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A small antiquarian collection of literary interest (4) to include a rare early copy of Saint Joan by G B Shaw published by Constable and Company Ltd, London (1928), Browning's Dramatic Idyls published by Smith, Elder and Co (1889), Evelina or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney, illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1903) and a fine green and gilt leather bound edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1900) published by Sherman and Co, Philadelphia.

Hall, Captain Basil: Extracts from a Journal, written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, & Mexico, in the years 1820, 21, 22 (2 vols). Constable, 1824, 3rd. Edn. With a large folding map- tear & repair. Cont. full leather, VG; Pompeii (2 vols.). 1833-34. Leather bindings; Gardner: A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians (2 vols.). Murray, 1854, 1st. Edns. Thus; El Escorial (two volumes) Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1963, Limited edition; #1995 of 3000. DWs & slipcase to each volume. Hugh Trevor Roper's copies, with his bookplate and loosely inserted, letters of presentation from the Department of Cultural Relations of the Spanish Foreign Ministry, with a note from the Spanish Ambassador. At the time he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford; Paris Guide (2 Vols), V1- La science- L'art; V2- La vie. Paris, 1867. With numerous illustrations, plans, etc. Covers detached and large parts of the spine; & Loftie: Orient-Pacific Line Guide, fully illustrated and another (12)

A K.P.M. pair awarded to Police Constable B. Allison, ‘P’ (Camberwell) Division, Metropolitan Police, for his gallantry during the arrest of an armed housebreaker on the Camberwell Road, London, 9 September 1919 King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Bertam Allison, Pol. Const. Metropolitan Pol.) on gallantry riband; Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, mounted for display, generally very fine or better (2) £700-£900 --- Provenance: R. W. Gould Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002 (when sold as a single K.P.M.) K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1921: ‘On 9 September 1919, P.C. Allison saw a youth removing some objects of dentistry from the front of a house in Camberwell Road. The Constable pursued the youth who drew a revolver with which he threatened his pursuer. The Constable continued his pursuit and the youth stopped, turned round and fired, but fortunately missed. Other constables arrived on the scene and the youth was finally run to ground in an out-house.’ Bertram Thomas Allison was born at Thornton Heath, Surrey, in February 1897. He served in the Army for 3 years and 7 months before joining ‘P’ (Camberwell) Division, Metropolitan Police on 16 June 1919, aged 22. Allison subsequently served as Assistant Gaoler, ‘W’ (Clapham) Division, before he retired on pension in October 1944. He died, 19 October 1979, aged 80. Sold with copied research.

Carnegie Hero Fund Medallion, bronze, 90mm (Mrs. Frances. Maud. Wright. “Southwark” 26th December 1910.) the reverse dated ‘1910’, contained in its case of issue, edge bruise, very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- Frances Maud Wright was awarded the Albert Medal, the Carnegie Bronze Medallion and she also received £25 from the Police Fund. A total of 16 women were awarded the Albert Medal, all Second Class awards for saving life on land, throughout the existence of the award- Hannah Rowbotham was the first, in 1881, with the other 15 awards all for acts of gallantry between 1905 and 1967. The Albert Medal was announced in the London Gazette 24 February 1911: ‘On the 26th December, 1910, at about 1 a.m., Mrs. Wright had left her house to go to friends, when she saw a man running in her direction pursued by Police Constable Haytread. The man deliberately turned round pausing to take aim and fired at the constable; he then ran on, and again turned and fired .a second shot. The constable was then close to his man, who fired a third time, before he was seized and a struggle ensued. Hay tread called to Mrs. Wright to help and asked her to blow his whistle; she came up without hesitation, well aware of the risk, and got hold of the man’s collar and struck him in the face with her fist. She then broke the police whistle off its chain and blew it. A severe struggle now ensued between the officer and the burglar, through which Mrs. Wright still retained her hold on the latter. He, however, got his arm free and again fired; locked with the constable he then fell to the ground and pressed the revolver against Haytread’s head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon providentially missed fire. Mrs. Wright had in the meantime struck the man in the face and in so doing injured her left hand; her cries for assistance were probably responsible for bringing Seaman Barber to the spot. The burglar still held the revolver, but with further assistance he was overpowered. Mrs. Wright is the wife of a newsagent’s carman and has six children. But for her fearless action, the consequences might have been serious, and a most dangerous criminal (for he had previously attempted to shoot a constable) would not improbably have escaped.’ Frances Maude Wright was born Frances Maude Egan in Southwark, London in June 1871. She was the daughter of Edward and Eliza Egan. Her father was a painter by profession. On 21st December 1893 at St Mary’s. Newington, London, she married Harry Wright. At the time of the wedding he was working in a mail yard as a timekeeper. He later enlisted during the Great War, and in his later working life was a carman. She received her Albert Medal from King George V at St. James’ Palace, 23 February 1911. Police Constable Haytread was awarded the King’s Police Medal for gallantry. Mrs Wright died in Camberwell, London in June 1960, and is buried in Camberwell New Cemetery.  

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant Major W. M. White, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, late South African Constabulary, who was killed in action on 10 October 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (4122 Sjt: W. M. White. 1/S.A. Inf:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasp block loose on riband (99 3rd. Cl. Tpr: W. M. White. S.A.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (C.S.M. W. M. White. MM 1st S.A.I.); Memorial Plaque (William Mark White) glue residue to reverse of all, generally good very fine and better (5) £600-£800 --- M.M. London Gazette 12 November 1918. The original recommendation by Lieutenant Colonel H. W. M. Bamford, M.C., Commanding South African (Composite) Battalion, states: ‘In the attack and capture of Meteren on 19th July, 1918, this NCO took command when two Platoon Commanders had become casualties. By his gallant leadership the objective was gained and consolidated, under his supervision. Relieved later of his command by an officer, Sergt. White was ordered to carry an important message. He was severely wounded en route, but pluckily continued his journey and delivered his message.’ William Mark White was born in Scotland on 12 February 1880, the son of Mr. J. White of 1 Douglas Place, Galashiels, on the Scottish Borders. He served in the South African Constabulary as 3rd Class Trooper during the Boer War, and was later promoted to the rank of 2nd Class Constable on 1 February 1904; employed as a military force during the campaign, the S.A.C. fought with distinction and had the second highest casualty rate of any British or colonial regiment whilst engaged in field operations and attempts to man the Blockhouse lines. Transferred to the Pretoria District in 1905 and Transvaal Depot in 1907, White is stated in his Record of Conduct and Service (S.A.C.) as: ‘A good shoeing smith & a very steady man’. Raised to the rank of Constable, he was discharged at Durban on 31 November 1907, his conduct noted as exemplary. Briefly returning to life as a farmer, White volunteered his services at the outbreak of the Great War and attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 2 September 1915. He disembarked at Alexandria on 1 February 1916 and was transferred to Marseilles on 20 April 1916. Appointed paid Lance Corporal 4 August 1916, his army service record states that he was thrice wounded on 10 February 1917, 9 April 1917 and 27 July 1918 - the latter occasion resulting in a severe injury to his right buttock. Notified of the award of the Military Medal in August 1918, White returned to the Western Front and was advanced Acting Company Sergeant Major. He was killed in action less than two months later; aged 38 years, he is buried in Reumont Churchyard in the Nord region of France, one of just 11 identified casualties in this cemetery. Sold with copied army service record, S.A.C. record of service and extensive private research.

Three: Lance-Corporal J. B. Simpson, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, late South African Constabulary and South African Railways, who was killed in action on 20 September 1917 during the Battle of Ypres Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1933 3rd.Cl: Tpr: J. B. Simpson. S.A.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (L/Cpl. J. B. Simpson 1st. S.A.I.) edge knocks and scratches to obverse of QSA, glue residue to reverse of all, generally nearly very fine and better (3) £140-£180 --- John Bain Simpson, an engine driver, was born in Abernethy in 1880, the son of ploughman Donald Simpson of 23 Guard Kennel, Abernethy, Perthshire. He served during the Boer War as a Constable in the South African Constabulary and later appears to have taken employment on the South African railways. Enlisting at Potchefstroom on 26 February 1917 for the 1st Battalion, South African Infantry, he embarked for England at Cape Town per H.M.T. Galway Castle on 10 March 1917 and joined the 1st Regiment on the Western Front on 3 July 1917. Witnessing the early autumn rains which turned the battlefield into a quagmire, Simpson was killed in action on 20 September 1917; aged 37 years, he is remembered with honour upon the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Sold with copied service record and CWGC entries.

Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C. (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (84-- Native Constable Tubgwe B.S.A. Police); E.II.R., 2nd issue (1370 Const. Jeffrey O. Taylor, Jamaica.) heavy edge bruising to first, this fine; the second good very fine (2) £80-£100

India Service Medal (2), all unnamed as issued, very fine and better Pakistan, Republic, Police Medal for Gallantry, silver ((Late) Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed, Constable); together with two other Pakistani Medals 1947-49, nearly very fine £100-£140

An interesting post-War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Constable H. Ward, Eastbourne Borough Police, late Royal Horse Guards, ‘The Downs Ranger’, who patrolled on horseback above Beachy Head, South Downs, from 1953 to 1966 British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Harry Ward); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. Harry Ward); Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1955, with integral top riband bar, court mounted for display, very fine (6) £300-£400 --- Harry Ward was born in Darwen, Lancashire in 1912. He attested, aged 16, into the Royal Horse Guards as a Trooper in 1928, being discharged in 1936 afterwards joining Eastbourne Borough Police on 22 August 1936. Recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Second World War, he rejoined his old regiment and was on an Officer’s training course in Lille, France when orders were received to evacuate to Dunkirk. Commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 2 August 1942, he served with the Coastal Artillery Regiment at Dover and Deal. By 1945 he had transferred into the Royal Military Police and was serving with the Special Investigation Branch, where he was advanced Major before his discharge in 1946. Returning to Eastbourne Borough Police, he served as a Captain in the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch of the Army Emergency Reserve and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1955. Advanced Major in 1959, he had been appointed ‘Downs Ranger’ on 16 November 1953, where his duties included patrolling Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, and the surrounding 5,000 acres of the South Downs on horseback. In the course of his work carrying out numerous cliff top rescues from the infamous suicide drop, he developed a special stretcher for the recovery of remains from the cliff and received many testimonials from the RSPCA for his work involved in the rescue of dogs. Awarded the British Empire Medal in the 1964 New Year’s Honours’ List, an interview of the recipient discussing his work on cliff rescues appears in the British Pathe news archive. Retiring after 30 years’ service on 21 August 1966, he became an Ambulance Driver before his death in 1974. Sold with a large amount of very detailed research, Soldier’s Service Book, original and copy photographs and a composite copy of a Bronze Plaque erected in his honour, the original of which is sited at Beachy Head, Sussex, from where he conducted many rescues and recoveries.

London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932. A short story about a newly converted girl who embarks on a literal quest for God, encountering various religious figures who each try to convert her, reflecting Shaw's controversial views on faith and race. Featuring engravings and signature by John Farleigh with the name Bernard Peyton Chamberlain written above. Artist: Bernard ShawIssued: 1932Dimensions: 5.25"L x 0.5"W x 8"HManufacturer: Constable & Company LimitedCountry of Origin: London, EnglandCondition: Age related wear. Fair book condition. Missing covering on spine. Edgeworn and foxing.

Collection of Paul Gallico, including: Flowers for Mrs Harris, First UK edition, unclipped d.j., a little spotting and shelf marks, bright and solid, London: Michael Joseph, 1958._ The Man Who Was Magic, First UK edition, unclipped d.j., London: Heinemann, 1966._ The Snow Goose, beautifully illustrated by Peter Scott, some loss at d.j., London: Michael Joseph, 1946._ Together with The Hand of Mary Constable, First UK edition, unclipped d.j. - The Zoo Gang - Mrs Harris Goes to New York, First UK edition - The Small Miracle, wear to d.j. - Coronation A Novel, 2 copies of First - The Steadfast Man, First edition - Snowflake - The Small Miracle 1974 edition - Love of Seven Dolls, 3rd printing._ Generally bright and solid with some toning, w/a/f (14) 

Quality editions of the classics published by The Folio Society, including:  Betjeman's Britain, 1999._ The Pre-Raphaelites and their World, 1995._ England's Constable, 1985._ Life of Beethoven, 2001._ Vasari's Lives of the Artists, 1994._ A Stanley Spencer Almanac, 1987._ Chekov: A Life in Letters, 1994._ Hector Berlioz, 1987._ Wordsworth, 2002._ John Keats, 2001._ Coleridge, 1991._ Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1989._ A Shropshire Lad, 1986._ The Life and Letters of John Keats, 1981._ John Donne, 1992._ Condition: books largely as new, slip-cases have slight shelf marks in places (15)

PEARCE, Philippa. PRESENTATION COPIES. Tom's Midnight Garden, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, 8vo, publisher's blue-green cloth lettered in silver, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 10s 6d), some pale spotting to endpapers/fore-edge, jacket worn around spine/corners, otherwise a very respectable copy of this very rare first issue, London: Oxford University Press, 1958, and A Dog So Small, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, unclipped d.j. (priced 13s 6d), spotting, London: Constable & Company, 1962, sold with all faults (2) Provenance: The vendor's aunt managed the children's department at Heffers, Cambridge ❧ A first printing of Pearce's best known novel, Tom's Midnight Garden, is now incredibly difficult to find in any condition, especially signed. This is a very scarce brace of signed first editions

The Book of Psalms, by Rev. Symon, Lord Bishop of Ely, third edition, two parts bound as one, 8vo, worn contemporary panelled calf with detached boards, London: L. Meredith, 1700. Together with The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, in ten volumes, Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1823, Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, 1870, and two others, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (15)

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl GRIMM. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm… translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. First edition, 4to (247 x 184mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations all by Rackham, captioned tissue-guards. (Some corner creasing to the plates, browning, marginal spotting, severe insect-damage to one tissue-guard and creasing to others, dust-soiling.) Original red cloth (tear to spine panel, worn). – And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales’, 1917, 4to) (9).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl GRIMM. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm… translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909. Limited edition, this being number 509 of 750 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, 4to (293 x 225mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, occasional light spotting, marginal crease to pp.165-167.) Original vellum with pictorial gilt and lettering to upper cover and spine, t.e.g. (pitting to covers, silk ties present but detached).

St. Pancras, Middlesex William IV Painted Police Constable Truncheon A good example the body of the truncheon with a painted ground with pained WIVR Crown cypher and St. Pancras Middx 74. Ring turned polished wood grip. Length 17 1/2 inches. Some age wear and knocks

1848 Special Constabulary Naval Themed Painted Truncheon. An unusual example of a Constables painted truncheon, the ground colour being dark blue decorated with a fouled anchor within a Garter Strap. With the text Special 1848. The grip of polished wood with ring turning. Length 18 inches. Overall GC with a few knocks to the wood. This may refer to a Special Constable of the Royal Dockyard in 1848. This year saw the Chartism riots this being one of the most active years of the Chartist movement who's aim was to influence political rights for the working class. The government enrolled special Constables and the army was put on the streets

South Australia Railway Police Constable's head-dress badge. Good rare early die-cast sheet white metal example. Crowned arched S-A-R on upwardly curved CONSTABLE. Wire loops. VGC

Metropolitan Police F (Paddington) Division Group of Four Medals. Awarded to "PC F GYLES F DIVn". Comprising: Metropolitan Police 1897 Medal F DIV, Metropolitan Police 1902 Coronation Medal, F. DIV, Metropolitan Police 1911 Coronation Medal PC. Victory Medal "3782 PTE F GYLES 13-LOND R". Medals loose. Police Constable Frank Gyles enrolled into the Met Police on the 5th December 1887, his medal entitlement is confirmed.

Westminster, London Victorian Painted Police Constable Truncheon A good example the body of the truncheon with a painted gold ground with pained VR Crown cypher and Portcullis indicating Westminster with 7 below. Polished wood ring turned grip. Some age wear, minor restoration to paint work and knocks. Length 16 1/2 inches

Westminster, London William IV Painted Police Constable Truncheon with concealed blade. A good rare example the body of the truncheon with a painted dark blue ground with painted WIVR Crown cypher and Portcullis indicating Westminster. Body unscrews to reveal blade. Some age wear and knocks. Length 15 1/2 inches

George Bernard Shaw:The Intelligent Womans Guide to Socialism and Capitalism , Published by Constable & Co., 1928, 1st Ed; The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw, 1934 (2)

A Patrick's Day Hunt by Martin Ross and E OE. Somerville. Published by Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd, Westminster, 1902. Second Impression. 47 pages with numerous illustrations including 8 full-page colour plates by Somerville. Original printed boards, lacks spine.

Bourgeois, Maurice. John Millington Synge and The Irish Theatre. Published by Constable, London, 1913. p.p. xiv-1-338 with 18 illustrations, some by Jack B. Yeats

CIVILIAN HEROISM GROUPING. Civilian heroism grouping, Bronze Carnegie Medal ( JOHN C. BUTCHER, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK, 19TH DECEMBER 1946), British Empire Medal (JOHN C. BUTCHER), Mr John Christopher Butcher of Sudbury in Suffolk was awarded both the British Empire Medal and Carnegie Medal for his bravery in attempting to save the life of a workmate after an explosion at the gravel pit in Nayland Road, Bures on 19th December 1946, Mr Butcher made repeated attempts to rescue John Smith from a steel pontoon on the Eastern Counties Sand and Ballast Quarry lake on which they had been working and which had had been engulfed by flames after an oxygen bottle exploded, Mr Butcher, who couldn't swim, had clung to the side of the pontoon to try and avoid the flames but on hearing the screams of Mr Smith had climbed back onto the boat and tried to pull him out of the flames, although he managed to grab him, he was eventually forced back, their hands had been fused together by the heat but he managed to rip his hand away and leap back into the water, Mr Smith unfortunately lost his life despite Mr Butchers gallant attempts to save him, Mr Butcher spent many years in and out of hospital undergoing thirty skin grafts due to his severe burns, he was unable to receive his BEM in person from the King as he was in hospital, instead, his wife Florence pinned the medal to his chest in his hospital bed, the Carnegie Medal is awarded to civilians who risk death or serious injury to an extraordinary degree saving or attempting to save the lives of others, the Chief Constable of Suffolk reported the facts to the Carnegie Hero Fund and Mr Butcher received the award, a gift of £75, his name was placed on the Illuminated Roll of Heroes, and a weekly sum of money until he was fit enough to return to work, also included in this lot is a framed photograph of Mr Butcher holding his Carnegie Medal, a crystal bowl engraved 'John C. Butcher, Carnegie Hero Fund 1946-1996' and a silver plated spoon from the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum.

The Decorative Arts - British, American & Canadian Koldeweij, Eloy The English Candlestick. 500 Years in the Development of Base-Metal Candlesticks 1425-1925, 2001  Wills, Geoffrey Candlesticks, 1974  Pinto, Edward & Eva Tunbridge and Scottish Souvenir Woodware, with Chapters on Bois Durci and Pyrography, 1970  Reade, Brian Regency Antiques, 1953 Fry Roger, Manson J B, et al Georgian Art 1760-1820, 1929  Pinto, Edward H Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, 1968  Field, June Collecting Georgian And Victorian Crafts, 1973  Irwin, David English Neoclassical Art: Studies in Inspiration and Taste, 1966  Gloag, John Early English Decorative Detail, 1966  Fowler, John & Cornforth, John English Decoration in the 18th Century, 1986  Priestley, J. B. The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency 1811-1820, 1970  Snodin, Michael & Styles, John Design and The Decorative Arts - Britain 1500-1900, 2001  Cornforth, John The Search for a Style: Country Life and Architecture, 1897-1935 (signed by the author), 1988  Gloag, John Victorian Comfort: A social history of design from 1830-1900, 1961 Larwood, Jacob & Hotten, John Camden ENGLISH INN SIGNS - Being a Revised and Modernized Version of History of Signboards - With a Chapter on the Modern Inn Sign, 1951  Watkin, David Thomas Hope, REGENCY Furniture & Interior Decoration, 1971  Guild, Robin The Victorian House Book, 1991  Hornung, Clarence P Treasury of American Design, in Two Volumes, 1950  Exhibition Catalogue 19th-Century America Furniture and Other Decorative Arts; an Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970  Webster, Donald Blake The Book of Canadian Antiques, 1974  Constable, W G Art Collecting in the United States of America, An Outline of a History (Quarter leather bound), 1964  Trevor-Venis, Peter The Eighteenth Century English Dining Room, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem  Gere, Charlotte & Whiteway, Michael Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, 1993  Saumarez-Smith, Charles Eighteenth Century Decoration: Design and Domestic Interior in England, 1993  Hughes, Therle and Bernard English Painted Enamels, 1951 Watney, Bernard M & Babbidge, Homer D Corkscrews for Collectors (revised edition), 1993  Gloag, John Georgian Grace A Social History of Design from 1660 to 1830, 1956  Beard, Geoffrey Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England 1660-1820, 1981 Darlington, Ida & Howgego, James Printed Maps of London, c.1553 to 1850, 1964  (30)

Richard Parkes Bonnington (1802-1828) 'Low Tide, Normandy Close'oil on canvassigned44 x 65cm Oil on canvas relined 10 to 20 years ago or so, old typed label verso saying 'Authenticated by Arnold Constable of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts', hand inscribed title label verso giving the date as 1826, housed in a later gilt scroll frame, signature is benath the nets spilling from the basket on the left.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

Group of twenty two First and Second World War era military badges to include Free French, Special Constable 1914 and American Red Cross (22).

AFTER JOHN CONSTABLE: AN OIL PAINTING ON BOARD DEPICTING FIGURES ROWING ON A RIVER WITH TREES IN THE BACKGROUND33.5cm x 22.5cmOld auction numbers to verso.

After John Constable RA (1776-1837), oil on board, Pastoral landscape with harvester, 14 x 19.5cm, gilt framed. Condition - fair

▲ Lawson Wood (1878-1957) 'Downhill a Motorist Came, and a Constable Noting the Same, Stopped the Car with a 'Wack', in the Small of His Back...'signed and dated 'LAWSON.WOOD./05' l.l., titled on mount, pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white27.5 x 20.5cmProvenance: With Chris Beetles, London;the David and Pam McCleave Collection of Modern British Art.Exhibited: Chris Beetles, London, 'The British Art of Illustration, 1800-1999', no. 184.Literature: Illustrated in 'Pearson's Magazine', January to June 1906, 'Random Rhymes no. VI', p.229. Condition ReportFramed: 58 x 42.5cmDiscolouration and foxing to the paper. Brown marks to the centre of the right edge. The colour is a little muted. Not viewed out of glazed frame.

Shakespeare (William). The Pictorial Edition of The Works of Shakspere, edt. Charles Knight, 8 vols., pub. Charles Knight & Co., London, n.d., 8vo, tan gilt calf, gilt top edge; Bernard Shaw. George, [Plays], 10 vols., pub. Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1907-1911, 12mo, half blue and tan gilt Morocco, gilt top edge; 2 other leather bound books, and 2 hardback books. (22)

A early 20th century West Mercia Constabulary police helmet, size 7, together with a constable Turner Virr dress tunic, with royal crowned buttons, 84cm, with a pair of West Mercia police trousers, 109cm and a Granibal police coat, numbered 901, 95cm.

WWII 10x medals, to include six Defence and four Service Constable medals, awarded to Leonard S. Jordan, David T. Jeffrey, William T. Blunt and Earnest Fisher.

WWI Four War and Victory medals, War awarded to 18516 A. CPL. G. Hunt. Essex Regiment, Victory's awarded to 10358 PTE. A. Darling. R. Berks. Regiment, 24765 PTE. W. J. Constable. C. GDS and 176510 S. E. Lucas. WGH. SLMR. R.N.

William Henry Crome(1806 Norwich - 1867 oder 1873 Greenwich/London)Englische Flusslandschaft mit alter SteinbrückeWohl Blick auf Norwich mit seiner Kathedrale im Hintergrund. Stimmungsvolles, in subtil nuancierten Farbtönen ausgeführtes repräsentatives Werk Cromes, Sohn des bedeutenden Landschaftsmalers John Crome und einem der Gründer der Norwich School. Der auch durch die holländische Malerei des sog. Goldenen Zeitalters, Claude Lorrain und John Constable beeinflusste Maler debütierte 1826 in einer Ausstellung der British Institution, seit 1851 war er in Greenwich/London ansässig. Öl/Lwd.; R. u. sign. u. dat. 1855. 36 cm x 46 cm. Rahmen.Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1855.

Middle East.- Palestine.- Archive of a Police Constable in Palestine, including: Saunders (A. Inspector-General) Reward poster issued for information leading to the arrest of Hamad Daoud el Judeh Zawata, text in English, Arabic and Hebrew, light central fold, a few light spots and stains, 2 small ink marks to verso, some minor worming and fraying to edges, 395 x 260mm, Jerusalem, The Palestine Police Force, 4th September 1943; Palestine Photograph Album, c.150 original photographic prints, mounted on thin card, captioned by hand, tissue-guards, some prints loose, several leaves loose, guards creased and frayed, original decorative boards, [1940s]; Manuscript Map of Palestine, a few tears affecting image, edges creased and frayed, 360 x 250mm, [nineteenth-century]; and other items directly linked to police constable H.B. Courtney such as a Palestine Police Force Certificate of Appointment, a British Passport and several photographs and newspaper cuttings, v.s. (12) *** Hamad Daoud el Judeh Zawata attained prominence in 1938 as a rebel section leader, with the reward for his capture being raised to LP. 500 after he participated in the murder of the Masri family on Mount Ebal in October 1939, and again in October 1943 after murdering two British constables. Provenance: H.B. Courteney was born in Sussex in 1911 but trained and worked as a police constable in Palestine, earning his appointment in 1943. The album's photographs depict the police training depot in Jerusalem but also horses, Bedouins, views of Cairo, and views of Jerusalem.

Aubrey Beardsley, a collection of 19 titles illustrated by or relating to him, including Arthur Symons: 'Aubrey Beardsley', London, J.M. Dent, 1905, new edition revised and enlarged, portrait frontis + tailpiece illustration + 29 full page b/w plates as called for, small 4to, original quarter cloth, top edge gilt; A.W. King: 'An Aubrey Beardsley Lecture', London, R.A. Walker, 1924, 1st edition, limited edition, one of 500 copies, unnumbered/out of series, full page ills. and plates as called for, small 4to, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Oscar Wilde: 'Salome', L, Heinemann, 1957, 1st edition thus, the first published edition of Salome to contain unexpurgated plate of Enter Herodias, 18 full page b/w illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley as called for, orig. cloth lettered in silver and blocked in silver with Beardsley illustrations to front and rear covers, pictorial dust wrapper; R.A. Walker: 'A Beardsley Miscellany', L, Bodley Head, 1949, limited edition (62/500), b/w plates & ills. as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers', ed. R.A. Walker, L, The First Edition Club, 1937, Beardsley designed title page + 2 portrait plates as called for, original decorative cloth gilt; Chris Snodgrass: 'Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque', O.U.P., 1995, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Katherine Lyon Mix: 'A Study in Yellow', University of Kansas Press/Constable, 1960, orig. cloth, d/w; Malcolm Easton: 'Aubrey and the Dying Lady: A Beardsley Riddle', L, Secker, 1972, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; M.S. Lasner: 'A Selective Checklist opf the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley', Boston, Thomas G. Boss, 1995, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Brian Reade: 'Beardsley', Studio Vista, 1971, profusely illustrated throughout, folio, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; B. Reade: 'Beardsley Re-mounted', L, 1989, 1st edition, large 4to, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, d/w; S. Wilson: 'Beardsley', Oxford, 1983, revised and enlarged, large 4to, orig. cloth gilt, plus 7 others Beardsley (19)

[Mostyn John Armstrong]: 'History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk', Norwich, J. Crouse for M. Booth, 1781, 10 volumes bound in 6, 59 engraved plates and maps (several folding), including fdg. map of Norfolk, fdg. plan of Norwich, fdg. map of the Fens, Tacolneston Hall, Redenhall Church, Earsham Hall, Barningham Hall, Cromer, Felbrigg Hall, Sheringham, Blickling Hall, Heydon Hall, Wolterton Hall, Wood Dalling, Caister Castle, Great Yarmouth, Cossey Hall, Wymondham Abbey, Castle Acre, Map of Fens, Houghton Hall, Walsingham Priory, Bixley Hall, Venta Icenorum plan, Melton Constable, Ditchingham Hall, Langley House (extra plate), Letton Hall, Beeston House, various Norwich Cathedral, Castle, various portraits incl. Robert Walpole, Henry Spelman, Edward Coke, Roger L'Estrange, etc etc, full list loosely inserted, extra plates for Langley & Stiffkey but lacking King Edmund landing at Hunstanton and Easton Lodge, old half calf gilt very worn (6)

Timothy Lightoler: 'The Gentleman and Farmer's Architect. A new work containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs. being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses..., London, Robert Sayer, 1774, title page and 25 engraved plates [Harris 517; cf. Weinreb Catalogue 35, no. 12], 4to (27 x 21cm), 20th Century paper covered boards. Lightoler's work features "an ambitious (though modestly budgeted) set of designs in Palladian, Gothic and Chinese styles for country gentlemen and farmers. Barns, sheep coats, sham ruins 'to place before disagreeable objects', stables and dairies are among the farm houses and together form a delightful pattern book, though few can have been executed. The only domestic architecture recorded as by Lightoler are designs for hall, dining room and stables at Burton Constable, Yorks, 1760" (Weinreb). Very scarce

Alan Hunter, 23 Inspector George Gently crime fiction titles: 'Landed Gently', London, Cassell, 1957, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Gently Go Man', L, Cassell, 1961, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Gently to the Summit', L, Cassell, 1961, 1st edition, 'Gently Sahib', L, Cassell, 1964, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Gently Where the Birds are', L, Cassell, 1976, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Gently with the Painters', NY, 1976, 1st US edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Honfleur Decision', NY, 1981, 1st US edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Fields of Heather', L, Constable, 1981, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Gently Between Tides', L, Constable, 1981, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Amorous Leander', L, Constable, 1983, 1st edition, orig cloth, d/w, 'Gently with the Millions', L, Constable, 1989, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Bomber's Moon', L, Constable, 1994, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Love of Gods', L, constable, 1997, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 3 others paperbacks (16)

'A Summer On The Nene' by B.B. , Kaye and Ward, illustrated by Denys Watkins Pritchard, 1967 first edition; 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams, illustrated by John Lawrence, Penguins Books/Kestrel Books, 1976 first illustrated edition reprint, with slipcase; 'Perraults Complete Fairy Tales', illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, Constable & Co Ltd, 1962 , first English printing; 'A Canvas to Cover' by Edward Seago, Collins, 1947 first edition

Constable of Bromley 'Wallop Brook’ 6’6” 2 piece split cane fly rod no.B70, eight guide rings, cork handle in a canvas case

Brewster (David).A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope.Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1819, octavo, [2], vii, 166, [1], pp., seven engraved plates, foxing to preliminaries and plates, offsetting and ink ownership stamp to title, library bookplate and pencil shelfmarks on front free endpaper, bookplate of Henry Constable Maxwell on pastedown, half calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed and scuffed.

Attributed to Constant Trayon (French, 1810-1865) after John Constable, "Woodcutters", oil on board, bears inscription 'John Constable'', 24x19cm, framed and glazed

Jonah Jones (born 1919), a watercolour "A Private Joke, Jonah Cezanne for Derwent Constable". 13 cm x 18.5 cm.

A group of four medals, awarded to Constable David M Edwards, comprising a Golden Jubilee medal 2002, Police Long Service medal, Rhodesia medal and Zimbabwe Independence medal, with copy documentation  Provenance: On Instructions of the Family: Medals and Militaria from the Estate of a West Country Collector

Ironstone willow pattern china/ The Constable Services Bicentennial 1776-1976 (pink) plus an oval platter 

Three Medal to Police Constable C. Murphy, A Division Metropolitan Police: Jubilee (Police) Medal 1887, Metropolitan Police, with 1897 clasp (PC, C. MURPHY. A. DIVN), good very fine or better; Coronation (Police) Medal 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C..C. MURPHY. A. DIV.), good very fine; Coronation (Police) Medal 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., C. MURPHY.), very fine, [3]; together with a Metropolitan Special Constabulary Long Service 1914 badge.The Paul Morrissey CollectionBorn in Sussex in 1858 and joined the Metropolitan Police at Old Scotland Yard on the 11th of January 1886. Served in A Division for a total of twenty-five years and five days. Offered with research.

James Ferrier Pryde, Scottish 1866–1941 - Sketch for 'The Shrine'; gouache and pencil on squared-up paper, signed lower left 'Pryde', 19.2 x 16.3 cm Provenance: J. Leger & Son, London (inscribed label attached to the reverse); Sotheby's, West Sussex, 6th May 1987; Pyms Gallery, London, stock. no.D783 and purchased from the above (label attached to the reverse) Exhibited: J. Leger & Son, London, 1949, no.33 (inscribed label attached to the reverse); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 'James Pryde', 14th August-11th October 1992, no.72 (label attached to the reverse of the frame) Literature: Derek Hudson, 'James Pryde 1866-1941', Constable, London, 1949, p.97 Note: Pryde was the brother of Mabel Pryde and brother-in-law to William Nicholson, with whom he collaborated on numerous poster designs. The present lot is a classic example of his work, influenced in style but the architectural forms of Piranesi and in its theatrical use of a central monument depicted in heavy chiaroscuro. His works are in public collections across the UK, including The Fleming Collection, the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. 

Lewis (Charles, b.1748, fl.1760-1790) View of Pan's Lodge, Painswick, Gloucestershire, built by the late Benjamin Hyett Esq., pen and black ink, brown ink, ruled black ink borderline, inscribed underneath 'Pan's Lodge built by the late Benjamin Hyett Esq.', on laid paper with Pro Patria watermark, sheet 198 x 310 mm (7 3/4 x 12 1/4 in), laid onto paper support, extensive pencil inscriptions verso, surface dirt, minor spotting, unframed, [circa 1760-1780] Provenance: Sale. Sotheby's 22nd May, 1986, part of lot 219 (bought by William Drummond); Collection of John and Eileen Harris Literature: John Harris, 'Gardenesque': the case of Charles Greville's Garden at Gloucester", Journal of Garden History, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 169 Roger White and Tim Mowl, "Thomas Robins at Painswick", Journal of Garden History, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 169 and fig. 10 *** Pan's Lodge was a Gothic summer-house in the rococo gardens of Painswick House, which was built in the 1730s by Charles Hyett to escape the smog of Gloucester. The Painswick Rococo Garden was laid out by Charles's oldest son Benjamin Hyett II (1708-1762), the eighteenth-century garden creator and brother of Nicholas Hyett, constable and keeper of the Castle of Gloucester.  The Victoria and Albert Museum hold another drawing from the mid-to-late 18th century that also shows the Lodge designed by Hyett II, drawn by the little known but enigmatic artist Thomas Robins [see acc. no. E.1308:71-2001]. John Harris was particularly familiar with Robins having written the publication 'Gardens of Delight: the Rococo English landscape of Thomas Robins the elder', 1978.

Leslie Phillips signed Carry on Constable 6x4inch colour postcard. Good condition Est.

2 Enamel badges - St Helens special constable & Blackburn police reserve

William Leigh Ridgewell (1881-1937), pen and ink, Rural Constable cartoon, signed, 28 x 38cm, unframed. Condition - fair to good

A Great War pair of medals to a recipient who served in the Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (TF). British War and Victory Medals, “358406 BMBR. C.D. CONSTABLE R.A.”, with Royal Artillery cap badge, R.G.A. shoulder titles, T/RGA/KENT, an identity bracelet formed from a coin with one side erased and engraved with the details “C. CONSTABLE 358406, C.E., R.G.A., BAGHDAD 1917”. An Edward VIII coronation medallion (May 12 1937) and a George VI Coronation medallion (1937) and a brass nameplate impressed ‘1638636 E.F. MOORCROFT’. Christy Constable was only entitled to a pair of medals for his service during the Great War and these are confirmed on the medal roll for the Kent R.G.A.(T.F.).

WW2 British Special Constable Police Home Front Helmet: Steel helmet with blue paint finish with S.C. POLICE to front, complete with liner and chin strap.

Novels. (Scott, Sir Walter). Novels and Tales. Edinburgh. Archibald Constable & Co. 1819. 12 vols. Full calf, spine labels; with other C19 and earlier works of fiction. Some damp staining, some boards detached. WAF (c.50) 2 boxes

A Limited Edition 119 of 215 Fife Book titled Limekilns & Passagium Reginae. Dated 1929. For private circulation; printed by T. and A. Constable Ltd. Edinburgh.

A BOER WAR AND POLICE PAIR TO A FAMOUS DETECTIVE AND CASUALTY AT MODDER RIVER. A pair comprising Queen's South Africa Medal with Modder River clasp named to 2976 Pte W. McLean A & S Highrs and a Scottish Police medal for King Edward VII's visit to Scotland 1903. William McLean was born at Dunscore on the 26th June 1870. In 1888 he joined the army and served in India for five years. He was moved to the Reserve and joined the Glasgow City Police in 1896 aged 25 years as a probationary constable. In October 1899 he was recalled to the colours and sent to South Africa with the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders participating in the Battle of Modder river where he was wounded. On recovery he returned to the Police becoming a Detective Constable then Detective Sergeant and Inspector. An account of his time in the Police appeared in The People's Journal on the 11th September 1926. 'Probing the Mysteries of Crimes in Glasgow, Famous Detective Inspector Describes His Biggest Cases'. The tales that were included are just as as exciting and dramatic as the readers of the The People's Journal will have wished. Mounted for display with copied research. *CR Good condition.