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Click here to subscribeChapbooks. The Juvenile Puzzler, or Riddle Book, printed & sold by J. Wilson, Bideford, n.d., early 19th c., wood eng. illusts., some dust soiling, approx. 100 x 70mm, together with A B C Little Tom Tucker, n.d., early 19th c., 4 leaves, woodcut illusts., some dust soiling, approx. 145 x 90mm, with Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog, pub. Ryle & Co., n.d., early 19th c., 4 leaves, woodcut illusts. (nostly hand-col.), some soiling & marks, 1st leaf torn, approx. 160 x 95mm, and Bosworth & Harrison (publishers), The Three Buttons. A Faery Tale, 1864, hand-col. plts., slight damp staining, sewing weak, a.e.g., orig. printed boards, damp stained and lacks spine, slim 4to, plus two other chapbooks and two games, one with playing cards designed by W. Heath Robinson (8)
*Christmas cards. A collection of approx. eighty late Victorian Christmas cards, mostly c. 1880s, incl. William Stephen Coleman De La Rue Series, c. 1878, W. Tasker Nugent 'Christmas Advances', pub. Marcus Ward & Co., early 1880s, J. Sant 'Angel Heads', pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1881, Alfred Bouchette 'Home for the Holidays' set of four cards, pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1881, Rebecca Coleman 'Angel Heads', 'Wild Flowers', and others, c. 1881-82, etc., mounted on six black display boards (6)
Game. Geographical Lotto, c.1870's, comprising ten col. printed maps on thick card (approx. 200 x 170 mm.), nineteen wooden blocks, and 81 circular cardboard discs printed with names of towns, all contained in a partitioned red velvet-lined wooden box, with hinged lid and metal fasteners, printed title label to lid (rubbed), together with Our Pet's Multiplication Lotto, pub. J.W.S.& S., Bavaria, c.1890's, three pictorial chromo. cards, each with nine octagonal cut-out spaces, approx. 150 x 210 mm, twenty-six (only?) octagonal chromo. counters, each with a multiplication sum printed on the verso, with orig. printed instruction sheet, and contained in orig. partitioned cardboard box, sl. worn and soiled, pictorial label to lid, plus Anagrams, A Prize Game, A Game of Letters, pub. McLoughlin Bros., New York, c.1890's, numerous printed cardboard letters, approx. 23 x 23 mm, contained in orig. cardboard box with chromo. label to lid, approx. 220 x 155 mm, plus Correspondence cards. Der Postkarten Maler, c.1890's, six chromo. and twelve b & w pictorial postcards, contained in orig. box, a little worn, with hinge to lid split, chromo. label to lid, box approx. 230 x 170 mm (4)
*Game. Equestrian Transformations, c. 1840, a set of six hand-col. litho. cards depicting different horses and riders, each card diagonally cut in three from top to bottom so that the figures are interchangeable, (each complete set of three cards measures 17 x 20 cm.), with the orig. paper-covered lid of the box only, printed with the title in English, French, German and Italian and depicting Faustin, the First Emporer of Hayti (19)
*Games. Nouveau Jeu du Cirque, pub. Paris, c. 1860s, four-fold hand-col. litho. playing board depicting circus characters and animals with ladders and tightropes, etc. (similar to snakes and ladders), contained in orig. paper covered wood box with col. litho. lid and printed instructions (box and lid soiled and distressed), together with The Comic Society. A New Game of Metamorphoses, c. 1840s, comprising sixteen hand-col. character cards (complete?), orig. card box with pict. lid (a little worn), with three various jigsaw puzzles and other various games and novelties incl. a pack of De La Rue cards entitled Golliwog - Round Game (a carton)
*Parkes (Terence, "Larry"). Sum Impreshuns of Lincoln Road, [1960], orig. black pen and ink cartoon in four vignettes pasted on board with central manuscript caption and signature, overall 21 x 26 cm, together with a copy of 'The Marathon: The Magazine of Lincoln Road County Modern School for Boys, Peterborough', Summer 1960 issue for which this cartoon appears as centrefold, orig. printed wrappers, slim 8vo, plus three signed Larry Christmas cards with cartoons to upper cover, including one original pen and ink with coloured felt tips showing a boy reluctantly being forced by a teacher to contribute to the Teachers Strike Fund collection box, signed Larry Terence "Larry" Parkes was art master at Lincoln Road from 1951 to 1954. (5)
*North and South America. A group of approx. fifty albumen prints, late 19th century, incl. images of Niagara Falls and Yukon, Canada, five photographs of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, plus buildings and scenes in Costa Rica, Mexico, California and Honolulu, approx. 25 x 20 cm and smaller, majority mounted on printed cards and album leaves (approx. 55)
*Cigarette Cards. A large collection of assorted cigarette cards, 20th c., mostly Wills and some Player, including approx. fifty corner-mounted sets arranged in home-made and publishers' albums, including Wills's Cricketers 1st & 2nd Series (complete), Cinema Stars, Romance of the Heavens, Do You Know?, Speed, National Flags and Arms, Wild Birds, etc., plus a large quantity of loose and unsorted (a carton)
Greetings cards. Twenty-four Christmas & New Year greeting cards by E.G. Thomson, late 19th c., each with chromolithograph illustration, together with two greetings cards by Kate Greenaway plus Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1885, col. litho illusts., orig. printed wrappers, approx. 75 x 65mm (27)
*Scrap album. A mid-19th c. Victorian scrap album belonging to Miss Elizabeth Morley, dated January 1st 1846, containing approx. 100 leaves, partly unused, but including various embossed and colour printed valentine and Christmas cards, a few mounted photographs of scenery and a seafront with pier, several uncoloured engravings of young beauties, two colour lithograph coaching prints, entitled 'Quite Full' and 'Mail in a Storm', trimmed to margins, two hand-decorated Japanese silk doilies with painted embroidery and bone scene of Japanese women around a table to each, (some damage), etc., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. dark green full morocco (by Stocken, 53 Quadrant), a little rubbed, 4to (1)
*Scrap album. A later 19th c. Victorian scrap album, containing approx. seventy-five leaves, filled with numerous b&w steel engraved views in Britain, Italy, Ireland, etc., some original drawings, portraits, caricatures, and similar, mostly in pen and ink, or wash, a few watercolour studies of landscape or flowers, some chromo. decorative cards, one or two engraved maps, a good-quality embossed and chromo. decorated valentine in the shape of a fan, some old photographic views, etc., contemp. half maroon morocco, gilt dec. spine, rubbed and some marks, folio (1)
*Brayley (Edward Wedlake and Walford, Edward). A Topographical History of Surrey, 4 vols., [1878-81], numerous engraved plts. and maps, a.e.g., split to inner hinges, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed to extrems., folio, together with a 32 volume set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., Handy Volume Edition on thin paper, (lacking vol. 28), all in orig. bindings, some wear to extrems., 4to, and others incl. vol. 1 of J.J. Smith's Cambridge Portfolio (1840), etc., plus a collection of miscellaneous ephemera including indentures and erotic engravings, Victorian greeting cards, etc. (3 cartons)
A pair 9ct gold and tiger eye cufflink’s, A gilt metal filigree, necklace clasp; a cased set of coral and gilt metal shirt studs (1 stud missing) A further pair of silver coin shirt studs, a silver and enamel brooch in the shape of a military sword; an Edwardian pierced silver miniature pack of cards holder and further misc items.
A set of forty three hallmarked silver medallions by Franklin Mint, London 1977, ‘The Kings and Queens Collection’ in album together with descriptive booklet; a silver ‘Royal Christening Spoon’ London 1982; a small collection of postcards and trade cards; a guillotine; a S.E.Asian painted wooden mask; a collection of cased plated flatware and miscellanea.