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Click here to subscribeVanbrugh, Sir John. The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, the plays edited by Bonamy Dobree, the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb. 4 vols. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edition limited to 1,300 copies. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Spines sun-tanned, superficial rubbing to extremities. 4to. ; Uniform with The Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (1 vol), ..George Farquhar (2 vols), ..Thomas Otway (3 vols), ..William Wycherley (4 vols) and ..William Congrave (4 vols). Limited editions by same publisher, (18).
NONESUCH PRESS. Wycherley, William. The Complete Works, 4 vols., 1924. No. 161 of 900 sets – Otway, Thomas. The Complete Works. 3 vols., 1926. No. 278 of 1250 sets – Cowley, Abraham. The Mistree With Other Select Poems. Edited by John Sparrow. 1926. No. 219 of 1050 copies. Engraved portrait medallion on title. – Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester. Collected works. 1926. No. 225 of 1050 copies – Vanbrugh, Sir, John. The Complete Works. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Geoffrey Wee. 4 vols., 1927-28. No. 262 of 1300 sets – Farquhar, George. The Complete Works. Edited by Charles Stonehill. 2vols., 1830 No. 185 of 1000 sets. 8vo., & 4to., orig. cloth or cloth backed boards (15)
1722. 9 George I,. [includes the Workhouse Test Act], contemp. calf, worn, folio. Contains An Act for Amending the Laws relating to the Settlement, Imployment, and Relief of the Poor. Statute, known as the Workhouse Test Act, was sponsored by the SPCK. It encouraged parishes to found workhouses to provide the poor with work and accommodation. Also includes An Act for Enabling His Majexty to put the Customs of Great Britain under the Management of One or more Commissions, and for better securing and ascertaining the Duties on Tobacco..; An Act for the more effectual Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons going Armed in Disguise, and doing Injuries and Violence to the Persons and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects..; Acts to inflict Pains and Penalties on John Plunket, George Kelly alias Johnson, and Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester; and Acts relating to the South Sea Company. The "Act.. for Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons" became known as the "Block Act", and created about fifty new capital offences, including killing game, breaking down fences, and going in disguise. (1)
Kent. Speed (John), Kent with her Cities and Earles Described and Observed, sold Bassett & Chiswell, [1676], hand coloured engraved map, ornamental title cartouche, inset plans of Canterbury and Rochester, royal arms and num. armorials, one small hole (approx. 3 mm diameter), approx. 380 x 510 mm. (1)
Rawlinson (Richard). The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Rochester, 2 parts in 1, 1723, folding eng. frontis., some browning, contemp. panelled calf, old reback, spine rubbed, 8vo, together with Kilburne (Richard), A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent..., Printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659,eng. port. frontis., incomplete text lacking p.361/362 and all between p.366-391, some fraying and loss of margins to two leaves of text, contemp. sheep, worn, 4to, with Abell (Henry Francis), History of Kent, pub. Ashford, 1898,b & w plts., orig. qtr. morocco, thick 8vo, plus three others (6).
Kent. Speed (John), Kent with her Cities and Earles Described and Observed, sold Bassett & Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, ornamental title cartouche, inset plans of Canterbury and Rochester, royal arms and num. armorials, small paper repair to foot of central fold, approx. 380 x 510 mm (1).
English school. View of Rochester, Brompton, Chatham & Stroud, backed by Gad's Hill, pen, ink & watercolour, approx. 16.25 x 21cms, framed and glazed, with old typewritten label to verso, indicating that the drawing dates from around 1790, together with two other small-format watercolour views, 19th/20th-c., incl. one by Agostino Aglio, c.1830, both framed and glazed (3).
W.H. Goss, model of the Long ships Lighthouse Lands End (Woking); model of Chicken Rock Lighthouse, Isle of Man (Weston Super Mare); model of Ancient Bronze Mace Head found in Kings Park, Birmingham, (Portsmouth); model of Urn found at Old Windsor (Windsor); model of ancient Salt Cellar in Glastonbury Museum (Rochester); and eight other items (13)
A Set of Six Copeland Topographical Dessert Plates, with pale yellow rims framing named views of Ellerig Park, Rochester Castle, Leatherhead, Dovedale, Belmont (chipped rim) and Malmesbury Abbey, pattern number D1518 and titles in red script, green printed factory mark and registration diamond, (22.5cm)
Six Queensway Press "Mammoth" cardboard jigsaw puzzles, each with over 400 pieces, comprising No.21 "The Bull Inn, Rochester", No.24 "Eynsford Village", No.25 "The Old Chandos Inn, Edgware", No.27 "On A Middlesex Farm", No.28 "The Village Pond" and No.29 "Cock of the North", all apparently good condition, boxes mostly good, "Cock of the North" guaranteed complete, remainder unchecked
A silver-cased hunter pocket watch, the movement engraved William Scott, Rochester, the enamel face marked 'Phillip Buggs, Meopham'. The silver case dated London 1808 (some damage). A silver-cased fob watch, the movement engraved 'Arn Watch Co. Waltham, Mass', the enamel dial reads 'T. Fattorini, Skipton', the case dated 1901 (some damage), and four other similar, 6 in total.