Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MASON, Charlotte. The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying her Table, Being a Complete System of Cookery. London: J. Walter, 1777. Third edition, 8vo (208 x 125mm.) Title, index, 1p. publisher's advertisement verso last leaf. (Browning, occasional corner crease and minor spotting, hinges reinforced.) Contemporary calf (joints splitting, extremities rubbed). Note: collates: (i) A-A2, B-2F8, 2G5, (iii).

COOKERY. - Catherine Frances FRERE (editor). The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. Limited edition, this being number 16 of 25 copies on hand-made paper, 4to (218 x 140mm.) 2 engraved photogravures with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. (Toning, uncut leaves, browning to pastedowns.) Original tan buckram, t.e.g. (light rubbing, minor spotting to margins and lower cover). Note: compiled after Lady Clark's death by her friend Catherine Frere who arranged it from a mass of nearly 3000 manuscript pages from sixteen note-books. Lady Clark began her note-books in 1841 after her mother, Lady Coltman, had compiled one in 1839.

COOKERY. - [Christina Jane JOHNSTONE.] 'Mistress Margaret DODS'. The Cook and Housewife's Manual, a Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1847. Eighth edition, 8vo (164 x 101mm.) Several wood-engraved illustrations in the text, index to rear. (Toning, spotting to preliminaries, occasional pencil annotation.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, pictorial gilt to spine (rebacked with original spine laid-down, minor soiling to cloth). - And a further ten volumes related to cookery (including 'The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery' edited by Theodore Francis Garrett, [circa 1895], 2 vols., thick 4to, and M.A. Fairclough's 'The Ideal Cookery Book', [circa 1920], thick 8vo) (11).

COOKERY. - Ria SYSONBY. Lady Sysonby's Cook Book. London: Putnam, 1935. First edition, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) Colour plates after Oliver Messel. (Toning.) Original boards, dust-jacket (light rubbing to extremities, a scuff to spine panel, dust-jacket adhering to the covers). - And a further five related volumes (6).

GODWIN, Francis. [Annales of England: London: A. Islip & W. Stansby, 1630.] First edition, 4to (269 x 175mm.) Title in 19th century manuscript hand, in 3 parts. (Lacking title-page, lacking separate titles to each part, marginal insect-damage from X3-Ee2, browning, some marginal creasing). Near contemporary calf (wear to spine ends, loss to top of spine). Provenance: S. Bowler (ink inscribed to initial blank). [ESTC 11947.] - And a further two volumes (including a typescript of 'Memoranda of a Tour Through Part of France and Flanders in August 1815', 117pp., [circa mid-20th century]) (3).

SUSSEX. - The Duchess of CLEVELAND. The Battle Abbey Roll With Some Account of the Norman Lineages. London: John Murray, 1889. 3 vols., first edition, 4to (209 x 158mm.) Frontispiece, 1 folding genealogy. (Toning.) Original cream buckram (spotting to cloth), dust-jackets (creasing and loss to extremities). - And a further four volumes relating to Sussex (including Henry Cheal's 'The Ships and Mariners of Shoreham', [1909], 8vo) (7).

Bible, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early-19th century.] 160pp., manuscript, 8vo (212 x 150mm.) 10 quires of 81 vellum leaves with manuscript text in red and black, ink notes to first and last leaves. (Heavily browned, occasional soiling, marginal loss to several leaves, some pencil annotation.) Original wooden boards, string-bound (later string repair to boards), original goatskin case (browned), original goatskin pilgrim's satchel, with cord. - And a further two volumes in the Ge'ez script (another Bible, [mid-19th century], 8vo, and a prayer book [mid-19th century], 8vo) (3).

SUSSEX. - M.A. TIERNEY. The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel; including the Biography of its Earls. London: G. and W. Nicol, 1834. 2 vol., tall 8vo (239 x 146mm.) 8 engraved plates, 2 folding pedigrees. (Frontispieces laid-down, endpapers and blanks replaced.) Late 20th century black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines. - And a further fifteen miscellaneous volumes (including 'Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits; the People In Them and The Scenes Around Them' by 'A Traveller Underground',1854, 8vo, and the collected edition of 'The Writings of Douglas Jerrold', 8 vols.,1851) (17).

MILITARY. - H.W. GRAHAM. The Life of a Tunnelling Company, being an Intimate Story of the Life of the 185th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, in France, during the Great War, 1914-1918. Hexham: J. Catherall & Co., 1927. 8vo (207 x 134mm.) Numerous portrait illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, Royal Engineers insignia in gilt to upper cover (light rubbing to extremities). Note: scarce. - And a further three volumes relating to the Royal Engineers (including W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman's 'Tunnellers', 1936, 8vo and volume 5 of 'The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers', 1952, 8vo) (4).

[PICKETT, William. Twenty-Four Plates divided into ninety-six specimens of cottages, wind-mills, turnpikes… intended to facilitate the improvement of the student, and to aid the practitioner, in landscape composition. London: T. Clay, 1812.] Oblong folio (293 x 465mm.) 24 plates with tissue-guards. (Some browning and light marginal spotting to all plates, browning to tissue-guards, lacking title and dedication leaf.) Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later red morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to extremities).

ROSSETTI, William Michael (editor). Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism Papers 1854-1862. London: George Allen, 1899. Limited edition, this being number 22 of 250 copies, 4to (255 x 186mm.) 14 photogravure plates with tissue-guards. (Spotting to some plate margins, toning, browning to endpapers.) Original decorative cloth (slight lifting of the cloth on upper cover). - And a further four related volumes (including J.W. Mackail's 'The Life of William Morris', 1899, 2 vols., 8vo) (5).

BINDING. - John KEATS. The Poetical Works and Other Writings… edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. London: Reeves & Turner, 1889. 4 vols., third edition, 8vo (219 x 130mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard to volume 1, 8 plates, including a silhouette of Fanny Brawne, 2 folding facsimiles from Benjamin Robert Haydon's journal. (Mild toning, light browning to preliminaries.) Near contemporary maroon morocco bound by Henry Sotherans, elaborate gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (sunning to spines and to lower cover of volume 1). Provenance: Marcus Henry Milner (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (4).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, 1762. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman, double column, with Apocrypha, separate title for NT, with Index and tables to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting, tear to A2, some trimming.) [Bound with:] 'The Book of Common Prayer'. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, 1762. (Browning, damp-stain title.) [Bound with:] 'The Whole Book of Psalms'. London: Henry Woodfall, 1756. (Occasional spotting, ink-stain verso last leaf.) 4to (265 x 213mm.) Contemporary diced calf, black morocco lettering piece to spine (wear to spine ends, rubbing). Provenance: Marg (?) Aston (name inscribed to title-page of 'Common Prayer'. [Herbert 1143.] - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including 'The Holy Bible', 1844, 8vo) (9).

ECONOMICS. - David DAVIES. The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered in Three Parts. Bath: by R. Crutwell for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition, 4to (305 x 240mm.) Half-title, in 3 parts. (Spotting to front and rear blanks, occasionally within, marginal loss and tear to X3-X4, marginal tear to N3, lacking errata.) Contemporary boards (detached, worn). Note: an important and early work of sociological inquiry.

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written manuscript by the Earl of Panmoure relating to his estate, lineage and the early medieval history of the area. N.p: circa 1780's]. 108pp., manuscript, 4to (291 x 220mm.) Vellum leaves, red-ruled, titled 'The House of Panmoure', written in a neat hand without paragraphs or sectional titles. (Browning, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary calf, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: an account of the history and lineage of the House of Panmoure and the Moule family.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. - H.K. BROWNE, T. LANDSEER, J. LEECH (illustrators). The Favourite Picture-Book: A Gallery of Delights Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of the Young. London: Grant and Griffith, [1854.] First edition, 4to (299 x 238mm.) 29 single-sided linen-backed leaves of illustrations. (Lacking title, lacking 2pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear, browning, occasional spotting, spotting verso to linen.) Original pictorial wrappers (chipping, minor loss to corners). - And a further eight volumes of books for children (including Henrik Ibsen's 'Peter Gynt', 1936, 4to, and the Arthur Rackham illustrated 'The Compleat Angler' by Izaak Walton, 1931, 4to) (9).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - [A.H. FORRESTER.] 'Alfred Crowquill' (illustrator) and 'Krakemsides'. The Careless Chicken. London: Griffith & Farran, [circa 1853.] 4to (242 x 193mm.) Lithographed title, 14 colour illustrations by 'Crowquill', 2pp. publisher's advertisements bound-in at rear. (Front blank loosening, rear blank corner-clipped, toning, minor soiling, occasional spotting, inner hinge weakening.) Original pictorial boards (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Kate Marfill (name inscribed to the initial blank). - And a further eight volumes of children's books (including 'The Courtship, Marriage, Death and Burial of Cock Robin' illustrated by Henry Stannard, [circa 1870], 4to) (9).

HOWELL, William. The Elements of History, from the Creation of the World to the Reign of Constantin the Great… translated from the Latin. London: R. Wellington, 1700. 8vo (172 x 102mm.) 2pp. advertisement leaf. (Creasing and marginal loss to front blanks.) Near contemporary panelled calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some surface loss to upper cover). Provenance: Richard Byldens (name inscribed on initial blank). - And a further nine miscellaneous volumes (including Howard Staunton's edition of 'The Plays of Shakespeare', 3 vols., 1858, 4to) (10).

RABELAIS, Francois. - Thomas URQUHART and Peter ANTONY (translators). Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 178 of 210 copies, 4to (293 x 205mm.) 17 plates by Louis Chalon with tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original cloth (spines browned, soiling to covers, wear to spine ends). - And a further seven illustrated volumes (including Charles Dickens' 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist', illustrated by George Cruikshank with 24 steel-engraved plates tipped-in, [circa 1890], 4to) (9).