Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

VOGUE. [An incomplete run of Vogue Magazine. London:] Conde Nast Publications Ltd., January 1952-December 1975. 246 issues in 40 vols., 4to (280 x 218mm.) Photographic illustrations, advertisements. Original wrappers (occasional creasing, small stamps to most upper wrappers), contemporary green cloth, gilt reference to spine. Note: lacking 42 issues, being July-Dec 1954, 1967-1968 and 1972. Provenance: Brighton Reference Library (labels to front pastedowns) (40).

VOGUE. [An incomplete run of Vogue Magazine. London:] Conde Nast, January 2007-March 2025. 200 issues, 4to (283 x 219mm.) Photographic illustrations, advertisements. Original wrappers (most with ‘Reference’ label to upper wrapper, occasional creasing). Note: lacking 19 issues (200).

BYZANTINE EMPIRE. – Leslie BRUBAKER and Mary B. CUNNINGHAM (editors). The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. 8vo (243 x 166mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further twenty-seven volumes mostly relating to Byzantine art and culture (including Maja Kominko’s ‘The World of Kosmas’, 2013, 8vo, and Paroma Chatterjee’s ‘The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy’, 2014, 8vo) (28).

PIPER, John. – S. John WOODS (editor). John Piper. Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954. New York: Curt Valentin, 1955. First edition, 4to (313 x 245mm.) Aquatint frontispiece, numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth. – And a further forty-four volumes, all related to John Piper (including George Sitwell’s ‘On the Making of Gardens’, 1949, 8vo, and William Wordsworth’s ‘A Guide Through the District of the Lakes’, illustrated by John Piper, 1951, 8vo, and June Osborne’s ‘John Piper and Stained Glass’, 1997, 8vo) (45).

ART REFERENCE. – Peter DARVALL. A Regency Buck: Adam Buck (1759-1833). Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2015. 4to (278 x 217mm.) Illustrations. Original card covers. – And a further forty-six volumes, mostly art reference (including Benjamin Binstock’s ‘Vermeer’s Family Secrets’, 2009, 8vo, and Knut Nicolaus’ ‘The Restoration of Paintings’, 1999, 4to) (47).

PHOTOGRAPHY. – Don MCCULLIN. Shaped By War. London: Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition, first impression, 4to (318 x 245mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (slight creasing at top of spine). – And a quantity of approximately eighty volumes related mostly to photography (including ‘Commonsensual: The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg’, 2009, oblong 4to, and Jerry Uelsmann’s ‘Other Realities’, 2007, 4to, and Philip Garner’s ‘A Seaside Album’, 2003, 4to, and Martin Parr’s ‘The Last Resort’, 2010, oblong 4to, and also Parr’s ‘Think of England’, 2004, 8vo) (a quantity).

ARCHITECTURE & ART REFERENCE. – Marie-Noël de GARY. The Camondo Legacy, the Passions of a Paris Collector. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. First edition, 4to (278 x 205mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original white cloth, dust-jacket (inner flaps adhering to pastedowns). – And a further forty-four volumes relating to art and architecture (including Adele Re Rebaudengo’s ‘Historic Houses of the Nobility in Piedmont’, 2005, 4to, and John Goodall’s ‘The English Castle’, 2011, 4to) (45).

SADIE, Stanley (editor). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Oxford: Grove, 2001. 29 vols., second edition, 8vo (252 x 185mm.) Illustrations. (Labels to preliminaries.) Original blue and black cloth (reference labels to spines). Note: this is the second edition of the 1980 ‘The New Grove Dictionary…’. The first edition of the original dictionary, edited by George Grove, was published in 1878. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedowns) (29).

SUSSEX. – Albany WALLACE. Iphiginia. An Epic Drama. In Five Acts. (From Racine’s French, turned into English rhyme). Worthing: Printed by the Author, at his private Press, 1861. 8vo (202 x 131mm.) Title. (Lacking blanks, three marginal stamps to text leaves, stamps to title and verso.) Original decorated cloth (stamps and labels to pastedowns, reference label to spine). Note: rare. Only one copy recorded in JISC/Copac. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown). – And a further eight literary volumes related to Sussex (including Mary Lloyd’s ‘Brighton. A Poem. Descriptive of the Place and Parts adjacent’, 1809, 12mo, and ‘The Holy Sonnets of John Donne’, illustrated by Eric Gill, a signed limited edition of 550 copies, 1938, 4to, and John Byrom’s ‘Careless Content’, 1932, 8vo, and ‘Another Petworth Bunch of Violets Choice, gathered for Christmas 1937’, 1937, small 4to) (9).

SUSSEX. – D. JACQUES. A Visit to Goodwood, near Chichester, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Chichester: by the Author, and Messrs. Lackington, Hughes & Co., 1822. 8vo (226 x 133mm.) 3 engraved plates. (Browning to title and margins chipped, light browning throughout, lacking ‘Subscribers’ List’, blanks replaced.) Later blue cloth (endpaper replaced, joints rubbed, paper label to spine). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (label to front pastedown, stamps verso title). – And a further seven volumes related to Sussex (including [Gideon Mantell’s] ‘Thoughts on a Pebble, or a First Lesson in Geology’, 1849, 12mo, and E. Hinton’s ‘Stenography; or, an Easy System of Short Hand’, 1826, 8vo, and two copies of [Howard Dudley’s] ‘The History and Antiquities of Horsham’, 1836, 12mo) (8).

[CROMWELL, Thomas Kitson.] Excursions in the County of Kent. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme etc., 1822. 8vo (156 x 90mm.) Additional engraved title, 2 engraved folding maps, 45 engraved views. (Occasional light browning and marginal spotting to plates.) Near contemporary blue full diced morocco, gilt borders. – And a further eleven topographical volumes (including W. Hutton’s ‘A History of Birmingham’, 1809, 8vo, and Alice Balfour’s ‘Twelve Hundred Miles in a Wagon’, 1896, 8vo, and ‘Leigh’s New Pocket Road-Book of England, Wales, and Part of Scotland’, 1826, 12mo, and Henry Besley’s (publisher) ‘The Route Book of Devon’, [circa 1850], 12mo) (12).

BINDING. The Ballad Book… Edited by William Allingham. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 8vo (151 x 92mm.) (Mild toning.) Mid-twentieth century green full morocco, triple gilt borders, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spine, g.e. – And a further seven volumes (including Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham’, 1915, 4to, and a first impression of A.A. Milne’s ‘The House at Pooh Corner’, 1928, 8vo) (8).

BINDINGS. – William SHAKESPEARE. Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems. London: Whittaker and Co., 1858. 6 vols., 8vo (214 x 131mm.) (Toning.) Contemporary full tree calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor rubbing to extremities, upper joint of vol. 5 splitting, tape reinforcement to some hinges) (6).

CICERO. De Officiis. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. 4to (214 x 164mm.) Half-title, title in red. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary full morocco in Arts and Craft style, gilt borders, g.e. (spine sunned, minor scratches).

COOKERY. – X. Marcel BOULESTIN. Having Crossed the Channel… London: Heinemann Ltd., 1934. First edition, 8vo (183 x 114mm.) Colour frontispiece, illustrations by J.E. Laboureur, errata leaf. (Mild toning, pencil notes to rear endpaper.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (chipping and creasing to spine ends). Note: Boulestin popularised French cookery for English audiences and was an influence on Elizabeth David. – And a further eleven books relating to cookery (including a first printing of Boulestin’s ‘What Shall We Have To-day?’, 1931, 8vo and R.E. Anderson’s ‘Gastronomy As a Fine Art, or, The Science of Good Living’, 1877, 8vo, and Edouard de Pomiane’s ‘Good Fare, A Code of Cookery’, 1932, 8vo) (12).

COOKERY. – Irma S. ROMBAUER. The Joy of Cooking. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. First trade edition, 8vo (230 x 152mm.) Illustrations by Marion Rombauer Becker, ‘Index’. (Toning.) Original blue and white plaid cloth (wear to spine ends, hinges weakened). Note: possibly the most successful American Cookbook. Rombauer originally published the book privately in 1931, a year after the suicide of her husband. Edgar Rombauer took his life three months after the stock market crash tiggered the Great Depression. Although not known as an especially good cook, Irma decided to support herself by writing a cookbook. It wasn’t so much the recipes that proved so winning but rather the ‘casual culinary chat’ of the title that buyers responded to. Her text is peppered with stories about herself, her family, and friendly advice. It sold over 18 million copies. Provenance: Berta Trywick(?) (ink name to front-free endpaper, dated 1938).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator) and J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912.] 8vo (203 x 147mm) 24 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Moderate spotting throughout text, 2 plates loose, gift-plate mounted verso ‘Illustrations’ leaf.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (spine ends rubbed). – And a further four volumes (including, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland… with a Proem by Austin Dobson’, [1907], [13 colour plates], first trade edition, 8vo, and Eden Phillpott’s ‘A Dish of Apples’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1921], 8vo) (5).

BEER. – W.T. MARCHANT. In Praise of Ale or Songs, Ballads, Epigrams, & Anecdotes Relating to Beer, Malt, and Hops. London: George Redway, 1888. First edition, 8vo (191 x 123mm.) Half-title. (Toning, illegible name to half-title.) Original brown cloth (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Mervyn Cutten (embossed stamp to preliminaries). – And a related volume (Andrew Steinmetz’s ‘The Smoker’s Guide, Philosopher and Friend’, 1877, 16mo) (2).

NOYES, Alfred. The Loom of Years. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, signed with dedication poem in manuscript, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) 9-line verse dedication in manuscript from Alfred Noyes to John Mavrogordato to the front-free endpaper, additionally loosely inserted a 1p. draft in manuscript of the poem, dated 1902. (Spotting and browning to pastedowns.) Original vellum-backed boards (spotting to vellum, dust-soiling to boards). – And a further two volumes by Alfred Noyes, both signed (‘The Flower of Old Japan’, 1903, 8vo, and ‘Poems’, 1906, 8vo), and a small quantity of ephemera related to Alfred Noyes. Note: the ephemera includes 3 typed and signed letters from Noyes to John Mavrogordato and written in 1954 from his home on the Isle of Wight. Mavrogordato was Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford when the men met in 1951. After the death of his first wife, Noyes married Mary Angela née Mayne, the widow of Richard Shireburn Weld-Blundell, who was from an old recusant Catholic family. Noyes had himself converted to the catholic faith of Mary Angela and had written about his conversion in ‘The Unknown God’, 1934. This book had been called ‘the spiritual biography of a generation’. For this reason, in one of the typed letters, Noyes writes about having received a letter from ‘a Mr A.W. Ashby… asking if I can give any information about one of the catholic recusants’, suggesting he was thought of as an authority on this. Also includes an invitation to a dinner at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate Noyes’ 70th birthday, and the menu of that dinner. Provenance: John Nicholas Mavrogordato (inscribed to from the author) (3).