Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BINDING. – Pierre de NOLHAC. Louis XV et Madame de Pompadour. Paris: Goupil & Cie., 1903. Limited edition, this being one of 100 copies on Japon, 4to (311 x 238mm.) Hand-coloured frontispiece, plates in 2 states, sepia and black and white, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. (Toned, marginal damp-staining to frontispiece.) Publisher’s blue crushed morocco with Louis XV’s coat-of-arms in the centre with elaborate lace border, gilt by Durvand, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (toning to upper cover).

THEOLOGY. – Richard HOOKER. The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker… Vindicating the Church of England. London: by J. Best for Andrew Cook, 1662. First edition, 4to (284 x 183mm.) Additional engraved title dated 1661, engraved portrait, woodcut initials and decorations, 8pp. ‘Table’ to rear. (Marginal insect damage from Kk1-Mm1, losses to rear blank, additional title and portrait laid-down with marginal losses.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, some insect-damage, calf lifting from upper board). Provenance: Chris Crouch (ink name to front blank); Johan Clendon (ink name to front blank); Richard James (ink name to front blank). – And a further fourteen volumes (including A. Boyer’s ‘The Royal Dictionary Abridged’, third edition, 1715, 8vo, and John Heylyn’s ‘An Interpretation of the New Testament’, 1761, 4to, and John Heylyn’s ‘Theological Lectures at Westminster-Abbey’, 1749, 4to, and, published by John Stockdale, ‘The History of the Inquisitions, including the Secret History of those Horrific Tribunals’, 1810, 4to, and John E. Sowerby’s ‘The Grasses of Great Britain’, 1858, [60 plates], 8vo) (15).

PICASSO, Pablo. – E. TERIADE (editor). Verve. Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso. Paris-London: Verve and A. Zwemmer, 1954. Vol. VIII, No. 29-30. Folio (354 x 265mm.) Text in English, 16 colour lithographs by Picasso and printed by Mourlot, 164 heliographic plates printed by Draeger. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards from a design by Picasso (boards detached, spine lacking). Note: complete with 16 colour lithographs.

BOWIE, David and Geoff MacCORMACK. From Station to Station, Travels with Bowie 1973-1976. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2007. Limited edition, this being number 1426 of 2000 copies signed by David Bowie and Geoff MacCormack, folio (321 x 238mm.) Numerous colour photographic illustrations. Original red morocco-backed padded cloth boards with silk label mounted to upper cover, g.e., original pictorial board portfolio (lacking cloth bag). Note: signed by David Bowie to the ‘While You Were Out’ label mounted to front pastedown.

MATISSE. – Gualtiero di son LAZZARO (editor). XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, March 1938- January 1939. First Series, Nos. 1-6, 5 issues [5-6 double issue], 4to (318 x 243mm.) Original linocuts, woodcuts and lithographs by Matisse, Kandinsky, Miro, Henri Laurens, Arp, Alberto Magnelli, Giorgio de Chiroco, Zadkine, and colour lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray and Max Ernst, Jean Hélion, a quadrichromie by Salvador Dali, text in French with articles by Le Courbusier, Georges Duthuit, John Piper, numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, occasional marginal spotting and chipping, stain to p.3 of issue 4, a few linocuts with small corner creases, 1 loose Kandinsky plate, last leaves of issue 2 with corner creases.) Original printed wraps (spines taped, some browning, minor stains, corner crease to issue 3). Note: complete. A rare run of the first series of this important art journal which was stalled by the start of the war. The New Series began again in 1951 under the same editor. Issue 4 of 1938 is the English edition (5).

BEANO. The Beano Book, [No. 1.] Dundee, Manchester and London: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., [1940]. No. 1, 4to (243 x 182mm.) Comic illustrations in red, blue and black. (Browning, occasional minor staining, hand-colouring to one illustration.) Original pictorial boards featuring Beano characters (extremities and joints rubbed, minor dust-soiling). Note: scarce. The first Beano annual published just after the start of the war, following the first publication of ‘The Beano’ as a weekly comic in July 1938. Contains Lord Snooty and His Pals, Big Eggo and Pansy Potter. Dennis the Menace made his first appearance in 1951 and his dog, Gnasher, arrived in print in 1968. Provenance: Vera Young [altered to ‘B. Young’] (pencil name to ownership leaf).

DANDY. The Dandy Monster Comic, [No. 1]. London, Manchester, Dundee: D.C. Thomson, [1939]. First edition, 4to (244 x 182mm.) Comic illustrations in red, blue and black. (Browned, many leaves with small pencil and crayon marks.) Original pictorial boards (spine lacking, hinges weakened, scuffed, dust-soiled, endpapers with crayon). Note: scarce. The first Dandy annual. Provenance: Beryl Young (ink inscribed in the ‘Belongs to’ leaf).

THOMSON, D.C. (publisher). Dennis the Menace, [No. 1]. London, Glasgow, Manchester, Dundee: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. and John Leng & Co., Ltd., [1956]. First edition, 4to (288 x 202mm.) Comic illustrations in red, blue and black. (Small tear and ink marks to endpapers.) Original pictorial boards (spine rubbed). Note: the first ‘Dennis the Menace’ annual.

BILIBIN, Ivan (illustrator). – Alexander PUSHKIN. Skazi Pushkina. Skazka o zolotom petushke. [In Cyrillic.] Puskin Tales. The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh, 1907. First edition, oblong folio (324 x 251mm.) Chromolithographed plates and decorations. Original chromolithographed covers (small stains to upper cover). – And a further six volumes illustrated by Ivan Bilibin (including ‘Vasilisa Prekrasnaya’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Vasilisa the Beautiful’, 1902, folio, and Alexander Afanasayev’s version of ‘Tsarevna Lyagushka’ [in Cyrillic] ‘The Frog Princess’, 1901, oblong folio, and Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Skazka o Tsare Saltane’ [in Cyrillic] ‘The Tale of the Tsar Saltan’, [lower cover detached], 1905, oblong 4to, and ‘Skazka ob Marja Morevna’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Maria Morev’, [abrasions to three plates], with loosely inserted 3pp. English translation, 1903, folio, and Alexander Afanasayev’s version of ‘Sestritsa Alenushka I Bratets Ivanushka & Belaya Utochka’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Sister Aloynushka and Brother Ivanushka & The Little White Duck’, 1903, folio, and ‘Byliny, Volga’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Epic, Volga’, [defective, disbound], 1904, 4to) (7).

CINEMA. Fox, A Standard of Business in the Realm of Entertainment. New York: Fox Film Corporation, 1926. Folio (392 x 232mm.) Numerous full-page colour illustrations for Fox movies for 1926-27, 14 tipped-in photographic illustrations of Hollywood directors, and 8 tipped-in colour illustrations of Hollywood stars. (Toning, lacking several of the tipped-in colour plates of the stars.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover (extremities rubbed, some loss to lower cover). Note: scarce. The book reflects Fox’s growth from a minor movie picture company to a major Hollywood studio.

ART NOUVEAU. – J. FOORD. Decorative Flower Studies, for the Use of Artists, Designers, Students and Others. London: B.T. Batsford, 1901. Folio (376 x 267mm.) Half-title, 40 colour lithographed plates. (Finger-mark to half-title, occasional marks or spotting to margins.) Original pictorial green cloth, t.e.g. (spine ends bumped).

CLARKE, Harry (illustrator). The Year’s at the Spring, an Anthology of Poetry Compiled by L. D’O. Walters. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. First edition, 4to (264 x 198mm.) 24 plates by Harry Clarke, introduction by Harold Monro. (Mild toning.) Original blind-stamped morocco (some loss to spine panel, lightly rubbed). – And a further seven literary volumes (including Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Master of the House’, limited edition being number 111 of 172 copies signed by the author, 4to, and John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, illustrated by Gustave Doré, 1894, 8vo, and John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’, illustrated by William Strang, 1895, 8vo, and ‘Love Lyrics From Five Centuries’, limited edition, being number 91 of 125 copies signed by George G. Harrap and the illustrator, Baron Arild Rosenkrantz, 1932, 4to) (8).

GELL, William. Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819. London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (237 x 152mm.) Numerous engraved plates and plans, 2 hand-coloured. (Spotting to plates.) Original half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spines, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Hubert Vincent (ink name to title); Jill McEverdy (ink name to mounted plate on front endpaper of vol. 1). – And a further five volumes (including A.H. Payne’s ‘Royal Dresden Gallery: Being a Selection of Subjects Engraved After Pictures’, 2 vols., [circa 1850], 4to, and T.G. Bonney’s ‘Cathedrals Abbeys and Churches of England and Wales’, 2 vols., 1898, 4to, and Mary Sturgeon’s ‘Westminster Abbey’, 1921, 4to) (7).

JONES, Lewis Tobias. An Historical Journal of the British Campaign on the Continent, in the Year 1794; with the Retreat Through Holland, in the Year 1795. Birmingham: Swinney & Hawkins, for the Author, 1797. First edition, 4to (281 x 218mm.) Title, large folding engraved map of ‘The Seat of the War’ with outline hand-colouring as frontispiece, 4 folding engraved maps and plans, including 2 with hand-coloured troop positions, 4pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Mild toning, corner damp-staining to last leaves.) 20th century half calf, two black morocco lettering pieces (endpapers replaced).

ASIA. – John M’LEOD. Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, Along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck. London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 8vo (214 x 124mm.) Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue-guards. (Faint spotting to preliminaries.) 21st century brown full calf, black morocco lettering piece to the spine. Note: HMS Alceste was tasked with taking Lord Amherst to China to negotiate trade. This account by the naval surgeon John M’ Leod was a popular success as it described the Far East, including the East coast of Korea and the Ryukyu Islands, in greater detail than before. Making an early stop in Brazil, M’Leod describes the slave markets they encountered. After being shipwrecked in the Gaspair strait, they were then attacked by pirates, but all returned safely to England. Provenance: William Banbury (ink name inscribed to first and second blank leaves).

MAPS. – C.W. HAYES and William KENNEDY. Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition, 8vo (224 x 136mm.) 1 double-paged colour map, 1 double-paged plan of the ‘Spindletop Oil Pool’ in Texas, photographic illustrations, original front wrapper bound-in. (Toning.) Later red cloth (lightly bumped). Note: the discovery of a huge quantity of ‘Spindletop oil’ in Beaumont, Texas, ushered in the age of oil as a fuel for mass consumption. – And a further two volumes (including F. Journet’s ‘L’ Australie’, [large folding map of Australia], 1885, 8vo, and John Walker’s ‘Elements of Geography, and of Natural and Civil History’, 1805, 8vo) (3).

MALAYSIA. – Cuthbert Woodville HARRISON (editor). An Illustrated Guide to the Federated Malay States. London: The Malay States Information Agency, 1923. First edition, fourth impression, 8vo (160 x 99mm.) Hand-coloured F.M.S. coat-of-arms to front endpaper, hand-coloured national flag to rear endpaper, 7 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous photographic illustrations, large folding map of British Malaya in rear pocket. (Some browning.) Original yellow cloth (dust-soiled). Note: a detailed evocation of colonial Malaysia and an exercise in promoting investment: ‘It is a very rich country, full of valuable mineral deposits, and also one of those gardens of earth which when tickled laughs itself into harvest’.

IRAQ. – N.N.E. BRAY. A Paladin of Arabia, the Biography of Brevet Lieut. Colonel G.E. Leachman C.I.E., D.S.O., of the Royal Sussex Regiment. London: John Heritage, the Unicorn Press Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo (213 x 131mm.) Folding map of Iraq as frontispiece, folding map of North Arabia to rear, photographic illustrations. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original black cloth (slight bumping to extremities). Provenance: Norman Douglas Simpson, botanist (bookplate to front pastedown); West Sussex County Council (bookplates to pastedowns). – And a further four volumes (Annie Brassey’s ‘The Last Voyage’, inscribed by her husband Thomas Brassey’, 1889, 8vo, and Annie Brassey’s ‘In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties’, signed and inscribed by Annie Brassey, 1885, 8vo, and Annie Brassey’s ‘Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’’, signed and inscribed by Annie Brassey, 1878, 8vo, and ‘The Three Brothers: or, The Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert, and Sir Thomas Sherley, in Persia, Russia, Turkey, Spain, etc.’, 1825, 8vo) (5).

ROBERTS, G. The History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Day. Sherborne: for the Author by Langdon and Harper, and for Baldwin, Cradock et al., 1832. First edition, 8vo (182 x 109mm.) 2 hand-coloured folding lithographed plates by C. Hullmandell after Thomas Mann Baynes, 2pp. ‘Index’ and errata leaf to rear. (Blanks replaced, toning.) Mid-20th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Note: scarce with coloured plates. – And a related volume (‘Twelve Views of Lyme Regis’, [circa 1877], oblong 8vo) (2).