Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Oliver GOLDSMITH. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: George G. Harrap, 1929. Limited edition, this being number 328 of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, 4to (262 x 195mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates. (Spotting to title, several plates with marginal spotting, some leaves with marginal damp and erasure marks, toning.) Original vellum, original endpapers, t.e.g. (rebacked with raised bands).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Fifth edition, 4to (248 x 182mm.) 50 tipped-in colour plates. (Toning.) Original russet cloth, pictorial gilt (spine browned).

BINDING. - H. FULLARD and H.C. DARBY (editors). The University Atlas. London: George Philip, 1984. Twenty-second edition, 4to (304 x 227mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Toning.) Contemporary green half morocco over green cloth boards bound by Asprey, g.e. (small marks to upper cover).

THACKERAY, William. - Lewis BAUMER (illustrator). Vanity Fair. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913.] Limited edition, this being number 205 of 350 copies signed by Lewis Baumer, 4to (288 x 218mm.) 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning to margins, minor spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original vellum with mounted roundel to upper cover, t.e.g. (minor spotting to vellum, lacking ties). - And a further six illustrated volumes (including Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter', 1920, 4to) (7).

THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [circa 1920.] 4to (245 x 181mm.) 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Creasing to frontispiece tissue-guard, toning.) Original green pictorial cloth (rebacked with raised spines). - And a further six volumes illustrated by Hugh Thomson, all rebacked (7).

GAMBADO, Geoffrey. [Henry William BUNBURY.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. London: W. Baynes, 1808. Third edition, 4to (309 x 245mm.) In 2 parts, with separate title for 'Annals of Horsemanship', 29 hand-coloured plates. (Toning, stamps to all plate margins, blanks replaced.) Early 20th century red straight-grain morocco, raised bands to spine with elaborate foliate gilt to five compartments, covers with gilt borders of trailing foliate, g.e. (marks to covers, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown, stamps to plate margins). - And a further two volumes related to early 19th century art (Edward Edwards' 'Anecdotes of Painters', 1808, 4to, and six leaves from George Cruikshank's 'Scraps and Sketches' [of 24], 1828, oblong folio) (3).

LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England. London: S. Lewis and Co., 1831. 4 vols., first edition, 4to (269 x 208mm.) Half-titles, list of subscribers', 42 uncoloured engraved maps, including 14 folding. (Lacking map of London and 2 others, spotting to maps, toning.) Contemporary diced calf (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: T.H. Shaw (pencil inscribed to front-free endpapers). - And a further two volumes (C.H. Gifford's 'History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution', 2 vols., 1817, 4to) (6).

BELL, Charles. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst et al., 1806. First edition, 4to (284 x 227mm.) Half-title, 6 stipple-engraved plates, numerous engraved vignettes in the text, advertisement leaf to rear. (Spotting to plates, toning, occasional browning.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (significant loss to spine, hinges weakening).

COX, David. A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first Rudiments to the Finished Picture. London: for S. and J. Fuller, 1814. First edition, second issue, oblong folio (290 x 466mm.) Title, dedication, advertisement, 54 plates, comprising 23 soft-ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints and 15 hand-coloured aquatint. (Toning, browning to some margins, occasional minor soiling, lacking 1 soft-ground etching and 1 hand-coloured aquatint plate.) Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, brown morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to all extremities).

THORNTON, Thomas. A Sporting Tour Through France &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. 2 vols., 4to (290 x 218mm.) 43 aquatint plates, including 10 folding, 10 engraved plates, 2 engraved sheets of music. (1 folding plate 'Entrance of the Convent of Trois Fontaine' is duplicated in volume 2, browning, areas of spotting, occasional marginal loss to leaves.) 20th century brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor marks). Provenance: Augustus Lee (bookplates to the front pastedowns); F.C. Bewsey (name-plate to the front pastedowns). - And a further related volume (John Carr's 'The Stranger in France: or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris', 1803, 4to) (3).

SEGG, J. P. & Co. (publisher). London and Fashionable Resorts, (Illustrated): A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Leading Hotels. London: J.P. Segg & Co., 1894. 4to (269 x 180mm.) Numerous advertisements, leaves with neo-classical borders blocked in gold. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, decorative gilt, g.e. (wear to spine ends, fading to gilt). Provenance: Beverley A. Battersly (ink inscribed to front pastedown). Note: at the considerable price of twenty-one shillings, this was an exclusive tourist guide.

HUMPHREYS, H.N. and J.O. WESTWOOD. British Butterflies and their Transformations. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1856. 4to (286 x 214mm.) Additional hand-coloured title, 42 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Moderate to heavy marginal soiling throughout, plate 29 creased and torn, pencil marks to margin of plate 15, minor spotting.) Original red cloth (rubbing to all extremities, fading). Provenance: Joshua Parsons (name inscribed front-free endpaper). - And a further five miscellaneous volumes (6).

ROWLANDSON, Thomas (illustrator). - [David ROBERTS.] The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of his Campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall. London: for Patrick Martin, 1815. First edition, 8vo (201 x 115mm.) 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Browning, lacking 1 plate, some plates chipped with paper repairs verso, finger-marks and some soiling throughout, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (wear to covers). - And a further nine literary volumes (including Thomas Gaspey's 'Takings; or the Life of a Collegian' with etchings after designs by R. Dagley, 1821, 4to) (10).

TRAVEL. - A. Henry Savage LANDOR. In the Forbidden Land, an Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release. London: William Heinemann, 1898. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (224 x 138mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 8 colour plates, numerous black and white plates, folding map. (Toning, lacking initial blanks.) Original pictorial cloth (some spine lean to volume 1, minor rubbing, marginal spotting to covers). - And a further seventeen related volumes (including Sven Hedin's 'Trans-Himalaya', 2 vols., 1910, 8vo) (19).

BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The Novels of the Bronte Sisters…edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. 12 vols., the 'Thornton' edition, 8vo (211 x 135mm.) Titles in red and black, numerous illustrations with tissue-guards. (Toning, browning and spotting to preliminaries and pastedowns.) Original green cloth (three volumes with marks to upper and lower covers). Provenance: A.H. Paine (prize bookplate to the front pastedowns) (12).

COOKERY. - Mrs. Isabella BEETON. The Book of Household Management. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. New edition, 8vo (196 x 124mm.) 12 chromolithographic plates, advertisements to rear. (Lacking frontispiece and half of folding plate missing, browning, blanks replaced.) Modern brown cloth. - And a further fourteen volumes by and about the Beetons (including the 'Book of Household Management', 4 vols., 1907, 8vo, and 'Mrs Beeton's Every-day Cookery', 1912, 8vo) (15).

MINIATURE BOOKS. History of England. London, Clerkenwell Green: Goode Bros., [circa 1870.] 64mo (33 x 25mm.) Lithographed frontispiece of the Houses of Parliament, numerous illustrations of Kings and Queens of England. (Toning.) Original paper wrappers (lower wrapper detached, some loss to upper wrapper). - And a further seventeen volumes of miniature books (including a further edition of 'The History of England', [circa 1910], 64mo) and also three miniature newspaper facsimiles (including a 'Miniature Facsimile of The Times printed for the Queen's Dolls' House'), and a 'Photo-Medallion Souvenir' for Wales (22).

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas. - W.F. WELLS and J. LAPORTE (engravers). A Collection of Prints Illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Thos. Gainsborough. London: John and Josiah Boydell, [n.d. but circa 1819]. Folio (425 x 290mm.) 60 soft-ground etched plates, many hand-coloured. (Occasional light soiling, spotting to front and rear blanks.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, densely infilled gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed and scuffed, small section of spine panel chipped but retained).

PSALM. [A single leaf from Psalm 44. N.p.: circa mid-17th century.] Single leaf (601 x 388mm.) On vellum, text in Latin, large initials in black and red with musical notation in black on red-lined staves. (Small marginal repair and marginal creasing, soiling.) - And a further vellum leaf in Latin, [circa mid-18th century] (2).