Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

M’ALPINE, D. The Botanical Atlas, a Guide to the Practical Study of Plants. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1883. 2 vols., folio (353 x 276mm.) Numerous colour plates, tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt daisy to upper covers (some wear to spine ends, ink reference to base of spines). Provenance: Stirling Public Library (bookplates to pastedowns, stamps to titles). – And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including Roy Cross’ ‘Early Aeroplanes 1907-18’, 1962, oblong 4to, and ‘The Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain’, 1887, 4to, and ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’, 2 vols., 1908, folio, and ‘Journals of the House of Commons, from December the 3rd 1697… to October the 24th 1699’, vol. 12, folio, and ‘Notes by Mr. Ruskin on His Collection of Drawings by the late J.M.W. Turner R.A.’, 1878, 4to) (10).

BINDINGS. – Emile MICHEL. Rembrandt His Life, His Work, and his Time… translated from the French by Florence Simmonds. London: William Heinemann, 1895. 2 vols., large 8vo (296 x 210mm.) Numerous plates, illustrations in the text. (Occasional light, scattered spotting.) Contemporary half morocco, g.e. (scuffing, stained to lower cover). Provenance: John Thomas White (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further ten volumes (including Corrado Ricci’s ‘Antonio Allegri da Correggio, His Life, His Friends, and His Time’, 1897, large 8vo, and, edited by Lionel Cust, ‘The National Portrait Gallery’, vol. 1, limited edition of 750 copies only, 1901, large 8vo, and, edited by Edward J. Poynter, ‘The National Gallery’, 2 vols., limited edition of 1000 copies only, 1899, large 8vo) (11).

FOLIO SOCIETY. – Adam SMITH. The Wealth of Nations. London: The Folio Society, 2008. 3 vols., 8vo (286 x 187mm.) Original cloth, slipcase, shrink-wrap. – And a further three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Simon Armitage’s ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, 2008, 4to) (6).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Delia MILLAR. The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1995. 2 vols., large 8vo (298 x 221mm.) Colour illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jackets (nick to spine panel of vol. 2), slipcase (lower edge rubbed). – And a further thirty-four volumes of art and antique reference (including William Camden’s ‘Britannia 1695’, facsimile edition, 1971, folio, and ‘The Green Frog Service’, edited by Michael Raeburn, Ludmila Voronikhina and Andrew Nurnberg, 1995, large 8vo, and John Andrews and Derek Styles’ ‘Designer British Silver’, 2015, large 8vo) (36).

DECORATIVE CLOTH. – Charles A. PAYTON. Moss From a Rolling Stone; or, Moorish Wanderings and Rambling Reminiscences. London: ‘The Field’ Office, 1879. 8vo (193 x 124mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 6pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine (lightly rubbed). – And a further sixty-seven volumes in pictorial and decorative cloth (68).

THE STUDIO. – Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors). The Studio, an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. London: Offices of the Studio, May 1897-July 1902. 18 issues, 4to (298 x 215mm.) Plates and illustrations, many coloured or tinted by numerous artists. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original wrappers (chipping, wrappers detached for ‘April 1898’). – And a quantity of approximately sixty further volumes of ‘The Studio’, [1902-1925], 4to) (a quantity).

ART REFERENCE. – Susan WEBER (editor). Willim Kent:  Designing Georgian Britain. New York: Yale University Press, 2014. Large 8vo (310 x 243mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth-backed boards. – And a quantity of approximately sixty-five volumes relating to art reference (including Wanda Ryan-Smolin’s [editor] ‘Irish Women Artists’, 1987, 4to, and Matthew Gale and Chris Stephen’s ‘Barbara Hepworth’, 2008, 4to) (quantity).

VYNER, Robert T. Notitia Venatica, a Treatise on Fox-Hunting Embracing the General Management of Hounds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. New edition, 8vo (257 x 160mm.) 12 hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken, tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Brown half morocco over pebbled cloth, gilt vignettes to spine, t.e.g. (inner hinge slightly weakened, lightly rubbed, minor scuffing). – And a further twelve volumes (including John Evelyn’s ‘Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees’, 1729, folio, and ‘The Works of Robert Burns’, 2 vols., 1858, 8vo, and Peter Nicholson’s ‘The New Practical Builder, and Workman’s Companion’, 1823, 8vo) (13).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Graham CHILD. World Mirrors 1650-1900. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1990. Signed by the author, large 8vo (280 x 237mm.) Photographic illustrations, bookplate to front endpaper. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (lightly rubbed). – And a further forty-one volumes relating to art and antique reference (including George Daniels ‘Watchmaking’, 1981, large 8vo, and ‘Stuart Devlin, Designer, Goldsmith, Silversmith’, 2018, large 8vo) (42).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Amin JAFFER. Furniture from British India and Ceylon. New Delhi: Timeless Books, 2001. First edition, large 8vo (278 x 240mm.) Photographic illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (lightly rubbed). – And a further fifty volumes, mainly related to furniture (including Adam Bowett’s ‘Woods in British Furniture-Making 1400-1900’, 2012, large 8vo, and two copies of Christopher Gilbert’s ‘Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall’, 2 vols., 1978, large 8vo) (51).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Wendy BARON. The Camden Town Group. London: Scolar Press, 1979. First edition, large 8vo (280 x 217mm.) Illustrations. (Toning.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further sixty-three volumes of art and antique reference (including Edward H. Pinto’s ‘Treen and Other Wooden Bygones’, 1985, 8vo, and Marcia Pointon’s ‘Hanging the Head’, 1993, 8vo) (64).

ART REFERENCE. – Caroline CAMPBELL, Dagmar KORBACHER et al. Mantegna & Bellini. London: National Gallery Company, 2018. Large 8vo (278 x 235mm.) Colour illustrations. Original blue boards, dust-jacket. – And a further thirty-six volumes of art reference (including Gary Schwartz’s ‘Rembrandt, all the Etchings Reproduced in True Size’, 1977, 4to, and James Fenton’s ‘School of Genius’, 2006, 8vo, and Graham Reynold’s ‘Catalogue of the Constable Collection’, 1973, 8vo) (37).

ADVERTISING. – F.A. MERCER and W. GAUNT (editors). Modern Publicity. London: Studio Publications, 1927-1966. 27 issues in 20 vols., 4to (289 x 203mm.) Numerous colour illustrations and tipped-in plates. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original cloth (wear to spine ends, fading, some spotting to covers). Note: the 1927-1929 issues were called ‘Posters & Publicity’ before changing to ‘Modern Publicity’ in 1930. This run lacks issues for the years 1931-32, 1935-36, 1944-48, 1957-58 and 1961. – And a further eleven related volumes (‘Graphis Annual’, 1952-1968, 11 vols., 4to) (31).

BOOKBINDING. – Marianne TIDCOMBE. Women Bookbinders 1880-1920. London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 1996. First edition, 4to (244 x 171mm.) Colour illustrations. Original green cloth-backed paper-covered boards. – And a small quantity of approximately twenty-six volumes related to bookbinding (including John Mitchell’s ‘A Craftsman’s Guide to Edge Decoration’, signed by the author, 1993, 4to, and Bernard C. Middleton’s ‘A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique’, 1978, 8vo, and P.J.M. Marks’ ‘Beautiful Bookbindings’, 2011, 4to, and 6 issues of ‘The Bookbinder’, 2016-2021, and 18 issues of ‘The Society of Bookbinders Newsletter’, 2016-2021) (small quantity).

MOTOR-RACING. – Maurice HAMILTON and Alan HENRY (editors). Autocourse. London and Surrey: Osprey Publishing and Hazleton Publishing, 1984-1999. 15 vols., 4to (311 x 227mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jackets (some creasing to spine ends) (15).