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Click here to subscribeAlbin (Eleazar): A Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects. John Tilly for R. Montagu [&c.], 1736, 1st. Edn. List of subscribers, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 53 mostly hand-coloured plates: two plates numbered 35 and no plate 52, making up the correct number of plates called for. Lacking the covers, slight damp residue to inner margins.
1- HUTCHINS, John: History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4 vols. Nichols, 1796-1804. Folio, Numerous maps and plates. Cont. full calf; lacking the covers of vols. 1 & 2; Damp staining & few pages are loose, mainly in vol. 1. Not collated, but look complete. Sold not subject to return; 2- Hutchinson, William: The History of the County of Cumberland And Some Places Adjacent. In 2 volumes. Carlisle, 1794, 1st. Edn. 4to. Complete with all maps and plates. Cont. full treecalf; a little rubbed; occasional browning and spotting; 3- Manning, Owen & William Bray: The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, in 3 vols. J White, 1804-1814. Folding maps & numerous plates. Folio, cont. full calf: vols. 1 & 2 the block is detached from the binding; vol.3 lacking the covers and all before page 17. Sold Not subject to return; 4- WHALLEY, P & J BRIDGES: The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire. 2 vols. Oxford, 1791. Folio, vol.2 lacking all before page 9. With 34 of the 36 plates present. Cont. full leather, both blocks are detached from the covers; 5- PLOT, Robert: Natural History of Staffordshire. C1686. With a large folding map and all 37 plates + a plate of shields present, but Lacking the title page. PP: a-b2, 450 + only 10pp of index. Lacking the binding; the first gathering loose; 6- NASH, T R: Collections for the History of Worcestershire with Supplement. 3 Vols. J White, 1799. Folio, With a large folding map, plan of Worcester & numerous plates. Vol. 1 starts with the dedication (lacking the title page); all three volumes lack the covers. Not collated. All the books in this lot are SOLD not subject to return. (15)
DONOVAN, Edward: The Natural History of British Shells, Including Figures and Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Discovered in Great Britain, Systematically Arranged in the Linnean manner. In 5 volumes. Rivington, 1799-1803, 1st. edn. With all 180 hand-coloured plates. Cont. full treecalf, Lacking most of the covers & title page loose in two volumes. Occasion spotting. (5)
Morris, F O: 1- A History of British Birds, in 6 vols. Bell and Daldy, 1870, 2nd. Edn. Numerous hand-coloured plates. Cont. full calf, worn and lacking 6 of the 12 covers; 2- A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vols. Bell and Daldy, 1870, 2nd. Edn. Numerous hand-coloured plates. Original pictorial boards, VG: 3- British Game Birds and Wildfowl. With 57 out of 60 colour plates. 4to. (33 x 27cm), Lacking all before page 17 and 3 out of the 60 plates. Original pictorial boards, stained and worn; The colour plates are bright and clean: Plus: The Minstrelsy of the Woods: or Sketches and Songs connected with the Natural History of some of the most interesting British and Foreign Birds. Harvey & Darton, 1832, 1st. Edn. With 17 hand-coloured plates. Original plain boards, lacking the label. Spotting to the one plate and a few pages. (11)
Lloyd’s Natural History: 1- A Hand-Book to the Order Lepidoptera, 5 Vols. 1896-87; 2- Monkeys: Vols. 1-2, 1896-97; 3- Carnivora (Cats), 1896; 4- British Mammalia, 1896. Plus: Fisherman’s Magazine, 2 vols. 1864-65, with hand-coloured plates; & Barker, C M: Book of Flower Fairies, Blackie, no date. (12)
Christopher Dresser (1834-1904), a rare electroplate teapot, No. 2277, circa 1880, manufactured by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, England, electroplated metal with ebony handle, impressed with manufacturer's mark Chr. Dresser and 2277 12.5 x 22 x 13.5cm Provenance: Georgina Bourke (née Anderson, then Greenwood), who likely acquired the teapot in the early 20th century. A socialite who mixed in avant garde circles, Bourke first married Lieutenant J F B Greenwood, Kings Own Royal Regt., who was killed in action in May 1915, before moving to Cheltenham and then later, after the war, to Southern Ireland, where she lived in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. After her death in 1967, the teapot remained undiscovered in a trunk containing her various possessions until a recent routine valuation. Literature: H.Lyons, Christopher Dresser: The People's Designer 1834-1904, p. 7 no. 8 W.Halén, Christopher Dresser, 1990, p. 182, pl. 206 W.Halén, Christopher Dresser: A Pioneer of Modern Design, London, 1993, p. 183, pl. 206 M.Whiteway, Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution, 2004, p. 158, pl. 200 Born in Glasgow in 1834, from age thirteen Christopher Dresser effectively began his career when he commenced his training at Somerset House's Government School of Design, one of a number of state-funded centres established from 1837 to train designers specifically for industrial production. This was a period defined by a stratospheric rise in machine manufacturing, making household items more widely available and creating an entirely new market for innovative and creative designs that were suited to modern methods of manufacture. Although he was only twenty-eight years old at the time of the 1862 Great London Exposition, whilst there Dresser claimed to have designed "as much as any man"; this was likely true as he was demonstrably accomplished in all aspects of industrial design, including carpets, ceramics, furniture, glass, graphics, metalwork and textiles. By the end of 1862, Dresser had published The Art of Decorative Design (1862) and The Development of Ornamental Art in the International Exhibition (1862), followed latterly, in 1873, by Principles of Decorative Design. Though he may have designed more than any other man at the Exposition, the Japanese works he saw at there inspired a lifelong interest in the country and its aesthetic principles. Closely associated with influential design reformers including Richard Redgrave, Henry Cole, Owen Jones, and Matthew Digby Wyatt, Dresser was not only interested in the practical facets of design, but also the moral and philosophical doctrines. For Dresser and his cohort, design had the capacity to "exalt" or "debase". Establishing his principles of 'Truth, Beauty and Power', Dresser looked to the natural world to inspire. Using reduced and abstracted forms from nature, Dresser aimed to express the essence of design in its most distilled form. Despite his pioneering aesthetic, many of Dresser's designs were too complex and costly to be easily mass-produced, limiting their accessibility. The present example, catalogued as no. 2277 in 1879, is a rare example of his work, with only around twelve known to exist. One such piece forms part of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Also displayed internationally by institutions including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, it is difficult to overstate the importance of Christopher Dresser in the history of industrial design. One foot is slightly bent inwards and the base very slightly dished around the area, a very minor crease to the underside of the base, just visible in the right light. A couple of small marks to the cover where it has knocked against the handle. Some tarnishing and the plating slightly rubbed to finial, hinge and the rim of the cover, also to joint where spout meets body. A small dent to one side, and some other light surface wear and scratching more commensurate with age and use. Please see additional images and video online. The handle does not protrude beyond the metal at either end, but does not appear to be broken, again see images. Handle rotates freely.
λ WALTER STEGGLES (BRITISH 1908-1997) ESSEX LANDSCAPE WITH POLLARDS Oil on board Signed (lower right); further signed and titled (verso) 18.5 x 23cm (7¼ x 9 in.)Painted in 1932.Provenance: Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London Mary Cburchill (acquired from the above in 1932 as a Christmas present from her nanny, Maryott Whyte) Sale: Sotheby's, London, Daughter of History: Mary Soames and the Legacy of Churchill, 17 December 2014, lot 219 Private Collection, UKExhibited: London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd, New Paintings by the East London Group, 1932, no. 85 Southend-on-Sea, Beecroft Gallery, Brothers in Art: Walter & Harold Steggles & the East London Group, September 2021-April 2022 Southend-on-Sea, Beecroft Gallery, Out of the City, 2016 Condition Report: Very fine crazing throughout the panel. Rubbing to the framing edges with some associated loss, most notable to the lower edge and left side of upper edge. Light surface dirt throughout with some possible discolouration caused by yellowing varnish. One very small circa. 2mm loss to the centre of the left edge which has been retouched and natural in visible light. A light diagonal scuff circa. 4cm to the upper left corner but no damage to the paint work. Inspection under UV reveals scattered retouching to the edges. Condition Report Disclaimer
ARR Katherine Blundell-Nixon (1895-1988)Chivalrydepicting a knight above a transcription from Cowpersigned and dated 1916watercolour29cm x 15.5cm An early work by Katherine Blundell-Nixon (1895-1988) Trained at Camden and Birmingham Schools of Art. After her marriage she lived in India for 25yrs, where she made illustrations for the Time of India Press and designed some thirty posters for Indian State Railways and the India Natural History Museum. On her return to England she worked with Enid Blyton
Natural History: Anon, pub. Charles Knight & Co., London - The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, n. d. (c.1856), 2 vols, folio, Vol. 1 Mammalia, Birds, Vol II Birds, Reptiles, Mollusca, Insects, profusely illustrated throughout, bookplates C. J. Fletcher, Dale Park, tan half calf, marbled e.p. (vol. 1 lacks colour frontis)
Natural history, ornithology – Butler (Arthur Gardiner, PhD, FLS, FZS) et al. [Aplin (Revd. O. V.), Forbes (Henry O. FRGS), Coveleaux (John, FRGS), MacPherson (Revd. A. M.), Mathew (Revd. Murray A, FLS), Slater (Revd. Henry H.),& Tegetmeier (W. B.)], illus. Frohawk, F. W., British Birds with Their Nests and Eggs, 6 Vols., 1st edn., London, Brumby & Clarke, n. d. (1896), large 4to, engraved illus. in text throughout, bookplt. Geoffrey Paulson, bound red moquette over red cloth. Gilt lines and titles, and to spines, spines slightly faded, Vol., I 208pp, three chromolithographic plates of eggs to frontis with tissue guards; Vol. II., 192pp, chromolithographic plate of eggs to frontis with tissue guard; Vol. III., 175pp, six chromolithographic plates of eggs to frontis with tissue guards; Vol. IV., 219pp, two chromolithographic plates of eggs to frontis with tissue guards; Vol. V., 178pp, three chromolithographic plates of eggs to frontis with tissue guards & Vol. VI., 252pp, four chromolithographic plates of eggs to frontis with tissue guards; also Morris (Beverley R., MD, TCD), British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st edn., London, Groombridge, 1855 4to, 252pp, chromolithographic frontis and 59 other similar plates, gilt edges, bound gilt and embossed grey boards, both detached and lacking spine (7)
Natural history, botany & horticulture – Wright (John FRHS), The Fruit Grower’s Guide illustrated by May Rivers, Division 1 Vol. I (of six), London, J. S. Virtue, 4to, n. d. (1890), 176pp, choromolithographic frontis., first title and six other plates, diagrams in text, gilt edges, printed patterned endpapers, black printed decoration to green boards, gilt titles to spine; Watson (William, FRHS, ed.), preface, Prof. Sir Frederick W. Keeble, The Gardener’s Assistant, Vols. II & III. (of six), London, Gresham, n. d. (1925) royal 8vo, green endpapers, bound green cloth with light green titles, also to spines, Vol. II., 237pp, colour frontis and three other plates, Vol. III 232pp, colour frontis and two other plates; Knight (A. E.), and Step (Edward, FLS, 1855-1931), Hutchinson’s Popular Botany: the Living Plant from Seed to Fruit, Vol. II only, London, Hutchinson, n. d. (1920) 8vo, 588pp, 9 col. plates, 370 other illus., yellow endpapers, bound red moquette over red boards, gilt titles to spine; Johns (Revd. C. A., FLS), Flowers of the Field, 8th impr., London, George Routledge, n. d. (1919), small 8vo, 378pp, coloured frontis with tissue guard, 96 illus., with 245 vignettes in text,, Gilt lines and vignette to green front board, gilt titles to (faded) spine (5)
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