Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

COOKERY. - [Robert Flower RIDDELL.] Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book; Comprising Numerous Directions for Plain Wholesome Cooking. Bombay: Bombay Gazette Press, 1852. Third edition, 8vo (212 x 123mm.) Errata leaf to rear. (Lacking half-title, browning throughout, minor spotting, illegible name to title-page.) Near contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Brighton' (pencil name to front blank); L.P. Thornton (ink name inscribed on front pastedown); Edith Thornton (pencil name to front blank); Marie A. Thornton (ink name to front blank). - And a related volume ('The Madras Cookery Book for the People', 1901, 8vo) (2).

BASKERVILLE PRESS. - Decimus Junius JUVENALIS. D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761. 4to (283 x 230mm.) (Browning to title, finger-marks to initial blank, spotting to rear leaves, Ee-Gg4.) Contemporary marbled calf (upper cover detached). Provenance: Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield (ink inscribed on initial blank). - And a further seven volumes in Latin (including 'C. Crispii Sallustii', 2 vols., 1742, 4to, and 'Pentalogia [in Greek], Sive Tragoediarum Graecarum Delectus', 2 vols., 1779, 8vo) (8).

CHAMBERLAYNE, Edward. Angliae Notitia: or, the Present State of England: With Divers Remarks Upon the Ancient State Thereof. London: T. Hodgkin, 1700. Nineteenth edition, 8vo (170 x 103mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of William III. (Spotting to title and moderately throughout, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf, red morocoo lettering piece to the spine (minor loss to spine ends, upper cover loosening). - And a further nine related volumes ('The Present State of Great Britain', mixed editions, for the years 1707, 1711, 1718, 1723 x 2, 1728, 1729, 1739 and 1757) (10).

CONJURING. - William J. HILLIAR. Modern Magician's Hand Book. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1902. First edition, 8vo (193 x 129mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth with pictorial red, black and white stamping to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends). Provenance: L. Davenport & Co. (mounted paper label mounted over imprint). - And a further eleven volumes related to conjuring (including Professor Hoffmann's 'Magical Titbits', 1911, 8vo, and C. Lang Neil's 'The Modern Conjurer and Drawing-Room Entertainer', 1903, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (12).

CONJURING. - T. Nelson DOWNS. Modern Coin Manipulation. London: T. Nelson Downs Magical Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations by Fred Morgan. (Toning, label residue to title-page.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering and silver stamping to upper cover (some soiling to lower cover). - And a further six volumes (including Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant's 'Our Magic', [1911], 8vo, and Henry Ridgely Evans' 'Magic and Its Professors', [1902], 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (7).

CONJURING. - [Angelo J. LEWIS.] 'Professor HOFFMAN'. Conjurer Dick; or, the Adventures of a Young Wizard. London & New York, [1886.] First edition, 8vo (190 x 132mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original blue pictorial cloth in black and gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Hamley's Magical Saloons (paper label mounted over the imprint). - And a further thirteen volumes related to magic (including Professor Hoffmann's 'Tricks With Cards', 1889, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (14).

CONJURING. - [Angelo J. LEWIS.] 'Professor HOFFMAN'. Drawing-Room Amusements and Evening Party Entertainments. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. First edition, 8vo (182 x 117mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous illustrations. (Minor spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt, red and blue (small paper labels affixed to upper cover and spine (weakening of upper hinge, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Magic Circle Library' (paper labels mounted to both pastedowns, stamps to title-page and leaf B1, cancelled stamp in ink on the front pastedown, dated 1987). - And a further four volumes related to magic (including 'Puzzles Old and New', [circa 1893], 8vo, and 'Magical Titbits', 1911, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (5).

CONJURING. - [Angelo J. LEWIS.] 'Professor HOFFMANN'. Modern Magic, A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring. London and New York, George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Third edition, 8vo (192 x 130mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear blank, toning.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt and black to spine and upper cover (light rubbing to spine ends, upper hinge weakening). Provenance: C. E. Brun (pencil name to tile-page); Arthur Athelstone Straight (stamp verso the frontispiece). - And a further four books related to magic (including Professor Hoffmann's translation of Robert-Houdin's 'The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic, or How to Become a Wizard', [circa 1880], 8vo', and Professor Hoffmann's 'Tricks With Cards', 1899, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (5).

LEWIS, C.S. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. First edition, 8vo (195 x 132mm.) Colour frontispiece and numerous uncoloured illustrations by Pauline Baynes. (Toning, faint spotting to title-page, occasional finger-mark.) Original green cloth (spine lean, sunning to spine, several nicks to the cloth, including one to the upper cover that penetrates the first two preliminaries). Provenance: Sheila Spence (name inscribed to the front-free endpaper).

SITWELL, Edith. Collected Poems. London: Macmillan & Co., 1957. First edition, with 5 a.l.s. loosely inserted, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) (Spotting and browning to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (browned to extremities), dust-jacket (browning and staining to spine panel). Note: the letters are all addressed to Sheila Wilson and dated 1955-1958. They are chatty, affectionate letters, referring to the literary life: her publisher has reduced her 'to idiocy' by making her sign her name 3000 times, inviting Sheila for drinks 'with a boy who I think is going to be a really great poet'- Quentin Stevenson. There's other news: 'We are all really pleased about Osbert getting the C.H.' And domestic travails, too: the grumbling cat who follows the 'gay parlour-maid' around then 'climbs up the honeysuckle…in the middle of the night and starts grumbling again'. There's also a signed post-card and printed questionnaire she has written to fend off amateur poets from pestering her. One of the eighteen, interrogative questions being '[What is the] Age, Sex and Weight of your wife?'. Another, indicative of the time, being: 'Did you ever meet Burgess and Maclean, or anyone who ever knew them?' Sitwell helped Quentin Stevenson publish his first book of poetry but he soon changed his name to John Quentin, and is perhaps better known as a film actor.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955. 3 vols. First editions, all volumes signed by Tolkien on the front-free endpapers, 8vo (221 x 137mm.) 3 folding maps to rear. (Browning to endpapers of volume 2, light spotting to endpapers of volumes 1 and 3, toning, the map in 'The Return of the King' replaced with one from a later edition.) Original red cloth (some sunning and staining to spines, lightly bumped spine ends). Note: 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and 'The Two Towers' are second impressions, 'The Return of the King' is a first impression. It has the '4' signature on p.49 and the slipped text. The second impression of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' has always been notably (2 or 3mm) smaller than other impressions. A possible reason is that the printer, Jarrold & Son, did not keep the type standing from the first impression and so when the publisher, Allen & Unwin, asked for another impression the printer had to quickly re-set the type, which led to many new inaccuracies in the text, as well as a slightly different sized binding. [Hammond, 97.].

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo (233 x 178mm.) 63 photographic illustrations by Bill Brandt. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (wear to spine panel). Provenance: John Wyndham (gift inscribed to verso the front-free endpaper). - And a quantity of approximately forty-five further volumes, mainly literary, including Muriel Spark's 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 1961, 8vo) (a quantity).

POPE, Alexander. The Works… with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. London: A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson et al., 1757. 9 vols., 8vo (172 x 111mm.) 23 engraved plates. (Browning, toning, some marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary calf (upper cover of volume 3 loosening, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Rowley Lambert (name inscribed to front pastedowns). - And a further four volumes (including [Laurence Sterne's] 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy', 1794, 8vo) (13).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Greek, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. Cambridge: by J. Archdeacon and J. Burgess, 1795. 2 vols., 8vo (137 x 69mm.) (Toning, occasional browning.) Near contemporary calf, scrolling gilt foliate to covers and spines, green morocco numbering pieces inlaid to spines, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Moneypenny (pencil name inscribed to front blank). - And a further five volumes (including 'The Psalms of David in Metre According to the Version Approved by the Church of England', 1813, 8vo, and 'The Laws and Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraign James VII', 1685, 8vo) (7).

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. - Charles HERVEY. The Theatres of Paris. Paris & London: Galignani and Co., and John Mitchell, 1846. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (268 x 164mm.) 8 lithographed portraits by Alexandre Lacauchie, extra-illustrated with 131 engraved and lithographic illustrations and portraits, including 14 large hand-coloured lithographs by A. Colin and others, an a.l.s. and 2 signed postcards tipped-in to preliminaries, a signed photograph of the author also tipped-in to the front blank. (Some browning, light spotting to text leaves.) Mid-twentieth century blue half morocco bound by Bayntun, elaborate gilt to spine, t.e.g. (rubbing to spine ends, some fading). Provenance: J.F. Dexter (inscribed to by the author on initial blank).

BALLET-RUSSES. - Emil Otto HOPPE. Studies From the Russian Ballet. London: Fine Art Society, [1911.] Signed by Tamara Karsavina, folio (349 x 236mm.) Title, 15 photogravure plates mounted on card. (Browning to title-page, toning to card mounts.) Contemporary brown cloth with mounted tan cloth lettering plate to upper cover (wear to spine ends). Note: with photogravures of, among others, the Diaghilev stars Nijinsky, Bolm, Karsavina and Fedorova. Provenance: Kenneth Lintott (inscribed to by Tamara Karsavina below photogravure of herself).

BALLETS-RUSSES. - M. and J. de BRUNOFF (editors.) [A collection of thirteen programmes for the Ballets-Russes. Paris: 1912-1929.] 13 programmes, 4to (317 x 240mm.) Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white by Picasso, Bakst, Derain, Tchelitchew and many others, including a lithograph coloured in pochoir by Picasso from Stravinsky's 'Parade' and 6 more full-page lithographs by Picasso in the '1923' issue, photographic illustrations throughout, including from Man Ray and Dimitriew, with important texts in French including those by Apollinaire and Jean Cocteau, and with the '1914' programme in English. (Toning, some browning to margins, a page removed from '1925' issue.) Original paper and card wrappers (occasional crease, toning), bound in mid- 20th century brown cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (minor discolouring to upper cover). Note: comprises 'Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes', Mai-Juin 1912 at Théatre du Chatelet; 'Programme de la Saison Russe', 1913, at the Théatre des Champs Élysées; 'Russian Opera and Ballet', 1914, at the Royal Theatre, Drury Lane; 'Programme des Ballets Russes', Mai 1917, at the Théatre du Chatelet; 'Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes', Décember 1919- Février 1920 at the Théatre de l' Opéra; 'Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes', December 1920, at the Théatre des Champs-Élysées; 'Ballets Russes', Mai-Juin 1920, at the Théatre à l'Opéra; 'Programme Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes', 1922, at the Théatre National de L'Opéra; 'Ballet Russes', 1923, at the Theatre de Monte-Carlo; 'Programme Général de la Saison de Monte-Carlo', 1924, at the Theatre de Monte-Carlo; 'Ballet Russes', Juin 1925, at the Theatre de Monte-Carlo; 'Ballet Russes, Saison de Ballets, 1928, at the Theatre de Monte Carlo; 'XXII Saison des Ballets Russes', 1929, at the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt. Also bound-in is the 'Souvenir' for the 'The Sleeping Princess', 1921, at the Alhambra Theatre, and loosely inserted are several smaller format programmes for performances related to Diaghilev. Provenance: Kenneth Lintott (stamp to initial blank).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910.] 4to (276 x 114mm.) 30 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. (Spotting to front pastedown and half-title, toning.) Original russet cloth, gilt decorated (lightly bumped spine ends). - And a further six volumes (including 'Princess Badoura' illustrated by Edmund Dulac, [1913], 4to, and 'Gulliver's Travels', illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1909, 4to) (7).

ROBINSON, Charles (illustrator). - Oscar WILDE. The Happy Prince, and Other Stories. London: Duckworth & Co., 1913. 4to (248 x 183mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards. (Moderate spotting to preliminaries, occasionally thereafter, and to fore-edge, browning to endpapers.) Original purple cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover (fading to spine). Provenance: C. Gibson (name-plate to front pastedown). - And a further ten illustrated volumes (including Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' illustrated by Edmund Dulac, [1908], 4to, and 'Tales of Hoffmann' illustrated by Mario Laboccetta, 1932, 4to) (11).