. (Lacking the map, 30 of the plates with damp-staining, mostly marginal, stamp to title-page.) Contemporary blind-stamped calf (some surface loss, minor rubbing). - And a further nine travel-related volumes (including, in its original boards, Austen Henry Layard's 'Nineveh and Its Remains', 2 vols., 1849, 8vo) (10).

[FIELDING, Henry.] The Tragedy of Tragedies; or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. London: J. Watts, 1737. Third edition, 8vo (183 x 112mm.) Title in red and black. (Lacking frontispiece and publisher's advertisements, blanks replaced, damp-staining from A2-B3, toning.) Late 19th century red morocco-backed boards, mounted paper label with manuscript titling to upper cover (rubbing to spine). Provenance: John Jobson (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further nine miscellaneous volumes, mostly defective (including a 10pp. manuscript of a London watch-makers day book, [circa 1790], 8vo) (10).