Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MINIATURE BOOK. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newbery, 1780. 64mo (38 x 26mm.) 2 engraved titles, 14 engraved plates. (Toning, occasional corner crease.) Later black morocco, g.e. Provenance: S.J. Ollivant (ink name to initial blank).

MINIATURE BOOK. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newbery, 1780. 64mo (38 x 26mm.) 2 engraved titles, 13 engraved plates. (Toning, lacking 1 plate, a marginal cut to leaf F4.) Later black morocco, g.e. (minor mark to upper cover). Provenance: Thomas Ollivant (ink inscribed to on initial blank).

LIQUOR. – William TERRINGTON. Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. First edition, 8vo (160 x 97mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt (extremities rubbed, marks and minor staining, inner hinge slightly weakened). Note: an early cocktail book. Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown).

COOKERY. – [Maria Eliza RUNDELL.] A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families. By a Lady. London: George Ramsay for John Murray, 1811. New edition, corrected, 12mo (161 x 85mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved plates, 6pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Occasional browning and light spotting, plates trimmed, marginal fingermarks.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities rubbed, heavily to covers). Note: first published in 1806. Provenance: J. Briggs (ink name inscribed to initial blank); Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further three related volumes (Michael Donovan’s ‘Domestic Economy’, 2 vols., 1830, 8vo, and Charles Elmé Francatelli’s ‘The Cook’s Guide… A Practical Treatise on English and Foreign Cookery in All Its Branches, 1880, 8vo) (4).

WINE. – [William ELLIS.] The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors, as practiced both in Town and Country… in Three Parts. To Which is added A Supplement. London: Thomas Astley, 1742. Fourth edition, 8vo (198 x 120mm.) 3 parts and ‘A Supplement’, separate titles to each part, continuous register and pagination, 4pp. ‘Index’ and 16pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning, moderate spotting throughout, some leaves heavily, corner creases to several leaves.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original lettering piece retained, covers and extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: parts 2-3 and the ‘Supplement’ are second editions and dated 1743. Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further seven volumes relating to wine and brewing (including a first edition of William Robert Loftus’s ‘The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing’, 1856, 12mo, and a third edition of Thomas A. Knight’s ‘A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry’, 1809, 12mo, and Joseph J. White’s ‘Cranberry Culture’, 1870, 8vo) (8).

COOKERY. – Charlotte MASON. The Ladies’ Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table, Being a Complete System of Cookery, &c. London: J. Walter, 1786. Fifth edition, 8vo (197 x 124mm.) Half-title, 19pp. index, 1p. publisher’s advertisement verso last leaf. (Browning, occasional spotting, illegible names to preliminary  es, crease to rear blank.) Near contemporary half morocco (rebacked, extremities heavily rubbed).

COOKERY. – Francis COLLINGWOOD and John WOOLLAMS. The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. London: R. Noble, 1792. First edition, 8vo (213 x 124mm.) Half-title, 12 engraved plates of ‘Bills of Fare’, 1 engraved plate of carving, 5pp. of contemporary manuscript recipes to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and to plates and rear leaves, lacking frontispiece.) Near contemporary half morocco, red lettering piece to spine (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). [Bitting pp.94-95.]

COOKERY. – J.S. FORSYTH. A Dictionary of Diet; Being a Practical Treatise on All Pabulary and Nutritive Substances… With Their Compounds Used as Food. London: John Churchill, 1834. Second edition, 12mo (189 x 119mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of John Abernethy, double-column text. (Corner damp-stain and spotting to frontispiece, toning, lacking rear blank.) 20th century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced).

FOOD & WINE. – J.L.W. THUDICHUM. A Treatise on Wines, Their Origin Nature and Varieties with Practical Directions for Viticulture and Vinification. London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. 8vo (187 x 123mm.) Illustrations in the text. (Toning, spotting to pastedowns.) Original cloth, foliate gilt to spine, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed, slight loss to top of spine panel). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further eleven related volumes (including Lizzie Heritage’s ‘New Universal Cookery Book’, 1894, 8vo, and Mary Eaton’s ‘The Cook and Housekeepers Complete and Universal Dictionary’, 1823, 8vo, and George Augusta Sala’s ‘The Thorough Good Cook’, 1896, 8vo) (12).

WILLIAMSON, George C. The History of Portrait Miniatures. London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. 2 vols., being one of 520 copies only, folio (384 x 276mm.) Half-titles, titles in red and black, photogravure frontispiece to volume 1, numerous plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, minor soiling to initial blank of volume 1.) Original cloth, t.e.g. (spotting to covers of volume 1, fingermarks to all covers, lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further five volumes related to miniature art (including J.L. Propert’s ‘A History of Miniature Art’, 1887, 4to) (7).

DEVON. – Eric HEMERY. High Dartmoor. London: Robert Hale, 1983. First edition, signed by Eric Hemery to the title-page, 8vo (234 x 149mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth (slight fading to spine), slipcase.

HOOKER, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. Eight Books. London: printed for Andrew Crooke, 1666. 4to (338 x 220mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, pagination erratic, as often. (Some damp-staining to margins, occasional minor soiling, blanks replaced.) Contemporary calf (extremities rubbed, re-cornered, endpapers laid-down). Provenance: Richard Meadowcroft-Fletcher (ink name inscribed to front pastedown); John Meadowcroft (ink name inscribed verso the frontispiece); Sarah Meadowcroft (ink name inscribed to rear blank).

WORSLEY, Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A. Hamilton, 1781. First edition, 4to (307 x 229mm.) Large folding engraved map of Isle of Wight by John Haywood with partial outline hand-colouring, 31 engraved plates, including 12 double-paged, several engraved illustrations in the text. (One plate with marginal tear, paper repair verso the map, remains of bookplate to front pastedown.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed).

WALLER, Edmund. The Works… in Verse and Prose. London: Mr. Fenton, 1729. 4to (289 x 224mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece by Vertu after Kneller, engraved initials and headpieces, 3 plates. (Browning, mark to title-page, postcard of Waller’s grave mounted verso front-free endpaper). Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down). Provenance: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton (name inscribed to title-page); Edward Taylor Massy, Cottesmore (bookplate to front pastedown).

BROWNE, Alexander. Ars Pictoria: Or an Academy Treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching. London: J. Redmayne, 1669. Folio (311 x 196mm.) Title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 28 engraved plates mostly after Arnold de Jode, extra-illustrated with 17 engraved plates mounted verso original plates. (Lacking 2 original plates, frontispiece with marginal loss, leaves before A1 detached and twenty plates to rear loose, some with loss to margins.) Disbound. Note: Alexander Browne was a versatile figure in the London art world of the late 17th century. He was a printmaker, an auctioneer, a dealer, an artist and art tutor, and he also played a role in the commercial development of the mezzotint in London. [Wing 5097.] – And a further two volumes (including George Brown’s ‘Arithmetica Infinita, or The Accurate Accountant’s Best Companion’, 1717-1718, oblong 32mo) (3).

TRADE CATALOGUE. The Morris Westminster Guild. Rochester Row, London: Morris House, [circa 1930.] 4to (286 x 166mm.) Numerous black and white and colour plates of architectural iron-work and stained glass mounted on grey card, captioned in black. (Company stamp to every leaf.) Original pictorial grey cloth, string-bound (‘The Morris-Singer Compy’ in blue crayon to upper cover). Note: William Morris & Company was established in 1899 by a man called William Morris. The company changed its name in 1920 to ‘William Morris & Company (Westminster)’ and then to ‘Morris Westminster Guild’ by 1930. It’s believed the company derived commercial benefit from having the same name as the writer and textile designer. – And a further fourteen volumes (including Francis H. Low’s ‘Queen Victoria’s Dolls’, 1894, 4to) (15).

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. Oxford: University Printers, 1701. Folio (462 x 288mm.) 2 additional engraved titles, one dated 1702, the other by Michael Burghers, includes ‘Apocrypha’ and ‘Index’, separate letterpress title for NT dated 1701. (Browning, minor marginal damp-staining, paper repair to last leaf, marginal chipping to preliminaries.) Contemporary panelled calf, bronze corner-pieces (lower cover weakened, old repair to spine). Provenance: ‘Bray’ family (genealogy in manuscript verso first additional title).    [Herbert 867.]

BLACKIE, W.G. The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography. London: Blackie and Son, 1860. Folio (373 x 310mm.) 100 maps hand-coloured in outline on 78 double-pages mounted on stubs. (Some browning to first maps, spotting to ‘The Pacific Ocean’, several maps with short tears along fold, ‘Africa’ with longer tear.) Contemporary half calf (spine lacking, boards detached).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements… by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. and J. Churchill, 1695. Folio (397 x 234mm.) 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 8 engraved plates of coins, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text, including ‘Stonehenge’, index and appendix to rear. (Title, dedication and 2 leaves of ‘Preface’ supplied in facsimile, engraved portrait and a2-b1-b2 with paper repair along the fore-edge margin, minor spotting to ‘Lincolnshire’ and ‘North Riding of Yorkshire’, minor marginal chipping to a few maps.) Late 20th century brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced).