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George Finch Mason (1850-1915) Mr Jorrocks.., watercolour, inscribed and signed, 25 x 35cm; JALLAND (G H) The Sporting Adventures of Mr Popple, c....

Lot 376

Eton College.

Collection of Eton related works, including: The History of Eton College, Ackermann 1816, 4to, coloured aquatint frontispiece and 9 plates as call...

The Gun at Home and Abroad: Asia and North America, 1915; Africa and Europe, 1914; British Games Birds and Wild Fowl, 1912; British Deer and Groun...

BARROW (A S) 'Sabretache'. More Shires and Provinces, 1928, large 4to, colour plates by Lionel Edwards, uncut, original cloth; PAGET (Guy) The His...

NORMAN (P) London Vanished and Vanishing, A & C Black 1905, 4to; WHEATLEY (H) London Past and Present, 3 vols., 1891, 8vo, half morocco; others in...

Londres 1907, Russia 1914 (tear to map), Paris 1911, Egypt and Sudan 1914, Mediterranean 1911; others by Cook, Murray and Muirhead, original cloth...

Lot 381

London.

Collection, some leather bound, including: LOFTIE (W J) A History of London, 2 vols., 2nd edition 1884, 8vo, folding hand coloured maps and plans,...

Lot 382

BESANT (Walter)

Early London, 1908; London in the 19th century, 1909; London North of the Thames, 1911; London in the time of the Tudors, 1904; London City, 1910,...

A collection, early 20th century, illustrated 8vo, in original cloth bindings (29)

Lot 384

TAYLOR (J E)

In and About Ancient Ipswich, 1888, large paper 4to, no. 6 of 75 copies, mounted plates, half morocco (worn spine); GLYDE (J) Illustrations of Old...

[CROMWELL (T Kitson)] Excursions through Suffolk, 2 vols. 1818-19, 8vo, folding map and plan, plates, light foxing or spotting, half roan; SYMONDS...

The Principal Charters of Ipswich, London 1754, 8vo, contemporary half calf; CLARKE (G R) History and Description of Ipswich, no date, c.1830, 8vo...

Modern War Paintings with an Essay by P. G. Konody, London: Grant Richards Ltd 1917, 4to, colour frontispiece signed in pencil by Nevinson, plates...

The Black Country, with an introduction by Arnold Bennett. London: The Ovid Press 192, 4to, 20 plates, a little stained, in damaged stained bindin...

WOOD (Lawson) Prehisoric Proverbs, Collier & Co, no date, 12 mounted colour plates, original boards (damaged spine); another copy; GIBSON (C D) Th...

Lot 395

GILL (Eric)

The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, Folio Society, 2007, one of 2750 numbered copies, a facsimile of the Robert Gibbings Golden Cockerel ed...

Lot 396

FOORD (J)

Decorative Flower Studies. London: Batsford 1901, folio, 40 coloured plates as required, tear to half title, original pictorial decorative green c...

A Golfer's Gallery by Old Masters. London: Country Life Ltd [no date], folio, 18 mounted colour plates on card stock leaves, original binding

Lot 398

MILNE (A A)

Now We Are Six, first edition 1927, 8vo, orignal cloth, slightly marked; LAMARTINE (A De) Graziella, illustrated by Jacquier, Nonesuch Press 1929,...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1929, 4to, 40 tipped in plates, browning to mounts, original cloth gilt; De BRUNHOFF (J) Barbar the King, 1936, and Bab...

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, with an Introduction by A. A. Milne. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940, no. 808 of 2020 copie...

Lot 401

ALDIN (Cecil)

The Romance of the Road, first edition London 1928, folio, illustrations, folding plan of London in pocket at front, a good copy in recent half re...

A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, 1904, 8vo, one of 150 copies, printed in black and red with blue capitals, con...

A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press 1894-1935. Chelsea 1935, folio, no. 24 of 390 copies signed by C H St J Hor...

The Wisdom of Jesus The Son of Sirach Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. Chelsea 1932, small folio, initial letters in colour, original red vellum gi...

The Booke of the Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius. Chelsea 1924, 4to, one of 165 copies, uncut, edges slightly dust stained, original cloth backed p...

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. with ten engravings by Mark Severin, 1948, small folio, no. 10 of 100 specially bound copies by Sangorski and Sutcl...

Lot 407

GREGYNOG PRESS.

The Lamentations of Jeremiah, 1933, folio, illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton, no. 227 of 250 copies, on Japanese vellum, original morocco with d...

A Chronological List, with Prices, of the Forty Books Printed at the Ashendene Press 1895-1935, folio, printed for private circulation March 1935,...

By the Author of the Little Warbler of the Cottage; Juliet, or the Reward of Filial Affection..., London: printed for J. Harris, first edition 181...

The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, illustrated by Dulac, Hodder & Stoughton, no date, 4to, 30 tipped-in colour plates, original decorative...

Lot 411

HUGHES (Ted)

The Iron Man, illustrated by George Adamson, first edition 1968, pictorial boards, British Council book plate to first paste down, library return ...

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, no date [1902], with 'wept big tears', grey leaf end-papers with ownership name, grey boards, a lit...

Lot 413

OZ series,

six Reilly & Lee (Chicago) illustrated editions (Oyo, and The Wonder City with dust jackets), a Hutchinson published Wizard of Oz in damaged jacke...

Lot 414

Arthur Rackham,

original pen and ink preparatory study for the 'Fox and the Stalk' (from Aesop's Fables). Provenance: Phillips sale (date unknown); the artist's d...

Lot 415

DAHL (Roald)

George's Marvellous Medicine, first edition 1981, in dust jacket; GRAVES (R) The Big Green Book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Kestrel Book first...

The Ingoldsby Legends, first edition 1907, Dent, small 4to, tipped in colour plates, original green cloth, spine slightly faded; ROBINSON (W Heath...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Hodder and Stoughton [no date], 4to, colour plates, original cloth gilt, a few gatherings starting; DELAMOTTE (P H) The ...

Lot 418

BARRIE (J M)

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hodder and Stoughton, no date, 4to, 50 tipped in colour plates with captioned guar...

Lot 419

HAWTHORNE (N)

A Wonder Book, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hodder and Stoughton, no date, small 4to, tipped in colour plates with guards, other illustrations, ...

KINGSLEY (C) The Water Babies, illustrated by Jesie Willcox Smith, no date, small 4to, publ. Boots, dust wrapper; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

Grimm's Fairy Tales, Constable & Co 1909, small 4to, 40 tipped in colour plates, original red cloth gilt, slightly age marked ...[more]

Lot 422

BARRIE (J M)

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hodder & Stoughton no date, 8vo, 16 tipped in colour plates, slight foxing, half c...

Lot 423

Childrens.

HUDSON (G N) illustrator. Alice in Wonderland, first Hodder & Stoughton edition thus 1938, small 4to, colour plates, slight foxing to outer margin...

Lot 424

[MARY, Queen],

A Picture Song Book, ... the pictures by the Earl of Carlisle. London: Smith Elder & Co 1910, small 4to, 46 mounted plates, one of 250 copies, thi...

MILNE (A A) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition 1928, a little stained, original cloth, soiled; THOMPSON (W H) I was Churchill's Shadow, first...

Lot 426

HOWITT (Samuel)

A New Work of Animals... containing Fifty-Six Plates. London 1811, 4to, some light spotting and foxing, plates, Duke of Marlborough's copy, with b...

with Cambridge and other subjects, without annotations, including airship at Jesus Grove 1912, motoring, possible suffragist subject holding a bot...

dated 1868, 4to, the colourful floral and leaf frames with later mounted photographic prints of paintings

including house and team photographs, visiting family, (featuring old motor vehicles), in blue suede covers

containing approximately 148 loosely mounted monochrome postcards depicting views of French towns, artisans at work, destruction of buildings etc.

A collection of Ceylon horse racing photographs and ephemera, of Charles Arthur Laing and family, c. 1937-54, with four scrap books of cuttings an...

for ‘Art and Society’ by Herbert Read and ‘The Evolution of Travel’ by L. Sargent, lithographs, together with watercolours and drawings of tractio...

about 39 pages of typical cut images of figures, animals, caricatures, military uniforms, with some unused strips inserted, and few portrait photo...

The King of Nowhere, by James Bridie, programme 1937-38 signed by Laurence Olivier in pencil; portrait photograph of Lauren Bacall, signed; 1967 S...

and orders for payment or delivery, signed, most addressed to Mr John Warner, silversmith/goldsmith, London, contained in a small folder

with typical verses, prints, watercolours, drawings etc

Lot 438

HOCKNEY (David)

Autograph letter signed to Mr [John] Mavrogordato, [received Dec 24th 1965], 7 lines, about his intention to do some small etchings based on his t...

Lot 439

Playing Cards.

Samples in an album by De La Rue and Chas. Goodall & Son Ltd, and various others loose with various other oddments ...[more]

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