Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

[BRONTË, Charlotte.] ‘Currer Bell’. Jane Eyre: an Autobiography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1850. Fourth edition, 8vo (172 x 119mm.) (Toning, scattered mostly marginal spotting, spotting to blanks and margin of title, lacking 8pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear.) Contemporary half calf, green morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities rubbed). Note: first published in 3 volumes in 1847. Provenance: Edward W. Watkin, M.P. and railway entrepreneur (book-plate to front pastedown).

AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels… the text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1926. 5 vols., second edition, 8vo (194 x 131mm.) Plates. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (some sunning to spines, slight splitting to upper joint of vol. 5) (5).

RELIGION. The Primer; or, Office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a New and Approv’d Version of the Church-Hymns. [London:] T. Meighan, 1732. 12mo (158 x 93mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette, 4pp. ‘Table of Contents’ to rear, contemporary ink record of births and deaths to margins of first and last leaves. (Browning and damp-staining throughout, blanks replaced.) 19th century black straight-grain morocco (scuffed and rubbed). Provenance: Mary Thornton (contemporary ink name to title); Thomas Swinburne (book-plate to front pastedown). – And a further twenty-one volumes (including William Cobbett’s ‘The English Gardener’, 1829, 12mo, and Jehoshaphat Aspin’s ‘A Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports and Pastimes, of the Inhabitants of England’, 1825, 12mo, and [Daniel Defoe’s] ‘The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern’, [circa 1800], 8vo) (22).

BINDINGS. – John RUSKIN. Lectures on Architecture and Painting. London: George Allen, 1891. New edition, 8vo (178 x 113mm.) Illustrations. (Mild toning.) Contemporary full blue morocco, two brown morocco lettering pieces to the spine (extremities rubbed). – And a further eight volumes (including Henry van Dyke’s ‘The Story of the Other Wise Man’, bound by Bumpus, 1899, tall 8vo) (9).

RELIGION. A Book of the Valuations of all the Ecclesiasticall Preferments in England and Wales. [N.p.:] 1680. 12mo (149 x 81mm.) Title. (Light browning.) Near contemporary speckled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities heavily rubbed).          [ii, [4], 383, ii].

[GARNET, Richard.] The Book of Oath: And the fever all forms thereof, both Antient and Modern. Faithfully Collected out of sundry Authenticke Books and Record, not heretofore extant, compiled in one Volume. London: for W. Lee, M. Walbancke et al., 1649. First edition, 12mo (149 x 81mm.) Title, 10pp. ‘Table’. (Heavily browned, N8-N9 adhering, R2-R11 quire loose.) Near contemporary calf (rebacked, old tape repairs, extremities heavily rubbed). Provenance: Sutton Sharpe (bookplate to front pastedown).

CONYBEARE, W.D. and William PHILLIPS. Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales. London: William Phillips, 1822. First edition, 8vo (191 x 124mm.) 3 folding plates, including hand-coloured engraved geological map and a multi-folding hand-coloured map of geological sections, all bound at rear. (Toning, occasional light browning.) Contemporary full calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed, some loss to the lettering piece). Provenance: ‘Thornfaulcon’ (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown).

TRACTS. An Impartial Discussion of the Subject of Tithes: Containing a Parallel between the Tythes paid in England and those in Ireland. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1786. Title, 47pp. (Browning.) [Bound with:] An Address to the Nobility and Gentry of the Church of Ireland, as By Law Established. Dublin: Henry Watts, 1786. Title, 110pp. (Browning.) [Bound with:] Thoughts on the Present State of the College of Dublin; Addressed to the Gentlemen of the University. Dublin: 1782. Title, 50pp. (Browning.) [Bound with:] John TRUSLER. The Sublime Reader… With Remarks on the Service, and notes of General Use. London: for the Author, 1782. Title, 58pp. [1]. (Browning.) [Bound with:] Daniel THOMAS. Observations on the Pamphlets Published by The Bishop of Cloyne, Mr. Trant, and Theophilus, On One Side, and Those by Mr. O’ Leary, Mr. Barber, and Doctor Campbell, on the Other. Dublin: for the Author, 1787. Title, 81pp. (Browning, marginal hole to last leaf.) [Bound with:] Richard LANDAFF. A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1783. New edition. Title, 78pp. (Staining to title, browning.) [Bound with:] All’s Well: A Reply to the Author of the Alarm. Dublin: Bernard Dornin, 1783. Title, 28pp. (Browning, damp-staining.) [Bound with:] Remarks on a Letter Lately Published, Signed Arthur O’ Leary… An Address to the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of Ireland, By A Friend to Truth and the Publick. Title, 13pp. (Toning.) [Bound with:] Robert LAW. An Affectionate Address to the Parishioners of Saint Mary’s, Dublin. Concerning the Neglect of Worship. Dublin: Pat Higly, 1783. Title, 18pp. (Toning.) [Bound with:] William RICHARDSON. The Usefulness and Necessity of Revelation: In Four Sermons Preach’d at St. Olave, Southwark. London: W. Innys, 1730. Title, dedication, woodcut initials and decorations, 103pp., 1p. publisher’s advertisement. (Browning, occasional spotting.) [Bound with:] Richard CLOYNE. The Present State of the Church of Ireland. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1787. Sixth edition. Title, 123pp., 1p. ‘Index’ to rear. (Staining to title, browning.) [Bound with:] The Gentleman’s and London Magazine for January, 1790. [London:] January, 1790. Folding plate of ‘Political Parade’. (Browning.)  [Bound with:] The Gentleman’s and London Magazine for November, 1789. [London:] November, 1789. (Browning.) [Bound with:] Universal Magazine and Review; or, Repository of Literature. For January, 1789. [London:] January, 1789. Engraved plate. (Insect-damage to several leaves, browning.) 8vo (203 x 124mm.) Contemporary half calf, morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities rubbed, some loss to spine panel).

ELIZABETH I. [Certain Sermons of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches at the time of Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory and now Thought to be Reprinted by Authority from the King’s most Excellent Majesty.] London: John Norton for Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, 1635. Folio (257 x 177mm.) 2 Parts in 1, separate title for second part also dated 1635, black letter, engraved initials and head and tail-pieces, the 2pp. ‘A Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the Rebellion’ at rear of second part. (Large loss to first title, second title torn with minor loss to text, heavily browned and marginal spotting throughout, lacking a1, slight insect-damage from Aaa3-Ddd3.) Contemporary calf (tape repair to spine, pastedowns torn, worn).

MANUSCRIPT. – Edith and Isabella HORNE. Sketches in Normandy, Paris, & Fontainebleau. [N.p.: 15th July-14th August, 1892.] 118pp., manuscript, folio (358 x 269mm.) 2 titles in ink, one with mounted plant and grass specimens, 58 mostly watercolour and ink sketches of Northern France on 59 card leaves, 28 mounted photographs, and 16pp. of hand-written narrative of the journey bound-in, also a loosely inserted 28pp. hand-written description (‘Round about Brittany’, Aug 14th- Sept. 2nd 1895), by Isabella Horne.(Toning, three leaves loose.) Contemporary half maroon morocco-backed boards (extremities rubbed, boards faded). Note: also includes typed and hand-written information related to the sisters and their family.

WOOD-BLOCK. – Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI. [Moral Lessons Through Pictures of Good and Evil. Tokyo: Tsunashima Kamekichi, 1880.] Concertina-style panels (2357 x 173mm.) Title, 20 ukiyo-e wood-block panels showing 10 caricatured scenarios of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ in folding, concertina style, original card covers (toning). Note: each of the panels has within it little figures portraying ‘good’ souls (zendama) and ‘evil’ souls (akudama). – And a further Japanese wood-block book, [circa 1880, 9 complete panels only].

COMMONPLACE BOOK. [A manuscript commonplace book. N.p.:] 1792-1808. 176pp., manuscript, 8vo (198 x 161mm.) 172pp. of hand-written entries in a legible mostly single hand, 2 blank leaves, numerous poems including those by Samuel Rogers and 35pp. of John Longhorne’s poem ‘Owen of Carron’, and prose extracts such as John Carr’s ‘Stranger in Iceland’ and several Blair’s sermons, extracts from contemporary journals and magazines, numerous references to the ‘Gurney’ family, 2pp. incomplete ‘Index’ to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to upper cover (some wear to spine, discolouring). Note: Elizabeth, Catherine, John and Agatha Gurney are all referenced.

NAVAL. – Tyrrel E. BIDDLE. The Corinthian Yachtsman, or Hints on Yachting. London: Norie & Wilson, 1886. 8vo (223 x 134mm.) 2 plates, 4pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning, minor spotting to rear, illegible name to front pastedown.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (a few odd marks). – And a further eleven volumes related to sailing and naval history (including ‘Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade’, 1892, 8vo, and Lionel Yexley’s ‘The Inner Life of the Navy’, 1908, 8vo, and Edgar J. March’s ‘Sailing Trawlers’, 1953, 8vo, and his ‘Sailing Drifters’, 1952, 8vo, and F.G.D. Bedford’s ‘The Sailor’s Hand-Book’, 1890, 8vo) (12).

CHAPBOOKS. – J. DAVIS (publisher). [A numbered collection of 25 chapbooks published by J. Davis.] London: Knight and Bagster for J. Davis, [circa 1830.] 32mo (88 x 52mm.) Wood-engraved illustrations throughout, numbered title-page for each chapbook. (Browned to margins, lacking title and first two leaves to first chapbook.) Contemporary red morocco (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Note: includes: ‘A Pretty Picture Book’; ‘Dame Teachwell’s Pretty Book for Children’; ‘The Rose’; ‘A New Picture Book’; ‘Country Scenes’; ‘The Pleasing Instructor’; ‘Little Tom Tell-Truths Pretty Stories’; ‘The History of Sally Meanwell’; ‘The History of Fanny Thoughtless’; ‘The History of Dick Wildgoose’; ‘The Happy Girl or the History of Little Ann Goodchild’; ‘The History of Harry Heedless’; ‘Short Anecdotes and Useful Hints’; ‘The Shepherd Boy’; ‘A Father’s Pictures for Good and Little Boys & Girls’; ‘A Parent’s Stories for Good Children’; ‘The Four Seasons’; ‘The Lily, a Pretty Book’; ‘The Adventures of William Friendly’; ‘Jenny Peace and Nanny Fret’; ‘Tom Steady, a Pretty History for Good Children’. – And a further two volumes (‘The Female Instructor; or, Young Woman’s Companion’, [1811], 8vo, and J. Kincaid’s ‘Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815’, 1830, 8vo) (3).

TRAVEL. – George ANSON. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV… sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas. Compiled… by Richard Walter. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748. Third edition, 8vo (193 x 114mm.) Title, 3pp. dedication with advertisement verso, 4pp. ‘Contents’, 14pp. ‘Introduction’, 3 folding engraved charts in pocket to rear. (Light browning, occasional scattered spotting, damp-staining to first text leaves, frontispiece map in pocket to rear.) 20th century calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rear endpaper and pocket to rear replaced). Note: this edition published in the same year as the first. The folding ‘Chart Shewing The Track of the Centurion round the World’ shows California as an island. Provenance: Gerard J. Napier, R.N. (ink name inscribed to front pastedown, dated Dec. 1871). – And a further two volumes (including Austen H. Layard’s ‘Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon’, 1853, 8vo) (3). [Sabin 1646].

COMMON PRAYER, In English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, 1806. Title. (Crease and marginal spotting to title.) [Bound with:] A New Version of the Psalms of David. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1807. (Toning.) 4to (288 x 220mm.) Contemporary red morocco, g.e. (extremities rubbed, some fading and discolouring, minor scuffing). Provenance: Corporation of Bedford (gilt to upper cover). – And a further seven copies of this book (8).

DAWSON, Charles. History of Hastings Castle. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1909. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (282 x 186mm.) Half-titles, 16 plates. (Browning to endpapers, occasional scattered spotting.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to upper covers (lightly bumped extremities). Provenance: E. Reginald Taylor (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of… edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898. 8 vols., ‘The Henry Irving Shakespeare’, large 8vo (235 x 169mm.) Half-titles, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne. (Toning, occasional light scattered spotting.) Original calf-backed and green cloth boards, t.e.g. (spines rubbed and scuffed, especially vols. 4 and 8) (8).

[CROCE, Giulio Cesare.] Bertoldo Con Bertoldino e Cacasenno in Ottava Rima. Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1741. 3 vols., fifth edition, 12mo (163 x 84mm.) Engraved vignettes to three titles, 20 engraved plates. (Occasional light browning.) Near contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders, g.e. (extremities lightly rubbed). – And a further five volumes (including Guidubaldo Bonarelli’s ‘Filli di Sciro, Favola Pastorale’, 1772, small 4to, and Georges-Louis Le Rouge’s ‘Les Curiosités de Paris, Versailles, Marly, Vincennes, Saint Cloud, et des Environs, avec les Antiquités’, 2 vols., new edition, 1760, 8vo) (8).