Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

LYNN, Thomas. Nautical and Astronomical Tables… for Facilitating Operations in Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. London: for the Author, inscribed by the author on the initial blank, 8vo (241 x 149mm.) 2 engraved plates. (Toning, marginal loss to preliminaries.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, blind-stamped and gilt dentelle borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: Charles Forbes Bartholomew (ink inscribed to from the author on initial blank).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongue And with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill and Robert Barker, 1619-1620. Black letter, double-column, NT published by Robert Barker and dated 1620, OT and NT titles with woodcut borders around heart-shaped centres, with John Speed’s ‘Genealogies’ and the ‘Adam and Eve’ woodcut, head and tail-piece decorations, with ‘Apocrypha’. (Occasional spotting, leaf E6 torn with large loss, browning, occasional dust-soiling, NT title laid-down on marbled paper.) [Bound with:] Two Right and Profitable and Fruitful Concordances. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619. (Browning, occasional spotting.) 4to (212 x 152mm.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (upper cover detached, heavily rubbed). Provenance: John Mills (bookplate to front pastedown). [Herbert 365].

TRADE CATALOGUES. – MILLER & RICHARD. Specimens of Book Newspaper Jobbing and Ornamental Types. Edinburgh and London: Miller and Richard, [1876.] 8vo (219 x 131mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations in the text. (Damp-stain to title, some quires loose, toning.) Original green cloth, gilt logo to upper cover (covers weakened). – And a further trade catalogue (‘Carron Company, Carron Stirlingshire’, [1931], oblong folio, and five miscellaneous volumes (7).

ETCHINGS. – George CUMBERLAND Jnr. [Views in Spain and Portugal, Taken During the Campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington. N.p.: circa 1818.] Limited edition, one of only 30 copies, oblong 4to (256 x 373mm.) 10 soft-ground captioned etched plates of views in Spain and Portugal on Whatman Paper. (Lacking title and 2 plates, a soft crease to middle of all plates, occasional finger-mark or minor soiling to margins.) Original card wrappers (stain to upper cover and a crease, chipped to extremities and upper cover loosening). Note: very rare. Dated to the paper’s water-mark, 1818. George Cumberland Jnr. was the son of the painter George Cumberland. Like his father and William Blake- with whom he was close friends- George was interested in experimental print-making. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816-18. Prior to this, he followed Wellington’s troops in Spain and Portugal at the time of the Peninsular War. Cumberland drew 12 views and he first published them [circa 1818] in a series of 30 copies, of which this is one. There’s a copy in the British Library and one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. In 1823, he reworked these images, added a further seven, and William Nicol published them in an edition of 100.

CRUIKSHANK, Percy. Sunday Scenes in London and Its Suburbs. London: Published by the Artist, 1854. 8vo (236 x 174mm.) 11 chalk lithographed plates, including 8 folding. (Marginal spotting and browning, 1 folding plate detached, 1 folding plate missing half and another folding plate in two pieces, tape repair verso 1 plate, lacking 1 plate.) Near contemporary calf-backed green cloth (minor marks to lower cover). Note: scarce. Provenance: Manson M. Beeton (bookplate to front pastedown).

CHILDREN’S BOOK. – Thomas ECKERSLEY (illustrator) and E.A. CABRELLY. Animals on Parade. London: Conrad Press Ltd., [1948.] First edition, inscribed by the author, 4to (278 x 226mm.) 16 full-page illustrations. (Mild toning, text-block loosening.) Original tan cloth, dust-jacket (minor chipping at top of spine panel, toned). Note: scarce. – And a further two volumes (including Luciana Roselli’s ‘The Polka Dot Child’, 1964, 4to) (3).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (249 x 182mm.) 40 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light spotting to endpapers and half-title, toning.) Original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities, minor mark to upper cover). – And a further four illustrated volumes (including William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s ‘Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems’, 1863, 4to, and Charles Johnson’s ‘A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates’, 1926, 8vo) (5).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). – Edward FITZGERALD (translator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. but 1909]. Printed from the second edition, 4to (277 x 209mm.) 20 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original cream buckram, gilt decoration to upper cover (slight browning to boards, minor mark to lower cover). – And a further two illustrated volumes (another copy of Edward Fitzgerald’s ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ illustrated by Edmund Dulac, [1909], 4to, and J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’, [1921], 4to) (3).

STONHAM, Charles. The Birds of the British Islands… Illustrated by Lilian M. Medland. London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. 5 vols., 4to (318 x 253mm.) Half-titles, titles in red and black, 2 folding colour maps in vol. 1, 2 key plates, 318 lithographed plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Browning to preliminaries, moderate spotting to text leaves throughout.) Original publisher’s vellum-backed blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper covers and spines, t.e.g. (spotting to covers of vols. 2 and 3, toning, occasional minor marks, fading to cloth) (5).

BRANGWYN, Frank. – Herbert FURST. The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn. London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1924. Limited edition, being one of 120 copies only, this one signed ‘complimentary’, 4to (316 x 230mm.) Self-portrait woodcut signed in pencil by Brangwyn, numerous colour plates, uncoloured illustrations in the text. (Toning, offsetting to title.) Original cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, t.e.g. (upper cover loosened, minor marks to lower cover, toned to spine).

BRANGWYN, Frank (illustrator). Eothen: or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by A.W. Kinglake. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1913. Limited edition, this being number 8 of 100 copies signed by Frank Brangwyn, 4to (287 x 224mm.) 12 mounted colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, introduction by S.L. Bensusan. (Toning.) Original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. (fading to spine lettering, top of spine bumped). – And a further ten volumes, eight relating to Frank Brangwyn (including C. Fox Smith’s ‘Here and There in England With the Painter Brangwyn’, 1945, 4to, and ‘Bookplates by Frank Brangwyn R.A.’, [1920], 4to) (11).

ARNOUX, Guy (illustrator). – René KERDYK. Les Femmes de ce Temps. Paris: Chez Devambez, [1920.] Limited edition, this being number 123 of 500 copies only, 4to (316 x 242mm.) 10 colour plates by Guy Arnoux with pochoir hand-colouring. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards showing a woman with flapper hair-style (browning, lightly rubbed).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). Contes et Légendes des Nations Alliées. Paris: L’ Édition D’ Art, H. Piazza, 1917. Limited edition, this being number 298 of 1000 copies signed by Edmund Dulac, 4to (299 x 231mm.) 15 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original card covers (small splits to upper joints).

PHOTO-BOOK. – Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] Limited edition, this being one of 350 deluxe copies, 4to (280 x 216mm.) 10 tipped-in silver bromide prints on black card, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations in the text, advertisements and ‘List of Subscribers’ to rear. (Toning, several bromide prints with small corner creases, slight marginal spotting to black card and a few colour plates.) Original red morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (staining to lower cover and spine). Note: Simmons was a lecturer at the National Bakery School in London and he commissioned the full-size photographs that appear in this work. As he wrote: ‘However critical readers may be they will be forced to admit that never before have they seen such a complete collection of prize loaves illustrated in such an excellent manner’.

COOKERY. – T. Percy LEWIS and A.G. BROMLEY. The Book of Cakes. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] First edition, 4to (284 x 223mm.) Half-title, 48 chromolithographed plates, several heightened in silver or gold, advertisements to rear. (Toning, browning to half-title.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (rebacked with original spine laid-down, spine darkened, extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown).

PHOTO-BOOK. – Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] First edition, 4to (282 x 219mm.) 2 tipped-in silver bromide prints on black card, 8 tipped-in black and white prints, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, advertisements and index to rear. (Offsetting from silver bromide prints, toning, small corner creases to first two black and white prints.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (extremities lightly rubbed, minor scuffing). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). Note: Simmons was a lecturer at the National Bakery School in London and he commissioned the full-size photographs that appear in this work. As he wrote: ‘However critical readers may be they will be forced to admit that never before have they seen such a complete collection of prize loaves illustrated in such an excellent manner’.

TYNDALE, Walter. An Artist in Italy. [London:] Hodder and Stoughton, [1913.] Limited edition, this being number 18 of 250 copies signed by Walter Tyndale, folio (283 x 217mm.) 26 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original full vellum, decorative gilt to covers and spine, t.e.g., original ties. – And a further two illustrated volumes (including No. 31 of ‘Modern Masters of Etching, C.R.W. Nevinson’, 1932, oblong 4to) (3).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales… retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910.] 4to (275 x 215mm.) 30 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. (Mild toning, light spotting to half-title.) Original russet cloth, gilt decorated. Provenance: Mildred M. Bullisant (ink name inscribed to half-title). – And a further ten illustrated volumes (including ‘Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book’, 1916, 4to, and ‘Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures’, [1913], 4to, and Edward Fitzgerald’s version of ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ illustrated by Adelaide Hanscom, 1908, 4to, and Waring and Gillow’s ‘The Artistic Evolution of the English Home’, [circa 1900], 4to, and Frideswith Huddart’s ‘The Hounds of Heaven’, 1914, 4to) (11).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). – Léonard ROSENTHAL. The Kingdom of the Pearl. London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., [1920.] Limited edition, this being number 79 of 675 copies, 4to (288 x 227mm.) 10 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, occasional mild spotting.) Original white cloth-backed boards printed in silver, paper label mounted to upper cover, t.e.g. (toning to label).