The Library Sale

HOWARD (Dorothy, The Lady Henley) A photograph album dated 1894, oblong 4to, with mainly Italian Renaissance artworks, some Italian views etc; tog...

OPIE (Amelia) Two autograph letters signed, 1842 and 1844, 'Dear Friends...'; and a pencil sketch head portrait of Mrs Opie, apparently by W. G. B...

KENT The Poll for Knights of the Shire..., 1791, 8vo, uncut, rebacked boards; FURLEY, A History of the Weald of Kent, 2 vols in 3, 1871, 8vo, fold...

Essex, history. WINSTONE (B) Extracts from the Minutes of the Epping and Ongar Highway Trust 1769-1870, London 1891, folding illustrations, origi...

TORRENS (Henry, Major General) Field Exercise and Evolutions of the Army, 1824, 8vo, 12 folding diagrammatic plates; with - Battles of the Ninete...

WRIGHT (T.) The History and Topography of the County of Essex, illustrated by W. Bartlett, in two vols, 1842, 4to, engraved title, some sporadic f...

MACCULLOCH (John) A System of Geology with a Theory of the Earth, two vols in one, 1831, 8vo, half calf

WILLIAMS (Lieut.-Col.) The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington, 4 vols, [c. 1855], 4to, with portrait, maps and plan of Brussels, lackin...

BURNET (Gilbert) Some Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions and an Essay, 1713, 8vo, panel calf; BLAIR (H) Sermons, in three vols., 1822, contempo...

HODDER (Edwin) Cities of the World, 1882, 4to, in three vols., illustrations, half calf; BONNEY (Professor Thomas G.) Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Chur...

History, social reform and politics, doctrine, philosophy, and economics. Various 19th century and later works, including Matthew Arnold collectio...

Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends towards the Indian Tribes..., London: Edward 1844, 8vo, coloured map frontispiece,...

WILSON (H W) With the Flag to Pretoria, two vols., 1900, folio, illustrated, folding maps, half calf rubbed; After Pretoria, two vols., 1902, foli...

Illustrated - engraved plates, mainly 19th century, to include MILLAIS Collected Illustrations, 1866; DORE (G), The Fables of La Fontaine, no date...

Victorian Literature and Illustrated Poetry, a large collection of typical works, many in cloth gilt, few in leather bindings, engraved illustrati...

Engraving and Fine Art Printing, various to include WEST (L), Making an Etching, 1932, Gwen Raverat's copy, with her pencil signature to first lea...

Costume plates. GREVIN (A) Costumes de Fantasie pour un Bal Travesti, Paris c.1880, 24 hand coloured plates, descriptive text at front; COMTE-CALI...

WAIN (Louis) Cats, Verses by "Grimalkin", London: Sands & Co , no date, coloured title and black and white illustrations, original cloth

WAIN (Louis) Cats At Play, Blackie & Son, no date, 4to, colour cover and illustrations, 12pp., pictorial softcover

WAIN (Louis) Louis Wain's Summer Book for 1903, London: Hutchinson & Co, illustrated, spine slightly worn along the hinge

WAIN (Louis) Louis Wain's Annual for 1902, small inkstain to lower margin of about 10 pages, otherwise good, cloth

WAIN (Louis) Kittenland, Verses by Clifton Bingham, no date, seven colour illustrations (including one double page), stained covers with damage to...

ALDIN (Cecil) Field Babies, no date, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, illustrated, slight foxing to fore edge, original binding

ALDIN (Cecil) Ten Little Puppy Dogs, no date, oblong 4to, illustrated; The Black Puppy Book, square 4to, good (2)

ALDIN (Cecil) A Dog Day, London: Heinemann 1902, tinted lithograph plates

ALDIN (Cecil) and John HASSALL Two Well-Worn Shoe Stories, London: Sands & Co 1899, oblong 4to, colour printed

SHEPHERD (J A) Zigzag Tables, London: Gardner Darton & Co., no date, colour illustrated, contents slightly browned, original dust wrapper, pictori...

AMES (Mrs Ernest) An ABC for Baby Patriots; FORREST (A. S.) Ten Little Boer Boys; both published by Dean & Son, no date [c.1900], oblong 4to, colo...

RHODE (Ingles) The Pickletons; The Gimcrack Jingle Alphabet; both Dean & Son no date [c.1890], oblong 4to, colour printed, good (2)

Childrens colour printed: Aunt Louisa's Zoological Gardens, c.1890, with Kronheim illustrations; Harrison Weir's Pictures of Animals, 24 plates; b...

HASSALL (John) Oh ! My Darling, Clementine, London: Sands & Co, 1901, part colour illustrated, soft covers; The Old Nursery Stories and Rhymes; Al...

GREENAWAY (Kate) A Day in a Child's Life, colour printed by Edmund Evans, no date, boards; Almanack for 1888, 102 x 77mm (approx.) (2)

NISTER (Ernest) Publisher. The Picture Show, A Novel Picture Book for Children, c.1900, four colour pop-up illustrations, slight finger soiling, p...

CRANE (Walter) A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, London:Harper and Brothers 1899, colour printed by Edmund Evans, some leaves starting, o...

CRANE (Walter) A Masque of Days, Cassell & Co 1901, publisher's 8pp catalogue inserted at rear, pictorial boards, good; with - Pothooks and Persev...

Childrens illustrated. NEILSON (Harry B.) Comic Capers, colour plates, handling marks; Games and Gambols, Blackie & Sons, tinted illustrations, bo...

Illustrated. EGAN (C) Rustie has a Holiday, illustrated by Willy Schermele, no date, pictorial boards (rubbed); UPTON (F. & B.) The Adventures of ...

Children's illustrated books, various, early 20th century, with colour illustrations, authors or illustrators include: Sowerby, Hassall, Lawson, W...

Rupert Bear. The Rupert Picture Story Book, no date, gift inscription, contents clean, pictorial boards; TOURTEL (Mary) Three Stories of the Litt...

ALDIN (Cecil) Farm Babies, no date, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, illustrated, slight foxing to fore edge, original binding

ALKEN (H) Illustrator. Jorrocks's Jaunts..., second edition London; Rudolph Ackermann 1843, 8vo, coloured title and 14 fine aquatint plates as req...

Literature, various including some leather bound or foreign language, mainly painting reference, including: FARRERE (Claude) Mademoiselle Dax jeun...

GILES (Ronald 'Carl') Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons, a run including First, Second and Third Series in typically worn condition, 50 v...

KINGSLEY (Charles) The Water Babies, 1909, 4to, 'edition de luxe', limited to 260 copies, tipped-in colour plates by Warwick Goble, vellum gilt (l...

Childrens, illustrated. Large collection of juvenile titles, including Bookano, Wind in the Willows, etc. (a box)

McIAN (R.R.) Gaelic Gatherings, hand-coloured plates by James Logan, London: Ackermann, 1848, large folio, contemporary half red morocco gilt

BEDFORD (F.) The Treasury of Ornamental Art, descriptions by I. C. Robinson, London, Day & Son, chromolithographs throughout, 4to, original cloth ...

MORRIS (Rev F. O.) A Series of Picturesque Views of the Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 vols, 4to, London, ori...

STUART (John S) Vestiarium Scoticum, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1842, folio, mounted glazed plates of tartans with captioned tissue guards, 2 plates...

Childrens, RANSOME (Arthur) The Picts and the Martyrs, first edition, 1943; Missee Lee, first edition, 1941; Secret Water, 3rd impression 1939; a...

Bindings - Decorative Cloth Covers. Late 19th and early 20th century girls' stories and others similar, various authors and publishers, together 6...

Illustration.Various 19th and 20th century, including: Nuckel (O), Schiksal Eine Geschichte In Bildern, no date, square 8vo, illustrated throughou...

AYRTON (Michael) The Oresteia, New York: Limited Editions Club 1961, signed and numbered, in slip case; The Rudiments of Paradise, 1971; Archiloch...

Novels in decorative cloth covers

IMAGE (Selwyn) and Norman ACKROYD. Ackroyd and Images, The Penny Press 1986, signed numbered edition no.6 of 34 copies, with eight loose etchings ...

IMAGE (Selwyn) and Norman ACKROYD. Ackroyd and Images, The Penny Press 1986, signed numbered edition no.19 of 34 copies, with eight loose etchings...

Private Press. THOMAS (Edward), Chosen Essays, Gregynog Press, 1926, 4to, no. 47 of 350 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Maynard & Ho...

WADSWORTH (Charles) and Christopher FRY. Root & Sky, Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1975, number 130 of 220 copies signed by the author and arti...

Illustrated, 20th century works, various including Maurice SENDAK, Mervyn PEAKE, Frederick Muller published 'New Excursions' series illustrated by...

PRIETO (Gregorio) Students Oxford-Cambridge Twenty Drawings, no. 45/100, London; The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, 1938, 52.5 x 40.5 cm, all signed b...